Dominate the Country

[Thanks to 'Mo Xiang Feng Yun' for the 500-coin reward]

The giants in the court and the local officials will sooner or later be closely connected. With the power of capital, their interests will be unified, and the officials and businessmen will be mixed. In Chen Ming's cognition, it is almost the same as a political party.

The combination of money and power can promote the development of that kind of thought. When it reaches a critical point, China's capital era will come completely. However, unlike the Western world, Chen Ming does not think that China's capital era is capital dominating power, but rather that power dominates capital. At least in the past 100 years, this is the case. As for when the world develops into a global village, or when the power of capital is strong enough to suppress power...

Redemption Chen Ming is incompetent. His political vision cannot see that far!

The East and the West are completely different societies. In China, where the whole world belongs to the king and the people are the king's subjects, the imperial power is supreme and suppresses everything. The power of officials complements the imperial power, and they always regard businessmen as "fat pigs". This is completely different from the power structure of the Western world. In the West, the power of money is so great that even the monarchy has to give way.

Chen Ming has a plan in his heart. When the domestic economy and politics develop to a certain level, he really needs a "CPPCC". It is necessary to give everyone a place and space to rant and communicate and trade with each other privately.

When the mountain of suppression above is shaken, the shame of the internal strife in China is limitless. But when a great god sits firmly above, the Chinese are not unable to compromise with each other. The difference between this and party struggles is only whether there is an absolute force suppressing them. In that case, these people's "party struggles" are no longer purely for their own interests, but to a large extent serve the gods above.

Of course, this is still a very immature "sudden whim" of Chen Ming!

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For Kang Mazi, after signing the "Treaty of Nerchinsk" with the old Russians, the troubles of Russia can be put aside. He can look at the country and play his "Emperor of the Ages". It is hard to say whether the Qing Dynasty’s knowledge of Sakhalin at that time was ‘real’, and the communication between the two sides was infinitely close to zero. Tsarist Russia did not stop its offensive because of that treaty. Since the Qing Dynasty had no formal garrison on Sakhalin, its expeditionary force (composed of soldiers and prisoners) quickly attacked the northern end of Sakhalin, killed the Hezhe residents, built barracks and mined coal.

However, the difficult transportation in this era made the old Russians’ control over Sakhalin limited to the northern region. Their number was too small, so small that they could only occupy a few important places, and they could only envy the south, which was warmer and more suitable for living than the north.

In the history of the original time and space, the Russians would continue to endure for another thirty or forty years, and then in the first decade after entering the 19th century, they launched an eight-year harassment and aggression against Japan. This period was called the “Eight Years of Northern Bandits” in Japanese history. But the number of old Russians was still too small, and the final result could only be in vain.

Now, with the landing of the Fu Han Army in Odomari Town, and the arrival of subsequent immigrants and marines, the Fu Han Army Marines that landed took only one month to completely sweep the entire Sakhalin Island. Several Russian strongholds are all on the seashore, Okha, Bogibi, Nogliki...

They were wiped out by the Fu Han Army Navy and Marines who came by boat. Under the Fu Han Army's absolute superiority in manpower and firepower, they were crushed like a stink bug.

The coolies rescued from those strongholds are basically Sakhalin natives, and they have become the best foundation for the Fu Han Army to operate Sakhalin Island. These Sakhalin natives are inherently close to China, who saved them from the sea of ​​suffering. They and the tribes behind them provided the initial help for the Fu Han Army to take root and sprout on Sakhalin Island.

Then the Fu Han Army separated a group of people and drove non-stop to the estuary of the Heilongjiang River, Temple Street!

More than two months have passed. The Fu Han Army dare not say that its rule on Sakhalin is deeper than that of the Russians and Japanese, but it is not lower than that of the Russians and Japanese.

In the past two months, they have built port artillery as much as possible, expanded the dock area, and built solid houses.

The court has no economic requirements for this place, so even though the Fu Han Army swept away everything Japan had on Sakhalin without hesitation, the Japanese could even come to Sakhalin for trade in the following time. It's just that the rules followed are no longer the rules of the Matsumae clan, but the rules of China!

The Fu Han Army regarded this place more as a military storage area. For more than two months, they waved food and materials to attract local natives to level the land and dig coal mines. For the Chinese army that had just set foot here, it would be a tragedy if they did not store enough fuel in the cold and long winter on Sakhalin. Moreover, they also had to send a large amount of materials to Miaojie, which was led by Deng Yun, the commander of the First Marine Brigade of the Navy. After a reinforced battalion of troops captured Miaojie, they began to attack from all sides. The captured prisoners, together with the prisoners in Miaojie, were busy building a city defense-style fortification.

The roar of cannons and muskets, as well as the shouts of killing, had disappeared from the banks of the Heilongjiang River for a long, long time. More than a month had passed...

All the thick wood in the surrounding area was cut down and flown down the river to the downstream wood processing dock, and then a few crude horse-drawn carriages were used to pull the sorted wood to the construction site. Everything was polished by manpower!

