Lord of Ming Dynasty

For the Dutch, the first time was a failure, and only one ship escaped, and the second time was a disastrous defeat, destroying eighteen enemy ships and letting go of two ships, while they lost eighteen ships, of which Three ships were sunk, nine lost their ability to act and were severely damaged, and the others were half-injured. Although a lot of losses were lost and many people died, they were still able to move, and they could still complete the mission after repairing them. Only a few ships The ship was basically undamaged. Generally speaking, the Dutch did not win in the exchange of fire with the Zheng family.

This made him very annoyed, the front was an island occupied by the enemy, according to his past experience, there might not be many enemies, even if there were some common people.

"Put down the probe ship, measure the water depth, and guide the fleet to shore," he took over the authority of the fleet commander and shouted to the fleet commander.

Without waiting for the commander to repeat his order, he continued to shout: "Lay down the boat, send soldiers to land, and cover us to occupy the dock."

The commander repeated twice in a row.

The entire fleet stopped outside the port and slowly put down the soldiers. Behind the soldiers was the detection ship. While measuring the water depth, they signaled to the back. The fleet slowly drove into the port, and the island was peaceful.

Chapter 8 The Rebel Attack

"Three days ago, the fleet of the Du Ge rebels attacked the Zheng family's squadron on Koh Kong Island and captured nine of their ships. Their strength has grown stronger. From now on, we have to face their attacks Now, I need you to go to the front line, to command some forces on the southeast peninsula front line, your position will be concurrently held temporarily, and Xiao Fei will take over your job first, and I will let Bagyaru command Xiao Fei's corps."

In the middle of the night, Zhang Qiang said to Wei Wuji.

Wei Wuji said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, who will take over Bagyalu? Xiao Fei may not be able to take charge of my work, right?"

Zhang Qiang looked at him and said, "Tang Dianfeng will also serve as the minister of the Ministry of National Defense. His experience in logistics and civil affairs will help Xiao Fei. Both of them are ministers, but Xiao Fei is the main one. Xiao Fei and Tang Dianfeng will jointly assume the responsibility of the Ministry of National Defense. Responsibility, and it is impossible for Tang Dianfeng to manage the affairs of your Ministry of National Defense indefinitely. He is the deputy prime minister, so he has to take care of his situation.

Ma Sanli in the Southeast Asian Peninsula is a bit old and not aggressive, and He Jin is not capable enough. I am going to let Milin take charge of Baodao Prefecture and Qiongdao. Anyway, he is the governor of the two islands and will take over as the commander of the garrison at the same time. "

Wei Wuji said anxiously: "The civil affairs and military power belong to Milin alone, and Bagyaru has also been transferred away. This is likely to make Milin dominate alone. Someone must restrain him, otherwise, the tail will not be lost."

Zhang Qiang held his cheeks and said, "Well, well, although I have deep trust in these old brothers, sometimes even if I do some superficial work, I have to do it. Now that you have brought it up, who do you think should be sent?" Where are you going to take charge of the soldiers and horses?"

Wei Wuji thought for a while, "Go Kong Youxing, he is at home now, let him take charge of the soldiers and horses of Treasure Island, or transfer him to Southeast Asia, let Ma Sanli go to Treasure Island."

Zhang Qiang shook his head, "Kong Youxing's newly attached person is even more untrustworthy. Baodao Haolai also has tens of thousands of troops, and the number of militiamen that can be recruited in the account book is probably hundreds of thousands. If he has obtained so many troops, In addition to the arsenal and shipyard in Baozhong Prefecture, he is likely to form a vassal structure. Let Ma Sanli go, and transfer Gao Jie to take over the Ma Sanli Corps. We have trained him for so long, and he has performed well. .Let him help you against the Doug rebels."

Wei Wuji shook his head, "Gao Jie is a newcomer after all, why not transfer Ma Han from the Fengwuyu Corps to the Ma Sanli Corps to take charge of the No.12 Field Brigade, and Gao Jie to take over Ma Han's No.13 Field Brigade. At the same time, it was renamed Ma Sanli Corps as Ma Han Corps."

