Chapter 128: Niu Venus's South Sea Strategy (II
Lin Shimin's ancestor is named Lin Zhen, he was the captain of Zhu Di's general Zhang Yu's personal army, after staying in Nanyang, he is not as professional as other Jinyiwei, he has his own plans, although he is also a local woman as his wife, but he did not quietly hide it, he can't stand that loneliness, people from the army have a competitive heart, not to mention that he is still from a thousand households. People who can do thousands of households must be strong in martial arts, otherwise they would have lost their lives in the war, Lin Zhen can do the captain of the guards must be strong in martial arts, and later the three treasure eunuchs Zheng He went to Nanyang, because he knew the water nature, he came out with the team, but he fell ill halfway through, so he had to stay in the local area.
Lin Zhen has a strong personality and good martial arts, and he is the leader of these people, so everyone is based on his ideas. After the death of the eunuch Zheng He, the Ming Dynasty no longer went to sea to communicate, and after a long time, Lin Zhen began to receive bullying from the locals, with Lin Zhen's temperament, naturally he would not be submissive, so he gathered the brothers who lived down and began to deal with the local natives by force, with a proud martial arts and natural spirit, defeated several nearby tribes, grabbed a piece of land, and gradually took root in Zamboanga, plus took in a lot of some Chinese who later fell here, and became a big force here, Later, it was passed on to Lin Shimin.
After carefully observing Lin Shimin's behavior, Niu Jinxing decided to believe his story, and this began another legend of Niu Jinxing. Niu Jinxing vigorously supported Lin Shimin's tribe, and began to equip Lin Shimin's tribe with more advanced weapons from the Ming Dynasty, and discussed with Xiao Hailong to ask for a hundred marines from him, so that Lin Shimin could summon a thousand young adults from the tribe and begin to conduct strict military training to make him a real soldier.
The Moro people who occupy Mindanao are divided into hundreds of small tribes, among which there are two relatively large tribes in the north of Zamboanga, one is the Gebal tribe and the other is the Moro tribe. Gebal was a murderous man, and his tribe often waged war against the surrounding tribes over territorial issues, and gradually annexed some small tribes, but it also paid a lot of price, after all, the mortality rate of fighting in the era of cold weapons was very high. When he encountered Niu Jinxing's caravan, he also tried to rob it, but was very embarrassed by Niu Jinxing's armed caravan. Seeing Niu Jinxing's powerful firearms and sharp machetes and muskets, he gave birth to buy them to equip the attention of his own people, and Niu Jinxing did not hesitate, and directly sold him more than 1,000 sharp machetes and 2,000 bows and arrows. After obtaining these weapons, Gebal naturally did not dare to fight Niu Jinxing, but launched an attack on his greatest enemy, the Moro tribe. The already ferocious Geba tribe was even more ferocious when equipped with machetes, bows and arrows, and in a conflict, the 3,000-strong young army killed 10,000 soldiers of the Moro tribe.
The leader of the Moro tribe, Morrow, saw that his opponent's weapons were very powerful, so he had to retreat and give up part of his territory, but he was really unwilling in his heart. After careful investigation, Moro found that the Gebal tribe had purchased the advanced weapons of the Ming merchants, so he sent people to find Niu Jinxing's caravan, bought more machetes, bows and arrows, and then retaliated against the Gebal tribe, killing more than 3,000 people in a small town at one time. In order to retaliate against each other, the two sides continued to buy more advanced weapons from Niu Jinxing, which later included firing pistols and Xiaoer kicking mortars.
The firearms factory of the Ming Dynasty had stopped producing this kind of backward weapons, but with the stirring of Niu Jinxing here, Zhu Youxiao had already transferred the production of these weapons to other private capital, the most important of which were businessmen in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangzhou, and with the continuous development of steam engines, as well as the support of local banks, all kinds of machinery factories were built more and more, such as what iron daily necessities, knives, etc., and Zhu Youxiao had to build several steel mills to supply steel. Of course, a factory like this must be owned by state-owned assets.
Niu Jinxing from Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other coastal cities * a large number of weapons, but also brought countless gold and silver, copper ore and spices and other Nanyang specialties, to promote the economic prosperity of this area, but to bring Nanyang is bloody fighting and war, Niu Jinxing is not ashamed of this, his words are "everything for the Ming Dynasty, even if I stink all over the world."
As Niu Venus's weapons continued to be shipped from Daming, the tribes of Mindanao bought them one after another for their right to survive, and at the same time, the wars of all sizes became more and more intense. The clash between Gebal and Morrow grew larger and larger, and finally the decisive battle began, with both sides concentrating their maximum forces and starting the final battle on a small plain. The Gebal tribe gathered more than 30,000 people, and the Moro tribe gathered more than 50,000 people, and they fought here for two days, only to kill the sky and the moon, and the blood flowed like a river, but in order to achieve the final victory, no one would withdraw first, because that would mean losing the right to live.
On the third day, when they were exhausted, more than 1,000 soldiers led by Lin Shimin arrived, and under the command of a hundred Ming marines, they killed from the back of the two teams. First of all, they attacked the camp of the leaders of the two sides, Gebal and Moro were killed by the snipers of the Ming Dynasty, and then they lined up to shoot the phalanx, attacking from both sides to the middle, the slow and powerful attack force made the indigenous tribes who were already powerless quickly lose the will to resist psychologically, and threw away the weapons in their hands in the loud persuasion of Lin Shimin's soldiers, Lin Shimin ended the war at a very small price, and subdued the remnants of the soldiers and tribal property of the two tribes.
Bull Venus took full advantage of people's greed and adopted a simple trade method to gradually advance to the whole of Mindanao, which also worked repeatedly. Lin Shimin also followed Niu Jinxing to slowly occupy Mindanao, because most of the young men died in battle, and Lin Shimin also firmly ruled the islands in this area.
After Niu Jinxing succeeded here, Xiao Hailong saw the trick, but he asked Niu Jinxing to only sell knives in the Visayas and Luzon Islands, not artillery, so that it is convenient to control it in the future, Niu Jinxing doesn't care about the things here, tell Xiao Hailong that these are trivial things, knives and daily necessities can't make a few small bucks at all, and this matter can be done by handing it over to the businessmen of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Liangguang to organize armed business groups, but be careful, don't let them engage in malicious competition, it's best to set up a chamber of commerce, let them coordinate, In this way, the maximum benefits can be obtained, and then let them organize immigrants, and they must break up and live in them, so as not to form local gangs and create trouble for future government management.
As for Niu Jinxing himself, he saw a big fish again and disdained to do such a small business. Because he saw that the Portuguese had brought a whole shipload of silver from outside, and there must be a good place to produce silver, he paid for some Portuguese sailors, and obtained information about the Portuguese in the Americas, and he found that this matter was too big, and he didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he reported to Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao naturally knew where the silver was shipped from, but because there were too many things now, he couldn't be busy, and he couldn't take care of it, and now he got a report from Niu Jinxing, so he asked him to contact Yu Hualong. Niu Jinxing formed more than 200 armed merchant ships, in fact, there were fifty warships, and the rest were transport ships, according to Zhu Youxiao's guidance, except for some commodities, the rest were machetes, bows and arrows, and pistols and bullets. Although Niu Jinxing didn't understand why Zhu Youxiao did this, he still did what Zhu Youxiao wanted.