Dragon Sea Empire

At the beginning of Wanli 44, Zhang Fenglai, the deputy envoy of Xunhaidao in Fujian Province, was dismissed and dismissed for dereliction of duty because he was involved in the party struggle.

During the same period, Zhejiang Songhai Division transferred General Yu Zigao to Qiongya General, and came to Qiongzhou Mansion on Hainan Island.

This is the result of Yu Zigao's serious implementation of the maritime ban policy. Those Zhejiang and Fujian maritime merchants bribed the officials of the Zhejiang Chief Secretary to get him to the ends of the world.

During his tenure in Zhejiang, Yu Zigao tried to carry out some reforms in his army, increase the amount of training and innovate weapons. As a result, he first encountered the problem of insufficient military pay. If it can reach the hands of the soldiers, it is a great conscience for officers at all levels to leave a quarter; if you leave a tenth, it is because you are pitiful and afraid that you will starve to death.

Yu Zigao tried to get some funds to improve weapons and increase training subjects, but every expenditure of the Ming army was set by the imperial court, and any approval of additional expenditures would challenge the patience of the entire bureaucratic system, and would eventually lead to Being exploited layer upon layer, there was not much left, Shen Yourong, deputy general of Zhejiang Province, came to inspect the Songhai Division camp specially, and told Yu Zigao privately: When he first came here, he also wanted to make a difference, but even Even a small reform has to touch the nerves of the entire bureaucratic system. Any reform measures with good goals will eventually become an excuse for officials at all levels to fill their pockets. In the end, Shen Yourong's suggestion is: do your best, obey the destiny, and learn to do things. Be human and protect yourself.

Yu Zigao remembered what Yin Feng often said: To do things, you are a human being, so don't try to be a human being.

Relying on his youthful vigor and the experience he gained while studying at the Chinese Military Academy in Taiwan, Yu Zigao provided his salary and family property, and within a short period of time he built the Songhai Naval Battalion to a considerable scale. Several bands of pirates, also inspected and seized dozens of smuggling merchant ships. Yu Zigao, who was an official for the first time, was not very experienced in the world, and he was not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf. Brave and good at fighting, with his combat experience in the Chinese army, he almost completely eliminated the phenomenon of piracy and smuggling in his jurisdiction.

However, because he was too serious in his work, he went to the governor's yamen many times to quarrel and beg for the owed wages of the soldiers; and he strictly enforced the sea ban, which offended many wealthy businessmen and gentry, and was finally transferred to Hainan Island inexplicably.

The young Yu Zigao suffered a serious setback in the officialdom for the first time. On the way to Hainan, he suddenly missed the days of studying at the Chinese Military Academy in Taiwan very much.

In these years when the Chinese company has made every effort to strengthen its own strength, the Ming Dynasty court still followed the old way, and continued to go to the end according to its own old ways.

Not long after Yu Zigao served as General of Qiongya, the Li rebellion suddenly broke out in Yazhou. The Yazhou Baoyuli, Luohuoli and other tribes rebelled. , and only the Li people in Yazhou had the most serious turmoil. Among the Li turmoil in Qiongzhou, only half of the turmoil occurred in Yazhou. The tribes of the Li nationality are called Dongli. From the west of Zhoucheng more than 250 miles to Guzhenzhou, there are Luohuo, Qianjia, Dexia and other villages, called Xili.

The Xili tribe was severely injured by the officers and soldiers in the Li chaos decades ago, and its strength has been weakened. The village tribes such as the Dongli Invasion Yu, Luokui, Baolong, etc., tyrannically seized the territory and resisted the officers and soldiers. People are always bullied and exploited by Han officials. Fights between Han and Li people often occur in the market of Le'an City. The favoritism of the government and the great success of the officers and soldiers. Some Li villages of the Dongli tribe were looted by the officers and soldiers in retaliation. It developed into a large-scale unrest.

Yu Zigao was very unlucky. He just took office, and before he had time to familiarize himself with his troops and the situation of his defense zone, the war had already spread to the whole island.

One month after the Li Rebellion broke out, all the inspection departments and guards around Yazhou fell, and only Le'an City, which was deep into the mountainous area, was still in the hands of officers and soldiers. It is the rebel armed forces of the Li people who are running rampant, and there are still many bandits taking the opportunity to make trouble. Looking around from the top of Yazhou city, gunpowder smoke is everywhere, and the fireworks are everywhere. Countless Han and Li people are fleeing, dragging their children and daughters, crying to Those who fled in Yazhou City were mainly the so-called "Shu Li" who had emigrated outside the mountains, and they were generally unwilling to participate in the rebellion.

The Dan people in Sanya Port, Dayan Port and other places have basically immigrated to Taiwan in the past few years and became the backbone of Yin Feng's Chinese army and navy. Fishing, the homeland is hard to leave, so there are no immigrants. Therefore, the naval battalion in Sanya Port has existed in name only, and in fact there are only dozens of untrained sailors left. Therefore, the naval battalion abandoned the camp and left. He hid in Yazhou City.

As soon as he entered the city gate, two sailors chased after him, holding him panting: "Master Lin, Master Lin, go back quickly..."

