Lu Ming

If Annan hadn't been in the "Civil War between Zheng and Ruan" at this time, according to the pissing nature of this dry pickled younger brother around Daming, he would definitely pounce on him when the boss was weak.

So even if he has an advantage in military technology, Shao Qiang does not dare to take the next step lightly.Annan is an enemy country. From the air to the rats, from the emperor to the subjects, from the grass and trees to the soil, everyone has malicious intentions towards outsiders.

Shao Qiang came out to relax today. The most important thing was that he had to sort out his work ideas and see how to find the fastest development model under the time limit.

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Just as Master Shao closed his eyes and meditated, he felt a slight sinking under his body. It was the team turning off the embankment and starting to walk towards the beach.

Master Shao opened his eyes slightly and found that the mangrove forest was [-] meters ahead, so he closed his eyes again.

The next moment, Master Shao suddenly opened his eyes wide again, showing a terrified expression, because a shrill scream came out from under him: "Master, help, please, help~~~~~~!!!"

Even though Mr. Shao had received anti-assassination training as early as the time of the big office, Shao Qiang, who has been pampered and deeply corrupted by the evil old society in the past few years, is already finished.

So at this moment, although he was clear-headed and wanted to make some evasive actions to protect himself, his body was very honest. He only twisted on the slider and did not make any effective actions.

At this moment, the bearer, who was also frightened by the screams, trembled, his feet slipped, and the master was thrown off by one side of his shoulder!

The master was thrown off the sedan chair, this is a big problem.Fortunately, Master Shao was surrounded by people, and at the moment he fell, Zi You's nimble hands and feet caught him.

At the same time, the attendants who were in charge of guarding were also shocked.These people were all formally trained, so they knew too well what the consequences would be if something happened to the protected target—it was the barbaric [-]th century, if Shao Daguan died, all the attendants present would probably be killed.

The next moment, more than a dozen people, seven or eight guns, and n cold weapons all pointed at the screaming... that place... Caowozi.

To say that this grass nest is also wonderful, the location is just under the roadbed.When the large team came down, no one would have thought that there would suddenly be such a loud scream from the straw nests that could be seen all over the place.

Immediately, two tall and strong guards rushed into the grass nest.After a lot of tossing, an aboriginal Ming man in a long robe and a bun was dragged out from inside.

As soon as the aborigine was dragged out of the grass nest, he seemed to struggle twice, and gave the guard an excuse.The guards who hated in their hearts were possessed by the American imperial police at this moment, and immediately shot the butt of their guns and leather boots, beating the aborigine until he yelled, "Heroic man, spare me!"

"Okay, don't fight, didn't you hear that people regard us as heroes? You still call us masters!"

Master Shao, who was being helped up with all his hands and feet, spoke to save the native's life.

Master Shao, who was in a state of shock, first glanced around, and found that there were no large numbers of ambushing people against his old man, so he realized that this was a coincidence.

Although it was a bit embarrassing to get off the sedan chair, Shao Qiang was thinking of later generations after all, and he didn't intend to anger these people, so he spoke to save the native's life.

After this small episode, Mr. Shao helped up the bearers who were kneeling and kowtowing, and continued to sit on the sliding poles, and the large army drove the mangrove forest.

And the aborigine, whose name no one knew, was pushed and shoved by the guards, and kept at the back of the team all the way.

After finally arriving at the mangrove forest, the scenery and the sky were not bad, so the team chose a beach with white sand.The attendants quickly set up their own tables, chairs, and parasols, set up the cast iron grill, took out the live seafood brought from the base, brushed with the master's favorite seasoning, sprinkled garlic residue, and started Open-air seafood barbecue party.

At this time, Master Shao was still half lying on the bamboo chair, licking a skewer from time to time, and then drinking two sips of pure malt home-brewed beer.While licking the skewers, the master stared at the turbulent sea with deep eyes, looking like a philosopher.

The attendants knew the master's habits, so although everyone was slurping, no one made any noise, for fear of disturbing the master's thoughts.

After more than an hour passed like this, Shao Qiang finally said to himself: "We still have to fight ten times!"

After saying "the future work policy for Annan", Master Shao seemed to have a lot of clarity.After making a decision, he relaxed: "A few more skewers of suckling pig!"

Master Shao, who had a big appetite, immediately picked up the pork belly again.While rubbing the meat, the master finally remembered the culprit who caused his old man to fall: "Bring that so-and-so up, master, I want to interrogate him!"

