Shou Xiang came up with a cooperation package, and the bank was the core content of it.

Shen Tingyang is very rich. After the fall of Beijing, he invested heavily in tripling the fleet, and now there are more than 100 Dasha ships in Chongming, and nearly 100 more docked in Taipei.

It's just that no matter how much money the Shen family has, if there is no new source of income, it will be empty and will not last long. According to the original history, Shen Tingyang would exhaust his strength in the war with Jianzhou, constantly attack the mainland in despair, and finally die at the hands of the enemy.

The order should leave him with the seeds of hope.

"Mr. Ji Ming, this will be a long-term war. You may face a very difficult situation in the future, the ships need to be repaired, the sailors need food, and the small island of Chongming will not meet your needs. ”

Shen Tingyang sighed and looked around, "I don't know that the land of Chongming projectiles is short of food, but where can I go now?" ”

"It is not advisable to have inland states and counties, and Zhejiang will soon become the front line, and it is not safe." Shou Xiang did not mention Guangdong and Fujian, Shen Tingyang's basic plate is in Nanzhili, Zhejiang has a little influence, and it is useless for him to go elsewhere.

Shen Tingyang's face was lonely, "The world is big, but there is no place for me." ”

Shou Xuan smiled, "Mr. Ji Ming doesn't need to be pessimistic, if you want, you can go to Taiwan to farm, as long as you pay grain tax to Taipei Prefecture, you can use the rest." ”

Shen Tingyang was a little moved, he was not a traditional Ming Dynasty civil and military general, he was first and foremost a maritime businessman, and his thinking was more open than most Ming Dynasty bureaucrats.

"Where else is there a place in Taiwan?" Shen Tingyang knows that Taipei is the core area of order, and it is unlikely to open up.

Shou orderly spread out the map and pointed to the Pacific coast of Taiwan, "Taitung Rift Valley Plain." ”

The Taitung Rift Valley Plain is the two places of Taitung and Hualien in later generations, between the Central Mountains and the Coastal Mountains of Taiwan. It is 180 kilometers long from north to south, 2-7 kilometers wide from east to west, with an area of about 1,000 square kilometers.

The Taitung Delta Plain in the southern part of the plain belonged to the Beinan Domain, which was subject to the Dutch, and was left unattended here. In the northeast of Hualien Jiatai, there can also be a state of land, there are two rivers in the valley between the Central Mountain Range and the Coast Mountain Range, Beinan Creek to the south, Hualien Creek to the north, the plain land is fertile, and later it was an important grain producing area in Taiwan. Beishan is close to the sea, there are seafood and mountain products, and there are fertile land plains, as long as it is easy to conquer the local fan community, Shen Tingyang can have a stable rear.

The temperature in the Taitung Rift Valley Plain is a few degrees higher than that of Taipei, which makes the local malaria incidence rate higher, and the distance is long, and there are towering mountains blocking it, making it difficult to build a stable road passage for the time being, and Taitung is ranked last in Taiwan's development plan.

The first outside shareholder of the Taiwan Development Bank is the most difficult to recruit, and Shen Ting-yang is an excellent target. He has been working with Shou Xiang for 3 years and knows each other well. Shen Tingyang represents not only the Chongming Shen family, behind him, there are more Nanzhili businessmen, this is a channel network, and Shen Tingyang is the source of the network. Although they now belong to Nanming and Jianlu, the war can never stop the merchants who make money, and the order must be established through Shen Tingyang and the merchant families of Nanzhili.

Shou Zhi pushed Hualien Prefecture out this time, along the Central Valley, the territory of one state and two counties. The Taipei government will send only bank, national tax and postal personnel to enter, and the state and county bureaucrats will be arranged by Shen Tingyang and the immigrants.

Shen Tingyang was completely moved, and his tone was very hurried, "How much does the lord think it is appropriate to immigrate?" ”

"30,000 people, 50,000 people, it depends on how many ships Mr. Ji Ming has."

The entire Taitung Rift Valley Plain has been developed, with mountain and sea products, and if it is well distributed, the upper limit can feed more than 100,000 people. But not now, it will take time to develop arable land.

"I still have some appeal in Chongming County and Jiangnan," Shen Tingyang paced back and forth, "but this is not enough, if you want to quickly gain population, you must rely on the army." ”

Shou Xuan took a sip of the teacup, Shen Tingyang had money and sea ships, but he had no army and no sailors. This is one of the reasons why Orderly chose to work with him deeply. Neither Hualien nor Taitung have safe havens, and if the fleet is to berth for a long time, the nearest port is in Yilan, and Taipei has built a fort in Suao Port.

