During the voyage, four cruisers were dispatched to escort two cargo ships and one Velgate's clipper, all of which were Western-style plywood boats, with their sails fluttering and their speeds.

Among them, the Velgate Clipper is specially used for VIP transportation and letter delivery, the speed is particularly fast, and it is specially made, and the box has a bed and a private bathroom, and the conditions are comfortable.

Yan Changwu was on the deck of the clipper, looking at the water and sky, the waves were rolling, and his heart was also fluctuating.

This time, you don't need to be the captain of the ship, you can quietly think about some things, such as the future road of the Southeast Mansion, and how to cut into the mainland hegemony?

In Yan Changwu's view, when the fifth-level cruiser enters service, it can be started, or after the third-level battleship is manufactured, the victory will be greater.

At present, the Hongmaofan in Southeast Asia is mainly occupied by the Spanish who occupy the Philippines and the Dutch who occupy Batavia (Indonesia), as the two maritime powers, their strength is undoubted, but they are too far from the mainland, and the ships used are almost no professional warships, all of them are gunboats converted from merchant ships, and the warships of the southeast province are warships.

If the fight starts, Yan Changwu thinks that he is not afraid at all.

But continental hegemony?

Yan Changwu has a sense of powerlessness, he has a little money, but not much, investing in the mainland is like a bottomless pit, and he can't afford a big war at present.

He has warships, and there will be many in the future, but warships cannot go ashore.

He had a large number of musketeers, which he used to deal with the green army in its heyday, which was not enough!

The musket was still too backward, and although he used the best flintlock musket, the breech was loaded and it was a headache to think about dealing with the whizzing cavalry.

The key is that the opponent's generals are like clouds, they are rich in combat experience, Yan Changwu's musketeers have not gone through a large array of confrontations, they all fight in ships, if they fight on land, it is another category.

As for influencing mainland officialdom?

Yan Changwu shook his head with a wry smile, he was the head of a pirate thief, and people were polite to him, it was polite to his money, and he looked down on him at all.

He made up his mind to:

With regard to the affairs of the mainland, it is necessary to intervene appropriately to achieve a balance between revenue and expenditure.

Make every effort to operate the maritime business, break through Southeast Asia as soon as possible, strive to get it done in three to five years, and seize Australia within ten years!

The Ming Dynasty can still last for more than ten years, and when Australia is done, the strength of the southeast province will jump to a new level, and it may be possible to compete for hegemony on the mainland.

He shouted, "Zhang Shouyun! ”

"Master, what do you command?" Zhang Shouyun, Minister of the Guard, asked.

"Write it down, and when you come back, you will immediately set up a 'nursery' and all the newborn expenses will be paid by the government and increase the investment of the hospital to achieve medical insurance! Also, the north has to be prepared to collect more people! ”

"Yes!"

What is needed is the population, the population!

Although the Southeast Mansion continues to recruit people in, Yan Changwu still hates that the population is not enough, the more the better, move all the people from the mainland over, anyway, the war in the north is chaotic, and if you die, you will die in vain.

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The sailing ships sailed quickly along the coast, and within a few days, the fleet reached Tianjin.

The cruiser did not open its guns, the open-air deck guns were also wrapped, all the guns were not exposed, and the plywood ships with as many as seven should have been very eye-catching, but the petty officers of the Tianjin guard ship who came to inspect did not even look at it, and when they heard that it was a ship from Taiwan Wei, they were immediately released!

It's all done, just kidding, how can the manpower and money of the Southeast Mansion be in vain, everything has to be done by the big dragon, and what do you want others to do!

Tianjin Weiji is prosperous, the port mast is like a forest, the ship is like a carp, the wharf is the cargo distribution center, you can see the scene of cargo loading and unloading everywhere, there are many porters, ships come and go, the river and the river bank echo each other from afar, and the prosperity is very.

Yan Changwu has a kind of sadness, once the Qing army enters the customs, under the nest, how can there be no eggs, and if it is not good, it is that he Yan Dashao came to mischief and destroyed the port!

The two merchant ships brought some silk, tea, rum, milk and sugar, so they called a porter to load a cart and transport some to the capital.

Some trivial things, no need for Yan Changwu to pay attention to, he took people and horses to the Sea Lot Temple to incense.

There are many risks on the way north, and the sailors who sail at night have encountered strong winds and waves many times, and each time they have survived thanks to the help of the sea god, and the sea god is Mazu Niangniang.

