Yang Sichang didn't know that after Zhang Kentang ordered someone to send this letter to Governor Yang, who first advocated handing over the coastal defense matters of Nanzhili, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces to Li Shouhan, Zhang Kentang could only sit in the lonely city, and watched the aerial roots of the banyan branches in the yard approach the ground little by little, and then take root in the moist soil, and then grow into a branch of a huge banyan tree.

"Alas! The unfortunate dynasty is the scourge of this weak cadre and strong branch! ”

On February 15, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xiaohu, the commander of the left wing of the naval division of the Southern Guangdong Army, led nearly 30 large and small gunboats and nearly 10,000 sailors to the water surface of the Minjiang River on the grounds of protecting the good trade and good people of Ryukyu, Fusang, and Folangji from infringement.

For a time, the Min River was full of white sails. The residents along the way, the boatmen in the river, and the fishermen on both sides of the river bowed one after another, and they could see clearly that there were hundreds of artillery pieces on this large gunboat that almost crossed the river.

This huge fleet sailed straight into Mawei Port, which was only more than 20 miles away from the mouth of the Min River and on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Min River.

The fleet sailed westward like the rising tide of the sea pouring into the Minjiang River, dividing small tributaries at Chuanshi Dao, Nangui Dao, Jiadengli (today's Langqi Island), Qianyu, Guoyu, Xiaoyu, etc., and dispatched personnel with artillery to set up artillery positions and camps at these key points, and blockaded the Minjiang River section by section.

In the eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1580), Jiadeng Haiquli was changed to Jiadengli, Pubeili was changed to Jiangyouli (now Tingjiang), and Punanli was changed to Jiangzuoli (now Min'an). Anren Township Yongsheng Beili was changed to Yongbeili (now Mawei).

In the tenth year of Chenghua (1474), the city of Ryukyu was moved from Quanzhou to Fuzhou, and Ryukyu merchants went to Rong through Mawei. The status of Mawei Port is more prominent. This area is the place where the Wulong River, the Bailong River and the Qinjiang River meet, and the three rivers flow into the East China Sea from Min'an Town and Changmen. It faces Changle City across the river in the southeast, Guantou Town of Lianjiang County in the northeast, and Guling Township of Jin'an District in the west, which is the center point of the so-called river and sea waterway. From Mawei to Fuzhou Wanshou Bridge is the inland waterway of the Minjiang River, and the entrance from Mawei to the mouth of the Minjiang River is the sea-opening waterway.

When Zhang Xiaohu's flagship three-headed tiger, the iconic golden three-headed tiger, was praised by merchants and common people on the docks of Mawei Harbor, he himself had already set up a line for the fleet at the Tianhou Temple and Tanah Lot Temple in Mawei.

"Assemble small boats with less than forty guns, continue westward along the river, and end at Wanshou Bridge in Fuzhou City, patrolling back and forth. In order to prevent traitors and villains from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos. disturbed the township and ruined the name and rules of my Daming City. After the big ship rested for a while in Mawei, replenished food, water, vegetables and other things, and stood ready to attack! ”

The tasks of settling up and down the fleet were settled. Naturally, there are officers to implement them one by one. Don't work for him, Zhang Da will go to Zhang Luo the same way.

He nodded to a captain. Give him an official document.

"After your boat arrives at Wanshou Bridge, go to Fuzhou City for a trip, this is the main public relations and defense official document. The governor of Fujian was ordered to come here to discuss the coastal defense of Fujian! Make no mistake! ”

In the same official document, Zhang Xiaohu ordered people to deliver one copy to each of the prefecture capitals and counties near Fuzhou, and the officers and soldiers stationed in various places were the key targets.

"Whether they come or not, if they don't come, the commander will just disobey them for disobedience and suspicion of collusion with the pirates, and disarm and reorganize their troops!"

Although he was strictly ordered to guard the Han Dynasty and was not allowed to enter Fuzhou City, Zhang Xiaohu, who was good at exploiting loopholes, keenly discovered that the order did not say that the governor of Fujian would not be allowed to go out of the city for a meeting, nor did it say that he would not let the local officials and soldiers in Fujian who did not obey the orders be dealt with.

