After a circle such as today's weather is good, the Chinese New Year is about to begin, and the heroes from all walks of life who have participated in the year-end teeth in the past few days have almost arrived, Wang Dehua changed the topic. Chapters are updated the fastest

"Uncle, our family is bothering you here, Uncle Meng is wrong to love, and the delicacies and wines are offered every day, and our family also knows that this is Uncle Uncle's loyalty to the emperor, which is why he loves slaves and maids so wrongly. However, the slave and the group of monkey cubs under the slave and the slave have gained a few pounds in the past few days. I don't know when I will be able to wait for the news of the great victory ahead that you said, and our family will return to Beijing to report to the emperor. ”

The play meat is coming!

Shouhan had a subtle and meaningful exchange with Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao in his eyes, but these subtle movements did not escape Wang Dehua's sharp eyes that he had practiced in the court and officialdom for many years.

"Princess, to tell you the truth, these days, a certain family has been planning for you, dispatching money and food, raising armor, and preparing ships. Although the soldiers and horses under Benbo's command were all southerners, they could not tolerate the severe cold of Liaodong in the north, and they were disturbed by the war in Burma and other places, so they could not go north. However, Ben Bo's loyalty to the king did not dare to be left behind, so he specially raised a batch of armor, gunpowder, cannons and other materials for the officers and soldiers of Liaodong and Beijing for the army. ”

With the wealth of Nanzhong, the abundance of the types of materials produced, and the generosity and generosity of Li Shouhan's hands on weekdays, he still said that he wanted to raise it, so it is conceivable that the variety and quantity of these materials are.

This can be regarded as building a wide and large golden step for Wang Dehua.

Before Wang Dehua's fat face could smile, the Han guards took a battle report.

"This is an urgent military report from Zuo Tianpeng and Dog Zihuaxuan, the generals of Ben Boxi's expedition a few days ago, who came back from Bang Ge La's Clipper overnight! I was part of the Western Expeditionary Army. He has landed in Chittagong 6 in Punggara and captured Chittagong. Right now, he is heading north along the river, making an attack on Punggara! ”

"In-laws, how many people did Zuo Tianpeng and San Lang bring to the Bang Ge Ra?"

"Not much, 2,000 in the 6th battalion, 1,000 in the 6th team of the Naval Division, and 5,000 volunteers recruited from Fusang. The sailor-gunner of the sailor division is not counted among them. In front of Wang Dehua, Shouhan and Zheng Zhilong naturally didn't show too much of a superior-subordinate relationship.

"Eight thousand men and horses are inevitably weaker, why don't I transfer some men and horses from Fujian to help the third prince make meritorious contributions?"

With only 8,000 people, he will conquer the vassal country, and these 8,000 people are not the elite family of Ning Yuanbo and Li Chengliang back then. This Ning Yuanbo in front of him is very bold. The arrogance of being a human being can be seen from this.

Wang Dehua muttered in his heart, but his face was not revealed at all, "Uncle." Zheng Zongbing. When our family was in Beijing. I have also heard people say that this Bang Ge Ra is the right arm of Myanmar, if the third prince and the male master under the command of the uncle will break through the Bang Ge Ra. Will the matter in Myanmar end soon? ”

"Father-in-law, please rest assured, in February, father-in-law will be able to escort the prisoners into Beijing to offer prisoners. At that time, the credit of the father-in-law's expedition thousands of miles away from the Peerless Realm will be known to the world! ”

After laughing dryly, Wang Dehua asked Shouhan for the battle report and looked greedily.

Chittagong was originally a small fishing village by the sea. Because of its geographical location, the Arakanese of Burma, the Arabs of the Middle East, the Persians and the Portuguese came to trade here. From the 9th century, the Tang Dynasty, the Arabs began to trade with Chittagong. In the 6th and 7th centuries it belonged to the Arakanese kingdom. Before Muslim rule, it belonged either to the Arakanese or to the Burmese kingdom. In 134o the Sultan of Sola Gaon conquered Chittagong. In 1538, the Arakanese reoccupied Chittagong. Thereafter, the area was controlled by the Portuguese and pirates. If it had not been for the arrival of the Shouhan, it would not have been surprising that a few decades later, in 1666, the Mughal Empire expelled the Portuguese and was invaded by the Mughal Empire.

