Chapter 194: The Great Joy of Quanzhou
In the end, the sisters and brothers of the Dao family still got some support, in addition to Gao Pragmatic's fooling and vague promises, they got some financial foreign aid, and Gao Pragmatic planned to give them 1,000 taels of silver every month, which was used to contact the old department, recruit troops, etc.
A thousand taels of silver is naturally a drizzle for Gao Pragmatic, even if he now has Jingang City to build from scratch, but he will not lack this little money.
And 1,000 taels of silver per month is by no means a small amount for the southern state, it can be more than 10,000 taels a year, think about the Laos of later generations, the surrounding Vietnam and Thailand have long left them ten streets, but they are still "one of the poorest areas in the world", and their location, resources and basic conditions are too poor and other reasons can not be ignored.
Of course, these problems are very complicated, and perhaps the more critical is the human factor, just like the place in Yunnan, if it were not in the hands of China, maybe its development would be similar to that of Laos, but it is powerful in the hands of China.
As a result, Yunnan, a province deep inland, is even stronger than Vietnam, which is ten times stronger in terms of location and has sufficient resource potential. I am afraid that it is difficult to say that this is a place in Yunnan where cattle break, but only Chinese cattle breaking.
But right now, at least the people in the southern palm country are obviously unsuccessful in engaging in the economy, this year more than 10,000 taels of silver are put out, and the surprise on the faces of the sisters and brothers of the Dao family can't be hidden, although the population of the southern palm country is less than that of Annan, no one has counted it, but this should not need to be verified.
Think about it, before the high-level pragmatic crossing, Vietnam's population was approaching 100 million, and how much was Laos? Poor baba's seven million
Excluding the part of South Vietnam that has not yet been mastered, the central and northern parts of Vietnam must have at least 50 million people, and Laos is too much worse, especially the vast majority of their southern palms are deep mountains and old forests, and only a small part near Siam is plains, so the current population of Nanzhang is definitely not as good as Annam, with a high and pragmatic estimate, there are more than one million I am afraid that it will be about the same, and the population will not exceed two million.
10,000 taels of silver were taken to the north and south of the country, and there was no splash, but if it was taken to the south to take charge of the country, it would be an astonishing huge amount of money, and the sisters and brothers of the Dao family could easily contact the old department and develop the "revolutionary masses".
Gao Shipra's current approach is the same as Japan's spending money to support the alliance.
Of course, he is not afraid that the sisters and brothers of the Dao family will dare to jump against the rebellion next door to Annan, you can try it?
At the same time, Gao Pragmatic also adhered to the principle that no matter how small a mosquito is, it is also meat, and won a few "Nanzhang version of Jinghua Sixteen" that even he didn't know if he knew how to use.
Oh, there are not as many as sixteen, and it is not so detailed, only that if Jinghua helps Nanzhang successfully restore the country in the future, Jinghua will be allowed to harvest and process wood in the mountains and forests of Nanzhang at will, and the like, which basically only involves the economic level, and the high pragmatism has little interest in controlling the military and politics of Nanzhang, and he is too lazy to pull this hatred.
After all, for him, the southern palm country is mainly a way to borrow, after all, he has not yet mastered the southern part of Vietnam in later generations, otherwise, he can go to Cambodia without taking the southern palm.
Thinking of Cambodia, Gao pragmatic and a little drooling, there is a whole Mekong Plain that grows three times a year, including the part of Vietnam in the later generations, if it can be taken down and well developed, the problem of food shortage in the north of the Ming Dynasty may be solved.
Even if it is not possible to complete the comprehensive development and utilization for a while, only using a part of it can prevent many displaced people from starving to death, thus greatly reducing the evolution of the rebellion caused by the displaced people.
When the time comes, combined with the initial promotion of high-yield crops in the Americas, etc., why has the matter of high-yield crops in the Americas not yet come to fruition? The Spaniards have controlled this thing too tightly, right?
Just when Gao Shishi began to suspect that the Guangzhou Port and Quanzhou Port had not taken to heart the "extra-high-yield grain" that he had repeatedly emphasized, the Jinghua Quanzhou Private Port had just held a celebration banquet.
Quanzhou's private port is not in a low position in the high-pragmatism Jinghua private port system, which is mainly due to the lack of strength of high-pragmatism itself in Fujian.
Due to the lack of status and strength, although Gao Sitang, the director of the Fujian private port, has not had the opportunity to change his name, which means changing the name to a single name next to the word Wang, which is the signature feature of the important family leaders under Gao Shishi's command. For example, Gao Xiaozhuang's name change to Gao Rui is proof of this, and Gao Jing, who has recently been in the limelight in the Annan Sea, has also changed his name.
