Lord of Ming Dynasty

"It may also be that the French are confusing us. Look, the cannons on the castle have been pushed to the crenellations of the city wall. This is the appearance of being ready to counterattack the enemy at any time. Normally, they should cover the cannons and push them to the forts behind. Now, to prevent rolling and hurting people, the soldiers on the crenels are very vigilant now, and there are officers looking up at the port from time to time, it seems that we have alarmed the French."

"But their trade is still going on. Look, there are fishing boats returning to the port over there. I wonder why we didn't see them at sea when we came that day. There are at least so many fishing boats in the port. If we go fishing, I think we should see them at least within a hundred miles above the sea surface, even if we see very few of them, but that day on the seaway separated by more than ten nautical miles, we went half a circle, but we didn't see them. .”

"Looking to the south and northeast, it seems that there are tribes of Indians, stockades, and there are many Indians. They are gathering, and I don't know where they are going. Near the town, there is a camp for trade between the two sides, but now it seems There were not many people in the camp."

"There are quite a lot of ships. It is estimated that with such a large number of ships, the number of people is at least more than 1000. The residents in the town are about 4000. The number of troops in the castle is at least [-] to [-]. I don't know the French. Why keep so many troops, and so many warships, armed merchant ships."

"If so many troops attack us suddenly, I don't think we can beat them, and we won't be able to escape at sea."

"No matter what, we always have to face it. Seeing that the French have not contacted us until now, we know that it must be bad. I think the war is not far away from us."

The first thousand and 160 four chapters always have to face

The night was like water, the sea was ebb and flow, suddenly a few black shadows rose and fell in the quiet camp, and the ups and downs were close to each other, and then there was a sound of cicadas, and several people disappeared in a corner.

Under the dim light, several people approached each other, and then sat down again, some stood, some looked at the window, and whispered to each other.

"How about it, haven't you determined where we are?" A voice asked eagerly.

Another voice that sounded familiar said: "I can't be sure, but I can guess that we must be in the West, but not necessarily in Europe, maybe in North America. This is my judgment."

"When can we go back, or when you decide to send someone back to report." A thick, short, stocky man asked in a rough voice.

"Old Liang, please keep your voice down, let the patrol team hear that we are all finished. I wonder if Li Tou dislikes betrayal the most? Although we are doing things for the Chinese Empire, you also know why the mercenary group is so miserable. It's not because of the Huaxia Empire. In order to complete the mission, many of our people died for no reason. We are lucky to be able to gather now. Others don't know if they can survive or not, whether they are with other exiled people The same, became the target of being wiped out."

"Yes, I felt it too. All the intelligence personnel sent to the mercenary army seem to be like insignificant people. There are some people who are not valued very much. Maybe this is my illusion, but that's how I am. Thinking about it." A lurking military intelligence agent from another mercenary group said.

"Maybe it's not aimed at us, it's aimed at those foreign monkeys and bears. I know that many Russian bears have also joined the Ministry of Military Intelligence. Maybe it needs to clean up some people of foreign nationalities who are mixed with fish and dragons." An intelligence officer of the garrison squatted with his head down. on the ground.

"No matter what, we have all been affected, or we have all been purged. I don't think it's fair. We should find a way to contact the higher authorities as soon as possible. It's best to send someone by boat to tell the country the route and location here. Let's see the domestic reaction." The short man said aggrievedly.

The man on the lookout whispered: "The patrol team is here, let's disperse quickly. If there are more than five people, if they are not organized privately, they will be considered to be out of order. We have seven more people now."

The familiar voice said: "That's it, we'll contact you when we have time, you two hurry back to the barracks through the back door, the three of you stay here first, the two of us go first, you follow up later. As for the report, Let’s wait for a while, one ship can’t start now, maybe we can wait until we defeat the French, and then send two people back to Turkey to make contact.”

After he finished speaking, he waited for a while, the back door opened with a creak, and the two figures disappeared into the alleyway behind. They could not walk more than ten meters. In the camp, where the sentry shouted, a few words came, and then the two disappeared into the camp guarding the prisoners.

I took a look at the patrol team. A patrol team of 12 people, carrying a gun and leading a snow wolf, walked on the stiff ground that was still ice slag and weeds. The two came out from the front door of the house and met each other. The patrol team called out a password, and the two answered the password skillfully, and then the officer of the patrol team said: "My lord,"

"Well, continue to patrol and stay vigilant. There may be enemies coming to attack recently, so we can't let the enemies get in." A familiar voice sounded.

"Yes, my lord," after answering, the patrol team walked towards the guard camp in neat steps. There were still more than ten meters away from the guard camp. The two sides answered each other's passwords, and then exchanged some information. go.

