Lu Ming

Chapter 388 Enlarged Meeting
Nan'ao Island is the closest point between Guangdong and Taiwan, less than 180 nautical miles away from Dayuan.The location here is very important, "Fujian and Guangzhou are the key points in the upper and lower reaches, Esai is dangerous and difficult, the only way for foreign ships to pass, and the place for domestic thieves to contend for."

In the Ming Dynasty, the masters of the Nan'ao General Township were all vice-presidents.In the Qing Dynasty, due to the increasingly complicated situation at sea and the great increase in the power of foreigners, the Nan'ao guard became the chief soldier.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, about 170 soldiers and deputy commanders in the two dynasties were stationed in Nan'ao to maintain the defense of the southeast coast.Including the famous Master Guo Xing, who also practiced martial arts with his own soldiers on the school field in the Zongzhen Mansion.

And in the plane of crossing the public, on November 1629, 11, the Nan'ao General Township welcomed the latest master: Cao Chuan (pseudo), the deputy general of the new department.

After bidding farewell to a group of civil and military officials in Guangzhou, Zhang Dongdong rushed to Nan'ao Island, which is located in the sea off Chaoshan, with four aircraft sail warships separated from Bai'etan.

Sitting in the slightly dilapidated public hall, looking at the verdant cypresses on the large field in front of the hall, and then lowering his head to look at the battalion officers and the leaders of the guards kneeling in front of the hall, Zhang Dongdong stretched out his hands and stroked himself. Grow a beard, and then start calling the shots.

The first is "Conference Exercise".There are not only two battalions of recruits on Nan'ao Island, but also a group of agricultural soldiers including the local guards.

Master Zhentai will not be polite here: No matter what kind of bullshit serfs and barracks, and no matter what battalion soldiers have been emptied, they will all take a boat for me to go to Taiwan to practice and test your usual training results-wait for this group of people After leaving, there will naturally be well-trained regular soldiers coming to change defenses. Two companies of musketeers are enough.

Of course, if the few military officers kneeling in front of the hall do not want to go to Taiwan for reorganization, then Lord Zhentai will not make things difficult for them.Just like the layoffs of later generations, several officers can find ways to transfer to other defense areas, and adults will never leave trouble.

After listening to the adults' orders, the little officials kneeling under the hall couldn't help but look at each other with bitter faces.

However, the new town master didn't take these things seriously at all, and waved them away with a wave of his hand.The way has been given out, so go back and think about it yourself.If you dare to make trouble, you will be dismissed and questioned. The reason is very simple: take time off.

After dismissing a group of subordinates on the island within 5 minutes, Zhang Dongdong began to discuss the relocation with Sha Zhengming and the others who came with him.

There are not only garrisons on Nan'ao Island, but also no fewer than 6000 fishermen and farmers.These people will also be transferred away one after another.Whether they go to work as farm workers in the fields in Tainan or go fishing on motor-sail fishing boats, the wealth they create will increase tenfold and a hundredfold, which is far beyond what can be compared by living on this island.

Therefore, the decree on relocation must be implemented in the future.

When Ming soldiers and residents moved out, Nan'ao Island would be transformed into a naval base.As for the original Susukida and scattered beacons on the island, these will gradually fall into disrepair.

This is done for a reason.Because Nan'ao Island in this plane does not need to bear the military pressure from the surrounding parties like the Ming and Qing courts.Therefore, for the traveler, Nan'ao Island, apart from being the garrison of the General Military Office stipulated by the imperial court, its other functions will gradually degenerate, or even be completely abandoned.

The current strategic situation is as follows: the navy has settled the large pirate groups on the Guangdong ocean, and is currently dispatching troops to prepare for gathering a group of small frigates suitable for shallow water terrain, and then clean up the Guangdong coast for a few days. Over and over, completely eliminate scattered pirates.

In this process, Nan'ao Island will play the role of a supply base for suppressing bandits in eastern Guangdong.

After that, the strategic position of Nan'ao Island will decline sharply.Because when all the pirates along the coast of Guangdong are wiped out, the next target of the navy will become the Portuguese in Macau, and then they will become the gangsters and lake bandits in the interior of Guangdong and Guangxi.

In short, completely different from history, the entire front in the future will gradually move towards Southeast Asia and the interior of the Ming Dynasty.In this process, Nan'ao Island, which is getting farther and farther away from the war zone, will gradually become a "safe zone". It's really worthless.

So Zhang Dongdong and the others, who are clear about their future plans, will not spend too much time on this island.In the future, after the military and civilians have all moved out, at most the pier will be repaired to maintain the intensity of the army's suppression of bandits.

Sitting in the hall and wearing official robes, several officials quickly finalized the future plan of Nan'ao Island.

After that is the execution.

Soon, 24 hours after Master Zhentai took over the yamen, a group of new lock boats came from Taiwan.

Except for some construction workers, materials and tools, the rest of this fleet is a battalion of regular soldiers.

After the soldiers with muskets disembarked, they quickly surrounded the camps of the two navy battalions under the leadership of the officers.At this time, the generals who were still hesitating were suddenly dumbfounded: So Mr. Zhentai is not playing tricks?

