Chapter 1485
Haihan Mode
Chapter 1485 Haihan Mode
Haihan's layout in the north has never been based on seizing land or population. The garrisoned troops built strongholds to attack Houjin, and established colonies for commercial development. These are actually just means used in the process of achieving the goal. The real goal is still to be Gradually realize complete control of the sea power in Northeast Asia.As long as the maritime trade routes in the region are controlled, the international trade in this region will basically fall into the hands of Haihan, which is almost the same as monopoly operation, and its huge profits will be unimaginable.
At present, Haihan has basically realized the layout of the entire Daming Sea Frontier. The next thing to do is to make the net stronger to ensure Haihan's absolute control in the Daming Sea Frontier, and then gradually open the net. , covering the countries other than the Ming Dynasty one by one.Japan, North Korea, and Ryukyu mentioned by Tom Wang just now are included in this list. Although the size of these countries is not comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty, they all have one remarkable thing in common. Controlled by Haihan by force and economic means.
Although Li Nai's vision has improved a lot after being in contact with Haihan for a long time, he is still a little powerless to make him understand Haihan's actions from the perspective of international relations.In his opinion, Haihan's control of the Daming Sea Territory is already a very powerful measure. If other small countries outside Daming are also included in this control, there will be many battles to be fought in the follow-up.
In fact, Haihan had implemented a similar policy in the South China Sea long before it entered Liaodong.Haihan used the Indo-China Peninsula as a bridge and extended its tentacles all the way to the eastern end of the Malacca Strait. During this period, there were many armed conflicts with various countries in the region.The South China Sea Trade Alliance led by Haihan in 1633 on Ambon Island can be regarded as a phased achievement of Haihan's control of international trade in this area.Although the trade volume really controlled by Haihan in this area is probably less than [-]%, the effect of the trade alliance is very obvious, and the cross-border trade volume between countries in the alliance has increased significantly in the past one or two years.
The Li family has invested in many industries in the South China Sea, and has maintained commercial relations with many countries in the alliance. The number of goods sold to these countries every year is extremely considerable.Now these industries have gradually entered a period of income, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are making money every day.Private investment in the industry can achieve very rich returns, and he can roughly estimate that the benefits Haihan will gain must be very considerable, and it may even be an astronomical figure that he can't imagine at all.
It has been two years since the establishment of the South China Sea Business Alliance. From the perspective of its operation, this international business organization model with Haihan as the core has been proved to be feasible. It did help to some extent.As one of the most direct beneficiaries of the Li family, Li Nai naturally believes in this model implemented by Haihan.So when Tom Wang said this, he immediately thought of what Haihan did in the south.
"Then what you want to do in the north now is similar to what you did in the South China Sea two years ago?" Li Nai asked.
Tom Wang also admired Li Nai's ability to associate, nodded and said: "Yes, but not entirely correct. The environment in the north is still very different from that in the South China Sea. There are fewer countries here, but the strength of one side is stronger. However, if we can achieve our plan in the future, the trade volume will be much larger than that of the South China Sea, and the benefits will be more abundant.”
Chen Yixin added next to it: "But even if we want to establish the Northern Business Alliance in the future, Houjin will definitely be excluded. They are not in our consideration."
Li Nai thought for a while, and then asked: "So, Houjin's maritime trade channel has actually been cut off by you?"
Chen Yixin responded: "Even if they didn't cut off 100%, at least they couldn't buy a large amount of salt and iron from sea smugglers. The coastal salt fields under Houjin's control were almost all destroyed by us. These two resources, It will probably keep them on edge for a while."
Compared with Daming, Houjin's social productivity is undoubtedly much behind, and many production techniques are gradually mastered even after it has captured a large number of Daming craftsmen.The production of salt and iron, a resource controlled by the government, is often concentrated for the convenience of management. The destruction of several salt fields along the coast means that there will be problems with the supply of salt in the entire Houjin.As iron and steel is a military material, it is even more difficult for Houjin to rely on its own production to meet the demand. Purchasing pig iron through smugglers is also one of the ways for it to obtain resources in the past.
The Haihan Fleet patrolled around the coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula every now and then, and if they seized the opportunity, they might even land on the shore to beat the local Houjin army. The few salt fields were unable to resume work at all.And several smugglers who had secret transactions with Houjin were also warned by Haihan not to send any more materials to Houjin control area. There were one or two who were lucky enough to think that they would not be caught by Haihan. , have also been gone.
