Chapter 220

Unlike landing in Luzon, Luzon is an important nail, which is embedded in it unconsciously and slowly.

But the problem is that in terms of big officers, it was Wang Zhan who was dispatched by the Ning Navy.

As one of the senior generals of the Ning Navy, Chen Dayong, who has fifty-three concubines, really can't stand the oppression of his fifty-three concubines, and there is no way, as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle can also be sharpened into an embroidery needle.

After Cheng Shijie and Kolaquay reached a strategic cooperation agreement, Chen Dayong asked Cheng Shijie for instructions and asked for a transfer. The current situation in Liaodong is stable, Jiannu has changed from the original main attack to the main defense, and Cheng Shijie can also let go of the arrangement.

In this way, the Shuangcheng Capital Division was handed over to Chen Dayong's deputy, Li Deran, and Chen Dayong led 6,000 soldiers of the Ning Navy to land at Tamsui Port.

After landing at Tamsui Port, Chen Dayong did not launch a military attack, but first learned the real situation in Tamsui.

Although the Spaniards in Freshwater City have retreated, in the corners of the streets, you can see a few ragged people, no matter where they are, there are poor people.

Shang Kexi, as Chen Dayong's deputy, was transferred from Jeju Island to Dayuan.

Shang Kexi looked at Chen Dayong and said, "Lord Chen, what should we do now?" ”

Chen Dayong thought for a while and said: "Let the brothers from poor backgrounds in the camps go out, let them have direct contact with the poor people of Dayuan, let the grassroots of Dayuan know how we treat the poor, let them know that our arrival will only bring them benefits, and let them know that we are their hope." Let them know: with our Ning Navy, the only thing that can be lost is poverty and chains, and what can be gained will be the entire great staff - no! is to get the whole world! ”

Chen Dayong was deeply influenced by Cheng Shijie, and there are only two ways to mutate wealth in this world, either technology or wealth transfer.

When the Ning Navy was in Dengzhou, it adopted the strategy of wealth transfer, that is, the wealth accumulated by the bandits and robbers in Ninghai Prefecture for many years was transferred to the hands of the Ning Navy, so the Ning Navy achieved partial prosperity in a short period of time.

When he was in Liaodong, Ning Haijun adopted another way, that is, to develop science and technology, use science and technology to improve productivity, and create wealth. Ning Haijun opened many factories in Liaodong and cultivated a large number of fields, achieving rapid breakthroughs in both grain production and wealth accumulation.

Chen Dayong also understood that the wealthy people in Dayuan, the mayors and village chiefs of each town, were all following Zheng Zhilong's managers, they were the first to get rich, no matter what Chen Dayong did, they would definitely not follow Ning Haijun, and it was impossible to betray Zheng Zhilong.

Because Zheng Zhilong gave them more things than Ning Haijun gave, people's hearts can actually be bought, which involves a question of price, as long as the money is in place, a person's left hand can sell his right hand.

The point is that Ning Haijun is unwilling to pay this money.

Chen Dayong's strategic approach at the university level was to use special means to borrow the wealth from the rich to support the poor who were more likely to return to their hearts and needed help urgently.

In extraordinary times, only extraordinary means can be used.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a cavalryman of the Ning Navy rode up.

"Tell Lord Chen, something happened!"

"What's the matter?"

"Zheng Zhilong knows that we have landed in the big man!"

Tamsui City is actually a chicken rib for Ning Haijun. The overall building of Tamsui City is made of Guanyin Mountain stones, with two large gates in the east and west, and two small gates in the north and south, which is a square pattern. It is suitable for defense, the foundation is deep, the walls are thick, and the masonry method of "outer stone and inner brick" can not be afraid of artillery fire in ancient times.

However, the problem is that Tamsui City is too small, with a total area of only more than 150 acres, which is not as big as Cheng Shijie's Yamen of the Ning Navy General Command.

Such a city, once approached by the enemy, has no defensive ability at all, and most of the artillery can bombard the city, so after the Ning Navy got the Tamsui City, the first thing is to dismantle the four gates of the east, west, south and north, expand outward by more than 800 steps, and then dig trenches and arrange barbed wire fences to form the defense system of the Ning Navy.

Chen Dayong smiled and said, "This is actually a good thing!" ”

"A good thing?"

Shang Kexi was a little puzzled: "Zheng Zhilong knew so quickly that we had come to Dayuan, wouldn't he immediately send troops to attack us?" ”

"Wouldn't it be good to attack us?"

