Jinghe arrived as scheduled.

This Spring Festival is a very meaningful Spring Festival for Liu Mingqi.

Because I had five unborn babies in one breath, this is of great significance to him, an orphan.

It was also a great good news for Prince Yu and Princess Yu.

As early as the beginning of the winter month, the couple had already launched large-scale donations in the Gyeonggi area.

A large gift package for the elderly and widowed people including rice, vegetable oil, pork, cloth, etc.

Spend money to invite major temples to serve porridge.

The workers employed by the Yu Prince's Mansion and De Prince's Mansion will be given a three-month salary.

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Wait and wait.

Such a big deal cost at least tens of millions of taels of silver in one go.

But I still have to hide it from the outside, saying that a total of one million taels were spent.

That's how the emperor muttered a few words in front of the empress dowager, saying that his younger brother and his sister-in-law were so generous that he felt embarrassed not to spend a lot of money.

It was finally a good year for the weather and I could save some money, but when Prince Yu and Princess Yu did this, he was naturally embarrassed to be stingy.

Therefore, in order to celebrate his two sons, the emperor also started a round of small-scale donations throughout the world, and then pardoned some prisoners, increased the treatment of court officials, etc.

But in general, everyone has had a happy Spring Festival.

Needless to say, the emperor and Liu Mingqi are the ones who succeeded you, which is a happy congratulation.

The people also have no military disasters and natural disasters, and the weather is good for the year. We cannot say that we can eat a full meal, but we will definitely not starve to death.

And the follow-up is expected, and everyone thinks that life will get better every year.

So the atmosphere of the Spring Festival is very warm, which can be regarded as a rare scene in recent years.

But there are also people who are sad.

Liu Mingjing stayed in Sichuan and continued to train his mountain special forces.

During the Chinese New Year, you can only struggle in the rainforest.

His letter from Fei Ge said that although the Sichuan people were not tall and did not look strong, they were really hard-working. Even a group of instructors of the Imperial Army could not bear such heavy and arduous training, but they almost all of them endured it.

"I used to think that the best source of troops should be from my Gyeonggi area. Now I want to change my point of view. Sichuan soldiers are really good!"

Liu Mingqi looked down on this person after realizing it.

Isn't this nonsense?

In all dynasties, when fighting against foreign invaders, Sichuan people have never been cowardly.

Those who are so thin and so weak in Sichuan, who are so thin and so weak, during the civil war, "140,000 people are all unarmed, and none of them are men" should be their true nature.

But compared to the cowardly during the civil war, Sichuan people were always as fierce as tigers during the national war, and they all rushed to sacrifice their lives for the country.

Facing Yuan soldiers, Qing soldiers, Japanese invaders, United Nations troops, Yin San, Yue Hou... etc., all of Sichuan people have strong achievements.

It is hard for you to imagine how their thin and weak bodies burst out with such huge energy.

So after discovering that northerners were likely to be unable to adapt to the humid and hot environment in the south, Liu Mingqi decisively asked Liu Mingjing to recruit him on the spot.

After all, when Sichuan people fought the national war, they never disappointed the Chinese people.

Just like in the war against Japanese pirates, you don’t have to arrange any way out for the Sichuan army’s positions, either I will defend it or my entire army will be killed, and I will not escape or retreat.

If it weren't for the first batch of special forces, Liu Mingqi felt that it would be fine to recruit 100,000 Sichuan soldiers in one go.

But in the future, the second batch of troops will attack Luoguo, Piaoguo, Liguo and other places, and 100,000 Sichuan soldiers may not be enough.

The main reason is that it covers too large an area, so it is difficult to fight if there are few people.

Or 200,000 is barely enough.

However, this requires high logistics support, not only food issues, but also various medical, weapons and other aspects.

There is still money.

It is natural to make money by being a soldier.

The more rewards they receive for their military achievements, the more morale they will become, and thus win more battles.

Before Grandpa Taizu gave them the faith they established, making money is the best way to do it.

It is expected that the entire Indochina Peninsula will be defeated. The combined logistics support and rewards of various equipment will probably be impossible to lose 100 million taels of silver.

Do you think it is expensive?

