The dialect of Fujian is very different from the official dialect of the north, the children of the Zheng family are all indigenous people of Fujian, and these Shandong children sent to Macao by Shandong are completely blinded and cannot understand what the other party says.

The Fujian sailors on these ships also know that the other party can't understand, and they also talk without scruples, these Shandong people have the most official dialect, and most of them speak the native language of their families.

In the eyes of these Fujian sailors, foreigners are not rare, and foreigners who can speak Chinese are not rare, but they don't believe that there will be foreigners who understand Fujian's native language.

Those who speak are not shy at all, and as a result, some words do not fall into the ears of those who have a heart.

The foreigner who was brought in by the Jiaozhou garrison today is also one of the dozen foreigners brought by Priest Federer from the south, but this person is indeed interesting.

Seeing Li Meng, the rules are fully done, the official language is correct and round, and when he reports his home, his name is also interesting, called "Zhang Lipu".

Spain was a world empire in this era, with colonies all over the world, from the white people in Spain, the black slaves brought in the past, and the local natives, these people married each other, and produced all kinds of mixed races, and Spain at that time adopted a rather despicable method to divide it.

According to the amount of white blood on the body, the class of this mixed-race child is divided, a certain race is born noble, and a certain race is born lowly.

This Zhang Lipu is a descendant of a Spanish merchant in Macau. No one else knows what story was born back then. However, he is such a mixed-race child, the white local community will not accept him, and the Han people will not accept it, he has been alone in Guangdong, Fujian, and Nanyang since he was a child.

Perhaps because of his linguistic talent, or forced by life, this Zhang Lipu naturally does not need to speak Chinese and Spanish, and even the dialects of Cantonese and Fujian are proficient.

This time, Father Federer recruited foreigners to come here. Although Li Meng still doesn't know the specific situation, judging from the number of people recruited, it is obviously not so smooth, maybe this Lipu foreigner is not a foreigner, and the Ming person is not a mixed race of the Ming people, so he made up the numbers.

He was fluent in various local dialects, but when he was on the ship, he spent his days speaking to the Han Chinese in Mandarin and foreigners in Spanish. The sailors on the ship, who were not cautious figures, did not shy away from speaking, but they were clearly heard by this Lipu.

Zhang Lipu, who grew up in Daming since he was a child. ^^^^ also understands the importance of this, and naturally knows that this Zheng family's merchant ship went north to the Qing Kingdom, this matter can be big or small, and it can also become a step for his own advancement.

As a result, when he got off the ship, he told the boy who came with him that after getting off the boat. These local clerks hurriedly spread these words to Jiaozhou City.

Li Meng's expression remained unchanged, but he turned his gaze to the Jiaozhou City garrison standing on the side, the Zheng family was also an ally of the Jiaozhou camp anyway, and it was really unconvincing just by the words of this foreigner.

When the guard saw Li Meng looking over, he hurriedly bowed down and said:

"The lowly post has already sent the letter to the Xinyang Water Camp, and it is sent quickly. The private port of Jiaozhou also arranged for fishing boats to go to sea. I don't know the news from Dengzhou, but the fishing boat reported back. It is said that the Zheng family did have cargo ships, and after leaving the port, they headed north. ”

To the north, there is indeed a route to Japan, but Li Meng probably understands in his heart that the Zheng family must have colluded with the Qing State, this kind of wealthy family with the color of local separation, there is no concept of nation and state, the Zheng family and Manchurian Tartars do business, and the profits must be huge.

And for Zheng Zhilong, dealing with the Manchu Tartars is also a kind of betting and speculation, no matter how the world changes in the future, there will always be room for him.

This camp must have not obtained the harbor or Haikou, otherwise, Zheng Zhilong would not have been out of contact.

Li Mengchang exhaled, after coming to this era, there was always a sense of powerlessness, when he learned about the saying of Huaxia and barbarians, he thought that this was the same as the concept of the nation in later generations, and that something was stirred up and operated by arousing the bloody nature of the nation.

But the longer the time passes in this era, the more Li Meng understands what the concept of Huaxia and barbarians is all about, and the land of barbarians living in China is Huaxia, no matter what kind of barbarian people you are, no matter how misbehaving you are after entering the customs, as long as you occupy the enemy of Huaxia, it is Huaxia.

