The Qing army also had two Eight Banner soldiers outside the pass who had not entered the pass, namely the Ningguta army under the jurisdiction of the Ningguta generals Bahai and Sabusu and others, and the Shengjing army under the jurisdiction of the capital. Since they have not entered the customs, the combat effectiveness of these two Eight Banners Army is very strong, and the combat effectiveness of the Houjin Army before entering the customs is comparable, almost everyone is an archer, and the range of the strong bow is a hundred paces, exceeding the range of arquebuses and flintlock muskets. This army rode and maneuvered, dismounted and shot arrows, and after breaking the opponent's formation, it could also get on the horse and chase after it.

As for the Battle of Yaksa, the Qing army failed to capture the city of Yaksa with superior forces, and in the end it could only use the method of siege, because the Russian army relied on a strong castle to hold on. If it is fought in the field in the open area, the Russian army may not be an opponent.

Since the beginning of the third year of Shunzhi, the Russian army has invaded the east and clashed with the Qing army many times.

It is precisely because the Russian army threatens the birthplace of the Qing Dynasty that the most elite Qing army outside the customs has not entered the customs, even when it came to the rebellion of the three feudatories and the Galdan rebellion, Kangxi did not send the Qing troops outside the customs on a large scale.

But if Wang Xinyu wants a large-scale Northern Expedition, won't the "Emperor of the Ages" still send the Qing army outside the customs to enter the customs?

Of course, there is also a problem of people's hearts in the Northern Expedition, and the so-called Manchu Qing entry into the customs is to avenge the former emperor launched by Hong Chengchou has been deeply rooted in the hearts of many northerners, and it is not so easy to go to the Northern Expedition.

Wang Xinyu proposed to give Zheng an Australian fiefdom and then use his relationship with Dongying to develop Ezo Island and other places in the north, which made Yongli's eyes shine.

"Your Majesty, you look at the Americas, such a large continent, is the land of the borderless. The indigenous people living there are backward in weaponry, and there is no unified country, if we can occupy that land, it will be ours! What's more, the locals actually have the same skin color as us, and we went there to recruit indigenous soldiers. Let them come to us to fight the Tartars! Wang Xinyu struck while the iron was hot and said.

Expanding the territory is a great achievement that any emperor with ideals dreams of. Yongli, the ****** emperor in a corner of the country, didn't want the Ming Dynasty to be strong. He wants to become a king of ZTE like Liu Xiu, but the situation is really difficult to reverse. Now these plans proposed by Wang Xinyu can not make him enthusiastic.

"Good! I'm going to give Zheng Zheng a reward for Australia and Ezo Island! In addition, Feng Zheng Jing is the king of Dongzhou! Let him help me expand my territory! Yongli nodded, and gave the reward with a smile on his face. In addition, Yongli also renamed Australia Nanzhou, and the first piece of territory that Zheng Xi will occupy will be named Dongdu, which just matches Zheng Zheng's king of the Eastern Capital. And renamed the Americas as Dongzhou, becoming the fief of Zheng Jing, the king of Dongzhou.

Li Dingguo was a little anxious: "Your Majesty! After more than a year of development, Weichen has trained his soldiers to become strong and strong, and he has also purchased a large number of excellent firearms from the Taixi people, just looking forward to going north to recover the lost territory as soon as possible! As long as His Majesty gives an order, Weichen can recover Yunnan and Sichuan at any time! ”

Who knew that Yongli was not in a hurry: "Aiqing doesn't have to be in a hurry!" We must try our best to win Wu Sangui! If Wu Sangui can give me all he has, won't our army be like a tiger? ”

Wang Xinyu's opinion is similar to that of Yongli, but he is not in a hurry to let Li Dingguo go north to Yunnan, Guichuan and Sichuan. At present, although the weapons of Li Dingguo's department have been greatly improved, they have excellent armor and firearms. However, the mountains of Yunnan, Guichuan and Sichuan are steep, the roads are difficult to travel, and because of years of war, they are sparsely populated. The new firearms are under particularly great pressure on the logistical baggage. Moreover, Li Dingguo's soldiers are too few, if he turns against Wu Sangui at this time, it may not be a good thing, it is better to wait.

Just wait. It won't take a few years, and sooner or later Kangxi will realize the harm of the Eight Banners special offerings to the banner people, and at that time, Wu Sangui and the Qing court will inevitably turn their faces. And Wu Sangui, who secretly traded with Li Dingguo. He also accumulated a lot of wealth and food, and began to secretly expand the army and buy new weapons.

