Out of the cage

Chapter 1217 Chapter 25.29 Face, face.

The time-travelers of the Reclamation Association paid close attention to the whole process of their contact with Daming. ——After all, this is dealing with a big country. As a "small" party, it is more affected by "interests", so we must be more cautious.

It is a very objective reality that in the 21st century, multinational companies can ignore the protests of small countries at will, but they must have a special "public relations team" for big countries. Of course, some people in the 21st century confuse this concept and let small countries challenge big countries in the name of "equality" and "freedom". Even in the name of "military security", it is necessary to adopt a pre-emptive strategy against major powers to maintain its own security.

Eastern Europe embodies the disaster caused by this kind of carelessness as a "small" versus a "big", and wantonly following internal emotions.

Back to the present, the dedicated reception team of the Kentuo Club took the envoys of the Ming court on a huge steam ship to travel around Dayuan Island.

When these officials approached the coastline, they saw the bustling wharf, and couldn't help feeling that it was a paradise. The Reclamation Association revealed intentionally or unintentionally: It is a pity that such a good piece of land has no fame and talent.

The civil servant paused slightly, realizing that this meant "offering soil".

Of course, those guards in brocade clothes took shorthand notebooks to write.

The Kentuo Society has long realized that there will be Dongchang Fanzi to record, so they gave them the map in advance, showing the farmland and roads in the Jilong District on the map, as well as the signs on the road signs.

After the imperial envoys and guards of the Ming Dynasty got off the big ship, the steam train at the station, the steam boiler like a big water tank was being boiled, and there was a puffing white air flow, and the pressure indicators on the pipes were swaying. Then, the control levers are adjusting the steam pressure. Under the rolling force provided by the coal mine burning in the boiler at the front of the car, this hundred-stone black iron monster rushes forward with brute force.

The staff of the guest house responded to the stunned envoy: Although this thing is far slower than a pack horse, it can drag ten thousand buckets of rice.

This steam car is not going on the railway. At this time, the steel output of the big staff is not enough to lay the rails, and there are only a few hundred thousand people, and the population is sparse, and it is impossible to train enough railway workers.

The two tracks are "convex" concrete rails. This kind of cement rails is piled with baked wood every five meters. Bamboo ribs are laid between the piles, and then cement and sand are attached to the corners. Brick body, to resist iron wheel wear. The concrete track is up to thirty centimeters wide. The bearing capacity is strong enough.

The Reclamation Association has counted various methods, whether it is building hardened cement roads, laying gravel roads and using crawlers, they are not economical enough.

Right now, as the eight-carriage train rumbled over, Ming Envoy saw a strange scene at the station.

Ordinary residents wearing sackcloth boarded the economy cars at the back with big bags and small bags, and many of them carried cages for sheep, pigs, chickens and ducks.

Mingshi wanted to take a closer look, but he had already been invited to the first-class cabin. There were eight tables and chairs in this single compartment.

As the truck drove, I saw a large field along the way. Compared with the fields in the Jiangnan area, here is a large area of ​​200 steps. This is a convenient land management plan.

At present, the land on Dayuan Island has not been traded for commodities. It is completely managed by the company and the people in the local reclamation area through a contract, that is, transplanting rice seedlings, plowing and filling, and harvesting. The company is responsible for the work that requires large-scale collaboration. Acres are charged. As for daily care, it is left to the public.

This was the large plantation management model of the colonial system.

If the land is naturally annexed like in the south of the Yangtze River, the landlords with small peasant ideas will quietly move the boundary markers in a few years, and the canals and field ridges at the dividing line will become messy.

At present, the dividing line of the farmland on Dayuan Island is a tree, and the tree is moved to death. Therefore, the straight plan is currently maintained, which looks quite pleasing to the eye.

But in the eyes of the Ming envoy, his expression became more and more shocking. Such a well field system represents the government-like management of fields.

A man who came after him cupped his hands and whispered to the Shangguan: This is not an ordinary maritime merchant, but the power of the plowing war system. Compared with the harassment of several Japanese pirate ships, this place has the ability to gather tens of thousands of soldiers.

The implication is that the imperial court must be cautious about this, and if it is not done well, it will be more troublesome than the Mongolian Tatars.

...Only strong ships and heavy artillery can understand pirate civilization, but the well field system can understand farming civilization...

The vehicle came to Chicken Coop City, which smelled of coke.

Compared to Jing Tian Mu outside, this time is the real core. A heavy industrialized city integrating steelmaking, ammonia making, three acids and two alkalis, and mechanical production.

The design is quite compact. While many chemical productions produce waste heat (ammonia gas is converted to nitric acid), waste residue and wastewater are also produced, so that every burning coal mine can produce more profitable output value as much as possible, not just a certain production line It is not advanced, but a whole set of facilities are connected in series like a human body, and the waste heat will be reused and sent to the factory steam boiler for reproduction.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs.

