Chapter 220
Unlike landing in Luzon, Luzon is an important nail that is embedded in without anyone noticing and then exerts its force slowly.
But the problem is that in terms of senior officials, it was Wang Zha who was dispatched by Ning Haijun.
As one of Ning Haijun's senior generals, Chen Dayong, who had fifty-three concubines, really couldn't stand the oppression of his fifty-three concubines. He had no choice but to grind an iron pestle into an embroidery needle as long as he worked hard.
After Cheng Shijie and Kolacui reached a strategic cooperation agreement, Chen Dayong asked Cheng Shijie for instructions to transfer senior officials. The situation in Liaodong is now stable. Jiannu has changed from the main offensive to the main defender, and Cheng Shijie can also let go of his arrangements.
In this way, the Dusi of Shuangcheng was transferred to Chen Dayong's deputy Li Deran, and Chen Dayong led 6,000 Ning Haijun soldiers to land in Tamsui Port.
After landing at Tamsui Port, Chen Dayong did not launch a military attack, but first understood the true situation in Tamsui.
Although the Spaniards in Tamsui City have retreated, some ragged figures can be seen in the corners of the streets. No matter where they are, there are poor people.
Shang Kexi, as Chen Dayong's deputy, was transferred from Jeju Island to a senior member.
Shang Ke looked at Chen Dayong happily and said, "Master Chen, what should we do now?"
Chen Dayong thought for a while and said: "Let the brothers who come from poor backgrounds in various camps be released and let them have direct contact with the poor people in Dajuan. Let the grassroots in Dajuan know how we treat the poor and let them know Our arrival will only bring benefits to them, let them know that we are their hope. Let them know: following us, Ning Haijun, the only thing you may lose is poverty and chains, and what you can gain will be the entire army - —No! Get the whole world!"
Chen Dayong was deeply influenced by Cheng Shijie. In this world, there are only two ways for wealth to mutate, either through technology or through wealth transfer.
When Ning Haijun was in Dengzhou, he adopted a wealth transfer strategy. He transferred the wealth accumulated by the bandits and robbers in Ninghai Prefecture over the years to Ning Haijun. Therefore, Ning Haijun achieved some of the achievements in a short period of time. rich.
While in Liaodong, Ning Haijun adopted another approach, which was 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. He achieved rapid breakthroughs in both food production and wealth accumulation.
Chen Dayong also understands that among the wealthy people in the big officials, the mayors and village chiefs of each town are all following Zheng Zhilong's management staff. They are the first to get rich. No matter what Chen Dayong does, they will definitely not follow Ning Zhilong. It is impossible for the navy to betray Zheng Zhilong.
Because Zheng Zhilong gave them more things than Ning Haijun gave them, people's hearts can actually be bought. This involves a price issue. As long as the money is in place, a person's left hand can sell his right hand.
The key is that Ning Haijun is unwilling to pay the money.
The strategic policy adopted by Chen Dayong in Da Yuan is to use special means to borrow wealth from wealthy households to support the poor who are more likely to return home and are in urgent need of help.
In extraordinary times, only extraordinary means can be used.
The sound of horse hooves sounded, and a Ning navy cavalry galloped forward.
"Tell Mr. Chen that something happened!"
"What's up?"
"Zheng Zhilong knows that we have landed a senior official!"
Tamsui City is actually useless to Ning Haijun. The overall building of Tamsui City is made of Guanyin Mountain stones, with two east and west gates and two small gates in the north and south, in a square layout. Suitable for defense, with deep foundations, thick walls, and the "outside stone and inside brick" construction method, it was not afraid of artillery attacks 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 Ning Haijun General Military Office.
Such a city, once approached by the enemy, has no defensive capabilities at all. Most of the artillery can bombard the city. Therefore, after Ning Haijun obtained Tamsui City, he first demolished the four east, west, north and south gates and expanded them more than 800 steps outward. Digging trenches and laying out barbed wire formed Ning Haijun's defense system.
Chen Dayong smiled and said: "This is actually a good thing!"
"Good thing?"
Shang Kexi was a little puzzled: "Zheng Zhilong knew we were here so quickly. Wouldn't he immediately send troops to attack us?"
"Isn't it good to attack us?"
