Chapter VII: Warships
Li Guangtou, like Wang Zhi, is the first to enter the sea, he and Deng Fang, Yao Da occupied the island together, at first borrowed the momentum of the Franco, built a port in Shuangyu, set up a market, and later simply made Shuangyu the largest pirate port in East Asia.
Eight out of ten of the silk and porcelain produced in Fujian Province in Zhejiang Province flowed into Shuangyu, forming a commercial route to Japan, Shuangyu and Malacca, and the maritime pirates of various countries traded 100,000 taels of silver in Shuangyu Port in a single day.
This is all what Long Toshio heard from the rumors of the Japanese Kou, and no one knows if there are all the exaggerations in it.
But what is certain is that Li Guangtou sat on the land in Shuangyu to collect rent, handed over Shuangyu Port to Fanyi, and they built schools, churches, and hospitals on the island, and they collected taxes from everyone else, making Shuangyu Port extremely prosperous in a short time.
The smuggling port at the gate of the Ming Dynasty must not last long, and under the order of the governor of Fujian, 380 warships and 6,000 soldiers entered Shuangyu and won a complete victory.
Li Guangtou was also captured and killed by the officers and soldiers in that battle.
It's miserable to think about, and if you make a big career, you can be considered a character, and you died without even seeing your unborn son.
Chen Mu later thought about it, twenty years later, his son was guarding eight small wrecked ships in Haojing Ao, dreaming of conquering the sea, which could be regarded as the son of a pirate family inheriting his father's business.
This time, Fu Yuan was sent to Haojing and did not dare to delay, but he hurried back on the fifth day and told Chen Mu what he saw.
"Fifty-seven people, men and women, old and young. There were nineteen remnants of the Wa Kingdom, Joseon, Franco, and Manraka, and the rest were Ming people. Fu Yuan still remembered in his heart that he didn't do a good job a few days ago, which caused Chen Mu to dislike, so he respectfully presented the map of Haojing, and said: "Although he is old, weak, sick and disabled, even if the women know how to use birds, they are very powerful in Haojing, and the beggars and leaders of Haojing's group all listen to him." β
"This picture was painted by Li Dan, you can see thousands of households, it's really fine!"
The so-called line has an old line, and the group has a group leader, so he has to be the leader of the private industry.
Although they may not be highly respected, they have a high reputation in the industry, and the social status of leaders in all walks of life is not the same.
Needless to say, the head of the Zhejiang silk industry must be a local giant, and the head of the beggar must be sitting on the ground begging, and the status is naturally very different.
"In this way, they still have the ability." Chen Mu casually opened the map, looked at the familiar and unfamiliar composition on it, and smiled, "They got this picture from Fanren, it's quite fine." β
The mirror is not big, but it is not small, although I don't know how those Japanese robbers got this map, the composition is fine enough, not only the terrain of the island is roughly drawn, but also the activity area with several people.
The Franco-Robot people built a lot of construction in the south of Haojing, and the north was the territory of the Ming maritime merchants and Haikou, and it was facing the east of Guangzhou Mansion, which was the place where the officials of Shouao and the people of Haojing lived.
A small island, two ports.
This was not only a commercial boom in Ho Kiang O, but also a sign that the Ming Dynasty's dominance over the land had been reduced to a minimum.
Obviously, he saw that this land was in front of him, but he didn't even have soldiers to defend him to the island.
The more you look at it, the more annoying it becomes!
"Don't worry about Hao Jingao for now, what do they think, you've seen that Li Dan." Chen Mu took Fu Yuan out of the main hall of the Thousand Households Yamen, and across the two courtyard walls, he could still hear the sound of the family soldiers training under the leadership of Qi Zhengyan, "Can they be used by me?" β
"This, this is all up to a thousand households, how dare you make a decision."
