Lord of Ming Dynasty

There are no more than a few hundred wealthy people in the city, some mid-level gentry with no more than 1000 people, and no more than 2000 common people. There are still more than 500 people who are poor people around the county town begging for food. It is a village and town of Japanese people. The largest village and town is no more than 200 people, and a town with [-] people in the distance is more than [-] people, and a village with [-] people is considered a big village.

If you want to position Xiangchuan County, it can be regarded as a small impoverished county town in Guangzhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places at best, and you can't see the appearance of wealth at a glance.

At present, there are more than 3000 Han people, and there are nearly 80 Han people, soldiers, and officials scattered in the countryside, but the Japanese have 80 people, and there must be no more than [-] people now. Those fishermen on the seaside have hidden boats. On the sea, a small boat can't go very far, but this is the inland sea of ​​the island, which is more than ten nautical miles away, and any canoe can easily cross it, which means that there are too many Japanese people fleeing now.

According to the figures reported by the officials below, about 20 Japanese civilians fled to Kobe, Osaka and other places on the opposite side, and fled back to the Japanese territory. Thirty to forty thousand militiamen who fled back also fled more than 1 people. It is estimated that there are only 40 Japanese people in actual existence, and 20 people fled to Denios Island. If it were not for the fact that the Han people could not escape, it is estimated that there would not be a single Han Chinese people left.

The key is that he can't control the soldiers and the army, which makes people very anxious. Some soldiers and horses can resist for a while, and then see what the second prince has to say, but now there are only [-] family members and family generals, and nearly [-] Han people and officials. , what should he do?

The servant ran in in a panic, "Master, master, the Xinlu army is coming, the Xinlu army is coming, those Japanese slaves, those Japanese slaves have dropped their guns. Thirty to forty thousand soldiers and horses have dispersed Now the people in the county are not stable, the soldiers are very panicked, and there are still many people who want to see the master, they want to bring back us Han people outside the city, and ask the master to send troops."

"Panic, panic, what are you panicking about? I'm not dead yet. Go, send someone to stabilize the soldiers and horses in the county. There must be no chaos. Have you packed up the things I asked you to pack?" Prime Minister Yan was also panicked, but he I know that now he can't show a flustered look, but he has to be steady, otherwise the ten thousand Han people and his two thousand family members will die without a place to die, and there will be Japanese everywhere. Who knows what crazy warriors will have no hope in the future? do something.The best way is to stabilize the city, and then find a way to go out.

But where to go?

Shikoku is a small island, can he escape without a boat?

Judging from the current situation, he was once again abandoned by the Hong family and his son.

Prime Minister Yan has a headache, what should he do, he doesn't want to die.

The master next to him carefully observed his words and expressions. He was very clear about his master's inner activities, because it was obvious. They all knew the current situation of Prime Minister Yan, and they could guess it with a little use of their brains.

The master said cautiously: "Prime Minister, otherwise, why don't you rely on the third prince."

Master Yan's words gave Prime Minister Yan a sudden flash of inspiration, but he did not seek refuge with the third prince, but with the Huaxia Kingdom. This is the only way to go now. If he catches the second prince and the others, he will have a certificate of merit. ?

He doesn't want to hang out with the Hong family father and son, it's too unsafe, he always thinks of running away by himself, and he doesn't want this servant, His Majesty Zhang Qiang of the Huaxia Kingdom is very committed, although this person is too murderous, anyone who is not Han, or think He thinks that people from the former Ming or Qing dynasties cannot be integrated into his eyes, and those who are not Han people or Chinese people cannot become friends or people of the Huaxia Kingdom, but he is still very sensible, and he can be regarded as a defector no matter what. He is still the prime minister of the Four Kingdoms. If he wants to surrender, at least he will not be killed, and he will be less imprisoned.

It's not bad to find a stable place to retire.

He waved his hand to let everyone else go out, walked to the desk by himself, splashed ink, and soon finished writing a letter, blowing on it, and when the ink dried, he called a servant's confidant too, "Take this letter, Go to Master Feng, and you must hand it to him personally. If you give me 50 people, even if you are dead, you have to give me the letter to Master Feng. Do you understand? I will take care of your family. As long as I don’t die, They won't die, and they won't suffer later, so go."

