In fact, for the whole history, a certain event is one or two months apart, even if it takes half a year and a year to happen, it is really nothing, after all, this little time gap is really nothing for the entire macro history - as long as the general trend is still there.

But Hantang Group got serious, they concentrated the relevant technical personnel and began to analyze it seriously, what the hell is wrong?

If the root of the problem is not analyzed, they must not be able to sleep well.

They compared and drew on the map, and repeatedly analyzed and discussed various materials.

In the end, the example of the intelligence department came up with an opinion, which was recognized by everyone - the support of the Han Tang group for the Zheng family in Xiamen indirectly affected the actions of the Manchu Qing in the south, and in a strict sense, a series of actions of the Zheng family restrained the southward plan of the king of Pingnan.

At the board of directors of Hantang Group, Chairman Wu Dapeng slapped the table angrily and said: "This time, we are short-sighted!" ”

Director Li Ziqiang didn't care and said: "Pull them down, don't take them seriously-we have a way to deal with them-"

Director Jianguo'an, Director Sun Defa, and Director Song Shida smiled at each other, no one spoke, and Big Bird's anger was that things didn't happen under his preset and control, not that he couldn't deal with them-

The Zheng family is no longer a petty action in southern Fujian. After they eliminated the main reinforcements in Quanzhou with the tactics of encircling and sending reinforcements, in their original plan, they should immediately hold on to Tong'an City, strictly ensure the security of the northeast direction, and occupy most of the Anxi area. Then it was necessary to deter Zhangzhou and gain control of most of Longyan.

In this way, the iron ore in Anxi and the coal mine in Longyan are all in the hands of the Zheng family, or in other words, the supply of raw materials has been greatly increased for the Hantang Group.

But things changed, after the Zheng family defeated the reinforcements of Quanzhou, when they tried to put pressure in the direction of Quanzhou, they found that they were not pressuring, but picking up cheap - they were not hindered in any way, and the Zheng family army actually pushed to the city of Quanzhou in a fit of anger!

The Zheng family is not very good at playing, and the common foreign forces of the Ming and Qing Dynasty, the Hantang Group, are not very good at playing-

When the Zheng family and the Hantang Group were negotiating, the plan proposed by the Zheng family deeply moved the Hantang Group, how good the three middle-aged uncles of the Zheng family were, if this plan was realized, only the coal and iron raw materials in southern Fujian greatly accelerated the industrialization process of Taiwan, of course, it also expanded the living space for Xiamen, Xiamen, no longer closed itself, can only wait for death.

And the completion of this plan, I didn't see any difficulty, so the two sides hit it off.

But then there was an unexpected situation, Quanzhou, like a woman with a red fruit, was placed in front of the Zheng family and the Hantang group.

Up, or not?

Su Bo, the head of the military advisory group at that time, believed that this Quanzhou city should be taken.

In a military sense, this place belongs to the central coastal area of southern Fujian, and the area under its control is far wider than Xiamen, and it is an excellent base for advancing from north to south.

In terms of military attack, Su Bo only used one sentence to evaluate - if we support, we can take it in three hours.

After this article was reported to the Hantang Group at that time, it sparked extensive discussions.

Quanzhou is located in the southeast of Fujian, with Fuzhou in the north, Xiamen in the south, Fujian inland in the west, and Taiwan Island in the east.

As far back as the Xia and Shang periods, there was development here. It was also the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, one of the four major foreign trade ports during the Tang Dynasty, and the largest port in the East during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Mark 61 Polo once said that Alexandria in Egypt carried only one ship of pepper-like countries at a time, while "the port of Thornton has more than 10,000 ships", and its prosperity is comparable to that of Alexandria!

From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to Chenghua, the port of Quanzhou, with Quanzhou Bay as the outlet to the sea, has been downgraded from the large port of the East in the Song and Yuan dynasties to a tribute port dedicated to receiving Ryukyu envoys.

After Chenghua, the city moved to Fuzhou, which was reduced to a local port for trade between the north and south coasts. The port is gradually silting up, and it is impossible to moor large ships that are open to the sea.

