Chapter 50 of the Flying Dragon (1)
When Li Zheng rushed to Guiyang to take office, Wang Xingping and his entourage were already thousands of miles away in Henan, and they were about to enter the territory of Beizhili.
Li Xianggong's arrival did not cause too many ripples in Guizhou officialdom, after all, it was a will that had been handed down half a year ago, but it was just landed. Facts have also proved that Wang Xingping is worried that the toss after the new official takes office has not happened, and in a peaceful atmosphere, Guizhou's decree can probably be summed up in two words - business as usual.
Zhang Lao Xianggong was the last bit of work in the southwest after Shi Shiran set off to his hometown in Yingzhou, although just before Wang Xingping set off, the imperial court issued a clear decree to change his governor Shaanxi trilateral military affairs post to the military department Zuo Shilang, intended to let him return to Beijing to manage the ministry. However, how could Zhang Heming, who had long heard Wang Xingping's analysis of the war situation in Liaodong, enter this alley. Naturally, he planned to return directly and not go, who was willing to pick up the hot potato of the military department, anyway, he would not take the risk of losing money for the sake of a false name.
He was sixty-nine years old, and another year would be enough to be a scholar, but there was more than one chance for further in his credit. Wang Xingping made it clear to him before leaving that the current arrangement is for the complete return of Guizhou, and I am afraid that he will have to preside over this matter in the end.
With this incense, Zhang Heming naturally reciprocated Li in front of Li Zong, and praised Wang Xingping and his new military camp and the formation of the army, all in all, I want to say that Wang Xingping's many arrangements, you had better not move.
More than two months have passed in a hurry, and life has not changed much for Guizhou, Li Xianggong inspected the defense around Guiyang as usual, and indeed heeded Zhang Heming's warning and did not move the many new military forts, anyway, there is no need for the political secretary to pay.
During this time, Wang Xingping could only rely on the radio he carried with him to exchange information with the veterans who stayed in Guiyang, and of course, the exchange of information also included the direction of Nanyang.
With the turn of the monsoon, the situation in the South Seas has also undergone subtle changes.
I don't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, recently a story has begun to circulate among the Han Chinese diaspora in the South - in the south of the 'Oceania' (note: because Australia has long been sunk in the propaganda of the Senate, so the senators have renamed Australia) to produce more gold, it is precisely because of this rumor that after entering June, the overseas Chinese who originally settled in Java, Borneo and other places began to charter ships or join the immigration fleet organized by the Senate to try their luck in Darwin Port by taking advantage of the monsoon from the equator south. This mistake made the immigration efficiency much more than the senators expected.
Taking advantage of this trend, several supply points originally opened up in the southeast of Australia were also expanded into towns and officially established as governments.
On the eastern seaboard, the construction of Buri House (later Brisbane) was in full swing, and during the hunting season in April and May, the 300-strong Fubo army, supported by two warships and guns, defeated the combined forces of Turba and Jagra at the mouth of Morton Bay with 3,000 men. More than 600 Han Chinese immigrants from the north were sent in time half a month later, and now the farms and factories that have been expanded along the seaside Sifan Port in the east have begun to take shape.
Perhaps with the experience of the north, the Tu tribes in the following conquests appeared to be much better-tempered, in the southeast, Sydney House (Note: According to the external propaganda of the Senate, the word "Sydney" is taken from Tang Bai Juyi's poem "Standing a Monument" 'Ming Xun Xi Taigong, For this reason, a group of patriarchs also took the trouble to erect a stone monument on the beach side of Sydney, thinking that it means since ancient times) to be set up a little later, and further south, according to the geographical location of the original time and space, a new fortress fortress of Tiger House (note: later Melbourne) was built.
This time, the native tribes around the two places were very honest, and they all looked like they were 'peace-loving' without fighting with the world, not only the three tribes of Darug, Gringotts, and Dharavaal in the mountains west of Sydney Province immediately expressed their submission, but the Kurin Union Five Alliances along the Yarra River in the north of Huben Mansion sent their great chieftain Kadigar to the Fubo army camp to express their willingness to trade and alliance.
However, after seeing the cannon ships of the Senate, the old chief immediately said that his intention had been misexpressed, in fact, the Kulin Alliance only wanted to become a vassal of the upper kingdom, and under the sincere advice of the senator, he made a decision to let the underage children of the clan enter the upper kingdom school to learn the language and knowledge, and his only remaining wish became a trivial trade request, and the senate naturally had no reason to refuse such a request.
In short, before the arrival of the cold winter in Australia (note: the southern hemisphere winter and summer are the opposite of the northern hemisphere), the most habitable part of the future mines and pastures of the Senate, which is no less than the territory of the Ming Dynasty, has all been brought under the actual control of the Senate.
