Win the Ding 1617

The two groups of guests at the banquet were General Gonzalez of the Portuguese Restoration Army and Fan, chairman of the Dutch East India Company.Mr. Basten and his daughter.

As the host, all the generals and officials of the Southern Guangdong Army in Guangzhou who obeyed the orders of the Han Dynasty were present.

However, the officers of the Portuguese Restoration Army, such as Gonzales, have already been privately informed that this banquet is about to determine whether their country can gain a new life under the rule of those damn Spaniards.

"Everyone, everyone must be very familiar with this general. Yes, he is Zuo Tianpeng who first raised troops with Ben Bo. He has been the right wing commander of our Southern Guangdong Army Navy for many years. Guarding the southwest gate for my Ming Dynasty .”

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Mr. Van Basten also introduced to his daughter the many Chinese delicacies in front of him. The Dutch soil turtle almost lost his tongue after eating, and he didn't care about changing into a new silk pleated upper body. The skirt was covered in large and small lumps of oil stains.

Ao Lei Yilan caressed her slightly protruding belly, and secretly smiled, "Finally there is someone uglier than me!"

Seeing that Shou Han grandly introduced Zuo Tianpeng, a warrior with great achievements, to the group of red-haired barbarians, everyone speculated in their hearts that this matter must have something to do with Zuo Tianpeng and the right wing of the navy.

Over the years, everyone has only seen Zhang Xiaohu's left wing fleet, Chu Tianlei's training fleet, and Li Huamei's guerrilla fleet, which has sprung up rapidly in recent years. Forget the right wing fleet guarding the southwestern gate of the Southern Guangdong Army.

Over the years, the right-wing fleet with the Cobar Islands and Lingjiawei Island as its home port has guarded the safety of the golden waterway of the Nanyue Army in the Manraga Strait, protected the property of many immigrants in the Chao Phraya River Basin, and sent a group of Indian pirates, Arab Pirates stand outside the fence.Let this group of people, whether they believe in Jesus, Muhammad, or Shiva or Buddha, become corpses on the bottom of the sea and dead slaves without names but numbers in the depths of the mine.

"This time I invite you to come here, and I want to work with you all. To conspire with one thing."

The meaning of Shou Han is very simple. Now, all parts of the Central Plains have temporarily entered a stage of stalemate, and the Southern Guangdong Army has just stretched its claws into the south of the Yangtze River and eaten Fujian into its stomach. It will take a period of time to digest the fruits of victory.The best digestive exercise will sell a lot of its products!

In order to achieve the dumping of a large number of commodities as soon as possible.At the same time, to obtain more raw materials and labor, Shouhan set his sights on Myanmar and Bangla across the sea, which is now Bangladesh.

Burma is easy to handle. Since the Wanli period, the Mang Yinglong family has been sometimes attached to and sometimes harassed the mainland for many years.It also continued to bully and annex many vassals such as the so-called three propaganda and six comforts belonging to the Ming Dynasty at that time.If you want to annex Myanmar, you don't even need to deliberately find an excuse, just a crusade against rebels and rebels is enough.

However, Banggela is different. There must be a navy and a huge transport capacity here.

In other words, accomplices and cannon fodder are needed.

"After I captured Bangla, the army can point its banners to the west. First, it will assist General Gonzalez in his great cause of restoring the country. Second, it is said that there are constant wars in Europe, people's lives are dying, and people's livelihood is difficult. All kinds of goods are exported to Europe, I wonder if the two of you are interested?"

As the old fox concluded, when Shou Han asks for your help.Always gives you the feeling that there are huge benefits to be gained.

After saying this, Shou Han's eyes were on Gonzalez and Fan.The two of Basten glanced back and forth, waiting for their answer.

Jiang Yihong, who was alone in the case of the civil servants, had completely become a member of the Southern Guangdong Army at this time, and spared no effort in promoting various systems in Guangdong.Shou Han has already guaranteed his promotion to be the governor of Guangdong. If he thinks about it, it is just a formality. Even if the court is unwilling, can he send another governor?Aren't you afraid of encountering bandits when crossing Wuling?Governor Jiang raised his hands in admiration for the expansion of the Southern Guangdong Army to the west and south. He has already tasted the huge sweetness brought by the continuous external expansion of the Southern Guangdong Army.

