Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

With the help of Zhu Hechi, the Money Industry Chamber of Commerce established an interbank market, and also developed many kinds of bills.In addition, many big banks in Guangdong have also benefited from the "national treasury of silver" and "official bond issuance"...Of course, official bonds are just a test of water, and the courts of Zhu and Qi are not short of money.

In a word, although Zhu Hekui did not rule Guangdong for a long time, the people of Guangdong, including the industrial and commercial circles and ordinary farmers and fishermen (Danhu's household registration was merged into civil registration), have benefited a lot.

So during his personal expedition this time, more than [-] people came to see off at the Tianzi Ferry Pier.

By the afternoon of that day, when Zhu and Qi officially boarded the armed merchant ship "Chengtian", the pier was already crowded with people.I don’t know who took the lead. Suddenly someone on the pier sang “You will win if you fight hard”, and then more and more people sang along. , seven points depend on hard work" singing.

The armed merchant ship that Zhu Hexi was riding on, amidst this chaotic but extremely high-pitched singing, slowly left the Tianzi Ferry Pier, and gradually disappeared from the sight of the elders in Guangdong!

Chapter 392 Farewell to the Qing Dynasty

"Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass stretches to the sky, the sound of the willow flute blows in the evening wind, and the sunset outside the mountains; at the end of the sky, at the corner of the sea, half of friends are scattered, and a pot of turbid wine is full of joy..."

Outside the city of Ningbo, on the banks of the Yongjiang River, and in the back garden of the Qing Governor’s Office of the Zhejiang Governor next to the Zhaobaoshan Fort, melodious singing sounded again.

A singer bought by Yangzhou Lichun Courtyard is playing the piano while singing "Farewell" which is the most popular song in the south of the Yangtze River... This song was brought to the south of the Yangtze River by businessmen from the "Ryukyu Kingdom". When they leave their hometown and go out for business, family and friends sing them off.

Well, anyway, this is what Fan Chengmo, the governor of Zhejiang and the governor of the Nanyang Navy in the Qing Dynasty, heard people say!

And this song has a gentle melody, and the words are full of light and sad lyrics. Somehow, less than half a year after the opening of Ningbo and Yangzhou ports, it quickly swept the whole of Jiangnan... especially Jiangnan's official circles.

Although everyone felt that this song was not quite right, they couldn't help singing it.There are also some people, such as Fan Chengmo and his good friend Yu Chenglong, the inspector of Zhejiang Province, who really like this song, but cry every time they hear it!

During this time, Yu Jackie had nothing to do in the Yamen in Hangzhou, so he ran to Ningbo to find his good friend Fan Chengmo. When they got together, they liked to drink while listening to the singing girl sing "Farewell", and then cried a lot ...

By the way, now that the counties in Zhejiang are organizing group training, and the power has been delegated to the local tyrants, there is nothing for him to inspect as an inspector.Although there is a "Yao Qisheng conspiracy case" at hand, Yu Dalian is not very interested.

This Yao Qisheng used to be the county magistrate of Xiangshan, Guangdong, but was dismissed because he accepted bribes from the Portuguese to open the sea ban, and then he did business in Zhejiang.

But for some reason, there was actually a "Zhejiang Yao Qisheng" on the "Renzike Tribute List" of the rebel imperial court in Guangzhou.When the news spread to Zhejiang, Fan Chengmo, then governor of Zhejiang, sent troops to arrest Yao Qisheng and ransacked his home at the same time.As a result, many military books and weapons were copied from his home!

You are a good scholar, why do you want to hide military books and weapons at home?Obviously they want to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!

So Yao Qisheng couldn't clean himself up by jumping into the Yellow River.And his eldest son, Yao Yi, was also regarded as a traitor because of his high martial arts skills and good at archery, and was arrested together with his father.But because he couldn't stand the torture, when Yu Jackie took over the case, he had already committed suicide in prison...

Although Yu Chenglong felt that Yao Qisheng's case was very suspicious, firstly, it was a case handled by Governor Fan Chengmo; secondly, Yao Qisheng's family was ruined, and he must hate the Qing Dynasty in his heart. If released, he might become a real traitor.

Therefore, Yu Chenglong ordered Yao Qisheng to be executed by Ling Chi according to his predecessor's line... Now he is waiting for Emperor Kangxi's approval!

