Win the Ding 1617

() When I woke up, the red sun was already shining in front of the window.

Shou Han stretched his waist contentedly, and when he looked sideways, he saw an intoxicating greasy white inlaid with a little bright red.He tried hard to think about it, but he couldn't remember the name of this orchid. The names of these people were all longer than a piece of cloth!Forget it, don't want to!Let Xiuzhu rename them later!He found a reason for himself in his heart.He patted the snow-skinned jade breasts of Tianzhu Orchid, and motioned her to get up and call for someone to come in and serve her.

Seeing the orchid's staggering footsteps, Shou Han couldn't help but secretly complacent, "I'm still in good health!"

It has been two days since I returned to the General’s Mansion in Hue. I spent some time with the wives. I wanted to hand over the public food accumulated in the past month, but I found out sadly that the women were either pregnant, so I had to avoid this. or because of the monthly letter, it is impossible to chat with him.Therefore, the wives selected some of the orchids served in the mansion and sent them to the study to serve them, so that the guard could feast on them.

Several maidservants followed the orchid's weird tone and filed in, holding copper basins of hot water, towels, soap and other things in their hands.First, he combed the guard's hair with an ivory comb, then carefully combed it with a grate, and fastened it with a gold hairpin. After that, he cleaned his face, rinsed his mouth and changed his clothes.

A footman on duty outside stood in the porch and asked for instructions, "Sir, should you have breakfast alone or with the wives?"

"Have they used it?"

"Go back to the master, the wives are useless, they are all waiting for the master."

"Alright! Let's have dinner together!"

The servant on duty turned around to deliver a message, but was called back by the guard.

"Come back and tell your supervisors to add another seat."

Through the bamboo curtain, watching the footman in the bamboo gown trotting all the way to deliver the message, Shou Han turned around and looked at the orchid, "Quickly wash and put on makeup, I'll take you to breakfast later!"

The woman who waited for the grooming whispered in Shou Han's ear for instructions, "This girl, should the master stay or not?"

The so-called stay or not stay refers to how to deal with the seeds that Shou Han sprinkled on this piece of Tianzhu land.If you say to stay, then ignore him and let the natural development take its course. If you say not to stay, then the women in the inner house will naturally have a way to wash and scrape the seeds from the land.

Looking at the orchid's faintly flushed cheeks, recalling the amorous feelings and madness of last night, Shou Han casually said, "Keep it! Can the mansion be short of this one?!"

The solar term has entered July, and the weather is already very hot. Although it is morning, it still feels hot and humid.Breakfast was placed on the pavilion in the lake in the garden.

"There is water under the bridge and the bridge surface is cool." The breeze brought a little heat, making people feel much more refreshed.

After eating two bowls of fragrant japonica rice porridge with side dishes and two pieces of dim sum served by Daoxiang Village, Shouhan couldn't help but praise, "These masters are getting more and more skillful in their craftsmanship and thoughtfulness, and they use all the cocoa. gone."

Only the orchid who was plowed by the guards last night just kept her head down, with a submissive attitude, and kept adding vegetables and porridge to several wives and concubines.

"It's enough to rest, it's time to go to work." Shou Han put down the bowl in his hand, and smiled self-deprecatingly, "When I was outside, I could eat such a bowl by myself, and I came home , but I can only eat two bowls. Alas! It’s a life of a ****!”

"If the master dies, what shall we do?" Seeing that Shou Han was in a good mood, the fourth wife, Xiu Zhu, joked with him.

"Hehe! You guys? Didn't Mencius say that the people of Qi have one wife and one concubine?" Shou Han said with a smirk on his face, "I am more than one wife and one concubine."

Hu Ji didn't understand what monogamy and concubine was, but she saw several high-ranking women in the inner house on weekdays, all of whom were flushed, and they waved their small pink fists as if they were going to hit them.

"Bah! I'm not as good as you who pick yourself up! What is that guy?! Can he compare with you?!"

"The People of Qi Have One Wife and One Concubine" comes from "Li Lou Zhang Ju Xia" in "Mencius".That Hu Ji didn't understand, but the five women in front of her knew it.

