Dragon Sea Empire

For Mai Dahai and other sailors from Dan people in Hainan Island, their fate is bound up with Yin Feng.Basically, all the Dan people in Yazhou and Wanzhou on Hainan Island have been recruited to Taiwan by Yin Feng; here they can do business, serve as sailors, serve as soldiers, or go to Tuntian Manor to farm; moreover, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that Dan people were not allowed to study Nor does the rule of word recognition apply here.

In Taiwan, Danmin sailors have a completely different identity from the original place.Yin Feng set up a sailor school in Yaogang, and asked the teachers hired by Quanzhou to teach them to read and write. There were also foreign teachers with big noses who taught them astronomy and surveying, and even taught Western dialect, except for Li Lihua's Spanish. Outside of class, basically no one listens.

Therefore, in the rebellion of the sailors of the war fleet, all the sailors of the Danmin people firmly stood on the side of the Chinese company.When the news of the suppression of the rebellion reached Mai Dahai's fleet, they had already reached the sea off Jilong Harbor.

On the shore, the Japanese built a new fortified stockade, surrounded by a wooden wall, and about 100 samurai from the Satsuma domain were stationed.The Japanese fleet has already returned, so there are only a few sloops in Jilong Harbor.The Feilong quickly took care of these small sailboats, and then placed the huge hull in front of the Japanese cottage.

The poor Japanese only planned to deal with the attacks of the aborigines. They did not expect that the Chinese company would have such warships. Therefore, they could only rely on 20 matchlock guns and dozens of bows and arrows to defend the stockade.

The Chinese company first occupied Sheliao Island, which is called Heping Island in another time and space, and built a walled city here.Then, 300 sailors and musketeers landed on the east beach of the Waren Village, and contacted the indigenous Pulauan, Quimazon, Senar, and Balibo communities in the Tamsui River Basin. Pantao), Quipatao, Lichoco, etc.; there are also indigenous villages such as St. Jago and Quimaury in the northeast corner of the chicken coop.Within a few days, more than 2000 soldiers gathered from various indigenous villages and communities that had been burned, killed and looted by the Japanese came to join the musketeers of the Chinese company fleet.After the alliance meeting was held, the coalition forces launched an attack on the Japanese village.

The Japanese were surrounded in all directions, and the Feilong used naval guns to ravage the Japanese in the village back and forth.The artillery fire destroyed the entire wooden wall, and countless Japanese were killed by artillery shells.

An hour later, the Japanese stockade fell, and almost all the more than 100 Satsuma warriors were killed. Only one small leader was captured alive by the Sailor Musketeers and was about to be escorted to Taiwan Hong Kong.

According to Yin Feng's plan, Mai Dahai established two forts on Sheliao Island and Danshui in Jilonggang, each stationed with 100 musketeers and carrying more than 10 large and small artillery pieces.Mai Dahai ordered the local residents to bring bamboo to the castle, and those who refused to do so would be severely punished.Soon after, villages and communities in the northern part of Taiwan Island came to form an alliance one after another: they sent lemon saplings, lychee saplings and sour fruit saplings to the temporary fortress, offering their land; the old miners and Feng Shui masters who came with the boat started Prepare to dig the coal mines of chicken cages and the sulfur of fresh water, use the aborigines to develop coal and sulfur, and then transport these precious resources to Taiwan.

After doing all this, the first sentinel of Mai De's escort infantry also opened up the passage from south to north in the western plain, came to the outskirts of the chicken coop, and joined forces with Mai Dahai and Ye Hua.

This was the peak period for the reorganization of the navy, but most of Mai Dahai's subordinates were Danmin sailors, so the reorganization did not affect the morale of the northbound fleet.

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Yin Feng paced back and forth on the port pier, looking anxiously at the sea from time to time.

Most of the leadership of the Zhonghua company gathered behind him, talking a lot.Lin Xiao also brought in a troupe drum band, playing and beating from time to time.

Because the nearby area has been guarded by guards armed with live ammunition, many dock workers can only watch curiously from a distance, while discussing: "Who is here? Even the master of the ship is waiting so respectfully?"

"I heard that it is Taishan, the father-in-law of the captain, who was once a high official in the court."

"I heard that he is the father-in-law of the owner and a shareholder of the company."

"No wonder, these gangsters are waiting here."

Finally, an ordinary two-masted merchant ship appeared at the mouth of the bay, and several naval warships that had been waiting there for a long time went to meet it.Here, the drum band is beating gongs and drums.

Zeng Qi, the official judge of Yazhou, came to Taiwan and Hong Kong together with Chen Di, the retired veteran general, and Zeng Jing, Yin Feng's main wife.

Chen Di and Zeng Jing were unexpected visitors to Yin Feng.

Yin Feng kowtowed to Zeng Qi as a son-in-law, and met Chen Di.Looking at Zeng Jing who was cowering in the sea breeze, he felt a little embarrassed.Zeng Qi came over and said with a smile: "Okay, let's send Liang'er back to your home first, and we will talk when there is no one else." Yin Feng smiled bitterly, and had to ask Chen Zhongji and others to send Zeng Jing home first.

Chen Di looked around curiously, seeing countless merchant ships in the harbor, goods piled up and down the pier, and guard soldiers standing still on the wharf trestle, he couldn't help sighing: "Brother Yin, it's only been a year, and you've already made a lot of money!" Ruo Da's pattern is really unexpected!"

