"Dajiangdong went to the waves for thousands of stacks, leading these dozens of people to drive this small boat. I left the nine-fold dragon and phoenix que to explore this thousand-zhang tiger and wolf's den. The husband's heart is strong, and I look at this single knife will be like the Saicun Society. ”

On the eighth day of April in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Xiamen was the former Fujian General Military Office.

On the stage, the Kunqu opera actor who played Guan Erye was singing and dancing under the support of Zhou Cang, who was facing the shelf, singing the top ambition of Guan Erge, who was brave and invincible. Under the stage, the generals of the land and water armies of the Southern Guangdong Army, the wild goose wings discharged dozens of tables of wine banquets, and they were constantly guessing the boxing orders there, applauding and applauding.

Among these dozens of tables of wine banquets, there are quite a few tables where the atmosphere is not embarrassing or embarrassing.

Sitting at these tables were Zheng Zhilong and his younger brothers, as well as more than a dozen shipowners who were captured in the Battle of Xiamen. As for Zheng Sen and others, they opened two other tables under the stage with Li Huamei, Li Huayu, and Li Huabao, the second son of Shouhan, who had just arrived.

However, the people of the Zheng family were still in shock at this time, no matter how good the wine and food were, they tasted like chewing wax in their mouths. After this battle, the Zheng family has been operating dismally for more than 20 years, and the belongings that they have painstakingly accumulated have all changed overnight.

Soldiers, horses, sailors, forts, ships, warehouses, and furniture have all become the Li family's treasures. At this time, it is to bring the dragon liver and phoenix pith to the people of the Zheng family, if you can still taste the taste of the wine and food in the cup, you are really a heartless person.

People's emotions are like seesaws, and when the feelings on this side are low, they will naturally rise up there.

On the map, the flag that marked the Zheng family was captured by Wu Liuqi after getting the news that Zheng Zhilong was captured. was pulled down by the guard. On the sea route, cinnabar was used to smear the dotted line in the Fujian sea area into a solid thick red line.

Hua Mei on the side saw it clearly. She knew that her father and uncle had replaced the less stable routes or turf with dotted lines, while the relatively stable dìng, or the turf firmly controlled by the Southern Yue Army, was replaced by solid lines.

Hua Mei carefully looked at this chart, which condensed the 20 years of hard work of her father, and the red lines on it, like blood vessels, led to the east, west, north and south, and communicated the communication between the various islands and territories of the Southern Guangdong Army. At the same time, the products of the four directions will be gathered in the southern and central regions. It was manufactured into commodities through various workshops and handicraft workshops, and then transported to the Central Plains, Liaodong, and the bitter cold land of the extreme north, Fuso, Korea, Tianzhu, and Tianfang through these routes. And then there are the European countries that the Mahoro people call them. In exchange for a huge amount of wealth for the Nanyue Army and the Li family.

Arguably. The foundation of the Li family today. Half of it comes from various factories and mines, and the other half is from these routes and sea vessels.

But before this sea. There are also countless seagoing ships with the Zhengjia banner floating on the masts, and these ships come and go in various ports with prosperous commercial trade in the East and the West (from Da Ni, Hun, Champong, Luzon, Yonggang, Beigang, Taiwan, Hirado, Nagasaki, to Mumbai, Banten, Old Port, Batavia, and Malacca) in various ports where commerce and trade are prosperous, and sell the goods produced in the Central Plains and Jiangnan to merchants from all over the country, in exchange for a large amount of gold and silver and goods to be sold in the interior for profit.

These ships not only made huge profits from this sea controlled by Li Jiakong, but also intentionally or unintentionally hindered the trade activities of the ships of the Nanyue Army to the south of the Yangtze River, to the Central Plains, to Liaodong, to Korea and other places.

Now, this qiē is finally over.

The port of Xiamen, which represents the core of the Zheng family's power, has become an important transit and supply station connecting Hong Kong Island and the port of Shanghai. At the same time, it will also become a base for purchasing tea and mountain goods from the hinterland of Fujian and selling various industrial and agricultural products. This stronghold will not only radiate to the whole of Fujian, but even penetrate into southern Gansu.

"What the Zheng family businessmen can do, I Nanzhong businessmen must also do!"

Looking at this unhindered chart, Shouhan was full of ambition, and his eyes were beating with a feverish light. Doesn't it mean that China's destiny has to be a choice between sea and land? Good! I'll take both the sea and the land! Slowly let the children and grandchildren choose!

Therefore, the matter of digesting the fruits of victory was put in the first place.