In addition to this, there is another important reason, and that is the decline of Islam.

Still in 1276 AD, the Yuan army entered Fujian, and Zhang Shijie and others escorted Duanzong Xingchao all the way south to Quanzhou.

At that time, Quanzhou's status in the Southern Song Dynasty was similar to the world's first-class port today, and it had huge human and material resources. Therefore, Zhang Shijie and others want to make this place the capital in order to make a comeback.

After Zhang Shijie and others arrived outside Quanzhou, Duanzong accepted the interview of Pu Shougeng, the local leader of Quanzhou.

This Pu Shou Geng is of Arab descent, Sunni Muslim, he was just an outlaw at first, and later because of the big overseas business, and helped the imperial court to fight pirates, and gradually became the Fujian pacification coastal envoy, Guangdong Fujian pacification envoy and even the promotion of Quanzhou City envoy.

He was in charge of more than half of the overseas trade along the southeast coast, and he was the first person in Quanzhou City at that time.

At that time, after the interview, Pu Shougeng invited Duanzong into the city.

However, at this time, a dramatic scene appeared, according to historical records: "The Song Lord Zhou went to the spring, Shou Geng came to pay homage, please stop, Zhang Shijie can't." In other words, Pu Shougeng invited Song Duanzong to enter the city, but Zhang Shijie disagreed.

Duanzong Xingchao came to Quanzhou in order to establish the capital according to the city, but now he is reluctant to enter the city after seeing Pu Shougeng, which is obviously Zhang Shijie saw that Pu Shougeng has a problem.

Facts have also proved that Zhang Shijie is not wrong. Because after Zhang Shijie forcibly requisitioned a batch of ships and goods from Pu Shougeng because of the lack of military funds for the Song army's ships, "Shou Geng angrily killed all the clans, scholars and Huai soldiers in the spring."

You know, if Pu Shougeng's killing of the Huai soldiers can be understood as angry revenge because the cargo was plundered by the Huai soldiers, then there is obviously a problem with killing the clan of Zhao Song.

Moreover, Pu Shougeng's killing of the Zhao and Song clans was an indiscriminate massacre, as long as they were in the Zhao and Song clans in the area under his control, they would all be killed. The total number of these people, even by the most conservative estimates, is above two or three thousand.

There have been so many changes of dynasty in the history of the Ming Continent, and it is not that there have been massacres of the clan, but it was either internal strife within the imperial family, or a clan massacre carried out by a hostile country after the northern barbarian peoples went south, and it was decided and carried out by a local official of the country.

Therefore, Zhang Shijie did not look away, Pu Shougeng did make up his mind to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty before the meeting, judging from his behavior of daring to slaughter thousands of Zhao and Song clans, although this Muslim grew up in China, he actually did not have even a little bit of awe for China's native imperial power, and he invited Song Duanzong into the city, more likely to use Duanzong as a vote to surrender the Yuan.

After Pu Shougeng's true face was exposed, Zhang Shijie besieged the city with troops, Pu Shougeng led the Yuan general Suoduo south, the Song army broke the siege and retreated south, and Pu Shougeng cooperated with the Yuan army with the largest fleet in the entire East Asian region all the way south until the decisive battle of Yashan......

After the death of the Song Dynasty, the Pu Shougeng family continued to play the role of the emperor of Quanzhou, and under their maintenance, Quanzhou ushered in the so-called "golden age of Islam" in the city's history.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Pu Shougeng family repeated the old trick again, and they colluded with the envoy of Quanzhou City at that time to make a rebellion. But this time the Pu Shougeng family was no longer as lucky as the end of the Song Dynasty, and the rebellious soldiers were suppressed by the Yuan army.

The Yuan court sent troops to invade Quanzhou, so that the Hui and Muslim religion in Quanzhou were severely destroyed. three days behind closed doors"; Afterwards, that is, "the pu thief (pu shou geng) mounds, and there is no plan to get all the treasures."

When punishing the people of their family, "all the corpses are all facing the West"; "He was ordered to be punished with five punishments, abandoned his gizzard in the pig trough, and reported to Song Xing for rebellion."

