Two months later, Zhoushan.

"Your Excellency, Johnston, Governor of the Zhoushan Lease of Great Britain and Ireland, surrenders to you!"

Johnston said with his head bowed.

As he spoke, he handed his saber to Zeng Tao with both hands, and behind him a standard-bearer carried a white flag, and behind the standard-bearer, a total of less than two hundred British officers and soldiers lined up neatly, looking behind Zeng Tao with complicated eyes. Behind the Admiral of the Ming Dynasty, a number of huge ships anchored in the naval port, the towering figures of the Trafalgar and the St. George were so dazzling at the moment, although they were all undergoing simple repairs, the traces of the fierce battle on them and the other twelve third-class ships were still clearly visible, and the same was true on the Ming warships that sailed with them, and the fierce battle between the two sides could be seen from these wounds.

But the victor was the Ming army.

The British army in Zhoushan, which had no defensive capability at all, had no choice but to surrender in the face of this fleet.

"Your Excellency, you don't have many subordinates!"

Zeng Tao took Johnston's saber and looked behind him and said with a sneer.

"Your Excellency General, there were indeed 2,000 garrisons here, but during this time, we were cut off from domestic news, and some soldiers who were not determined chose to flee from Zhoushan, as for where they went, the contemptible people also wanted to know, if your army captured them, please inform us, we are willing to extradite them with compensation and then uphold military law."

Johnston said.

"I'll tell the General Staff."

Zeng Tao said with a smile.

Of course, the Ming army will definitely not catch the living British, these guys are now mercenaries in the Qing army! Even Daoguang had several British instructors training the new army.

And it is said that a full 30,000 people were trained.

This kind of thing is tacitly understood, and Johnston is just dissociating himself from the relationship to prevent Yang Feng from blackmailing more compensation during future negotiations, and even asking the British government to recall these people, and now it is enough to say that they are deserters, and the life or death of these people is no longer the business of the British government. In fact, the British government will definitely send more people to help the Qing army resist the Ming army, the Ming and Britain will not fight, the British government really has to pay reparations, and can only admit defeat and restore the relationship between the two sides, but in the future, this indirect confrontation will only increase its intensity and will not stop, Daoguang has become the only chess piece of Britain to drag Yang Feng in the East, this Ming Emperor has grown too fast and has already posed a substantial threat to Britain, what if he completely solves Daoguang and then attacks India?

The British must fully support Daoguang.

Although the Ming army captured Singapore, it could not prevent the British from transfusing blood for Daoguang through Burma, not to mention that even if the Burma road was broken, the British could still pass through the Ancient Tea Horse Road and Central Asia......

Uh, this line is a bit of a hassle.

The British Empire also suffered a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan not long ago, they captured the previous Afghan king, and then raised a puppet and stationed nearly 20,000 British troops, of course, including a large number of British and Indian troops, but unfortunately this puppet was very unpopular, leading to continuous rebellion in Afghanistan, and finally the British army in Afghanistan had to retreat, in the process of retreating by the Afghans, and finally 16,000 troops were annihilated, including the 44th Infantry Regiment, which was composed entirely of British, Only one captain, one sergeant and seven soldiers survived.

Including that puppet is also dead.

Now the British government had to release the previously captured Afghan king to restore peace.

But borrowing should be fine.

But the British still have to wait for Daoguang to solve the Sultan of Kashgar, behind this Sultan is actually the Russians, it is obvious that the Russians want to take the opportunity to get the Kazakhs, at this time Russia has conquered the small Yuz and the middle Yuz, but the big Yuz, that is, east of Lake Balkhash, still belongs to the Qing State, it is obvious that if the Sultan can kill all the Qing troops in the Tianshan area, Russia can take the opportunity to divide the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains with him.

Unbeknownst to Johnston, of course, Daoguang had already begun to solve the problem.

"Monk Lingqin is very fast!"

Not far from the surrender site, on the deck of the Qi Jiguang, Yang Shenhuang looked at the telegram and said.

This is a telegram just sent back by the Jinyiwei intelligence station in Chang'an, and then forwarded to him by the Jinyiwei headquarters, the content of the telegram is the situation of the Qing army's suppression of bandits in Shaanxi and Gansu, relying on the more than 10,000 elite cavalry brought to Chang'an by Seng Lingqin, plus the new army trained by British instructors, Daoguang solved the rebels in Shaanxi and Gansu.

Or rather, bloodbath.

