The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 758
Wu Xiang took the lead in forming the Whaling Association, and paid insurance money to accept the protection of the Longwu Navy. It is estimated that by the end of the year it will reach the strength of owning [-] or [-] whaling ships.

A whaling ship with a displacement of 6 tons, including equipment for boiling fish oil, grilling fish, and canning sea fish, plus twelve [-]-pound Francois cannons, and six [-]-pound Hongyi cannons, the insurance value is [-] Yuan silver dollar.

The insurance premium is 3000 silver dollars a year. If the company is robbed at sea or sunk in a storm, "Sun Moon Shipping" will fully compensate the insured with 6 silver dollars.

A whaling ship generally needs to use more than 100 people. The nobles will not only recruit sailors and gunners from school graduates of the "Red Banner Army" system, but also select fierce men from family members to participate in the voyage.

When they get real benefits from the sea, they will become ambitious. It is not a problem to go out of Ming Dynasty and go to the world, or even go to South America to pan for gold.

Huaxia Land, Huatianbao, outstanding people, should be the best place in the world in the Middle Ages.

The fact that there is everything in the hometown also prevents the Han people from having the desire to plunder, and they can only focus on guarding their one-acre three-point land.

Everything has advantages and disadvantages, born in sorrow, died in peace, the ancients did not deceive me.

The Han nationality, which had no enterprising spirit in history, finally reaped its own fruit and was abandoned by the age of great navigation.

The Han nationality, which has always been leading the world in terms of science and technology, was burned by the evil Manchus and educated the people by ignoring them.

The poor and weak country that was once the largest in the world has become a semi-colonial, and the Han people have become the sick men of East Asia.

Huang Han's intention is to let the dignitaries stop staring at the farmers who are digging in the soil, how much profit can they get from exploiting them?How much does it cost to go to the ocean and go to the New World to dig copper mines, gold mines, and colonize?
In the spring of the tenth year of Chongzhen, in order to carry out the order of the General Conqueror to win a place, the soldiers and civilians in the jurisdiction must be able to produce with peace of mind.

Zhao Kun, Gu Zhun, Gu Rushan, Pei Yuanwu and other generals stopped chasing the bandits after taking Xiangyang and Nanyang.

After three years of guarding in the interior, Zhao Kun and the others deeply understood the essence of the patriarch's thoughts, and realized that the outbreak of bandits could not be solved unless the food problem was solved.

In the past two or three years, the "Red Banner Army" system has subsidized 300 million shi of food in the interior.

However, due to the increasing area covered by the rogue bandits, more and more abandoned land, and more and more refugees fleeing, the food gap cannot always be plugged.

Land reclamation along the Yangtze River and the Hanshui River is the top priority, and such a fertile and beautiful place cannot be left barren.

The results of the farming are the self-hematopoietic function, and the "Red Banner Army" system supports weapons and officers, and it is easy to train dozens of regular troops and guard barracks in the interior.

There are too many hungry people in the interior who need to be relieved, and the guards and battalions of the "Red Banner Army" also have to eat. The general who recruited captives has no ability to "not pay for food and only grab food", so he can only fight the bandits while farming.

The "Red Banner Army" organized more than 500 households to farm fields in Xiangyang and Nanyang, and the sowing area reached [-] million mu. It was busy until the end of March.

The rogue army led by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Shouying, Liu Guoneng, Luo Rucai, Li Wanqing, and Yao Tiandong did not need to garrison the fields. Their departure from the vicinity of Xiangyang was equivalent to breaking away from the "Red Banner Army".

After the division of troops again, Gao Yingxiang, the self-appointed Grand Marshal, led the generals Li Zicheng, Ma Shouying and other bandit bones to go through Shangluo Mountain again to fight back to their hometown of Shaanxi. Because there was no ambush set by Sun Chuanting, they fought well along the way.

Huang Weizheng and Han Zhikuan, who were forced to change defenses from the city of Xi'an where they were stationed, led [-] subordinates to encounter the main force of the bandits in the west of Zhouzhi County.

In fact, Gao Yingxiang, Ma Shouying and others had less than [-] troops at this time, and the old battalion who could fight was no more than [-].

The Ming army had more than [-] troops led by He Renlong, Cao Bianjiao, Tang Tong, Ma Ke, Zuo Guangxian, Huang Weizheng, Han Zhikuan and other generals, deputy generals, and generals.

If all the Ming armies work together, they will definitely win a decisive battle with the main force of the bandits in the west of Zhouzhi County.

However, several generals of the Ming army had their own ulterior motives, and most of the warlord generals were unwilling to consume their own strength.

Seeing that the main force of the rogue bandits was fighting desperately, He Renlong, the local commander-in-chief, led 2 horses and ran towards Xianyang, followed by Tang Tong and Ma Ke.

Cao Bianjiao was already powerless to fight. He moved quickly and led eight thousand men to withdraw into Zhouzhi County in time to stand by and wait for help.

Huang Weizheng, Han Zhikuan, Zuo Guangxian and other generals seemed to be relatively solid, but they had been abandoned by their allies. Although they had less than [-] troops, they fought with the bandits for a whole day.

During the bitter battle, they hoped for the stars and the moon as they hoped that He Renlong, Tang Tong, Ma Ke and others would lead the troops to attack the bandits. Unfortunately, more than half of the troops were lost and no reinforcements were seen, so they had to take advantage of the night to break out.

Fortunately, due to their friendship with the "Red Banner Army", Huang Weizheng and Han Zhikuan had more than [-] well-equipped armored guards. When they rushed out of the encirclement of the bandits, half of the guards were lost and [-]% of the battalion was lost.

The three generals Huang Weizheng, Han Zhikuan, and Zuo Guangxian had less than one thousand troops in total, and one-third of them were wounded, even Huang Weizheng was seriously injured.

The most damning thing happened. He Renlong, Tang Tong, Ma Ke, etc. who fled fearing the war were not charged, because their troops were strong and strong.

The three of Huang Weizheng, who had almost run out of people, were scapegoats for this big defeat, and all three of them were dismissed from their posts.

Gao Yingxiang and other rogue leaders obtained a large number of seizures after this victory, including more than [-] pairs of all-steel breastplates and soft wrapping armors of the cavalry system of the "Red Banner Army" system.

Without exception, these equipments were taken from the dead Ming soldiers. The well-equipped Ming soldiers were of course Huang Weizheng and Han Zhikuan's armored servants.

Gao Yingxiang and others took advantage of the great victory Yu Wei to destroy several cities, not only making up for the battle losses caused by the fierce battle with Huang Weizheng and others, but also adding 2 horses, which is incomparable in the limelight.

Hong Chengchou hurriedly consolidated the defense line, and then appeased and organized the six troops of Yang Guozhu, Wang Tingchen, Cao Bianjiao, He Renlong, Tang Tong, and Ma Ke to advance side by side.

This time Hong Chengchou learned his lesson. In order to prevent the generals under his command from prevaricating and wrangling, he personally went into battle to oversee the advance of the army.

Hong Chengchou became ruthless, fearing the enemy and not the former, no matter how high the rank is, he will kill without mercy. From now on, everyone will advance and never retreat. As long as they find the retreating skirmishers, they will all be killed, and the seven generals with the highest rank will be killed if found Zuo.

At the same time, Hong Chengchou continued to plead with the imperial court for the original soldiers, calling for the elite of the Beijing camp.

(End of this chapter)