The two guests at the banquet were General González of the Portuguese Restoration Army and Fan Fan, chairman of the Dutch East India Company. Mr. Basten and his daughter.

As the master's side, the generals and officials of the Southern Guangdong Army who guarded the Han order in Guangzhou were all present.

But Gonzalez and other officers of the Portuguese Restoration Army had been briefed in private, and the banquet was about to determine whether their country could be reborn from the damned Spaniards.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this general must be familiar to everyone. Yes, he is Zuo Tianpeng, who was the first to raise troops with Benbo, and has been the commander of the right wing of our Nanyue Army Navy for many years. Guarding the southwest gate for me. ”

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Mr. Van Basten also introduced his daughter to the many Chinese delicacies in front of her, and the tongue of this Dutch turtle almost fell off, and she didn't care that a silk pleated skirt on her newly changed body was full of large and small traces of oil.

Ao Lei Yilan stroked her slightly bulging lower abdomen and smiled secretly, "Finally, there is something more ugly than my appearance!" ”

When everyone saw that Shouhan so ceremoniously introduced this good fighter Zuo Tianpeng to this group of red-haired people, they speculated in their hearts that this matter must be related to Zuo Tianpeng and the right wing of the sailor.

Over the years, everyone has only seen the great exploits of Zhang Xiaohu's left flank fleet, Chu Tianlei's training fleet, and Li Huamei's guerrilla fleet, which has risen rapidly in recent years.

For many years, the right flank fleet with the Coba Islands and Lingjiawei Island as its home port. Guarding the safety of the Nanyue army in the golden waterway of the Manchurian Strait, protecting the property of many immigrants in the Chao Phraya River Valley, and keeping a group of Tianzhu pirates and Arab pirates out of the fence, so that this group of believers, whether they believe in Jesus, Muhammad, Shiva, or Buddha, have become corpses at the bottom of the sea and dead slaves with no names but numbers in the depths of the mines.

"I invite you here this time to conspire with you to do one thing."

The meaning of Shouhan is very simple, nowadays. All parts of the Central Plains have temporarily entered a stage of mutual power. The Nanyue army has just put its claws into the south of the Yangtze River and eaten Fujian into its stomach, and it will take a period of time to digest the fruits of this victory. The best digestive exercise sells a lot of your products!

In order to dump a large number of goods as much as possible, and at the same time obtain more raw materials and labor. Shouhan set his sights on Burma and Punggara, across the sea. This is what Bangladesh is today.

Myanmar is an easy one. Since the Wanli period, the Mang Yinglong family has been sometimes attached to the mainland and sometimes harassed the mainland for many years. At that time, many vassals such as the so-called three propaganda and six consolations belonging to the Ming Dynasty were also constantly bullied and annexed. If you want to annex Burma, you don't even need to deliberately look for excuses, just a crusade against the rebellion of the thief is enough.

However, Punggara is different, there must be a sailor here, and there must be a huge transportation capacity.

In other words, accomplices and cannon fodder are needed.

"After I capture Punggara, the army can be bannered to the west, first, to assist General Gonzalez in the great cause of recovering the country, and second, it is reported that now that Europe is constantly in war, lives are suffering, and people's livelihood is difficult, I plan to operate all kinds of goods produced in my southern middle school to Europe, I wonder if you two have any intentions?"

As the old fox summed up, when Shouhan asks you for help, it always makes you feel that there is a huge profit to be gained.

After saying this, Shouhan's eyes were on Gonzalez and Fan. The two Basten scanned back and forth on their faces, waiting for their answer.

Jiang Yihong, who was sitting on the side of the civil official seat and was the sole owner of the case, had completely become a member of the Southern Guangdong Army at this time, and spared no effort to implement various systems in Guangdong. Aren't you afraid of meeting a rogue when you cross the Five Mountains? Regarding the expansion of the Nanyue Army to the west and south, Governor Jiang raised his hands in admiration, and he had already tasted the great sweetness brought by the Nanyue Army's continuous external expansion.

