The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

"What's the matter? I want you to come here at this time?" The Fourteenth Master was very puzzled, they were all leaving, and the time to set sail was set.

"I know, there is another gold mine." As a result, Wu Ali said surprisingly: "Just to the southwest of the original deserted island gold mine, there is a big gold mine."

"How do you know?" Fourteenth Master was surprised, then suspicious.

"I wanted to run away. I hid on a supply ship and went there. Unfortunately, I was found and sent back." If it weren't for the fact that he was a small laborer, those people might have thrown him away. to drown in the sea.

"Why didn't you say it before?" Nian Gengyao looked at the young boy with a cold face.

"I didn't know what kind of people you were before." Wu Ali said confidently, "How could you tell this secret so easily?"

"What about now?" Nian Gengyao was very upset, thinking that the Fourteenth Master had saved a white-eyed wolf.

"Now I know that you are good people." Wu Ali said: "You have helped us a lot. Not only did you find a place to settle down, but it was also a safe place. You are good people. I am happy to tell you about the location of the gold mine, but There are many guards there."

"Don't be afraid, we have strong firearms." Hearing this, Fourteenth Master looked at Nian Gengyao with bright eyes.

What can General Nian do?I can only follow him: "That's okay, let's go and have a look."

"I want to join you!" As a result, Wu Ali still had a request: "I want to be a navy too, just like them."

He saw that the navy had food and drink, as well as military merits and rewards, and even better, they could share gold.

Anyway, he was the only one left in his family, he still knew the prince and the general, why not join them as a navy, he could earn a lot of money in the future, and he could have an identity.

In fact, Nian Gengyao actually liked this little guy quite a bit, but he was a little too young. Otherwise, he would be really rich to have such a person who is familiar with several gold mines in Nanyang.

"You are still young, so you are not qualified to be a navy." Fourteenth Master thought for a while: "How about this, you will be a servant for Mr. Nian, and see how he does it. Learn from it. When you are a year older, let him Mr. Nian will make arrangements for you." It is impossible for Fourteenth Master to keep such a person by his side, he is the elder brother of the prince, and all the people around him are from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or have a clean background, Wu Ah Li can't do it.

It is difficult for his family to count up to three generations, so he can only remember his father's name, and his grandfather doesn't even know his name, let alone great-grandfather and great-grandfather.

Put it next to Nian Gengyao. Nian Gengyao is going to be a general in the future, so it would be good to have more helpers around him.

"Okay, just leave it to the minister." Nian Gengyao also wanted to deal with this kid well.

Thus, Wu Ali, the future general of the Royal Navy, became a servant under Nian Gengyao. Nian Gengyao asked someone to take him down.

After he left, the Fourteenth Master would be happy, and Nian Gengyao would not be nervous anymore.

"Others follow the vine for melons, but we follow the vine for gold." Nian Gengyao said grandly, "Let's go, order troops, and grab one."

The fourteenth master had black lines on his hair: "My lord, you are from the Imperial Academy, not from the Green Forest."

If you are like this, you don't have the demeanor of a Hanlin.

Does it feel like a thieves?

"Don't you want to go?" Nian Gengyao looked at Fourteenth Master.

"Nonsense, of course we are going!" The Fourteenth Master replied confidently: "This time, we will change the batch and let the lieutenant guard here. We will take four frigates and one main battleship, oh, two cargo ships, Put gold."

Gold, gold, dear gold.

"Okay, Master Fourteen!" Nian Gengyao agreed immediately.

As long as it makes Master Fourteen happy, he can do anything.

Mei Lechuan had no right to speak, but Cao Yong said: "After the shipment comes back this time, we will return to the voyage. There are not many weapons and ammunition."

"Well, you are all ready, we will set sail back after pulling the gold back." Nian Gengyao said: "This time, earn more, and everyone can share more."

Who doesn't love money?Didn't you come here with your boss all the way here to make a fortune?

Of course, by the way, to show off the country's prestige or something.

The Fourteenth Master soon went out to sea with Nian Gengyao again. This time the guide was Wu Ali. He was quite excited, because as Nian Gengyao's servant, he got four sets of clothes. Inside and out, top to bottom.

There is also monthly money, two taels of silver a month, mainly because Nian Gengyao, his master, still includes food and lodging!

