Lord of Ming Dynasty

Seeing that the two brothers were blushing, Hong Wenyi found an excuse to leave Manila with his troops, and returned to Little Luzon Island, where they were stationed mainly. There are many old people among them who used to follow. They are stable and have good eyesight. They persuaded him: "Young master, we have to withdraw quickly and come back with the main force of the Zheng family. Go back and plot Australia. We got nearly 30 yuan this time." There are still so many ships in the population, property, and great losses, if they stay here, they will probably be eaten by Zheng Jing, or be attacked by Zheng Zhi, or they will be wiped out by the Dutch or the British."

Hong Wenyi thought about it for a long time, and felt that what this veteran said was right. It seemed that Xinlu National University had a lot of warships, and there were also a lot of warships, but their speed and firepower were not as good as those of the British and Dutch, and their agility and combat experience were not as good as Zheng Jing's. There are many people, let alone the Chinese navy, so it is best to retreat now.

Within two days, he sent someone to inform Zheng Jing, and then led the severely damaged fleet back south.

This time they came out with more than 400 ships, half of which were armed merchant ships and merchant ships used to transport troops and supplies. On Wright Island, they lost nearly a hundred armed merchant ships and merchant ships, and the warships were also damaged a lot, but they gained a lot. Captured fifty or sixty large-tonnage warships and armed merchant ships of the enemy, merchant ships, armed merchant ships and merchant ships, and incoming merchant ships with the population and supplies of Wright Island, captured, and dragged the captured enemy's wounded warships and warships, The armed merchant ships went back, leaving more than 200 ships.

Some of the captured armed merchant ships and warships that were able to fight were supplemented. They still had 80 ships. The warships were also destroyed and injured, and a lot of them were sunk. Now there are only eighty or ninety battleships and warships left, and there are still about a hundred ships left. Throw away the destroyed and injured tatters, and turn around with more than [-] ships. Return to the island of New Zealand with troops and horses.

The new Lu Kingdom fleet left, Zheng Jing was still arguing with Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi sent someone to ask Hong Tianpao for help, and Hong Tianpao sent another hundred warships and warships to support Zheng Zhi.

The three parties had just joined together, and the swords were on the verge of breaking out. The Dutch and the British made a comeback from Cebu and Wright Island, and the five parties fought again in Manila.

In this battle, the three families joined forces to fight against the British and the Dutch, but they didn't want to. At the critical moment, Zheng Jing gave up the passage and let the British warships surround Zheng Zhi's warships. Although Zheng Zhi struggled to break through, but In the end, the flagship was sunk by the British, and the other ships were captured or sunk by the British, and defeated. Then the Dutch and the British dealt with the Zheng Jing and Hong Tian Artillery Department, which had no intention of fighting, and a big battle ended.

The two lost [-]% of their warships and warships. The Dutch were almost crippled, and the British also suffered heavy losses. The Quartet had to withdraw from the battlefield and prepare for another decisive battle. He returned with more than a dozen warships. Zheng Jing’s sneak attack failed, and he obtained the warships and warships of the Ryukyu Kingdom, as well as captured many soldiers and horses, and recovered a lot of strength, but only [-]% of the original navy ships.

Back at the Governor's Mansion, Zheng Jing considered the gains and losses this time, and felt that the loss was too great to be reconciled. At this time, his master said: "It's better to send troops to attack the Ryukyu Kingdom. After several years of development, where is it richer? There are many, but they are all Han Chinese, just to take them back to offset our population disadvantage."

Zheng Jing looked at his master and said: "With our current strength, we are also a tired army. How can we fight comfortably and wait for work? The navy is stronger than our Ryukyu Kingdom, not to mention they have the support of the Huaxia Navy and Huaxia Army. "

The master smiled and said: "We can borrow troops. Didn't we want to contact the Dutch and the British before? They were powerful and looked down on us, but now everyone is defeated. Although they defeated us a little, they are now at the end of their strength It may be easy to win us alone, but it is impossible to defeat the Huaxia Army, and it is also impossible to defeat the left-behind navy of the Ryukyu Kingdom, but if we join forces, I think the Netherlands, which is now greatly weakened The Chinese and the British certainly agree."

"Okay, not bad, then I will leave this mission to you. Remember that success is not allowed. If you succeed, you will be crowned Prince Shaobao and governor of the new colony. If you fail, I will kill your whole family, you know. Is it?" Zheng Jing patted the goatee master with a smile and said.

The master wants to cry now, following such a monarch is really bad for eight lifetimes.

