Chapter 61 No one knows how to build walls better than me
Zhao Hao wore a new style of summer uniform of the coast guard, a white flat-top, large-brimmed hat with a gold ribbon on the hat wall, and gold spikes were embroidered on the brim. The hat badge changed from a simple gold anchor to a more complex form of gold anchor in the center, the sun and the moon on it, and the surrounding seven stars.
There is a gold anchor on the large lapel of the light blue top mixed with linen and cotton, and there is no decoration left. The lower body is made of ironed dark blue trousers and black leather boots. He also wears white gloves, holding a golden scepter of the chief police officer, and a gold short sword hanging on the cowhide belt around his waist, which is really full of ceremony.
As the commander-in-chief of the coast guard, he stood proudly on Haiyun Pass. On one side were towering mountains and on the other side was the rippling South China Sea of the Ming Dynasty.
In March, the Indochina Peninsula is warm and moist, with clouds and mists in the mountains, green all over the mountains, and colorful mountain flowers dotted it. The sea surface also changes with charming light and shadow, just like a fairyland in human realm!
This magnificent landscape crawled at his feet!
But in the eyes of Zhao Hao and his staff, this is a different meaning.
Haiyun Ridge is less than fifty kilometers long from west to east, and it happens to be the narrowest part of Annan's territory in later generations, and it is its most deadly life gate! And it is the kind that is exposed, making people unable to help but attack.
Zhao Liben, who is nearly 90 years old, had a winter in Sanya City last year. This time, Zhao Hao came to Haiyun Pass and he insisted on visiting him.
Of course, he was carried up the mountain with a slide rod, so he was very happy and was visiting everywhere in Haiyun Pass.
I saw that this Guancheng was made of giant rocks and was extremely strong. The plaque in front of the Guan was engraved with three big characters "Haiyun Pass", and the back door was filled with six big characters "The world's most powerful pass", which were naturally all Chinese characters.
"Annan monkey is really shameless. Even if you break the guardhouse, you dare to be the best in the world? Would you rather match it? How many matches are you?" The old man looked disdainful.
The person who supported him was Zhao Shouye, who retired early and went home to serve his father, smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Dad, keep some politeness, and you will lose if you are angry with a group of arrogant things."
"I was so angry when I looked at it! A group of shameless stinky monkeys!" Zhao Liben spat fiercely, raised his cane and pointed at Annan in the north and said, "It's better to thrust them all!"
"Now it is the commander of the Annan Commander of the Ming Dynasty, the territory of the Celestial Empire." Zhao Shouye smiled.
"Hmph, there's nothing wrong with it! Those monkeys rebelled and surrendered and plundered the mainland whenever they had the chance. The reason they were attached to the inside is just because of the civil war splitting and the expedient tricks of the heavenly soldiers taking the opportunity to go south." Zhao Liben was very disgusted with Annan because, strictly speaking, it was thrown away from his ancestors.
Although the "big gift" was not sent out for this little land, at least elsewhere returned to the Celestial Empire. Only after Annan and Emperor Yongle took it back, Zhu Zhanji, the eternal sinner, gave up. Although he was forced to re-embrace it, it was only a nominal belonging. People closed the door and called themselves alone and did not take the Emperor of the Celestial Empire seriously.
How can it not be disappointing?
"Grandpa, how about we build an isolation wall here?" Zhao Hao walked down from the city tower and said loudly to Zhao Liben.
"The wall?" Zhao Liben was stunned.
"Yes." Zhao Hao smiled and gestured, "I just looked at it briefly. The project volume is not too large. Haiyun Peak Mountain is steep and only this passage can barely pass through. So just by building an isolation wall as high as the surrounding mountains at this Haiyun Pass, the people of Annan can sigh."
"Good guy, how much does that cost?" Zhao Shouye gasped. Although he stopped auditing, his occupational illness could not be corrected for the time being.
"It's about twenty meters high, ten meters wide at the bottom, and five thousand meters long. It's just the work and materials for building two dams, and it doesn't cost much." Zhao Hao looked like no one knows how to build a wall better than me, and smiled confidently: "Besides, this money is paid by the city, so we don't need to spend money."
"Yes!" The princess of Chameng poked his head out from behind Zhao Hao, and smiled with a smile on his face: "This is building a security wall for us, how can we make the group spend money?"
When the Fleet of Fleet arrived in Champa fifteen years ago, the Pooh couldn't understand a single Chinese sentence, and now he can flatter in Nanjing Mandarin fluently.
Of course, he took the initiative to bear the expenses, not just to flatter. Champa really needed this wall too much.
The past few hundred years have repeatedly proved that those who believed in the Brahmins could not defeat the Annan people. Although this time, with the support of the Tianchao Coast Guard, the Annan people who invaded the south were driven back, they also paid a heavy price.
Including the previous defensive stage, the war of liberation lasted for fifteen years, and a total of 100,000 people died in battle.
There is no way to have such a high casualty. In addition to having a poor foundation, they cannot become qualified soldiers no matter how they train. The bad weather, the desperate rainforests and complex mountain terrain have also greatly weakened their weapons advantages.
Not only can't line up and shoot, cannons cannot enter the rainforest, and even the range advantage of muskets is meaningless. Experienced Annan soldiers are hiding in the happy forest of the US military, and the effect of firing the same when the soldiers of the Zhan army approach. Many times, they even use the crossbow, javelin, machetes to make it better...
