Last month was super busy and I really didn't have time to write.

5,000 words of great chapters and say sorry. ^-^——

The so-called high-end atmosphere is high-grade, low-key luxury has connotation - it is not only those outsiders who are shocked by the new princess, including the crossing of the crowd itself, many people are shouting after the visit:

"This ship is no longer fit for sailing, is it? It's a big luxury! ”

However, none of the people who made such an exclamation were ready to take the boat, and all the members of the tour group unanimously said: You are envious, jealous and hateful! We just want to take this carved boat to Beijing!

And even Aunt Song, the chairman of the committee, and Professor Li, who have never expressed their opinions, also made a "too much" comment on this after returning to the dock lounge after visiting the big boat, the two old people have not seen the world, but it is unheard of to put so much effort into a wooden boat - and many Renaissance style portrait sculptures featuring the beauty of human body lines seem to be a bit "inappropriate" in the eyes of the two old people, but in this regard, The younger generation thinks completely differently from them. Even the female doctor Feng Yufei, who has always been considered to be synonymous with old-fashionedness, has a completely positive attitude towards the art style on the Princess.

"It's beautiful, Pang Yu, the craftsman you found is really good."

"Of course, that's a famous Spanish painter, if Wang Chen hadn't gotten some computer pictures to stop him, he wouldn't have worked for us."

Pang Yu, who is also one of the persons in charge of this renovation and modification, responded to the female doctor's praise with a smile, and explained to the two old people:

"Because considering that this ship is our earliest trophy, it is very commemorative, and it will be sent to the museum sooner or later in the future. It itself has something to do with the Medici family, so this time it was simply restored as a work of art, not just a pleasure boat. Turning back to the north, we also used this boat to pick up the bride and come back, and by the way, we could show our artistic qualities to the nobles of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"It's just the art of the Western Renaissance."

Feng Yufei next to him was not very happy when he heard this, and Pang Yu didn't argue with her, just spread his hands:

"There's no way, if you sell traditional Chinese culture in front of the people of the Ming Dynasty, it's a standard class axe, you can only find another way and borrow foreign gadgets - let's use Chinese culture to fool foreign devils and make money at both ends."

This sentence made Feng Yufei couldn't help laughing, so he didn't delve into it anymore.

At the same time, Xie Xi was also standing with Wen Desi, who was about to lead the fleet north, and the two were also talking about the ship in a low voice, but it was another thing:

"I'm afraid this ship is not capable of combat, right?"

Insiders looked at the doorway, and when they saw that the midboard gun windows had been replaced with glass windows, he knew that it was impossible to install cannons in other parts of the ship—the cannons must not all be shattered once the glass windows were opened.

Wenders agrees:

"Almost, although there is a place for a rocket launcher on the deck, it is actually necessary to keep her away from the battlefield - a random gunboat of art can be a huge loss."

"Then how will security be guaranteed in the future?"

"The first one will take a safe route, and the second one will bring more bodyguards - in the future, the Princess will no longer sail alone, and will be escorted by at least one large warship at a time. This time, we arranged for the Governor and the Earl to accompany us, plus the Great General, which was given to the Ming Dynasty, a fleet composed of four galleons and a number of medium-sized ships, which was an unprecedented scale. ”

"Give a ship to the Ming Dynasty, but arrange three galleons to escort it, this is to scare them."

Xie Xi laughed, but Wen Deji nodded:

"Our navy does have this idea, and the brains of Ming Dynasty officials have always been rather strange. We can't object to the Commission's decision to send them a big ship, but God knows what strange consequences will be drawn - perhaps they will be so arrogant that they may not be able to compete with us for sea supremacy, and it is necessary to deter them. In addition, this time, when the fleet returns to Taiwan, it will go around Taiwan and send a batch of immigrants and supplies over, which is not good if the scale is small. ”

