Chapter 253
Wu Shangzhi's news was relatively delayed and not accurate enough. On the land surrounding Taal Lake with a radius of several thousand square kilometers, the 104th, 105th and 106th regiments that had been sent out seemed to have arrived again. These Zheng's recruits discovered their Wealth code, behead one level, reward five taels of silver, or five acres of land.
The combat effectiveness of the natives of Luzon is far inferior to that of the slaves, and not as good as the Spanish or Dutch colonial troops, so their rewards are not that high. If each person is given fifty acres of land, I am afraid that even if Luzon is divided, it will not be enough. Ning's naval officer.
Of course, Ning Haijun's army only counts adult men or women, but not limited to children. It can be regarded as Cheng Shijie's kindness.
The settlement of the indigenous people in Luzon is directly equated with the welfare benefits of Ning Haijun. After killing all the indigenous people, the land left behind will be distributed to the soldiers for free, and the materials and wealth seized will also become Their welfare, so these recruits' eyes are already red.
In the eyes of the recruits, these natives are not considered human beings, they are simply walking silver. They served as soldiers to eat food and trained hard for a month, and the salary they could get was only one to two to five cents.
After these three regiments swept through, there were no more natives around Taal Lake left.
When Cheng Shijie and Wu Shangzhi arrived at the banks of Taal Lake, they saw a village of about seven to eight hundred people. The village had turned into ruins, with some wooden houses and a little smoke. The air exuded an unpleasant smell. There was the smell of vomiting barbecue, and several burnt corpses could be vaguely seen in the ruins.
"These Zheng soldiers... are too crazy and cruel!"
Wu Shangzhi is still complaining to Cheng Shijie about the atrocities committed by soldiers of the Zheng Group.
Cheng Shijie pointed at Cheng Shi beside him and said, "Cheng Shi!"
"Father is handsome!"
"These corpses must be dealt with immediately!"
Cheng Shijie said: "The corpse cannot be left for too long. Let's check and find out which army did this work. It's too rough. In the name of this commander, I give an order!"
"Yes, handsome father!"
Cheng Shi went to investigate and quickly obtained the results.
"Reporting to Commander-in-Chief, after investigation, it was found that this was done by the Chaoqun Department of the Fourth Company of the 101st Regiment!"
"Order to report criticism to Yue Chaoqun, commander of the fourth company of the 101st Regiment, and inform the entire army that the battlefield was not cleaned thoroughly enough. Once the corpses are not burned and buried deeply, it will easily cause a plague. All officers and soldiers in the army must prevent this kind of thing from happening again! "
"It's the handsome father!"
Cheng Shijie turned to look at Wu Shangzhi and said: "Commissioner Wu, you have also seen that this place has become a no-man's land. It is very close to Taal Lake and has caused several ditches. There is no need to worry about rain and waterlogging. Everything here is It’s a good place!”
Walking along the road from Manila to Batangas, it didn't take long to see a large number of indigenous prisoners under the supervision of overseers, starting to build roads, cut trees, or dredge ditches.
This made Cheng Shijie a little strange. A veteran of the Zheng family introduced to Cheng Shijie with a Hakka accent: "There is no one in this area anymore!"
"Wait, what do you mean there's no one left?"
"There's no one left, even if there's no one left, they've all been wiped out!"
The veteran thought that Cheng Shijie was a nobleman who wanted to buy land, so he introduced to Cheng Shijie: "Those monkeys are hiding in the mountains and forests and constantly attacking us. They are so annoying. We will destroy all their strongholds and kill everyone who dares to resist." Qingguang, who did not dare to resist, was sold to Xiyi as a slave, so now there is basically no one in the northern mountainous area."
When talking about these shocking things, the veteran looked very matter-of-fact and didn't even feel the slightest bit guilty.
"Commander, we must restrain them, if this continues!"
"There's no one here anymore, let's set up a town!"
"The commander-in-chief means..."
Wu Shangzhi no longer felt compassion for others: "These lands...can be sold?"
As the saying goes, the butt determines the head. In fact, Wu Shangzhi does not sympathize with the indigenous people, but because these indigenous people are also human beings and have people, the Luzon Management Committee can receive more taxes. For example, the six regiments of the Zheng Group released more than 30,000 troops and massacred them. I believe these natives should know that Luzon has changed its owner.
