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The whip sounded on the golden stirrup, and the people sang triumphant songs.

is talking about the current state of Wu Liuqi's newly organized brigade.

After receiving the official documents and provisions, Wu Liuqi happily led 3,000 people on the road all the way to the provincial capital of Guangzhou.

Naturally, the scenery along the way is very different from when you came.

The flags of the South Central Army fluttered over the villages everywhere, and some villages close to the main road could see the team members organizing the training of the village self-defense force.

Seeing a large group of people passing by, and it was their own family, these villages boiled hot water and sent it to the roadside. When the news broke, the villages along the way set up tea stalls on the side of the road to supply the army with drink. The more affluent villages also prepared some snacks, fruits, wine and food to display on the roadside.

All the way to the march, although Wu Liuqi's troops were no longer as careful as the Sixth Garrison Brigade, lest they be ambushed by others, but they also let the scouts and the sentinels on both wings far away. The shape of the various villages that the march passed through was naturally very clear.

Although it is almost the end of the year, everywhere is busy preparing for the New Year, buying chicken, goose, duck, and fish; the creation of new clothing; purchase of furniture and utensils; Buy New Year's paintings, Spring Festival couplets, etc. In particular, citrus, green olives and other fruits are popular as a symbol of good luck and sending off relatives and friends. Some anxious people have begun to clean their houses, and their clothes and bedding can be washed, which is called "hoarding".

Before the Chinese New Year, it has always been a good time for merchants to make a fortune, and it has been the case for thousands of years.

There have long been merchants with nimble brains, organizing caravans to go deep into various villages. Together with those merchants who go to villages and towns sporadically, we will invigorate the market supply before the Spring Festival.

The most energetic thing is Longsheng.

The chariots and horses of the brigade drove into eastern and northern Guangdong on the heels of the Sixth Garrison Brigade, and sold all kinds of agricultural tools made of wrought iron, fine cloth woven from fruit dismounted horse looms, and those fine porcelain, canned meat, and so on.

"Look, this is a wrought iron hoe! Digging in the mud, digging sweet potatoes, and digging the roots of trees is extremely light! Great stuff! ”

"Brother! Look at this cotton! How fine! How sturdy! It's only five pennies a foot! It's not so cheap to weave your own cloth, is it?! What's more, it has to be starched and dyed? How many clothes to cut? It's the New Year! ”

"Behold, good ploughman! The whole body is made of wrought iron, and the plowshare is made of steel. This brother. You bought such a plough stick, with a buffalo, and this year your grain will not be more than 30%, you came to talk to me!? What the? Something is good. But you don't have the money to buy it? It's very easy to do! ”

Longsheng is very considerate to launch the concept of credit consumption guarantee. In the eyes of the people. It can be purchased on credit. However, it is necessary to find the village team to knock a stamp to prove that this person is a good citizen of the village and has always been in good credit, and then find two neighbors to be guarantors. A new plough stick, glowing with blue light and faintly shining with dragon patterns, will be carried home like a farmer's treasure, wiped spotlessly clean, and then hung on the wall.

These methods, like the division of clan fields, the compulsory implementation of education, and the simplification of the functions of ancestral halls, were all part of the methods that Shouhan and his staff had studied and used to control and transform the rural areas of Guangdong.

Such a warm scene naturally made Wu Liuqi, Wu Biao, Wang Jin, Yang Zhen and others envious, and they were glad that they were part of this team.

For a while, the mood became more and more urgent, and when he learned that the troops left behind in Chaozhou had completed the handover with the Nanzhong Army that had taken over the defense, and were also marching to the city of Guangdong Province, Wu Liuqi urged the men and horses to speed up the march, and be sure to rush to Guangzhou before the 25th seal of the 10th month of Chongzhen.

Actually, he doesn't have to be in such a hurry, Shouhan doesn't have a seal here.

There is a way that two flowers bloom, one on each branch.

During the period when Ou Dapeng led his men and horses north to conquer the clan forces, Shouhan was also busy with the soles of his feet facing the sky.

A military order was issued, and the Xiangshan garrison led the way, locking up all the Portuguese adult men in the entrenchment and taking them to the provincial capital for interrogation. At the same time, he sent a message to Father Alfonso, the representative of the Portuguese Restoration Army in Hue, "What is the intention of you Portuguese to collude with these Albion pirates to come to my territory and rob houses?" Are you planning to end my assistance to you? ”

This sentence immediately frightened Father Alfonso into urine.

At present, the Portuguese Restoration Army, relying on the assistance of the right flank fleet of the naval division and the anti-smuggling fleet, is showing off its might in the Indian Ocean.