The defeat of Zheng Zhilong's subordinates not only completely fell into the hands of the Nanyue Army led by Li Shouhan, but also meant that the entire Fujian Province was controlled by the Nanyue Army from now on! They can openly use the names of suppressing bandits, building roads, and trading to spread their hands to various villages and houses in Fujian, such as work teams, engineering teams, and businesses. And then establish a solid grass-roots political power, and firmly confine the serious Ming officials in various cities, and the government decree cannot go out of the city gates.

However, to do this, the first link is to share the spoils!

For the results captured in the Battle of Xiamen, both the naval and land armies of the Nanyue Army were red-eyed. The reason for everyone's red eyes was not for the gold and silver of the seized property, but for the soldiers and weapons.

As many as 10,000 skilled sailors, if combined with the students who graduated from the Shanghai Naval Academy, plus the hired from Akagan, Tianzhu and other places, Zhang Xiaohu, Zuo Tianpeng, Chu Tianlei, Li Huamei and others are all looking forward to equipping their fleet with more and larger gunboats. Therefore, the leaders of the four fleets gathered in Xiamen for the sake of the more than 10,000 sailors!

Compared with the land camp, it is much simpler.

The tens of thousands of soldiers captured by the Zheng family were dismissed, the old and the weak, and those who were unsuitable and unwilling to serve in the army were sent home to farm, and the rest had to be disrupted and sent to various places for retraining. After several months of training, knowing at least two or three hundred words, being able to write simple letters, and becoming familiar with the various systems of the Nanyue Army, they can be sent to various newly opened areas to serve as village self-defense forces, and at the same time become new immigrants there.

The newly opened Taiwan, Luzon, Siam, Manraka, and Java are the best places for these people to go, and when they walk in front, they will cause a wave of migration from a village and a family.

In these areas, the population of the Southern Yue Army was underpopulated, especially the Han Chinese in the interior. It will be quickly reversed by a tidal wave of immigration.

The generals of the towns in the army camp were optimistic about the more than 400 large-caliber artillery pieces that had captured the Zheng army. And those gunners! Those cannons ranging from eight pounds to 32 pounds, although the generals of the Nanyue Army were a little greedy, and they wished to issue them for their own use to expand the strength of the artillery team, but compared with those skilled gunners, the officers were still willing to ask for gunners!

The difference between these people and the gunners of the original Nanyue Army is only in aiming, calculation, and other links, and they are not much inferior in the operation of artillery. I got it back and trained several times with the artillery units of various units of the Nanyue Army. The technical and tactical level of these people can be raised to a great level.

And the density of artillery fire strikes from various units of the Southern Yue Army. It is also possible to go up a big step!

"Don't think about these cannons!" Shouhan's words extinguished the flames that everyone was excited about.

"However, the gunners can be trained intensively and then assigned to each town and brigade! Wu Liuqi! You're playing well this time. I will ask the emperor and the court for advice. Ask you a lieutenant to come back. Other than that. Eight eight-pounder guns and four twelve-pounder guns are allocated to you to expand your artillery battalion! ”

"Thank you for your grace!"

Standing up after kowtowing, Wu Liuqi looked at the people around him with envy and jealousy with some excitement and a little smugness. He knew that Wu Biao, a brother of the same clan, led his people to turn against the adverse effects of the imperial court on him, and with this sentence of Shouhan, it began to disappear.

"I'm waiting to congratulate General Wu!"

"Say hello to General Wu!"

The commanders of the towns and the brigade commanders of the garrison brigades came forward one after another to congratulate Wu Liuqi.

"Lord, Brigade Commander Wu has made great contributions, so naturally he will be rewarded, I don't know what the lord plans to do with those cannons?" Wang Bao, the head of the camp office, cautiously asked Shouhan about his abdomen case in the look of anticipation of everyone.

"Those cannons, Benber has some use. Come and see. ”

Shouhan pointed to the large area west of Manraka on the chart, on which many routes were also outlined with cinnabar.

On the east coast of Tianzhu across the sea, there are several places where the flag of the Nanyue Army is inserted.

"This is Tianzhu, and today more than half of our cotton and almost all of our wheat come from here. A large number of our arms are also sold here. At the same time, it also provides us with at least 200 horses per year, providing fresh blood for our horse farm. As for those precious stones, gold and silver beauties, etc., it is not a problem. ”

"What does the lord mean is to strengthen the artillery equipment here?"

"Bao, you're half right. Not only to strengthen the artillery here, but also here! Shouhan pointed his finger at Ling Jiawei Island and the place he had very bad taste named Li Jiapo.

By building these places into fortresses, the Nanyue Army completely controlled the Manchurian Strait. The Hongmaoyi people from Tianzhu and the Arabian Peninsula will completely bow their heads in front of these two gates.

