Chapter 13: The court is busy anyway, and Liuqiu is not panicking

From the 2nd to the 10th day of November in the 20th year of Qianping (1719), Fu Ning convened all departments and departments to complete the first eight-day meeting of the Quanliuqiu Assembly, and reached a one-year development plan and strategic direction. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

A few days later, Fu Ning, who was meeting the Liuqiu Assembly, received two flying pigeon summons from the Huaiyang Hall of the Tingfeng Pavilion of the Intelligence Department on the 20th

Yangzhou news: "On the second day of November, Lin Ruhai's wife Jia died of illness, and on the third day of November, seven people from Huaiyang Hall who monitored Lin Mansion were killed, two were surrounded and committed suicide, two were captured, and only one person was not exposed; The two captured were pretended to be the people of the six princes, and they were beheaded on the fifth day of the first month; The three maids of the Lin Mansion who were secretly bought were all found out by Lin Ruhai and killed. On the fourth day of the first month, Qu Qing, the prefect of Suzhou, was sentenced to nine clans, and Zhen Run was demoted to a commoner. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, 26 people, including Sima Hong, Cheng Haiquan, Liu Yuntang, and Xu He, Yang Jiao, Sun Xiu, Li Zhangchan, and He Xiangang, were beheaded. On the seventh day of the first month, Mu Kuang, the prefect of Yangzhou, was dismissed, and Li Chao was demoted and transferred to northern Jiangsu, and on the 15th, the four princes and five princes appeared in Yangzhou together, and Lin Ruhai was promoted from the fourth product to the third product, and succeeded to Yangzhou to patrol the salt history; Hongxiang weaving field was returned to the official workshop; Cheng Feng and other five members of the Hongxiang Eastern Affairs Association, flowing 3,000 miles, Chen Honglie, Liu Chengming, Qiu Chuanjia, Qiu Chuanlei and other 37 members of the Eastern Affairs Association were beheaded, Yuan Qi was escorted to the Luying official prostitute camp, and only Jiang Gongkai of the Hongxiang Eastern Affairs Association was spared and was sentenced to be enslaved in the Hongxiang weaving field; Hongxiang weaving factory was changed to Jiangning weaving official workshop, dismissed 30,000 weavers, left only 5,000 weavers, and the rest of the workshops were destroyed. In addition, it has been verified that the massacre of Xiaoyang Village, Wuqiao Township, Sizhou in May of the 17th year of Qianping, and the massacre of Chen Village, Qianshan Town, Weiyuan County, in December of the 16th year of Qianping, were all committed by Wang Zongran, the former Luzhou Patrol Patrol Shi Ziteng's subordinate of the Luzhou Patrol Battalion, and now Wang Zongran has entered the Beijing camp, and his specific position is unknown. ā€

Jiangning news: "On the eighth day of November, the fifth prince is now in Jiangning, and Zhen Xun, a weaver in Jiangning, was fined for one year, demoted from the fourth grade to the fourth grade, and still remained in office. On the eighth day of the first month, the four princes are now in Yingshan County, Luzhou, sacrificing the royal ancestral mausoleum, on the tenth day of the first month, Zhang Zan, the prefect of Luzhou, was dismissed and investigated, and the Luzhou patrol Shi Wenfu was dismissed and asked to return to Beijing, and the Luying Festival made Changwu demote and transferred to Shaanxi Province Suide Patrol History, and Xuzhou Patrol Shi Hu Jun was promoted to Luying Jie Du Envoy. On November 15, a leper monk entered Xue's house in Jiangning and gave him a 'cold incense pill' prescription and 12 pills for curing cough; ā€

Fu Ning immediately replied to Huaiyangtang: "Try your best to rescue Cheng Feng's five people on the way to exile; rescued the Luying official prostitute camp Yuan Qi and Hongxiang weaving field Jiang Gongkai; After rescuing everyone, they were quickly handed over to the second team of the Operations Department of the Intelligence Department stationed in Xuzhou, and the second team sent everyone to Lingshanwei, Shandong Province to the sea to ask for help. No one is allowed to be exposed during the rescue process, if there is a leak, the person who pretends to be the sixth prince will try his best to insist, and the rest will try his best to save the intelligence department. ā€

Chuan Yanshantang: "Cooperate with the second team of the action team to protect, transport and rescue everyone to Lingshanwei in Shandong Province to go to sea to ask for help; In addition, Wang Zongran, a general under Zha Ziteng and the former forward school of the Luzhou Patrol Battalion, is currently in office. ā€

To tell the truth, Fu Ning is not surprised at all about what the British court did, since the slaughter of Xiaoyang Village Yang Ning has lost confidence in the British court, a huge feudal empire, it is impossible to consider the interests of the small people, and want the feudal court to let the people call the shots, unless the sun comes out from the west; His assassination in Yangzhou was just to give birth to his ambition to overthrow this feudal empire, but unfortunately, it took him a long time to accumulate strength.

