Among the several mansions in Higashiyama, one of them is more magnificent and opulent than the others. Eight guards in front of the gate stood at the sentry post day and night, rain or shine. Under the steps made of five huge stone strips, the stonemasons on dozens of horse-tied stakes carefully carved the image of Sun Wukong, and there was a line of small words, "Monkey King is here, and the horse plague is avoided." ”

Walking on the steps to the front of the gate, a color of gold bricks soaked in tung oil covered the ground, and the spurs on the leather boots of the sergeants occasionally flashed with sparks, and the shoe struck on them, and there was a faint sound of gold and stone.

On the door leaf, according to the imperial court etiquette and tradition, coupled with the ingenuity of the owner of the mansion, in addition to the officials above the third rank can be decorated with a halberd, there are huge sailing ships and artillery patterns on the door leaf.

In the doorway, four huge official lanterns swayed slightly in the night breeze blowing through with gusts of evening wind, spreading orange light outward.

"The chief soldier of Fujian, the commander of the naval division of the Southern Guangdong Army."

Yes, the owner of this mansion is Zheng Zhilong, the chief soldier of Fujian certified by the imperial court and the admiral of the Southern Guangdong Army!

In the study, Admiral Zheng Zhilong of the Navy was dressed in a moon-white robe, with a long beard fluttering, elegant and handsome, not like haunting the wind and waves, walking through the smoke of the fire, talking and laughing with the cannon bullets, but like a literati and ink artist who drank and tasted tea, poetry and painting.

This Zheng Zhilong is worthy of being the famous jade Jiaolong across the sea back then, although he is nearly forty years old, he is still radiant, graceful, and has the taste of a mature uncle between his gestures, which will definitely cause a scream in modern times.

Sitting opposite Zheng Zhilong was his eldest son, Zheng Sen, Li Shouhan's second son-in-law.

Between father and son, there is a tea tray, and the red robe of Wuyi Mountain is being cooked in the purple sand teapot. A few thumb-sized teacups are filled with yellow tea. For the sake of the past few days, the two fathers and sons took the opportunity of drinking tea to dismiss all the people around them, and only a few soldiers were waiting outside the door. Those few soldiers, loyalty is naturally loyalty, but the Chinese language is very poor. It's just the right time for father and son to have a secret discussion.

The actions in Guangzhou these days seem to outsiders to be calm, but in the eyes of people like Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen, father and son, who can go deep into the core of the power of the Southern Guangdong Army, they are a little thrilling.

After announcing the reform of the military system, he first ordered the clipper to transfer Wang Bao back, and let this man from the Miao family, who had been a teacher in Jiangwutang for many years, be the post of general staff responsible to Li Shouhan alone, and be in charge of the so-called staff headquarters.

Chen Tianhua, the commander of the second town, happily handed over the second town, which was called a town of soldiers and horses, but was actually only half of the troops. At this time, the Third Brigade of the Second Town was playing the role of the main brigade under Li Huayu in Shandong, leading the other three supplementary brigades and garrison brigades to guard Shandong for the Nanyue Army.

"Tianhua, you first grieved to be the general office of the Military and Political Department for a period of time, and the troops in the second town will be directly under the command of the commander for a period of time. In the future, it is necessary to select elites from other units to supplement the complete system, or allocate new recruits to the second town, in short, a fully staffed second town. ”

At the venue that day, Li Shouhan quietly pocketed the second town. He firmly controlled the defense of the periphery of Guangzhou in his own hands.

In addition to Chen Tianhua's position change, Mo Yu of the Guards Brigade was also promoted. became the ambassador of the Military Command Department and became a person in authority, and in the same way, the troops of the Guards Brigade were temporarily commanded by Li Huamei.

"In this way, the second town outside the city, the Guards brigade inside the city. There is a direct commander of the lord, and when he gets things done, he is even more like a finger and a command! ”

Zheng Sen grumbled and drank the best red robe in the teacup. Although they are all Li Shouhan's sons-in-law, he entered the Li family's house before Shi Lang. But he didn't want to see that Shi Lang, the son of a small boat owner, was now holding him down everywhere.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Huamei came out to compete for the sailor when she consulted the opinions of the various ministries, I am afraid that the sailor would have only one poor sailor in this shogunate, and he would have been completely subordinate to the land camp from now on.

However, even so, the naval division is still only an independent naval division division in this staff headquarters, and although it has a complete range of categories and a large number of establishments, it is still subordinate to the three divisions of military administration and military orders.

When it came to another matter, Zheng Zhilong's expression became more and more solemn.

