Out of the cage

Chapter 1208 Chapter 25.22 Daming seaside where ignorance and enlightenment are intertwined

At this time, on the Nanzhongguo sea, a European-style double-decker galleon was embedded in the rippling sea. The whole hull was black, and the fortress-shaped Spanish hull was still shining red.

Pale-faced European sailors on the deck are pulling the ropes to hang the sails. These European sailors are very weird, and some of them have their lower bodies directly placed in the wine barrels, relying on the strange crab limbs derived from the wine barrels to move.

And the one at the helm was even more strange, with two curled squid tentacles in the middle of the face, turning into a mustache. The entire ship has sixty-seven cannons, but the projectiles fired by the cannons include not only iron eggs, but also fleshy and wriggling skulls.

Ordinary human crew members may have to eat and drink, but these crew members seem to have no secular needs, and they don’t even need normal cabins at all when they live. The guy with the lower body of the wine barrel shrinks directly in the wine barrel, and the captain is Transforms into an octopus and burrows into a large shell under the hull splints.

As for the sailors who control the cables, after work every day, they will walk into the sailor room, and the aisle will be full of black sewage. After walking through the black sewage, all the flesh and blood will fall off and become skeletons. Sailors who look like skeletons will enter the box and fold their own skeleton bones into a full box.

The whole hull is flickering with fire, on a strange and cursed ship. But there is a luxurious cabin, in which there are Oriental silks and satins, Indian spices, porcelain, and Arabian gems.

Here sits a lady who looks like a character from a fairy tale.

Of course, the whole ship is full of black magic, such a beautiful stunner is a bit intrusive.

At this time, a butler's voice was reporting to the lady: "The situation in the East is different from that in Latin America and Africa. The legality here is very chaotic. It is the influence of polytheism."

The countess said: "Do as the Romans do, call me Miss Yang. In addition, your Oriental studies are very bad. In the East, the legitimacy comes from the way of heaven, not polytheism. Whenever there is a chaos, some of them are chosen by the gods. , claiming to be authorized by the Dao of Heaven, and the people of each party will acquiesce that the Dao of Heaven will add "sacred luck" to the monarch. However, the choice of the Dao of Heaven is only temporary. , his territory and army will be annexed by another Son of Destiny chosen by Heaven."

The butler praised: "Count, um, miss is really knowledgeable." After the compliment, he patted his wings.

Yes, the butler is a parrot in a tuxedo. This is the transformation of human consciousness by Western black magic.

...In this era, there is magic in the West, but what about the East? …

At this time, in the southeast coast, Daming is still the well-deserved overlord.

Well, the Japanese plague was brought into national sentiment by China after the 21st century in the main world, thinking that Japan was harassing the frontiers of China, but in fact Japan at this time was not qualified at all.

The Japanese invasion in this period is actually like the border crisis caused by the smuggling of immigrants and drug smuggling in the United States in the 21st century.

The Ming Dynasty named the crisis in the southeast coast as "Japanese invasion", which is actually the Ming Dynasty's depreciation of illegal forces.

At that time, maritime trade flourished and supported a large number of coastal residents. They relied on ships and maritime trade to support their armed forces, similar to how the grassland people monopolized the trade between the East and the West and established iron hooves.

Wang Zhi, a Huizhou merchant, could not be accepted reasonably under the Zhu family dynasty system, so he established a force equivalent to a "maritime khanate". Most of the local forces were still coastal fishermen. As for the incorporation of down-and-out warriors, that was not at the core. within the decision circle.

Narrator: At the beginning of the establishment of the Zhu family dynasty, the attitude towards merchants was to kill fat pigs. Since the death of Shen Wansan, the follow-up rights system has not left a safe and reasonable position for merchants. This is not as good as Qing Dynasty. In the system, there will be one or two red caps left for merchants. Only the emperor of the Qing Dynasty can move the fat pigs of these red cap merchants in the Qing Dynasty. But in the Ming Dynasty, any civil official could uphold the righteousness of "for the sake of the country" and attack the merchants, and then the civil servants themselves had a detached political status, but they could protect their interests with the righteousness of "not competing with the people".