The pure white agricultural country did not have such design capabilities and factory management capabilities at the beginning. Therefore, everything has to copy the urban zoning, logistics transfer, and personnel management of the cities of existing industrial countries.

Chicken cage city is the most concentrated place for the time-space team members of the Reclamation Association, because outside the management of farmland, the operation of business roads, and even the army can find local talents from Ming Dynasty to replace them. Only in this industrialization, there is no education-related talent for more than ten years The chain cannot grow.

This trip to the industrial city is naturally to let the envoys of the Ming Court understand the two things they are most concerned about, muskets and armor.

At Armor Factory, the production line is usually closed and only opened on Mondays of each month. The factory workers usually produce screws, iron hoops and other parts that are currently in short supply in the business in other hardware workshops. But now, the envoys of the Ming Dynasty came, and a production was started.

In the No. 023 factory building, when all the workers entered each station in a queue and stood at attention, the team leader reported "Everyone is on your place", "Inspection is complete", and "Everything is normal", and the machine started to run.

At the beginning, the people in the Ming court saw all the workers running in small steps and reporting the count in a serious manner, and curled their lips. This is because people with agricultural thinking do not understand the rigid appearance of residents in the industrial state.

But as the rings of iron sheets were directly forged, and the dust jacket on the musket was fixed with screws at the end, everyone didn't have to move, and as long as they did the fixed things at hand, they couldn't help but change their faces.

When every incense stick, three sets of armor came down from the production line, and when the sun went down from morning to three in the afternoon, the rows of armors were pasted with sizes on the array of "clothes hangers" at the rear of the production workshop. Arranged in military formations like terracotta warriors, this batch of tung oil-scented armor formations exudes a terrifying momentum.

The honorable envoys of the Ming Dynasty in brocade robes couldn't help but walked to the armor formation. In less than an hour, the prototypes of hundreds of armors were completed, and the rest was the work of installing and fixing the armor parts. According to the production of one piece every morning In the case of half an hour and two hours of production in the afternoon, the production capacity of more than 300 people in this factory can crush the output of tens of thousands of craftsmen in the capital who forged with small hammers and small furnaces for several months.

The impact of industrialization efficiency is to stop the thinking of Ming people on this timeline.

...Should I ask about the crime of "privately forging armor" now? …

Then came the firearms factory, where shiny steel pipes were drilled out under the drilling rig, and the accumulated steel pipes were fitted by workers and other parts, and inserted into screws to fix them.

After this batch of muskets are produced, they will enter the quality inspection process, which will be randomly selected by several soldiers, and then the quality inspector will carry these hot guns into the shooting range to shoot, and the revolver firearms will be fired six times. The sound made the heartbeat of the literati who saw this weapon for the first time hear the gunshots followed by the gunshots.

On the field, the tester fired a salvo of the revolver, and then took a small hook like an ear spoon to clean the paper shell embedded in the barrel of the revolver. Then stuff the bullets in, and overall the firepower is good.

After the shooting, the inspector reported: "This batch of firearms was randomly inspected, and twenty of them passed the inspection."

Such continuous multiple firearms silenced the envoys again. Before they could say anything, Kentuo would pass through the group and present these firearms to the envoys to watch.

During the Ming Dynasty, the civil servants looked at the firearms in their hands, and they were very novel about the rolling structure.

Of course, more advanced firearms have not yet been shown, and the disadvantage of the runner in terms of air tightness is an unsolvable problem.

In the era of fixed bullets, range and accuracy are the core competitiveness.

The bolt-action rifle is ready to be produced, just because no stable copper mine has been found yet, and the ammunition still does not eliminate paper shell warheads.

The Ming envoy confirmed: the craftsmen in the capital cannot make such firearms. Of course, not to mention that it is difficult to control the quality of handicrafts. At any rate, this is a product that is standardized with vernier calipers every day, and the weight error of the cardboard shell bullet does not exceed one tenth of a gram.

...The Pacific Company did not regard Ming as an enemy, but just wanted to transfer the surplus population of the Central Dynasty...

After the military inspection, the Reclamation Association and Daming returned to the negotiating table.

However, at this time, the two sides were a little speechless, privately building armor, hoarding land and building cities, all of which belonged to rebellion according to the law of the Ming Dynasty. And even if it can't be suppressed, there will be a new round of blockade that prevents sampans from entering the sea, but if this is the case, Ming Jiangnan will experience another wave of Japanese plague.

Of course, there are no Japanese in the reclamation team. As a force that takes the road of capital, the army is highly nationalistic.

Moreover, the number of Han Chinese in East Asia is large enough, even if nationalism produces xenophobia, it is still a big trend.

The Daming Mission could see that there were eight agricultural towns around the entire industrial area, the largest of which had 3,000 households. Counting this town alone, the number of three households to draw one ding was used to conduct one drill per ten days. They took out thousands of people with guns.

