Beiyang new warlord

The main battlefield where 10 people fought with cannons on the river has been robbed of the limelight.

Shi Kefa was dumbfounded when he picked up the telescope.

To be honest, Shi Kefa had expected that he would go down the river with the army and copy behind his own back, so he didn't take it seriously!

For a handsome man, knowledge of astronomy and geography is a necessary basic skill. He has lived in the south of the Yangtze River all year round. He has long known that the flow of the Yangtze River during the rainy season is terrible. If Liu Zongmin really came down the river like he did a month ago, the whole army Assault, then he will make money, landing uncontrollably, not to mention how many people will be drowned, even if 50 people go ashore, they will have to be separated for dozens of miles, why did Liu Zongmin beat Zuo Liangyu? Surround them, break them one by one?A large army without a command is not much more dangerous than a herd of cattle on the grassland. With 1 people in his hand, he is sure to wipe them all out.

What really shocked him was the fighting power of the Lowland Seven Provinces.

This is not the first time he has seen this thing. The last time Mao Jue broke through the three towns in Jiangbei, there were hundreds of gunboats larger than this one. The battle is still at the level of the Chibi War of the Three Kingdoms. Everyone's big ships are lined up, jumping off the ship and fighting each other like a land battle.

The Lowland Seven Provinces really shocked him. A ship facing tens of thousands of people is as easy as beating a son. If Mao Jue suppresses his main fleet, let alone his 7 people, even 70 people can't defend it Live in the Yangtze River! Since ancient times, the natural dangers of the Yangtze River have always been the psychological defense line of Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats. Now, this psychological defense line has collapsed. What mood will Shi Kefa feel?

It's not good to say that people are too smart, at least Chen Zilong didn't think too much about joining the army, he was full of excitement, seeing the Yangtze River being dyed red, he couldn't help but slap his thigh hard.

"Ministry of the Pavilion! This killer killed the thief with joy!"

"The thieves' Poyang Lake navy has been defeated, and the river is even more courageous. The cabinet, it's time to destroy the thieves! Bring this Xifan boat back, and let's go straight to the Chinese army that invaded the thieves!"

These excited words finally brought Shi Kefa back to his senses, he looked around, but he shook his head heavily.

"Blow the trumpet, withdraw the troops!"

"Retreat, why! The thieves have already retreated. Wouldn't it be a waste of a good opportunity to withdraw troops at this time?"

Full of disbelief, Chen Zilong screamed, Shi Kefa, who had already walked back with his hands behind his back, shook his head heavily.

"There are 50 thieves, 18 veteran soldiers, and only [-] in our army!"

Finally waking up from the victory in front of him, Chen Zilong waved the banner heavily with a jolt.

"Retract troops! Retreat troops!"

The shocking Battle of Poyang Lake ended temporarily with the defeat of the Shun Army. Fighting on the lake, the Shun Army lost at least two or three hundred boats and three to four thousand troops, but the most serious loss was the Fearless Stormtrooper, 4000 Thousands of people were killed by the gunboats. I don’t know how many fell into the river and drowned. Then they went ashore sporadically, and they became the turtles in the urn of the officers and soldiers.

The reason why Liu Zongmin is the second child of ten thousand years is that he doesn't have the vigor of Li Zicheng at his peak. Under the cup, he kicked the flag bearer into the river. He was so angry that he groaned and stuffed himself into his tent to drink Get bored.

Just throw down the army!

After losing the battle, the leaders of the battalions who had been on a smooth journey also returned to the camp in resentment. No one paid attention to that weird scene right next to them.

"Didn't you say that Dongjiang would not participate in the war? What happened to Jiangxin's gunboat today? Brother Lu, don't trick me!"

The moment he surrendered, there was no longer Hao Yaoqi, who used to kill like hell. He was afraid of wolves and tigers, just like a young man, following Lu Zhong behind, Hao Dayong asked fearfully.

But at this time, Lu Zhong's face was also gloomy, with his hands behind his back, he turned around violently, and roared: "That's not the Dongjiang boat! You have been fighting for so many years, and the white cross hanging on it Can't you see the battle flag?"

One sentence stopped Hao Yaoqi, and immediately Lu Zhong's triangular eyes showed an indescribable, palpitating viciousness, with a vicious smile hanging on the corner of his mouth, he actually started to laugh sinisterly .

"Okay! Very good! Interfering in my Ming Dynasty's internal war! These Dutch monkeys are really good!"

