Chapter 13: The Ground Splits

Regarding the actions of these ministers, Zheng Zhilong has no interest in getting involved. Instead, there is an idea of watching from the wall.

Zheng Zhilong's calculation is deep, and it is not comparable to Zheng Chenggong.

So Zheng Zhilong didn't think about ending soon. He immediately replied to Zheng Chenggong and asked Zheng Chenggong not to return to his teacher so soon. Also wait for the timing.

As for when exactly this time is. It depends on the form of Nanjing.

If Luo Yulong's defeat in Shandong was a collapse of the sky, the weak ruling foundation of the Great Xia court led to a problem, and it was the earth cracking.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan is still at the junction of Gaozhou and Leizhou, and he is also inspecting some sloping bays.

Maxian Bay is the later Zhanjiang Bay. At the exit on the south side of the bay, there is a peninsula that goes deep into the bay and blocks half of the bay like a gate, and just above this small peninsula there is a village called Tsugawa Village.

The village is not large, with only a few hundred households. Half of them are fishing, and half of them are farming. Perhaps there are also people who venture out to sea. But it was only a sporadic incident, and it did not go to the sea like the whole village and the whole family in Fujian.

This small, quiet village welcomed thousands of men and horses on this day, both on land and water, with dozens of large and small ships, and even two or three gunboats that had just been built. This is almost the absolute main force of the Guangdong Naval Division.

There is no way around it. Zhang Xuan wanted to go from the waterway and inspect the sailor by the way. Lin Cha and other generals, large and small, were more nervous than the other. In order to protect Zhang Xuan, all the warships that could be used were used, and to a certain extent, these sailors were enough to fight the Zheng clan of Annan.

The ship docked, and a long plank was laid directly from the ship on the shore.

Zhang Xuan walked on the plank, only to feel that the plank shook slightly. He stepped off the plank and finally got his feet on the ground. For a while, there was a feeling of seasickness.

After all, Zhang Xuan is a northerner, and the sea is a completely unfamiliar territory for him. was seasick on the boat, and he was a little seasick when he got off the boat, but Zhang Xuan fought all the way, even if he didn't want to, his physique was almost exercised.

So this situation can still be supported for Zhang Xuan.

When he disembarked, he looked back and found that almost all the ships had docked here. It can't be trimmed at all.

"A natural harbor." Zhang Xuan's first thought was this.

His shallow knowledge of geography told him. Such a coast can be said to be difficult to find. If you want to dock only a small sampan, you can dock on almost all coastal shores, but if you want to dock a large ship, it depends on the geographical environment.

There are two islands on the periphery of this place to block the waves on the sea, and there are such good docking conditions. made Zhang Xuan feel like he had picked up a treasure.

Actually, Zhang

Unbeknownst to Xuan, there was a name he was very familiar with, called Guangzhou Bay, which was a French colony. He memorized it when he endorsed it back then, but he didn't link the two together.

The French can fancy the good port, which shows the geographical superiority of this place.

Zhang Xuan immediately clapped his hands and said, "That's it." Give Xian Zijing an order to come here to establish a sub-bureau without affecting the production of Foshan. ”

Zheng Lian immediately said, "Yes." ”

Zhang Xuan asked again, "What's the name of this place?" ”

Lin Cha immediately said: "From here the locals call it Ma Xian Bay. ”

Zhang Xuan was not very satisfied with the name, pointed to the small village on the side and said, "What is the name of this village?" ”

Lin Cha didn't know either, so he asked the people around him to know, and said, "It's called Yuchuan." ”

Zhang Xuan's heart moved, and he said secretly: "The name of this Zhanjiang didn't come from here. He thought for a moment and said, "This place is called Zhanjiang." The sailor will first set up a garrison here, and then set it up as a guard post first. ”

"Yes." Lin Cha said.

Zhang Xuan actually wants to set up an administrative unit here, but there is no need for Foshan here, Foshan has a foundation, it is one of the famous towns in the world, and it is a matter of course to be promoted to a county. But this is between Leizhou and Gaozhou, the nearest county seat, and there is also a distance. It's not sparsely populated, but it's not the town it is now.

Even if it is a county, it is an empty shelf. It can only be temporarily classified as a military unit. Send troops to station, and after the manufacturing sub-bureau opens, it will naturally prosper here, and it is not too late to set up a county. Aren't there many industrial cities in later generations that have factories first and then cities?

