I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

The hungry people from Huguang, Jiangbei, Henan and other places are like inexhaustible sea water. Under the operation of Sheng Xuanhuai, they are continuously transported to Daming, and then exchanged for tons of Ming cloth, Ming rice, and Ming guns. , Bright gun.

That's right, now Daming is already providing guns to the Huai army.

Ever since he discovered that Li Hongzhang and the others had formed a tacit understanding with the Taiping Army, and that the two sides played battles every two months, handed in the assignments, and then lived in peace, Daming began to adjust his strategy.

In private, Daming and the Huai Army signed a three-year "Memorandum of Guaranteeing the Integrity of Nanjing's Ancient City Wall Cultural Relics".

If the Huai Army dared to damage the walls of the former capital of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty would take measures including but not limited to trade sanctions, military intervention, and property freezing to hold the main personnel of the Huai Army accountable.

Li Hongzhang readily agreed.

So Daming moved those Napoleon guns from Japan to Shanghai and sold them to Li Hongzhang.

These guns were originally seized by Ming from the American militia, and they are outdated and have little upgrade value.

It was sold to Maori brother at a high price before.

Now the Wajima Protectorate's Mansion is considered the territory of Ming Dynasty, so naturally we can't use such embarrassing cheap cannons.

Therefore, the waste was used and sold twice, and then sold to Li Hongzhang.

In addition to the Napoleonic cannon, Ming also sold the captured French rifles.

Although Zhu Fugui concocted a brand-new joke about French rifles in the snakeskin bag joke, in fact, the rifles seized by Ming in Japan last year were very old.

The main reason is that the French do not pay enough attention to the Far East.

The guns used by Indian and Cambodian soldiers are basically the old-fashioned smoothbore flintlock guns used in Crimea ten years ago. They don’t even use Minie bullets. They are similar to the guns used by the American militia, and their range and accuracy are pitifully low.

The 1860s was not only the era of the second industrial revolution when the internal combustion engine replaced the steam engine, but also the era of rapid development of weapons and equipment.

Flintlock rifles began to replace flintlock muskets a decade or so ago with the advent of the Minie bullet.

But today, in 1866, the miniature bombs are obsolete.

In Europe, the Germans have begun to secretly install breech-loading Dresser rifles that are similar to modern guns on a large scale.

According to history, in the next few wars, the German breech-loading rifles will crush the enemy's Mini rifles.

Metal fixed bullets will also completely replace miniature bullets and become the only type of ammunition in the future.

Daming's Dewu two-year-made rifle is already the pinnacle of rifles in this era. Naturally, they look down on this flintlock musket that is two versions behind the era and four versions behind Daming, and sold it to the Huai army together.

In fact, it is not that Li Hongzhang has never seen a more advanced rifle.

Zeng Guofan bought a batch of Nimi rifles from the British before, and they are really easy to use.

But these French goods are better than being cheap.

Three can always be worth one.

In addition, Daming also had a flintlock musket specially used for foreign trade, nicknamed Ming Huahua.

The reason for this name is mainly because the trigger of this rifle is not a flint or a firing pin, but a small spark wheel on a lighter that Zhu Fugui wholesaled from later generations.

Lingao Wubaifu used this thing to make foreign trade rifles, and the effect was very good.

Zhu Fugui accepted all comers.

It's just that compared to the era when Lingao was five hundred wastes, the world powers are much more ferocious now.

Zhu Fugui's foreign trade rifles have no special advantages in terms of performance, so they had to sell them to Lao Li and the Mexicans.

Of course Zhu Fugui knew about His Majesty Nasan's plan to invade Mexico.

Because that's what he's done historically.

Zhu Fugui reckons that he will probably still do this this time.

So Zhu Fugui resold some military supplies through the hands of Mexicans who had some friendship with the Royal Army before in football diplomacy.

