On the route from Jinshan to Daishan Island, everyone was silent.

Loyalty is regarded as one of the greatest virtues, both in China and in Europe.

For thousands of years, the Tatars have been a race hated by the civilized world. Thousands of loyal soldiers were killed in the battle against the Tatars, and more than a dozen European non-commissioned officers on the Qinjiang were infected by some kind of emotion.

From Jinshanwei to Daishan Island, the straight-line distance is more than 50 nautical miles, because some slow boats are dragged down, it takes a day and a half to reach Gaoting Port.

Gaoting Port is located in the southeast corner of Daishan Island, between Daishan Island and the nearby outlying islands. The strait is more than 100 meters wide, and the two outlying islands, one east and one west, protect the entrance and exit of the strait. For sailing ships, Gaoting Port is second only to Keelung and Acapulco, which are deep-water ports that can shelter from wind and waves.

Tens of thousands of immigrants have come and gone, and Gaoting Port has formed a relatively prosperous maritime market town. The first wave of immigrants left behind a lot of wooden shacks on the island, and the second group is building more formal houses.

Presiding over the work on the island is an acquaintance, Shen Tingyang's cousin Shen Tingshu. The families of several Ming soldiers were also placed here.

"How many immigrants are there on the island now?"

Shen Tingshu said: "About 10,000 people." ”

Shou Xuan nodded, "There are also nearly 10,000 people in Daqu Mountain and Sijiao Mountain. There are still more than 10,000 new Shanghai refugees in Chongming, and your brother and I estimate that Chongming may eventually accept another 20,000.

Shen Tingshu had a bitter face, "There is not enough food, there are not enough ships, things are too difficult to do." ”

Shou Xuan said: "You can't leave everyone to Jianyu, no matter what, transport them to Zhoushan first." Your brother and I will figure out a way to get food and boats. ”

The commander of the defenders on the island is Zhang Pengfei, the second brother of Zhang Pengyi, and the Ningshui division is here, and no one dares to harass the pirates of the Zhoushan Islands.

Zhang Shijie's remnants also stayed in Daishan this time. Most of the refugees on the island are from Songjiang, and there is a team of Shanghai soldiers here, so the refugees will be much more relieved.

The fleet is left, and although it is difficult for these ships to sail against the wind, it is still possible to prepare well and sail to Taiwan with the wind.

Regarding the positioning of Daishan Island, Shen Tingyang discussed with Shou Xu several times.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the infighting was out of grabbing money and land, and everyone was resisting Jianyu and had to raise soldiers, which was also a helpless thing.

Now between Dinghai Wang Zhiren and Zhoushan Huang Binqing, there have been several frictions over Zhoushan's fishing tax.

Shen Tingyang can't solve this problem, but his economic source will be part of Taiwan's development benefits in the future, and his position is relatively neutral, since he is not capable of mediating the contradictions between the generals at sea, he can at least prepare a way back for these generals on Daishan Island, so as not to completely despair.

Keeping the order is a requirement for this, and the position must be correct. Frequent food, no one with bad deeds, Daishan can only take in the Ming army with good military discipline.

After a short rest on Daishan Island, I arrived in Zhoushan in order.

Huang Binqing has just returned from Fujing.

Emperor Longwu's court can now control the two slightly richer provinces of Fujian and Guangdong, and it is impossible to support half of China's army with the strength of these two provinces. Emperor Longwu collected taxes in Fujian for three years, which was not enough. He began to issue paper money, persuade donations and sell officials, and the wholesale distribution of official hats was sent out, and there were more than 20 scholars alone, and 8 percent of them were gentry from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Emperor Longwu was recognized by the south because of these high-ranking civil officials whose protégés were all over the world.

The official hats were wholesaled, but the salaries they received from Emperor Longwu were all Ming treasure money.

Huang Binqing spent 1,000 taels of silver in Fujian to buy the title of Zhoushan General Soldier, which had just been baked and was very fresh.

