Chapter 418: A New Voyage to the South Seas

On December 11, the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Li Nan, the trip was auspicious. Pen | fun | pavilion www.

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On this day, the first batch of tens of thousands of Han immigrants who went to the South Seas set off from the port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan on a sailor ship and sailed straight to Luzon Island.

The place they were going to was the Scowgarau region in northern Luzon.

Since Luzon Island is wide from north to south and narrow from east to west, it is much more convenient to sail directly from Taiwan to northern Luzon than to go around Manila in the south and then from Manila to northern Luzon.

Therefore, in order to save time, the fleet of migrants no longer detoured to Manila for redistribution, but directly from Kaohsiung to northern Luzon to transport displaced people, and then arranged settlement from north to south, which was faster.

Among these immigrants, the family of five, the mother Wu, the wife Chen, the younger brother Gao Xiaowu, the younger sister Gao Xiaohua and Gao Xiaosi, a total of five people, were sitting on a small sea cabin ship, huddled by a porthole, silently following the ship south.

In fact, Gao Xiaosi was not the eldest child, but after all his three brothers died, he became the eldest child in the family, and because his father died early, he was barely the head of the family.

Gao Xiaosi's family is a native of Zhushan County, Huguang, and their hometown is located in the area where Huguang and Sichuan meet.

It is said that such a remote place should be a rare quiet place in troubled times.

Unexpectedly, a large number of officials and soldiers came here and fought to the death with Zhang Xianzhong, the Chaotian King, the entire 100,000 and other thieves.

Let this remote place, there is no longer the slightest atmosphere of escapism, but it has become a terrible battlefield of swords and soldiers.

Gao Xiaosi's family had no choice but to hide in Zhushan County and join relatives and friends to avoid disasters.

Unexpectedly, this Zhushan county town did not fall into the hands of the rogue, but was broken by Zu Kuan, the chief officer and soldier of Liaodong who was greedy for merit at that time.

When the city was broken, this Zhushan county town instantly became a hell on earth.

After the Ming army forcibly entered the city, they killed the county order, looted the assets, *** women, and killed those who did not obey the slightest, which can be described as no evil.

Gao Xiaolan, the eldest sister of Gao Xiaosi, was taken by the Ming army in the city, and her condition was unbearable.

This fierce woman finally hit her head on the wall and ended her tragic life.

After looting and burning the entire county town, these beast-like Ming troops sold all the tens of thousands of residents of the city to the troops of the Zhengxi Battalion under Li Xiao.

In the troubled times, human life is like grass, and the four families of Gao Xiaosi originally thought that they had left the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den, but they didn't expect that after being sold to Zhengxi Ying, it would become the beginning of their rebirth.

Next, Gao Xiaosi's family, together with all the other displaced people, was escorted to Shandong by the soldiers of the Western Battalion, all the way to Dengzhou.

What Gao Xiaosi and the other people didn't expect was that these troops under Li Xiao were very polite to them, unlike the greedy and tyrannical Ming army.

Along the way, everyone was not worried about food and clothing, and they were given medical treatment if they were sick, so the entire escort team, basically not many people died on the way, and basically arrived in Dengzhou smoothly.

After arriving in Dengzhou, the senior primary school and his family were registered in a unified manner like other displaced people, and then lots were drawn.

The head of the family, Gao Xiaosi, personally drew lots and drew a sign for temporary resettlement in Taiwan.

The relatives of Gao Xiaosi, a family of four, drew a sign to settle on Sakhalin Island, and since then, the two relatives, one north and one south, have been separated from each other, and there is no possibility of meeting again.

After the two relatives hugged and cried for a while, they boarded the ship separately.

Although such a family parting is very sentimental, in this troubled world, nothing is more important than survival.

After all, the scars in the heart can be repaired by time, but the hunger in the stomach cannot be endured for a day.

After the family came to Taiwan, because the population of Taiwan was nearly saturated at this time, there was no land to divide.

In the family, Gao Xiaosi and his younger brother Gao Xiaowu went to work in a brick factory outside Kaohsiung, while their mother, wife and youngest sister went to work as temporary workers in a sugar processing factory.

The factory is very hard, and it is in the time of rapid development in Taiwan, each factory often works overtime to catch up, and the family is busy from morning to night, with almost no rest time, very tired.