"The old general is overrated. This is the result of the joint efforts of all the colleagues in the company." Yin Feng hurriedly humbled himself, and then introduced the company colleagues who had been waiting there to his father-in-law and Chen Di.

Zeng Jingshan, Han Ping and his son, Li Lihua, Lu Shitou, Li Yue, An Heping and others were all there. When Zeng Jingshan saw Zeng Qi, he acted like a son and nephew, and the rest bowed to the ground one by one.

For this father-in-law who helped him start a family and gave him a family, Yin Feng is both grateful and in awe.He first took Zeng Qi and Chen Di to visit the docks, warehouses, factory areas, weapons factories, military and civilian areas, residential areas and other places. Of course, some places, such as the Weapons Research and Development Bureau, would not be visited.

In the evening, in Yin Feng's exclusive box on the third floor of the "Leshan Building" next to the company's headquarters, the main management of the Zhonghua Company greeted Zeng Qi and Chen Di together.In any case, these two are the highest bureaucrats that Zhonghua Company has ever received, even though they are retired.

After the banquet, Yin Feng sent someone to send Chen Di to the company headquarters for a rest, while Zeng Qi was not satisfied, and followed Yin Feng back home.The two sent away irrelevant people first, and Zeng Qi, who couldn't hold back for a long time, asked, "Feng'er, if you create a big situation, what exactly do you intend to do?"

Yin Feng was a little stunned, and immediately replied: "Of course it is to fight back to Manila, to avenge Zeng Yue's second brother!" After a pause, he continued: "This is also the wish of all the original shareholders of the company, to fight back to Manila!"

"Original shareholder?" The second monk Zeng Qizhang was puzzled.

Yin Feng quickly said: "It is the first 950 investors of our Zhonghua company. In fact, some people only rely on loans and credits to get their books, and there are only more than 400 investors who actually contributed."

"Do you think you can deal with the Guanlian people with your strength?"

"It's not my strength alone, it's the strength of the entire company. With our strength, it's not enough to deal with the Guanla people on Luzon Island, but it's enough to deal with the Guanla people on Luzon Island." Yin Feng smiled lightly: "We don't have to deal with them." For all the people involved, you just need to call back to Manila."

"Could it be that the people of Ganguanla won't attack with all their strength?" Zeng Qi shook his head after listening.

"Do you know where the Guanla Kingdom is?" Yin Feng asked back.

Zeng Qi was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't want to lose face in front of his son-in-law, so he said bravely, "The left and right are just where the Atlantic countries are; I heard that there is now a great Western scholar Matteo Ricci, so he should be from there." Bar?"

Yin Feng was embarrassed to embarrass himself again, and quickly said: "Matteo Ricci is from Atlantic Europe, not related to the Greeks, it is recorded in my son-in-law's book..."

Zeng Qi was a little embarrassed, he regarded Yin Feng's book as a fantasy, and he didn't even turn a few pages.He quickly changed the subject and said, "You came back from overseas, so it's clear what happened overseas, so I won't say much. So, take a look at these mansion newspapers..."

Zeng Qi took out several mansion newspapers with different paper quality and printing, which were obviously collected at different times and places.Yin Feng picked up one, and was immediately attracted by a memorial from Fujian Governor Xu Xueju.He looked at it for a while, and found that these few residence newspapers reproduced memorials about Fujian.

Although Yin Feng led people to assassinate the Spanish envoy from Manila, history seems to have been delayed not long from the original track.Xu Xueju said in his memorial to the imperial court: Although there were two requests from Wanminzhe to avenge the wrongful death of the Chinese in Manila, for the imperial court, fighting for the merchants and the barbarians thousands of miles away was far less beneficial than collecting taxes from foreign barbarians.Although this memorial has not yet publicly defended the Spaniards, it is already beating the drums for the opening of trade with Manila.

Sure enough, in the latest performance after the New Year, Xu Xueju counted that in the past year, the red-haired barbarians invaded, the trade in Manila was cut off, the mid-year storms and floods were frequent, the province's taxes were not collected, and the tax money handed over to the court was also greatly insufficient.In particular, the foreign trade tax of Haicheng Port, which is known as the "South Bank of the Son of Heaven", was less than half of that of the previous year in the 32nd year of Wanli.

This issue was directly submitted to the court, and it would definitely touch the sensitive nerves of the money-hungry Emperor Wanli.Although there is also a court report in the mansion newspaper that Emperor Wanli was angry about his people being killed overseas, but at most it was Wanli's anger at being ignored by the barbarians. Compared with the loss of tax money, the barbarians and the merchants are more important Heavy, as you can imagine.

There are also many deep-seated reasons for Xu Xueju's memorial. As far as Yin Feng's military intelligence department knows, many of the tax money obtained from Haicheng's overseas trade every year falls into the hands of officials at all levels in the governor's office in Fujian.It is not uncommon for many high-ranking officials to own shares in goods traded abroad, and no one in the coastal aristocratic families wants to lose the big market of Luzon.The demands of these people will also affect the decision of the governor.

In short, no one really cares about the [-] Chinese who died in Manila.

Yin Feng read it for a long time, and read all the text carefully, in order to learn more about the dynamics of the court.After a long time, he rubbed his eyes, raised his head and said to Zeng Qi who was a little dozing off, "My lord father-in-law, I understand what you mean."

Zeng Qi straightened up, rubbed his eyes and said, "I don't mean anything else. Since ancient times, the people have not fought against the government, and the merchants have not fought with the government. Once the imperial court starts to distribute water to Manila, what will you do?"