I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

This time the Third Banner encountered the enemy at the southern foot of Tengkong Mountain.

And the enemy is neither the regular army nor the militia, but the cavalry unit of the tax bureau.

The Tax Rangers, to be exact.

This point was only made clear when examining the bodies of the killed enemies.

The Bremerton Colonial Taxation Bureau dispatched tax policemen to secretly go to Prash by the small road. Zhu Fugui boldly guessed that their real target might not be him, but Prada's mine.

I am afraid that the pervasive tax officials have noticed the two previous rounds of recruiting Chinese laborers.

After all, in Citigroup, the police may be inactive, but the tax collector is definitely not passive.

The facts are just as Zhu Fugui guessed.

The U.S. federal government introduced personal income tax for the first time at the beginning of this year, and established a series of complex tax laws involving alcohol, tobacco, industrial products, and minerals in order to raise funds for the ever-increasing civil war.

The Seattle area is hereafter part of the state of Washington.

Washington State is not yet established.

Therefore, each colonial stronghold is still in a state of fragmentation.

To put it bluntly, this state is called a high degree of autonomy. To put it bluntly, as long as you pay taxes to the federal government, you can take advantage of it, attack each other, or rob the Indians. In short, everyone wants to get rich. Each according to their own ability.

Bremerton is even more out of the way than Seattle.

Due to the special terrain surrounded by the sea on three sides, Bremerton is a natural and excellent naval port, but it is still a barren land today.

Cargo business was also completely suppressed by the nearby Canadian-controlled Port Angeles.

So Bremerton's so-called tax collectors, mayors, and sheriffs are all so poor that their eyes turn green.

The Plash Coal Mine, which is not too far away, is an important source of tax revenue for Bremerton.

In the past, Prash expanded the Chinese workers twice. Although he reported to the tax bureau through fake documents, he was still spotted by the vicious tax official.

They didn't think that Donald, as the expatriate director of the Pacific Central Railway Company, would have any tricks with the Chinese.

The idea of ​​​​the tax official is very simple. This treacherous Jew must have concealed the number of workers and the output of coal.

In short, he must be evading taxes.

The tax officer immediately communicated the situation to his colleagues, and the mayor and the sheriff all smelled the banknotes.

Immediately, under the leadership of the three, Bremerton formed a ten-man mounted police team, preparing to secretly detour to investigate Prash's tax evasion.

As for the possibility of Prash's armed tax resistance...

Old Sleepy Joe, the current captain of the Plash Mine Guard, was recruited in Bremerton.

What threat does this guy pose?

Like a pack of wolves going out to hunt, the tax mounted police team set off with great enthusiasm.

However, what they didn't know was that the Olympus Mountains, or the southern foot of the Tenglong Mountains, now had a new owner.

In the end, the tax mounted police team ran into the Third Banner of the Royal Army of Ming Dynasty who was patrolling there.

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"Long live, this matter is no small matter. In my humble opinion, I should invite the Tang family to come to the pilgrimage. With the mediation of the Tang family, I, the Ming Dynasty, will invest in the purchase of land from Citigroup, which may save me from the disaster of swordsman."

The person who spoke was Wang Jie, who was promoted to be a doctor of the Ministry of Industry because he contributed a lot to the construction of Xinfeng and successfully improved the pot camel machine.

Wang Jie has been in North America for a long time, and he is proficient in English. He has also heard about the "Homestead Act" promulgated by Lincoln last year.

Even before he surrendered to Ming Dynasty, Wang Jie once planned to use his savings to go to Seattle to marry a wife and buy a house.

Regarding Wang Jie's proposal, Qi Wenchang was the first to object:

"Wang Gongbu, you have not been in contact with Yangyi for a day or two, how can you not know the truth that Yangyi are all wolves?"

Wang Jie shook his head and said: "You can't say the same thing about Qi Qianhu. Although Yang Yi is vulgar, he has always attached importance to laws and contracts, and is full of contract spirit. Since we have signed a contract with them and followed their laws, they must not Reasons to embarrass us."

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Qi and Wang were still arguing, but suddenly they heard a desperately suppressed laughter.

Looking for the reputation, the people who laugh among them are really today.

"I just thought of a joke about Martians, so I laughed, you don't have to be nervous!"

Zhu Fugui rubbed his face to calm down his smiling muscles, "However, this matter has a lot to do with it. It is related to the fate of my Ming Dynasty, and it should be decided by heaven and earth."

"My opinion..."

Zhu Fugui paused, then looked at Wang Jie with a smile, "Wang Aiqing, do you still remember how you became my guest of honor that day?"