With the huge investment of the Southern Guangdong Army almost regardless of cost, the communication roads between the Guangdong provincial capital and various prefectures were quickly put into use.Although the roads, bridges, wharves, and ferries cannot be compared with the roads in Nanzhong paved with the same color of burnt limestone, since the time of Nanyue King Zhao Tuo, there has been almost no large-scale road construction in Guangdong. The road rammed with Sanhe soil is already a thoroughfare.Although it cannot be contrary to the emperor's decree to abolish post stations, there are letter bureaus along the road that are responsible for delivering letters and documents, remittances and mailings.

Not to mention how many people in the process of road construction have found food, clothing and jobs, how many people have made a lot of money because of this (of course, paying taxes is indispensable.), how many villages, towns and states with different accents are separated by a river. Counties began to interact with each other.After the road was repaired, the group exercises held by the thieves, Lianzhuang, and squires who had troubled the officialdom in Guangdong in the past were wiped out one by one by the Nanyue Army that quickly arrived.

The smooth flow of Guangdong's government orders has exceeded the imagination of Jiang Yihong and others.

An order is issued from the provincial government, and it only takes a few days to reach the villages and towns through the rapid transmission of water and land. Didn't dare to do it at all, why?It's very simple, if the common people haven't seen the big seal of the task force attached to the document, no matter what officials you issue, they won't believe it.It would be great if some local officials planned to add some private goods to Shangfeng's request as before.The task force thanks you for giving them an opportunity to do good.As soon as an official document came up, a large group of people rushed to take down the Zhengyin official, and for the time being, the team leader of the work team was acting as the agent for the government affairs of the department.

More than a dozen states and counties in eastern and northern Guangdong have fallen under the direct control of the Southern Guangdong Army.

As a result, officials everywhere have become more careful.

As for the elites who controlled the township government in the past - the country gentry, the good old days are gone forever.For many years, they have used various methods to control the grassroots political power in towns and villages, and the government orders can only go to the county town, and if they want to continue to implement them outside the county town.It is necessary to flatter the gentry in these places, otherwise it will not be implemented.Officials have more experience in governing without offending the rich.

However, under the combined offensive of the Southern Guangdong Army with guns and pens, rice bags and money bags, the order of more than a thousand years has quietly changed.Landlords do not implement the specified maximum land rent?OKImmediately there will be team members organizing people who used to go to sea to reclaim wasteland in Nanzhong to come forward and say, "A strong man can get [-] acres of land to reclaim. After you lay down the grain, you can pay it back year by year, and the interest is surprisingly generous."

As a result, a large number of tenant farmers went to sea to make a living, and in less than a year, hundreds of thousands of strong laborers were sent away from various ports and wharfs along the eastern coast of Guangdong!Landlords who originally lived on the rent paid by tenant farmers were immediately dumbfounded by this tactic of pulling wages from the bottom of the pot.No matter how good the field is, if no one plows it, it will not grow food, only grass!It is inevitable that the landlords condescend to the nobles. For the first time in thousands of years, they lower their dignity and discuss with the tenants what level of land rent should be acceptable for everyone.

If there are still some people who complain about the land rent, another benevolent government implemented by the general.Compulsory education is well-known, although some people say it insincerely.Using the primary schools set up in public buildings such as ancestral halls, temples, and Taoist temples, more than [-] school-age teenagers from poor families have become literate people.

The low price of rice leads to extremely low prices in the upstream and downstream, and it is easy to make a living. Countless poor people in southern Huguang and southern Jiangxi could not resist this temptation and went to Guangdong to make a living across the mountains and rivers.

Even the officials and scholars of the gentry in several nearby provinces, seeing that Guangdong has no military disasters and bandits, and has compulsory compulsory education, and there are faint signs of a paradise of beauty, have also written trust to their friends here to buy land on their behalf.Buy land and build a house, and prepare to leave a retreat for the future.

All of these undoubtedly made Jiang Yihong and his former Guangdong officialdom beneficiaries.It has also become the most fanatical peripheral force of the Southern Guangdong Army.

