I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

"Big guy!"

"Quickly send the military doctor!"

All of a sudden, there was chaos in Zeng camp.

……

at the same time.

Panzhuang Town, Tianjin County, next to Chaobai River Wharf, Tongliao Khanwang Tent Office.

The angel from the capital read out the imperial decree of the award, and then handed a white note to Sotna.

This old eunuch was not Li Lianying, Cixi was reluctant to let her confidant eunuch go to such a dangerous place, and this old eunuch obviously didn't want to stay so close to the Ming people, and he didn't even have any interest in asking for kickbacks or rewards.

He didn't say too many polite words, and said directly: "Prince Suo, the country's affairs are difficult! This time, I owe the reward first, and wait until the prince of Suo defeats the thieves. The court will not seal the knife, and the three days of the siege...Prince Suo, this is comparable to 1 taels of silver is strong..."

After speaking, the old eunuch ran away in a hurry.

"Poor man, your grandfather and I want to plunder the city, do you have the guts, do you have the life?"

Suo Tena shook his head, he couldn't afford to pay 1 taels of silver, it seems that the whole city of Beijing is a bunch of poor ghosts, how can there be a generous Master Ming to help him!

"Ah bah!" Soter held the white note allowing to plunder the city, and couldn't help spitting towards the west.

To plunder Tianjin, it is better to find a rope and commit suicide.

Besides, this mere 1 taels of bounty, do you look down on you, Uncle Tongliao?

Sotna crumpled the white strips into a ball, threw them into the stove, and then opened the curtain behind the tent.

I saw boxes of Zhu Datou and bundles of Daming banknotes inside.

Whether it's the little handsome guy on Zhu Datou or the four beauties on Daming's treasure, they are all so good-looking in Suote's eyes now!

No one can refuse the four beauties of Ming Dynasty.

Even if he is Tongliao Khan!

"Sosang! Sosang!"

At this time, a wretched Japanese came in from outside the tent, he was Tokugawa Yoshiki.

Tokugawa Yoshiki bowed and said, "Suosan, we have delivered all the abalone and scallops. The director of Daming made abalone soup and tasted it, saying that it was Sbarasi's work!"

"Ha ha!"

Sotna patted Tokugawa Yoshiki on the shoulder, and said, "Your Japanese king is really good at farming aquatic products. This time we have made a name for Zhangzidao's seafood, and there will be a lot of money in the future!"

Tokugawa Yoshiki also beamed and said: "This time, the land route and the Chaobai River transportation are just to explore the road. The franchise import license for agricultural products bestowed by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is really powerful. Next time we can directly export aquatic products from the sea!"

"Well, yes, we are deeply favored by the emperor, so naturally we want to solve problems for the imperial court!"

Saying that, Suo Yena cupped his hands in the direction of the Forbidden City to the west, "We sell seafood to Daming to raise funds for anti-Ming, and every Ming note given to us by Bao Ming will be sent to Daming." Cannonballs..."

"Suosang, you have a great conscience and loyalty!"

Tokugawa Yoshihito gave a thumbs up and praised wildly, "But Mujin, we'd better not tell him that we sold all his abalones to Daming, I'm afraid his little brain can't understand what is meant by 'curve to save the country' '!"

"That's natural..."

Speaking of Muren, Suotna couldn't help thinking of the severe malnutrition, who tortured himself every day according to the training method of "Da Ming children in the summer camp", and also took time to do scientific research, raise and improve seafood, and shouted "30 years in Hedong 30 years Hexi, don't bully the young and poor "slim young man, he can't help feeling a little bit guilty...

"Let's find a way to improve the food for that kid. After all, it's our golden hen. It won't be good if something happens."

"Well, it just so happened that Mingren's chief secretary gave me a can of nutritional milk powder for children."

Tokugawa Yoshihiro nodded, and said, he took out a tin can with three deer painted on it, "According to the chief secretary, this is a very nourishing milk powder. The Emperor Ming used it when he was a child, and he will eat it for Muren. Like it very much."

"By the way, we finally entered the second pass. We came here with a full load and returned with an empty load. This is a big loss in the business world!"

The business talent of the Japanese seems to be better than that of the Mongols. Tokugawa Yoshiki suggested, "I think we should use part of the money to buy Ming candles, Ming cloth, Ming leather shoes and other bright goods..."

"idiot!"

Sotna was already close to Mo Zhehei. He cursed and slapped Tokugawa Yoshiki, "What do you mean by buying? This is a trophy. This is a trophy of our Liaodong Army! We will take the trophy to various places in Beizhili It’s also very reasonable to exchange military expenses, right?”

