The battle of Poyang Lake is still going on, Liu Zongmin is a typical land tiger, he was drowned as a dog when he got into the water, the main force of the Shun army is northerners, and the fishermen who are coerced have good water characteristics but do not sell their lives, there is a proverb in the West now-or-never, now or never! In front of Liu Zongmin, who missed the fighter, Poyang Lake seemed to have become an insurmountable chasm for the Dashun army.

Except for jumping out and scolding his mother after getting drunk every day, Liu Zongmin never launched any decent attacks.

On the other hand, Shi Kefa naturally didn't have a hot head, and launched a large-scale attack, although he was not handsome, but Shi Kefa's head was at least not caught by the door, he knew his own strength, and he could stalemate by relying on the advantage on the water, and his 70,000 troops tied up after getting off the boat may not be able to beat the 10,000 cavalry of the Shun army.

Moreover, defeating the enemy does not necessarily require fighting to the death on the battlefield, after the big battle on June 17, Liu Zongmin has already begun to go downhill, you must know that the wandering army is swept away, there is no concept of logistics rear at all, and now the food and salary that supports Liu Zongmin's battle is almost completely Zuo Liangyu's hoarding in Wuchang, in other words, as long as Shi Kefa is very patient to consume him, attract him, and consume until he is exhausted, the battle will be won without fighting.

On the other hand, Shi Kefa inherited Zuo Liangyu's task to defend the Dashun army in the west of Huxi, but at the same time he also inherited Zuo Liangyu's "fine tradition"!

Raise your own respect!

The times create heroes, even if they are as stiff as a stone in a pit, in the past few years, the sea has been up and down, and Shi Kefa has also been rounded, he knows too well the virtues of his former comrades-in-arms, once there is no imminent threat, Jiang Yue Guang Gao Hongtu will not hesitate to abandon himself again, then he will seek the greatest interests for himself in this war.

Shi Kefa's struggle also brought great changes to the entire Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangzhou, Jiangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou Nanming.

It always takes money to change the army! If your court can't take it out, then you have to take the policy to offset it! The first to benefit was the resumption of the society that cooperated with Shi Kefa, and the leader of the restoration society, Zhang Pu, was not only sentimental when he painted a boat on the Qinhuai River, this time he was a member of the congress party, and then packed his bags and went south.

He, Zhang Pu! The frustrated literati who fell off the list several times during the Chongzhen period, after the coup d'état in Donglin, he was just an officialdom loser of the six-grade official, and now he has finally turned over, and now he is the governor of Wenzhou, overseas trade, and a member of the imperial court wearing a purple robe!

With his recovery, the industrial and commercial owner class, which had been suppressed during the Donglin Party era, finally recovered.

There is also a city that is lucky with you, Wenzhou.

More than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the sea trade is prosperous, but the most famous foreign port is Quanzhou, compared to Quanzhou, Hangzhou these metropolises, although Wenzhou is also developing well, but it is a big one in the short, general, but this time, it is simply called the nouveau riche, the narrow Wenzhou city has been stuffed into more than 100,000 people, from Changshu, Suzhou, Nanjing, Huzhou, and Huguang to flee out of the local tyrants for the first time with their family assets poured into this newly opened port, everyone has been poor for the past two years, I can't wait to go south to Southeast Asia to make money, with the support of funds, ports and warehouses are also densely built in half a month, and the shipbuilding industry here is thriving together.

Wenzhou is not far from Fuzhou, since ancient times the vast majority of Jiangnan timber comes from Huangshan, Huizhou, after the supply of Huizhou merchants is broken, the main production of large wood by Borneo has become the mainstream of the market, the first two years of burning, these two years have to be re-built, the expensive big wood in the hands of the shipwright who re-copied the employment, was sawn into a sophisticated mortise and tenon structure, with a self-locking function of a piece of wood was knocked on the ship, in the eyes of these "hungry" panicked Jiangnan capitalists, the loose wood began to slowly pile up into a boat, that feeling, as if watching their son grow up from a young age.

However, there are privileged classes at all times, Gao Hongtu Qian Qianyi they ordered to burn, are not too high status, the DPRK has no backing of the small and medium-sized maritime merchant ships, the real big landlord sea merchant ships are still in the port, although it is a mockery of the Donglin Party's governance, but now it is indeed to seize an opportunity, early in the morning of the first day of July, since the imperial court opened the sea order, the first Nanming sea ship to go to sea, in Mao Jue's old acquaintance, and now the Qian family's head of several rooms Qian Zeng led, sailed out to sea.

These three Dafu boats, the highlight is Qian Qianyi through the relationship to get the Jingdezhen official kiln porcelain, the other two ships are Jiangnan handicraft industry to create metal utensils, tools or something, compared to Jiangnan, the productivity of several countries in Central Asia is still quite low, these were a few years ago were sought-after goods.

Standing proudly in the unique Fu boat, the cocked bow looked at the sea, in the boundless sea, Qian Zeng seemed to have seen a few years ago as soon as he made a move, those Southeast Asian local merchants rushed to buy into the clouds, and forced the silver of the white flowers into his arms, and couldn't help but laugh out loud, almost without a mouthful of saliva.

But just when he was happy, in the sea where he had not seen anyone for ten days and half a month, suddenly another sail shadow suddenly appeared.

This is much more magnificent than his three lucky ships, a full eleven merchant ships, you can see by looking at the style, all of them are sharp in the front, and the tail building is thick in the style of the northern sea ship, and it is also hung with a soft sail of canvas that is closer to the west, and the spinnaker at the front is blown by the sea breeze like a toad's belly.