Zhang Qiang thinks that Wei Wuji's proposal is good. The Huaxia Kingdom implements a mobile official system in charge of troops in turn. Both Ma Han and Ma Sanli have been in charge of their respective troops for a long time. Although it is just to adjust the two troops, Ma Han is also in Southeast Asia After staying for a while, I was very familiar with the No.12 Field Brigade, but it was a bit of a transfer. Ma Han had been away for a long time, and it was definitely impossible for everyone to get along with him immediately.

"Mahan's No.13 field brigade must also be transferred here. If we don't want it, we can't do it. If we want it, we can make it bigger and wipe out Thailand in one fell swoop. This will require a lot of trained troops. Mahan's No. .13 Field Brigade went over, put Gao Jie in charge, and Ma Han in charge of the entire corps. Then I went somewhere and pressed them together." Wei Wuji said.

Zhang Qiang pushed the table away and stood up, "Let's do it this way. The other staff should also be adjusted. Let Li Guo be in charge. Bring Liu Liangzuo back and let him take over Li Guo's position. In addition to being in charge of Yunnan, Li Guo also If you want to serve as the governor of Southeast Asia, he is a person who has experienced big waves, and he can help you more than the useless Liu Liangzuo.

Over there, you are in charge of the affairs of the Minister of the Ministry of National Defense. You are in charge of the governor of Southeast Asia and Yunnan Prefecture. Now Yunnan Prefecture has been included in the core area. You have to take a look at the economy for me, and look at the past few years. How did Liu Liangzuo develop it?

Oh, by the way, what happened to Qianhu Yapeng, the garrison battalion transferred to China Island? "

Wei Wuji said: "According to the news from the officers and soldiers there, after he was transferred from Sishan Prefecture, his battalion was stationed on China Island and helped Brother Zhu a lot. He is very suitable for quickly finding a rhythm in a chaotic environment. "

"Well, then put the burden on him and ask him to set up a recruit training camp somewhere, gather the Han Chinese who immigrated there, and conduct militia training. Let's train 5000 people for the time being, and these people will be added when needed. Among the troops left behind, take care of the troops left by Kong Youxing for us. Although they are also Han Chinese, they have not received long-term education and edification in our Huaxia Kingdom, and their loyalty is not enough. I hope our people in the past can change their opinion."

The two had a discussion and were about to leave when the military attaché of the Ministry of Military Intelligence walked over quickly and communicated with the official of the personal guard. After the personal guard reported, he walked in quickly, "Your Majesty, yesterday's report, two copies, One is that the Gegong Island occupied by the Zheng family has been captured by the Dutch. Feng Sheng, the head of the Zheng family, escaped with 30 people.

The other is the report of the patrol ships of the Fifth Fleet. 230 warships flying the Taixi people and the flag of Du have broken into the waters of the South China Sea. They are looking for the Fifth Fleet. The fifth fleet commander Liu Taiyun Feige passed the letter, Babaili rushed to the navy director Ruan Jin to ask how to deal with it, whether he can play? "

Wei Wuji patted the table and said: "Nonsense, the enemy has forced them to the door, and they are still asking. They should call all the naval ships and prepare for the battle. It's good for him to waste time asking us. After coming and going, three days are gone. , Will the enemy fight back after hitting his house? What is this Liu Taiyun doing, and Kodak of the Sixth Fleet has gone to the Fifth Fleet to serve as the commander of the general squadron, why doesn't he go out to fight?"

Zhang Qiang stopped him, "This matter must be reported. Kodak is not bad as the commander in chief, but he can't be the leader of the Fifth Fleet. He is only the commander of the squadron, which belongs to a high-ranking official position. The leader of the Fifth Fleet is Liu Taiyun. He is the official officer of the Fifth Fleet. Although Kodak has the same official position, he is also under his jurisdiction. We must listen, we cannot advocate that kind of leapfrog command, or just because my official position is the same as yours, you don’t listen to the command of the chief officer. Behavior. Otherwise, the following will be messed up, how can we manage it?"

