IV. The Queen's Meeting
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What to do in the future?
This is a big problem.
Capturing a county town seems to be a good start, but it also means that this group of people will henceforth be the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, although everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty will perish in the Chongzhen era, but in any case, for a boat of people, the Ming Dynasty is definitely a behemoth.
Therefore, when the dust settled and the traversers gathered in the lobby of the county warehouse, most of the people did not show much excitement on their faces, but were more confused.
The streets were still empty, and locals were hiding in their houses. As the victors, the crossers also don't have the courage to go sightseeing on the streets. Except for Wang Haiyang who led more than a dozen people back to the steamer to guard the guard, all the other people who had entered the city consciously ran to the county warehouse to gather.
Human beings are social animals, and it is instinctive to draw closer to the collective in an unfamiliar environment.
There were a lot of people in the hall of the county warehouse, but the atmosphere was very dull, and everyone just gathered here by instinct, but they didn't know what to do next. Originally, many people's eyes were on Tang Jian, a soldier of the armed police, who naturally gained authority in this group as the commander of last night's military operation. However, Tang Jian always kept a straight face and did not say a word, and had no intention of taking the opportunity to take the lead.
After all, not everyone has the power.
"Since you're all here, let's inform you of a few things."
In the end, the one who broke the silence was relieved, and since yesterday he has been showing considerable composure and good leadership.
"No one doubts it by now - we've traveled through planes. The specific year here should be the second year of Ming Chongzhen, that is, 1629 AD, which is different from 2008 when we came...... 379 years. β
"No one knows how this happened, maybe it had something to do with the strange blue glow the night before. But I don't think anyone here can explain why, right? In any case, things have already happened, and we have come to the Ming Dynasty. β
"We don't know if we're going back, and we certainly don't know how. But there is one thing that I think no one disagrees with, and that is that we have to survive in this era. β
"In the Chongzhen year of the Ming Dynasty, everyone knows it...... It's messy, it's miserable. It's not easy to survive in this day and age, but the good thing is that we're a community. Among us are active and retired PLA fighters, as well as some modern weapons...... I was a soldier myself. We are a very strong group, and that was evident last night. β
There was a little wave in the surrounding crowd, after all, they were all young people, bold and energetic, and who had never played a war game when a boy was a child? And last night was a real battle, and as the winner, it was only then that everyone began to experience the joy of victory.
Xie Xi obviously intended to use this to boost morale, so he gave up his position in time and turned the topic to Tang Jian next to him.
"Team Tang, then please inform everyone of our actions and results last night?"
Tang Jian didn't shirk this time, and after thinking about it for a while, he stood up, and said solemnly after standing upright:
"Last night's operation, the rescue goal has been achieved. Six hostages were unharmed, and nineteen of our side were lightly wounded, not seriously injured, and no died. Thirty-four people were killed, including one officer of a thousand households, another forty-seven were wounded, and six officers were taken prisoner. β
"Did we kill so many people yesterday?"
Old Professor Li Mingyuan suddenly spoke, with obvious unbearability on his face, and Tang Jian nodded expressionlessly:
"Originally, there weren't so many, and last night Team A killed a total of four people during the attack. But then someone set fire to the street in an attempt to create a riot, and Team B had to kill a group of them during the suppression, and then attacked the official warehouse......"
Tang Jian pointed to the corner of the wall, where there were still blackened marks.
"Because I have to rush for time, I can only attack."
Old Professor Li nodded, and didn't say anything anymore, after all, they did it to save him.
After reporting the battle situation, the dismissal turned to Pang Yu again.
"Pang Yu, tell me about our plans at this stage."
The latter nodded--a few of them, including Xie Xie, Tang Jian, Lao Ma and others, discussed in the middle of the night last night and basically determined the future route. Of course, whether it can be accepted by everyone depends on the reaction of today's meeting.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we all know the situation now. Regarding our next phase of action, we have several such proposals. β
"First of all, make sure you have a way out. We have to do our best to organize manpower to repair the stranded ship and get it back into the water. At the same time, we had enough food and fresh water on board so that we could all get on board and retreat in case the shape was not good. β
"Why don't you go kuΓ i? Although last night's action was a last resort, for the Ming Dynasty, we have already 'killed officials and rebelled', and we will definitely send troops to suppress it next. β
A tall thin man next to him raised his hand, Pang Yu recognized him, his name was Ling Ning, and he was also a relatively "alone" guy. Yesterday, he didn't participate in whether everyone went to see the excitement or later went to save people, and he didn't even pick up the gun when it was fired, just wandering around alone, probably to understand the situation.