Chen Dayong said with a smile: "Our sailors of the Ning Navy are far from being the opponents of Zheng Zhilong's sailors, there are few ships and few people, they can't fight them, if they want to fight us on land, how can we be afraid of them?" ”

When Chen Dayong came to Tamsui City, he brought a large amount of supplies, which were mainly weapons and equipment, because the soldiers were not short of food, and when the poor soldiers of the Ning Navy went around to negotiate with the people, they brought weapons and equipment.

The Red Lady with more than 200 scouts, the mountains and dense forests all the way to the high, the area is surrounded by mountains, dense jungles, swamps, large rivers criss-crossed, for the Dutch and Spaniards this hell place is almost like hell, but for the Red Lady and her subordinates, entering this kind of place is like going home.

When the red lady was a bandit, she was chased by the official army like a rabbit running all over the mountains, she was actually used to drilling forests and ravines, when she was in Liaodong, as a scout of the Ning Navy, she had to operate in the mountains and forests and grasslands of Liaodong.

It can be said that the current Ning Navy scouts, like the special forces of later generations, have a strong ability to survive in the wild, and when Chen Dayong arrived in Dayuan Tamsui, the Red Lady arrived in Tamsui City with the army as the reconnaissance commander.

This ratio is very high, the full number of people under the command of the Red Lady is 1,055 people, more than 6,000 troops, and more than 1,000 people are scouts, this ratio is very scary.

In the opinion of the Red Lady, the current big man is really a good place, the climate here is not cold, the prey is very rich, everything the scouts need to survive can be found in the jungle, and the jungle can also become their protector, they drill into the jungle, whether you are Spanish or Dutch, there is a kind of chase to try? Guaranteed to come in as many as you want to die!

The red lady said with a smile: "This battlefield is simply tailor-made for us, as long as we can get enough weapons and equipment, and we don't even need to send out a large army, just the troops pulled up by our group can consume those Xiyi to death!" ”

The red lady has enough confidence, these scouts are actually not much stronger than ordinary soldiers on the frontal battlefield, because they have no heavy weapons, in fact, they can't beat ordinary soldiers if they really put themselves in formation.

The establishment of the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy has four fire support posts, 32 Thunderbolt guns, 16 Franc guns, and flying thunder cannons, and it is also difficult to attack a small city. The problem is that the scouts don't have such equipment. When fighting with large-scale troops, it is very bad.

But in the forest and in the mountains, it's different, they are good at cross-country, good at using the terrain to fight, but fortunately, the Spaniards don't play one thing on the surface, one thing in the back. When they left Tamsui City, they evacuated very cleanly, except for a few abandoned slaves, everything they could move was removed.

Anyway, there are only a few hundred people, and it is really not enough for the reconnaissance under the command of the Red Lady, if Cheng Shijie is willing, they can take Taipei and Keelung at any time, and the other two Spanish strongholds.

Cheng Shijie's real intention was to attack Zheng Zhilong in the Tuntian District of Dayuan, and force Zheng Zhilong to fight a land battle with Ning Haijun in Dayuan.

On the fifth day, the Red Lady found a Han village in a valley.

After so many years of hard work, they have cultivated more than 600 acres of paddy fields in this valley, as well as seven or eight hundred acres of dry fields, in which rice was planted, red beans and soybeans were planted in the dry fields, and crops such as jute, oranges, and peaches were planted in some sloping fields, and chickens, ducks and pigs were raised, turning this originally thorny valley into a prosperous place.

However, now the Europeans have invaded on a large scale, attacking the towns and cities that refuse to submit to them, the butcher's knife is in the direction, the villages and towns are scorched, the unruly aborigines, the hard-working and kind Han immigrants, all under their swords and guns have become carrion corpses pecked by crows, although this place is remote, it has not been affected for a while, but it has also been panicked, and spontaneously organized a small militia to defend their homeland to the death.

After learning that the Red Lady was a reconnaissance unit sent by the mainland, these villagers were so excited that tears came out, and they said repeatedly: "Thank God, the court has not forgotten us, the court has not forgotten us!" ”

The villagers, who had always been frugal, brought out the best wine, killed a pig, and greeted the guests.

"Village Chief Liu, how many people are there in your village?"

"There are four hundred and sixty-two people in our village!"

"How's the harvest?"

"It's done!"

Village Chief Liu smiled bitterly: "What's the use of a good harvest!" ”

Zheng Zhilong's troops expanded more and more, and the demand for food also increased, at the beginning, he and these immigrants divided forty or six points, and the immigrants worked hard to farm the land for a year to get forty percent of the income, and Zheng Zhilong took sixty percent of them.

