Autumn wind and autumn rain on the beach.
When the loud military song "Working hard will win" sounded, the Shanghai Wusong Military Port on the lower reaches of the Huangpu River was being enveloped by the autumn wind and autumn rain. In the wind and rain, officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty army wearing bamboo hats and raincoats were singing military songs while neatly boarding the "Great Eastern" soft-sail armed merchant ship moored in the port.
The wind and waves on the river near Wusongkou were not small, causing the "Great Eastern" ships moored on the Huangpu River to undulate.
Although the combat effectiveness of the nearly one hundred "Great Eastern" here is not strong, the carrying capacity they can provide gives the New Ming Dynasty the ability to project military power to the coastlines of countries around East Asia and the South China Sea!
This is a hundred large ships carrying more than ten thousand stones!
They can carry a million stone of cargo at a time...if used to transport troops, they can at least transport a fully populated army field town.
This kind of town has two brigades, eight brigade-affiliated combat battalions, four town-directed battalions, and a total force of more than 13,000 people (known as 15,000), and has extremely strong combat effectiveness. Just one is enough to defeat the entire land power of the Dutch and Spanish east of Malacca in a field battle!
The same number of "mounted gunboats" towed by the one hundred "Great Eastern" ships that transported the town had enough terrifying firepower to destroy the British Sovereign of the Sea.
So these one hundred "Great Eastern" class armed merchant ships are actually a formidable strategic force!
And their first dispatch...that is, the operation of transporting a town's troops from Shanghai to Asan Bay in North Korea in August has shocked East Asia, and may soon also shock those entrenched in Southeast Asia. The Western colonists were trembling with fear!
Because this expedition spanned more than a thousand miles of sea route, it took three days to board the ship, only two days to sail, and the landing operation lasted seven days. .
In other words, in only twelve days, the new Ming Dynasty sent a powerful army field town to the coast of another country!
This is a powerful force enough to change the current situation in East Asia and even Southeast Asia!
So in mid-September of the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, the fleet returning to Shanghai began to take action again. The spies of various countries and forces from the East and the West lurking in Shanghai's commercial port all took notice and gathered in a building-style hotel next to Wusong Military Port in the increasingly prosperous Shanghai Commercial Port. View of the military dock room...
Li Guangdi, whose pseudonym is Li Guanghai, was holding a telescope at this time, standing behind a window that was only opened a crack, watching the movement on the pier from a distance, without moving at all, as if he had seen something extraordinary. matter.
There was actually a visitor in the room he was in. It was Wang Shirong who had followed Wang Fuchen to serve as an official in Kangxi's court.
I don’t know how these two “big spies” got together?
Wang Shirong was not as nervous as Li Guangdi. He was tapping his legs and sitting in an armchair, drinking tea leisurely.
After taking a few sips, he smiled and said to Li Guangdong: "Jin Qing, don't look at it... Zhu Heji won't come. The wind and waves on the sea are so strong that the boat may capsize at any time. He's going to die now." When you become emperor, how can you take this risk? There must be a scam!"
"I don't think so..." Li Guangdi replied, "I have asked the Portuguese flagmen for advice, and the sea route is not as dangerous as you think. Moreover, the Great Eastern merchant ships are of good shape and are resistant to sinking and wind and waves. As long as they are not affixed There is no danger in walking along the coast of northern Jiangsu, where the water is too shallow. Moreover, Zhu Heji also has many foreigners who are proficient in navigation. The former naval admiral of the Dutch East India Company, Bart, has been serving him for several years. He has been serving as the chief instructor of the Marine Academy and has trained many talents!
In addition, Zhu Heji has always been fond of taking risks, and he is also a fisherman... his behavior is very similar to that of Li Cunxu. I think he will probably go on a cross-sea expedition, either to North Korea or Liaodong! "
"Going to Liaodong?" Wang Shirong asked, "Sending troops from Dengzhou? Did Zhu Cijiong really train his troops in Dengzhou?"
Li Guangdi snorted and said: "Zhu Cijiong has been recruiting troops in Dengzhou in the past few years... The Confucian Shandong Hall sent many people to pretend to be recruited, but they all left and never came back, and there was no news again. These people must have been hidden Where are you! The person named Zhu wants to use people from the north to seize the land in the north, and he also wants to borrow money from the north as payment! This wishful thinking is gone!"