9 Chapter Sixty

Master is a sensible person, he knows that it is impossible to serve such a master for a long time, and no one knows that his identity is actually a latent officer of Milin's newly established Military Intelligence Department.

After letting Zheng Jing's guards pass on the information again, the master took a few servants and headed for Wright Island on an armed merchant ship.

On the way, the fast boat encountered the inspection of the British and was intercepted to Cebu Island.

In the face of the British Governor, the master said that his family was originally a Han businessman in the Nanyang Kingdom. He followed his father to do business since he was a child. He has been to British India, Dutch Indonesia, or Spanish Manila. Is it Dutch, English, or Spanish? Basically, I know some of them, especially Spanish, because most of the Nanyang merchants are from Indonesian islands and Luzon Islands. They can speak aboriginal languages, Dutch, and Spanish. They were born in Manila grew up in Sumatra, so his Spanish can be said to be equivalent to his mother tongue, but he is not very proficient in Chinese.

Because he is not proficient in Chinese, he is naughty, so his father doesn't like him very much, so he has been wandering in these places since he was a child, and he is familiar with these places. Later, when his elder brother took over the family business, he went back to help his elder brother. Afterwards there was chaos, and when the Spaniards once again raised their butcher knives against the Han, he fled and followed the Zheng family to Australia.

His family was torn apart and destroyed in the battle for hegemony from all sides.

The British governor listened to his words, considered for two days, and then sent someone to invite the Dutch governor Ike. The two discussed for a long time, and felt that in such an environment, only by working together with the Zheng family, which is not bad, can they continue to maintain Their dominance and status in the South China Sea and Nanyang has gained a firm foothold.

At this time, what he was thinking about was not the colonies but their trade in the east. In the past 30 to [-] years, because of the rise of Zhang Qiang in China, he hated them Westerners, so their trade with China was almost cut off. Everything is clean, and now even the Governor's Mansion is lost, and they can only linger on the newly occupied Spanish territory that originally belonged to Luzon Island. If Zheng Jing's proposal is not agreed, Zheng Jing may have nothing to do with them now, but he can do whatever he wants. As time goes by, their role in the East will become irrelevant, and it is better to return to the West.

Then their East India Company will go bankrupt.

Now relying on Zheng Jing, he may be able to start a business.

If Zheng Jing's dream can be realized, then they can seize the Ryukyu Kingdom and communicate with the Qing Dynasty and Japan, then their business channels will be convenient. Although the business will not return to the original predatory profit, it will definitely not lose money.

The two deliberated for a long time, and finally made up their minds to cooperate with Zheng Jing.

However, the Dutch governor Ike thought of something at this time, pulled the British governor and said: "The territory of our two families is still small, even if we go to help Zheng Jing, we must ask for it? Otherwise, who would believe that we will selflessly help Zheng Jing Woolen cloth?"

The British governor also thought about it, "Ike, what conditions do you think we should propose?"

Ike said: "Nowadays when we go to fight the Ryukyu Kingdom, we will definitely encounter most of the main fleet of the Huaxia Army. With Zheng Jing's family, we will definitely not be able to fight. Why don't we push Zheng Jing to fight the Xinlu Kingdom and destroy the Xinlu Kingdom?" China, we want the island of New Zealand, and you want the island of Papua New Guinea. Such conditions seem harsh, but we still have room for bargaining. If he does not agree, we will naturally want Mindanao, although Mindanao is now under our control. But after all, we have few people, and now we have insufficient control. After asking him for the name, we will send a small number of people to occupy it and jointly develop it as a place for our two business stations. In this way, we will lose Malacca, but we can still get the South China Sea. Are these islands considered good?”

Master returned to Manila and told Zheng Jing what the Dutch and British thought. Zheng Jing stroked the beard on his chin and said to the master: "You mean not to fight the Ryukyu Kingdom, but to fight the Xinlu Kingdom?"

The master said: "Yes, my lord, what they said is right. If we fight the Ryukyu Kingdom and offend the Chinese Empire, we can't afford to go around, but it's different when we fight the Xinlu Kingdom. Now that we have acquired Manila Island, we have With such a large territory as Australia, the Dutch and British help us to eliminate the Xinlu State. We used to treat the Xinlu State equally, but now we are fighting the Xinlu State. It is a very easy matter."

Zheng Jing always felt bad when he thought about it. He worriedly said to the master: "The Dutch and the British are aliens after all. Can you believe their words? And they want the islands of the new Lu country, and the new Lu country occupies us. Papua New Guinea, but also Mindanao. Although we do not control Mindanao, it is our island after all. Isn’t it too generous?

