Zhao Shu, Zhao Qi, Zhang Bangchang, Zhao Buqiu, and thousands of naval officers and soldiers who were willing to follow Zhao Shu and Zhao Buqiu to the north, finally took advantage of the west wind blowing from the sea in mid-September of the ninth year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty. Taking the opportunity, he boarded dozens of small and medium-sized ships, left Yashan Military Port, and embarked on the road back north.
They were so happy, returning home with a full load, and went north to become officials!
Zhao Shu went to Xiuzhou to serve as a shipping envoy to the Southeast—this official knew he was going to be shipped just by looking at his name!
Zhao Qi is going to be the transport envoy of Fujian Road... This is Zhao Shu's suggestion. Although Fujian Province is a poor place with eight mountains, one water and one farmland, it cannot withstand the prosperity of Quanzhou's shipping!
The number one port for maritime trade in the Song Dynasty is Quanzhou Citong Port. It is so rich. As long as you pay taxes seriously, you can earn millions of dollars a year! As a minister in Fujian Province, Zhao Qi could certainly make money from it...
As for whether Zhao Buqiu would take over the mission from the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the Song Dynasty, that was something that senior officials had to do.
And everyone who stayed in Guangzhou finally breathed a sigh of relief... Zhao Chenming became the king of South Vietnam, and Zhao Kai, the Northern Emperor in the north, should be able to calm down for a while.
However, their stable life will not last long, because when Zhao Kai consolidates his rule in the southeastern region, he will definitely find an excuse to attack Guangzhou... Whether Zhao Chen is the Southern Emperor or the King of Nanyue, Beatings are inevitable.
Even if Zhao Kai really did it for Zhu Lian's sake, or if he didn't attack Zhao Chen for other reasons, it would be the end after Zhao Chen used up all the money he had.
Therefore, Zhao Chen and others had to take advantage of Zhao Kai's opportunity to digest the southeastern half and start expanding southward.
There is really not much time left for Zhao Chen, but there is a lot of preparation to be done!
The first step, of course, is to form the garrison... which is the "legion" proposed by Zhao Shu. Zhao Chen changed the name to garrison, which means garrison army. According to the results of discussions between Zhao Chen and his ministers, these garrison units should be based on "households", with one army consisting of 3,000 households. Colonization, how did a group of big men colonize in the past? Who do you breed with?
So Zhao Chen first had to find a way to solve the girl problem for the soldiers who formed the garrison... How to solve it? Of course you have to spend money to solve it! Can there still be commercial marriage in feudal society?
After the problem of the lady is solved, the problem of recruiting warriors for the garrison is also solved. Join the garrison and get the lady!
However, just gathering enough heads is not enough. The two major problems of the composition and education of the garrison must be solved.
The garrison is of a feudal nature, not a bureaucratic nature... Therefore, most of the officers with military backgrounds are not willing to become the first batch of garrison leaders.
They are acting like officials, so why take such risks?
Therefore, Zhao Chen had to select a group of more capable "brothers" from his own young soldiers to support a few garrison troops first.
In addition to these military envoys, there are also about 1,000 households (the military envoys lead the middle 1,000 households) and 30 100 households... How these people come into being is also a problem.
Zhao Chen thought about it for a long time, and finally used the method of competition to determine the winner...these thousands and hundreds of households must first be fierce, and then there will be other things.
The problem of education is more troublesome than organization!
A village of 3,000 households might be divided into several forts. It is not easy to expand and colonize places far away from China!
Among all the difficulties, the most difficult one is of course maintaining one's identification with the Southern Song Dynasty (the Song Dynasty of the Southern Emperor).
This is no small problem!
If we want to be more serious, most of the upper echelons in the Annan Protectorate are also Han Chinese, and even their kings are Han Chinese. One theory is that the Li family of Annan was a man from Fujian who went to catch fish and became the emperor after catching it; another theory is that he is a descendant of Li Ming, the fourteenth son of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. No matter which statement is true, the ancestors of the Annan Li family must be Han Chinese.
But those Annan people who clearly had Han ancestry regarded the Song Dynasty as enemies!
For the Southern Song Dynasty's fugitive group who wanted to establish a semi-feudal and semi-colonial empire, how to connect the military strongholds and seaport cities scattered along the coast of the Nanyang Sea and various islands was a big problem.
If it is a large piece of land that is connected together, it is easier to maintain identity and tighten it more and more. People flow easily, cultural exchanges are easy, and economic integration will occur. In order to facilitate communication and integration, common order and beliefs will naturally emerge.
However, Zhao Chen's Southern Song Dynasty exile group is unlikely to occupy a large area of connected land to establish a country in the foreseeable future. They can only disperse to various coasts and islands, and communicate with each other through sea routes... and distant places The distance will definitely create a gap, and how can this gap be bridged?
After much deliberation, there is only one way to educate people's hearts!
But how to educate this human heart?
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In late December of the ninth year of Hongwu, Panyu, Guangdong.