"One thousand and five hundred miles, hurry up and report today's battle situation to the capital!"

Following Lu Zhong's roar, more than a dozen pigeons flapped their wings and flew across the turbulent Yangtze River in the rain!

The significance of this battle at Poyang Lake does not lie in how many invaders were killed, but more importantly, it curbs the unstoppable Liu Zongmin's eastward military footsteps. Therefore, Shi Kefa's water battle at Poyang Lake is actually the most important.

However, the performance of the Lowland Seven Provinces was so eye-catching that in the end the highlight fell on the broken ship. When it sailed back to the Qinhuai River, Emperor Hongguang took the big bosses of Donglin to greet him personally, and gave the lowland The captain of the Seven Provinces, Nicholas Cassius Belliman El Jiangyin County, was awarded the title of the captain of the Seven Provinces, and the ship was conferred the title of General Shenwei.

Immediately afterwards, the bragging problems of the literati in the south of the Yangtze River broke out. What a cannon was fired, the emperor was defeated for thousands of miles, and thousands of troops were killed three times. If according to their description, this sixteenth-century Netherlands Armed merchant ship gunboats are almost catching up with the power of aircraft carriers of later generations.

But bragging is all bragging, and the sharp Western warships still touched the minds of Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats. Two or three days after the Battle of Poyang Lake, Qian Qianyi personally proposed this time that the imperial court restarted the Longjiang shipyard that supervised the construction of treasure ships. Prepare to imitate this Dutch battleship, and also build Nanming's own fleet.

However, when the construction started, a series of problems broke out again. Although the labor cost is worthless in Nanming, the shipbuilding will immediately expropriate the poor, and it will not be a problem to feed the boatmen. The food in the south of the Yangtze River is unsalable. It also survived, but shipbuilding required wood, and a lot of metal tools and structures. At this time, Nanming was short of both wood and iron. Huangshan, the headquarters of timber merchants in Huizhou, was already under the rule of Mao Jue at this time, and giant trees from deep mountains were produced farther away. The Bashu was lost to Zhang Xianzhong, such as Yongle, the ability of large-scale shipbuilding during the Jiajing period, and under the premise of self-sufficiency, Nanming no longer had it at this time.

The next best thing is that metal tools and shipbuilding wood can also be imported. For several consecutive years, Zhu Yousongxiu’s palace has imported a large amount of sumac from Southeast Asia!The problem is that building a ship costs more wood than building a palace, which in turn requires a lot of money.

Eager to protect himself, the scholar-official Donglin had an unprecedented desire for money.

Since the death of Ma Shiying three years ago, the germination of capitalism in the south of the Yangtze River, which was suppressed to the point of extinction after the Donglin coup, finally got a revival!

Close to Hangzhou and Fuzhou, the commercial cities that were ruled by the Northern Dynasties, once again, densely packed silk manors were built, and the fire in Jingdezhen was finally burning vigorously again. After a large number of good ports were seized by Mao Jue, Wenzhou Forgotten corners also began to pop up, and the hidden ships gathered in Wenzhou Bay. The Jiangnan merchants who hadn't gone to sea for more than two years brought a large number of southern goods, and once again rushed to Southeast Asia full of excitement.

It's just that they don't know that Southeast Asia at this time is no longer the Southeast Asia where they made money lying down three years ago.

Another change is the southeastern scholar-officials themselves.

On both sides of the Qinhuai River, a lot of commercial streets have been deserted. With the loosening of policies, many small merchants and hawkers have reappeared. The huge painting boat slowly ripples with the Qinhuai River. The place where the dream sleeps rose again, Mr. Renxue Zhang Pu's thin and pointed face finally showed a little smile, but the smile quickly subsided again.

Looking north, his eyes are very gloomy!

Chapter 7 Fourteen

The Battle of Poyang Lake is still going on. Liu Zongmin is a typical land tiger. He was drowned as a dog when he got into the water. The main force of the Shun army is from the north. The fishermen who are ensnared are good at water but don’t work hard. There is a Western proverb now- or-never, now or never! In front of Liu Zongmin who missed his opportunity, Poyang Lake seemed to be an insurmountable gap for the Dashun Army.

Except for jumping out every day after getting drunk and scolding mothers, Liu Zongmin never launched any serious offenses.

