Chapter 562 The World's No. 1 Slave Trader

Fierce shouts and gunfire came from the sky above Jinzhou.

The Qing army's defense collapsed, Jinzhou City was blown down, and the morale of the Qing army collapsed along with the city wall of Jinzhou. The attacking Fu Han army rushed to the merit archway in the east city of Jinzhou through the gap in the collapsed city wall in one breath.

Outside Jinzhou City, where the Eight Banners of the Qing army were defeated as a whole, the trenches around Jinzhou were filled with corpses, and the breast wall made of earth and stone had long been broken. Among the corpses lying in all directions, there were Eight Banners soldiers wearing cotton armor and Fu Han soldiers wearing breastplates. Even though they had died in battle, many corpses were still wrestling together, and some soldiers even died on both sides!

The Eight Banners of the Qing army responsible for guarding Jinzhou had previously been quite stubborn and tenacious, because they knew very well what they were guarding, and their families were behind them. The Fu Han army, whose entire army was in the process of major reorganization, only dispatched one brigade to attack Jinzhou. This gave many Eight Banners soldiers hope. This was also the biggest reason why the Battle of Jinzhou lasted for many days and was quite fierce.

But it was a pity that the Fu Han Army failed to attract more Eight Banners soldiers.

The gray-haired Hailancha looked out and saw that the whole Jinzhou city was already bloody.

The dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty was still flying where he was. But looking around, there was only a tragic scene of defeat. On the wide battlefield, there were Eight Banners soldiers running away with their heads in their arms, and behind them were chasing the Fu Han Army, like a red wave, rolling and surging, hitting the fleeing Eight Banners team. The dragon flags fell to the ground, and the flags of the Qing Army were trampled under the feet of the Fu Han Army. They were like heavy snow meeting boiling water, and they saw that every Eight Banners defeated soldier caught up by the Fu Han Army would be scraped off a large piece.

As the walls of Jinzhou were blown up, the fighting power of the Eight Banners soldiers, whose will to fight collapsed, also dropped to the bottom.

Hailancha had sent out all his personal soldiers, each holding a steel knife, trying to stop the large groups of fleeing soldiers. But these defeated soldiers who were blocked had no courage to turn back and fight. The war became a one-sided bloody massacre, and the Qing soldiers had only the fate of death in front of the Fu Han Army! These Eight Banners soldiers whose will to fight collapsed, if they really went back, would just be sending themselves to death in vain!

Hailancha said nothing, watching these crying and shouting fleeing soldiers fleeing from his eyes. But can the Eight Banners still muster up courage after this escape? Only God knows how happy he actually felt in his heart these days.

Yes, the Qing army was always at a disadvantage in the war scene in Jinzhou, and was pressed to the ground and rubbed again and again by the superior firepower of the Fu Han Army. If the latter had not had a small number of people, Jinzhou City might have been broken long ago.

But looking at the Eight Banners soldiers who were holding their positions against the superior artillery fire of the Fu Han Army on the battlefield, and those who were seriously injured but still holding their positions, Hailancha felt sorry for the blood shed by the Eight Banners, but on the other hand, he was happy for the courage of the Eight Banners.

As long as the Eight Banners can uphold such courage, what does it matter if they lose this battle?

There are many battlefields for them in the forests and mountains in the north. As long as all the Eight Banners soldiers are not afraid of death and sacrifice, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the Fu Han Army is, it will not be able to completely crush the Qing Dynasty.

Hailancha never thought that retreating to the Great North, retreating to the Russian territory was a good way and a good retreat.

What kind of way to survive is that cold ghost place where no birds shit? Once you go thousands of miles away, there will be snow in July and August, and it will still snow heavily after spring. Can the Eight Banners get out after entering? Moreover, the war now relies on guns and cannons. If you retreat there, can the guns and ammunition in the hands of the Eight Banners soldiers be guaranteed? If Russia had the ability to guarantee the military expenses of tens of thousands of troops, could they be beaten so badly by the Han people in Lake Baikal?

The Russians didn't have many people in the north, which shows their strength. The Russians are willing to take in the Eight Banners. Do they really think they are good people? They are using the Eight Banners as a shield because of Potemkin's intervention. Russia and the Han people have already had a grudge. The Russians used the Eight Banners to resist the threat of the Fu Han Army to their Far East.

But today, the collapse of the Jinzhou city wall and the "unrecognizable" garbage performance of the Eight Banners soldiers were like a basin of cold water that shattered all the expectations and enthusiasm in Hailancha's heart. Blinking your eyes, an old hen can't turn into a duck. "When a man is away for three days, he should be treated with new eyes" can be used for a certain person, but it is difficult to reflect it on a certain group.

Goshaha carried Hailancha and fled north, "Marshal. Now the situation is hopeless, run away!"

