Steel Dynasty - Chapter 323

[Chapter 323 Yue Yun returns]

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“Your Highness, I’m back!”

Qingzhou civil and military officials gathered at Prince Qi’s Mansion.

In the center of the main hall, Yue Yun and the remaining sailors suddenly knelt on the ground, crying bitterly.

Niu Ben and Lu Fei couldn’t help but be moved when they saw this. There were more than 700 people when they set out, but now they have returned to Qingzhou, only 231 people are left in the navy, and two-thirds of the sailors died in the vast sea.

Xiao Ming walked up to Yue Yun and helped the navy soldiers up one by one. His eyes were warm. He knew that it would be dangerous to go there, but these sailors still had no hesitation.

It was these soldiers who had the courage to sacrifice themselves that made his fiefdom as stable as Mount Tai.

Xiao Ming believed in weapons, but what he believed in most was his soldiers. Without their bravery and sacrifice, how could he sit in this main hall.

“Sirs, it is me who should salute.”

Thousands of words turned into a deep bow in Xiao Ming’s heart.

Yue Yun and others’ eyes were red, but their expressions were still resolute. They shouted in unison: “My glory is loyal. For your highness, we are not afraid of death or sacrifice, just so that one day your highness can no longer let the people of the six states suffer. Insulted by outsiders!”

“Yue Yun, you are strong men, I admire you!” Lu Fei shouted.

“We admire you!” other generals shouted at the same time.

At this moment, Yue Yun finally couldn’t hold back the tears in his eyes. His mother died in the hands of Japanese pirates, and his crew was attacked by the British fleet at sea. Afterwards, they narrowly escaped the pursuit of the British fleet under the leadership of Wilson.

Unexpectedly, they encountered the Dutch fleet while passing through Ryukyu.

At this time, they had suffered heavy losses and had almost no ability to fight back. With a death wish, they sank a Dutch warship, but their ship could no longer continue sailing and could only be stranded on an uninhabited island.

If they hadn’t encountered the Cao family’s fleet, they probably wouldn’t have been able to come back.

The hatred of family and country, he has to bear too much on his own.

Xiao Ming patted Yue Yun’s shoulder hard and said: “I know you are suffering. The sacrifice of the soldiers will not be in vain. I will get it back ten times and a hundred times. The people in the battle of Cangzhou will not die either. This king will get it back tenfold and hundreds of times, and he will conquer the barbarians in the north and conquer the Japanese

country in the east. This is Qingzhou’s strategy in the next

few years!

With a jolt of energy, Xiao Ming formally proposed the next strategy for the first time.

Yue Yun gritted his teeth and said: “Your Highness, we are all waiting for your words. Your Highness does not know something. Now there are Western warships roaming the sea. Their ships and weapons are much stronger than those of Dayu. In my opinion, only our Qingzhou warships can compete with them.”

“Everyone in the Cao family has told me that the Western powers are expanding their sphere of influence to the Great Chongqing Kingdom, so now we must first deal with the barbarians in Youzhou. , so that we can focus on seizing the sea trade routes.”

Pang Yukun nodded, “The barbarian threat is always threatening the hinterland of the Chongqing Kingdom, and it must be eliminated.”

Yue Yun said: “During this period, we can prepare for the construction of galen ships. In the future naval battle, I will definitely throw the Dutch and British into the sea to feed the fishes.”

Xiao Ming smiled and patted Yue Yun on the shoulder. This is the kind of fighting spirit he needs.

Facing everyone, he said: “It is these two things that Yue Yun came back to talk about this time. The King has ordered the Equipment Department and the military workshop to cooperate with each other to increase the production of flintlock guns. There will be an inspection this autumn. The barbarian expedition, old general, in addition to commanding the Qingzhou Army, you will immediately mobilize elites from the six states’ armies to cooperate with the Qingzhou Army’s joint training, and at the same time form a car camp.”

“Yes, Your Highness!” Niu Ben took the order loudly.

“Pang Yukun, in addition to state affairs, the government has to cooperate with the shipyard to produce Galen ships, so it has to be slow in terms of money and food.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Pang Yukun responded.

“Chen Qi, Lu Tong, I’ll leave the lime bombs to you. In addition, I want to see the field artillery during the expedition.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

After issuing a series of orders, Xiao Ming turned his attention to the north.

The Northern Expedition against the barbarians was a plan, but it was also a last resort. The civil unrest in Jizhou was getting worse and worse. Taking the initiative at this time was just an attack on defense. After all, if the barbarians took the opportunity to go south, Jizhou might be vulnerable to a blow at this time.

And he believed that the barbarians would not let go of this opportunity for chaos in the Chongqing Kingdom. If Jizhou fell, he would be attacked from both sides, which he did not want to see.

Therefore, he made up his mind to attack the barbarians in the Northern Expedition, set up a car camp to form the first obstacle to the barbarians in field battles, and asked Chen Qi to develop light field artillery.

After jointly formulating a plan for Qingzhou’s future, Xiao Ming announced the rewards for Yue Yun and other naval generals, and at the same time asked Yue Yun to take his seat.

When he learned that Yue Yun was coming back today, he specially held a celebration banquet at the palace to give Yue Yun and others a clean break.

After the banquet, he summoned Yue Yun alone.

“Your Highness, it’s a pity that Wilson was killed by the Dutch during the naval battle. Otherwise, Your Highness could have listened to him personally about the current situation in the West.”

“It doesn’t matter. I am satisfied that you can come back. “

Yue Yun was moved when he heard this. Xiao Ming cared so much about the soldiers, which made him feel warm in his heart. He thought that even if he died in battle, it would be worth it. Then he remembered something and gave Xiao Ming the translator’s book.

Xiao Ming opened the booklet for the translator to record questions, and his eyes scanned the questions he listed one by one.

After reading these stories, he basically understood the current world situation. The invasion of Europe by northern steppe tribes hundreds of years ago also shattered Europeans’ understanding of the world.

After that, the process of European civilization seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes. Scientific development was changing with each passing day, and various scientific discoveries emerged one after another.

These scientific changes further promoted the advent of the Age of Discovery in Europe. First, the Americas were occupied by Europeans, and then Southeast Asia and East Asia.

According to Wilson’s explanation, after the Dutch occupied the East Asian trade route, merchants from other countries had been prohibited from entering this trade route.

It is precisely because of this that few foreign missions go to Dayu.

However, in recent years, the Dutch have been declining and have been replaced by Great Britain, France and Prussia. Moreover, because of the problems of Protestantism, European countries are also full of conflicts and frequent wars.

Wilson also explained the current level of science and technology in the West. In Xiao Ming’s opinion, it is already at the level of the mid-eighteenth century.

A steam engine has been proposed and is being attempted in Great Britain.

Regarding the butterfly effect, Xiao Ming could not calculate the impact that a slight deviation would have on the overall situation, but for him, the current world has a completely different history except before the Three Kingdoms.

Both Europe and Asia have moved on to a completely unfamiliar trajectory.

Only then did Xiao Ming suddenly realize that except for the same geographical environment, this was just a strange world, a more dangerous world.

(End of chapter)