Chapter 171: Near Island
If the bandits can be eliminated locally, and it is clear that it is Zhou Lianggong's dispatch, it is of course an out-and-out political achievement for Zhou Lianggong, the Huaiyang coastal defense soldier.
Taking this a step further, becoming the governor of Fengyang may not be impossible.
For the imperial court, the current situation can of course only rely on the generals of the four towns and their soldiers and horses, but whether it is Emperor Hongguang or the civil officials of the six cabinet departments, they must be more confident that they are qualified to manage the local civil officials.
After the fall of Nanjing and other places, the real power faction in charge of Huguang and other places is the civilian official He Tengjiao, if not presiding, Huguang is afraid that it will soon fall, and a large number of Ming troops have also gathered under its command, but because of its narrow-mindedness and ignorance, it has been crowding out the rest of the Shun army, so that the loyal battalion and the Huguang Ming army have never been able to work together, I am afraid that the situation of the Southern Ming will also be greatly improved.
From Xiong Tingbi to Sun Chengzong, to Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, and then to the next-class Zhu Dadian, Lu Zhenfei, these outstanding literary and military talents are all outstanding Ming civil officials, and it seems that they are also lucky.
Either die in the hands of one's own people, or die at the hands of others, even if they are lucky enough not to die, they cannot exert their talents, and they are overshadowed in the Southern Ming Dynasty.
And Ma Shiying, Shi Kefa, and then Huang Daozhou, He Tengjiao and others are too far away from their predecessors before them.
As for those civil officials of the Yongli Dynasty, they simply can't remember their names, except for tossing and making trouble, pulling Li Dingguo's back legs, and creating contradictions between Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and others, they have no ability and no overall situation at all, which is simply insignificant.
Nanming is short of people, there is actually no shortage of civil officials at the upper level, Qian Qianyi has recovered, those civil officials who are famous all over the world, and have articles in their hands, live high in the temple and compete for power and profit, and there are a few shabu-shabu, so that they go to the local place to be the governor, and appease the local area in case of a strong enemy, which is going to kill them.
Because of this, Zhou Lianggong has the confidence to work hard to gain prestige.
Min Yuanqi is supported by Zhou Lianggong, the two sides have determined the bottom line and alliance, Min Yuanqi will not change the court again, Zhou Lianggong has Min Yuanqi and his two battalions, and the waist board is much harder.
The governor did not dare to say anything about the prestige again, but the governor still had a considerable chance.
The second purpose is to give the soldiers more opportunities to go to sea by boat, Yunti Pass was originally guarding the sea and guarding the sea, although it has been barren for many years, but there are still channels to the sea, and it is a waste not to use.
Now Min Yuanqi is gradually putting shipbuilding on the agenda, and the chaos is coming, and there are a large number of shipbuilding workshops in Qingjiangpu, not only with equipment but also with many shipbuilding craftsmen.
As long as the situation is more chaotic, it is not difficult to get all these craftsman tools to the side of the ladder pass.
After Duoduo captured Nanjing and Hangzhou, Qingjiangpu was also included in the rule, and these things were cheaper for the Qing court, and they were also an important means for the Qing court to transport Jiangnan wealth.
Later, the Qing court set up a number of governors in Qingjiangpu, responsible for the management of the Yellow River and Caoyun, etc., the status of Qingjiangpu gradually surpassed the old Huai'an mansion, and then set up a county government here, the original Huai'an Mansion was downgraded to a state, and then reduced to a county government.
Min Yuanqi's earliest plan was to build a ship and go south, accumulate some wealth, gather some of his subordinates, and drive a big ship to sea, whether it was to settle down in Fujian and Guangdong first, or go straight to Taiwan, or even directly sail to the South Seas, it is an option to choose.
If Min Yuanqi half a year ago could escape to Fujian in a boat, the camera would be the most realistic plan to re-enter the South Seas.
In these years, there are many ships in Fujian, not to mention, more than 100 ships a year to go to the South Seas, several large anti-Chinese waves are in Indonesia and Luzon, the Malay region of later generations is quite stable, there are quite a lot of Chinese, before the establishment of the country accounted for about forty percent, and then it was relatively stable, producing a lot of huge rich families.
Min Yuanqi felt that with his own talent pattern, he didn't dare to say how much foundation he would build in Nanyang, and it was still possible to mix a rich heirloom.
There is no need to bow down to Ta Qing, shaved his braids and become a slave in the harsh environment of darkness, and he will not be poor and destitute, and he can do it to this extent, Min Yuanqi is satisfied.
After that, the situation changed, and Min Yuanqi's thoughts naturally changed.
If you can do better, why not work hard?
Now the purpose of sending soldiers to sea on a boat is to train troops at sea, because Min Yuanqi will have to compete with others at sea sooner or later.
Whether it is to open up a situation in the South Seas or to compete with the Dutch in Taiwan, ships and people on board are indispensable.
And there is a great opportunity in the next few years, when Zheng Zhilong first landed, he gave up his fleet and the sea frontier under his control, and the Zheng family's sailors were in chaos and scattered.
Although Zheng Chenggong is Zheng Zhilong's son, there are people within the Zheng family who disagree with him, and Zheng Zhilong's old department does not take him seriously.
In the following years, Zheng Chenggong went through every possible means and many hardships and obstacles to get his father's old department in his hands, and gradually ran a foundation on the shore.
During this time, Zheng Chenggong himself only had a few boats and more than a thousand subordinates.
Min Yuanqi thought to himself that his foundation was still more than Zheng Damu, the disadvantage was that he was a northerner, and the people in Fujian were very strong, and he wanted to subdue Zheng Zhilong's old department, and the effort and energy it took was not small, but as long as his own strength was strong enough and he seized the opportunity, he might not be able to succeed.
