Mao Wenlong knew that a large artillery was being cast in western Liaoxi, but he didn't expect that this kind of artillery did not hit Dongyu first, but fell on his own and Dongjiang Town's heads. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Fortunately, he Yusheng left a little affection, and there was no real killing, except for a very small number of unlucky ghosts, there were almost no dead people on the side of Dongjiang Town, but in the roar of artillery, a large area of the mansion area was shattered, a large number of houses were smashed, and the movement was too big, and everyone on the island knew about it, and for Dongjiang Town, this was also a shameful thing to sweep face.

In fact, there are more than 20,000 real soldiers, distributed on dozens of islands and ports such as Lushun to Yizhou and then to Phi Dao, Guanglu Island, as well as deep mountains and old forests such as Kuandian, which is time-consuming and laborious.

On the other hand, the merchant army, whether it is the station of the 12th regiment or the station on Phi Island, or the giant ship on the sea, which is not a bone to gnaw, especially the giant ship on the sea, at this time it gives people a great sense of threat, the land station, regardless of the casualties can always be beaten down, this giant ship on the sea makes everyone feel powerless, even if it is a general soldier like Mao Wenlong, how does it feel...... Gathering the ships of the Dongjiang Navy Division together is not enough for this one warship to sweep away? Moreover, He Yusheng is far more than this warship.

At this point, Mao Wenlong has realized that he has always been an ordinary businessman with Yusheng, even if it has been rumored in recent years how Zhang Han is good, how his subordinates dare to fight, and there is no way to fight the northern captives, Mao Wenlong is only an exaggeration...... He had seen Zhang Han with his own eyes, but he was just an aspiring young proprietor, and his subordinates were only mainly Lahu, even if some silver taels could prepare armor and weapons and train a large number of recruits, after all, it was just a business pattern, how could Mao Wenlong take it to heart?

At this time, Mao Wenlong had not yet comprehended the power and terrifyingness of He Yusheng, and he was not Dongjiang Mao Shuai who single-handedly founded Dongjiang Town.

This commercial house, to have people, to have money, not only on the land strong, many places into the cloth, in Liaodong there are thirteen mountains and Phi Island, Kuandian and other land foundations, in the sea strength is even stronger than Mao Wenlong can imagine...... At this time, Mao Wenlong had already remembered that Heyusheng not only had the big ship in front of him, it seemed that every merchant ship was much larger than ordinary northern merchant ships, and there were many large artillery guns on board, Mao Wenlong had been vigilant before, but after all, he didn't take it seriously, as an old-school Ming soldier, how could Mao Wenlong easily believe that a large warship could put himself in a dilemma?

"Trouble, big trouble."

Mao Youjun muttered: "This ship can beat us, but we can't beat it, if there are a few more ships with Yusheng, let's not say that the contact with Denglai Lushun and other places is broken, even if the dispatch between the islands has to be stopped, and the imperial court can't be contacted." With this ship, one of our ships went out and was sunk, how could this be? ”

Mao Wenlong's face was pale, and Mao Chenglu and the others looked ugly.

Mao Youjun said what they were most worried about in their hearts, at first glance it seemed a little unbelievable, a few big ships can force Dongjiang Town, which has hundreds of thousands of people, into a desperate situation, but after thinking about it, it seems to be the case, although Phi Island is very close to the coast, but how many dead soldiers are willing to brave the artillery fire, every day between Phi Island and the land of Jiangkou, transmit news, dispatch soldiers and horses?

They did not know that more than 200 years later, a small European fleet could come and go freely along the coast of China, capture coastal port cities, threaten important cities such as Tianjin, Beijing, and Nanjing, and finally force the huge empire of 450 million people to bow down and sue for peace with an army and fleet of several thousand people.

Later generations always feel that it is caused by the corruption of the Eight Banners, but in fact, there is also a generation difference in the way of fighting, even if the Eight Banners can still fight, how can they solve the blockade of Jiangkou and Haikou, and constantly transfer and harass the British fleet of major coastal cities? It can be said that no matter how the battle is fought, China will lose, and this is the importance of the so-called sea power.

Unfortunately, there are not many people in the Ming Dynasty who understand sea power, and the imperial court set up Fujian sailors just to build solid coastal defense and prevent sea pirates from harassing coastal areas, but there is no important understanding of sea power.

"Youjun, go and meet with Han Tong." Mao Wenlong waved his hand, and the surrounding attachés stood far away, and he instructed Mao Youjun: "Test it and see what price they want." ”

"Yes, Marshal." Mao Youjun has a lot of dealings with Yusheng's people because of logging, and he has some friendship with each other, so of course he won't shirk this errand. At the moment, he just asked: "I want to ask the marshal to show me, where is our bottom line?" ”

"Chen, good strategy!" Mao Wenlong said lightly: "This person must not stay, and other matters can be discussed." ”

Mao Wenlong said again: "Tell them not to have useless thoughts, if the asking price is too high, Ben Shuai will accompany them even if he fights them to the end!" ”

At this moment, Mao Wenlong still showed the demeanor of the Dongjiang Festival Marshal, how dare Mao Youjun refuse, and at that moment Nuo Nuo agreed again and again, and went to the storage area to find Hantong to negotiate.

