There is a five-story building here, which was built in the early Ming Dynasty. It was originally built to provide a view of the whole city.
Zhao Han put down the battle report he had just received. Seeing Zheng Zhilong looking at him, he smiled and said: "Western Guangdong has been captured, only Qiongzhou Prefecture is left. The frontline general requested to allocate ships to attack the island."
"Congratulations, dear brother," Zheng Zhilong immediately handed over, "Do you need the Zheng family to send a ship to help?"
Zhao Han waved his hand and said: "No need for the time being. When there are enough officials, it will not be too late to capture Qiongzhou Mansion. Brother, does he know the situation in Qiongzhou?"
"It's much better than Dongbo," Zheng Zhilong said with a smile. "The number of Han people on Qiongzhou Island is at least one million."
The population of Hainan Island in the late Ming Dynasty must have been more than one million!
Because during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, the registered population of Hainan Island had reached 291,030, almost exceeding 300,000. For more than two hundred years, the imperial court has continued to exile prisoners to the island, and there have been private immigrants along the coast of Guangdong.
Three million Han people are possible.
As for the official data, there were only 250,000 people in Hainan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was fewer than Zhu Yuanzhang's time. It is simply outrageous and nonsense.
Zhao Han stood up and held down the railing, looking across Guangzhou City to the sea. He suddenly turned back and asked: "Does the Red Boiled Ghost really dare to come?"
"I will definitely come." Zheng Zhilong smiled.
After Zhao Han took back Macau, he immediately informed merchants that all countries could come to Guangzhou for free trade, except the Netherlands.
With the arrogance of the Dutch in the 17th century, after hearing this news, they probably wanted to rush into Guangzhou and kill Zhao Han. According to Zheng Zhilong, the Dutch would arrive in Guangzhou within three months.
Zhao Han is now eager to drive away the Dutch because he has captured the entire western Guangdong.
Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty directly bordered Vietnam. In the future, all coastal areas of Guangxi would be under the jurisdiction of Guangdong.
North Vietnam's maritime trade has been occupied by the Dutch. Only by driving away the Dutch can Zhao Han buy food in North Vietnam to solve the problem of food shortage in Guangdong.
During the three-year disaster in Guangdong, Zhao Han brought a large number of troops and officials. Locally purchased grain was no longer enough, and was being transported from Jiangxi. Traveling over mountains and ridges was very costly, so grain imports from North Vietnam must be obtained as soon as possible.
The cost of buying grain from North Vietnam was lower than that from South Vietnam, and merchants were more active in transporting grain and selling it.
Zhao Han suddenly asked: "Is it easy to attack Taiwan City (Rezhelan City)?"
"It's easy," Zheng Zhilong said, "If it's just a naval battle, we can make peace with the Red Fan ghosts after the battle. If we capture Taiwan City, it will be equivalent to a full-scale war with the Red Fan ghosts."
Zhao Han asked again: "What is the combat capability of Red Fangui's army?"
Zheng Zhilong smiled and said: "They are stronger than the guardsmen of the Ming Dynasty."
This statement made Zhao Han laugh. After asking carefully, it turned out that it was really the same.
We cannot blame the Dutch Army for being too weak. Just like the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty Guard, it was all due to problems with their treatment.
The salary of the Dutch Army is extremely low, and you even have to bring your own clothes and hats.
Most army soldiers have to find part-time jobs to make money, or even sneak out of the military camp to work full-time every day.
They come from various sources, and the military training time is only two months. Anyway, they are just trained casually, and then they are assigned to various colonial strongholds from Batavia.
Let's put it this way, the training time for the peasant soldiers under Zhao Han is several times that of the Dutch Army.
Historically, when Zheng Chenggong attacked the city of Rejalan, there were three forts in the Netherlands. Among them, Fort Promincia had a serious shortage of gunpowder reserves, and even the matchlocks of the matchlocks were moldy. The Dutch army in the fort was busy working to make a living all day long.
