Win the Ding 1617

"Da Jiangdong went to Langqiandie, and led these dozens of people to drive this small boat for a while. I just left the Jiuchong Dragon and Phoenix Tower, and came to explore this thousand-foot-thousand-foot tiger and wolf lair. A man with a strong heart, I think this single-handed society is like Sai Village."

On the eighth day of April in the 13th year of Chongzhen, Xiamen was originally the Fujian General Military Mansion.

On the stage, the Kunqu opera actor who played the role of Guan Erye was singing and dancing under the support of Zhou Cang, a flamboyant face, and sang about Guan Erge's lofty aspirations, bravery and invincibility.Under the stage, the generals of the land and water armies of the Southern Guangdong Army, Yan Chi lined up dozens of tables of banquets, and they were constantly playing finger-guessing orders, applauding and applauding.

Among the dozens of tables of banquets, there were quite a few tables where the atmosphere was not embarrassing.

Seated at these banquet tables were Zheng Zhilong and his younger brothers, as well as a dozen or so shipowners who were captured in the Battle of Xiamen.As for Zheng Sen and others, they opened two other tables under the stage with Li Huamei, Li Huayu, and the second generation of Shouhan's second son Li Huabao who just arrived, where they drank happily.

However, the members of the Zheng family are still in shock at this moment, no matter how good the food and wine are, they taste like chewing gum in their mouths.After this battle, the Zheng family has been operating in a miserable state for more than 20 years, and all the property they have painstakingly accumulated changed their families overnight.

Soldiers, horses, sailors, forts and ships, and warehouses and warehouses have all become the treasures of the Li family.At this time, the dragon liver and phoenix marrow were brought to the members of the Zheng family, if they could still taste the taste of the food in the cup, they really had no heart.

People's emotions are like a seesaw. When one side's mood is low, the other side will naturally rise.

On the map, the flag that marked the Zheng family got the news that Zheng Zhilong was captured alive by Wu Liuqi.He was pulled down mercilessly by the guard.On the sea route, the dotted line in the sea area of ​​Fujian was heavily smeared with cinnabar into a thick red line.

Hua Mei, who was at the side, could see clearly.She knew that her father and uncles used dotted lines to replace unstable routes or sites, while relatively stable sites or sites that were firmly in the hands of the Nanyue Army were replaced by solid lines.

Hua Mei carefully looked at this sea chart, which embodies the 20 years of painstaking efforts of the father-in-law. The red lines on it, like blood vessels, lead to the east, west, north, south, and all directions, connecting the various islands and sites of the Southern Guangdong Army. contact.At the same time, gather the products of the Quartet and gather them in the Nanzhong area.Manufactured into commodities through various factories and handicraft workshops, and then transported to the Central Plains, Liaodong, the bitter cold places in the extreme north, Fusang, North Korea, Tianzhu, and Tianfang through these routes.There are also the European countries mentioned by the Hongmaoyi people.In exchange for the Nanyue Army and the Li family a huge amount of wealth.

It can be said.The foundation of the Li family today.Half of it comes from various factories and mines, and the other half is given by these routes and sea ships.

But before this piece of sea.They are also sailing countless ships with the flag of the Zheng family flying on their masts. Go to Mumbai, Banten, Old Port, Batavia, Malacca) to and from various ports with prosperous commercial trade, and sell the products produced in the Central Plains and Jiangnan to merchants from all over the place, in exchange for a large number of gold and silver goods, which are sold inland for profit.

And these ships not only made huge profits from the sea controlled by the Li family, but also intentionally or unintentionally hindered the trading activities of the ships of the Southern Guangdong Army to Jiangnan, Central Plains, Liaodong, and North Korea.

Now, it's finally over.

Xiamen Port, which represents the core of the Zheng family's power, has become an important transit point and supply station connecting Hong Kong Island and Shanghai Port.At the same time, it will also become a base for purchasing tea and mountain products in the hinterland of Fujian and selling various industrial and agricultural products.This stronghold will not only radiate to the whole of Fujian, but also penetrate into southern Jiangxi.

"What the merchants of the Zheng family can do, we, the merchants of Nanzhong, must also do it!"

Looking at this unobstructed sea chart, Shou Han is full of ambition, and his eyes are beating with fanatical light.Doesn't it mean that China's destiny has to make a choice between the sea and the land?good!I will occupy both the sea and the land!Slowly let the children and grandchildren choose!

Ever since, the matter of digesting the fruits of victory has been placed in the first place.