Zhang Xuan was planning this place, imagining the grand scene of the Manufacturing Bureau in the future, but he was worried about the safety here, after all, this was a wasteland before, and Zhang Xuan did not send many garrisons. Although Zhang Xuan has a lot of men and horses in his hands, they are scattered to several provinces, and if they are deployed everywhere, it will be like sprinkling pepper noodles, and it will be useless at all.

Therefore, at the county level, there are almost no garrisons. There were also not many garrisons at the prefectural level, and only in a few strategic locations.

And now Zhanjiang can be said to be a poor country, so Zhang Xuan naturally will not place a garrison here.

However, after Zhanjiang was selected by Zhang Xuan, it will be a strategic place in Guangdong in the future, and it cannot be ignored.

When Zhang Xuan was thinking about this question, he saw a commotion next to him, and just as he wanted to ask what was going on, he saw Cao Zongyu arrive, not only Cao Zongyu, but also Deng He, Xu Du, and even Fu Shangrui, He Wusu and other civil and military officials.

If Zhang Xuan was surprised to see Cao Zongyu, he was shocked when he saw so many people coming.

Because he knew that if something had not happened, none of these people would have come to see him.

"General, something big has happened." Cao Zongyu desires

When I wanted to stop talking, I looked left and right, and saw that there were many people, and when I got to my mouth, I forcibly choked it in.

Zhang Xuan suddenly realized, and seeing that there was no place to talk around, he took everyone on the boat again, sat down in the cabin, and let irrelevant people go out, before saying, "Now you can talk about it." ”

"Li Chengdong defected, the front line was defeated, Gao Jie was killed, almost the whole army was wiped out, His Majesty was only spared, the world was shaken, and the Qing army went south in three ways." Cao Zongyu said in a low voice, as if he didn't want more people to know.

When Zhang Xuan heard this, his breathing was tight, as if he wanted to forget that he still had to breathe. I panicked at first, and then calmed down.

For the battle of the Northern Expedition, Zhang Xuan secretly made many deductions, what should be the big victory, what the big defeat should be, and what should be the halfway way up. I don't dare to say that I am confident in everything, but Zhang Xuan is not completely unprepared, as for the psychological preparation for the worst, he has already had it.

At this moment, the bad news came, and it seemed that the second boot had fallen to the ground. But in a moment, I calmed down. His eyes swept over everyone, but he saw that everyone was looking at Zhang Xuan, as if they wanted to find strength from the clues on Zhang Xuan's face.

Zhang Xuan said: "As long as Your Majesty is safe, the overall situation will not be chaotic." Don't worry about it. Zhang Xuan paused slightly and said, "With me, I can't turn the sky upside down." ”

Zhang Xuan's words, no matter how few words they spoke, seemed to have a special power, the power that could make people feel at ease. Many of them looked the same, but their breathing was a little calmer and they didn't look so nervous.

Zhang Xuan was in the cabin, pacing slowly, and said, "No matter what, we can't sit idly by. Zheng Lian. ”

Zheng Lian said: "The lower official is here." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Prepare a letter for me, and say that the southern army is invited to fight." ”

Zheng Lian said: "Yes." ”

"He Wuju." Zhang Xuan said.

"The lower official is here." He Wuju came out of the ranks.

Zhang Xuan said: "Immediately withhold all the tax silver, supply it to the army, and supply it to the manufacturing bureau at all costs, even if there is no iron available in the people of Guangdong, the production of the manufacturing bureau can only be expanded, not reduced." ”

Although Zhang Xuan said in his words that the overall situation cannot be chaotic, it is not something that Zhang Xuan can predict where the situation will develop. Zhang Xuan had to prepare for the worst. I can't take care of the people of Guangdong.

"This order was also passed on to Guangxi and Hunan." Zhang Xuan turned his head to Zheng Lian and said.

Zheng Lian said: "Yes." ”

Zhang Xuan then said: "Send the order, immediately reorganize the army, after an hour, I will set off, give an order to everyone, ten days later, I will gather generals in Guilin." ”

"Yes." The generals agreed.

Zhang Xuan's southern army has long been distributed in various places, and it is not easy to gather together.