The Dutch reinforcements at that time were even more ridiculous. The fleet set out from Batavia and only brought over six to seven hundred land troops.
Of these hundreds of army soldiers, only 200 were sent to support Taiwan, and the rest were divided up to attack Macau, leaving the Portuguese in Macau confused.
I feel that as long as they engage in landing operations, the Dutch army is a bunch of lunatics.
Zheng Zhilong glanced at his son and said, "I'm leaving. Quanzi should follow my wise brother to Ji'an Mansion. It's also good to let him go to Jiangxi to see the world."
"Father, I still want to take the exam," Zheng Sen said.
"What is the Juren exam?" Zheng Zhilong was very speechless. "Before you can pass the Juren exam, Fujian is gone. Where will you take the exam?"
Zhao Han smiled and said: "It's okay, I will host it when the time comes."
Fujian is easy to win, and we will advance in three directions when the time comes.
All the way from Qianshan to the south, all the way from Chaozhou to the east, all the way from the sea to Fuzhou.
Since ancient times, Fujian has been an indisputable place for military strategists.
The land is covered with mountains, the land is barren, and the checkpoints are densely packed. It is useless to defeat it. If you really try to defeat it, you will encounter obstacles everywhere. All dynasties have attacked Fujian incidentally.
From another perspective, Fujian can only be divided into separate regions, and the local government cannot even think about going out to fight for the world.
Just like this time, there was a lively fight between Huguang and Guangdong, but there was no movement from the Fujian officers and soldiers. Because as long as Zhao Han defended the two checkpoints and used one or two thousand miscellaneous soldiers, he could kill tens of thousands of Fujian officers and soldiers.
Zheng Zhilong is also helpless. Half of his foundation is in Fujian and half in Taiwan.
Even if he occupies the whole of Fujian and Taiwan, Zheng Zhilong can only stay in peace. Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong can all suppress Fujian. There is no way, the terrain is like this, just like Shandong, it can only be divided for a short period of time, and it is impossible to compete for the world.
After the Song Dynasty, in the entire south, Jiangxi was the most suitable place for Longxing!
At that time, Chen Youliang occupied Jiangxi. If Zhu Yuanzhang had not been lucky, it would be hard to say who would lose and who would win.
Zheng Zhilong was well aware of Fujian's disadvantages, so he had no ambition to conquer the world. He sent his son to Jiangxi just to make plans for the future, hoping that his son would be reused by Zhao Han.
Moreover, he did not want his son to be a military commander, but rather a civil servant.
Two days later.
Zheng Zhilong led his fleet to leave and took away many goods from Guangzhou.
As for Zheng Sen, he stayed as Zhao Han's follower and helped with some simple official documents every day.
"Headquarters, why are there so many reserve officials?" Zheng Sen asked curiously, holding a document.
Zhao Han smiled and said: "Settle down and divide the land."
"It's too much." Zheng Sen said in surprise.
Due to the rapid expansion of the territory, a large number of grassroots officials were urgently needed. Zhao Han also transferred 100 regular officials and 200 reserve officials from Jiangxi, and at the same time recruited reserve officials from Guangdong.
The specific operation is to have one official official as the main staff, two Jiangxi reserve staff, and four Guangdong reserve staff. As long as the registration and field allocation work is completed, the formal staff will be promoted to officials, and all reserve staff will be regularized, and some
If you do well, you can become an official directly.
"Headquarters!"
Zou Guangdi sent a list: "The army has investigated clearly."
Zhao Han looked carefully and breathed a sigh of relief.
In the Datong Army in Guangzhou Prefecture, the top generals were fine. Two middle-level officers were found, one took a bribe of eighty taels, and the other ransacked the house and hid property. In addition, there were six lower-level officials and more than 20 soldiers.
There is an act of hiding property privately.
"Drag him to the dock and execute him in public!"
Zheng Sen followed Zhao Han to the city tower and watched the execution at the dock, feeling greatly shocked in his heart.
