Chapter 365: Refusal
Seeing Zheng Zhilong lose his temper, Zheng Zhibao couldn't help but be ruthless, and said loudly: "Big brother, don't worry, I think that Yang Feng doesn't have three heads and six arms no matter how powerful he is, our brothers have been afraid of who will come across the sea for so many years, this time Yang Feng doesn't come, if he comes, we have to let him know how powerful our brothers are!" ”
"Right...... The third master is right, even if Yang Feng is powerful, he can be a hero on the land, we are not a small role, thousands of warships and tens of thousands of brothers are not given in vain, even if we can't beat us, we can also retreat to Xiaoliuqiu, is it possible that Yang Feng can still put his wings and chase after him? ”
"Brother Zheng Xing is right, we are not afraid of that Yang Feng!"
Seeing that everyone in the hall was saying cruel words in unison, Zheng Zhilong's heart was like a mirror, although these people kept saying that they were not afraid of Yang Feng, but they could hear it from inside and outside the words, these people actually had the idea of escaping from the sea in their hearts. Please search to see the most complete! Target!
Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong's heart was full of fire. Why don't these people understand that although they have a base in Bengang (now Beigang) in Xiaoliuqiu (Taiwan), what kind of place is Xiaoliuqiu, although it has a certain scale after several years of operation, it is still full of life, and the Dutch and Spaniards have also set up bases and ports there, how easy is it for them to develop there with peace of mind? What's more, even if Xiaoliuqiu develops well, how can he get the richness of the Ming Dynasty, he finally conquered Fuzhou, how can he be willing to hand it over?
Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong's face gradually darkened, and his originally fair face became extremely ugly.
Seeing that Zheng Zhilong's face was getting more and more ugly, the originally noisy voices in the hall slowly quieted down, and many people looked at Zheng Zhilong with apprehension.
Don't look at Zheng Zhilong's young age, but he is very good at doing things, he is ruthless to the outside world, but he is unusually generous to his brothers, and he is very good at winning people over, so he was able to take over all Li Dan's forces in just two years after Li Dan's death, and everyone was very convinced of him. Now seeing Zheng Zhilong angry, everyone couldn't help but panic a little.
After a long time, Zheng Zhilong snorted coldly: "Everyone said that we spent so much effort to go around, harassing Fujian and attacking Guangdong, and it took more than half a year to conquer Fuzhou, for what?" ”
Everyone was silent for a moment, and the last young man, who was short in stature but unusually muscular, whispered: "Chief, you said it, so that our brothers can have a nest on the shore!" ”
"You remember!" Zheng Zhilong sneered, "I thought you all forgot." ”
He asked rhetorically, "What is our greatest wish to be pirates?" ”
Without waiting for everyone to answer, he replied: "Our greatest wish is to have a nest on the shore, to marry several mothers-in-law and give birth to a large number of cubs, so that we can inherit the incense." But if we are in the sea all day long, can we marry a mother-in-law? Some of you may say that we have a base in Xiaoliuqiu, and we can make a home there.
But don't forget, Xiaoliuqiu is too small after all, and the Dutch and Spaniards have established bases there, and if we accidentally settle there, the foundation we settled there will be destroyed. And don't forget, if we are kicked out of Daming, it will be ten times more difficult for us to fight again in the future, do you understand? ”
Zheng Zhilong's voice echoed in the hall, and everyone's faces gradually became heavy. Although they all boast of being good men who lick blood with knives, people are social animals, and they naturally want to have a stable home, and this "home" is naturally not better than the wide and rich Daming, which is one of the reasons why Zheng Zhilong and they spent more than half a year to lay down a piece of land in Fujian.
Zheng Zhilong ignored everyone's faces and continued: "What are we trying to do before? Not just to be able to lay a ground? Now that you have territory, why are you cowardly? ”
At this time, Zheng Zhilong's second brother Zheng Zhihu spoke: "Big brother, our brothers understand your hard work, you want your brothers to have a stable nest. But the Ming Dynasty has millions of troops, even if we can defeat this today and that tomorrow, but there are too many armies in the imperial court, when will we be the first to fight? ”
Zheng Zhihu's words are also what many people think, although the Ming Empire has now begun to decline, but the emaciated camel is big, don't look at Zheng Zhilong, they claim to have tens of thousands of brothers, but there are only more than 10,000 people who can really fight land battles, and they really want to anger the Ming court, provoke the court to fight with them desperately, Zheng Zhilong They can't beat them no matter what.