Chen Dayong smiled and said: "Our Ning Navy navy is far from the opponent of Zheng Zhilong Navy. With few ships and few people, we cannot defeat 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. These supplies were mainly weapons and equipment. Because the officials were not short of food, when the poor soldiers of Ning Haijun went around to negotiate with the people of the officials, they brought weapons with them. equipment.
The red lady led more than 200 scouts and traveled quickly through the mountains and dense forests. The Dayuan area was surrounded by mountains, dense jungles, swamps, and rivers. To the Dutch and Spaniards, this ghost place was almost like hell, but For the Red Lady and her men, entering a place like this is like going home.
When the Red Lady was a bandit, she was chased by the army like a rabbit all over the mountains and plains. She was actually used to crawling into the forests and ravines. When she was in Liaodong, as a scout of the Ning Navy, she had to be in the mountains and forests of Liaodong. and activities in grassy environments.
It can be said that the current Ning Navy scouts, like the special forces of later generations, have extremely strong field survivability. When Chen Dayong arrived in Danshui, the red lady arrived in Tamsui City with the army as the reconnaissance commander.
This ratio is very high. There are 1,055 people under the Red Lady's command. There are more than 6,000 troops, and more than 1,000 people are scouts. This ratio is very scary.
From Red Lady's point of view, the current Dajuan is really a good place. The climate here is not cold and the prey is very abundant. Everything the scouts need to survive can be found in the jungle, and the jungle can also become their protector. They burrowed into the jungle. No matter if you are Spanish or Dutch, do you have the guts to chase them in? We guarantee that as many as come in will die!
The red lady smiled and said: "This battlefield is simply tailor-made for us. As long as we can get enough weapons and equipment, we don't even need to send out a large army. The troops raised by our group can kill those Westerners alive." Consumed to death!"
Red Lady is confident enough that they, the scouts, are not much better than ordinary soldiers on the frontal battlefield. Since they do not have heavy weapons, in fact, they cannot defeat ordinary soldiers even if they set up a formation.
Ning Haijun's commander-in-chief level organization has four fire support posts, thirty-two Thunder Guns, sixteen Folang-type artillery, and flying thunder cannons. It is difficult to attack a small city. But the problem is, the scouts don't have such equipment. When fighting with large forces, it is very disadvantageous.
But in forests and mountainous areas, it's different. They are good at off-roading and using terrain to fight. Fortunately, the Spaniards do not do one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes. When they gave up Tamsui City, they evacuated very cleanly. Except for some abandoned slaves, everyone who could be moved was moved away.
Anyway, there are only a few hundred people, which is really not enough for the reconnaissance under the Red Lady. If Cheng Shijie is willing, they can take Taipei and Keelung, the other two Spanish strongholds, at any time.
Cheng Shijie's real intention was to attack Zheng Zhilong's farming area in Da Yuan and force Zheng Zhi Long to fight an unprecedented land battle with Ning Haijun in Da Yuan.
On the fifth day, Lady Red found a Han village in a valley.
These Han people immigrated here after Zheng Zhilong took power in Fujian. After so many years of hard work, they have reclaimed more than 600 acres of paddy fields and 700 to 800 acres of dry fields in this valley. Rice has been planted in the paddy fields and in the dry fields. Red beans and soybeans were planted, jute, oranges, peaches and other crops were planted on some slopes, and chickens, ducks and pigs were raised, turning this originally thorny valley into a prosperous one.
However, now the Europeans are invading in large numbers, attacking towns that refuse to surrender to them. The villages and towns are reduced to scorched earth wherever the butcher's knife hits them. The unruly aborigines and the hard-working and kind-hearted Han immigrants have all been reduced to subjugation under their swords and guns. The carcasses pecked by crows. Although this place is remote and has not been affected for a while, it is already panicked and spontaneously organized a small militia to defend its homeland to the death.
After learning that Lady Hong and the others were a reconnaissance force sent from the mainland, these villagers were so excited that they burst into tears and kept saying, "Thank God, the court has not forgotten us, and the court has not forgotten us!"
These frugal villagers brought out the best wine and killed a pig to entertain 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 was the harvest?"
"It's okay!"
Village Chief Liu smiled bitterly and said: "No matter how good the harvest is, what's the use!"
Zheng Zhilong's troops expanded more and more, and his demand for food became greater and greater. At the beginning, his share with these immigrants was 40-60%. The immigrants earned 40% of the income from hard work in farming for a year, and 60% of the income was earned by the immigrants. Cheng was taken away by Zheng Zhilong.
