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On the twentieth day of the 41st lunar month of the Yongli calendar, just as the people of Quang Nam were preparing to celebrate the New Year in accordance with Chinese customs, Tang Shenzhi, the new commander of the Annam Detachment, led six 4,000-material iron-bone gunboats including the Taishan to arrive at the Jinlan Governor's Mansion with more than 1,000 yellow-skinned former miners. (The fastest update speed is all in Aishang Novel Network biquge.info) unloading these Qing army captives who were reduced to slaves after the Battle of Dongning, Tang Shenzhi immediately carried 500 Jinlan defenders, including Cai Tong, to Hoi An, an important commercial town in Guangnan.

The strength of the Quang Nam Navy was thin, and there were only a few patrol and sentry ships of five or six hundred materials, and it was the end of the year, and the Quang Nam Navy did not expect the appearance of the enemy at all, so when they saw the Zheng Jun's gunboats, they once mistakenly thought that they were merchant ships that came to trade Taixi early, and they thought that they could have a fat year, and they also happily came to collect taxes, but they were bombarded into the bottom of the sea by Zheng Jun's shelling.

The rumbling sound of artillery shocked Hoi An, who had never experienced the war again, but then more than 700 Zheng troops, including sailors from various ships, broke into the town with murderous inducements, and they realized that the war had suddenly descended on the city.

Quang Nam Nguyen set up a "Ship Division" in Hoi An as a foreign trade management agency. "Da Nan Ku Zi" said: "At the beginning of the country, the merchant tax was extended to Hue and Guangnan Hai, and there were many merchants from various countries, so they set up the governor to collect their taxes. "Fubian Miscellaneous" records that the chief of the ship is the captain and the Zhiji, one member each; There are two members of the book, the house, the record, and the guard, six people in the room, thirty people in the history, fifty soldiers in the ranks, seventy in four teams of soldiers in the ship, and seven generals.

Since Quang Nam's garrison in Hoi An was only more than 120 people, the Zheng army's attack did not meet effective resistance at all, and it took half an hour to attack on land, and the entire city fell into the hands of the Zheng army. Subsequently, Zheng Jun methodically opened the official offices and warehouses, drove the local people to transport goods for them, and dragged artillery to blast open the doors of the Portuguese and Dutch merchant houses, arrested 17 people left behind in the two merchant houses in one fell swoop and seized a considerable amount of property.

Only the French merchant house, which had a good relationship with Dongning, was spared from the fire because of the ransom money, while some of the Japanese descendants of Jikeelung or related to the Japanese in Hoi An took the opportunity to loot the city in the name of leading the way for the Zheng army, killing dozens of local people and Chinese merchants before being dispersed by the Zheng army.

After entrenching in Hoi An for a whole day, Zheng Jun withdrew to Cam Ranh with a large number of materials worth tens of thousands of yuan, such as gold and silver coins, ebony, mahogany, musk, cinnamon, indigo, precious stones, tortoiseshell, pear, sugar, lead, ivory, rhino horn, paper, shochu, sea cucumber, bird's nest, gunpowder, firecrackers, and Taixi utensils.

On the fifth day after the war, the French merchant hall decided to withdraw after the Chinese New Year, and some Chinese businessmen who left Hoi An with the ships made Hoi An's economy, which had been affected by the undecided war along the coast of China, now made matters worse.

The devastation of Hoi An soon reached Hue, and Nguyen Phuc Qin was so shocked that he had to send Kim Ranh to try to reconcile with Cai Thong and Tang Shenzhi because he feared that the Zheng army might strike at the coastal towns of Quang Nam and that the Zheng clan in the north would take the opportunity to go south

"It's just abominable." Due to the exclusion of the Portuguese, the Dutch did not have very frequent trade with Quang Nam, so when the news of the Dutch Merchant House in Hoi An was broken by the Zheng army and a lot of people and materials were plundered reached Batavia, it was already in mid-February 1889 in the Western calendar. "This is yet another humiliation to the company, and we must take revenge!" Governor of Batavia, Johannes? Johannes Camphuys swore to the councillors and some of the senior traders. "We must teach the arrogant Zheng family a bloody lesson."

"Your Excellency, we are not here to hear Your Excellency." A high-ranking councillor looked at the red-faced governor with a cold expression. "We wonder what exactly the Governor is referring to by the lesson of blood?"

"The Tatar Qing State has expressed its willingness to return Dayuan and Penghu to the company." So said the Governor, which seemed to him to be part of his legacy. "We can wage war and regain what we once lost."

The Governor's words provoked a boo, and another councillor asked: "Your Excellency, how many warships and how many soldiers are you going to organize to reconquer the Grand Commander?" How much money will the company and ourselves pay for this? ”

Johannes? Governor Kempua explained in a well-informed tone: "The company is prepared to use two ninety-gun battleships, four sixty-gun cruisers, six forty-gun merchant ships and four small bullet ships, and eight thousand army forces, including indigenous soldiers, and as for military expenses, I personally estimate that one and a half thousand guilders will be needed." ”

There was an uproar in the room, and several councillors whispered for a while before suddenly raising their voices in disagreement: "Your Excellency, I think you are crazy. Don't you know that in the war between the Tatars and the Commanders, the Commanders dispatched more than a hundred brigs and three-masted warships, which destroyed more than 800 Junk ships. As for the 8,000 Army, they are not even a tenth of the opponent's number, and you are preparing to shake the company's rule in the East Indies. ”

"The Tatars are not credible." Another commentator also shouted. "What happened to the Portuguese has already shown the problem, the Tatars are only going to use our warships to take advantage of their fire, and afterwards they will, absolutely, inevitably tear up the agreement, no, they can't invest money in vain in a war that has no return."

