Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Haha, ha," Zhang Qiang looked up and laughed after hearing this, feeling as if he was still playing the game of horseback riding and hacking.

It's just that I don't know if it's the Higumi Nishiyama version or another version.

It's true that having a few friendly countries is better than having a few enemy countries, and Zhang Qiang is also very satisfied.

Since the place occupied by the Portuguese is to be taken back, the Fragrant Hills left there cannot be left behind. The right way is to completely drive the Portuguese into the sea.

Zhang Qiang called Fang Yizhi and asked him to issue an order from the Ministry of War to make He Jin fully responsible for the attack on Xiangshan and cooperate with the Nanming Kingdom to destroy the Portuguese.

To exterminate the Portuguese, Zhang Qiang felt that Chen Hanhui had to make a move. He had been guarding the coast of Taizhou Prefecture for some years and had not moved. This time, he asked Zhou Porridge to issue a cabinet order to transfer him to Zhangzhou Prefecture as the magistrate to cooperate with He Jin Send troops to destroy the Portuguese in Xiangshan.

Chen Hanhui is a veteran of the Anti-Qing Dynasty, and it played a positive role in his own development. Without him leading so many Ming and rebel troops in Taizhou Prefecture to join, maybe he would have suffered heavy losses in the face of the attack of Fan Shaozu, a general of the Qing army. In the past few years, he has also been working hard in the coastal area. Zhang Qiang feels that after this battle, he should be promoted to the center, and he should be included in the cabinet to enjoy the blessings.

The officials of Ming Dynasty all have a sense of mission to enter the center. This time Zhang Qiang felt that this kind of veteran should be rewarded to make his family prominent. The identities of officials who have entered the center are obviously different from those of local officials.

It was the dream of many ancient officials to become a general and become a prime minister. After entering the cabinet and going to the local pension, people will call, "Ge Lao", this is a kind of honor, compared with those military medals established by Zhang Qiang that only later generations will understand , The medal is even better, everyone will recognize this.

Greeted with Chen Hanhui who came to Jinhua Mansion to report on his work, recalled the past, chatted and laughed with the monarchs and ministers, Zhang Qiang assassinated a few words, Chen Hanhui was grateful, Zhang Qiang smiled and asked him to do a good job. After coming down, he will be promoted to other vacant ministers.

After that, Zhang Qiang sent him to contact the officials of Nanming Kingdom, and he will be in charge of the negotiations with Nanming Kingdom.

However, before Zhang Qiang could relax for a few days, Chen Hanhui ran over and said, "Great Governor, this humble official can't handle it."

"Why?"

"You can't handle it, what about Prime Minister Zhou Porridge?"

Zhang Qiang asked very puzzled.

Chen Hanhui smiled wryly and said: "The one who came here is too big, and too difficult to serve. Wei Chen was just a general guarding the city before, but he is the chief assistant of Nanming Kingdom. Prime Minister Zhou Porridge can't handle it."

Zhang Qiang slapped his head, yes, Zhou Porridge must not be able to handle it, he used to be a servant, and the chief assistant of the Nanming Kingdom was Su Guansheng, the very powerful chief assistant of the Nanming Longwu Dynasty, no matter in terms of knowledge or life experience , In terms of official positions, in this era, everyone is a master and a celebrity, and Zhou Congee also has no confidence.

Zhang Qiang could only ask someone to invite Su Guansheng to deal with it himself.

Su Guansheng was very polite to Zhang Qiang, he spoke nicely and was not as arrogant as before. After the two exchanged pleasantries, Su Guansheng said: "Governor, this time I am sent by the emperor, please strengthen the command of the Nanming Kingdom. Support, the Portuguese are really too powerful. Our army can't break through their defense line even if they are killed. I thought the Portuguese didn't have many troops, but who knew they had more than 3 troops."

"what?"

"More than 3 troops?"

"Where did so many soldiers come from?"

Zhang Qiang was also taken aback. That’s not how history is written. At that time, the book didn’t say that there were no more than a thousand Portuguese soldiers. At most, 2000 people would be enough. With so many troops, could it be that after I came, what I entered was a nightmare-level dungeon?The Portuguese dungeon has increased the difficulty?

"Tell me carefully!" Zhang Qiang put away his contempt and sat upright and said to Su Guansheng.