Therefore, the fishermen and boatmen who came from the south to the north built temples on both sides of the Haihe River in Tianjin, called the "Tianfei Palace", that is, the one that was vigorously respected by the southeast government, so Yan Changwu had to enter the incense.

He has materialist thoughts, but over the years, he has been very devout in his belief in Tianfei Niangniang, completely detached from the thoughts of false believers, believing it or not is one thing, he regards her old man as a kind of spiritual sustenance, or a listener of thoughts, good to her, bad to her.

Built in 1316, the Tianfei Palace located in Dazhigu is called the "East Temple", and the Tianfei Palace built in 1326 is called the "West Temple", which is evidenced by the bamboo branch words:

The temple looks like the right to Taiding, and this year it has a smooth sail;

The mouth of the Sancha River is like a cloud, and they all pray for the Lingci Tianfei Palace.

Yan Changwu went to the two temples successively, and finally arrived at the West Temple, the main hall of the heavenly concubine Niangniang is kind and kind-eyed, the demeanor is auspicious, the phoenix crown is beautiful, Yan Changwu incense wishes: "May the people be safe, the river and the sea are peaceful!" ”

The clever temple wishes, seeing that their group is extraordinary, and the young people among them have a huge aura, why don't they take the merit book and ask him for a charity!

"Taiwan Yan Changwu, donate 100 taels of silver!" Zhang Shouyun said, and his subordinates immediately sent the silver taels that had been prepared long ago.

"Taiwan Yan Changwu!" The temple babbled and suddenly exclaimed, "Golden and bronze boy?!" Well deserved the name! ”

It turned out that Yan Changwu's reputation had spread to the north, and not everyone in the north knew about him, but the temple blessing of the Tianfei Palace was still clear, and the "splitting the spirit" ceremony was due to it.

The belief of Mazu has the ancestral temple and the spirit, the ancestral temple is located in Meizhou, Quanzhou, the Mazu Niangniang under the world are from the ancestral temple to go out, so the ancestral temple of the gods and spirits have an understanding.

Over the years, with Yan Changwu's strong rise and the fact that he fed the ancestral temple with money, he forcibly raised himself to the belief of becoming a demigod and a half-human.

The temple was well-informed, and the person was clever, he accepted the silver taels, and asked Yan Changwu to leave the ink treasure as a memorial.

Yan Changwu thought about it, he had worked as a map editor before, and he had traveled all over the world, and he had really come to this West Temple.

"Pen and ink waiting!"

Everyone watched him write together, and over the years, under the pressure of Chen Xinji (if you are the boss, your handwriting should be decent), Yan Changwu's calligraphy has improved, and the writing is not as good as the old Tokugawa of the Edo shogunate (you are not even as good as a Japanese person), but at least it can be seen.

"Mending the god of Tianwa, the god of the mother of the earth, the great Zai Qian, the supreme Kun, the goddess of the ages; Governing the water Yu Sheng, Jichuan Hou Sheng, the river is clear, the sea is Yan, Kyushu is the same holy work"

This work should have been made by Zheng Ruiqi, Zheng Ruiqi word Renguo, Fujian Min County (now Fuzhou) people, Jiaqing 20 years (1819) Jinshi, official cabinet book, direct military machine, spin out for the Jiujiang prefect, the right to Guangrao Jiunan Province and Jiujiang Pass superintendent, changed to Qingyuan prefect, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to stick to Qingyuan and take the opportunity to break the enemy merit narrator, more virtuous politics, there is the reputation of Zheng Bodhisattva.

In the sentence, Nuwa is compared to the sky and the concubine Sihai, thinking that Nuwa is virtuous in the sky, and the concubine is virtuous in the earth, and the concubine is the same as Nuwa, which can be called the two goddesses through the ages. In the couplet, the author also called the Xia Dynasty's Dayu to control the water, and Mazu escorted the fortune to be holy, so that the river water was clear and the sea did not raise waves, so the merits of Mazu can also be called a sage like the water control hero Dayu.

Zheng Ruiqi once went to the West Temple and left his masterpieces, and now, the honor belongs to me, Yan Dashao!

The masterpiece came out, all of a sudden alarmed many people, all of them praised, the temple Zhu end is vigorous and resolute, immediately called people to find craftsmen, immediately make couplets, hang on the main hall.

Since then, the West Temple of Tianjin Tianfei Palace has overshadowed the East Temple because of Yan Changwu's masterpiece, and the East Temple has been so angry that the eyes of the East Temple have reversed, sighing that they have eyes and do not know Mount Tai! (In fact, Yan Changwu also gave a hundred taels in the East Temple, but the temple there was not clever enough)