Win the Ding 1617

"Your Majesty, Mr. Li has already boarded the boat from Port Arthur."

In front of the Dazheng Hall, Huang Taiji was very interested in training and riding with the concubine Hai Lanzhu in the open space, and tried to ride Li Peiting's parting gift to Huang Taiji, two solid-colored snow-white war horses.

For these two tall and strong war horses, Huang Taiji naturally liked them very much. What surprised him the most was that after he put on two layers of heavy armor, the war horses could still run as usual without any restriction.

"A good horse! It really is a good horse!"

He jumped off the horse, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the handkerchief Hai Lanzhu handed him, and couldn't help but praise the fine horse that just came that day.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Fan is talking to you!" His queen Zhezhe reminded him in a low voice.

"It doesn't matter! Mr. Fan is not an outsider! Sometimes it's better for the monarch and his ministers to get out of the way!"

These days in Shenyang, Li Peiting's life can be said to be a small banquet for three days and a big banquet for five days.The banner owners and princes of each banner invited them to the banquet in turn.

The older ones used the excuse of reminiscing about the past, while the younger ones wanted to "pass on the traditional friendship from generation to generation". In order to be able to invite Li Peiting, the banner owners of each banner can be said to be the Eight Immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers.Now, the stewards and servants of Prince Rui's Mansion got a big deal.In order to be able to understand the movements and preferences of this second master Li, what kind of food he likes to eat, what kind of wine he likes, and what kind of beauties tend to lose his revolutionary vigilance, all the housekeepers in the palace and officials from various banners gathered in Prince Rui's mansion Around, please drink, give gifts, servants, and money to the servants in charge of Prince Rui's mansion.In order to be able to extract this information.

"Your Majesty, during the time in Shengjing, Mr. Li has been walking around with the princes very frequently. I am worried."

Although Fan Wencheng didn't say anything, his worry was palpable.

"Don't worry too much. In comparison, he gets the biggest benefit from here. Businessmen are greedy for profit, and they are very clear about which one is more important!"

Huang Taiji gently twirled the blade of the sword made of iron and steel with his fingers, "Such a sharp weapon. It's a pity that I can't equip all of them for my Eight Banners soldiers!"

"Your Majesty, I believe that no matter how good a weapon is, it must have a matching commander and soldiers!"

"Hahaha! Mr. Fan, you can speak to my heart every time! Not bad. Even the best weapons and armor are in the hands of soldiers of the Ming army. They are nothing but a burden. A burden when running away!"

"I heard from the young master of the Fan family that they bought more than [-] sets of armor for the emperor from Datong Town, Jingying and other ministries. There are [-] long knives and [-] spears, and they will be delivered soon. Arrived in Shengjing."

Huang Taiji is still very satisfied with what the eight merchants in Shanxi have done.

"In the Qing Dynasty, Li Er provided salt and cloth, and Shanxi merchants purchased food, weapons and iron for us. Why worry about the big things?!"

Concubine Chen Hai Lanzhu obediently brought hot tea to Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng, and asked them to sit down under the pillars and savor the autumn tea picked from the south of the Yangtze River.

"Mr. Fan, you go and tell Fan Sanba and Wang Dengku that it is my will, and ask them to send their merchants to Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian in the Ming Dynasty to purchase goods for me and the Qing Dynasty. Second, let’s also drop by to learn more about the military situation and people’s livelihood of the South Central Army. By the way, let’s see if we can buy some food and weapons for me! I heard that Li Shouhan sent 50 shi of japonica rice to Chongzhen’s children at a time. , if this amount of grain is in my Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that it will be enough for the soldiers and civilians all over the country to eat for a whole winter!"

The words are full of envy for Emperor Chongzhen and yearning for that rich land, and the more evil is greed and covetousness for wealth.

"Your Majesty, I am in the Qing Dynasty according to the destiny, and the whole world is naturally the king's land. It's just a matter of morning and evening!"

The two monarchs and ministers discussed military affairs for a while, Fan Wencheng stood up and resigned, and arranged for Fan Yongdou and other eight Shanxi businessmen who were closely related to the Qing army to go to Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Nanzhong to spy on the military situation.