Hailancha hadn't spoken yet, and the Goshaha beside him didn't need to listen to Hailancha, they just joined together and left. Hailancha had lost countless battles in the past ten years, and the Goshaha beside him were very experienced in escaping on the battlefield. And this is exactly the sadness of the Qing Dynasty.

A "famous general" who was defeated again and again, the Qing Dynasty had to worship him like a treasure, which was also drunk.

If it was the Qing Dynasty at its peak, Hailancha would have had five heads chopped off by a knife. But now Yongsheng didn't dare to chop, and couldn't chop. In the entire Eight Banners government and the entire Eight Banners army, except Hailancha, who has so much experience to command a large army of firearms to fight? And the daily training?

No. None!

Except for Hailancha, there is only Hailancha. Even though Fukangan, a famous rising star of the Eight Banners, who has won many battles in Korea, has become a main general and is in charge of Korea to suppress the "Three Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", he is just an absolute junior compared to Hailancha.

For Hailancha, who has led troops for many years, especially in the Eight Banners New Army, who is deeply rooted like a big tree with hundreds of years of roots and covering the entire Eight Banners New Army, he has become the Dinghai Shenpin of the Qing Dynasty. If Yongcheng really wants to get rid of Hailancha, he will find that the "will" of the Eight Banners New Army is already very strong. The reason why he never felt it before is that Hailancha, as a representative of the army, suppressed the will of the army himself, not that the "will" did not arise.

How can Fukangan, who does not have the buff bonus of the big backer, compare with it.

"Kill Jiji..." Qingmu Zhongyi, who was very brave and took the lead in rushing into the Jin County government office, did not find a Qing army, and his purpose was not to chase and kill the Qing army. Aoki Nakaichi is a very smart man. He knows that this war is over for the Vanguard Team. Although at least half of the 120 people have no blood on their blades, he will never step into the Jinzhou government office.

"County Treasury, go to the County Treasury!"

So, the county office is not as good as the government office, but you can always find some good things, right? If you can find a little good thing, it's a little.

Yoshida Masakazu agrees with the captain's words. What kind of status does the Vanguard Team have in the Fu Han Army? Just look at the way the Fu Han Army soldiers looked at them before. They haven't established their roots yet, how can they rush to eat meat?

Besides, is there really no good thing in this county government?

Yoshida Masakazu stroked an oval object in his arms, with a silly smile on his face. This is a tin tea can with exquisite carvings on the surface. It is placed on the desk in a room in the county government office. There is only a third of the tea leaves in it. Yoshida Masaichi didn't understand tea. Although he had drunk tea, people who drink tea may not understand tea, especially Chinese tea. But when he opened the lid, he immediately smelled a fragrance he had never smelled before, and subconsciously he decided that this tea was a good thing.

For Yoshida Masaichi, being able to find a beautiful tin can and some good tea leaves was enough. "At least it can be worth twenty or thirty yuan!"

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Just when Shenyang City, which was about to be renamed back to its original name, was in a miserable state, a small-scale but extremely arrogant fleet crossed hundreds of miles of the Yangtze River and arrived at Madang Town. The imperial flag fluttered, and all the ships dispersed.

When the ships arrived at Madang, the mouth of Poyang Lake was within reach.

There are no traces of artillery forts in Madang now. When the Fu Han Army completely captured Jiangnan, the river defense camp that existed in Madang was abolished.

On the dragon boat, Chen Ming looked at the south bank of the Yangtze River, thinking of Madang, Pengze, and Jiujiang. At the beginning, he walked through several places in Jiujiang accompanied by Xiao Lou. Those scenes are still vivid in his mind, but Xiao Lou is now the mayor of his own city in Shanghai. Chen Ming has never heard of the current prefect of Jiujiang.

Only the prefect of Jiujiang and the magistrate of Pengze came to Madang to greet him, and the governor of Jiangxi was still sitting in Nanchang. This is not because he is arrogant, but Chen Ming had already given the order. He came to Lushan this time to escape the summer heat, not to inspect Jiangxi, so why did he pull the governor from the provincial capital? It is useless except for delaying things.

"Your Majesty, Jiangxi Province has 103.457 million mu of arable land. Among them: 77.658 million mu of paddy fields, 2.271 million mu of irrigated land, and 23.528 million mu of dry land."

"The work of returning farmland to lakes and returning farmland to forests started last year has completed 856,000 mu and 2.563 million mu respectively."

"The province has 246.338 million mu of forest land and 8.551 million mu of grassland."

"From the distribution of arable land, Nanchang Prefecture's arable land area accounts for 10% of the province's total The proportion is the largest, reaching 15.39%, and the area is nearly 15.7 million mu. The second and third places are Raozhou Prefecture with 14.85% and Ji'an Prefecture with 14.33%. The last place is Yuanzhou Prefecture, with only 6.15%. It is worth mentioning that Ganzhou Prefecture, which has the largest land area, has 11.057 million mu of cultivated land, accounting for 10.55% of the province, ranking fifth. "

Chen Ming came to Lushan again to relax, and he was not indifferent to the situation in Jiangxi. Land is what he cares about most!