After the servant left, he sat and waited, waiting for the development of the situation.

Not long after, the master came in, "Master, it's very strange. Neither the army of the Xinlu Mansion nor the army of the third prince continued to cross the border to attack us, nor did they attack the second prince. I don't know what they are doing. I have already sent someone to investigate. Now, see if you take this opportunity to meet up with the second prince. My lord, you have also worked hard for the second prince this year. You have worked hard without credit. For this reason, he will definitely take us away together. But those servants and their family members are probably—"

Prime Minister Yan shook his head, "If you have a better way, you can find a way to leave by yourself. I won't leave and I can't escape. I know the virtues of the Hong family father and son, and they will never take me with them."

Chapter 754 Aussie in Crisis 1

Seeing that Shikoku Island was about to be recovered, the enemy was like a building that was about to collapse, and it was only a slight push at the end. Feng Quan was very happy, and the third prince was also very happy. They both sent congratulatory letters to Zhang Qiang at the same time.

At this time, Zhang Qiang is no longer in Kagoshima County. As the king of the Huaxia Kingdom, he cannot stay outside often. He must sit in the capital. This is the case in the feudal dynasty. If you are an emperor and cannot stay in the capital, the world will be in chaos. Unsteady, it has been three months since he came out, Zhang Qiang could not ignore the Huaxia Dynasty he founded with all his heart, so he has already returned to the Jinling Mansion of the capital under the escort of the fleet.

Back in the capital, there was a lot of official documents that needed to be processed, and Zhang Qiang spent every day buried in the pile of official documents. It took almost a week to process these documents, and he took his three wives to the countryside to play After a day, I received a request from Zheng Keshuang to visit again the next day.

Zhang Qiang thought about it, and it's been less than four months. Has this guy sent those people and ships to Australia?

No matter what Zhang Qiang thought, Zheng Keshuang came, so he met Zheng Keshuang who had gone and returned in Huagai Palace.

"See Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live." Zheng Keshuang still used some rules of the Ming Dynasty to face Zhang Qiang, Zhang Qiang didn't take it seriously, waved his hand, asked him to sit down, and asked: "Master Zheng, you have already returned Is it Australia?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I have already returned to Australia. Those ships and slaves are still on their way back to Australia. This time I returned to Australia to bring gold, silver and jewelry to complete the transaction with Your Majesty. Although our Zheng family is not as powerful as you , but we understand that the integrity of our Han people is the most important thing, so I rushed back to Australia first, got the gold and silver we promised, and rushed back to deliver it first.”

Zheng Keshuang said.

"Very good, I like doing business with people like you," Zhang Qiang was also very happy. That businessman doesn't like doing business with honest people?

Previously, he gave Zheng Keshuang 800 million Chinese yuan on credit to pay for the weapons and ammunition they purchased last time, as well as some old ships eliminated by the Chinese army, small ships, and a dozen large warships. It cost a total of 200 million Chinese yuan, and The 600 million Huaxia yuan is the funds that can be used every year in the future, and it is still stored in the grain bank of the Huaxia Military Industry and Commerce Department.

This year's 200 million Huaxia Yuan quota has been used up, and if it is used again, it will have to be next year, but after all, it is Huaxia Army's own money, not Zheng Chenggong's money, so there is always a little worry about Zheng Chenggong's refusal, and it is only four months now At that time, Zheng Keshuang had already promised to pay part of the money to repay the debt, which would be the best.

Although the two sides negotiated to use Australian iron ore and guano to pay off the debt, the other party has not yet shipped the iron ore and guano, but only transported back the things and people given by the Huaxia Army in a one-way way. A part of the gold and silver and Huaxia yuan were given, but not all of them were given. If Zheng Chenggong did not return them and the two parties would not communicate with each other, then the Huaxia Army would still make a loss-making deal.

