In the end, the Dao family siblings got some support. In addition to Gao Jingshi's deception and vague promises, they also received some financial foreign aid. Gao Jingshi planned to give them a thousand taels of silver every month for contacting the old department, recruiting troops, etc. .
One thousand taels of silver is naturally a drop in the bucket for Gao Pragmatic. Even if he now has Golden Port City and needs to build it from scratch, he will not be short of this small amount of money.
And one thousand taels of silver per month is by no means a small amount for the Nanzhang Kingdom. It exceeds 10,000 taels a year. Think about Laos in later generations. The surrounding Vietnam and Thailand have long been behind them by ten blocks. They However, it is still "one of the poorest areas in the world". Its location, resources and basic conditions are too poor, which cannot be ignored.
Of course, these issues are very complicated, and perhaps the more critical factor is the human factor. Just like Yunnan, if it were not in the hands of China, its development might be similar to that of Laos, but the great thing is that it is in the hands of China. inside.
As a result, Yunnan, a province that is deeply inland, is even stronger than Vietnam, which has ten times the location advantage and fully sufficient resource potential. I’m afraid it’s hard to say that this place in Yunnan is awesome, but only that the Chinese people are awesome.
But at the moment, at least the people of Nanzhang Kingdom have obviously made no achievements in the economy. With more than 10,000 taels of silver this year, the surprise on the faces of the Dao family siblings can hardly be concealed, although the people of Nanzhang Kingdom The population is smaller than that of Annan and no one has counted it, but this should not require verification.
Think about it, before Gao Pragmatic crossed over, Vietnam had a population of almost 100 million. How big was Laos? Just a pitiful seven million
Excluding the South Vietnam part that has not yet been grasped, central and northern Vietnam must have a population of at least 50 million, while Laos is far behind, especially since most of their southern parts are deep mountains and old forests, and only a small part near Siam It is a plain, so the current population of Nanzhang Kingdom is definitely not as good as Annan. Based on a high pragmatic estimate, it is probably enough to have more than one million, and the population will not exceed two million.
Ten thousand taels of silver could be used to the North and South Zhili, and even a splash would be lost, but if used to the Nanzhang Kingdom, it would be an astonishing sum of money. The Dao brothers and sisters can easily contact the old ministry and develop "revolutionary masses" ".
Gao Wuchen's current approach is the same as Japan's spending money to support the alliance.
Of course, he is not afraid that the Dao brothers and sisters dare to commit suicide. They are right next door to Annan. Why don't you give it a try?
At the same time, Gao pragmatically followed the principle that no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, and he won a few "Nanzhang version of Jinghua's sixteen items" that even he didn't know if he could use.
Oh, it’s not as many as 16 articles, and it’s not so detailed. It just says that if Jinghua helps Nanzhang successfully restore the country in the future, Jinghua will be allowed to cut and process wood in the unowned mountain forests in Nanzhang. Generally speaking, It only touches on the economic level. He is very pragmatic and has little interest in the military and political affairs that control Nanzhang, and he is too lazy to attract this hatred.
After all, Nanzhang Kingdom is mainly a borrowed route for him. After all, he has not yet mastered the southern part of Vietnam in later generations. Otherwise, he can go to Cambodia instead of Nanzhang.
Thinking of Cambodia, Gao Pragmatic is a little drooling. There are three crops a year in the entire Mekong River Plain, including the Vietnamese part in later generations. If it can be captured and properly developed and utilized, the food shortage problem in the north of the Ming Dynasty may be solved.
Even if comprehensive development and utilization cannot be completed for the time being, using only a part of it can prevent many refugees from starving to death, thereby greatly reducing the evolution of refugees into rebellion.
At that time, in conjunction with the initial promotion of high-yield crops in the Americas, wait, why has there been no result yet on the high-yield crops in the Americas? Do the Spaniards control this thing too strictly?
Coincidentally, just when Gao Pragmatic began to suspect that Guangzhou Port and Quanzhou Port did not take the "extra high grain yield" that he repeatedly emphasized repeatedly, Jinghua Quanzhou Private Port had just held a celebration banquet.
Quanzhou Private Port plays a low role in the high-pragmatic Jinghua Private Port system. This is mainly due to Gao-pragmatic’s own lack of strength in Fujian.
Due to his low status and lack of strength, Gao Sitang, the director of the Fujian Private Port, has not had the opportunity to change his name even though he controls this large private port. The name change means changing it to a single name next to the character "王". This is the head of an important servant under Gao Pragmatic. Purpose’s signature features. For example, Gao Xiaozhuang changed his name to Gao Rui, which is evidence of this. Gao Jing, who has recently been in the limelight in the Annan Sea, also changed his name.
