Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2430 Li Sixing

Wuzhou, known as Cangwu County in ancient times, has a long history.Now it is the thoroughfare connecting Guangdong and Guangxi. Guangxi can enter Guangdong directly from the river.In the history of later generations, the warlords of Guangxi Province "aided Guangdong" several times, and they basically followed this path, because it saved time and effort.

On June 1701, 6, Wuzhou had been in the hands of people from the east coast for many years. It was the capital of the Lianwu Management Committee, the political center, the military center, and also the cultural center.The economic center, well, this is Qinzhou Port. After all, large sea-going ships can be docked there, and it is very convenient to go south and north. It is the distribution center for 15% of the goods in the Lianwu area.

Qinzhou Port is currently conservatively estimated to have a population of more than 15, maybe 20, but who knows.The organizational construction of the Lianwu Management Committee is very problematic, and there is a shortage of qualified cadres. A large number of former Ming Dynasty officials who have been retained will only show you the yellow book of household registration that is full of errors and omissions.But everyone knows that you can't trust a word of it, not even the punctuation—well, no punctuation.

The population composition of Qinzhou Port is very complex. Cantonese-speaking locals or Cantonese who immigrated accounted for [-]%. Most of them come from Ningshao and Denglai, and there are also a small number of Koreans and Japanese. In short, it is quite complicated.

Of course, we can't forget Fangchenggang, which has already built a naval base.According to the agreement between the Lianwu Management Committee and the Navy, the city is a military area, managed by the Southeast Asia Squadron of the Third Fleet.Any project of the Lianwu Management Committee involving the county must be negotiated with the garrison commander stationed by the navy.Of course, generally speaking, the Lianwu Management Committee will not invest here. Except for a second-class national highway connecting Fangcheng Port to Qinzhou Port that has been completed, they almost ignore it and completely ignore its existence.

However, if the management committee does not care, it does not mean that the city is not good.In fact, after the deep-pocketed navy invested a large amount of construction funds, the entire county of Fangcheng took on a new look. The county seat area (generally refers to the new county seat moved to the seaside) has water and sewage facilities, gas lighting systems, modern hospitals and shopping malls. The population of the county seat has exceeded [-], the vast majority of which are migrants (including naval officers and soldiers, workers in newly built supporting factories, hospitals, shopping malls, schools, government agency staff and their families), and the local population is very small, but these people made a lot of mistakes during the land acquisition process. A large sum of money is exactly the same as those sudden rich groups in Qinzhou port area.

The population of Fangcheng County has also increased to more than [-], and with the increase in foreign trade and special military needs, the agricultural products they planted have achieved good sales, and the income level of the people in the county has continuously climbed several steps. A small and impoverished frontier county has become a wealthy county known throughout the region.

Compared with Qinzhou and Fangcheng, Wuzhou is slightly inferior.After all, the wealth brought by modern industry and overseas trade is not comparable to that of traditional feudal society.Fortunately, Wuzhou has a solid foundation. The status of Xijiang trade hub for thousands of years has greatly influenced the business atmosphere of Wuzhou people. They have a certain amount of capital (although they lost a lot in the previous war), and have business experience and channels. Now, as long as you change your thinking, keep up with the rhythm of the new ruler, and do a good job of trade with Guangdong, it may not be impossible to develop.

You should know that according to the newly revised "Xijiang Friendship and Trade Agreement" between the Lianwu Management Committee and Guangdong Li Yuanhao, the Lianwu Management Committee and Guangdong will jointly invest 50 yuan to dredge the Xijiang waterway to facilitate the navigation of larger ships. .To be honest, there are still many problems with the current channel. Some places are seriously silted up, and the water depth is not enough. Large ships may run aground if they are not careful when sailing at night.In addition, some logistics storage facilities and coal and water filling stations should be set up on both sides of the waterway, all of which require capital investment.

Vessels on the east coast of the cleared waterway can sail freely. They only need to pay a certain amount of waterway maintenance fees at the bank near the downstream estuary and then go back to Wuzhou.This waterway is very important to Wuzhou, because it connects the essence of Guangdong, especially when it is near the downstream estuary, all kinds of goods can be transported up and down through this waterway, which can be described as a golden waterway.

Because of the political and military advantages that the people on the east bank had over the Li regime in Guangzhou, Wuzhou merchants were bound to occupy a larger share of the trade in this waterway.They have shipping advantages, financial advantages, and goods source advantages. If they can’t deal with Cantonese businessmen—well, Wuzhou people used to be Cantonese, but they are not anymore—but it’s a bit unreasonable.The management committee will only support those who can. If it is not possible, it is also a good way to make Qinzhou Port bigger and stronger, and focus on the development of foreign trade in the Far East Economic Circle.

"Captain Niu, I won't say much about this trip to the north. Your army is full of people and your army is at its peak. If you look at the Far East, you will be no match for your combined enemy. However, when marching and fighting, there are many factors that determine the outcome. When you enter Manchuria, you must be careful and careful, and you must not suffer from insensitivity. You will lose the reputation of my army boy and be ridiculed by the navy." Beside the wharf of Wuzhou Port, Tang Moyu, director of the Lianwu Management Committee, pulled the second mixed group Chang Niu Ce's hand, said earnestly.

