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- Chapter 833: Blocking the route is equivalent to blocking the neck
(0833)
In the era without radio waves, the transmission of information mainly relied on fast horses. Information transmission on the ocean can only rely on clippers. However, the speed of ships is limited after all. Under normal circumstances, it would take at least five or six days to transmit information from Brunei back to Guangdong. Speed ??is ideal only when the wind is smooth.
However, it is absolutely impossible to go smoothly. In ocean sailing, headwind conditions always dominate. On average, it takes at least fifteen days for each battle report to be delivered from Brunei to Xu Xingxia. Xu Xingxia wanted to receive battle reports from Nanyang as soon as possible, so he had to get as close to Nanyang as possible.
Fortunately, Emperor Taichang has agreed to implement a constitutional monarchy and hand over the substantial power in his hands. The White Army has entered Jinling City. The original Ming army was all disbanded. All the original systems of the Ming Dynasty were incompatible with the laws and regulations of the White Army, and all were abolished. The new "Da Ming Law" is being drafted intensively.
Emperor Taichang's relinquishment of power meant that the White Army had officially completed its rule over the Central Plains. The integration of various resources and the centralized mobilization of talents have greatly improved efficiency. This is also the reason why the White Army Navy can develop rapidly. If you have money, people, and raw materials, you won't have to worry about not having battleships. As long as Xu Xingxia is willing, any number of warships can be built.
There are many shipyards in Jiangnan. The shipyards in Jinling, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places are all quite large in scale. Especially the famous Longjiang Shipyard. The main treasure ship of Zheng He's fleet was built at Longjiang Shipyard. After the implementation of the no-sea policy, many shipyards were abandoned. The same is true for Longjiang Shipyard. After the White Army entered Jinling City, the Longjiang Shipyard was reactivated to help build large warships.
According to Xu Xingxia¡¯s request, Longjiang Shipyard will use 50 large shipyards to build "Tianshan" class warships with a displacement of more than 1,500 tons. At the same time, it is responsible for the experimental manufacturing of the "Huanghe" class warship with a displacement of 2,000 tons. Due to the need to start construction at the Longjiang Shipyard, more than 30,000 civilians were recruited near Jinling City.
After a simple screening, the disbanded Nanming army became civilians on the spot and entered the Longjiang Shipyard in a steady stream. Xu Xingxia implemented militarized management of Longjiang Shipyard. He adopted the method of later construction corps and specially formed a Longjiang Shipbuilding Corps, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the Shipbuilding Department. The main task of this corps is to build ships. Day and night, day and night, we kept building the ship.
In addition to Longjiang Shipyard, Xu Xingxia also established similar shipbuilding corps in Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Leizhou, Yazhou and other places. All corps commanders were personally selected by Xu Xingxia. By incorporating the shipyard into military management, shipbuilding efficiency and quality have been greatly improved, effectively ensuring the needs ahead.
By the spring of the fourth year of Taichang, the shipbuilding department owned a total of eight large shipyards including Dengzhou, Longjiang, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Leizhou and Yazhou. Each shipyard has between thirty and fifty docks. The total number of all shipyards exceeds 300. In other words, three hundred large warships can be built at the same time.
Based on the common Wutaishan-class battleship with a displacement of 1,000 tons, the construction period is about nine months. If all the shipyards are used to build Wutaishan-class warships, it will only take nine months for the White Army Navy to obtain more than 300 Tianshan-class warships. This kind of construction speed and this kind of construction quantity are absolutely unprecedented.
Of course, this is just an ideal number. In fact, it is impossible for the White Army Navy to use all its shipyards to produce Tianshan-class warships, as well as other types of warships. At the same time, some shipyards must also undertake research tasks. Therefore, the number of warships obtained by the White Army Navy each year is approximately two hundred and fifty.
¡°It is definitely not an exaggeration to describe the navy in white as nouveau riche. It only took three short years to go from being poor and rich to being rich now. By the fourth year of Taichang, the White Army Navy had more than 200 warships with a displacement of more than 500 tons. This kind of strength can definitely be regarded as second to none on the eastern sea.
