Sijiao Mountain, Majishan Port.

Under the Confederate Star Bird, a fleet of ships from Nan Naoli is happily doing business with the Federation troops stationed here.

200 quintals of high-quality raw silk and 400 quintals of medium-sized raw silk. 140 taels of fine silk and 110 taels of medium silk.

Leng Yinghan responded with 30,000 quintals of sucrose.

"Please go back and tell Boss Liang, my family congratulates you on the high school entrance examination in another country."

"I'll be sure to bring the words."

"Please keep this letter, sir."

Someone cherished it and hid a piece of paper with the 01 combination written on it in his arms. These Arabic numerals were a ghost to the businessman who handled it, and in fact, except for Shou Xuan and Liang Xiaobai, no one could decipher the coded letter at this time.

The merchant didn't say much, said goodbye to Leng Yinghan, and returned to the Yangtze River with more than 10 of his big sand boats.

Leng Yinghan and the maritime merchants of Jiangnan Province have been crazy lately.

Li Chengdong, the chief soldier stationed in Wusong Haikou, was transferred to the front line, and there were more than 800 green battalion soldiers left in the huge Songjiang Prefecture. This is not a human egg, and you can't see such a long coastline at all. The volume of smuggling trade in Sijiao Mountain skyrocketed in an instant.

Sijiao Mountain became a den of smuggling, and merchants from all walks of life came here to trade, including a mysterious figure from Beizhili. Leng Yinghan no matter who these people are or what their background is, as long as they are in Sijiao Mountain, he ensures that business is carried out fairly, and also ensures the safety of the people and property of all parties. Taipei Prefecture may not participate in every trade, and for other people's business, it will charge a corresponding measurement tax according to the scale of incoming vessels.

For this reason, after the withdrawal of the Dengzhou soldiers, the Taipei Prefecture retook over the defense of Sijiao Mountain, and a total of 300 troops were stationed on the island, including a company of field infantry, and the rest was the Taipei garrison.

Provisioning is closely related to revenue. Seeing that the profits of Sijiao Mountain were not small, he transferred two notification ships to Leng Yinghan, and cooperated with several junk boats and eight-oared boats to re-establish the army and navy framework of the Sijiao Mountain garrison.

When an attendant saw the guests from Jiangnan leaving, he came up and reported, "My lord, the man from Beizhili asked if we had any good sandalwood. ”

"Sandalwood?"

"Yes, if there is no sandalwood, if there is precious wood such as huanghuali and nanmu, it is fine. The man was very arrogant, saying that as long as there was a big wood, the price was negotiable. ”

The main role of Nanmu is to build some magnificent buildings of high specifications. Leng Yinghan narrowed his eyes, and he vaguely guessed the identity of the person who came.

"You go and tell him not this year. If he really wants it, come back next year, and I'll cut it to him. ”

Taipei has excellent camphor wood for furniture, and no one used to cut it because it was almost useless to Taipei Prefecture. Since there are people who are willing to pay a lot of money, this business is very good.

……

October 25, 1646 A.D.

Zhoushan Island, north wind hunting.

The Melville and Zheng Caiza ships have been shipwried.

The 11-zhang Daifuku ship that Zheng Cai was riding was longer than the Melville. In the official hall, Zheng Cai splashed ink.

"Xiao Yong is like a hidden old Zen master"

Twenty years between the eunuchs, please be weak and the crown is still strong.

Because of asking for a rod to listen to samadhi, it is to know the Liang Shen and the mysteries.

The water and the moon are all on the other side, and the wind and the sin are peaceful.

When the bay leaves crossed from the east, so as to hang the clouds and flowers and rain.

Collecting the pen and waiting for the ink to dry, Zheng Cai gave the poem to the third person in the official hall, the monk Yinyuan. Monk Yinyuan stayed in Zhoushan to wait for the wind, and next year he will go east to Japan to ask for reinforcements.

The monk clasped his hands together and saluted Zheng Cai: "The old man must live up to the general's trust." ”

Shou Xiang sighed in his heart. He didn't think that Tokugawa Iemitsu would have any practical support, at most he would shout some slogans out of the defense of Huayi. However, the Ming army regarded this as a glimmer of hope, and there was no need to break it.

Since the Song Dynasty, Fujian has been a culturally highly developed region. In fact, pirates like Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Cai, and Zheng Hongkui in Fujian Province are not reckless and rude, and their educational backgrounds are usually better. Zheng Cai and Zheng Hongkui are both Confucian generals who can sing and make peace with Wenchen in poetry.

"Nanyang matter, Brother Yu is sure not to participate?"

Zheng Cai laughed, "Please forgive me." If I open up the South Seas, I should take it for myself, and I will not get involved with those people. ”

Shou Orderly shook his head slightly. Now is the time when Zheng Cai is most energetic, he successfully won over the Dingbo general Zhou Rui, Zhou Hezhi brothers and the general soldier Yang Geng, and his power has swelled dramatically.

Well, then we'll talk about it later. The icing on the cake is not as good as charcoal in the snow.

The time to set sail is approaching. Shou orderly walked out of the official hall and said goodbye to Zheng Cai.