This morning, however, he picked up a steaming meal with Chef Li from the kitchen and brought it to the city, and he was apparently an assertive and attentive personβbut this kind of person usually does not accept other people's "construction" lightly.
"That's a good questionβwhere are we going, then?"
Pang Yu's rhetorical question made Ling Ning stunned, and then shook his head with a wry smile and stopped talking. But Pang Yu continued:
"If our ship is running at full capacity, we can go to Taiwan in three or four days, and we can go down to Malaysia, the Philippines ......, but we can only go one way, and then we can't move. And you know, these places are not uninhabited islands. Most of these islands were in the hands of Portugal and Spain, at the height of the so-called 'Age of Discovery', which were still very powerful. Conflict with them is more dangerous than dealing with the Ming Dynasty. β
"So that's our next building - we're going to try to stay here as long as the shape allows. This year is the second year of Chongzhen, and now in November, the city of Beijing is surrounded by pigtailed soldiers, and it is impossible for the Ming government to have the energy to deal with the troubles on Hainan Island. β
"Professor Li, you are an expert in this area, can you roughly guess the reaction of the Ming government, how many troops they will probably send, and how long will it take to attack us?"
Asking a question next to him, when it comes to the major, Professor Li Mingyuan thought about it for a while with a stern expression, and said slowly:
"How many people can be sent and how long it will take is mutual. The Ming Dynasty was very strict with the control of the army, and according to the laws of Zhu Yuanzhang's time, as long as the local army sent more than 100 troops, the central government had to approve it. Therefore, even if the state capital here has an army, it cannot be dispatched lightly without the permission of the above. β
"Can you be specific?"
Pang Yu reluctantly urged, everyone was very short of time, and they didn't have time to listen to the old man's class here.
"Legally, we are comparable to a Japanese invasion. The entire island of Hainan was under the jurisdiction of the Qiongzhou Prefecture, which was supposed to report to the governor of Guangxi, and then to the Nanjing Military Department, and the eunuchs of Nanjing Town made a decision on whether to send troops to suppress it. If the eunuchs in Nanjing, who were too large to make a decision, would have to report directly to the Beijing cabinet and let the emperor himself make a decision. β
"How long does the whole process take?"
The soldier Tang Jian asked concisely, but the old man smiled and stretched out two fingers:
"Two years."
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Everyone was stunned at first, and then they were in an uproar and laughed.
"Oh my God, this isn't a joke, is it? In two years, our navy has figured it out! β
A stunned young man hugged his stomach and laughed wildly, but Professor Li was very strict:
"This is not a joke, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese - at this time called the Francos seized Macao, and the local officials wrote to report the situation and ask for countermeasures, and it was not until two years later that the Ming government reacted - of course, the Portuguese had already established themselves in the area by this time. The central government of the Ming Dynasty had a very tight grip on power, and everything had to be handled personally, but the technical level of this era was very low, so their reaction speed was very slow. β
"How did they deal with the pattern of the Japanese invasion before?"
Pang Yu asked, Professor Li thought for a moment and replied:
"Fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, wait for the enemy to go - gather troops in the neighboring states and counties to defend, but for the places that have fallen, let them burn and loot, and when they have robbed enough, they will naturally leave."
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There was silence again, but this time no one laughed. Noticing everyone's feelings, the old professor added:
"Of course, this is only a theoretical situation, and sometimes the local government reacts quickly. During the period of Qi Jiguang, the Japanese in Jiangsu and Zhejiang did not take much advantage......"
"If the local government responds quickly this time β for example, in the case of Qiongzhou, where they are going to send troops, how much pressure will we face?"
Tang Jian asked again, and Professor Li thought for a moment:
"I remember that the Ming Dynasty set up two guards in Qiongzhou, that is, Hainan Island, and there was a Qiongya general position, with the rank of general."