Not too much, at most it was the money spent by the Huaxia Army on the military expenses of the punishment camp for three months, but it is always unhappy to be taken advantage of by others, so the officials of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Zhang Qiang's wife Gao always chattered by Zhang Qiang's ear Nagging, Zhang Qiang didn't want to listen to the nagging, so he hid in Kagoshima County to deal with the battle there.

Zheng Keshuang hurriedly laughed, "Yes, yes, Your Majesty, we are very honest, so we brought all the money of 800 million Chinese yuan. My father said that they need a lot of warships and warships to protect the coast. Safety, but also in order to deal with the British, the British somehow followed our fleet to the Australian coast, and hundreds of people landed on the other side of the coast.

Our warships can't beat the British warships, so we need a lot of warships and artillery from the Chinese army, so I hurriedly let me come here, we need more warships and artillery. "

Zhang Qiang was shocked while cursing secretly, this Westerner is really despicable, shameless, stealing, plotting, and cutting off the barbarians, the Han people can be regarded as gentle and civilized people, no wonder the dynasties of all dynasties did not like Westerners, calling them barbarians , They are really savages, even secretly followed Zheng Chenggong's fleet and found the coast of Australia.

"How many warships do they have?" Zhang Qiang asked quickly.

Zheng Keshuang said: "I heard from my father that there are about five [-]-ton warships. Although their warships are smaller than our warships, their artillery is sharp and their tactics are advanced. We cannot defeat them with our existing warships." They, so far, we can only suppress them by virtue of numerical superiority, but cannot eliminate them."

Zhang Qiang knows that during the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty used nearly a thousand warships to force the Portuguese and Dutch warships in the offshore. At that time, they were only 180 tons of armed merchant ships, and they belonged to the kind of cumbersome Clark ships. This is the loss. The heavy casualties of tens of thousands of people finally forced them to retreat. They burned two of their ships with fire boats, seriously injured one, and the others retreated. There are nearly a thousand troops in the trenches, more than a dozen armed merchant ships, and dozens of other merchant ships. There is no way for Ming Dynasty to drive them into the sea.

In the history of his later generations, Zheng Chenggong spent more than ten years fighting the Portuguese, Dutch, and Spaniards with more than a thousand warships many times. It took great effort to defeat them, but their losses were also great. , People's losses are very small, which means that it took them more than ten years to set fire to the ship, defeating them with desperate casualties, let them do business obediently, and pay the toll for passing through the sea.

Now Zheng Chenggong, whose strength was greatly weakened by Zhang Qiang, went to sea with a fleet of only [-] ships, and finally settled in Australia, occupying that place for Huaxia, but most of their ships were still the same ships as before, and some ships Although the ships sold to them by the Huaxia Army were not very powerful, most of them were Dafu Ships, and the warships improved by Daguang Ships were not very powerful.

The speed is not good, the volume is huge, and the ability to resist wind and waves at sea is not as good as that of the Dutch and British ships. The offshore combat may have a force advantage, but the far sea will not work. Now, as the Huaxia Army has brought out the tactics of cannons from a distance Well, these Thai and Westerners have learned it a long time ago, and carried it forward. With advanced tactics, they will be even more disadvantageous against Zheng Chenggong.

Compared with these Thai and Western people, the ability of Han people to accept new things is lower and slower.It is estimated that Zheng Chenggong and the others are now in a period when they are half fighting with gangs and half fighting with artillery at sea. How can they be better than the Taixi people?

Zhang Qiang can’t help Zheng Chenggong and the others with regard to ideological improvement and quality improvement. After all, it’s far away. The current transportation is two to three thousand nautical miles away from Australia. This is the closest. Seven or eight thousand nautical miles away, the Huaxia Army is beyond reach.

So as much as he could help, Zhang Qiang tried to help them as much as possible. At the same time, Zhang Qiang felt that the Taixi people's soft power at sea was still very powerful. After all, they had more experience in far sea warfare than the Huaxia Kingdom.

Compared with a continental kingdom like Huaxia, they are all maritime powers in the sea. Compared with them, there is a gap between the Huaxia Army and their navy. Zhang Qiang doesn’t think that the Huaxia Army’s navy can defeat them wherever they go. .