"That's right! That's right! High regards, Your Highness!"

Tokugawa Yoshihiro covered his cheeks and nodded repeatedly, "This is our trophy... But... Brother Daming won't be angry if you do this?"

Sotna pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "It's okay... I heard that the Lijian District is recruiting workers. It must be that the tyrant is overseas with militarism, levies and extortion, and the people are living in poverty. It is very reasonable for some boxers to be handed over to Ming people to do hard work, right?"

"Yes, yes, your lord is right!"

Tokugawa Yoshihiro nodded, "I just think...we're doing this...it seems a bit like that surnamed Li in the south..."

"Nonsence!"

Sotna spat out a mouthful of old phlegm, and said, "The one surnamed Li is Tongming, and we are Kangming. Although the methods are similar, the purpose is different. Don't think too much, let's do it this way! We took money from the Daming Imperial Army , we have to do something to paralyze the imperial army, do you understand?"

"High, it's really high!" Tokugawa Qingxi gave a thumbs up, "Why don't you be a prince, and I'm a young general! What the prince said makes sense, we wait for the anti-brightness to work, and to be bright is to live. To live well is to work hard, and you will finally realize it!"

Chapter 508 Bombardment of Manila

Sending 30 people from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to South America was not an easy task.

Daming needs to allocate a considerable part of its huge shipping capacity in the Pacific Ocean to do this.

These transport ships are all subsidized by Zhu Fugui's internal funds, which is a complete loss-making business.

Fortunately, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not a poor ghost. After so many years in the south of the Yangtze River, they conquered so many state capitals and looted the entire city of Nanjing. The Taiping Army possessed countless jewels and gold.

Before, they were only short of food, not gold and silver.

Hong Tianwang also went on the road and handed over these precious metals to the heavenly father.

With this money, the Ming court did not need to subsidize the freight, and was able to build a beautiful fortress for the Taiping Army who had just arrived in South America.

After all, if you call yourself a father, Zhu Fugui shouldn't treat Hong Xiuquan's brother too badly.

Although not as exaggerated as Zuo Zongtang, Zhu Fugui also prepared a small goal for Hong Xiuquan, allowing him to have a dream start in South America.

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Zhu Fugui chose the landing site for them in the Lima area of ​​Peru.

Mainly relying on the Pacific Ocean, Daming is better at transporting supplies.

In addition, Chile, a large mine pretending to be a country, is separated by the Andes Mountains, and the environment is relatively closed. Da Ming's father is going to take it down himself, so he doesn't intend to hand it over to Hong Xiuquan.

In short, Da Ming's father has given everything that should be given, and the rest is up to Brother Hong to work hard on his own.

Zhu Fugui can only wish him smooth sailing and good health.

……

In addition to building the Ming Concession in Tianjin and sending the Taiping Army to South America, of course the Ming Dynasty had to take advantage of the rare strategic opportunity to do other things.

With the outbreak of the war between Prussia and France related to European hegemony, the diplomatic and military pressure on Zhu Fugui suddenly decreased a lot.

In the past three days or so, the European countries who had used Daming as a target to criticize, and regarded Zhu Fugui's verbal criticism as a threat, tacitly stopped talking about Daming's Tianjin public trial, as if nothing happened.

However, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind keeps on.

There is no reason in the world that foreigners can fight when they want to, and make peace when they want to.

Daming is not made of mud.

What is the old powers, what is the world's most powerful country at the beginning of EU4, tactics backward!

At the beginning of May, the ironclad battleship Shenzhou of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty, the light cruiser Infinite Loyalty, and the frigates Shenyang, Dongning, Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou, and Jinzhou formed a temporary formation and slowly sailed through the waters of Penghu and entered Nanyang.

The chief admiral in name of this temporary formation was none other than the eunuch Li Bingbi of Daming Si Li Bingbi, who was well-known among the Nanyang Chinese community, and concurrently served as Dongchang Changgong and Fengdu Armed Forces Eunuch Li Chunfa, Eunuch Li.

The last time Eunuch Li went to Nanyang, he brought a Jinghai Fleet mainly for rescue and medicine delivery.

But this time, when Eunuch Li came to Nanyang, he brought a super fleet with a total tonnage of more than 40000 tons.

Mr. Li's first stop was Manila in central Luzon.

The city of gold that both the Wanli Emperor and the Yanping County King yearned for was still ignorant, and the governor of Manila was still drinking morning tea leisurely with the colonial bureaucrats as before.

The Filipino maid thoughtfully delivered the latest newspapers to the Governor, all of which were full of news about the war between the Prussians and the French.