"In the military system of the Ming Dynasty, one guard post is 2,000 soldiers, right?" A young man named Wen Desi interjected, he was usually quite a history lover, and he wore thick glasses. "There are three classes, upper, middle and lower, and each level is different. Most of the people here on Hainan Island are low-class guards, almost 2,000 people. β
"So we could be attacked by four thousand?"
Tang Jian frowned, relying on more than a hundred people to resist four thousand troops, this difficulty is too high. However, Professor Li shook his hand unhurriedly and smiled:
"No, don't worry, that's just the system when the Ming Dynasty was just established. The Ming Wei system decayed very quickly, and the military households of the Wei Institute had to farm their own fields to support themselves, and after a few generations, the military households of the Wei Institute had all become farmers. At present, in addition to the guards in the northern border areas that still maintain their combat effectiveness, the guards in the south and in the interior usually have thousands of peasants farming and supporting one or two hundred soldiers, among whom a dozen or so people who are particularly brave are accepted as family members by the officers, and when they fight, they mainly rely on the officers to rush up with their families, and victory or defeat depends on these dozens of people. β
"And how many enemies will we encounter?"
Tang Jian was obviously confused, and there were black lines on his head. But Professor Li smiled and spread his hands:
"I don't know, I think even the prefect of Qiongzhou himself doesn't know, it depends on the ability of the officer of the local guard station and his greed, to see how much money he is willing to spend to raise soldiers."
Seeing that the Tang soldiers were about to go berserk, the old man finally added very kindly:
"But don't worry, a guard won't exceed two hundred fighters at most."
Tang Jian breathed a sigh of relief:
"Four hundred...... That's okay. β
"I don't think so." Pang Yu next to him suddenly interjected, "The two guards are the troops of the whole island of Hainan Island, and they are usually scattered all over the place, like there is only one thousand households here......"
Pang Yu pointed to the courtyard, where there were still more than a dozen corpses that had not had time to be cleaned up, and they were the unlucky ones who died in the battle last night.
"Yesterday we knocked out probably all the troops of this thousand households, if the thousand households in other places are like this, it is not a small project for them to gather people, and it will take two months at the earliest. However, there is another possibility to be guarded against...... It's November, and the harvest is complete. They are likely to bring out a bunch of peasants to fill the numbers, and of course these peasant soldiers are completely ineffective, but they are probably not small in number - without a certain number of brave men they will not send troops at all. β
Finally, Pang Yu concluded:
"We have about a month to prepare, and then the Ming Dynasty government may send one or two thousand people to exterminate us, but there will be no more than two hundred regular soldiers with combat effectiveness, and the rest are peasants."
Dismissal: Hurry up and pick up the conversation immediately:
"Therefore, our main goal at this stage is to prepare for defense, and all boys must receive military training, spend a month or so to enrich their weapons and equipment, and prepare to fight an anti-encirclement war!"
There was a temporary chill in the room, and most people were not surprised by the decision. After last night's incident, anyone with a little brain will think about the way out in the future, some are more practical, some think long-term, but in any case, no one has any objection to the fact that survival is the first thing to do.
"If you have any ideas, you can also put them forward, brainstorm, and it doesn't hurt to discuss more."
Pang Yu eased the atmosphere beside him, so someone soon asked:
"Can we recruit some locals to join the army?"
Pang Yu nodded with a smile:
"Of course, it's a long-term plan. But it's impossible for us to train an army capable of fighting in a month, and besides, you can trust the locals with your guns? β
"I'm afraid we don't have enough guns, only a small half of us got weapons yesterday."
Someone asked again, but Pang Yu still smiled and nodded:
"Yes, we have a total of thirty-seven guns at the moment, and we used up a lot of bullets last night. But everyone knows that we have a set of Black Gun Workshop tools on our ship, as well as a ...... Gun experts, we asked last night that Comrade Wang could use the existing tools to dispense more than 30 guns within a month. Sixty or so guns are enough to support one army. I think that when Commander Hu's team first opened, there were only a dozen people who came with seven or eight guns. β
"What about bullets? Are there enough bullets? β
The man ignored Pang Yu's joke and continued to ask, with a frenzy on his face, it seemed that he was a gun fan.