On the other hand, Shi Kefa naturally didn't get too hot-headed and launched any large-scale attack. Although he was not considered a handsome man, at least Shi Kefa's head was not caught by the door. He knew his own strength, and he was able to hold on because of his superiority on the water After disembarking, his [-] troops tied together may not be able to defeat the [-] cavalry of the Shun Army.

What's more, defeating the enemy does not necessarily require fighting to the death on the battlefield. After the battle on June [-], Liu Zongmin had already started to go downhill. You must know that the refugee army was turned into a soldier, and there was no logistical rear at all. In other words, as long as Shi Kefa patiently consumes him and attracts him until the moment when he is exhausted, the battle will not be fought. just won.

On the other hand, Shi Kefa inherited Zuo Liangyu's mission to defend the Dashun Army in western Huguang, but at the same time inherited Zuo Liangyu's "excellent tradition"!

Respect yourself!

The times make heroes, even if they are as stiff as a stone in a latrine. In the past few years, Shi Kefa has been rounded by the ups and downs of his career. He is too aware of the virtues of his former comrades-in-arms. If they will abandon him again without hesitation, then he will seek the greatest benefit for himself in this war.

Shi Kefa's struggle also brought huge changes to Nanming in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou.

It takes money to change the army!If the imperial court can’t get it out, then you have to use policies to pay for it! The first to benefit are these Fushes that cooperate with Shi Kefa. Zhang Pu, the leader of the Fushes, is not just sentimental when he is sailing on the Qinhuai River. This time he is a member of the General Assembly. Then pack up and head south.

He, Zhang Pu! A frustrated literati who failed several times during the Chongzhen period. After the Donglin coup, he was just a failure in the officialdom of a sixth-rank official. Now he has finally turned around. Now he is the governor of Wenzhou, doing business overseas, and wearing a second-rank purple robe The court officials!

With his recovery, the industrial and commercial owners who had been suppressed during the Donglin Party era have finally recovered.

There is also a city that is lucky together, Wenzhou.

For more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the sea trade flourished, but the most famous foreign port is Quanzhou. Compared with Quanzhou, Hangzhou and other metropolises, although Wenzhou has developed well, it is just a big one among dwarfs, just average, but this time, They are simply nouveau riche. The narrow city of Wenzhou has been crammed with a population of more than [-] people. Local tyrants who escaped from Changshu, Suzhou, Nanjing, Huzhou, and Huguang immediately rushed into this newly opened port with their wealth. Everyone has been poor and scared for the past two years, and they are impatient to go south to Southeast Asia to make money. With the support of funds, ports and warehouses have been densely built within half a month. Along with it, here is the place that prospered. shipbuilding industry.

Wenzhou is not far from Fuzhou. Since ancient times, most of the timber in the south of the Yangtze River has come from Huangshan Mountain in Huizhou. After the supply of Huizhou merchants was cut off, the big wood produced mainly in Borneo has become the mainstream of the market. It was burned in the first two years, and it has to be rebuilt in the past two years. In the hands of Fuchuan shipwrights who copied jobs, the expensive big wood was sawed into a fine mortise and tenon structure, and pieces of wood with self-locking functions were knocked onto the ship. In the eyes of these "hungry" panicked Jiangnan capitalists , The loose wood began to slowly pile up into a boat. It felt like watching my son grow up from a young age.

But at any time there are privileged classes, Gao Hongtu, Qian Qianyi and the others ordered the burning, all of which were small and medium-sized merchant ships with no high status and no backing from the court. It was a mockery of the Donglin Party's ruling, but now it is indeed a preemptive opportunity. In the early morning of July, since the imperial court opened the sea order, the first seagoing ship from the Southern Ming Dynasty was in the hands of Mao Jue's old acquaintance. It was also led by Qian Zeng, the leader of several houses in the Qian family, to sail out to sea.

The main part of these three big blessing ships is Jingdezhen official kiln porcelain obtained by Qian Qianyi through connections, and the other two ships are metal utensils and tools made by handicraft industries in the south of the Yangtze River. Compared with Jiangnan, the productivity of the Central Asian countries is still Quite lowly, these would have been in high demand a few years ago.

Standing triumphantly on Fu Chuan, the bow of the boat is tilted up and looking towards the sea. In the boundless sea, Qian Zeng seems to have seen that when he made a move a few years ago, those Southeast Asian local merchants snapped up the money and bought Bai Bai. The scene of Huahua's money being stuffed into his arms, couldn't help but burst out laughing, almost drooling out of joy.