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Day 2. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Luo Xin and Liang Botao were both dressed in civilian clothes, and Wan Daquan also took twenty soldiers in disguise to protect Luo Xin to the water army camp. Luo Xin found a restaurant in the market outside the water village, asked for a private room, and waited there quietly, he had entrusted the dart bureau to send a letter to Luo Sheng yesterday, and met today.

About two quarters of an hour later, Luo Sheng, dressed in civilian clothes, walked into Luo Xin's box.

"Brother Xin."

"Cousin, sit down and eat first."

"Good!"

There were no words in the box, only the sound of Luo Xin, Luo Sheng and Liang Botao eating, and none of the three of them were drinking, so the meal was eaten quickly, and in less than two quarters of an hour, the three of them were full. Luo Xin wiped his mouth and said to Luo Sheng:

"Cousin, this person called Liang Botao is from the north, he once followed me across the grassland, and he is a person who is completely trustworthy."

"I've seen General Luo." Liang Botao bowed to Luo Sheng.

Luo Sheng also bowed his hand and said, "Brother Liang." ”

"Brother Liang's group of 800 people came, and you know that I annihilated tens of thousands of Japanese robbers on the bank of the Qiantang River before."

"yes, I know." Luo Sheng's eyes showed admiration, and he nodded: "But, how did you give the credit to Hu Zongxian?" ”

"I have too much credit!"

Luo Xin said softly, and Luo Sheng was silent. Luo Jiacheng is also Luo Xin, and defeat is also Luo Xin. Luo Xin's continuous meritorious service has made the entire Luo family benefit, and Luo Sheng's promotion also benefited from Luo Xin. But because Luo Xin's credit is too great, Emperor Jiajing is jealous, not only making Luo Xin in a situation where he will be killed by Emperor Jiajing at any time, but also the entire Luo family is also in a state of being wiped out at any time. Thinking that Luo Xin already had a plan to start a foundation on which island of Taiwan he would go to, his heart became excited.

"Cousin, that Hu Zongxian only knew that I had killed tens of thousands of Japanese robbers, but he didn't know that I had also captured more than thirty ships."

Luo Sheng's eyes lit up, his whole face flushed with excitement, if there were more than thirty ships, he felt that although he couldn't say that he could cross the sea, he would already be able to protect himself.

"More than thirty boats, is this true?"

"Nature is true!" Luo Xin nodded and said: "Liang Botao took eight hundred northern veterans and more than a thousand captured pirates to ransack seven pirate nests a few days ago, and these materials and money are the foundation for my cousin to establish Taiwan. ”

"Great!" Luo Sheng excitedly slammed his right fist into his left palm.

"And Brother Liang also captured more than 10,000 women, children and children, these people all know how to farm, after arriving on the island of Taiwan, you can let those people teach those natives to cultivate farmland."

"Hmm!" Luo Sheng nodded heavily.

"After a while, you take Brother Liang back to your ship, find an opportunity to go out on patrol, and leave Daming. At night, I landed outside at the same place where the Japanese were last annihilated. Now there are more than a thousand veterans from the north, and you pick them up there, and when the time comes, I will send you some more thunderbolts that have been made these days, and then Brother Liang will take you to the place where they are hiding. After joining up with Brother Liang's people, you will go to the island of Taiwan according to the nautical chart I have drawn. ”

Luo Sheng and Liang Botao's eyes both jumped with excitement, and they nodded in unison. Luo Xin said again:

"After you go to the island of Taiwan, the first thing you have to do is to conquer some of the natives, and then start building fortifications where you can land, and then build a city."

"Yes!"

"Treat the natives with grace and power, and not always kill, after all, we want to establish our kingdom there."

"Yes!" Luo Sheng pondered for a moment and said: "Brother Xin, these people we have gathered now are all military people, if we want to govern the island of Taiwan, we need scholars." And if you want to establish Taiwan Island as the real kingdom of our Luo family, you need to educate those indigenous people, which also requires scholars. ”

Luo Xin nodded and pondered, Luo Sheng said it well. It is not difficult to conquer the natives on the island of Taiwan, Luo Xin knows that the island of Taiwan is still a foreign land at this time, and those natives don't even have ordinary weapons, and they are still very backward. And who are these people recruited by Luo Xin?