"There are molds and lead blocks for making bullets, and bullet casings can be reloaded or smelted with copper coins. The gunpowder had to be collected locally, but it was not very difficult - we found hundreds of pounds of gunpowder in the storehouse, which was of poor quality, but could be purified. In addition, Comrade Wang said that he could use the local method to make gunpowder, and that he could solve the problem locally. β
"That's right, I know - go to the toilet to collect nitrate and artificially refine it**......"
The guy was still more serious, and the next Xie Xi smiled and patted him on the shoulder:
"Let's talk about the specifics later...... Do you have any other ideas? β
"I ...... I'd like to ask about ......"
A small white and tender hand was raised timidly, and everyone's eyes immediately focused on its owner - it was the iceberg beauty, who had been sitting here in a daze since she was rescued yesterday, and her tearful little appearance made people's hearts ache.
"Ah, Miss Wang, don't you have any questions."
The attitude towards the beautiful woman is naturally different, and even the dismissal is much more attentive - he has figured out that the name of this beauty is Wang Jiaojiao, a flight attendant of Shanghai Eastern Airlines.
"I don't think we have to fight. Since we know that it will be the Qing Dynasty in the future, why can't we go to Kangxi in advance...... Or Qianlong? β
This delicate lady really spoke extraordinary, and her words made everyone in the hall petrified.
Pang Yu, Xie Xi, including Tang Jian next to him, were also stupid, they had discussed various situations beforehand, and they had expected various problems, but they really didn't think of such idiots.
made eye contact for a long time, and finally Pang Yu came out to answer. After thinking about it for a long time, he coughed:
"This, now the one in power in Manchuria is Huang Taiji, known as Tiancong Khan, and Kangxi is his grandson. It doesn't seem like I've been born yet...... However, Miss Wang, a group of us went there and found Huang Taiji, and then what were we doing? β
"And then ......"
It is really a very eye-catching thing to make that beautiful face have a thoughtful expression. So Pang Yu is also interested in playing a little joke with her:
"Maybe Huang Taiji will take a fancy to you Miss Wang at a glance and seal you to be a blessing or something. But what will he do with us ordinary Han people, Manchuria is now using Han people as slaves. β
"I'll take care of everyone."
Wang Jiaojiao said this sentence casually, which made Pang Yu, who originally felt that he was joking with the other party, stunned, but felt that he was an idiot.
Fortunately, everyone around her had almost the same expression, and Wang Jiaojiao quickly returned to "normal".
"I ...... I'm just talking about it, don't blame me if it's not right. β
Pang Yu nodded dejectedly, what else could he say to this young lady, all the tirade he had prepared was rotten in his stomach.
"It's okay...... I guess you haven't watched any other Qing court dramas except "Huanzhu Gege". β
"I've also watched "Kangxi is coming!" ", but I didn't see the whole ......"
Wang Jiaojiao said happily, Pang Yu sighed and climbed back to his seat.
"No wonder you know Kangxi...... It's not easy. β
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The venue was cold again, and many people were secretly laughing with their mouths covered. At this time, Professor Li coughed and spoke again - this kind old man saw Miss Wang's face full of embarrassment, so he said something to help her out:
"In fact, Huang Taiji is good for the Han people. Vigorously promoted a number of Han officials, including Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan I ......"
"I heard that Fan Wencheng's fate was not good, the concubine was snatched away by Dolgon and had to give gifts to congratulate, and she was also very aggrieved when she died in the end."
Ling Ning, who had not spoken before, suddenly interjected, his face full of disdain, and Professor Li was a little embarrassed.
Indeed, after the death of Huang Taiji, his successor, Dorgon, changed his policies, and discrimination and persecution against the Han Chinese re-emerged in the Manchu Qing Dynasty...... But later, Shunzhi and Kangxi eased up......"
"Isn't the Ming history case from the Shunzhi era, and there are not a few literary prisons in the Kangxi Dynasty, such as the Dai Mingshi case."
Ling Ning didn't speak much, but his words were very sharp, and he was obviously very familiar with history. Professor Li's face turned a little pale, but at this time, it was the eldest lady Wang who came out to help him out:
"Ha, I know Dolgon, and Da Yu'er and Xiao Yu'er, they are all in this era? Can we go and see? β
Both sides of the debate fell, and all the scheming was shattered in front of the invincible Miss Wang, Xie Tie rushed out with a blue face and shouted:
"Let's stop here for the time being, disband, disband!"
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