For example, when Meng Yuan became the ruler of the world, the Central Plains was originally the richest place in the world, but after Meng Yuan destroyed the irrigation system, it began to weaken step by step.

There are also the policies of dividing the people of the world into four classes, treating the Han people as human beings, and all kinds of policies of hundreds of millions of people in the world to support millions of Mongols, and all kinds of extremely vicious methods.

is such a Tartar, the country has been passed on for more than 100 years, and it is also known as orthodoxy, and it is also the king of China, and the Ming Empire also wants to give him a history of the Yuan Dynasty and recognize their status. The same group of Mongols, after being expelled from the Central Plains and returning to the steppe, became barbarian beasts.

Under such a concept, what Li Meng was worried about and what Li Meng wanted to use and implement was actually something completely incompatible with this era. ^^^^

In this era, there is no one in the world who regards the Manchu Tartars outside the gate as a terrible threat, for them, this is just a force that is also competing for the world, and the Ming court, and Li Chuang is no different, all the powerful forces who are qualified to bet and speculate, all they have to do is to choose one of them to decide to take refuge, or to join the competition themselves.

There is nothing wrong with the people of this era, they do not know what will be born in the next three hundred years, and what will be born in three hundred years.

In order to maintain their own rule, what kind of high-pressure and foolish land policy will the Manchu Tartars adopt to maintain their own rule, and what kind of darkness will they cause to this China?

It's really exhausting. Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng as the representative of the scholars. Although they realized that the Manchu troops outside the pass were the henchmen of the Ming Dynasty, but the realization was only here, they could not imagine that the war at this time might be between the two peoples, between civilization and barbarism, in order to compete for the next few hundred years of luck dominance, but also to determine what position China can go in the forest of nations in the world.

But I know about it. Although it is helpless, it has not reached the worst level, and the solution is.

The foreigner kneeling in front of Li Meng made him feel very interesting, with his knowledge in his previous life, he had seen Chinese who were full of foreign language and behaved like foreign devils.

But the Zhang Lipu in front of him was almost the opposite. Although he is a foreigner, he is full of Ming official words, and he does not see any foreigner's appearance in his demeanor.

If such a person is in modern times, I am afraid that he will speak a word of Chinese. But in this era, it is completely different, although the gap between the Ming and Europe in this era has been slightly widened, but the winner has not yet been distinguished, in the eyes of Westerners. The East represented by the Ming Empire is still a symbol of civilization.

Maybe it was a little inexplicable, seeing this polite and completely Sinicized mixed-race child, Li Meng actually felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier.

However, thinking about it another way, this Zheng Zhilong can do that murderous deal with him, Li Meng, a warlord who is like a separatist. Go and make a deal with the Manchu Tartars. Not surprising.

"Zhang Lipu, you treat yourself as a foreigner. Or do you think of yourself as a wise person? ”

This Zhang Lipu doesn't seem to know any professional machinery or military technology, but this kind of clever and sleek character, his own Lingshan Commercial Bank is lacking such a character, whether it is Hou Shan, or the shopkeeper below, he does things too one-sidedly, he is obviously a businessman, but he is more like a soldier.

This mixed-race child still has to be recruited, and when he heard Li Mengxiang ask, this Zhang Lipu was really clever, kowtowed on the ground, and replied:

"The big handsome treats the small as a Mingren, the small one becomes a Mingren, the big handsome treats the small one as a foreigner, and the small one becomes a foreigner!"

His answer made Li Menghaha laugh, and waved his hand to call the Jiaozhou garrison to lead people down, this Zhang Lipu is really suitable for Lingshan Commercial Bank.

As soon as the Jiaozhou garrison and this Zhang Lipu walked out of the house, Li Mengdi's face had already become cold, but from beginning to end, Sun Chuanting, who was sitting on the side, was always slowly drinking tea and reading books, and he didn't say a word about the affairs of the land here, Zheng Zhilong and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had collusion, which was originally expected.

In Shandong, there are two ports that can be used for large ships to dock, that is, the capital city of Dengzhou and the Lingshan private port of Jiaozhou, and the rest of the ports are in the forbidden sea, in order to prevent the Japanese from filling and destroying them.

