Haihan builds its home by the sea, and pays attention to "sea control" from top to bottom, so maritime transportation and trade are also the fastest growing and most stable in Haihan's many business fields. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The lucky ones who made their fortune by sea also emerged in the areas under the rule of the Haihan, such as Luo Shengdong, the general of the Ming Dynasty who was engaged in this business in the early days, and Zhan Gui, a maritime merchant, and others are now considered to be rich businessmen in the South China Sea. If you want to make a fortune in the social system of Haihan, shipping and sea trade is indeed the most stable way. This Liu Qiye, Qi Shipwright and Li Maozai are either practitioners, or have been in the Haihan system for a long time, and they can see the doorway in the middle very clearly, and it is rare to have this kind of opportunity to be able to operate, and they naturally do not want to miss it.

Of course, since Li Maozai and Qi Shipwright are currently in public office, it is definitely inconvenient for them to come forward, so Liu Qiye has to operate it on their behalf. The three agreed that Li Maozai and Qi Boatwright would pay for it, and Liu Qiye would contribute, and the income at that time would be divided into three equal points.

In late August, the militia garrison in Jilong Harbor suddenly began to strengthen its local defenses, and the cordon that was originally only set up in the outer two miles of the harbor was expanded to a range of five miles, which meant that there were more armed checkpoints set up on the periphery, so the number of troops put into the defense was more than doubled compared with before. The frequency and range of patrols at sea have also increased, and even Yonaguni Island, which is 80 nautical miles away from the port of Jilong, has been included in the patrol range.

The indigenous tribes living in the dense forests of the mountains should not be worthy of such a big move by the militia group, Li Maozai believes that it is very likely that the senior leader will come to Jilong Port to "inspect the work" in the near future, and such an arrangement will be made for security reasons. Sure enough, within a few days after the militia army changed its defense strategy, a huge fleet led by a "Majesty-class" warship arrived at Jilong Harbor. And when Li Maozai saw the arrival of this fleet, he knew that this was probably going to do something to the Eighteen Zhi Yu Party on Miyako Island in the east.

Tian Yeyou, as the local temporary official in charge, specially rushed from the mining area to the Jilong Port Wharf to greet Wang Tom and his party, who had traveled thousands of miles from Sanya. This operation will be personally commanded by Tom Wang, and Yan Chujie, who originally wanted to come to Taiwan to spend a time in war, had to give up going north and choose to go south because it happened to coincide with the annual joint military exercise between Haihan and Annan.

This year's joint military exercise between the two sides took place at the Cam Ranh Bay base, which has just been put into operation, which can be regarded as a sign of the official opening of this military base. The Combined Fleet will depart from Cam Ranh Bay and head south to Haihan-controlled Ambuna Island, where the two armies will practice various maritime combat subjects and practice amphibious landing and counter-landing tactics with local garrisons on Ambuna Island. This is probably the largest joint naval exercise since the cooperation between the two sides, and it is said that the Annan side will be led by the crown prince Zheng Zheng, and the Haihan side naturally has to send a figure of comparable status, and this errand fell on Yan Chujie's head.

In addition to a majestic class warship as the flagship, there were more than 20 warships of various types, as well as almost the same number of logistics ships. The strength of the land and water armies assembled in Jilong Harbor has also exceeded 2,000 people. Most of them are from the local garrison in Fujian, and more than seventy percent of the troops at the Penghu base will be involved in the operation.

"This time, the Central Military Commission intends to complete its work in one battle, and there can be no more fish that slip through the net. At the reception banquet, Tom Wang happily handed over the bottom to Tian Yeyou. The operation will take Jilong Harbor as the starting point and main supply point, which will inevitably require local cooperation and support, so Wang Tom must inform Tian Yeyou of the arrangement and purpose of this operation, so that the two sides can maintain tacit cooperation during the mission.

Tian Yeyou said: "Even if Zheng Zhilong can still run, there is no place for him to run, and the islands further north are not so easy to grab." ”

From the east of Yonaguni Island, a series of islands, including Miyakojima, belonged to the territory of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the main reason why Eighteen Shiba was able to seize Miyakojima at that time was because the Ryukyu Kingdom had very few armed forces stationed there, and there was no resistance to the sudden arrival of thousands of pirates. After the Eighteen Shiba occupied the area, the Ryukyu Kingdom did not try to counterattack, but at this time, the Ryukyu Kingdom was under the control of the Japanese Satsuma Domain, and most of the small army in the country was disarmed, and the few remaining troops were not enough to expel the Eighteen Shiba on Miyako Island.

