Chapter 186: What a Joy Comes to the Door

With the surrender of the Zheng group, the blow to Yongli, a small court in the Southern Ming Dynasty, was very huge, they completely lost a huge boost, and after the surrender of the Zheng group at sea, it also cut off the possibility of them continuing to obtain financial resources at sea.

After solving the big trouble of the Zheng group in Fujian, the Dazhong Dynasty freed up more troops and transferred them to Guangdong and began to launch an offensive against the Yongli small court.

Under the fierce attack of the Dazhong Army, the army of the Yongli Small Imperial Court could only retreat one after another, constantly losing the territory they controlled, first the entire Guangdong was occupied by the Dazhong Army, and then the Dazhong Army invaded Guangxi before the end of the year.

Emperor Yongli saw that Guangxi was not safe, so he had to continue to flee, and during the Chinese New Year, he fled into Yunnan, so that the Dazhong Army controlled the whole territory of Guangxi in February of the third year of Tianyuan, and compressed the sphere of influence of the entire Yongli small court to the small territory of Yunnan, so that the Yongli small court was in decline and could no longer resist.

In March of the third year of Tianyuan, Xiao Tianjian ordered the mobilization of more than 100,000 people from all walks of life who were good at fighting in the mountains, and launched the final blow to the small court of Yongli in Yunnan.

The army of the small court of Yongli could not resist the strong Dazhong army at all, and the Tusi of all parts of Yunnan also received the holy edict of the Dazhong Dynasty, telling them that as long as they surrendered to the Dazhong Dynasty, they would be treated leniently with these Tusi in the future, otherwise, as soon as the Dazhong Army arrived, it would be wiped out.

These Tusi are not stupid, they see that the Ming Dynasty is over, only the Yongli small court is still in the end of the weak resistance, in Yunnan to survive, the strength of the Dazhong army, but also let them not be able to resist at all, rather than follow the Yongli small court, after the Dazhong army came to be exterminated, it is better to turn against the people and quickly find a way out, for the change of the Central Plains Dynasty for them these Tusi, the impact is not too great, as long as they express obedience, they can continue to work for the Dazhong Dynasty in the future, Therefore, the Tusi in Yunnan also announced their surrender to the Dazhong Dynasty at this time, and gathered local soldiers to help the Dazhong Army deal with the army of the Yongli Small Imperial Court.

As a result, in just three months, the army of the small court of Yongli was defeated by the large army, and the death of the descendant, the Yongli Emperor also had to roll up the cover and continue to leave, seeing that the territory of China has been basically controlled by the Great Chinese Dynasty, he has no escape, so the Yongli Emperor fled from Yunnan into the territory of the Kingdom of Myanmar under the protection of hundreds of loyal guards.

In May of the third year of the Dazhong Dynasty, Yunnan announced that the whole territory would be subjugated to the Dazhong Dynasty, so far Xiao Tianjian's Dazhong Dynasty also completed the control of the entire south, including Hainan Island, in May, a large number of Dazhong Navy set off in Leizhou, crossed the sea and landed on Hainan Island, the officials of the three prefectures and thirteen counties of Qiongzhou on Hainan Island knew that they were powerless to resist, so in less than a month, they announced that they would surrender to the Dazhong Dynasty and accept the rule of the Dazhong Dynasty.

After the news reached Nanjing, the government and the opposition suddenly jubilated, and everyone breathed a long sigh of relief and ran to celebrate each other, celebrating that the Great Middle and Korean Dynasty could finally settle down after that.

After Xiao Tianjian learned the news that Yunnan and Hainan Island had been recovered, he immediately burst into laughter, and even if he held a banquet in the palace to celebrate, he almost got drunk that night.

The reason why he was so happy was that in addition to recovering the entire southern provinces and quelling the Yongli Rebellion, there were several things that made him very happy.