The seaport of Dengzhou and the private port of Lingshan were all built with coastal defense forts, and each had soldiers and horses stationed, and it was impossible to attack it with the combat effectiveness of the Zheng family's naval army.

Since there is no infringement, although the number and equipment of the Xinyang Water Battalion are far inferior to the Zheng family's naval army, there is still no problem in defending in the port and cooperating with the fort.

Moreover, the main force of the Zheng family's fleet is active in the south, and the foundation is also in Fujian, and they will not rashly put a large number of forces into Shandong, which will not outweigh the losses at all, and the Zheng family's 6 combat capabilities are actually a joke.

Even if the Zheng family communicates with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, at most it is a notification message, and he can't talk about the substantive threat, but he will not have any valuable news about this news, the Jiaozhou battalion has a strict armor protection system in Shandong, and it is divided into military forbidden areas everywhere, which is heavily guarded, and it is difficult to reach the sky if you want to hear what you want to hear and see.

Combined with various reasons, the Zheng family's collusion with the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not do any harm to Shandong, and Sun Chuanting naturally would not treat it as a major matter.

Things are not a big deal, but Li Meng's mood is not good, not long after, Huang Ping, the commander of the Shandong Salt Gang, hurriedly came, Li Meng sent his own soldiers to summon him to come, but there was also an urgent military report from Henan.

In terms of priorities, of course, the affairs in the area of Zhuxian Town, Henan Province should be regarded as the top priority, and Sun Chuanting also took up the iron mask and turned around from the coffee table to listen together.

This news can be said to be a bit unbelievable. It's also a bit appalling. After Yuan Zongdi and Tian Jianxiu led the 50,000 soldiers and horses who broke into the camp in a circle, they appeared behind the officers and soldiers of Zhuxian Town.

It sounds like they are intercepting the back roads of the officers and soldiers, but what the 50,000 soldiers and horses who broke into the camp did was digging trenches, the kind of wide and deep trenches that could not climb out if they fell in, and it looked as if they were going to enclose the 400,000 officers and men, cutting off water and food and grass supplies.

Starting from this trench, the follow-up soldiers and horses kept up. Li Zicheng's camp is famous for its "good attack", and the so-called good attack is good at attacking the city and pulling out the village.

The soldiers of the camp were good at civil engineering, and many of them were miners, and they were even more adept at such excavation and construction, and it is said that they were quite large-scale in one day.

From the beginning of the excavation, the follow-up soldiers and horses continued to appear, and the trenches were also digging longer and longer. If you want to cross such a trench, I am afraid that the only way to do it is to lay the ladder of the siege horizontally, and the ladder is placed horizontally. Load-bearing is also a problem, and these soldiers and horses in Zhuxian Town have so many ladders.

But the news from Henan, even if Li Meng is in a very bad mood now, he still can't help laughing, Zhu Xianzhen has 400,000 Ming troops. Only the general soldier Yang Guozheng led 3,000 soldiers and horses to attack once, but as soon as he fought, he was defeated by the soldiers and horses who broke into the camp, and the 3,000 soldiers and horses were dispersed at that time.

In the next round, there was not a single officer and soldier to attack, and they all cowered in the barracks, watching the trench outside grow longer and longer. Gradually, the officers and soldiers were wrapped.

It's a joke. It was like a group of hares, watching the hunter slowly enclose them with a wooden bamboo cage. They knew that after they were completely encircled, it was a dead end, and the fate of the hares was to be killed and eaten, but the hares just did not move, and waited there to die.

If there is really a hare, it will jump a few times, but I don't know if Zuo Liangyu and the others will jump, at present, the west of Zhuxian Town is Li and Luo Lianjun, the north is Kaifeng City and the Yellow River with the city gate closed, and the east is getting longer and longer, and they have to wrap up the trench.

At present, Zhu Xianzhen is about to become a desperate situation, but until the Shandong Salt Gang sends back the news, Ding Qirui, Zuo Liangyu and others have not moved at all.

After laughing, Li Mengwei was really worried, the appearance of rotten flesh of the officers and soldiers, after the fight, where will it cause a little damage to the homeless army, and the defeat and supplies after the defeat will strengthen the homeless army, the so-called two tigers will fight, one will be injured, and the possibility of both defeats will be greater.