However, with the strength of Eighteen Shiba, it is difficult to attack the island of Okinawa, where the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom is located. Moreover, the occupation of the territory of the Ryukyu Kingdom by Eighteen Shiba also offended the Satsuma Domain of Japan, and even if it crossed the Ryukyus and continued north, it would be difficult to find a place for it to stay, so Ta Yeyu said this.

Wang Tom said: "No one can let him run away after he runs away, and we don't have so much energy to invest in this group of pirates anymore." By solving this hidden problem, we can safely open up a sea route from the south to Japan. ”

Tian Yeyou asked: "I heard that Zhoushan has sent a fleet to Japan for investigation, is it planning to open two routes?"

Wang Tom nodded and said: "There is actually no conflict, the Zhoushan route is based on the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and our route to Japan through the Ryukyu Islands is based on the two provinces of Fuzhou and Guangzhou." Each has its own business project. However, there were no obstacles between Zhoushan and Japan, and the voyage was much closer than from Taiwan. ”

Tian Yeyou is not particularly concerned about how to arrange the trade route to Japan, he is only the temporary manager of Taipei's Jilong Port, and he probably won't stay here anymore after the gold mine here is on track. He didn't have much interest in politics, and he couldn't wait to finish the work here and return to Sanya to enjoy Qingfu. However, since the executive committee has a plan to open up a route to Japan in Taipei, then the future of Jilong Port will definitely carry some commercial functions, and the current port construction plan probably needs to make some corresponding adjustments.

"Is there anything else I can do for you besides providing logistical supplies?" Tian Yeyou took the initiative to ask.

Wang Tom smiled: "I suggest that you prepare a batch of ships in advance, and when this battle is completed, you will transport the spoils and prisoners back." ”

"Then we can only requisition civilian boats. Tian Ye Youying said: "Most of the ships here are your military's warships, and they are not very easy to use to pull goods and people." However, there are not many civilian ships in the local area, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to temporarily requisition. ”

"There's no way around it. Wang Tom was also very helpless about this: "This kind of thing can't be notified in advance, otherwise the news may leak out." In short, how much will be levied first, and the freight subsidy can be appropriately relaxed. ”

"I'll do my best!" Tian Yeyou didn't dare to pack a ticket for him, after all, this is now only a small port for non-trade purposes, and apart from a small number of cargo ships that regularly transport supplies from Fuzhou and Penghu, there are very few other civilian ships visiting. If you can make up ten or eight boats for the military at the beginning of the war, Tian Yeyou estimates that this number will almost reach the upper limit, and when the time comes, you can know that the military will definitely leave this matter completely to itself, and it must be a time-consuming and troublesome matter.

Of course, not everyone will feel a headache about the upcoming military operation like Tian Yeyou, Li Maozai and others are very supportive of the military's decision to announce that they will requisition all civilian ships in the port, and several ships hired by Liu Qiye from Fuzhou happened to be stuck at this point in time to come to Jilong Harbor, and naturally became the target of military requisition. Now they just have to wait for this battle to be over, and the three of them will be able to make a small fortune from the war.

On 29 August, all the Haihan troops arrived at Jilong Harbor. Of course, this is also indispensable for the Ming Army Military Observation Group from Fujian, as well as some of the elite sailors directly under Xu Xinsu. This action is related to Xu Xinsu's old enemy, and it is inevitable to send someone to participate in the whole process. The most anxious thing about the extermination of Eighteen Zhi is not Haihan, but Xu Xinsu and the interest group behind him, Zheng Zhilong has not been arrested for a day, and Xu Xinsu will not be at ease for a day. This time, Haihan organized an attack on Miyako Island, and Xu Xinsu also paid out of his pocket to sponsor military expenses as always, so Haihan would definitely not refuse his small request to send people to participate in the operation.

After a three-day rest, the Haihan troops set sail on 1 September, leaving the harbor and turning eastward to Miyako Island, 200 nautical miles away.

Compared with the attack on Penghu a year ago, the difficulty of this operation is much smaller, after Eighteen Zhi was expelled from Penghu, his strength was greatly damaged, and because the activity space was compressed, not only did he not return to the past situation after more than a year, but it became more and more difficult.