The only weakness of the White Army Navy is that the software cannot keep up. To be more precise, talent cannot keep up. The navy does not have combat effectiveness just because it has large battleships. No matter how powerful a battleship is, it needs people to drive it. The strength of the navy is often reflected in the quality of its personnel. If we talk about the composition of combat power, battleships account for 50%, and personnel also account for 50%. However, the weakest link of the White Army Navy is currently this link.
The expansion speed of the white army and navy is too fast and it is impossible to??Find so many skilled sailors. The original Ming Dynasty implemented a sea ban policy for hundreds of years, resulting in a shortage of private sailors. In coastal areas, there are not many people with experience at sea. Therefore, Xu Xingxia's mission for the navy is still mainly training and supplemented by external expansion. The more time the white-coated navy masters, the higher the level of training and the stronger the combat effectiveness.
In addition to military shipyards, Xu Xingxia also strongly advocated the development of private shipyards, advocated private shipbuilding, and encouraged civilians to actively participate in maritime trade. He removed all restrictions on maritime trade. As long as you have the strength, can afford to buy a ship, and can afford to hire sailors, you can participate in maritime trade. The tax on maritime trade is also fixed at around 10. Apart from this tax, there is no other tax.
Obviously, Xu Xingxia¡¯s policy has a very stimulating effect on the development of private maritime trade. In the past, maritime trade was in the hands of a few powerful families, and ordinary people had no chance to participate. Otherwise, it will definitely be attacked by several major families. But now, this risk no longer exists.
In front of the bayonet of the White Army, all major families, including the Ye family, have been severely suppressed. Not only were their official positions gone, but all their armed servants were also dismissed, and all their land was registered. All properties are also uniformly registered as a basis for collecting taxes in the future.
According to Xu Xingxia¡¯s instructions, the first thing the White Army did after entering Jiangnan was to issue decrees and collect taxes uniformly. As long as you have land, no matter who you are, you must pay taxes truthfully. As a result, large landowners with extensive land holdings will no longer be able to enjoy tax exemptions. They must hand over some of their profits.
Of course, it¡¯s okay not to pay. The consequence of not handing over would be to have your home confiscated, your clan exterminated, and then all your land divided up. In Suzhou, Changzhou and other places, some big landowners did not believe in evil and gathered together to try to confront the White Army. As a result, with an order, all the big landowners who participated in the confrontation were wiped out. Their land was also nationalized.
Realizing that the White Army was definitely not joking, the other landowners obediently counted the number of acres of their fields and took the initiative to pay taxes in advance to avoid being killed. As a result, the white army had just entered Jiangnan and collected more than 10 million taels of silver from taxes on the fields. The taxes collected in the commercial field exceeded 20 million taels of silver. Songjiang Prefecture alone paid more than one million taels of silver in various taxes. The taxes paid by merchants in Yuegang also exceeded one million taels of silver.
"No way? Oh my God, what have I been doing before?"
Regarding this number, the most surprising person is probably Emperor Taichang.
When the Nanming court was still there, it was really precarious and stretched thin. The treasury was so empty that even a mouse could starve to death. Emperor Taichang practiced strict economy and repeatedly reduced expenses, but the result was still that it was difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Such a pitiful income is simply not enough to pay official salaries. In order to raise money, Emperor Taichang thought hard about it.
Emperor Taichang did not think about collecting taxes from big landowners, big bureaucrats, and big businessmen, but he was politely rejected by the ministers. The ministers under him all told him that the wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan actually had no money at all. They all say it looks shiny on the outside, but it¡¯s actually rotten on the inside. To tax them is to be infamy for eternity, to be played with by future generations, and to be reviled. Emperor Taichang, who was unfamiliar with the people, believed it and put the matter aside.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: The White Army just arrived and got an income of 30 million taels of silver without using any means! If the White Army uses some means, I'm afraid this number can be doubled or even quadrupled. In an instant, Emperor Taichang hated Li Xing, Ye Xianggao and others to death, and vowed to make them pay the price.