Xie Xi bowed slightly, Wang Haiyang and Zhang Yu have a good momentum of development in Taiwan, but it has always been difficult for the immigration point to expand on a large scale. Local indigenous people can help, but they can't be the main force of development – there are still too few people at the end of the day. In these years, the island of Taiwan was full of swamps and dense forests, plague and miasma and the like were very severe, and the Zheng family immigrated from the mainland in the early years, and many of them died of soil and water adaptation and infectious diseases. Nowadays, the Qiong Navy has also made great efforts to devote itself to the work of immigration, relying on more scientific and advanced technology and medical level, and indeed this process of conquering nature has been greatly accelerated. It's just that it's hard to get to the scale they planned. The committee discussed several times that there was no other way to deal with it, and the only response was to send more people - where there are many people, the natural jungle can only retreat. At this time, there is no need to think about protecting the environment, and let the environment be suitable for human survival.

"Are you still transporting people from the Shandong base?"

As their most important layout point on the mainland, one of the main tasks of the Shandong base is to absorb the abundant human resources of the Ming Dynasty to support the expansion and layout policy of the Qiong Navy to various overseas settlements - some people have proposed to march to the Americas and Australia, but the precondition is still to have people.

Wen Desi nodded first: "This group of immigrants is still organized by the Shandong base. But then he remembered something and added, "But not necessarily in the future." ”

"What do you mean?"

Xie Xi was stunned, if you don't transport people from the mainland, where else can you find them? Wen Desi looked at him quite strangely and shook his head:

"Why don't you know? Xiao Lang had just sent a telegram back, proposing a new plan. ”

…………

After sending the fleet north, Xie Xi hurriedly found Pang Yu's side, grabbed him and asked:

"What's going on? What kind of demon moth is Xiao Lang doing over there? Actually proposed to go to Lushun? ”

Pang Yu didn't seem to care very much, and responded casually:

"Oh, it's just a preliminary idea, and the committee hasn't had time to discuss it yet—haven't they been busy arranging blind date groups to go north lately?"

"What are you kidding, it was not that the committee did not discuss it at the beginning, and the final conclusion was that at this stage, there was no contact with the Manchurian Jurchens, and the policy had been determined. Xiao Lang, what does he want to do! Drag everyone together to fight the Manchurians? ”

The opinion seat looked angry, and Pang Yu finally showed a more formal expression on his face:

"There are policies and countermeasures, and you don't know this sentence. You know Xiao Lang, he's always had some kind of ...... in his arms With a sense of mission, I always feel that we have come to this era to clean up the Manchurian Jurchens. Now that he had brought it up again, he was of course fully sure that he had found a good reason for it. ”

"What reason?"

"The remnants of the Dongjiang Army, the tens of thousands of Han people in Lushunkou and the coast of Liaodong - if we don't come to the rescue, they will all become slaves of the Manchurians."

- It is said that some time ago, Kong Youde defected to Manchuria, and with the support of Huang Taiji, he led the newly formed firearms army to attack the remnants of the Dongjiang River in Lushun. Because of the incongruity of many factors such as the cold weather and the small number of people, it was not able to completely eradicate it in one fell swoop as in history, but dragged on and fought a bad battle, and the progress was not smooth.

However, the main reason for this "unsatisfactory situation" did not come from the battlefield, but mainly due to muddy roads, insufficient logistics, poor communication between Kong Youde and his new Manchurian masters, and the overly conservative actions of the guide. On the battlefield, the Dongjiang Army barely put any pressure on the newly formed "Wuzhen Chaoha" army, and after a few battles in the early days, it fled all the way - the difference in combat strength between the two sides was too great.

In fact, in this time and space, if you put aside the numerical factor and purely look at the army building ideas and local tactics, they are much stronger than in history - they have fought with the Qiong Navy and experienced first-hand how a real hot weapon war should be fought with a lot of blood. After the Later Jin Dynasty rebuilt the new army, of course, they would try their best to imitate the short-haired army that had made them scattered, although the learning was nondescript, but the overall idea was correct.

In this way, the Dongjiang Army was even more irresistible, although the opponent did not advance very quickly due to its own reasons, but it was very steady. When you get to the ground, you will definitely be able to defeat it, and if you beat it, you will definitely be able to defend it, so step by step, it seems that sooner or later Lushun will be taken down, and the Dongjiang army will be forced into a desperate situation.

