Lord of Ming Dynasty

However, the situation of the second prince forced the second prince to bow his head to beg Hong Tianpao. Zhang Qiang flipped through the report of the intelligence personnel of New Zealand's intelligence department. The living environment there could be called hell. pitted.

The Dutch, who had always had trouble with the Zheng family, wanted to get Australia. They sent fleets to attack Australia many times, but they were all repulsed by Zheng Jing's navy. They had to retreat to New Zealand hundreds of miles away to build a camp. As a result, the second prince The first thing they did in the past was to go to war with the Dutch. Seven armed merchant ships and two third-tier battleships of the Dutch fought with the 36 warships and more than 100 warships purchased by the second prince from Zhang Qiang for nearly half a year.

Three armed merchant ships were captured, three were sunk, and one warship was damaged. In the end, the Dutch escaped three ships and lost nearly 3000 people. They lost all the more than 3000 sailors and vagrants they recruited from Malacca.

The second prince, Hong Hongxiu, suffered even greater losses. Fifteen merchant ships transporting supplies and population were sunk, with a loss of more than 1 people, more than 1000 naval officers and soldiers, [-] warships, and [-] warships. , but suffered heavy losses, but fortunately, they occupied the camp left by the Dutch and avoided the pain of construction. The key personnel and confidantes could sleep in the wilderness without setting up tents.

The successive arrival of population and merchant ships allowed them to complete the first step, to settle down, and then they began to explore the inland, various beasts, and poisonous snakes, which caused the loss of 100 of the 30 million people they brought, and finally settled down.

Then they traded with Zheng Zhi and the others, obtained supplies, and trained soldiers and horses, but only [-] soldiers and horses were trained. Zheng Jing's fleet found their hiding place. They soon launched a naval battle with them, but compared with the Dutch who have rich experience in naval battles and win more with less, Zheng Jing's fleet is not so powerful.

The two sides fought on a small scale, winning and losing each other, and honed the second prince's naval forces. In the end, the second prince stabilized his position with 120 warships, 350 warships, and [-] merchant ships purchased successively. It has grown to [-] troops.

After that, it was a battle with the Zheng family to seize various islands that produced guano. New Zealand also had guano. They used guano to reach a deal with the Huaxia Kingdom, and made a deal every six months. Each time a hundred merchant ships carried guano, One hundred merchant ships carried some furs and special products to the Huaxia Kingdom for trading.

Fifteen warships are dispatched each time, and ninety warships are escorted. It takes half a year to go back and forth. It can be said that after returning for a month or two to rest, they have to ship again, because it is too far away from the Huaxia Kingdom, nearly ten thousand miles away. Although it is nearly a thousand nautical miles shorter than Australia, it still takes four months to go back and forth.

The main reason is that their ships are not good. They buy old ships that were discarded by Zhang Qiang and the others for more than ten years and sold to the coast guard and even sold to merchants. The speed is about three to four nautical miles, which means about 10 per hour. km speed.

Walking more than 100 kilometers a day is faster than walking and only equivalent to running.

They have known the new warships of the Huaxia Army for a long time. Since the Huaxia Army defeated them, this new type of warship has been paid attention to by them, but they also know that the Huaxia Army is not fully equipped, and each fleet has only received a small number of new ships. As time went by, they finally realized that it was expensive to build. Each ship cost at least 80 taels of silver, 120 million Chinese yuan, and even a frigate cost 80 Chinese yuan. They couldn't afford it.

After two years, the Huaxia Army itself has only equipped two types of ships with a total of two hundred ships. That is two to three hundred million yuan of the Huaxia Army, and the total silver is more than 2 million taels. They can only look up.

However, the new warships of the Huaxia Army are good. I heard that they can run at a speed of 8 knots in normal times, and can run at a speed of [-] knots in wartime. They can run at [-] to [-] knots with their maximum capabilities. Even if the minimum speed is [-] knots, then It is also twelve kilometers per hour, which can reduce their round-trip time by about ten days, that is, more than three months. This increase of a few days will allow them to make two more trips and earn a lot of money.