Now he is in a good mood, even if his peers are enemies, Qian Zeng still can't help but wave his slap high in joy.

"Hey, brother over there, how are you?"

He was full of enthusiasm, but he shouted a few times, but no one birded him, but the monkeys at the leader of the other boat pointed at him a few times, and then the sails that were already very bulging were pulled a little more.

So, in Qian Zeng's eyes, the Hangzhou merchant fleet, which was originally behind his fleet, accelerated a few times to keep pace with him, and a few more accelerated to run in front of him.

Just like Baojun and BMW drag racing, after a while, Qian Zeng really couldn't even see the other party's taillights, and he snorted with enthusiasm, and hummed a common adjective of north-south discrimination with disdain.

"Barbaric and unreasonable Northern Nephew!"

Flicking his sleeves, with the unique elegance of the Southern Doctor, he got off the boat again and drank a little wine.

However, it didn't take long for Qian Zeng's mood to drink suddenly become gone.

Suddenly there is an archipelago in the vast sea, in history, I would rather have such a large island as Taiwan, the Ming Dynasty also had to be here, and the Dutch had several bloody naval battles, because the Penghu Islands in front of me, the role of the Ming sea trade is too great!

The merchant ships from Jiangnan sailed for three or four days, and just as the first batch of fresh water supplies was running out, the merchants from Jiangnan would anchor here to replenish supplies.

But here, Qian Zeng was dumbfounded.

"What, three percent of the tax !!"

Compared with a few years ago, Penghu has changed quite a lot, the original stranded tidal flats were piled up in the sea with concrete to be two miles wide and ten miles long, so that the ships shuttling back and forth do not have to send small boats to shuttle, they can directly stop in the port, which is a lot more convenient, but Qian Zeng would rather be here or a small broken island a few years ago! To the captain of the East India Company, who had boarded the ship to inspect it, he jumped up and down in a rage like a cannon with a butt on his ass.

"It's a robbery! Do you know who this son is? The second room of the Qian family in Changshu, Qian Qianyi, a dignified university scholar, is the uncle of this son, and you are a little boy army leader who deserves to blackmail this son here? Get out of the way quickly, or this boy will let you go around without food!"

It is estimated that he was born as a sailor in Liaodong, and he has a good taste of Liao's official words. Listening to Qian once pretending to be there, the boatswain who went on board to inspect was sneering and patting his chest with a big grin.

"Dear mother! The money scholar who kowtowed to our owner to send a woman is such a big deal! I'm scared to death!"

With his thumb back, he snorted proudly at the Beiming Royal Navy first-class battleship Lushun stationed in Penghu: "I can let it go!" Our baby can't let it go! Either you continue to wander in the sea, or you will have a tariff of 30%, dare to blow up the thorns, and take care of your grandmother's Qian Dashi Qian's eldest grandson, and bombard you into honeycomb coal!"

"Brethren! Shoot at me!"

The entire South China Sea frontier has reached the coast of Indonesia in the future, and it has become a big rear! If it weren't for the suppression of the Daming pirates, the coastal defense department almost didn't withdraw, and it was really boring to be stationed here, the sailors who had already been idle were really afraid that the world would not be chaotic, listening to their own team is shouting, the head was uproaring and directly rolled up the sleeves, the cannon windows opened one after another, and the one or two ton Hongyi cannon showed its head in turn, the muzzle of the cannon was not finished, and the money was immediately coaxed, and he showed an ugly smile sadly.

"Oh, sir, this is a joke with you! Why are you so angry? Who is that, why don't you hurry up and bring the best Biluochun to extinguish the fire for the official!"

"It's not easy for us to take a trip to the goods, and it's too much, you see, can you be accommodating?"

Hard no, soft again, this is a typical method of co-optation and corrosion of the Jiangnan clan, full of smiles, must have been stuffed with money into the hands of this boatswain, who knows that this time, the boatswain is like a hot hand, he threw the silver to the ground, and roared angrily than just now.

"Niangli, you dare to bribe an imperial officer?"

"Someone!"

"Oops!"

Qian Zeng almost cried in fright, kicked the silver aside in complete sorrow, hugged the boatswain's thick and smelly thighs, and howled in mourning.

"Master Jun! The small one is also a small business! Let you smoke three percent of the skin, but you will lose! When the time comes, people will take the wives and children of the small family to offset the account! Be merciful, please! ”

Not to mention, this product has been in business all year round, and this pretending to cry and sell miserably is really a must, even the boatswain with a belly of fire has been fooled, but unfortunately, even this Oscar-level performance is useless here, full of pity, and the boatswain's father stroked Qian Zeng's head like that.

"A poor baby, too! But you tell me about this wood! Originally, the treaty was signed by you Qian University scholars and a group of other mixed officials and our majesty, and the tax revenue of the southern merchants to the territory of our Northern Ming Dynasty must be thirty percent!"

"You really can't get along! Just flee south! For an old guy like you, who can pretend to be forced and bring goods, it's no problem to pay tens or hundreds of taels of silver a year!"

The soft ones don't work, the hard ones don't work, and the money is really out of luck.

Approached the shore, fell to the ground and let people unload thirty percent of the goods, watching the Southeast Asian dwarf coolies hired on the dock carrying boxes and boxes, Qian Zeng's heart was like dripping blood, for the first time, he had the urge to give his powerful uncle Qian Qianyi a big slap.

"What a bird treaty you signed!"

The grief and indignation of Qian had no idea that his unlucky journey had just begun!

(End of chapter)