"As ordered!"

The screamer in the grass nest was quickly brought in front of the master, and then his legs were bent and kicked, making him kneel and kowtow.

Shao Qiang took a look at the hero while licking the skewers.

This Caowo man was like all the poor peasants Shao Qiang saw in this era, and he seemed even more miserable: he was short in stature, ugly in appearance, covered in dirt and grass stems, his face was bruised, his homemade short robe was torn, and his calf It was tied around with a cloth belt, blood was seeping out, and it seemed to be injured.

"Tell me, who told you to lie in ambush by the roadside as an assassin?"

After hearing Mr. Shao's joking question, Cao Wo Xia looked confused—the natives couldn't understand Shao Qiang's Mandarin.

Fortunately, since Shao Qiang came to attack Qiongzhou, the entourage around him was naturally born in Qiongzhou, so the translator quickly appeared.

After understanding the Qiongzhou dialect spoken by the interpreter, Caowoxia's bruised and swollen face immediately showed a Dou E expression with snot and tears: "You are wronged, my lord, the villain is wronged! The villain He was kicked out by the laborers, and he has absolutely no intention of harming anyone!"

"Haha." Master Shao picked up another skewer, took a sip from his beer mug, and then leaned comfortably on the recliner: "Well, you don't look like an assassin. Let me hear your tragic story, and it will make my lord happy."

Next, Shao Qiang once again heard a story that he was familiar with in this era.

Caowoxia is a farmer from Lingao County in Qiongzhou.More than a month ago, the county government suddenly dispatched corvée, saying that they were going to Qiongzhou Prefecture to repair the harbor to prevent pirates.

This Caowoxia's family was poor, so he naturally couldn't afford to pay for his exemption from military service, so he was sent to Qiongzhou to repair the harbor for the southward fleet.When Shao Qiang and the others arrived half a month ago, Caowoxia was sent to build walls for the yamen in Fucheng.

As a result, just yesterday, this guy's leg was crushed by a brick.

The ferocious official saw that the product was useless, and immediately drove him out of Fucheng.So the limping Caowoxia embarked on the road to return to Lingao.

Everyone knows what happened afterwards.The man in the grass nest suffered a leg injury halfway, and he was sleepy and hungry, so he could only lie in the grass nest waiting to die.In the end, he waited for Master Shao to come, and even shocked the master out of the sedan chair.

"Look, look, this old society turns people into ghosts!"

Although Shao Qiang roughly guessed what happened to this person early in the morning, he still made an expression of indignation—he couldn't relax his ideological work at all times: "Tell me, if this doesn't change, can it be done?"

"Master is right!"

"The rules of this world need to be changed!"

The followers had long been brainwashed by the training class, so at this time they also looked indignant and echoed the master's words.

Shao Qiang nodded: "Well, he is also a poor man, and he repaired the pier for us."

Finally, Master Shao made a decision: "Let's do this, look at him like this, we will die here if we don't save him. You take this man back to the labor camp, treat his injuries, and wait for his leg to heal, let's arrange it." A job to do."

"As ordered!"

The next moment, Master Shao asked Caowoxia in a pleasant manner: "By the way, fellow, what's your name?"

Cao Woxia understood this simple sentence, so he said eagerly: "Master, the little talisman has land."

Chapter 570: Strait Security Rectification

At the end of June 1631, more than half a month after the southward fleet arrived in Qiongzhou, the Qiongzhou Strait was "blocked across the entire territory" for the first time in history.

The so-called blockade across the country is very simple: there are patrols day and night.In the movie, the scene where the boss is ruthless and "not even a fly can fly over" is usually said to be the case.

It is very easy for a traverser with technology to block the Qiongzhou Strait.Because Qiongzhou Prefecture is only 20 kilometers away from Xuwen County, which is the closest to the opposite side of the strait.

In other words, it is only necessary to arrange one or two patrol ships with night vision goggles at night to cut off the strait.

Although night sailing is not popular these days, and native ships will not drive at night when they have nothing to do, this is a gesture—blocking the strait, which means that the crossing forces have invested their will, force, political influence, and business road protection capabilities in this area. area.

In other words: Lao Tzu is here.

In the early morning, the slender ship, the Taijiang-class 150-ton light patrol ship born out of the early schooner, opened three parallel lines 5 kilometers apart in the strait.The white triangular sail flexibly rotates to catch the wind, and the ship gallops like an arrow on the ocean.