If they are smart, they will definitely pay taxes to the Luzon Executive Committee. With taxes, the Luzon Executive Committee can develop better. Under Cheng Shijie's planning, Luzon will build schools, and all Chinese school-age children need to enter school. Schooling is free, and the Luzon Executive Committee is naturally responsible for the school expenses.
As a member of the Executive Committee, it is natural to consider issues from the position of the Executive Committee.
"This is natural. The land without an owner is all Luzon's land, and it is also my commander's land. In addition to setting aside enough land to accommodate Ning Haijun and Ning Haijun's family, other land can be sold!"
Cheng Shijie did not have detailed statistics on the amount of cultivated land in Luzon. According to later data, the cultivated land area of the Philippines is more than 106,000 square kilometers, almost equal to the cultivated land area of China. Although China's arable land is nominally twice that of the Philippines, more than two-thirds of it is dry farmland that grows once a year, and it faces serious water shortages.
However, more than 38% of the entire Philippines is usable arable land, and 85% of the arable land is cultivated in two or even three types a year.
But the actual utilization rate is even higher than that in China. How could this make Cheng Shijie not salivate?
Wu Shangzhi asked: "Commander, how can I sell this land?"
"One tael of silver for good farmland!"
Cheng Shijie did not immigrate to the mainland for free like the Ming Dynasty, because in the subsequent settlement process, a large amount of military expenditures were needed, and with the Ning navy occupying Luzon, Chinese people from all over Southeast Asia who could not survive would definitely first settle in Luzon. These Chinese They are all rich people.
Let them spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy tens of thousands of acres of land, and they don't have much of a burden.
Wu Shangzhi acted very quickly. In the afternoon of the same day, the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Luzon Executive Committee began to measure the land. Only in the northwest of Taal Lake, the newly planned Yatai Town in Luzon was newly released. Yatai Town is different from other towns in the Ming Dynasty in that it is horizontally and vertically bounded by the Batangas Official Road. It is 30 kilometers long from north to south and 20 kilometers wide from east to west. The total area of Yatai Town is 600 square kilometers, excluding hills. , lakes and virgin forests, the actual cultivated land area is approximately 537,000 acres.
The Civil Affairs Bureau of the Executive Committee took three days to mark these lands from No. 1 to No. 100, ranging in size.
Wu Shangzhi and the executive committee began bidding in Luzon City. He adopted a block-based bidding method. Each piece of land was divided into thousands of acres, or tens of thousands of acres, and the bids could be hidden.
The first piece of land, which was more than 7,700 acres, was successfully bid by Yang Rui, a local Chinese from Luzon. His bid price was 10,800 taels of silver, and he won the bid with an advantage of 800 taels of silver.
The second piece of land, more than 14,000 acres, was acquired by Qin Wanli, a Chinese immigrant from Batavia. He bid 25,000 taels of silver, almost double the price.
The third piece, the fourth piece, the fifth piece...
A total of 100 pieces of land were released for the first time. The largest piece of land was bought by Zhang Shi'an, Cheng Shijie's cheap uncle, who obtained 72,000 acres of land for 18,000 taels of silver.
For 537,000 acres of land, a total of more than 1,239,000 taels of silver were obtained, and the average price per mu of land was as high as 2,000 taels of silver.
As Yatai Town was packaged and sold, Shanyang Town, which was adjacent to Yatai Town, was resettled into Ninghai Haijun Tuntian Town. About 6,000 Chinese who had no assets and could not afford to buy land were reorganized into 15 tracts. Hundreds of households.
As the land was planned, these farms began to be cultivated. The first to enter were naturally the natives captured by Ning Haijun. These prisoners of war worked hard under the whips of the supervisors and contributed to the construction of Shanyang Town... ...Please make up your own mind about that scene.
If there are too many prisoners of war, they will be worthless. Similarly, the Chinese will naturally not be polite to those prisoners of war. They cannot bear the heavy physical labor. If they die of injuries and illnesses, they will be buried and used to fertilize the fields.
Due to the day and night work of prisoners of war, Shanyang Town developed faster than Yatai Town, which was first established. When Yatai Town had just formed several plantations, Shanyang Town had already completed at least 6,000 wooden pavilions. The houses of more than 100 Chinese people have been built. This kind of construction is not done in one step, but develops slowly.
