Chapter 10: The Bandits
But as soon as such an opinion was put forward, it immediately aroused the opposition of others, because although the big people do not make money now, but their status is really very important, they have no foothold close to the Daming coast in the coast of China, and they have been trying their best to find such a place for so many years.
Now it is not easy to occupy a big man, although now a group of sea wolves have emerged in the sky, rising strongly on the sea, originally they wanted to use the power of the Ming Dynasty to take the opportunity to eliminate this hidden danger, but this time it is even more to beat them Dutch disgrace, let them steal chickens and rice, so that the status of the big man is now not guaranteed.
If they evacuate the staff now, it will be equivalent to giving up a bridgehead in the last part of the Chinese coast, and it will be difficult to find such a place in the future!
What worries them even more is that the leader of this group of sea wolves seems to be very aware of the current situation in Europe for some reason, and knows that their Dutch supremacy at sea is now being challenged by the newly rising British, and recognizes that they have no way to deal with him now, so he threatens them so fearlessly.
If they quit now, then maybe the sea wolf would dare to rent the big man to the British to build a merchant house, although the British are not very powerful in Asia, but some of the British have seen the huge wealth in Asia, and have tried to find a foothold here many times over the years.
A few years earlier, the British had united with them in an attempt to capture the Portuguese-held Macao, but the Portuguese were well prepared and they were defeated.
If the sea wolf really proposes to rent a piece of land for the British to build a merchant house now, it is estimated that the British will be happy to run around and intervene, as long as the British taste enough sweetness here, they will definitely transfer more ships and troops from Europe to compete with them for the resources here, then it will really attract the wolf.
Now although the sea wolves are rising strongly, they still have no intention of completely expelling them from the island of Taiwan, at least they are allowed to lease Dayuan Port as their commercial port, if they withdraw now, then I dare not think that the trade between them and Daming in the future will still have their dishes.
In addition, in the news that Peter sent back, he attached a relatively complete assessment report on the strength of the sea wolf, which included various situations in the area of Tamsui City and the current sea combat effectiveness of the sea wolf, and this assessment report also made the senior management of the East India Company feel very troublesome.
If Peter is not exaggerating, then with the current strength at hand, it is basically impossible to easily defeat this group of sea wolves, even if they concentrate their forces and finally win this battle by luck, it is estimated that it will be a protracted battle, and the losses will definitely be quite huge.
As for the company, they simply can't afford such a loss at the moment, and if they lose the battle with the Seawolf, it is estimated that West Bank and the damned British will be very happy, and they will definitely take the opportunity to attack the company, expel them from the colony they currently control, and take their fruits.
So after thinking about it, after many discussions, in the end, the senior management of the Dutch East India Company, although reluctantly, could only pinch their noses and admit it, according to the agreement reached between Peter and the Sea Wolf, began to fulfill the agreement, and officially signed the agreement to lease the port of Dayuan from the Sea Wolf.
As for the Spaniards, not to mention, when they learned that the Sea Wolves had once again defeated the Dutch and won a complete victory in the war against the Fujian authorities, they did not let out a single fart, and sent the compensation they had agreed with the Sea Wolves to Tamsui City.
At this point, in a short period of time, there is no need to worry about what these two will do in Taiwan.
Since the beginning of the overthrow of Wei in Beijing, the entire government and the opposition have been surging, and after Emperor Chongzhen forced Wei Zhongxian to death, he did not stop there, and began a great purge against the remnants of the Wei party.
After the fall of Wei Zhongxian, a large number of Wei Zhongxian's henchmen lost their positions and resigned, either dismissed and returned to their hometowns for retirement, or exiled for thousands of miles.
In addition, a large number of Donglin Party members who had been persecuted by Wei Zhongxian and his party were rehabilitated one after another, and some of them who were still alive and in acceptable physical condition were treated as official reinstatements.
But all this doesn't seem to have much to do with Yu Xiaotian, because after Yu Xiaotian was appeased, Chongzhen ascended the throne, and after he ascended the throne, for a long time, he was busy dealing with Wei Zhongxian, and he didn't have too much energy to pay attention to more things.
Xiong Wencan will be Xiaotian's arm, and Yu Xiaotian will return the favor, and Xiong Wencan's orders are also executed quite smoothly, almost saying that the order must be carried out, and it is never delayed.