The speed of eight knots is in the early three months, and a full two trips came out.

If the speed is increased, sailing at ten knots, even if it is not a constant speed, the time can be increased by another seven or eight days, then it can be reduced to less than three months, more than two months, what a fast speed this is.

But this is delusional for them.

They could only develop on the island of New Zealand while fighting with the fleet sent by Zheng Jing, and at the same time sending caravans to trade.

Try to grow themselves as much as possible, but the sharp drop in population over the years has also caused their strength to drop a lot. This time, Hong Wenyi went to obtain the population. After several months of running around, Hong Wenyi sent the first batch of 30 people to the island of New Zealand.

The people were quickly divided, and the people were sent to live and work in peace and contentment. The young and strong were organized into militias, and the strong and experienced soldiers were formed into sailors and servants, and a 5000-strong army was stationed in various places. And warships, merchant ships.

The population of the second prince has increased to a wretched 80 people. Although they basically controlled the island of New Zealand, organized Dutch snooping, and prevented Zheng Jing and his attacks, they suffered heavy losses and urgently needed population replenishment.

With the return of the fleet, the purchased warships also came back, two hundred merchant ships, thirty armed merchant ships, fifty warships, and twenty warships, which effectively supplemented the losses due to several confrontations with Zheng Jing's fleet. The number of warships and warships, and merchant ships.

The second prince plans to organize an expedition once these people are stabilized and lead an army of [-] Japanese. In fact, the Japanese don’t need to train anymore, because they are the servant soldiers of the original Ryukyu Kingdom. Even the common people have experienced it. There are countless wars, young and strong are drawn out, organized into groups, and can act as soldiers to fight.

[-] Southeast Asian soldiers and [-] Han soldiers were transported by [-] merchant ships, escorted by [-] armed merchant ships, [-] warships, and [-] warships formed a team to conduct an expedition to Australia, which was occupied by Zheng Jing. For three years, he came and went without indecent assault, and every time he was attacked by the enemy, he wanted to fight back.

Occupy Zheng Jing's territory, gain more population, and the towns and castles, shipyards, warships, and other materials and territories operated by the Zheng family in Australia. In this way, through World War I, he can save a few years of struggle and expand own strength.

Chapter 9 Thirteen: The Second Prince's Expedition to Zheng Jing

When the second prince was ready, he left the little prince Hong Wenyi to guard the house, and then he personally led the fleet to attack the Darwin port, which is the largest port of the Zheng family, and the city has nearly 70 people, including 30 people and slaves. 25 people, 15 soldiers and horses, including 5 soldiers and 10 sailors.Where is the Zheng family's largest naval fleet.

According to the information, there are a total of 350 warships brought by the Zheng family from the Huaxia Kingdom, bought, and built by the Zheng family, and 110 warships. As long as this elite naval formation is eliminated, the Zheng family will be in his eyes. Here, he is the master who can be bullied at will.

These battleships and warships are the elite navy troops of the Zheng family. As long as they are eliminated, the Zheng family soldiers in other cities and ports will not be afraid. Where is there a place to stay.

They are extremely poor on the southern coast of Australia. Because the southern coast is facing the Ming mainland, there are usually not many people there, so not many people go there. Even the Australian natives are unwilling to come to the southern coast.

In the past few years, he has some understanding of Australia. Except for the coastline, the inland is nothing. It is full of mountains, craters, and deserts. It rains all year round, heavy rain floods, rivers are everywhere, it is difficult to walk, let alone survive.

In comparison, the north coast is a fertile land, where grain can be grown three times a year, and there are large grasslands for grazing, sheep, and cattle. The rain is just right, and the sun is not so hot. It can be said that the Zheng family has gone a great place.

Hong Hongxiu has no choice. Whoever let them join the Huaxia Kingdom from the beginning, he also knows their history, and was driven out of Treasure Island. Australia is the compensation from Zhang Qiang of the Huaxia Kingdom, but this is only limited to Zheng Chenggong. At that time, as long as they kept their own law and order, then the Huaxia Kingdom would not do anything to them, but Zheng Chenggong died, and his descendants made such a fuss. Now the Huaxia Kingdom is basically about to unify the original Ming territory and drive out the Qing court aliens who entered the customs. After leaving the customs, there will be time to clean up the descendants of the Zheng family and take back this piece of land.

