Chapter 336: Foreshadowing
Yu Zhigao understood and immediately offered an offer. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Road:
"My lord, the lower officials know that you have a lot of expenses for the labor expedition, and the Fujian military and civilians are willing to fund the military salary of 100,000 taels of silver for the labor of the army, and it will definitely be delivered to the Zhongzuo Institute within three days."
Huang Sheng calculated in his heart, a head didn't even give a beheading reward of five taels of silver, this Yu Zhigao's lack of greed seems to need to be trained well.
Lord Huang's face sank like water, and Yu Zhigao was not calm, and said: "If you are not satisfied, please tell me the number, and the lower officials will not be able to make the families of the brave soldiers who died in battle hungry." ”
Seeing that Huang Sheng was silent at all, Yu Zhigao gritted his teeth and said, "200,000, Xiaguan will find a way to make up 200,000 taels." ”
This price made a little bit of sense, and Huang Sheng finally spoke, saying:
"This official wants to bring a few subordinates under his command, can Lord Yu operate this official to serve as a guerrilla general in Kinmen? The three thousand generals under the command of the Kinmen guerrilla are Li Guozhu, Xu Xinsu, and Shang Muming, but are they in difficulty? ”
Ma Chengcheng was one of the first three sailors to take refuge in the Huang family, Gaizhou Weiren, who has always been conscientious, and the eldest son Ma Zhannu is now the preloader next to Huang Sheng.
Huang Sheng is ready to operate this excellent captain to take the position, and it is still too early to station his own sailors in Kinmen, but he can take a half-official position first, and lay the groundwork for coming here to grab land in order to justify his name in the future.
Although he is the chief military officer, he can only control the generals and guerrilla generals in wartime, and the reinforcement battalions of the generals and the strange battalions of the guerrillas in peacetime are self-contained, and he can't control them at all.
In the end, Yu Zhigao promised to let Ma Cheng get the commander of the fourth rank of the guard, and the false title of the commander of the Kinmen guerrilla general, Xu Xinsu was promoted to the first level of meritorious service in Xiamen, and the deputy general manager was signed by the commander of the fourth rank, and Li Guozhu and Shang Muming were awarded the general manager of the five products and thousands of households.
Yu Zhigao has the credit for defeating Zheng Yiguan's pirate group, and he doesn't know how much benefit he can get, the guerrilla generals who operate and manage the first battalion of soldiers and horses out of thin air are beyond their reach, and it is not difficult for a few low-level military attachés to take up the post at all, after all, these people are not even generals.
Huang Sheng wants to go to the official position under the guerrilla command of Kinmen, not to garrison Kinmen, it is too far away from Liaodong, it is too early, it is just a layout of Xianqi, and a thousand soldiers and horses and warships here are temporarily in charge of Xu Xinsu, the second-in-command.
It is estimated that Li Guozhu will not stay as an official, he should keep an official body and many ways to retreat. Shang Muming is not a military attache at all, but the head of the Huang family's propaganda team, of course, he only takes treatment and does not lead soldiers.
After all, Yu Zhigao has been in the officialdom for decades, and he suggested that Ma Cheng should simply let Ma Cheng try to change his identity to facilitate his operation.
Ma Chengcheng became a sea merchant active in the Japanese Goto Islands, he had more than 20 warships under his command, more than 800 dead soldiers, because he was not used to seeing Zheng Yiguan's pirate group scourge one side, he took the initiative to contact the Fujian General Military Officer Yu Zhigao to prepare to serve the Ming Dynasty.
Lord Yu Zhigao, who was dedicated to serving the imperial court, greeted him with the post of chief official for the time being, and after Ma Cheng surrendered to the Fujian Navy, he took the lead in every battle, and was a pioneer officer when attacking Zheng Yiguan, and planned to sink and wound Zheng Yiguan No. 2 Fu Ship two, grass skimming five ships, killing no less than 1,000 pirates, and winning 423 levels.
Directly use military exploits to operate Ma Cheng to ascend to the top, lest a trial thousand households from eastern Liaodong go to Fujian to do things is a bit blatant, and the appearance is too ugly.
Huang Sheng is infinitely impressed by Yu Zhigao's level of storytelling, he thinks it is true, it seems that this Yu Zhigao general has a fight with Wu Xiang, and they are all talents who are not good at fighting, and they are also very good at fighting!
