Chapter 191: Harvest
Outside the gates of Taizhou County, with hatred for the Dutch and Portuguese, even Ming pirates, Qing army Tartars, and those captives whose skin and national style were distinctive, the officials of the Jinhua Rebels in Taizhou and Wenzhou lined up to meet their governors.
Why hate?
Because although it had been three days since Zhang Qiang was assassinated, they didn't know about it until the night of the second day of Zhu Dayou's arrival.
The reason for this delay was that Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Prefecture where they were located was busy clearing out the people who had escaped from the assassination, Wei Wuji was leading the army outside, and Zhu Dayou was ordered to lead the army to reinforce Taizhou Mansion, and stayed in Xianju County, and waited until the evening, that is, the next night, when the battle along the coast of Taizhou was almost completed from the sea to the land, and when they won a great victory, all the generals gathered in the Yamen of Taizhou County, and when Zhu Dayou arrived, they knew about it.
For a while, everyone was sincerely afraid, some clamored to lead the army back to King Qin, Jinhua Mansion, they were all promoted by Zhang Qiang, they were all promoted from the bottom, and they were promoted from the ranks of the righteous army, if there was no Zhang Qiang, they were still wandering, or still running for life, still enduring other people's white eyes and scolding, and even being driven to death by others, living a life that was not as good as a day.
Nowadays, they are rich, powerful, and the governor's henchmen who are envied by everyone, and on the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army, they are the government and they are the sky, so their feelings for Zhang Qiang are really deep.
But everything has an element of performance, and there is also an element of true feelings, the feasible assassination has ended, Zhang Qiang is intact, and the rule of the Jinhua Righteous Army is still unshakable, all they can do is to greet Zhang Qiang at the gate of the county on the third day, when they know that Zhang Qiang is coming.
And since Zhang Qiang walked to the carriage, yes is the carriage, now in this era, even the Americas are a reckless land, Britain, Spain, Portugal, and what European regions are still in a semi-feudal, semi-religious, semi-chaotic state, the only place that can be called literary and technical is Milan and other places in Italy, and there is a more barbaric Rome, why barbarism, because in Zhang Qiang's view, gladiators and the like, and the Senate assassinate the Senate members at every turn, and they are conquering everywhere, can that be something that civilized people do?
Civilized people are like him, they use their mouths, never use knives to plot against political opponents, and everyone speaks with strength.
Yes is strength, these seemingly loyal subordinates in front of him, it is because he has strength, they will be loyal to him, if he is a man named Hanako, but has the bloodline of a certain prince, even if it is the bloodline of a close member of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, but there is no army, no money, no territory, see if they are loyal to themselves?
How did Zheng Zhilong treat Longwudi?
Loyalty is always proportional to the strength you have.
One by one, he shook hands with his subordinate officials and generals, comforted and encouraged, helped some of the kneeling people up, and said a few words of encouragement, while telling them that they were fine and not frightened.
After some greetings, everyone returned to the county office.
After taking his seat at different levels, Zhang Qiang carefully inquired about the details of the enemy's offensive campaign at sea.
Compared with the details of the battle, Zhang Qiang paid more attention to the accumulation of experience of naval soldiers.
But this process is not an overnight process.
Many naval soldiers have learned from this large-scale naval battle, and the intense fighting has brought out the potential of people, some have become more panicked, some have become more courageous, and some have become more skilled, some have become better at thinking, and all have summed up some experiences and lessons that they do not seem to have.
The new tactics enabled them to achieve victory, and also made them no longer afraid of this kind of battle, and built up their confidence.
Some unfit for naval warfare were transferred, new sailors, and willing to cooperate prisoners were transferred to ships, while the size of the navy was expanded.
At present, a maritime patrol consisting of one Galen ship, 10 medium-sized Fu ships, and 20 armed merchant ships has been dispatched to patrol within a radius of 100 nautical miles, pushing the naval fleet of the Jinhua Righteous Army, which had previously only retreated to the interior of the harbor, to the front line, and thoroughly ensuring the safety of the coast within at least 100 nautical miles.
Ships in this era were generally docked, a hundred nautical miles, which could completely ensure the safety of all the sea fleets, merchant ships, and even fishermen who had to pass through the coast of Taizhou and Wenzhou.
Such a patrol fleet is called the Coast Guard.
There are three detachments along the coast of Taizhou, two detachments along the coast of Wenzhou, there is a fleet patrolling outside in peacetime, changing shifts every half a month, if there is a situation, another detachment will be sent to support, and the remaining detachment will be sent out when it is necessary to face small or medium-sized pirates, or enemy attacks, and in peacetime, this detachment will patrol within 20 miles of the coast, and at the same time escort some fleets that are needed, or perform some special tasks.
As for the naval fleet, after everyone summed it up, they began to readjust their organization and retrain sailors and combat soldiers, that is, the Marine Corps.