Wei Keng: The Zhu family blocked the merchants' ascent channel, so that in the late period, "Shan merchants communicated with captives, and Shaanxi merchants communicated with bandits". That is to say, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the two forces that were at war with the Ming court could obtain materials from within the Ming Dynasty. And the Jiangnan business in the Ming Dynasty is standing by at this time!

If Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't killed Shen Wansan when the Ming Dynasty was founded, of course it would be best to give him a noble so that his heirs could stand among the nobles.

Then the developed folk capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty would never be isolated from the imperial court. The center of Chongzhen will not die of poverty.

Because the Ming court can "raise debt" in the final stage! People don't believe in the imperial court? Sell ​​Aunt Zhu, um, give a marriage to the family in the south who buys the most debts. The wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River determined that this route of using money to buy the right to speak in the imperial court was feasible. Among these wealthy people, those "Zeng Guofan" who could not get through the imperial examination but had a reputation in the local area. He will immediately lift the Ming Dynasty from the grave, tidy up and organize a new army to wipe out the intruders and the Qing Dynasty. By the way, the Shanxi merchants, Shanxi merchants and other competitors are scanned.

The most critical step in the transition from a feudal empire to capitalism is for capital to trade rights towards feudalism, and then gradually rise to power! But Zhu Chongba completely blocked this step during the founding of the country, and did not give capital a guarantee of "political" status. Therefore, no matter how capitalism sprouted in the late Ming Dynasty, it faced a ceiling of power. They all turn their elbows outward.

The perspective returns to the current Jiajing period.

The coastal power that Wang Zhi has risen so suddenly is outside the system, standing on the side of the Ming Dynasty, and wants to attack.

The Ming court's strategy against Wang Zhi at this time is also understandable. In terms of naming rights, it declared that this "Huizhou merchant" force was a barbarian, oh, it was a Japanese plague. It's like the two parties in the United States in the 21st century spraying each other, first spraying the other side for colluding with Russia and then China.

But he was the only one who dared to jump out and reverse. He was directly degraded as a Japanese pirate by the people of Ming Dynasty.

Oh, Zheng Zhilong in the back is much more honest, but it really has to be counted according to ethnicity. The national surname of the family who recovered Baodao also came from Dongying.

The situation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was that with the rise of the age of great navigation, the maritime trade along the southeast coast could always produce giant sea merchants like Wang Zhi.

So these days, when you are doing business along the coast, whether you are a pirate or not depends on whether you are anti-Ming and whether there is anyone in the court.

Zhu Ming once boasted that the country was extremely upright. Without the blood of Li, Tang and Hu, the ministers of Song usurped the country, and the Ming court defined "whether you know foreign countries"!

Wei Keng's comment: Even in the late feudal period, such a "politically correct" dynasty, as long as it puts its name on the table, those upstarts who lack a name but are rich in the southeast coast will die. All the Xiyi artillery ships were brought by Zhu Ming.

The subsequent Qing Dynasty did not have this capital. First of all, it could not directly give the Zheng family the name of Japanese pirates like the Ming cabinet.

Three generations of Kang Yong and his grandparents fought in a relay to beat Zhungeer to extinction. "Being able to fight" was the only way for them to declare orthodoxy. In the end, when the foreigners came, they couldn't beat them, and they withered away.

Summary: The orthodox name of the highest feudal legal system is a huge asset when the country’s early industrial capital rises. If the core decision-makers in the dynasty can effectively use this asset, it can quickly transform into imperialism. (such as the Meiji Restoration.)

After obtaining the "parallel timeline" comparison in the 28th century of the main world, historical research experts: those gentlemen of the imperial court in the late Ming Dynasty, if there is a "Western Affairs Minister who holds real power in the late Qing Dynasty", it is not just "Tongzhi ZTE", but Direct Rise of Empires. The prestige capital of the Qing emperor's dynasty cannot be exchanged, because he dare not release it to the feudal officials other than non-banner people, so Zeng, Li, and the upper left have to balance, but Ming court's "capital" in this regard is Free, relatively less scruples.

