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Chapter 269 Is it the king’s land in the whole world 5
Huang Nanping is just a pseudonym, his real name is Lin Nan, and he is the only son of a pirate family.In the waters of Fujian and Guangdong, no one may know about Lin Nan, but when it comes to Lin Afeng, everyone knows that the older generation makes a living on the sea.

Lin Afeng was born in Raoping County, Chaozhou Prefecture. She lost her father when she was young and had to go fishing with relatives to make a living at a young age. When he was 19 years old, he went out to sea and encountered strong winds. The fishing boat capsized and his relatives sank. He held a piece of wood and drifted for a long time. He was accidentally discovered by a passing fleet and saved his life.

However, this life was not in vain. The origin of the fleet was very unusual. It was neither a merchant ship nor a royal navy, but a pirate who made a living by selling private goods and robbery.After a short weighing of the pros and cons, it turned out that since the fishing boat was gone and her relatives were gone, she would still be hungry when she returned home. Lin Afeng decided to join the pirates.

Twenty years later, a large-scale pirate gang appeared along the coast of Fujian. Based in Penghu, it engaged in smuggling business while doing business without capital. It owned more than 20 ships and had more than 200 members and their families.

At this time, it was the early days of Wanli, and the Ming Dynasty still implemented a maritime ban. The people were engaged in maritime trade on a small scale. The court could pretend not to see it, but such large-scale armed smuggling and robberies of passing merchant ships from time to time seriously violated the official group. The benefits must be removed quickly.

Yin Zhengmao, then the commander-in-chief of Guangdong, assembled the most elite army and navy troops to jointly encircle and suppress Lin Feng's gang.Unfortunately, the news was accidentally leaked as expected. After receiving the news, Lin Afeng chose peace talks and personally wrote to Yin Zhengmao expressing his willingness to accept the imperial court's recruitment.

Of course Yin Zhengmao couldn't agree. The imperial court had banned the sea, and overseas trade was monopolized by officials and wealthy people from all over the world. What was the use of such a large fleet?There is no place to arrange personnel, so it is more worry-free to eliminate them.

When Lin Afeng saw that he had to fight, he simply took his men and family members and left the coast of Fujian and Guangdong by boat, and headed south to Little Luzon, planning to occupy the island and establish his own kingdom.

At that time, Luzon and Luzon had been occupied by the Spanish. Although the vanguard troops sent by Lin Afeng invaded Manila and killed the Spanish commander-in-chief, they did not have enough stamina to occupy Manila.

Seeing that the Spaniards were not easy to mess with, and there were more and more reinforcements, Lin Afeng simply led the fleet to Pangasinan City, north of Manila, where he proclaimed himself king and established a country, and was supported by local residents.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Four months later, the Spaniards and the Ming Dynasty secretly communicated with each other and sent troops to encircle and suppress the people.Lin Afeng fought hard for more than four months and was outnumbered. He only led a few dozen ships to successfully break through.

Later, it was rumored that he returned to the coastal areas of Chaoshan and gathered his old troops to try to regain his strength.After receiving the news, the Ming court did not dare to sit idly by and resorted to alienation tactics. They persuaded several of his generals to surrender on the pretext of recruiting peace, forcing Lin Afeng to flee again.

In the end, Lin Afeng went to Luzon and continued to do business without capital by virtue of her good relationship with the local residents until she died of illness in the 28th year of Wanli.When he was dying, he called his only son Lin Nan to his side and told him to return to his hometown for a visit.

Lin Nan was already in his thirties at that time and became the new leader with the support of a group of old subordinates.The first thing he did after taking office was to return to Chaozhou Prefecture with his father's body and bury him in peace.

However, the news of his return to his hometown was reported to the government. After several small-scale conflicts, there was not much strength left in the originally weak army, so he could only lead the remnants all the way north, and finally chose Shuangyu Island as a development base.

Then things became simple. The pirate stronghold that Yuan Keli attacked in the first wave was Shuangyu Island. Lin Nan couldn't fight or run away when facing the new sail warship, and the entire army was wiped out.

Perhaps due to the blessing of Lin Afeng's spirit in heaven, Lin Nan repeated his father's good luck and survived drowning while holding a wooden plank. He became a prisoner and was taken back to the Haihe Shipyard for hard labor.

Although he was defeated and taken prisoner, Yuan Keli was impressed by his commanding ability and skill in using artillery.After three months of investigation, I felt that this man was not a vicious person, and he had read books and knew how to read, so he was recruited into the navy, starting as a sailor.