Once the salt and iron resources were cut off, there were only two ways left for Houjin. One was to mobilize the army to the Liaodong Peninsula, push down the Haihan defense line southward, drive Haihan back to the sea, and completely expel Liaodong.Based on the previous record, it is impossible to go this way without paying the sacrifice of 8000 people on the battlefield, and Hou Jin may not be willing to pay such a high price to try.
Another way is to continue to step up the offensive against Daming. The resources cut off by Haihan can only be obtained from Daming by looting.Compared with fighting against the Haihan Army with very advanced equipment and tactics, Daming is obviously a soft persimmon that is more suitable for kneading and kneading.
Li Nai frowned and said: "But when I was in Sanya, I heard Chief Yan said that one of the purposes of Haihan's occupation of Liaodong was to contain Houjin for Daming and reduce the military pressure, but according to what you said, this pressure not only did not Lessen it, but let Houjin's grievances against you all be passed on to Daming?"
Chen Yixin said: "This is actually not contradictory. Think about it, if we can't enter Liaodong, Houjin will attack Daming, right? But after we entered, not only did we contain part of Houjin's forces, but also cut off what they needed. Important resources, so they go to attack Daming again, has their strength weakened?"
At first glance, Li Nai thought it was reasonable, but after scrutinizing it, it seemed that something was wrong.Haihan's series of actions are indeed aimed at weakening Houjin, but the reason for taking these measures is not entirely out of consideration for Daming, but because Houjin and Daming are enemies, and incidentally helps Daming to weaken his opponent. That's it.But if you go deeper, Haihan's strategy is only for his own interests after all, weakening Houjin so that they can carry out their own plans in Liaodong.Whether Daming can withstand Houjin's looting is not the key issue that Haihan cares about.
After figuring out this relationship, it is much easier for Li Nai to understand Haihan's series of actions in the north.Haihan did these things not simply to rescue the Han refugees in Liaodong, or to help Daming deal with powerful foreign enemies, but only for his own interests.For Haihan, all measures are the same consideration, that is, try to maximize the benefits that Haihan can get.And all strategies are formulated and implemented around this standard, and Daming is just a bigger prop in this layout.
Li Nai quickly understood the principle, but he didn't try to question any more. Although he still retains the nationality of Daming, he is actually no different from those immigrants who have changed their household registration and joined Haihan. If necessary, he can even give up his identity as Mingren to join Haihan at any time.And considering the position of the issue, he will hardly stand on the side of Daming, and consciously view the conflict of interests between the two countries from the perspective of the Haihan nationals.
After sorting out the clues like this, Li Nai finally figured out what kind of considerations Haihan's strategy in the north was based on.As for the specific implementation process, Haihan still took a lot of cover measures, such as retaining the military establishment of Dongjiang Town, trying to contact the Ming court and expressing his willingness to solve the sovereignty dispute through negotiation.These measures make it difficult for the outside world to really see the true purpose of Haihan, and there are very few people like Li Nai who have the conditions to let senior Haihan generals clear their doubts face-to-face, so these strategies of Haihan are to outside observers It is very likely that they are at a loss, even those Jiangsu and Zhejiang businessmen who have been in Liaodong for a few days, it is probably difficult to understand Haihan's real intentions on this chessboard.
"What we are doing now is probably difficult for people in this era to understand, but a few years later, when people look back on this history, they should have a more objective and comprehensive evaluation of us." Qian Tiandun concluded: "But we We don’t need everyone’s understanding now, we just need to execute the order effectively.”
"Mr. Chiefs, with all due respect, I always feel that these actions are too hasty. Haihan has only been established for a few years, and he has to rule such a vast sea. Scattered into such a large area and constantly waging wars, I always feel a little uneasy." Li Nai is familiar with these people, so he doesn't have to worry that his true thoughts will make the other party feel unhappy.
Qian Tiandun said: "Your feeling is right, if you follow the normal process, even if you want to expand externally, it is probably to attack Guangdong and Guangxi first, and grab these coastal areas closest to Hainan Island from Daming. But our plan is to control the key coastal areas first, and not turn against Daming. Although this will be more risky, it will also buy us more time. I can't explain to you why time is special to us. Valuable, but we have reasons to do it."
Those who traveled gave up the life of the original time and space, and were willing to take the risk to come here, naturally, to make a career in this time and space.And the time left for them to play is only a few decades at most, and what they can do is actually very limited. In addition to building a country, of course, they also want to make some deeds that can be remembered in history and be admired by future generations.It is necessary to build and develop the Haihan country according to the inherent thinking. Even when they are buried in the land, they will still fight against the landlord class on the continent currently ruled by the Ming Dynasty. The Han regime came to replace the Ming Dynasty.