After Li Huamei won a place in the shogunate for the sailors, she was not warm and immediately obeyed Li Shouhan's general order to go to the mouth of the Pearl River to mobilize the ships of the sailors. The documents that kept coming back and the various supplies, ammunition, and water requested by the Admiral and the Shogunate from the Admiral to the Shogunate were also huge and varied, and it was clear that they had been prepared for a great expedition.

Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong's hands couldn't help but shake, the tea in the cup almost spilled, he couldn't help but feel excited in his heart, got up and paced in the study.

He pondered for a long time, and his expression was solemn: "The lord has made great adjustments to the shogunate this time, and this matter is serious. Obviously, the lord wants to act arbitrarily in order to prevent the power from being sidelined. If you and my father and son can make great contributions to the matter in the hearts of the lord who has not yet made up his mind, and you are the lord's beloved daughter and husband, and my Zheng family is the whole family with soldiers, horses, ships and ships to invest, and follow the lord to do this great thing, the future future is naturally limitless. Compared with the future feudal kings, a mere Fujian general soldier cannot be compared. ”

He got up and paced in the study and muttered: "In my father's opinion, the establishment of the shogunate's departments has eliminated the possibility of the generals doing their own thing. The Second Military Orders and Military Administration Department is responsible for operations and supplies, and it is reported that Muya Dog is about to be handed over to the envoy of the Investigation Office and will take up a post in the Military Science Department. In addition, there is a legend that the military garrison of each province and each province will soon be parallel to that of each town, and in the future, the supply of soldiers in each town and brigade, and the manager of military rations and salaries will be collected under the jurisdiction of the shogunate. The lord has a lot of ambitions. At present, among the generals in Guangzhou, you and Shi Lang are the most close, needless to say, Shi Lang has the highest official position and rich qualifications, and now the momentum of the two major wars in Liaodong in Tashan is in the limelight for a while, and there are many people who are good friends with him or are favored by him in the land camp. is also the east bed, your status in the eyes of the lord is far inferior to him! ”

"Father, this is a fallacy! You don't know one thing, you don't know the other. ”

Zheng Sen didn't see his father's worries so much, he leaned comfortably on the Huanghuali official hat chair. Let the light above his head shine on one of his shaved heads. This is the fashion that arose in the army after arriving in Guangzhou. All units of the army battalion and the naval division, from generals to soldiers, have shaved the heads of such monks. For the sake of Li Shouhan's words, "The field elites of all departments, casualties are inevitable, and shaving your head can reduce the probability of death due to injuries." This in itself is a very plain word. But to the ears of the soldiers in the towns and departments, it has evolved into the fact that only elite troops, troops who can fight, are qualified to shave their bald heads. Who told us to fight big battles and bad battles more often! As a result, the head shaving masters in Guangzhou who specialize in serving the temples and jungles in various places were immediately busy.

Hearing his son's indifferent tone, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but feel a nameless fire in his heart, in his opinion, Wang Bao, as the leader of the barbarian faction, is now the general staff member and can give orders to the whole army. Among the sailors, except for the old men like Zhang Xiaohu and Xu Huanshan. It is a person from his Fujian Maritime Group. However, now that Li Shouhan has vigorously promoted Shi Lang, he has invisibly put aside, the boss of the original maritime gang and the current commander of the Nanyue Army, and is even in danger of being set aside. At present, Li Huamei controls all the southern Guangdong warships in the waters of Guangdong at the mouth of the Pearl River, but in the end, it is necessary to take preventive measures to carry out military reform, and to conscript rebels who are plotting rebellion. He, the admiral of the water master and his in-laws, knows nothing. And so on. I am afraid that the Zheng family, which was across the sea back then, will be marginalized.

Zheng Sen didn't care about that, just took a sip of tea and said to himself: "Father, Shi Lang's actions are just to build a step down for him in front of my father-in-law, so that he can solve the problem of the defeat of Liaodong smoothly." At the same time, he found a good excuse for him to carry out the reform of many yamen in the shogunate in the army. And I can help him solve the big trouble caused by the rebels in all parts of my Nanyue Army region right now! ”

This is undoubtedly a good opportunity! Listening to his son's slightly arrogant words, Zheng Zhilong couldn't care about his son's arrogance, and now the momentum of rebellions in various places is rising and falling, that is, Ha Jing, who is the foundation of the Nanyue Army, saw the urgent document a few days ago. There are people who have launched a riot, shouting the slogan of expelling the Northern Kou, for this matter, I heard that the lord is also worried, if Zheng Sen can quickly put down the rebellion in various places in one fell swoop, and return the Nanyue Army to a stable rear, then what are my Zheng family afraid of? The lord must have looked at my father and son differently, and since then he has been firmly seated in the Diaoyutai in the Nanyue Army.

