Chapter 615: The Battle for the South China Sea

Li Zhongzi, Wu Youxing, Shen Langzhong, Ma Yuanyi, Jiang Sheji, Ye Zifan, and other famous doctors with official positions in the Ming Dynasty have gained a deep understanding of infectious diseases through study and research.

They have identified the route of transmission of the virus, and of course they have trumpeted that rodent extermination, flies, mosquitoes, and fleas are effective in curbing the plague.

For more than a month, the city sanitation mobilization has been full of propaganda slogans all over the streets, and "Jingshi is my family's health depends on everyone" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Now, not only is the city of Beijing very tidy, but other cities in Gyeonggi are following suit, and the city is starting to become clean.

However, the great disasters that continue to occur are not a single line, because the military disasters are always unavoidable, and the Tartars in the northwest border have only stopped for two months, and Jiannu has come again.

The Later Jin army took advantage of the fact that Lin Dan Khan had just died to rob the inheritance of the last nominal golden family of Mongolia, and the effect was so bad that even most of Lin Dan Khan's women were inherited by Jiannu.

Haoge, who led the troops, not only got many of the original Lin Dan Khan's men and horses to return to him, but also got the women of Lin Dan Khan, and also got the jade seal of the country.

In mid-March, Huang Yong, who was training sailors in Qingniwa, welcomed several uninvited guests, who were the leaders of the great pirate Liu Xiang.

They found Shi Daxuan, who had been trading together at sea with no capital, and was recommended by Shi Daxuan, who was already high in the pipe from the Sipin Dragon Martial Water Division.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, Zheng Zhilong nominally returned to the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, he changed the soup but not the medicine, he was still a big pirate, and he was an ambitious big pirate.

He did not know the Dutch, and after defeating the East India Company's armed merchant fleet at the Battle of Liuluo Bay, he proved his strength, "There are no eternal friends, only interests are eternal." This statement is confirmed.

The Dutch abandoned Liu Xiang, one of the original eighteen Zhi pirates, and cooperated with Zheng Zhilong, an official, merchant and pirate, and Zheng Zhilong became the comprador representative of the East India Company.

Liu Xiang, who was abandoned by the Dutch, certainly will not sit still, and is even more unwilling to be marginalized.

He re-searched for collaborators and joined forces with Spain and Portugal, which had gone downhill.

The sea is treacherous, and it is impossible to talk about who is right and who is wrong, it really responds to the sentence "the world is all for profit", Zheng Zhilong does not represent justice, and Liu Xiang is not the embodiment of evil.

The comments of later generations were unfair, favoring Zheng Chenggong's son Zheng Zhilong, and giving this big traitor who was a pirate leader in official clothes and took the initiative to surrender to Jiannu was overrated.

To simply judge Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong by good people and bad people, you can use the common people to cover them up, these two are bad people who deserve a thousand cuts.

The reason why Liu Xiang sent people to find the Dragon Wu Sailor was because Zheng Zhilong's fleet had often disappeared in recent years, and Liu Xiang had been beaten by Zheng Zhilong's fleet many times along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong.

It was difficult for Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang to tell which family had repeatedly killed people and crossed goods near the Wa Kingdom, or whether they had learned from the Ming Imperial Court newspaper last year that Liaohai had re-emerged the Longwu Naval Division.

The level of the chief general of the Longwu Naval Division is higher than that of Zheng Zhilong, because Huang Yong is a general who has been notified by the governor, and Zheng Zhilong is just a coastal defense guerrilla, and the background of the Longwu Naval Division is very hard, and it is an invincible "Red Banner Army" under the command of the Marquis of Dongping.

Zheng Zhilong lost dozens of ships, including cargo, on the route of the Wa Kingdom, worth as much as two or three million taels of silver, and it was obvious that it should be the Long Wu Sailor who attacked, and he already felt that he could not take revenge and get back the field.

