MTL - Number of People-Chapter 2683 Guizijuan has a clear-cut banner and defends

"Maybe many people will question what I said next, refuse to believe it, suspect that I am alarmist, and even think that I am talking about the Arabian Nights, but I want to tell you, all of these are facts, cruel and cold facts, if We let it go, despise it, or even ignore it, maybe our generation can’t see it, but our children and grandchildren will be punished,…”

  Feng Ziying keeps saying that she is not an alarmist, but in fact she is an alarmist, but it is necessary.

Appropriate exaggeration is not harmful, because the knowledge of the outside world is still very shallow and nihilistic for a group in front of them, and the vast world outside, especially the threat from the West, is still a disease of ringworm and scabies in their minds. It will be difficult for them to respond to these most real threats that will loom over the nation in decades without rousing them from their slumber.

"..., the former Golden Horde began to split as early as two hundred years ago, forming the Kazakh Khanate, the Kazan Khanate, the Crimean Khanate, the Astrakhan Khanate, and the Shibir Khan. Kingdom (Siberian Khanate) and other Khanates with people of different sizes who lived mixed nomadic and sedentary lives,…”

  No way, to wake up these people, we must first help them popularize the current world situation.

The Golden Horde (Kipchak Khanate) and they know that, after all, the Great Zhou continued the previous Ming Dynasty, and the former Ming Dynasty came after overthrowing the Great Yuan Empire, and after the Great Yuan Empire flourished, it split into several Khanates. The Horde is considered to be the most extensive one among them, and everyone here knows it, but after all, it is too far apart. Although everyone knows it, they don't have much impression of it, and it happened hundreds of years ago.

  Everyone was silent and listened to Feng Ziying's introduction.

  Feng Ziying has always had a target in mind. Since the history of the Northern Yuan Dynasty started hundreds of years ago, it must be the reason.

   "As for the positions of these Khanates, you can take a rough look at this map..."

  Feng Ziying took the map she had hand-painted, and then processed it according to the standard map by the Staff Division of the Ministry of War, and put it in the Staff Division of the Ministry of War, and brought it here this time.

  In fact, this is just a rough map. Its accuracy is hard to say. It is drawn entirely by Feng Ziying's memory. It may be far away, but the general orientation will not be bad.

"This is my dynasty. Everyone, this is the westernmost end of Ganning Town—Jiayuguan. This is Shazhou. Further west, you may know that this is Turpan. It is currently controlled by the Governor of Turpan of the Yarkand Khanate. Further to the west is the headquarters of the Yarkand Khanate, and maybe everyone’s impression is the farthest in this area, but I want to go further west and north,..."

  With the map as proof, it is much easier for everyone to understand. At least from the map, you can feel the spatial distance between various places and the approximate time required to arrive.

"As I said just now, there is the Shibier Khanate, which is located in this area. Well, it looks very vast. It is just north of the original Waradi, which is now the vast area north of the Yarkand Khanate. , the west of the Shibier Khanate should be the Kazan Khanate that has been destroyed, and it was also a part of the original Qinchak Khanate. Who destroyed it? Russia."

  Feng Ziying emphasized the tone when referring to the word Russia.

  In fact, many people here have heard of this term. Russia is a big country thousands of miles away from the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is aggressive by nature.

Thanks to the popularity of "Today's News" and "Internal Reference", many civil servants are not ignorant of the outside world, but limited to their thinking and understanding. They do not have a deep understanding of it, especially the lack of maps, so they cannot Know these situations more intuitively.

"Everyone can see the area of ​​the Shibier Khanate on the map, which is about half the size of our country, but their population is relatively small, because the climate is relatively bitter and cold, and it is roughly the same as our Liaodong side. There are too many forests and swamps. , it is estimated that the population will not exceed one million, and the possibility of three to five million is relatively high..., in fact, the population of Russia was not too large before that, about five or six million people, but this country was born from the monarchy. To the soldiers, even to some local nobles, aggressive,..."

"It took only fifty years for the Subier Khanate, which accounted for more than half of the area of ​​the Great Zhou, to be invaded and annexed by Russia. The specific time should be about 20 years ago, and the Subier Khanate perished. All the people became slaves of the Russians, and in the hundred years before that, Russia also annexed the Astrakhan Khanate and the Kazan Khanate, which were several times larger than it,..."

"Now, the Russians have extended their claws to the east, that is, to the north of the Mongols, and even to the north of Liaodong. I can say that if we don't take measures early, the Russians' aggression will come sooner rather than later." Set foot on the Mongols and our northeastern part of Liaodong within fifty years, at that time, the Russians may form a huge encirclement from our Yarkand Khanate in the west to Liaodong in our northeast,..."