But what the traversers want is not such an ending. They want to build a country that realizes primary industrialization, and the ruled area should be so large that it is unprecedented in history, so that the Han regime of Haihan will become the most powerful country on earth. It will replace the status and role of Western colonists in the long river of development, and change the future civilization development process of this planet.
And these ambitious goals need them to be completed in just a few decades, and can only be developed by leaps and bounds to save precious time.This kind of reason cannot be told to outsiders like Li Nai, and there is no way to give him a reasonable explanation.
But Li Nai replied calmly: "Life is too short, of course, I have to do my best to do a good job. If I have the ability of the chiefs, I am afraid that I will also think of building a country and get an emperor to do it."
Li Nai's words would definitely be a taboo in Daming, if Jin Yiwei's fans heard it, they would probably arrest him first regardless of 21.But it doesn't matter if he said this in front of Haihan's generals, because Haihan didn't set up the position of "emperor" at all. Since there is no emperor, of course there is nothing to be taboo about.
Sure enough, everyone laughed when they heard the words, and there must be some people who have thought about becoming emperors, but the executive committee has put an end to the emergence of emperors from the system early in the morning.If they are separated from the Haihan group, it will be much more difficult for a single traveler to make a name for themselves in this time and space. Even those who know the historical process and master advanced weapon manufacturing technology want to do it on their own. Trying to create an existence like Tiandu Industrial Zone from scratch, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it in a lifetime.
And if everyone wants to achieve their own goals, it is impossible not to rely on Haihan as a group.Li Nai wanted to be the emperor, but it was because he only saw the scenery above ten thousand people. He didn't know how many difficulties he would face when he was an emperor. This was not an easy and pleasant career.
Qian Tiandun smiled and said: "It's not even an emperor, even if it's the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it's not necessarily happier than you and me. What we want to do is much more important than being an emperor. But we have to eat one bite at a time. Things have to be done step by step, and what we need to do now is to finalize the development and construction plan for Liaodong as soon as possible, and revitalize Liaodong, so that the follow-up things can continue to advance."
(End of this chapter)
Haihan's layout in the north has never been based on seizing land or population. The garrisoned troops built strongholds to attack Houjin, and established colonies for commercial development. These are actually just means used in the process of achieving the goal. The real goal is still to be Gradually realize complete control of the sea power in Northeast Asia.As long as the maritime trade routes in the region are controlled, the international trade in this region will basically fall into the hands of Haihan, which is almost the same as monopoly operation, and its huge profits will be unimaginable.
At present, Haihan has basically realized the layout of the entire Daming Sea Frontier. The next thing to do is to make the net stronger to ensure Haihan's absolute control in the Daming Sea Frontier, and then gradually open the net. , covering the countries other than the Ming Dynasty one by one.Japan, North Korea, and Ryukyu mentioned by Tom Wang just now are included in this list. Although the size of these countries is not comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty, they all have one remarkable thing in common. Controlled by Haihan by force and economic means.
Although Li Nai's vision has improved a lot after being in contact with Haihan for a long time, he is still a little powerless to make him understand Haihan's actions from the perspective of international relations.In his opinion, Haihan's control of the Daming Sea Territory is already a very powerful measure. If other small countries outside Daming are also included in this control, there will be many battles to be fought in the follow-up.
In fact, Haihan had implemented a similar policy in the South China Sea long before it entered Liaodong.Haihan used the Indo-China Peninsula as a bridge and extended its tentacles all the way to the eastern end of the Malacca Strait. During this period, there were many armed conflicts with various countries in the region.The South China Sea Trade Alliance led by Haihan in 1633 on Ambon Island can be regarded as a phased achievement of Haihan's control of international trade in this area.Although the trade volume really controlled by Haihan in this area is probably less than [-]%, the effect of the trade alliance is very obvious, and the cross-border trade volume between countries in the alliance has increased significantly in the past one or two years.
The Li family has invested in many industries in the South China Sea, and has maintained commercial relations with many countries in the alliance. The number of goods sold to these countries every year is extremely considerable.Now these industries have gradually entered a period of income, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are making money every day.Private investment in the industry can achieve very rich returns, and he can roughly estimate that the benefits Haihan will gain must be very considerable, and it may even be an astronomical figure that he can't imagine at all.