There is another reason why Gao Sitang didn't get the opportunity to change his name, he was not a person that Gao Pragmatic was used to, but Gao Pragmatic's mother Zhang recommended Previously, Gao Sitang was first responsible for the business of Jinghua Soap in Henan for a period of time, and later presided over the resettlement of Weihui refugees and the establishment of the iron factory, before being transferred to Quanzhou, he even took charge of Weihui's mine.
The talents that Zhang usually recommends to Gao Pragmatic are not very many in terms of quantity, but the quality is very good, and they can all be qualified for the new positions given by Gao Pragmatic, so Gao Pragmatic sent Gao Sitang to the private port of Quanzhou, which he had just gotten at that time.
finally got mixed up and was directly managed by the owner, of course he wanted to make some achievements.
After arriving in Hong Kong, Gao Sitang made a detailed investigation and felt that the most important reason why Quanzhou's private port has always been inferior to the rest of the ports is that the pirates along the coast of Fujian are the strongest
In fact, the pirates along the coast of Guangdong are not weak, but the foundation of the Guangzhou private port is good from the beginning, the foundation is thicker, and Gao pragmatic hoped to use the Guangzhou private port as the base for "going to the South Seas", and the investment is also greater, so the fleet of the Guangzhou private port is built faster, and the artillery is also the most among all the private ports, so the pirates along the coast of Guangdong easily dare not provoke the fleet of the Jinghua Guangzhou private port.
And Quanzhou private port is not, Fujian coastal pirates that is already a problem left over from history, these years after the high arch of the sea policy, although there have been less, but there are still some pirates who can cut off the channel between the South and the East, often with the Ming Dynasty maritime merchants are now legal and they are fire, for the fleet of Jinghua Quanzhou private port, they do not have much fear, the robbery is still robbery, the harassment is still harassment.
After Gao Sitang arrived, he quickly adjusted the operation mode of the fleet, changed the scattered shipments and purchases to the overall entry and exit of the port, organized the whole fleet to act together, and even contacted other maritime merchants in the private port to act together, which is quite similar to the professional escort in later generations.
This time, the pirates along the coast of Fujian began to be unable to get benefits, probably only less than half a year, the pirates who originally did their own work held a "martial arts conference", large and small more than a dozen pirates united, elected Ma Zhishan as the chief helmsman, Li became the deputy helmsman, and planned to come to a decisive battle with the Jinghua Quanzhou private port fleet.
Ma Zhishan and Li Cheng are not unknown, they are both the right-hand men of the sea giant Lin Feng, and they have outstanding prestige among the pirates off the coast of Fujian.
As for Lin Feng, this person is even more famous, and the former Philippine President Marcos once proudly and publicly claimed that he was his descendant, and often took pride in it.
It stands to reason that pirates are not a good name, so why does a Philippine president even show off that his ancestors are Chinese pirates?
Because this One Piece King Lin Feng is not an ordinary pirate, let's not talk about his deeds in Daming, in short, he once had more than 40,000 subordinates and 300 ships of all kinds. His most awesome deed was that this master went to Luzon to fight the Spaniards.
At that time, he suffered a defeat at home and had to flee from the disaster, so he chose to go to Luzon to fight the Spaniards for dominance.
In the winter of the second year of Wanli, Lin Feng led 62 warships, 2,000 sailors and 2,000 men and 1,500 women, with the Japanese Zhuang Gong as the commander, and led the boat south. But it was discovered by the Spaniards stationed there, and it was quickly reported to the officer of Mi'an N, Saschlonss.
Misch immediately sent three natives to Manila to warn him. But the natives were intercepted by Lin Feng's men halfway. Lin Feng then took the opportunity to attack Mi'an, and Saschlow led the Spanish garrison of fifty people to escape. Lin Feng took advantage of the victory to pursue and went to Manila.
On November 29 of the second year of Wanli, Lin Feng's sailors arrived at the port of Manila, Maleviris. At dusk, Lin Feng's general Zhuang Gong led 600 people to attack Manila by small boat, but encountered a storm on the way, and more than 200 people drowned due to the capsizing of the boat. However, the rest of the people still sneaked to the Baravik RN in South Mile, Manila, under the leadership of Zhuang Gong, and landed in Manila in the early morning of the next day.
At that time, the Spanish officer Goyidi was stationed outside the city, and in a hurry he was not prepared, but Zhuang Gong quickly defeated him and seized his territory, and Goyidi himself was killed in battle. The defenders of the city took this opportunity to strengthen their garrison, and when Zhuang Gong attacked, they began to resist desperately.