The Pu family believes in religion, so they "avoid facing the West", Muslims avoid pigs, and cutting their bodies in the pig trough is the biggest insult. Hatred to the point of digging graves and punishing corpses, very brutal slaughter of the Pu clan, only those who hide in time or happen to be outside can survive. Most of the Muslims' property, homes, and mosques were burned and looted.

This was the beginning of the decline of Quanzhou City and Quanzhou Port, and also the beginning of the decline of Quanzhou Muslims.

At that time, these actions were not opposed by anyone at the time.

It can be seen that justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, and in the minds of the people of the time, this is the retribution of the Pu family for slaughtering the Zhao and Song clans.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he also hated the Pu clan who betrayed the country for glory and help, and ordered the remaining Pu clan to be exiled as prostitutes and slaves, and were not allowed to register as officials.

The Pu family has completely changed from a rich family to a pariahed family for hundreds of years, which is really a magnificent net, and evil is rewarded.

At that time, many local Hui people were also ashamed of being involved with Pu Shou Geng, calling him a "shameless apostate", believing that it was completely Pu Shou Geng's personal character and despicable behavior, which led Muslims into a situation from which they could never recover.

As for why Quanzhou was able to replace Guangzhou as the largest foreign seaport in the Yuan and Song dynasties, it was mainly because of the prosperity of the production of export goods and the development of shipbuilding.

Quanzhou's silk satin, porcelain, tea, sugar salt, iron, copper and tin production technology is developed, coupled with the shipbuilding industry is also highly developed, its peak products, four-story sea ships, on which the living equipment is complete, can take a thousand people to sail.

After careful study, the Han Tang group believes that we can not care about the role of Quanzhou as a seaport and its military role, but its production and processing capacity should not be underestimated, and those handicraftsmen in Quanzhou City are the real wealth, and even those Muslims who still exist in Quanzhou City have their unique role - of course, they can now be regarded as idle.

The Han and Tang groups fully agreed with Su Bo's military advisory group's suggestion, and increased the supply of ammunition to the Zheng family, especially explosive packs, which were obviously several times more than usual.

The Zheng family immediately understood.

At first, they were just trying to besiege Quanzhou City, far away from the artillery on it, they thought that it was enough to get some benefits from the periphery of Quanzhou City, and they never wanted to directly attack it.

The Zheng family army was originally good at naval battles, and it was already an unexpected joy to be able to annihilate the main force of reinforcements in a land battle.

Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian knew very well in his heart at that time that Quanzhou City and Zhoushan City were not at the same level at all.

However, in the goods exchanged, the Hantang Group suddenly provided the so-called engineering explosives, and it is said that the specialists made them into the shape of explosive packages, and the meaning here is very clear.

Although black powder can also be produced on Xiamen Island at this time, it is used on the city wall of Quanzhou, and Zheng Lian, Marquis of Dingyuan, knows that the effect is not great, but with the new explosive package specially provided by the Hantang Group, it is different.

Commander Su Bo explained the use and effect of this explosive pack very carefully.

Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian laughed at that time: "Say, Head Su, what do you want from my Zheng family?" ”

"It's very simple, you can develop normal business - and don't kill people indiscriminately!"

"Haha, my old Zheng understands!"

On a dark and windy night, Zheng Lian, Marquis of Dingyuan, sent the Zheng family's demolition crews to blast the city wall more than ten meters thick into a slope - the sound of the explosion could be heard several kilometers away.

In the early morning of the next day, Commander Su Bo and Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian went to check the blasting effect.

Commander Su Bo looked at the slope and said regretfully: "It seems that there will be a blast - you still don't know how to use engineering explosives-"

Dingyuan Marquis Zhenglian shook his head violently at this time and said, "Yes, how could it not?" I'm sure the enemy forces inside have fled—"

Captain Su Bo picked up the binoculars and looked at them carefully for a while, and said, "They may all be ambushed—"

"No way, otherwise the sea sparrow would not dare to fall on the top of the city—don't look at the flag on it, the sea sparrow never falls within ten paces of people—men, rush!"