First, they built easy-to-build wooden houses to solve the problem of temporary residence. The prisoners of war began to collect stones and became busy building Shanyang Town.
Shanyang Town was absolutely crazy when it came to laboring prisoners of war. In just over half a month, more than a thousand people were fertilized on the land. They had to grow three crops of rice a year, four seasons of vegetables, cut down trees and mine. All those who were unwilling to work were slaughtered. With the fertile land and the hard work of these prisoners of war, Shanyang Town has developed rapidly. Within three years, this place will surely become Luzon's famous rice, sugar, and timber supplier!
When Liu Qingsong had six new regiments in his hands, the next battle became even smoother. In fact, it was no longer a battle, but turned into a one-sided massacre.
With mental arithmetic and unpreparedness, coupled with the advantages in equipment, Zheng's recruits performed better and better in the battle. As the new army's cooperation became more and more proficient, Liu Qingsong decisively divided the troops, with each company as a unit. , six regiments with a total of 72 combat companies, expanding rapidly like a big net.
"Damn, you're so unlucky!"
Yue Chaoqun lamented that the fighting power of these indigenous people was too weak. Although they captured a lot, these indigenous people were too poor. If they didn't like gold, they might have captured only a pile of rags.
What makes Yue Chaoqun more troublesome is that because he has been criticized by the entire army, he will have to make great contributions unless he makes a great contribution. Otherwise, there will be no chance for promotion within a year.
The fourth company has been reduced to 19 soldiers. Three of the soldiers died of infection after being accidentally bitten by a locust. Five soldiers died of poisoning after being bitten by a venomous snake. Nine soldiers died because they could not control their pants. The belt was subject to military law, and there were only two people who actually died in the battle.
"Pu Chi Pu Chi..."
Two new recruits who couldn't control their belts had their heads chopped off.
In front of the entire company's soldiers, Yue Chaoqun pointed to the group of ragged indigenous women on the roadside with unkempt hair and dirty faces and said: "How can you keep talking about such ugly and smelly women? You are really worthless!" "
Huang Liulang, who had been promoted to squad leader, asked cautiously: "Company Commander, is this too harsh? It's not easy for the brothers... and I don't mind taking them as concubines!"
"You've been kicked in the head by a donkey, you killed someone's whole family, and you still dare to sleep with them. How serious are you?"
Yue Chaoqun pointed at these prisoners of war and said: "Sell them to the Dutch, this matter is non-negotiable!"
"yes!"
Huang Liulang asked: "What's next..."
"keep going!"
Yue Chaoqun said: "We have to cross the river. There is a big snake in the river, which is very dangerous. If you don't want to die, just obey the rules!"
Pythons, like poisonous snakes, are also a huge threat to tropical rainforests. Poisonous snakes rely on their venom to hurt people, while pythons eat them alive. Not to mention humans, even larger wild animals cannot escape the hunting of pythons. Although this thing is huge , but there is no sound at all when moving in the rainforest, making it difficult to prevent.
Now the biggest threat to Ning Haijun in Luzon is not the indigenous people, but these pythons or poisonous snakes. But this situation soon changed.
"Judging from the equipment seized on the battlefield, these indigenous people obviously have more muskets!"
Liu Qingsong handed a Dutch-style musket to Cheng Shijie.
Cheng Shijie is not interested in this kind of large-caliber smoothbore front-loading flintlock gun. This is not the real development direction of muskets. In fact, the current development of muskets and artillery is still in a vague state. Due to the high failure rate of open ammunition, The production cost is high, and from the perspective of economic benefits alone, solid cannonballs are more economical.
And European countries began to develop the tactic of lining up to kill with flintlocks, which is the thin red line tactic used by the British Army across the world. Cheng Shijie said: "Let Xie Jinglin give the Dutch a warning. If they don't stop this practice, they will bear the consequences. We Have the power to wait for revenge!”
The scheme played by the Dutch is actually very simple, which is to use sea routes to transport weapons and equipment to Luzon Island and arm the indigenous people to fight against the Ning Navy.
But the problem is that the fighting power of the indigenous people is very low. Brains are a good thing, but the indigenous people have almost no brains. Otherwise, they would not have been ruled by thousands of Spaniards for more than three hundred years.