As a result, those local officers and soldiers in Fujian who were far inferior to Zheng Zhilong's combat strength in various places did not dare to pick up Zhang Xiaohu's tiger whiskers, and obediently went to the Tianhou Temple and Tanah Lot Temple in Mawei one by one, and handed Zhang Xiaohu a notebook to see, faintly admitting that Zhang Xiaohu, the left-wing commander of the sailor, was their boss!

Although the Nanyue army strictly abided by military orders, except for a small number of purchasing personnel who carried a large number of silver dollars and treasures into the city to purchase goods and supplies, not a single soldier entered the city.

However, the civil and military officials who could not stand Fuzhou went to the Tanah Lot Temple like a carp crossing the river to pay money and show their loyalty to the Nanyue army.

Invisibly, Fuzhou in the east and Shantou in the west, Zhang Xiaohu, Chu Tianlei, Li Huamei, and Zuo Tianpeng, who was the commander of the right wing of the sailor, were like a huge vice that firmly clamped Zheng Zhilong's sailor on the surface of the Jinxia Sea.

"It's over, Zheng Zongbing's sailor fleet, I'm afraid it's too bad and too lucky."

Although it is difficult for the government decree to come out of the government office, but the internal and external traffic news is not isolated, hearing this news, I can't help but let the wolf in Zhang Kentang's hand fall on the snow-white rice paper, and a cloud of ink quickly spreads on the rice paper, leaving a large piece of black.

"My lord, Commander Zhang of the Navy Master heard that you were not feeling well, so he sent someone to send two thousand silver dollars, saying that it was a gift for you."

The housekeeper at the door reported the situation to Zhang Kentang quickly and urgently in Songjiang Mansion's native dialect.

In order to preserve the dignity of the court officials, Zhang Kentang did not dare to offend Zhang Xiaohu, who had thousands of artillery pieces outside the city, so he said that Zhang Xiaohu was ill. But he didn't want Zhang Xiaohu to get off the donkey and sent him condolences money.

Didn't you say sick? I'll send you money!

"Please tell me, what should I do with this gift?"

To accept or not to collect, that's the question.

In the past, although Zheng Zhilong gave a lot of gold and silver, he never dropped two thousand silver dollars after just visiting the sick. If you push it out like this, not to mention the loss of money, I'm afraid that I will offend people!

"No gift is accepted! Take my name post, go to Mawei to meet Commander Zhang, and say that I am still a little sick, and after I recover, I will meet with him to discuss coastal defense! ”

With the help of Brother Kong Fang and Marshal Zhao Gong's incomparably powerful weapons, Lord Zhang Kentang and Commander Zhang Xiaohu met and talked very happily, and the two sides exchanged views cordially and amicably on matters related to Fujian's coastal defense. A lot of valuable advice was provided.

It is said that in addition to official business, the two adults talked about it, and they turned out to be people of the same clan. When the excitement came, the two simply joined the sect. As a result, Zhang Xiaohu, the former pirate leader and now the commander of the Nanyue Army, became brothers with Zhang Daren, the governor of Fujian who was born in Jinshi. Of course, these things must be reported to Li Shouhan and the official office for the record, otherwise. The law enforcement department, the investigation room, those guys with ears bigger than rabbits will come to the door to find trouble.

Under the mediation of the Fujian officialdom led by Zhang Kentang. Zheng Zhilong was willing to discuss peace talks with the Nanyue Army.

"Father, do we really want to make peace with the Zheng family?"

Outside the port of Quanzhou, Li Huayu was a little worried about the Shouhan who was looking with great interest at the post of Taiwan's reclamation that he handed in after the handsome case.

Shouhan turned a deaf ear to his son's worries. just focused all his attention on the statement that Li Huayu reported.

This post can be said to be Li Huayu's summary and report on his work in Taiwan over the past year.

After years of accumulation. In Taipei, Hsinchu area. There are already more than 100,000 Han immigrant settlements. With the deepening of a large number of Han immigrants, it is inevitable that language, labor technology, and commodities will gradually be brought to the Gaoshan people in the deep mountains and dense forests.

Originally, the Gaoshan people, who used only knives, short hoes (still wooden) and wooden hoes instead of hoes, began to gradually "use ox carts and plows for farming." Same as the Han Chinese. In their own songs, they sang the lyrics of "ploughing in time and asking for rain", and among the villages and communities, there are more changes of "diligent crops, accumulation, and wealth compared to households", and the villages and communities in Bangshan and Houlong are "cultivating plows and rakes and other things, which are the same as the Han people in the mainland." Pingpu and other villages also imitated the Han people's labor methods and production tools. The Gaoshan people near Fengshan Mountain on Nanlu have also learned the importance of timely planting, planting seedlings and weeding. And the Gaoshan people near the traffic arteries, water and land wharves, and the counties and towns are even more "accustomed to the city and courtesy".