Under the guidance of Gonzalez's Royal Portuguese government forces, Li Huaxuan and Zuo Tianpeng's troops captured Chittagong along the way, and sent a fleet north to search and reconnoiter along the river.

Forgetting about it, when Shouhan promised to send a fleet of men and horses to help him land on the Portuguese mainland to fight, Gonzalez, with the support of his officers and officials, assumed the position of regent of the Kingdom of Portugal, overseeing the affairs of the Kingdom of Portugal and managing the territory and sea given to Portugal by God.

Under Gonzalez's construction, Li Huaxuan, a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, led 3,000 Fusang volunteers and 1,200 Nanyue troops across the Bay of Bengal and went straight to Barishar. It is bordered by the Haringkada River to the west, the Bay of Bengal to the south, and the Mekna-Shahbazpur River to the east. It is one of the five major inland ports in Punggara, far away from Chittagong, where all the rice, jute and other local products produced in Punggara are exported from the Bay of Bengal to Chittagong.

Occupying this place is the same as controlling Yangon in Burma. Moreover, there are several seas behind it, and there is a relationship between the ocean and Chittagong, and there is a basis for advancing and retreating, although Li Huaxuan's move seems to be a bit risky, but it is planned and then moved.

Although his men only had more than 4,000 men, he had to face the Nawab of Bengal (that is, the governor, the king of the land and the like), and he could recruit tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to come to fight, and he also counted the reinforcements of the Mughal Empire who might come from the direction of India or those who took advantage of the fire to loot. However, the soldiers and horses of the Mughal Empire had to travel a long way from Calcutta to reach the city of Barisal, and they had to cross several large rivers along the way to reach it, but it just gave Li Huaxuan a chance to wait for work.

"Hua Xuan, this kid, wrote me a letter to my family, which is considered to be safe, and ordered someone to send it by clipper along with this battle report. The letter said that he would get a few Bengal tigers and other rare birds and beasts for the emperor to see. When the father-in-law goes north, he can also report the dog's intentions to the Son of Heaven. ”

"The loyal and patriotic heart of the uncle and his son, our family naturally wants to tell the emperor truthfully, don't dare to say anything else, if the third son's good news arrives, our family can pat their chests and guarantee that the position of a brocade guard is indispensable!"

beat the smiling Wang Dehua away, Shouhan and Zheng Zhilong no longer talked about family life, but completely turned the topic to business.

"Brother Feihuang. This is a child's family letter, please take a look. ”

From a leather book in his hand, Shouhan took out the letter written by Hua Xuan. It is said to be a family letter, but in fact, except for the first few sentences asking if the family is well, the paper is full of descriptions of the situation of the conquest of Bang Gera, the mountains, rivers, land, population, and so on.

According to the natives, more than eighty percent of the land here is located on a delta formed by the impact of the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers (that is, our Brahmaputra River), and thousands of miles are fertile, flat and anointed land, with dense rivers and rivers. Rivers and lakes are numerous. There are more than 230 rivers including the Ganges, the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra River/Jamuna River, the Meghna River, the Kanavri River, the Testa, etc., including the tributaries. Great for agriculture and fishing, but prone to flooding during the rainy season. There are many small islands and sandbars along the coast. ”

Hua Xuan said. Nothing else is produced here. Only jute is particularly abundant. He would then send a boat to bring some of the seized jute and let us see what it could be used for. ”

"Jute!? Good stuff! Zheng Zhilong sighed.

This is the main product of Bangladesh's export exchange. It is the same as China's tung oil and pig bristles, which once controlled the international market. Not only high yield, but also excellent texture, the fiber is long, flexible and shiny, especially the jute soaked in the clear water of the Brahmaputra River, the yield is high, the texture is excellent, the color is beautiful and soft, and it is called "golden fiber".