Since that day, all kinds of spies, spies, and spies from the mainland have squeezed over Nanzhong like a crucian carp crossing the river, trying to get what they need from here.Among them, there are spies from various ministries of the Ming army, secret operations of rebels in Liaodong, and spies from various peasant armies who fled between the Jianghuai River and the Han Dynasty, and so on.There are also scholars, officials and eunuchs from all walks of life who came to study under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

When Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng were discussing military affairs and state affairs, Li Peiting's fleet had already left Liaodong Bay. Watching the sailors busy moving the cannons from the bottom of the cargo hold to the gun positions, the nervous and orderly busy figure, Against the backdrop of the vast sea and sky in spring, Li Peiting had the urge to write a poem, but unfortunately after searching, he found that there were not many stocks in stock, so he had to give up in resentment.

"Boss, the sentinel ship in front has sent a signal. There is a Nanzhong fleet on the channel to the south of us, with the flag of Xu Huanshan on it. In addition, one of the ships belongs to the eldest lady!"

"Signal! Go up!" Hearing that his family's fleet was in the nearby waters, Li Peiting's heart immediately settled down. If you are not careful, you will be smashed to pieces.

"Huanshan, how did you get here, you sick bug?!"

On Xu Huanshan's flagship, he drank two cups of hot sugar cane wine to calm his mind slightly, and Li Peiting began to ask Xu Huanshan, the right-wing commander of the navy, why he came.

"Didn't my lord promise to give the emperor 50 shi of polished round-grained rice every year? The eldest lady sent 20 shi a few days ago. The emperor felt that it was too late, so he encouraged and urged me. My lord ordered me to lead a team to transport They brought 40 shi of polished round-grained rice, oil, salt, cloth, wrought iron farm tools, knives, guns, artillery, armor, and other things to come!"

"Wait! Wait! Why are you transporting these many items to the north? Are they all transported to the capital?" Li Peiting was very keen to catch the loopholes in Xu Huanshan's words.

"The 30 shi is for the emperor. The rest of the grain and rice are given to you by Long Shengxing for sale on the ground in the capital. Wrought iron farm tools, knives, guns, armor, artillery, etc., part of which was promised to be sold to Governor Lu on that day. The rest The knives, guns, armor, gunpowder and artillery are sold to the various ministries of the government and army!"

Hearing that it was just shipping goods to sell on the ground in the capital, and not an attempt to expand the scope and variety of trade, Li Peiting had no choice but to give up in resentment.But looking at the sails covering the sky and the sun on the sea, and looking at the gunboat in the fleet with Li Huamei's flag flying high, he always felt that there was some reason for it.

"If you only send food, rice, military equipment, cloth, oil, salt, etc., how dare you mobilize so many ships? With so many ships, you may not be able to do it even if your navy's right wing is all out! Tell me, what mission did the lord give you?"

Li Peiting pointed to the gunboats with densely packed gun ports on both sides of the ship's side, as well as those Fuchuan with the banner of transporting grain and rice.On the lucky boat.A large number of soldiers and sailors are blowing the sea breeze on the deck.

"You brought at least two battalions of Xuanwu battalions out!"

"It's not two battalions. It's four battalions. One battalion and two outposts stayed in the capital to serve as guards for businesses and dredging canals and Haihe rivers. My lord ordered me to transport more grain and rice for dredging rivers." Xu Xu Huan Shan still had a somewhat dull expression.

Four battalions of soldiers and horses?Li Peiting couldn't help but gasped.This is almost the same as the number of soldiers and horses guarding the king last time.Let's say there is no battle this time.That is so strange!

Since it is just the right time.Naturally, Pei Ting couldn't let go of this opportunity to add a military record to himself.

"Who are you going to hit? My boat is also going south, and the boat is basically empty now. Let your people come to my boat, don't be crowded together!"

When Li Peiting went north.The fleet was loaded with a large amount of oil, salt, cloth, spices, etc. When going south, most of the cabins were filled with ginseng fur and some raw gold pearls, so the transportation space on the ship was naturally quite empty.

After the two fleets were reorganized, Xu Huanshan ordered people to put down the traffic boat and go to Li Huamei's ship to pick her up and talk.

