Chapter 204 It’s easier to conquer a country than to defend it, but even harder to defend it

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 204 It’s easier to conquer a country than to defend it, but even harder to defend it

Chapter 203

During the development of the Mushan Iron Mine, an unexpected discovery was made. According to the internal number of most of the ores in the No. 013 open-pit mine, the original grade of iron ore actually reached 67%.

In the future, there will be more than 67% iron ore in the world. It is not that there will be no iron ore, but only Australia and Brazil have it. There are very few high-grade iron ores in China. However, the Mushan iron ore is magnetite, and theoretically the rough stone has the highest

The grade can reach about 72%.

Xie Jinglin, who was in charge of this project, was overjoyed and immediately reported it to Cheng Shijie. He even wanted to open a smelting factory in Maoshan to directly smelt the iron ore into steel ingots and then transport them to Liaodong.

Cheng Shijie expressed a different opinion: "Once a steelmaking plant is opened in Maoshan, and with this iron mine, a conflict between Liaodong and North Korea may break out, or even a war, and the capital will be eager to see it.

, at that time, the ownership of Mushan will still be controversial."

"Ning Haijun is capable enough to keep the Maoshan Iron Mine!"

"No, once there is a conflict with the capital, or even a war, we will become the sinners of the Ming Dynasty!"

Cheng Shijie knows very well that with the current strength of Ning Haijun, he is definitely not afraid of North Korea or the capital. But the problem is that Emperor Chongzhen now has great righteousness and has a strong influence on the immigration work in Liaodong. The most important thing is that such a

Come on, Huang Taiji will wake up laughing from his dreams.

"Then what do we do now?"

"Make a fortune silently!"

Cheng Shijie said slowly: "Dig the iron ore when it needs to be dug. The excavated iron ore will be sent directly to Liaodong. No one can leak the news. When the time comes, I will award you medals, made of gold!"

Xie Jinglin is very sober. The high quality of Mushan Iron Mine will drive many people around the world crazy: "However, we employ many local Koreans. Even if we don't leak the news, they will leak it!"

"This problem is easy to solve!"

Shen Mingyu smiled and said: "In this world, only the dead can truly keep secrets!"

Shen Mingyu didn't think there was anything wrong with this. In fact, Shen Mingyu saw Cheng Shijie's world map in the General Military Mansion. For Ning Haijun, Liaodong was still too small. Ning Haijun would start to expand after taking over.

Liaodong, Nurgan Dusi, North Korea, and even the entire country are Ning Haijun's targets.

Of course Cheng Shijie also had this idea. Now that he has come to this age of great exploration, if Ning Haijun's vision is only the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, then he will be sorry for this era.

The expansion of Ning Haijun's strength requires a solid foundation. This foundation does not refer to a large number of troops, but an efficient and clean civil service team.

It is easy to conquer a country, but difficult to defend it.

Cheng Shijie had no doubt that if he continued to expand and capture Shenyang with Ning Haijun's current strength after the autumn harvest, there would be absolutely no problem.

But the problem is that when the territory expands, someone needs to fill it in immediately. Only with solid immigration and good governance can this territory be truly owned.

With Ning Haijun's current strength, it would not be too easy to expand. Ning Haijun not only used weapons and equipment to crush the Jiannu, but could also crush all the provinces and prefectures of the Ming Dynasty.

For Liaodong, the biggest task at this stage is to cultivate talents. If Cheng Shijie now has a great reputation in the world and can make most scholars use it, then he will definitely expand rapidly, directly lead troops to occupy Shenyang, and wipe out the Jiannu. Then he led his troops southward, occupied Indochina, Luzon and Malacca, turned the South China Sea into the Ming Dynasty's inland sea, and turned the Nanyang into the Ming Dynasty's Nanyang.

At this current point in time, the most critical issue in Liaodong is to develop education and cultivate enough talents. According to the current method in Liaodong, at least several thousand outstanding local officials are needed to promote the industrial development of Liaodong.

But in fact, the talent gap in Liaodong is very large.

Secondly, it is about the development of the navy. For now, two thousand gunboats are equivalent to Europa's fifth-level battleships, but Europe currently has at least more than a hundred battleships above second-level battleships, third- and fourth-level battleships. There are at least five to six hundred ships.

The gap is huge, and it will take some time for Liaodong to catch up. To be fair, the current Dutch East India Company has enough strength to crush the Ning Navy's navy at sea, even if they dispatch one-fifth of the warships, the Ning Navy's navy Even the navy has no ability to deal with it.

Under Cheng Shijie's order, Maoshan Town adopted a development method of making a fortune silently. North Korean workers followed Shuangcheng Development Company to work, and the number was increasing.

It was inevitable that news would reach North Korea.

King Li Zhu of North Korea heard the news from the north: "I heard that it is very lively in the north!"

"The king's intention..."

"Moshan!"

Jin Zidian replied: "Your Majesty, I have also heard rumors that the Ming Dynasty built a Great Wall along the Hamjing Mountain!"

"Great Wall!"

"That's right, I spent my whole day blasting mountains and quarrying rocks, and built a Great Wall based on bluestone. This Great Wall will become our barrier in northern Korea!"

When Li Zhu heard this, he no longer doubted: "After a while, we will send them food and grass. The Ming Dynasty has spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to defend North Korea. We can't do anything!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Musan Castle, this city is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more roads are being built. In order to facilitate work, the Koreans have built small wooden houses along the roads.

