Lord of Ming Dynasty

But is this what Zhang Qiang is thinking about now? The problem now is to help Zheng Chenggong, a half-mixed Han Chinese, to hold on to Australia. We can't let the Thais and Westerners carve up where they are, and we can't let a white-skinned Westerner occupy it. We can't leave disputes for future generations. It might be hard to help them, but if you sell them more ships, the guards are fine.

Although the older large warships of the Huaxia Army Navy are old and not fast, they are faster than the amateur Daming Fuchuan, and they are much more professional in combat. If the number increases, the Taixi people will definitely suffer.

"How much gold and silver did you bring, and how much Huaxia Yuan can you exchange according to the exchange ratio we previously agreed?"

Zhang Qiang asked.

Zheng Keshuang said: "According to our estimates, it can be exchanged for about 200 million Huaxia Yuan, that is to say, you don't need to lend us any more. We will directly repay your 800 million Huaxia Yuan, which can be converted into at least 200 million Yuan. Huaxia Yuan's money, as for the iron ore and bird droppings for you, we didn't bring much this time.

There are only three ships with a total of 180 tons of iron ore and 9 tons of guano. We used three [-]-ton armed merchant ships we bought from the Dutch before. In the future, the speed can reach [-] knots. We have a total of five such ships. This time I brought three such ships.

Because of the long distance, most of the loads on it are fresh water, food, salt, and some artillery, ammunition, and other materials that need to be consumed midway. These materials account for nearly half of the tonnage, so it can hold [-] tons of iron ore. Stones and guano, that's the limit.With a fully loaded warehouse, our sailing speed is only six knots. When the wind is down, our ship can reach a speed of eight knots, and it takes more than two months to travel from the nearest port nearly three thousand miles away. Time to get here. "

"That's it, then throw away the 200 million Huaxia yuan loan you used last time, and you still have 1000 million Huaxia yuan in money. As for the interest, let's not talk about it. What are you going to buy this time?" Zhang Qiang asked .

Zheng Keshuang said: "Originally, I was going to buy population, but with the Dutch incident, my father is going to buy a few thousand-ton warships for your Chinese navy, and small warships. It is best to have new ones. The speed is faster, so that we can deal with the sneak attack of the Dutch and drive them out, but they have too few people, and the most they give us is surprise and pressure.

I mean it’s better to take away some of the population, then take away some ships, and food. We have a large land there, but we just rushed there. The land in many places is not too fertile, and we can’t grow excess food. , so you need to buy some food to go back. "

Chapter 756 Aussie in Crisis 3

Zheng Chenggong's Australia needs population, food, weapons, and warships.

Zhang Qiang knows that this demand is really not difficult for the Huaxia Kingdom, and it has benefits. It seems that Zheng Chenggong has been completely convinced, and he is facing the Huaxia Kingdom squarely. He no longer wants to make trouble. Zheng Chenggong is not a perseverant People, he is the heir of an island family, and also the founder, a pirate, always thinking about speculation, so he cooperated with Zhang Qiang a few times, and turned against Zhang Qiang a few times.

This time, it is impossible to turn his face. Zhang Qiang drove him thousands of miles away. It would take half a year to go back and forth at the slowest speed of the ship, and it would take two months at the fastest speed. Then he could only maintain the same relationship with Zhang Qiang's Huaxia Kingdom. Good relationship now.

Because Zheng Chenggong's vision is still good, at least wider than that of the officials in the Ming Dynasty before, and wider than that of the officials in the Qing Dynasty now.

For a long time, because of geographical factors, historical factors, and Confucianism, Chinese people have been staring at their own one-acre three-point land, never looking outside, and they are relatively arrogant, arrogant, conceited, Lao Tzu's thought of being the best in the world , making it impossible for them to communicate with the outside world on an equal footing.

It wasn't until I was woken up several times in later generations that I felt my ignorance and lack of vision. I worked hard to learn and surpass, but I went astray and only wanted to make money, so I fell behind again.

Zheng Chenggong's proposal is in line with their development requirements, and it can also bring benefits to the Huaxia Kingdom. For the Huaxia Kingdom, there are only benefits and no disadvantages. Of course, we must cooperate.

"How much food do you need?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Zheng Keshuang said: "At least 500 million tons of grain are needed. The 100 million tons of grain last time can feed the previous population for at least two years, but within two years as the territory continues to expand, it may not be enough. And this time we plan to To buy a large number of ships, in addition to warships, more transport ships are needed. You know that we can only manufacture some small ships of about [-] tons, and the construction period is relatively long. If it is a large ship, it does not have that technology, and we can’t wait, so we need more A lot of ships for transportation.

The Dafu Ship that can run twice a year, the Canton Ship that can run three times a year, and your [-]-ton warship that can run a little more than three times a year, or your [-]-ton warship, that speed is slightly faster , can also run a little more than three times. If the wind is smooth, it may be able to run the next year and then return from here to run the fourth time.The speed of the [-]-ton ship is a little faster, and it can basically run four times a year. "

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly. In this way, they would be able to get support from the Huaxia Army in time. At least for material support, they would have to buy ships of all tonnages from the Huaxia Army.

