To be honest, Hong Chengchou actually enjoys his current position. Finally, he can lead troops to fight, and it is still a war to expand the territory. In the future, on this side of the Tianshan Mountains, at least he will leave his prestige.

In this way, they will not be thrown away too much by Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting. If he can make another meritorious contribution against Tsarist Russia in the future, with the generosity of the emperor now, maybe there will be a knighthood.

Hong Chengchou thought so, and in terms of specific things, he was also preparing according to this vision. For those who do not obey the authority of the Great Tomorrow on the Central Asian side, the young and strong population are all arrested to build roads, and the rest of the population, if they can use it, it is best to submit to it, dare to resist, or do not obey the order, and the order he issued is violated, he is also iron-blooded and ruthless, so that he can have more time and energy to deal with Tsarist Russia.

Don't look at Hong Chengchou as a civil official, his decisiveness and ruthlessness at such a critical time have actually been reflected in his early years when he suppressed the thief rebellion.

Hong Chengchou knew that if those thieves were captured, it would be very difficult to turn around and deal with them. Let them go, for if they have nothing to eat, they will become thieves again; If they are not allowed to go back, the court does not have so much food for them to eat; Therefore, Hong Chengchou basically did not leave prisoners. On the battlefield, it is killing, and if he unfortunately catches a lot of prisoners, he will also turn his head and kill, and will not stay overnight.

Not to mention, Hong Chengchou's method was really useful against the thieves, so that he finally became famous in the process of suppressing the thieves, and he was like flying as an official, and he soon mixed into the position of the governor of Yansui.

Now, Hong Chengchou's iron-fisted strategy, as soon as it is implemented in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, it immediately deters this side, the kind that can make three-year-old children stop crying. In addition, when Emperor Chongzhen personally drove to conquer the Tianshan Mountains, the tribes of the Oirat tribe that he rescued recovered such a wave of people's hearts as the basic plate, and the population in the area was migrating one after another. No more tribe or country dared to come to Hong Chengchou's territory to find trouble.

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In the blink of an eye, another year passed, and in May of the twenty-fourth year of Chongzhen, a large wave of fleets appeared in the open sea of Tianjin Port. These fleets, without exception, all carried the flags of Portugal and the Ming Dynasty.

On top of the flagship, a bunch of people gathered around the two people in front. One of them, who was introducing to the other, was a little girl: "Your Royal Highness Princess, we will land at the front port, and then it will take about three days to reach the capital of the Ming Empire. The prosperity of the Ming Dynasty is far more prosperous than that of other countries in Europe. Although I have never been to the Ming Kingdom, I have heard a lot of it when I was in the Far East before. It's only been a few years now, and I believe it's not much different, and I'm happy to introduce one or two to Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

This princess is the second daughter of João IV, named Catherine. The first daughter died, but Catherine was actually the eldest daughter. If it was in the original history, she was married to Charles II of England, and later returned to Portugal as regent after Charles II died, and the reputation in history is good.

I don't know if Queen Catherine in Heroes is invincible, is it because of her?

At this time, Catherine was only thirteen years old. But on the surface, she is serious and maintains a kind of reserve. However, when she was in Lisbon, including when she came on the road, and when she was briefly replenishing supplies in Haojing Ao, she had already heard the cocoon coming to the Ming Empire in the Far East, and what she heard was how prosperous and rich it was.

But in her heart, she still didn't believe it. Could it be that no matter how prosperous the Ming Dynasty is, there can still be the prosperity of Paris?

Catherine was thinking about it when she suddenly saw a convoy of warships coming out of the distant port, lined up, waving flags at the same time.

When Anders saw it, he said to Catherine: "Your Highness, you have to meet the inspection of the Ming Navy, and I will arrange it first." ”

Catherine listened, followed the example of her father, and nodded and said, "Go!" ”

In this Portuguese fleet, there were actually only three warships, and the others were armed merchant ships, and more were used to transport goods. Seeing the Ming Navy warships coming, they all honestly dropped their sails, and they didn't dare to open the cannon window, waiting for the Ming army to inspect.

Anders has a letter of state, and this visit to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, when replenishing supplies in Haojingao, has also been notified to the Ming Kingdom, I believe this side should have known.

Sure enough, the Tianjin coastal defense guerrilla general personally boarded the ship to inspect it, and after verifying the national letters and other items, he said to Anders: "Your Majesty has a decree, the director of Honglu Temple is already waiting at the port to welcome the visit of the princess of your country." ”

In any case, it is a country of brothers, and there are still etiquettes that should be there. However, the rules that should be followed are also required.

As a result, the flagship of the fleet, that is, Anders and Catherine's ship, followed the Ming warship into the port, and the other warships had to go to the military port with the Daming warship. Except, of course, for merchant ships that gave gifts to the Ming Dynasty.