"Woooo, woooooo..."

When the singer's singing touched their souls again, the two old men hugged each other and cried again.

The Yangzhou singing girl was used to seeing it, she just got up and performed a blessing ceremony, and then drifted away.

When Fan Chengmo and Yu Chenglong were crying sadly, a housekeeper of the Fan family hurriedly came to the backyard and saw the two masters crying again, he just sighed, then went up and saluted: "Master , Master Yu, the admiral of the Nanyang Navy, Ba Junmen asked to see... He said there was an urgent military situation!"

This "Pakistan Army Gate" is called Balthazar Barth, a Dutchman, and he is the former fleet commander of the Dutch East India Company.

In the first year of Kangxi, the year Zheng Chenggong captured Taiwan and died, he led an expeditionary fleet of [-] warships to regain Taiwan.Although Zheng Chenggong had passed away when he arrived on the coast of China, the Yanping Palace had just experienced an internal strife, which severely damaged its vitality.

But this Bart still didn't dare to attack Taiwan rashly, but chose to cooperate with the Qing court to attack Zheng Jing who was entrenched in Xiamen and Kinmen.

After driving Zheng Jing away, he also signed a "Treaty of Qing and Netherlands" with officials of the Qing court in Fujian.According to this treaty, the Qing-Dutch coalition forces will attack Taiwan together. After the Zheng regime is eliminated, Taiwan will be handed over to the Netherlands.

However, when the Qing-Dutch allied forces went to sea to attack Taiwan, they encountered a typhoon and returned without success. Geng Jimao, who was in charge of Fujian at that time, was not interested in sending troops again.So Barter simply went it alone, sent troops to occupy the chicken coops in Taiwan, and established a colony there.However, because Zheng Jiajun stationed troops in Danshui later and cut off the supply of the Dutch, the Qing court began to move the border along the coast again, making it impossible for the Dutch to trade, and finally had to give up the chicken coop.

After working on the coast of China for several years, Barter, who finally returned to Batavia empty-handed, thought that he would never deal with those incompetent officials of the Qing court in his life... But somehow, he himself changed He became a dignified military gate of the admiral of the Qing Dynasty.

And what makes this Dutch servant of the Qing Dynasty even more speechless is that he, the admiral of the Qingshui Division, was not the emperor of the Qing Dynasty begging the Dutch East India Company to send him to do it... but the Dutch East India Company begging Emperor Kangxi agreed to let the East India Company and the Spanish-Philippine Governor's Office send warships to fly the Qinglong flag to fight against the new Ming's navy.

His behavior probably belongs to "self-cleaning"!

The reason for such a thing, on the one hand, is because the new Ming Dynasty declared that it would change the status quo in Nanyang by force, and did not recognize the interests of Spain in the Philippines, nor the interests of the Netherlands in Java and Malacca, let alone Vietnam, Burma, The "independence" of Siam, Borneo, Champa, Chenla and other countries.

Such a position constitutes an extremely serious and brutal violation of the interests of the Dutch East India Company!

It is unacceptable to the Dutch East India Company and the United Provinces of the Netherlands!

Of course, it is also unacceptable in Spain!

On the other hand, the Dutch East India Company and the Spanish Philippine Governor's Office were unwilling to impose severe sanctions on the new Ming Dynasty.

Because this kind of sanctions is likely to mean the complete interruption of trade, and it also means that the new Ming Dynasty will spread "magic gunpowder" to the Ottoman Empire and the Indian Mughal Empire...

Therefore, Masiike, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, and Santos, the justice of the Philippine Governor's Office in Spain, discussed such a "self-clearing" method.

Because he is "self-clearing", he is of course not qualified to show off his power in front of Fan Chengmo and Yu Chenglong, two high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty.But Emperor Kangxi also took care of him, telling Fan Chengmo not to care too much about those foreign devils who don't know etiquette.

Why are they all international friends of the Qing Dynasty!

Barthes came with Figo, the Portuguese slave of the Qing Emperor, who is now an assistant to the Nanyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty...in fact, it is a general matter.

After the two foreign devils in military uniforms of the Qing Dynasty bowed to Fan Chengmo, Figo directly reported the emergency military situation to Fan Chengmo without even caring about the greetings.

"Zhijun, we have just received reliable information from a Dutch businessman who came from Guangzhou... Zhu Heqi, the Puppet Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, has left Guangzhou City and is heading for Ningbo with a huge fleet!"