Compared to the past when maritime merchants themselves sent silver to seek refuge, the current situation of Eighteen Shiba, who retreated to Miyakojima, can only be described as miserable. Now that their territory is no longer on any major trade route, even if they want to rob merchant ships at sea, they have to rely on luck, and when they are unlucky, they may not be able to meet a prey in ten days and half a month. And the purchase of all kinds of life supplies is also more troublesome than in the past, Fujian and Zhejiang both know that the eighteen Zhi lost the East China Sea, it is difficult to have a chance to make a comeback, so there are fewer and fewer people willing to help them, so a limited number of people are willing to sell grain to them, but the price is amazingly high, it is clear that it is to take the opportunity to squeeze the only remaining value of the eighteen zhi.

Of course, it's not that no one has thought about fighting back, but there are not many elements that can be tricked in the matter of fighting, not to mention that the opponent is still an existence like the Haihan Mintuan. Penghu didn't dare to think about it anymore, Zheng Zhilong also sent people disguised as fishermen to investigate the Taipei area to see if the two new strongholds opened by the Haihan in the local area could take advantage of it, but the information obtained was that the Haihan people had built a large number of coastal defense batteries in these two ports, and if they wanted to launch an attack from the sea, they might need to pay a great price.

In the exchange between the two sides in Penghu last year, Eighteen Zhi had been beaten by the huge power of the Haihan artillery and could not raise his head, and several death squads sent out to intercept the Haihan fleet were all gone, so as soon as Zheng Zhilong's intentions were exposed, the opposition within the Eighteen Zhi was very loud, and most people thought that it was pointless to attack Taipei, because even if they could grab these two small ports from the Haihan people, it would be difficult to garrison them for a long time to resist the counterattack of the Haihan. Eighteen Zhi did have a lot of muskets and artillery in the past, and some of them even came from Haihan, but at this stage, the ammunition has been exhausted, and it cannot be replenished at all on Miyako Island.

These conservative views hoped that Zheng Zhilong would turn his eyes to the north and find a foothold along the coast of Zhejiang by cooperating with Zhejiang pirates and maritime merchants. However, when this idea was still in the discussion stage, the Haihan people had already sent a fleet north to Zhoushan, and along the way, people blocked the killing of the Buddha and the killing of the Buddha, and it took only two months to clean up the civilian armed forces in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, and take Zhoushan, an important maritime hub.

When Zheng Zhilong got the news, he could only shout bitterly, the Haihan people controlled Zhoushan, which means that the area between the Fujian Strait and Zhoushan, Zhejiang will also be included in the control of the Haihan fleet. Haihan's move was basically to cut off the only way out of Eighteen Zhi.

For Zheng Zhilong personally, there is also a possible way out is to flee north to Hirado, Japan. After all, it was the place where he made his fortune, and he had always had a good personal relationship with the Matsuura clan, who were in charge of the area, and there were some farm estates in Hirado, so if he chose to go to Hirado, he could at least be a small landowner in the local area. But Zheng Zhilong was really unwilling to give up everything he had and give up the opportunity to take revenge on the Haihan people, and he always felt that the Haihan people would not stop there, even if he could escape to Hirado, the Haihan people might chase after him at any time.

Zheng Zhilong's sixth sense is indeed correct, after the situation in Zhoushan stabilized, Haihan's side immediately sent a fleet to Japan to investigate, if Zheng Zhilong had fled to Hirado at that time, then the armed personnel brought by Chen Yixin would have to stage a kidnapping operation in the local area.

Although Haihan's actions in the Jilong Harbor area were hidden, they were not without traces. Eighteen Zhi has always had ships deployed in the waters east of Taiwan Island, and from time to time they will look for opportunities to approach the Taipei area to conduct reconnaissance, and the Haihan warship has recently suddenly expanded its patrol scope to Yonaguni Island, 80 nautical miles east of Jilong Harbor, which inevitably aroused Zheng Zhilong's vigilance. On the same day that Tom Wang arrived at Jilong Harbor, Zheng Zhilong also ordered all the personnel on the island to enter a state of readiness, and sent twice as many ships to the waters near Taipei to investigate whether there was any movement of the Haihan people. He knew very well that if the Haihan people sent troops to chase and kill them again this time, Eighteen Zhi would have no way to retreat, and he could only fight with him on Miyako Island. (To be continued.) )