And Zhuang Gong's troops had already lost more than 200 people in a storm on the way to the army, so they could not capture the city wall in a hurry. So Zhuang Gong retreated to Krabi to join Lin Feng.
At the same time, on the other hand, the Spanish governor Lavisaris, as soon as he retired from the army, immediately built a high wall along Manila Bay and placed troops to defend it. Saschlow also led six warships and hundreds of soldiers to help in the battle.
After Lin Feng's first attack was completed, the natives of the Philippines thought that the Ming had won the victory, and quickly gathered nearly 10,000 people near Manila and began to make moves against the Spaniards.
On December 13, Lin Feng launched a second attack, he ordered Zhuang Gong to lead 1,500 men to attack in three directions, and Lin Feng's own warships also fired artillery assistance outside the port.
However, due to the reinforcements and reinforcements of the city by the Spaniards, they were not able to take it in a hurry. Lin Feng sent another 500 reinforcements, but in the end they retreated in vain.
When Lin Feng's army attacked Manila, the indigenous people of the Philippines killed missionaries and merchant soldiers in preparation for Lin Feng's pirate army, but they quickly dispersed after Lin Feng's defeat.
After the defeat of Lin Feng's pirate army, he led his army to the north, retreated from the A'e River to Pengjia Yulan NSNN, and built a city four miles above the river to build forts as a long-term plan. and ordered the local chieftain to pay a very heavenly pilgrim.
When the Spanish governor Lavisalis learned of this news, he decided to gather the Spanish forces in the Philippines in Manila and prepare to attack Pengjia Yucca, with Sashilow as the commander.
With 6,000 Filipino soldiers and 650 Spanish soldiers, Saschlow first sailed to Lingeyin Bay in the north of Pengjia Yucca. At that time, Lin Feng's ships had thirty-two anchored there, but because they were defenseless, they were all annihilated, so Sashiluo raised his troops and landed.
Here, the two armies fought for more than four months, and Lin Feng temporarily decided to come to Luzon because he suffered a big defeat in the Ming Dynasty, so he lacked supplies and was finally defeated. So they broke through and fled, and some of them fled to the mountains.
After Lin Feng was defeated in the Philippines, he was desperate and led his troops to commit internal crimes. It has reached Zhelin, Jinghai, Jieshi and other places. At the same time, he also arrived in Fujian and other places, and plundered everywhere based on Taiwan's Longgang.
However, at that time, Fujian cracked down on pirates very severely, and began to open sea trade again, and many "maritime merchants" who had secretly supported pirates and connived at pirates in the past changed their faces and no longer gave support, and Lin Fengyou ran into walls everywhere and had to leave.
After a few years of this kind of time, Lin Feng's subordinates began to be dissatisfied, and many of the main leaders under his command had other thoughts, and after Gao Sitang came, Lin Feng himself had already felt the dissatisfaction of his subordinates and quietly left, and then there was a public promotion of the chief helmsman of the coastal pirates in Fujian.
Gao Sitang learned the news through the private port maritime merchants, secretly plotted, and finally fought with the pirate coalition at the time when Gao Pragmatic obtained Thanh Hoa and entered the British capital.
Due to the early preparations, and Gao Sitang's strict implementation of the tactics of high-level long-range artillery warfare, this battle of maritime merchants and pirates finally won a complete victory after 11 consecutive days of fighting, including searching, receiving the enemy, fighting, pursuing, and encirclement.
Gao Sitang's Jinghua Quanzhou fleet and the maritime alliance destroyed and captured a total of 132 pirate ships, 4,267 pirates, 1,493 women, 1,375 old and young, and killed pirates.
The price paid by itself cannot be counted, and the total loss of 39 sea ships, including five Jinghua's standard armed transport ships, is a loss of almost 300,000 taels of silver.
However, it was still a brilliant victory! Because from now on, there will never be any pirates along the coast of Fujian who dare to attack Jinghua.
Moreover, in the inventory after the war, Gao Sitang found two of the so-called "extra-high-yield grains" in one of the pirates' nests, Taiwan's Xiaogang, which Gao pragmatic ordered to collect five times.
According to the discrimination, Gao Sitang concluded that these two things may have been obtained by Lin Feng in Luzon back then, but although he also took them back and started planting them in the new old nest, he was not very serious.
These two crops, according to the old man, should be "sweet potato" and "corn".
The celebration banquet of Quanzhou Private Port was held to defeat the pirate alliance and obtain the two major crops.
Gao Sitang was very excited, he felt that the "single name next to the king" was already beckoning to him!
He is finally about to enter the ranks of the lord's henchmen!
This chapter is 4,000 words, and since the plot is really combined, I thought about it, so I won't split it up and send it again.