However, as an old fritter who has been on the battlefield for a long time and the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, Zheng Zhilong will not just listen to a few words from his son and let him go to Li Shouhan, who controls hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Nanyue Army, sits on tens of thousands of miles of land, and has a population of tens of millions. I had to listen to Zheng Sen explain his plans and plans, and then help his son study it to see how to speak and how to say it.

However, after listening to Zheng Sen finish his counterinsurgency strategy, Zheng Zhilong, who is also a ruthless character who kills people without blinking, suddenly changed his face.

"Da Mu, your method is good, but it will inevitably lose some yin virtue."

"What is my father worried about? Do you think the killing is too heavy? As long as I can solve the worries of my Nanyue army once and for all, I don't care how many people he kills! Zheng Sen's face was righteous and stern. (As long as I can help my father-in-law solve the problem, let me show my face in front of his old man, and let my Zheng family have a solid foundation in the Nanyue army, I will kill those rebellious natives!) ）

When he learned from his in-law Zheng Zhilong that Zheng Sen had already had an extremely appropriate way to deal with the rebellions of the natives in various places, and Li Shouhan, who was greatly annoyed by the fact that the rebellion of the natives in various places had involved a large number of troops in the southern Guangdong army and affected the overall governance plan, he immediately ordered Zheng Sen and Wu Liuqi, the commander of the First Mixed Brigade, to summon Zheng Sen and Wu Liuqi, the commander of the First Mixed Brigade, to listen to these two guys who were already quite experienced in the battlefield of suppressing bandits and counterinsurgency to talk about their plans.

"You two, you did a good job before. Today, I would like to hear your opinions, how to calm down the smoke and dust in the near Taiwan and Java in the distance? ”

Zheng Sen frowned slightly, and said with a pale face: "Father Qi, this time Erchen went to Taiwan with General Wu, and as soon as he got off the ship, he encountered a large number of naturalized natives and immigrants coming to cry. According to them, the rebellion was sudden and powerful, and although each village had a small number of firearms, knives and guns, the scattered militia was powerless to resist in the face of the rebels in the east, who often shouted more than 10,000 people. ”

"After the village is broken. The indigenous rebels were extremely cruel, Ding Zhuang killed them all, the women plundered them, and the food and property were swept away. However, the naturalized natives said that this was not surprising, because they were treated in the same way when they fought each other. The so-called poverty is a thief. Seeing that it has only been a few years, the villages that follow the Han people are literate and have enough food and clothing, while the other villages are still poor. As a result, a common phenomenon occurred, girls from poor villages married into the Han family or naturalized villages, and it was difficult for other villages to marry for a while. In addition, some people maliciously instigated, so other poor villages heard all kinds of rumors about the defeat of the lord Liaodong, and they all had the intention of taking the opportunity to make a fortune. So, in essence. The rebellion in Taiwan is because the scope of naturalization is still too small, and the intensity is still insufficient. ”

Li Shouhan frowned when he heard this, this kind of contradiction is a common contradiction after immigration, not to mention the relationship between immigrants and naturalized natives and those tribes that have not yet been naturalized. That is, in history, only in Taiwan, what Fujian-Guangdong armed fighting, Zhangquan armed fighting has always existed during the Qing Dynasty's management of Taiwan. It's tens of thousands of people at every turn. The government just turned a blind eye and buried the dead after the two families were finished. But immigration is an essential process. How to deal with this contradiction is quite a headache. But no matter what, grassroots cadres, property and the army are indispensable, Li Shouhan was about to ask Zheng Sen how much material and manpower support he needed, but he heard Zheng Sen say: "In this case, things are simpler." Our task is nothing more than to distinguish between those who support us, those who oppose us, and those who wait and see. ”

Li Shouhan pondered for a moment and said: "It's easy to say that those who support it, they must run desperately to the port." But what do we divide between those who oppose us and those who wait and see? It is also possible that our soldiers are pressing the border, and we have killed people desperately denying it, saying that we have done nothing. ”

Zheng Sen grinned indifferently, showing a mouthful of white Sensen's teeth and said: "This matter has been thought about a long time ago, it is very simple, before receiving the military order from his father, the son has already ordered to strengthen the port blockade border, and choose to build fortresses along various highways, and then I will divide Taiwan into two regions with various ports along the coast of Taiwan as locks, highways as pillars, and fortresses as chains. Taking advantage of our superiority at sea in various ports, and stockpiling all kinds of supplies necessary for the army's operations, Erchen kept the troops of the 1st Mixed Brigade in his hands as a mobile force, except for the necessary guards everywhere. In this way, as soon as the troops heard that there was a police station, they could immediately ship there by sea, advance lightly, and carry out a surprise attack. In this way, where there is a fortress to defend, the security is naturally very good, so we call it a quasi-security area. Where there is no fortress, the security must be poor, and it is called a non-security area. For the quasi-security zone, we have to allocate materials to pacify, resume production, and open schools. And for non-policing areas......"