Occupy the waterway and sailors, fight with the Dutch, snatch the Japanese market from the Dutch, and then continue to trade with the Spaniards and other foreign colonists.
Even to grab a colony and collude with Taiwan, so that there will be no later Dutch and Qing court joint blockade, making the Zheng family more and more poor and weak, and even unable to defeat the Qing court sailors, it is simply a shame for the Ming pirates.
These are great ideas, but you have to take the first step in everything.
The shipbuilding had to wait a little longer, and Han Sen had already begun to build a shed and a craftsman's house near the dock, and was also collecting tools to make some preliminary preparations.
Yuntiguan has an advantage of shipbuilding here, there is a corresponding dock for stopping ships and repairing ships, and there are quite a lot of experienced people who know how to operate ships, and they have a lot of experience in repairing ships and operating ships.
What is lacking is the experience of driving a ship into the sea, and this shortcoming is also very easy to make up for for the experienced Cao Yun army.
The disadvantage is the experience of fighting at sea, which takes time, and even takes the dead as the original to make up for it.
Qinshan Island is only more than 60 miles away from Yunti Pass, and it takes one day to walk by land, but it takes more than two days to walk by sea.
Although it was a boat running close to the shore, the wind and waves were strong, and the transporters who operated the boat lacked experience, although they found a few fishermen who had driven the boat out to sea, such a large boat with a length of more than 400 materials and 20 meters had never been driven.
After traveling more than 60 miles in two days, fortunately, he also saw the pirates entrenched by the island pirates, and Han Sen was also relieved.
This time, he was the highest-ranking military attaché, but Han Sen was not responsible for commanding the battle, it was the position of the hundred commanders.
He is responsible for recording the various conditions of the sea vessels going to sea, including the status of the ships.
After this trip, Han Sen had to admit that the boat was not suitable for going to sea at all.
The flat-bottomed boat, the bow is slightly sloping, the sloop is a single sail, the wind is not much, the speed of the ship is extremely slow, the control is extremely difficult, and the boat is skewed left and right in the waves, and it is very likely to capsize.
This ship was originally designed on the canal, and the draft is shallow, because the canal is often dry, and even in the deep water area, it is impossible to be as stormy as the sea, so the boat is completely unqualified at sea.
In fact, Han Sen wanted to get a few sea ships to go to sea, but it would have to wait at least half a year later, and now he was in a hurry.
The Qinshan Island bandits have disappeared, the last time the three hundred elites plus the big leaders were swept away by Min Yuanqi's troops, and the remaining bandits scattered and fled, and the less than 100 people left on the island were mostly murderous and violent people who had nowhere to go to the old habits and were difficult to change.
If these island bandits are not eliminated, the people around them will still not be stable, so Han Sen is still looking forward to this mission.
"The island is ahead." He Fu, the chief officer who led the team, said sharply: "The island is no more than two miles long, it is wide and there are dozens of houses, and the sketches are drawn by the people of the Military Intelligence Department for you to see. This is a surprise attack, don't leave your hands after we go to the island, adults have orders, this generation is extremely vicious, there are lives in their hands, don't surrender, even if you surrender, you will kill, don't hurt the heavens! ”
"Yes, Mr. Bai!"
More than 100 people on the three ships heard it and roared with guns.
Someone on the island seems to have noticed it, and it seems that a group of people are running around as far as the naked eye can see.
A few minutes later, there were people banging gongs and drums on the island, not as if they were alarmed, but as if someone had gathered the most unqualified drum ensemble in the village and played music there to welcome them.
Han Sen just lifted his eyelids and glanced at it, not too interested in the battle that was going to happen right now.
He was the magistrate, so he presided over the military law of the garrison department to maintain the entire barracks, and later supervised the external garrison department.
Then I have to sort out the Yanchi Workshop and other things to see if there are any external fine works colluding with internal traitors and plotting against them.
Public security is in the management of the garrison, and such things as fighting, stealing chickens and touching dogs are ignored by the Pacification Division, but when it comes to foreign forces, or there are people who do not abide by military law and civil law, these are the errands of the Pacification Division.
Han Sen already has a kind of self-consciousness, he is quite mediocre in leading troops, but his prestige is high, in his thirty years of life, he has been transporting grain to Beijing for more than ten years, this kind of errand to manage and coordinate is the most test of human nature, Han Sen's prestige comes from his equal treatment of everyone on the way north, as well as the help of the flag army, everyone can go safely and return safely.
Because of this, in the hearts of the flag soldiers who knew Han Sen, this former chief flag officer was serious, peaceful to people, treated people equally, never engaged in those messy things, and never accepted bribes from Han Sen. Don't do those things that bend the law, this characteristic was seen as a bit old-fashioned at the beginning, but now he is the best candidate to manage the Suppression Division.
Han Sen also lived up to his trust, he worked diligently since he was retained, and he never let go of anyone who violated military law inside and outside the camp, regardless of the military and civilians.
The army built by Min Yuanqi is indeed centripetal and thriving, and the whole group has an atmosphere of striving for progress, but no matter what, the five fingers are still long, and some people's personalities are either greedy, or rebellious, or ruthless, there will always be people who come out to challenge the military law, but Han Sen is ruthless, no matter whether it is the people of the Min family or which family, as long as they are bumped into by this Han Yan King, they will not die and take off a layer of skin.
The more effective the pacification division was, the more praise he received, and Han Sen knew that he would not have much chance to lead troops to the battlefield in his life.
Just like the battle in front of him, he sent a hundred generals over to enrich his battlefield command experience, but he didn't ask Han Sen to be the commander by the way, or because everyone, including Min Yuanqi, felt that Han Sen was more suitable for the pacification of the military attaché, rather than a good general with troops.