Wu Sangui's army had been cut twice by the Qing court, but Wu Sangui turned the laid soldiers into locals, reclaimed wasteland on the spot, and did not neglect training on weekdays. As long as the war starts, these laid off soldiers can take up arms at any time and quickly integrate into the Wu army.

The next day, the holy decree of Yongli came down, Zheng Xi and Zheng Jing bowed to thank him, happily accepted the holy decree, and the immigration plan will start after the year.

Originally, Wang Xinyu planned to rush back to Qiongzhou to accompany his mother, wife and sister to celebrate the New Year after receiving the holy decree, but he couldn't stand the hospitality of Yongli, so he had to decide to stay in Xingdu for the New Year and go back after the New Year. Here is an additional point: After Wang Xinyu's younger brother Wang Shui was released by Zheng Jing, he followed Yanping Wang Zheng Cong to Jiangnan, so Qiongzhou only had his mother, wife and sister.

There are still several days to go before the Chinese New Year's Eve, and in these few days, Wang Xinyu decided to take Zheng Raid and Zheng Jing to visit the shipping of the Greater Jinsha River and the construction of Bamo.

The three of them boarded a four-masted schooner on inland waterways, which was a miniature version of the clipper ship, with a displacement of 100 tons and a shallow draft, especially suitable for inland waterway shipping, with a speed of up to 12 knots, and a faster speed down the river, which could run back and forth from Bamo in ten days.

The river clipper left the Hindu wharf, although it was not sailing downwind, but the sail characteristics of the schooner made this kind of boat run fast even in the case of headwinds, and the crosswind went upstream, and the clipper sailed on the Dajinsha River at a speed of nine knots.

"This river, the river is full of our Ming ships!" Zheng Xi pointed to the boats coming and going on the river. The ships, whether Western-style, Chinese-style or Burmese-style ships, are all flying the Ming flag and are full of goods. Sailing on the Dajinsha River, formerly known as the Irrawaddy River, feels no different from returning to China.

"After the defeat of the Burmese king, this river was opened to us, and our ships came and went." Wang Xinyu said.

Shipping on the Dajinsha River is very developed, and the ships that go upstream upstream are loaded with goods such as glass products, spices, ivory, grain, cloth, various weapons and ammunition, and copper and iron products, and are transported to Bamo. The ships that sailed down the river were laden with tobacco, gold, silver, jade, mountain delicacies, iron ore, copper ore, coal, and poppies. The British and Portuguese exploited minerals in the upper reaches of the Dajinsha River and its tributaries, and also took the ships of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to long-distance ships, there were also some short-distance ships that transported cloth, ceramics, ironware, tea, cigarettes, wine and various daily necessities produced by the Nanyang Company, and traded with the local Mon people in the downstream area in exchange for grain, gold, silver and jade.

The profits from the shipping trade on the Greater Jinsha River not only supported all the expenses of the entire Yongli Imperial Court, but also supported the military expenses of Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan. As a result, the weapons of Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan's department were quickly updated. At present, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan's department have purchased a large number of British-made artillery, Spanish armor, French dog-lock muskets, and other sophisticated weapons, as well as a large number of Western-style river warships, and the Burmese transport ships on both sides of the Dajinsha River have also been bought up by them. At the same time, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan also purchased a large amount of dried timber for shipbuilding.

On the river, from time to time, you can see the majestic Ming army inland river gunboats sailing by, and the ship is either hoisting the handsome flag of the king of Jin, or the handsome flag of the king of Gongchang. Most of these warships were Western-style river gunboats, which were bought by Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan.

As the ship sailed over the river outside the city of Ava. It's just a little bit of an exotic scenery here. The Burmese buildings on the riverbank, the walls and temples of Ava City in the distance, and the Burmese fishing boats on the river. The dark-skinned Burmese drove fishing boats, and from time to time approached the Ming warships anchored in the river, selling goods to the Ming army, which was almost like the Chinese fishermen selling goods to the British army during the later Ya war, providing fresh water to the British army.

"The Burmese were beaten like this by us, why not only did they not hold a grudge against us. Approaching us instead? Zheng Jing felt very strange when he saw this scene.

Wang Xinyu said with a smile: "We are hurting the Burmese army, and weakening the Burmese aristocracy. As for the common Burmese people, we gave them all the land and provided them with cheap salt, ironware, cloth and all kinds of daily necessities. Their lives are better, so naturally they will not hate us, but will be grateful to us! ”

When the flotilla carrying the banner of "Wang" passed through the river of Ava City, the Burmese officers and nobles at the head of the city looked at the flotilla with hatred. They hated Wang Xinyu's fleet. Of course, they also hated the warships of the King of Jin and the King of Gongchang, who flaunted their might in front of them, but they were powerless to resist at all. If Mang Bai still wants to make trouble, ordinary Burmese people who have benefited from Wang Xinyu's land policy will not only not help them. Instead, it will turn the gun on them.