There is another reason why Gao Sitang didn't get the chance to change his name. He was not originally a person accustomed to Gao Pragmatic, but was recommended by Gao Pragmatic's mother Zhang. Before that, Gao Sitang was first responsible for the business of Jinghua Soap in Henan for a period of time, and later he presided over He was responsible for the resettlement of Wei Hui's refugees and the establishment of the iron factory. Before being transferred to Quanzhou, he even took charge of Wei Hui's mining factory.
The talents Zhang usually recommends to Gao Jingshi are not many in terms of quantity, but the quality is very good, and they are all qualified for the new positions given by Gao Jingshi. Therefore, Gao Jingshi sent Gao Sitang to the Quanzhou private company that he had just acquired at the time. port.
After finally getting through and being directly controlled by his boss, he certainly hopes to make some achievements.
After arriving at the port, Gao Sitang made a detailed inspection and felt that the most important reason why Quanzhou Private Port has always been inferior to other ports is that the pirates along the coast of Fujian are the strongest.
In fact, the pirates along the coast of Guangdong are not weak either, but the Guangzhou Private Port has a good foundation from the beginning. The fleet is built faster and is equipped with the most artillery among all private ports. Therefore, pirates along the Guangdong coast easily dare not provoke the fleet of Jinghua Guangzhou Private Port.
This is not the case in the Quanzhou private port. The large number of pirates along the coast of Fujian is a legacy of history. Although there have been fewer pirates due to the high-profile policy of opening up the sea in recent years, there are still some big pirates who can cut off the connection between the South China Sea and the East Ocean. The waterways often quarreled with the Ming Dynasty's maritime merchants, and they did not have much fear of the fleet in the private port of Quanzhou, Jinghua. They robbed when they should, and harassed when they should.
After Gao Sitang took office, he quickly adjusted the operation mode of the fleet, changing from scattered shipments and purchases to entering and exiting the port as a whole, forming a whole fleet to act together, and even contacted other maritime merchants in private ports to act together. It is quite similar to the professional escorts of later generations.
As a result, the pirates along the coast of Fujian began to get no benefits. Less than half a year later, the pirates who originally worked separately held a "Martial Arts Conference", and more than a dozen pirates, large and small, united , elected Ma Zhishan as the chief helmsman and Li as the deputy chief helmsman, and planned to have a decisive battle with the Jinghua Quanzhou Private Port Fleet.
Ma Zhishan and Li Cheng are not unknown people. They were both capable men of the maritime giant Lin Feng, and they had outstanding prestige among the pirates along the coast of Fujian.
As for Lin Feng, this person is even more famous. Later, former Philippine President Marcos proudly claimed that he was his descendant and was often proud of it.
Logically speaking, pirates are not a good name to call them. Why would a Philippine president actually show off that his ancestors were Chinese pirates?
Because this Pirate King Lin Feng is not an ordinary pirate. Let’s not talk about his deeds in the Ming Dynasty. In short, he once had more than 40,000 subordinates and 300 ships of various types. His most impressive deed was when he went to Luzon to fight the Spaniards.
At that time, he suffered a defeat at home and had to flee to avoid disaster, so he chose to go to Luzon to compete with the Spaniards for dominance.
In the winter of the second year of Wanli, Lin Feng led sixty-two warships, with two thousand navy and army men each, and one thousand five hundred women. With the Japanese Zhuang Gong as the commander, he led the boat southward and encountered a Spanish ship when he arrived at Irugosi SSR. Lin Feng ordered his soldiers to seize the boat. However, it was discovered by the Spaniards stationed there and quickly reported it to the military officer Saschlunss of Mi'an.
Sashiro immediately sent three natives to Manila to warn. However, the natives were intercepted by Lin Feng's men on the way. Lin Feng then took the opportunity to attack Mi'an, and Saschluo led fifty Spanish garrison troops to escape. Lin Feng took advantage of the victory to pursue and headed for Manila.
On November 29th of the second year of Wanli, Lin Feng's navy arrived at the port of Manila, Malevelis. At dusk, Lin Feng ordered General Zhuang Gong to lead 600 people in a small boat to attack Manila. They encountered a storm on the way and more than 200 people drowned because the boat capsized. But the rest of the people still dived to Palavik, south of Manila, to land under the leadership of Zhuang Gong, and arrived in Manila early the next morning.
At that time, the Spanish officer Goidi was stationed outside the city. He was hasty and unprepared. Duke Zhuang quickly defeated him and seized his territory. Goidi himself also died in the battle. The defenders in the city took this opportunity to strengthen their defense. When Duke Zhuang attacked, they began to resist desperately.
However, Zhuang Gong's army had already lost more than 200 people in a storm during the march, so he was unable to capture the city wall in a hurry. So Zhuang Gong retreated to Jiami and joined Lin Feng.
