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"That's right, one of your ministers is loyal to the Qing Dynasty, the second minister is loyal to the Great Mongols, and the third minister is loyal to the Ming Dynasty!"

"How is Zhongda Mongolia?"

"Don't you know? The Qing Dynasty is gone!"

"Yes, it's gone... Change the Western Qing Khanate and become a vassal of the Great Mongolia! You are now a subject of the Great Mongolia, a proper second minister!"

"How can it be calculated like this?" Chen Jingting was a little confused by what Zhou Peigong and Li Guang said.He was a good courtier of the Qing Dynasty, obviously he did not skip the trough, and now he has become a second minister of the Great Mongolia, which is too wronged.

Before the account was settled, Chen Jingting had already been dragged into the lobby of Fusi in Jinyiwei North Town by Zhou Peigong and Li Guangdi.As soon as I entered, I heard the shout of "Wei... Wu".

"Get down on your knees!"

"Kneel down to pay respects to Feng Weishuai."

Zhou Peigong and Li Guangdi were really warm-hearted, and before Chen Jingting could react, they had already pinned him to the ground.Chen Jingting still wanted to struggle, but Li Guangdi had already said to Feng Xifan in Hokkien: "Wei Shuai, Chen Jingting knows that he has made a mistake, and he is willing to make up his mind and serve the court. Please Wei Shuai give him a chance."

Feng Xifan was very polite to Li Guangdi, they are all fellows from Quanzhou... and the Li family in Anxi, Quanzhou is a well-known and well-known family.When Zheng Jing regained Quanzhou, many of his sons and daughters became officials.Some of them are still very familiar with Feng Xifan, and they all belong to the Southern Hokkien-Chaozhou gang!So after Li Guangdi surrendered, he actually felt the warmth he had never felt in the Qing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.

So Feng Xifan nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, okay, as long as this surnamed Chen is willing to surrender, the imperial court will of course allow him to rehabilitate."

Li Guangdi immediately said to Chen Jingting in official Chinese: "Brother Ziduan, Master Feng said that as long as you are willing to surrender, the imperial court will make you reform."

Zhou Peigong smiled: "Quickly surrender... Anyway, you have already surrendered to Great Mongol once, so what's the point of surrendering to Ming Dynasty again?"

"I, why did I surrender to Great Mongolia?"

Zhou Peigong said: "Emperor Tongzhi surrendered, and you don't surrender? If you don't surrender, then you are not a minister of Mongolia. Now that the Qing Dynasty is gone, you are just a commoner. Feng Weishuai wants to recommend you to be an official. How can you still Don't kowtow to thank you?"

In a few words, the Daqing was wiped out, and Chen Tingjing was described as an ordinary person.

"I, I..." Chen Tingjing was speechless for a moment.

Feng Xifan looked at Chen Tingjing's appearance, and said with a smile: "Chen Tingjing, let's go down if there is a step... If the Qing demon is gone, it will be gone. If you consider yourself a subject of Mongolia, if you vote for Daming, you will be a family slave with three surnames! I don't think you will be loyal to Mongolia, right? Even if you have exhausted your loyalty, you are still a second minister! If you don't become a Mongolian subject and directly vote for Ming Dynasty, you are still between the first minister and the second minister. In the future, I will compile a "" "The Biography of Second Officials" is really not good enough to list you!"

It seems to be the case!

Chen Tingjing did the math, and found that if he was killed loyally, he would still be a second minister after the killing.If you simply take refuge in Daming, you really don't necessarily have to be a second minister... If that's the case, then why don't you take refuge in Daming?

Chapter 760 Locking Sophon of the Chosen Kingdom!

"America... country? Is there anything to say about this country name?"

"Yes, this is the feudal country of the third prince, Zhu Yimei. The third prince's "Mei" is a gold letter with a beautiful border... His overseas feudal country is of course the United States!"

"I see……"

In a dilapidated house in the outer city of Beijing, three villains, Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, and Chen Tingjing, were drinking wine in the living room while discussing the origin of the country name "America".

The reason why they say this is because the three of them are going to the United States to become officials... American officials, it sounds very beautiful.But in fact, this is not the case at all, because the United States does not exist yet!

The three of them have to help Zhu Yimei build up the country bit by bit.And Zhu Yimei went directly to be the king of the United States when she grew up, it was so beautiful!

But Zhu Yimei is not the only one who is so beautiful, there is also Zhu Celing!