With the huge investment of the Southern Guangdong Army, which was almost regardless of the cost of work, the communication roads between the cities of Guangdong Province and the various prefectures and cities were quickly put into use. Although roads, bridges, wharves, and ferries cannot be compared with the roads in Nanzhong paved with one color of burnt ash and stone, Guangdong, which has hardly organized large-scale road construction since the time of Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, has already been a thoroughfare made of rammed three-way soil. Although it cannot be contrary to the emperor's decree to abolish the post station, there is a letter bureau along the road that is responsible for delivering letters and documents, and remitting and mailing.

Not to mention how many people have found food and clothing in the process of road construction, and how many people have made a fortune because of this (of course, paying taxes is indispensable). Many villages, towns, states and counties with different accents because of the separation of a river began to merge with each other. After the road was built, the regimental exercises organized by the thieves, Lianzhuang, and squires who had plagued the officialdom of Guangdong in the past were wiped out one by one by the Nanyue Army, which quickly arrived.

The smooth implementation of Guangdong's decree is beyond the imagination of Jiang Yihong and others.

An order was issued from the provincial capital, and the rapid transmission of guò waterway and land route could reach the villages and towns in just a few days. Very simply, if the common people do not see the big seal of the task force attached to the document, they will not believe the list issued by any official. It would be nice if some local officials were going to add some private goods to the requirements of the upper peak, as they had done before. The Task Force thanks you for giving them the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. An official document went up, and immediately a large team of people arrived, took down the official seal, and for the time being, the team of the task force was in charge of the administrative affairs of the department.

More than a dozen prefectures and counties in eastern and northern Guangdong have fallen under the direct control of the Southern Guangdong Army.

As a result, officials everywhere are more cautious.

As for the elites who used to hold the township power, the squires, the good days are gone. Over the years. They used all kinds of means to control the grassroots political power in towns and towns, and the imperial decrees could only go to the county seat, and if they wanted to continue to implement it outside the county seat, they had to meet with the local gentry, otherwise they would not be able to carry it out. Officials have even more experience in politics and not offending the giant room.

However, now, under the joint offensive of the Nanyue Army's guns and pens, rice bags and money bags, the order of more than 1,000 years has quietly changed. The maximum land rent standard stipulated by the landlord is not enforced? Okay, immediately there will be a team member who organized the people who went to the sea to reclaim the land in Nanzhong to come out and say, "A strong man can get the reclamation of fifty acres of land." Before the food was laid. The government lends you farm tools and rations, and you can rent farming cattle from the government, and after you have laid the grain, you can return it year by year. Interest is also surprisingly generous. ”

And so it goes. A large number of tenant farmers went to sea to make a living. In less than a year, hundreds of thousands of strong laborers have been sent away from various ports and wharves along the east coast of Guangdong! The landlords, who had lived on the rent paid by the tenant farmers, were dumbfounded by this trick of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle. No matter how good the field is, no one will cultivate it, and it will not grow food, only grass! For the first time in thousands of years, the landlords put down their dignity and went to discuss with the tenants what kind of land rent should be accepted by everyone.

If there are still people who complain about the matter of land rent, and the other benevolent policy promoted by the general, compulsory education, is well known, although some people are insincere. The primary schools opened in public buildings such as ancestral halls, temples, and Taoist temples have turned more than 100,000 school-age poor teenagers into literate people.

The price of rice is extremely low, and it is easy to make a living, and countless poor people in the southern part of Huguang and southern Jiangxi cannot resist this temptation, and they have crossed the mountains and rivers to go south to Guangdong to make a living.

Seeing that there were no military disasters and bandits in Guangdong, and there were compulsory compulsory education, there were vague signs of a peach paradise, and they also wrote to their friends on the trust side to buy land and build houses on their behalf, preparing to leave a way out for the future.

These are undoubtedly the beneficiaries of Jiang Yihong and the officials of the former Guangdong officialdom under him. It also became the most fanatical peripheral force of the Southern Yue Army.

From the bottom of their hearts, they have regarded Shouhan as a general existence second only to Chongzhen, but, unlike Chongzhen, Chongzhen can only dismiss their officials, but they can't make their family a poor egg, but this Ning Yuanbo can.