Shen Tingyang frowned and said, "I can't trust the military discipline of other generals. Although Zhang Pengyi, who has the best military discipline, has a good relationship with me, he is a very loyal military general and will not go to Taiwan with me. ”

"Mr. Ji Ming, there are only some clubs in Hualien, you don't need too strong generals. There are so many stragglers on Chongming Island, Mr. Ji Ming might as well recruit some people on his own. In a few years, when the Hualien region stabilizes, you can train a new army. ”

Shen Tingyang thought for a while, and seemed to have a decision, "I will solve it, but if you want to emigrate tens of thousands, you must have enough food, now that Nanzhi has fallen into the hands of the enemy, there are local officers and soldiers in Zhejiang, where can we go to collect food?" Shen was reluctant to go ashore to collect food like everyone else. ”

After the fall of Nanjing, because of the financial collapse, it was difficult for the Southern Ming army to get sufficient food replenishment. Except for the Ming army, which had actual territory to collect taxes, the other troops survived by collecting food. The so-called food is robbery. Plundering the gentry and people everywhere and humiliating the people's daughters is what the Nanming army did.

"As long as you have money and a ship, I will buy grain for you in the South Seas, and two or three hundred thousand stones is not a big problem."

Both Siam and Chenla are grain exporters, and the price of grain is very cheap, and later after Jianyu conquered Guangdong, he imported grain from Siam many times, each time it was hundreds of thousands of stones.

Shen Tingyang made up his mind, "I'll pay 200,000 taels!" ”

"Poof", Shou ordered a sip of tea squirted out, Shen Tingyang has so much money?

Seeing that Shou Ling was very surprised, Shen Ting said, "I definitely don't have 200,000 taels myself." Scrape together in Chongming, it would be good to be able to pay 100,000 taels, and I will go to Jiangnan to raise the rest. Songjiang Shen Yulong and others, the family is rich. ”

Shou ordered to put down the teacup, "The share capital only needs to be 100,000 taels from Mr. Ji Ming, and the rest of the money can be deposited in the bank in the form of bonds." ”

Regarding the shareholding structure of the Taiwan Development Bank, the original meaning of the order was that the Taipei government would contribute 100,000 taels of the spoils of war this time, and another 100,000 taels would be raised among the immigrants and troops in Taipei, and the latter 100,000 taels could be slowly put in place. The 200,000 taels must account for more than one-third of the bank's equity to ensure veto power over the bank's decision-making. If Shen Tingyang pays 200,000 taels, it is already consistent with the equity ratio of Jincheng, which is not good.

Shen Tingyang: "No problem, half of the shares and half of the debt, in the future, I will return it with Taiwan's production, and I will go to Jiangnan to borrow money." ”

In this way, there is no problem, Shouxu said: "I will live in Chongming for a while, and the funds raised by Mr. Ji Ming will be signed by you and me in person."

Although the two countries were at war, Jianyu could not prohibit private economic exchanges for the time being. Whether smuggling or any other means, trade cannot be stopped. It was not until later that Jianyu resolutely implemented the relocation of the border and the prohibition of the sea. It's useless to ban the sea alone, and tens of thousands of miles of coastline can't help it at all. In 1645, no one could have imagined that Jianyu and the relocation of the border would have such a fierce skill.

Shen Tingyang has no opinion, what he cares about next is the voyage plan of the immigrants. Chongming Island is a small place, there are many troops, and Shen Tingyang's transportation capacity is not enough to transport tens of thousands of immigrants to Taipei at one time.

"What is the relationship between Brother Ji Ming and Zhoushan Huang Binqing?"

Shen Tingyang twisted his beard and smiled, "I have been friends with Huang Mingfu for ten years. ”

That is, the relationship is very good, and Shou Xuan said: "Then it's no problem, Brother Ji Ming might as well occupy Daishan, and several big islands can accommodate tens of thousands of refugees." ”

"Daishan?" Shen Tingyang thought about it, as long as there is grain to survive the initial development, it is indeed a suitable territory.

Unlike Sijiao Mountain, Daishan is big enough that even a long-term base can be built here. In the Ming Dynasty, Daishan was still a desert island. Some time ago, there were more than 100 people from Songjiang who tried to go to Daishan Tuntian, but there were too few people to have no conditions, and finally returned to Shanghai in embarrassment.