From Goa to Ceylon, from Ceylon to Madagascar, many islands were replaced by the blue and white flag representing the Portuguese Empire. Later, these desolate islands, along with the natives on the islands who were in a state of ignorance, were accepted by the South Chinese Army in exchange for all kinds of materials and money needed by the Portuguese Restoration Army.

Of course, such a deal has been done!

But now, this group of bitches in Trench Jingao raised it! Inferior! For the sake of a little petty profit in front of him, he actually provoked Governor Li!

After cursing, Fr. Alfonso packed up and went to Canton to plead guilty, and bitterly confessed to Governor Li the charge of lax discipline, and ordered a brig in the harbor to go to Goa to report to General Gonzalez. Truthfully and in detail the matter of the Portuguese in Entrenchment and Macao seducing the Albiang pirates to sack Guangdong.

Hearing such news, General Gonzalez, who was working a belly dancer sent by an Indian prince, was so frightened that he almost did not shrink into his belly in the fortress of Goa.

"Quick! Prepare your boat! I'm going back to Hue, no! Go to Guangzhou! Ask the Governor directly to your face! ”

Facts have proved that whether it is God or Shiva the Great, or Muhammad or the Buddha of the West Heaven, the Dragon King of the South China Sea, they are all very face-saving to General Gonzalez, the commander of the Portuguese Restoration Army. He set out from Goa, and went south to Lingjiawei Island on the coastline of the Indian mainland, and after touching a nail in front of Ye Qi, he ran eastward through the Guò Manraka Strait all the way to the east.

However, by the time he arrived, Mr. Van Basten, the head of the Dutch East India Company, had been drinking tea with Shouhan for a few days.

Years of living in the East, a land of 5,000 years of cultural traditions. Soon the Dutchman Van Basten, who had only a few hundred years of civilization, was assimilated. Not only is he fluent in speaking, at least he can let people understand the official dialect of Nanzhong where his intentions lie, but he is also completely orientalized in terms of eating habits and festival customs, and he can even use his sensitive tongue to distinguish the difference between blood swallows and official swallows.

Of course, as a man with a tail in the prime of life, Mr. Basten could not help but accept the marriage system of one main and two flat concubines in the East, and completely forgot his Catholic identity.

He put down the small purple sand teacup in his hand, and peeked at the shou han who was reading a new army newspaper, from the slightly upturned corners of his mouth to the stretched eyebrows. Relaxing facial texture. You can tell that this is good news.

"Looks like there's good news for you? I'm a victorious general. ”

Basten slapped Shouhan on the back just right.

This fart is really at a good level, and the light and heavy scale is very good.

"Nothing, the staff office reported to me the progress of several military horses."

Guangdong. Since Liao Dongzhi changed to the flag of the South China Army. The largest armed force is Wu Liuqi. Now Wu Liuqi of Dongjiang has also become the brigade commander of the Nanzhong Army. The rest of the armed forces still encountered the artillery of the Nanzhong Army when they hesitated, or they chose a civilized way and surrendered to save their lives and property. The troops received the reorganization. Either you choose the brutal way and the cannon will have a lively exchange with you.

In the face of such a multiple-choice question, most of Guangdong has been pacified, and the clan power entrenched in the countryside has also been weakened.

In Guangxi, Shouhan has changed to another way.

Stick with candy means.

In the name of the General Longhu and the Governor of Guangzhou, they carried out disaster relief activities in Guangxi, distributed medicine baits, cured diseases and saved people, and treated all kinds of epidemic diseases that were prevalent in villages and towns.

However, disaster relief is also in the form of work-for-relief, employing Ding Zhuang of all ethnic groups to carry out public works such as river dredging, city repair, road and bridge construction, etc., and recruiting a large number of Ding Zhuang as an auxiliary army in the Zhuang area.

For children, the best and most novel thing is to be able to go to school with a schoolbag on their backs like children from rich families. As with Guangdong's policy, ancestral halls were converted into schools, but with the slight difference that Guangxi, a province that is not completely self-sufficient in food, is faced with the temptation of free lunch at school, and both parents and children are cheering.

The candy is gone, and then it's time for the stick.

For those Tusi, Tuguan, and Tu prefects, the Nanzhong Army will all send notices in advance, asking them to hand over their armed forces, population, and land, and the Nanzhong Army will redeem them in the form of monetary compensation.

However, there are always some people who rely on the high mountains and steep roads, and resist the king. However, those forts made of stone on the steep slopes of high mountains can resist cold weapons, and are completely the best targets for mortars specially used for mountain fortification.