At first, the grain and food made the North Koreans very happy, but as the food they earned had met their needs, they began to need daily necessities, such as cloth, silk or cotton. Of course, in this era, the price of cotton was very expensive. Cotton coats made of pure cotton are more than twice as expensive as real sheepskin coats.

This is a value determined by productivity.

However, as more and more North Koreans came to work, they gradually discovered the differences.

"Your Excellency, please ask me why he makes more money than me when we do the same job!"

"He can speak Chinese, can you?"

"I won't!"

"From now on, the wages of those who can speak Chinese will double!"

"But he can only say hello!"

"That's considered good at speaking, so you should be rewarded!"

This should be Cheng Shijie's bad taste. In the time and space of later generations, Cheng Shijie wanted to die in order to learn English. His English was mute English. He knew many words and grammar, but the problem was that he was too timid to speak. Not to mention real Europeans and Americans, even domestic elites can’t understand Hanhai’s English.

Cheng Shijie sometimes thought that one day in the future, everyone from the Pacific to the Atlantic would be learning Chinese, and Tang Tang would lie down and play together.

Thinking about this scene, Cheng Shijie felt a little wonderful.

Due to the industrial interest in Liaodong today, there are Westerners, Koreans, Mongolians and others, so standardizing the language has become another policy of Cheng Shijie.

No matter who you are, you must speak Chinese in Liaodong. If you fail to speak, or openly speak a foreign language on the street, you will be fined. Just like the license plates from other places in later generations entering Beijing, there are limited number regulations.

Cheng Shijie stipulated that if you cannot speak Chinese in Liaonan, you will pay a special tax of fifty cents per day. This fee is for translation services.

You can bring your own translator, but the money will be fine.

As for bilingualism, it doesn't exist. Nowadays, Ming Dynasty's overseas trade is mainly exports, with very few imports, and there is no need to take special care of foreigners.

Just when Cheng Shijie promulgated the special bill, Song Xiance, director of the Liaodong Management Committee, asked Cheng Shijie to report an incident that caught his attention.

"What are you talking about? Five ships have disappeared within this month?"

"Lord, these five ships are three rice ships from Shanghai, which are large sand ships. Each ship carries three thousand stones of rice, and there are two immigration ships from Huizhou Prefecture. These five ships are expected to be half We should have arrived in Lushun a few months ago, but we never did. Five days ago, we met the second fleet, and then we found out that these five ships set off as planned, but they disappeared!"

"Is something going to happen?"

In Cheng Shijie's opinion, today's shipping, like airplanes in the early 20th century, is extremely risky. Moreover, Ming Dynasty's wooden sailing ships are generally smaller and have very low ability to deal with storms.

The 100,000-ton cargo ships of later generations have strong survivability in the face of Category 12 typhoons. Today's sailboats have a high chance of accidents in Category 9 gales, even for superior sailors.

"If it's a shipwreck, there will definitely be some clues. But the problem is, our waterway is fixed, so it's impossible not to see all traces. Besides, there are no storms this month, and it's impossible to have accidents happening one after another!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a moment and said, "Is there a pirate causing trouble on our territory?"

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie said: "Meng En!"

"Commander!"

"Let Li Zhixiang and Shen Shikui come over!"

"yes!"

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To say that the busiest branch of the Ning Navy is the navy of the Ning Navy. The navy has tens of thousands of troops and more than 300 large and small ships. Although this fleet is completely incomparable to Zheng Zhilong and Zheng's fleet. Sex, in the north, is already a relatively huge force.

Of course, the main job of Ning Haijun's navy is to help Ning Haijun transport food and immigrate. Most of the time they travel between Lushun and Dengzhou.

Although there was no war, Li Zhixiang was also very happy because Cheng Shijie, unlike other generals, attached great importance to the development of the navy. In order to add ships to the navy, Cheng Shijie built a huge shipyard in Lushun. The original Lushun shipyard only had Four large shipyards have been expanded and now have eight shipyards.

Each of these eight shipyards has the capacity to build a large ship with 5,000 materials. Five thousand materials, that is, converted into tons, is equivalent to 1,625 tons. This kind of tonnage can also be counted as a ship in Europa. tier or tier 2 battleship class.

Of course, Europa's battleships are not classified according to tonnage, but according to the number of artillery pieces. A first-class battleship refers to a three-layered battleship equipped with a total of one hundred or more artillery pieces;

Second-class battleships also have three decks and are equipped with a total of about ninety guns; third-class battleships are the load-carrying ships in the battle fleet and have two decks and are equipped with a total of sixty-four to seventy-four guns.

The fourth level was built according to a compromise plan and was equipped with fifty guns (two decks) and was called a cruiser. The fifth level battleship light cruiser had forty-eight guns or less and had two decks.

There are also heavy first-class battleships, which are equipped with 130-140 artillery guns and have four decks of super battleships (or heavy first-class ships), such as the Spanish 'Holy Trinity' or the British HMS Monarch of the Sea.

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The number and classification of artillery back then had different classifications based on different periods.

Equipping such a large number of artillery is actually directly related to the tonnage. A smaller ship carries more artillery, and a battleship cannot withstand the huge recoil of the artillery. Sometimes, when firing, the battleship will be completely moved backwards.

, the broadside cannon fires, and it will tip over.

For example, the 2,000-material gunboat currently produced by Ning Haijun has the tonnage of the Europa V-class cruiser, but its artillery is far inferior to that of the V-class cruiser.

Li Zhixiang has never seen the large battleship of Europa, but he is very satisfied with the new ship made of 2,000 materials. For example, now, Li Zhixiang is riding a new warship of Ning Haijun. The hull of this warship is very slender. This is based on Venice
To be continued...