Su Guansheng bowed in obeisance, rolled up his horseshoe sleeves, and cleared his throat, "Our army has fought fifteen battles with the Portuguese, and the previous few times all ended in our army's victory."

"Later, the Portuguese organized the township soldiers in the whole city. There were probably only a few thousand soldiers. In this way, our army could still deal with it. We dispatched a capable general to lead the township soldiers, regiment bravery, resident yamen servants, and arrest them quickly. The pro-army can handle it, it’s nothing.”

Zhang Qiang nodded. Indeed, in a battle with cold weapons, if there are many people, if you dare to fight, you can win, which is nothing.

Su Guansheng continued: "But later the Portuguese brought their sailors ashore, many of them were pirates from the Ming Dynasty, and those Thai and Western sailors, plus the remnants of pirates who were exterminated by the governor, all had muskets and cannons. Huang Binqing led them Our army went into battle, and both sides fought life and death, and after several battles, our army has the upper hand after all, with more victories than defeats."

This is nothing, Zhang Qiang thought, but there is still a doubt, the Portuguese soldiers, those mercenaries who specialize in fighting, did not dispatch, what made them so calm, or their regular army was small in number, did not dare to fight, and had to guard castle.

Zhang Qiang knew that in history, hundreds of these people could rely on the Portuguese to guard the castle for a few years, waiting for reinforcements or the people of Ming Dynasty did not want to fight for peace, and finally won a victory that was not a victory.

"Later, we discovered that the enemy's army was attacking more and more. After several months of besieging the city, the enemy's army became stronger and stronger. What's the reason? I sent people to investigate." Su Guansheng thought that in Longwu Nanming In the court hall, he played against Long Wu, and unconsciously used Weichen against Zhang Qiang. Maybe he thought he was facing a monarch.

"There are people in Guangdong and Guangxi recruiting Xiangyong. Those people actually work for the Portuguese for money and for the business of the master's family. They all ransacked their families and exterminated their families, but the Portuguese transported a lot of people from the sea, including Malay natives, Brunei monkeys, Spaniards, Malacca Han people, and those natives, and even some dark Kunlun slaves."

Zhang Qiang is not calm anymore, what is he going to do, the rhythm of the national war.

It seems that the Portuguese and their company are trying their best to preserve this bridgehead in Daming.

Zhang Qiang slapped the table and stood up, "Hit, hit the Portuguese. Our army will fully support you. If you want guns, give them money. I will send someone to train your army. The Portuguese must be wiped out and returned to me." Heshan!"

Chapter 383 The Convenience of the Post Road

"Governor, do you think it is possible for the Huaxia Army to send troops to help the Nanming Kingdom fight against the Portuguese? The Portuguese are too powerful, at least at the same level as the Huaxia Army, and the Nanming Kingdom cannot handle it."

Although Zhang Qiang gave them guns and cannons, and even sent people to help them train the army, Zhang Qiang didn't know until the end, and then he realized that, so it turned out, no wonder Su Guansheng came here in person to ask the Huaxia Army to send troops to help them fight. .

Zhang Qiang reacted and looked at Su Guansheng with wrong eyes, "You really don't want to solve it yourself, do you want us to help you?" After speaking, Zhang Qiang looked at Su Guansheng with a smile.

Su Guansheng looked at Zhang Qiang's eyes, and shuddered suddenly, "This, it's better not to, the Huaxia Army sends some people to help train the soldiers." Su Guansheng hesitated for a moment, and immediately changed his mind. The army is too deceitful. The deceitful Longwu Nanming destroyed the country several times and was extremely weak. Every time Longwu Nanming acquired the territory, it belonged to the Huaxia Army. This cannot but make people vigilant.

"Forget it, I'll go to the front line to see it myself, let's find out, and see how you and the Portuguese fought when you fell to the ground. What I said just now remains the same, and what the Huaxia Army promised will not change." Zhang Qiang waved his hand.

"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, Su Mou, on behalf of the Emperor, thank the Governor-General for his deep understanding and righteousness, and saved the people from suffering."

Zhang Qiang finished the conversation with him, and all materials were transferred to the Ministry of War through the cabinet. Then Zhang Qiang and Zhou Porridge explained to guard the house and take care of the negotiations with the Qing army. They rushed to Xiangshan with the guard group, where He Jin was in command. The order to besiege the Portuguese somewhere must be much faster than Zhang Qiang's guard group.