It is still divided into three fleets, managed by Zhang Ying, Zhang Ying still serves as the admiral of the navy, but he is not the admiral of the second fleet of Taizhou Prefecture, but he needs to manage the entire naval fleet, taking into account the coast of Wenzhou and Taizhou.
The First Fleet of Dragon Ball Island was not transferred, and after the reorganization, the old ships were dismantled and the new ships were added, with thirty newly built five-hundred-ton Galen ships as the main combat force, fifty four-hundred-ton Karak galleons as auxiliary combat forces, and three hundred tonnage medium-sized ships as troop and material carriers, as well as a support fleet, which numbered one hundred and twenty ships, and about twelve new clippers from the shipyard, as a way to convey orders, and even to lure the enemy fleet during battle, or to assault, The killer weapon to break through the enemy fleet exists.
A total of two hundred and twelve ships.
The Third Fleet of Wenzhou Province was the same size.
Zhang Ying's main fleet, the Second Fleet, was much larger, with 120 galleons of 600 tons, 150 Clark galleons, 300 large Fu ships, 150 medium Fu ships, and 300 small centipede ships, a total of 1,000 and 20 warships.
Of course, these fleets are still on paper, and all the ships are still old ships that have been captured and cobbled, and this configuration will have to wait until all the shipyards, two shipyards on Dragon Ball Island, one medium-sized Fuchuan shipyard, and one small Fuchuan shipyard.
Wenzhou Mansion, a large Fu ship, a medium-sized Fu ship, a centipede ship shipyard.
Along the coast of Taizhou, an 800-ton Galen ship, a 300-ton clipper shipyard, five 500-ton Galen ships, three 600-ton Galen ships, two 500 to 600-ton Karak ships, a large Fu ship, a medium-sized Fu ship, a small Fu ship, a small Centipede ship, and a civilian merchant shipyard were all completed, and even when they had the ability to build ships.
It will take some time, but it won't be too long.
Because Zhang Qiang captured about 20,000 pirates this time, and at the same time threw some ill-intentioned people who yearned for the Manchu Qing in Jinhua and about 20,000 Ming people who opposed Zhang Qiang into the prisoner camp.
These people have enough manpower to build these shipyards in half a year, and even have the ability to build seawalls, build more roads, and build more shore defense batteries.
These people Zhang Qiang will not tolerate their lives, maybe more captives will be thrown into the prisoner camp, because these pirates on the island of the sea are old and weak, their families, and will continue to be brought back by Zhang Ying's fleet, and it is initially estimated that there are still 30,000 people, at least more than 10,000 people will have the ability to work.
In total, more than 50,000 captives will be arranged to do all kinds of work along the coast, and the criminals in the cells of the various county towns of the Jinhua Righteous Army will also be brought over for labor reform, which is another 50,000 people, 100,000 construction army, and they don't need to pay wages for labor at all, a little food, they can be allowed to do the work of about 200,000 workers, which is extremely cost-effective.
This can be regarded as the harvest after Zhang Qiang was assassinated and the Jinhua Righteous Army was attacked and defeated by the enemy, and it can be regarded as a bumper harvest.
The harvest is much more than that.
Although some enemy ships at sea have been smashed by shells, they can be repaired, and they can be disposed of at a low price to those merchants who need to go to the near sea, and some retired merchant ships can also be disposed of at a low price to some businessmen who go to the far sea, such as the coast of Manila, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and even the coast of Annam.
Some merchant ships in good condition, armed merchant ships, were organized and escorted by one or two medium-sized Fu ships, and they were also equipped with obsolete Ming artillery, which became the sea caravan of the Jinhua Righteous Army.
And the broken planks in the sea, the broken hull, salvaged up, dried, useful to sell to the shipyard, useless, sold to the people in the coastal counties, burned as firewood.
Those anchors and canvas can be salvaged, and some useful things can be made, which are really not sold to ironworks, blacksmiths, tailors who make sailboat canvas, so that they can use them to make canvas and anchors for some fishing boats.
Broken copper and iron, arquebuses, are all returned to the furnace to become new cannons or arquebuses, and even new armor and weapons.
In short, with the loss of fifty ships, thousands of militiamen, hundreds of garrison soldiers, and two thousand soldiers of the naval division, Zhang Qiang gained so many benefits.
At present, the Jinhua Righteous Army has five caravans on the road, three caravans at sea, and a caravan from the Governor's Mansion that specializes in trading with Zheng Chenggong, and as for other civilian spontaneous caravans, there are even more, which greatly increases the financial income of Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Rebel Army.
Of course, there are some things that don't always feel good, for example, Wei Wuji recently reported that Tian Bin, a traitor, had escaped for the third time, and he had fled into Shaoxing Mansion, which was guarded by Qing soldiers.
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