Zhoushan was originally his territory, but it was theoretically under the jurisdiction of Wang Zhiren, the chief soldier of Dinghai. Wang Zhiren was the main military pillar of the Lu Jianguo regime, and Huang Binqing bought the title of Zhoushan General Soldier from Emperor Longwu, so he could compete with Wang Zhiren in the official position.

Huang Binqing's character was a very good rank among the generals in the late Ming Dynasty, although he was a courtier of Longwu, he later provided a lot of support to Lu Jianguo within his ability. It's just that because Huang Binqing's hometown is Fujian, public opinion in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has a lot of slander against Huang Binqing, and a lot of unwarranted black pots are detained for him.

"You have done a great thing in Nanzhili, and you have a population of 100,000." This made Huang Binqing very envious.

"Alas, Brother Mingfu, it's just making things too big. I'm here again. ”

Shou Zhi came this time for the sake of silver. Fifty or sixty thousand refugees, if they have no money to buy food, they will be finished.

Huang Binqing got his wish in Fujian and has been in a good mood recently. There are still 160,000 taels of income in Nanjing, which is a reserve aside from Zhoushan's annual income and previous deposits.

After reading the bank charter brought by the order, Huang Binqing leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and thought for a while, "I can pay, but there are conditions." ”

"Brother Mingfu, please speak."

"Sell me the battleship."

The news of the total annihilation of thousands of real prisoners by the orderly warships spread throughout Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which was a record that the Ming army had never achieved. Huang Binqing also got some if he had the heart.

"The plywood battleship needs sailors who are skilled in handling soft sails and canvas reserves, which I sold to Brother Mingfu, can you use it?" Shou Xiang came back lightly, this is a problem that all the Ming army cannot solve for the time being.

"I don't, so I don't want a plywood battleship."

"What does Brother Mingfu think?"

"Sell me the centipede ship."

It turned out to be the battleship Gale, which is not impossible. The four Galie ships were not in the naval sequence, and the oarsmen were all in order to find Lin Tongwen in Houjiang to solve it by themselves.

"How much money does Brother Ming Fu plan to pay?"

"50,000 shares, 80,000 bonds. The bonds were repaid in four years, and the lord of the kingdom provided me with 10,000 stone of grain every year. ”

Two taels of silver and one stone of grain, this is the average grain price in Susong area four years after Chongzhen. The price of grain is lower than that of Ningshaotai and other places. It is acceptable that the cost of purchasing grain from Siam and shipping it to Zhoushan is mostly freight. It only took a short time to determine the order, at least not to lose. If you ship from Taiwan, you may be able to earn some money.

"What if I'm going to buy four centipede ships?"

Shou Xuan smiled, "Although the sails of the Galie ship are simpler than the Galen ship, I think that if the four ships come together, Brother Ming Fu will not be able to muster up the manpower for a while." How about the first two? Brother Ming Fu took it and used it, and it was suitable to buy it again. ”

Huang Binqing thought about it and agreed, "What's the price?" ”

"4,000 taels a ship."

"Okay, deal." Huang Binqing did not make a counteroffer.

1 pound is about 3-4 taels of silver, and 1,000 pounds for a Canadian ship, but he didn't think about making much money.

Coming out of Zhoushan, Shou Xian breathed a sigh of relief, and finally had money again. The additional immigrants obtained on Chongming Island made him throw all the money he had planned to fill in the holes for Taipei. Now I only have 50,000 taels of spare money in hand, and everything else is about to be spent.

Li Yuanyin's kid sold 5,000 women in one go, 10 taels, 20 taels, 50 taels, and 100 taels were divided into four gears, and the 100,000 taels of silver were quickly spent.

According to the news revealed by these bought women, it is not only Li Chengdong's family who is selling it now. Yang Chengzu, the chief soldier of Suzhou, Zhang Tianfu, the chief soldier of Taicang, and Zhang Tianlu, the chief soldier of Huining Chi, all participated in the surrender of the Gao Jie family.

The Eight Banners of Jiangning's garrison also made a lot of profits, and they didn't care about the human smuggling business at all.

Most of the women had been taken captive. After Hong Chengchou took office, an important measure was to restore production and order in the settled areas, for which Yang Chengzu was punished once.

