Chapter 159: Yan Siqi, the king of the opening stage
Zhao Wujie rushed back and met the leader of the Japanese Kou, Little Dog.
"Zhao Sang worked hard, I don't know if this time things will go well?"
After taking a sip of hot tea, Zhao Wujie nodded and replied: "This time I went out to live up to my mission, and I finally contacted Yan Siqi, the king of the opening stage, and we also reached an agreement." ”
Yan Siqi, the word Zhenquan, is a native of Haicheng County, Zhangzhou. Bold by nature, righteous and squandering money, burly, and proficient in martial arts. In the history of Taiwan's development, Yan Siqi was the first to lead the crowd across the Taiwan Strait, recruit immigrants from Quanzhang, and carry out large-scale organized reclamation of Taiwan, so he was respected as the "king of Taiwan" and "the first pioneer to open up Taiwan". "General History of Taiwan" is a biography of Taiwan's historical figures, "headed by Siqi"
In history, Yan Siqi was mistaken for being the same person as Li Dan, the leader of the Nanyang Japanese Pirate Alliance, but in fact it was not, Li Dan was Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong, a celebrity in later generations, were Li Dan's godsons. Li Dan monopolized the trade between Nanyang and Japan for many years, and at this time he had an army of 25 pirates, more than 3,000 warships, and countless merchant ships.
Yan Siqi was appointed by Li Dan as the leader of the South Sea Pirate Fleet, and Zheng Zhilong was in charge of the Japanese route.
When it comes to Taihe Zheng Zhilong's ability, Yan Siqi is not comparable to Zheng Zhilong at all, especially this guy is bold and ambitious. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Yan Siqi and Tai's sworn twenty-eight brothers planned to overthrow the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, establish power in Japan, and elect their father-in-law Li Dan as the king of Japan and accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty. But the matter was leaked two days before, the shogunate sent troops to search for it, and Li Dan arranged for Yan Siqi to lead the crowd to escape in thirteen ships.
Yan Siqi led the fleet to the bay and docked at Bengang (now Beigang, Taiwan). He saw that the island was fertile and beautiful, and that a large area of wilderness had not been explored, so he decided to expand his territory here and do some business. It is to gather wood and soil to build a squatter village. At that time, Tufan thought that foreign enemies were invading, and the tribe attacked. Yan Siqi's bereaved people appeased them, agreed on the border, and did not interfere with each other. In the Pingye (now Xingang) on the southeast coast of Bengang, it became the main port of the pirate fleet of Tainanyangtai, and at the same time recruited Ming refugees from Quanzhou and other places to reclaim and build Taiwan, becoming the first person to open Taiwan, and was named the king of Kaitai by Li Dan.
This time, the little dog and Zhao Wujie jointly sent troops to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and it was very smooth at the beginning, along the Qiantang River all the way upstream, and the four guards and fifteen institutes along the coast of Zhejiang were all fleeing from the wind, so their greed was even better, so they targeted Hangzhou, one of the richest Zhejiang capitals in the Ming Dynasty.
Originally, I thought that Hangzhou, like other places, would also flee when they heard the news, but this time it was beyond their expectations, and the officials and people in Hangzhou not only did not flee, but instead reorganized the city defense and prepared to defend it, which greatly surprised the two people.
But the fat that comes to the mouth can't be spit out no matter what, as long as Hangzhou is defeated, the two of them will immediately be rich and rival the country.
But in the face of Jiancheng, Xiao Dog and Zhao Wujie did not arrogantly think that with more than 3,000 people in their hands, they could attack the capital of Zhejiang. Although the strong soldiers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are now all transferred to Yunnan to deal with the rebellion of Lu'an, the rest are also old, weak, sick and disabled, just to take care of the family, don't let the thieves steal the few belongings in the barracks. The family is already surrounded by walls, and if you recruit a thief again, you won't have to live that day.
But there are no soldiers in the land battle, but the Ming Dynasty's Jiangsu and Zhejiang Naval Divisions still have them, although they are known as 50,000, these two people are not serious, but there are still 20,000, especially the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Naval Divisions have been fighting with pirates for many years, and their combat effectiveness is still there. You can't help but admit that the sailors of the Ming Dynasty were very powerful, and from the Ming Hongwu to the present, there has not been a single record of defeat. It's just that everyone attaches importance to land warfare and drowns out the brilliance of the sailors.
Therefore, taking advantage of the westward transfer of the main force of the Ming Army, it is absolutely feasible to make a ruthless profit, but once the powerful naval division of the Ming Dynasty is dispatched, he will die without a place to be buried, especially the current chief officer of the Fujian Naval Division, Yu Zhigao, is really terrifying. You may not have heard of Yu Zhigao, but his father Yu Da Chief is a well-known existence, back then, the pirates of the Japanese pirates, including the sailors of the red-haired countries, heard his name, and immediately fled, thinking that this Yu Zhigao is not an ordinary person, this must be considered. As a result, Zhao Wujie thought of working together with the powerful pirate Yan Siqi.
Hearing Zhao Wujie say that the big thing was done, the little dog was overjoyed: "Zhao Sang worked hard, I don't know what agreement was reached." ”
Zhao Wujie slowly explained the results he had achieved: "I rushed to Taiwan, and it happened that Yan Siqi was resting in Hong Kong because of the storms in the South China Sea this season. After I explained the powerful interests, Yan Siqi made a decision on the spot and promised to join forces with us to make this big vote together. ”
The dog's eyes lit up at that time: "How many soldiers can he send?" ”
"Five hundred warships, twenty thousand sailors, thirty thousand armies."
"What conditions does he want?"
Of course, there must be conditions for such a contribution, is this also human nature?
"He wants half of what he got from looting Hangzhou."