In fact, as one of the main forces of the army, the Second Mixed Regiment had such a respectable status that the director of the management committee had no right to issue orders to them.But what is Tang Moyu's identity?The former head of the main force regiment, a retired army colonel (before retiring from active service, he was added a rank, which is regarded as an honorary retirement), is an old senior of Niu Ce, so he is fully qualified to guide him.

However, Niu Ce's troops were stationed in Lianwu for three years, passing through Qinzhou, Wuzhou, and Hengzhou. Every time they went to each place, the management committee did their best to solve the problem of military supplies, and there was absolutely no shortage.Moreover, Niu Ce's background is average, which is a bit different from that of a "rich family" like Tang Moyu, so he is relatively modest.I just heard him say: "Director Tang, rest assured, there are many veterans in the Second Mixed Regiment, and they will not make any low-level mistakes. After our department withdraws, there may be changes in the Xiaoxiao lurking in Lianwu territory. Director Tang might as well fight hard." Come on, let’s make an example and make them lose their minds. Lianwu’s sky belongs to us people from the east coast!”

"Hehe, you are really motivated." Tang Moyu nodded and said, "Don't worry, Captain Niu. I have already negotiated with the Vietnamese side. More than [-] people from Gaoping Li Sixing's department will withdraw in batches. After withdrawal, This group of people will stay in Lianwu territory for a period of time, and they just happen to be used to fight security wars. They can't eat for nothing. Moreover, I have two new military divisions here, and five county security regiments that have completed preliminary training. It’s not weak, so it’s no problem to deal with it. Unless Li Laiheng from Changsha is full enough to send a large army to attack us, but would he dare?”

It is said that the remnants of the King of Jin in the Southern Ming Dynasty have been entrenched in the mountains of North Vietnam for several years, and now they are almost becoming a heart disease of the North Vietnam regime.If you fight, the loss is too serious, and you give your opponent a chance in vain; if you don't fight, it's not a thing for someone to recruit troops in the mountains and openly set up a flag.People from the east bank came forward to negotiate with the North Vietnamese, allowing more than [-] people from Li Sixing's department to withdraw from the poor mountain valley, which was really a dream for the North Vietnamese regime.For this reason, they were extorted [-] tons of grain as "severance pay" by the people on the east coast, and they were paid within ten years, which relieved a lot of the burden on the Lianwu Management Committee, which was not very financially well off.

For Li Sixing, it was also a relief to withdraw from the Yuebei mountainous area.In that poor place, they don't have enough to eat, they don't have warm clothes, and even military supplies and medicines have to be donated by people from the east coast.Although a team of more than 3 people was pulled up (many of them were Vietnamese who could not get along in the mountainous areas), there were only more than [-] guns, and there were no more than forty guns that could be used, and the caliber was not very large, and the ammunition reserves were even larger. It's only enough to fight a few small and medium-scale battles-a warlord who lost his territory, that's how miserable-he can't hold on anymore.Being able to come out, no matter where you go in the future, whether it is Nanyang or Whale Sea, it is better than the humid and sweltering mountainous area in northern Vietnam where snakes and insects are rampant but the resources are barren.

Of course, the ideal is to go to Nanyang.Although Li Sixing has been squatting in the ravines, he knows some things more or less, such as the development of Li Yuanyin in Guangdong and Zheng Kezang in Fujian, and the advertisements for recruiting people to go to sea have all hit Guangxi.More than two-thirds of Li Sixing's tribe are from Yunnan and Guizhou, and the rest are either Guangxi or Vietnamese, and they can still adapt to the climate of the Nanyang Islands.

However, they are still a little different from Li Yuanyin and Zheng Kezang.After all, the poor came to invest and had nothing, so they couldn't bargain with the people from the east coast.In the future, there is a high probability that you will not be able to maintain an independent state. It is estimated that it will draw a defense zone for you, just like those grass-headed divisions founded by people from the east coast in Shandong in the early years. In addition, the surrounding area is surrounded by forces directly under the East Bank, so there is no possibility of a separate regime.But in such a situation, what can be done?Eat other people's food and drink other people's food, if they don't help them, they will collapse, let's be realistic, even if they let you go to India - don't think it's impossible, in fact, the people on the east coast really want them to go to India to make a fuss, the first The second choice is to establish Lijiapo in the city of Malacca, but this requires communication with the Dutch East India Company - don't you have to pack your bags and honestly open up territories for others?

After being poor for so long, everyone's morale has long been exhausted, and they are no longer the tiger and wolf division that dared to fight with the Shun army with real swords and guns!

"Li Sixing's people are capable of fighting, and they aren't afraid of death. It doesn't look good now, but it's just low morale and insufficient supplies. If you raise them a bit, even if they can't restore their previous fighting strength, they will scare Xiao Xiao. It's really killing chickens. It's a bull knife." Niu Ce smiled after hearing this, and said: "I will train it well in the future, change my clothes, and release it to India. Isn't it like a tiger going into a herd? Haha, it's cheap for these poor dogs."

(End of this chapter)