The transformation of feudal countries from early liberal capitalism to imperialism requires the feudal empire to have great prestige, maintain internal stability and promote the development of the capital system. In the First World War of 1899-1895, Japan won the greatest "capital" in fact, but it was still a huge prestige, which enabled its subsequent reforms to suppress contradictions.

It has to be said that although the Ming Dynasty had weak control over the western frontier (abandoning Hetao), it had tough measures against foreigners until the end of the dynasty. Because of the absolute prestige capital, even a small defeat in the battle cannot shake the Ming court's internal prestige! Instead, it can continue to consume with the outside world by granting coastal officials the right to self-determination in military and economic terms. (The Qing court did not have this authority, and was afraid of border rebellion, so it did not dare to authorize talents outside the Confucian system in Fuguang.)

In modern times, in the 1980s and 1990s, the East had a blind obedience to the West, believing that the Ming Dynasty began to lag behind the West.

There was even an argument on the Internet that "Spain conquered Daming, but finally gave up because of an accident, and Daming escaped, thankfully". It was as if Daming was a dilapidated house that could be shaken and collapsed with a random kick from the sea.

However, in the first year of Jiajing, Ming had already proved its own strength. The Portuguese sent five ships to wipe out the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and then drifted away. A ship, the governor in India was directly captured.

As the leader of the Air Force Corps who traveled here, Wei Keng is the strong capital that attaches great importance to the behemoth of Ming Dynasty. Even with the prophetic advantage spanning hundreds of years, he dare not act rashly.

Back to the moment, the sails of the sea ship are pushing on the foggy sea. The waves beat against the small port, causing the dozens of merchant ships docked here to sway from side to side.

This female vampire is slowly approaching Macau, oh, these days, the Portuguese of Macau have just come ashore humblely.

Oh, these red-haired barbarians do not have the wisdom of the colonists who later boasted that "there is a place where the cowhide is big to rest, and the last cowhide is a big circle".

It is also impossible to build a fortress turret, and the gentlemen of the government here in the Ming Dynasty can't see this!

If Hong Maoyi really dared to attack the government's bottom line. The pirates (pirates) in Guangdong who are engaged in maritime trade will immediately put on the skins of Ming officers and soldiers, and follow the instructions of the adults to level up the small shop of the red-haired man.

When the vampire countess came ashore, she could clearly feel that the merchants in the West were very humble, which was completely different from the high-spirited people in other colonies.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Europeans who traded in the east classified the Ming people as the white race.

This "Miss Yang" found it difficult to establish a family here. Although she can walk in and out of the human market as a day walker, her appearance in the East belongs to the "white face like a yaksha" kind.

So after getting off the boat, she took out a pendant from her chest, and inside the pendant was a jewel-like blood-red liquid. This is her source blood, this is her family's token, and now she puts this gem in her mouth, her golden hair turns black, and her pupils change from cat-like green to black. I took off my western dress and put on an oriental hairpin skirt

Her father claimed that the family ancestor came from an alien from the East a hundred years ago. From an early age she was fascinated by the oriental arts inherited from her father.

…Eastern and Western thought began to meet at this time…

Hundreds of kilometers to the north, in Fujian, Wei Keng clicked, disassembled the steam engine, and said to the fascinated eyes of more than fifty local children and students in the fishing village: "This is an air-rotating ball machine, which saves manpower and leverages nature. For nearly a hundred years, my Mohist mechanism has improved it to provide power for iron oxen and steel horses."

Wei Keng thought to himself: Facing fantasy enemies in this plane, the carrier on which its "extraordinary" power is based is also restricted by 99% of other basic rules.

For example, mind power is actually based on some kind of "magnetic" protein. This kind of protein can act like a nanorobot, and the human nervous system can "wirelessly" send force to these proteins to form a "force field".