Da Ming's earning a small amount of money is secondary, mainly because he wants His Majesty Nasan to enjoy the hospitality of the Mexicans.

In short, Li Hongzhang relied on the arms sales of Ming Dynasty and the trade of selling products of Ming Dynasty, and his strength and ambition were expanding day by day.

Now in his shogunate, almost every staff member knows that he may be a servant of the dragon.

Zhou Yushan had even designed the style of the dragon robe and his lines when he persuaded him to enter in private.

However, now Daming has instead become a sword of Damocles hanging above the head of the Li shogunate.

If the Ming Dynasty landed from Liaodong and North Korea, and fought a fierce battle with the Manchu Qing and even Tsarist Russia first, the Huai army might not be able to rise up in the southeast, and at worst they would build a high wall and delay their claim to the king.

But if Daming landed from Jiangdong...

Li Hongzhang is already the first-class earl of the Qing Dynasty, and to be honest he has no interest in being a courtier of the old Zhu family.

Not only was he not interested, Zuo Zongtang was actually not interested either.

Anyone who has understood the history of the late Qing Dynasty will like Zuo Zongtang in all likelihood.

But when he was alive, almost none of his contemporaries liked him.

There is no other reason. This person thinks too much of himself and doesn't want to be under others for a long time.

Zuo Gong is a great talent, enough to be called Qiangu, but his ability to speak out is also rare in Qiangu.

"I see that the master is not good at the law, but I can do it!"

In his letter to Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang commented on the Mingfa War in this way.

The information was transmitted to Fengdu through Jinyiwei, and everyone felt that this Zuo was overreaching.

Only Zhu Fugui smiled and remained silent.

Chapter 334 Foshan Once Upon a Time

"Mingbu, Mingbu, the best Mingbu in Fengdu Royal Weaving Bureau!"

"Foreign cloth and homemade cloth are not as good as Ming cloth. Make new clothes for children by stretching three feet!"

"Ming ginseng, the best Ming ginseng, the secret medicine of the former Ming court!"

"Big back door cigarettes, smoke one to relieve sleepiness, smoke two to strengthen muscles and bones, smoke three nights and two girls!"

……

Mo Guilan hugged the small cloth bag with one hand and her son with the other, listening to the shouts from the surrounding shops with a terrified expression.

Although it was Wu Nong's soft words, it was thunderous in Mo Guilan's ears.

Has this Shanghai changed?

But those shopkeepers still have braids!

Mo Guilan panicked and was stunned for a moment, only to find that her son had already disappeared.

Looking up, I saw a young man crawling on the electric pole, looking around curiously, and a large circle of traffickers and pawns surrounded him, applauding.

Who else could he be if he wasn't his own son?

"Feihong, Feihong, come down for me!"

"Okay, mom!"

As soon as the boy turned over, he jumped off the four-meter-high electric pole, and the crowd who watched melon-eaters all applauded loudly and called for good work.

The boy also threw his braids back in a dignified manner, and went around the field to express his gratitude.

But within three seconds of being handsome, Mo Guilan twisted his ears.

"It hurts, it hurts, mother, I know I was wrong!"

The boy begged for mercy, but was dragged out of the crowd by Mo Guilan.

"How did you promise me when you went out? You are so naughty, how dare I take you abroad?"

"Mom, let go, I was wrong, can't I be wrong..."

"This Shanghai beach is much more prosperous than Foshan and Guangzhou. I just want to climb up and look far away to see what kind of scenery it is."

"Then what did you see?" Mo Guilan let go of her son's ears and asked angrily.

"I saw a big pier in the south, and there are a lot of big ships on it!"

The young man said excitedly, "Those ships still emit smoke. Is it the ship of the Daming Navy that uncle said?"

"Shh!"

Hearing the word Daming, Mo Huilan instinctively wanted to cover her son's mouth.

But after thinking about it, here, Daming doesn't seem to be a forbidden term at all, even peddlers dare to sell Mingbuming rice on the street, and it is regarded as a high-end imported product that can rival foreign goods.