Monk Greenqin, who was holding back his anger on the battlefield in the south, and the elites of the Mongols and Eight Banners under him, completely poured out this anger on those rebels, basically just like when their ancestors entered the customs, the blood flowed everywhere they passed. Although these guys were beaten by the Ming army in the south, they were really beaten into a tiger and wolf division, and in the later period, they all rushed through the Ming army's firepower line, and they packed up a group of cold weapons, at most a small number of arquebuses and old-fashioned artillery rebels, it was really like crushing. Coupled with the Eight Banners that have begun to train according to the tactics of lining up to shoot, as well as the regimental training organized by those gentry, plus the Mongolian cavalry of Ordos and other departments, after easily bloodbathing the rebels in Shaanxi, they have begun to sweep Hexi and the Hetao area......

Although the object of his anger was not Yang Feng.

But at this time, it is also a good thing for him to have a punching bag, at least it can stabilize the panicked people's hearts.

This is important.

Daoguang is using the blood of those rebels to reshape his Qing Empire.

"Emperor God, telegram from the General Staff, Tatar abandonment of Beijing."

At this time, an attendant reported.

"Abandon Beijing?"

Yang Feng said with some surprise.

"It's reported that there is no food!"

The squire said.

Well, the devil Liuxiao Zhengtai really has nothing to eat in Beijing, in fact, he and Mu Zhang'a have never really completely controlled Beijing, the city has only been left to survive after the retreat of Daoguang, there is no Caoyun, all over Beijing has been occupied by the Ming army, and even out of the Beijing city gate is the activity area of the Ming cavalry, even if he wants to send him food, he can't transport it in, and the people in the outer city often do things, Mu Zhang'a struggled to support for almost a year, and finally ran out of food and had to abandon the city and flee.

They fled to Xuanhua.

After all, there is still a mediocre pass there.

I can't hold on in Beijing, the Ming army is in Tongzhou, and I'm still guarding a fart in Beijing!

However, before they fled, out of anger in the city set fire, although soon the Ming army entered the city and organized the people outside the city to put out the fire, but the palace was still burned a lot, and the commander of the Eighth Army specially excused himself for this.

"Burn it, burn it!"

Yang Feng said indifferently.

"The General Staff asks for instructions, is the military headquarters of the Eighth Army moved to Beijing?"

The squire said.

"No, it's winter soon, the canal is cut off, and there can't be much to transport by land alone, and the people around Beijing will definitely be short of food this winter, and the military headquarters of the Eighth Army will continue to be stationed in Tianjin, and the remaining capacity will be transported to Beijing to relieve the people!"

Yang Feng said.

With Mu Zhang'a and Devil Six escaping, at this time, Beijing and Tianjin were completely in the hands of the Ming army, and the Qing army in addition to Mu Zhang'a's department blocking Juyong Pass, there were also Sheng Jing's headquarters outside the Eight Banners in Shanhaiguan, but the other part of the Eight Banners outside the Guan, which was supposed to go south, has been strengthened to the Liaohe area, and it is obvious that they are also afraid that the Ming army will land in Niuzhuang or Gaizhou. The governor of Zhili, Nar, continued to hold Baoding, the north of Yishui was actually abandoned, and the east of Baiyangdian was also abandoned, at this time, the only thing that Nar could control was the southern line, and Shanxi Luying was holding a series of Great Wall passes such as Tianjin Pass, Longmen Tianguan, and Bauhinia Pass, and Hebei actually became a buffer zone between the two sides.

However, the Ming army was not interested in attacking westward.

At this time, the main force of the Eighth Army had already marched south along the canal to the Yellow River, and the Tenth Army of the southern front had also conquered Xuzhou and was heading north.

For Yang Feng, his next strategic goal is Nanjing.

But not to fight.

He no longer needs to solve this problem by force.

"Let them come up!"

The God Emperor looked at the group of guys on the dock who were still wearing pigtails, and then said with a majestic expression.

This is the local gentry of Zhoushan.

It also includes Qing diplomats stationed in Zhoushan.

To put it more directly, at this time, the representatives sent by the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to negotiate with him, the two sides are still playing stalemate in Anqing and Quzhou, but the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are hopeless, especially with the complete purge of the Qing army in Fujian, the end of the land reform in Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, and the Ming army on the battlefield continues to arrive in batches, and the total strength of the Ming army at these two points has exceeded 100,000.

This is the Ming army of 100,000 rifled guns, and even rapid-fire rifles with tubular magazines.