"Uh... Zhou Heiya?" Wang Jie scratched his head, feeling hungry again.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Zhu Fugui was almost choked to death by his own saliva, "Wang Qing, you are naughty again. I broke the mine protection team that day, captured the four of you, master and apprentice, and steamed them... Ah bah, they were captured to reform, and they depended on four Phrases."

"This four-character formula is—fuck you!"

As he said that, Zhu Fugui slapped the conference table and stood up, loudly saying: "I have made up my mind, I will go on a personal expedition again, and crusade against the white thieves and traitors who are entrenched in New Tianjin! You should perform your duties and work together for the king's affairs!"

Chapter 102 Eight Great Hatreds

In a narrow sense, the European spirit of contract does exist.

Because the essence of European civilization, especially Ansa and Northern Europe, is pirate civilization.

Pirates drifted at sea and gathered together for their own interests.

For these people who don't know what etiquette is, the contract is indeed a very important thing.

If the loot cannot be distributed according to the established agreement, then the pirate team has no basis for cooperation with each other.

This is like a dungeon team in an online game, the contract of sharing gold and equipment is very important.

But as long as you have a little common sense as a human being, you can know that this level of contract spirit only takes effect within an extremely narrow range.

As long as the conditions are right, it is almost inevitable to tear up the contract like shredding straw paper, or more cleverly use legal word games to "redefine" the contract.

At the beginning of the founding of Citigroup, the group of "big sages" designed an extremely complicated power system in order to firmly control the interpretation of laws in the hands of the "superior people".

Therefore, even without considering the Chinese Exclusion Act more than ten years later, Zhu Fugui would not agree with Wang Jie's proposal.

If you serve rice with gold, all the gold will be lost. This is a lesson given by the bloody history of later generations, and the Ming Dynasty must not repeat the same mistakes.

Therefore, sending troops to Bremerton was Zhu Fugui's inevitable choice.

Of course, attacking this place was not entirely Zhu Fugui's idea of ​​raising troops out of anger, but had long-term considerations.

However, Zhu Fugui originally planned to receive a few more batches of Chinese workers, increase the population of Xinfeng to 2, and the number of troops to about 5000 before sending troops eastward.

But now the situation has changed, and Zhu Fugui must rush to wipe out the Bremerton colonists before they pass the news to the Seattle area, or even the larger white stronghold.

Of course, by that time, Bremerton wasn't called Bremerton anymore.

It will become the emperor's ferry of the new Ming Dynasty.

If Xinfeng means New Fengyang, which is considered the capital of Ming Dynasty, then Bremerton is the new Tianjin, the most important seaport for Ming Dynasty for a long time to come.

Therefore, this battle is only allowed to win, not to lose. It is necessary to wipe out the enemy in the shortest possible time, at least to cut off Bremerton's communication channel with the outside world.

In order to achieve this strategic goal as quickly as possible, it is very important to choose an appropriate route of attack.

Bremerton is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and only the south is connected to the mainland. It looks a bit like a reduced version of Denmark.

The best way to attack such a place is of course to use navy.

The sea area where the Seattle Greater Bay Area is located is Puget Sound, where the harbor is wide and the water is deep, the wind is small and the waves are low.

It is not impossible for the Daming Navy to sail down the Daming River, go out to sea from Plash, and sail along the coast to Bremerton.

Wang Jie and others once accompanied the white supervisor to drive a wooden sailboat to Brapeton to purchase parts.

It's just that the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty is essentially just a fleet of more than ten inland transport ships.

The diesel-driven DW-YSC series self-unloading carrier purchased from later generations has an all-steel hull, which is stronger in structure than most seagoing ships today.

But because this kind of ship is designed for inland rivers, the draft is very shallow, and the coating is not resistant to seawater corrosion.

If you want to sail into the sea, the risk factor is very high, and rollover accidents are prone to occur.

This made Zhu Fugui hesitant.

At this moment, Geng Junhua, Wang Jie's senior disciple and a member of the Ministry of Industry, suddenly stood up: "Your Majesty, I have designed a wing stabilizer before, which can improve the stability of flat-bottomed boats. Sailing in Puget Sound should not be a big problem! And using existing materials, it should be possible to complete the refitting of five ships within two hours."

"There is no time, one hour, Geng Aiqing must complete the modification of the three transport ships within one hour!" Zhu Fugui stood up excitedly.

This Geng Ministry of Industry can always give itself some new tricks!

At this time, there was no time to verify whether Geng Junhua's invention was reliable. Zhu Fugui immediately decided to select a hundred soldiers with better water skills, put on life jackets and go to the pier to stand by.

Many of the Chinese laborers came from Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, and there were quite a few of them with good skills.