Since the war has been going on, a whole generation of men has sacrificed, and the ratio of men and women has reached a terrifying seven-three. If we continue to fight, we must exterminate the seed.
So Zhanren had no idea of fighting Haiyun Pass and continuing the north, and just wanted to close the door and live a peaceful life.
Therefore, when he heard Zhao Hao mentions building a wall, Po Aden became energetic. He was worried that he would just say casually that if this matter gets bad, it will be troublesome. Po Aden also offered to pay for Chameng, which is much more than the Mexican president.
How could Zhao Hao just say it casually? Build a wall on Haiyun Ridge to cut off North and South Vietnam in half, but in his bucket list, it was very high.
Due to the restrictions of the terrain and a major country in the north, Annan can only continue to develop southward, and eventually form a long dumbbell-shaped land. Its population and economy are concentrated in the Red River Plain to the north and the Mekong Delta to the south. The distance between the two places is more than 2,000 miles, and is only connected by a narrow area at the foot of the Changshan Mountains.
The Haiyun Ridge that stretches out is like a natural wall, bringing Annan's territory from all two sections in the middle. The merchants and travelers from south to north can only cross the mountains and ridges and pass by Haiyun Pass, which also makes it almost unconnected from north to south, and even the races are different.
If this faint connection can be completely cut off, and the north and south are always one side, the two parts will completely become two countries!
This can greatly promote regional peace. There is no need to elaborate on various benefits. In short, it is just a word to build a wall!
Moreover, at the foot of the mountain on the south side of Haiyun Pass is the famous Da Nang in later generations. It is backed by the Five Elements Mountain, with Haiyun Ridge and the Chacha Peninsula as barriers respectively in the northwest and northeast, making it an excellent safe haven with a wide harbor and deep water.
Chameng Water Police Station has set up a Da Nang Police Station and will set up a new second squadron to be stationed here. This powerful squadron consisting of two destroyers, four frigates and twelve flying fish gallops, cooperates with the speedboat team of the Da Nang Police Station to build a sea wall to completely separate the connection between the north and the south.
"Good grandson, your hand is a bit ruthless. In the future, Chameng and Annan will never interact with each other?" After the princess of Chameng went down, Zhao Liben said to Zhao Hao: "What a great hatred is this?"
"This is a hatred for the ungrateful wolf traveling through time and space!" Zhao Hao looked north. If it was cloudless weather, it was said that standing here, you could still see Ruan Huang's nest. In the future, the capitals of the three dynasties in Annan would also seriously meet the Imperial Palace and the Palace of Supreme Harmony.
But with yourself, don't even think about it.
Zhao Liben naturally had no idea. Zhao Hao's hatred that came from four hundred years later seemed to be the same as himself and regretted his ancestors.
"Oh, you kid." He couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "The labor force is working so much, just to exhale?"
"Of course not." Zhao Hao shook his head and said, "The 'Eternal Sinner Zhu Zhanji' has been arranged at the Luzon Shipyard. When it is launched, it will be the day to reopen the county and Annan!"
Now the Annan and Southern and Northern Dynasties have been in conflict for a full fifty years, and the situation has changed again. The "monkey version of Kongming" of the Northern Dynasties has passed away in the eighth year of Wanli, and there is only a group of waste left in the dynasty.
The "monkey version of Zhou Yu" in the Southern Dynasty was in full swing in the spring and autumn, and it entered its best age. The Southern Dynasty should have flourished under his leadership, and turned its defense to attack, killing the native chickens and dogs of the Northern Dynasty like cutting melons and vegetables, and seizing the entire Honghe Plain.
However, because of Zhao Hao's intervention, everything was different.
Although he did not send the coast guard to directly intervene in the Annan civil war, with the unprecedentedly powerful strength of the Jiangnan Group, without military means and economic means, a country can be on the verge of collapse.
That was the "Porcelain War" plan he arranged for the Nanhai Group during the Longqing period. It was to open a large number of kilns in Chaozhou, Foshan to fire export porcelain, and then dump it at a low price to the international market, expelling Annan blue and white porcelain from the international market.
Because of the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy, Annan blue and white porcelain became the main force in the trade of porcelain between the two oceans. In the Civil War, the two dynasties of the north and the south made every effort to increase the production of blue and white porcelain to pay high military expenses and purchase Western firearms.
There is no blue material produced in the entire Annan area. Blue and white material needs to be imported from Yunnan or Persia before it can be opened to a kiln to fire blue and white porcelain.
Jiangnan Group has monopolized the East-West trade routes, and it is even more of a hand in the country. Therefore, Zhao Hao ordered an embargo on Qingliu, and the porcelain making industry of the two dynasties was immediately stuck.
Although they can obtain some green materials through the smuggling channels of Sanxuan and Liuwei, the inevitable output plummeted and the cost surged!
At this time, the "Clark Porcelain" of Nanhai Porcelain Industry has come on stage! This kind of porcelain is not only of high quality and low price, but also can customize patterns and shapes according to customer needs. Once launched, it is very popular with buyers.
Under the attack of Zhao Hao's two-pronged approach, Annan blue and white porcelain, which has been best-selling for two hundred years, has plummeted its market share.
Chapter completed!