But they are all veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, Luo Xin is not everyone, Tang Zhuang is very familiar with the north, and he has a wide range of contacts, and the veterans he recruits are all powerful veterans, and they are all excluded by the officials and oppressed by the unwilling. There are now more than 2,000 veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, plus the 500 soldiers trained by Luo Qing, they can completely crush those natives.

But......

It's one thing to conquer the natives, it's another thing to subdue the hearts of the natives. In this way, there is a great need for readers. Let these military people govern Taiwan, I am afraid that it will be chaotic. But readers are not so easy to recruit, even if Daming is the world of readers, those who read people enjoy themselves well in Daming, who wants to go to a barbarian land?

"I'll figure it out."

In the end, Luo Xin had to take on this task first, and then find a way after he went back. Fortunately, this matter is not very anxious, Luo Sheng and they first have to find the island of Taiwan, and then conquer the natives, and build fortifications, which will take time. After letting go of this matter, Luo Xin said again:

"Cousin, more than 30 boats are not enough at all, after you find the island of Taiwan, just leave half of the people to conquer those natives, those natives' combat effectiveness is very low, as long as you don't enter the mountains for the time being, only fight in the plains, those natives are vulnerable. The other half of the men had to go to sea for the sole purpose of attacking the pirates and robbing their ships. But remember, if you can take pirates, take them prisoner, don't kill them all, take them in your hands, and train and discipline them in the way of an army. This cousin, you're in business. ”

Luo Sheng said with a row of chests: "Don't worry about this, even if it's garbage, I can also train him into a real soldier." ”

"If there is a skilled person among the pirates, pick them out. For example, carpenters, blacksmiths, etc., especially those who can build ships and make weapons, should be selected and these skilled people should be gathered in one place to establish a labor department. Be sure to treat these craftsmen well. I'm also going to look for some craftsmen here, and then you'll take them all to the island of Taiwan. ”

"Will anyone want to go?" Luo Xin asked worriedly.

Luo Xin pondered for a moment and said, "There should be, after all, the status of craftsmen in Daming is very low. If it really doesn't work, then deceive, and when the time comes, forcibly take them away. It's just that after arriving on the island of Taiwan, just treat them well.

Remember, when I say kindness, I mean true respect, and treat them as if they were scholars. After I can recruit some scholars to go to the island of Taiwan, I will also let those scholars teach those craftsmen to read and write. The strength of the island of Taiwan is directly related to these craftsmen. At that time, we will create a system, which is equivalent to those children, talents, people, and scholars among the scholars. ”

Luo Sheng's eyes showed embarrassment and said, "Brother Xin, I don't understand any of this. ”

"It's okay!" Luo Xin waved his hand and said, "You first go to conquer the Taiwanese natives, build fortifications, and go out to grab ships." When the time comes, I will try to go to the island of Taiwan once. ”

"That's great!"

Luo Sheng's eyebrows danced when he heard this, who is Luo Xin? That is the champion of this dynasty, a generation of Confucianism, with Luo Xin to plan, Luo Shengden felt that he had no pressure.

After some detailed discussions, Luo Xin left, and Luo Sheng returned to the water village with Liang Botao.

Luo Xin did not go directly to Hangzhou City, but went to the manor outside Hangzhou. When I came to the manor, I checked the roster, and there were 1,532 veterans recruited from the north. Luo Xin selected three hundred people from among these people, and then asked them to go to all parts of the country with enough gold and silver, and their task was to find all kinds of craftsmen, and then recruit them, and even let them go to the yamen workshops in various places to secretly solicit them, no matter what means they used, whether it was lure or deception, saying that their master wanted to build a big garden and hire them, anyway, they got all those craftsmen here.

Luo Xin's heart was big, he wanted to make more advanced ships, and he also wanted to make guns. It's just that he doesn't know much about shipbuilding and gun building at all, but only a little bit about the structure. But he is not in a hurry, he can give what he understands to those craftsmen and let those craftsmen study slowly.

Luo Xin believes that these craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty are the scientists of this era, and what they lack is only direction. As long as he pointed them in the direction, provided them with enough money, and gave them enough respect, he believed that these craftsmen of Daming would eventually make it.

These three hundred people left with Luo Xin's mission, and Luo Xin was worried again. What he was worried about was how to get some scholars to go to Taiwan, in the era of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to fool some scholars to go to a barbarian place like Taiwan. Only those who have lost hope are possible......