Note: These are not full-time soldiers. In ancient times, there were ten households and one member. They were soldiers who had to fight outside for a long time, and the transportation was inconvenient. Once they were recruited into the camp, they could not be released. It is not a joke that a general dies in a hundred battles and a strong man returns after ten years.

However, training in the countryside is only a dozen miles away, and even if there are three households and one household for training, it will not affect agricultural production.

When productivity is further developed, as the railway expands the entire territory of the country, household registration management enters the grassroots, and half of the men can be mobilized to the battlefield—this was the case in World War I and II. The higher the industrialization of the society, the higher the mobilization power.

The Reclamation Association is also unwilling to fall out with Ming Dynasty, because the imperial court in the northern capital is not the main resistance to the direct "overseas colonial strategy".

Its biggest resistance is the current landlord Confucianism group in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This official-based group monopolizes resources. Whether it is "commercial economy" or "small peasant economy", it is all about internal exploitation, not external expansion. A force that would cause headaches even at the end of the dynasty.

So something happened that was unexpected by the envoys of the Ming court, that is, the reclamation team took out a map. In front of the imperial envoy of Ming Dynasty, the state and county capitals were divided on Dayuan Island.

Of course, it was not that the Reclamation and Exploration Group established the government system themselves, but invited the imperial court to establish the government system here and appoint officials. As for the tax system, it can be thirty to one.

…The traverser of the Reclamation Group: Although we train soldiers and build armor privately, we are righteous people...

On the other side, Wei Keng was having a conversation with the priest of Longhu Mountain.

Wei Keng looked at the Taoist priest who came from Longhu Mountain: "This fellow Taoist, the ancestor of your sect, didn't he issue a decree for you?"

The priest was taken aback for a moment, thinking that Wei Keng was pretending to be a ghost, until Wei Keng took out something: a Taoist scripture, which belonged to Master Zhang Lu of Longhu Mountain.

Note: In this area of ​​the heavens, Wei Keng can directly pour items from the upstream of time.

What Master Wei is looking at right now is the alchemy that has been developed for a thousand years. Wei Keng is now investigating further upstream and found that zombies also appeared earlier in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In that great epidemic, Taoists used the technique of lead and mercury to refine the "golden elixir" and put it into the well to eliminate the disease in the water source, so that 70% of the people in each village survived!

These "one thing down one thing" corresponds to the upstream stability valve of the biochemical plot. Once these knowledge systems in the colonial era are lost, the biochemical crisis will deteriorate without limit.

Now Wei Keng is going to get Danshu back.

For the Taoist priests of Longhu Mountain, Wei Keng's backtracking of upstream time can be said to be a real fairy art.

The Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain saw that the handwriting was similar to the notes in the Daoist script carved on the stone at the back of the sect, and doubted that it was the authentic work of the ancestor of the sect, so he asked respectfully, "How many years did the immortal master cultivate?"

Wei Keng: "The situation in my world is different from your understanding of time and space. Hanshi is a thousand years to you, but it is only a few days ago to me."

...religion cannot directly confront secular government...

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wu Dou Mi Dao originally belonged to the "evil road number". The founder Zhang Daoling established a preaching organization based on the twenty-four governance, and set up positions such as sacrificial wine for management, and established Wu Dou Mi Dao as a sect with strict organization and clear division of labor .

After Zhang Daoling's death, his son Zhang Heng inherited the position of Heavenly Master and was called the Heavenly Master, but there are few records about him. On the contrary, Zhang Xiu, another Bashu native in the same period, made great contributions to the perfection and development of the five buckets of rice road. Contribution, was tied with Zhang Jiao. Later, Taiping Dao was wiped out, but Zhang Heng’s son Zhang Lu took advantage of the warlord separatism in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and relied on the organizational system of Wu Dou Mi Dao. A larger force, and use this force to resist the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It was Zhang Lu who really reformed this cult organization, improving its teachings and developing its production. And surrendered to Cao Cao, took away hundreds of thousands of people in Hanzhong, leaving Liu Bei a big hole.

The case of Zhang Lu proves that the combination of a power that radiates ideas and a ruling group that controls the legal system can benefit both.

Throughout the history of the earth, it is difficult for super religions to be extinct, but there is only one super religion, because it always loves to compete with secular power. Disappeared directly, that is Zoroastrianism.

The branch of Zoroastrianism that spread to the east is Mingjiao, White Lotus Cult. From the Fangla rebellion, the torch was passed on from generation to generation, and even sent away the rule of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Of course, the religion itself was sent away in the end.

The Air Corps led by Wei Keng at this time created the "New Mohism" on the timeline of the Ming Dynasty, and now it is passed down as the "Xianjia" and has become a kind of "religion".