"This is impossible!" Yu Chenglong yelled, "Isn't Zhu Heqi already dead? He was shot to death by a musket in Anqing Xiangkou!"

Figo shrugged, "Maybe he's been resurrected... His spells don't seem to be inferior to the Qing emperor's!"

"This is not..." Yu Chenglong didn't know what to say.Kangxi can be beheaded and survive, but Zhu and Qi can't be killed if they are shot with muskets?

If this Ming-Qing war continues, it will become "Fengshen Yanyi"!

Fan Chengmo coughed and signaled Yu Jackie not to say useless strange words, lest disaster come out of his mouth.

Then he asked Figo again: "What did Ba Junmen say? Can you fight?"

"Yes!" Figo said, "Ba Junmen said that as long as Zhijun is willing to pay enough, he can summon a powerful fleet to defeat the hypocritical navy."

Chapter 393 The Temporary Labor Fleet of the Qing Dynasty

"What does it mean to pay enough? What does it mean to have a way to summon a powerful fleet?"

Although Figo, the Portuguese slave, spoke decent Beijing dialect, Fan Chengmo became more and more confused the more he listened.

Fan Chengmo's eyes widened, and he said again: "Ask the surname Ba, did the officer deduct his military salary, or did he not pay the East India Company and the Spaniard's charter fee according to the contract? Why is there a price when it comes to sending troops? ? Is he trying to blackmail me?"

The current Nanyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty is following the route of "building is worse than buying, and buying is worse than renting".Although the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty was hung on the warships, the ownership of the warships belonged to the Dutch East India Company and the Kingdom of New Spain, and the Qing court had to pay rent on a monthly basis.

Most of the officers and soldiers on board are also "dispatch workers" who have signed contracts with the Dutch East India Company and the Kingdom of New Spain. Only Barthes and Figo have the official establishment of Qing slaves.

Among them, Barter is from Zhenghuang Banner Manchuria, and Figo is from Xianghuang Banner Manchuria...they are all Manchurians!

In addition, when leasing ships and outsourcing officers and soldiers, Fan Chengmo also signed very specific contracts on behalf of the Qing court with the Dutch East India Company and the Spanish and Philippine Governor's Palace.

How much rent should be paid, how much military pay, how much bonuses, how to compensate for war-damaged ships, all have specific terms and conditions, and no more money can be added!

Figo quickly waved his hand: "No, no, Zhijun, you have misunderstood the meaning of Bajunmen... Bajunmen means that the Pseudo-Ming Navy fleet is very large, with hundreds of warships, including more than a dozen warships. A large Western-style soft-sailed ship. The strength of the Nanyang Navy alone may not be enough to win, so he hopes to temporarily hire some Western sea ships moored in Ningbo Port to participate in the battle."

It turned out that Barter, the commander of the "outsourced naval fleet", felt that he was not strong enough, and wanted to recruit some temporary navy workers to help fight the war.

Moreover, in the current Ningbo Port, there are hundreds of armed merchant ships from the Netherlands, England, Portugal, Spain and the "Ryukyu Kingdom".

The reason why so many foreign merchant ships went to Ningbo is because Emperor Kangxi, after being criticized by Huang Zongxi, also felt that many policies of the Qing Dynasty in the past were a bit "self-harming", especially the move to the border and banning the sea, which was simply "self-harming" It's not what a sage like him should do.

Moreover, due to the fall of Guangdong and Fujian provinces, the remnant forces have been fully revived, and it is meaningless to move to the forbidden sea.

So just before the start of the consultative meeting, Kangxi decreed to abolish the extremely unpopular border-removal ban on the sea, and at the same time opened Ningbo, Yangzhou, and Tianjin as treaty ports.Among them, Ningbo Port is the largest and busiest of the three major ports. Not only many Western merchant ships come to Hong Kong for trade, but also many merchant ships from Fujian and Guangdong, under the instruction of Zheng Jing, sailed under the name of "Ryukyu Tribute Ships" The banner to go to Ningbo to do business - this is of course not collaborating with the enemy, but to transport the silk and cotton produced in the south of the Yangtze River to Guangzhou, so as to consolidate Guangzhou's "Haijing" status.