The large-scale use of these thick raw materials greatly alleviated the dilemma of insufficient bricks here and strongly supported the construction of the site. As of the beginning of this month, the length of the city wall in this place named "Xinjiangkou" has exceeded 800 meters, and the overall city defense construction is almost completed, which has reached the area of ​​a small town.

As for the bricks and cement that were transported from the rear, they were all used to build important facilities such as warehouses, gunpowder depots and artillery forts. But they were not rich enough to use them to build city walls and houses. Now even the houses where soldiers stayed were built with wood.

Before Deng Yun came here, he had been informed by his superiors that the winter in Xinjiangkou was too cold. The soldiers of the 1st Marine Brigade were mostly from Shandong and Hebei. Although they were more cold-resistant than the southern troops, they could not adapt without a period of suffering.

How cold is the winter in North China? How cold is the winter here? There is no comparison.

So this year their task is just to block the Heilongjiang estuary, build a solid castle in this key place, and firmly guard it. And the rest of the things are free to play on the premise of completing this basic task.

The sudden knock from Heilongjiang stimulated not only the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, but also deeply stimulated the Russians on the opposite side. Although it takes a long time to complete the message transmission and the assembly of troops, these people, especially the latter, have long adapted to the severe cold in winter here, and they are likely to launch an attack here in winter.

Although Deng Yun felt that it was impossible for him to lose to the enemy with only one battalion of troops under his command, as the superiors had informed him, if Deng Yun wanted to play freely, he could only complete the basic tasks first. It had been more than a month since the capture of Temple Street, and the large forces of the Qing Dynasty and the Russians were still far away. Deng Yun had only carried out two sweeps in the surrounding areas, and the gains were not great. It can only be said that the tribes around Temple Street were dispersed.

In two months at most, the temperature here will cool down and it will snow heavily. Deng Yun must build the city fortress first.

The construction of houses in the city did not fall behind. This was a huge project, and it was impossible to complete it with the prisoners Deng Yun captured in Temple Street and the surrounding areas. Many Koreans were also transported from Sakhalin Island.

It was a large number of Koreans and a total of three or four hundred prisoners that not only completed the construction of accommodation rooms in more than a month, but also completed the construction of warehouses, medical offices, arsenals and other facilities.

Although Xinjiangkou is far from being completely completed, several rows of neatly arranged soldiers' dormitories, headquarters, medical offices, warehouses and other facilities are divided into four areas by a cross-intersecting millipede, which is simple and tidy. Of course, each of these houses is now full of people, but with the arrival of the cold winter, these Korean laborers and prisoners of war will be sent to Sakhalin Island, and Xinjiangkou, a stronghold, will only have more than 500 Fu Han soldiers stationed, which will be much more relaxed.

Although the status of these Koreans is higher than that of prisoners of war, their daily work is also extremely heavy. These days, they are either digging ditches, burying underground drainage pipes, or processing wood at the wood processing dock, or carrying heavy wooden pillars to build city walls and house dormitories, or building warehouses. In short, there is no moment of leisure. I don't know how many nights these people can fall asleep as soon as they close their eyes, and there have been sudden deaths on the land, which shows how hard their work is.

But these Koreans have no complaints, not a single one complains. Because they had lived a harder life on the Korean Peninsula before.

They lost everything in the war, not only were they often hungry, but their fragile lives were also in danger.

After being accepted by Chen Han, although their daily work was very hard, they were well fed, warmly dressed, and slept well. Moreover, Chen Han did not blindly exploit them. He also had one day off every ten days for the workers to relax. Besides, Chen Han also promised that when they returned from Xinjiangkou, the upper country would arrange wives for them, and perhaps even children, anyway, they would form a new home with a house and arable land.

No matter how extreme the climate on Sakhalin Island is, wheat, soybeans, potatoes, etc. can be grown. There are also rich fishery resources here. Even if they need to pay heavy taxes in the first five years and share the profits with the garrison 50-50, everything will be theirs after five years. At that time, they only need to pay a small agricultural tax, which is less than 10% of the total harvest, and they can even obtain the nationality of the upper country.

For many Korean farmers who did not have any land of their own before the turmoil, this is the gospel of heaven.

Oha, a city at the northernmost tip of Sakhalin Island, in a military guesthouse.

Li Tai got up in the morning and punched a lot. His punches and feet were sharp and powerful. After a set of punches, he took a shower with well water, and he felt refreshed.

Li Tai strode out of the door of the guesthouse in his military uniform. He didn't want to have breakfast in the guesthouse. The food here tasted exactly like the food in the army. Li Tai wanted to eat at the Korean restaurant next to the guesthouse. Not all Koreans on Sakhalin Island are laborers. There are also a few who "escaped" from North Korea at a high price. The latter are free men.

It's just that the number of such people is much smaller than the number of laborers, and the number of people who will follow the Fu Han Army to Sakhalin is even smaller.

This Korean restaurant is very small, and in fact the guesthouse is not big either, it's just a few connected farmhouses. There are only two rooms in front of the restaurant, and the woodshed, bedroom, kitchen, storage room and pigsty are in the back, but they are clean.