Now the Pacific Company Kentuo will adopt the position rotation system, which will not generate royal power, so it will not compete with Emperor Ming for the destiny. But they will actively participate in all topics related to their own interests, and are ready to directly collide with any blocking forces.

For the "New Mohism", this obstructive force can be the Ming Dynasty. Change to a "Mandate of Heaven" that is inclined to Mohism.

The Pacific Company is ready for another "friction" to force the Ming Dynasty to recognize part of the treaty.

Wei Keng: The so-called sprouts of capitalism in Jiangnan are definitely not suitable for the further development of capitalism. Confucianism is the ceiling, and the sprouts that grow are all bean sprouts.

Six days later, on the concrete pier, a stone statue was erected, and the inscription was written by an envoy of Ming Dynasty. The ribbon-cutting was successful, and everyone present applauded. …

The envoys of the Ming court picked up the map, and although they didn't have a guarantee, they were ready to promote the surrender of Southeast Xintu in the court.

For this mission, they originally thought of stabilizing the southeast, but now they did not expect that they could collect new land for the court in the southeast. Throughout history, only Zhao Guo encountered the great bargain of the "Shangdang" people's soil donation during the Warring States Period. .

If it can be made, this is the benefit of being famous through the ages. The Dayuan Island in the southeast is obviously extremely rich, and its grain production is comparable to that of the Shangfu in the southeast.

The ruling clique of the Ming Dynasty already had high eyesight but low power. The Imperial Examination Scholars of the Ming court were direct candidates in the capital. They stayed at the feet of the emperor for a long time to gain qualifications and wait for the cabinet, rather than sending them out to gain ruling experience.

This is the chronic disease of the Daming Jiangnan literati group in power. It has been like this since the founding of the Wen Dynasty, at the center, conceited and talented, and arrogant to the people below.

As everyone knows: My perspective is limited to the prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River, and I lack imagination for the complicated situations in Kyushu.

In the Ming Dynasty, literati from the south of the Yangtze River flooded the court, which made the Ming court the one with the weakest control over the frontier among the dynasties that unified the North and the South.

These scholars will do such stupid things in governing the country decades later: In Liaodong, Li Chengliang, who was already feudalized, was demolished, and he was complacent about solving the border troubles, but he never thought that the Ming Dynasty could not even control the Hetao, and demolished himself in Liaodong. The "Great Wall" made room for the rise of alien races.

The Kentuo Society dares to let Daming come over to build the mansion because it is certain that the existing system sent by the imperial court cannot be governed.

Li Changkang, a member of the board of directors, said: The imperial power of the Ming court in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be reduced to counties, and local power cannot even be seized by clans. We set up a consultative bureau to attract famous scholars such as scholars to help us openly absorb refugees from the Little Ice Age from various state capitals and go out to sea for reclamation.

Three months later, the envoy left Dayuan Island, and some eloquent speakers from the Reclamation Association followed the Ming envoy team, took the golden pearls, and went to the southern capital and the northern capital respectively to establish relations.

For the Reclamation Association, which "bows its head and proclaims its ministers", it is necessary to give full face and face to those in power in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court cannot order a sea ban.

The sea ban means that the government directly prohibits fishermen from contacting overseas forces.

Now Reclamation will recruit from fishing villages in Guangzhou and Zhejiang, quietly set up bases on coastal islands, and then recruit people to go to sea.

With the official status of reclamation, it is completely possible to recruit fishermen to reclaim land on land.

The gathering of fishermen can be legalized. As for the official side, it can be done through "collusion between officials and businessmen".

Right now, the space-time team is preparing a special project to deliver benefits to people in the coastal county government. Engage in a "global donation".

Kentuo will pay the tax to the local government with ten copper coins per person going to sea. Let the government cooperate with immigration.

And strengthen land commercial exchanges with Ming Dynasty. For example, in the "mining" industry in Zhejiang, it transports "mining" exhaust fans, crushes mining machines, increases mining production, and dispatches ships to purchase these minerals.

You must know that many of these "mines" have involved the royal family, as well as court officials.

In this way, the population and minerals extracted from Daming have obtained a "industrialization upgrade" raw material rear and a market, which can then be used to invest in ships.

Accumulate infrastructure such as water conservancy and roads in farther places such as Luzon and Hainan to expand.

So far, Kentuohui has developed very rapidly. This is not only the technology adjusted by the time and space gate, but also the continuous correctness of the strategy. This is something that newcomers in the sub-planes rarely do. Many other space-time worm traversers, without the leadership of a "calm leader", are often consumed in confronting the indigenous forces with a little foundation.

It is extremely important to remember what you are here for.

On Dayuan Island, Wei Keng looked at several lines that Kentuo would extend to Nanyang Islands, and marked several points on Nanyang Islands. Those are hundreds of years in the future, on various timelines, in different plots, biochemical The location of the origin of the crisis.