From that day at the end of June, any ship that appears in the strait, whether it is a fishing boat sailing along the coast or a cumbersome merchant ship, whether it is a seemingly harmless pirate ship or an arrogant European-style armed merchant ship, will all be patrolled by patrol ships. Intercept and check.

This process will certainly not be peaceful.

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In the Middle Ages, communication was backward and the speed of information dissemination was extremely slow.When Baisha New Port is in full swing for infrastructure construction and murderous dogs, most of the ships around Qiongzhou naturally don't know the news, let alone those colonial ships that traveled thousands of miles to East Asia.

Therefore, the aboriginals who met the net-style patrol for the first time were severely punished: those who disobeyed the order will enjoy the treatment of artillery fire immediately.

How do you say that?First fire, then fire, and then ask the other party's identity.

You know, this round of net patrols is not going to the countryside to send warmth to poor households.To a certain extent, the traversing forces rely on artillery fire to declare their sovereignty, so if there is a slight disobedience, they will fire...in order to increase the speed of reputation.

In this process, the fishermen who have been fishing for a long time did not suffer much loss.After all, those who drive a dilapidated boat and have fish in the cabin are mostly people who live an honest life.Seeing the strange ship rushing over, and then looking at the gleaming cannon muzzle and the government's recognition flag, he stopped resisting.

The real pirates suffered the most from this sudden blow.

The pirates who had already tensed their nerves when they went to sea, saw the ships rushing in from afar, and then looked at the government flags above.

Because they knew very well that if the government stopped the ship for inspection, the empty fish tank would instantly reveal their attributes.

Then the pirate ship was bombarded... the deck.

The dead ones were thrown into the sea to feed the fish, and those that survived were locked in the bilge.When these people got out of the bilge again, they were greeted by relatives wearing big caps and a hospitable labor camp.

European ships were also beaten.

Some ships that often hang out in East Asia will lower their sails to approach the visitor after seeing the familiar Cao character to recognize the flag.While the other part does not know the depth, it will put on a defensive posture.

This is a normal reaction.After all, the colonists came all the way and encountered too many ghosts and monsters along the way, so who knows what forces these clippers belong to.

The next moment, seeing the muzzle that was also pushed out of the porthole, the patrol ship, whose tonnage was much smaller than the armed merchant ship, went around and left.However, just as the colonists on the armed merchant ship breathed a sigh of relief, a striking white sail and faint black smoke appeared on the horizon again.

The "Youguang-class" destroyer with a draft of 400 tons is a sail and gunship specially designed for naval warfare.This level of gunboat is equipped with ten 8-12 pound mechanically forged Napoleon cannons, and its combat effectiveness is exhausted. It is a European-style merchant ship that mainly transports goods.

Next is the regular naval battle.

However, the battle usually ends in a short time.The side with advanced sighting equipment and long-range fast guns will soon let the opponent know how powerful it is.Most captains would order the hoisting of the white flag as soon as a third of the sailors were dead - it was hopeless that the gunfire on the merchant ship could not do harm to the opponent.

After the white flag is hoisted, the merchant ship will be escorted to Baisha Port for processing.This can refer to a series of programs after the urban management pulled the peddler's tricycle back.

Lessons in Blood and Fire is undoubtedly the most impressive.In just half a month, the surrounding sea area centered on Qiongzhou seemed to be blown by a typhoon.Now anyone who eats at sea, no matter what power they are in, knows that Qiongzhou has come to Qianglong and has drawn down the rules.

Since those with thick legs have drawn up the rules, those with thin arms have to abide by them—the unlucky ghosts who don’t obey all go to the sea to feed the fish, and those who are lucky go to labor camps.

As a result, the surrounding fishermen went to Shenying Port honestly, registered and reported, and prepared to join some kind of "fishery cooperative".

And the surrounding pirates naturally began to disappear.Some temporarily stopped to wait and see the direction of the wind, and some ran away to continue to do business elsewhere.

However, this negative coping method of running away is not the answer after all, because the main conflict is not only unresolvable, but has become increasingly serious: after the blockade of the Qiongzhou Strait, ships with white sails began to expand their patrol area, including the entire Hainan Island.

In fact, since the Ming Dynasty, and even earlier in the Song Dynasty, the whole territory of Hainan has been patrolled by official ships.It's just that the finances of the imperial court collapsed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the so-called regular inspections before became a false story.

Now the picker is here.