Oh, this also exists in the internal strength of various sects in the current Ming Dynasty, some sects can control the sword in the air.

The sword energy pierces through the air, and can even absorb stars. Very powerful!

Master Wei is using a computer to decipher these internal skills. Carry out modeling calculations on "nanoengineering".

Because of the maximum "power" emitted in the body, several protein structures exist.

Wei Keng's original words to the biology department are: at that time, whether it will be "nine yang" or "nine yin" will be the result of different configurations.

...This is a world where magic, martial arts, and steampunk meet. …

While the steam engines were being distributed to the students, the research department had come up with a "fantasy" style steam engine.

Referring to the principle of "mind force" in this plane, the protein is instantly magnetized to form a force field. First, human fingernail hair is put into acetic acid and other drugs for precipitation and purification, and then a current and magnetic field are used for magnetization. .

After completing the sympathetic induction, such as entering the steam engine prepared for engraving, when the steam engine is pressurized to ten atmospheres and kept at 37.8 degrees, and after the power is turned on, the original sympathetic "force field" will increase. That is to say, the operator can use the power of thought to push the internal complex operation lever of the steam engine and adjust the transmission of small mechanical gears in the steam engine. Just like the flexible tongue can rub bubble gum into "squares" or "balls" in the mouth at will.

Wei Keng goes back to the history of the plot line farther back: it is the control of the original steam engine by "Zhen Qi". (On this plot line, the robot made by Yanshi is such a thing)

What was finally researched is a bunch of mechanical gears, with very few external levers, but it can move the machine according to the user's mind like an automatic transmission! ——Pure mechanics.

Wei Keng stared at these students and whispered: To pass on such a tradition, the world needs to be changed.

Wei Keng came to this upstream plot point this time to deploy cause and effect. "Cause and effect" needs to be inherited downstream for five hundred years, or even thousands of years later, so the conditions of the plot world must be considered.

For example, this kind of "mechanism" is an important cause and effect that will spread to the downstream. There are too many inheritance elements of "mechanism" submerged at this point in time in Ming Dynasty.

As the saying goes, poor literature and rich martial arts, this is the nutrition needed for the inheritance of "martial arts", and in the inheritance of martial arts, the effect of fighting "feeding tricks" on cultivation is too great, only the ancestors are honored because of "martial arts", and generations must continue to rely on martial arts Only a family of generals based in the political system can be passed on stably. This is the case with the Yang family's marksmanship in the Song Dynasty.

In modern history, running schools has also experienced "poor literature and rich science and technology". Even in the early 20th century, universities gave priority to running liberal arts! Because the experiment of science and engineering equipment and instruments consumes too much, it cannot be done without the support of mature industrial chain interest groups.

At the same time, it is like the inheritance of "Wu" requires the support of the political status of "Warrior" in order to be passed on.

And now, in the inheritance of the Mohist organ technique of this "science and engineering", it is also necessary for those who inherit the Tao to obtain sufficient "political status" in the East in order to stably inherit it. At present, the imperial examination has already filled up the channels for "poor families to obtain political status", and craftsmen have been relegated to strange skills and prostitution.

Wei Keng did some calculations. Mechanism technique, a precise mechanical gear grinding, requires various facilities, the price is thousands of taels of silver, and it takes half an hour for workers with ten years of service to process it. This threshold screens out the vast majority of people in the current Ming Dynasty.

"You have a lot of money, and you have hundreds or thousands of obedient people. And you have enough leisure."

Wei Keng: Damn it, it seems that only the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty are left! And now the vassals of the Ming Dynasty are verifying the "Periodic Table of Chemical Elements" (Kadan).

Narrator: The sub-world is inherently unstable, and it cannot be changed by the overlord. This is completely in line with the "induction between heaven and man". That is, the hearts of the people in the subworld determine the future development. Because the plot line is violently pried, the thinking of all people will lead to changes in the rules of the new dimension, the cause and effect will be unpredictable, and future disasters will be uncertain. So if you want to deploy karma, you have to go with the flow.

