Sorry, I was on a business trip and my family forgot to post it, so I am posting this chapter now, sorry.
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When the Guard was first established, no one except Yin Feng thought of eventually turning it into a professional professional army. In the eyes of the Zeng family and businessmen Han Ping, the Ming Dynasty's half-farming, half-agricultural guard military system was
, saving money and worry; although the Chinese Company said it wanted to fight back to Manila, making money was the first priority for the time being. As a Chinese businessman in the Ming Dynasty, no one in this era had thought that commerce and military could be combined.
Even the maritime power of the Zheng family in the late Ming Dynasty in another time and space has never established a regular army and fleet in Zheng Zhilong's generation. The backbone of the Zheng family's fleet are all for the sake of the soldiers and the people.
It wasn't until Zheng Chenggong recruited troops in Nan'ao that the Zheng family had a regularized army, and they were able to maintain a stalemate with the powerful Qing Dynasty on a small piece of territory along the southeast coast for decades.
Thanks to Yin Feng's efforts, the escort was established. The military expenditures spent on the construction of the escort this year has exceeded 600,000 taels of silver. Much of this money is Yin Feng's private money, and other shareholders of Zhonghua Company have
I hate Yin Feng's lavish spending on military construction.
Under the constraints of various shareholders, Yin Feng has been unable to obtain sufficient military spending. If his personal influence had not been too strong, it would have been difficult to maintain the current scale of the escort. This makes the escort more like an army in addition to infantry.
It seems that the warship fleet is completely different. Moreover, the funding problem directly caused the personnel organization problem. The military supervision system and the intelligence system have never been formalized, and they are all mixed up in the company's daily business.
The establishment of the Military Intelligence Department was tailor-made for Lin Xiao; the former government official Lin Xiao was very good at dealing with people from all walks of life. Of course, he used to specialize in blackmailing these people, but now he is trying to find ways to get information from them.
He did not follow Yin Feng on the expedition, but stayed in Taiwan to form the Military Intelligence Department. At that time, he only had some rules and regulations written by Yin Feng and a list of several persons in charge of the Tseng family business in various places.
One day, he got a message from an informant in the governor's office: a servant of Zhou Xuan, the confidant of the tax eunuch Gao Cai, had arrived a month ago on a merchant ship traveling between Taiwan and Fujian.
Arrive at Taiwan Port.
Taiwan Port is an open free commercial port. Foreign ships, regardless of size, only need to pay a fixed pilot fee to dock. Domestic ships can berth tax-free, so the flow of people is too complicated. Since there is no need to collect import and export taxes, the ports of Chinese companies
Management means registering the name of the ship and the name of the owner. Unless the goods are sold to the company, company personnel generally will not inspect the personnel and materials on the ship.
It is definitely not a good thing for the high eunuch's men to come to Taiwan. But this person has already come to Taiwan, how can we find out?
Now, the Chinese company's strict zoning management of the city has shown its effect. Managers, craftsmen, workers, etc. who are resident in Taiwan live together in the same area of Dongcheng; while the inns open to foreign merchants from the port are concentrated in the direction of the port, and they are all Chinese
The company established a strict personnel registration system, so this person was quickly found.
A subordinate from the Military Intelligence Department came to report to Lin Xiao: "Brother Lin, we found this person..."
Lin Xiao, who was worried, couldn't wait to jump up, grabbed the subordinate and asked in surprise: "Found it? Where are you now? Take me to arrest him!" He dragged the subordinate and was about to go out.
The subordinate broke away from his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Lin, this guy has left. His name is Zhou Qi, and he is from Zhejiang."
"Gone? Where did he go? By the way, whose ship brought him to Taiwan?" Lin Xiao was very disappointed and asked quickly: "If we can find out whose ship it is, we will have a way to know where this guy has gone.
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"The ship belongs to the Wang family in Nanmen, Fuzhou. We can't touch it." This subordinate from the Military Intelligence Department was an experienced Quanzhou government official and a distant relative of the Zeng family: "They are the in-laws of Zhu Wenda, the commander-in-chief of Fujian Province, and their goods are actually
The one above belongs to Commander-in-Chief Zhu."
"Oh, there's nothing we can do to stop them. Are they still at the port?" Lin Xiao calmed down, sat down and held his chin in thought.
"He's still here, trading goods with our company. But that guy went to Jingang, oh, Taipei Port."
"Why are we going to Jingang this Saturday? Can we go by land? There are only some fur traders trading there in Jingang, so it is easier to find him. How long has he been there?" Lin Xiao asked.
"I went there half a month ago, also by boat from the Wang family in Fuzhou. The Wang family obtained the company's fur goods license."
Lin Xiao sat in distress: "Send people from the Military Intelligence Department to Yingang. Find this person and don't touch him yet. Check who he has contacted in the past few days."
Although Lin Xiao sent people, there was no need for him to investigate. Within a few days, the news came that Yuan Jin, Li Zhong and their crew had defected, and then defections and internal strife appeared one after another in the hinterland of Yinggang. Extremely concerned about face.
Although Lin Xiao had tempered his character in the past few years, he still smashed all the furniture in his Military Intelligence Department office after hearing the news. Then, he immediately took people to Yingang and arrived at the warship fleet almost at the same time as Yin Feng.
The old camp.
When Yin Feng saw him, he didn't criticize him much - in fact, this couldn't be entirely blamed on Lin Xiao. After all, Yin Feng had little experience in this kind of thing and had not made any precautionary arrangements in advance.