"This guy called Deathstroke is ridiculous!"

Novaro, the governor of Manila, threw the newspaper aside, showing a disdainful expression, "It is nonsense to say that France is no longer the number one army in Europe. The number one army in Europe is not French, is it still those German barbarians?

Besides, what is the First European Army?Isn't the number one army in Europe the number one army in the world?

Could it be that he naively thought that the Ming people defeated the French with a sneak attack in America, and that they were the world's number one army?

Don't forget that we also defeated the British in the Sulu Sea. In this way, is Spain also the world's number one navy? "

All the bureaucrats burst out laughing.

There are still two sailing battleships throughout Luzon, and these two sailing battleships will remain in service until 30 years later, until the Americans drive ironclad ships to receive the Philippine colony.

However, considering that Spain is still sending sailing warships to participate in the Western Pacific military exercise in 2021, it can be said that the military strength of this veteran power in Southeast Asia is very stable.

More than 140 years have passed, and the naval strength of my Great Spain in Asia has only dropped by 1/2.

It's not that I look down on you in Great Spain. Great Britain, the Netherlands, Miriam, and Portugal are all younger brothers.

Even if he isn't joking about the issue, Novaro doesn't see anything wrong with the Spanish Empire's staid rut.

As a spirited Parisian not uncommon in Europe, he has earned enough silver coins in Manila to retire to Paris for retirement.

"As long as those damn Chinese don't make trouble, I can retire safely..."

however……

boom!

The coffee cup in Novaro's hand shook violently.

Sitting on a chair on the terrace on the third floor of the Governor's Mansion, Novaro was stunned to see a sea of ​​flames rising from the Manila Naval Port.

……

On May 5th, Admiral Li Chunfa, the temporary formation of the Nanyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty, bombarded Manila on the grounds that Spain had insulted Ming Dynasty diplomatically. The day comes when the weak have to succumb.

Although this is written in the textbook written by Xia Zhixin, in fact, the layout of the Ming Dynasty's strategy for Nanyang has already begun.

The reason why Novaro is still thinking about drinking morning tea when the East Asian pan-Mingist trend of thought is surging, besides because he is about to retire and feels that Ming’s iron fist can’t hit him in the face, is really because of his confidence in the Manila Fortress .

The entire Far East, including the British, believed that the port of Manila was "impregnable" because the Spaniards had laid a large number of mines along the channel.

However, Spaniards, like other Latins, have one of the "national inferiorities" visible to the naked eye, and that is laziness.

They did not change the mine layout every six months according to the norms, but they did not necessarily change the mine layout every four or five years.

Not to mention whether the mines will become obsolete and ineffective, even the layout area of ​​the mines can easily be figured out by spies from the trajectory of military and civilian ships in the port.

Sha Qima, as the person in charge of the Nanyang United Fruit Luzon District, has long been united with the local center to find out the Spanish mine layout plan from the Chinese and overseas Chinese in Daming, and handed it over to Jin Yiwei.

Chapter 509 Luzon Protectorate

At dawn on May 5, under the name of Admiral Li Chunfa and the actual command of Senior Colonel Wang Zhonghuang, the temporary fleet of the Daming Nanyang Navy bypassed all the mines and sailed smoothly into Manila Bay.

Until this time, the second inferiority of the Latin nation, sleeping late, once again made the Daming Navy very speechless.

As expected, the sea artillery on both sides of the strait did not fire immediately.

Yesterday was the weekend, the Spanish soldiers were on vacation, and they were sensual until the early morning. According to the Latin tradition, they must get up at least 10 o'clock today.

So Wang Zhonghuang decided to inject spirits into these soulless Latin wastes with gunpowder.

The 254mm semi-fixed artillery mounted on the ironclad battleship Shenzhou was originally a bulky shore artillery, with a slow rate of fire but great power.

In a flexible naval battle, such a gun is definitely not as cheap as a rapid-fire gun, but bombarding a fixed target is the specialty of the Shenzhou.

There are two old-fashioned wooden sail battleships "Rena Cristina" and "Castilla" moored in the port of Manila, with displacements of 3500 tons and 3200 tons respectively.

In addition, there are five warships ranging from 5 to 500 tons.

In fact, there was nothing more that could be done if there were Spanish sailors on watch.

Due to lack of training and maintenance, the "Castilla" could no longer rely on its own power to start.

In other words, the Castilla needs the help of tugboats and trackers to start it.

And it's so hard to die, in order to prevent the damage of the typhoon season in June, the Spaniards actually fixed the "Castilla" and the "Reina Cristina" together.