The New Lu Kingdom originally relied on the support of Zheng Zhi, but now that they have no support, do we still need to rely on the British and Dutch to fight them?And newly acquired the island of Manila, our territory is larger than theirs, the population is larger than them, and the soldiers in naval battles are more experienced than them. No matter how you look at it, we don’t need the Dutch and the British. "

The master said: "Eliminate the Xinlu Kingdom to get rid of the serious troubles. The Dutch and the British only want to do business. If the Xinlu Kingdom is not eliminated, they will want your life. Although the Dutch and the British are also more greedy, But we can lead the army of the Ryukyu Kingdom to destroy them at that time. Their current strength is not as good as before. The Ryukyu Kingdom may not be able to fight, but the Dutch and the British are both in their twilight years, and they can be wiped out with a little push .

Although they still have some soldiers and powerful ships, they are also rootless.After destroying the Xinlu Kingdom, it will not be too late for us to go back and deal with them. At that time, we can propose that the Dutch be brought to New Zealand and the British here, and they are not allowed to gather together.

Separated, they won't be great. "

"Okay, just do as you said. After the war, New Zealand will be given to the Dutch, and Mindanao will be given to the British. The distance between the two places is five or six thousand kilometers. It will take two months to go back and forth. At that time, we will concentrate our forces to destroy the Dutch. Well, the British may not know it yet, so it’s good if we concentrate our forces to destroy the British, so that once our enemy is wiped out, the whole of Australia to Luzon Island will be ours.”

The master brought his words to the Dutch and the British. The two governors felt that it was safer to destroy the Xinlu Kingdom than the Ryukyu Kingdom. Moreover, the Dutch could get the New Guinea and New Zealand islands. Although they were not as good as Australia, but with the Hong family The basis of business, they can gain a lot wherever they go, so they are very tempted by the proposal. Although the British do not benefit much, they think it is good to destroy the Xinlu Kingdom first, and then plan for Luzon Island and the Ryukyu Kingdom.

So the agreement was reached. No one knew that there were so many twists and turns and the situation changed so quickly.

But Hong Hongxiu and Hong Wenyi didn't know that the catastrophe was imminent, and they were still happy. They captured many Dutch and British ships and the population of Wright Island, which strengthened their own strength.

Chapter 961 Watching the Dog Biting the Dog Suspend Action

When Zhang Qiang received the news in Yanjing, there were two news in a row, one was about the Dutch and British, Zheng Jing, and the Kingdom of Ryukyu, Zheng Zhi, Xinlu Kingdom War and the superficial military situation after the war from the Ministry of Military Intelligence. It was the news from the Military Intelligence Department, which had been lurking for a long time. Most of the news from the Military Intelligence Department came from high-level officials, so it was more useful.

Zhou Porridge said: "Looking at the situation, Nanyang is still in chaos. Although we were beaten for a while, generally speaking, it is not appropriate for us to wage war in Nanyang. We have cleaned up the last colonies of the British and Dutch, Malay, Malacca, The enemy's passage to the west has been blocked. Now the enemy is a grasshopper after autumn. He can't jump too high, so we don't need to move too much. Our current main force is to attack Central Asia, connect South Asia and Southeast Asia, and step up to eliminate it. The foreign races, immigrated Han people, have a population, wherever they occupy, it will be our country in the future. The emperor expands the territory, and we will really be the Chinese Empire in the future. No one can reach this territory except the Great Tang. "

Li Dingguo stroked his beard and said: "Yes, this time, after the battle in Nanyang, our energy will be freed up, and then we will attack Nanyang. At that time, the enemy will be exhausted, the population will decrease, and the combat power will be lacking, but this is exactly what our soldiers are aiming at." At that time, it is easier to achieve the goal, and when the time comes, the territory will be expanded for thousands of miles, and the entire east will belong to my lord, and all will belong to the Huaxia Empire, and the empire will have no worries in the future."

As the head of the deputy prime minister, Mi Chun was also very happy at this time. Although Yanjing became the new capital, he was arranged to stay in Jinling Mansion, and the position of deputy prime minister was somewhat weakened, but he was still happy. He could not always be in the central government. , as the second deputy prime minister, Tang Dianfeng successfully became the first deputy prime minister, and he became the third deputy prime minister after Li Dingguo. He only dealt with matters in the southwest and southeast. In fact, he has become the governor of the five southwestern provinces. Such a real position.

Since Tang Dianfeng came to Yanjing, he has been in contact with Zhou Porridge all the time, and often reported government affairs in front of Zhang Qiang. He has become a new dignitary in the Chinese Empire, not a second assistant who accompanied Mi Chun. Yes, the officials who came from Daming privately Still calling him Cisuke, still attached to Daming.