"I would like to remind you that Russia is different from any country we have come into contact with. They are not here at all like the Franchi, the Netherlands, and the Westerners from England who came from Southeast Asia. Coming across the ocean, it takes a lot of energy to conquer the natives of Southeast Asia. Although Russia is a little farther away from us, it is connected by land. They adopt this method of encroaching on whales, and continue to expand viciously. step by step,..."

"And they are completely different from the Chincha Khanate, Mongolia and Jianzhou Jurchens. They are also proficient in iron smelting, and they also have advanced casting and firearm making techniques, which are far better than countries like Korea and Japan. At the same time, because they have always Being in the north, they are more adapted to the cold climate of northern forests, grasslands and swamps than us Han people, so they can continue to expand in an orderly manner,..."

   Hearing Feng Ziying's words so affirmatively, everyone was a little embarrassed to answer.

  If you want to say it’s impossible, Feng Ziying expends so much energy to elaborate, it seems that there is no need to be so alarmist or unfounded.

   You want to say it’s possible, but it’s thousands of miles away, and even a horse race would take a month or two to reach Jiayuguan, the westernmost point of Dazhou, not to mention how many rivers, rivers, mountains and forests are separated between them.

  But Feng Ziying vowed that within fifty years, he would set foot in the surrounding areas of Dazhou, not only Turpan in the west, but also Liaodong in the northeast.

   "Master Feng, according to your statement, the invasion of Russia is inevitable, and neither the Yarkands nor the Mongols can stop them?"

  Chai Ke took the initiative to ask questions.

"Anyone who underestimates Russia's greed, tenacity, and shamelessness under the tsarist rule will suffer a great loss in the end." Feng Ziying's attitude is extremely firm and clear, "For such a country, the best way is not to be a neighbor, but if you can't avoid it , then you can only deal with it with the most powerful force. Whenever he stretches out his claws quietly, you have to cut off his claws, causing him heartache, and making him feel heartbroken every time, so that it is possible to stop Stop his ambitions, and never relax your vigilance against him!"

"So the Liaodong army can't be reduced? Even the army in Ganning Town has to be strengthened?" Chai Ke asked with a smile: "Master Feng, I remember you mentioned before that in view of the importance of Nanyang to the Great Zhou, the water The fleet of the division will be greatly expanded. The Denglai Navy, Fujian Navy, and Guangdong Navy will all be expanded on a large scale, and all warships will be updated to Western-style sailing warships. In Dongfan, there is also Palawan, Old Port, and Managa. Although there are Han people there, the Xiyi people and the local aboriginals have a lot of power. If they want to intervene deeply, they will invest a lot. These It all needs to be considered comprehensively to see if it’s worth it.”

Huang Ruliang actually doesn't agree with Feng Ziying's point of view. The internal and external troubles have been basically resolved, but the imperial court still maintains an army of nearly one million. The Ministry of Finance's investment in the army may not decrease but increase, how can this work?

But Huang Ruliang also knows that merchants including Jiangnan are paying more and more attention to the operation of Nanyang, because the silk, tea, porcelain, medicinal materials, paper, salt in Jiangnan, and iron materials and ironware from the north are important to Nanyang, as well as Xiyi, which relies on Nanyang as a transit hub. The export of people has continued to grow, especially the three major categories of exports of porcelain, tea and silk have been quite strong, especially the transit exports from Luzon and Manlaga, which have become the most important source of income for these three types of materials in the south of the Yangtze River.

  In addition to the import of a large amount of white smoke, copper, tin, precious wood, spices, and rice from Nanyang were also imported in large quantities. Dagu has quickly replaced Yuguan and Dengzhou as the most important port for importing Nanyang materials in the north.

The merchants made a lot of money, and they were no longer satisfied with relying entirely on trade. Nanyang was a land of no man, and the pressure of domestic population also forced the imperial court to consider the policy of emigration. Liaodong and Dongfan were the first choice. , Nanyang is the second choice, and then Ezo and the current Nuergan capital outside Liaodong are under the jurisdiction.

When the population enters places like Nanyang, they can extract and process various local resources nearby, and then import them into the country. Merchants can further obtain the market and at the same time make greater profits. , without the **** of the army, the interests of the merchants will definitely be violated.

  Because of this, Chai Ke, as a Huguang scholar, can question and suggest, but Huang Ruliang must be steady, at least not too fierce in attitude, otherwise the attitude of Jiangnan businessmen towards him will be affirmed or changed. (end of this chapter)