In this world, find the people who bear the "cause and effect", and point out the direction in which the causal line can grow and develop.

While Wei Keng was teaching the students about steam engines, on the other side of the school field a few kilometers away, Li Changkang of the Space-Time Expeditionary Army was organizing militia training.

On the craftsman's team, Su Qianheng hired a simple lathe operated by a local craftsman to start making guns and bullets.

Right now, the Socialist Party regards workers as the first class. That is, "work" and "agriculture" are the basis. This is breaking the "outline".

Carpenters and blacksmiths, although their minds have not yet been liberated, are still submissive, but because of the increase in their own wages, they have begun to have a spirit of "I am the master" of the lathes distributed to them.

The space-time traveler began to guide these Ming local craftsmen to think about their own value.

A group of workers who think about "the value of their craft" is the core asset for the progress of an industrial team.

Following the principle of "localization", the Space Force Corps began to tailor technology trees for these craftsman teams.

The steel pipe of the gun is forged by hydraulic wrought iron, and drilled out with a boring machine. Compared with modern rifles, the number of steps has been reduced by at least 30%, and the effective range (breaking a layer of mountain armor) may be 50 meters. The bullets are even more perfunctory, using paper shell bullets.

It is still in the 16th century, and transcendental technological creations should be used less. Even if technological creations are required, "items" that transcend the times cannot be left behind for hundreds of years, so that later generations can find crossing nodes.

At this time, on the school grounds, recruits in linen clothes were training with straw sandals and cloth shoes.

Standing on a red brick building, Wei Keng said, "I also want to make a single head with a copper jacket, but now the wrought iron barrel is seriously worn out and the rifling is quite serious. And there is a shortage of copper in China."

Only 30% of these infantry can hit the target at 50 meters.

Wei Keng extremely doubted whether they would have the guts to fire a second round when they encountered the iron heels of the Ming Dynasty.

Paper shell bullets have a serious problem of difficulty in extracting shells.

Imagine the scene where firecrackers are stuffed into the cracks of the wall and exploded, and want to dig out the shredded paper? It's all glued to the wall.

On the eve of the Industrial Revolution, the production of paper shell warheads, the paper had to be soaked in oil, and then pressed with a special press to become a hard paper skin comparable to metal. Even so, in storage, the paper shell will be soft if it is slightly damp. If the guarantee is insufficient, it is difficult to extract the shell after firing, and you must use a small metal hook like an earpick to take it out.

Therefore, using the experience he had when he first went to the Arcana plane, Wei Keng simply designed the breech of the rifle as a revolver, that is, an extended version of the revolver with a buttstock. Due to the unreliable firing parts and insufficient industrial precision, it is too rough to prepare the chemical industry with nitric acid in ceramic large tanks. In order to prevent the fatal problem of spontaneous combustion of the primer, the flint is still used.

Su Qianheng gave a lecture to the first batch of 100 local fishermen.

Three months later, the barbaric instructors rolled up their sleeves and corrected everyone's gun posture: "Bullets are fools, bayonets are heroes. The firecrackers in your hands are mainly used for assassination, and you can only shoot when your commander orders you to fire." .”

The firearms that these recruits received were all one-man-length, and the sharp bayonet at the front was glowing with quenched blue light, giving people the impression that it was a cold weapon at first.

The so-called "bullets are fools, bayonets are heroes" was shouted at recruits.

Weapon experts of later generations studied the lethality of bayonets and bullets, and believed that this was an ignorant judgment.

Weapon experts of later generations said that modern military officers "do not understand guns", so the officers who train modern troops now say that you do not understand "soldiers".

The most important thing in the army is discipline. Cold weapons have turned into the era of hot weapons, because opening fire will bring huge psychological support to the panicked recruits who have just entered the battlefield. As for the recruits who fired indiscriminately, the waste of ammunition was second, and what was even more terrible was that it was impossible to accept other orders when they were immersed in firing.