Facing so many Zheng family navy troops and such excellent warships, Hong Hongxiu actually had no bottom line in his heart. His biggest bottom line was to fight a battle, wipe out some, and weaken the enemy. Through this blow, let the Zheng family Knowing how powerful he is, buy him a time to develop with peace of mind.

The Zheng family now has a population of 800 million, with 100 million soldiers and horses, including 50 slave soldiers, 30 Japanese slaves, 20 prisoner slaves of various crimes, and Southeast Asian aborigines who do not obey Wang Hua, and there are also some Australian aborigines Slaves, when Zheng Chenggong came here, he did not imitate Zhang Qiang and exterminate the local aborigines, but got along with them friendly, but many aborigines were unwilling to get along with the Zheng family, so Zheng Chenggong sent troops to conquer them. After ten years of payment, some of them surrendered. Some fled to the central part where the environment was harsh, while some were slaughtered, and the young and strong were demoted to slavery.

When Zheng Jing ascended the throne, all his brothers were exterminated, not to mention the natives, in addition to sending troops to hunt down the escaped natives in the central region, they also massacred all the natives in the territory, and more people were demoted to slaves, but these slaves were not included in the army. , but to the nobles who have done meritorious service.

In order to make the Japanese who accounted for almost half of the Zheng family work, he promoted the status of the Japanese. Many Japanese servants received the treatment of soldiers and free people, and promoted some Japanese to serve as middle-level commanders in the army. The era is almost impossible. Although Zheng Chenggong is a Han Chinese of Japanese descent, his heart is the heart of a Han Chinese, but Zheng Jing has no such constraints. He regards himself as the king of the Zheng family and the king of Australia, and does not recognize the Han people.

As long as they are loyal to him, no matter the Japanese or the natives of Southeast Asia are his Australians.

On this point, Hong Hongxiu disagrees very much. He is of Han origin. Although he became a member of the Qing Dynasty before, the books he read are Han Confucian books. He has a high sense of identity with Han people. He knows that this kind of action in Australia is very important. Dangerous, for the Japanese who are going to perish, there are not no capable people among them. If they are given a chance, they may become a serious problem for the Han people. Australia is swallowing a red-hot iron and is destined to reap the consequences.

In a single nation, the Japanese do more meticulously than the rough-and-ready Han in terms of national integration and integration. Don't look at the melee of hundreds of famous generals and the anti-shogunate, but in fact they are fighting internally. Invasion, just like the invasion of Japan by the country of Lu, the daimyos from all over the country were extremely united, and they didn't even dare to take all their subordinates to rescue other daimyos who hated them deeply.

You don’t hesitate to kill all your own soldiers and horses. If you want to be placed among the Han people, your brothers will also hesitate for a long time, and then send out people to inquire about the news in a petty manner, to make sense of it, and then retreat immediately when you see something bad. , Immediately attack with the whole army, and rush there. If the brothers have already repelled the enemy, they will immediately ask for a share of the spoils. Brothers come to save you, and you have to feel good about it. Otherwise, you will immediately start a war and destroy you. Brother, the enemy is coming, can you block it?

Therefore, he believes that promoting the Japanese is tantamount to digging his own grave.

Looking at the island of Papua New Guinea that was getting closer, well, why did he know, because the name of this island was also given by the king of the Huaxia Kingdom, Zhang Qiang.

At this time, there were [-] enemy warships of [-] tons, [-] armed merchant ships, and [-] people stationed on the island of Papua New Guinea. After the initial development of the Zheng family, there were [-] troops stationed.

His first battle was to occupy this place and gain a foothold. Occupying this place can shorten the material transaction time between them and the Huaxia Kingdom by about ten days, from more than four months to more than three and a half months. If you want to trade with Zheng Zhi of Luzon Island, the time will be faster, at least half a month can be shortened.