At the same time, it was also to infiltrate Jiangnan under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The rather sad and unique "Farewell" was ordered by Zhu Heqi to spread to Jiangnan by these "Ryukyu merchants".

Many regiment training envoys who "guarded" a county also received a personal letter from Zhu Heqi ordering them to "protect the environment and the people, and wait for the heavenly soldiers".

Although Fan Chengmo and Yu Chenglong also knew that these "Ryukyu tribute merchants" came from wrong paths, but in order to get more tariffs, they just turned a blind eye.

Seeing that Fan Chengmo was still hesitating, Figo added: "To control the army, in fact, hiring merchant ships to participate in the war is a common method used by Western countries when they go to war at sea. Because the sea is dangerous and there is no law of the king, so the merchant ships that run far seas are very strong. And they are all equipped with artillery, enough to deal with naval battles.

Even on the western side, the monarchs of various countries will issue private plunder licenses after the sea battles begin...that is, to allow their own maritime merchants to legally go to sea to rob enemy merchant ships. "

"Isn't this a state of bandits?" Fan Chengmo was taken aback, and quickly declared, "My Qing Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and I will never issue bandit licenses! However, I temporarily hired armed merchant ships from Xiyi to suppress bandits. It can be considered. If these Xiyi armed merchant ships encounter fake merchant ships at sea, they can naturally capture or sink them, and all the property obtained will belong to the Xiyi armed merchant ships.

Yu Shan, do you think this is feasible? "

Yu Shan is the name of Yu Chenglong, and Yu Chenglong is the procuratorate of Zhejiang Province. Of course, he is the authority on the issue of whether the robbery at sea is legal.

"Of course it's possible!" Yu Chenglong smiled, "This is a common practice... things can be done this way, but it is impossible to issue a robbery certificate."

"If you don't have a certificate, just grab it!" Fan Chengmo said to Figo, "Is this possible?"

"Okay, okay," Figo said with a smile, "it's fine with your words. In addition, the tax at Ningbo Customs is a bit heavy now! Not only import goods have to be taxed, but even export goods have to be taxed... Do you think so? Can you reduce it a little?"

Although the current Emperor Kangxi no longer engages in those self-harming maladministration, he is not lenient in collecting money.

Moreover, due to the "sell of the group training rights" at the beginning of the year, it was a bit difficult to collect the Jiangnan autumn tax for Kangxi's 13th year.So Kangxi simply asked the governors of Jiangnan, Zhejiang, and Jiangbei provinces to set up tax cards in the territory to extract likin, and also increased the collection of import and export duties.

In addition, Kangxi also sent people to Yangzhou to investigate illegal salt, and several big salt merchants have been investigated...

However, Fan Chengmo couldn't care less about collecting taxes now, because he knew that if he couldn't defeat the invading Ming army this time, then Ningbo Port would soon cease to be the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, Ningbo's tax should be collected by that Zhu Heqi who survived the shooting!

He immediately smiled and said, "That's easy to say... As long as those foreign merchant ships are willing to help fight against the rebels, I will make the decision and give them permanent tax-free rights! All merchant ships participating in the war will be able to enter and leave Yongjiang Commercial Port tax-free in the future."

Figo was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately hit the rails while it was hot: "Zhijun, this empty talk is not easy to deal with, or you..."

"I know, I know!" Fan Chengmo said, "This official will set up a written proof, and then stamp it with the seal of defense... Fei Zuoling, you should tell Ba Junmen quickly to summon the temporary navy and go to sea as soon as possible to suppress the thieves. This officer will prepare the proof of tax exemption!"

Yu Chenglong also added: "Don't forget to tell the people below that this time you go to sea to kill and rob at will... Even if you rob the land in Fujian, the court will not care."

Figo nodded again and again, and promised with a smile: "Okay, this is great! With the two of you, our Nanyang Navy can pull out at least forty or fifty large ships... twice as many as the rebels, and the odds of winning are still high." Pretty big!"

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Ningde, Fujian, Sandu Aohai Bay.

The Northern Expedition Fleet of the Ming Army that has passed through the Taiwan Strait is now anchored in Sandu'ao Bay, which has a large mouth and a dangerous terrain.

After drifting at sea for a few days, Zhu Heqi abandoned the ship and landed, and lived in the Sanduao Palace prepared for him by Zheng Jing.

