Lord of Ming Dynasty

With this territory, his strength will be improved to a higher level. He has already seen the glory of his father's time, and compared to his father's loose Eighteen Zhi alliance, his power is all controlled by him All the forces are the new Zheng's pirate group that his cronies are in power.

Poor Zheng Cai has always been conceited and smart, but she did the most stupid thing and lost all the property she worked hard for.

Chapter 145 The End of Zheng Cai [-]

In January [-], the fifth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the fourth year of Longwu in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the second year of Yongli, Zheng Zhilong's third-class power in the sea, Zheng Cai's power was wiped out by the Jinhua Rebel Army, and all the rest of the army surrendered to Zheng Chenggong. It marked his transformation from a frustrated successor to a famous maritime overlord in the future, Lord Guoxing.

The leader of the Jinhua Rebel Army, the governor of Zhejiang, Zhang Qiang, has a navy that is fully capable of guarding the land security of the Jinhua Rebel Army at sea.

Composed of 120 large lucky boats, 180 medium lucky boats, 270 bird boats, sand boats, and centipede boats, the first naval division of the Jinhua Rebel Army with Ming Dynasty characteristics has become the main naval force of the Jinhua Rebel Army. strength.

The first fleet of the Jinhua Rebel Army, composed of two [-]-meter Galen ships, three [-]-meter Portuguese Clark armed merchant ships, five [-]-meter medium-sized bird ships, and eight centipede ships, became the Jinhua Rebel Army's first fleet. main strike force.

This distinction is because the First Navy is mainly composed of Ming Dynasty people, and the First Fleet is mainly composed of captured Portuguese and Dutch, two different combat styles. To say that they are advanced and domineering, they must be these Western sea robbers. It's more powerful.

This is also Zhang Qiang's compromise to appease those subordinates who think that the Ming Dynasty navy is powerful, but he does not want to give up the advanced ships and methods of the Western Navy. At the same time, he also wants to accommodate the many Ming Dynasty-style ships and Ming Dynasty pirates and fishermen. , and the original navy officers and soldiers.

The captives who had been screened were assigned to these two naval teams. Those who were loyal, or unwilling to surrender, stubbornly resisted, or were of no use, and were purely for the sake of making a living were sent to the navy. Prisoner camps, the extreme were sent to hard labor camps.

According to the plot and background of the prison camp, there will be three levels of disposal methods: three years of labor and then release as civilians, five years of labor and release as civilians, and ten years of labor and release as civilians.

Hard labor camps have only one treatment method: work to death, make the best use of people, and of course perform well, and those who perform meritorious service can be reduced to 20 years of hard work, released as a citizen, and placed under residential surveillance in good faith.

And those leaders, such as Zheng Cai, Zheng Fu, etc., are being imprisoned. When they have ideas and when they will deal with them, or they have the idea of ​​seeking refuge and surrender, they can be recruited as subordinates like Qi Sansheng, Ma Weixing, etc. These people are locked in the big prison, eating and drinking, but they cannot be released.

As for those evil people who massacred coastal villages and harassed the people, there is only one way, to expose each other, and then execute them in public trials in various places.

This execution killed more than 3000 people at once, and even killed the people and the government in the entire territory of Zhang Qiang. Living and working in peace and contentment, business is thriving.

The Governor's Mansion is also the former residence of Zhu Dadian.

It has been expanded and refurbished, and has restored its previous luxurious style.

The archway of the front door, screen wall, stone lions, tall gate tower, vermilion lacquer gate, decorated with copper nails, a gate as high as five meters, two side doors with a width of more than two meters and a height of three meters. Entering the gate, there are gatehouses on both sides, one side is the house where the gatekeeper lives, and the other side is the guard room, which is the house for the guards standing guard in front of the gate to rest and use.

Going in is a small courtyard with steps. Behind the courtyard is a small square, and behind the square is a lobby, which is used to solve cases and meet with some public figures to deal with official affairs, and then go around from both sides of the lobby. There is a row of wing rooms, which are used to receive guests and live in them.