It's just that Rao is like this, the family has finally settled down in Taiwan, and life can maintain food and clothing, compared to the previous time in Huguang, the family can only survive under the mutual fight between the Ming army and the thieves, and the Gao Xiaosi family is now living a stable and peaceful life.

It's just that compared with those immigrants who came early and successfully got the land, Gao Xiaosi's family is still quite lost.

As a senior who has been digging in the soil and is accustomed to dealing with the land, he has a natural yearning and intimacy for the land.

Their family is still desperate to have their own land, to be able to work in the fields and support their families like other farmers, and there is nothing more to live this life for.

It's just that at this time, Taiwan's land has been basically allocated, and the remaining land is either too barren land, or the Taitung area, where there are many indigenous people in turmoil.

Unexpectedly, just last month, the news came that the Tang army had successfully conquered Luzon and was preparing to transfer a group of immigrants from Taiwan to Luzon in advance, settle in the local area, and reclaim wasteland for farming.

Soon, the local civil affairs office also posted a notice encouraging temporary immigrants who did not have land in Taiwan to settle in Luzon.

If they go to Luzon, they will have the same land as the early Taiwanese immigrants, who can cultivate for themselves.

Gao Xiaosi was very happy when he got the news, and immediately went to the local civil affairs office to sign up, and then, after waiting for another seven or eight days, he got permission to settle in Luzon as the first batch of immigrants.

At this time, Gao Xiaosi, who was sitting on the side of the boat, was very emotional.

It's not easy, since the whole family left Huguang and went south, it can be said that they have been displaced all the way, and now, they can finally go to this land of Luzon and have their own land.

The shrewd senior has already calculated it, and now that his younger brother is also older, when he arrives in the local area, he will immediately tell him about his family, so that the family will be divided into two families, and there will be a total of 20 acres of land for farming.

Ten days later, the fleet transporting the displaced people reached the coast of the Skergalau area.

When they came ashore, officials from the local Civil Affairs Department re-registered these immigrants from Taiwan, and then the officials from the Civil Affairs Department sent them to various places in the Sagaglaau area to settle them down.

Gao Xiaosi's family was assigned to a newly built village and town not far from Shigejialao City, where the whole family got a new household registration waist card and household registration book, and finally got ten acres of land, and finally settled down on their own land.

And then, Gao Xiaosi of the Ling family was a little crying and laughing, and an official from the Department of Civil Affairs came to his house in person and took the initiative to tell his younger brother Gao Xiaowu.

The target of the matchmaker was a native woman in another local indigenous village not far from their village.

It turned out that this village was because of the rebellion against the rule of the Tang army, according to Li Xiao's regulations, if there was a slight resistance, the policy of slaughtering men and leaving women, all the men in this native village were killed, and only some indigenous women survived.

Because there were no men, life in these indigenous villages, where only women were left, was difficult, so after the local officials reported the situation to Li Xiao, Li Xiao decided to let the immigrant Han men marry the local indigenous women, so as to promote ethnic integration and make full use of the land in these villages.

Of course, there is also one principle to follow in such a mandatory matching, that is, unmarried with unmarried, widowed and widowed, so as to achieve the right match.

Of course, if you are forced to marry these native women, the government will also compensate you.

That is, every young man of the Han nationality who marries a native woman can be rewarded with two gold yuan.

In this way, under the pressure of the previous policy and the temptation of these two gold dollars, Gao Xiaowu finally found an unmarried indigenous woman who was quite good-looking to marry, and then divided the land at the local village and officially settled down.

To be honest, Gao Xiaowu was still extremely resistant to the government's compulsory allotment of such an indigenous woman as himself.

Especially after seeing his wife's appearance, Gao Xiaowu was even more disappointed.

He secretly thought that the local women in Huguang, compared with these Luzon natives, can be called heaven and earth, almost the contrast between fairies and ugly monsters.

Alas, this, how does this make people go down the stick...... It's just that his wife, when she saw that she could find such a beautiful Chinese husband, screamed with joy, so that the hatred of her own relatives being killed diluted a lot.

In the end, on the wedding night of the two, under the temptation and teasing of the hungry indigenous wife, Gao Xiaowu finally failed to become the unruly Yanagishita Megumi, and finally completed the act of having sex after finally getting used to the enthusiastic wife and the very unpleasant face.