"The people of Qi have a wife and a concubine and live in the house. When the lover comes out, he must be full of wine and meat and then turn back. The wife asks whoever eats and drinks, and he is rich and noble. The wife told the concubine: "When the lover comes out, then You must be full of wine and meat, and then turn back, and ask those who eat and drink, as rich as possible.But there is no one who shows up.I will be the place of my beloved. "From the flea, give it from the place of the good man. There is no one in the country to talk with. The sacrificer between Dongguo and the dead begs for the rest. When the wife returns, she tells her concubine, "A good man is one who looks up to him for life.If so now! "With his concubine, he talked to his lover, and wept in the courtyard. But the lover didn't know it, Shi Shi came from outside, and made his wife and concubine proud. From the perspective of a gentleman, the reason why a person seeks wealth, status and profit is that his wife and concubine are not ashamed Those who don't weep with each other are hopeless!"

Li Muhua recited some ostentatious original texts, and Li Muhua squinted at Shouhan, "Don't you tell me that you have gone out to fight in the past few years, and you have been begging for it from others? Not only did you beg for this city of Hue , and begged for Thang Long City, begged for Champa, begged for Laos, and by the way, begged for two beautiful sisters in Siam Ayutthaya."

"Yeah! I went to discuss with them with a pleasant face! I took tens of thousands of people there, and set up hundreds of large and small artillery pieces under the city, and then cried and told the defenders on the city, 'I Please, surrender! I don’t want to kill!’ Then, they surrendered!”

"Haha! So that bastard used such tricks in Ayutthaya?" Mei Shan also started to tease.

"Of course, otherwise, where would I go to find such beautiful and enchanting two wives?!"

Seeing Meishan get up and wave her fist to hit her, Shou Han hastily and lightly supported her, "Come on, take your time, don't move your waist, it's not good to move the fetus."

Shou Han gently helped Mei Shan to sit still, and confessed to Yan Meier who was sitting beside him.

"Mei'er, both of you and the others have my flesh and blood on your body. You must be more careful. There must be people around you, at least four people. In addition, from today onwards, a new rule has been established in the mansion. Anyone who is pregnant and pregnant During the breastfeeding period, the monthly payment will be doubled."

"However," the conversation changed, and he continued, "In the future, no matter who will give birth to your children, it will include you." Shou Han pointed at the Tianzhu orchid whose name he couldn't remember, "born After one year old, he will be sent to his wife to be raised, understand?!"

As soon as this remark came out, the five women immediately reacted differently, some were shocked, some were in a daze, some looked happy, there were all kinds of things, and so on.

Leaving a group of women there with their own concerns, Shou Han came to his signing room.Here, Li Peilin, Chen Tianhua and others have been waiting for a long time.

"Bring them all?"

"I brought them all."

After Pei Lin returned the sword, seal, order and arrow in full, he began to report the military and political situation of the past month one by one.

"You can let go of the other things first. What is the situation of the battle preparations in the various camps?"

"In addition, the newly cast cannons are also on the fort?"

Although Shou Han has been away for more than a month, and he has been working hard in the mansion for the past two days when he comes back, he does not dare to slacken his one-acre three-point land.

The two looked at each other and exchanged glances, and it was still Pei Lin who spoke as the respondent.

"You have been going to Ryukyu since May of this year. There are some things in Ryukyu that I don't have time to ask you for instructions. I'm afraid the Dutch will go to war with Zheng Zhilong!"

"Damn it! The naval battle at Liaoluo Bay is here?!"

Shou Han cursed in his heart.

The cause of this war, to put it mildly, was that in order to monopolize trade with China, the Dutch East India Company issued an order to prohibit the Spaniards from intervening in trade activities with China while Europe was in full swing. The war, to put it bluntly, is all about money!

Putmans, the governor of Formosa appointed by the Dutch, led 50 large and small ships, as well as the flagship Meadburg and a Chinese junk ship Dagou, in addition to [-] pirate ships. Sao harassment, in an attempt to force the Ming court to sign a trade monopoly treaty with the Netherlands.

