Wu Xiang took the lead in setting up the Whaling Association, paid insurance money to accept the protection of the Longwu Naval Division, and is expected to reach the strength of having twenty or thirty whaling ships by the end of the year.

A whaling ship had a displacement of 1,000 tons, including equipment for boiling fish oil, grilling fish, and making canned sea fish, plus 12 12-pound Furlong cannons and 6 12-pound Hongyi cannons, with an insured value of 60,000 silver dollars.

The premium is 3,000 silver dollars a year, and if it is robbed at sea or sunk in a storm, "Sun Moon Shipping" will compensate the insured in full 60,000 silver coins.

A whaling ship generally requires more than 100 people, and the nobles will not only recruit sailors and gunners from the school graduates of the "Red Banner Army" system, but also select fierce men from their families to participate in the voyage.

When they get real benefits from the sea, they will become ambitious, and it is not a problem to go out of the Ming Dynasty to the world or even go to South America to pan for gold.

The land of China is full of treasures and outstanding people, and it should be the best place in the world in the Middle Ages.

The fact that the hometown has everything also makes the Han people not need to have the idea of plundering, and they are devoted to guarding their own one-third of an acre.

There are pros and cons in everything, born in sorrow, died in peace, and the ancients did not deceive me.

The Han nation, which had no enterprising spirit in history, finally reaped the fruits of its own efforts and was abandoned by the Age of Discovery.

The Han nation, which had always been ahead of the world in science and technology, was burned by the evil Manchu Qing Dynasty to burn scientific books and educate the people.

As a result, the once world's largest large country has become a semi-colony, and the Han people have become the sick man of East Asia.

Huang Han's intention is to let the magnates stop staring at the farmers who are digging in the soil, how much oil and water can they have? Go to the ocean to go to the New World to dig copper mines, gold mines, colonize and get a lot of money?

In the spring of the tenth year of Chongzhen, in order to carry out the order of the general to take a land, it was necessary to make the military and civilians in the jurisdiction able to produce with peace of mind.

Zhao Kun, Gu Zhun, Gu Rushan, Pei Yuanwu and other generals stopped pursuing Liukou after taking Xiangyang and Nanyang.

After three years in the interior, Zhao Kun deeply understood the essence of the head of the family's thoughts, and realized that if the food problem was not solved, the outbreak of the rogue could not be solved.

In the past two or three years, the "Red Banner Army" system has subsidized 2 to 3 million stone of grain in the interior.

However, as the area covered by the exiles increased, the abandoned land and the number of displaced people fleeing, the food gap could not be stopped.

Reclamation along the Yangtze River and the Han River Circle is the top priority, and we cannot let such a fertile and beautiful place be barren.

Tuntian's achievements are self-hematopoietic function, and with the "Red Banner Army" system supporting weapons and officers, dozens of regular armies and guard barracks have been trained in the interior.

There are too many hungry people in need of relief in the interior, and the guards and battalions of the "Red Banner Army" also have to eat.

The "Red Banner Army" organized more than 100,000 households in the Xiangyang and Nanyang areas, with a sowing area of 5 million mu, and was busy until the end of March.

The Liukou army led by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Shouying, Liu Guoneng, Luo Rucai, Li Wanqing, and Yao Tiandong did not need Tuntian, and their departure from the vicinity of Xiangyang was equivalent to disengaging with the "Red Banner Army."

After dividing the troops again, Gao Yingxiang, the self-proclaimed generalissimo, took the generals Li Zicheng, Ma Shouying and other thieves to go back to their hometown Shaanxi through Shangluo Mountain again, because there was no ambush from Sun Chuanting, they fought well along the way.

Huang Weizheng and Han Zhikuan, who forced the garrison from Xi'an City to change their defenses, led five thousand men to follow the main force of Liukou in the west of Zhouzhi County, but the result was very bad, and Gao Yingxiang launched seven or eight thousand iron cavalry to attack the Ming army array.

In fact, at this time, the total strength of Gao Yingxiang, Ma Shouying and others was less than 100,000, and the old battalion that could fight was only more than 30,000.

The Ming army had more than 80,000 men and horses led by He Renlong, Cao Bianjiao, Tang Tong, Ma Ke, Zuo Guangxian, Huang Weizheng, Han Zhikuan, and other generals, deputy generals, and generals.

If all the Ming armies work together, they will definitely be able to win a decisive battle with the main force of Liukou in the west of Zhouzhi County.

However, several Ming army generals have their own ghosts, and most of the warlordized generals are unwilling to consume their own strength, they are willing to fight a good battle, and they are not willing to fight at all.

Seeing that the main force of the Liukou put on a life-and-death posture to fight hard, first of all, He Renlong, the local chief military officer, led 10,000 or 20,000 horses to run in the direction of Xianyang, and then Tang Tong and Ma Ke followed.

Cao Bianjiao was already powerless if he wanted to fight, he moved quickly, and led 18,000 of his subordinates to retreat into Zhouzhi County in time to wait for help.

Huang Weizheng and Han Zhikuan, Zuo Guangxian and other generals seemed to be more realistic, but they didn't expect to be abandoned by friendly troops, although they had less than 15,000 men and horses in their hands, but they fought with the rogues for a whole day.

In the bitter battle, they looked forward to the stars and the moon, and looked forward to He Renlong, Tang Tong, Ma Ke and others to lead the men and horses to flank the Liukou, but unfortunately they lost more than half of the men and horses and did not see reinforcements, so they had to break through in the night.

Fortunately, due to their friendship with the "Red Banner Army", Huang Weizheng and Han Zhikuan's ironclad family members were well-equipped and numbered more than 600 people.

The total number of men and horses of the three generals Huang Weizheng, Han Zhikuan, and Zuo Guangxian was less than 1,000, and a third of them were wounded, and even Huang Weizheng was not lightly injured.

The most fucked-up thing happened, He Renlong, Tang Tong, Ma Ke, and so on, who fled in fear of the battle, were not questioned because their soldiers were strong and strong.

Huang Weizheng, who almost ran out of people, was killed and became the scapegoats for the defeat, and all three were dismissed from their posts.

After Gao Yingxiang and other rogue leaders won this victory, they received a large number of seizures, including more than 300 pairs of cavalry uniforms of the "Red Banner Army" system, all-steel cuirass and winding soft armor.

Without exception, these equipment were taken from the Ming army that died in battle, and the well-equipped Ming army was, of course, Huang Weizheng and Han Zhikuan's ironclad family.

Gao Yingxiang and others coerced Yu Wei to defeat several cities, not only supplementing the battle losses caused by the vicious battle with Huang Weizheng and others, but also adding 20,000 horses, which is in the limelight.

Hong Chengchou hurriedly consolidated the defensive line, and then pacified and organized the general army Yang Guozhu, Wang Tingchen, Cao Bianjiao, He Renlong, Tang Tong, and Ma Ke to march together.

This time, Hong Chengchou learned to be obedient, and in order to prevent his generals from prevaricating, he personally went into battle to supervise the advance of the army.

Hong Chengchou was ruthless, fearing the enemy, no matter how high the rank, no mercy, from now on, everyone will advance and retreat, as long as it is found that all the retreating stragglers are killed, and it is found that the defeated soldiers of the formation will kill the seven generals with the highest grade.

At the same time, Hong Chengchou continued to implore the imperial court for the original soldiers, naming the elite of the Beijing camp.