However, looking at the situation in front of them, the officers and soldiers are sheep, and if they give these tigers to the homeless army to eat, after eating, they will definitely be more powerful, and it will be even more troublesome. ^^^^

If Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's army of millions of displaced people easily defeated the 400,000 officers and soldiers in Zhuxian Town, and then grew stronger, then all the arrangements in advance would probably become useless arrangements.

The situation of the Li and Luo coalition forces has changed, and Nanzhili is also unable to move......

It's really like what Sun Chuanting said in private, how is foreign affairs, I can't help but think about it, it's not what you planned, others will follow your plan.

Looking at the news sent back from Henan, Li Meng was there for a long time without making a sound, Sun Chuanting hesitated, and said in a low voice:

"Marshal, is General Ma sending some soldiers and horses back, if the thieves defeat the soldiers and horses of Zhuxian Town, we must also have enough soldiers and horses to make arrangements in Beizhili."

Li Meng was quiet for a while before shaking his head and saying:

"If you don't go to Beizhili, there are still some grass platform teams put together by the imperial court in Gyeonggi, so they can stir it up, let's guard the territory in front of us and wait for the opportunity to move."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and called Yuan Wenhong, the chief bookkeeper who was waiting outside, and said:

"Ordered the Jinan battalion and the Dengzhou army, the Jinan battalion to make every effort to do a good job in the defense of Jinan Mansion, Dongchang Mansion and the border of Beizhili, the whole army is on alert, and the Dengzhou army assists in the defense of the Qingzhou military defense area, and at the same time does a good job in the defense of various seaports in Shandong, strictly inspect, and does not allow people with ill intentions to mix into Shandong from the port, and orders the Qingzhou army to collect troops and horses to concentrate in the north of Huai'an Province, so as to ensure that Yanzhou and Qingzhou in Shandong take care of each other.

Li Meng's hand lightly slapped the table, and then he said:

"Sent an order to Huaiyang Jun Chen Liu, let him stay in Zhengyang Town, the territory of Nanzhili. Shandong soldiers and horses should bear more responsibility. At the same time, he sent a letter to Fang Er in Yangzhou, asking him to help handle the supply of military supplies to the Huaiyang Army, and specifically let the people from Lingshan Commercial Bank talk about it. ”

Yuan Wenhong stood on the long table next to him to record, after Li Meng finished speaking, he finished writing, picked up the paper and blew a few breaths, let the ink dry, and handed it to Li Meng for confirmation. If it is confirmed, an official document will be formed, and the messenger will be sent to the armies after printing, and when Li Meng gave the order, Sun Chuanting had been listening carefully to the side.

Li Meng was about to write here, and Sun Chuanting said in a deep voice:

"Marshal, at the moment this is just the situation, and there is no definite result yet, since the army has already arrived. It doesn't hurt to wait. ”

Li Meng does things well, no matter what, but in some details. But it always seems to be tricky, which makes Sun Chuanting, a character who was born as a superintendent and a heavy minister, very incomprehensible, why Junyan, who has achieved such a situation, seems to be a little childish in these details, but the reason is that there is no other, modern people come over. Some subtle rhythms can't be changed for a while.

What Sun Chuanting said was also to the point, the arrangement of the army has already begun, and if there are any changes at present, it will be too unnecessary to suddenly consume the cost of grain and grass.

As soon as the mastermind said this, Li Meng understood the meaning after a little pondering, and immediately said:

"The 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Qingzhou Army are stationed on the spot. The 5,000 soldiers under the command of Gao Ke returned to Huai'an Mansion. Chen Liu's soldiers and horses should not be held in Zhengyang Town, and put appropriate pressure on Zhang Xianzhong and the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo! ”

It's not so much the main book. It's better to say that it is Secretary Xi next to Li Meng, but Yuan Wenhong has no complaints, Shandong literati, I don't know how many people envy him for such good luck.

Yuan Wenhong was not ambiguous about changing the order here, and directly prepared the orders on a piece of paper, and asked Li Meng to confirm one by one, and naturally there were palm prints on the side of the soldiers who took the sealed letters, stamped them, put them in envelopes, and sealed them with fire paint.

