Guangzhou, Beicheng Tower.

There is a five-storey building here, built in the early Ming Dynasty, and when it was built, it had a great view of the whole city.

Zhao Han put down the battle report he had just received, and when he saw Zheng Zhilong looking at him, he said with a smile: "Western Guangdong has been taken, only Qiongzhou Mansion remains, and the front-line general requests to transfer ships to attack the island." ”

"Congratulations to Brother Xian," Zheng Zhilong immediately surrendered, "Do you need the Zheng family to send a boat to help?" ”

Zhao Han waved his hand and said: "Don't use it for the time being, when the officials are sufficient, it's not too late to capture Qiongzhou Mansion." Does my brother know the situation in Qiongzhou? ”

"It's much better there than Dongfan," Zheng Zhilong said with a smile, "There are at least a million Han people on Qiongzhou Island. ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Hainan Island must be more than one million!

Because during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, the registered population of Hainan Island had reached 291,030, almost exceeding 300,000. For more than 200 years, the imperial court has continued to exile prisoners on the island, and there have always been civilian immigrants along the coast of Guangdong, and it is possible that two or three million Han people on Hainan Island are possible.

As for the official data, there were only 250,000 people in Hainan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was less than Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, which is simply outrageous and nonsense.

Zhao Han got up and pressed the railing, crossed Guangzhou City to look at the sea, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Does the Red Fan Ghost really dare to come?" ”

"Definitely coming." Zheng Zhilong said with a smile.

After Zhao Han recovered Macau, he immediately told the merchants that all countries could come to Guangzhou for free trade, except for the Netherlands.

With the arrogance of the Dutch in the 17th century, after hearing the news, I am afraid that they wanted to rush into Guangzhou City and kill Zhao Han. According to Zheng Zhilong, within three months, the Dutch would arrive in Guangzhou.

Zhao Han is now in a hurry to drive away the Dutch because he has taken the entire western part of Guangdong.

Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty directly bordered Vietnam, and the coastal areas of Guangxi in the future were all under the jurisdiction of Guangdong at this time.

North Vietnamese maritime trade has been overrun by the Dutch. Only by driving out the Dutch could Zhao Han buy grain in North Vietnam to solve the problem of food shortage in Guangdong.

During the three-year disaster in Guangdong, Zhao Han brought a large number of troops and officials. Local grain procurement is no longer sufficient, and it is being transferred from Jiangxi, and the consumption of crossing mountains and mountains is very large, so it is necessary to obtain grain input from North Vietnam as soon as possible.

Buying grain from North Vietnam was cheaper than that of South Vietnam, and merchants were more active in transporting grain for sale.

Zhao Han suddenly asked, "Is it easy to attack Taiwan City (Resha Blocking City)?" ”

"It's easy," Zheng Zhilong said, "if it's just a naval battle, after the battle, you can make peace with the Red Fan Ghost." If Taiwan City is captured, it will be tantamount to an all-out war with the Red Fan Ghosts. ”

Zhao Han asked again: "How is the combat power of the Red Fan Ghost's army?" ”

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile: "It's stronger than the guards of the Ming Dynasty." ”

These words made Zhao Han laugh, and when he asked carefully, it turned out to be really similar.

You can't blame the Dutch Army for being too weak, just like the soldiers of the Ming Guard, it's all because of problems with treatment.

The salary of the Dutch Army was extremely low, and even clothes and hats had to be brought.

Most army soldiers have to find part-time jobs to earn money, and even sneak out of the barracks every day to work full-time.

They came from a variety of sources, and the military training lasted only two months, anyway, they were trained casually and assigned to various colonial strongholds from Batavia.

Let's put it this way, the training time of the peasant soldiers under Zhao Han is several times that of the Dutch Army.

Historically, Zheng Chenggong attacked the city of Resha, and there were three fortresses in the Netherlands. Among them, Fort Prominsia, the stockpile of gunpowder was seriously insufficient, and even the arquebuses of the arquebuses were moldy, and the Dutch army in the fortress was busy working all day to earn a living.