After three days and four nights of sailing, the ship arrived at the port of Bamo.

It has not been more than a year since Bamo, and when the ship approached the port of Bamo, although he had already been mentally prepared, Wang Xinyu was still shocked by the earth-shaking changes in Bamo. The city of Bamo was built with strong walls, and it was a kind of city with a fortress. New houses have sprung up in the city and along the river, and the black smoke of the factories not far away is clearly a cement factory, and the cement produced is supplied to the local area. And the factories in the distance, with a faint green smoke and a smell in the air, are obviously cigarette factories.

Farther away, there seem to be factories working, and Wang Xinyu estimates that they are steel mills or something.

Someone had already reported to Bai Wenxuan about the arrival of the three kings in Bamo, and Bai Wenxuan, who was also at the level of the county king, personally went to the dock to greet him.

Wang Xinyu saw at a glance that Bai Wenxuan, who was dressed in a python robe, and the Ming soldiers wearing bright red robes and white bright plate armor stood on the dock to greet them. At that time, they were in rags, many of them did not even have knives and guns, and only had a wooden stick in their hands. Now everyone is dressed in fine armor, sword and shield bearers have fine swords hanging from their waists, pikemen are armed with spears with shining tips, and musketeers are lined up with their guns. The soldiers are in good spirits, the ranks are neat, and the weapons are well-armed, and at a glance you know that they are elite divisions.

These soldiers are veterans of a hundred battles, rich in experience, and very tenacious in battle, originally without good equipment, but now with good equipment, they immediately become a strong and powerful division.

Bai Wenxuan held a banquet in the palace of Gongchang in Ba Mo to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Wang Xinyu and others. After looking at the dishes at the banquet, most of them are rare mountain delicacies, and even seafood! It is estimated that it was transported on a ship with sea water for a long distance. Looking at the posture, Bai Wenxuan was still quite nourishing in Bamo's life.

"It looks like the life of the prince here is getting better and better!" Wang Xinyu picked up his wine glass and smiled.

Bai Wenxuan took a sip of the wine glass, put down the wine glass and laughed heartily: "This is all the credit of the virtuous nephew!" If it weren't for the great help of the virtuous nephew, how could we have lived such a good life here! Don't say anything else, let's just talk about trade, and the money you earn can't be spent, hahaha! ”

Wang Xinyu asked Bai Wenxuan about some information, and learned that many people who had followed Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan into Burma at the beginning had now gone to Hindu, but the population of Bamo had not decreased, but increased. In addition to some Han Chinese people who came from China, other ethnic minorities in Myanmar also came to defect.

"Didn't the Tartar court enact a fugitive law? If some peasants flee, they will be punished, and their relatives and even local officials will be implicated. Wang Xinyu asked strangely.

Bai Wenxuan said with a smile: "This is also one of our trades with Wu Sangui!" We asked Wu Sangui to help us go to the mainland to arrest people, especially to arrest young and strong men. We used silver to buy people, and Wu Sangui smuggled them over. His Yungui population was small, so he went to Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan and other places to arrest people. They used the silver to buy off the local government, and then secretly recruited some local scoundrels, anyway, kidnapping, beating sticks, deceiving, and all kinds of methods were used. Anyway, we can't use up all the money we have, so we just buy some people back. At first, only men were bought, but now women are also bought. The Tartars who were officials were also happy, especially in Huguang and other places, where there had been no war in recent years, the population had grown too fast, and the land was not enough, so they cleared some of the population, and the local government's achievements went up on the contrary, because no one starved to death. ”

Wang Xinyu laughed dumbly, isn't this the method used by the great powers to catch piglets in China and sell them to the United States, and some officials of the Qing court cooperated with the local ruffians and hooligans? Now it's staged in advance, and it's actually Bai Wenxuan who invented this method!

The people who were arrested were not happy at first, but they had jobs here, and the living conditions were good, Bamo built a neat and beautiful dormitory building here, the air was well ventilated, and it was very clean, and there were also canteens, public toilets and public baths, the food was good, and the sanitary conditions were quite good, so these people were happy to stay. It's better to be able to eat enough every day and occasionally eat meat here than to eat bran every day at home.

As for jobs, there are different jobs to choose from, either in a factory or farming nearby. Of course, the farming is planned in a unified manner, and the agricultural products are only tobacco, poppy, pepper, sweet potato, sugarcane and fruits. (To be continued.) )