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However, Professor Li smiled bitterly and shook his head:

"It would have been possible if we had cooperated with him when we first entered the city, but I'm afraid not anymore. The Ming government did not have only one channel for local officials to know about the local form, they had a very famous institution......"

“…… Jin Yiwei? No, there are Jinyiwei in such a remote place as Hainan Island? ”

Pang Yu knew what the old professor was saying as soon as he heard it, but he didn't dare to believe it -- the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei was indeed famous, and the most important duty of this organization was indeed to serve as the eyes and ears of the royal family, always reporting the gossip of officials from all over the country to the ears of the emperor far away in Beijing -- Zhu Yuanzhang never trusted the ministers, including his juniors.

But no matter how huge the scale of Jinyiwei is, it won't be so detailed, right? What is Lingao County? Of the more than 100 modern people who crossed over, most of them had never heard of this name, except for the local residents. This is true in modern times, let alone in ancient times. Even this kind of place can have a brocade guard?

Professor Li shrugged his shoulders and smiled:

"So Cheng Yegao is sneaky every time he talks to me, for fear that others will catch him and say that he is a bandit...... The spy of the Ming Dynasty is indeed very powerful, and he doesn't know how the news got through, anyway, now the Qiongzhou Mansion already knows about our deposit. ”

"What if you know, we have seen the soldiers of Ming, so there is nothing to worry about."

Wang Haiyang smiled arrogantly, Professor Li glanced at him, and shook his head helplessly:

"I'm afraid it's not so easy, I chatted with him in the past few days and learned that we had made a mistake in estimating the armed forces of Hainan Island in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty actually only set up one guard on Hainan Island, which was Hainan Wei. Danzhou is only a thousand households, and Lingao should be a hundred households......"

Tang Jian immediately glanced back at Beiwei, who had been in charge of intelligence before. However, Beiwei shrugged his shoulders innocently:

"When we were interrogated, I didn't even understand the language, and those people were scared, what we asked, what they confessed, we preconceived the wrong name, and it was normal for them not to dare to correct it."

"Okay, okay, listen to the professor."

Pang Yu hurriedly pulled the topic over, it was his analysis that was "preconceived" and made a mistake, but it is no wonder that he didn't have a Ming history to travel through, he completely relied on amateur historical impressions, and it was normal to make mistakes.

"The Ming Dynasty government itself knew that the officers and soldiers of the guards were unreliable, so their main force now was not the guards. Rather, it is a battalion soldier under the local town and garrison system. It is reflected in the fact that on Hainan Island is the headquarters of the Qiongya General, and it is also in charge of all the water troops of Haikou Baisha Water Village. Its duty is to suppress the rebellion. The most recent dispatch was in March of the second year of Chongzhen's second year to assist the Guangdong Navy Division in attacking the pirate Li Kuiqi, and he had a lot of combat effectiveness. ”

"How many soldiers does this general have?"

Tang Jian immediately asked, and at the same time took out his notebook to prepare for the record. But this time, Professor Li shook his head helplessly:

"This kind of issue related to the number of military establishments is too sensitive, I can't ask directly, even if I ask Cheng Yegao, I may not know, after all, he is only a seven-rank civil official."

Tang Jian had no choice but to put away his notebook.

"You're saying that I was reckless."

"It seems that there are three to five generals under the Ming system, and each division is about 1,000 soldiers."

Pang Yu still couldn't help but speak, although his memory was quite wrong before, but it could still play a certain role after all. At this time, it is not a matter of saving face. However, after saying that, I would like to add:

"I just roughly remember, maybe there was a mistake."

Tang Jian glanced at him, but still recorded the number in his notebook.

Five thousand, and an army of sailors - everyone's faces became ugly again. It feels like I'm back in time when I just landed and didn't get a firm foothold. Professor Li probably wanted to comfort them, and added:

"However, it is said that there are also contradictions among the civil and military officials over there, some advocate killing us, and others advocate a delay. Because a few days ago, a group of the defeated Ming Wei army fled to Fucheng, and these defeated soldiers exaggerated and exaggerated our weapons and equipment. The Ming officials wanted to borrow artillery from the Spanish or the Portuguese against us, but they refused, so the matter dragged on. ”

That Cheng County Commander sent a lot of people to Fucheng to inquire about the news for his black yarn hat, and he was able to get even this kind of information, which can be regarded as well-intentioned. This made everyone's hearts breathe a little sigh of relief, but in any case, this sword always hangs over their heads, which is not a good thing after all.

"This force is dangerous and a big threat to us."