At that time, the Dutch reinforcements were even more nonsense, and the fleet set out from Batavia and only brought six or seven hundred land forces.

Of these few hundred army soldiers, only 200 were sent to support Taiwan, and the rest of the troops came to attack Macao, making the Portuguese in Macao look confused.

It felt like as long as the landing operation, the Dutch army was a bunch of psychos.

Zheng Zhilong glanced at his son and said, "I'm leaving, the dog will follow the virtuous brother to Ji'an Mansion, and let him go to Jiangxi to see the world." ”

"Father, I still have to take the exam." Zheng Sen said.

"What kind of people are examined?" Zheng Zhilong was very speechless, "Before you can be admitted to the lifting of people, Fujian is gone, where are you going to take the exam?" ”

Zhao Han smiled: "It's okay, I'll host it then." ”

Fujian is very easy to take, and when the time comes, it will march in three ways.

All the way from the lead mountain to the south, all the way from Chaozhou to the east, all the way from the sea to Fuzhou.

Since ancient times, Fujian has been an indisputable place for soldiers.

The land is full of mountains, the land is barren, and the checkpoints are dense. There is no use in beating down, and if you really go to fight, you will hit a wall everywhere, and all dynasties have attacked Fujian by the way.

From another point of view, Fujian can only be divided, and the local government should not want to fight for the world.

Just like this time, Huguang and Guangdong fought lively, but there was no movement among the officers and soldiers in Fujian. Because as long as Zhao Han guards the two checkpoints and uses one or two thousand miscellaneous soldiers, tens of thousands of Fujian officers and soldiers can be killed.

Zheng Zhilong is also helpless, half of his foundation is in Fujian and half in Taiwan.

Even if he occupies the whole of Fujian and Taiwan, Zheng Zhilong can only be peaceful, and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong can all suppress Fujian. There is no way, the terrain is like this, just like Shandong, it can only be divided for a short time, and it cannot compete for the world.

After the Song Dynasty, in the entire south, only Jiangxi was the most suitable place for Longxing!

Chen Youliang occupied Jiangxi back then, if it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang's luck, it would be hard to say who would lose and who would win.

Zheng Zhilong is well aware of Fujian's disadvantages, so he has no ambition to fight for the world at all. He sent his son to Jiangxi to plan for the future, hoping that his son could be reused by Zhao Han.

Moreover, he doesn't want his son to be a military general, but prefers his son to be a civil official.

Two days later.

Zheng Zhilong led the fleet to leave, and also took many goods from Guangzhou.

As for Zheng Sen, he stayed as Zhao Han's entourage and helped deal with some simple official documents every day.

"Commander, why are there so many reserve officials?" Zheng Sen asked curiously with a document in his hand.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Settle down in the field." ”

"It's too much." Zheng Sen was surprised.

Due to the rapid expansion of the territory, a large number of grassroots officials are urgently needed. Zhao Han transferred 100 regular officials and 200 reserve officials from Jiangxi, and at the same time recruited reserve officials in Guangdong.

The specific operation is that one formal official is the mainstay, with two Jiangxi reserve officials and four Guangdong reserve officials. As long as the work of settling down and dividing the fields is completed, the regular officials will be promoted to officials, all the reserve officials will be regularized, and some of the good officials will be directly appointed officials.

"The town!"

Zou Guangdi sent a list: "The army has investigated clearly. ”

Zhao Han looked carefully and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The Datong Army on the side of Guangzhou Prefecture, the high-level generals are no problem. The middle-level officer found out two, one took bribes of 80 taels, and the other copied his family and concealed his property. In addition, there were six low-level officials, as well as more than 20 soldiers, who had secretly concealed property.

"Drag to the docks and execute in public!"

Zheng Sen followed Zhao Han to the city tower, and watched the execution on the other side of the dock, and his heart was greatly shocked.