Behind the wing room is a garden, and on the left and right sides are servants, kitchen, warehouse, and several small gardens. The small gardens are used for the offices of various agencies of the Governor's Mansion.

Further back, there is an ancient three-story building. The main entrance on the first floor is the passage leading to the back. The west side is the lobby, and the east side is a small meeting room. In the past, it was a large meeting that could accommodate hundreds of people similar to the restaurants of later generations. room.

On the second floor, there are high-rise housing, offices and small meeting rooms for some institutions.

The third floor is Zhang Qiang's governor's office. It is gorgeous and simple, with bedrooms, reception rooms, warehouses, kitchens, study rooms, guard rooms, staff offices, and staff lounges.

Through the passage under the building, there is a garden behind, and in the middle of the garden is the place where Zhang Qiang's family lives.

A few hundred meters away, behind a wall is a large yard, which contains warehouses, chasseur garrison, stables, a small garden, a fire dragon department, and a racecourse.

The walls around the Governor's Mansion are as high as residential buildings, covered with broken glass, and 1.5 meters high barbed wire, and there are enough watchtowers and watchtowers on all sides. Each watchtower is stationed with one army, five soldiers , two firecrackers, one archer, one spearman, and one sword and shield soldier.

On this day, Zhang Qiang met his three confidantes, Zhou Porridge, Wei Wuji, and Hu Kui, in his governor's office in the Sanjin compound. Of course, the housekeeper Zhu Dayou was standing beside him.

"Wuji, tell me about your gains this time." Zhang Qiang always likes to listen to his subordinates report the results after each battle.

Giving always wants something in return, and it's the same for everyone.

Fighting with Zheng Cai for so many days has delayed his own development. If he can't get a satisfactory return, then this matter will be for nothing. If it wasn't for Zheng Cai's repeated provocations, Zhang Qiang didn't want to provoke Zheng Cai for the time being. After all, at that time, his sea strength was really shameful and too weak.

Wei Wuji was also very happy. Although he didn't have any credit this time, he also had hard work. He went and confiscated all the wealth that Zheng Cai and Zheng Chenggong had accumulated and plundered over ten years.

In previous battles, he could only stay in Jinhua as a guard. This time he went out to bring back so much wealth to the Jinhua Rebels, and he was very happy. With this wealth, he was enough to stand firm in Zhang Qiang's group Heel up.

Seeing Wei Wuji's excited look, Zhou Porridge smiled and said, "Wuji, didn't you bring a golden mountain back?"

Wei Wuji said proudly: "Not to mention Jinshan, it is almost the same as Jinshan. I really didn't expect Zheng Cai to be so rich. If we have so much silver, we will be stronger than now and able to do many things. You see, my lord is for the territory. For food, I have tried my best to search everywhere, but I can't satisfy the people in the territory, and even the army has a shortage of food from time to time."

Hu Kui nodded, this is true.

The more than 3000 troops of the Jinhua Rebel Army directly under Zhang Qiang are doing well, but the food of the troops under their command has declined. They eat two meals a day, which is not very good. Compared with the tasks and high-intensity training they undertake, this is obviously not enough, and many people often look hungry.

"How much?" Hu Kui asked eagerly.

1Chapter 16 Zheng Cai's Doomsday [-]

Seeing Hu Kuina's eagerness, Wei Wuji lowered his head and opened the account book, "300 million taels of silver, 10 taels of gold, jeweled agate, worth tens of millions of taels in total, and corals, shells, and seafood worth 30 taels were seized. There are 1000 million copper coins, and the preliminary estimate is about 100 million taels. In addition, there are [-] Spanish silver coins, [-] Spanish gold coins, [-] Mexican silver coins, [-] Portuguese gold coins, and [-] Dutch gold coins..."

"Huchi, Huchi," he was jealous when he heard the person breathing heavily.

Hu Kui clasped his hands and said excitedly: "It's better to be a pirate. There are so many treasures in a small pirate's lair. Even if I were killed, I wouldn't be able to get so much money. There are all kinds of treasures." Gold, silver and jewelry, gold coins for foreigners."