What's more, before the attack, the trade sanctions of the South China Army began.

The blockade of trade in the area prevented the export of special products, the necessary food, salt, ironware, etc., and the maximum depletion of the war potential of the region.

Education, relief, trade, war. With a multi-pronged approach, the part of Guangxi near the Xijiang River has begun to be gradually mastered by the South Chinese Army. Another road from the south to the north has gradually reached the Guilin area.

"There's no particular good news either. It's nothing more than a battle report from the front. I have just signed a directive to build roads from the provincial capital to Guangxi starting next year, and roads to Guangxi from Nanzhong will also be built. ”

"Alas! It's a pity that I'm a businessman, not an engineer, otherwise I would have devoted myself to this magnificent construction. ”

Basten, who had been walking in Nanzhong and Guangdong for many years, naturally knew the difficulty of building these two lightly stated roads in the Hankou and the great manpower and material resources to be consumed.

"It's not your share to build roads! However, if you're going to donate some money to build the road, I can consider it. ”

Basten snorted and unveiled the sneering of the man.

"My lord, Gonzalez, the Portuguese, kneels outside the door and asks to see him."

"Humph!" Shouhan snorted softly from his nostrils, "Let him kneel at the door for a while!" ”……

"Please. In addition to discussing with Mr. Basten the question of the defense of Batavia and the position of the Dutch in our southern and central regions, it is also necessary to discuss how to deal with the matter of the English invading our coastal areas of Canton, plundering, burning, and killing. ”

Gonzalez rubbed his knees, bouted his chest and tried to maintain the demeanor of a general, listening to Father Alfonso whisper his translation.

"I have interrogated the captives of the English here these days, and they have explained the details very clearly. Hum! Under Miki, why not! There are still many terrible punishments in my Ming Dynasty that have not been used! ”

Shouhan's eyes glanced at Gonzalez and Alfonso, and suddenly the two of them seemed to see the torture instruments and the executioner with a wicked smile on their faces in the interrogation room.

"Originally, I planned to escort this group of people to the streets and cut them down, but the official thought that God has the virtue of a good life, and this group of people may be driven by people. Or to be seduced. Though he is guilty, he is not guilty of death. Therefore they were prepared to send them back. However, he ordered a document to be drawn up for his King of England, Charles. I'd like to ask you to listen to it today. ”

"The book of the King of the Ming Dragon and Tiger to the King of Yuanyi:

I have heard the way of existence. The strong eat the weak. The weak avoid the strong, so jackals eat deer and rabbits, and dogs and sheep are far from bears. I haven't heard of a rat fighting a raccoon. The matter of sheep swallowing tigers and leopards. However, the other country ignores the majesty of the kingdom, raises troops to invade the territory, recklessly invades the sea, and is ruthless and stubborn in the tiger gate. Therefore, the sailors of the other country are all at sea, widows and orphans, and they still howl. If they are content in the joy of the countryside and know each other's existence, why will it lead to the disaster of losing the army? Recently, I heard that the other country did not want to change its ways, and intended to take revenge, the king's intention, how could it be that the orphans and widows in the country were not enough? The ships of the monarch are difficult to get close to Humen, the islands of the South Seas, all in my hands, the cannon giant ships, Lin Lie Nanzhong, the armored warriors, not to mention the millions, where does the odds come from? And as soon as the war broke out, trade was blocked, how did his people buy tea, sugar and spices, and why did they wear silk and silk? What does he mean, is it because he lives a long life and dies? If you don't think about reforming your ways, a great disaster will surely happen, and your death will not exceed ten years. However, if you can meditate on your own mistakes and make up for them, you may be able to prolong the years. Otherwise, when you use a single coat, it will be too late to regret it! ”

This letter from Li Shouhan to Charles I has undoubtedly become one of the most important texts in the history of East-West exchanges. Western historians have mixed reviews about this text.

"Published an arrogant essay comparing himself to the mighty bear and the tiger, and the British to the weak rabbit and sheep. Except for his fortunate inadvertent prediction of the king's fate (which was nothing more than a verbal intimidation tactic commonly used by the Chinese), he only showed the destruction of free trade by an Eastern warlord and the trampling of early international relations full of interaction and controlled conflict."

Some military historians write: "[This arrogant Eastern warlord] claims in his proclamation a million warriors and mighty warships...... Although there is widespread skepticism about the effectiveness of the East Asian armies at that time, ......" (to create an image of the brutal and massive Mongol Khan to the reader)

As for the recipient of the letter, Charles I himself, when he saw the letter after a year and a half of tossing and turning at sea, after listening to Sir Weddell's explanation of the contents of the letter, he could not help but laugh dumbly, and pinched the letter, and had the idea of taking it to the toilet.

