Chapter 99: Yan Changwu's Ambition
The Spring Festival is coming again. For the people of Southeast Prefecture, this year's Spring Festival is particularly lively.
Before the twelfth lunar month, Southeast Mansion is full of New Year's taste. People changed their clothes (because there are still new clothes), cleaned their houses, bought New Year goods, and children had fun playing with firecrackers!
The people don’t know that in the year that is about to pass, Longting changed the emperor.
The Emperor Tianqi, the carpenter of Daming, fell into the water and died. His dying brother believed that the king was succeeded by inspection and changed Yuan Chongzhen. He took over the imperial power of his brother. If he is not careful, the huge boat of Daming will be overturned. !
Changing the emperor, apart from the high-level officials and intelligence agencies of the Southeast Mansion, has no impact on the Southeast Mansion. They are used to doing errands according to the Gregorian calendar and arranging farming affairs according to the lunar calendar.
On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Yan Changwu invited Yang Tiansheng who had returned to Taiwan for a banquet. They sat high on the top floor of the newly built Tainan Hotel, accompanied by Chen Zhongji.
Tainan Hotel is a decent hotel in Tainan Town. It was invested by Yan Changwu and invited a master architect from the mainland to design pavilions, towers and pavilions. They are built on the hillside, facing the sea, and the scenery is superb.
The decoration is not to mention beautiful, Yan Changwu is rich, what expensive, good all up, the whole is magnificent, plus some of Yan Changwu's creativity, it is amazing!
Compared with other style hotels, guests are in a classical Chinese hotel with a strong royal atmosphere. They have a different kind of freshness and excitement. While experiencing the nobility and majesty brought by the royal style decoration, they feel Shang seemed to be in the Royal Golden Palace, and he seemed to have personally come to the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Royal Palace, or it seemed to be in the back garden of the royal compound.
In the hotel, you can feel the grandeur of Chinese classical architecture, the exquisite and luxurious Chinese decoration design, the decoration is noble and elegant, and the Chinese furniture is comfortable and atmospheric.
highlights the tall, magnificent, luxurious, and splendid temperament and personality of Chinese-style hotels. Around this center, the design of the hotel is more than half successful.
Uh, this is actually Yan Changwu who copied the decoration and architecture of a Chinese-style hotel that he had experienced, but it made the people of the Southeast and the foreign merchants convinced!
In addition to providing high-quality meals and comfortable accommodation, as well as the addition of the Yan family's aura, since the opening, the supply of morning tea, rice market and evening tea has been in short supply, and it is hard to find one.
The occupancy rate is as high as 90%, and even the top VIP rooms with a hundred taels of silver a day have been rented out by marine merchants for years.
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The Jingyue Pavilion on the top floor is a Chinese-style building. A lot of imported glass from Hongmaofan is used around and on the top. The light is very abundant. You can see the stars and moon on the roof at night. The lighting is all made of crystal and glass. It is dazzling and has a super-class style. .
The three people were sitting leisurely, tasting the delicious dishes in the Yan-style food recipes prepared by the first-class chefs, which was very pleasant.
"Xian-in-law, you really surprised me!" Yang Tianshang let out a long breath.
"Hey, drink water and think about the source, if it weren't for your father-in-law's help, where would I be today!" Yan Changwu said modestly.
"According to your method, I can't imagine how far you will reach in the future!" Yang Tiansheng said with emotion.
to what extent?
Yan Changwu asked himself, what does he want and who does he want to do?
He believes in the **** of the sea (once, he thought he was a false believer, now he truly believes in Mazu), the area where the Southeast Mansion is located, the most powerful force is the fleet, there is no horse team, participating in the mainland expedition, he lacks the horse team.
Without a strong horse team, the musketeers' mobility on the mainland is greatly reduced.
Besides, the muskets of that period did not dominate the cavalry + bows and arrows of the old wild boar skin, and the artillery was also very heavy, which needs further improvement!
Yes, regardless of land warfare, I will play sea conquest first.
After defeating the Fujian Navy, Yan Changwu can be regarded as a player, and he looks a bit like a player, at least his fleet can handle it.
Yan Changwu's ambition:
"my dream!
I have become a maritime force with considerable financial, military, and manpower in the southeast coast. Even the government can't help me. Even the red hair fan can't beat me and I want to surrender to me (I haven't beaten it, but I am full of confidence! )
I want to establish a firm political ideal, that is, I want to occupy the coastal areas of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong, Taiwan, Ryukyu (the Ming Dynasty belongs to the feudal clan, that is, the Diaoyu Islands are a bit past), southern Japan (Japan), Manila (Spain), and Spice Island. (Indonesia Java, then a Dutch dependency), Indochina (controlling Malacca) and even Australia!
These areas were unified to form a huge maritime empire, which was enough to compete with the Ming Dynasty or the mainland areas that the Ming Dynasty could not support and gave to the Qing Dynasty.
The race of this empire must be Chinese as the main race. Only in the Chinese society can there be a unified concept and be able to maintain the centripetal force of a huge empire that is not far away from the sea.
can merge the Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, British, black slaves and the natives of the islands into a powerful "sea nation".
The outer shell of this nation is chasing trade and expedition, while the inner core is the tradition of the Chinese nation.
It's always with me! The location is mine! People and me!
The industrial revolution in the West will have to wait another two or three centuries. The technological gap between China and the West is not big, and the production capacity and economic volume of the huge maritime empire far exceeds that of any major western colonial country at that time!
We are close to Nanyang, and Hong Maofan has to travel two or three oceans to reach Nanyang!
Now I have the foundation, SHOW has the strength, everyone believe me!
In fact, the people of the Chinese nation really have this opportunity. If Zheng Yiguan and the surname of the country did this in the end of the Ming Dynasty, even if the mainland fell into the old wild boar skin, a new world could be built overseas.
With the corruption speed of the descendants of the old wild boar skins entering the Central Plains, it is impossible for them to form a fleet to attack the Zheng family who has occupied Southeast Asia.
Now, the historical responsibility is in my hands. I have money, I have a fleet, and I have a steady stream of people. The next step is to develop education and inculcate Chinese culture!
The key is that I have ideals and beliefs!
The mainland is a closed land-based China, and I will build an expanding maritime China. The two Chinese countries are in a strange relationship. Let the land-based China produce silk, porcelain and tea, and I will export iron and iron. Fire, um, the iron ore of Australia and the wood of Southeast Asia will give me the most powerful fleet in the world!
Thirty years later, I will lead a fleet to appear on the River Thames in England!
Mazu bless me! You are the **** of China, and I will bring your light to the world!
The opportunity is not to be missed, time will never come, I will create the world's first empire that never sets in the sun!
This empire will last forever, forever!
I will succeed! "
I want to go so far. It's midwinter now, and I'm eating good things like mutton again. Yan Changwu just feels hot all over!