The three people in the house looked around, the short burly man looked outside, then stepped out through the back door, the remaining two cleaned up, and then left the house.

In the corner of the room sat a man smoking a cigarette.

Although it's almost summer, the cold spring air still makes people shiver. If you don't pay attention when you go out, you can hear violent sneezing.

Thirty miles away from the camp, in a harbor blocked by cliffs, promontories, and a reef in the sea, a small town appeared in the eyes of the scout cavalry. There were many residents in the town in the telescope, and the small town was built in French style. Town, wooden houses, but there is still a castle-like building standing on a hill not far from the port, with the French flag flying on the top of the castle.

The pier is a stone trestle and a stone embankment, and there is an extended wooden trestle in the distance. There are many small boats and small-tonnage ships moored there. On the pier, there are huge warships and sail warships moored on the stone trestle. From seven to eight hundred tons to more than 3000 tons, there are also two ironclad warships. The tonnage seems to be only about [-] tons. The round chimney is now emitting a trace of green smoke. It seems that the boiler has not started, at least it is only maintaining the firepower. If the boiler is started, at least there will be straight or puffs of black smoke.

"The port is very quiet. There seems to be no military action. The soldiers are patrolling casually, not looking like they are preparing for war."

"It may also be that the French are confusing us. Look, the cannons on the castle have been pushed to the crenellations of the city wall. This is the appearance of being ready to counterattack the enemy at any time. Normally, they should cover the cannons and push them to the forts behind. Now, to prevent rolling and hurting people, the soldiers on the crenels are very vigilant now, and there are officers looking up at the port from time to time, it seems that we have alarmed the French."

"But their trade is still going on. Look, there are fishing boats returning to the port over there. I wonder why we didn't see them at sea when we came that day. There are at least so many fishing boats in the port. If we go fishing, I think we should see them at least within a hundred miles above the sea surface, even if we see very few of them, but that day on the seaway separated by more than ten nautical miles, we went half a circle, but we didn't see them. .”

"Looking to the south and northeast, it seems that there are tribes of Indians, stockades, and there are many Indians. They are gathering, and I don't know where they are going. Near the town, there is a camp for trade between the two sides, but now it seems There were not many people in the camp."

"There are quite a lot of ships. It is estimated that with such a large number of ships, the number of people is at least more than 1000. The residents in the town are about 4000. The number of troops in the castle is at least [-] to [-]. I don't know the French. Why keep so many troops, and so many warships, armed merchant ships."

"If so many troops attack us suddenly, I don't think we can beat them, and we won't be able to escape at sea."

"No matter what, we always have to face it. Seeing that the French have not contacted us until now, we know that it must be bad. I think the war is not far away from us."

The first thousand and 160 chapters and five, the French are not coming, the Indians are coming

Here we are looking for the French. Not far away, a few barefoot Indians painted with tree sap, holding javelins, bone bows, and even arquebuses are watching a dozen or so cavalry scouts guarding in the distance. In the valley less than five miles away, a few more Indians looked at a small group of mercenaries who were busy setting up camp.

Although these are mercenaries who have experienced life and death, and have undergone certain military training and reconnaissance training, these people are still wild. Facing professional concealment, Indians who are born jungle fighters, the team still did not notice. The leader of this team is the old militia leader. Although he has logistics talent and has participated in battles, he is an auxiliary battle after all, and he learned from the regular army. Therefore, he still underestimated the Indians in guerrilla warfare. .

Perhaps in large-scale battles, he has more experience than Li Ya. After all, Li Ya was only a child born in the later period. At that time, the entire Chinese Empire had just ended a full-scale war. All the wars were cavalry troops, field troops, and the main militia Yes, these trained soldiers in the rear did not participate in several battles, they were all promoted in peacetime.

Li Ya went through a few small-scale battles in the later stage, and also learned many battles. He studied in the military school and was good at fighting. However, it was the first time for him to face this kind of battle mode with colonists on a deserted island. If you say that the battle is similar, it means that the battle they fled is similar to this kind of battle. He also has some experience, but he is now the leader. He has to coordinate and command this mercenary group. Every day is a strategic arrangement. What he thinks is Big things, tactical battles, he has devolved to the officers below.

After all, he was abandoned, and there were quite a few officers in the mercenary regiment. There were also forty officers who actually served in the army and had relevant combat experience.

The hardness of the stones is not very beautiful, but when you walk on the big cart, it is stable and firm, and the key is to accelerate the speed of pedestrians running on the road. It is much faster and cleaner than the dirt road. Because Daming did not have cars weighing tens of tons like later generations, even if there were carriages for transportation, they would never weigh more than a few tons. This weight is more than enough for this kind of low-level roads. This is what Zhang Qiang brought to this Times have changed.