Cheng Shijie said: "Qingsong, let someone notify the Chinese people from all over Nanyang and send their children to Luzon for training. Anyway, if a sheep is herded, a group of sheep will be herded too!"
"Just, will it be..."
Liu Qingsong said: "The Nanyang Chinese are not of the same mind as us!"
Liu Qingsong doesn't want to practice the magic of wedding clothes.
"You have to believe in our Ning Haijun system!"
Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "We are doing business with the Chinese. Whether it is equipment, military uniforms, boots, or daily necessities, they are not used for free. What's more, we not only want to train them as officers, but also in the future army , also adopt the current mode!”
The so-called current model refers to the use of the newly formed army of the Zheng Group. At the regiment level, officers from the Zheng Group are still retained. Soldiers are selected and promoted from the army at the squad and platoon level, and veterans of Ning Haijun are selected at the company and battalion level. In charge, even if Zheng Zhilong gave orders to these newly formed troops, he could not influence these newly formed troops.
The obedience training conducted at Ning Haijun's Luzon recruit training camp requires them to obey the instructor's instructions 100%, and the regiment-level officers of the Zheng Group do not have the ability to command troops. In the future, if these Zheng family members Officers, unless they wash away their bad habits and become true Ninghai officers, they will have no chance of supporting the army.
Even if Chinese students start from scratch, they may not immediately learn to command a modern army. They can only accept the command of Ning Haijun's instructors.
"Understood!"
"Instructors want to select our elite veterans, and their political determination must be firm!"
Cheng Shijie believed that as long as the officers trained by Ning Haijun returned to Nanyang, the Dutch would not be able to live in peace for another day.
With the training in Luzon and the clearing work carried out smoothly, Cheng Shijie also returned from Luzon, accompanied by Zheng Zhilong's son Zheng Fusong, Shi Daxuan's son Shi Lang, Zheng Cai's brother Zheng Lian, Zheng Zhihu's son Zheng Yi, and Shi Daxuan's son Shi Tianfu , including Cheng Shijie’s eight cheap brothers-in-law.
Cheng Shijie's journey north went smoothly, but when he arrived at Penghu, Cheng Shijie discovered that the Dutch actually had five warships entrenched in Penghu.
Cheng Shijie directly gave Li Zhixiang an order to recover Penghu. Li Zhixiang and Chen Dayong cooperated in this battle. Cheng Shijie went directly to the capital because his schedule was too close.
After arriving in the capital, Cheng Shijie met with Emperor Chongzhen.
Emperor Chongzhen hosted a banquet for Cheng Shijie, his brother-in-law. It was a private banquet with no outsiders, but Cheng Shijie was extremely depressed because Concubine Li Kangfei discovered that Zhu Weiti was still naked. Li Kangfei almost died of anger and cursed. Chongzhen, Zhu Weiti was harmed.
Emperor Chongzhen did not directly tell Cheng Shijie about having the same room or different rooms. However, Queen Zhou, the emperor's sister-in-law, and Zhang Yan, the emperor's sister-in-law, did not shy away from it and directly bombarded Cheng Shijie.
However, Cheng Shijie could not refute it. After getting Cheng Shijie's promise to give birth to his son as soon as possible, Cheng Shijie fled back to Liaodong.
Arriving at the Ning Haijun General Mansion, Cheng Shijie was immediately overwhelmed by the mountains of documents. Fortunately, Cheng Shijie liked simplicity, and the emperor was easy to fool. A colorful article could fool him into not being able to distinguish between east, west, north and south, but Cheng Shijie What’s different is that what he wants to see is not beautiful words, but detailed data!
These data materials have been compiled by Lin Xunzong and are clear at a glance.
The first item at this time is that as of February 11, the eighth year of Chongzhen, the total population of Liaodong exceeded 8 million, totaling 8,297,400 people. Among them, there are more than 146,110 newborn babies. Based on this number, Liaodong will usher in a new round of population explosion.
After more than four years of hard work, a total of more than 74 million acres of fertile farmland has been developed in Liaodong, including more than 49 million acres of military land and 25 million acres of civilian land.
