The Rise of Iceland - Vol 3 Chapter 446

Nan’ao Island was the residence of the Emperor Longwu of the Ming Dynasty. Originally, it was just an ordinary fishing village island. At most, there have been pirates entrenched and garrisoned in recent decades. However, since Emperor Longwu moved his line to Nan’ao Island five years ago , Chaozhou Mansion became the political center of Nanming, and officials from Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and other provinces rushed to Chaozhou to serve.

Because a Viking firm has been giving blood to Nanming, sending gold and silver from the Americas to Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Fuzhou and other places in exchange for silk, porcelain and other items, as well as advanced European firearms and warships, Zheng Chenggong has the ability to attack Nanjing at any time, Zhoushan, Ningbo and other places can also withdraw from the capital.

Relying on the dividends of the large increase in grain production in the southern region after the promotion of sweet potato cultivation, the Longwu court was able to stabilize the basics.

Lord Tom Li Shike accompanies the holy car all day long, and there are intensive exchanges between Macau, Guangzhou and Taiwan. All kinds of Semu people are vying to join the mercenary army formed by Tom to help the Ming emperor fight.

After all, Emperor Longwu was a man of great talent and prudence. He vigorously adopted Western-looking people to serve as officials in the imperial court. , Hunan, Jiangxi, the war has come and gone, and it is no longer the same as before.

As for Fujian, because of Zheng Chenggong’s powerful navy, it has always been as stable as Mount Tai, and even Zhejiang has rebels everywhere, falling into a chaotic situation and being gradually penetrated by Zheng Chenggong’s strength.

It was not until May 1648 that Karl, the diplomatic envoy of the Great Swedish Empire, arrived in Chaozhou.

Because of the hot weather, Emperor Longwu, who had just moved to the Phoenix Mountain Summer Palace from the island, was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered someone to invite Lord Li Shike, and asked Carl to meet him directly.

The so-called summer palace is actually an ancient temple on Phoenix Mountain. It was renovated and expanded in the past two years as a summer palace for Emperor Longwu to escape the summer.

After meeting with Emperor Longwu, Karl handed over the appointment letter of the Great Sweden Empire written in Chinese characters and Swedish characters, as well as letters written by Olaf.

Emperor Longwu experienced hardships since he was a child, and he was killed many times before he was born.

Olaf has contributed to Nan Ming, and he has saved Zhu Yujian’s life (the rescue of Tomtin was ordered by Olaf), because he read Icelandic Saga, and also understood Olaf’s experience, and he experienced it himself. Because of Olaf’s unpredictable sending of Tomtin State to rescue the car, Emperor Longwu actually believed that Olaf was the incarnation of a foreign god, and at the same time was grateful for Olaf’s righteous help, and admired Olaf’s legendary experience and outstanding ability.

Zhu Yujian once thought about it more than once: If I could have Olaf’s ability to lead the army to fight, I am afraid I would have driven out the Tartars long ago, and I will be restored…

After reading Olaf’s letter, Emperor Longwu was very pleased to appoint Karl as the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, bestowing flying fish suits and jade belts, the chief instructor of the Protestant religion, and another imperial envoy in charge of the firearms battalion.

Since then, Carl has been stationed in Nanming as a Swedish minister and a non-staff general of Nanming. Because Carl firmly believes in Olaf’s instructions, he has been training diligently. The Viking Corps and the new firearms came to teach the traitor prince what firearms are.

After 25 years of war experience, the new tactics came to the East Asian battlefield where cold weapons and firearms were mixed. Both the fighting concept and the level of firearms were better than one. Wang’s firearms army is indeed far inferior to the Viking Legion. If the Viking Legion had only 3,000 people and could not be crushed, I am afraid that Carl alone could lead the Viking Legion to help Nanming retake Jiangxi and Hunan.

Later, Lord Tom Li Shike returned to the country to perform his duties, and Emperor Longwu generously rewarded him, even bestowing the title of Taibao on the crown prince and the title of Duke Rong, which was regarded as the position that the literati of the Ming Dynasty aspired to.

