Steel Dynasty - Chapter 708

[Chapter 707: Going into battle in person]

The sky was getting dark, and the lanterns in the cabin were lit one by one by the eunuchs, giving off a dim yellow color.

Wang Xuan and Li San became excited because of Xiao Ming’s analysis. Wang Xuan’s face turned red, “What the emperor said is very true. Most of the food and grass of the Japanese country arrived in Goryeo from the Japanese mainland by sea. As long as the sea food routes of the Japanese country are cut off, the Japanese country will The army in Goryeo will be trapped. The emperor wants to establish a treaty port in Goryeo. This can be used to negotiate with Goryeo and the Japanese country. In this way, both sides can benefit. “

Xiao Ming is smiling. For him, he needs it. They only wanted the market of Goryeo and had no interest in occupying Goryeo.

Because once it falls into a land war, the cost of the war will be huge. The industrialization of the six states has just begun, and he does not have enough materials and money to occupy a country.

In fact, during the colonial wars in the Age of Maritime Navigation, no Western power completely occupied the colonies.

In fact, they only established a small number of ports in colonial countries, signed uneasy treaties, used these ports as export destinations for goods, and then used force to threaten colonial countries to formulate policies that were in their interests.

During their occupation, they generally would not interfere too much in the internal affairs of colonial countries, and would only support powerful people who represented their own interests to rule the colonies.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. For example, Asan in India has completely become a British colony. But even so, the UK does not participate in too specific national affairs. It just sucks the economic resources of this region back to the UK like blood. National management still doesn’t care.

Therefore, the fundamental purpose of colonization is to extract economic benefits from the colonized country, rather than to occupy the land. Once the cause and effect are reversed, it may only be necessary to fall into the quagmire of a country’s war to bring down the country.

The longer Xiao Ming stayed in the position of emperor, the more he realized the limits of a country’s power. It was already very difficult to project power around the world, and it was even more difficult to fully occupy it, so he decided to first take the British style of colonization and primitive capital accumulation. After all, nothing can be accomplished without money.

After pondering for a moment, he said to Wang Xuan: “It’s still early. Neither Goryeo nor Japan will talk to Da Yu unless there is a war. You have the secret guards in Goryeo keep an eye on Goryeo’s movements and send intelligence to them at any time. Send it back.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Wang Xuan nodded.

After telling the news about the secret guard, Xiao Ming continued to ask: “How is your investigation of the Dreadnought being shelled?”

“Back to the emperor, the subordinate’s informant in Nagasaki sent back information that the Dauntless was shelled. On the second day, a British warship arrived in the Japanese country of Nagasaki. This British warship was said to be called the Duke. “

“Sure enough, it went to the Japanese country.” Xiao Ming looked at the Japanese country on the map. The history was always surprisingly similar. Now Xiao Ming was deeply moved. I deeply understand this.

The Japanese country in this time and space has established a powerful firearms force with the help of the Dutch. Now the British have once again extended an olive branch to the Japanese country, with only one purpose, which is to use the Japanese country to balance the balance in East Asia.

“Have you heard about their specific cooperation?” Xiao Ming asked.

“No, the British went ashore and went directly to see Yamada Nobunaga, and we couldn’t get in touch with him.” Wang Xuan was a little regretful, but the informants in Japan were often maritime merchants, and they couldn’t get deep into the top management.

“You secret guards should increase your investment in the Japanese country, and even establish a professional craftsmanship. You can even bribe some Japanese people to serve as craftsmen.” Xiao Ming reminded.

In modern times, Japan is very good at espionage warfare. During each war, Japan always sends a large number of spies to collect intelligence.

It is said that during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese maps were even more detailed than the maps of the Chinese army.

Coming from modern times, Xiao Ming naturally could not lose this advantage to the Japanese country, so he had to start a spy war in advance and collect all-round intelligence about the Japanese country.

Wang Xuan was a little embarrassed. He said: “Your Majesty, the subordinates also think about it, but this money…”

Xiao Ming was immediately embarrassed when he heard this. Although he had many ideas, he still couldn’t do it without enough money.

Thinking of this, he became more determined to build industry and colonize the world.

After coughing, he said to Wang Xuan: “I will try my best to allocate some silver to you.”

Wang Xuan then showed a happy expression.

To reassure Wang Xuan, Xiao Ming looked at Li San and said, “Li San, this reform will be implemented soon. You and I will keep an eye on the wealthy businessmen in Qingzhou. If they play any tricks, you Report to me immediately. “

Yes, Your Majesty.” Li San nodded.

After reporting the information, the two of them congratulated Xiao Ming before going back. Now the news that the queen gave birth to a dragon son had spread throughout Qingzhou City.

At this moment, officials and businessmen from Qingzhou kept sending people to congratulate him, and gifts were delivered to the palace one by one.

After a busy day, Xiao Ming was a little tired. It was getting late now, so he returned to the dormitory. Fei Yue’er was a little weak now, so he wanted to spend more time with her.

After a night’s rest, Xiao Ming got up early the next day. Fiji and Pang Yukun were responsible for implementing the reform, and his task was to promote the establishment of the industrial system and the development of science and technology.

For him, the current development of Qingzhou in both military and civilian technology is abnormal, because everything in the past five years has only served the military, which has caused industrial capabilities to gradually fail to develop with technology.

For example, for smokeless gunpowder, although Lu Tong has mastered the production method, this kind of production is still based on laboratory production methods, and real industrial production has not yet been realized.

Except for smokeless gunpowder, many chemicals in the laboratory are now unable to be mass-produced. This time Xiao Ming’s reform is to establish corresponding workshops one by one to achieve industrial production under steam power.

This includes not only the production of chemical materials, but also the industrial production of firearms and machinery. For him, the industrialization of Dayu has fallen behind, and now is a critical period to catch up.

After all, the West has now developed steam engines. With the industrial base of Western countries, once steam engines are available, they will be installed very quickly.

After a simple breakfast, Xiao Ming changed into casual clothes and went to the glass workshop. While making changes, he made a list of the current technologies in the Chongqing Kingdom.

This list contains technologies that are currently available in Western countries but not in Great Chongqing. Now that Lin Wentao and others are busy, there are some things that only he, the emperor, can do personally, and he is also quite good at it.

The first place he went to today was the glass workshop. A few days ago, he told the glass workshop to produce a tool, and it should be manufactured by this time.

Although this thing has nothing to do with war, it is very beneficial to the development of science and technology.

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