The restaurant where Li Meng is located, the cavalry messengers outside who are fast horses and hurry up to deliver the message, are all ready at any time, three shifts on duty, under the order here, someone immediately answered, hurriedly ran down, and after a while, you could hear the sound of horses' hooves outside ringing rapidly.

It is foreseeable that in the next few days, it will still be very leisurely, but Li Meng is not in the mood to enjoy it at all, it is also predictable, his game of chess, the world's heroes did not follow his ideas, to be precise, it was the cowardice and incompetence of the officers and soldiers of Zhu Xianzhen that exceeded his expectations.

After reporting the news, the idlers and others all retreated, and Huang Ping also saw that Li Mengdi's expression was not very good, and he was unwilling to touch this mildew in the house.

He was just about to bow down and retreat, when he heard Li Meng behind him say in a sullen voice:

"Catch a Zheng family person, you have to go to sea recently, know some detailed characters, don't let the Zheng family know, when they ask, let's say we don't know."

This order came down, but it was Huang Ping's work, he hurriedly agreed, turned around and went out to do it, and when everyone dispersed, the room was quiet, Li Meng's face sank like water, looking at the scenery outside the window, obviously a little depressed, Sun Chuanting smiled secretly, this handsome, it was at this time that he showed a performance commensurate with his age.

Sun Chuanting walked up to Li Meng, solemnly bowed, and said gently:

"Dashuai, don't regret it, the situation is unpredictable at this time, this time it won't be possible, let's plan next time, let's say a word in the market, we Shandong, we can afford to wait."

Li Meng took a few breaths slowly and replied:

"Thank you Mr. Sun for explaining, Li is indeed anxious, since the overall situation is already like this, there is no need to stay in Jining, let's go back to Jinan!"

At present, Fengmeng Town is a remarkable place, he is the center of Shandong Salt Affairs, and it is also the first town on which Lingshan Private Port depends, not to mention that he is the starting point of Li Meng, the general of Zhendong and the general soldier of Shandong.

Salt merchants, maritime merchants, and all kinds of people who make money in smuggling and smuggling salt, as well as the branches of those big commercial houses in Shandong and Nanzhili, make the market of Fengmeng Town unusually prosperous, and restaurants, green houses, gambling houses, and all kinds of places that can only be seen in big cities can be seen here.

In addition, because of the various Western gadgets imported by maritime merchants, the women of Nanyang, Waguo, and Goryeo have given this place some unique extravagance in the south of the Yangtze River.

And it's important to note that the Jiaozhou camp is safe here, and there are no tax collectors to harass you, which means that this is a city backed by a free port, and there is all the absolute security of those free ports.

The Lingshan Commercial Bank had already made enough money in salt affairs and maritime trade, and the profits in the market were not eye-catching, and besides, many stores already had shares in the Lingshan Commercial Bank.

In this way, as a result, in the market of Fengmeng Town, in addition to salt merchants, maritime merchants and related people, there are also many children of large families in Shandong, especially the wealthy businessmen in Jining Prefecture, who are willing to come to this gold cave to spend a lot of money.

The small poor town, in less than ten years, has become a first-class and prosperous place in Shandong, and many people have soared into the sky.

When Li Menggang was selling illicit salt, he went to deal with the owner of a dice shop who detained Ma Gang, who was a former butcher who was a former butcher.

This butcher is now also an extraordinary figure, one of the big names in Fengmeng Town, with a lot of money, two green buildings, three big casinos, and the people in the town see him, and they will politely call Zhang Ye and Zhang Yuanwai. Even the shipowners and sailors who ran back and forth to Lingshan Private Port knew that they were not afraid of being deceived by someone and setting up a situation when gambling in the casino outside Zhang Yuan, and no one dared to make trouble.

Zhang Butcher's casino is day and night, it has always been full of people, brightly lit, and there is a curtain in the middle, which is where the gambling house stewards stay, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach.

Now the door curtain is slightly raised, outside the town's Zhang Yuan, the Zhang butcher of the year was full of flattering and flattering looks, and whispered to a person outside and said:

"My lord, he is a bow of the Zheng family, and he just got off the ship the day before yesterday."

When I go back to Shanghai tomorrow, I really don't want to leave home and want to spend more time with my parents

Alas, people who are away from home, that's not good