From the bottom of their hearts, they have regarded Shou Han as an existence second only to Chongzhen, but.The difference from Chongzhen is that Chongzhen can only dismiss their officials, but cannot make their families poor, but this Uncle Ning Yuan can.

In Jiang Yihong's mind, there were several midnight dreams. After waking up, he put on his clothes and got up, standing in the courtyard for a long time.All because in the dream, he became the minister of the founding dragon, not to mention his wife, Yinzi, but also a marquis and uncle.

The same dream was made by more than one official from Guangdong and Guangxi.

Right now, the imperial court seems to be making progress, whether it is suppressing the rebels or dealing with the rebels in Liaodong. Judging from the news in the residence newspaper and the Southern Times, since May, Jiannu has gradually begun to lay siege to Jinzhou, preparing to repeat it A scene of Daling River.However, the encirclement circle of the Qing soldiers had just been formed, and the results of the siege were limited. The encirclement circle drawn up by the puppet Prince Dorgon, who supervised the army on the front line of Jinzhou, was extremely careless.

Facing the situation of the Qing soldiers, Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, figured out that the Qing soldiers were repeating the old tactics of Dalinghe tactics, and actively responded.He vigorously stockpiled grain in Jinzhou, Xingshan, Ningyuan and other places, and each place had at least half a year's grain for the defenders.

However, after exhausting their efforts, they were unable to raise such a huge amount of food and grass.Dashou, Wu Sangui and other Liaoxi generals in the Jiliao army spoke to him one after another, "Instead of reaching out to the imperial court for food and salary, why not ask Ning Yuan for a loan or two, and wait for the imperial court to allocate the military salary. Just pay him back the money!"

"There are also good gunpowder for weapons, we should get some from Uncle Ning Yuan!"

The situation is stronger than people, looking at the emergency military reports sent from everywhere, and the three generals Pingliao, Dingliao, and Zhenliao who were named by the emperor's imperial pen, and the supervisor Hong Chengchou also wrote his own handwriting many times I wrote a letter to Shou Han, begging him humbly, asking him for the sake of the bloody battles of the soldiers to suppress the thieves, and to buy food and grass for the whole army on credit for at least three months. payment."

Thinking about the more than ten thousand Ming troops outside Shanhaiguan, Shou Han felt dejected for a while. He knew the outcome of the last strategic force of the Ming Dynasty, and he also knew that these Ming troops were transferred from various places to Liaodong to counter the rebellion. The pressure of the peasant army in various places, coupled with the natural and man-made disasters in various places, directly gave Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others an opportunity for explosive development.

"Do your best, know the destiny!"

The keeper of the Han Dynasty drafted a reply letter to Hong Chengchou, telling him that there is absolutely no reason for the soldiers to kill the enemy with hunger and cold!at the same time.Li Peiting, who was in charge of Longsheng, mobilized grain, rice, meat, weapons, gunpowder ships, and transported military rations to Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other places.

"Finish the handover, keep the accounts, and we'll have to settle the accounts with the emperor later!"

These are Li Peiting's original words when he confessed to his subordinates with contempt.

With stable rations and meat.A large amount of arms and gunpowder were transported to Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other places, which immediately cheered the Liaodong army and boosted their morale.

As for Yang Sichang in the pass, life is not so easy.

Yang Sichang was very happy after the officers and soldiers defeated Zhang Xianzhong at Manao Mountain in March this year.However, in the next few months, the officers and soldiers lost again and again, in July.Zhang Xianzhong went west to Baiyang Mountain to meet Luo Rucai.At this time, Cao Wei and Guo Tianxing wanted to cross the river, but they were blocked by Ming officers and soldiers.Zhang Xianzhong arrived and joined him.Although Zhang Xianzhong had suffered many defeats, he was still full of energy. He immediately rode to the riverside, and there was no one who could not do it.After beheading them, the officers and soldiers retreated. After Zhang Xianzhong crossed the river, he was stationed in Wanqing Mountain. Yang Sichang had to go to Sichuan to supervise the battle in person.And Zhang Xianzhong seemed to have eaten the Shaolin Dahuan Dan overnight and turned into a Super Saiyan. In the past, he saw a city with strong defenses and took a detour.Or the peasant army that attacked Kaesong in a surprise attack, successively captured Dachang and Kaixian, attacked Jianzhou in the north, and entered Hanzhong.He also conquered Mianzhou and Luzhou, and the entire large swath of Sichuan became the domain of the Eight Kings of Xiying.When Yang Sichang was in Chongqing, he summoned He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu to help, but none of them came.

