The Dutch have always been very confident and always take the initiative to launch mysterious attacks in Asia.
For example, eight years later in history, 18 warships and 800 soldiers were divided into three groups and wanted to engulf the entire Philippines.
They robbed Chinese merchant ships at sea, intercepted Spain's American treasure ships, landed along the way and constantly incited the Filipino natives to rebel, and finally led the native rebels to Manila to fight Spain.
The battle lasted for eight months, and the Spanish defenders suffered dozens of casualties.
The Dutch East India Company and its Far East branch suffered a direct financial collapse and were unable to expand in the Far East.
I wonder if such confusing behavior is caused by the shareholding system. Listed companies are easily swayed by their stock prices. The Dutch East India Company was eager to expand, perhaps to show its performance to shareholders.
The attack on Macau this time is also puzzling.
Even if the Netherlands conquers Macau, can this poor place be occupied for a long time? Let alone force Zhao Han to trade!
"Um, can you..." Huang Yunxiao hesitated before speaking.
After Fei Ruhe was dismissed from the army, he could only train troops in Macau and had no command rights for the time being. This time, he watched the whole Macau defense battle.
"If you have something to say, just say it, and don't hesitate." Fei Ruhe said angrily.
Huang Yunxiao scratched his head: "Although the Franji people in Macau are not Chinese, they have also received temporary household registration. Can...can they intermarry?"
"Which family's daughter?" Fei Ruhe asked.
Huang Yunxiao was a little embarrassed: "It's the youngest daughter of Senator Cavallino, whose house was attacked by the red ghost. Her name is quite nice, her name is Elizabeth (White)."
"Okay, if you want to fight a war, just kidnap a barbarian woman." Fei Ruhe teased.
Huang Yunxiao just giggled.
This fellow commanded the battle sharply, and the Dutchmen were all over the place. Elizabeth, a little girl, watched the whole battle in her villa, and was immediately fascinated and secretly moved.
The Portuguese in Macau have been settled for decades, and it is inevitable to intermarry with the Chinese. As a member of the Macau parliament, Cavallino was also willing to marry the commander of the Macau Coast Guard, so he took the initiative to propose marriage after the war.
After Fei Ruhe was beaten this time, his character became more and more cautious. He said, "Your situation is very complicated. I have to write to the town chief. Just wait."
After Huang Yunxiao left, Abel Tasman was brought over.
Abel Tasman knelt down and begged: "Great Chinese general, please spare my life and don't hand me over to the Portuguese."
"What did he say?" Fei Ruhe asked.
The translator replied: "The Red Bo ghost has a feud with Fo Langji. He asked the general not to hand him over to the Fo Langji people."
Fei Ruhe asked: "What do you do?"
Abel Tasman said: "Reporting to General, I am a senior employee of the Dutch East India Company's expedition team. My ideal is to be a great explorer."
Fei Ruhe was confused: "What is an explorer?"
Abel Tasman said: "You can just drive a sailboat to find islands and continents in unknown waters. You can also land and explore unknown mountains, forests, and rivers."
"What's the use of this? What kind of craft do you rely on to make a living?" Fei Ruhe still couldn't understand.
Abel Tasman replied: "I have renewed a ten-year senior employment contract with the Dutch East India Company. I help the company find continents and islands, and help the company explore known land. I can survey and map, and I understand astronomy.
I also know navigation knowledge, and I can also explore mineral deposits. Three years ago, I assisted the commander of the expedition and discovered a large copper mine in the Spice Islands."
"Oh, you can also do prospecting? You seem to be a useful talent." Fei Ruhe finally became interested.
Seeing Fei Ruhe's attitude change, Abel Tasman quickly said: "Yes, General, I am an expert prospector. I can explore natural treasures for you."
Fei Ruhe nodded and smiled: "I will send you to Ji'an. You will be responsible for prospecting, and those Japanese pirates will be responsible for mining. Haha, they complement each other."
More than 800 Dutch, Japanese, and Malay soldiers were captured this time.
Except for a few with special skills, all the others are thrown away for mining. It would be a waste to kill them directly. Everyone must be put to their best use.
Zhao Han lacks everything now, except all kinds of mines.
Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong are full of mountains and mines!
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Lianzhou, Nangangpai.
King Zhao Tian had already sent someone to deliver the betrothal gift, two big fat pigs, two geese, ten chickens, five hundred kilograms of grain, and a large jar of fine wine.
The bigger dowry is that the whole of Guangdong will not collect autumn grain this year. The three counties of Lianzhou, Lianshan and Yangshan will not only not collect autumn grain this year, but the summer grain field tax next year will be halved.
When the news came, Han, Yao and Zhuang people were singing and dancing everywhere.
In fact, it has nothing to do with Zhao Han's marriage.
But the situation in Guangzhou is too miserable. Three years of drought, three years of military disasters, and the people are seriously short of food. Even the official government is very short of food. Zhao Han also announced that this year's autumn grain will be exempted, leaving the people of the province a chance to breathe.
Pan Qimei was sitting in front of the dressing table. Her mother and sister-in-law were tying her hair and wearing jewelry.
The headscarf is embroidered with Panwang's seal, supplemented by silver leaves, silver drums, silver hairpins, bells, necklaces and many other jewelry. The top is mainly bright red, with indigo and white embellishments. This is a Pai Yao dress and is only worn in life.
three times.
The lower body is a knee-length embroidered skirt, and below the knees are leggings.
Not only are there leggings, but also knee pads, which are convenient for climbing up hills and doing gathering work. However, the leggings and knee pads for weddings are made of colorful fabrics embroidered with patterns, and a pair of shoes are also embroidered cloth shoes.
