Contrary to what many people think, Achina and Seth Black do not mean pigs and dogs, and they don't even know the name Yongzheng gave his brother.

Translated into Chinese, Achina means fish on a chopping board, while Seth Black means nasty person. The former is the name that the eighth master himself gave himself, which can be said to vividly describe his situation. is also too yin and yang, so when it was Lao Jiu's turn, the few names he gave himself were not agreed to by Yongzheng.

Yongzheng then asked the third child to take it, and the third child named the ninth child Seth Hei, not only Yongzheng was satisfied, but the rest of the brothers were also satisfied.

This is because Lao Jiu has been ugly since he was a child, and his personality is also weird, and he has always been hated by his brothers, and it is most suitable to be called Seth Black.

Even Li Zhaoji didn't expect that Leke Dehun, who worked for him, and his newborn child would get these two names, and after Li Zhaoji heard about it, he also wrote a letter to comfort Lek Dehun, who was preparing to open up the outer northeast on Sado Island.

He even promised that one day after defeating the Manchus, he would have two guys, Dolgon and Duoduo, called Archina and Seth Black.

But Luckedhun didn't care, and wrote back to Lee in a very relaxed tone, telling him that he didn't have to do it in the future, because Dorgon's name was much worse than Archie's. Translated into Chinese, Dolgon means badger.

Guo Xu was very interested in Luckedhun's proposal, and wrote a letter to Man Dahai that night, taking advantage of the information gap, Guo Xu described himself as very pitiful.

In his letters, the defenders of Mokoval were a group of exiles, and the reinforcements were also the marginal elements of the Oriental Trading Company, the part of the oppression. Guo Xu said that Li Zhaoji's cronies can buy and sell while fighting, and they are all in a rich place, and only people like himself who are not valued are assigned to Mo Kowei.

Therefore, he proposed that the two sides could trade without restrictions on anything, even gunpowder and weapons, but hoped that the Manchu side would turn a blind eye to the existence of Mokowei, and that the Mokowei garrison would not increase any more, let alone go inland for trade.

Guo Xu's letter also included a quotation, offering high prices for the tribute mink, ginseng, and pine nuts owned by Ningguta, and then proposing a fair and free trade between the two sides.

Man Dahai refused at first, but when Guo Xu offered to give Achina's head as a gift, Man Dahai was moved.

Guo Xu also made up Luckdehun very pitiful, he said that Luckedhun's wife and children were sent to freshwater as hostages, and Luckedhun was sent to Sado to manage gold mining, and he had to go down the mine every day, and he was almost killed by the ore falling from the well. Because he was a Manchurian, the officials and trading company officials in Sado hated him.

After several back and forth negotiations, Mandahai was willing to cooperate, he was willing to trade, but put forward a condition that August should be the deadline for trade, and after the end, the defenders of Mokowei should retreat, at least to the islands in the open sea, and hand over the wooden city to Mandahai, if there were some heads left in the wooden city, it would be better.

And Guo Xu agreed to all of them, anyway, his original intention was to contain the force of Mandahai in the area of Mokowei.

After making sure that Mandahai would not withdraw, Guo Xu first sent an Yahat ship to Matsumae and asked Matsushita Fuming to send troops to help, and soon after the ship left, a sloop came to Mokowei, as a notification ship, he brought the news that Lec Dehun was going to participate in the exploration of the Americas.

"According to the order of the big treasurer, only Lord Guo Xu and Lord Luck Dehun can read the secret letter, and the rest are not allowed to contact it." The person in charge of the order is Li Zhaoji's personal entourage, named An Mingge.

"Mingge, what's going on, what's going on?" Guo Xu patted him on the shoulder and asked with a smile.

An Mingge said: "Nothing happened, just about the personnel arrangements of Lord Luckedhun. ”

Guo Xu was relieved at this time, and said to An Hai and the others: "You guys go and get busy, An Hai, temporarily requisition your room." ”

An Hai smiled: "Of course, we can also be regarded as receiving angels." ”

An Mingge was greatly embarrassed, because An Hai was his father, An Mingge grabbed An Hai and whispered in his ear: "Dad, I will bring you two boxes of good wine on the boat, as well as some food from our hometown." ”

"You kid still have a little conscience." An Hai gave his son a kick before leaving with a smile.

There were only three people left in the room, and An Mingge asked people to guard the door, and only then did he show Li Zhaoji's handwritten letter, and Luck Dehun knew at this time that he was going to the Americas.

When Lec Dehun was originally arranged, Li Zhaoji wanted to find a capable person for the development of the Americas, but due to the route factor, the plan could not be carried out for the time being, and it was originally planned to go to Manila to hire a few sailors who ran the Pacific route, but Tasman's delivery made this plan at least a year earlier.

"America, what is that?" Lucked frowned.