"What about the American Khanate? There is no beauty in Celing Taiji's name. Celing means longevity. Why is he also an American Khan?"

"This one……"

"It's inconvenient to say this. In short, brother Ziduan only needs to know that the United States and the United States Khanate are brothers!"

It turns out that there are not just one United States that Zhu and Qi want to establish, but two... At present, there are two, one is the United States Kingdom, and the other is the United States Khanate.The king of the US Kingdom will be Zhu Yimei, and the Khan of the US Khanate will be Zhu Celing.

According to Zhu Hechi's vision, the United Kingdom will center on the west coast of the North American continent, possibly including the entire Rocky Mountain region, and eventually form a vast kingdom with the Pacific Ocean at its back and the Great Plains facing.

In Zhu Hechi's impression, most of the gold, silver, copper, and many other non-ferrous metals in North America, and perhaps a large portion of oil, come from the West Coast and the Rocky Mountains.

Although the United States can complete industrialization without these things, the difficulty of industrialization will be greatly improved.After all, gold, silver, and copper can all be used as the basis for currency issuance...and having currency sovereignty is an important foundation for realizing industrialization.Only with monetary sovereignty can we have financial sovereignty, and only with financial sovereignty can we reduce the cost of capital and provide stable capital.

Otherwise, capital will be expensive and unstable.Those industrial projects that require large and long-term investment will be difficult to obtain the favor of high-cost short-term funds, and the difficulty of industrialization will be greatly increased!

And the United Kingdom is only the second link in the industrialized sophons of the chosen country, and the first link to lock the industrialized sophons in the chosen country is Zhu Celing's American Khanate.

According to Zhu Heqi's plan, Zhu Celing's khanate will be placed on the great plain east of the Rocky Mountains!

If possible, this nomadic khanate would occupy the entire Great Plains!After completing this mission, the Khanate will gradually turn to fixed herding and farming, and gradually become a country that controls the Great Plains in central North America and focuses on agriculture and animal husbandry.

This country will not only occupy the large iron mines on the west bank of the Great Lakes, but also occupy the main agricultural areas. Wheat, cotton, and soybeans are not only important industrial raw materials, but also can be exchanged for a large amount of industrialization start-up funds for the chosen country.

The original chosen country could not easily obtain monetary sovereignty and financial sovereignty because of its rich metal resources... The US dollar has been a relatively stable currency since its birth.

The agricultural area in the central part can not only support countless immigrants from the old continent, so that they can easily live a life without worrying about food and clothing, but also can exchange a lot of start-up funds for the chosen country.

Coupled with the abundant coal resources in the east, the iron mines in the Great Lakes region, and the navigable rivers that have spread all over the central and eastern regions, this chosen country has almost become a country born with a golden key in it.

In addition, from the day this country was born, there were no strong enemies around it that could threaten them. Except for Canada, which had a small population in the north and was controlled by England's "father", other countries on the mainland were not this "big hero" at all. The opponents of "Zi"...and Zhu and Qi are now planning to arrange a pair of neighbors from the east for the white people's chosen country.

You may be able to learn from each other on the North American continent!

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Beijing Imperial City, Xiyuan.

According to the legend, the three villains all put on the court uniforms of the seventh-rank officials of the Ming Dynasty, followed Feng Xifan of the Beijinyiwei command post, walked quickly through the picturesque Xiyuan garden, and finally stepped into Yuxi in the midst of a sound pass. The main hall of the palace.

"Mr. Zhou Peigong, the seventh-rank candidate county, respectfully welcome Sheng'an, my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

"Li Guangdi, a candidate for the seventh rank of minister, respectfully invite Sheng'an, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Chen Tingjing, a candidate for the seventh rank of minister..."

Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, and Chen Tingjing are all seventh-rank officials now, and they are still alternates.But alternates are officials too!Moreover, the three of them are all "villains" favored by Emperor Zhu. Of course, they will not go through the same schooling and assessment procedures as ordinary officials—most of the alternate officials of the Ming Dynasty are sent to the south, north, and Guangxi after their terms of office expire. Officials who are short-term admissions to universities in Beijing or the Army and Navy Academy. At this time, they have no official position and become alternate officials.The "county" and "fu" in "alternate counties" and "alternate prefectures" refer to the positions that they will take up after completing their studies and passing various assessments.

And Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, and Chen Tingjing are all seven-rank candidate counties, which means that the official positions they will take up are county magistrates... However, the county they want to "know" is not in the territory of Daming, and it doesn't even exist yet. The three of them led a group of small and medium-sized villains to open up a new continent by themselves.