The neighbors were having a wedding banquet. Pan Qimei finished dressing up, ate something to fill her stomach, and then followed the wedding team to see the bride off the mountain.
If the groom doesn't come, the wedding ceremony is incomplete.
Yao women are supposed to walk when they get married, and are carried by the groom when they cross the bridge. Pan Qimei took a sedan chair this time, and Zhao Han hired a sedan bearer. In front of her was a welcoming team playing music and playing, and behind her was a wedding team carrying dowry.
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The dowry is very simple, including embroidery, a bucket, a footbath, a simple knife, a hoe, a quilt, and a sun umbrella.
Also, more than ten loads of dry firewood... indicates that the bride is a diligent and thrifty person.
When leaving home, her father sang a toast, and other elders sang in harmony. Pan Qimei left singing the "Wedding Crying Song". She kept crying and singing until she suddenly burst into laughter at the foot of the mountain, full of longing for her future life.
Pan Qimei is an ordinary Yao woman. She has been doing housework since she was a child, can sing, and can weave cloth. The Yao brocade she weaves is very beautiful.
She also often goes to the mountains to hunt pigweed, collect herbs and mushrooms, and helps cut rice during busy farming days.
Her normal life trajectory should be to marry a Yao man, move out of her husband's house one year after marriage, and start a family on her own to live a small life. If her husband's family does not have extra terraced fields, she will have to help her husband open up wasteland, or simply go down to the mountains to work, or
Become a tenant as a tenant, or go to the city as a vagrant.
She has to do a lot of housework and farm work, raise chickens and ducks, spin and weave, and then give birth to many children.
Just three months ago, Tian Changgong in the platoon suddenly announced the selection of the most beautiful and virtuous Shayao girl. She passed all the tests and stood out from the Nangang platoon, and finally entered the finals of the Eight Pai Yao.
Not only is it better than beauty, but it is also better than textiles and brocade.
In the end, she was on par with Deng Sanmei from the military platoon, and the Yao elders in each platoon argued endlessly. One Yao elder suggested that they compare the calluses on their palms. Whoever has more calluses on their palms is more diligent and virtuous, and will definitely be more favored by Zhao.
The king's love.
Pan Qimei's palms had more calluses, so she won gloriously.
On the night they left home, the wedding team stayed in a village by the river. This was a Han village. When they learned that King Zhao Tian was welcoming his bride, they had already cleaned up the house.
Pan Qimei tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. She got up and looked at the stars through the window.
I heard that King Zhao was a great hero, more powerful than the bravest warriors in the Nangang platoon, and could wield a large knife as easily as wielding straw. King Zhao could eat three kilograms of rice and two kilograms of meat every day, and was stronger than a buffalo plowing the fields.
I just don’t know if I can sing folk songs in antiphonal style.
Pan Qimei heard many stories about Zhao Tianwang. The corrupt officials in Jiangxi were extorting excessive taxes. Zhao Tianwang led the peasants to raise an army and single-handedly killed thousands of officers and soldiers.
He is so strong and brave, he must be protected by King Pangu.
What is Jiangxi like?
Pan Qimei had lived in the mountains since she was a child and had no contact with the outside world. She guessed that the house in Jiangxi must be bigger. People who came back from Ji'an said that the house in the General Military Mansion was very big, and Pan Qimei thought she could use a yard.
Raise chickens.
In the next few days, we took a boat all the way, and the wedding team finally arrived at Yingde City.
The city walls here are so tall!
Pan Qimei entered the city in a sedan chair, and many passers-by watched her along the way. She was a little shy, but she did not hide it and waved to passers-by very generously.
Zhao Han has ordered that Yingde County officials are not allowed to go out of the city to greet him.
He was not allowed to leave the city, so he could be welcomed in the city. The magistrate of Yingde County was afraid of making Zhao Han angry, so he did not organize any manpower and only stood at the city gate to escort him in his personal capacity.
Zhao Han was reading the military newspaper at this time. Huguang had completely occupied Baoqing Prefecture and Yongzhou Prefecture a month ago.
The territory of Hunan south of Yuezhou Prefecture was only occupied by Chenzhou Prefecture, Baojing Xuanwei Division, and Yongshun Xuanwei Division. It was all covered by rolling mountains, poor and remote, and had a particularly large number of ethnic minorities.
Zhao Han put down the military newspaper and wrote to Huang Yao and others, preparing to send troops after the harvest next summer.
At that time, the Jiangxi Navy will also dispatch, together with Huang Yao's Northern Academician soldiers, attack Yuezhou Prefecture and Changde Prefecture from the north and south, and capture the entire Dongting Lake Plain.
As for the remote mountainous areas in western Hunan, don't attack that area for the time being. It will be of no use to waste time and effort.
"Headquarters, the bride is here!"
Zhao Han put down his brush and came to the courtyard. Pan Qimei had been carried in and was looking around curiously.
Is that King Zhao?
As expected, he was tall, mighty, and handsome. Pan Qimei immediately blushed.
Zhao Han was very curious about the beauties selected by the Yao people. When he saw them, he immediately knew the aesthetic tendencies of those Yao people.
When Zhao Han saw Pan Qimei, his first reaction was that her breasts were so big, and his second reaction was that she was really short. When he got closer, he saw that her face was so tender that you could pinch water, and her round face still had baby fat. At this time, she was embarrassed.
His face turned red like a red apple.
The aesthetics of the Yao elders can be summarized as follows: big breasts, big butts, good fertility. The face should be fair and the skin should be tender. The palms of the hands should have calluses, which means they can work.
A little girl about 1.5 meters tall, with a round face and big breasts.
Four words to describe it: childlike and giant.
Zhao Han swore that he was definitely not a lolita fan and had never thought of having a concubine of this type.