It can't be said how advanced or advanced it is, but it is absolutely convenient.

And with the increase of R&D personnel, it is mainly because the Huaxia Army has added other industry exams on the basis of the imperial examinations, 360 lines, and there are exams for all walks of life. Low-level personnel can get a government-certified industry qualification certificate. With these certificates, you can engage in research in related industries, and sell the research results to the government, and the government pays a certain amount of money to buy the research results.

This is the qualification certificate for all people in the industry. It is an honor to have this certificate, just like a scholar who has been admitted to Tongsheng. In the village, you can also get the reception of the village head, the head of the security, or the head of the township, and let everyone look at you highly. In these low-level administrative positions, you can also get a good income and a basic monthly salary.

People in the village read a letter, recognize a character, or build something, find an authority to authenticate it, and they will come to you, or the price of what you come up with is higher than the price of other people who have not been authenticated. I have to find you when dealing with the government.

Zhang Huangyan walked all the way, passing through the countryside, and learned about these things through the mouth of the young guide who led the way.

Low-level certification does not require you to be literate or have read books, as long as you can get something in the industry and get government approval.

And can get the qualification to go to adult night school for free. If you graduate from the night school, that is to say, you know ten Arabic numerals and more than one hundred characters, you can take the qualification certification level two examination.

These exams are all focused on industry leaders. If you can speak clearly about farm work and record it with the help of others, and if you can understand it yourself, you will be able to obtain a second-level qualification certification.

These people were all requisitioned by the government to help solve problems such as going to the countryside to count the amount of farmland, how much it produces, how much iron can be smelted, how much iron can be hammered in a day, whether some things made by carpenters meet the standards set by the government, and help the government solve the problems of contact with people in these industries. Task.

Of course, these people do not need to receive wages. They will be paid when they are requisitioned.Promote Jin Lin to lead the 11th Field Brigade, Ma Sanli to lead the 12th Field Brigade, Du Ge to lead the 6rd Field Brigade, He Jin to lead the 13th Field Brigade, and the remaining Field Brigade No. 13 Field Brigade to be transferred to the southwest of Guangzhou. Ma Han took over the No.[-] field brigade, and then transferred Feng Wuyu's second field brigade to the southwest defense line, and Feng Wuyu followed to the southwest defense line to take charge of the work there.

Xuanyuan Longfei was transferred to Wuchang Mansion, and the Fifth Field Brigade still followed.

Ruan Jin took over Ma Weixing's [-]th Field Brigade and was stationed in Anqing Prefecture. The generals were changed, but the soldiers of the [-]th Field Brigade did not move, and the station did not move.

The Ninth Field Brigade did not move, and the commander was replaced by Bagyalu. The Third Cavalry Brigade was transferred to the central Jinhua Mansion, and Wei Wuji personally took charge of it.

Ma Weiren, the commander of the Ninth Field Brigade, went to take over the No.18 Field Brigade and stationed in Hanyang Prefecture.

The No.20 Sixth Field Brigade was transferred from the Hubei battlefield to defend the Southern Ming Army in Shaoguan, Guangdong.

When you want to go one step further, the government has launched a three-level qualification certification. These people must be able to speak well and be able to count and write. These people are generally veterans or businessmen's buddies, old officials in the government, or have been famous for a long time Some of them are directly recruited by the government and given to a clerk. These clerks spend more than half of their time working in the government, and they are called the low-level clerks of the government.

They have no possibility of being promoted to government servants, but they can assist the government in doing things, even put forward some good suggestions, and develop good things. The government will sell their suggestions and research and development at a high price. This is the government's achievements. The civil servants above have to rely on them if they want to be promoted to higher-level section officials.

The fourth level is usually those who have read books and have profound attainments in the industry. They also have the heart of being an official. Members can be promoted to official positions, and can be promoted to positions such as clerks, document offices, book books, etc., which are equivalent to the assistants of township heads and town heads.

You Haibo’s Department of Officials, Zhang Huangyan’s Department of Household Affairs, Li Guangdi’s Department of Education and Administration, Xiao Dazhuang’s Department of Punishment, Qian Bingdeng’s Ministry of Rites, Zhang Mingzhen’s Ministry of Agriculture, Zhu Panpan’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Li Guo’s Ministry of War, Wan Siyuan’s Ministry of Industry, Zhang Liang’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of People’s Affairs Huang Tao, Wei Wuji of the Ministry of National Defense, Du Ge of the Supervision Department, and Milin of the Military Intelligence Department, all the departments are fully equipped.