Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 753 The Beautiful Life of the Nanyang Navy

The spring breeze of March is blowing on the earth, the spring scenery is bright in the north and south of the river, and everything is revived.The willow silk has given birth to small buds, and the grass has poked its head out to welcome the arrival of spring. The new year has arrived again.

Even the Nanyang Navy, who has never experienced the cold, is also looking forward to the arrival of this day.

Because in their eyes, Nanyang, thousands of miles away, is no longer the loneliness far away from their homeland, but wealth, endless wealth.

Just in the autumn of last year, a Nanyang Navy reconnaissance ship sailing into the northern area of ​​Mayi—generally referring to the Philippines in later generations—discovered many pieces of natural dog's head gold during exchanges with the local aborigines.After the news was reported to his superiors, Ruan Xiaoqi personally led a team of mariners and more than ten prospectors into the place. It took only half a month to send back the exact news-a gold mine, and It is also a gold mine with a large storage capacity.

If so, all the officers and soldiers on and off the scout ship became rich overnight!
And if this kind of thing is just a very special burst of luck, then in Xinfu [Manila], the conquered indigenous tribes and the ebony and sandalwood being cut down are extremely profitable.

The local aborigines are stupid and lazy, and they have to use a whip to work honestly.Pieces of ebony and sandalwood are worthless in Xinfu, but as long as they are brought back to Guangzhou, they are worth a bunch of banknotes.Therefore, Xinfu is called Xinfu.Entering here is like falling into the Fuwo. If the name Fuzhou is not already in use, then the Nanyang Navy would definitely call this place Fuzhou.

A natural deep-water port, surrounded by a large area of ​​flat fertile land, and endless forests, such a good place is occupied by a bunch of stupid and lazy natives.Ruan Xiaoqi sighed in his letter to Emperor Lu: I don't know what's going on in the world if I don't go out, and I don't know how many good places have been ruined by those uncivilized barbarians.Thinking about the hard days before he met Emperor Lu, and then looking at Xinfu, he thought about the hard work and hard work of the people in the country, which made him really angry!

The affairs of the Nanyang Navy did not need to go through the cabinet at all, but Emperor Lu specially handed Ruan Xiaoqi's information to the cabinet and others, telling Zongze, Zhao Mingcheng and others to read it with a gleam in their eyes, and let Wen Huanzhang read it. It was even more like taking a shot of chicken blood.

Wen Huanzhang was the first person in the cabinet to say that he wanted to go out, and the reason was very simple. He saw that the old Confucianism was losing ground in Lu Qi's court, and he felt that his small body was too weak to undertake the revitalization. Song Confucianism had a great responsibility, but overseas feudal states gave him the possibility of finding another way.Going overseas, being the master of one's own country, and building your own utopia, isn't that necessarily a bad thing?
Maybe a hundred years later, there will still be a benevolent Lord doing things to set things right?
Even if you can't see it, Wen Huanzhang only needs to think that one day: if the rites are lost, ask the wild people, if Confucius does not keep the rites, ask the barbarians.Then the heart is surging!
Lu Qian didn't give any instructions on the Mayi area, but just said to the Nanyang Fleet, "You can do whatever you want."Let them toss, wait for more and more people to taste the sweetness, then more and more people will not be able to give up overseas.

It is not a blessing for the world that a large piece of fertile land is vacant, but Emperor Lu is now unable to take care of it, and the court is even more unable to organize large-scale emigration of the people.You guys, do whatever you want.If you feel unwilling to see a large piece of fertile land vacant, then organize your own people to cultivate and develop it.

This decree brought great encouragement to the officers and soldiers of the entire Nanyang Fleet.Because they are the ones who see the benefits.

Yes, they have no share in Mayi's timber and minerals, but the court has no time to pay attention to Mayi's land, so wouldn't it be cheaper for them?

It is by no means difficult to organize people to farm and develop by yourself.Who doesn't have many poor relatives?The emperor has it.Can they bring relatives and friends to Mayi?For example, Xinfu, backed by the coast, surrounded by mostly fertile soil, and it is also the general base of the Nanyang Navy in Mayi, whether it is safety or other, it is guaranteed.

Even if there are relatives and friends who are unwilling to leave their hometowns, then employment can always be done, right?Sign a deed for three to five years, go to work in Xinfu, and return to your hometown when the time is up, is it okay?As for what to grow on the land, they don't grow rice, but sugarcane, which can be used to squeeze sugar.This is more profitable.As for the lack of soil fertility, I have been planting here for the past two years, and I will plant there in three to five years. Anyway, there are many places in this place.

When you have money, you can buy slaves from a manpower firm, and then you will use slaves to work, and your relatives and friends will be supervisors. This day is really beautiful.

Why did Emperor Lu set up a manpower firm?Why prohibit Chinese people from being slaves, why not completely prohibit slavery?That's why.

In the future development stage of Nanyang and Western Regions, although the main body is Chinese, if there is no cheap labor force such as slaves, it will really slow down the progress of Sinicization everywhere.

Not to mention that Emperor Lu did not want to see too many aborigines in the new territory from the bottom of his heart.In his heart, it is not only the aborigines in South Vietnam who want to be physically exterminated, the aborigines in Nanyang should also be dealt with as soon as possible.Although the chances of this hope being realized are extremely small.

Look at the aborigines in various places in later generations, the typical example is South Africa...

