Chapter 355: Dongjiang Visits

There is also a ship on Huangjiawan Island that went to Tianjin Wei, this is a Galen ship, there are twelve six-pounder copper-core iron cannons on board, and there are more than 60 crew members on board, all of which are relatively dark and do not look like Ming people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

This is the tributary ship of the distant king of Jiaozhi in Quang Nam, Ruan Dan came to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute on behalf of Quang Nam, his captain was Li Xihan, his master was Li Ximing, the sailors and gunners were all selected Luzon, Da Yue, and eleven were blonde and blue-eyed Westerners.

Such a combination is absolutely exotic, because even the boat and the people are real imported products, and no one can see that it is a fake and shoddy, and they have in their hands the national letter sealed by the lord of Quang Nam.

Ruan Dan went to Daming Jingshi to ask for a reward, of course, he would not go to Guangnan to make a business, but to go back to Huangjiawan Island to disband and return to their previous jobs.

It's still early to plot to seize Jiaozhi, first smooth out the relationship, and get the official recognition of the Ming Dynasty, and then say, the layout of Lingao is to prepare to use this place as a springboard to one day land from the sea to launch a surprise attack to recover Jiaozhi's homeland.

The Huang family system now has 180,000 soldiers and civilians, and the quality of the soldiers provided is getting better and better, but it is not possible to redeem the army and turn all the young people into soldiers.

In principle, it is still a merit-based admission, and it is planned to recruit 400 musketeers and 1,000 sailors through open recruitment.

After all, many jobs need excellent young people, and it is urgent to study scientific farming and cold-resistant seeds, because the Huang family already has hundreds of thousands of acres of land to cultivate, and this number is still growing.

Huang Sheng sent 100 of this year's graduates to work in the experimental field on Juehua Island, so that these young people could enjoy the treatment of regular soldiers to encourage them to devote themselves to the study of agriculture.

The dozens of varieties of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn brought back from Manila are a top priority for tackling key problems, and we will strive to select varieties that can be grown in the north for breeding, and then try to grow them on a small scale in Zhongmingbao in a year or two.

The twenty missionaries who came to Huangjiawan Island were fascinated by such a highly civilized and open beautiful island, and secretly congratulated themselves that they were not afraid of the cold and continued to choose to go north.

However, the land here is much more expensive than Daishan Island, and if you want to build a cathedral designed like Daishan Island, I am afraid that the gold will not be enough.

They came to Huang to negotiate whether they would consider building a small church.

Who knew that Lord Huang solved the problem for them, and asked them to borrow from the Huang family with the mortgage of the church under construction, and the Huang family will have a fleet to run Manila next year, and then they can repay the loan after winning the investment of the church.

Mr. Huang also asked them to help him plant potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn in the experimental field of the Huangjiawan Island School. It's not a difficult question, half of the missionaries do, and the climate here is not much different from Spain, so they think it's fine.

Nowadays, there are three prongs of cultivation, there are Europeans planting techniques to learn from, Manila farmers to refer to, and Huangjiawan Island specializing in agricultural technology students have been studying for the past two years, and the school's experimental field should be just around the corner to produce research results.

The missionaries who began to build the cathedral found that the labor on Huangjiawan Island was relatively expensive, but their efficiency and technology were world-class, and many of them could understand the drawings.

They were not ridiculed for trying to preach, the people here were very polite, and gradually there were believers. All the missionaries were also learning Chinese at the same time as they were preaching, and it was too inconvenient for them to bring an interpreter to preach every time.

They also often visit the wounded and sick in hospitals, pray for the dead, and provide help to those in need. They found that there were already many Westerners working here, and Western surgery had been clinically applied.

As a result, several missionaries who thought they were good at medicine also came to the hospital to volunteer to save lives and help the wounded, and their medicines and techniques were carefully studied by the Huang family's medical workers.

At the end of the year, Huangjiawan Island came to a visitor from Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong, the chief military officer of Pingliao, because of the trade with the Huang family, Dongjiang Town's life was much better, Mao Wenlong deliberately brought a lot of bear paws, deer antlers, Dongzhu, Korean ginseng and other specialties to the world-famous Huang people to pay tribute to the early years.