"Brother Yu, take care all the way."

Zheng Cai returned the salute, "No matter what the feudal lord does, I will definitely not surrender to the Tartars." “

……

Returning to the Melville, he looked around and saw the battleship in his sight. The flag covers the sun, and the sail mast is like a forest.

Zheng Fan, no, it should be said that it was Zheng Cai's combined fleet, with a total of 400 ships and tens of thousands of family members of soldiers and soldiers, sailing south.

Zheng Zhilong has not yet formally surrendered, but Zheng Cai is firmly on the side of the Ming Dynasty. The vast Zheng Clan's maritime empire has effectively fallen apart.

……

Shou Xiang brought the field infantry to Zhoushan, firstly, because there were too many unfamiliar troops in Zhoushan now, and he needed the field infantry to show their strength and escort the unloaded rice and cane sugar. On the other hand, I also want to try to find opportunities to open several states and counties in eastern Zhejiang. However, when he understood the current situation in eastern Zhejiang, he could only sigh and give up the idea of landing in Ningbo and other places.

The Ming army from all walks of life scraped the land in eastern Zhejiang for a year, and this year there was a major drought, and the local people were already poor and exhausted. Jianzhou has robbed a large round of soldiers, and there is not much benefit from robbing at this time.

To obtain immigration, there is no need to land at all. The Ming army was collecting grain in various places, and they had already captured many people. Shou Order's re-erection of the recruitment flag in the Zhoushan Islands easily attracted a large number of coastal refugees to come over.

According to the results of the discussion with Shen Tingyang, only soldiers, some craftsmen and their families will be left under the control of the Shen family in Zhoushan, and all the civilians who did not evacuate last year will withdraw south to Taiwan this time.

This year, more than 20,000 newly recruited immigrants boarded the Daguang ship brought by the order, and formed the first wave of ships in Zhoushan, still under the command of Collingwood, who led four ships to escort the Yuexiu Mountain, Baiyunshan, Qinjiang and Tanjiang, and made a short stop in Taipei.

These are the first waves of people obtained by Lin Tongwen in Houjiang Prefecture in exchange for grain for immigrants.

Shou ordered to say goodbye to Collingwood, "Be careful at the mouth of the Pearl River, you really can't go around there and go to the open sea." ”

The Guangzhou Ship is a Chinese ship with relatively best ocean-going performance, and this is especially true after changing the rudder. As soon as they arrived at the mouth of the Pearl River, these merchant ships from the mainland were familiar with the route home. Even if the formation is disbanded, they will not have too many problems returning alone.

Sending off the immigrant fleet, Shou Xiang breathed a sigh of relief and completed the first goal. There were also two ships in the port of Gaoting, the Melville and the Tamsui, who accompanied the Sarawak expedition fleet organized by the Ming generals.

Most of the infighting in the world is caused by shrinking resources, shrinking cakes, and stock games. During the expansion period, everyone generally has their own money to earn, and there is no time for infighting. It is obvious that the Ming army in Zhoushan has many people and few resources, and the development of Nanyang can find a window for catharsis for the accumulated forces.

In Borneo, we must follow the rules of the South Seas, and the most important thing for colonization and reclamation is to unite our own people. With the situation of the faint confrontation between the general soldiers of the Ming army in Zhoushan, some ugly words must be said in advance.

The development charter can be fully discussed in advance, and if there is anything you want to express, say it before the charter comes out, and once you sign it, you want to regret it.

The framework text that Shou Xuan took out was a combination of the contracts of the merchants of Fujian and Guangdong with the articles of association of several European East India companies.

Each family determines the proportion of shares according to the amount of troops and money, among which Shen Tingyang and the four general soldiers are the larger shareholders. The federation provides intelligence, navigation, logistics and other support, and its shareholding ratio is the same as that of Shen Tingyang.

In addition, there are some small and medium-sized forces that are willing to participate, such as Sincerity Bo Liu Kongzhao, etc., which together can account for more than a dozen proportions.

In general, the equity ratio is relatively dispersed, and any one alone has no right to speak. This requires a mediator in the middle, and this position certainly has to be orderly.

The requirement of the order is that each family should pay 20% of the income from reclamation to the public high school. The pepper trade must also be centralised and centralized.

The end result was largely fair. Minority shareholders can't compete with any of the big shareholders, and it's normal for them to have a joint stance. Interestingly, these small shareholders either explicitly or implicitly expressed to Shou Xiang that he was the only one in Nanyang, which made him amuse for a while.

Shen Tingyang took out the list of expeditionary generals.

Huang Binqing sent 800 troops, and led the army's eldest son Huang Shijue;

Wang Zhiren sent 700 troops, and led the eldest son of the general Wang Mingqian;

He Junyao sent 400 troops, and led the eldest son of the general, He Guangxi;

The dynasty sent 400 troops first, and led the army to lead the eldest son Wang Chongrong;

Liu Kongzhao sent 300 troops, and led the eldest son of the general Liu Yongxi;

Shen Tingyang sent 1,000 troops, leading the generals with the eldest son Shen Yuantai and the third son Shen Yuangong.