News soon came from the Army: the reorganization of the new army was difficult, and the soldiers of the Third Division generally resisted discipline training and literacy education. This news made Fu Ning angry enough. The 1st and 2nd Divisions of Liuqiu, which were stationed in the north of Liuqiu, had been watching by Fu Ning's side, teaching them by word and deed, so the training was carried out quickly, and the discipline education and literacy education were easily implemented. The one who openly resisted literacy education was Tian Yanwu, the former commander of the Western Route Army and the current commander of the Third Division of Liuqiu. ā€ć€‚

Fu Ning immediately ordered the Third Division to form another battalion of soldiers who resisted literacy education and stationed them in Changhua, set up a Marine Brigade, and relieved Tian Yanwu of his post as commander of the Third Division on the spot, and transferred him to the commander of the Changhua Marine Brigade. Tian Wuyan actually accepted the order happily without a trace of dissatisfaction, and took away nearly 5,000 literate soldiers who were not far away to Changhua with a greeting, and shouted "Hou Ye Shengming" when he left, which made Fu Ning cry and laugh.

The Penghu operation was launched very quickly, since the beginning of November Fu Ning ordered the navy to start preparations at the meeting of the House of Representatives in Liuqiu, and on the 25th the Minister of the Navy Zhang Qi reported that it was ready, and then Zhang Qi immediately rushed to Changhua to take the naval battalion to launch the Penghu Hall operation, and went down to Penghu on three days, when the battle was fierce, Tian Yanwu actually snatched the command of the flagship Taoyuan, and ordered the herald to send a message in the flagship, and in the name of the flagship, ordered four ironclad ships to meet the side and ram the enemy ship, the transport ship to rush to the beach, and the Marine Brigade to launch a beachstorm. As a result, Zhang Qi, the commander of the flagship and the minister of the navy, had to temporarily relinquish his command in order to avoid confusion in the order.

Fortunately, the navy's rampage frightened all kinds of bandits and pirates and forced them to flee, and the navy pursued all the way and won a complete victory, and the camera occupied the entire area of Penghu Hall.

The success of the Penghu operation stimulated Fu Ning's ambitions, so Fu Ning ordered the navy to urgently replenish ammunition and repair the warships, and at the same time directly issued a declaration of war to New Spain (Spain's colony in Luzon), demanding that it withdraw from Luzon, Manila, and surrender the Savia iron ore, which confused the Spaniards, who had good relations for the past two years. But Fu Ning couldn't wait, Liuqiu was extremely short of iron ore, the imperial court forbade the sea, and the nearest source of iron ore was the Savia iron ore in Luzon, and the war was fought without fighting.

Fu Ning ordered Zhang Qi to be the commander of the ironclad fleet, and commanded five ironclad warships in Zhongxing, Anxing, Keelung, Yashan, and Taoyuan to use the advantages of artillery range and speed to roam in front to find and destroy enemy warships; Tian Yanwu served as the deputy commander, leading wooden warships, naval transports, and marines to follow all the way to Manila.

The war went on very quickly, and the Spanish navy in Luzon did not expect that the combat effectiveness of the ironclad ships was so crazy, the artillery was powerful, the firing range was longer, the ironclad ships were thickly protected, and the mobility was strong. The Liuqiu ironclad fleet was only slightly wounded by the Anxing.