Where there is a need, there will be a market. On the ships that traveled between the island of Taiwan and Chaozhou and the southern and central regions, they all carried a large number of metal tools and cloth. Metal products are needed by those Han immigrants and Gaoshan people in cultivation and life, while cloth and salt are necessities. In the contact activities with the Han people, the Gaoshan people in the north and south of Taiwan used their own local products, deer skin, deer antlers, gold sand, camphor and other items to trade with the Han people, in exchange for metal tools, cloth and salt, etc., especially the Gaoshan people on the north road, traded cloth with the Han people, changed the clothing habit of men and women wearing more deer skins, and used more deer skins to exchange goods with Han traders.

A basket of sulfur collected from the mountains can be exchanged for about seven feet of cloth, and this price makes the Gaoshan people excited, these things that are usually useless in the mountains can be exchanged for such exquisite cotton cloth! Not only cotton cloth, but also knives, axes, hoes, ploughsticks, pots and pans, etc.

In fact, the varieties of trade are not limited to sulfur, and the mountain people in the northern mountains are even more familiar with the mongi (very familiar, right?). Along the fast-flowing rivers out of the mountains, carrying deer skins, antler velvets, preserved venison, water vines, tongcao, and other goods, to trade in villages and communities close to the Han Chinese. The Han traders, on the other hand, rowed the same stump, risked the capsizing of the boat, went upstream, and cautiously advanced in the rapids and rapids to the Gaoshan villages to carry out trading activities.

These are just a few microcosms of Li Huayu's business and trade activities before his arrival.

After Li Huayu became the commander of Taiwan's guards, the trade between Han immigrants and the Gaoshan natives was a big step forward.

Tea is produced in the Shuisha Lianshe area of Changhua area, and Huayu ordered people to trade with local mountain people with iron tools, and exchange iron tools for tea on their mountains.

The mountain people in the Langqiao Eighteen Societies area in the Fengshan area of Nanlu simply traded iron and gunpowder with Han traders to catch deer. The Gaoshan people in the Doroman area carry the raw gold they have excavated and smelted by themselves, and go to chicken coops, freshwater and other places to buy all kinds of commodities from Han merchants, from cloth to ironware, covering a wide range of goods, and the generosity of the shots is eye-popping.

"Father?"

Seeing that Shouhan never spoke, just looking at the thick post, Li Huayu reminded Shouhan in a low voice. Trying to get Shouhan's attention.

"Huayu, you have done a good job for more than a year!" Shouhan gave his son a high evaluation.

"What you said above about the selection of rivers to build water conservancy in various parts of Taiwan, how is the progress now?"

Shouhan leisurely tapped a passage on the post with his fingers, and looked at his son's young face with joy in his eyes.

The construction of water conservancy in Taiwan is probably for the purpose of irrigating the reclaimed wasteland, and as for the form, it is nothing more than the joint construction of the villagers and the people, and the joint construction of the government and the people. Fan people build together. There are four forms of tenant construction.

The basic social unit of the Gaoshan people is the she, while the unit of Han immigrants is the village. The villagers and tenants jointly built together, which is characterized by the contribution and efforts of the local people. The small water conservancy built is mainly for the irrigation of the fields and the water supply of people and livestock in the village. And the government and the people jointly built. It is to use the money and grain of the reclamation bureau to choose a certain river basin for construction, and the villagers and people in the vicinity can enjoy the benefits of this water conservancy project. And you can work on the construction site to earn your own salary.

The small water conservancy built by the Fanmin joint construction is built by the Han nationality and the Gaoshan tribe to benefit the people of the two ethnic groups.