If Li Tai hadn't come to Oha, he wouldn't know that there are already businessmen running a shop at this time. The three people who are running this shop are all helping others, and their masters will not come to a small place like Oha. In addition to opening a restaurant, this small shop also collects wild goods, but is it really profitable to open a shop in Oha? Don't say that Li Tai finds it strange, even the shopkeeper and the two apprentices are confused and don't understand what their master means. They can speak Chinese more or less, and the shopkeeper speaks the best, and can write decent Chinese characters. I think he is a scholar.

Li Tai was not interested in discovering anything. Since this small shop could be opened next to the guesthouse, its "reliability" was definitely not a problem. In that case, he didn't care.

Li Tai just came to eat, not to handle the case.

A bowl of Korean cold noodles, a portion of fried dumplings, and the dumplings were fish. A plate of kimchi, a bowl of fish sauce soup. All meat was fish. In the words of the shopkeeper, I don't know if the three pigs raised in the backyard can survive this winter. This place is really cold. You have to wear double clothes in the summer, just like the autumn in North Korea.

During Li Tai's meal, the store was deserted and there was no second customer. No wonder the portion of this store was so sufficient. It is estimated that few people come to eat in a day.

The three people in the store looked at Li Tai with admiration and envy. They envied the military uniform on Li Tai and the powerful combat power represented by this military uniform.

Just last month, the Qing army stationed in Chungcheong Province launched a massive attack on Jeolla Province, conquering Jeonju, Gwangju and Naju, and drove the Joseon king who was about to hold the coronation ceremony to Jindo. This was already very sad, but the saddest thing was what happened on Jindo afterwards - the Joseon king Yi Pi, who had just been canonized by China for a few months, died, and died inexplicably.

The three people in the store now only know this news. As for how the Joseon king died and who the murderer was, they still know nothing. Aoha is too remote!

Just when Li Tai was about to finish his meal, the shopkeeper finally asked Li Tai what he wanted to do. He had opened a store here for about a month. This guesthouse was as deserted as his small store, and Li Tai was the first person to come out of the guesthouse and come to his place to eat.

"I'm from Xinjiangkou, I came to check out the goods." Li Tai didn't hide it. There was nothing to hide. He would return to Xinjiangkou the day after tomorrow at most, and go back with the fourth batch of ships that were transporting supplies to Xinjiangkou. Then the fifth batch of ships that were transporting supplies to Xinjiangkou would need most of the cargo space to be filled with coal. Oha is the location of the largest known coal mine on Sakhalin Island, and the quality is quite good. And in the Outer Northeast, coal is absolutely indispensable for wintering.

"From Xinjiangkou?" As soon as Li Tai announced his family, the three of them looked as if they had suddenly realized something.

Those three words were well-known to any Korean, because Xinjiangkou was the bridgehead for the Fu Han Army to enter the Outer Northeast. Chen Ming couldn't use too many troops in the Outer Northeast. First, the inconveniences of climate, temperature difference, terrain, etc. really affected the combat effectiveness of the army. Second, it was to better deal with the Koreans.

Oh, Chen Han can mobilize tens of thousands of troops to fight in Outer Manchuria, so there is no reason why you can't mobilize more troops in Korea?

So in the entire Sakhalin Island and Outer Manchuria operations, the Fu Han Army only deployed a ground force of a Marine Corps regiment. And Xinjiangkou concentrated more than 500 people. The strength of the Marine Corps regiment is not as strong as that of an Army regiment, especially under the situation of the reorganization of the Marine Corps of the Navy, whether it is a battalion, regiment, or brigade, the strength has shrunk.

Now there are only 400 people in a battalion of the Marine Corps. Deng Yun brought a reinforced battalion of more than 500 people, which is close to half of the strength of a regiment. For some Korean "patriots", there is a special symbolic meaning there. It is a new battlefield opened up by the Fu Han Army behind the Qing Dynasty. As long as the Fu Han Army grows a little bit in Outer Manchuria, it will always attract the attention of the Qing Dynasty.

For Li Tai, the experience of the hotel is just a ripple blown by the breeze. The wind passes through the water without a trace, and he will not care about it at all.

After walking out of the hotel, Li Tai went straight to the power center of Oha - the Military Administration. The Military Administration, which is gradually disappearing on the mainland, must exist in these places.

It didn't take long. The entire area of ​​Oha is not large, if the mining area is not counted.

When he arrived at the Military Administration, Li Tai showed his ID, and then he quickly got the list of goods: the fifth Korean labor team, 475 people; various types of iron bars and iron bars, 6,000 pieces; cement, 1,500 bags; rice, wheat 300 bags each, potatoes, sweet potatoes, soybeans, etc. 200 bags in total. Canned food, salted fish, bacon, paper bombs, grenades, gunpowder, hardware...

Li Tai looked at the list and smiled with satisfaction. Food, munitions, labor, materials, Xinjiangkou now has all the things it lacks the most.