Tang Jian judged, and Xie Xi and the others frowned. The threat should be eliminated as soon as possible, but with their current strength, even if everyone is fully armed, there are only more than a hundred people, and it is obviously unrealistic to take the initiative to attack the capital city of Qiongzhou.

Professor Li obviously thought of this as well, so after thinking about it for a moment, he asked tentatively:

"Xiao Xie, Xiao Pang, Xiao Tang, have you considered the possibility of negotiating with the Ming government?"

"Negotiations?"

Xie Xi frowned, and Professor Li nodded affirmatively.

"Yes. Talking to Cheng County Commander in the past few days, the strangest thing about him is that since we have occupied this city, we have no scruples about killing officers and soldiers, but why do we still keep him, the county master, untouched, and caught and released. ”

"I've been thinking about this issue myself for the past few days, what should we do now -- build houses, build explosives, build salt works, and build power stations...... It's all very useful work, but it always feels a bit chaotic, as if everyone is just busy dealing with immediate difficulties and lacks a long-term goal these days. ”

Pang Yu opened his mouth to defend something, but he was pulled by Xie Xi and had to stop, and everyone was silent, quietly listening to Professor Li talk alone.

"We all ended up here unexpectedly, and I think the biggest goal should be to survive. On the premise of satisfying the general idea of survival, everyone may have their own ideas, for example, I hope to be closer to the daily life of the literati of the Ming Dynasty and truly understand the cultural context of this era. ”

Pang Yu blinked, and remembered the original great "Field Mapping of the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty" plan...... But at this time, it is obviously not enough.

"As for how to survive, you young people who study engineering and military must know more than I do. Everyone is doing a great job these days. It's hard to imagine that electric lights can still be used here......"

The old man smiled and pointed to the white miserable energy-saving lamp on his head, which was removed from the ship's guest room, and the power was not great, and the light always felt that it was not bright enough, of course, much stronger than a candle.

"So I finally figured out why we didn't need to occupy the county government and expel the government - because we didn't need the same things as the ordinary rebels."

"Throughout the ages, the vast majority of rebels, because they had no productive capacity, needed to make the best use of the material and human resources that were originally in the hands of the government, so every time they occupied a place, they must first expel the original officials, so that they could obtain the materials in the official warehouse. Destroy the original order and allow civilians to move, so that local manpower can be mobilized......"

"But we are different, we have our own production capacity, and the technical level is much higher than the local average, so the resources in the hands of the local government are not directly useful to us - even the grain and cloth in this official warehouse, we will soon be able to produce better substitutes ourselves."

"But we still need a lot of human resources."

Ling Ning couldn't help but interject, Professor Li looked at him gently, and smiled:

"Yes, we need more manpower, but we don't want these people to be used as cannon fodder, so the coercion methods used by traditional rebels cannot provide the manpower we need. Xiao Ling, if you were asked to take a whip and force the locals to mine and dig coal, would you do it? ”

"How inefficient is that, and besides, don't we have experts here?"

Ling Ning immediately gave the top hat to Ade next to him, and Comrade Zhao Lide snorted triumphantly, looking complacent - he has the right to be proud, and the more than 70 workers have been managed obediently, and their work attitude is very proactive. Recently, some local civilians have even taken the initiative to negotiate with the laborers, wanting to carry the work for the traversers.

"Yes, it can be seen that even if we don't kick out the government and coerce the people, we can still solve the labor problem, and the labor force we bring in cannot meet the requirements. In a way, we also try to keep the local calm so as not to disturb our own production plans. ”

Professor Li finally came to his conclusion:

"There is no need to loot the materials in the hands of the government, nor do we need to obtain labor by destroying the local order, and there is no fundamental contradiction between us and the Ming government, which is the premise of our coexistence with the local government. The current situation in Lingao County proves this. And this is the basis for our negotiations with the Ming government. ”

Silence, long silence.

No one spoke for a long time, Lao Li is worthy of being a university professor, and he is the first to talk about theory. Tang Jian and the others didn't think so much about letting go of the county magistrate at the beginning, but they just felt that it was useless to kill this guy, so they let it go in the spirit of humanitarianism.

Now that I think about it, it is true: if their boat had capsized at that time, and everyone climbed ashore alone without any supplies and equipment, I am afraid that they would have had to kill the county officials and pull the flag to rebel, because then they would have to use the "traditional way" to survive, including looting warehouses, driving people, etc., that is, bandits.

was analyzed by Lao Li like this, Pang Yu originally only vaguely had such a feeling, and his thoughts became clear all of a sudden.

"What you're saying is that our course of development is actually somewhat similar to the path of early capitalism. We don't have to control the locals directly, but we need a free labor force with a certain amount of quality, and we will need a free market in the future......"

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