The distance between them and the Huaxia Kingdom was shortened from ten thousand miles to only eight thousand nautical miles.

When they arrived, some goods were being loaded and unloaded in the port of Papua New Guinea. These goods were materials used by Zheng Jing to build some coastal defense forts, as well as a dozen coastal defense cannons traded with the Dutch. With these cannons, he Darwin's northeast gate was closed, and it was possible to block the strait. It was impossible to block all of it, but at least it made the enemy's fleet have some scruples. Cooperating with the fleet's attack, if the enemy wanted to attack Darwin, they had to first appreciate the demeanor of these cannons.

Zheng Jing has rushed to Hong Hongxiu's group who came here three years ago because they were not kind, so they often harass Hong Hongxiu and them with armed merchant ships to prevent their development.

At present, Zheng Jing has basically eliminated the influence of his father in Australia, killed all the brothers and brothers and uncles in the clan who might affect his throne, and stabilized his rule.

Chapter 9 Zheng Jing's troubles

Zheng Jing is now expanding his army, but he doesn't have much money. Although the Zheng family has accumulated a lot of money, in order to open up wasteland in Australia, almost half of the money has been put into the treasury of the Huaxia Kingdom, and some of it has been taken away or hidden by other brothers. Especially Zheng Zhi, obtained the resources of Nanyang, and the Han people in Nanyang supported him, because Zheng Zhi sent troops to protect them when the Spanish governor attacked them.

Therefore, Zheng Zhi's prestige in Nanyang is higher than that of the orthodox prince who inherited Zheng Chenggong's throne and mantle, and Zheng Zhi's strength is much stronger than his here. Don't look at Zheng Zhi's actual population of less than 200 million. They are all vassals, and there are many Tubang attached to him. The ships he can use are not as many as Zheng Jing's, but Zheng Zhi is much stronger than him in terms of economy.

At present, he has 50 regular Han soldiers and 20 slave soldiers, but the total population is only 800 million, of which 390 million are Japanese. Previously, because the Chinese Kingdom did not welcome the Japanese, Zheng Chenggong era, in order to cater to Zhang Qiang This kind of likes and dislikes suppresses the Japanese. In his opinion, the Japanese are a good source of soldiers. Although the Japanese have caused him a lot of trouble, he still lifted the restrictions on the Japanese and allowed most of them, especially It is the family members of the servant army who are transformed into free citizens, and after making meritorious service, they can be transformed into ordinary people and become Australians.

Moreover, he mixed 30 Japanese soldiers and horses with his own 50 Han soldiers, from the navy to the army, and promoted some Japanese officials to serve as officers in the middle ranks of the army, just to integrate the Japanese into his current regime. Increase his troops and combat effectiveness.

But he began to alienate the Southeast Asian natives that his father trusted in the past, because some of them were usable, while others were lazy and unusable, so they could only farm or at most work as yamen servants.

After dismantling some Southeast Asian servants, he merged the remaining 800 soldiers of these Southeast Asian servants into his own army. There will be no servants in the future. Now he has a population of 90 million and [-] soldiers.

The slaves were handed over to the subordinate generals and nobles. There will be no slave soldiers in the future, which greatly improves the overall quality of soldiers and horses of the Zheng family in Australia, and let the Australians see his sincerity. Allegiance to him.

It can be said that Zheng Jing did all this to stabilize his rule, eliminate Zheng Chenggong's influence, and regard Australia as his own territory.

But he knew that His Majesty Zhang Qiang, the powerful king of Huaxia Kingdom thousands of miles away, was a master without profit. His father Zheng Chenggong told him that they were just pioneering for Zhang Qiang to open up Australia. In the future, the Huaxia Kingdom will definitely If he wants to get involved in Australia, what will his Zheng family do when the time comes? This is an unavoidable problem.

Because of such worries, Zheng Jing was very disgusted with Zhang Qiang and the Huaxia Kingdom, and at the same time secretly surprised that Zhang Qiang had started such a far-reaching arrangement when he was still a child more than ten years ago, what else could Zhang Qiang not do?