One is that last year he ordered the establishment of the Nanjing Tai College in the year after the completion of the Nanjing City outside the city of Nanjing, the first batch of nearly 800 students from all over the country to enroll, became the largest Taixue enrollment in all dynasties, and in the future will continue to recruit the same number of students from all over the country every year, the school system is four years, after four years, the number of students in Taixue will reach the scale of 3,000 people, although this is less than the number of students in any third-rate university in the future, but after all, this is just starting, In the next few years, the shortage of suitable officials and professionals in China, China and the DPRK will be greatly alleviated, and the foundation for China's future prosperity will be laid.

Second, a good news is that after half a year of preparation, the China Maritime Trade Group was officially established in Guangzhou, according to the conditions agreed between Xiao Tianjian and Zheng Zhilong, the household department of the imperial court should take out some share capital to invest in the group company, but the household department is now full of places to use money, and it is impossible to allocate so much money to invest in it at once, so under the instruction of Xiao Tianjian, the household department raised funds through the issuance of high-interest bonds, and easily raised three million taels of silver. Converted into a large dragon silver dollar, that is, 3 million yuan, and more than 150 seagoing vessels of various kinds, plus the land required for the opening of eight ports and wharves in Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Quanzhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo, Songjiangfu, Jiaozhou, and Dengzhou, after conversion, was invested in the trading group as national share capital, plus the Zheng family's 3 million taels of silver and 120 seagoing ships were shared, and a total of 120 merchants jointly invested 5 million taels of silver and more than 150 seagoing ships. Jointly supported the first public-private joint venture group company in Chinese history, and announced the start of business!

Moreover, the General Administration of Customs under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs was also established a year ago, responsible for managing the import and export trade affairs of the ports opened in various places, and the Dazhong Dynasty issued a decree prohibiting all private vessels, and merchants going to sea from other ports must go through the maritime trade group companies located in these eight commercial ports to carry out unified management of import and export trade, and accept the inspection and examination of local customs, and pay taxes before they can carry out transactions, and declare Macao occupied by the Portuguese to be an illegal commercial port. No Chinese merchant was allowed to continue trading goods with foreigners in Macao.

All foreigners must conduct import and export trade transactions with the DPRK through various commercial ports, otherwise it will become illegal, and once the navy of the DPRK discovers that someone is privately berthing a ship that is not a commercial port for trade, it has the right to seize the ship and arrest the offender.

Through such means, the entire China's foreign trade will be managed in a unified manner, so that in the future, the tax collected by the customs of the commercial port alone will be an astronomical amount, and with the expansion of maritime trade, such income will be higher and higher in the future, not counting the income brought by the national equity capital in the trade group, in the future, the income of the United States and the DPRK alone in the sea trade will probably reach at least 10 million taels of silver per year, and it will grow geometrically higher and higher. The mouths of the officials of the household department were almost crooked, and in the future, they finally did not have to worry about spending money every day.

After more than half a year's efforts, not only the two Western-style three-masted sailing ships built in the early days were launched, but also with the vigorous cooperation of the shipyards, and a large number of Chinese craftsmen who had been learning from them for more than half a year have become familiar with the construction methods of Western-style sailing ships, and they started to build four new galleons with a displacement of about 500 tons at the Nanjing Shipyard and Ningbo Shipyard at the same time.

Xiao Tianjian, as the emperor of China, personally went to Nanjing Zhonghua Shipyard to preside over the launching ceremony of the ship, and even invited monks to pray for the ship according to Chinese tradition.

This kind of Galion sailing ship is a kind of excellent sea ship that is equipped with a lot of European maritime countries at present, the hull is narrower and longer than the Clark sailboat, reducing the height of the bow and stern of the ship, improving the stability of the ship in bad sea conditions, and with the increase of the length and width ratio of the hull, so that more guns can be arranged on both sides, and the speed at sea is also much faster, Westerners use this kind of ship to travel between Europe and the East and even the world, and also use this kind of ship as a warship to compete for the interests of the sea.