At the same time, on the other hand, the Spanish governor Lavisa Liza immediately built a high wall along Manila Bay and placed troops for defense as soon as Duke Zhuang retreated. Sa Shiluo also led six warships and hundreds of soldiers to help in the battle.
After Lin Feng's first attack was completed, the natives of the Philippines thought that the Ming people had won the victory, and quickly gathered nearly ten thousand people near Manila and began to take action against the Spaniards.
On December 13, Lin Feng launched a second attack. He ordered Duke Zhuang to lead 1,500 men and divide the troops into three groups to attack. Lin Feng's own warships also fired artillery outside the harbor to assist.
However, because the Spaniards strengthened the city walls and added reinforcements, they were unable to capture it in a hurry. Lin Feng sent another 500 reinforcements, but they retreated without success.
When Lin Feng's army attacked Manila, the native Filipinos killed missionaries and merchant soldiers in preparation for Lin Feng's pirate army, but they quickly collapsed after Lin Feng's failure.
After Lin Feng's pirate army failed, he led his army to sail north and retreated from the A'e River to Pengjia Yuclan. He built a city four miles above the river and built a fort as a long-term solution. He also ordered the local chieftains to help pay him with the style of an envoy from the Celestial Dynasty.
After Spanish Governor Lavisa Liz found out about this news, he was worried and decided to gather the Spanish troops in the Philippines in Manila to prepare to attack Pengjia Yuclan, with Sa Shiluo as the commander.
With 6,000 Filipino soldiers and 650 Spanish soldiers, Sashiluo first sailed to Lingeyin Bay in the north of Pengjia Yuclan. At that time, Lin Feng's thirty-two warships were anchored there. Since there was no defense, all of them were annihilated, so Sashiluo raised his troops to land.
Here, the two armies were fighting for more than four months. Lin Feng decided to come to Luzon temporarily because he suffered a huge defeat in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he lacked supplies and was ultimately defeated. So they broke out and some of them fled to the mountains.
After Lin Feng was defeated in the Philippines, he was desperate and led his troops to invade. He once reached Zhelin, Jinghai, Jieshi and other places. At the same time, they also arrived in Fujian and other places, and used Jingang, Taiwan as a base to plunder everywhere.
However, at that time, Fujian was very strict against piracy and began to open sea trade again. Many "maritime merchants" who had secretly supported and condoned pirates in the past changed their faces and no longer provided support. Lin Fengyou encountered obstacles everywhere and had to leave. .
After a few years of this kind of time, Lin Feng's subordinates began to become dissatisfied, and many of his main leaders had other thoughts. After Gao Sitang came, Lin Feng himself felt the dissatisfaction of his subordinates and left quietly, and then what happened The matter of recommending the chief pirate leader of the Fujian coast.
Gao Sitang learned the news through private port merchants, secretly planned, and finally fought against the pirate coalition at the time when Gao Pangshi took Thanh Hoa and marched into Yingdu Palace.
Due to the preparations and Gao Sitang's strict implementation of highly pragmatic long-range artillery tactics, this battle between merchants and pirates lasted for eleven consecutive days, including searching, engaging the enemy, fighting, pursuing, and encircling, and finally achieved complete victory. victory.
Gao Sitang's Jinghua Quanzhou Fleet and the maritime merchant coalition destroyed and captured 132 pirate ships, 4,267 pirates, 1,493 women, and 1,370 young and old. Five people, killed pirates, well, this cannot be counted, because many people fell into the sea, drowned and injured, fell into the sea, and were unable to stay afloat in the ocean for a long time.
The price it paid itself cannot be counted as the total loss of thirty-nine ships, including five of Jinghua's standard armed transport ships. This is a loss of almost three hundred thousand taels of silver.
But, it's still a brilliant win! Because from now on, there will never be any pirates along the coast of Fujian who dare to attack Jinghua.
Moreover, during the post-war inventory, Gao Sitang discovered two of the so-called "extra high-yield grains" that Gao Pragmatic had repeatedly ordered to collect in Taiwan's Singgang, one of the pirates' lairs.
Based on the analysis, Gao Sitang concluded that these two things may have been obtained by Lin Feng in Luzon. However, although he took them back and started planting them in his new nest, he could not be said to be very serious.
These two crops, according to the master, should be "sweet potatoes" and "corn".
The celebration banquet at Quanzhou Private Port was held to defeat the pirate coalition and obtain two major crops.
Gao Sitang was extremely excited. He felt that "Wang Pang Danming" was already waving to him!
He is finally going to join the ranks of the master's closest confidants!
This chapter has 4,000 words. Since the plot is really put together, I thought about it and decided not to split it up and publish it again.