Jute has a lower cellulose content than cotton-like fibers and a higher lignin content. Therefore, jute fiber is characterized by being coarser and harder. The single fiber of jute fiber is very short, and it can only be used for spinning and weaving after processing. The so-called processing is the process of harvesting the plants. Although this thing is also cultivated in Nanzhong, it is still small compared to Bangladesh.

Compared with cotton, the fiber is white and shiny, hygroscopic, and disperses water quickly. It can be used to make sacks, burlap, paper, ropes, carpets, and curtains in large quantities. This is also an indispensable thing for the Nanyue Army, which is supported by trade and shipping.

They are needed to build sails, to build cables, to fill gaps between the planks.

It is to tear off the jute skin, and its hemp stalk can also be used to make paper, and the best writing paper, printing paper, and kraft paper can be manufactured.

"If the jute of Bangladesh is fully numerically controlled, my lord, our army's own ship manufacturing can also reduce consumption, not to mention, if those Western Hongmaoyi people want to build ships, they must also buy them from us."

"In addition, we can mix jute with cotton and weave it into summer cloth, which is much cheaper and more detailed than Liuyang's summer cloth, at least the territory of several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River can squeeze out Liuyang summer cloth!"

Because Zheng Zhibao is in charge of business, his mind is more sensitive to this aspect of information, and when he heard this, he immediately reflexively proposed a series of highly targeted methods and strategies.

Shouhan was about to discuss with Zheng Zhibao how to turn these golden fibers into real gold, when there was a burst of human voices outside the flower hall, the sound of ringing bells, and bursts of incense wind. The guards on duty outside the door saluted and cheered.

"I heard that my father-in-law is here, so I came to meet him." But it was Yan Mei'er who led Mei Shan Shilin and other people from the inner house to come here to see many maids and women.

"Our mothers don't delay the father-in-law's Chenguang much, but I just want to ask the father-in-law to bring an invitation card back to the house, and invite the mother-in-law to the house, and it is good for us to eat and drink together, listen to the drama and talk about the day."

Yan Mei'er ordered her mother-in-law to take a post, but it was Yan Mei'er who invited Zheng Zhilong's wife and Zheng Sen's biological mother Tian Chuan to eat and listen to the play in the mansion in the name of her uncle. There are also the names of Li Muhua, Mei Shan Shilin and others below, and even Ao Lei Yilan, who has just entered the palace, is also listed above.

That's too much face. This is tantamount to the people of the entire inner house inviting Zheng Zhilong's wives and concubines to have a party!

Zheng Zhilong's heart was bright, half of this matter was Shouhan showing favor to himself in this way, and the other half, I was afraid that these women in Ningyuan Bofu would discuss the marriage of the two families with their own women.

After thanking Mrs. Bo for her kindness, Yan Mei'er smiled and ordered seven or eight fruit plates to be served, which were full of dried and fresh fruits. "Xiang Gong's carelessness, even if the in-laws are not outsiders, can't it be just a cup of tea to be considered hospitality?!"

On the polished silver stilt plate, jackfruit, longan, banana, mangosteen, custard, lotus mist, rambutan, ginseng fruit, egg fruit, and peach are stacked and exuding bursts of sweet fragrance.

Watching Yan Mei'er slowly leave with a group of women's skirts without moving, Zheng Zhilong sighed secretly. "It is said that Li is fierce and greedy, but with his attitude towards a group of old people who follow him and this wife, this person is worth following."

After thanking Shouhan again, the three continued to discuss the war between Li Huaxuan and Zuo Tianpeng in Bangladesh.

"Handsome! In my opinion, it is better to transfer some troops! After all, there are not many people over there, so at least another brigade must be transferred over! Zheng Zhilong, who already regarded himself as a member of the Li family in his heart, was a little concerned about Shou Hanjian.

"Brother Feihuang, you still don't know about my sons? On the surface, they are all obedient in front of me, but when I turn around, who is not arrogant? If you have more soldiers and horses than your brothers and have made war achievements, it is not glorious to say. They all can't wait to be the same as Gan Ning. It's good that a hundred horsemen robbed the Wei army camp! ”

There seemed to be a complaint in the tone. But Shouhan's heart is full of joy, the sons are all enterprising, which father is unhappy?