The defeat of Zheng Zhilong's troops not only completely fell into the hands of the Nanyue Army led by Li Shouhan, but also meant that the entire Fujian Province was controlled by the Nanyue Army from now on!They can openly use various names such as bandit suppression, road construction, and trade, and extend their hands to villages and buildings in various villages in Fujian through work teams, engineering teams, and business names.Then a solid grassroots regime was established, and the decent Ming officials were firmly confined in various cities, and government orders could not leave the city gates.

However, to achieve this, the first step is to divide the spoils!

Both the land and water armies of the Southern Guangdong Army were jealous of the results captured in the Battle of Xiamen.The reason for everyone's red eyes is not for the seized property, gold and silver, but for the soldiers and weapons.

There are more than 1 skilled sailors, if you add the students who graduated from the Shanghai Naval Academy, plus those hired from Arakan, Tianzhu, etc., Zhang Xiaohu, Zuo Tianpeng, Chu Tianlei, Li Huamei and others will all be there. Looking forward to equipping their fleet with more and bigger gunboats, and imagining the magnificent scene when the huge gunboats are fired, these navy generals can't help but be fascinated by it.Therefore, the leaders of the four major fleets gathered in Xiamen for the sake of the more than [-] sailors!

Compared with Lu Ying, it is much simpler.

The tens of thousands of soldiers captured by the Zheng family were dismissed, old and weak, and those who were not suitable or unwilling to serve in the army were sent home to farm. The rest had to be disrupted and sent to various places for retraining.After several months of training, after knowing at least two or three hundred characters, being able to write simple letters, and being familiar with the various systems of the Southern Guangdong Army, they can be sent to various newly opened areas to serve as village self-defense forces, and at the same time Be a new immigrant there.

The newly opened places such as Taiwan, Luzon, Siam, Malaga, and Java are the best places for these people to go. If they go ahead, there will be a wave of immigrants from a village and a family behind.

The underpopulation that plagued the Southern Cantonese Army in these areas, especially the shortage of Han people in the interior.It will be quickly reversed by the tide of immigration.

The generals of the towns in the Lu Ying are optimistic about the more than 400 large-caliber artillery captured by Zheng Jun.And those gunners!Those eight-pound to 32-pound cannons made the generals of the Southern Guangdong Army a little greedy, and they wished to issue them to themselves to expand the strength of the artillery team, but compared with those skilled gunners, the officers still wanted gunners!

The difference between these people and the original gunners of the Southern Guangdong Army is only in the links of aiming and calculation, and they are not much inferior in the operation of artillery.Get it back and train with the artillery units of the various departments of the Southern Guangdong Army several times.The technical and tactical level of these people can be raised to a higher level.

And the artillery strike density of the various departments of the Southern Guangdong Army.You can also go up a big step!

"Don't think about these cannons!" Shou Han's words extinguished the flames of everyone's excitement with a scoop of cold water.

"However, the gunners can be trained intensively and assigned to each town and brigade! Wu Liuqi! You fought well this time. I will ask the emperor and the court for an order. I will send you a lieutenant general back. In addition, there are eight eight-pound guns and four twelve-pounders for you to expand your battalion!"

"Thank you, my lord, for your grace!"

Standing up after kowtowing, Wu Liuqi looked excitedly and proudly at the envious and jealous expressions of the people around him.He knew that the adverse effects brought about by Wu Biao, a brother of the same clan, who led his men and horses to turn against the water and voted for the court, began to disappear with Shou Han's words.

"I'm waiting to congratulate General Wu!"

"Congratulations to General Wu!"

The commanders of the various towns and the brigade commanders of the various garrison brigades stepped forward to congratulate Wu Liuqi.

"My lord, Brigadier Commander Wu has made great achievements, so he will naturally reward him heavily. I wonder what my lord plans to do with those cannons?" Wang Bao, the head of the battalion office, cautiously asked Shou Han about his secret under the look of everyone's anticipation.

"Bember has some use for those cannons. Come and see."

Shouhan pointed to the large area west of Manga on the sea chart, on which many routes were also outlined with cinnabar.

On the east coast of Tianzhu across the sea, there are several places with the flags of the Southern Guangdong Army standing impressively.

"This is Tianzhu. Now more than half of our cotton and almost all of our wheat come from here. A large number of our arms are also sold here. At the same time, here also provides us with at least [-] stallions every year for our The racecourse provides fresh blood. As for those gems and treasures, gold and silver beauties and so on, it’s not a problem.”

"My lord, you want to strengthen the artillery equipment here?"

"A Bao, you guessed half right. Not only to strengthen the artillery equipment here, but also here!" Shouhan pointed his finger at Lingjiawei Island and the place he named Lijiapo with a bad taste.