Unlike Shou Order, Shen Tingyang was an official of the Ming Dynasty after all, and he could not and would not go to Hualien as a deserter at this moment. It is inevitable to stay in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, Shen Tingyang has already thought that if Chongming can't hold on, he will go to Zhoushan to attach himself to Huang Binqing. Now that he has the conditions to immigrate to Chongming Island, Shen Tingyang has his own plan.

Shen Tingyang's interest became higher and higher, "Daishan is a good place, I will ask Zhang Pengyi to borrow some soldiers and build Daishan well." ”

Daishan is the land of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Pengyi should not refuse to have many pieces of his territory.

After the agreement, Shou Xu and Shen Tingyang acted separately.

Zhang Pengyi agreed to Shen Tingyang and sent his younger brother Zhang Pengfei with 300 soldiers to help. But Shen Tingyang himself was in trouble.

Compared with Chongming and Jiangnan, Hualien and Daishan must have been very difficult at the beginning, and the common people will not give up their family business until the knife is held to their necks.

Shen Tingyang's fundraising and immigration work did not go smoothly, and he overestimated the appeal of his status as a high-ranking civil official in the Ming Dynasty.

In the current situation in the south of the Yangtze River, most of the main forces of Jianyu are advancing along the canal to Hangzhou. In the Southern Ming army, Tian Xiong and Yang Chengzu followed Boluo's army to the south, Li Benshen, Gao Jinku, and Ma Degong guarded the line from Nanjing to Zhenjiang, Hu Guozhen transferred Jiangbei, Zhang Tianfu was stationed in Taicang, and Li Chengdong approached Songjiang Mansion.

In general, the main forces of Jianzhou were deployed one after the other, with Bolo on the front line, Duoduo in Nanjing, and Nikan in the upper reaches.

Li Shutai led several hundred armored soldiers to Suzhou to connect the north and south. The canal military station between the front line and the important towns in the rear was controlled by the troops of the four towns.

The state capitals outside the canal were basically determined by transmission, and Kunshan, Jiading, Taicang, Songjiang and other places all had pro-people officials who were built to take office, which quickly stabilized the local situation.

For hundreds of years, the two provinces of Susong had been subjected to heavy economic oppression by the Ming Dynasty, and Su Song owed a lot of taxes because the taxes allocated to Su Song by the Ming Dynasty were not reasonable, and they bore an unreasonable tax burden that far exceeded that of other states and counties in China. Therefore, the Jiangnan gentry did not have a strong impression of the Ming Dynasty, and they even missed Zhang Shicheng more in the early Ming Dynasty.

On the Nanming side, a rout like Fang Guoan killed the rich families in the south of the Yangtze River, and entered the richest gentry's house every time he went, tying up his husband. Civilian officials are powerless to oppose this, and even now civilian officials have a tendency to become warlords, such as Chongming's Xiajiang Supervisor and Military Dao Jing Benche, military discipline is corrupt, direct control of troops, and organization of grain fighting.

Because Jianzhou went south to eliminate the rebels, at first, the gentry actually welcomed Jianzhou.

Compared with the chaotic and robbing of the Southern Ming army, Jianzhou still has a certain order, as long as the state and county do not resist, there will generally be no large-scale robbery and rape incidents.

The gentry and the common people did not support the Ming army, including Fushan, and the few areas along the river of the Chongming army were gradually discarded. Even Wu Zhikui, the chief soldier of Wusong, had no choice but to give up the city of Wusong, and almost no one in Wusong's military households was willing to fight for the Ming Dynasty. They were all villagers, and Wu Zhikui had to hand over the city to Hong Enbing, the general of Jinshan Wei, and led some of his cronies to evacuate to Chongming Island. After Hong Enbing surrendered to Li Chengdong, the Ming Dynasty had no more land in the southern Zhili mainland.

This made it very difficult for Shen Tingyang and Shou Order's follow-up immigration plan to be implemented, and at the moment when Shen Tingyang was worried, the enemy came to a super assist.

It was easy for Jianyu to conquer Nanjing and Hangzhou one after another, and the Ming army, which did not have the support of the people, had almost no ability to resist. Compared to the Ming army, the weather was more troublesome. Jiangnan was too hot and humid, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners could not adapt to the southern climate, and more people died of disease than in battle. Dolgon began to wave, and he ordered Dordor to withdraw his troops back to Beijing in June, and then issued an order to shave his hair.