After Tang Dianfeng, Li Guo and Li Guangdi were promoted as deputy prime ministers to assist Zhou Porridge in managing the government. In the cabinet, one represented the old Ministry of Dashun and the other represented the original forces of the Ming Dynasty. Returning to the empire, many capable officials of the Ming Dynasty were re-promoted to serve as magistrates and magistrates in various places. However, because most of the former Dashun troops were warriors in the past, they had a lot of influence in the army, but they could not enter the ranks of civilian officials. This time Li Guo became The deputy prime minister also made everyone feel proud, having strong support in the court. Zhang Qiang's doing so gave Dashun's old department and the old people of Daming some thoughts, and also balanced the power of the court.

Yao Qisheng and some officials who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty also sincerely surrendered to the Chinese Empire after Yao Qisheng became the deputy prime minister. A group of Qing officials who had been captured before but did not do much evil and were willing to return to the ranks of the Han people also came out again. Some officials held positions in the Advisory Bureau, and some took the initiative to join the ranks of land reclamation teams and served as magistrates in newly opened places, allowing the Huaxia Empire to integrate the forces of all previous hostile forces, and the Huaxia Empire reached its peak at this moment.

The government is sound and the people are harmonious, and all parties are united.

Everyone in the fleet originally dispatched to Nanyang discussed it, and felt that it was not appropriate to act rashly before the enemy had decided the winner, so they pulled away the original main ships of the fleet and returned to the station, leaving only 56 battleships and more than 50 frigates. The remaining more than 100 warships and frigates returned to the station, and kept a close eye on the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Gulf of Siam, Qiongzhou Bay and other places. Although the original 1000 nautical mile coastal defense shrunk to the original [-] nautical mile coastal defense, they avoided the Dutch. The battlefield where we fought against the British, Zheng Jing and others was protected from being surrounded by the enemy's large fleet and being defeated by the enemy one by one.

Twenty frigates have been strengthened in Palawan Island. The original 36 warships were transferred back to Palawan Island. The 48 frigates left [-] frigates to guard Palawan Island. The others were transferred to patrol around the small islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The increased The frigate also joined the patrol, keeping a close eye on the enemy's movements.

Each fleet has added one or two newly manufactured warships, five or six newly manufactured frigates and ocean-going patrol ships.

The Royal Fleet rushed back to Yanjing to garrison in Bohai Bay to cover the territory occupied by Liaodong and prevent Japanese and Qing naval forces from raiding the capital and Liaodong land.

Jinling Mansion is escorted by [-] frigates from the Royal Fleet, plus [-] frigates from the Yangtze River Garrison Navy, and the original three new warships, the Huaxia, the new ship Liaodong, and the Jinling.

In this way, there are 86 main warships and 120 frigates deployed in the Nanyang area, which are enough to resist the invasion of the enemy's larger fleet.

While watching the movements of Zheng Jing, the Netherlands, and the British, the Huaxia Army continued to carry out the Western Expedition and immigration. A total of nearly 100 million troops were mobilized, 2000 million emigrated to West Asia and other places, and Liaodong had the original remaining 100 million. Japanese people, 80 Nanyang indigenous people, 300 Japanese servants, 30 Southeast Asian native servants, [-] million Han people, [-] recruits stationed in various places, [-] veterans, field troops stationed in various places to prevent the attack of the Qing army.

After such arrangement, look at the Kingdom of Ryukyu. Two expeditions and two failures have caused the strength of the Kingdom of Ryukyu to drop a lot. Nearly a thousand old wooden battleships and warships were purchased from the first fleet, second fleet, and third fleet of the Chinese Army. , The armed merchant ships, the merchant ships, were exhausted, and less than 100 ships returned. The wealth accumulated by Hong Tianpao shrank to 2000 million overnight, and he lost nearly 6000 million Huaxia Yuan.

The loss of the population and the servants reached one million. Hong Tianpao was in pain, and he also lost the creditor Zheng Zhi. He had no place to collect debts. Scolding the Dutch and the British, when the Dutch and the British were colluded, Zheng Jing became furious and sent someone to send a letter to Xinlu State by fast boat, informing them that Zheng Jing had colluded with the Dutch and the British to fight Xinlu. country went.

I want to gather troops to retake Manila again, but I find that there are not enough troops, and the servants are gone. Most of the pure Han troops are weak and do not want to fight. This is the case in China's country. Everyone is willing to fight against the wind. After losing a battle, they lose their blood and don't want to fight.