Of course Zhu Hesheng is super fierce!
Because he is now a big warlord with territory, an army, and even a "military industrial system"!
His father, Zhu Jushan, originally owned two pieces of land: Tianwang Village in Danan Mountain and Jinghai Fort near Haimen Bay at the foot of Danan Mountain. It is said to be a "fort village", but it is actually a village. Tianwang Fort is a bandit village, and most of the villagers follow them. Zhu Jushan was an old member of the Tang Dynasty who ran away from Wen'an City.
A few days ago, Zhu Hesheng got false news that Tianwang Village had been breached by Shang Zhixin, and later sent Yong Meng Su to take a look with more than a hundred "armies". Yang Qilong just "returned triumphantly" on the third day after leaving Gucheng Village. Oh, it's not actually a triumph, because nothing happened at Tianwang Village, it was a false alarm.
Jinghai Fort is a pirate village. The villagers are all Su Dadu (Su Li)'s old relatives. After Da Bo Ling and Yong Meng Su took refuge in Tianwang Fort in Danan Mountain, they slowly gathered in Jinghai Fort. However, most of Suli's old relatives were old, weak, women and children (most of the strong men had died in the battle) and some half-grown men, so they could not send out many soldiers.
Moreover, these "pirates" don't go to sea very much now, and they mainly make a living by cultivating the coastal plains at the foot of Danan Mountain. Although the early years of Kangxi were not a prosperous period, due to the large loss of population at the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the number of people and land was reduced. Conflicts are almost non-existent (unless artificially created by coastal relocation), so it is relatively easy to extract food from the land.
In addition to the two villages of Tianwangzhai and Jinghaibao, Zhu Hesheng also received the three villages of Longjingdu, Longtiandu and Chengtiandu from Da Laohui.
Although these three "cities" are the so-called "rural capitals", in the view of Zhu Hesheng, who is used to having "1.4 billion brothers and sisters", the population of these three rural capitals is equivalent to the Chaoshan area in later generations. village.
The total population of these three townships combined is 35600... There are also a lot of children among them. I don't know if there are 600 adults if we add them together.
Therefore, Zhu Hesheng, the warlord who owned five villages: Tianwangzhai, Jinghaibao, Longjingdu, Longtiandu, and Naritadu, seemed to have a sense of familiarity with the village chief-level names of Japan's Warring States Period!
Moreover, the Zhu Da warlord's ability to control the three villages of Longjing, Longtian, and Chengtian is still a bit weak, because these three villages are one village and one clan!
Longjing all have the surname Ma, Longtian all have the surname Li, and Chengtian all have the surname Lin. The men in a village all have the same surname, and they all live in large and small enclosed buildings, and they are also armed.
With just one order from the clan leaders of the three surnames, one or two hundred men can be mobilized to guard the tower!
In addition, the three surnames Ma, Li, and Lin still intermarry with each other and form a family. Before the Qing Dynasty moved the borders and banned the sea, there were more than just these three clans in Longjing, Longtian, and Chengtian. At that time, families often fought with each other for land and water. However, after the coastal relocation, the population in the Longjing, Longtian, and Chengtian areas dropped sharply, and land and water sources were no longer scarce.
How to survive in the crack between the residual Ming forces represented by Da Lao Hui and the Manchu and Qing government is the biggest problem faced by these three surnamed clans.
Zhu Hesheng is now the latest and most difficult problem faced by the patriarchs of the three surnames!
Grandson of Zhu San!
Well, King of the Mountains, you don’t want to do this, but you are using the banner of the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu... And according to the news from the Li surnamed son who went to Puning and Jieyang to sell smuggled salt, this man has just become the "Five Village Warlord" This grandson of Zhu San is probably real!
This is really a disaster of genocide!
In the lobby of the Zhu family building in Gucheng Village, Zhu Hesheng, who was wearing Taoist attire (not a Taoist robe, but a kind of Confucian attire from the Ming Dynasty), was smiling like a weasel giving New Year greetings to a rooster. Looking at the clan leader of the three surnames being led in by Da Bo Ling.
The head of the Ma family is a scholar named Jackie Chan. He is not very young, he is just a gentle and white-faced scholar... But Zhu Hesheng knows that this white-faced scholar is a bit ruthless character.