"I didn't expect our second brother to use his brain!" Zheng Zhilong suddenly laughed, his second brother Zheng Zhihu has always been known for his bravery, but he didn't expect that today would give him an accident.
Zheng Zhilong has a fair complexion and a handsome appearance, and after smiling like this, the pressure that he brought to everyone just now suddenly dissipated, and many people glanced at each other, feeling a little afraid in their hearts.
After pondering for a while, Zheng Zhilong said: "Actually, I don't know that the Ming Dynasty is powerful, especially when I heard that the current emperor reuses Jiang Ningbo Yang Feng, and asked that Jiang Ningbo to open a thing called the Ming Royal Commercial Bank, and often sells countless good things from overseas Obaro, and the silver earned every year is simply a sea of money." Recently, the Beijing camp was rebuilt in the capital, and it has the spirit of a prosperous lord, but we are not completely powerless, let's talk about our biggest advantage? ”
"Needless to say, of course it's our warship!" The crowd shouted in unison.
"Yes, it's our warship!" Zheng Zhilong said appreciatively: "Our biggest thing is that we want to fight and go, the imperial court sailors have long been rotten, and they can't pose any threat to us at all, this is where our biggest reliance lies." Although the imperial court proposed to us before, but the conditions they offered at that time were too poor, so I ignored them, and when I fought a few more beautiful victories, after causing the shock of the imperial court, our status in the heart of the imperial court will be higher, and when the conditions are naturally open to us, each of our brothers will be a general to be a general, isn't it happy! ”
Zheng Zhilong's words made everyone's blood boil, don't look at them always belittle the Ming court very low on weekdays, but that's just a kind of mentality that can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, the orthodox status of the Ming court has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for hundreds of years, if there is a chance to be a general of the Ming Dynasty, where will they refuse.
"Smack!"
Zheng Zhihu stood up in a row of tables and said loudly: "Big brother, you say, what should we brothers do?" Is it that as long as we can kill that Jiang Ningbo, our brothers can be generals? ”
"Kill Jiang Ningbo?" Zheng Zhilong smiled and shook his head, "If Jiang Ningbo is so easy to kill, those Manchurians would have already started, why wait until now." Isn't Jiang Ningbo going to recover Fuzhou, let's surprise them......"
In the big tent of the Jiangning Army camp in Xiamen, the generals of the Jiangning Army gathered.
Yang Feng looked at the generals standing in front of him and said with a smile: "Everyone, we have been in Xiamen for seven or eight days, and everyone has almost rested. ”
The generals burst into laughter and said one after another, "Uncle Qiqi, the last general has already completed the correction, waiting for the uncle to give the order." ”
"That's good!" Yang Feng nodded, "We didn't come to Fujian to see the excitement, since we have enough rest, let's do business." ”
Speaking of this, Yang Feng's expression began to become solemn, and he only heard him say in a deep voice: "Now Ben Bo orders!" ”
"Whoa!"
The generals who were originally sitting on both sides of Yang Feng stood up, their hands vertically and looking ahead.
"Geng Bingyi!"
Geng Bingyi stood up straight and said loudly: "The end will be!" ”
"You led the 1st Infantry Battalion, the 1st Artillery Battalion, and the 2nd Cavalry Battalion out of Putian and headed for Fuzhou. After arriving in Fuzhou, attack the enemy in Fuzhou first, if you can attack and capture Fuzhou, it is the best, if you can't capture Fuzhou, don't worry, send someone to report to Benbo to learn, understand? ”
"The last general obeys!" Geng Bingyi responded loudly.
"Huang Jiye!"
"Mo will be!"
Yang Feng looked at Huang Jiye, and then said: "The first battalion attacked Fuzhou, and Putian became the rear of the first battalion, in order to ensure the safety of the first battalion, you led the second battalion into Putian, and it was important to ensure the safety of the rear of the first battalion." ”
Huang Jiye said loudly: "The last general will obey the order!" ”
Chu Maoguang, who was not read by name, stood up a little unwillingly and asked: "Uncle, what about the last general, can you stay in Xiamen to watch the excitement?" ”
Yang Feng shook his head and said: "Xiamen is an important town in Fujian, recently Lu Guangbiao is going to rebuild the naval division in Xiamen, and he must leave heavy troops to defend, otherwise if Zheng Zhilong sits on his fleet and brings a large army from the sea to attack Xiamen, what will we use to resist?" ”
"It's from the sea again!"