However, a few years later, in war-torn England, at the moment of "being bought and sold", when he put on two shirts on that day, he recalled this letter countless times in his mind.

However, these things have been boiled down to two words by historians, "coincidence!" "Amazing coincidence!

Let's pan the camera back again.

Hearing this Genghis Khan-esque letter accusing King Charles I of England, Basten and Gonzalez felt a pang of joy in their hearts.

"These damn Albion pirates should have cleaned up a long time ago! Dare to steal business with us Dutch! ”

"Well, blame the English, and we Portuguese will have a light responsibility. Let's hope the general's anger doesn't burn on us. ”

"This time the English invaded Guangdong, of course, it was a series of disasters and misery. But it also made the official discover the chaos of maritime trade, with dragons and snakes mixed with mud and sand. Merchant ships are equipped with firearms, so they can defend themselves. But once you sail on the vast sea, if you have a bad intention, who can tell whether it is a merchant or a pirate?! ”

"In order to maintain the order of maritime trade, strengthen the protection of maritime trade, and promote the healthy development of trade. This ordinance has been drawn up by the Officer, and I would like to ask you to discuss it today. See where there are still gaps. ”

After saying some lofty words, the Han Keeper ordered the man to distribute several copies of the Chinese to the three of them, which were contrasted with Latin.

The three of them opened this article suspiciously, and the text printed on the white paper with movable type still exuded the smell of ink, and there was a vague taste of fruit, but the three of them didn't care about commenting on the appearance of this article, so they just watched it at a glance and ten lines.

Only ships owned and manufactured by the Nanzhong Army and its allies can go to Nanzhong and Daming through the GuòManraga Strait for trade activities, during the trade period, all weapons are sealed, the safety of the ship's personnel and property is guaranteed by the Nanzhong Army Naval Division, and property insurance is carried out by insurance firms.

The South China Army encouraged its allies to transport some designated supplies to South China through the Guò Manraka Strait. For example, cotton, wheat, horses, etc. At the same time, ships carrying textiles, furs, sugar, etc., are provided with the treatment of the Guò Manraka Strait.

For ships carrying gold and silver from the Americas to trade on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the text also clearly stipulates that any gold and silver, whether it is gold and silver bullion or gold and silver coins, must be exchanged into Nanzhong gold and silver coins before trading activities can be carried out in Nanzhong, Daming, Japan and other places. When passing through the guò border crossing, the certificate of exchange will be inspected as an important part of the inspection of the customs clearance document.

The text also stipulates that all goods belonging to the allies of Nanzhong arriving in Nanzhong through Manraka must be transported by Nanzhong ships or ships produced, registered, and manufactured by allies in Nanzhong; All goods shipped from Africa and the Americas to Daming or Japan, as well as to the islands of Nanzhong and areas flying the flag of the Nanzhong Army, must be operated and transported by ships registered and manufactured in Nanzhong or sailors registered in Nanzhong. Fishery import and export goods in and out of the ports of Nanzhong and Daming, as well as goods for coastal trade from the mouth of the Heilongjiang River in the north to the east mouth of the Manraka Strait in the south, must be transported entirely by Nanzhong ships. If it is found that someone has deliberately violated the above articles, the owner of the ship will be immediately shot. Ships, sailors, and cargo immediately became the property of the South Central Army.

This regulation guarantees the interests of the signatories, thus limiting the right to trade in the Ming region to a few countries or groups.

Such a thing is to let Basten and Gonzalez wash their wives and daughters and give them away with their hands, which is also something that cannot be desired.

"What do you think? If there is no problem, sign the ordinance, and from next year's New Year's Day, this document will be implemented in the eastern and western parts of Mangara. ”

Sign! Such a good thing, why not sign it!?

General González and Mr. Van Basten, as representatives of the two powers, signed their names on several documents and used seals.

Since then, the final formality for the control of trade between East and West has been officially completed, the Navigation Regulations.

The four of them couldn't help but raise their glasses in celebration for the common cause of prosperity.

However, when the four crystal glass carved wine glasses had just slammed into one place, making a crisp sound, and the four hands holding the wine glasses were about to drink, there was a noise outside the door.

After a while, the official on duty hurriedly walked in.

"My lord, that Matsudaira Nobutsuna is here again. He threatens that if you do not receive him today, he will have no shame to explain to his master, and he would rather have a disembowelment in front of your house. to fulfill the duty of a courtier. (To be continued......)