Now the situation is different again. The tax collectors under Zheng Zhilong are also like the officials of the Ming Dynasty. Zheng Zhilong wants 60%, but they dare to collect 80% or 90%.
These immigrants complained that they had worked hard for a year to cultivate the land, but it was not enough to satisfy their hunger. If they did not hunt in the forest or trade with the mountain people to obtain a certain amount of supplements every year, they would even starve to death.
Moreover, they would also face attacks from Spanish or Dutch expeditions, but the problem was that Zheng Zhilong only protested to the Dutch. The Dutch fooled Zheng Zhilong casually, and the matter was easily revealed. Compared with the income from the big officials' farming, the protection fee paid by the Dutch to Zheng Zhilong was the largest.
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 commander went south to destroy the pirates on the emperor's order. From now on, this is no longer a foreign land. Do you still admit that we are the people of the Ming Dynasty?"
Village Chief Liu looked at each other with several elderly people in the village. Although these immigrants do not have a high level of education and knowledge, they are mature and sophisticated, and they also know that these imperial troops may have big intentions.
The so-called loyalty means that there is not enough bargaining chip for betrayal. When Li Hu told Village Chief Liu that as long as he became a citizen of the Ming Dynasty and obeyed the jurisdiction of Tamsui County, they would create a household register for all the villagers. The most important thing is that they would enjoy the benefits of the people of the Ming Dynasty. treatment.
After tax, it is on par with the two capitals and thirteen provinces.
The national income of the Ming Dynasty, like most feudal dynasties in Chinese history, mainly came from land taxes. The basis of the Ming Dynasty's land tax was a two-tax system. A summer tax was levied in the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year, and an autumn grain tax was levied in the second month after the autumn harvest. According to the ancestral system set by Zhu Yuanzhang, except for the Jiangnan region, the tax burden on farmers in other parts of the country is not heavy. Most tax rates are 5% to 10% of the estimated total harvest.
The reason why the Jiangnan region became an exception is that when Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting for the world, he fought to the death with Zhang Shicheng, the separatist force entrenched in Jiangnan. Later, Zhang Shicheng was killed. Zhu Yuanzhang believed that the reason why Zhang Shicheng was able to resist stubbornly was because he had the support of the people in Jiangnan, so he ordered a punitive tax rate of up to 20% in the Jiangnan area.
Even if Jiangnan's tax rate is adopted, 20% is far lower than Zheng Zhilong's 80% or 90%.
"What if Zheng Zhilong's people come to collect taxes?"
The red lady patted her chest and promised: "We will expel them. Of course, most of the time we need you yourself!"
The red lady then persuaded Village Chief Liu, and Village Chief Liu led all the young men and women in the village, a total of 169 people, to Tamsui City. They took out a batch of arms and carried them on their shoulders and pulled them on an ox cart, and transported them all to the village. , and then take a portion out of it.
The Liujia Villagers' League was formally established. In the early stage, there were only 71 young and strong men in Liujia Village who were armed as a militia.
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 spread around in the same way.
"Village Chief Liu, how is your relationship with the surrounding villages and the indigenous people in the mountains?"
Village Chief Liu said: "It's okay. There are two Atayal tribes near us. They both make a living by hunting. They also farm, but their skills are very poor. Hunting is their main source of livelihood. Therefore, between the two tribes, Conflicts often broke out over the competition for hunting grounds, and beheading each other was a common occurrence. However, they did not make things difficult for us. Our ability to take care of crops was much better than theirs. They often had to bring some precious medicinal materials and skins down the mountain to follow us. Exchange rice, linen, and tea.”
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 exchange things with them, there is no problem in entering their village, but you must not enter their hunting grounds, otherwise they will fall out."
"Let's do this. Let's start with the surrounding Han villages. If they are willing to become citizens under the rule of Tamsui County, we will arm them into a militia, and several villages will join together to build a town!"
Ning Haijun's rapid development among senior officials was like a spark that started a prairie fire.
Zheng Zhilong not only received the news that Heipi had landed as a senior official, but also received the most critical question. The tax collectors he sent to the senior official were either beaten to death or expelled. In just half a month, thousands of tax collectors were sent to the senior official. Households, 30,000 to 40,000 people defected to Ning Haijun.
Ning Haijun established fifteen towns in Tamsui County, and the Guang Militia armed more than 6,000 people.