It has been two years since the establishment of the South China Sea Business Alliance. From the perspective of its operation, this international business organization model with Haihan as the core has been proved to be feasible. It did help to some extent.As one of the most direct beneficiaries of the Li family, Li Nai naturally believes in this model implemented by Haihan.So when Tom Wang said this, he immediately thought of what Haihan did in the south.
"Then what you want to do in the north now is similar to what you did in the South China Sea two years ago?" Li Nai asked.
Tom Wang also admired Li Nai's ability to associate, nodded and said: "Yes, but not entirely correct. The environment in the north is still very different from that in the South China Sea. There are fewer countries here, but the strength of one side is stronger. However, if we can achieve our plan in the future, the trade volume will be much larger than that of the South China Sea, and the benefits will be more abundant.”
Chen Yixin added next to it: "But even if we want to establish the Northern Business Alliance in the future, Houjin will definitely be excluded. They are not in our consideration."
Li Nai thought for a while, and then asked: "So, Houjin's maritime trade channel has actually been cut off by you?"
Chen Yixin responded: "Even if they didn't cut off 100%, at least they couldn't buy a large amount of salt and iron from sea smugglers. The coastal salt fields under Houjin's control were almost all destroyed by us. These two resources, It will probably keep them on edge for a while."
Compared with Daming, Houjin's social productivity is undoubtedly much behind, and many production techniques are gradually mastered even after it has captured a large number of Daming craftsmen.The production of salt and iron, a resource controlled by the government, is often concentrated for the convenience of management. The destruction of several salt fields along the coast means that there will be problems with the supply of salt in the entire Houjin.As iron and steel is a military material, it is even more difficult for Houjin to rely on its own production to meet the demand. Purchasing pig iron through smugglers is also one of the ways for it to obtain resources in the past.
The Haihan Fleet patrolled around the coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula every now and then, and if they seized the opportunity, they might even land on the shore to beat the local Houjin army. The few salt fields were unable to resume work at all.And several smugglers who had secret transactions with Houjin were also warned by Haihan not to send any more materials to Houjin control area. There were one or two who were lucky enough to think that they would not be caught by Haihan. , have also been gone.
Once the salt and iron resources were cut off, there were only two ways left for Houjin. One was to mobilize the army to the Liaodong Peninsula, push down the Haihan defense line southward, drive Haihan back to the sea, and completely expel Liaodong.Based on the previous record, it is impossible to go this way without paying the sacrifice of 8000 people on the battlefield, and Hou Jin may not be willing to pay such a high price to try.
Another way is to continue to step up the offensive against Daming. The resources cut off by Haihan can only be obtained from Daming by looting.Compared with fighting against the Haihan Army with very advanced equipment and tactics, Daming is obviously a soft persimmon that is more suitable for kneading and kneading.
Li Nai frowned and said: "But when I was in Sanya, I heard Chief Yan said that one of the purposes of Haihan's occupation of Liaodong was to contain Houjin for Daming and reduce the military pressure, but according to what you said, this pressure not only did not Lessen it, but let Houjin's grievances against you all be passed on to Daming?"
Chen Yixin said: "This is actually not contradictory. Think about it, if we can't enter Liaodong, Houjin will attack Daming, right? But after we entered, not only did we contain part of Houjin's forces, but also cut off what they needed. Important resources, so they go to attack Daming again, has their strength weakened?"
At first glance, Li Nai thought it was reasonable, but after scrutinizing it, it seemed that something was wrong.Haihan's series of actions are indeed aimed at weakening Houjin, but the reason for taking these measures is not entirely out of consideration for Daming, but because Houjin and Daming are enemies, and incidentally helps Daming to weaken his opponent. That's it.But if you go deeper, Haihan's strategy is only for his own interests after all, weakening Houjin so that they can carry out their own plans in Liaodong.Whether Daming can withstand Houjin's looting is not the key issue that Haihan cares about.
After figuring out this relationship, it is much easier for Li Nai to understand Haihan's series of actions in the north.Haihan did these things not simply to rescue the Han refugees in Liaodong, or to help Daming deal with powerful foreign enemies, but only for his own interests.For Haihan, all measures are the same consideration, that is, try to maximize the benefits that Haihan can get.And all strategies are formulated and implemented around this standard, and Daming is just a bigger prop in this layout.