As the New Year approaches, this first commercial port in the South, which has been prosperous for more than a thousand years, has become more lively than in previous years. There was a bustling scene everywhere in and outside the city. Most of the hundreds of thousands of people who fled from the north are now resettled in Guangzhou. They all have some savings, and Zhao Chen's small court still has enough money to support them. So as the New Year is approaching, all the armies, battalions and yamen have a long holiday. Everyone comes to Guangzhou in groups to stroll around, trying to find a little bit of hometown in the bustling part of Guangzhou. .
Zheng Yang Zaixing of the New Army Cavalry, originally from Jinghu South Road, today left the military camp on Changzhou Island outside Panyu City (Guangzhou City) with several of his comrades who joined the New Army, and took a ferry to Panyu City. We visited the nearby market and bought some New Year goods for our mother-in-law and children.
Although the soldiers of the New Army in the Southern Song Dynasty received high salaries, they could not bring their families with them. However, Yang Zaixing is not a soldier, but a serious military attache (he is a "vegetarian cavalry", and promotion is much easier than ordinary infantry). Although he is only the youngest Chengxinlang, he can take care of his family, and his salary is better than that of soldiers. Much higher. And there will be opportunities to transfer to other places in the future...the future is bright!
But this bright future came to nothing with the defeat of the Southern Song Dynasty. Yang Zaixing originally admired Yue Fei of the Northern Army, but wanted to join him when the Southern Song Dynasty was defeated. However, he thought that if he had a promise, he would definitely not think highly of him since he was already a lieutenant, so he had no choice but to follow Zhao Huan to Guangdong... and now he doesn't know where his future is? I just had to take it one day at a time.
Fortunately, the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty still had some money in hand, so the monthly salary could still be paid out on time, and the family could still live on, but it felt that the future was bleak.
When I was walking with my head down and confused, I suddenly heard someone shouting in front of me: "Yes, yes, yes again!"
What's left?
What Yang Zaixing heard was a familiar Jinghu South Road accent. He must be a fellow Jinghu South Road wanderer in Lingnan.
When a fellow villager meets a fellow villager, tears well up in his eyes!
Yang Zaixing quickly looked up and saw that he had arrived in front of a fish stall at some point. A group of soldiers in military uniforms were surrounding the fish stall and making noise.
Yang Zaixing was a little curious, what kind of fish was being sold? With so many people around, it must be delicious, right?
Thinking of this, he swaggered over.
He is an official! Wearing a long coat with narrow sleeves and a cross-legged turban on his head, he also looks powerful, and you can tell at a glance that he is a ruthless person. So when the soldiers saw him coming, they all made room for him and saluted him.
"What kind of fish are you selling?" Yang Zaixing said, "I'll also give two to a certain family!"
A military man next to him took over the conversation with a smile, "Officer, I'm afraid the fish from this stall can't be sold...send them to the palace."
"Send it to the palace? Feed it to the officials?" Yang Zaixing looked down and frowned. What he saw were ordinary fish, which were not very fresh. They had been dead for a long time at first glance. Could they still be delicious?
The fish stall owner was busy cutting open the fish. After cutting it open, he stretched out two fingers to take out a piece of silk... What's going on?
Yang Zaixing was confused and thought to himself: What kind of fish is this? Is there still silk in your belly? Can such fish be eaten?
"Yes, yes...there are also words!"
The people around were already shouting, and they saw the boss unfolding the silk cloth and washing it with water. The silk cloth was white, with six big characters tattooed on it: "Southern Emperor comes out, Tianli prospers".
This...this is the fish belly book collection!
Although Yang Zaixing was from a humble background, he knew some writing. Later he became an official and went to elementary school in the army, so he also knew many things.
The allusion of books in the belly of a fish was used by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang when they rebelled... Someone is going to rebel! Who is going to rebel? Yang Zaixing said heartily: I am an official of the imperial court. If I find someone rebelling, I must report it immediately!
"Here, where did this fish come from?" Yang Zaixing immediately became nervous and asked the fishmonger, "Hey, fish seller, do you know that your fish is not right?"
The fishmonger was an old man with a bare chin and no beard. He was tall and dark-skinned. After listening to Yang Zaixing's words, he replied calmly: "Our... old man fishes and sells fish for dozens of dollars on the edge of the Pearl River." In the new year, we sell the freshest and best fish, how could it be wrong?”
How many decades have you been fishing on the Pearl River? Yang Zaixing knew something was wrong as soon as he heard it... You old guy has a Bianliang accent! And your fish doesn’t look fresh at first glance, how can it be a good fish? If you sell fish like this in Guangzhou for decades, you will definitely starve to death!
The fishmonger then said in a pure Kaifeng dialect: "The book in the belly of this fish is auspicious! The so-called Southern Emperor's emergence means that our king should be the Southern Emperor of the Song Dynasty! And Tianli Xing means... ..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard someone shouting again, "Get out of the way, get out of the way...Guangzhou Prefectural Government Office, people waiting for business, please get out of the way! I heard that someone discovered Xiangrui? Where is Xiangrui? Hurry up." Take it out and show it to the officials!"