"The remaining twelve-pounder, eight-pounder, and six-pounder cannons will be used by Ben to make a good marriage. Half sell and half give away these cannons, and give them to the princes and nobles of Tianzhu who have business dealings with us, so that they can use them to watch over the family and nursing homes. ”

Hearing Shouhan say this, everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter. They all knew that the so-called half-sale and half-giveaway was nothing more than selling these cannons to the prince of Tianzhu at the price of new ones after a little refurbishment, and that at the time of checkout, they either collected cotton and wheat, or paid off with precious stones, horses, gold and silver, and at worst, they had to use those Tianzhu orchids to make up the number.

"The lord is slaughtering this group of Tianzhu sheep again!"

A brigade commander quietly winked at his colleague beside him.

"Nonsense, what kind of Tianzhu sheep, haven't you heard the lord call them the third brother every time he talks about it?!" The man replied in a serious manner.

"As for the rest of the generals, tiger squat cannons, little franc machines and the like, I don't think you can look down on them. They simply pulled all of them back to Hejing and re-forged them into small cannons, and distributed them to various immigrant villages for guarding. Shouhan slowly glanced at everyone, "Right now, we have built this big dragon, some of them have money, food and population, are you still afraid that there will be no artillery?" ”

"Then, the forts of several fortresses, such as the lord, Ling Jiawei and Li Jiapo, are they also rebuilt in the same form as the forts built by the Zheng family in Xiamen?" Huang Leiting, the commander of the artillery division, knew that after this great victory, his artillery team would be the part that would be greatly expanded. After inspecting the construction and actual effect of the Zheng family fort, he planned to build the forts of several fortresses in the same way.

Among the Zheng family's forts, there were very few corpses and wounded. Even if there were a few unlucky ones, most of them were killed by stray bullets. "If it weren't for the young marshal leading people to a desperate assault, I'm afraid that we would bombard with shells for a year, and we might not be able to kill all the gunners in the battery!" This was the conclusion of the people of the artillery division after observing the breastwork wall of the fort, which was almost one meter thick.

"The fort is going to be repaired. However, the troops' will to fight and the courage to fight must be even more necessary. Of the several batteries that our troops overcame, which was not the infantry rushing up with a volley of firearms, and then the bayonets assaulted, and the enemy collapsed? ”

Shouhan pacified the land and water armies, and by the way, they unified their opinions on the next development. Turning around, it's time to deal with another group of people.

These people are officials from Fujian and Guangdong officialdom.

Battle of Xiamen. The tremors to Guangdong and Fujian officialdom are no less than a magnitude 10 earthquake plus a 12 magnitude typhoon. In their opinion. Zheng Zhilong, who has always been known for his strong ships and guns, with his own elite sailors of artillery ships and the Xiamen Port Fort Group built at a cost of millions of silver, will hold out until this conflict alarms the imperial court. The court issued an order to mediate. But I didn't expect it. This Zheng Yiguan who has been on the sea for many years. The naval battle was lost first, and then Xiamen was surrendered, and Xiamen changed hands the day after the offensive was launched. The Zheng family disappeared overnight.

Such a result. With such a strong combat effectiveness, how can it not impress everyone in Fujian and Guangdong officialdom?

What's more, it would be better if Uncle Ning Yuan could reward everyone with some of the seized goods when he went to Zhu Jie!

Some officials have prepared in their sleeves the figures of the local losses suffered by the fires, the number of people affected, the number of houses burned, the amount of property lost, and the loss of the population. Make a list of details one by one, and prepare to ask the uncle to allocate money and food for relief.

With such an idea, not to mention Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen and other places in Fujian, even in Chaozhou Prefecture, which is far away on the border between Fujian and Guangdong, is ready to follow the example of Shen Baoxu in front of Ning Yuanbo, crying out for poverty and applying for money and food for bereavement, reconstruction, and relief.

When Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian, led the political envoys, envoys and other Fujian officials of all sizes to salute the Shouhan and congratulate the Shouhan in turn according to the region to which the officials belonged, and a series of New Year's greetings were told one after another, these officials from various prefectures in Fujian began to cry to Shouhan.

"Originally, there were many mountains and few fields, and the land was narrow and densely populated, so we all relied on going to the sea to trade for a living. This time, the uncle cleaned up the military discipline, and I shouldn't have bothered the uncle for such a trivial matter. However, the small people here are not allowed to go to sea if they have ships, and they are even more affected by the fish in the pond and the disaster of the jade Kungang. I implore my uncle to be gracious and send relief money and food to help the people in need. The subordinates and others are respectful of the people, crying and worshipping! ”

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were different from those of the Qing Dynasty, although they were already in the last days of the dynasty, most of the officials were born in the right way, unlike the Qing Dynasty's large number of donors. The so-called donation class is to spend money to buy an official title from the imperial court, and then spend money to make up for a shortage. Such a character can imagine the level of ability of an official. Comparatively speaking, these officials from Fujian and Guangdong are of a very high level, and when they say something, they are sad and moving, as if they are waiting to be fed by the victims of the disaster.

