In the second year of the reign of King Ding, in December.
Quanzhou, Fujian.
This maritime trade center city, which was comparable to Guangzhou in history, is now full of vitality and joy like Guangzhou under the rule of the Zhu family and his son, and Jingzhou under the rule of Wu Sangui.
This is now the capital of Fujian Province. Because Geng Jingzhong evacuated relatively suddenly, and the battlefields in Huguang and Jiangxi changed too quickly, Zhu Heji did not have any extra troops to use to occupy Fujian. So the task of occupying Fujian was given to the Yanping Palace.
Zheng Jing himself was appointed governor of Fujian, Chen Yonghua was appointed governor of Fujian, Liu Guoxuan served as admiral of Fujian, Hong Lei served as chief envoy, and six people including Feng Xifan, He You, Wu Shu, Jiang Sheng, Lin Ying, and Lin Sheng respectively He served as the commander-in-chief of the water and land forces and divided his forces to attack the various capitals in Fujian.
Because Geng Jingzhong ran away on his own and took away all the Qing soldiers from all over Fujian. Only some good servants of the Qing Dynasty were left who wanted to resist with the people under their command. They did resist for a few days at first...but soon the news that "Kangxi was crowned and the Qing Dynasty will be destroyed" came back from Jiangxi.
Yes, there is news that the Qing Dynasty will die!
Probably because those soldiers from the north who went to Fujian were not good at speaking "Hu Jianhua", the news became more and more outrageous.
Anyway, when the news reached Quanzhou, Kangxi was no longer beheaded in Jiangxi, but in Jiangning!
In addition, Wu Sangui's Jianyang Water Victory was also rumored to have flooded the Seventh Army, which shocked China. The front line of troops had reached Henan, and the front army had crossed the Yellow River and was approaching Beijing...
In short, the Qing Dynasty is either gone or about to be gone.
From now on, there will be peace and prosperity for the Han people!
The Chinese and Western style sailboats parked on the Jinjiang and Luoyang rivers outside Quanzhou City seemed to indicate that a prosperous age was coming.
Some of these Chinese and Western-style sailing ships came all the way from the West or New Spain, and some belonged to the Hokkien, Chaozhou, and Guangfu people who went to Southeast Asia in the past few years. Since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, China's trade has been controlled by Chinese businessmen from Guangdong and Fujian.
The above three groups actually also like "monopoly free trade", but they are not as capable as Westerners, so they can only build monopolies through hard work and teamwork with clans and fellow villagers. They will work tirelessly to take root in various countries in Southeast Asia, start operations from small businesses, and gradually establish "fellow monopolies" in each industry.
Behind these "local monopoly" industries are often industrial chains including finance, production, and shipping. One end of these industrial chains is in Nanyang, and the other end is on the coasts of Fujian and Guangdong!
It is almost impossible for outsiders, especially businessmen outside the three circles of Southern Fujian, Guangfu, and Chaozhou, to squeeze into the industrial chains that are completely monopolized by them.
Because someone who can fight is not as good as you who can endure hardship!
For example, Western adventurers are ruthless people, but they can't bear the hardship, and they don't like small-scale businesses... They all do shopping for zero dollars!
And those who can endure the same hardships as them usually cannot defeat them! Not only do these people belong to a clan, but there are also pirate bosses from the same hometown behind them, and there are many of them. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were as many as 30,000 Chinese sailing ships active along the southern coast of China, the coast of Japan, and Southeast Asian countries!
The Dutch East India Company only had more than a hundred ships!
If it weren't for the Qing Dynasty's butcher's knife and coastal border relocation, it interrupted the communication between Chaozhou, Minnan, Guangfu and Nanyang, and wiped out millions of people who might have gone to Nanyang.
The Chinese in Nanyang will almost certainly become the majority ethnic group in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Nowadays, although the populations of Chaozhou, Minnan, and Guangfu will not recover for a while, the connections between these three places and Southeast Asian countries are being restored.
Many merchant ships that survived the troubled times slowly formed an unusually large maritime trade and colonial network through the three great pirate families, the Zheng family, the Qiu family, and the Chen family (Chen Shangchuan).
And this network now has strong support from the Guangzhou court!