Coupled with other small stocks of the Ming army, the whole army was nearly 5,000 people, because it was a colony, so the Ming army brought their families. A total of nearly 16,000 people sailed south in 130 warships.

The Melville and Tamsui piloted the Ming army, and tried their skills in Wenzhou and Fujian on the way.

Funing Zhili Prefecture at the junction of Fujian and Zhejiang has jurisdiction over one state and two counties, and the annual tax is about 9,600 taels of silver. The full-caliber fiscal revenue is about 40,000 yuan, which is equivalent to a county in Yuhang, Hangzhou.

Emperor Longwu was not particularly ruthless in scraping the land in Fujian, Zheng Zhilong pursued a policy of non-resistance, and the local area was not ravaged by too many soldiers.

Without the protection of Zheng Fan's sailors, the coast of northern Fujian was simply empty. More than 5,000 Ming troops who lacked food and weapons, Jin Shiying's Dengzhou soldiers, and Yang Qianqing's Guizhou soldiers landed separately, and soon opened up three coastal cities in Funing Prefecture, Ningde County, and Dajin Shouyu Qianhusuo.

Wang Dynasty's soldiers are really capable of fighting, and his descendants are Tusi soldiers from Sichuan, because they were withdrawn from the Liaodong battlefield, and the proportion of Guanning and Dongjiang soldiers in the army is very high. According to the Taipei observer who accompanied the army, the 400 soldiers of Wang Chaoxian were stronger than the 1,000 men of the other Ming army.

One state and one county is simply a big supplement, and the Ming army has captured nearly 10,000 men and women, enough to eat half a year's grain and countless farm tools.

The orderly army was stationed at Dajinsho on the Dongchong Peninsula, which was assigned to him as a hunting site.

Bo Luo, the general of Jianzhou and Dingnan, led his troops to Fuzhou, but due to the mountainous and river-heavy terrain of Fujian, it was almost impossible for him to reinforce his army along the coastline in time. The topography of Fujian determined that the coastal transportation of troops with naval divisions would exhaust the enemy's troops, and the superiority of naval mobility was undoubtedly demonstrated.

When the banner of the Jianzhou soldiers appeared in Ningde County, the Ming army had calmly boarded the ship with civilians and goods. From south to north, the Ming army retreated one after another, returning from a plunder in the coastal towns.

By the time the Ming army had all assembled on the Dongchong Peninsula, the number of ships had increased to 200. Funing Prefecture is a north-south shipping artery, and there are many fishing boats and merchant ships, and some small boats cannot go to the South Seas, so it is not a big problem to go to Taiwan.

The Dongchong Peninsula was too dangerous, and the narrowest part of the isthmus connected to the land was only 1 km, and the Jianzhou soldiers did not dare to pursue it in depth after reoccupying the state city.

The coalition forces successfully returned to Keelung Port, and did not let the Ming army disembark in order.

The Taipei Army did not participate in the whole battle this time, and was basically escorting migrant ships. In the end, in Funing Prefecture, the Jianzhou cavalry was far away for a while, and to the relief of the order, it may have never been defeated, and this mainly Chinese infantry had not yet been infected by the Ming army's fear of the Jianzhou cavalry.

The official residence of the chief executive of Taipei, Shou ordered to find Philip. Edward.

"Leave the Navy for a while and become the Governor of Kuching?"

"Without the Lima, it will be at least a few more years before we have a new cruiser on board. In the meantime, you can try to run a territory. ”

"Sounds interesting."

Orderly smiled, Philip had long had the idea of running a territory.

"Resources are limited, and I can't give you much for the time being. Battleships, you take the Storm and the Lingjiang. Army: I'll hand over to you the three second-class companies on the mainland. ”

Philip: "That's too little. ”

"You know the situation of the troops. This time, unlike our colonization in other regions, we will mainly rely on those Ming troops. ”

Philip held his chin, "So, my main job is to pilot and act as a mediator?" ”

"I'll send you a few staff members who are familiar with the situation of the Ming army. But at this stage, don't meddle in their internal affairs. ”

"That means I started out as more of a curator at Kuching Merchants' House."

"Almost, do you want to do it?"

"It's a bit difficult, but I like the challenge." Philip smiled, "But you'll have to dismantle some heavy artillery for me, both for siege and fortification." ”

Orderly agreed.

The battleships given to Philip were only 2 small boats, and the transports were given 30.

The Ming army completed the rearmament of ships, and a total of 200 large and medium-sized junk ships selected by the coalition forces sailed south with 22,000 people on board. The voyage was so important that the fleet avoided the treacherous Philippine coast and did not take the Oriental route developed by the Spaniards. Instead, he took the traditional Western route to Bo Ni and other places, starting from Taipei, sailing directly to Sanya and Houjiang, turning the rudder to the south, resting on Natuna Island, and attacking Kuching City after the soldiers recovered.

Originally, it took about three months for the Western route to reach Borneo, but after the Federation optimization, this time was shortened by one month. There may be losses along the way, but the Ming army is large enough that the local Malay princes can't think of anything to resist this wolf-like marauding army. The trouble is the security war in the back, which can only be fought slowly.