Catherine didn't care about all these arrangements, but no matter what, of course she was looking at the Ming army.

She found that these warships of the Ming army were very ordinary, and they were not even sail warships, and she felt that the speed would not be fast, so she couldn't help but secretly despise it in her heart. As far as the navy is concerned, it should be much stronger than Portugal. It's just that this is in the Ming Kingdom, so there are a lot of warships.

She still feels a little bit about this. At least all the way north, she saw a lot of Ming ships coming and going near the sea from time to time, and the excitement was indeed more than that of Europe.

It is also for this reason that when the Tianjin coastal defense guerrilla general came to greet her, she praised it out of politeness: "Seeing so many merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty, it is indeed very prosperous and yearning!" ”

Anders listened, turned his head to translate, and then added a sentence himself: "I remember that in the past, there were not so many sea ships in the Ming Dynasty, which shows that the Ming Dynasty is really getting more and more prosperous!" ”

When the coastal defense guerrilla general heard this, he was a little surprised, and then he couldn't help but laugh a little: "That's all the old yellow calendar!" Since the north-south train connection, there have been many fewer sea vessels. ”

Anders was stunned when he heard it, with his level of Da Ming official dialect, he didn't understand what the old yellow calendar meant, and at the same time, he didn't understand what the train meant? However, the general meaning is that he understands.

After the Haiphong guerrilla general saw the salute, he took his leave and returned to his flagship.

Catherine noticed the face of the Ming general, and asked Anders with a little curiosity, "What did he say?" How do you feel a little disapproving? ”

Anders listened and thought about it for a moment before replying, "He said that after burning the car with the paper of the old yellow calendar, the number of ships has been reduced a lot. Otherwise, there will be more. ”

Catherine was stunned when she heard this, and said a little unconvinced: "What do you mean? Is it more than we have ever seen in the sea? ”

"I don't know!" Anders actually thinks that General Naming is exaggerating, because he didn't have so much when he was in the Ming Dynasty. However, he couldn't tell the princess clearly, so he explained, "It is possible that there is a sea ship loaded with a car, and the car catches fire, so that type of sea ship is gone." Therefore, there are fewer sea ships seen today. ”

After saying that, he was proud of his quick wit, and perfectly explained the reason for that Ming General!

Catherine still felt that this reason was a little strange in her heart, but she didn't ask any more, and just stared at the Tianjin Port in the distance.

Anders stood beside her and said to her: "This Tianjin City, about ten years ago, had a famous battle, called the Tianjin Counterattack. At that time, the Ming army hid 5,000 men and horses in the city of Tianjin, and relied on the Weihe River to intercept the Jianyu ......"

Catherine really listened to these battles with relish, but after hearing them, she was still a little puzzled, so she asked Anders: "Why don't you hide some more men and horses in Tianjin City, if that's the case, you don't need to defend the Weihe so hard, right?" ”

As soon as Anders heard this, he immediately replied: "Tianjin City is so big, if there are more Tibetan people, it will be discovered by Jianyu." ”

"Oh!" When Catherine heard this, she accepted this reason and continued to listen to Anders's explanation, while her eyes widened and she looked at the city of Tianjin in the distance.

Looking at it, she had questions again, and couldn't help but point to the Tianjin City port in the distance and said: "No, so many ships are docked, the port can already be faintly seen, it is very big, it must not be small compared to Tianjin City, right?" ”

At this time, Anders had also seen it. He was a little surprised that Tianjin Port turned out to be much larger than he expected. However, in front of the princess, he was unwilling to admit that he was wrong, so he explained: "In recent years, the war has subsided, so many sea ships have come and gone, and the expansion of the port is inevitable. ”

Catherine listened to this, and disagreed a little in her heart, even if it was expanded, how much could it be expanded in less than two years? This is several times larger than the port of Lisbon!

Fortunately, she was young, and she was afraid that because of her lack of experience, her cognition would be biased, so she didn't say anything more.

Slowly, the battleship got closer and closer to the port, and the prosperous atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty suddenly came to the face.

Sea ships came and went near the warships, and the dispatch of the ports, one after another, commanded by flags, although there were many, they were not chaotic. When the battleship was caught in the sea, it felt small.

Under the leadership of the warships of the Ming coastal defense guerrillas, they sailed into a special wharf and avoided the noise of the port. It wasn't until she got off the ship that Catherine came to her senses, it turned out that the harbor could still be so lively, but orderly?

When she came to her senses, she was immediately stunned again. She turned her head to look at Anders and asked, "Didn't you say that there are 5,000 soldiers and horses hidden in this Tianjin city?" How can this be hidden? ”

When she finished asking, she realized that Anders was stunned and stayed there.

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