That is to say, they have to travel across the ocean to about [-] miles away, then seize a piece of land, establish three counties by themselves, and then become county magistrates themselves.It's not easy being the county magistrate!

Of course, Zhu and Qi are not unreasonable, they will not let them go to the New World with bare hands... Two thousand villains have been prepared for them!It's still a good pairing of men and women.Some of them were male and female prisoners who committed crimes, and some were captured from newly recovered provinces such as Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, and Guizhou, as well as the chieftain's subordinates and their families who resisted the heavenly soldiers.Two thousand villains are allocated to one thousand households, and together with Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, and Chen Tingjing's subordinates, they can make up almost fifteen hundred households with more than three thousand villains.

In addition, Mrs. Anu also selected a thousand villains from the Mongols captured in the Battle of Ulan Butong, plus a thousand female relatives, making a total of 2000 people. Under the leadership of the two wicked Mongolians in Emu, they are also going to the New World to develop animal husbandry and zero-dollar shopping.

That is to say, Zhu and Qi prepared a total of five big villains and five thousand little villains for Ming's first new land development!

It can be said that it has paid enough!

If these five big villains and five thousand little villains can quickly open up the situation in North America, then Zhu and Qi will organize follow-up immigrants to the New World.Not to mention too much, it is still possible to get tens of 10 people to go there in the next ten years.

After all, the west coast of North America is rich in gold!

As soon as a gold mine is discovered, immigrants will flock to it!

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi waved at Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, and Chen Tingjing, "Come here and look at the map... I have had someone draw a topographic map of the northern part of the New World, and you will land here and establish the first A city!"

The place where Zhu and Qi pointed is a bay in the middle of the west coast of North America.In the memory of Zhu Heqi, this bay has a very rich name, San Francisco!

"My lord, please give this bay and the newly built city a name!" Zhou Peigong said with a smile.

"Give a name?" Zhu Heqi thought for a while and smiled, "Okay... I will name this bay Fugui Bay! Because the people who live there will be either rich or noble! As for the name of the city, Let’s call it Xijing! Although it is to the east of Daming, it is in the west of the New World, and the capital of the west is called Xijing!”

Chapter 761 The Mayflower Blooms The Evil Comes!

The bow of the Xijing plowed a snow-white spray, and the course was straight to the east.The sailors on the deck were conducting gun drills on the two rocket turrets at the bow. Following the command of the gunner of the Xijing, the gunners nervously adjusted the shooting parameters and repeatedly loaded and fired the training bullets.

The Xijing is a brand-new large-scale sailing warship that can adapt to the age of sugar medicine.This type of battleship is no longer equipped with several layers of gun decks and a large number of front-mounted smoothbore guns. Instead, a rocket emplacement is built on the bow and stern side decks of the battleship.These four rocket turrets all have strong shields and roofs, and inside the shields and the passages leading to other parts of the deck, sandbags are tied to absorb explosion damage.

Among the four rocket turrets, a ten-barrel multiple rocket launcher was installed.If the two rocket turrets on both sides fire at the same time, they can fire [-] rockets at a time, and the firepower is still very fierce!

In addition to the rocket turrets, ten child and mother turrets were built on both sides of the upper deck of this type of warship.Each sub-mother fort is installed with a long-tube sub-mother cannon-the Franco cannon.This kind of Fran cannon can be used to intercept small rocket launchers because of its fast rate of fire, relatively long range, and so-so accuracy.Of course, the interception efficiency of these mother-child artillery is actually not very high...

In order to make up for the low interception efficiency of the mother and child guns, this large sailing warship with a deadweight of up to [-] tons had to drag two new gunboats equipped with both mother and child guns and rocket launchers on the road together. .

Since this brand-new "rocket launcher battleship" is not equipped with dozens or hundreds of smoothbore guns, but only four ten-barrel rocket launchers and twenty sub-cannons, there is no need to equip two or three more decks under the top deck. The gun deck, thus freeing up a lot of space and deadweight tonnage can be loaded and loaded.The Daming Navy and Nanyang Trading Company chose soft sails for this type of rocket launcher, which are more suitable for oceangoing sailing.

So this is not only a warship, but also a very good ocean-going transport ship. It can be said that it was born to open up new continents, so this type of warship was named the New World Type.