He has clothes to wear and food to eat, and two taels of silver is equivalent to savings. It is 24 taels a year, and 240 taels in ten years. He thinks that after ten years, he will be able to marry a wife and have children.

The fleet is moving fast, Wu Ali has a good memory, and he is pointing in the right direction. Nian Gengyao has been working with the Fourteenth Master for a long time, and he knows what to do. The Fourteenth Master only needs to wait inside the boat. The artillery fire was booming, Nian Gengyao broke through the defense of the opponent's gold mine island, and directly led his people to rush in. With the advantage of strong firepower, he wiped out the opponent without leaving any prisoners, but he was very good to the miners. Convinced of the situation, coupled with Wu Ali's testimony, Nian Gengyao also handed over the captives to the miners for disposal, so that the miners could get acquainted with how to use firearms.

This is different from the desert island they went to last time.

It doesn't matter what the name of Gold Mine Island used to be, it's called Gold Mine Island now.

It is very big, more than enough to be as big as two of the Pearl Chain Islands.

There used to be a large native tribe on the island, and several villages composed of thousands of Han survivors. As a result, when the Spanish galleon came, there was nothing left.

Everyone has become a miner, living in the dark mines to collect gold.

Now being rescued by someone, these people hate those Westerners to the bone!

Nian Gengyao carried out the strategy of the Fourteenth Master. He was kind to the miners, healed their wounds, put on new clothes, washed them clean, and gave them food to replenish their bodies.

Compared with the Westerners who enslaved them, the people from the Qing Dynasty saved them.

The Fourteenth Master didn't go ashore until three days later. Nian Gengyao had already cleaned up the top. Everyone was in good spirits, and none of them died in battle.

This has to be said, it is a miracle!

The main reason is that they relied on the sharpness of their firearms to defeat the enemy from a long distance, and it was impossible for the enemy to stick up.

This place is indeed relatively large. The gold mine is in the middle of the island, on a mountain. The mountain made by the mine looks like a hornet's nest. The gravel field under the mountain is the place where gold is screened.

And this place was originally the place where the survivors of the Han people lived. There are some buildings in the Han style, as well as cemeteries and fertile fields.

It's a pity that the fertile land is planted, but the cemetery has been deserted.

The Fourteenth Master and Nian Gengyao descended from the sky and rescued them. The natives returned to their own territory, and the Han survivors felt that they had come to the backbone.

Although the contradiction between the two parties was temporarily hidden, they still did not agree.

Because the fourteenth master and the others spoke Chinese, the natives all shrank their necks.

There is a big gold mine here. Westerners have collected 80 taels of gold here, and they will be transported away soon. They are all packed, which is cheaper for the Fourteenth Master and the others.

"So much gold?" Fourteenth Master's eyes widened, and he scanned Nian Gengyao: "Is it all here?"

"Yes, the remaining 5 taels will be distributed to the entire navy; there will be 3 taels, 1 taels will be yours, and 2 taels will be given to the soldiers." Nian Gengyao's calculations are very good, and the rain and dew are evenly covered.

Fourteenth Master couldn't help grinning: "Lianggong is still so..."

Before he could finish speaking, he heard the roar of artillery outside, and Nian Gengyao's personal guard flew in: "My lord, general, the Westerners are here, and they are Spanish galleons."

"Get ready to fight!" Nian Gengyao called the people around the Fourteenth Master: "Protect Fourteenth Master, go to the gold mine, there are many mines, so it's easy to hide."

The most important thing is that the terrain there is very good, condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the stones there are very strong.

It takes a lot of effort to explode the explosives.

The Fourteenth Master was escorted there, and Nian Gengyao led his troops to fight.

Within half a day, Nian Gengyao brought his people back: "There are not many people on the other side, but there are quite a lot of seagoing ships. They are probably here to pull gold. In the end, we got there first. They surrounded us outside, but they didn't find us hiding. In the place of the sea ship, we just detained our two frigates!"

"Huh?" The Fourteenth Master thought for a while: "If we don't return to the voyage for a long time, Mei Lechuan will know that something happened to us, and he will definitely lead his troops to help. We only need to hold on for a few days."

"What the Fourteenth Master said is true." Nian Gengyao said, "Don't worry, I can keep it."

Even if you can't keep it, you have to keep it for this person!