Only Zou Guangdi and a Cantonese translator announced in Jiangxi dialect and Cantonese respectively: "Datong's army has strict discipline and does not take people's property... Liu Qian, the commander of the first battalion, the third general and the fourth sentry of the Southern Military Academy
True, for accepting a bribe of eighty taels of silver and privately releasing gangsters Lin Fu and Chen Mingyi, they shall be executed according to military law!"
Liu Qian was being tied up and dragged out. In front of the onlookers, he shouted towards the city tower: "General Town, I broke the military law and I deserve to die. My son is studying in Luling Middle School. He studies very well. Please ask the General Secretary
Please don’t involve him!”
After shouting several times in a row, Liu Qian was kowtowing to Zhao Han, causing blood to flow from his forehead.
"Tell him that if one person is punished, the whole family will not be affected." Zhao Han said expressionlessly.
The guard immediately rushed down to the tower and said: "The chief town said that if one person is punished, the whole family will not be affected."
"Thank you, Chief!"
Liu Qianzheng kowtowed three more times and said to the executioner: "Come on."
brush!
The sword flashed and the head fell to the ground.
The onlookers backed away in fright, and then started talking about it.
If you accept a bribe of eighty taels, you will be beheaded. King Zhao Tian's military law is so strict, no wonder the officers and soldiers were beaten all over the ground.
Next, the officer who hid the property was also beheaded.
Six low-level officers and more than twenty ordinary soldiers were whipped on the spot because their private possessions were worth less than twenty taels, their personal land was taken back, and they were expelled from the army.
As the charges were read out one after another, not only the common people but also Zheng Sen were dumbfounded.
One of the soldiers just hid jewelry, which was worth several hundred coins. He was beaten on the spot, expelled from the army, and one acre of land (based on paddy fields) was taken back.
If someone hid two taels of silver secretly, all his land would be taken back.
"Headquarters," Zheng Sen couldn't help but say, "This is too unkind. As long as he is brave in battle and has only a few hundred coins of jewelry, why should he fire an elite soldier?"
Zhao Han said: "This is just the beginning. From now on, we will kill a group of people on the dock every month!"
Who to kill?
Of course he kills civil servants who dare to commit corruption!
Zou Guangdi announced again: "The head of the Southern Military Academy spends as much as a crane, and he is not strict in running the army. He will be dismissed from all military positions and will remain in the army to serve. With ten strokes of the cane, he will take back one acre of land under his name!"
Fei Ruhe was pulled out to save him face, and he did not take off his pants in public and then beat him.
"Snap, snap, snap!"
The people who gathered around to watch the execution looked incredulous.
They were not familiar with the others, but Fei Ruhe was the highest officer in the occupation of Guangzhou, and led troops to capture half of Guangzhou. Before Zhao Han came, Fei Ruhe was the boss of Guangzhou, and he made the final decision on everything.
Such a general was dismissed from office because of some trivial matter?
Then, several high-ranking officers in the military were pulled out and spanked. Some were demoted and others were beaten to the end. They were accused of accepting bribes from businessmen, but they voluntarily handed over the dirty money and had it confiscated.
"Dead, dead." A businessman trembled. He had bribed these high-ranking officers.
A group of gentlemen standing at the pier were filled with emotion:
"In ancient and modern times, there was no one who was more strict in running the army than the Datong Army."
"I heard that General Fei, who was dismissed from office, is still the brother-in-law of King Zhao Tian."
"This man will win the world, and I want to help him."
"Haha, you are here to help. They only recruit reserve staff. If you want to be a staff member, you have to work first."
"I have inquired before. As long as you become a civil servant, you can be promoted very quickly. The current magistrate of Nanhai County, who was born in Jiangxi Juren, also started as a civil servant. If Fujian is captured, the magistrate of Nanhai County will be promoted to the rank of civil servant immediately.
Zhizhou."
"That's right, that's right. I can only work as an official after I leave my job, but people get promoted quickly. I want to join Mr. Zhao. If I'm too late, it's too late. I need to do my job first and get promoted first."