All men shave their hair in full clothes, keep their hair without their head, and keep their head without hair.

Not many people care about the Ming Dynasty, but the hair shaving order is different.

The etiquette is so great that it is called summer; There is the beauty of uniforms, which is called Hua.

This is not the death of the country, it is the death of the world.

The shaving order turned the rise and fall of two equally decaying feudal dynasties into a war of nations.

The ruling order that had been established in Jianzhou collapsed in an instant, and the south of the Yangtze River was in flames. Like the Japanese army in later generations, Jianju can now only control the canal as the lifeline of transportation, and the main state capital, and the countryside is all in the hands of the rebels.

The Chongming army responded quickly, and Zhang Shiyi, the chief soldier of Huaihe Town, traced along the river. Wu Zhikui reoccupied Songjiang, and Jinshan Wei Hou Chengzu killed the officials appointed by Jianyu, re-erected the banner of the Ming army, and joined Wu Zhikui.

Huang Fei's ambition is even greater, and Huang Fei is both civil and military, so that he can make friends with scribes. The anti-Qing rebels came to contact Huang Fei one after another, and jointly promoted Huang Fei as the leader of the Southeast Anti-Qing Alliance. At this time, Zheng Zhilong also sent a letter, asking Huang Fei to return to Jiangnan with him. Huang Fei's blood is surging, and he plans to drive from the Huangpu River to the hinterland of Taihu Lake.

As a northern sailor, Huang Fei has no foundation in Jiangnan at all, and now that he has lost the support of the imperial court, Huang Fei urgently needs a piece of territory. He took a fancy to Taihu Lake, which was surrounded by the richest prefectures and counties in China, and relying on powerful warships, Huang Fei felt that sweeping back and forth on Taihu Lake could not only replenish military supplies, but also break Jianzhou's rule in the south of the Yangtze River.

Wu Zhikui strongly supported Huang Fei, and he promised Huang Fei to hold the line of the Huangpu River. was originally in a desperate situation, but now a glimmer of light suddenly flashed, and the Ming army in Chongming began to push back on the whole front.

As an outsider, Shou Zhi has no ability to influence anything.

Although there are not many boats in the sea now, compared to the small river of the Huangpu River and the big bath of Taihu Lake, the boat of Huang Fei is still too big.

Shou Xuan found Huang Fei: "Huang Shuai, I need to transport some immigrants, can you give me your big boat?" I pay. ”

Huang Fei was in desperate need of silver to raise his soldiers, and he readily agreed to keep the order. In order to get his own hands on the money, he sent his nephew to control 30 seagoing ships and accepted the employment of the orderly.

On the day of the army, Wu Zhikui and Huang Fei acted together, and Wu Zhikui set up a large camp in Liuhu, Shanghai County, to defend Huang Fei's back road.

Juehua Island Sailor Xiang Mingshi and several Ming troops did not go with Huang Fei this time.

Shou Xu stood side by side with several Ming generals on the side of the Huangpu River in Wusong. Huang and Wu, 20,000 sailors and their families, and 1,000 warships.

Shou Xuan said softly, "Xiang Zongzhen, you are not optimistic about Huang Shuai this time?" ”

"I can't persuade you." There was some vicissitudes in Xiang Mingshi's tone.

With a loud brain, Shou Xiang walked across the gangplank in three or two steps and rushed onto Huang Fei's boat.

Xiang Huang Fei took a deep look and said in order: "Please Huang Shuai entrust your children to me." ”

Very reckless, very rude. After the surprise, some of the Ming soldiers had angry expressions on their faces.

Huang Fei's face was uncertain, "What does the lord of the country mean by this?" ”

The order is very insistent, "Taihu Lake is narrow, and there are frequent battles, so it is inconvenient for your troops to bring their families. Huang Shuai, we have fought thousands of miles side by side, please believe me. Not only Huang Shuai, but if the soldiers of your ministry are willing, their children can also be entrusted to me. ”

Huang Fei was silent for a moment and laughed. I agreed.

At Huang Fei's suggestion, the general soldiers Hu Xuehai and Huang Guangzhi, the staff generals Tu Xuchu, Tang Shirong, Xue Quji, and other officers and soldiers left more than 400 young sons and daughters.

As the sun set, the fleet of the Ming army marching into Taihu Lake was more than ten miles long, and it was mighty.

Shou Xuan picked up a boy, "What's your name and who is your father?" ”

The child's voice was crying, "My name is Xue Cheng, and my father is Xue Quji." ”r