"These bastards! I will make you pay the price!"
Sure enough, after Emperor Taichang gave up his power, when he was worried that his life would be boring, he decisively found his life goal. He vowed that for the rest of his life, he would kill Xing, Ye Xianggao and others and vomit out all their wealth.
¡°Hmph, you used to join forces to deceive me and make me feel uncomfortable. Now, I just have the time to slowly torment you. This is something that ** Xing, Ye Xianggao and others would never have imagined.
¡°What is a slave¡¯s dream?¡±
"free.
"wrong."
¡°Isn¡¯t freedom what slaves yearn for most?¡±
¡°What slaves yearn for most is to own a large number of slaves.¡±
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The spring of the fourth year in Taichang is still long overdue.
On the surface of the Nanyang Sea, it isGreat changes have taken place. The most important change is that the atmosphere of war is getting stronger and stronger. Whether it is the Spanish or the Portuguese, or the Italians and the French, they can clearly feel that an earth-shattering battle is about to break out between the white navy and the Dutch navy.
Under the strong atmosphere of war, some merchant ships who were worried about being affected decisively left the South China Sea and headed to the Indian Ocean to temporarily avoid the limelight. Even the Spanish merchant ships made the same choice. Except for the merchant fleet, the naval fleets of all forces were highly concentrated and stared at the surroundings vigilantly, fearing to miss any detail.
After the news spread that Seedorf was captured alive by the white-coated navy, the prestige of the Dutch suffered a very serious blow. If the news had not been verified repeatedly, no one would be able to believe that the commander of the Dutch Far East Fleet was actually captured alive by the navy in white. For a time, the cowardice and incompetence of the Dutch were spread throughout the South China Sea.
The battle at Palembang Port made the Dutch feel that there was no other solution except war. Because the white army and navy have fully demonstrated that they have no intention of sitting down and negotiating with the Dutch. Even if the Dutch take the initiative to request negotiations, I am afraid that the White Army will not agree. Rather than being sent forward and getting slapped in the face, it's better to give it a try. The Dutch still have a certain degree of confidence in their maritime military power.
However, the strength of the White Army Navy is also constantly increasing. The white-coated navy not only established a foothold in Palembang Port, but also established a strong port in Dernate. In Brunei, a strategic point, the White Army Navy also made a breakthrough. The local indigenous royal family also allowed the white-coated navy to dock at the Brunei port.
The promise of the indigenous royal family is of course worthless. All the forces in the South Ocean will not take any indigenous royal family seriously. The indigenous royal family in the Brunei port allows the white-coated navy to be stationed, which actually has no impact on the strength of the Nanyang region. However, in politics, there is a very fatal point. This is exactly what the White Army grasped.
No matter which country¡¯s power it is, in fact, no region in Nanyang has truly been included in its territory. This means that, politically speaking, the Nanyang Islands are actually independent. Those indigenous royal families are still nominally the masters of various places. The white-coated navy used bayonets to force Brunei's indigenous royal family to issue an order prohibiting Dutch merchant ships from docking.
As we all know, Brunei is basically in the center on the map of Southeast Asia. Merchant ships traveling between Manila and Malacca usually dock in Brunei. The Dutch merchant navy was certainly no exception. However, the white-coated navy's move would directly block a very important trade route for Dutch merchant ships. Blocking the route is equivalent to blocking the neck.
Regarding the various provocative behaviors of the white-coated navy, the senior officers and directors of the Dutch East India Company were almost going crazy. However, they have no choice. Because, apart from iron and blood, no other means can resolve the dispute between the two parties. However, Esco was not confident enough to defeat the White Army Navy.
Fortunately, at the most critical moment, Dutch support finally arrived. At the end of April in the fourth year of Taichang, Dutch Admiral Robben led more than fifty large warships and appeared in the South China Sea near Jakarta. The morale of the Dutch was immediately boosted.
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