The Huaxia Army has been building post stations since the era of the Jinhua Rebel Army. The post stations are only used for the delivery of information and intelligence personnel, messengers, and officials above the ministerial level. Generally, there is no official business. Any level of officials cannot use the post station. It is necessary to ensure the safety of the post station. The resources are used for information transmission, and the central and local command transmission is fast and convenient.

In addition, another function of the post station is to send and receive official letters from various places and centers, and later added the function of private letters.

The post station has a special two-lane stage horse, and the road on which the post car travels is not accessible to ordinary people. There are special cleaning and nursing people and husbands on the post road, as well as station guards sent by the post station to inspect the route. For the behavior of the post station, those who resisted immediately were shot and killed. Those who were caught were sent to the local Ministry of Industry for interrogation, and then handed over to the officials of the Ministry of Supervision for interrogation and conviction. Report to the Central Supervision Department.

Generally, civilians or soldiers who violate the rules and go on the road will be fined 1 Huaxia Yuan to 200 Huaxia Yuan, and will be sent to the local post station cleaning and maintenance department to do voluntary labor for one to seven days.

With such a strict system, to a large extent, it has prevented most people from maliciously destroying or unintentionally colliding with the stage horses, messengers, and intelligence personnel, and played a great role in the Huaxia Army's government orders.

Post stations are free of charge, with two-thirds of the public funds allocated, and the rest is paid by the income generated by the post station’s function of delivering letters. Local governments are not allowed to charge fees, and are not allowed to set up card fees on post roads.

Of course, these cannot guarantee the balance of income and expenditure of the post station, so the cleaning and maintenance departments in them use low-wage nearby civilians, and the militia and soldiers who have retired from the army act as management personnel. At the same time, some prisoners who perform well in the camp People who are about to be released from prison are sent here to be reformed in this department. Generally, they are honest people in the last year. The review has no history of opposing the Huaxia Army. Only captives can come here, and most of these captives are people who want to become common people in the territory of the Huaxia Army.

From the central Jinhua Mansion to the beach, across the sea, to Baozhong City, Tang Dianfeng's defense area conveyed the news, the slowest time was seven days, the fastest was more than three days, and the time to reach Guangzhou Mansion was only four days , That is to say, the longest time for government orders to go on the road is no more than seven days, and the administrative efficiency of the Huaxia Army is about eight days.

This is already a very fast speed.

Next to the post road, there is a green belt and a ditch with water, which is a road. The Huaxia Army used captives to work on the roads, so the cost can be said to be very low, and almost no financial funds have been used. The delivery solution only needs to provide accommodation and food for these people.

Generally, only important criminals who are not subject to the death penalty will be sent here. The important criminals are all working in hard labor camps. Those people are detained in heavily guarded places. The places where they work are under river beaches, in valleys, and in mines. Wherever it is dangerous, wherever you take them, it doesn't matter if they die.

The Huaxia Army is currently detaining 50 such prisoners, and there are nearly [-] such prisoners in the hard labor camps, so it will take a few years to build roads extending in all directions, dug various waterways to smooth the flow of water, and build a series of buildings. Shipyards, wharves, and even the walls of some prefectural cities were demolished, expanded several kilometers and rebuilt with stones, new moats were dug, and the defense of the prefectural cities was remodeled.

A series of tunnels through the mountain have been opened, a series of nearby roads have been built, and a series of roads around the mountain have been built.

The tunnels, bridges, and roads built by later generations spent so much money and so many people's fat and blood. Laomei used Chinese laborers to build a series of railways. It can be said that the bodies of these Chinese workers were buried under the sleepers of each railway and every kilometer, and the same is true for the Huaxia Army. At least a few captives died.

Regarding these people, Zhang Qiang would not say that they are from the Chinese nation, nor would he say that they are Chinese, because it is the end of the Ming Dynasty and the integration of nationalities has not yet reached its peak or stopped, and everyone is still their own. People of their own nationalities are all people of their own country, that is to say, they are enemy countries.

For the people of the enemy country, they can only be said to be human beings, and there is no crime of rape now. It is the crime that the robbers convict themselves in order not to be oppressed by others, which is a bit of a saint.

For Daming, for Huaxia, Zhang Qiang felt that such sacrifice was worthwhile.