Chapter 755 Aussie in Crisis 2

Five 200-ton Galen ships made Zheng Chenggong's more than [-] ships helpless. Zheng Chenggong has been in Australia for a year or two, and the development site has developed a lot. Last time Zheng Keshuang said that he had created five cities. According to Zhang Qiang's estimate, it was probably similar to the camps in ancient China. According to Chinese thinking, it must be a small wooden city with a radius of three to five miles.

It takes two years to adapt to the environment and to explore. It is impossible to build the city too strong, and there is no time. Europeans like to build castles with stones, and Chinese like to use bricks to build castles. Zheng Chenggong cannot use such a short period of time. Time, with so few people burning kilns, making bricks, and building city walls, it must be to cut down logs, and then build cities and camps, which are equivalent to the kind of camps that marched and fought in ancient times.

Even if clay and pottery clay were found, the building would still be a mansion in the city. It was impossible to build a brick city wall, which would take a year or two.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for Zheng Chenggong to build any shipyards or large ships. He can only use the warships sold to him by the Huaxia Army and the Ming-style ships he took away. Coastal ships such as ships, it is basically impossible to win with such ships against the Dutch.

First of all, the speed cannot catch up with others. Guangzhou Ship is an offshore ship and cannot go to places with strong winds and waves. Fuchuan is a long-distance ship. You need five knots for a casual run, six knots for general cruising, seven or eight knots for chasing battles, and nine knots to die for, but even the Galen ship imitated by the Huaxia Army can't catch up with it. The speed of the Huaxia Navy's warships generally cruises at four or five knots. It is not bad to be able to beat seven knots in battle, and eight knots for super long performance, but it has to bear the burden of poor hull structure and easy to fall apart.

In Europe in the [-]th century, there are already galleons that run very fast, with a speed of more than ten knots, and clipper ships have passed [-] knots, but clipper ships are not suitable for naval battles, and sailing is OK. Suicide, the thin hull makes every counterweight a burden. Once the recoil of the artillery is too large, it is easy to cause the hull to roll over.

Therefore, the main combat ships of the Dutch are the Caravel and the Clark, and of course the Spanish Galen, which is basically a Spanish Galen now, while the British improved the Spanish Galen and are more advanced than the Spanish Galen. For some, its bow and stern superstructures are relatively low, so that it cannot be blown over by the wind, the wind resistance is small, and the speed is fast. Basically, it can reach the speed of nine knots, ten knots, or even eleven knots. If it is a small tonnage It can reach a speed of twelve knots, which is why Zheng Chenggong's navy can't defeat just five [-]-ton Dutch ships. Zhang Qiang estimates that the Dutch used at least the Spanish Galen ship.

Because in the current history of later generations, in this matter, the ship type of the Spanish Galen ship is generally lightened, probably between [-] tons and [-] tons, and then used as a warship.

This kind of warship has a small load and cannot carry much cargo, but it can chase the enemy very quickly. It is also equipped with a lot of artillery, which creates a kind of pressure on the enemy. If it catches up, it can fight. The artillery is sharp, and it can escape quickly. The enemy cannot catch up. it.

At present, it seems that what Zheng Chenggong and the others encountered was this kind of warship of the Dutch. The Dutch must have gone to explore the way. The Europeans will be overjoyed, someone will become famous, because they discovered the New World, they will be recorded in the history books.

Zhang Qiang has no preference for being included in the annals of history. Anyway, you can’t compete with history. History is too powerful and too big, just like you can’t defeat a country by yourself. Discovering Australia but not being able to take Australia, this thing is a cup staged.

Basically, the new continents discovered by Westerners have been colonized or occupied by them, and they will be their lackeys in later generations. But now Zhang Qiang does not want Australia to become the Australia of later generations. He wants Australia to become China in his future history. A province of the Kingdom, Australia Province, of course, a province may not be able to cover the territory that is almost the same size as the later generations of my Great Heavenly Dynasty, and may be a special autonomous state.