Yin Feng looked at this handwritten document, and the delicate handwriting proved that it was written by Li Lihua. Among the owners of China United Company, Li Lihua has a transcendent status; she represents Li Dan, but does not hold any position in the company, but she can
No one can refuse to listen to his opinions on many company affairs - because, among the original shares of the company, the shares owned by Li Dan's family accounted for nearly a quarter, which is basically the same amount as Yin Feng's entire net worth investment.
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The influence of Li Dan, represented by Li Lihua, is also reflected in the company's management; people like Xu Xinsu, who is in charge of China Company's inland trade, Li Huayu and others are Li Dan's younger brothers, and it is because of Li Lihua's existence that they will listen to China Company.
Command; the pirate fleet owned by Yuan Jin, Li Zhong and others also formed their own mountain top among the Chinese company's war fleet.
In the battle between the Penghu Islands and the Hongmao Yi, Yuan Jin and others disobeyed Yin Feng's orders, broke into Magong Port in Penghu Bay without permission, and launched a reckless attack on the Hongmao fleet. As a result, several warships were sunk and people were killed and injured.
Nearly a hundred. Li Zhong was sunk in a boat to rescue Yuan Jin. After falling into the water, he was picked up by the Dutch and made a prisoner. Later, when the Dutch surrendered, he was rescued by Yin Feng. The culprit Yuan Jin relied on his excellent swimming
After falling into the sea, he swam out of the bay and was salvaged by Yin Feng's troops who arrived later.
Due to Li Dan's reputation and Yuan Jin's influence in the warship fleet, Yin Feng did not make things difficult for him.
Mai Dahai and others were spanked for taking a few people aboard the ship for personal use. Yuan Jin disobeyed orders and launched an attack without losing his hair. This is really unreasonable. Yuan Jin was eventually sentenced to a bird ship (a galley warship).
) Working as a rower below deck for two months was almost like hard labor; because Li Zhong was only an accessory, he was only sentenced to one month of hard labor as a rower in the bottom deck.
Yin Feng believed that this punishment was unfair, but Zeng Jingshan and Han Ping persuaded him; for the benefit of the company as a whole, and to survive the difficulties in the first year safely, he must have a good relationship with the people in Li Dan's system. That's why.
This kind of perfunctory punishment is simply child's play in Yin Feng's opinion, and it is very detrimental to the development of the war fleet; the war fleet has now shown obvious mountain headism: the original pirate merchants of Li Dan's system, Lu
Shitou's former pirates along the coast of Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang, and Yin Feng's direct lineage Dan sailors and Quanzhou sailors. Most of the people in charge of the war fleet are Dan sailors and former pirates from Lu Shitou. There are relatively few people in Li Dan's system, and their status is also low.
Not high, but they are the most difficult group of people to manage.
The basis of the warship fleet is such a composition, so Yin Feng's control over the warship fleet is far less than that of the infantry team he built from scratch. The infantry team's soldiers are relatively simple. The warship fleet is almost made up of former pirates.
It was formed with pirates active along the coast. The personnel structure was so complicated that Yin Feng didn't have time to reorganize it.
Now, something big has finally happened to the warship fleet.
In fact, Li Lihua had never been the person to maintain Li Dan's system. This company document should have belonged to the China Company's functional department - that is, the Human Resources Department, or the Military Intelligence Department of the escort team that Lin Xiao was forming, but Li Lihua transcribed the document herself.
This may indicate a certain attitude on her part. How should she deal with it? This is a difficult problem. According to the military regulations of the escort, deserting during war can be executed on the spot. The behavior of Yuan Jin and Li Zhong seems to be running away from the battlefield no matter how you look at it.
People like Yuan Jin, who have been living at sea since childhood, are far more familiar with the coast than ordinary people. Yin Feng understands very well that Lu Shitou, the deputy commander of the war fleet, actually has a tendency to calm things down, so he submitted an official document asking how to handle it.
He went to Yin Feng, and then approved it and sent it to the Yinggang war fleet station for execution. Haha, after this official document came and went, Yuan Jin had already fled to a bay along the Fujian coast to hide.
It is said that there are 300-400 bays along the entire coast of Fujian Province. The total number of large and small warships owned by the China United Company is less than 100, and even including merchant ships, the total is less than 250. There is no way to find Yuan Jin anyway.
Let alone catch him.
Yin Feng felt that the Chinese United Company's escort team had encountered unprecedented problems, which might turn the warship fleet into a mess, which might affect the stability of the entire company.
He called Zhao Tie, Chen Zhongji and several sentry commanders overnight to make arrangements for the next battle against Xiaolong Society: the core purpose was to appease the main force and conquer by force as the secondary.
The Covenant of the Bean Society is modeled after.
Then, Yin Feng took Yan Siqi and 20 personal guards and left Mokaliuwan Society early the next morning to return to Taiwan Port.
The conquest of the Xiaolong Society took little effort. Madou and Mokaliuwan, the most powerful of the four major societies of the Siraya people, have already surrendered. The elders of the Xiaolong Society feel that there is no need to waste lives and efforts. Anyway, the China United Company does not
It was not to destroy them, but to allow them to allow the Han people to move freely on their territory. Therefore, as soon as Zhao Tie's three sentry infantry troops arrived at the gate of Xiaolongshe's village, the elders of Xiaolongshe were already holding packages of soil.
The small betel nut trees and coconut trees with their roots were surrounded by a large group of indigenous people and came out to surrender.
Subsequently, the convoy of the China United Company continued to march towards the indigenous villages in the Pingtung Plain. The aboriginal tribes in the Pingtung Plain were: Dazeji Society, Tower Tower Society, Arriangh Society, Shangshui Society, and Xiatsui Society.