By building these places into fortresses, the Southern Guangdong Army completely controlled the Managa Strait.The red-haired barbarians from Tianzhu and the Arabian Peninsula must completely bow their heads and ears in front of these two gates.

"The remaining [-]-pound, [-]-pound, and [-]-pound guns will be used by Benbo to make a good relationship. I will sell these cannons and give them to the princes and nobles of Tianzhu who have business dealings with us. It is used to watch the nursing home."

Hearing what Shou Han said, everyone couldn't help laughing.They all knew that the so-called half-sale and half-gift was nothing more than refurbishing these cannons and selling them to the prince of Tianzhu at a new price. Moreover, at the checkout, they would either receive cotton and wheat, or pay with precious stones, horses, gold and silver. The worst thing is to use those Tianzhu orchids to make up.

"My lord is slaughtering these Tianzhu sheep again!"

A brigade commander whispered to his colleagues beside him winking.

"Nonsense, what Tianzhu Yanggu, didn't you hear that the lord calls them the third brother every time he speaks?!" The man responded solemnly.

"As for the rest of the cannons such as the big general, the tiger crouching cannon, and the small Frang machine, I don't think you will look down on them. Simply take them all back to Hejing, recast them into small cannons, and distribute them everywhere The immigrant village is used for guarding." Shou Han glanced at the crowd slowly, "Now that we have built this big dragon, there are plenty of money, food and people, are you afraid that there will be no artillery?"

"Then, my lord, should the forts of Lingjiawei and Lijiapo and other fortresses be rebuilt in the same way as the forts built by the Zheng family in Xiamen?" The team will be the one that gets the most expansion.After inspecting the construction and actual effects of Zheng's forts, he planned to build the forts of several forts in the same way.

There are very few corpses and wounded in the fort of the Zheng family.Even if there were a few unlucky ones, most of them were killed by stray bullets. "If it hadn't been for the young marshal who led people to make a desperate assault, I am afraid that we may not be able to kill all the gunners in the fort with shells for a year!" unanimous conclusion.

"The fort needs to be repaired. But the fighting will of the troops and the heart to fight are even more important. Of the several forts captured by our army, which one did not the infantry rush up and shoot a salvo of firecrackers, and then bayonet assault, the enemy army collapsed? "

Shou Han appeased the army of the water and land, and by the way, unified opinions on the next step of development.Turning around is to deal with another group of people.

These people are officials from Fujian and Guangdong official circles.

Battle of Xiamen.The shock to the official circles of Guangdong and Fujian was no less than a magnitude [-] earthquake plus a typhoon of magnitude [-].In their view.Zheng Zhilong, who has always been known for his strong ships and guns, relies on his elite navy of artillery ships, and cooperates with the Xiamen Port Fortress Group, which cost millions of dollars to build, and will persist until this conflict alarms the imperial court no matter what. .The imperial court decreed to come out to mediate.But it didn't occur to me.This Zheng Yiguan who has been on the sea for many years.The naval battle was defeated first, and then Xiamen was surrendered. Xiamen even changed hands one day after launching the offensive.Even overnight, the Zheng family disappeared.

Such a result.How can such a strong combat power not impress everyone in Fujian and Guangdong official circles?

What's more, it would be even better if Uncle Ningyuan could share some of the seized property with everyone when going to Zhu Jie!

Some officials have prepared in their sleeves the number of local losses due to the war, how many people were affected, how many houses were burned, how much property was lost, and how much population was lost.List the details one by one, and plan to ask the uncle to allocate money and food for relief.

With such an idea, not to mention Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, etc. in Fujian, even Chaozhou Prefecture, which is far away from the border of Fujian and Guangdong, has officials who are going to imitate Shen Baoxu in front of Uncle Ning Yuan, crying for poverty wantonly, Apply for money and food for pensions, reconstruction, and relief, and it's easy to help.

When the governor of Fujian, Zhang Kentang, led the chief envoys, the inspectors, and other officials of all sizes in Fujian to salute the guards according to their ranks and say hello and congratulations to the Shou Han, etc. After a series of New Year's greetings, these people from various state capitals in Fujian The officials began to cry to the guard.

"Originally, our place has many mountains and few fields, and the land is narrow and densely populated. We rely on sea trade for our livelihood. This time, my uncle is cleaning up military discipline. Originally, I shouldn't bother him about such trivial matters. However, the small people in my place have boats. Going out to sea, I suffered from the disaster of fish in ponds and the disaster of Yushi Kungang. I implore uncle to show mercy and distribute relief money and food to help the poor people in Su. My subordinates, on behalf of the common people, weep and pray!"