A soldier who cannot obey orders is no longer a soldier.

You must know that on the battlefield, it is not only to shoot, but also to observe enemy targets, attack enemy positions, and compete for bunkers. Raise the flag and fire on the target for the artillery's guide.

The first battlefield shooting of recruits is basically unable to play the role of bullets. A salvo shot, and when the cavalry rushed in front of it, it collapsed. The heart is empty and there is no hole card, even if the commander gives orders, the recruits will not be able to listen.

Therefore, in the early days of firearms, commanders chose to use the lie of "bayonet hero, bullet idiot" to let recruits focus on their own bayonet first, and the subconscious force of both hands was to "jab" with the bayonet instead of clasping their fingers on the bayonet. on the trigger.

And for all soldiers: everyone "shooting bullets" together is a psychological hole card.

When everyone has a psychological hole card, the resistance of the troops will be enhanced.

So now Su Qianheng began to emphasize to the recruits under his command: "The bayonet will determine the outcome if a hero doesn't shoot first".

Wei Keng shook his head and didn't stop it completely. He just added an item in the infantry drill code: "Tactically try to ambush, use the cover to attack, attack close, and aim at it."

At the same time, Wei Keng strengthened the training of corporal leaders. These corporal leaders are all required to be educated in mathematics and Chinese in elementary schools. Use a ruler to measure the distance on the map.

In the military entertainment, the Jianghu style is used to tell the classics of Chinese war culture. For example, in the Cao GUI debate, the significance of fighting at the moment.

As a general of a certain level, Wei Keng knows that morale is a floating concept. The effectiveness of firepower is related to the combat courage of soldiers. How to maximize the effectiveness of firepower projection is a skill that an officer must study.

…At this time in the sea of ​​East Asia, a new armed group began to rise. …

The Wudao army is new in every way, and to some extent newer than the Beiyang New Army.

The Beiyang New Army is a combat force that was smashed out of the whole country's silver under the feudal order. , so that the army can't find economic support, and they will disperse in a herd.

The monthly salary of the soldiers in the Beiyang Army was 4.5 taels of silver. Calculated according to the salary of the middle-level employees, one tael of silver was 2,000 yuan at that time, and 4.5 taels was the monthly salary of 9,000 in the early 21st century.

Now, Wei Keng gave them quite generous funds for purchasing local military households, but the salary for ordinary soldiers for military training is only half a tael of silver, and the monthly salary for officers is only one tael of silver.

The key to raising an army is not money, but the treatment of soldiers.

Right now, in the new army of the Space-Time Administration, all daily necessities are not worrying about, and the bedding used is linen from the weaving workshop. Give pen and paper to study every day. And everyone gets a glass jar each week, and the best-trained team gets double.

What's more worth mentioning is that the "remuneration" in the army is accompanied by the gradual promotion of "military rank".

On the whole, from the perspective of military supplies, the bulk of the military expenditure is supplied by local workshops, and some of the products produced are handed over to the military for "military tax".

Military power is the most tyrannical, channel-opening power.

Compared with the feudal army in the industrial era, the biggest difference is the loss of "army support". The feudal system can only reward silver directly because there is no industrial finance, while the industrial army relies on the "treatment" provided by industrial production to ensure morale.

From this point of view, Beiyang is actually an "old army" in essence.

The old feudal army will eventually collapse due to the financial shortage of the feudal group. For example, Jiang's 8 million army can only issue gold coupons in the end.

But for industrial troops, as long as the local industrial potential is preserved, the military will open up commercial markets and raw material channels.

So how many troops to raise depends entirely on the population! This was the case with the outbreak of Germany in the two wars.

Right now, the "Soji Party" only has a foothold on the border of the Daming Sea. But Wei Keng is also prepared to deal with the "big fight" by the Great Tomorrow Army.

Master Wei estimated the finances of the last years of Jiajing, and it seemed that he was not as wealthy as his grandson.

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