She, Lili Society (Netnee), Doradok Society (tock), Kato, and Fangsuozai Society. Due to their geographical location close to Taiwan Port and the port advantages along the coast, these aborigines have long ago interacted with Han fishermen.
Pirates and maritime merchants came and went.
In the recent anti-Chinese company attacks that were common in various places, the indigenous residents in this area did not respond. Zhao Tie's large group passed through the Pingtung Plain.
The time was purely an armed demonstration, and the natives signed the covenant obediently.
The Kali Yangshe is located 12 to 13 miles southeast of Taiwan Harbor, and is about two days away from the Xingang Society. The Kaliyan Society and the Xingang Society are also feuding, and there has been a conflict between them for a long time. So this time the people of the Xingang Society were very active.
More than 500 people supported the escort team. At the same time, 100 soldiers from the Madou Society, the Mokariuwan Society, and the Xiaolong Society each participated in the attack on the Tagalyan Society, and the right to declare an alliance with the Chinese Company was submitted.
On the evening of the third day after setting off from Mokariuwanshe, the coalition forces arrived near the Kaliyanshe community. After crossing the river the next day, they formally encountered the indigenous warriors of this village community. First, the Xingang people responded with javelins, and then the Chinese United Company escort team used
After the musket attack, the enemy fled without any suspense. The escort captain drove straight into the village community and set it on fire.
Early the next morning, the Takaliyan people who came to make peace arrived at the camp, so Zhao Tie sent someone to escort their elders to the port city of Taiwan.
The allied forces of the Chinese Company and the indigenous people left Tagariyangshe and encountered many enemies in the river plain during their eastward march. The enemy did not dare to attack because they were afraid of the thundering muskets of the Chinese Company's escorts. The allied forces launched the attack first.
, but the other party escaped. The next day, the coalition forces arrived at Xiatsui Society. The society expressed its intention to conclude peace with the Chinese company escort team from Taiwan through the Han people who had lived in the community for a long time. The Xingang people sent to the community also brought back the local people to make peace.
wishes and brought back an elder.
According to the conditions concluded with Madou, Tagaliyang, Xiatsui, Damulian, and Talou all signed the same treaty with the China Company, expressing their submission to the China United Company, which expanded the boundaries of the company's directly controlled areas southward.
15 miles.
Soon, the Fangsuo Tsai Society, located south of the Kaliyan Society, panicked when they heard about the company's conquest of the Kaliyan Society, and took the initiative to send a Han Chinese living there to come to Taiwan and Hong Kong to establish peace. The company then sent a representative to the society.
, and brought back three leaders of Fangsuozi Society to express their submission.
In the New Year of this year, the Zhonghua Company convened the leaders of the returned village communities to hold the first alliance. In addition to the Huweilong Society in the north of Jingang and the four major Siraya communities in the north of Taiwan Port, the participating village communities came from Pingxiang.
The surrendered village communities in the East Plain include Caliyan, Damulian, Pandel, Calivong, Tower, Tourioriot, Fangsuozai, Kato, and Lili, a total of 29 communities.
At the meeting, Yin Feng, the big owner of the China Company and the president of the escort team, admonished the representatives and awarded the representatives with porcelain, silk brocade and a blue background with Chinese characters representing the authority of the company. They also held a Muga Bay and a Galli Yang.
The land sovereignty transfer ceremony of Fang Suo Tsai and other communities. Although this gathering was small in scale, it already had the form and significance of the subsequent annual gatherings of allied village communities.
Last year's New Year, Yin Feng spent the New Year in Quanzhou with Zeng Yue, who was seriously ill. This year, he didn't even return home to Quanzhou and devoted himself to various things in the company.
The first is the crisis of the war fleet.
As soon as he returned to Taiwan Port, Li Lihua came to him and said bluntly: "Immediately order the pursuit of Yuan Jin, otherwise the war fleet will be completely destroyed!"
Due to the defection of Yuan Jin and others, the warship fleet was in crisis. Except for Ye Hua and Mai Dahai who led the way north to Tamsui, the troops in Jilong were mainly Dan civilian sailors and Quanzhou sailors and were not affected much.
Defectors appeared one after another in the Yingang warship fleet. Some of Lu Shitou's subordinates also complained that the military discipline was too strict, the training was too hard, and the income was too low, and the whole ship fled. Yin Feng was even speechless after hearing the news: He gave the warship
The sailors' monthly wages and wages are higher than those of the prefect's Yamen servants. Those pirate brothers from the Jinghai Gang live a life without a meal all year round. How can I say that Zhonghua Company treats them badly?
To complain like this... Yin Feng decided to completely rectify the war fleet, and he would not hesitate to start over.
For a time, except for Yin Feng's direct lineage who did not waver, the other brothers in the warship fleet were panicked and at a loss; they were all wary of each other; because of various old accounts and trivial old grudges from the past, the situation inside and outside Yingang
Every day, brothers in the warships had internal strife with each other, and dozens of people had been killed or injured before Yin Feng arrived. Lu Shitou was like a firefighter every day, running wherever there was trouble; however, he could no longer control himself
The original subordinates are gone.
The problem of the war fleet has expanded, and even internal strife among merchant sailors has emerged in Taiwan Port.
Lin Xiao also rushed to Yingang, bringing with him Luo Aquan and more than a dozen members of the special team. The intelligence brought by Lin Xiao further proved the seriousness of the problem: there were also the shadows of foreign forces that intervened in the turmoil of the warship fleet.