Now the only ones that can still be grabbed are Li Chengdong on the Songjiang front line and Zhang Tianlu on the Huizhou front. Guessing that this business didn't last long, several green battalion commanders were hurrying to make the last order.

Shou Xuan returned to Chongming with 140,000 taels of silver, and it was the end of August.

Bad news came upstream, and Liu Kongzhao gave up the port of Fushan. Liu Kongzhao's military discipline was not good, during his control of Fushan Port, the local people who shaved their hair and tied their hair killed each other, known as "killing and shaving their heads" and "looking at their necks", and there were thousands of Changshu refugees with Liu Kongzhao. Liu Kongzhao bowed his hand to Shen Tingyang, and left these refugees who came with him on Chongming Island, and went to sea to retreat to Fujian.

Then came the worse news.

Zhang Shiyi, the chief soldier of Huaihe Town, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were wiped out in Liuhe, Taicang Prefecture.

Zhang Shiyi landed on the south bank of the Yangtze River and tried to attack Taicang Prefecture. But here he encountered Wu Shengzhao, the commander of Susong who had been prepared, and there were tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers under the command of Wu Shengzhao. Zhang Shiyi was not an opponent, so she could only board the ship and retreat, but at this time, the northeast wind was strong. Zhang Shiyi's warships were all shot dead on the riverbank. Zhang Shiyi's soldiers were chased and killed by Wu Shengzhao, and he could only lead a small number of cronies to flee into Liuhe City. Surrounded by the Jianzhou regiment, on August 25, Zhang Shiyi surrendered to Wu Shengzhao. Following the Jiangnan defensive line, the upper defensive line of Chongming Island collapsed with Zhang Shiyi's surrender.

On the same day, Li Chengdong entered and occupied Shanghai, and his soldiers were bloodless. stay

The people of Shanghai who came down came to visit him one after another, slaughtered pigs and sheep for him, Li Chengdong was very satisfied, and did not slaughter Shanghai.

Tian Yang, the governor of Jiangbei, led Li Shilian, Zhang Pengyi and Zhang Guozhu to withdraw to Chongming and bid farewell to Shen Tingyang, who also wanted to go south to Fujian.

Shen Tingyang sighed, and could only ask Zhang Pengyi to take some refugees to Daishan Island with the ship, and borrow Zhang Pengfei for a while.

Then Gu Rong, a Zhao'an pirate who withdrew from Jiangyin, left more than 3,000 Jiangyin refugees in Chongming, and went south to Zhejiang to find Zhang Mingzhen. Gu Rong had some friendship with Ruan Jin, the general of Zhang Mingzhen's subordinates, who was the only person in Chongmingming's army who defected to Lu Jianguo.

Considering that Li Chengdong was approaching the riverbank, he withdrew Mrs. Xing's troops to Sijiao Mountain in an orderly manner. Jing Benche, the Xiajiang supervisor who occupied the county seat of Chongming, allowed the soldiers to be taken captive in the county seat, and the local officer Huang Wuchang couldn't stand it, so he met him and almost killed Jing Benche. Jing Benche then also withdrew and went south to Zhoushan.

The Ming troops withdrew one after another, and the island suddenly became a lot deserted. According to the statistics of the order, there are still Huang Wuchang, Jin Shiying, Yang Tangqing, and Wang Yunlun on the island, and there are 2,500 land forces. Li Chengdong and Xia Chengde have no sailors and can't cross the Yangtze River. The orderly retracted the fleet cruising upstream and held the north-south shipping lane. Shen Tingyang gathered all the ships that could go to sea and retreated to the nearest Sijiao Mountain and Daqu Mountain.

Autumn grain on the market, the final purchase.

No matter how the front line fights, the business with Li Yuanyin will be done. Grain from the complex salt river on both sides of the river, Huining Chitai and Songjiang women. Li Chengdong had already sealed the knife in Shanghai, but in Pudong, there were people who organized a popular uprising. Cheng Dong was worried that there was no place to go under the knife, so he ordered troops to kill him, and tens of thousands of heads in Pudong fell to the ground.

Chongming was forced to take in another batch of refugees.