With the passage of time, the combat effectiveness of the Qing court’s Eight Banners troops continued to decline, the court was corrupt, and the Manchu masters encircled the land and slaves, which led to the rise of northern rebels, and the situation of the Qing Dynasty’s strong attack on Nanming unknowingly shifted to the stalemate between the two countries.

Nanming has a prosperous coastal area, relying on maritime trade to continuously accumulate capital, the only shortcoming of lack of plain granaries was alleviated after planting sweet potatoes and potatoes, and later Zheng Chenggong’s subordinates will follow the instructions of the Viking firm and occupy the city of Champaign. After the Guangdong pirate group, which was reclaiming wasteland and farming in the southern plains, surrendered, Nanming won over 100,000 square kilometers of fertile land overseas.

After negotiation, the northern part of the land belonged to Zheng Chenggong, and the southern part belonged to the imperial court. Emperor Longwu took matters into his own hands and ordered the refugees from the northern land to be resettled to the southern Lancang River estuary plain.

Hundreds of thousands of honest Da Ming farmers went in groups and quickly adapted to the climatic conditions of Southeast Asia.

As a result, on the plains in the north and west of Ho Chi Minh City in the future, farmers in Daming began to plant a large number of Champaign rice, taro, sweet potatoes and other grains, ensuring the food supply of Nanming.

Olaf is very familiar with the situation in the Far East, because the Viking firm will bring back various information with the ship every three months, and Olaf sometimes issues certain instructions based on the information, such as ordering the Viking firm to capture Ryukyu and use Ryukyu. An order to exchange for lacquerware, gold, sulfur and other commodities for the base area through Japan.

In 1650, after preparing for several years, the Viking firm, also known as the Swedish East India Company, deployed 4,000 mercenaries from Nan’ao Island, Taiwan, and Fuzhou, and sent 12 warships to the Ryukyu Kingdom at the same time.

Although the Ryukyu Kingdom, which has been under the control of Japan’s Satsuma Domain for more than 100 years, has hundreds of thousands of people and more than 1,000 so-called local armed forces, these local armed forces are all militiamen, and they are armed with wooden sticks, farm tools and rust. The broken sword is powerless in the face of artillery and muskets.

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Even the dozens of samurai with iron guns and long swords sent to Shuri Castle by the Satsuma Domain were instantly beaten into sieves when they faced the mercenaries of the Viking firm.

King Shangzhi had no choice but to offer the Ryukyu King’s Golden Seal given by Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty and the Ryukyu Zhongshan King’s Seal given by Emperor Longwu, expressing his willingness to submit to the Great Sweden Empire.

The East India Company of the Great Swedish Empire has had its own colonies since 1650~www.mtlnovel.com~, rather than relying on Nanming to establish a stronghold.

In the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the north and the south were divided, and the wars did not stop, and the small wars continued. East Asia was gradually infiltrated by Western countries. Just when everyone thought that this state would last for a long time, at least when the Nanming side reached a consensus, waiting for a new Western-style law Before the new army trained with new firearms reached 30,000 to 50,000, Nanming did not have the strength to launch the Northern Expedition.

However, in the winter of this year, a news from Beijing to Chaozhou Prefecture lifted the spirits of Daming monarchs and ministers, overjoyed, and everyone smelled the opportunity. Emperor Longwu discussed with Karl, Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, Li Guo and other famous generals after discussing Finally, it was decided to launch the Northern Expedition next spring. Nanming attacked northward in the three directions of Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian. Fujian attacked Zhejiang in order to regain Tianfu, and Hunan and Jiangxi were aimed at expanding territory.

The Northern Expedition of this full-scale offensive is temporarily prepared to continue until the autumn harvest, and then decide whether to continue the Northern Expedition according to the battle situation.

The news that the monarchs and ministers of Nanming were invigorated, and the common people and literati celebrated with their crowns, was the white jade pillar of the Qing Dynasty. The royal father and regent Dorgon died in Waikala City due to illness when he was hunting.

Dear, this chapter is over, I wish you a happy reading! ^0^