In this patchwork navy, Lin Nan was like a fish in water.Although he has never sailed a new sailboat or used a breech-mounted smoothbore cannon, he quickly stood out due to his years of sailing experience and his ability to master new knowledge.

Starting from a small flag in the seventh rank, he rose step by step to a thousand households in the fifth rank in two years. He commanded two three-masted warships and two two-masted transportation ships, with more than 2 soldiers under his command. He was highly regarded by Yuan Keli and was the first foreign official in the navy. Send generals to guard the place.The navy is a newly created separate branch of the military. Considering the difficulty for contemporary people to accept, recognize and understand it, Hong Tao did not make any major changes to it and still followed the Ming Dynasty garrison military system.

As governor, Yuan Keli was in charge of the entire naval affairs, including logistics, armament and combat command, but he held the civilian position of right minister of the Ministry of Industry.This was normal in the Ming Dynasty. For example, Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Chonghuan sounded like generals leading troops in battles, but in fact they were civilians, acting like both the Ministry of Defense and the Supervisory Army.

Later generations always like to point out that the Song Dynasty was strong in literature and weak in military affairs, because the civil servants at the rear often pointed fingers at the military commanders at the front.Little did they know that the Ming Dynasty was the pinnacle of using civil servants to control military forces. Civil servants were no longer satisfied with commanding from a distance. They simply rolled up their arms and sleeves and went on stage. Pure laymen led connoisseurs.

Below the Governor of the Navy are the real military officers of the Navy.The newly built navy was nominally a garrison, with two guards, or 1 men, divided into water warfare guards and land warfare guards.

Since it is a garrison, the highest general is the commander.Currently, the commander of the Marine Guards is Li Ruzhang. He is originally a general of the border army. He is a little familiar with the weapon performance and tactics of the Marine Corps, and then overcomes the body's natural reactions, which makes it easier to get started.

But it is more difficult to choose the commander of the water war guard. The advantages of traditional Ming Dynasty naval generals are that they are familiar with the sea, accustomed to sailing life, have practical experience, and have the courage to face dangers.

But these advantages also have disadvantages. The sea they are familiar with is the sea when sailing near the coast, which is completely different from ocean sailing.The ships they are used to are the sand ships, fu ships, and canton ships commonly used by the Ming Dynasty navy. The operation is very different from the new hybrid soft-sail warships.

Actual combat experience comes from killing people at close range and using cold weapons to fight. The experience in pure mid-range artillery attacks is basically zero.

In addition, the cultural level of these people is generally low. They have never studied algebra and geometry, cannot calculate the angle between the sun, have never used a sextant, cannot understand new nautical charts, and are unable to sail a new warship in a short period of time.

There are also big problems with using new people, such as orphans and eunuchs who have learned new knowledge for four or five years.They did know how to navigate and use new muskets and artillery, but they were not familiar with the sea and had no actual combat experience.

According to the naval standards set by Hong Tao for Yuan Keri, training alone is not enough. Those who have not experienced the test of blood and fire are all just on paper, and it is not clear whether he has the talent to remain calm in the face of danger.

In view of this current situation, Hong Tao could only let Yuan Keli walk on two legs. He should not rely solely on veteran sailors nor newcomers, and try to give them equal opportunities to perform.

Observe each person's specific performance in training and actual combat, select sailors who learn quickly, have talent, are willing to work hard, and agree with the basic concepts, and promote talents in an eclectic way.

So far, there are a total of four thousand households and five hundred households among the Water War Guards who are key training targets. Lin Nan is one of them, and he has the highest position among all the pirates who surrendered.Most of the rest are still sailors and small flags, and only a few can get to the general flag.

This is not to discriminate against pirates in the navy. On the contrary, both Yuan Keli and Hong Tao hope that a few big pirates will suddenly pop up, learn the necessary knowledge in an instant, and then lead the navy straight to Nanyang, without having to coax the Francois to help transport them. Rice.

It's a pity that most pirates are from poor fishermen backgrounds. If they can write their names correctly, they are considered to be educated people. Those who can read newspapers are definitely at the level of military advisors. People like Lin Nan who have been reading since childhood are only one in a million.

Algebra, geometry, and Latin seem to be more difficult to learn than learning to sail a sail or handle a cannon or a gun.Some old pirates who are 40 to [-] years old can skillfully operate and shoot artillery in less than a month, and can even perform simple repairs. However, when they see the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division signs, they immediately raise their hands and surrender. They would rather be punished than take a second look.

(End of this chapter)