Chapter 443: Loneliness
The actual occupation of Rio by the Ming army was easy, and the fact that the Brazilian governor was not stationed in Rio was nothing to the Oriental military government.
Now that a military occupation has been decided, it no longer matters whether the governor is a governor or not.
Most of the world's quarrels with each other are not terrible, and the real horror often exists in the calm creeps and heart palpitations.
The Oriental military drills have spread to North Asia, with the naval and land drills being held in Jincheng and the aboriginal cavalry recruited by Hulan galloping on the grasslands, while the east coast of northern Florida does not need drills and training, and they are more simple and rude, sending battle reports directly to Chang Sheng through Mexico City.
In August, October and November of the eighth year of Wanli, the Long Island Right Guard Banner Army annihilated 274 people who landed and infiltrated on the coast, of which 121 were French pirates, 107 were English pirates, and 46 were Dutch pirates.
Twelve of them were advised that this land was not New France, and Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate of the county, picked a small boat from their boat to give food and water and send them away.
But Euroi, who met the merchants, was not so lucky, and the godson of the tobacco tycoon Lee Yuxi, who remained on Long Island, also shone in the war report, buying 42 large and small merchant ships after the first attack on the port in August, converting them into small fireships, and finally catching up with the French pirates approaching the coast of Quebec in two ships in November.
As a result, the pirate ship entered the St. Lawrence River from the bay along the coast, and they originally wanted to go to the so-called 'New France' at the mouth of the river to buy beaver skins and other specialties, but they were unexpectedly fired away by the Iroquois militia from a distance, and they tried to exit the bay and ran into the caravan of fireships that rushed to hear the news, and neither of the two ships succeeded.
The imperial court gave the imperial order to Makino County not to let the Euroyi disturb the peace or occupy the land, but Li Yuxi's order to his sons, nephews and disciples was that none of the Euroyi should be allowed to land on the east coast and leave alive.
The castle on the east coast is an important place on the front line for the Oriental military government and an important experimental place for the railway, but for Li Yuxi, the east coast is the lifeline of his wealth and nobility, and it will never be allowed to be touched by the people.
And Chen Mu, who was victorious, received an important letter from the imperial court for the first time, almost like the "Guide to the Flag Army's Gun Prevention" The thickness of the handwritten book was sent to Kuwu Island by Jinyiwei all the way to Kuwu Island, and then from Kuwu Island to four thousand miles, where the horses could no longer gallop, and the natives of the Heishui Ya Islands rode the deer to the east, and thousands of households took turns to transfer along the way.
Eventually, upon arrival in Jincheng, he was again sent by a courier to Changsheng by boat.
When he received this thick letter, Chen Mu thought that the cabinet was looking for him to have something urgent, but he didn't expect that this volume of more than 100 pages of beautifully bound letters were all handwritten by the emperor.
The Emperor's handwriting...... made Chen Mu very envious.
The handwriting in the table-style used by scholars resembles that of a printed publication, and it even makes it seem hard to believe that it was written by hand.
The tone of the letter was still very intimate, although it had not been seen for several years, but the intermittent correspondence between the mainland and the New World was never broken, and the emperor was still like a child in the book, and most of the pages were like the groaning complaints of a lonely ruler who admired himself without illness.
But Chen Mu knew that this kind of language was likely to come from the deep resentment that some of the emperor's political measures could not be recognized by the courtiers.
Minister Dongyang also learned some of Wanliye's usual sentences: Although the empire has become, I am still lonely.
When a series of such sentences formed a comparison, the impact of embarrassment on Chen Mu was even stronger.
The emperor complained at the beginning that the source of his loneliness came from power, although his power had changed greatly from four years earlier when he began writing this letter during the Mid-Autumn Festival in the eighth year of Wanli, and the government and the opposition were accustomed to the emperor directly commanding an army, and strengthened the original educational aspects of the division of power in the imperial system, and tightly grasped the authority of the new handicrafts and industries.
But the emperor, who was outside the bureaucratic system, could not govern the empire as easily as Zhang Gelao, the first assistant of the empire.
In Chen Mu's understanding, this is also the reason why the emperor asked the emperor to expedite the letter and send Jinyiwei to deliver it to Changsheng, wait in Changsheng, and the reply must be delivered by Jinyiwei himself - their communication cannot be seen by others.
This is basically the emperor's strategy manual for seizing power, the main purpose is to report to his revolutionary mentor Chen Mu on the progress of seizing power, and ask him about the problems he encountered one by one in the book.
Militarily, Wanli hoped that after the end of the Northern Expedition, a group of inland military households would be moved to the hometown of Duoyan Sanwei in Wulianghai, and in the same year, the officers of the Siyong Battalion who were personally trained by him were assigned to recruit sergeants to recruit sergeants for training.
In this way, the domestic guard army was gradually sent to the East and North Asia, the South Sea and the New Ming, and the West and India.
The so-called light equipment refers to all military uniforms, armor, cold soldiers and firearms except artillery.
The emperor's question was that he could neither accept the low combat effectiveness of the old flag army nor the high military expenses of the Beiyang flag army, and asked Chen Mu what to do.
In terms of education, the emperor coordinated the schools in various places through the great masters of the provincial study and politics, unified the management of the old yin and yang, medicine, and official schools in all county administrations, repaired the local government schools and folk social studies, and allocated funds for repairs to the households, and wanted to set up a telegraph room and a line to connect the world's schools, and regarded the education of the people as the emperor's inherent power.
However, for the disciplines of school reform, the emperor did not want to completely follow the ancient system, nor did he look down on the education of Xu Jie's Songjiang Lecture Academy, which specialized in being an official.
And, he didn't know how to do it, and he didn't know if he could do it, so he learned what he had learned in his head.
This is also a problem that the emperor needs Chen Mu to solve.
In industry, the emperor was faced with a new group of workers who had never existed in ancient times, and they were also one of the four people, but their way of life had undergone earth-shaking changes, and in the contemporary era of surging demand for steel, he appointed Xu Guangqi to restart the government-run iron smelting in Beizhili, and Ye Mengxiong to lay a railway between Beiyang and the Great Wall, the faster the progress, the more problems encountered.
The hardest thing is about the peasants.
The Emperor had found it increasingly difficult for the peasant to secure himself where industry was thriving, and the peasant households, who formed the foundation of the empire, were faced with an unprecedented test of the wealth of the merchants and the lavish expenses of the workers on their vacations, and the increasing difficulty of tolerating the heavy work of farming.
People gradually struck a balance between abandoning their families and careers and working hard and doing things, but this balance was something the emperor did not want to see.
It's good for a country to become rich, but if it comes too quickly, it will bring new problems, the gap between the rich and the poor.
The most terrible gap between the rich and the poor is not that only one person in a hundred people is rich, but that ten out of a hundred people have become rich, and twenty others are about to become rich.
It was more of a nightmare for the other eighty staring people than being poor and starving.
Emperor Wanli used a rare metaphor in his letter, in which he compared a small fishing boat docked by the harbor, two people went up, and eight people did not go up, and the people attacked each other, both insulting the boatman and hating the two people who squeezed up.
But the boatman had no choice, the boat really couldn't fit people; Those two people couldn't help it, they didn't squeeze into the boat to give up their place to someone else.
Emperor Wanli said that this was a responsibility given to him by God, and no one else could solve it, only he could.
Only he can make four more ships stop in the harbor.