"I can't answer you either, Lord Luckedhun. I just heard that it is far away, it takes half a year to go and three months to come back. But I need to make it clear that unless you are in a serious state of health, then you cannot refuse this mission.

From the very beginning, when you were asked to participate in the development of the Outer Northeast, the big boss planned to send you to the Americas. An Mingge said.

Luck smiled and said, "I won't refuse, in fact, I really need a chance to take charge." When you go back, tell Master Li that I won't let him down. ”

An Mingge let out a sigh of relief, and Luck Dehun said, "Can you tell me about the personnel arrangement?" ”

"That's right, the nautical business is in charge of four people, including Tasman, who is also your assistant. The management of the fleet is in charge of Lord Mark, Lord Guo Xu knows him, although he is a foreigner, but he is a responsible person, and the big shopkeeper trusts him very much.

In addition, the Navy supported the expedition, and the fleet included twenty-five sailors from Macao, fifteen of them from the South Seas captured by the Friesian fleet, and the rest all sailors drawn from the naval fleet.

Commander Chen also supported a Marine Corps company in charge of the fleet's internal control, and arranged for fifty Navy non-commissioned officers to participate, but their mission was mainly to learn and grow.

There are three ships in the fleet, and Master Mark has already prepared the supplies, and he thinks that in addition to these supplies and the people who have been selected, there are still three hundred and fifty people to arrange, and the chief treasurer does not know how many people are around you, but this part of the people is arranged by you, but it is stipulated that there can be no women. An Mingge said.

"There can be no women! We're going to the other side of the world, and we're going to have to build forts and reclaim land for a year, but we can't have women. "Luckedhun was a little hard to accept.

And An Mingge said: "The big shopkeeper said that next year the fleet will send at least one hundred and fifty women, probably mainly Japanese women." And every year the fleet sends at least a hundred. ”

"It's fine," said Luckedhun, "at least I can assure my men that everyone will get a daughter-in-law."

In addition to these requirements, what are the restrictions on my movements? For example, the time of departure and so on. ”

An Mingge thought for a while and said seriously: "There is no limit to the big shopkeeper, but as far as I know, Mr. Tasman wants to leave as soon as possible so that he can come back as soon as possible." ”

Luckedhun picked up Li Zhaoji's handwritten letter and read it, and said: "According to this damn council system, Mark and Tasman and I are going to vote on major matters, but what about Mark, when does he want to leave?" ”

"I met Master Mark on Sado Island, and I think he might want to leave slower, at least until June." An Mingge said.

"Why?"

"He wants to see his own child born." An Mingge said.

At the beginning, most of the people who came down and down the Dongfang had already achieved fame, and it was not a problem to marry their own children. But Mark has not been able to solve this problem because of his faith and race. Until last year, after the signing of the Hong Kong Treaty, Mark traveled with the fleet to Batavia to trade, where he met a Japanese woman, the wife of a Dutch clerk, who was a Protestant, but Mark was already a widow when he met her.

Mark married her, not only bought one and got one free, got a daughter, but also got all the property of the Dutch clerk according to Dutch law, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone. And Mark's wife is pregnant, and the delivery date is just recently, and if he leaves in June, Mark can see his child.

Luckedhun faced Guo Xu and said, "It seems that we can get a reinforcement army again." ”

"We, you're not us anymore, you're going to America." Guo Xu said with a smile.

Luckedhun said seriously: "Guo Xu, in the past half a year, we have cooperated happily, and you are also a very sincere person. I hope to help you, so the forces of the Pioneer Fleet of the Americas will also be thrown into the battle of Mokoval.

Moreover, I have been preparing for seven months to open up the Outer Northeast, but I was excluded at the end of the door, how can I be willing? I'll at least mix it up. ”

Guo Xu smiled: "Whatever, I'm Han Xin's soldier now, the more the merrier." ”

An Mingge asked: "Do you want to fight, fight the Qing army outside?" ”

Guo Xu nodded: "Yes." ”

"I can mix it up too." An Mingge's interest suddenly came. Guo Xu asked, "There won't be more than twenty people on board your briefing?" ”

An Mingge said: "But I can persuade Lord Xiao Li to send troops to help." ”

Guo Xu nodded immediately, An Mingge was Li Zhaoji's personal entourage very early, and at that time, he followed Li Sizhi and Tang Mu around, and the relationship was very good. If there are people here who can convince Li Sizhi, then only An Mingge is the only one, and the others are not familiar with Li Sizhi and do not have much contact.

"Okay, I won't refuse as many friendly troops as I come." Guo Xu laughed, very satisfied that everyone wanted to participate.

In the next twenty days, reinforcements from Sado and Ezo arrived one after another, and the scale became larger and larger, and the scale soon reached 750 people, which made Guo Xu confident in the decisive battle with Mandahai.

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