For this long voyage, the Daming Navy and the Nanyang Trading Company also invested heavily, dispatching a total of 25 New Continent warships.There were two hundred villains on each boat, as well as a large amount of supplies, livestock, and production tools—including farm tools, muskets, artillery, armor, and various cold weapons!

But these weapons can't be handed over to the villains on the ship, they are all guarded by sailors...

Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, and Chen Tingjing are all concentrated on the flagship Xijing. At the moment, they are leading more than a dozen villain leaders, standing on the top platform of Xijing's stern cabin, looking at the sea behind Xijing The undulating waves and more than 20 New Continental ships formed a neat two-row column on the sea one after another.The masts of each ship are covered with white sails, and the sails are blown bulging by the sea wind. It seems that the current speed is not slow!

The three big villains all turned their gazes to the distant horizon, and their eye sockets were a little moist... They were leaving the rich Shenzhou continent at full speed, and they were sailing to the far shore of the ocean.

Maybe I will never come back to my hometown again in this life?

When the three were sad, a sailor standing guard under the platform suddenly shouted: "The admiral is here!"

The three of them quickly turned around, walked quickly to the stairs, and then bowed their bodies to wait for Earl Chen Anping, the admiral of the Ming Navy's Eastern Fleet, to climb up the stairs to the platform.

Chen Anping is Chen Shangchuan's subordinate. After following Chen Shangchuan to join the New Daming camp, he has been serving in the navy. Now he has been promoted to the admiral of the Eastern Fleet, one of the two major fleets of the navy. This time, he was ordered to transport the "wicked group" to Opening up a new continent... This is opening up a new territory!

If this is done, he will be able to become a Marquis!

In order to ensure success, Chen Anping, who served as the admiral of the newly formed Oriental Fleet after the Japanese War, has secretly organized four expeditions to the New World, basically figured out the route to and from the New World, and even explored the west coast of the New World. .

So this time, his Lord Hou is sure of everything!

"See Admiral!"

Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing led a group of small villains and saluted Admiral Chen together.

Chen Shangchuan nodded with a smile, as a salute to the big guy, and then said with a smile: "I tell you a good news, the fleet will arrive at Nagoya Tenno Castle in Japan tomorrow. You can go ashore for ten days to rest and relax. Although you can't Leaving the water camp of the Eastern Fleet, but I will still arrange some Japanese folk performances for you, to have some fun for the big guys... Hahaha!"

As he spoke, he glanced at Zhou Peigong and the three of them again, "The Holy Majesty has also prepared a generous reward for you...the rewards for being able to walk and talk will also be delivered together! It's not easy to be lonely in the middle of the day, and when we arrive in the New World, we can live more comfortably. This is what Magistrate Zhou, Li County, and Chen County asked for for you all!"

Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, and Chen Tingjing immediately turned around and knelt down towards the direction of the Western Daming. While bowing down, they shouted loudly: "I will thank you for your grace..."

This "Heaven's Grace" was of course the idea of ​​Zhou Peigong, the worst of the three villains. To be a villain, one must learn how to use both kindness and power, otherwise he will be unable to control it.

That's why Zhou Peigong and the others have selected more than a dozen leaders from a group of little villains these days, all of whom are strong-bodied and simple-minded.

These days, these fierce people have been trained and know that the three villains are existences they cannot provoke, so now it is time to give them some sweetness.

It is said that there is no shortage of food and money in the New World, so for these villains, a well-behaved and obedient Dongying girl who can please men is naturally the best reward...

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The sun is shining hotly, and now is the hottest time in the hottest season of the year.The "villains" on the Pacific Ocean are seasick with the cool wind, and those who are strong can still think about the Japanese flower girls, but they don't feel how hot they are.Kangxi Khan of the Great Mongol Kingdom, at this time, was sunburned a little listlessly on his horse, and more than ten thousand Zhenghuang Banner Mongolian cavalry and infantry under his command formed a strict guard formation around him, escorting the The Mongolian Khan slowly walked towards the Khyber Pass dozens of miles ahead.

Kangxi originally planned to send troops into the hinterland of Tianzhu this autumn, but the situation changed too quickly... The "San Francisco", which he once regarded as the confidant of the Qing Dynasty, has now come to Tianzhu!

This is really deceiving!

He, Kangxi Khan, didn’t even want the Qing Dynasty, but changed to the Kangxi Khan of Great Mongolia, and he fled thousands of miles... It was the expedition to Tianzhu, how much hardship he suffered along the way, and how uncomfortable his heart was, do they know?I am already like this, why are they still unwilling to let go, and they still want to follow them to Tianzhu, it is really hateful!