The provincial land survey bureaus still have a lot of work to do, but from the perspective of Jiangxi's agricultural development, the achievements are still worthy of recognition. Although the area of ​​returning farmland to lakes and returning farmland to forests in Jiangxi Province has reached more than 3 million mu in the past year and a half, from the perspective of the overall cultivated land area, Jiangxi's added value has reached the horizontal line.

The war has brought trauma to the whole of China. I don't know how much fertile land has been abandoned. Moreover, the total population of Jiangxi Province is only 10 million now, but the province has hundreds of millions of acres of land, with an average of 10 acres per capita. Chen Ming really doesn't see how necessary it is for the locals to keep filling the lake to create farmland. This project has already existed in Jiangxi during the period of fighting against the Mongols, but Chen Ming, who came from the later generations, is obviously not happy to see it.

"Jiangxi has done a good job in returning farmland to the lake. The Poyang Lake is the main gathering place for Jiangxi's population, with a dense population and little arable land per capita. There is a certain social foundation for reclaiming land from the lake. Local governments should pay attention to guiding the diversion of labor and play their regulatory role..."

Chen Ming knew that what he said was all bullshit. Although Jiangxi is a resource-rich province in the future, it is one of China's major non-ferrous, rare and rare earth mineral bases. It has more than 140 kinds of solid mineral resources, and many mineral reserves are among the top five in the country. Among them, copper, tungsten, uranium-thorium, tantalum-niobium and rare earth are known as the "five golden flowers" of Jiangxi Province.

But these things are useless in this era. Uranium-thorium, tantalum-niobium and rare earth are like this. Although tungsten is a good thing, in this era, under the current technology, whether it is scheelite or wolframite, it is far from the time to develop and utilize it.

The current Jiangxi mining industry is still focused on copper mine development.

In particular, the Dexing Copper Mine, which is being developed as a priority, has the characteristics of large reserves, deep ore body burial, good ore selectivity, and multiple comprehensive utilization components. It is one of the key copper mines in China now.

Any mining development requires a lot of manpower and labor, but how to guide farmers to become workers instead of letting the mines look forward to slave labor every day is not something that can be achieved in a day or two.

Chen Ming didn't know that when he was heading to Mount Lushan with women, children, and ministers, a chief envoy of the diplomatic corps who had just arrived in Nanjing from Siam formally visited Li Qi, who had been shrinking in Xuanwu Lake.

"One hundred thousand serfs?" Li Qi opened his eyes wide.

"Yes, one hundred thousand serfs. As long as you let your subordinates in Korea organize one hundred thousand refugees, our country will not only buy these serfs at the market price, but also give your Highness an additional two million banknotes." As the special envoy of King Zheng Xin of Siam, Suklava didn't take two million banknotes seriously at all. What is this? How can it be compared with the value of one hundred thousand serfs?

Siam is a country that allows slavery, with vast land, sparse population, fertile land, and a climate that is very suitable for growing rice. So Siam has always welcomed Chinese immigrants. The current King Zheng Xin has great power. He is the founder of the Thonburi Dynasty, who drove out the Burmese invaders. He has a high prestige among the people and is not militaristic. If Siam had a support rate in this era, he would definitely win more than 90%.

Although North Korea is still in chaos, this is the darkness before dawn. Shengjing will be captured by the Fu Han Army, and the Eight Banners rule of North Korea can no longer last.

In recent years, Siam's trade with China has been heating up, and they have made a lot of money from rice alone. It is also rich in teak, sugar and tin, and has accumulated a lot of wealth through trade with China. Although a lot of this money was transferred by Zheng Xin to buy a large number of guns and ammunition from China, and Siam itself has become a downstream market for Chinese goods, relying on rice, teak, sugar and tin, Siam can be said to be one of the few countries in the world that can still maintain a trade surplus after conducting comprehensive trade with China.

This can be envied by the British and the little Japanese.

But this has a lot to do with Siam's relatively small population.

Although Thailand has a large population in the 21st century, Siam in this era is absolutely sparsely populated. The total population of Southeast Asia in the future is close to 700 million, but now it is less than one-tenth. The national population of Siam is only about 4 million, which is about the same as Annan. The Siamese, who have just experienced the anti-Myanmar war, are seriously lacking in labor. If you don't take advantage of the last opportunity to make a fortune, you will miss it.

"Two million banknotes?" Li Qi's eyes immediately flashed with greed.

In the history books two hundred years later, En Yanjun Li Qi, who was known as the world's number one slave trader, had once again taken a heavy step towards the evil slave trade abyss when Chen Ming was traveling around, without even realizing it.