Liu An, who sailed south from Dagou Port in Wanwan, was looking south with a binoculars. Standing in the mast plate, he could look down at the entire fleet, five large and small warships, six transport ships, and a new one inside. compiled Marine Battalion.

This is the manpower squeezed out by San Ruan. The Nanyang Navy has long regarded Mayi as a blessed land, but now it does not have rich manpower to operate it. Most of the strength of the Nanyang Navy is still contained in South Vietnam.Although Li Renzong's life has entered a countdown, the killings and brutal destruction that shattered all order have made the resistance in South Vietnam weaker and weaker, and the former's mission has been almost completed.Fang La's army has been shrinking its strength one after another, preparing to withdraw.Therefore, the main force of the Nanyang Navy can only be placed in South Vietnam, with one arm to escort the merchant ships, and new ports have been opened up on thousands of miles of ocean between the Batan Islands and the Natuna Islands. , This has already made the Nanyang Navy exhausted.The deployment of such a small fleet now makes Sanruan rack his brains.

The decision was made years ago.But in order to raise enough manpower and fleet, it has been postponed until today.

At this moment in Nanyang, the southeast wind is prevailing, and under the blowing of the headwind, eleven ships, large and small, are marching southward with difficulty.

Their destination is not Xinfugang, but Mayi country further south.A union of slave villages with a total population of less than [-], even including the slaves on the island.

It is better to erase such an existence.Knowing in their hearts that Fang Lajun will soon go south to the Three Buddhas and Qi Kingdom, the Ruan brothers have no need to influence them.Taking down Mayi would not only intimidate the natives in the entire area, but also harvest countless captives.These are labor forces.

However, the development of things will not always remain the same, according to the script you have written.Crossing Nanfu Island - this is the name given by the Nanyang Navy to Luzon Island. It is not far from the capital of Mayi Kingdom. They did not expect that they encountered two dhows here.There is actually a large Tianfang three-masted sailing ship in it.

In Liu An's eyes, such a large Tianfang ship was already the largest dhow he had ever seen.There are many such ships in Guangzhou ports!
It is gracefully shaped, with a long and narrow hull, the fore-mast canted forward, and the mid-mast and mizzen-mast are either vertical or slightly set back.Due to the large size of the spinnaker, the slanted crossbar is also very long, so two round materials are often bound together, which is not so much a crossbar as a gizzard.And it is nimble and fast, and it also has good maneuverability in headwinds.

Liu An immediately blew the horn, and he was not the only one who blew the horn.The watchmen on the mast plates of other ships also spotted the dhow ahead.This is really surprising.Because as far as they knew, there was no trade between the Tianfang people and the Mayi natives.

These aliens who came to the east through waves only have silk, porcelain, cloth, etc. in their eyes. Even if they want to buy spices, they will only buy them in the Three Buddhas, and mai is worthless in their eyes.Why did they see two slow Tianfang merchant ships now?
The two dhows, one big and one small, also spotted the Nanyang navy fleet flying the red military flag at the first time. With their strength, they were completely powerless to resist. Among the five naval warships, there were two gunboats. , They are the invincible overlords of the sea today.How can the people of Tianfang fight?Facing the overwhelmingly dominant Nanyang Navy fleet, the two ships decisively turned their bows and fled frantically towards the southern waters.

The waters farther south of Nanfukushima are dotted with islands, large and small, with a rugged coastline full of sheltered bays.If the two were not chased down before sunset, the two dhows could easily escape.As long as they clean up the traces of the battle on the ship, they can transform themselves into regular trading ships and sail freely in the South China Sea.

However, the speed of the dhow is not low. In today's era, the sailing standards of Tianfang World and China are at the same level.If the most obvious shortcoming of a dhow is compared to a fuchuan, it does not lie in the amount of cargo it carries, nor in its cost or seakeeping ability, but only in the use of headwinds.

Triangular sailboats can also sail against the wind. In the late Tang Dynasty, there appeared dhows that could sail against the wind in Tianfang World.However, the utilization of the headwind by the triangular sail is obviously not as good as that of the Chinese sail.

In this chase right now, the biggest helper for the Nanyang fleet is the headwind at sea.

After two hours of competition, when the two dhows found that they could not escape, they used the few ballistas on board to fight back desperately, no matter how hard they were to hit them.Two dhows, one large and one medium, each capable of carrying ballistas.And the ballistas of the Tianfang world also have a long history. Of course, in the eyes of those Luo Chuyang slaves, whether you are from the sky or from the east, they are all scum in front of the torsion ballistas of my great Rome.I don't mention this, let's talk about the naval battle in front of me, everything is predestined.

The two gun boats are two sea shark boats, and they don't carry many cannons, six cannons each, and there are a few tiger crouching cannons.Other than that, it's the same old tricks, but it's a piece of cake to dry sink two dhows at sea.

The order to fire was issued, and the six cannons fired in sequence, three catties, three catties; five catties, five catties; three catties, three catties...

Six shells roared towards the dhow at a distance of 600 meters. Due to the strong wind and waves on the sea and the fact that it was the first round of shelling, the accuracy was not very good.All six shells fell into the sea.

The dhow's counterattack was the same as that of the Nanyang Navy, and neither side was hit in the first round.The distance between the two warships continued to approach.

When the distance between the two sides was shortened to about 400 meters, the second round of shelling by the Nanyang Navy began.

(End of this chapter)