Because the Longjing Ma family has the largest number of people among the three surnames, and their family also has the most turtledove-footed muskets!
The head of the Li family is an old man named Li Youcai. He has a high forehead and looks like an old birthday boy. He always has a friendly and prosperous smile on his face. However, Eunuch Pang had already told Zhu Hesheng that Mr. Li Youcai was actually a big salt lord...a ruthless man!
The patriarch of the Lin family looks like a dedicated farmer, with a sunburnt face, and he looks honest and kind, not like a villain. But people should not be judged by their appearance! This man's real name was Lin Ahu, and his nickname was "Tiger Lin". He was in his thirties or forties, and he was an old acquaintance with Yong Meng Su and Da Bo Ling. Back then, he was the gunner under Da Du Su. After the defeat of Dadusu, he took some comrades and two cannons to live in seclusion in his hometown of Narita.
Therefore, the Ma family in Longjing and the Li family in Longtian both relied on turtledove-footed muskets to show off their resistance to the Qing troops, while the Lin family in Narita, who was at the forefront (Narita was the farthest to the north and relatively close to Puning County, which was controlled by Qing officers and soldiers), Then he put the cannon directly on the tower!
Relying on these two cannons, Lin Ahu has repeatedly fought back the Qing soldiers who came to "force them to relocate". He is the most capable among the three tribes of Ma, Li and Lin!
So now they are pushed to the front by Ma Xiucai and Old Man Li, ready to take the lead.
Zhu Hesheng looked at Lin Laohu's amazing look on his face and was ready to be the first to capture him.
After taking him down, Ma Xiucai and Old Man Li no longer dared to speak out against him in person.
So Zhu Hesheng asked Da Bo Ling to show Lin Ahu the granular black powder he had just prepared.
"Auntie, give Brother Ahu a bowl of gunpowder to calm down the fire!"
"What? Use gunpowder to reduce the fire? What do you mean?" When Lin Laohu heard this, he became even more angry and his eyes were about to explode.
"Ahulin, how about you take a look at this gunpowder first?" Daboling smiled and took out a pack of granular black gunpowder that had been prepared long ago, then poured it into an empty iron bowl, and then poured the bowl of gunpowder into it. Pushed to Lin Ahu.
"This..." Lin Laohu glanced at it, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Not bad! Where did it come from?"
Of course not bad! This is black granular gunpowder, and Zhu Hesheng spent a lot of effort and genius to make it. Because this stuff requires granulation, it is much more difficult to make than sweet gunpowder.
"Point!"
Zhu Hesheng is also ruthless and doesn't talk much now, so he directly asks Da Bo Ling to light the fire.
I saw Da Bo Ling taking out a fire stick that looked a bit like a cigar, pulling out the lid and blowing on it a few times to make the originally "stuffy" flames burn brighter. Then she directly tore off a piece of burning hemp paper, threw it into the bowl, and with a "bang", lit up the bowl of gunpowder.
When gunpowder encounters fire, of course it burns violently and emits a large amount of white smoke.
Seeing the color of the smoke, Lin Ahu's mouth opened wide.
The "cleaner" the color of the smoke is, the higher the purity of the gunpowder. High purity not only burns vigorously and fiercely, but also has fewer impurities, making it less likely to corrode the gun barrel.
After a while, the small bowl of gunpowder burned out, leaving only a very small amount of residue in the slightly red iron bowl.
"Okay, good stuff!" Lin Laohu was an expert and of course he had figured it out. He looked at Zhu Hesheng and said, "Cannon Zhu, is this gunpowder from the Red-haired Country?"
Zhu Hesheng laughed: "Ahu, I prepared this myself!"
"Did you prepare it?" Lin Ahu's eyes almost bulged out, "Really?"
"Of course it's true," Zhu Hesheng said with a smile, "Ahu, don't you know that I'm good at refining gunpowder and using artillery? Isn't that how I got my nickname, Artillery Zhu?"
Just talk nonsense! Lin Ahuxin said: "Who doesn't know that you got the name of Cannon Zhu Hua because you have a particularly bad temper?"
Zhu Hesheng had already stood up and waved to Lin Ahu, Ma Xiucai, and Old Man Li, "Come on, follow me, I have something better to show you!"