"Feihong, your uncle said that he has made a name for himself outside, and now we go to seek refuge with him, you must not cause trouble, you know?" Mo Huilan urged again.

"Mother, don't worry, the child knows!"

The boy, or Huang Feihong patted his chest, and said, "But then again, what exactly does Uncle Mo Bai do in Daming?"

"My mother doesn't know either."

Mo Huilan shook her head and said, "We are street-sellers who don't have a fixed place to live. It would be great if his letter could be delivered. The content was already a long time ago. Anyway, he said there is something to look forward to."

Mo Huilan did not tell her son, but her brother said in the letter that he could earn 4 taels of silver every month.

In Mo Huilan's opinion, this is not nonsense!

4 taels of silver!

Qipin County Grandpa's annual imperial court silver is only forty taels of silver, can he be more than the County Grandpa's regular silver?

If it wasn't for his younger brother's honesty, and the fact that this letter used code words from the former Mo's bodyguard, Mo Huilan would almost have thought that what she had received was a fake letter.

Mo Huilan wasn't sure why his younger brother earned so much money. The only possibility he could think of was that he had started a business and his employer was more generous.

Judging from the date of writing, the letter was written at the end of the second year of Tongzhi.

It has been more than two years now.

I don't know if Mo Bai has become the shopkeeper.

Mo Huilan felt that her younger brother Mo Bai was smart and handsome, and his boss valued him so much, so he might have become the shopkeeper of a shop by now.

If that's the case, it's really great, and our Mo family can be regarded as a promising person.

Originally, Mo Huilan didn't want to bother her younger brother.

But this time, his son Xia Yiwu violated the ban and beat up the young master of a bannerman in Foshan, getting into big trouble, so he thought of going overseas to escape.

Sighing, to be honest, Mo Huilan felt that the future was really unpredictable.

……

"Master, may I ask if there is a ship going to Citigroup here..."

On the pier, Mo Huilan managed to find a honest-looking Huai Yong, and asked anxiously.

The difference between Cantonese and Anhui dialect is quite far, and the two sides barely communicate with each other.

When he heard that the other party was going to "Citigroup", Huai Yong's eyes lit up immediately, and he told Mo Huilan and his son to stay here and not to move around, while he ran away.

After about 10 minutes, when Mo Huilan was at a loss and didn't know whether to leave, that Huai Yong nodded and bowed and brought back a short-haired sailor.

Although this sailor is not those terrible "Citigroup" sailors, he is also a Ming nationality!

Since the Ming-French War, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty has been resounding throughout Shanghai, and some people even call the former American Concession the Ming Concession.

The fact is exactly the same, the American businessmen have almost been driven out, and now that area is basically full of businessmen from Ming Dynasty.

And the sailor in front of him is the sailor of Daming Dolphin Shipping Company.

Dolphin Shipping Company is registered in Xinhu, and it is a private shipping company in Ming Dynasty.

Because of clean hands and feet, he didn't do evil deeds like piggy ships, but he survived the previous big cleansing and grew stronger.

Although this sailor is not an officer and soldier of the navy, in Huai Yong's eyes he is still a master.

In fact, it is not that Huai Yong has thought about crossing the sea to become a member of the Ming Dynasty, and even many people have done so. In the early years, Li Hongzhang took the lead in selling Huai Yong Hunan soldiers.

But the times are different, and now that he, Old Li, is preparing to rebuild the Tang Dynasty, how can Huaiyong be allowed to flee in large numbers.

And Daming also needed the help of the Huai Army to continuously raise immigrants, so it also signed a treaty with Li Hongzhang not to dig the wall.

But even so, Li Hongzhang could only greatly increase the salary of Huai Yong who was in charge of the dock and handed over to Daming.

Moreover, these Huaiyong recruited immigrants also had performance commissions.