The Galion galleon built by the Zhonghua Shipyard in Nanjing could carry 20 24-pounder guns and 12 12-pounder guns at the same time, and it could also carry several small Fran cannons at the bow and stern as a means of dealing with small boats.

It's a pity that this kind of ship because when it was built, because China did not produce oak, and there was no big material for oak wood that could be used as a substitute, so it could only be replaced by other wood, and because before the surrender of the Zheng family, there was no sea passage, and a large number of high-quality timber could not be purchased from the South Seas, so the temporary use of substitutes was mostly camphor wood, pine and fir wood that could be found locally, so that it may not be comparable to the European warships made of oak for the time being.

But even so, Xiao Tianjian looked at this new Western-style Gallion sailing ship, his heart was also very happy, the most important thing for him now is to let the Chinese shipbuilders learn to build Western-style sailing ships, from which to master the most advanced shipbuilding technology of Western countries, as for the timber problem, in the future, gradually through the purchase from the South Seas and after solving the problem of Jiannu, it can also be solved from the Northeast, this is not a big problem in the future, as long as he insists on increasing investment in the shipbuilding industry, and wants to use China's current financial, material and human resources, Soon a large number of such excellent seagoing vessels will be built.

Therefore, he personally named this ship "Bolang", hoping that this ship can carry Chinese sails on the ocean in the future, fight the wind and waves, and open a new era on the sea for China.

In addition to these good things, there is also good news from the machine manufacturing plant, Xiao Tianjian personally presided over the design of several hydraulic machine tools, in addition to the earliest boring machine, now lathes, planers and punches, after many trial production failures, have also achieved breakthrough success in the first few months of Tianyuan three years, and began to be put into use, only the milling machine is still in the test, has not yet achieved the final success, but the preliminary judgment, from the success is not far away.

The successful trial production of these hydraulic machine tools will undoubtedly play a major role in the future industrialization development of China, China and North Korea, so that China and North Korea have stood at the forefront of this space-time technology, at least in the machinery manufacturing industry.

Although there are still a lot of problems in these primitive machine tools, especially the accuracy of the parts is not enough, and the quality can not be well guaranteed because of the material, but in the future, with the development of the smelting industry, the materials will be better and better, plus the use of these prototype machine tools, the machine is used instead of manual to copy these machinery, and then the accuracy of the parts made will be better and better, so that it will not take many years, a large number of machine tools can be put into play in various industries.

In addition to the arrival of these good news one after another, Xiao Tianjian's family also came out of the good news, Fan Linger gave birth to Xiao Tianjian's first daughter, and then suffered the rain and dew again before the year, and was pregnant with a child again, and Fan Yutong also conceived a child for Xiao Tianjian after the year, this time his Xiao Tianjian's home is at the latest before the end of the year, and he will add a new Ding, for the matter of having a child, Xiao Tianjian has no idea of family planning now, and the more the better. In this time and space, he has no relatives at all, only these three wives and concubines, and now these three wives and concubines have each given birth to children for him, this is his closest person, so Fan Ling'er and Fan Yutong's pregnancy again made him happy and couldn't close his mouth.

Now that the Yongli Rebellion has been pacified, the entire southern provinces have fallen under the rule of his Dazhong Dynasty, although there will still be some remnants of the Ming Dynasty from time to time to make trouble, but under the general trend of all people, these guys who are trying to restore the rule of the Ming Dynasty are just some clowns, in the face of the powerful suppression of the Dazhong Dynasty, each of them is rapidly wiped out, and even a little big splash can not be lifted, how can this Ming not turn over, how does this Xiao Tianjian unhappy?

So this is why Xiao Tianjian feasted the ministers in Nanjing, and drank a crooked thing, if it wasn't for the guards and cabinet ministers to take care of it, Xiao Tianjian would have been embarrassed on the spot.

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