This cost is not small.

Zhang Qiang asked Zhou Porridge to be called. Zhou Porridge led the cabinet ministries to discuss with Zheng Keshuang last time, so Zhang Qiang needed Zhou Porridge and the others to continue to discuss with Zheng Keshuang. Ruan Jin, the director of the navy, called.

Zhang Ying has already retired, so the director of the Navy can only let Ruan come in.

On the sea, on the rivers, we run in hot and humid places all the year round. As a naval commander, Zhang Ying’s body can no longer do anything before he is 70 years old. His sons serve as civil servants in Taizhou Prefecture and other places along the coast. , his grandsons have already served as generals or civil servants in Jiangxi and other places, and he can be regarded as an official who has always done good deeds.

There are not many civil servants and generals like him who were able to start well and end well in the original Lu Jianguo era.

Zhou Porridge, Gao Shi from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Wei Wuji from the Ministry of National Defense, Jin Qi from the Ministry of Military Intelligence, Ruan Jin, Director of the Navy, and others came to the Huagai Palace, and Zhang Qiang negotiated in the imperial palace in the capital of Jinling.

Zheng Keshuang personally participated in the negotiations, and Yu Xing and Gan Hui, the two generals of Zheng Chenggong, participated in it.

Even under the same Han regime, Zheng Chenggong's people fought with the officials of the Huaxia Kingdom without compromise, and they quarreled in the Huagai Hall for a little benefit, while Zhang Qiang watched from the sidelines, flipping through the paper Jin Qi gave him. Military intelligence summary.

Since Prime Minister Yan took refuge in Feng Quan of the Xinlu Mansion, he was appointed by Zhang Qiang as the prefect of Shikoku Island. He was equipped with Zhao Hui, the naval officer stationed abroad, who was also the son of the Artillery Director Zhao Siyang.

At present, the battle on Shikoku Island is not over yet. Kagawa County was captured by the army sent by the third prince and Kong Youxing. There are 30 Kagawa or Kochi prefectures. Captured them wantonly and fled to Denios Island or the Japanese shortcut area on the other side.

The county town of Denios Island, where the second prince is located, gathered about 80 Japanese people, 15 Han people fled, and 400 million Shikoku people. It fell into the hands of the Xinlu Army and the Ryukyu Kingdom Army.

After the battle to capture Kagawa County, the third prince left 11 militia servants, [-] militia, and [-] Ryukyu Kingdom Army to maintain a part of the law and order in Kagawa County, help the Xinlu Army defend, and at the same time defend the corner of Kochi County where they landed. The Bulge guarded the prisoners of the militiamen of the four countries captured by them, as well as the captured civilians, and the other [-] troops withdrew back.

The [-] army returned to Amami Island to strengthen the defense, and the [-] militiamen were also stationed on Amami Island, and the others were stationed separately on the newly captured islands.

There are a dozen or so of the islands they captured along the Amami Island to the original Lu State Island, three of which are larger islands with a radius of a hundred miles, and seven or eight are small islands with a radius of only three or four miles. At least [-] troops are stationed on the island, [-] troops are stationed on the big island, [-] troops are stationed on the frontier islands, [-] troops are stationed on the frontier islands of the enemy who are about to attack, and there are [-] militia servants brought back from Shikoku Island.

There are also newly trained and recruited naval recruits. Zhang Qiang mobilized three more 180-ton warships from the First Fleet to the third prince, six 36-ton warships, fifteen [-]-ton warships, and [-] The [-]-ton warship was rewarded for helping the Xinlu Army attack Shiguo Island as compensation for the loss of his troops. The third prince accepted it happily. He knew that he did not have the ability to bargain with the Huaxia Army. The territory of Shikoku Island, maybe the Chinese navy officers and soldiers stationed on Amami Island and a dozen other small islands will trouble him.

Zhang Qiang never hesitated to reward such a wise person.

After going back, the third prince rested for a week, and then continued to lead the navy to fight the eldest prince. He must turn the eldest prince into a king on an isolated island. He wanted to take down the last three remaining islands of the Lu Kingdom, and then land on the main island of the Lu Kingdom. , regained the main island of Lu State, and became the real king of Lu State.

Perhaps the failure of the eldest prince on their side is inevitable, and the success of the third prince is only a matter of time, so Zhang Qiang will not pay attention to it. If the third prince is obedient, he will not want to touch him anymore. The rest is the second prince, the scourge. Help When the Japanese beat the Han people, Zhang Qiang will never spare him.

Although the third prince's army withdrew, leaving only some troops to maintain law and order, Feng Quan only had about 30 troops, but his strength was much better than that of the second prince's 15 remnants.

Maybe victory is just a matter of time.

The next victory in the Shikoku Island War is to continue the battle to attack Japan's Honshu Island.

