Chapter 225 Go to Northern Liaoning, go to the Western Regions, go to Nanyang, and go to America.

Author: Mrmumumuah

Chapter 225 Go to Northern Liaoning, go to the Western Regions, go to Nanyang, and go to America.

"Don't let Qianlong escape!!"

"Forward! Forward!"

"Capture Qianlong and destroy the Tatars!"

On the road heading north from Zhaozhou Mansion.

The Guards Regiment of the Ming Dynasty, flying the dragon flag of the Ming Dynasty's Imperial Regiment, is rolling forward.

Platoon leader Chen Huacheng of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 7th Dragoon Brigade of the Ming Army was shouting slogans and riding his horse back and forth in his platoon, encouraging everyone to follow the marching column.

Chen Huacheng's heart was burning.

After this battle, the Ming Dynasty will dominate the world!

And he will become the hero who unifies the world!

With his current military exploits, he can be rewarded with one hundred and twenty acres of paddy field, and can also be granted a title!

A title that can be passed down to descendants.

When he thought of this, Chen Huacheng became even more motivated.

Because the only enemy left on the battlefield in the Central Plains was the Qing Dynasty, which consisted of hundreds of thousands of people under the Eight Banners.

There are not many opportunities to make meritorious deeds.

Every Ming soldier was full of energy and confidence, as if the hundreds of thousands of Qing cavalry were wiped out in a snap and were completely vulnerable to a single blow.

Every soldier held his head high, with a proud look on his face.

Because they know.

He is the most capable army in the world.

They defeated the Taiping Kingdom not long ago, and the Ming Dynasty completely owned the territory south of Zhili. At the same time, the gate of Guanzhong was opened, and Shanxi could almost be swept down. Now the only remaining enemy in the Central Plains is the Qing Emperor Qianlong.

Hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners troops!

Although the number of people on the explanation army side is relatively small.

But from the Emperor of Heaven to every private leader of the Ming Army, they were full of confidence in this battle.

Because they are so well-deserved heavenly soldiers!

With only 17,000 people, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's hundreds of thousands of elite troops were defeated.

Emperor Zhu now has 27,000 troops under his command.

Marshal Zhao, the Minister of the Army, has eight army brigades with 40,000 people, and the Liaodong Corps also has eight army brigades with 40,000 people. Of course, there are still sporadic wars north of Liaodong, so only 20,000 people can be dispatched this time.

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But even so.

The total strength of the Ming Dynasty against the Qing court this time also reached 87,000.

This is an unprecedentedly powerful army in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming army is less than ten thousand, and it is invincible if it is full of ten thousand.

Now the Ming Dynasty has sent almost 90,000 troops.

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of civilians recruited in the north, the total number is more than 200,000.

But now the Emperor Zhu Daohua of the Ming Dynasty led a cuirassier brigade, three dragoon brigades, and the first brigade of the Ming Army, which did not have a dragoon number, but in fact everyone had a horse, and the sight was all mules and horses.

Each of the artillery battalions was organized into a separate baggage battalion, equipped with a large number of carriages, mules and horses.

At this time, such an army turned into mules and horses was rolling forward, advancing northward at a speed of fifty miles per day, gradually advancing the front line in the direction of Shuntian Prefecture.

It is already mid-February.

The frozen land in the North also began to thaw, and the snow melted. After the soldiers stepped on it, the land turned into mud.

At this time, Zhu Daohua was also in the army, riding on a maroon horse, wearing a set of gray uniforms and a square hat on his head. His eyes swept across the plains of Yanyun, and his face became serious.

Honestly.

Zhu Daohua was relieved about Qianlong's retreat - because the General Staff of the Ming Dynasty Marshal's Mansion had been worried about one thing, that is, if the Qing army continued to Henan, if they broke open the Yellow River embankment, although it was

winter

, the water flow is not large, but the main channel of the Yellow River has long been a suspended river. If the Yellow River carrying so much sediment was washed down, the Ming Dynasty would not be injured, but the entire Henan, southwestern Shandong, and Huaibei would become

It's in the yellow flood zone.

By then, there will definitely be countless casualties among the people, and refugees with no fixed homes will be everywhere. Who knows how many people will freeze to death or starve to death.

However, even if the Yellow River embankment was safe and sound, the sights he saw along the way north still made Zhu Daohua feel a little heavy.

In fact, it is just one word: poor.

Or to use a more revolutionary word to describe it, it is: abject poverty.

The North China Plain is undoubtedly one of the great plains with the highest population carrying capacity in the world.

Although the Yellow River, the mother river, has its bad temper sometimes.

But overall, it is because of the existence of this river that the settled agricultural civilization here was able to emerge, develop, survive, and multiply.

But at this moment.

After thousands of years of great development.

The problem of land salinization in the North China Plain is becoming more and more serious, but the terrible thing is that the population density here has not decreased at all!

Since ancient times, this has been one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

The per capita cultivated land area does not exceed two acres—and two acres of land is simply not enough to support several people in the North China Plain, a plain that is already full of holes.

It’s been a long journey.

The villages and people I saw made me cry.

Every common person is so skinny that the skeleton on their face can be clearly seen. There is nothing to eat at all. When you enter some villages during the meal, you can find that every villager has sweet potato leaves cooked on the stove mixed with something unknown.

mixture.

Everywhere you go, you can see the numb faces of severely malnourished people.

These people were already so poor that they had nothing left.

Now the rations have also been taken away by the Qing army, and there are still several months before the autumn harvest.

It is conceivable that if the Ming Dynasty did not allocate food for disaster relief, hundreds of thousands of people in Henan and Yanyun would starve to death in the fourth year of the Liberation.

Compared to here.

The poor people in Jiangnan and Guangdong seem to have come out of heaven.

If we are so nakedly poor and the population is so large, there will definitely be problems in the future.

Military advisor Tao Biquan was also beside Zhu Daohua. When he saw Emperor Zhu's face, he said: "Your Majesty, Qianlong has intended to flee north. After this battle, the war in the Central Plains has subsided. As long as he lives with the people, he can regain his strength. Now the top priority is

We need to transport rice from Annan and Lanfang to help the victims. As long as the people have something to eat, they will definitely get better in the future."

"Military advisor, do you really think that just passing this level is enough?"

Tao Biquan was stunned when he heard this.

He knew that Emperor Zhu was not actually a "benevolent king" who loved his people as his own son.

He will not be disturbed by the famine that is about to appear before him.

On the one hand, of course, it is because the Ming Dynasty now has enough ability to transport food to the Central Plains.

Nowadays, the land in Jiangnan and Guangdong has been replanted with various cash crops, and even landowners in Jiangxi and Hunan have begun to stop growing rice.

But the Ming Dynasty now had sea transportation, and rice could be transported from Annan, Borneo, and Java Island.

The Ming Dynasty's population reduction plan in Borneo and Java Island was very successful. The originally dense indigenous population now rarely appears in the Ming Dynasty's settlement areas on Borneo and Java Island.

Now it is an important rice production base in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty could temporarily feed the people in the war-torn areas of the Central Plains.

But what happens after that?

"Your Majesty, hasn't it been like this since ancient times? After a war, if the people's livelihood is improved, the country will become prosperous again."

Tao Biquan found it difficult to understand Emperor Zhu's thoughts.

This has been like this since ancient times, conquer the world and dominate the world.

Make a living with the people and worry less.

Can't this throne be held securely for two to three hundred years?
To be continued...