Now the situation is different, Zheng Zhilong's tax collectors are also like the officials of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong wants sixty percent, and they dare to collect eighty percent, or ninety.

These immigrants complained, they worked hard for a year to farm, not enough to eat, if they did not go to the forest to hunt or trade with the mountain people every year to get a certain amount of replenishment, they would even starve to death.

And they will also face the attack of the Spaniards or the Dutch, but the problem is that Zheng Zhilong just protested to the Dutch, and the Dutch casually fooled Zheng Zhilong, and the matter was lightly revealed. Compared with the income of Dayuan Tuntian, the protection fee paid by the Dutch to Zheng Zhilong is the big one.

Li Hu, the director next to the red lady, looked at Village Chief Liu and asked, "Have you ever thought about changing?" ”

"How to change?"

Li Hu said: "Our marshal was ordered by the emperor to go south to exterminate the pirates, and in the future, this is no longer a place outside the world, and you still admit that you are the people of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Village Chief Liu glanced at several elderly people in the village. Don't look at the fact that these immigrants are not highly educated and do not have much knowledge, but they are old and sophisticated, and they also know that these imperial army are not small.

The so-called loyalty is not enough bargaining chips for betrayal, when Li Hu told Village Chief Liu that as long as they become the people of the Ming Dynasty and obey the jurisdiction of Tamsui County, they will compile a register of all the villagers, and the most important thing is that they will enjoy the treatment of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

After tax, it is on par with the two capitals and thirteen provinces.

The state income of the Ming Dynasty, like most feudal dynasties in Chinese history, came mainly from the land endowment. The basis of the Ming Dynasty's field tax was a two-tax system, with a summer tax levied in the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year and an autumn grain tax levied in the second month after the autumn harvest. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral system, the tax burden on peasants in other parts of the country is not heavy, except for the Jiangnan region, and most of the tax rates are 5 to 10 percent of the estimated total harvest.

The reason why the Jiangnan region became an exception was because when Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting for the world, he fought to the death with Zhang Shicheng, a separatist force entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River. Later, Zhang Shicheng was killed, and Zhu Yuanzhang believed that the reason why Zhang Shicheng was able to resist stubbornly was because of the support of the people in Jiangnan, so he ordered a punitive tax rate of up to 20% in the Jiangnan area.

Even if the tax rate in Jiangnan is adopted, 20 percent is far lower than Zheng Zhilong's 890 percent.

"Then what should Zheng Zhilong's people do when they come to collect taxes?"

The red lady patted her chest and promised: "We will expel them, of course, most of the time you need to be yourself!" ”

The red lady persuaded the village chief Liu again, and the village chief Liu led the whole village, a total of 169 young men and women, to Tamsui City, picked up a batch of munitions, carried them on their shoulders, pulled them by ox carts, and transported them all to the village, and then took out some of them.

The Liujia Villagers' Group was formally established, and only seventy-one young and strong men in Liujia Village were armed as a militia group in the early stage.

Seeing so many sophisticated weapons, these villagers were even more excited and excited.

The red lady got off to a good start, and then began to take the same way, spreading around.

"Village Chief Liu, how do you have a relationship with the surrounding villages and the aborigines in the mountains?"

Village Chief Liu said: "It's okay, there are two Atayal tribes near us, both of whom live on hunting, and they also farm, but their skills are very poor, and hunting is their main source of livelihood, so conflicts often break out between the two tribes over hunting grounds, and it is common for them to cut off each other's heads." But they didn't bother us much, we were much better at tending to the crops, and they often had to take some precious herbs and skins down the mountain to exchange rice, linen, and tea with us. ”

The Red Lady asked, "Do they allow you to enter their village?" ”

Village Chief Liu said: "If you are going to be a guest or to exchange things with them, there is no problem in entering their village, but don't enter their hunting grounds, otherwise they will turn their faces." ”

"In this way, let's start with the surrounding Han villages, and if we are willing to become the people under the rule of Tamsui County, we will arm them to become a militia group, and several villages will join together to build a town!"

Ning Haijun is like a spark in the prairie fire, developing rapidly.

Zheng Zhilong not only received the news of the black-skinned landing officer, but also received the most critical problem, the tax collector he sent to the commander was either killed or expelled, and in just half a month, thousands of households, thirty or forty thousand people defected to the Ning Navy.

