Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1107

Chang Kaisheng rejected the Qing court's proposal to renegotiate the peace, and even he was a little too lazy to listen to the conditions. Such an attitude naturally angered the Qing court.And after the Qing court was furious, um, there was nothing left to do—the perennial unification war greatly consumed the Qing court’s national strength, and the northern provinces that had just recovered from the chaos had to support the poor and extravagant Manchurian Eight Banners. , but also to provide money and food for the hundreds of thousands of troops on the front lines of Jiangbei, Huguang, and Shaanxi-Gansu. This made the provinces that were still in the Little Ice Age a little breathless. Change.

Dorgon and others are people of insight, and they naturally understand that years of wars have emptied the northern warehouses. The current plan is to postpone the full-scale attack, and focus on selecting battlefields for key strikes to wait for changes in the situation. .Thus, starting from the end of October 1656, Prince Azig, who was originally in Xiangyang, returned to the imperial court; Luck Dehun, an old friend and defeated general of the East Coast people, rushed to Hangzhou to take up the post to replace Jierhalang who was seriously ill. And governor of the military affairs of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces; as for Nanjing, the traitor Hong Chengchou, the prime minister, is responsible for the military and political affairs of Nanzhili and Jiangxi. The flank of the Shun Army Group.

It can be seen that the Qing government realized that the good opportunity for quick victory and unification of the country had been lost. They lacked sufficient strength and materials to fully blossom on the thousands of miles across the country, so they selected some areas that they thought could achieve breakthroughs and were of great significance. It is natural to focus on the attack, and this also means that the situation in China has finally changed slightly after being stirred up by the people on the east coast for 13 years.

"You think that Wu Sangui can't stay in Sichuan because he lacks food, grass and armaments? Hehe, second brother, you are so naive! I see, that old fox Wu Sangui probably smelled something wrong and was just watching the situation. The warlord This is the virtue, the capital in their hands is more important than anything else, the only thing they care about is how to speculate with the army at hand, hehe, although the Qing court seems to be struggling, it is still no problem to gain the upper hand Yes, Wu Sangui's behavior in Sichuan is likely to be ruined, and the second brother can learn from it and learn some principles of life and work." Liao Jiangong, who is only in his twenties at the Yantai Anti-Qing Military and Political University In an old-fashioned tone, he said to his own brother, Liao Degong, who just turned [-] this year.

Brothers Liao Jiangong and Liao Degong are the sons of former Army Minister Liao Meng. The elder graduated from Bingtuanbao and the younger graduated from Dingyuan Army Military Academy. He teaches inside, and the other serves as a training staff officer in the Yantai Army system. He is considered to be more motivated among the second generation.

On this day, the second brother Liao Degong went to Fushan County to train the militia and returned. He came to the Anti-Qing Military and Political University to play with his elder brother when he had nothing to do. After playing and playing, the two chatted about the current situation in the Ming Dynasty. The words of the boss teaching the second.

"By the way, second brother, after a while, the higher-ups will recruit cadres and officers to go north to the Amur River theater. I will sign up for you. You are a major student who graduated from the Artillery Department of Dingyuan Military Academy. It would be a pity not to go there to get some grades." , and this opportunity is really good. Commander Chang Kai Sheng Chang predicted that there will be a big battle in the area of ​​Model Fort after the opening of the Chinese New Year (in fact, the scale of thousands of people at most), which is everyone's dream. That Kurhan you You know, yes, the captain of the security team, who was Marshal Mo's confidant, has more than [-] elite scouts under him, and now he has to be transferred to Model Fort to accumulate military merits, so you have to take care of it. This is not as useful as you!" Liao Jiangong put his hands on his younger brother's shoulders and said with a serious face.

"Also, don't hang out with the second boy of Wei Boqiu's family when you have nothing to do in the future, understand?" Liao Jiangong continued, and he seemed to think of something while talking, and asked again: "I haven't seen Wei Mingxing for a long time. What has he been doing for the past year? I heard that he has a second job in a Japanese company, what exactly is he busy with?"

"I don't know either. He told me last year that he would go to the Thousand Islands to investigate. It was a task assigned by his father. When I came back, I was tanned, and there were some wounds on my hands and body. It seemed that I was not enjoying myself outside, and I don’t know what they did." Liao Degong said carelessly, and added at the end: "I have already I haven't seen him for more than a year, and I heard this from others. Xiao Qi said that Wei Mingxing might go to the inland wilderness of Eizo soon to investigate. This man is really miserable, and his father is really cruel. "

It is said that since Wei Mingxing and others drove the "Baobab" and "Penguin" ships across the North Pacific Ocean in 1655, they finally discovered Cod Island and spent the winter here because of the onset of bad weather.The harsh winter in the North Pacific made these uninvited guests suffer a lot. More than 100 people died of various reasons throughout the winter. Already crashed.