When Li Yuanyin said that there were more than 3,000 women to sell in Chengdong, Shen Tingyang took out the last reserve of silver.

At the end of October, a raging cold wave overturned the battleship Xin'an. The Callie ship has a shallow draft and poor wave resistance. Although the Xin'an was berthed on the shore at that time and the loss of personnel was not large, this still reminded the order that it was time to go.

Jing Benche robbed in Zhoushan, was beaten by Huang Binqing, and was thrown out, so he had to return to Chongming Island. Jing Benche's fleet has more than 50 large and small sea vessels, and the performance is very good when it can return to Chongming from Zhoushan on a north wind day. Shou Xuan was not polite this time, and picked a night, and the whole army went out, surrounded Jing Benche, controlled all his sea ships, and left him only 5. Give Chongming Island to this Ming army. All the ships were overloaded, and on a day of good weather, the whole army withdrew to Daqu Mountain and Dai Mountain.

In three months, more than 68,000 refugees were transported in Daishan and Sijiao Mountain, more than the first wave of large fleets returning to Taiwan. Supplemented by seafood, all the food is enough for the refugees to feed for two months.

Shou Xiang looked around blankly, and the only person around him who could help was Yang Wencong, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. He had to take the Qinjiang again and arrived in Wenzhou in 2 days.

The governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, looking at the official is very big. The most stingy thing about Emperor Longwu is the official hat, and Yang Wencong, the governor, is good-looking and useless. He definitely can't manage Fujian. Western Zhejiang is under the control of Jianyu, and the three prefectures of Ningshaotai in eastern Zhejiang are the territory of Lu Jianguo, and Yang Wencong can't control it at all.

Jinhua has Zhu Dadian, a scholar of Dongge University, and Huang Mingjun, a scholar of Dongge University in Quzhou, who is one level older than Yang Wencong. Wenzhou has Lu Ruoteng, the governor of eastern Zhejiang. Yang Wencong barely overpowered Lu Ruoteng with the title of governor, and took 40,000 silver grains from Wenzhou to feed the army.

Emperor Longwu wanted to conquer Quzhou in person, and Zhang Pengyi, who retreated south, was named Yongfeng Bo, stationed in Quzhou to wait for the Son of Heaven, and Wenzhou paid 50,000 yuan to Quzhou.

A county in Wenzhou is said to be rich, and the whole government can collect 150,000 silver grains by scraping the land, of which 40,000 yuan is necessary administrative expenses. In this way, theoretically, Wenzhou only has 20,000 silver grain left to supply the local troops. But this can't be done, Lu Ruoteng did not control the whole government, and there was a governor sent by Lu Jianguo in Wenzhou, who also controlled some areas, and he actually couldn't collect the money and grain from the whole government.

The local troops in Wenzhou include the new army led by He Junyao, the general soldier of Wenzhou, who commanded the Jinghai Camp Water Division, and Lu Ruoteng's younger brother Lu Ruoji. The Jinghai battalion, which originally had 8,000 troops and 150 warships, now only one-third remains, and the warships urgently need to be repaired.

Yang Wencong and Lu Ruoteng are both brave people who have the courage to do things, and they don't have any prejudices against each other. When Lu Ruoteng arrived in Wenzhou, all the magistrates fled, and four of the five county orders fled, and the prefect was closed to be captured. The people of Wenzhou are very strong, and they are constantly fighting with the army. The camp of the sailor division was served by the people, and more than 20 warships were burned, and He Junyao really wanted to cry without tears.

After Lu Ruoteng took office, he did everything possible to stabilize the place and basically completed the collection of taxes, which is a very capable official.

Lu Ruoteng needed silver to straighten out the soldiers and horses, and he calculated that the Jinghai Battalion needed 40,000 taels of silver to restore its combat capability, which was exactly the amount taken away by Yang Wencong.

Wenzhou vividly illustrates why the Nanming Society is constantly fighting. Officials have their own missions, and to accomplish their missions, they must rely on their subordinate armies, and there is no way to compete for money through infighting.

This has nothing to do with the personal character of the teacher of the same year of the party, and whoever does it is the result.