Chapter 379: Pioneering Spirit
The task of these three freed pirates is simple, they only need to remember seven words: "A year has passed." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
It's just seven simple words, which makes Zheng Yiguan always have nightmares, the Ming army talks about credit, and stipulates a three-year period, and now a year has passed, how can he not rob the Ming Dynasty and stay here?
Zheng Yiguan no longer has the confidence to start a war with this Ming fleet, he is an old pirate and knows what to rely on to fight a naval war.
When Huang Sheng's warships were driven half a nautical mile away from the port of Longgang like a carp crossing the river, each warship fired warning shots, and the range and intensity of the artillery fire made Zheng Yiguan, who had been observing with a clairvoyant scope, tremble.
The speed of the Huang family's warship made this veteran pirate who made his fortune on the sea full of bitterness, he knew that he could not take revenge in this life and this life, and secretly rejoiced that the Ming army let him go.
If he really gathered all his strength to find the field last time, I am afraid that there is no Zheng Yiguan in this world, and there is no doubt that once the battle is engaged, his warship will neither be able to fight nor escape, and the total annihilation will be inevitable.
Zheng Yiguan finally made up his mind to go to Nanyang to develop, strive to grab a piece of land to operate, and when he had to surrender to Lord Huang to get his help, he immediately called a meeting of his old brothers to prepare to study where to seize.
After the armed march at the door of Zheng Yiguan's house, the Huang family's fleet came to Kinmen Port to replenish again, and Xu Xinsu had already received a notice from Ye Chengjing to send his family, and all the supplies were fully prepared.
Not only that, Ye Chengjing has been waiting here for more than ten days, the last time he saw Lord Huang with a woman, this time he also brought two concubines and four attendants.
Who knew that Lord Huang actually took the eldest woman to the sea, Chu Er is a four-grade respectful person, how can the identity of Ye Chengjing's concubine be compared, they are respectful and respectful, and they are at a loss.
Huang Sheng had already brought more than a dozen buddies and tents of the Ye family on Zhoushan Island, but he didn't expect this son to wait in Kinmen and prepare to follow him to the sea, Huang Sheng had a good impression of this adventurous Ye Gongzi and didn't talk to him on an equal footing.
Time has passed, Ye Chengjing is not as calm as the previous few times, nothing, it is the name of Huang Shengzhuangyuan Gong and the scholar of the Hanlin Academy who abused this son, he is the son of the old man of the pavilion and looks down on most of the others, and now he finds that Lord Huang who needs to look up seems to be unattainable, Ye Gongzi is lost.
This year, Xu Xinsu has recovered his vitality, because he escaped death and changed his mind, he will never be a miser, he remembers the teachings of Lord Huang, silver is useless, and it will last long if you have a strong ship and a sharp cannon.
Huang Sheng was very satisfied with the Kinmen Island under Xu Xinsu's care, and asked him to give the Huang family a piece of land close to the port of Kinmen, where Huang Sheng planned to build a small impregnable stone fortress.
The Huang family construction master has already drawn the drawings, the castle is not big, as long as it can meet the needs of three or four hundred people, the fort wall can be deployed with twelve artillery pieces, next year the Huang family will come here to open a money village.
The fortress to be repaired is the same as Zhongming Fort, Fushan Fort, and Daishan Fort, all of which are western fortress structures, fully considering the crossfire formed by artillery and muskets when the thermal weapons are deployed, and the blind spots are filled in by the "Flying Earthquake Thunder".
This fort is named 'Golden Gate Fort', 200 steps from the port, 300 steps from the Golden Gate Guarded Thousand Households City, and also has a high navigation beacon lighthouse.
Money and food, as long as you can control money and food, what else can't be controlled? Huang Sheng is in the layout, first to open the "Huaxia Daqian Village" to the coast, and then along the river, so that when the world is connected, he will firmly control the finances of the Ming Dynasty.
Huang Sheng was going to build the silver treasury inside a strong fortress on the island, anyway, the most convenient thing in this era was water transportation, and there was nothing inconvenient.
The small business is handled by the branches below, and the loss is limited by the enemy, which is the same as the fact that there is no cash in the savings bank under the modern bank.
The entry and exit of large amounts of cash must be completed on several islands, and the Huang family can send warships to help transport them, and send soldiers to escort them with arms.
After the Huang family, the strong ships and sharp cannons were like a year, and they were already invincible in the China Sea, and the castle on the island was garrisoned with two hundred firearms troops, and as long as there was water, food, and weapons reserves, the enemy could not defeat them for several months.
This is verified by history, the Manchu Kang Mazi several large troops of 1,000 people, mobilized tens of thousands of people for logistical support, besieging Lao Maozi's Far Eastern expedition of several hundred people who were isolated and helpless.
After fighting for more than a year without success, he finally signed an alliance with others and ceded the vast Siberian region.
This place is close to the sea, as long as it holds on for a month, the reinforcements of the Huang family are guaranteed to arrive, for the enemy who takes the initiative to provoke and dares to besiege the Huang family's fortress.
Huang Sheng is going to take measures to arrest them, string up the pipa bones one by one and escort them to the coastal city to hold the sentence again and again, and then behead them on the spot, so that the Ming Dynasty and even the whole world will know that although the Huang family is far away, they will be punished.
The direction of development relying on the sea has been verified by history, an island country with limited resources, England, how many people and how many resources they can have, but they rose in the Age of Discovery and became an empire with colonies all over the world.
How can they hold up enough force to defeat any enemy? Without him, trade plus plunder and blackmail.
Huang Sheng was ready to follow the path of the rise of the British, first laying out the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty one by one, using the islands as the base and the powerful naval division as the military guarantee, and constantly winning new territory.
As long as Huang Sheng takes the territory, he will make this place the eternal land of the Han people, and he will not have indigestion like the British, and finally vomit a lot, because the Han people have a population advantage that the British cannot match, and the vast majority of the Han people in the territory are of course the real masters of this place.
In the "Golden Gate Fort", there are not only silver warehouses but also 30 silos for storing grain, which can be used to keep 120,000 stone of grain.
The musketeers are now not afraid of being stationed abroad, because the head of the family has made clear the regulations, and the army stationed abroad adopts a rotation system, and after training the local village warriors who can replace them as soon as possible, the number of troops left behind will gradually decrease.
Sometimes a group of people go to an unknown place to work and live for a year and a half, which is actually very interesting, the tree moves to die, and the person moves to live, and the reason why Westerners rose in the Age of Discovery, is that they are willing to leave their homeland to explore unknown places.
Huang Sheng deliberately cultivated the pioneering spirit of the young people under his command, and later went to colonize South America, North America, and Africa, and these young soldiers who opened their eyes to the world would become the rulers of each colony.
In mid-June, the fleet set off from the port of Kinmen to the port of Manila, this route due to the constant flow of merchant ships so there are many pirates, the Huang family of course abide by the laws of the sea and the strong survive, but the Huang family still try to convince people with virtue.
After showing off their speed and firepower, if the sea ship they see does not surrender, they choose to convince people by force, and if they do not submit, they can only make them dead, there is no way that everyone is begging for a living at sea like this.
Killing a colleague not only got their ship and cargo and captured slaves, but also lost a competitor, wouldn't it be too much of a disservice to yourself not to do it.
Why did the Dutch rise so quickly, they were "sea coachmen" and "sea scavengers" at the same time, why did the Dutch have so many sea vessels? It was the result of self-construction plus robbery.