I only listened to Zou Guangdi and a Cantonese interpreter, who announced in Jiangxi and Cantonese respectively: "The Datong army is strictly disciplined and does not take the people's goods...... Liu Qianzheng, the current commander of the first battalion, the third general and the fourth outpost of the Southern Military Academy, accepted a bribe of 80 taels of silver, and privately released the gangsters Lin Fu and Chen Mingyi, and should be beheaded according to military law! ”

Liu Qian was tied up and dragged out, and in front of the onlookers, he shouted at the city tower: "General Town, I have violated military law, I deserve to die." My son is studying in Luling Middle School, he is studying very well, please don't implicate him! ”

shouted several times in a row, Liu Qian was kowtowing to Zhao Han, and his forehead was bleeding for a long time.

"Tell him that if one person is punished, it will not affect the whole family." Zhao Han said expressionlessly.

The guards immediately ran down the city tower and said, "The town said that if one person is punished, it will not affect the whole family. ”

"Thank you, Headquarters!"

Liu Qianzheng kowtowed three more times and said to the executioner, "Come on." ”

Brush!

The knife flashed, and the head fell to the ground.

The onlookers retreated in fright, and then talked about it.

If you take a bribe of eighty taels, you will be beheaded, Zhao Tianwang's military law is really strict, no wonder the officers and soldiers are all over the ground.

Next, the officers who had hidden their belongings were also beheaded.

Six low-ranking officers and more than 20 ordinary soldiers, because the value of their private property was less than 20 taels, they were reprimanded on the spot, their personal land was recovered, and they were dismissed from the army.

When the accusations were read out, not only those people, but Zheng Sen was stupid.

One of the soldiers just kept his jewelry in his possession. Jewelry worth a few hundred wen was reprimanded on the spot, expelled from the army, and one acre of land was recovered (with paddy fields as the standard).

If someone hides two taels of silver, all the land will be taken back.

"Zongzhen," Zheng Sen couldn't help but say, "This is too unkind, as long as the battle is brave and the jewelry is only a few hundred dollars, why fire an elite soldier?" ”

Zhao Han said: "This is just the beginning, every month in the future, we will kill a batch on the dock!" ”

Kill whom?

Of course, it is to kill civil officials who dare to stretch out their hands to embezzle!

Zou Guangdi also announced: "The head of the Southern Military Affairs Yuan is like a crane, and the army is not strictly governed, so he will be removed from all military positions and remain in the army for use." Ten strokes of the cane, and one acre of land under his name will be recovered! ”

Fei Ruhe was pulled out, so he saved face and didn't take off his pants in public and beat him again.

"Bang bang bang!"

The people who watched the execution looked incredulous.

They are not familiar with others, but Fei Ruhe is the highest officer who occupied Guangzhou, and led his troops to conquer half of Guangzhou. Before Zhao Han came, Fei Ruhe was the uncle of Guangzhou, and he was in charge of everything.

Such a general, because of some trivial things, was directly dismissed?

Then, several high-ranking military officials were pulled out and spanked. Some were demoted to accept use, and some were pushed to the end, accused of accepting bribes from businessmen, but took the initiative to hand over dirty silver and confiscate it.

"Dead, dead." A businessman trembled, and he bribed these high-ranking officers.

A group of scholars standing on the pier were full of emotion:

"Those who govern the army strictly in ancient and modern times are probably not on the right side of the Datong army."

"I heard that this dismissed General Fei is still the wife and brother of King Zhao."

"This man will win the world, and I want to go out of the mountain to assist him."

"Haha, you still go out of the mountain to assist, people only recruit reserve officials, and if you want to be an official, you have to do it first."

"I've inquired a long time ago, as long as you become a clerk, you will be promoted very quickly. Today's Nanhai Zhixian County, Jiangxi was born as a civil servant. If Fujian is taken, this Nanhai magistrate will be able to be promoted to the governor immediately. ”

"Yes, yes, you can only be a clerk when you go out of the mountain, but people rise fast. I'm going to serve Mr. Zhao, it's too late, so I'll be promoted first. ”

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