But imagine the rich resources of Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and other countries on the Indochina Peninsula, as well as the superior rice cultivation environment, and the most important ports leading to the Indian Ocean. Are these what we dream of?

Not to mention 100 million taels of silver, or 10 billion taels of silver or 10 billion taels of silver, Liu Mingqi thought it was too worthwhile.

Of course, Dakang cannot afford 10 billion taels of silver.

If 100 million yuan is required, it will take three to five to eight years to raise funds.

Therefore, even in ancient times, money was fought.

Why can I, the Song Dynasty, persist for more than two hundred years in one go under the repeated attacks of the three powerful countries?

The reason is that you have money!

If you have money, you can do a lot of things, fight a lot of battles, and you can stick to defense for a long time.

If I was so poor that I was like my Ming Dynasty, I would be very proud of my face if I didn’t surrender on my own initiative.

Dakang was similar to the Song Dynasty in terms of economy, but in terms of military operations, it was not as bad as the late Song Dynasty. It was a bit like the army in the early Song Dynasty, maintaining sufficient combat effectiveness.

Therefore, it gives Liu Mingqi a lot of room to operate.

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Just after the Spring Festival, Chen Xiaowei, who had become the concubine of Prince De, rushed back to Jiangnan as soon as possible.

Although my mother made many hints and Chen Xiaowei would not object, Liu Mingqi still did not sleep with this young lady.

During the two or three months after returning to the capital, Liu Mingqi and Chen Xiaowei had a lot of communication.

The two of them had a lot of discussions about how to fight pirates, how to build overseas bases, how to do business with those Nanyang people, Westerners, etc.

Liu Mingqi had the opportunity to display her experience in naval battles for the first time.

He told Chen Xiaowei almost all the experiences, lessons, developments, etc. from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

This kind of hearty conversation feels very pleasant, especially when seeing Chen Xiaowei holding paper and pen every time, carefully recording what Liu Mingqi said, and actively asking questions, Liu Mingqi's sense of satisfaction is stronger.

Chen Xiaowei even went to the cannon factory in advance and admired the cannons being renovated.

Chen Xiaowei personally ignited the three different sizes of cannons, and tried all the concentrated shells, and thoroughly tried the power of the cannon.

Then she was very excited and told Liu Mingqi that if these cannons could be placed on a four-masted sailboat in the new year, she could experiment with how to bomb the Japanese islands.

The newly built five four-masted sailboats were prepared for gunboats, and even a place for cannons was left on them.

But now we are just working behind closed doors. We don’t know whether the four-masted sailboat can withstand the recoil force of cannons, how many cannons can fire together, and what aspects need to be strengthened.

Everything is just on the drawings.

Although Liu Mingqi also carefully calculated the force, it was impossible to install these cannons on a four-masted sailboat without strict and long-term experiments.

After the canal transportation of three different sizes begins in February, it will be transported along the Grand Canal to the canal transportation yamen shipyard, where it will be assembled on a four-masted sailboat to experiment.

The initial experiment should be a experiment in the dock that was still.

Replacing the deck or something is absolutely a matter of doing. As long as you don’t destroy the hull, Liu Mingqi will be grateful.

Then the second step is to drive into the Grand Canal to test and fire the gun, and the third step is to drive into the sea to officially fire the gun.

It will take at least half a year to complete this whole process.

When we can really line up and assemble and deliver, at least it will be autumn again.

This is still a situation where various experimental feedback is very consistent with the expected one. If the strength of the four-masted sailboat is not enough and the various conditions are insufficient, then improvements must be continued.

Both cannons and four-masted sailboats need to be improved.

It will take a long time and may not be delivered to use next year.

Therefore, Chen Xiaowei can't count on gunboats in the new year.

This makes the Queen of Sea very regretful.

But she wasn't completely unrealized.

Chen Xiaowei took twenty small 10-centimeter-caliber cannons from the cannon factory.

And they also carry thousands of various shells, gunpowder and other equipment.

It is worth noting that in terms of the caliber and length of the cannon, Liu Mingqi has used the millimeter, centimeter, decimeter and rice scales he arranged.

Including the four-masted sailboats made by the canal shipyard, they also took the ruler given by Liu Mingqi to re-adapt various sizes.
To be continued...