This feeling of waiting for death is not pleasant, and the psychological pressure borne by Huang Long, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, is probably greater than when he committed suicide and martyrdom in a surprise attack in history. No matter how he couldn't resist it on the battlefield, all he could do was to ask for help everywhere - during this time, Huanglong sent a letter of request for help to almost all the places where the messenger could reach, even Weihai Shorthair, which was unable to hit the edge of the eight poles on the subordinate. The content is almost the same as what was written to the imperial court, and it is very tragic and tragic: our generals had the responsibility of defending the territory, and it is natural that they died in battle, but there are still a large number of soldiers and their families on Lushun and the islands of the Dongjiang River, as well as the old and weak women and children who have escaped from Jianzhou who have been enslaved for many years, and there are tens of thousands of innocent Han people, please send a boat to pick them up no matter what, so that the soldiers can kill the enemy and serve the country with peace of mind.

The Ming court is still busy dealing with the follow-up issues arising from Emperor Chongzhen's clean-up of the salt tax case - such as how to distribute those vacated official seats, and it can't take care of the Dongjiang army for the time being. Anyway, those Qiu Ba have never been good birds, and they don't know how much money they have deceived the court over the years, but they have no restraining effect. Moreover, the officials of the Ming Dynasty themselves were accustomed to big words, and they could see at a glance that there were all the untruths in Huang Long's distress book - the situation was critical? If it's really critical, how can you send so many messengers? - Send a boat to pick up the elderly and infirm? If Nima really had a boat passing, it would be strange that the old and weak women and children could squeeze into the boat! We don't know what kind of virtue these dead hills are, and we civil officials don't know yet, and if there is no way back, maybe they can still fight for it, if we really want to give them a back road, these birdmen will definitely run faster than rabbits!

Didn't the god of war Han Xin say: You must first put it to death before you can live later! You dead Qiu Ba read too few military books and don't understand this truth, but our civil officials understand, so let's learn with peace of mind - it is good for Qiu Ba to force them, maybe they can force Ning Jin to win again.

In short, the Ming Dynasty must not have time to deal with Dongjiang Town, but the attitude of Xiao Lang at the Weihai base is completely different - of course, Xiao Lang and they also don't believe that Huang Long is really as tragic and heroic as he said in his letter for help, but at least in history, Huang Long did commit suicide and martyrdom, knowing this made Xiao Lang still have a certain respect for him. On the other hand, he doesn't really care about the other party's thoughts at all, as long as he can actually control the action.

"The Dongjiang Army used to use Dengzhou as a logistics base, and after the Denglai Rebellion, it was temporarily moved to Tianjin, but in fact it was not able to establish a solid supply line - you know the efficiency of the Ming Dynasty. After the Dengzhou Rebellion was pacified, there were always voices within the Ming Dynasty to restore the original state, and Huanglong's request was also to take people back to Shandong. But Xiao Lang felt that as long as we got people on board, we would decide where to go—if we sent a fleet to pick them up. ”

Xiao Lang was very smart and did not directly oppose the committee's "no contact" policy, but only from the perspective of absorbing manpower and collecting manpower, he believed that if Kong Youde was allowed to eliminate Dongjiang Town so lightly, and completely solve the long-term worries of Houjin in the northeast direction, even for the future strategy of the Qiong Navy, it would be extremely unfavorable - although most of the members of the committee agreed with the policy of "no contact for the time being". But at the same time, no one can deny it: sooner or later, the Joan Navy will have to confront Houjin. Since they have come to this era, and they don't want to keep braids as slaves, it is inevitable to have a hard fight with the Jianzhou Jurchens. Don't touch it now, just to wait until it's stronger in the future.

On the other hand, the huge demand for human resources in the Qiong Navy was also a breakthrough for Xiao Lang to seek the support of the committee—six years ago, it was precisely because of the existence of the Dongjiang Army that the Houjin Eight Banners had not been able to fully control their occupied areas. Many Han people who were unwilling to be enslaved by the Jurchens were trying to escape, and the Dongjiang army was very weak in combat, but it has always been one of the directions for the Han people in Liaodong to escape, and many fugitive slaves have been hiding in the Dongjiang military-controlled zhì area along the coast of Liaodong over the years, and a large part of Huanglong's request for the imperial court to send a boat to pick them up this time is this kind of people.