"The war fleet must be demolished and started over." Yin Feng said as soon as he saw Lin Xiao: "And now, Mai Dahai and Ye Hua have taken away most of the Dan people's sailors to suppress the war fleet currently in Yingang Port.
, we don’t have enough manpower, what do you think we should do?”
"Where's Brother Lu?"
"He was unable to protect himself and was trapped in the old port on Fanhan Street in the north." After Yingang was controlled by the Chinese Company, a new wharf and an old warship camp were built at the mouth of Jishui Creek - the original Fanhan
The street became the old port. Yin Feng looked at the people coming and going in the old camp and said anxiously: "A full-scale rebellion is about to break out! Fortunately, this place is still occupied by Dan sailors and brothers from Quanzhou. Otherwise, we would not even be able to fight in the old camp."
Can’t get in.”
He pointed to the north: "Fanhan Street is all controlled by the pirate gang and Yuan Jin's people. Just now, the people sent by Lu Shitou detoured here from Huweilongshe in the north and told us that the rebels were meeting to discuss whether to
If we go out of Yingang, we should still occupy Yingang as our base."
Lin Xiao's face turned red: "I sent people to the north to call back the first sentry of Mai De and kill all these guys!"
"No! Firstly, Mad's side is conquering the Big Belly Country, and it's going well. We can't let him give up halfway. Secondly, by the time he comes back, these people may have rebelled, and Brother Lu will be killed.
Worry. The other members of the escort team have to guard Taiwan Port, which is our basic base and cannot be moved."
Yin Feng looked at Luo Aquan and others who were resting in the yard, and said firmly: "Since they haven't officially rebelled yet, I'll go to Fanhan Street."
Lin Xiao was shocked: "No, this can't happen, captain, it's too risky!"
Yin Feng ignored him and shouted: "Luo Aquan!"
Sharpshooter Luo Aquan hurried in and saluted with his left hand across his chest: "Captain!"
Yin Feng said: "How many people did you bring?"
"I have brought 10 people with me, and there are 10 people from Deputy Commander Kutre on the way. I think we can get here in the evening."
Yin Feng nodded: "Okay, plus ten of my personal guards, Lin Xiao and your men..."
Lin Xiaodao: "Only five or six of my men can go to the battlefield. The captain..."
Yin Feng raised his palms, indicating that he didn't need to say more: "Everyone, get ready. We will go to Fanhan Street in Yingang tonight."
The pirate gangs and various pirates gathered on Fanhan Street had about 40 ships and more than 800 people. They were divided into the old pirate gang and the new pirate gang, as well as the original associates of Yuan Jin. Lu Shitou had only about 10 people.
Still following him, he was actually under house arrest in Fanhan Street.
On the other side, there were about 200 sailors that Yin Feng could trust, and they all gathered at the old camp at Yingang New Pier, with about 15 warships. In the evening, all 15 ships set out, and Lin Xiao and the temporary merchant fleet
Commander Mai Xiaoliu was transferred back, and Yin Feng could only trust his own direct troops now.
The fleet quietly approached Fan Han Street Beach along the coastline; fortunately, the rebels who were brewing were scattered and did not follow the rules of the war fleet and sent out night patrol ships. On the contrary, those ships were anchored on the coast, scattered and scattered, completely
They were out of formation; the strict discipline of the warships was completely forgotten by them and basically ignored. All the little bosses gathered in the "historic" hotel on Fanhan Street and quarreled with each other.
They insulted each other and even beat each other.
Some of them want to leave Yingang and fly away, some are hesitant to negotiate terms with Zhonghua Company or Yin Feng; others propose to surrender to the government, and some want to return to the sea to resume their old careers, but do not want to deal with Yin Feng.
One party broke up with each other.
Lu Shitou was noticed by several of Yuan Jin's subordinates, and he huddled in a corner with a few of his trusted subordinates to drink Mongolian wine.
He looked at the chaotic scene in the place and snorted with great disdain: "Let's make trouble and go to death. We don't know how we will die by then!"
One of his close subordinates secretly pushed him: "Boss, please keep your voice down, Yuan Balao's people are not easy to deal with, they kill people like crazy!"
"What Yuan Balao! Let him die!" Lu Shitou suddenly cursed loudly: "Damn it, when I, Lao Lu, went to the sea to eat this bowl of rice, Yuan Jin was still peeing his pants!"
"Old man, what's that fart in your mouth!" Several Yuan Jin's men drew their swords and forced them over. This time, the already chaotic venue became even more chaotic. Although some brothers from the old pirate gang did not want to be on the warship anymore,
Although the team was defeated, he still respected his elder brother Lu Shitou. He did not allow the rising stars in the pirate world to offend his eldest brother. He also drew his sword and surrounded him to protect Lu Shitou: "Boy, you are looking for death! To deal with Brother Lu,
Are you a little young?"
"Brother Lu, he is just a lackey of China Company..."
"Who the hell are you calling a dog?"
There was a sound of swords clashing. Someone screamed. More people drew their swords, and they saw that this hotel with a bamboo mat tent was about to become a battlefield. Suddenly, there was a crackling sound, and the night sky looked very crisp.
All the people who were fighting suddenly stopped and listened.
From the direction of the land in the north and the direction of the beach in the south, there was a continuous sound of musket shooting at the same time. The brothers present were familiar with this sound: when the Marine Musketeers were training, the sound of gunfire was often deafening.
Yuan Jin's men looked around in panic, and asked whoever they caught: "Is the escort coming?" The person who was asked widened his eyes and asked back: "Is it the first sentry of the army? They have artillery...
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Before he finished speaking, the sound of cannons rang through the night sky, coming from the direction of the northern land.