"Slow! Lost hope ......"

Luo Xin's heart moved, and there were not no scholars who had lost hope in Daming, but they were those exiled criminals. There will be criminals in the Ming Dynasty every year, and the law of the Ming Dynasty is that the Zhulian people, especially during the Jiajing Emperor, the most officials were exiled, often a family was exiled, and there were naturally a large number of scholars. There is no hope for an exile, and those who survive two or three years in exile are very lucky. Because the officials who were in charge of their fate did not treat them as human beings at all, and the vast majority of them were tortured to death. And if Luo Xin gives these people a hope, these people will definitely follow Luo Xin, even if it is to go to a foreign place like Taiwan Island.

Luo Xin began to analyze the possibility, there are usually only two places where the Ming exiled criminals, one is the extreme south, such as Lingnan. One is the extreme north, such as the nine northern towns where Luo Xin once fought.

"It all takes money!"

Luo Xin sighed, these exiled criminals, their fate is all in the hands of those officials in the north and south, there is no difficulty in getting those scholars from them, there is a high emperor there, as long as they are given enough money, those officials will report the death of those people that Luo Xin needs, and then hand them over to Luo Xin. It's just that those officials are greedy moths, and Luo Xin doesn't need one or two scholars, the more the better, so this requires a lot of gold and silver.

"It seems that Liang Botao has to embezzle the gold and silver they have seized. However, the island of Taiwan also needs to be built! ”

Luo Xin's frown tightened and he thought about it, and gradually a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

With a plan in his heart, Luo Xin left the manor and returned to Hangzhou City. As soon as I returned to the city, I saw that the New Year was coming in a hurry, and my mouth was foaming, and when I saw Luo Xin, I began to complain about the prefect's yamen, which simply stopped some supplies, and now the wharf has stopped. Luo Xin comforted He Nian with a smile, telling him not to worry, so that he could talk badly, and finally persuaded He Nian to leave, Luo Xin called Lu Daqing to the front and said:

"You go to Weiyuan Dart Bureau and let Zhao Darthead come to see me."

"Yes, Master Hou!"

"By the way, call Wan Daquan."

"Yes, Master Hou!"

Lu Daqing left in a hurry, and after a while, Wan Daquan walked in and said, "Meet Master Hou." ”

"Daquan, how are the things that have been explained to you going?"

"Back to the Hou Ye, it has been investigated clearly, the wealthy families in the southeast are smuggled with the vassal states or pirates on the fifteenth day of every month, respectively in the Qiantang River in Haining on the Hangzhou side and Wusongkou on the Suzhou side."

"How's the scale?"

"It's very big, the wealthy families here in Hangzhou are all on the Haining side, and the wealthy families in Suzhou are on the Wusongkou side, almost all the families will trade in these two places on the fifteenth day of the month, and the ships in the two places can add up to dozens."

"On such a large scale, they are so blatant?"

"Yes, they don't shy away from it at all, and the only thing they hide from is that they don't smuggle during the day, but at night. Master Hou, the entire southeast is a tripartite collusion between officials, businessmen, and pirates, and they have no scruples at all. ”

"Bang!" Luo Xin slapped his hand on the table fiercely: "Sooner or later, kill all these fortified cities." ”

"When will you do it?" Wan Daquan looked at Luo Xin excitedly.

Luo Xin glanced at Wan Daquan speechlessly and said, "Continue to let the scouts spy on those wealthy families, including the prefect Song Danian." ”

"Yes, Master Hou!" Wan Daquan retreated.

Luo Xin sat on the chair and thought about things, and after about two quarters of an hour, Zhao Dart's face was sweaty.

"Meet Master Hou."

"Sit down!"

"Master Xie!"

"You bring a letter to Tang Zhuang, and let us spend money to buy the exiled scholars in the places of exile in the north and south, and then send them to the manor outside Hangzhou. Let the dart bureau embezzle all the money to this area first, and I will make up for this part of the money to you as soon as possible. This must be done in secrecy to avoid being discovered. I'm writing to you. ”

"Yes, Master Hou!"

Zhao Dart left with the letter, and Luo Xin sighed.

"Money! Emperor Jiajing's reward is also coming soon, and after arriving, Qi Jiguang and his eldest brother will come back. When I get back, it's time for me to give them a good look. ”

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