Although the strong rise of the Guangzhou court has aroused great vigilance from the Dutch East India Company, the British East India Company, the Governor-General of the Philippines in New Spain, and the Catholic forces that moved to Manila. valley
There are also rumors that these parties are preparing to put aside their past grievances and adopt a unified stance in the East to maintain the existing order in the Eastern world.
But business still needs to be done, even without the freedom to buy for zero dollars...
Therefore, starting from the second half of the second year of Ding Wang Jianguo, more and more Chinese and foreign merchant ships came to Quanzhou for trade.
On the bustling streets, you can see groups of foreigners of various colors from time to time. It was the first time for most of them to set foot in the big city of this big eastern country!
As the vassal king of Quanzhou, Zheng Jing, who was working hard to become the richest man in the world, was also very busy during this period. He had to govern his own Quan, Zhang, Xing, Xiamen and Taiwan, while taking care of the entire province of Fujian, and at the same time Can we work hard to rebuild the Zheng family's maritime power? If you want to be the world's richest man, you have to enter the vast "blue ocean market" of "overseas zero-dollar purchases"!
Moreover, he now possesses a core competitiveness that his Western counterparts do not have—a variety of sweet and drug weapons!
Therefore, time waits for no one. Zheng Jing has been going all out to develop his naval power these days.
The military port at the mouth of the Luoyang River is already full of purchased or self-built warships. Officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy go to sea for training every now and then. Zheng Jing himself also cheered up and went to the Luoyang River Military Port whenever he could. Take a walk.
On this day, after a busy day at Jiangkou in Luoyang, "Zheng Sandai" yawned and returned to his palace. He was about to go to greet his mother, Mrs. Dong, who had just returned from Guangzhou, but he happened to bump into someone waiting in the lobby of the palace. Chen Yonghua and Feng Xifan.
These two people didn't come empty-handed. They brought a big red invitation to Zheng Jing.
"Ouch, whose post is this? Do you want to be a follower?"
"It's the third grandson's post." Feng Xifan replied.
"Did Da Bo Ling give birth to a son?" Zheng Jing said, "But be more casual...is ten thousand taels of silver enough?"
"Your Majesty, it's not Da Bo Ling who has given birth." Chen Yonghua said, "This is a hero post, inviting our heroes from Fujian to attend the Jiugong Mountain Conference."
"Oh, a hero from Fujian?" Zheng Jing thought for a while, shook his head and said, "But I'm busy! Someone came from Manila two days ago, saying that there was a big Western mission coming to Quanzhou, and I had to meet him them.
In addition, my uncle wrote a letter from Japan, asking the imperial court to appoint him as a Japanese envoy and send him to Edo to meet the Japanese general... Fufu, Xifan, I think you two are quite heroes. Yes, how about you take a trip to Jiugong Mountain on my behalf? "
"I obey the order."
"I accept the decree."
In fact, Chen Yonghua and Feng Xifan didn't want to ask Zheng Jing to take action at all - the third prince is going to hold a hero meeting, why are you going to join in the fun when you prepare the richest man? Moreover, Zheng Jing's current identity should be far away from the word "hero". How can I still move up on my own?
What if Zhu Heji saw Zheng Jing's later sentence, "Only the richest man and you are the only heroes in the world", how scary would that be?
"By the way," Zheng Jing suddenly remembered and asked, "Why was this hero club created?"
Chen Yonghua said: "It is to bear witness to the alliance between Zhu and Wu to defeat the Qing Dynasty. By the way, we will discuss the general trend of the world and the matter of joining forces to destroy the Qing Dynasty."
Feng Xifan added: "A lot of the same posts were sent out. It is said that Master Zhitong of the Putian Shaolin Temple and several reclusive Confucian celebrities also received hero posts. In addition, the third grandson also sent many anonymous hero posts... ... Anyone who considers himself a hero and doesn't mind the long journey can go to Jiugong Mountain."
Zheng Jing nodded and said: "I understand... The third grandson will use the stage of Jiugong Mountain to sing his own play and promote his original Confucianism."
Chen Yonghua smiled and said: "The prince still sees clearly. This is probably what the third grandson thinks."
Zheng Jing said calmly: "Anonymous posts are very lively... There are so many ghosts and monsters in this world!"