In July 1633, Putmans led a fleet of thirteen Dutch warships headed by the flagship of Meadeburg, successively attacked South Australia, Xiamen and other places, and took advantage of the emptiness of the above-mentioned areas to burn and sink China. 15 ships (Zheng Jun 10, Ming Ting 5) on the front line, and landed to "plunder".After the sneak attack was initially achieved, the Dutch were repelled by the Zheng family's army, but cruising in the nearby waters with sea power posed a huge danger to Xiamen Bay, the root of the Zheng family. At the same time, they forced ships passing through the sea near Jinxia to pay the Dutch High transit taxes were imposed to make up for military expenditures. At the same time, they threatened nearby villages and asked them to provide supplementary food such as Dutch pigs and cattle. At the same time, they sent a letter to the governor's office in Fujian, asking China to open up trade.

However, in the face of the condition proposed by the Dutch that China immediately stop trade with Spain, Portugal and other countries, it can only trade with the Dutch, otherwise it will go to war again.The answer given by the Chinese side was: the Dutch first compensated for the war losses and returned the senior officials, and then it was possible to negotiate business issues.

The gap between the two sides is too far away.Therefore, what cannot be obtained on the negotiating table must be obtained through cannons.

Putesman began further military operations.First they attacked Xiamen, and were attacked head-on by the guerrilla Zhang Yongchan and Xiong Rulin, the magistrate of Tong'an County, who were stationed here, and killed more than a dozen Dutch soldiers.The navy pursued it overseas, but due to the unfavorable wind direction, it failed to meet the enemy after two days and nights and returned.The defeated Dutch army cruised on the sea for more than [-] days, not daring to attack Xiamen again, so they turned to look at Haicheng from Liuluowan. There were three small boats, and five were won.

After the Battle of Wuyu, the two sides entered into a strange period of strategic calm. The Dutch did not dare to attack rashly due to successive losses, and local officials in Fujian were also waiting for the court's opinion on how to deal with this obviously not a trivial conflict. , Therefore, during the typhoon gap in the entire month of September, the two sides only maintained a small range of contact, waiting and accumulating strength for each other.

During this period, Zheng Zhilong sent Zheng Zhibao to Hue to purchase military supplies.From Zhibao's mouth, Li Peilin also heard some information about the frontline.

"What my brother meant was to give Dazu's red-haired Niyi a business route, allowing them to trade from Dazu to Fujian. Unexpectedly, this group of rebels were greedy enough, so they took advantage of our army's going out to suppress bandits and made a big move Sneak attack on my base in Kinmen and Xiamen!"

When mentioning the surprise attack that day, Zheng Zhibao was a little angry, but also a little proud.In that sneak attack, ten ships under Zheng Zhilong's subordinates were burned, and five ships under Zhang Yongchan's subordinates were also burned.Dozens of ships that Zheng Zhilong was repairing and supplying in the fleet docked in Xiamen were all exposed to the guns of the Dutch tulips! .

"Lucky in misfortune!" Zheng Zhibao put down the teacup in his hand and let out a long breath.

On that day, Princeman led the Dutch fleet to attack Xiamen, and victory was already in sight. After destroying and sinking fifteen warships of the Zheng family and the Ming army, he was about to expand the results of the battle, and in one go, dozens of warships moored in the harbor were about to be expanded. When all Zheng's fleets were sunk, the forts on Hulishan began to show their power.

The [-]-pound heavy guns poured shells on the Dutch fleet at sea on the unfinished fort. The Zheng army team, which was a little flustered because of the surprise attack before, got a precious respite time. Under the leadership of Zuo, they rearranged and launched a counterattack against the Dutch ships.

"The cannons, wrought iron, burnt ashes, etc. that your noble army sold to us that day, we used stones, burnt ashes, and iron bars to build the Hulishan Fort with Sanhe soil and granite according to the instructions of the gentlemen. My brother Someone under his command made iron bars out of wrought iron, and laid them on the granite ground of the fort. Iron wheels were installed under the gun mounts. The cannon fired from the Hulishan Fort pierced through a Dutch plywood ship, giving the Dutch a blow! My brother and the ship owners rushed back to Xiamen after the battle. Listen to the brothers below. We talked about the situation that day, and we are all full of praise for the [-]-pound cannon of the Nanzhong Army!"