The puppy asked unbelieving at the time: "Really?" ”
"Really."
The little dog was confused: "According to the number of people, we only have three thousand." ”
"I said 10,000."
"Okay, even if it's 10,000, but people send 50,000 troops, and there are 30,000 by land alone."
"And the 30,000 are still under our command."
The little dog was even more surprised: "If it is calculated according to this condition, it is not too much for him to take seventy percent." ”
Zhao Wujie smiled indifferently, although the little dog was cruel and arrogant, but this person was very righteous, and from this point of view, this guy is still a kind person, this is a representative of a two-sided personality.
"I'm too much to give." Zhao Wujie muttered lightly.
The puppy stumbled and almost fell to the ground. "That's more? No more cooperation will not work. ”
"Little Dog Jun, you don't know, Yan Siqi doesn't care about our future income at all, what he cares about is that let's use the name of the widow to attract the attention of Da Ming for him, and then carry out his ambitions."
"What ambition?"
Zhao Wujie replied word by word: "Let him be able to attack the Daming Sailor wholeheartedly, hurt the Daming, and force the Ming court to recruit himself." ”
This explanation reassures the dog, feelings, he Yan Siqi also asks for his own, this is using himself as a gun, then, the less he takes, is equivalent to his own labor fee.
The current opening king Yan Siqi is difficult.
The reason why it is so difficult to occupy Taiwan with an army of 200,000 pirates is that it is still necessary to talk about the overall environment.
The Daming Sailor was once invincible in the world, but remember, it was once. But as Emperor Renxuan thinks that the water master is a money-burning thing, and everyone doesn't want to conquer the world, why keep such a money-burning thing? Under the guidance of such an ideology, the Ming Dynasty began to shrink the coastal defense line, the ocean-going fleet was recalled, the construction of large ships was stopped, the island bases were abandoned, the retreat policy caused the sailors to suffer heavy losses, and the coastal defense line was pressed back to the coast from the far sea and even the outer ocean.
As a result, it didn't matter if he retreated, the sailors declined even more, and the coastal pirates were overwhelmed, and as a result, the bastard emperor decided that it would cost money to fight pirates, but as long as the sea was forbidden, it would not cost money, so the bastard emperor decided to ban the sea. If you don't say it, Da Ming has never been a tyrant, but he is a bastard.
This forbidden sea not only made the pirates more reckless, but also blocked the way for foreign trade and the much-needed silver for the Ming Dynasty, resulting in the current money shortage, inhibiting the market economy, and also collapsing the Ming Dynasty's finances. Don't talk about the bad country, because it's still far away, but the blow to Yan Siqi is the greatest.
Yan Siqi took 200,000 pirates to Taiwan as a base, and began to replace the Ming Dynasty in the sea and Europa, that is, the European countries to compete for power, that is, a dozen wins, but he found that it is not possible to rely on pirates to stabilize the foundation, because the pirates looted all silver, silver cannot be used as food, cannot be used as swords, guns and artillery, if you want to develop for a long time, if you want Taiwan to truly become your own logistics supply base, there must be people.
Where do people come from, of course, it is the Ming Dynasty, now there is a famine in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, and people are dying of starvation everywhere, and a large number of displaced people have no land to plant, which is just right to recruit Taiwan.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, and stipulated that the board was not allowed to go to the sea.
Yes, the plan to export the population to the Ming Dynasty has come to naught.
In fact, Yan Siqi also applied to the imperial court to relocate the population to Taiwan, and his condition was that he would become the official sailor of the Ming Dynasty, and then he would not need a penny of the Ming Dynasty to guard the coast for the Ming Dynasty.
But this best condition was directly refuted by the bastard emperor, who, of course, the biggest opposition here was the Donglin party.
Because the Donglin Party is surrounded by Jiangnan clans, and every family has smuggling trade, once Yan Siqi is allowed to trade at sea legally, what will everyone eat? Normal maritime trade requires the payment of taxes in the city, and there will be many people who will come out to compete, and when the treasury is rich, these smugglers will be poor.
Therefore, there is such an embarrassing situation in Yan Siqi now, with 200,000 troops, and all the gold, silver and jewelry piled up in Taiwan are piled up and mountained, but he is poor and cannot eat enough every day. A dignified king of the opening of the stage has only 3,000 people smuggled over under his command, and if this continues, his glorious foundation will undoubtedly fail.
Therefore, this time he decided that if he wanted to achieve the goal of long-term and benign development, he must go out of the ordinary, hurt the Ming Dynasty, and annihilate the Ming Dynasty Fujian (Liangzhejiang Water Division) to force the imperial court to agree to his own conditions for immigration.
Such courage, such an action, what made the little dog admire at that time was the five-body throw: "The Celestial Empire, it is indeed a large number of outstanding people, this is not comparable to our small island country, even if we learn from the Celestial Empire for a thousand years, there is no such wisdom, we can only do something to the Celestial Empire and be angry." ”
Listening to such an exclamation, Zhao Wujie had to evaluate the little dog again, although this person is fierce and arrogant, he is not only a kind person, but also an honest person, a person who is good at learning, a person who has the courage to correct his arrogance, this person is definitely a person close to the saint.
"Yang Sang, when will Yan Siqi's team arrive?"
"Tomorrow in the middle of the night, his 30,000 troops will arrive the morning after tomorrow at the latest."
When the little dog heard this, he suddenly got up, raised his hands high, and danced excitedly as if he had beaten ten bowls of chicken blood: "Great, it's so good, in this way, we will set up at noon the day after tomorrow to attack Hangzhou, I want to wash Hangzhou City in blood, kill him a chicken and dog, and rob him to sink three feet." ”
Zhao Wujie commented again: "He is still an out-and-out not a human, but a beast and a devil." ”
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