Listening to Zheng Sen methodically talking about his approach to dealing with those rebellious Dongfan tribes in Taiwan, he couldn't help but let Li Shouhan pop up a small thought in his mind, you little guy, in your Japanese grandmother's house, there is no girl from the sleeping gang village family, right?!

Before Zheng Sen finished speaking, Li Shouhan's cold sweat came down, if he remembered correctly, the rest of the words were very unbelievable.

Therefore, before Zheng Sen could speak, Li Shouhan suddenly stood up and asked something that made everyone baffled: "Zheng family boy, don't you know a family surnamed Gang Village in Dongying?" ”

Zheng Sen was very inexplicable when he heard this, so he replied puzzledly: "Which name is Gangcun?" I really don't recognize it, but the lord can rest assured, now everyone in the Japanese country is excited, as long as the lord gives an order, even if the lord wants to make the Taiwanese Mao not exist, it is a trivial matter. ”

Li Shouhan had already found that he was a little out of shape at this time, so he hurriedly covered it up and said, "Okay, you go on, what are you going to do about this non-security area?" Zheng Sen didn't say much, but continued: "For non-security areas, I plan to place an order to relocate and disarm within a time limit. ”

Zheng Sen's words puzzled everyone for a while, but Li Shouhan was surprised, no, shouldn't it be killed and burned in the back?

However, Shi Lang, who was also called by Li Shouhan to listen to Zheng Sen's lecture, reacted quickly, and immediately asked when he heard this: "What do you mean, use this method to distinguish between watchers and rebels." The watchers have a clear conscience and are not afraid that we will disarm and investigate, and the rebels will definitely not dare to come over to disarm and relocate. ”

Zheng Sen smiled and said: "Yes, that's the case, and if the rebels are not afraid of death, I can also let them go." In short, everyone who came over is not to blame for the past, no matter what they have done before, they are considered to have remorse. But ......."

Zheng Sen paused for a moment and said, "If you don't come over, you'll be stubborn." The stubborn people in the non-policing zone, I can't think of a reason to forgive in any way. For this kind of person, I have only six words. Then, Zheng Sen read out six murderous words word by word: kill and burn all and grab all of them.

After listening to him say these six words that are extremely familiar, Li Shouhan's heart was relieved, it seemed that he always had to come, but thinking about what kind of regime he was, and how those conscientious historians should evaluate himself in the future, Li Shouhan couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. At present, the enterprises directly under its direct administration are engaged in the integration of Taizu's two participations, one reform, and three combinations, and the new democratic revolution in the rural areas and aggression and expansion abroad. Now, the counterinsurgency in the new area has played Sanguang, which is hated by the anti-Japanese soldiers and people, and now even Li Shouhan himself can't see who he is.

However, only one thing Li Shouhan can be sure of is that if he wants to make Taiwan peaceful for a long time, he really has to let Zheng Sen kill people first. However, its purpose is not to plunder Taiwan's resources, but to build and develop Taiwan, because the key to distinguishing progress from retrogression is to look at the hard indicators of production.

"it! History books are written by people! The natives of the American continent, the Mayans and the Indians were all killed by the westward movement of the Spaniards and the Bald Eagles, and they exchanged their scalps for bounties, and I didn't see anyone say that Washington and Lincoln, who promulgated the Homestead Law, and gave Indian lands to those who worked for the Northerners, was an invader and a butcher! On the contrary, Hollywood unanimously accuses the Indians who resist the invasion and protect their homeland as barbarians, cruel and ignorant, and refuse to accept the rule and exploitation of the white race! Moreover, those well-known flies who have received subsidies from US imperialism have been there to argue for their masters, saying that US imperialism has never invaded China, let alone invaded China through North Korea, and so on, jokes, you dropped bombs into my city, fired guns across the river towards my territory, and the 14th Air Force of the Seventh Fleet sailed into Taiwan. ”

Thinking of this, Li Shouhan was suddenly relieved: "Zheng family boy, the stubborn people should indeed be killed, but the logging and smelting workshops in various mines are also in great need of people, and letting these damn people live for a few more days is also considered to be a virtue." (To be continued......)