It is true that it is impossible to comprehend this magnificent picture from the words of the radio alone, but just the changes around us do not mean that you cannot feel the breeze of butterfly wings.
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After entering the boundaries of the Daimyo's Mansion, Wang Xingping began to have a sense that the presence of the Senate was growing in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and this assertion became unmistakable after he saw Australian cotton and ready-made clothing from Luzon in a business in Yuancheng County.
From the shopkeeper's suspicious attitude and greedy and jealous look, he found that this kind of Shixin cotton from Tianjin sold well, but there were also many problems.
The biggest contradiction undoubtedly comes from those merchants who have been operating Songjiang cloth for many years, I heard that these days Songjiang cloth merchants and Australian cloth merchants are fighting on the canal because of business conflicts, I heard that Linqing has killed and disabled several guys, and now the better goods can only rely on those mothers-in-law to go to the big families to sell.
However, the cloth belongs to the cloth, and the luxury goods in Australia are not seen much, and after questioning, I learned that all the goods were sent to Beijing, and I couldn't see them in other states and counties.
I also heard that these goods were all sent from a firm in Tianjin, Wang Xingping naturally knew who was behind this, but he also had a deeper understanding of the various intertwined relationships of the Ming interest group.
Sure enough, blocking people's financial path is like killing parents. Originally, I thought that this cotton cloth and cotton clothes were much lower than the Songjiang goods, which was a matter for the benefit of the people, but I didn't expect the cloth merchants to fight back to such a situation, in addition to things such as Australian cigarettes, hot water bottles and other things also appeared in the business name of Daming, as for the mercury mirror, although the number of flowing into the north is still not much, it is not a rare thing.
However, at this time, Wang Xingping had no time to care about these things.
In the hot summer season, there were not many pedestrians on the official roads, and there were few tourists on the side roads outside the official roads.
At this time, in a mountain col in the north of Renqiu County, a group of men and women were surrounded by a group of bandits in the center.
"Today is luck, I didn't expect there to be such a peugeot lady."
One of the leading bandits had salivation in his eyes, licking his tongue as he spoke.
The woman who was seen by the leader was fourteen or fifteen years old, but she was indeed born with bright eyes, white teeth, white skin, and beautiful appearance, and her eyes flickered, obviously frightened, but she forced herself to calm down.
The eyes were shining, and the eyes were like fire, and when he saw the girl, he was already a little impatient, and he grabbed the girl's hand and was about to pull it into his arms.
A man next to him was restrained by two other thieves, and although he kept asking for mercy, he was only in a hurry because of the power of the thieves.
There was also a four or five-year-old woman, but the girl's sister was only crying, and the other villagers in the same company did not dare to say more.
Only the woman's brother rushed out and bit the ringleader's hand.
The leader couldn't bear the pain and threw his younger brother on the ground, and kicked it on his chest, the young man was only about ten years old, where could he eat the pain, and he fainted. The leader lost face in front of a group of minions, where was he willing to give up, and immediately pulled out the knife to kill again, but was protected by the girl who pounced on his brother, and in this stunned moment, a voice came loudly from the road.
"Miss Zhang is so coincidental, do you want to help?"
When this sound came, those bandits and the people all turned around, and saw a handsome boy standing at the pass, this person was none other than Wang Xingping.
The girl herself saw this scene with tears in her eyes.
"Wang Gongzi ......" but the word "help" was not exported after all, this son was in Henan to meet on the way, along the way to their family quite a lot. She only guessed where this was the rich kid, but although she was accompanied by a few companions, she was probably no match for these bandits, so why drag others down.
After all, her family is just an ordinary family who goes to Beijing to beg for a living, but even if the catastrophe is coming, this reserved girl can still be measured, the current situation is a dilemma, she doesn't want to implicate others, but she is unwilling to suffer from her younger siblings and father, and even has a trace of resentment towards those villagers who stand by and watch in her heart, but when she sees Wang Xing, she usually feels a little relieved for some reason.
"Yo! It's also fucking out to add a head, where did you come from this little fanzui, since you're here, don't leave, wait for the master to cook this little lady and take you to taste it. ”
Although the leader had a hard mouth, when he saw Wang Xing for the first time, he usually felt a sense of inferiority, but after thinking about it, he can cook a woman, but not a man? Isn't it all the same when you strip naked?
Wang Xingping looked at the bandit opposite and sighed, "The villain really talks a lot." ”
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4, "Wanli Ye Ed" Shen Defu
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7, "National Glory" talks about relocation
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11, "Old Fox Talks about the Beauties of the Past Dynasties" Goose Lake Yishi