Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 758 The Great Joy in Quanzhou

In the end, the brothers and sisters of the Dao family still got some support. Apart from Gao Yushi’s deceit and vague promises, they got some financial foreign aid——Gao Yushi planned to give them 1000 taels of silver every month for contacting the old department and recruiting troops. Wait.

1000 taels of silver is naturally a drizzle to Gao Yushi. Even if he now has the Golden Port City that needs to be built from scratch, it is not enough to be short of this small amount of money.

However, 1000 taels of silver per month is by no means a small amount for Nanzhang Kingdom, and it can exceed [-] taels a year. Think about Laos in later generations, the surrounding Vietnam and Thailand have already left them ten streets away, but they It is still "one of the poorest areas in the world", and its location, resources, and poor basic conditions cannot be ignored.

Of course, these issues are very complicated when they are involved, and the human factor may be more critical. For example, if Yunnan is not in the hands of China, its development may be similar to that of Laos, but it is so powerful... It is in Chinese hands.

As a result, Yunnan, a deeply inland province, has a GDP that is ten times stronger than Vietnam, which has a geographical advantage and fully sufficient resource potential.I'm afraid it's hard to say that this place in Yunnan is awesome, it can only be said that the Chinese are awesome.

But right now, at least the people of Nanzhang Kingdom are obviously not making any achievements in the economy. This year, more than 1 taels of silver are displayed. The population is smaller than that of Annan - no one has counted, but this should not need to be verified.

Think about it, the population of Vietnam before Gao Pragmatism's crossing was almost 700 million, how much is Laos?It's just a pitiful [-] million...

Excluding the part of South Vietnam that has not yet been mastered, the central and northern parts of Vietnam must have a population of at least 5000 million, while Laos is far behind, especially because most of their southern palms are deep mountains and old forests, and only a small part of them is close to Siam. Pingyuan, so the current population of Nanzhang Kingdom is definitely not as good as that of Annan. With a high level of pragmatism, I am afraid that there are more than 100 million people, and it will not exceed 200 million people.

Take 1 taels of silver to Zhili in the north and south, and you can’t make a single splash, but if you take it to Nanzhang Kingdom, it is an astonishingly huge amount of money. The brothers and sisters of the Dao family can easily contact the old ministries and develop the "revolutionary masses" ".

Gao Wuzhen's current approach is the same as Japan's spending money to support the Tongmenghui.

Of course, he wasn't afraid that the Dao family siblings would dare to rebel - it's next door to Annan, why don't you give it a try?

At the same time, Gao Yushi also adhered to the principle that no matter how small a mosquito is, he won a few "Nanzhang Edition Jinghua Sixteen Articles" that he didn't even know whether he would use or not.

Oh, it’s not as many as the sixteen articles, and it’s not as detailed. It only says that if Jinghua helps Nanzhang successfully restore the country in the future, Jinghua will be allowed to harvest and process wood in any unowned forest in Nanzhang. It only touched on the economic level—Gao Wushi had little interest in the military or government that controlled Nanzhang, and he didn't bother to bring this hatred.

After all, Nanzhang Kingdom is mainly an excuse for him. After all, he has not yet mastered the southern part of Vietnam, otherwise, he can go to Cambodia without going to Nanzhang.

When I think of Cambodia, I am pragmatic and drooling. There are three crops a year in the entire Mekong River Plain (including the later part of Vietnam). If it can be taken down and well developed and utilized, the food shortage problem in the north of the Ming Dynasty may be solved.

Even if the comprehensive development and utilization cannot be completed for a while, only a part of it can be used to prevent many refugees from starving to death, thus greatly reducing the evolution from refugees to chaos.

At that time, in conjunction with the initial promotion of high-yield crops in the Americas... Hey, wait, why hasn't there been any results yet on the high-yield crops in the Americas?The Spaniards control this thing too strictly, right?
Coincidentally, just when Gao Wushi began to suspect that Guangzhou Port and Quanzhou Port did not take his repeatedly emphasized "high-yield grain outside the fan" to heart, Jinghua Quanzhou Private Port just held a celebration banquet.

The private port of Quanzhou is low in the high-practice Jinghua private port system, which is mainly due to the lack of strength of high-practice itself in Fujian.

Due to poor status and lack of strength, although Gao Sitang, the director of Fujian Private Port, has mastered this large private port, he has not yet had the opportunity to change his name. The signature feature of the servant boss.For example, Gao Xiaozhuang changed his name to Gao Rui, which is a clear proof. Gao Jing, who has made a big splash in the Annan Sea area recently, also changed his name.