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were different from those of the Qing Dynasty. Although it was the end of the dynasty, most of the officials were from the official family, unlike the many donated officials of the Qing Dynasty.The so-called donation class is to spend money to buy official titles from the imperial court, and then spend money to fill a vacancy.Such a character, the level of ability to be an official can be imagined.In comparison, these Fujian and Guangdong officials are all of a high level, and their words are sad and touching, as if the victims of the disaster were crying for food.

"The people of Fujian and Guangdong are all my subordinates. As long as they abide by the law, there is absolutely no reason not to help them." Sure enough, Shou Han's words in the commander-in-chief were exactly what he wanted.Hearing that the officials were all elated, the opportunity to make a fortune has come!

However, soon, they fell from the fairyland of the Queen Mother to the icy hell of King Yama.

"Benbo originally prepared one month's military rations. He didn't expect our army, Erlang, to be such a hero, and break through Xiamen in just one day. So he sent these military rations to various states and villages affected by the war, and distributed them as rations for the victims to relieve the urgent needs of the people. .”

"Fujian has many mountains and little farmland. As this colleague said, the land is narrow and densely populated, and it is not easy to make a living. My concubine thinks that distributing military rations for disaster relief is only a temporary solution, not a cure for the root cause. Benbo raised two considerations, please ask Zhang Fu Tai Gui."

Hearing what Shou Han said so politely, and seeing that Zhang Kentang, who had already made up his mind to take refuge in the disaster victims who took out a large sum of military rations at once, felt more and more that this Ning Yuan Boyuan was not as good as those fellow students of the same year in the letter. It was as vicious and hateful as described.

"I don't dare to be an official, so I ask my uncle to enlighten me."

"One is to use work for relief. Uncle Ben took out his own money and food, recruited victims from all over the place, and built official roads and bridges from the provincial capital to various prefectures and roads. Build roads. In this way, the people can exchange a coolie for money and food to support their families."

"Uncle's move is earth-shattering. No wonder the heavens favor the uncle's family!" Zhang Kentang also heard that Li Huayu was safe and sound under the circumstances of the cannons flying randomly on the battlefield. Afterwards, I learned that I didn't eat for a few days, but just burned incense in front of the Bodhisattva.Such a situation can only be said to be due to accumulated virtue and good fortune.

When everyone heard this, they all cheered in their hearts.All such large projects are the time when local officials make a fortune.Among other things, there can be kickbacks for labor and materials, and the ration wages of civilian husbands are even more lucrative.

"This year, the roads in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other prefectures on the coast will be completed first, and next year they will be built in the mountainous areas of western Fujian and northern Fujian. Can't get rid of it. Therefore, this official has a second method."

The second method of Shou Han is to call immigrants to eat.That is to make clear statistics on the acres, local products, and production of various places, and calculate how many people each state capital can support, and the remaining wealthy people will all be transported to Nanzhong to work in wasteland!

This action undoubtedly cut off the wealth of Fujian officials.They usually rely on this person, Ding Yin, to fill their pockets wantonly!

The officials wanted not to accept it, but they didn't have the guts, so they had to pinch their noses and drink the cup of bitter wine they brewed themselves.There are also bright-minded people who don't take it seriously, "These things you said, when they come to my one-third-acre land, don't you still have to rely on me to carry them out? If you have these things like road construction and immigration, you must have money and food for the officials. Hand, as long as you pass, I will give you a goose pass to pluck your hair! At least [-]% of him!"

However, given Li Shouhan's serious distrust of these officials, would he entrust them with such an important matter?

"My colleagues in Fujian have been busy with official duties in the past. They must have been out of reach for the construction of roads and bridges, and food for immigrants. Benbo then dispatched work teams to various counties and towns to handle ration distribution. Site selection and survey for roads, emigration to the sea for work and land reclamation!"

have to!They won't even let you grab the edge of the bowl!

Soon after, work teams with hundreds of people appeared in various counties, among them, apart from the officials exercising their powers and others, they were school students who drew maps and counted the population and acres of land.

Another sentry horse acts as a guard to prevent bandits from killing the team members.

"My lord Futai, my lords of Fantai and Standard Taiwan, I have something else to disturb you. Please don't evade the three."

The Southern Guangdong Army seized millions of catties of tea in Xiamen. How to dispose of it as soon as possible is a question that the Shou Han asked the three local snakes in Fujian with a smile.

Zhang Kentang and the others were very bright in their hearts, this is Uncle Ningyuan picking us to get rich! (to be continued..)