"Designate, let Liu Taiyun fight with all his strength, and at the same time request the Qiongdao Fourth Fleet Squadron stationed opposite them to assist in the battle. We will issue an order to assist the Fourth Fleet here, and let their two fleets deal with the enemy. Be sure to annihilate Enemy, dare to bully you to come to the gate of the Kingdom of Huaxia, think our sailors are vegetarians?"

Chapter 8 The Zheng family is a bit too much

"Yes, Your Majesty," the aide-de-camp went out.

Zhang Qiang said to Wei Wuji: "Take over the work in hand as soon as possible, and go to Southeast Asia to direct the attack on Siam and Cambodia. We need to completely control Southeast Asia. That's it, come here, get up and prepare to go to Baodao Prefecture."

Zhang Qiang and Wei Wuji separated, and on the third day after Wei Wuji took office, he, Xiao Fei, and Tang Dianfeng met and explained to each other, then hurriedly rushed to Taizhou Fucheng with a bodyguard group, and then went down the river from Taizhou Fucheng , entered the sea, and arrived in Baodao State on the ships of the Third Fleet.

As soon as he saw Milin, Zhang Qiang asked, "What's the matter? You were transferred here to monitor the Spaniards and the Zheng family. Why did Zheng Zhi uncontrollably start a war with the Spaniards and not stop them? Now we We don’t have the energy to fight against the Spaniards, that will increase our expenses. Now our newly joined state capital of the core area is stepping up construction, and the population of the core area is transferring to the state capital of the newly joined core area. Zheng Zhi is going to war now, isn’t it? Do you want to delay our process?"

Milin looked like I was wrong, and after Zhang Qiang finished reprimanding him, he said carefully: "Your Majesty, these are difficult to control. The staff of my newly established Overseas Investigation Department is being trained, and many of them have not sneaked into the enemy's high-level. The enemy's middle-level activities, the manpower mobilized from the Ministry of Military Intelligence is a bit too busy. The Spaniards are more eager, and Zheng Zhi is also more eager. One of them wants to make money, and the other wants to protect the Han population. It's on."

"Don't tell me about the Han population. They are already the indigenous population of Manila, not the Han population. Could it be that you also sympathize with them? If those people are people with the household registration certificate of the Huaxia Kingdom, even if they are chieftains, I will send them They were rescued, but how many people went there? Tell me the statistics, who are good people who can know where to go? Even if they are the population of the Huaxia Kingdom, they are Han people, they all have unforgivable crimes, even if they They are smuggled by order, where they are ordered to do bad things, and they died for the country, anyway, they are not good people, good people would not do such things." Zhang Qiang patted the table and said.

Because Zhang Qiang wanted to deal with Du Ge and the others, Zhang Qiang transferred Milin here to set up a new overseas military intelligence department to infiltrate all Western countries. Of course, the most recent task is to infiltrate and monitor the Zheng family. Because Zhang Qiang would never trust any overseas force, even if he was established by the Han people.

This is why Milin was suddenly demoted from the highly sought-after position of Minister of Military Intelligence to Governor-General of Baodao.

The overseas governor is nothing compared to a high-ranking official like the second-rank senior official of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and he is demoted. The governor is from Sanpingao.It is only equivalent to the official rank of a doctor in the cabinet ministries, and the governor of the state can serve as a minister in the cabinet when he returns to the cabinet, which is equivalent to the second-level official position of the cabinet ministries.

If it is the first minister, it is equivalent to the position of deputy minister, that is to say, the second in command of each cabinet department. Because the cabinet ministers are actually in charge of the overall situation and not in charge of all things, so the deputy minister in charge of every aspect of things, The deputy minister is actually quite powerful.

And even if the overseas governor goes back to become the deputy minister or vice minister, he is still ranked low. The third deputy minister, or just dismissed by a doctor, may go to an important government of the center to become a magistrate.

For example, the official ranks of the prefects of Jinling Mansion and Jinhua Mansion are much higher than that of ordinary officials. However, from the fifth rank or the sixth rank, compared with important counties, such as Xianju County, the rank is much lower. Xianju County is an industrial county where Zhang Qiang started, so the county magistrate ranks from the fourth rank.