After the initial battle, the fleet continued to fight in Manila, but the colonial government of Manila did not believe that its fleet would fail, and the fort damaged the Keelung, and then was forced to surrender under the fierce attack of several ironclad ships. After occupying Manila, Zhang Qi demanded that the Spaniards hand over the Savia Iron Mine and announce the surrender of the Philippines, but at this time it was learned from the Spanish population that the center of Spanish rule in Luzon was in Cebu in the south instead of Manila, where the current fleet was located, and the Savia Iron Mine was also in Cebu; The Spaniards called Luzon the Philippines, including merchants, sailors, soldiers, and officials, with a total of more than 4,000 colonists, only a dozen sail warships, and more than a hundred merchant ships; The so-called ruler of the Philippines is the governor of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, stationed in Mexico that Zhang Qi has never heard of. The intelligence work in Luzon that had been carried out before the war was all useless, and only then did it become known that the Spaniards in Luzon were not as powerful as the legend said, but only a small force. So the fleet first sent a message to Ryuqiu with flying pigeons, then repaired and then killed and killed in Cebu. After two battles, the ironclad fleet basically ran out of ammunition, and the attack force was changed to a wooden battleship fleet.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that during the attack on Cebu, the hybrid warships broke down frequently, first two hybrid warships broke down and the gunpowder exploded and sank, then the hulls of the six hybrid warships split and withdrew from the battle, and the remaining six hybrid warships voluntarily withdrew from the battle to prevent self-injury; The rest of the battle was won by ironclads and four pure sail-powered warships, and they were won after a difficult battle. After two days of heavy naval losses in the First Battle of Cebu, the Spaniards in Cebu surrendered voluntarily, and Ryugucai won a difficult victory and took control of the Philippines.

In January of the 21st year of Qianping (1720), Liuqiu captured the Philippines from the Spaniards two months ahead of schedule and changed its name back to Luzon. After receiving the news, Fu Ning immediately ordered the three divisions of Liuqiu, the Department of Finance, the Department of Commerce, and the Secretary of Administration to jointly form a large-scale iron ore transportation fleet to carry steam engines, crushers, explosives and other mining needs, and rushed to Luzon to mine and transport iron ore; ordered the Marine Brigade to be stationed in Manila, Cebu and Savia, and to "recruit" young and strong natives to mine iron ore on a large scale; At the same time, the order was: the naval fleet returned to Ryuu for repairs and summed up the experience of the war; Hybrid warships were abolished, and the composition of the naval fleet was changed to a fleet mode of ironclad warships and wooden transport ships.

The acquisition of Luzon iron ore accelerated the industrialization process of Liuqiu, and the Marine Brigade was expanded into a division, which became a crazy and bloodthirsty war machine again, "cleaning up" the Luzon natives everywhere, and escorting batches of young and middle-aged people to the Sawiya iron ore mine to open mines, and for a time a steady stream of iron ore was transported to Keelung Iron and Steel Works one after another; Molten iron and molten steel are produced furnace by furnace. So the plan for the construction of ironclad battleships was revived.

Fu Ning, who solved the source of iron ore, finally calmed down and began to concentrate on "theoretical guidance" in the scientific research department. However, all kinds of troubles followed, and the prototype of the internal combustion engine was developed, but it would turn off in a few seconds, and there would always be all kinds of problems. Prototypes of generators were built, but there was no way to stabilize the voltage and no insulated wires to transmit electricity; Paint can be used as an insulating material for the stator rotor of a motor, but it cannot be used as an insulating material for power lines at all. As for the research and development of clocks, pendulum clocks quickly made samples, but alarm clocks and watch pocket watches could not be developed at all, and Fu Ning did not know the working principle of alarm clock watches, so he could not do "theoretical guidance" at all. Fu Ning was very helpless, he couldn't solve all the problems, so he could only leave a sentence to a group of craftsmen, "You have more meetings!" Think more about how to solve it! And then in the stunned eyes of a group of craftsmen, "dashing drifted away"!

This is not the most troublesome, the most troublesome thing is that Yao Yun completely lost confidence and began to encourage Fu Ning to take a concubine after three years of not being pregnant; In the absence of external pressure, the minds of the leaders of various ministries and departments began to become active, and many people came together to encourage Fu Ning to have a son so that he could inherit the inheritance in the future. The Han people's desire to have children and make contributions is unusually persistent; For a while, Fu Ning was persuaded to take a concubine, give birth to a son, build a country and become a king, add a yellow robe, attack Fujian, etc., Fu Ning's ears were annoyed, and even the old mother-in-law Wen Yang didn't know who to listen to, and actually came over to encourage Fu Ning to marry Xiao Yanglan and have a son; Fu Ning, who was angry, had an iron face and five livers were angry, but he couldn't make it, and he had to carefully persuade Wen Yang. Fu Ning has always taken care of Xiao Yang Lan like his niece, and he never thought that someone would make up his mind from Yang Lan, and he wanted to kill for a while.