The generals only felt a headache, and Geng Bingyi couldn't help but say with a headache: "How can the last general feel that fighting in Fujian has such a headache, and he will guard against this and that, it will simply tire people to death." ”
Looking at the generals who were a little confused, Yang Feng couldn't help but sigh secretly, Da Ming's understanding of the sea is still too shallow, since ancient times, the rulers of the Chinese dynasties thought that China was rich in land and things, and everything was available, and the sea was full of storms and rains and was too dangerous, so they were always used to cowering on the mainland, and they didn't dare to raise their heads to know the outside world.
Coupled with the impetus of a group of vested interest groups, the Ming Dynasty has been pursuing the strategy of banning the sea since the founding of the People's Republic of China, even if it is the glory of Zheng He's voyage to the West, it is just a flash in the pan. Now it is natural for them to become helpless when they encounter an enemy from the sea.
"You guys, you still don't know much about the sea, it seems that Ben Bo is going to tell you about what the sea really is?"
Yang Feng, who felt the need to popularize geographical knowledge to his generals, took out a large map from behind him and began to make up for these people......
On October 12, the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Geng Bingyi led a total of 15,000 troops such as horses, cavalry, artillery, and baggage to march towards Fuzhou, and his task was to recapture Fuzhou occupied by Zheng Zhilong's group, and Geng Bingyi was accompanied by Huang Zhenye's second infantry battalion, and his task was to garrison Putian and prevent people from copying Geng Bingyi's back road.
Yang Feng was sitting in Xiamen, and by the way, he urged Lu Guangbiao to seize the time to build a warship and rebuild the naval division, because Yang Feng knew very well that if he wanted to eliminate Zheng Zhilong's group, it would not be possible to rely on the army alone.
Who is Zheng Zhilong? People are big pirates across the Ming Dynasty, Fusang and Nanyang, even if they lose the battle on land, as long as they jump into the sea, Yang Feng can't help him.
Because of this, Yang Feng's order to Geng Bingyi was to recapture Fuzhou, not to eliminate Zheng Zhilong.
However, as the work of rebuilding the water division began to be formed, new problems arose.
"What, we have too few craftsmen who can build ships to build multiple Daifuku ships at the same time?"
Yang Feng looked at Lu Guangbiao in surprise, and asked in disbelief: "Fujian is the hometown of sailors, how can you not find a craftsman who can build ships?" ”
Lu Guangbiao smiled bitterly: "Uncle, it's not that you are incompetent, but that the sailors of the imperial court have been abandoned for a long time. Due to the lack of shipbuilding, the craftsmanship of craftsmen has almost been lost after several generations, and there are too few old craftsmen who can build ships today. If there are drawings, it would be fine, we can still build ships according to the drawings, but since Lord Liu burned all the drawings of the treasure ship and the materials of the Three Treasure Eunuchs to the West, we don't even have the drawings, and now it is too difficult to build ships. ”
Lu Guangbiao said that Lord Liu is Liu Daxia, this is a celebrity who has gone through Hongzhi, Zhengde and other dynasties, and is known as upright. The reputation in Shilin is very powerful, but it is rumored that this Liu Daxia is also a staunch fighter for the forbidden sea, and he has a heartfelt dislike for the sea, and it is rumored that he burned the construction drawings of the world's largest ship "treasure ship" at that time, and even all the materials of Zheng He's voyage to the West were burned, which also made countless people in later generations beat their chests and regret it.
Yang Feng originally scoffed at this rumor, because he didn't believe that there would be such a stupid person in this world. But now that he has personally heard people of this era talk about it, he can't help but believe it.
"What? The original rumors turned out to be true? Did Liu Daxia really burn all the drawings of the Three Treasure Eunuchs and the Treasure Ship? ”
"Isn't it?" Lu Guangbiao smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly, "That is already a matter of the Hongzhi period, and it has been a hundred years, and there is no point in mentioning him anymore." Let's discuss how to build a ship as soon as possible. ”
Yang Feng suddenly asked, "No, if the craftsmen can't build ships, who built the ships of those sea merchants?" And where did their craftsmen come from? ”
Lu Guangbiao said without thinking: "Of course it's their own craftsmen." ”
Yang Feng asked, "Then can't we hire those maritime craftsmen to work for us?" ”
"This is also something that the lower officials wonder." Lu Guangbiao's face became gloomy: "Xia Guan also went to inquire, but I don't know what happened, those maritime merchants all rejected Xia Guan's proposal. ”
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