The negotiation was still going on, but Zhang Qiang's thoughts went to nowhere.

Chapter 757 The Battleship Crisis of the Huaxia Navy

Zhang Qiang thinks a lot about the affairs of the Dajin Kingdom, the Qing Dynasty, the rebellious Duge, the development of Baodao Prefecture and Qiongdao Prefecture, the development of Yungui Prefecture, and the war in Sishan Prefecture, and always being by his side Messy Thais.

What I am most concerned about is the war in Sishan Prefecture. The war in Sishan Prefecture has lasted for four to five months. Feng Wuyu's corps has already taken down Chengdu and Chongqing, and launched a campaign against the remnants of the Dashun Army. For encirclement and suppression, although some remnants of the Dashun Army surrendered when Wen Anzhi took refuge, most of them were used to being the Tu Emperor and refused to surrender, and instead got involved with He Tengjiao.

At present, Feng Wuyu's Second Corps is attacking He Tengjiao's forces, and because Shang Kexi's forces are relatively scattered and cunning, they go deep into the mountains and refuse to come out. Therefore, it is simply impossible to encircle and suppress them in the [-] mountains of Sishan Prefecture. It's just a painful thing.

But fortunately, the road connecting them with the Qing army has been cut off. Once blocked, it will be nearly a thousand miles away. Don't look at the straight-line distance of only three hundred miles, but you have to consider that this is the Sishan Prefecture, a place surrounded by mountains, and you can walk ten miles in the mountains. The straight-line distance of one kilometer is equivalent to the distance you walk forty or fifty miles on the plains, and some even have to detour for hundreds of miles to pass, and some main roads and waterways are blocked. You can make a detour, don’t detour You travel thousands of miles, can you reach Shaanxi-Gansu from Sishan Prefecture near Yunnan-Guizhou?

Unless you can fly.

The elite militia brigade of the Second Corps cooperated with the newly established field account militia, and properly sealed off some mountain passes that can pass through the large troops. Important checkpoints are stationed with garrison troops, and some strategic cities are stationed with the field army of the Second Corps. , There are more field brigade soldiers searching and chasing them everywhere. Monk He Tengjiao's happy life is not easy.

When he was rummaging for information just now, He Tengjiao was still stubbornly resisting, the remnants of the Dashun Army were still fighting guerrillas, and the enemy's strength was not small. They were all adult old thieves, old and not fading. The regular army soldiers of the four field brigades are gone, mainly because the regular army soldiers can't adapt to their mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare tactics. The number of those bandits was not many, the most was one or two hundred, and the few were dozens. However, any general of He Tengjiao had a thousand men, and the total force was still ten thousand, and there were also people who had supported them for many years.

It is not difficult to destroy their regular camps. The difficult thing is to find their main force for a decisive battle, but they will not give you a chance. Now the Huaxia Army can only use its strong troops step by step to fill the land that has lost population in Sishan Prefecture for so many years through immigration. It is a bit funny to turn people from Sishanzhou into Northeast people of later generations.

These can actually be resolved through time and patience. The unsolvable thing is that you can’t catch them or see their faces, especially Shang Kexi’s Qing army. They are more cunning and better adapted to the terrain where they are. Yunnan Prefecture to attack the garrison, militia and civilians there.

Although the Huaxia Kingdom has lifted the restrictions on the distinction between the green zone, yellow zone, and red zone, there are still core zones, non-core zones, and war zones.

For example, Guangxi Prefecture is designated as a core area, Yunnan Prefecture is designated as a non-core area, Yunnan and Guizhou is also a non-core area, Sishan Prefecture, and three states divided by small Southeast Asian countries are designated as war zones.

The non-core area means the places where the national integration of the Huaxia Kingdom has not reached the qualification level, or where there is support, close to the combat area, and places where resistance may still exist.

Unify the language, unify the currency, unify a patriotic thought, and instill it for a long time. This is the secret of China's longevity. As for the people's uprising, as long as there is a patriotic thought, then it will be fine. After all, you are too strict , People are not obedient and grateful, but want to resist. Zhang Qiang followed this line of thought and slowly expanded his core area with quantitative indicators. What kind of differentiation and nationalization are they doing, how can they integrate, and how can they build our Greater China?

Just when Zhang Qiang's thoughts were flying wildly, Zhou Porridge's cabinet members and Wei Wuji, who were negotiating with Zheng Keshuang's team, finally reached an agreement. The current agreement will not be used for future generations of companies and national trade. It will take several months, or even years, ten years. Several years of negotiations, wrangling with each other, throwing the faces of civilized people on the ground, and fighting for life and death for a little profit, as long as everyone does not involve land, lords, nationalities, etc. It can be solved in a few days, sometimes even half an hour, because the distance is far away, I can't run back and forth, and I try to solve the things that can be solved.

Zhou Porridge reported to Zhang Qiang: "Your Majesty, after our discussions, the final decision has been made.