"Big worm, it's enough for you to come here to transport grain and rice, why do you want the young lady to come here? I don't know if there is a good place to go in the wind and waves?!"

Xu Huanshan looked left and right, and said to Li Peiting in a low voice: "If you thought it was only the young lady who came, then you are very wrong! Not only the young lady is here, but the young master is also on the young lady's boat! "

Hearing this, Li Peiting couldn't help but gasped. Not only Li Huamei came out, but even Shou Han's eldest son (not counting the one who died young) Li Huayu came with the team.It seems that the background is not small.

"Is the lord planning to let the young master accumulate experience?"

"This is just one, there is another troublesome point. Avoid acne!"

Not long ago, as Shou Han set up Xingyuan in Guangzhou, a large number of people from Guangdong and Guangxi who were harassed by the military disaster went south one after another, looking for a quiet place to hide in Nanzhong.

But all of a sudden, 10 people flocked to the south along the coastline and overland.For a while, the temporary resettlement isolation area set up by the pass was overcrowded.Incidents of outbreaks of infectious diseases that occurred in Nanzhong before due to the movement of a large number of people happened again.

"The epidemic is prevalent in the jurisdiction, and the adults are better. Many children have fallen ill. In less than a month, more than a thousand children have died of it. In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the lord issued an order. In the area where the epidemic occurs, the school Schools are temporarily suspended and children are at home."

Xu Huanshan spoke in a very solemn tone, which surprised Li Peiting.

"What is the disease? So fierce?"

"Smallpox plus seasonal epidemics (flu). Although there was a water seedling method before, it was too late. When we went to sea, Miss Hua Ning and Master Huaxuan in the mansion also had bad symptoms. The lord was worried about their safety. It spread in the manor, so I asked the young lady and the young master to go out to sea with me for some experience. Firstly, to increase some knowledge, and secondly, to avoid acne."

When Shou Han proposed this idea, Yan Meier, who was in charge of raising these children, felt a little bit reluctant.Although Hua Yu was not born to her, she has always grown up in front of her eyes. She has more affection for Hua Yu than Li Muhua, Hua Yu's biological mother.However, Li Muhua, Hua Yu's biological mother, when she heard that Shou Han had the idea of ​​sending Hua Yu to sea for training, she immediately ordered someone to pack for Hua Yu.

Although she was reluctant, Yan Meier still knew that it was time for her son's wings to go out and fly, otherwise, how would she command the thousands of troops in the future?

While speaking, the traffic boat brought Li Huamei and Li Huayu to Xu Huanshan's flagship.

I haven't seen each other for several months, and the two children have grown a lot taller.Li Huamei with bright eyes and bright teeth.Li Peiting couldn't help but think of his younger sister who died early. If his younger sister was still alive, the child born would definitely be Li Shouhan's successor.His uncle's position became even more secure.

"I've seen my uncle! I've seen the commander."

Huamei and Huayu saluted and greeted Li Peiting and Xu Huanshan very well.

Only then did Pei Ting take a closer look at the eldest son of the Li family in front of him.

It is said that the son looks like his mother, and Hua Yu's appearance is somewhat like Li Muhua's.But the outline of the facial features is the appearance of Shou Han.This appearance made Li Peiting wonder how to treat Hua Yu for a while.The Li family brothers hated Li Muhua extremely, but Hua Yu's identity was the young master.

"Forget it! Just do business! Don't let people say that I'm a foreign relative interfering!"

Having made up his mind, Pei Ting looked very stable.

The four sat down in Xu Huanshan's cabin, Xu Huanshan took out a secret order from Shouhan, and first asked Pei Ting and Hua Mei to check whether the wax seal on it was intact.

"When I went to sea, my lord gave an account. After delivering the grain and rice goods, immediately lead the army eastward, and open this military order after leaving the Bohai Bay. Follow the order."

Shou Han's military order.The core intention is: capture Tamna Island!

Everyone immediately gathered around the chart to find the location of Tamna Island.