They are all able to lay down a piece of the world by themselves like Temujin's four eldest sons, and they have such sons. Fathers rejoice, too.

"If a father wants to help his son succeed. Don't send too many men. Vessel capacity is limited, and it takes hundreds of ships to transport a single crew. It is better for the father to send ships to transport more armor, knives, guns, silver dollars, cloth and other things. For the son to use in this place. ”

Li Huaxuan's meaning, I don't want soldiers and horses, it's too difficult to transport soldiers and horses! And there are too many ships occupied! If you want to support me, Daddy, send a boat over and give me more money, cloth, armor, knives, guns, etc., and I will buy and recruit the locals here as my force like my eldest brother!

Li Huaxuan's approach inadvertently enlightened Shouhan. This kind of method is exactly the military method used by the British to conquer all over the world and establish a real great empire across Europe, Asia and Africa, and the empire on which the sun never sets in history.

Everywhere he went, he recruited locals as soldiers, and bought local nobles and earth kings as his cannon fodder and vanguard.

The same method was also used by Temujin's father and son, who incorporated local manpower into their own war machines wherever they went, and the armies commanded by the local officials and nobles surrendered and formed the so-called Signature Army, which became the greatest help to conquer the land in front of them.

This is why Temujin's army was able to fight more and more, and only one step away from becoming the first truly great empire across the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa in human history, compared with the history of his conquest of the entire Eurasian Great 6 from Hulunbuir, those so-called great empires praised by Western historians, in addition to because of geographical advantages, they were guarded at the three forks at the junction of the three continents, and it was easy to establish the so-called great empire.

But this practice also led to the eventual division of the Mongol Empire, with Muhammad in the Islamic region, a cross on the chest in the Catholic region, and the Four Books and the Five Classics in the Central Plains.

If it weren't for the fact that Meng Ge was accidentally stoned to death in Diaoyu City, Sichuan, and broke this God's whip to reconvene the Kuritai Assembly to elect a new Great Khan, then the Mongol banner would have appeared under the Egyptian pyramids.

(The above is about the preservation of history, not the stone that was stoned to death by a disabled person under the city of Xiangyang, as a famous martial arts novel writer said.) ）

However, this kind of trick has not been used in the past few decades in the southern and northern conquests, which may be due to the consciousness that the idea of the great unification of China in his mind cannot tolerate the existence of another local regime. However, the sons were not shackled by these shackles, and they just let them go.

The Dongfan soldiers recruited by Li Huabao in Taiwan, the wolf soldiers trained by Li Huayu in Guangxi, and now, Li Huaxuan also wants to use the strength of the locals in Bengal to conquer this land.

"I gave him 10,000 sets of armor, 20,000 long knives, 5,000 spears, 100 large Buddha machines, 1,000 barrels of gunpowder, and 1,000,000 silver dollars. Let this kid let go and do it, I want to see what kind of market this third child can do! ”

"Exactly!"

"The third prince is ambitious, so naturally the young phoenix is clear and the old phoenix is sheng! This time the battle will definitely be a big victory! ”

After listening to the praise of the Zheng family brothers who don't want money, although Shouhan was secretly proud in his heart, he also waved his hand, "Two, don't praise it here." Brother Feihuang, that kid from Damu also learned well in the Sailor Academy. I don't know what the old man thinks, let him go out and practice? ”

Get! My father-in-law is concerned about my uncle.

Zheng Zhilong is still hesitating here, although his precious son is now the master of the Nanyue Army, and he is studying in the Sailor Academy, he naturally has a bright future waiting for him after he comes out. However, if he is like the sons of the Li family, haunting the storms and waves, and seeking his fame and wealth in swords, guns and guns, he really can't do it.

"What does the marshal mean is that he wants Da Mu to go to Bang Ge Ra and the third son of Huaxuan to experience one or two together? Or arrange him in the future? ”

Zheng Zhibao found a step down for his brother and tested the meaning of the lord.

"Huh! Where did Brother Wen come from? He is my son-in-law, and I want him to go, but I am afraid that this group of women in the house may not be willing to agree! I have some other ideas to discuss with Brother Feihuang. (To be continued......)

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