"What do you mean, gentlemen?" The Governor did not expect such a loud opposition and, in desperation, decided to kick the ball at the feet of the councillors. "Aren't we going to react to the Hoi An incident? What is the company's reputation in Asia, and if the Cheng family takes similar actions against the company in the future, how can we protect the safety of the company and your property? ”

"For the incident of Hoi An and the Vostok, we must take revenge." After a moment of silence, one of the commentators stepped forward. "But we don't want to have a full-scale conflict with the Zheng family, and this premise must be clear." The councillor continued. "We didn't know the reality that the Zheng family had a colony in Quang Nam, but now the Hoi An incident has given us the best chance." The councillor said. "Blockade Cam Ranh Bay, attack Cam Ranh Bay."

The echo suddenly rose, and the hall was filled with the sound of attacking Cam Ranh, but another councillor said sarcastically from the seat: "Attack Cam Ranh Bay? If the Zheng family refuses to give up and gathers the army to retaliate again, wouldn't it be a full-scale conflict with the Zheng family that backfires? ”

"And what do you mean?" The commentator who attacked Cam Ranh Bay asked rhetorically. "Don't you do anything?"

"No, I mean to blockade Cam Ranh Bay and destroy several warships arranged by the Zheng family in Quang Nam at sea." The councillor sneered. "As long as you give the Zheng family a warning and let them know that the company has no bottom line, I believe that the people who are still facing the threat of the Tatars will look at the relationship between our two sides rationally, and there is an advantage to blockading Cam Ranh Bay, only two or three forty-gun cruisers are needed, there is no need to dispatch ninety gun warships, there is no need to dispatch more armed merchant ships, not to mention the army, and the military expenditure does not need to be as much as one and a half million."

"Makes sense." The councillors and senior trade officers cheered again at the councillor's words. "Blockade Cam Ranh Bay, wipe out the Quang Nam fleet, long live the company?"

"Lord, in addition to the 2,000 miners who have been sent to Jinlan and Chaowu, how can the remaining 2,000 miners be resettled?"

After the destruction of the three provincial naval divisions, a total of 117 warships and transport ships were surrendered or captured, and a total of more than 13,000 Qing officers and soldiers became prisoners of Ming Zheng. However, for these people, Zheng Kezhang did not plan to settle in Dongning to increase the proportion of men and women, so he had to send them to the colony to colonize.

"Send three hundred to Long Chen." Compared with the two prefectures directly under the Jinlan and Xiboni prefectures, the support of the Marquis of Labuan, which was a little more fettering, was much more limited. "Transfer 700 to Seogwipo, and ask An Long to find a way to marry them as the tunhu of the domain in Jeju. As for the remaining 1,000, it was given to Ma Yuan as the labor of the Ezo Prefecture Governor's Office. ”

Listening to Zheng Kezang's order, Yan Gang, the police officer, was a little confused: "Lord, how can the mining slaves sent to Ezo be counted in the household registration?" Is it a tun or a military household, or is it still a slave? ”

"Let's be considered a military tun for the time being." Zheng Kezhang made the final decision. "When Ezo expands in the future, it will be converted to a tunmin."

Yan Gang took the order and left, and Zheng Kezhang then summoned Ying Tainong: "Has Lu Xuefang explained to you?" ”

"Back to the Lord, Lord Lu has already explained." Although Ying Tainong was a little reluctant, after all, it was Zheng Kezang's meaning, and he didn't want to refuse lightly. "The Lord's arrangement for the ministers to preside over the operation of the Ministry of Ministers in Korea, Japan, and Liaodong is a sign of trust in the ministers, and the ministers will certainly live up to the Lord's trust."

"Don't you feel wronged?" Zheng Kezhang stared at Ying Tainong's eyes, Ying Tainong subconsciously dodged, so Zheng Kezhang beat his chest. "It's normal to feel wronged, but you have to understand that this clan must not shrink back on the island to fight for national strength with the Qing captives, and let you out for the sake of a big war in the future."

"I understand." Ying Tainong replied solemnly, his demeanor at this time was by no means comparable to that of a moment ago. "The minister is still the same sentence, he must live up to the trust of the Lord, watch the dynasty and Japan, and spread his eyes and ears to Liaodong, Zhili, and Shandong."

"It's good that you have an idea." Zheng Kezhang chuckled with satisfaction. "This can be described as a self-made man, in this way, Lone will give you a promise, if you can take over 10,000 of the old departments of the three feudatories, regardless of men, women and old and weak, Lone will be promoted to the second level of your lordship, if you can take out 30,000 or can establish an anti-Qing force in the north, Lone will not hesitate to pay the earl's reward." Ying Tainong paused heavily, Zheng Kezang's words had actually pointed out the future tasks of the Ministry Division in the north, and he definitely knew what he should do. "In addition, the Ezo land ship yard in Mahara is the most important thing in this domain, and the only thing that would rather be destroyed than left to the Japanese or the Qing prisoners"

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