"The people of Fujian and Guangdong are all my subordinates, as long as they abide by the law, there is no reason not to give alms." Sure enough, Shouhan's words in the handsome position hit the nail on the head. Hearing this, the officials are full of joy, and the opportunity to make a fortune has come!

Soon, however, they fell from the Queen Mother's Yao Chi to the icy hell of the King of Yama.

"Ben Bo originally prepared a month of military rations, but he didn't want our army to be so heroic, so he broke through Xiamen in just one day. In this way, these military rations were sent to the war-affected state capitals and villages in various places to be distributed as rations for the victims of the disaster, so as to relieve the urgent needs of the people. ”

"Fujian is mountainous and has few fields, and as this colleague said, the land is narrow and densely populated, and it is not easy to make a living. Concubine Ben thought that the distribution of military rations for disaster relief was only a symptomatic technique, not a cure. Ben Bo proposed two plans and asked Zhang Futai for advice. ”

Hearing what Shouhan said so politely, and seeing that he suddenly took out a large amount of military rations to relieve the victims in various places, Zhang Kentang, who had already made up his mind to take refuge, felt more and more that this Ning Yuanbo was far less vicious and hateful than those who were his fellow disciples described in their letters in the same year.

"The lower officials don't dare, and ask the uncle to teach him."

"One is to work for relief. Benbo took out his own money and food, recruited the victims of the disaster, and built official roads and bridges from the provincial capital to the prefectures and roads, and similarly, the prefectures, prefectures, and county towns also had to build roads on a large scale. In this way, the people could exchange a share of coolie labor for money and food to support their families. ”

"Uncle's move moved the heavens and the earth, no wonder God favors the uncle's family so much!" Zhang Kentang also heard that Li Huayu was unharmed on the battlefield under the situation of the cannons flying around, although he was so frightened that Yan Mei'er didn't eat for a few days when he learned about it afterwards, but just burned incense in front of the Bodhisattva. Such a situation can only be said to be caused by the accumulation of virtue and blessings.

When everyone heard this, their hearts were full of joy. Any such big project is the time when the local officials make a fortune. Not to mention anything else, there can be rebates for the labor and silver, and the rations and wages of the people are even more oily.

"This year, the construction of roads in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places along the coast will be completed, and next year it will be built in the mountainous areas of western Fujian and northern Fujian. However, this matter is also not urgent, and the people in western Fujian, northern Fujian and other places cannot be relieved for a while. Therefore, the official has a second method. ”

The second way to guard the Han is to call immigrants to eat. That is to say, the statistics of acres, native products, and production in various places are clear, and how many people can be supported by each state capital, and the remaining rich population will all be transported to Nanzhong to work in the wilderness!

This is undoubtedly cutting off the financial route of Fujian officials. They usually rely on this person Ding Yin to enrich their own pockets!

The officials didn't want to accept it, but they didn't have the guts, so they had to pinch their noses and drink the bitter wine they brewed. There are also those who have bright brains and disagree, "These things you said, when it comes to my one-third of an acre of land, don't you still rely on me to carry them out?" If you have these road construction and immigration things, you will have less money and food to pass through the hands of the officials, as long as you pass it, Lao Tzu will give you a goose to pluck the feathers! Smoke him at least thirty percent! ”

However, with Li Shouhan's strict distrust of these officials, would he leave such an important matter to them to do?

"My colleagues in Fujian were busy with official business in the past, and they must have been unable to build roads and bridges and eat for immigrants. Benbo sent teams to various places and stationed them in various counties and towns to handle the distribution of rations, the site selection and survey of roads, and the resettlement of immigrants to the sea for reclamation! ”

Get! People won't even let you pick up the edge of the bowl!

Soon after, teams of up to several hundred people appeared in the counties, and among them, in addition to the officials and others who exercised their powers, were the students of the school who drew maps and counted the population and acres of land.

There was also a sentry horse that acted as a guard to prevent bandits from killing the team members.

"Lord Futai, Lord Fantai, Lord Zhentai, Ben Bo has another thing to disturb. Please don't shirk it. ”

The Nanyue army seized as many as millions of catties of tea in Xiamen, and how to dispose of them as much as possible was a question that Shouhan asked the three Fujian land snakes with a smile.

Zhang Kentang and the others are very bright in their hearts, this is Uncle Ning Yuan picking us to make a fortune! (To be continued......)