And in the first half of this year, Wei Mingxing left dozens of people in poor health on the island, and at the same time sent dozens of able-bodied people to take care of them, and then took another 300 people. Take the 650-ton "Baobab" out of the port and continue eastward.They only brought a small amount of food along the way (most of the food, seeds and livestock were left on Cod Island), and with the idea of ​​success or success, they started a desperate and tragic voyage along the westerly wind and ocean currents.

On May 1656, 5, the flute-shaped ship built by Xinhua Shipyard finally saw the outline of the continuous land, which made the more than 17 people on board very excited. On the deck, I looked at the endless land with my teary eyes—this must be the legendary Alaska!Many people think.

This is of course not Alaska. In fact, when they saw the outline of the land for the first time, they were already on the ocean west of Yakutat Bay, but the towering snow-capped mountains everywhere deceived them into thinking that they were still in Alaska. Only high latitudes.It's just that as the navigator announced his latest latitude calculation results, everyone realized that they might have "missed" the legendary high-latitude Alaska, and moved to low-latitude areas.

On May 5, the ship sailed to Yakutat Bay and anchored off the coast. Wei Mingxing sent people ashore to get some fresh water. At the same time, the lucky boys also hunted two deer, which made everyone's morale even higher.

After a delicious meal of venison, the "Baobab" continued to pull anchor and sail south, and finally found a picturesque place (later Vancouver Island) on the last day of May. People unanimously requested to settle here, and Wei Mingxing agreed to this matter as well as he did good deeds.

Then Wei Mingxing assigned people to row a small boat to do a rough survey along the surrounding coast. Some people reported that this is a peninsula (actually an island) protruding from the mainland to the south. As for the place where they docked (the later Sooke Nearby Hong Kong) was unanimously named "Hope Harbor" by everyone, implying that this place will become the place of hope for all the kings traveling to the East.

On July 7, after resting for a month, Wei Mingxing left almost all the remaining materials in Port of Hope, and then led dozens of carefully selected strong sailors, under the command of experienced Captain Jonathan, all the way Going south and then turning west, it took three or four months to drift back to Ezoji Island like a narrow escape.At this time, only 1 of the 46 sailors on the "Baobab" who set off from Port Hope were left, which was extremely tragic.

But it’s miserable. From Liao Degong’s words just now, it’s not difficult to guess that Wei Mingxing and others will make a second trip to the east next year. In order to realize Wei Boqiu, a socialist’s ideal of founding a country on the west coast of the North American continent, his whole family is hard enough. .

"In the future, we should avoid getting involved with people like Wei Mingxing. Liang Xiangjian, member of the Standing Committee of Liang, has just released the rumor that he will review the finances of a Japanese company. Now he is fighting with Deputy Commander Wei. We must keep our distance and don't get caught up in it." Liao Jiangong and his brother naturally don't know the "grand ideal" of Deputy Commander Wei, they only know that Liang Xiangjian is very dissatisfied because of Wei Boqiu's hot fight with Songqian Fan, and has been clamoring that Wei Boqiu wants to let his youngest son be adopted. The transfer of benefits to the Matsumae family has always wanted to review the financial status of Japanese companies.It's just that Deputy Commander Wei has been operating in the Far East for many years, and his old students are everywhere. He is also a person with certain abilities and skills. How could he be easily suppressed by Liang Xiangjian?So the two are still in a stalemate, and Chang Kaisheng has acted as a peacemaker for them. It is estimated that the review of the Japanese company's financial affairs will not be able to go on for a while-in fact, even if the review is probably useless, it should be done. The accounts have basically been evened out, so how could anyone not be an insider discover any clues?

"Go to the north and work hard, work hard for two years, and at least come back as a lieutenant and captain. There are many opportunities there. The war with the Manchus is still far from over. The Russians are also worthy of vigilance. There are opportunities for you to make meritorious deeds. Work hard, second brother, after I finish teaching this year, I will continue to be active and become a township mayor or something, so as to accumulate some qualifications for the future." Liao Jiangong said to his younger brother: "Now we, the so-called The second-generation competition is also very fierce, so don’t be careless.”

(End of this chapter)