"Don't worry, I'm not a flower in a greenhouse. You can also go to the battlefield at a critical moment." The Fourteenth Master clenched his hands tightly, and Dai Zi specially made him a firecracker.

In fact, it is just a clear version of the machine gun, which can fire more than 1 bullets at one time.

He has five such lancers, and this time he brought three, as well as grenade launchers. The twenty powerful eunuchs around him are all under the care of this guy, Wood. Each of them carried two grenade launchers, two There are twenty shells in a box. This group of people takes his safety very seriously, so they follow him with enough ammunition. It works now.

There are more than [-] people who follow the fourteenth master, which can definitely guarantee the fourteenth master's safety.

But now it's not so good to be surrounded by people.

Nian Gengyao led the men and suppressed the opponent with firepower, but they couldn't charge down, and the opponent couldn't charge up.

On the contrary, the survivors of the Han people here were besieged on the mountain together with them. After all, they had been working on the mountain for several years. They were familiar with the terrain and found a well. Fourteenth Lord and the others could guarantee water, but there was not enough food.

Fortunately, when the frigate's people withdrew from the frigate, they picked up some things from the frigate.

The frigate does not cook, so there is no food or anything, but Nian Gengyao is very generous to his subordinates. The navy officers and soldiers have money. In addition to sending it back to their families to support their families, they also have a little bit of their own expenses.

Bad habits are not allowed, such as going to a flower house to find a woman, that is not allowed;

They are not allowed to gamble, let alone spend money recklessly, and the Fourteenth Lord, who is a prince, likes to eat some, so the navy officers and soldiers are left with training and scratching their mouths.

So the things around them are all kinds of dried fruit, dried meat and fish, and dried tofu.

All kinds of dried food can be eaten directly, not many, but if you save some food, you can use it.

They also had people left behind on the boat, so Nian Gengyao sent people to venture there, telling them to hide and not let anyone find out.

There are also the most advanced artillery of the Qing Dynasty on the main battleship.

It would be terrible if it was captured by Westerners.

They guarded the mountain and didn't know what was going on outside.

In fact, people outside do not know the situation on the mountain.

Because several Spanish galleon fleets here have been wiped out, Yandoni Andreev, the governor of Haojing, is under a lot of pressure. I don’t know why the fleet that went out to sea did not return. To the pirates?

And the fleet of the Qing Dynasty did not come back, so he became even more frightened.

But at this time, Spain is not stable.

Spain experienced a golden age.

The continuous struggle with hostile countries began, causing territorial, trade and religious conflicts, all of which made Spain's national power begin to decline.

In the Mediterranean, there were frequent wars with the Ottoman Empire; in Western Europe, the French colonial empire gradually rose and threatened Spain’s hegemony; overseas, Spain first competed with the Portuguese Empire, and later rivals also included the British Empire and the Dutch colonial empire, and Britain, France, and the Netherlands Supporting maritime robbery, Spain's excessive use of military power, increasing government corruption, and economic stagnation caused by military spending, otherwise he would not have mined gold in the Far East and shipped it home to support the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Habsburgs had only two political goals: to acquire the products of America (gold, silver, sugar) and Asia (porcelain, spices, silk).

Spain's continuous struggle with hostile countries has caused territorial, trade and religious conflicts, all of which have made Spain's national power continue to decline.

In the Mediterranean, she fought frequently with the Ottoman Empire; in continental Europe, France gradually became stronger; overseas, Spain competed first with Portugal, and later with England and the Netherlands.

Recently, news came from the country that the Utrecht Peace Treaty caused the Spanish Empire to lose a large amount of territory again.

It is necessary for the Far East to make up for a large funding gap....

The new general, Philsis, didn't know the situation in the Qing Dynasty at all, so he hurriedly led people to the gold mine to collect gold, and then shipped it back to China.

I don't know what the situation is.

what's the situation?Philsis didn't know what was going on.

He led people to collect gold from a gold mine, only [-] kilograms. This is a large gold mine, and it is said that there is a lot of gold.

But it didn't say that there are enemies here?

It’s not that the miners here are controlled and obedient like slaves. They have occupied this place for hundreds of years, and nothing happened. The gold mine was only discovered in the past ten years. It is very laborious to mine, but there is a lot of gold and the output is amazing. The last time I sent it back, it was a whole boatload of gold.

This time, what came to meet them was not kind gold, but artillery!