According to the plan made by Zheng Jing, Chen Yonghua, Qiu Rong, Chen Shangchuan, Jiang Sheng, He You and others, Zhu Heqi and the land divisions of the two towns will disembark at Sanduao and wait for the victory of the naval battle on the shore. good news.

After winning the naval battle, the army was divided into two groups, marching all the way from land, going to Wenzhou and Taizhou to Ningbo, and landing directly in Ningbo all the way.After the confluence of the two armies, they will go to Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang together, and go directly to the city of Nanjing.

The biggest obstacle standing in the way of Zhu Heqi's Northern Expeditionary Army was the temporary labor fleet of the Qing Dynasty under the command of Barth.

And in the early morning of July 22, a "Ryukyu Merchant Ship" from Ningbo Port arrived at Sanduao by the north wind, bringing the "Great Qing Foreign Slave Fleet" to Zhu Heqi, Zheng Jing and others News of upcoming departure.

A decisive battle that will determine the maritime hegemony of East Asia has finally begun!

Chapter 394 This is the struggle of civilizations!

"The Qing demons and foreign ghosts have colluded together and have come together to fight against our world... This is not a battle between family and country, but a battle between the world!

This is not only a struggle between us and the Qing demons, but also a struggle between our Huaxia Xia and the Western Yi world! "

Outside the central army hall of the Sandu O Day Camp, the officers in red robes and yellow scarves, with long swords and hammers all stood up straight, motionless, and could only hear their heavy breathing. Everyone looked excited and eager to try.

Zhu Heqi was also dressed as a saint, standing in front of the queue, surrounded by Wang Zhengjing of Yanping, Governor of Nanyang Trading Company Chen Yonghua, Admiral of the Nanyang Navy Qiu Rong, and Minister of War in charge of the Navy Chen Shangchuan. An important minister and general who manages the Southeast Asia.In front are hundreds of officers from the Fujian Navy (formerly the Zhengjia Navy), the Guangdong Navy (formerly the Qiu and Chen Navy), and the Naval Division of the Whampoa Military Academy.

He has long known that the conflict between himself and the Westerners is inevitable, and the conflict will be long-term.

Now is the climax of the age of great voyages!

It is the golden age of Western civilization, relying on strong boats and guns to travel across the world to engage in zero-dollar purchases... It is also the era when Westerners establish an order belonging to Western civilization in this world!

As the leader of Chinese civilization, as the guardian of East Asian civilization with Chinese civilization at its core, and as the heir to the order of the Celestial Dynasty, Zhu Hechi was born to be the enemy of Western civilization!

To borrow the words of Li Hongzhang, an important official in the late period, what Zhu Heqi and the entire Chinese civilization and East Asian civilization are now facing is a major change that has not been seen in 3000 years!

That's right, this unprecedented change in 3000 years definitely didn't start in 1840, but with the discovery of the New World by Columbus and Magellan's voyage around the world.

Since then, the earth has become a whole.Originally scattered in every corner of the world, it was difficult to communicate, and even never communicated with civilization, and was suddenly pushed into an arena where the fittest survive and the strong develop.

However, the resources and wealth of the entire world are not enough for all civilizations to join hands and enter industrialization together.

It seems that the resources and wealth in this world can only allow some countries and regions in one of the civilizations to first cross the hurdle between agricultural civilization and industrial civilization... and now, Western civilization is already in this inter-civilization. Occupied a great advantage in the industrialization competition!

They have seized most of the "zero yuan purchase" market in the world, and have invaded the corners of Chinese and East Asian civilizations!

And the Chinese civilization, the core pillar of the East Asian civilization, has fallen into a long battle for the world!

What is even more unfortunate is that it is not the main body of Chinese civilization that has the upper hand in this world war, but the Manchus from the corners of Chinese civilization...

In history, the Manchus, who were lucky enough to be in charge of China, put most of their minds on defending against Han fools. By moving borders and banning the sea, they voluntarily withdrew from this struggle between civilizations—of course, even if the Manchus did not If you voluntarily withdraw from the struggle, the Chinese civilization will not win, at most it will lose a little less.

And Zhu Heqi wants to win!

Not only to win the Chinese Xiaxia, but also let the Chinese and even East Asian civilizations defeat the Western civilizations, and be the first to step into the threshold of industrialization.

This is called win-win, win the Manchu once, and win the West again.