Li Nai quickly understood the principle, but he didn't try to question any more. Although he still retains the nationality of Daming, he is actually no different from those immigrants who have changed their household registration and joined Haihan. If necessary, he can even give up his identity as Mingren to join Haihan at any time.And considering the position of the issue, he will hardly stand on the side of Daming, and consciously view the conflict of interests between the two countries from the perspective of the Haihan nationals.
After sorting out the clues like this, Li Nai finally figured out what kind of considerations Haihan's strategy in the north was based on.As for the specific implementation process, Haihan still took a lot of cover measures, such as retaining the military establishment of Dongjiang Town, trying to contact the Ming court and expressing his willingness to solve the sovereignty dispute through negotiation.These measures make it difficult for the outside world to really see the true purpose of Haihan, and there are very few people like Li Nai who have the conditions to let senior Haihan generals clear their doubts face-to-face, so these strategies of Haihan are to outside observers It is very likely that they are at a loss, even those Jiangsu and Zhejiang businessmen who have been in Liaodong for a few days, it is probably difficult to understand Haihan's real intentions on this chessboard.
"What we are doing now is probably difficult for people in this era to understand, but a few years later, when people look back on this history, they should have a more objective and comprehensive evaluation of us." Qian Tiandun concluded: "But we We don’t need everyone’s understanding now, we just need to execute the order effectively.”
"Mr. Chiefs, with all due respect, I always feel that these actions are too hasty. Haihan has only been established for a few years, and he has to rule such a vast sea. Scattered into such a large area and constantly waging wars, I always feel a little uneasy." Li Nai is familiar with these people, so he doesn't have to worry that his true thoughts will make the other party feel unhappy.
Qian Tiandun said: "Your feeling is right, if you follow the normal process, even if you want to expand externally, it is probably to attack Guangdong and Guangxi first, and grab these coastal areas closest to Hainan Island from Daming. But our plan is to control the key coastal areas first, and not turn against Daming. Although this will be more risky, it will also buy us more time. I can't explain to you why time is special to us. Valuable, but we have reasons to do it."
Those who traveled gave up the life of the original time and space, and were willing to take the risk to come here, naturally, to make a career in this time and space.And the time left for them to play is only a few decades at most, and what they can do is actually very limited. In addition to building a country, of course, they also want to make some deeds that can be remembered in history and be admired by future generations.It is necessary to build and develop the Haihan country according to the inherent thinking. Even when they are buried in the land, they will still fight against the landlord class on the continent currently ruled by the Ming Dynasty. The Han regime came to replace the Ming Dynasty.
But what the traversers want is not such an ending. They want to build a country that realizes primary industrialization, and the ruled area should be so large that it is unprecedented in history, so that the Han regime of Haihan will become the most powerful country on earth. It will replace the status and role of Western colonists in the long river of development, and change the future civilization development process of this planet.
And these ambitious goals need them to be completed in just a few decades, and can only be developed by leaps and bounds to save precious time.This kind of reason cannot be told to outsiders like Li Nai, and there is no way to give him a reasonable explanation.
But Li Nai replied calmly: "Life is too short, of course, I have to do my best to do a good job. If I have the ability of the chiefs, I am afraid that I will also think of building a country and get an emperor to do it."
Li Nai's words would definitely be a taboo in Daming, if Jin Yiwei's fans heard it, they would probably arrest him first regardless of 21.But it doesn't matter if he said this in front of Haihan's generals, because Haihan didn't set up the position of "emperor" at all. Since there is no emperor, of course there is nothing to be taboo about.
Sure enough, everyone laughed when they heard the words, and there must be some people who have thought about becoming emperors, but the executive committee has put an end to the emergence of emperors from the system early in the morning.If they are separated from the Haihan group, it will be much more difficult for a single traveler to make a name for themselves in this time and space. Even those who know the historical process and master advanced weapon manufacturing technology want to do it on their own. Trying to create an existence like Tiandu Industrial Zone from scratch, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it in a lifetime.
And if everyone wants to achieve their own goals, it is impossible not to rely on Haihan as a group.Li Nai wanted to be the emperor, but it was because he only saw the scenery above ten thousand people. He didn't know how many difficulties he would face when he was an emperor. This was not an easy and pleasant career.
Qian Tiandun smiled and said: "It's not even an emperor, even if it's the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it's not necessarily happier than you and me. What we want to do is much more important than being an emperor. But we have to eat one bite at a time. Things have to be done step by step, and what we need to do now is to finalize the development and construction plan for Liaodong as soon as possible, and revitalize Liaodong, so that the follow-up things can continue to advance."
(End of this chapter)