"There are tens of thousands of these people, and if they fall back into the hands of the Houjin Eight Banners, they will definitely increase the strength of the other party. And if we are to receive them, it will be useful both for Taiwan and Luzon. Moreover, Xiao Lang further proposed that if we can keep the Dongjiang army this time, as long as they can continue to maintain the storage in the hinterland of Houjin, the Han people in Liaodong will keep running to the sea, thus leading to the continuous blood loss of Houjin. ”

Xie Xi sneered:

"To put it lightly, as long as the Dongjiang group of waste can hold up, we have to go up ourselves in the end!"

Yes, but at least Xiao Lang's request for the moment is only to pick up the refugees - he made it clear in the telegram: Weihai has now received many refugees who have escaped from Lushun on small boats or even rafts, and the situation there is very bad, and the number of people starving to death will only increase as winter approaches. And we have no shortage of food, no shortage of ships, no shortage of soldiers, the only thing we lack is permission from the rear committee. The fate of tens of thousands of Han people across the strait will depend on our decision. At the same time, he fully understands the committee's concerns, so he promised that this time he will try not to involve the troops in the war, at least not actively intervene. ”

"! When he brought his troops over there, he couldn't help but say that he had really exchanged fire with the Manchurians, and there were only those who tried their best to support him in the rear, and who could blame him for not doing it. ”

The old Xie who knew the mystery of this first scolded, but then touched his nose again:

"I said, it's not unusual for that kid to play sensationalism, but with his usual personality, he is willing to make concessions - even if it's just on the surface, it's really not easy, and it's much better than when he was in the mechanical group before."

Pang Yu laughed twice:

"People will always grow, and now he can be regarded as a leader in the military and political affairs. Among the more than 100 of us, the people who have had this experience are none other than the two captains of Tang Wang, you, and Old Jack...... This time he did make a good move, occupying the moral high ground and superficially avoiding the committee's worst concerns, in which case you can raise an objection even if you are still in the committee? As far as I know, at least the navy has no objection, and Ah Wen personally led the team north this time, just thinking that he would also go to Liaodong for a turn when the time comes. ”

Xie Xi was silent, and after a long time, he said in a muffled voice:

"Now the Ming Dynasty must be happy to die."

"Yes, this south and north finally let us bite each other...... It is said that both Qian Qianyi, Zhou Yanru, and Wen Tiren have received countless scholars' clever plans to 'drive tigers and devour wolves', asking them to follow the Song Dynasty's strategy of using Liangshan to conquer Fangla, and recruit our short hair to crusade against Dongyu...... Chongzhen himself has asked Qian Qianyi several times. ”

"This time they got their wish...... But maybe this article will help Lin Hanlong and their negotiations with Daming? ”

After listening to Pang Yu's analysis, the dismissal no longer expected the committee to reject Xiao Lang's request, but began to consider follow-up issues.

"That's for sure, anyway, the fleet was supposed to pass through Weihai, and after the committee made a decision here, Lin Hanlong would discuss with them how to raise the asking price - it would definitely make the Ming Dynasty have some blood. In addition, Ah Wen will also go directly to Xiao Lang to discuss the cooperation of the army and navy. ”

"I'm X, no wonder I drove both the Earl and the Governor over - after the Princess was changed back to a pleasure ship, those are the two warships with the largest tonnage and the most firepower in our current besides the Qionghai."

Xie Xi muttered, and then looked a little nervous:

"I don't know how familiar Xiao Lang is with the troops, he has just been there for a long time, and he is going to pull the troops to the battlefield, or to compete with Houjin Jurchen...... Damn, don't beat Lao Tzu's three regiments! ”

"Probably not."

Pang Yu crossed his arms and said leisurely:

"If he doesn't even get it done internally, I don't think he has the courage to take the initiative to fight." RS