So Kangxi Khan couldn't wait any longer, so he had to send troops ahead of time, braving the vicious sun of Tianzhu, and marched towards the Khyber Pass in hot weather!

Chapter 762 Kangxi is not afraid, this is India after all!

This magical place in India certainly has a magical terrain!

If you don't consider the oceans on the east, west, and south sides, and just talk about the north, northwest, and northeast, it will be surrounded by natural dangers and impenetrable!

India is guarded by the Himalayas and Karakorum in the north, which is called a high!Moreover, to the north of these two mountains is still a snow-covered plateau with overlapping mountains. If you walk a lot on it, you will be out of breath, let alone cross the mountains to enter Tianzhu... When the weather was warm in the early years, the population on the snow-covered plateau was still large. After a while, there is a big Tubo, and you can enter Tianzhu from time to time.But since the weather has cooled down, this has not happened.

The northeastern part of India and the border areas of Myanmar and Arakan are also surrounded by mountains and mountains, and that area is not only dangerous in terrain, but also a land of dysentery. It can kill [-]% to [-]% or even more of the intruders.Where do the rest have emotional aggression?

In the northwest of India, God finally left a gap called the Khyber Pass.The so-called mountain pass is actually a valley between the Hindu Kush Mountains and the Pamirs, called the Khyber (Kabul) Valley.The river valley runs from northwest to southeast, with a total length of more than [-] miles, and the narrowest point is just over a mile. Moreover, there are hillsides of moderate height on both sides of the valley, which is very easy to deploy.

In addition, the place where the Khyber Valley is located is not a backcountry where birds don't shit.To the west of the valley is Kabul... Later generations are less developed cities, but in the long history, Kabul has been more prosperous than London, Paris, and New York most of the time!

To the east of the Khyber Valley is the Gandhara Basin, which is the base camp of the Gandhara Kingdom, which is famous for its Greek-style Buddhist art. Its richness can be seen.

In the 17th century, although Gandhara had long since disappeared.But thanks to the India-Central Asia trade line and the agriculture of the Gandhara Basin, the Gandhara Basin is still very rich, and there is also a large city Peshawar whose prosperity is at least equivalent to that of a second-tier European city.

Moreover, this Peshawar city is very close to the Khyber Pass, almost blocked outside the Khyber Pass, so it can completely become part of the defense system of the Khyber Pass and provide strong logistical support for the troops stationed at the Khyber Pass .

So... After learning that Aurangzeb had spent a lot of money to invite reinforcements from the San Francisco from Myanmar, Kangxi Khan couldn't sit still, although the leaders of Bukhara, Khiva, and local Afghan chiefs all He patted his chest and assured him that there would be absolutely no problem in marching until the autumn season was clear, but he refused to wait any longer, and just kept urging his subordinates to hurry up and prepare to march.What about the high speed of soldiers... A group of "printing activists" in Central Asia and Afghanistan couldn't laugh or cry.

Here in India, there is no concept of "super speed"!

How could it be "super fast"?

As for the Indians building castles and fortifications in the Khyber Valley under the scorching sun, in the eyes of those "knowing India and printing" guys, it is the imagination of the sweat... How could the Indians be in the Khyber Valley? Do you want to build a city wall at Ershan Pass?It hasn't been repaired for two or three thousand years, and people have invaded. I don't know how many times they haven't repaired it. Will it be repaired now?

However, under the endless urging of Kangxi Khan, the Huibaqi, Bukhara, Khiva, and Afghan people had no choice but to pack their bags and leave the cool Kabul. Burr Pass.

As soon as he entered the Khyber Valley, Kangxi Khan, who had been listless from the sun, suddenly became alert.

Because he found that the terrain of the valley of the Khyber Mountains was too suitable for setting up an ambush... Because most of the mountains on both sides of the valley are not high, most of them are [-] to [-] feet, and they are not too steep, and they can be rushed down from above.Moreover, there are many small valleys on both sides of the valley, all of which can hide soldiers.In addition, although the Khyber Valley is a very important traffic artery, no one has properly repaired the official road for thousands of years.Although the width of the mountain pass is not small, there is no good way to go. Kangxi's army can't advance in a wide column at all, and can only form a relatively slender column.

If there are ambushes on the hillsides on both sides of the valley, then Kangxi Khan will be in big trouble!