He thought about asking Xiong Wencan to come forward and talk to Dongping Hou, to see if he could negotiate with the Long Wu Naval Division to divide the maritime sphere of influence, and strive not to attack each other in the future, so that everyone could join forces to make a fortune.

It's a pity that Xiong Wencan is the feudal official of Fujian, the governor of the imperial history of the right capital, not Zheng Zhilong's errands.

Xiong Wencan happily accepted Zheng Zhilong's generous gift and promised to find an opportunity to accommodate Dongping Hou, but there was no movement for several months.

Liu Xiang also has a lot of fine work in Fujian, and there are also many officials and businessmen who step on two boats, and they still collude with Liu Xiang secretly while cooperating with Zheng Zhilong.

The meticulous workers had already heard that Shi Daxuan's whole family had gone to the north, and Liu Xiang judged that there was a situation here, and guessed that this former ally should have changed owners, and it was very likely that he had voted for Longwu Shuishi.

Zheng Zhilong became a coastal defense guerrilla after accepting the imperial court's recruitment, not only being able to use the strength of the Daming Naval Division, but also being able to be supplemented by warships and sailors, and his strength was increasing day by day, which made his former brothers die.

Liu Xiang regretted that he had made a wrong choice, and was not willing to discuss the conditions of recruitment with the envoy sent by Xiong Wencan in detail, and directly killed people.

Liu Xiang, who was now beaten badly by Zheng Zhilong, learned from the pain and decided to also seek cooperation with Daming, and sent three henchmen to take a clipper into the Liaohai Sea to find the Daming Dragon Martial Artist, and sure enough, he found his former ally Shi Daxuan.

Thinking that the eighteen Zhi of the year were just elected as the leader of the alliance, nearly ten years have passed, and half of the warships of the eighteen zhi are controlled by the Zheng family, and those who are unwilling to bow their heads are forced to go away to the South Seas or become the ghost of Zheng Zhilong's sword.

Shi Daxuan has been taking refuge in the "Red Flag Army" for more than three years, and during this time, he has been exposed to it and deeply felt the vitality of the system.

He is now the pipe band of the "Liaoyang", and there are more than 700 sailors, gunners, and marines under his command.

The "Liaoyang" was a battleship with a displacement of nearly 2,000 tons, equipped with 77 guns of different calibers, and the largest caliber reached 32 pounds.

Shi Daxuan has been on the sea for a long time, and he knows the strength of many Xiyi countries, and knows that the territory owned by many so-called Franco powers is not as large as the area actually controlled by the "Red Banner Army".

It is obvious that the head of the family, Huang Han, has the strength to tear the earth and seal the king, and the future of following the "Red Flag Army" is limitless, and it is unknown whether he will be crowned a prince or a marquis.

Shi Daxuan met the henchmen sent by Liu Xiang, the old brother of Shibazhi in the past, and learned that Liu Xiang intended to unite with Long Wushui to develop the business of Dayue Kingdom and Luzon, and break Zheng Zhilong's monopoly on Nanyang, and was very interested.

He has been following the Wa country for three consecutive years, knowing that the trade volume there has reached the end, and in order to make more profits, he must reopen the market, and the Nanyang countries are the first choice.

But if you want to run to Nanyang, you will definitely not be able to bypass the coastal area of Fujian where Zheng Zhilong is entrenched, and it is inevitable to compete with the Dutch East India Company.

Shi Daxuan brought Liu Xiang's envoy to meet with Huang Yong, the chief general of the Longwu Water Division, the main generals Yang Dacheng, Shen Xianyi, Huang Chunsheng, An Xiaole, Shen Ming, Yu Fei, Lin Minghai, and Huang Kezao, Yang Jian, and Shao Juncai, the leaders of the "Sun and Moon Shipping".

Based on the Liaohai Sea, encroaching on the East China Sea, and competing for the South China Sea facing the Atlantic Ocean is the only way for the development of the Longwu Naval Division, and striving to make the Han fleet unimpeded and free trade in the world is the ultimate goal.