At first, Xiong Wencan's main focus was still on the pacification sea, paying attention to all kinds of bandits along the coast, often once he heard the alarm, he immediately ordered Yu Xiaotian's subordinates to attack, Yu Xiaotian has always reacted quickly, and basically can hear the alarm must come out, which makes the officials in the state capital and county seat along the coast basically have nothing to say, so in just over half a year, Yu Xiaotian basically won the title of a cadre, and the coastal states and counties all regard it as a backer.
However, Fujian is not only troubled along the coast, the whole Fujian is known as eight mountains, one water and one field, that is to say, Fujian is mountainous, hills, river valleys, and mountains account for more than eighty percent of Fujian's total area.
There are many mountains and few plains, so naturally there is less arable land, and the population of Fujian is relatively large, and even more since the Ming Dynasty, the land annexation of Fujian has been very serious, and most of the arable land has basically fallen into the hands of a small number of powerful relatives and landlords, and the common people are living in considerable poverty.
Therefore, many people have no way to make a living, so they take risks, either go to the sea to become thieves, or occupy the mountains as kings and fall into the grass as thieves.
Now at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the whole Fujian is rampant bandits, there are many thieves in the cut path, only the large number of bandits, there are dozens of shares in the whole Fujian, and the small group of bandits is not clear, so that pedestrians walk on the land, and the merchant group of the merchant will be robbed and killed by the bandits from time to time.
There are even some large bandits, who gather more than 10,000 people, roaring back and forth between the mountains and forests, so that the officials and soldiers are overwhelmed, tired of running for their lives, and the slightly stronger bandits, in order to survive, are certainly not satisfied with just doing some business-cutting business, so there are often bandits in Fujian who gather to attack villages and towns, and even some large bandits have attacked some county towns in various places many times.
Originally, there was still a state of balance between Fujian officials and thieves, but with Zhu Yifeng's attack on the sea wolves, the officials and troops were defeated and lost, which greatly reduced the strength of Fujian's officials and soldiers, so that many local governments lost effective control over their jurisdictions, making the momentum of the bandits more and more intense.
After the second half of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the bandits in Fujian were already in a state of semi-uncontrol, and the bandits were rampant among the prefectures and counties, causing the local officials to mourn and be helpless against them.
After Xiong Wencan became the head of Fujian, he was in charge of military and political affairs, so he naturally couldn't sit idly by, and Xiong Wencan really wanted to make a difference in this position, so after stabilizing the sea, he began to pay attention to the inland bandits.
As the bandits became more and more ferocious in Fujian, Xiong Wencan repeatedly ordered the Fujian officials and troops to clean up these bandits, but the result made Xiong Wencan very troubled.
The situation of the limited town army is even more serious, and often the actual strength of some officers and soldiers is less than 50 percent of the total number of soldiers, and some are even only about 30 percent, and these 30 percent of the officers and soldiers, among them, only a very small number of personal soldiers around the generals still have a certain degree of combat effectiveness, and as for the other officers and soldiers, they are basically just armed slaves of the generals, and the combat effectiveness naturally does not need to be mentioned.
In order to deal with the sea wolves before, Zhu Yifeng had already used all the so-called elite soldiers that could be used in Fujian, but after the first battle of Nanri Island, these so-called elite troops were wiped out, which led to the extreme weakness of the officers and troops in Fujian.
Therefore, Xiong Wencan sent troops to suppress the bandits several times, but the result was that they all returned with a feather, and if the number of officers and soldiers sent was large, the bandits immediately fled into the mountains and forests, so that the officers and soldiers could not pursue them, but if they went less, the bandits gathered to rely on the favorable terrain and simply fought with the officials and soldiers.
Don't look at the bandits are all rabble, but these people are also quite fierce in order to survive and make a fortune, once they start to move, it can be said that they are not afraid of death.
And those armed slaves in the official army do not have the consciousness to dedicate themselves to the country, they are handed down from their ancestors to be soldiers, and they are not successful, and being a soldier is also working for the generals as slaves, and they can't even eat enough food at ordinary times.
In this way, when the real action is started, as long as the limited personal soldiers of the official army cannot defeat the bandits in a short time, the number of bandits often increases, and in the end, the officers and troops are unable to parry and return defeated.
Even at the end of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there was a situation in Fujian where the garrison entered the mountains to suppress bandits, and as a result, they were killed in battle, and there were even 2,000 officers and soldiers who were wiped out by a group of bandits in Yong'an County, which is at the junction of Tingzhou Mansion and Yanping Prefecture.
Xiong Wencan had a headache for this, this Fujian really pressed the gourd to float the scoop, and Yu Xiaotian had just been recruited on the sea, and there were so many bandits on this land, which made him invincible.
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