There is another reason why Gao Sitang didn’t get the chance to change his name. He was not someone Gao Yu was used to, but was recommended by Gao Yu’s mother, Mrs. He also presided over the resettlement of Wei Hui's refugees and the establishment of the iron factory. Before being transferred to Quanzhou, he even took charge of Wei Hui's mine.

The talents Zhang usually recommends to Gao Yushi are not many in terms of quantity, but the quality is very good, and they are all qualified for Gao Yushi's new positions. Therefore, Gao Yushi sent Gao Sitang to the private office in Quanzhou that he had just acquired at that time. port.

After finally getting mixed up and being directly managed by the boss, he certainly hopes to make some achievements.

After arriving in Hong Kong, Gao Sitang made a detailed inspection and found that the most important reason why the Quanzhou private port has been inferior to other ports is that the pirates along the coast of Fujian are the most powerful——

In fact, the pirates along the coast of Guangdong are not weak, but Guangzhou Private Port has a good foundation from the very beginning, with a stronger foundation. The construction of the fleet is faster, and it is equipped with the most artillery of all private ports. Therefore, pirates along the coast of Guangdong dare not easily provoke the fleet of Jinghua Guangzhou Private Port.

But Quanzhou private port is not the case. There are many pirates along the coast of Fujian. The waterway often clashes with the maritime merchants of Ming Dynasty (now legal), and they don’t have much fear of the Jinghua Quanzhou private port fleet. They should rob as much as they should, and harass as much as they should.

After Gao Sitang took office, he quickly adjusted the operation mode of the fleet, changed the sporadic shipment and purchase to the overall entry and exit of the port, organized the entire fleet to act together, and even contacted other maritime merchants in the private port to act together. It is quite similar to the professional escort of later generations.

As a result, the pirates along the coast of Fujian began to lose their benefits. Only less than half a year later, the pirates who were doing their own things held a "Martial Arts Conference", and more than a dozen pirates, large and small, united , Ma Zhishan was elected as the chief rudder, and Li became the deputy chief rudder, planning to come to a decisive battle with Jinghua Quanzhou Private Harbor Fleet.

Ma Zhishan and Li Cheng are not unknown people, they are both able-bodied subordinates of Lin Feng, the giant pirate at sea, and they have great prestige among the pirates along the coast of Fujian.

As for Lin Feng, this person's name is even bigger. The later former Philippine President Marcos once proudly and publicly claimed that he is his descendant, and he is often proud of it.

It stands to reason that pirates are not a good name. Why does a Philippine president still show off that his ancestors are Chinese pirates?
Because this One Piece King Lin Feng is not an ordinary pirate, let's not talk about his deeds in Daming, in short, he used to have more than 4 subordinates and 300 ships of various types.His most awesome deed is that this master went to Luzon...to beat the Spaniards.

At that time, he suffered a defeat in the country and had to escape disaster, so he chose to go to Luzon to compete with the Spaniards for dominance.

In the winter of the second year of Wanli, Lin Feng led 62 warships, 500 sailors and [-] women each, with the Japanese Zhuang Gong as the commander, and led the boat to the south. Lin Feng ordered his soldiers to snatch the boat.But it was discovered by the Spaniards who were stationed there, and they quickly reported it to Juan Salceds, an officer in Vigan.

Sashiluo immediately sent three aborigines to Manila as a warning.But the natives were intercepted by Lin Feng's men on the way.Lin Feng took the opportunity to attack Mi'an, and Sashiluo led 50 Spanish troops to escape.Lin Feng took advantage of the victory to pursue and headed for Manila.

On November 29, the second year of Wanli, Lin Feng's navy arrived at the port of Mariveles in Manila.At dusk, Lin Feng ordered Zhuang Gong to lead 600 people to attack Manila in a small boat, but encountered a storm on the way, and more than 200 people died of drowning due to the capsized boat.But the rest of the people still dived to Paranaque, eight miles south of Manila, and landed in Paranaque under the leadership of Zhuang Gong, and arrived in Manila in the early morning of the next day.

At that time, the Spanish officer Martin de Goiti (Martin de Goiti) was garrisoned outside the city, and he made no preparations hastily. Duke Zhuang quickly defeated him and seized his territory. Goiti himself died in battle.The defenders in the city took this opportunity to strengthen their defenses, and when Duke Zhuang attacked, they began to resist desperately.

However, more than 200 of Duke Zhuang's forces had been damaged by a storm during the march, so he could not capture the city wall in a hurry.So Zhuang Gong retreated to Jiami (Cavite) and joined Lin Feng.