With life jackets and rubber boats on, Zhu Fugui estimated that even if the ship capsized, the loss of personnel would not be too great.

DW-YSC series self-unloading carriers have a total power of 20 horsepower and a cargo capacity of 30 tons.

Considering the weight of the modification and the reserved draft, it should be relatively safe for each ship to carry 30 fighters.

In addition to the three ships with 100 sailors, Zhu Fugui also ordered Qi Wenchang, the army's chief mechanical officer, to accompany the emperor.

The Ming Army will advance troops by land with maximum capacity regardless of vehicle damage.

Zhang Changgui, the commander-in-chief of the first town, commanded the rest of the cavalry to advance slowly, ensuring that the rear road was normal.

After three military expansions, the army currently has more than 80 vehicles of various types (excluding carriages, but including diesel tricycles), 1272 soldiers, 2000 guns, and 10 homemade cannons.

This kind of military power gave Zhu Fugui the courage to disperse his troops and advance by land and water.

All that's left is to boost morale.

The Huagong and Yin people who have experienced the last crusade may be okay, but more than three-quarters of the current population of Ming Dynasty have not experienced the encouragement of that victory.

They had just come out of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they had a natural fear of Mr. Yang.

Zhu Fugui must unify his thinking in this war of betting on the fate of the country.

While the ships were still being remodeled and soldiers were still gathering, Zhu Fugui came to the newly built broadcasting room in Xinfeng City to conduct a brief pre-war mobilization for the whole country.

At this moment, the construction workers who are still building their new homes as usual, the children who are playing with mud by the river, the cooks who are preparing lunch in the back kitchen of the cafeteria, and someone who is studying oracle bone inscriptions in the museum , or when they heard the assembly post quickly inspecting the guns, the soldiers assembled in the team heard the voice of His Majesty the Emperor through the loudspeaker erected high for the first time.

"Emperor Zhu Shan (Turtle) of the Ming Dynasty issued an imperial edict to Empress Dowager Tu saying:

My Ming Dynasty established itself in the old land of Yin and Shang, and it did not harm the white-skinned savages. Today, the white-skinned savages are provoking the border for no reason and harming my Ming soldiers. This is a hatred!

North and South America are both the homeland of Yin. From Columbus, the giant bandit, to Lincoln, the leader of the bandit, the white people have repeatedly betrayed their former allies, silkworms in our territory, and have completely forgotten the kindness and righteousness that Mayflower has received. This two hates!

In June of last year, the bandit leader Lincoln slaughtered 36 people of the Sioux tribe. My father-in-law Daming was also killed by this beast. This is the three hatreds!

There is a Raven, an old friend of the Yin and Shang Dynasty, a young son of the Ming Dynasty, and a great plague in March. He sent an envoy to Bremerton to ask for medicine, but the white-skinned savage burned the envoy and killed our people. These four hates!

I, the people of China, worship ancestors, worship all things, know the animism of all things, and understand the mysteries of nature. The western barbarians originated in the barren desert and created the Christian religion of massacre. They came across the sea. The foundation, to confuse people's hearts, the five hates!

The white-skinned bandits don't know science and medicine, live a corrupt life without shame, act dirty but don't know manners, criticize and prevaricate but don't take responsibility, so the plague is rampant, the virus spreads, and poisons the common people. These are the six hates!

In the past Jiashen Tianchang, Shenzhou fell into the hands of the Manchus, and the western barbarians did not think about marching troops to repay the emperor's favor. Instead, at this time, disasters occurred in Nanyang, massacred my Chinese, destroyed my country, colonized my loyal vassal, Malacca and other countries, The Citi bandit gang is also among them, the seven hates!

The mere white bandits have only been in power for two or three hundred years, and they have done countless things against humanity: such as selling opium, slaves, etc. The Citi gang even used the bones of Chinese workers to build the railway artery of the other country, and regarded the people of our country as barbarians Animals turn the universe upside down, confuse the clear and the turbid, and wear the crown of the monkey, the crime is heinous, this is the eight hatreds!

The bullying is really serious, and the feelings are embarrassing, so because of the eight hates, it is a levy!

The Genocide Gang of North American Slave Owners must be destroyed!Victory! "

Chapter 103 After this battle, we will get married

Zhu Fugui walked out of the broadcasting room, and a beautiful figure in green clothes was waiting outside the door.

"Are we going to fight again?" Yin Susu raised his head and asked.

Zhu Fugui smiled wryly.

Sure enough, women are always so sentimental and naive.

In this era when people eat people, countries eat countries, and nations eat nations, as a man, as the king of a country, how could he not fight.

Stretching out his hand and rubbing her head, Zhu Fugui said, "Don't worry, I will come back and marry you after I finish this battle!"