"Zhi Bao came here this time, in addition to thanking the former Fan Nanzhong Army brothers for their generous help, there are other things that I want to trouble everyone in the Nanzhong Army."

Although the Dutch attack was repelled, Zheng's army also suffered heavy losses. Ten large ships were destroyed by the Dutch, and five ships under the guerrilla Zhang Yongchan of the Ming army were also sunk. Nothing ever happened.Therefore, this place must be found!

If you can't find this place, how can you hang around at sea in the future?Wasn't the golden signboard of Jade Flood Dragon smashed? !This group of stinky Dutchmen will be handing over the golden route between Japan and the mainland!

After listening to Pei Lin's report of Zheng Zhibao's coming to Nanzhong, Shouhan finally had a more intuitive understanding of the battle that took place in the coastal areas of Fujian, "What else did he say?"

"Listen to him, Zheng Zhilong is currently gathering all the people under his command, and at the same time issued the highest-level mobilization order to summon all the heroes who have had contacts and cooperation with the Zheng family to the Jinxia sea area, the orb in the northwest. There are Xiangyu Island, Zhongyu Island, Goushu Island, and Huyu Island in the northeast (this island group has been integrated with Xiamen Island and has become Dongdu Port Area and Xiangyu Free Trade Zone. It has become a historical term.) Huoshao Island, Big Rabbit Island, Little Rabbit Island, and White Rabbit Island in the central part; Monkey Island, Lantau, Gulangyu Island in the south, and islands in Tong'an Bay are all covered with shadows of sails. .”

"However, although there are many ships, there is a serious shortage of artillery and gunpowder. When he came to Nanzhong this time, he proposed to buy at least [-] large French machines, [-] barrels of gunpowder, and [-] firecrackers. In order to They will not be short of wages and weapons when fighting the Dutch. In addition, they also want to buy four more [-]-pound cannons to guard the islands such as Gulangyu near Amoy."

"Damn you! You need so many guns and gunpowder in one go, this Zheng Zhilong is really rich!" Shou Han couldn't help but secretly calculated in his heart. The price of a barrel of gunpowder is 80 silver dollars, and a thousand firecrackers are also 4000 silver dollars! "This arms sale is indeed a good business!"

Pei Lin handed over a stack of letters and contracts and other documents with a wry smile on his face, "Master, just look at this and you will know."

"what?"

With doubts, Shou Han took the stack of documents.

The letter was written by Zheng Zhilong to Shou Han. The general content was not only polite, thanking Shou Han for selling him wrought iron and other things generously last time, but also praising the weapon performance of the South China Army. It is excellent, "quite favorite of all soldiers", and the next words are to hope that Shou Han can continue to act righteously and sell him, no, to be precise, buy him the above-mentioned weapons and gunpowder on credit.

There are two reasons. One is that the Dutch fleet haunts the sea from time to time, and they dare not bring large sums of gold and silver to Nanzhong. In the near future, there will be a lot of expenditures on rewarding military salaries everywhere, and the funds are quite scarce. I hope the South China Army can understand.

Enclosed with the letter is an IOU written by Zheng Zhilong himself, and he used his seal and private seal of the Five Tigers Guerrilla General.

"Owe me 100 million yuan?! This one is very happy, anyway, he owes money, so he owes more!"

"It's not an empty-handed white wolf," said Pei Lin, who had been with Shou Han for a long time, and was able to use many words with ease. He felt that this word was a very appropriate description of the situation of the trade with Zheng Jiajun.

"Although Zhibao didn't bring any money, he left [-] sailors behind. They knew that our army's navy was always short of manpower, so they used it as collateral. They said that when they sent money after the war, these people would go back."

Zheng Zhibao transported away with the ship, in addition to the above-mentioned artillery, muskets, and gunpowder, there were also thousands of funeral guns and extinct knives.

These things will give full play to their design power in the upcoming battle of Liuluowan.

"Okay, let's discuss how we should deal with the red-haired Niyi!"

Shou Han ordered someone to keep the IOU. (To be continued.)