In this way, almost in a semi-forced state, the two battalions of garrison troops were driven into the cabin and sent directly to Taiwan.

There is no need to be so reckless in the next resettlement work.

The General's Mansion first sent people to various fishing villages to smoke some prestigious ones, and then sent these propaganda teams to Taiwan.When these people come back after a while, many people will follow them. Those contractors in later generations will just go back to fool the villagers like this, and they will still owe their wages at the end.

The last wave to deal with is the local guard soldiers.

Ordinary guard soldiers have no choice about going to other places. The key lies in the officers who have actually degenerated into landlords.

Like the two battalions of Fujian and Guangdong battalions, there are also two hundred households on Nan'ao Island.And the biggest obstacle to moving the soldiers of the guard station is that there are two hundred households in the east and the west: who will plant the land of the master of the hundred households when they leave?How else to exploit those beggars?

Seeing that their subordinates are being bullied arbitrarily, and the days of being the emperor of the earth are about to fade away, the two hundred households whose fundamental interests have been touched naturally have the courage to go to the Lord Zhentai to cry and plead for love and explain the truth.

Then the landowner died.

What kind of crime is "Roaring White Tiger Festival Hall"?I think that Lin Chong, the head of the 80 forbidden army, just broke into the Baihutang by mistake, and was thrown into the army by the gods; I think that Dong Ge, who has countless brothers in the future, was only helped into Ms. Liu's apartment, and was jumped by the gods for 5000 million (Dollar) .But now these two gray-headed ants have neither the skills of Coach Lin nor the money of guns like Dong Ge, but they dare to cry loudly in the military plane, no wonder the commander-in-chief is marching.

So the two second-handers were pushed out of the gate and had their heads chopped off.

After the obstacles were removed, the immigration work started smoothly.But after all the fuss, Zhang Dongdong Chuchu brought the situation under control, half a month had passed, and it was mid-November.

Unsurprisingly, in the telegram sent from Dayuan Island, the words asking Zhang Dongdong to "seek opportunities to report on his work" appeared.

Now that the work has been straightened out, there is no need for Zhang Dongdong to stick to the Commander's Mansion.What's more, like Sha Zhengming, they all knew what the cabinet called Zhang Dongdong to do at this time, so Zhang Dongdong returned to Taiwan on a frigate as soon as he received the telegram.

It took less than [-] hours for the motorboat to sail into the Taijiang River, and then Zhang Dongdong disembarked directly at the special wharf on Dayuan Island.

Since there are still some foreign business houses residing on Dayuan Island, Zhang Dongdong entered the palace wearing a windbreaker, hood and mask.

After entering, Zhang Dongdong quickly met Prime Minister Xia Xianze in the largest office.After seeing him, Lao Xia first arranged for him to take a rest, and then a day later, an impromptu enlarged cabinet meeting was held in the Jianyuan Hall on the top floor.

There were many participating units in this meeting, and representatives from almost all government departments attended the meeting.The topic of this meeting is not complicated: Do you want Qin Wang?If so, how should I become king?

As early as more than a month ago, on October [-]nd, the Houjin Eight Banners soldiers broke through the barrier and began to rush into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

Regardless of the series of defense plans hosted by Yuan Dudu after that, in short, on November [-], more than a month after breaking into the customs wall, which was the day Zhang Dongdong set off to Dayuan, the Eight Banners of the Houjin The tens of thousands of troops once again "sneaked" through Jizhou, the throat of the north of the capital, unscathed, and went straight to the capital.

Note that in Jizhou at that time, Yuan Chonghuan and his [-] "Guan Ning cavalry" who arrived in advance.And the [-] cavalry didn't find the tens of thousands of Empress Jin's army at the throat, and let the opponent "sneak through" past. This can only be said that Huang Taiji opened the space door, and there is no explanation other than that.

After that, the Hou Jin army, who was both tailed and escorted by Guan Ning's army, drove straight in. After bypassing Tongzhou, they came to the foot of the capital on November [-]th while passing through the meeting.

By this time, no matter how stupid Chongzhen and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were, they also knew that those reassuring battle reports sent by someone before were all fake, just like the "five-year flat Liao" plan he clamored for before, it was all a joke—— The vast number of savages with pig tails at the foot of the capital is the best evidence.

And Chongzhen, who had a thorough understanding of the situation, also issued an edict at this moment, ordering all the armies in the world to lead troops to serve the king-of course, this would include a certain deputy commander-in-chief far away in the southern country.

In fact, as early as the first day of this month, the capital, which felt that the situation was not good, had already imposed martial law.However, the emperor hadn't figured out the situation at that time, so the governors, governors, and border towns only received urgent military reports, and did not involve leading troops to Beijing.

However, when Hou Jinbing came to the gate of the capital, the imperial court's King Qin order was issued immediately.So while the meeting was being held across the public, the urgent documents for eight hundred miles were already running on the road.

In this way, it won't be long before Xiong Wencan, governor of Fujian, will receive an edict soon.And he is bound to urgently meet with his political ally Cao Chuan to discuss countermeasures.

Therefore, today's enlarged cabinet meeting is to determine the countermeasures for the empire's entry into the Eight Banners, so that people like Zhang Dongdong can operate afterwards.

(End of this chapter)