At the same time, on the other hand, the Spanish governor, Lavezaris, immediately built a high wall along Manila Bay and placed his troops on defense as soon as Zhuang Gong retreated.Sashiluo also led six warships and hundreds of soldiers to help in the battle.

After Lin Feng's first attack was completed, the natives of the Philippines thought that the Ming people had won the victory, and quickly assembled nearly [-] people near Manila, and began to take action against the Spaniards.

On December 500th, Lin Feng launched a second attack. He ordered Zhuang Gong to lead [-] troops to attack in three groups. Lin Feng's own warship also fired artillery outside the port to assist.

However, because the Spaniards strengthened the city walls and added reinforcements, they did not take it in a hurry.Lin Feng sent another [-] reinforcements, but they withdrew in vain.

When Lin Feng's army attacked Manila, the natives of the Philippines killed missionaries, merchant soldiers, etc., preparing to support Lin Feng's pirate army, but quickly collapsed after Lin Feng's defeat.

After Lin Feng's pirate army failed, he led his army to the north, retreated from the Ango R to Pangasinan, built a city four miles above the river, and built a fort as a long-term solution.And ordered the local chieftain to pay the salary-very like a pilgrimage envoy.

After hearing the news, the Spanish governor, Lavisales, decided to gather the Spanish troops in the Philippines to Manila, preparing to attack Pengjia Yulan, with Sashiluo as the commander.

With 6000 Filipino soldiers and 650 Spanish soldiers, Sashiluo first sailed to Lingeyin Bay in the north of Pengjiayulan.At that time, Lin Feng's 32 warships were moored there, but they were all wiped out due to lack of defense, so Sa Shiluo raised his troops to land.

Here, the two armies fought for more than four months, and Lin Feng decided to come to Luzon temporarily because he suffered a big defeat in Ming Dynasty, so he lacked supplies, and finally lost.So they broke out and fled, some of them fled to the mountains.

After Lin Feng was defeated in the Philippines, he had no other way out and led his troops to commit internal crimes.He has reached Zhelin, Jinghai, Jieshi and other places.At the same time, it has also reached Fujian and other places, and looted everywhere based on Hong Kong, Taiwan.

But at that time, the Fujian side cracked down on pirates very severely, and began to open up seas for business again. Many "maritime merchants" who used to secretly support and condone pirates changed their faces and stopped supporting them. Lin Fengyou had to leave everywhere. .

After a few years of this kind of time, Lin Feng's subordinates began to be dissatisfied, and many of the main leaders under his command had other thoughts. After Gao Sitang came, Lin Feng himself felt dissatisfied with his subordinates and left quietly. This is the matter of publicly recommending the chief rudder of pirates along the coast of Fujian.

Gao Sitang learned the news through private harbor merchants, planned secretly, and finally fought against the pirate coalition forces at the time when Gao Pragmatically obtained Tsinghua and entered the British capital.

Due to early preparations and Gao Sitang's strict implementation of highly pragmatic long-range artillery tactics, this battle between sea merchants and pirates lasted for [-] consecutive days (including searching, encountering the enemy, fighting, chasing, encircling and suppressing), and finally finally Complete victory.

Gao Sitang's Jinghua Quanzhou Fleet and the Maritime Allied Forces destroyed and captured 130 and 260 pirate ships, captured 490 pirates, 370 women, [-] children and [-], and killed pirates... Uh, no It is impossible to count, because there are many falling into the sea, drowning (injured into the sea and unable to float in the ocean for a long time), etc.

The price it paid itself was not small. A total of 39 sea-going ships were lost, including five of Jinghua's standard armed transport ships-this was a loss of almost 30 taels of silver.

But, it's still a brilliant victory!Because from now on, there will never be any pirates on the coast of Fujian who dare to attack Jinghua.

Moreover, during the post-war inventory, Gao Sitang found in one of the pirates' lairs, Taiwan's Hong Kong, what Gao Yushi repeatedly ordered to collect—two of the so-called "high-yield grain outside the fan".

According to the identification, Gao Sitang concluded that these two things may have been obtained by Lin Feng in Luzon back then, but... Although he also took them back and started planting in the new lair, he was not very serious.

According to the master, these two crops should be "sweet potatoes" and "corns".

The celebration banquet in Quanzhou Private Port was held to defeat the pirate coalition forces and obtain two major crops.

Gao Sitang was very excited, he felt that "Wang Pang Danming" was already waving to him!
He is finally about to enter the ranks of the master's confidantes!
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This chapter has [-] words. Since the plot is really combined, I thought about it, so I won't split it up and post it again.

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