He also went to the court to plead guilty, but blamed the failure of the encirclement and suppression on the uselessness of the Sichuan soldiers and the noise of the Qin army's salary.In the end, Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, was dismissed and questioned, and abandoned the city for crimes. Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shaanxi, was also dismissed.He was succeeded by Ding Qirui.

The more it came to this time, the more Yang Sichang felt that he didn't have the anguish of a confidant general around him, and he didn't have the difficulty of being directly under the elite.His two generals, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, were extremely arrogant and domineering, and they didn't take their deployment seriously, so they wrote a letter to Zuo Liangyu themselves.He dismissed them all, leading to successive failures in encirclement and suppression.

Thinking back to Uncle Ningyuan Li Shouhan, although he was always known as domineering and arrogant in the official circles of scholars, but now that he thinks about it, although this person is domineering, he is proud of his military exploits.As for Zuo He and the others, their combat exploits were far inferior, but their arrogance was far superior to Li Shouhan.

On the one hand, he ordered people to urgently transfer the model brigade of Wu Biao to the outside of Sichuan, and wrote to Wu Biao himself, promising that he could recruit [-] new recruits in Sichuan. My brother has taken care of everything, and the current system shall prevail. The necessary military pay, food, armor and weapons, etc., shall all be borne by Brother Yu."

With the respect of Yang Sichang as a dignified supervisor, he wrote a letter to Wu Biao so humbly and promised such benefits, which shows that he is in a difficult situation.

"Let them fight each other first! It just gives us time to bury our heads in the construction, and when we finish the construction, we will look up and meet them!"

This is Shou Han's conclusion when discussing secretly with Li Peilin and others.

This is how the meeting of Basten, Gonzalez and others came about.

The thoughts in Li Peilin's mind turned, over there, Fan.Basten has already joined hands.

"My great and invincible general, I, the Van Basten family, have been, are, and will be your faithful servants. Your words are to me the language of God. I, will Follow in your footsteps straight to the end of the world and time!"

Basten is very clear that the so-called Western Expedition is just that General Li wants to fight foreign wars, grab territory, and open trade routes to Europe by the way. Now, with the help of him and a group of conscientious businessmen, the war in Europe is becoming more and more serious. Burn more and more prosperous.The scale and technical level of wars are also constantly expanding, and the demand for various military supplies and daily necessities is also increasing. The general has such an idea, if he doesn't get on this golden carriage of wealth with good wind, it will be Big fool!

Van Basten was impassioned on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. Only General Gonzalez, the commander-in-chief of the Restoration Army, remained silent. Han saluted: "My benefactor, the new benefactor of the entire Portugal, the supporter who liberated Portugal from the evil Spaniards, I must truthfully report to you the actual situation in the entire Portuguese Restoration Army. The duty of a qualified servant."

Gonzalez vomited bitterly.

Insufficient troops!Almost all the pure Portuguese officers now serve as non-commissioned officers.Most of the soldiers at the grassroots level are natives from all over India. With so many recruits, the natural tactical level and discipline will drop dramatically.In the recent battles with Indian and Arab princes, he was almost defeated by the enemy. If it weren't for the efforts of those Portuguese non-commissioned officers and officers to suppress him, it would be almost impossible for Gonzalez to have a banquet and talk with the guards here today.

"If you want your troops to land on the land of the motherland until the Spaniards are completely driven out, how many soldiers and horses do you need?"

Shou Han played with the wine glass in his hand, allowing the blood-red wine in the glass to slide drop by drop on the rim.

"I need at least 5000 well-trained soldiers, and these [-] people must be prepared to die in battle! Because a brutal war requires..."

"Okay, five thousand is five thousand! Basten, can your fleet transport Gonzalez's army to Portugal?"

Shou Han is decisive.

"Hua Xuan, go say goodbye to your mother tomorrow, and go to Fusang with your Uncle Zuo in a few days to practice!"

Now it's time for the third son, Huaxuan, to experience it!