Tamna Island faces the Korean Peninsula across a strait.It is less than [-] miles away from the southernmost tip of the Korean Peninsula, so it can be reached overnight.To the east is Tsushima Island of the Wa Kingdom and Nagasaki County, Fukuoka, Kagoshima, etc. facing each other across the sea, and to the west is Shanghai County in Songjiang Prefecture of Southern Zhili.According to legend, the residents on the island are the descendants of Xianbei and Karasuma, and are famous for their horse breeding.

During the Zhizheng period, the Yuan Dynasty set up a horse farm here, assigned personnel to manage it, and provided horses for the army and the government.Until the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, there were still [-] to [-] horses left here.

More importantly, it happens to be a transportation hub in Northeast Asia.

Whether it is going to Japan, to Heilongjiang, to Liaodong, or to the Gyeonggi area, it can be used as a transfer point for personnel and material ships.It was here that Kublai Khan set up a rear base for conquering the east.A large number of supplies and ships set off for Japan from here.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, this is where the Yuan Dynasty and the then Koryo King's family exiled criminals.Today, the elder brother of the King of Joseon, the former King of Joseon, Gwanghae Lord Li Hun was transferred by the Joseon royal family from the exiled Ganghwa Island to this Tamna Island for exile.

After listening to the situation on Tamna Island reported by the personnel of the Business Information Office and the Investigation Office that accompanied the fleet, all four felt that taking down the island would not be a big problem given the fleet's strength and the number of artillery pieces.However, how to get it, even asking the King of Joseon to hand over the Tamna Island, is a difficult task.

"If not, I will take out the token arrow given to me by Huang Taiji, and ask for this island from the hand of the Joseon King Li Zhen!"

The fleet has passed Weihaiwei, sailing east all the way, but everyone in the fleet is still arguing about how to capture the island.The officers of the fleet advocated a strong attack, just kill the island, kill the Korean officials on the island, and seize the island!The soldiers and civilians on the island, those who are willing to surrender will stay to raise horses and carry them to the lord, and those who are unwilling to surrender will be sent back to North Korea!This is a claim of usurpation.

The other faction, headed by Li Peiting, advocated looking for a way to make the Joseon king Li Zhen offer up Tamna Island with tears and shouts.This school advocates cleverness.

These two factions each had their own reasons, Li Huayu's eyes were full of little stars, and he really felt that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.After coming out, everything is knowledge.

"Uncle, I don't understand. Why do we have to rely on the banner of the Liaodong rebels who built slaves to recover the land managed by officials in the Yuan Dynasty? You used the banner of building slaves from the king of Korea to take over the island. Once you get it, what if Jiannu asks you for it? What’s more, this place has been the land of my dynasty since ancient times, but it was temporarily stolen by North Korea due to the change of dynasty, and now is the time to ask for it back!”

Li Huayu, who has not received a day of orthodox Confucian education since he was a child, is quite in tune with Li Peiting and others when he speaks.

"Our army fights rebellion with righteousness and replaces Tian Xingshi. Naturally, it is upright and upright. Why do such dirty things? Besides, our army's strength, artillery and ships are several times that of North Korea. You just said that North Korea recently The defeat by Jiannu is just when the troops are exhausted. After our army captures Tamra Island, we will know about it. Let's see how the monarchs and ministers in his country will get along with me!"

Li Huayu's opinion gave the Robbery faction more momentum, and immediately overwhelmed the Clever faction headed by Li Peiting.Originally!What have we come here for?Isn't it just to make our South China Army prestige beyond the waves?Arriving here, but why do you want to cheat under the banner of Tartars?How does this explain to the lieutenant generals? !

The matter of Tamna Island was decided in this way. The captains of the ships and the two battalion officers of the Xuanwu Battalion sang in unison, and went to prepare separately. After calculating the results, he set sail all the way to the east.

After several days of sailing, a huge island appeared in the distance amidst the vast waves of the East China Sea, and there were vaguely town houses flashing through the telescope.There were bursts of loud cheers from the helmsmen and sailors who often walked the trade route of Ma Zong’s house. Those houses and towns facing each other not far away were exactly Seogwipo on Tamna Island!

"My lord! My lord! On the east side of our fleet, there are several ships coming towards us rapidly!"

The hurried sound of the observer on the top of the mast smashed down from the top of the people's heads. (To be continued..)