The problem before Zheng Zhilong was no longer a headache and a pain in the butt, but a serious concern. He could either turn around and return to Nanyang to deal with the problem of Ning Haijun's main battleship, or directly attack Liaodong.
But the problem is that no ships from Liaodong can be seen on the East China Sea. These ships seem to have disappeared in an instant.
When Cheng Shijie was operating Wusongkou, Changxing Island, and Chongming Island, Liaodong had already entered a new round of spring plowing. Although industry and commerce in Liaodong were developed, agriculture was equally important. At the current stage, Liaodong's industrial production is mainly to meet its own consumption.
This is the importance of Cheng Shijie establishing a solid base.
"In other words, Zheng Zhilong acted first and attacked Liaodong, but was beaten back?"
Zheng Zhilong did not attack Wusongkou immediately, but attacked Liaodong first. It was a pity that he encountered Ning Haijun's fort. Although the five-inch breech-loaded rifled cannon was too heavy to be loaded on wooden warships, the problem was that there was no problem in establishing the fort.
In particular, the range is nearly six thousand meters. Although the effective range is only more than 4,600 meters, the problem is that the naval guns of the Zheng fleet cannot hit that far. The Ning Navy’s fort in Liaodong can bombard the Zheng fleet from outside the range. .
The Zheng fleet lingered in the Liaodong Peninsula for more than 40 days. Instead of attacking all the ports and docks in Liaodong, they were bombarded by forts and sunk more than 30 main warships, that is, Junk ships or Wuwei ships. As for small pirate ships, there were no You are not qualified to fight this kind of battle, but you have nothing to lose.
At least three to four thousand sailors were either captured or became the sons-in-law of the Sea Dragon King.
Cheng Shijie said very happily: "That boy Zhou Ning is more sneaky than anyone else. He beats people to death as soon as he strikes!"
"The prisoners of war all claimed that they were completely blindsided by our army's artillery. They had never seen a cannon that fired so fast and so accurately."
Cheng Shijie laughed and said: "The breech-loaded rifled cannon, if we can't even compare to the front-loaded smoothbore cannon, let's not get involved!"
Zheng Zhilong was very distressed at this time. Cheng Shijie was not actually 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 was playing now.
This is a double-edged sword. If Zheng Zhilong adopts this method, it will also cause Cheng Shijie a huge headache. But the problem is that both sides are afraid of guerrilla warfare at sea.
Zheng Zhilong was also afraid of a land battle. He did not have the courage to fight a land battle with Ning Haijun. But the problem was that Cheng Shijie sent his main battleship to the South Sea and accidentally dropped an important chess piece on the officer.
Either attack the senior officials and annihilate the senior officials in Ning Haijun, or attack Liaodong. However, facts have proved that attacking Liaodong is not feasible.
"Commander, those people are here again!"
Shen Boyun reported to Cheng Shijie.
Those people were naturally Jiangnan maritime merchants. During this time, they all knew that their ships had been robbed by Ning Haijun. 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 calmly: "Since they are doing the first grade of junior high school, I will do the fifteenth grade. Tit for retaliation. Is there any problem?"
Of course Shen Boyun knew that when Zheng Zhilong robbed the transport ship of the Sha Chuan Gang and Ning Haijun, the people of Ning Haijun were better off and at least became prisoners, but the sailors of the Sha Chuan Gang were all thrown into the sea by Zheng Zhilong. What was even more annoying was that those belonging to The goods of the Shachuan Gang and Ning Haijun were all sold by Zheng Zhilong.
And it’s 20% off.
Now Cheng Shijie is still treating others the same way and giving them back.
These Jiangnan maritime merchants were very angry, but there was nothing they could do.
Seeking Cheng Shijie but unable to do so, these Jiangnan maritime merchants reported the news of Cheng Shijie on Chongming Island to Zheng Zhilong.
"What did you say? Cheng Shijie is on Chongming Island?"
"Yes, I have been to Chongming Island since December last year and have been here for nearly four months now!"
"Is the news reliable?"
"Reliable, someone with an informant saw Cheng Shijie boating and fishing on Chongming Island!"
Zheng Zhilong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Finally I found you!"
PS: Happy May Day to everyone. Lao Cheng has been very anxious recently. Although he has not stopped updating, he is still very embarrassed. The curtain is raised, asking for votes.
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