In Jiang Yihong's heart, there were several midnight dreams, and after waking up, he got up in his clothes and stood in the courtyard for a long time. All because in the dream, he became the minister of the founding of the country, not to mention his wife and son, but also the marquis and uncle.

The same dream was shared by more than one official in Guangzhou.

Judging from the news in the Di Bao and the Southern Times, since May, Jiannu has gradually begun to besiege Jinzhou, preparing to repeat the drama of the Da Ling River. However, the encirclement of the Qing army had just been formed, and the results of the siege were limited, and the encirclement drawn up by Dolgon, the prince of Puppet Rui, who supervised the army on the Jinzhou front, was extremely negligent, and the soldiers and civilians in the city could still go out of the city to hunt, transport military rations, and come and go at will.

In the face of the situation of the Qing soldiers, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, figured out that the Qing soldiers were a repetition of the old tactics of the Dalinghe River, and actively responded to it. He vigorously stockpiled grain in Jinzhou, Xingshan, Ningyuan and other places, and each place had at least half a year's worth of grain and grass for the defenders.

However, despite all the efforts, it was not possible to raise such a huge amount of grain and grass. The generals of the Liao Army, such as the ancestor of the Liao Army, Wu Sangui and other generals in western Liao, said to him one after another, "The Governor and his hand to the court to ask for food and salary, why don't you ask Ning Yuanbo for a loan or two for the time being, and wait for the court to allocate military salaries, and we will return his silver!" ”

"And the best weapons and gunpowder, you also have to raise some from Ning Yuanbo!"

Looking at the urgent military reports sent from all over the place, as well as the three generals of Pingliao, Dingliao, and Zhenliao who were given their names by the emperor's imperial pen, the superintendent Hong Chengchou also wrote many handwritten letters to Shouhan, humbly pleading, asking him to be sure to buy at least the whole army's grain and grass for March on credit for the sake of the bloody battle, "As soon as the food and salary of the court arrive, my brother should immediately repay my brother's grain." ”

He knew the outcome of the last strategic force of the Ming Dynasty, and he also knew that these Ming troops were transferred from all over the country to Liaodong to quell the rebellion, and a direct consequence was to reduce the pressure on the peasant armies in various places, and then cooperate with the natural and man-made disasters in various places, which directly gave Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others an opportunity for explosive development.

"Do your best. Know your destiny! ”

The Han Shou ordered the people to prepare a reply letter to Hong Chengchou, telling him that there was no reason to order the soldiers to starve and kill the enemy! At the same time, Li Peiting, who was in charge of Longsheng, mobilized grain, rice, meat, weapons, gunpowder ships, and transported military rations to Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other places.

"Do a good job of handover, keep accounts, and we have to settle accounts with the emperor when we go back!"

These were Li Peiting's exact words when he confessed to his subordinates with contempt.

With stable military rations and meat, a large amount of weapons and gunpowder were transported to Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other places, which immediately made the Liaodong armies thunderous. Morale was boosted.

And Yang Sichang in the gate. Life is not so easy.

After the officers and soldiers defeated Zhang Xianzhong at Agate Mountain in March this year, Yang Sichang was very happy. However, in the following months, the officers and soldiers were defeated one after another, and in July, Zhang Xianzhong went west to Baiyang Mountain to join Luo Ru. At this time, Cao Wei and Guotianxing wanted to cross the river. It was blocked by the Ming officers and soldiers. Zhang Xianzhong to. Rendezvous with it. Although Zhang Xianzhong was defeated. However, the atmosphere is still vigorous, and there is no former by the river. After Zhang Xianzhong crossed the river, he was stationed in Wanqing Mountain, and Yang Sichang had to personally enter Sichuan to supervise the battle. And Zhang Xianzhong seems to have eaten Shaolin Dahuan Dan overnight and transformed into a Super Saiyan, in the past, he saw a detour to a well-defended city, or a surprise attack, and the peasant army that should Kaicheng in the city captured Dachang and Kaixian in succession, attacked Jianzhou in the north, and will enter Hanzhong. He also conquered Mianzhou and Luzhou, and a large area of plastered land in the whole Sichuan became the territory of the eight kings of Xiying. Yang Sichang was in Chongqing, and he summoned Renlong and Zuo Liangyu to help, but they didn't come.