They had more than a thousand cannons in their hands.

And the lowest is also a nine-pound howitzer, and the heaviest is a forty-pound mortar, which is completely at the level of the Civil War, and even the U.S. military in the Civil War may not necessarily resist them, after all, the Civil War is also divided into early, middle and late stages, and there are still a large number of U.S. troops playing Springfield M1842 in the early stage, and even Springfield M1816 in the early stage, reaching the level of equipment of the Ming Army at least in the late Civil War.

Such an army of 100,000, and 100,000 experienced and high-spirited elites, can be resisted by those in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces who are armed with smoothbore flintlock pistols and a small number of Baker rifles, purely for the sake of leading the army to eat mixed rice.

The gentry knew this very well.

"Your Majesty, the ancestors of the grass people also followed King Lu."

An old squire said with a smile on his face lying on the deck.

"So what?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Can it change the fact that you have finally taken refuge in the Tartars?"

Then he said.

"Huh?"

The old squire shut melancholy.

"Don't have any unrealistic illusions, my principle is very simple, all those who have the official position of Tartar or who have made a name for themselves above the rank of man, who lay down their arms and surrender voluntarily, may keep part of their property, but must surrender the land, and this part depends on the situation. For example, usury must not be allowed to you anymore, at most according to the bank interest, for example, the slave at home must return the deed of sale to others, in short, this has to be according to the law, those who surrender in the war, all the land and property are handed over, except for retaining a property to live in, at most according to the standard of ordinary people to support themselves, as for those who stubbornly resist to the end, they will be beheaded, and the whole family should be exiled to Nanyang.

These are the only three ways you can go. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, is the Holy Dynasty still allowed to trade silk?"

A gentry said tremblingly.

"The domestic sales are free, and the export is completely owned by the state-run silk company, but the tea can be sold freely, but the state-run also has a tea export company, and porcelain can be sold freely, and there is no state-run one, the salt industry is completely state-owned, the iron and steel industry is completely state-owned, and the cotton spinning industry is completely private.

Yang Feng said.

The export of silk is a huge profit, of course, it must be controlled in their own hands, and the tea is mainly worried that someone will go to the colony to plant, at this time the British have already planted in Ceylon, and if he completely monopolizes it, there will definitely be those profiteers who will go to the British to hook up. Porcelain is not necessary, Chinese porcelain technology was stolen by the missionary Yin Hongxu in 1712, this guy also stole cowpox technology, at this time Europe also fired a large number of porcelain, of course, in terms of exquisiteness or Chinese porcelain is sought after. But the era of making Europeans scream with a porcelain bowl is long gone, and Chinese porcelain at this time depends more on artistic value, and it is obvious that there is no way out for the monopoly of this industry, the salt industry must be monopolized, and the reason why the steel industry monopolizes is that it is afraid of the spread of the steelmaking furnace, after all, Bessemer made the converter ten years later.

It's better to keep it secret here for a day!

As for the future, it will definitely have to be released.

In order to avoid the spread of technology, he simply banned domestic steelmaking first, anyway, his current steel production capacity is sufficient, and he does not need to rely on private forces.

The cotton spinning industry was completely liberalized.

This is not suitable for monopoly, on the contrary, it is necessary to encourage the private sector to expand production capacity, in this era there are still many people who can not afford to wear clothes, we must use the power of free economy to expand the cotton spinning industry, so as to solve the problem of clothing for the common people. As for the shortage of cotton, it can be expanded in the form of encouraging the frontier to open up wasteland, and the division of land is only suitable for the interior, if it goes to the northeast, to the northwest, or even to the colonies, it will be nonsense, what these places need is to encourage plantations, and use frontier and colonial plantations to support the industrialization of the interior based on the average land, as for the problem of workers, a difference in industrial and agricultural scissors can be easily solved.

In the final analysis, a purely planned economy will definitely not work, this road has been walked by many people, but it is not possible to purely self-help economy, and this road has also been confirmed by economic crises again and again.

In that case, it's half and half!

But even so, there was still a cry in front of him.

"What are you crying about? Can't you live without those acres of land? Hurry down, order the fleet to set sail, I want to go to Nanjing to worship the filial piety mausoleum! ”

Yang Feng shouted.

The brocade guards on both sides stepped forward, dragged these gentry who wept bitterly at the end of their era, and then dragged them directly to the dock, and at the same time the whistles of the warships sounded, and slowly sailed away from the Dinghai Naval Port......

(Happy New Year!) ）