Including Sanya, a place that belonged to birds in the Ming Dynasty, has begun to have clipper patrols.Cooperating with the official documents sent by the government, the officials, gentry and people in these remote places doubted their lives for a while: the sun came out from the west, and now as long as they report the bandits, within two days, there will be a fast boat to kill them. Not only the ocean surface, but also officers and soldiers with strange muskets went ashore, arresting thieves all over the world.

However, these fast boats also generously took out silver pancakes when they were replenishing, which made the aborigines flock to them overnight, and everyone vying to be the ghosts.

After such a big blockade model is implemented, the sea route from South Asia to Daming is completely blocked: not to mention the Qiongzhou Strait, the straight-line channel from Sanya to Hue, Vietnam is also blocked, and no board can enter the sea... unless Go to the relevant department to stamp the certificate.

Now the pirates are completely wilted.Even if you want to pretend to be a fisherman... you will be dragged to buy a big boat to fish in partnership with others, and you will be on the road of no return to getting rich through labor.

Some people resigned to their fate, and those with the toughest heads had to go south to the Beibu Gulf like their predecessors.Unfortunately, what they don't know is that it won't be long before they will meet that terrifying Cao character recognition flag again.

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Just half a month after pulling the net across the Straits, the cabinet sent a large number of personnel and supplies to Qiongzhou after receiving a telegram from the duo of Sha and Shao that they were optimistic about the situation.

As the most important southward plan in 1631 and in the next few years, the crossing forces must invest a lot of resources to ensure the smooth progress of the plan.So as soon as Qiongzhou settled down, Guangzhou sent follow-up support non-stop.

Follow-up support is huge.Among them, the first is the Taijiang-class frigate with a number of twelve, followed by the two newly formed Youguang-class destroyers.

After the warships, there is an 800-ton transport fleet with twelve ships.

The transport fleet came to Qiongzhou this time and loaded a large amount of engineering materials, including expensive construction materials such as cement and steel bars.In addition, a large number of food and daily necessities, as well as barbed wire and other groceries were also carried.

And finally people.

Accompanied by the arrival of massive supplies, there are also a large number of construction machinery personnel.These talents are assets that are far more precious than material goods. Many of them have been cultivated little by little through many hours of hard work as night school teachers.

Finally, there is the most precious property of the time-traveling forces: the time-travelers themselves.

The most valuable person in this plane, needless to say, must be a traveler.Calculating with equal weight of gold seems to be a bit of a shame to the term traveler: the knowledge inheritance of human beings since the Industrial Revolution far exceeds the value of those gold.

Not only materials and technical personnel came with the ship, but also as many as 5 people traveled through the ship.Together with Shao Qiang and Sha Zhengming, these latecomers will form a southward military and political group, spread out points, and attack the countries in Southeast Asia.

The first phase of the task of entering Qiongzhou is now complete.As for the follow-up work, since there were reinforcements, Shao Qiang handed it over to others.

Next, Qiongzhou will walk on two legs.On the one hand, it is necessary to develop the local economy, and on the other hand, it is necessary to do a good job in infrastructure construction, and do a good job in the work of the southward advance base.

What is your job?As far as the current situation is concerned, go out to Vietnam... a certain place in Annan, occupy and build a bridgehead, this is it.

Is there an exact destination?This has been determined when the Southward Fleet was formed: Annan Hongji Port.

Hon Gai Port is located in the northeast of Vietnam, on the northwest side of the Gulf of Tonkin. It is an important coal export port in northern Vietnam for later generations.

The Honji Coal Field near the port was first developed by the French to produce high-quality thermal coal.

The thermal coal reserves around Hon Gai Port have reached more than 20 billion tons, and the topsoil is thin, which is conducive to open-pit mining. It is the largest coal mine in Vietnam and the Indochina Peninsula, and one of the largest coal fields in Southeast Asia.

And Hon Gai Port... There is no Hon Gai Port these days, only the original Halong Bay.Ha Long Bay is in the middle of the Beibu Gulf, only 350 kilometers away from Haikou.

In other words, even at the current standard speed of 5 knots per hour for the mixed fleet of crossing forces, the voyage from Baisha New Port to Halong Bay will not exceed 30 hours.

If the fleet is all warships, then the speed will be out of bounds. Under the condition of tailwind, it is entirely possible for the fleet to reach the end of the day.

So Shao Qiang and the others set off.

Chapter 571 Landing in Halong Bay

July 1631, 7, at 18 am, An Nam, Halong Bay.