"Fanzipi in Chiayi, Tali Wuzhen in Yunlin, and Shuiluotouzhen near Zhilanbao in Tamsui were all built by the people, and the officials gave some money and grain allowances, rented some tools, and provided some gunpowder to them, and after the construction was completed, they could irrigate the nearby 10,000 acres of fertile land. When the son set out from Taiwan, the people of several villages and communities of the Xinshe jointly submitted a petition, demanding the construction of Xinpizhen in the Jiuxiong Linxi River basin to irrigate the nearby fertile fields, and the son had already approved 500 shovels, pickaxes, 20 barrels of gunpowder, and 1,000 stone of grain to them as an allowance paid by the government, and sent personnel to Hsinchu and other places to guide them. This water reservoir is the first one built independently by the Fanmin, and of course the son should pay attention to it. Xinpizhen has been built, can at least irrigate the left nearly a thousand jia land, can hit a lot of rice every year, according to the Shangtian a hundred stones, seventy stones, forty stones, the standard rough calculation of one or two, is to pull seventy stones and a yield, this thousand a piece of land is 70,000 stones of rice! ”

"These are all trivial things, I am glad not about how much rice you have struck in Taiwan, but because of your measures and means to make the mountain people return to their hearts!"

Li Huayu is young and has the temper of a son-in-law, and after arriving in Taiwan, many things are deviant in the eyes of others, but in his opinion, they are very ordinary.

Before his arrival, the young descendants of the Han immigrants were very popular with Gaoshan girls, but these sturdy men were worried that if they married a woman and returned to their hometown, they would not be allowed to enter the ancestral hall, the family tree would not be renewed, and the ancestors would not admit it. No matter how ruthless they are, they can only rely on the five girls to solve the problem, and many people have to travel back and forth between Taiwan and the mainland to solve their offspring and family problems.

Li Huayu only learned about this kind of social problem when the supply of ships was tight and in short supply.

"Go! What's the matter?! Make an example! All the reclamation people in the Zhuangzi everywhere, those who are willing to marry Fanmin, and those who are willing to marry, as long as they are men and women, the official family will give a piece of cloth and five stone rice as a bride price! ”

With the support of such a chief, and there is money to take, it is equivalent to the official family paying to help them marry wives, and the reclamation people from all over the south to the north are excited, and the Fanmin village community adjacent to the Hanjia Grange has also become a sensation. The dragon and phoenix wedding card covered with the command to make the yamen red and guarded became the most conspicuous thing at the wedding for a while.

"This is something given to us by Major Marshal Li of the Nanyue Army! Go back to the ancestral house, if the people in the ancestral hall don't tell the ancestors about the family tree, let's go to the yamen to sue them! Several Kenmin who married Fanmin's daughter-in-law supported each other.

Marriage, coupled with the promotion of production technology and the circulation of language and writing, the Gaoshan people began a rapid upgrading activity. Some Gaoshan villages and communities living in the Grange of the Fuken Bureau were surprised by the speed of sinicization and the resolute attitude.

In order to meet the needs of the Gaoshan people in learning Chinese and Chinese characters, Li Huayu had to transfer a large number of people from the command and envoy yamen, and even selected from the army to serve as teachers in the villages with a sixth-grade education level.

However, this measure seems to have had great side effects after satisfying the temporary shortage of teachers. Within half a year, there were more than 20 part-time amateur teachers in the village community who went to the command yamen to handle the dragon and phoenix posts, followed by one or more young women of the Fanmin. Among them, there are many pregnant women whose abdomen has been slightly bulging.

These people were unable to resist the enthusiastic attack of the students or the students' sisters in the process of teaching in the village community, and had to go to the yamen to make up the tickets after sowing the seeds carelessly. However, for these people, Li Huayu generously carried forward the style of his son's brother, "Since people are pregnant with your seed, you have to treat others well!" If there is anything bad for others, the official will be the first to disobey! ”

After finishing speaking, a list was issued as usual, stipulating that all those who get on the bus first and then make up the ticket, when receiving the dragon and phoenix post as a legal husband and wife certificate, in addition to the official bride price, there are two pieces of cloth, five silver dollars, and ten stone rice milk money to the woman.

Li Huayu's style of being a young master won him a good reputation decades later.

Countless people with Gaoshan bloodline are enshrined in the most conspicuous position of the Kaitai Holy King Divine Throne, which is enshrined in this young master Li who gave the legal marriage between Fanmin and Han immigrants and taught Fanmin various production techniques and languages.

This is a matter of no further aside. (To be continued......)

PS: It's back. It can be regarded as walking around the edge of the snow-capped mountains and meadows, and then I realized the hard-won success of the red country. Seeing the reconstruction of the disaster area along the way, I realized more that it is not easy to build the country.