Wang Shirong raised his eyelids and said, "You all know, then Kangxi..."
"How wise is the emperor? Of course he has known it for a long time, and he will also use his tricks. Zhu Heji may have to lose his wife and lose his troops!" As Li Guang spoke, he suddenly exclaimed: "Here he comes!"
Wang Shirong was stunned, "Who is coming?"
"Of course it's Zhu Heji!" Li Guang said, "He's about to board the ship!"
As soon as he finished speaking, cheers of "Long live! Long live!" came from outside!
"He's really here?" Wang Shirong jumped up from his armchair, then took out a telescope, squeezed to the window and started looking around.
"Where is it?" Wang Shirong searched for a long time, but could not see the shadow of Zhu Heji.
Li Guangdi said: "The one holding the umbrella is wearing a purple jacket and a moonlight skirt!"
"Women's clothing?" Wang Shirong was stunned, "That's Zhu Heji? How could Zhu Heji wear women's clothes?"
"That's Da Bo Ling!" Li Guangdi said with a smile, "If there is Da Bo Ling, there must be Zhu Heji! Don't you know that during the battle of Xiangkou, Da Bo Ling was shot in the chest by Wang Fuchen?"
Wang Shirong nodded: "Remember, remember... I thought I had killed Zhu Heji at that time!"
Li Guangdi said: "It is said that from then on, Zhu Heji no longer came to the battle in person, at least no longer under his own banner. In addition, there are rumors in the market that if there is Dabo Ling, there must be Zhu Heji!
Unless Da Bo Ling is pregnant with Liujia, she and Zhu Heji must be inseparable, even on the battlefield... So as long as Da Bo Ling is found, Zhu Heji must be nearby. "
Wang Shirong nodded. He had also heard of this rumor...but he didn't know where it came from?
Thinking of this, he used the telescope to take a closer look at the woman in purple. She was indeed broad-minded!
"Is that Daboling?" He was still a little unsure.
Li Guangdi smiled and said: "Such a figure is rare! Besides, if there is no Zhu Heji, what are those Ming soldiers talking about? Didn't you hear them shouting long live in the mountains?"
Wang Shirong's brows suddenly knitted together, "So speaking of which, Zhu Heji is really going to North Korea?"
Li Guangdi had put down his telescope and looked back at Wang Shirong. He knew that once Zhu Heji went to North Korea personally, the time for the Wu brothers to fight against the enemy would come.
This is painful for relatives and happy for enemies!
Thinking of this, Li Guangdi smiled and said: "Let's just report it... there are some things we can't do anything about."
Wang Shirong nodded, his brows tightening.
And just a few days after Dabo Ling was discovered in Shanghai, the same scene appeared again at Qingjiangpu Pier in Huai'an Prefecture, Jiangbei Province!
Thousands of officers and soldiers lined up to board the ship, cheers suddenly broke out, and a plump woman in purple, surrounded by a group of female soldiers, boarded a large sand ship belonging to the Dengzhou Navy.
And Qingjiangpu in Huai'an Prefecture is now the place where the exchanges between the Northern Qing Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty were held... There were people coming and going, but it was very lively!
At the same time, Nanjing also reported the latest personnel appointments.
The Prime Minister of the Left, Zhuge Sanhe, was transferred to the Governor of Jiangxi. The former Governor of Jiangxi, Zuo Chunqiu, was transferred to the Governor of Jiangbei. The Governor of Jiangbei, Yang Xiuqing, came to worship the Prime Minister of the Right, and the Prime Minister of the Right moved to Zhongxian to become the Prime Minister of the Left.
There is also news from Nanjing that the Supreme Heavenly King Zhu Cijiong has entered the Heavenly King's Mansion in Nanjing to exercise the power of supervising the country on his behalf!
In addition, there was a French delegation from afar who did not see Zhu Heji himself in Nanjing, but was received by his father Zhu Cijiong on his behalf.
This shows that Zhu Heji is indeed no longer in Nanjing, or even in the country...