Fu Yuan said with a smile: "But their situation is not good, their words are full of worries about Fanyi's troubles, they have no food, the entire Haojing Ao has no food, once the imperial court gets stuck with food, the Francois can't eat for long if there is food on the ship, and the Japanese who are stationed at sea can't do it, Haojing will be chaotic." β
"You've brought back useful news! Go and call the soldiers, and the warship that the capital division transferred to the thousand households is here. β
The lack of food in Haojingao is good news, although Fu Yuan thought of it as soon as he said Chen Mu, but it is still easy to be ignored. is such a big land, feeding tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of local people, once the imperial court bans grain and grass, it will be out of food in less than three months.
"I've had a lot of worries lately, and I might be able to relax when I go to see the warship allocated by the imperial court."
The reason why Chen Mu was in a bad mood was very simple, now his subordinates urgently needed a flag army to support the scene, and he wanted Shao Tingda to practice the one hundred and ten Zhengding in the guardhouse, and even he made it in his heart to choose two small banners from the Zhengding to be the main force of the flag army.
Can't choose, Xiangshan is different from Qingyuanwei, this is not so closed, the real body is strong and strong to swim south at night is Haojing, the same knife edge licking blood is much more comfortable to be a Haikou than to be a flag army, so what is left behind is some old, weak, sick and disabled, this is only one aspect.
In terms of subjective conditions, they did not have the innate quality to become elite soldiers, and the objective environment did not allow Chen Mu to let them train.
After two days of drilling, he left a small flag and handed it to Shi Qi to take the gun, and the remaining 120 people followed Lou Qimai to build a thatched hut in the forest on the road connecting Xiangshan County to the nine capitals outside the Huangliang Capital.
Xie Ming, who is both a teacher and the chief housekeeper of the account, calculated the accounts for Master Chen, who hired him, and nearly 400 soldiers were so poor that the efficiency was so poor that they wanted to plant 12,000 acres of land before and after the Qingming Festival, and they had slept beside the fields at night.
The rest of the army had no spare strength to build thatched huts, and the county commander Zhou Xing was busy in Xiangshan County to recruit ordinary people and prison prisoners who could not live their lives to serve as flag troops.
When Zhou Xing hooked up the army, they must have a place to live when they come, otherwise they will be uncomfortable and die if they run out of the flag army in three days.
What's more, there are a lot of other problems, the guard is not full of weapons, the swords, spears and firearms are only enough to arm a hundred and ten people, and the armory is so clean that the rats are not willing to stay longer, and there are many uncomfortable things.
Xiangshanwei was not far from the ferry where the boat could be parked, and the closer he got to the ferry, the greater Chen Mu's expectations in his heart were for what kind of warship the imperial court would be.
In the past few days, he has looked out from the arrow tower to the river in the Qianhu Office, and there are all kinds of Mingyi ships and ships of all sizes sailing around on the sea surface of the city and tax department on the outskirts of the south gate of Guangcheng, and now he will also get his own ship, warship.
Approaching the ferry, Chen Mu, who was riding on a horse, looked into the river, and five clippers stopped at the ferry.
His eyes darkened, and five flat-bottomed flat-headed boats docked side by side in shallow water came into his eyes, and the Bailiu Xiaozhan boat, which was less than six feet long and no more than nine feet wide, was safely parked there.
The old-fashioned small sails and big oars, even a short-range cannon like the Franc machine can't be mounted, and a full general flag wants to take the boat and score by two.
If this was the case, Chen Mu would not feel sad - the five clippers were farther away on the sea, and there were clearly docked ten-zhang longship gunboats belonging to Fanyi!
He wants that kind of big guy, not this kind of gadget!
"Chen Qianhu, please get on board!" The battalion soldiers on the ship couldn't see the deep disappointment in Chen Mu's eyes, and clasped his fists and shouted: "It's not easy for the big ship to come in and get out, Chen Shoubei is waiting for you in the city!" β
And big ships?
Chen Mu stepped forward quickly, his eyes full of anticipation.
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The Portuguese Fernand MΓ©ndez Pinto's "Travels" recorded: "Three hundred Chinese galleons, eighty brigs, and 60,000 troops attacked the Portuguese villages in the early morning, and Shuangyu was destroyed and razed to the ground in a matter of moments."