Last year, a total of 13 million acres of wheat were planted in Liaodong. Due to effective irrigation and sufficient fertilizer, the yield per mu reached a record high of 380 kilograms. If left to future generations, the yield of 380 kilograms per mu would definitely be a bad harvest. However, in this era, there was a great harvest, and this incident even shocked the court.
In addition to sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, only cash crops such as vegetables, flax, and cotton have reached 9.6 million acres, nearly one-tenth of the total cultivated land area. In fact, as the population of Liaodong grows, After eight years of spring plowing in Chongzhen, the cultivated land area in Liaodong will definitely reach a new high.
An average of two hundred pounds of flax fiber is produced per mu. This result is far behind modern agriculture, but this was in the Ming Dynasty when there were no pesticides and even very little chemical fertilizers. Cheng Shijie was already satisfied with such a result.
Cheng Shijie just checked Liaodong's report and immediately returned to the future. The real reason why Cheng Shijie hurriedly returned to his descendants was because his daughter Cheng Jiayue's condition had relapsed and she urgently needed treatment.
Cheng Jiayue's condition has improved. The doctor's advice is to avoid surgery if possible, because any surgery will cause accidents.
After applying for a medical visa to a beautiful country through an agency, Cheng Shijie put her plan on hold indefinitely. However, an accident happened this time.
When Cheng Jiayue's Guangming Kindergarten was out of school, a foreign brand electric car that came to pick up her children lost control and crashed into the kindergarten before leaving. The car hit the pillars of the gate, caught fire and exploded. The accident killed two people. A total of four people died, including children and two parents, including the car owner.
However, Cheng Jiayue was one of the witnesses at the time. The tragic scenes at the scene greatly stimulated Cheng Jiayue's heart. After treatment in the hospital, instead of getting better, there were signs of deterioration. In desperation, Cheng Shijie only had to return. Take your daughter to the beautiful country.
This time Cheng Shijie no longer had to worry about money. For the sake of money, the agency not only arranged for a translator, but also a guide to take a direct flight to Los Angeles.
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There is no doubt that Cedars-Sinai is the first in the United States, and its medical resources are much stronger than Concordia. Of course, there are so many rich people in the world that it is very difficult to make an appointment at Cedars-Sinai. .
At first, in order to save money, Xiang Hui did not apply for a passport, but found that Cheng Jiayue could not leave Xiang Hui, so he had to expedite the application. With the money in hand, Cheng Shijie and Xiang Hui's family of three arrived at Los Angeles International Airport smoothly.
When Cheng Shijie took Cheng Jiayue and his guide Li Siwei by car from the airport to the booked hotel. After the car entered Santa Monica Boulevard, it was after eight o'clock in the evening local time. This made Cheng Shijie feel that there were almost no people on the street and there were no cars, as if it was after twelve o'clock in the night.
Just when Cheng Shijie, Xiang Hui and Cheng Jiayue fell asleep, he felt the car stop.
"what happened?"
Li Siwei and the driver communicated in English.
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Cheng, there was a car accident ahead!"
"is it serious?"
"It seems quite serious!"
About a kilometer or two away, there was a faint light of fire, and the smell of burning rubber filled the air. Cars on the road had to stop on the side of the road. After all, a flame of more than ten meters was quite scary.
After an unknown amount of time, a motorcycle slowly came from behind. A motorcycle rider with a helmet on his head and an invisible skin color gestured towards the car to lower the window.
The driver obediently did so.
"Idiot!"
Cheng Shijie immediately realized that this was a characteristic of the beautiful country, robbery by motorcycle gangs.
He quickly pressed Xiang Hui under the seat, lowered his body, and at the same time covered Cheng Jiayue's ears with his hands: "Don't be afraid, Jiayue, dad will protect you!"
While they were talking, Li Siwei, who was sitting in the passenger seat, screamed loudly: "Sir, don't shoot, I'll give you money...we'll give you money!"
Li Siwei seemed to have been prepared. He picked up a bunch of scattered U.S. bills, which amounted to more than a hundred dollars: "These are all for you!"
The biker took the money and headed towards the next car.
However, at this moment, the driver of the BMW in front, who must have had a bad temper, actually started shooting at the motorcyclist with an automatic pistol. In just a few minutes, dozens of bullets were fired into the motorcyclist's body. .
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