As soon as Lin Zongyu, the general manager of the Sanya Naval Battalion, turned his head and found that it was his own soldier, he angrily shook off the struggle between the two of them: "What nonsense are you talking about? There are dozens of people in the battalion, how can we hold it?"

The sailors couldn't help but smile bitterly, grabbed Lin Zongyu again and said, "It's the Taiwanese fleet that has arrived, and the leader of the fleet has asked to see you by name."

"Taiwan, how many ships are there in Huaxing United's fleet?" Lin Zongyu's eyes lit up, as if he saw hope.

"The leader of the team is also surnamed Lin, named Lin Xiao. They have hundreds of boats, densely packed all over the harbor,"

"We are saved, Yazhou City is saved, hurry up, let's go back to the navy camp,"

……

The sudden appearance of the Chinese navy in Sanya was not accidental.

At the beginning of the chaos in Li, Yazhou's Huaxing Union branch immediately reported to Taiwan by flying pigeons.

During the counter-offensive of the Spanish Expeditionary Force, Yin Feng was always troubled by the fact that Guangdong’s ironware was difficult to go to sea after the sea ban, which led to the bottleneck of the Chinese Army’s weapon production. He thought of Shilu in Hainan Island, the No. [-] open-pit rich iron mine in Asia, and the mining cost is low. The effect is quick. After setting up a grand strategy against the imperial court, some people in the top ranks of the Chinese army want to seize Hainan Island and completely control the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty in the hands of the Chinese company. Hainan Island still has to find a reason.

But now, this opportunity to directly intervene in Hainan Island has come.

When he received the news of the riots in Yazhou, Yin Feng was discussing Yan Siqi's issue with members of the board of directors in the conference hall of the headquarters. Yan Siqi had been fighting independently in Java for nearly 3 years, and his fifth regiment had grown into a force of more than 6000 people. , with the help of the Dutch, he owned his own firearms manufacturing factory, occupying one-third of the territory on Java Island. Everyone was worried that Yan Siqi would become a hidden danger in the Nanyang region of the Chinese company.

Yin Feng knew what they were worried about, he waited for everyone to finish speaking, stood up and said: "I know that everyone is worried, but you still don't know much about the human system with the Chinese Army, so you have such thoughts , all the officers under Yan Siqi, as well as the personnel officers of the grassroots units, are all graduates and interns of our Taiwan military academy. The supervisory officers rotate every two years. faithful and full of faith,

He waved his hand and said: "This is the end of this matter, I don't want anyone to ask such a question about people again,"

Back in the inner house, he called Lin Xiao over.

"Do you have any news about the people you planted in the colonial military area of ​​Java," Yin Feng asked immediately.

Lin Xiaodao: "Everything is as usual. There should be more news from the Supervision Department." Lin Xiao knew Yin Feng's worry: "Zhenquan should be fine. Although he is a bit self-willed and ambitious, he is a smart person and should know Those officers will not rebel with him,"

Yin Feng smiled and shook his head: "I'm not worried about this, but I'm worried that he will be outside for a long time and will not be controlled. In the future, he will not be able to cooperate with others in large-scale battles. In this way, this time he will send troops to Qiongzhou. A transfer order, let him lead the headquarters to seize Yazhou, and you also go back to your hometown, you are familiar with the situation there, and you will be in charge of this operation to seize Hainan Island."

Lin Xiao stood up excitedly: "Don't worry, captain, I will definitely hand over Hainan Island to you completely,"

Yin Feng smiled lightly, and handed a map to Lin Xiao: "This is the map of Hainan Island. This is Changhua County, Danzhou. I will send a few prospectors from France and Feng Shui masters from Taipei Coal Mine to follow your The fleet is going to Hainan, don’t worry about other places, first occupy Danzhou for me, in about this place, more than ten miles away from the city of Zhou, you must control the surrounding fifty miles.”

Lin Xiao is from Yazhou, Hainan Island, not far from Danzhou. He asked suspiciously, "Why is this? Is there something worth doing here?"

Yin Feng chuckled: "You'll know when you go, you must send someone to protect those master prospectors, do you understand?"

……

The situation in Hainan Island was very chaotic, with no information. Yu Zigao, who was in Qiongzhou, did not know that the Chinese army had landed in Yazhou. At this time, the troops he could actually control were only [-] soldiers around Qiongzhou. The officers and soldiers of the army have lost contact with the Qiongzhou government, and even the two thousand soldiers have not been trained for a long time, their weapons are also in disrepair for a long time, and the firearms cannot be fired due to wet powder.

At the moment, he can only ask for help from Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

When the Guangxi Miao soldiers, Yao soldiers, and Guangdong guards successively gathered in Qiongzhou, it was already three months after the Chinese army landed in Yazhou. Only then did Yu Zigao mobilize his troops to go south to open up various roads. It also began to go south. Not long after, the warships of the Haikou Navy Battalion were blocked by the huge Flying Leopard main battleship of the Chinese Army in the sea off Sanya. There were more than a dozen three-masted gunboats on both sides. Hundreds of ships of various kinds are transporting a large number of troops to Sanya Port.

This is the troops of the Yan Siqi Nanyang Task Force transferred from Java and Sumatra in the South Seas are landing in Sanya Port.