Ning Haijun set up fifteen towns in Tamsui County, and the militia alone armed more than 6,000 people.

The problem in front of Zheng Zhilong is no longer a headache and a foot pain, but a big trouble, he will either turn around and return to Nanyang and clean up the problem of the main battleship of the Ning Navy Division, or directly attack Liaodong.

But the problem is that there are no ships from Liaodong in the East China Sea, and these ships seem to have disappeared in an instant.

When Cheng Shijie was running Wusongkou, Changxing Island, and Chongming Island, Liaodong had already entered a new round of spring ploughing work, and although industry and commerce were developed in Liaodong, agriculture was equally important. At this stage, Liaodong's industrial production is mainly to meet its own consumption.

This is the importance of Cheng Shijie to establish a solid base.

"In other words, Zheng Zhilong acted first, attacked Liaodong, and was beaten back?"

Zheng Zhilong did not immediately attack Wusongkou, but preemptively attacked Liaodong, but it was a pity that he encountered the Ning Navy's battery, although the five-inch breech-loading rifled gun was cumbersome and the wooden battleship could not be loaded, but the problem was that there was no problem in building the battery.

In particular, the firing range is nearly 6,000 meters, and although the effective firing range is only more than 4,600 meters, the problem is that the naval guns of the Zheng fleet cannot hit so far, and the batteries of the Ning Navy in Liaodong can bombard the Zheng fleet outside the firing range.

Zheng's fleet wandered on the Liaodong Peninsula for more than forty days, and instead of capturing all the ports and docks in Liaodong, it was bombed by batteries and sank more than 30 capital warships, that is, junk ships or blacktail ships.

At least three or four thousand sailors were either captured or became sons-in-law of the Sea Dragon.

Cheng Shijie said very happily: "That kid Zhou Ning, his attack is darker than anyone else's, and he will beat people to death as soon as he makes a move!" ”

"The prisoners of war claimed that they were completely blinded by our artillery, and they had never seen a cannon that hit so quickly and accurately."

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Rear rifled guns, if you can't even compare to the front smoothbore guns, let's not mix!" ”

Zheng Zhilong was very distressed at this time, Cheng Shijie was actually not afraid of a decisive battle with Zheng Zhilong, but was afraid that Zheng Zhilong would play guerrilla warfare with him at sea, just like Ning Haijun is playing now.

This is a double-edged sword, if Zheng Zhilong adopts this method, it can also give Cheng Shijie a headache, but the problem is that both sides are afraid of sea guerrilla warfare.

Zheng Zhilong is also afraid of land battles, he doesn't have the courage to fight a land war with Ning Haijun, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie put his main battleship in the South Seas and casually dropped an important chess piece on the big man.

Either attack the big man and annihilate the Ning navy, or attack Liaodong, however, it turns out that attacking Liaodong will not work.

"Dashuai, those people are here again!"

Shen Boyun reported to Cheng Shijie.

Those people naturally refer to the maritime merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, during this time they all knew that their ships were robbed by the Ning Navy, and they all came to see Cheng Shijie, hoping to get those ships back.

Cheng Shijie was not in the mood to see these people, he said lightly: "Since they have done the first year of junior high school, Ben Shuai will do fifteen, and one report will be returned, is there any problem?" ”

Of course, Shen Boyun knew that Zheng Zhilong had robbed the transport ships of the Sand Boat Gang and the Ning Navy, and the people of the Ning Navy were better, at least as prisoners, but the sailors of the Sand Boat Gang were all thrown into the sea by Zheng Zhilong, and what was even more infuriating was that the goods belonging to the Sand Boat Gang and the Ning Navy were all sold by Zheng Zhilong.

And it's 80% off.

Now Cheng Shijie is still taking the way of others and giving back to others.

These Jiangnan maritime merchants were very angry, but they were helpless.

asked to see Cheng Shijie but couldn't, these Jiangnan maritime merchants reported the news of Cheng Shijie's presence on Chongming Island to Zheng Zhilong.

"What do you say? Cheng Shijie on Chongming Island? ”

"That's right, I went to Chongming Island in December last year, and I've been staying for nearly four months now!"

"Is the information reliable?"

"Reliable, there is an eyeliner to see the process, Shijie is boating and fishing on Chongming Island!"

Zheng Zhilong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I finally found you!" ”

PS: I wish you all a happy May Day. Lao Cheng has been very anxious recently, although he has not broken the change, but he is also very embarrassed, the curtain opened, begging for votes.

(End of chapter)