Shang Shu also pleaded guilty to the imperial court, but blamed the failure of the encirclement and suppression on the uselessness of the Sichuan soldiers and the Qin army's coercion. In the end, Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, was dismissed and questioned, and the city was abandoned for crime, and Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shaanxi, was also dismissed and succeeded by Ding Qirui.

The more he got to this time, the more Yang Sichang felt that there was no boredom of his henchmen beside him, and there was no difficulty of directly directing the elite. The two generals under him, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, were extremely arrogant and domineering, and it was the same thing as their own improper deployment, and he wrote to Zuo Liangyu himself, but he disdained them, and the encirclement and suppression failed one after another.

Thinking of Ning Yuanbo Li Shouhan back then, although he has always been known for his arrogance in Shilin officialdom, but now that I think about it, although this person is domineering, he is proud of his military exploits. And Zuo He and the others, their combat achievements are far inferior to not mention, but the arrogant Cheng Dù is far better than Li Shouhan.

On the one hand, he ordered someone to urgently transfer the model brigade of Wu Biao's department to Sichuan, and even wrote to Wu Biao in person, promising that he could recruit 5,000 recruits in Sichuan, "All the battalion system, salary, training, equipment and other things are not bothered by my brother, and the current system shall prevail." The necessary military salaries, food, grass, armor, weapons, etc., are all borne by the foolish brother. ”

With the respect of Yang Sichang's dignified superintendent, such a low letter to Wu Biao promising such benefits shows how difficult his situation is.

"Let them fight each other first! Just give us time to bury our heads in construction, and when we finish the construction, we will look up and meet them! ”

This is Shouhan's conclusion when he discussed with Li Peilin and others.

That's why we brought together Basten, Gonzalez and others.

Li Peilin's mind is about the center of the mind, over there, Fan. Basten has already jumped on the bandwagon.

"My great, invincible general, I, Fan. The Basten family was, is, and will be your faithful servants, and your Word is the language of God to me. I, will follow in your footsteps and go straight to the end of the world and time! ”

Basten knew very well that the so-called westward expedition was nothing more than General Li's war with foreign countries, grabbing territory, and by the way, opening a trade route to Europe, and now the war in Europe is burning more and more with the help of him and a group of conscientious businessmen. The scale and technical level of the war are also constantly expanding, and the demand for all kinds of military supplies and daily necessities is also increasing.

Van Basten was impassioned on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, only the commander-in-chief of the Restoration Army, General González, was silent, and after a moment, under the gaze of everyone, he stood up, knelt on one leg, and saluted Shouhan: "My benefactor, the newborn benefactor of the whole of Portugal, the supporter of the liberation of Portugal from the evil Spaniards, I must tell you the truth about the actual situation in the entire Portuguese Restoration Army, only then is the duty of a good servant." ”

Gonzalez vomited bitterly.

Insufficient troops! Nowadays, the pure Portuguese almost all serve as non-commissioned officers. Most of the soldiers at the grassroots level are indigenous people from all over India, and when there are many new recruits, the level of natural tactics and discipline declines greatly. In the last few battles with the Indian and Arab princes, he was almost routed by the enemy, and if it had not been for the efforts of the Portuguese non-commissioned officers and officers, Gonzalez would have been able to speak to the Shouhan here today.

"How many soldiers and horses do you need if you want your troops to land on the soil of your native country until the Spaniards are completely driven out?"

Shouhan played with the wine glass in his hand, and let the blood-red wine in the glass slide down the rim drop by drop.

"I need at least 5,000 well-trained soldiers, and those 5,000 are ready to die in battle! Because the cruel war is going to ......"

"Okay, five thousand is five thousand! Basten, will your fleet be able to transport Gonzalez's army to Portugal? ”

Shouhan is categorical.

"Hua Xuan, go say goodbye to your mother tomorrow, and go to Fusang with your uncle Zuo in a few days to have a good experience!"

Now it's time for the third son Huaxuan to go through the experience! (To be continued......)