The dignified chief military officer needs to use some crooked brains to operate a four-rank military attache to teach a thousand generals, and it is always effortless to operate two, after all, Yu Zhigao has more than 2,400 kills in hand.
His official report of victory and the commendation given to meritorious soldiers could not be dismissed by the Ministry of War.
Yu Zhigao was also particularly interested in the confessions of the more than 1,200 pirates, he was always deflated against Zheng Yiguan, and he almost lost his life, and he hated this pirate leader very much, and now that he was knocked to the ground, of course he had to go up and step on two feet.
In history, Yu Zhigao was defeated by Zheng Yiguan many times, and learned that the imperial court had sent Jinyi Wei to take him to prison, and he was afraid of being humiliated and guilty, so he chose to commit suicide. Definitely not now, with Huang Sheng's intention to promote him, he should still be able to be the chief military officer of Fujian for many years.
Yu Zhigao said that he would not only report these confessions to the imperial court, but also circulate them to the prefectures of Fujian and Guangzhou, so that everyone would know the ferocity of Zheng Yiguan's pirate gang, and asked the coastal adults to be highly vigilant and let the coastal soldiers and civilians share the same hatred of the enemy.
The Fujian general soldier's statement was right in the middle, and Huang Sheng was of course happy to see it happen, so that Yu Zhigao would spend more effort to make Zheng Yiguan stink.
Of course, none of the warships captured by the Huang family will be given to Yu Zhigao, not only that, but even the captured Ming warships and the captured Ming army Huang Sheng are ready to be taken away. Anyway, the Fujian general army suffered heavy losses in the bloody battle of pirates, and the imperial court would replenish him with warships and men.
Yu Zhigao was very interested, and did not mention whether there was any seizure, but mobilized people, money and grain to repair Xiamen Port and Zhongzuo Institute, and prepared to take over this place.
This time the naval battle and land battle, the Huang family and horses were fortunate because of opportunism, and the casualties were not too large, and the main casualties occurred in the naval battle.
In this era, shelling each other was no joke, although the enemy shot a solid iron ball, it also caused 14 casualties among the Huang gunners and sailors, a total of 29 seriously wounded and more than 150 lightly wounded.
This was all due to the fact that the sailors-gunners did not wear armor, and the fighters who shot on the ship suffered very few casualties due to the armor of their helmets, and most of them were lightly wounded.
Also because the artillery of this era is a close-range strike, you can see the direction of the muzzle, and find that the opponent's muzzle is starting to ignite at you, and it is still effective to immediately dodge left and right, and most of the soldiers wearing wound steel armor and cuirass are safe as long as they are not directly hit by iron bullets.
More than 50 warships of the Fujian Navy Division were anchored in Xiamen Port, and they could not be explained in all aspects, and the military attachés at all levels in Fujian could not hold their faces, it was simply a naked slap in the face!
Huang Sheng decided to simply send them all to Daishan Island, where the dockyard should be almost completed, Zhao Shimin has already arranged for the master to work, and every base of the Huang family will have the ability to repair and build large sea ships.
In the future, it will not only serve the Huang family, but also open for business, and the sea ships can enter the Huang family dock for repair and maintenance, and the Huang family will also sell relatively advanced merchant ships to Ming merchants in the future, attracting a large amount of bureaucratic capital to face the ocean.
When many nobles and big bureaucrats and landlords found that overseas colonization was more and faster than robbing the land of poor peasants in the interior to make profits, they would take their families to join the vigorous Age of Discovery!
For the sake of safety, 10 grass skimming boats, 5 No. 2 Fu ships, 'Jiading' and 'Jiangyin' new-style warships, and 40 modified and accelerated horse-drawn boats were sent to make this trip.
By the way, more than 1,200 pirate prisoners were escorted to Daishan Island, and more than 3,000 families of fishermen and sailors who had been taken in by the Ming army and some fishermen and sailors who had been accepted from the battlefield were transferred to Daishan Island.
The coffins of the fallen soldiers were taken over by Daishan Island and then brought back to Huangjiawan Island by the Huang family ships that were delivered there for burial at Shuangdingshan.