Chapter 661: Peace? 1
Hong Chengchou came to make peace?
Zhang Qiang touched his freshly shaved head, he didn't know what to do, he couldn't understand, he and Hong Chengchou were like enemies in the previous life, in this life, the two of them fought openly and secretly, the army came and went, and the blood of the killing flowed like a river, and finally with twenty years of hard struggle, he finally squeezed him and his Hong Chengchou Qing army away and left the Ryukyu Islands.
I have seen some things about him before, and now he overthrew the Ryukyu king controlled by the Japanese shogun in the Ryukyu Islands, swept away the power of the Japanese, occupied the Ryukyu Islands, and has 100,000 people, 50,000 troops, more than 10,000 sailors, and more than 1,000 warships, including many 800-ton warships imitating the Huaxia Army, they are called 8,000-ton warships, those warships have been the warships of the Huaxia Army many years ago, and now the warships owned by the Huaxia Army have exceeded 1,500 tons.
The small Ryukyu Islands are sparsely populated, each desert island can only live a few dozen people, several large desert islands can garrison about 1,000 people, the main island is the largest island, the original Ryukyu Kingdom is only about 10,000 people, the army of 500 people, and then the army of the Japanese shogunate occupied where, garrison 1,000 people, and at the same time keep the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom as a puppet, as well as his army of 500 people who are not useful, now the Ryukyu Kingdom has gone so many people must be overcrowded, it is estimated that even the small island that can only station dozens of people is crowded with people, so many people need to eat, the army needs merit, and the generals need a place to make meritorious service, it is estimated that Hong Chengchou has been very uncomfortable, and now it is estimated that his hair is grayer.
Although it is possible to intercept the passing merchant ships and Japanese fishing boats, but after all, it is a drop in the bucket, cutting off exchanges and commercial contacts with the mainland Huaxia, relying on the smuggling alone, it is estimated that he will not be able to feed all 150,000 people, in this case, Hong Chengchou will not sit still, he is not a person who is loyal to anyone, he is loyal only to himself, only his own ideals, Zhang Qiang knew what kind of person he was before, so he has been fighting the Qing army around, eliminating the Ming army, and occupying the surrounding places, But he didn't tear his face with him, and it wasn't until all the enemies in the country were cleaned up and he wanted to develop to the north that he took the initiative to tighten his fist and give him a fatal blow.
As far as the size of Hong Chengchou's Lu army, if he still has something to do with the Qing army, then with the current energy and population of the Qing army, help him, then there is still a fight, but because he was suspicious of the Qing Dynasty and wanted to seize his military power, he had to resist, which made him determined to break with the Qing Dynasty, which made his little power become a very lonely force, without foreign aid, in front of the powerful Huaxia army, even if he could insist, just fighting and consuming him would kill him.
Zhang Qiang got the news that Hong Chengchou had sent someone to Japan to sue for peace, but the Japanese didn't look down on him at all, the expelled Manchu rebel army, and he was in a predicament, what did the Ryukyu Kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands have? In a place with a large palm, in addition to being able to catch fish, it is estimated that it is a typhoon and a huge wave.
Now the Taixi people have to go to Japan to trade a long way away, or through the South China Sea of the Huaxia Army, and avoid the round-up of He Jin's Second Water Division, in order to reach the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Ryukyu Kingdom Huaxia Army Naval Division has also been stationed in the past, but Zhang Qiang thinks that after all, it is also a subsidiary kingdom of the Han Dynasty, and there is no benefit in taking it, although it can control some waterways, but it takes too much experience, and when the water division is reorganized, where the water division is withdrawn, so it was picked up by Hong Chengchou.
Otherwise, Hong Chengchou has nowhere to go now, of course, he can also go to Japan, but the dog who lost his home, the strength of the army obviously cannot compete with the Japanese army, the main thing is that the forces he does not have have no stamina, once he fails, there is no way out, that is perdition, for people like him who like to plan and then move, finding a place to settle down is the most urgent thing.
A few months have passed, he has settled down, and now that he has sent someone to find Huaxiaguo, Zhang Qiang has to admire his cheekiness.
People do everything in order to survive, if they don't agree to him, then he may harass himself endlessly, harass the sea, and become a very capable pirate, maybe he has nothing to do with Japan, that's because he is not very familiar with the Japanese, as the original official of the Ming Dynasty, he looks down on the Japanese, the Celestial Empire!
And the Qing Dynasty also looked down on the Japanese, so he must have looked down on the Japanese in his heart, but now the Japanese must surpass him in terms of population and strength, he can't gnaw at the Japanese, and there is no way for a while, looking back at himself, it seems that he is ready to cooperate with himself.
Of course, Zhang Qiang doesn't think he's kind, he just wants to continue the survival of his power, but he can use him and let him find less trouble with the Huaxia Army, otherwise tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, thousands of warships will find a place to land, and he will have a headache, so it is better to give him a little sweetness, let him go to the trouble of the Japanese, concentrate on unifying the country, eliminate the Qing Dynasty and Dajin, and clean him up when they are all unified.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang was ready to meet Hong Chengchou's envoy, he put on his coat and tidied up his coat, the coat was the military uniform of the Huaxia Army, I don't know why he liked to wear military uniforms like those military presidents of later generations, and did not like to wear ordinary casual clothes or official uniforms, he felt that people wearing military uniforms were more energetic and courageous.
Let the soldiers prepare the carriage, Zhang Qiang went from the palace to the outside of the cabinet office, the cabinet office is a pre-Ming period of the left military department of the Shangshu house, very large, the front is the office of the yamen, now is the Huaxia country's cabinet office, the back of the Shangshu himself and his family live in the house, now the cabinet office has been Zhou porridge into the pocket, deservedly become his prime minister's mansion plus cabinet office.
He opened a gate on the wall on the other side of the Shangshu Mansion, and if he wanted to go to the Cabinet Office, he would go directly through the front yard and through the back door connecting the office to enter the Cabinet Office.
Under the protection of the traveling guards, he soon came to the gate of the prime minister's mansion of Zhou Congee, which is the gate opened on the wall, the person has not yet arrived, Zhou Congee has led his family out to greet him, and the group met Zhang Qiang's car on the street corner, after a greeting, Zhou Congee's carriage led the way in front, and Zhang Qiang's personal guards escorted him directly from the main gate to a large hall in his backyard residence.
The two of them exchanged a few words of greetings on official business, and they had to be like this, after all, their identities are different now, and now Zhang Qiang lives in the palace, and he will be the official king in the future, not the former governor.
In the past, everyone fought the world together, although there were many times when everyone supported him, but many times everyone still called him a brother like when he first started, and now if this is the case, those officials in the court, especially the officials who have been transferred from the former Southern Ming Kingdom, will have to make irresponsible remarks about Zhou Congee in terms of morality.
Zhang Qiang also had to listen to the number of some officials, those Nanming officials who had been imperial history before dared to poke the sky into a basket, Zhang Qiang was not afraid, but he couldn't kill them because of this, degrading officials was the punishment they liked to receive, anyway, their official position in Huaxia was not important, and they would be happy to die if they could make a reputation.
How could Zhang Qiang let them get their wish, anyway, just pay attention to themselves, sometimes people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, and now they are shouldering the heavy responsibility of the whole country and the Han people, if this can't be endured, then don't be this king, he also thinks about unifying the throne as an emperor in the future.