Huang Sheng warmly received Mao Wenlong and his military attachés in the 'Wanghai Pavilion' restaurant, and the two families cooperated happily of course, and there were many common languages.

The military attachés in Dongjiang Town are worthless, they are all empty of rank and can't get real power, and I don't know what Lord Huang wants to do?

But the return gift of Lord Huang was too rich, Mao Wenlong was really embarrassed, he obviously came to give a gift to express his gratitude, and now it has become a reward.

Because Huang Sheng gave Dongjiang Zhenming Army 300 pairs of iron armor, 300 infantry bows, 30,000 feather arrows, 3,000 bottles of Xifeng liquor, 5,000 stones of rice, 3,000 stones of corn, and 100 soap gift boxes, the total value of these gifts was close to 50,000 taels of silver.

Dongjiang Town was an armed force of guerrillas behind enemy lines, and fought with various guerrillas in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations. How many commanders of all sizes were there in the anti-Japanese contingent in later generations?

The same is true of Mao Wenlong's command, there are so many generals under his command that the imperial court doesn't take it seriously at all, of course, there will be no salary and soldiers, and most of them are empty-rank generals.

Jiannu was already poor, and Dongjiang Town was even poorer, the soldiers of Dongjiang Town who were rotten dared to work hard, and Jiannu couldn't grab anything at all if he won the battle, so Jiannu didn't like to fight with Dongjiang Town the most.

The Red Gang hated Mao Wenlong to the bone and was helpless, and the containment of Jiannu in Dongjiang Town behind the enemy line should not be underestimated, and the territory that Jiannu painstakingly managed was robbed by Mao Wenlong once, which was the same as the effect of Houjin robbing Daming once.

Do what you don't want to do to others, the red gangsters are brewing to eliminate the threat in the rear, I don't know how much effort it takes, but Dongjiang Town still exists tenaciously.

Lord Huang just wants a few empty titles in Dongjiang Town, what else is there to say, Chief Officer Mao Wenlong immediately asked the officials to go through the formalities on the spot.

One of the guerrilla generals on Shenmi Island became Liu Guozheng, the captain of Huang Sheng's personal soldiers, and there were also Sun Zhenhuai, Ma Yue, and Niu Ben under his command who served as the general manager and general respectively. There are quite a few generals with the rank of airhead on Shenmi Island, as well as two staff generals in Dongjiang Town and seven or eight guerrilla generals.

Huang Sheng said that it would not be happy to take the men and horses of the guerrilla general of Dongjiang Town to find Jiannu in North Korea next summer, and if there is a capture, it will be counted as a military merit of Dongjiang Town.

Lord Huang is preparing to attack the Jiannu left behind by North Korea, which is of course the greatest support for Dongjiang Town, it turns out that Lord Huang is afraid that he will send troops to carry out a sneak attack through the actual control area of Dongjiang Town, and he is afraid that the name will not be right, so he wants a name!

Mao Wenlong suddenly realized that he had already heard of the combat effectiveness under Lord Huang's command, and this time he saw with his own eyes that the Huang family's fierce soldiers were much more than the last time, and he had confidence in Huang Sheng's intervention in North Korea, so he stood up and said:

"No matter when Lord Huang and his men attack, the official will not sit idly by, and a certain subordinate must actively cooperate with the battle."

Huang Sheng believed that Mao Wenlong had been taking the initiative to attack Jiannu behind enemy lines, causing the Houjin army to take care of one thing and lose the other. He said: "Mao Shuai is the bravest general officer of the Ming Dynasty, there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and with the full support of Dongjiang Town, it is not a problem to teach a slave a lesson." ”

Mao Wenlong knew that the imperial court was in chaos, and he was also up and down in his heart, he didn't know how the new monarch would treat Dongjiang Town, his strength was damaged in many battles with Houjin, and all the tuntian in North Korea was lost, and it was unsustainable to see it.