"My lord, what should we do with these things?" Hu Kuihong stared at Zhang Qiang, looking at him, if you don't give us some, I will fight you hard.

But Zhang Qiang didn't bother him, "Have you paid for it?"

"You want to get these, unless you grab them,"

"Master Wei, these are handed over to Zhu Dayou as public property, and no one is allowed to take them privately. If there is any violation, they will be executed immediately." Zhang Qiang said to Wei Wuji.

"Yes, my lord." Wei Wuji hurriedly saluted. In fact, he was also tempted by so many treasures, but he knew who gave them all. Without Zhang Qiang, he is still a servant in front of the door who takes tips from others, exhausted , and was insulted by others, and if he did something wrong, he would be executed by the family law.

Now he is the admiral of Jinhua Mansion, the highest military officer of a mansion. Although this Jinhua Mansion is only a very small place in the entire Ming Dynasty, the territory occupied by Zhang Qiang is only a few hundred of the entire Ming Dynasty. It's only a fraction of it, but the official position in this small place is something that his generations have never dared to think about. Now that it has been realized, he may have a higher official position in the future. How can he lose a lot because of this small fortune? .

"Is there any more?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Wei Wuji opened the account book and continued: "There are also shipbuilding timbers. There are 32 pieces of wood with more than a thousand pieces of wood that can be used to make the keel of large ships, eighty pieces of wood with eight hundred pieces of wood, 230 pieces of wood with six hundred pieces of wood, and [-] pieces of wood with four hundred pieces of wood. [-] pieces of wood, [-] pieces of wood, [-] pieces of wood total [-] pieces, the remaining [-] pieces of small keel wood, and other parts of wood, [-] boats, iron nails, tung oil, cotton and linen, canvas, thirty ships with masts."

Heaving a sigh of relief, Wei Wuji continued to lower his head and read, "Following your command, my lord, we will kidnap the old fishermen and pirates on the island, together with their families, and place them in Taizhou County."

Zhou Porridge was at the side, and he asked strangely: "My lord, why are these people tied up?"

"Are they of any use?"

Zhang Qiang said with a smile: "These people are our treasures for ruling the coast. They are the living data of coastal hydrology. We need to know where there are islands and reefs along the coast, where there are hidden reefs under the water, where people can hide, what fish can be caught there, and what kind of fish can be caught there." When there is fog on the sea, when there is a strong wind, when there is a typhoon, which channel is the fastest and safest for a boat along the coast..."

Hu Kui scratched his head, "My lord, you can just ask Zhang Ying and them about this, why do you want to mess with these old people?"

Zhang Qiang stood up, "Zhang Ying and the others want to ask, and the pirates in Zhang Ying's navy also want to ask, these people also want to ask, what they say will be recorded and compiled into a book, our navy will set up a naval The Navy Academy, pass on these experiences to the officers and soldiers of the navy behind, and the officers and soldiers of the navy must learn it in this school in the future before they can board the ship, learn in practice, and finally become our officers and soldiers of the navy.”

Zhou Congee was still puzzled, "My lord, just let them study on the boat, why do you have to do it so many times?"

Zhang Qiang said with a smile: "If a person knows the conditions of these waters better than those old fishermen and pirates, knows what weather to sail in, and where to hide, then are we still afraid of the enemy's attack?"

Zhang Qiang walked around the office with his hands behind his back, "At that time, we will find a place to hide, and then wait for the enemy to be swept away by the typhoon, or the ship to be smashed by the reef, or we are in the foggy weather. For these, we have an extra eye that can see through the fog, and then we can hit the enemy. If the enemy is blocked by a reef or attacked by us, will they dare to attack us?"

"However, such people can only use those experiences by learning what everyone knows from the Naval Academy. They have gathered the experience of many people by themselves, so do you think they are very powerful?"

The eyes of the three subordinates lit up, and they said together: "Your Excellency is wise." Zhang Qiang smiled with his hands behind his back in satisfaction.