Afterwards, the indigenous wife screamed and was elated, but Gao Xiaowu hid her face and cried bitterly, shedding crystal tears.

What made Gao Xiaowu cry and laugh even more was that just a few days later, because there were not enough unmarried men, the officials of the Department of Civil Affairs forcibly assigned him another indigenous woman as a concubine.

Every night, in the face of the ravages and oppression of two wolf-like indigenous women in turn, and often asking for several times a night, Gao Xiaowu was almost squeezed dry, and he was simply ashamed and indignant.

Of course, there are benefits to his dedication.

That is, these two indigenous women, who were extremely satisfied, basically took over all the farm work in the fields, and did not give him the opportunity to work at all.

And when looking at his two wives and concubines, working in the fields sweating like rain every day, Gao Xiaowu, who sat on stilts and hummed Huguang sour songs, felt that his hard work every night was very valuable.

In the following time, groups of immigrants arrived, and all parts of Luzon began to be settled by immigrants and became permanent residents here.

In real history, when the Han immigrants to Nanyang were full of blood, tears and pathos.

Now, under the organization of Li Xiao, a large number of Han immigrants have gone to Luzon Island to develop and settle down.

Patches of fertile wasteland were developed, and the newly arrived Han immigrants, as if by magic, carved out patches of wasteland overgrown with weeds and trees into neat and fertile farmland.

These lands, which were originally full of miasma, barbarism, snakes, ants and mosquitoes, were finally immigrated by the hard-working Han people and opened up into idyllic villages similar to Taiwan and full of southern style.

The Chinese nation is the most hard-working nation in the world, and it is also the nation with the deepest attachment to the land in the world.

The emperor and the queen of the earth, the people of Yuwu.

In this world that Li Xiao crossed over, the Chinese Han people finally settled forever in this hot land of the southern country, and then multiplied, with endless children and grandchildren.

After all parts of Luzon began to get on the right track, Li Xiao seized the time and arranged the next attack to seize the islands in the central Philippines.

Li Xiao appointed Luo Zheng, deputy mayor of Pingnan Town, as the chief general, and Er Bilun, deputy commander of the second battalion of Pingnan Town, as the deputy general, and led the soldiers and horses of the second battalion of Pingnan Town to wipe out the various indigenous tribes in the central Philippine islands.

"Luo Zheng, Ebilun, you see, on this map drawn by the Spaniards, the archipelago in the central Philippines mainly includes Samar Island, Masbate Island, Panai Island, Negros Island, Catandanes Island, Mindoro Island, Semirala Island and other islands.

Li Xiao pointed to the map and ordered the two in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, my lord, we know your policy. Anyway, it is three points, if the natives take the initiative to submit, then they will take their lives, and let them accept part of the grain as a vote. If the natives resist, but the degree of resistance is slight, the men are slaughtered and the women are kept to set an example. If they all resist in the village, our army will show no mercy and kill them all. ”

Luo Zheng quickly answered.

Li Xiao nodded: "Very good, that's it." Luo Zheng, Ebi Lun, in order to ensure the smooth departure of your expedition, I will pull out 200 ships of this sailor to support you. All the firearms units are also handed over to you for disposal. I will give you a maximum of half a year to conquer all the islands in the central part of the Philippines. ”

Luo Zheng and Ebi Lun clasped their fists together: "Lord Xie Li, rest assured, the two of us will definitely do our best to ensure the completion of the tasks assigned by the adults." ”

The next day, Luo Zheng and Ebilun led the soldiers and horses of the entire Pingnan Town B Battalion, as well as all the firearms troops, and set out from Manila Port by sailor ship.

Li Xiao and a group of officials personally went out of Manila to see them off, and only after seeing them disappear at the end of the sea in the south did they turn around and return to Manila.

According to Li Xiao's plan, if the soldiers and horses of the second battalion of Pingnan Town successfully conquer the central islands of the Philippines, then they will start to clean up the last two remaining countries in the Philippines.

These two kingdoms, one is the state of Sulu on the island of South Tagalu, and the other is the state of Maguindanu on the island of Mindanao.

Only by sweeping away these two countries, the entire Philippine region will become the territory of the Tang Army.

Only then can the Tang army continue to lead the army southward to conquer those lands and peoples that China has never conquered in the past 5,000 years......