A magistrate, according to the distribution of officials in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is generally a seventh-rank official, and some are even lower than the seventh-rank officials.

Of course, the same is true for the officials of the Huaxia Kingdom now. Zhang Qiang does not dare to continue the official ranks of later generations, and can only use the official ranks of Ming Dynasty.

However, some officials' working habits have adopted the official system of later generations. For example, the grades of officials in key counties, prefectures, and states are much higher than other officials.

Now Milin has been demoted from the second rank of the powerful minister of the Ministry of Military Intelligence to the third rank overseas governor. It seems that he has been demoted, but in fact he has come to work for Zhang Qiang.

"Hasn't Zheng Keshuang been here recently?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Milin shook his head, "No, according to information from our nearest Clippers, Zheng Chenggong has almost ceased to be a director, and his sons are making trouble again. According to my guess, Zheng Zhi wants to separate from the Zheng family. I lost these forces of the Zheng family in Nanyang, so I was busy integrating these forces, and completely forgot that the condition we talked with Zheng Keshuang to allow them to come back was to hold back the development of Duge rebels and Taixi people in Nanyang and Southeast Asia for us. "

"In other words, we can't control Zheng Zhi. Zheng Zhi is perfunctory to us, using our power to support him to integrate his own power?" Zhang Qiang said leisurely.

"Yes, I think so. We can't control Zheng Zhi, nor can he control his power. We can only know what he's doing, but we can't stop him from doing it." Milin said helplessly.

Zhang Qiang sat down and said helplessly to Milin: "Then let him fight the Spaniards. What you have to pay attention to is not to let him bite us." Zhang Qiang is also very helpless. Like a resentful woman, she always wants to benefit from Huaxia, and then develop her own power. It seems that I made a wrong move last time. I thought that even if Zheng Zhi would not help the Huaxia Kingdom at ease, he would look at it because he supported him for free. For the sake of so many ships, Zheng Keshuang went to fulfill the agreement with himself, but he didn't expect that he just lost some people and ships on Koh Kong Island, and then devoted his energy to robbing the Nanyang Han people from the Spaniards.

"In this way, leave the Zheng family alone, first go get the intelligence of Du Ge and the intelligence of the Dutch, Portuguese, and British, take it easy, and don't bump into people from the Ministry of Military Intelligence, otherwise everyone will be bad, I don't want to let Cabinet and other departments know that I have set up another intelligence service in private, so that everyone will be alienated."

Milin stood up and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I, Milin, will follow Your Majesty all my life and will not make Your Majesty sad. If they find out, I will take the initiative to bear it."

Zhang Qiang stood up, walked up to him, and patted him on the shoulder, "I know, I believe in you. Don't worry, I won't let people who are loyal to me be wronged. Do it here first, run it well, run it At the same time, it is necessary to keep the population flowing between Huaxia Kingdom and Baodao. Otherwise, after a long time, people here will have a feeling that I am from Baodao and not from Huaxia. Ideological education must be strengthened for them, and ideological education cannot be relaxed.”

"Come on, tell me about the situation of Koh Kong Island you know, and the situation of Du Ge's fleet."

Chapter 8 and Four: The Kingdom's Worries

"At present, the enemy's warships are relatively large, and there are many batches, and they change rapidly. Sometimes we detect 180 ships, sometimes we detect 160 ships, and sometimes they have 240 ships. They are divided into There are multiple groups, we cannot accurately grasp their number and ship type, and the information collected by our personnel sometimes overlaps, and sometimes the rules appear to be clear, which confuses us."

Milin held a stack of intelligence reports.

Zhang Qiang knocked on the table with his fingers. In this case, there was nothing he could do. The cheating artifact in his hand, the war eagle could also see things on the land through observation, but he couldn't tell the real things from the cunning camouflage and concealment of human beings. Those are hypocritical, that is to say, the battlefield reconnaissance artifact in his hand, the war eagle is useless.

He can only fight with the enemy for strength, intelligence, and technology. Even technology is not enough for Du Ge, who knows the Huaxia Kingdom. Du Ge can target the original ships and ships of the Huaxia Kingdom. firearm.