Mao Wenlong didn't rush to leave, his eyes were still staring at the big ship at sea.

He doesn't know how much silver this ship costs, or what kind of technology can be built, so many huge guns, I don't know what the price is to have, at this moment, the Dongjiang commander has only one thought, that is, he also wants to have such a warship, the more the merrier!

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Three days later, Wen Zhongfa and his subordinates rushed to Phi Island to meet with Zhang Xuwen, Li Pingzhi, Han Tong and others.

Everyone held a brief meeting, Wen Zhongfa did not ask too much, only emphasized: "Two requirements are what our 12th regiment must mention, before the Dongjiang River has a lot of restrictions on us, the periphery is the Dongjiang demarcation range, in fact, it isolates us, only to fight a big battle to ask us to participate, what is this, we want to go from Liangma Tenant to Kuandian, Changdian, Gushan, and even to the Niumaozhai area of the right to move freely, the headquarters wants to train troops, we have to keep fighting with Dongyu, we can demarcate the activity area with Dongjiang Town separately. The second point is that the lives of Chen and Liangce must be saved, which is not negotiable. Apart from these two points, the 12th Regiment had no other requirements. ”

Wen Zhongfa nodded after speaking, his attitude was a little stiff.

On the way here, he had heard the results of the meeting on Phi Island, Mao Wenlong made considerable concessions to the types and prices of the big wood purchased by He Yusheng, at least 40,000 taels of silver a year and Yusheng could be saved, and the best mahogany could be purchased, although it was not as good as teak or oak, but as far as shipbuilding was concerned, a large number of large wood hugged by several people was still very useful, there were a large number of drying rooms in Taiwan, which cost a lot of money, and the wood here was shipped over, cut into suitable wood blocks and then began to bake, which was much faster than natural air drying. It takes at least two years, preferably three or four years, and it only takes three months for the wood to dry thoroughly in the drying room, which can be used for shipbuilding.

There is no shortage of wood in Fujian, Fujian iron is more woodless than charcoal for ironmaking in the north, but the big wood that can be built in coastal places is sure to be cut down, and the coastal places, almost every year, overseas trade and immigration are prevalent since the Southern Song Dynasty, and there are many fishing boats along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the big wood is indeed cut almost.

Wood in Liaodong is not a scarce resource in a few hundred years, and now it is even more so and how many there are, and the number is sufficient, for Zhang Xuwen and Li Pingzhi, as the high-level of Taiwan's marching division, the most concerned must be wood.

Not only has the price come down, but Mao Wenlong promised to use more manual logging to ensure the amount of wood used by Heyusheng.

In addition, the purchase price of leather goods and ginseng, Dongjiang Town has also reduced a lot, and no longer requires full payment from Yusheng, which can be appropriately delayed.

At this point in the negotiation, Zhang Xuwen and Li Pingzhi feel about the same, in addition, the port and storage area on Phi Island can also be expanded, and it is not under the jurisdiction of Dongjiang Town, which is equivalent to cutting a piece of land in the hands of He Yusheng himself, not to mention safety, it is also a lot more convenient.

In addition, Dongjiang Town promised to allow He Yusheng to increase the scope and progress of recruiting Liao people to move to Taiwan in the areas under its control, Taiwan has now become an important foundation for He Yusheng, and the most important thing now is the lack of population to open up the wasteland and reclaim the land, and the immigration from Fujian and Liaodong can greatly increase the number of Han people in Taiwan in a short period of time.

Due to the many benefits, the two did not have too many psychological obstacles to hand over Chen and Liangce, after all, it was their Liaodong people and the Ming officialdom's own business, who expected to encounter strong opposition from their own military.

There was an arrogant shout from the bald head outside, and it seemed that the bald man slapped the short gun on the table, and then everyone heard the bald man shouting at Mao Youjun and the others: "If you want to take away Chen and Liangce, beat Lao Tzu to death with a fire gun now." ”

Li Pingzhi took a deep breath and said to Wen Zhong: "I don't know why Commander Wen has to protect this Chen and good strategy? ”

"Two reasons." Wen Zhongfa said: "One, our face, and second, he is a hero, so we must protect it." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and the style of the soldier was really like this, short and powerful, and very clear.

Zhang Xuwen sighed and said, "Since this is the case, I can only bother Han Tong to negotiate with them again." ”

Han Tong walked out with a bitter face.

Two hours later, Han Tong turned back and said: "Originally, Mao Chenglu did not agree, but later Mao Shuai personally met him, and proposed that Chen and Liangce could not die, but to announce that he was killed in the battle in Kuandian, we and Yusheng are responsible for taking him and his family away, and we can take it to Taiwan. ”

"One more." Han Tong said with some embarrassment: "Mao Shuai personally proposed to send craftsmen to our Zhenyuwei to learn about shipbuilding, if you don't agree, then all the previous conditions will be overturned, and everyone will break up." ”

Han Tong thinks that this one is the most harsh and excessive, Mao Wenlong and Dongjiang Town behind him obviously see how much a big ship like the Zhenyuwei has a big role, this time Dongjiang can pinch his nose to negotiate, and make so many concessions, it turns out that the final drama is here.