Just as the imperial court was urgently discussing the case of the spy in Huaxing Lianbo, another riot of hungry people related to Huaxing Lianbo occurred in Shandong and Henan.
The shopkeeper of the Huaxing League Branch in Luoyang and Jinan was a Chaozhou small vendor rescued by Yin Feng from Manila. During his tenure, he helped disaster victims in Jinan and Luoyang, and encouraged refugees to immigrate to Taiwan and other places. After the maritime ban was issued, He had already received an order from the headquarters to evacuate, but he still thought about taking more hungry people with him. These refugees were tenants of Fuwangwangzhuang, and they couldn't survive and wanted to escape. As a result, he was the king of Fuwangwangfu, Dongxiang, Luoyang. The head of the village sued the official.
When the government runners came to capture him, the hungry people rioted. Jinping took the opportunity to escape the pursuit of the Luoyang government runners and fled to Jinan. However, the government here had received a document of arrest and arrested him under the city of Jinan, and some towns around Jinan. The refugees were waiting for Kim Ping to take them out to sea. When they heard that he was caught by the government, they also started a riot, hitting the prison and attempting to rob the prison.
In the end, the hungry riot was suppressed, and Jinping was also sent to the capital for rebellion.
At the same time, hungry people waiting to go out to sea to escape were driven away by officers and soldiers. The first fleet that had just arrived at the coast, that is, the Northern Fleet that was the Northern Fleet, discovered the tragic scene on the beach, and the angry crew members Violating the ban on the company headquarters that the company is not allowed to actively attack the official army, and decisively bombarded the official army. The official army that showed its might on the hungry people was from the Denglai Waters Division. He knew that the fleet of the sea overlord China Company was powerful, They just used cold weapons to scare the common people, and quickly fled after hearing the sound of cannons.
Afterwards, the Shandong general reported to the court, exaggeratingly saying that more than a hundred pirate ships attacked the Jugang, all of which were hung with the Chinese flag on the blue bottom of the China Company.
The unrests related to Chinese companies in the north mainly involve relief for hungry people and immigration. On the southern coast, those private merchants who smuggled out of the sea simply ignored the ban and still went to sea to trade. Many of them hung blue-bottomed Chinese flags. The merchant ships were equipped with small Folang machine guns provided by the Chinese company, and even merchants raised funds to purchase old bronze cannons retired by the Chinese army. Therefore, these merchant ships were not afraid of the pursuit of the official navy; at the same time, the Sans stationed in Zhejiang The Chinese military squadrons of the Lan Island and Nanji Islands also took the initiative to escort merchant ships. A series of small-scale naval battles broke out along the coast of Zhejiang and Guangdong these days, all of which were conflicts between the Chinese company's merchant fleet and the official navy.
The only exceptional area is the coast of Fujian, which is under the absolute control of the Chinese naval army. The five major naval battalions have either disappeared into patrols with only a few small sailboats, or have simply evolved peacefully into the off-staff of the Chinese company's naval army. fleet.
Yin Feng received a large number of such reports and felt very strange: this time, the imperial court seemed to be serious about the ban, and the imperial court seemed to have made up its mind to start a war with the Chinese company.
At this time, Yu Anfu, the head of the Macao Military Information Department who had been monitoring Guangzhou, sent an emergency information: ship construction was being started at the estuary of the Pearl River outside Guangzhou City and in the South China Sea of Dongguan County, and there were naval troops stationed around.
Tsim Sha Tsui was the later generations of Tsim Sha Tsui. The Hong Kong region of this dynasty has gradually gained popularity in trade, and its population has also increased. It has become a key coastal defense area. There are three routes of patrol and prepare for the Japanese officers on the coast of Guangdong, among which the middle route is " From Nantoucheng, Dongguan County, the Buddhist temple gate, Cross gate, Cold Water Corner all sea omega” includes the Hong Kong area in later generations. The "Guangdong Coastal Map" during the Wanli period has been marked as Hong Kong, Stanley and Huang Niyong , Tsim Sha Tsui and other place names.
Through the activities of the gangsters at the Pearl River Estuary, the Chinese company found out that the official army was manufacturing new warships; several shipwrights provided some information: this batch of warships were made according to Western methods, and the name of the officer in charge of the worker was Yuan. Enter.
The spies from the Guangzhou Military Intelligence Department also reported that Yuan Jin, who had been living in the Guangzhou Governor's Office, suddenly disappeared and escaped from the surveillance of the Chinese Company.
Yin Feng handed the information to Xu Hongji. Xu Hongji looked at it for a while and shouted in surprise: "Ship owner, Yuan Jin must have learned the technology of building gunboats from Westerners. Guangdong government should be building a The new fleet is what you call the gunboat that mainly uses artillery to fight,"
Yin Feng had no choice but to spread his hands: "It seems that the court is going to really take action. I used to say that it would take four years to accumulate strength. Now it has only been two years. Now we have to meet the court,"
In Yin Feng's study are also Zeng Shan and Chen Zhongji, and Zhao Tie, commander of the First Brigade of the Chinese Army.
Yin Feng turned to Chen Zhongji and said, "When you go to Ryukyu, you must quickly concentrate the garrison troops of Ryukyu. After Colonel Zhao's main force arrives, you are ready to attack the important area of Beijing and Qu. You are the supervisor of Ryukyu because you are familiar with the situation of Ryukyu. , After bringing the King of Zhongshan to Taiwan this time, we will deal with Zhongshan Kingdom. This country should have been destroyed long ago,"
Chen Zhongji and Zhao Tie stood at attention, saluted with military salutes on their left hand and chest, and then left the study.
Zeng Shan waited for the two of them to leave and said, "Brother Feng, now our Chinese army has only 40,000 infantrymen and only 30,000 naval troops. Now we are going to war with the Ming Dynasty court. There are too few troops," he said.
Xu Hongji shook his head and said, "Otherwise, although the imperial court has hundreds of thousands of troops south of the Yangtze River, it is impossible for these troops to be transferred to deal with us. What's more important is that the Ming army lacks naval forces, and without naval forces, it cannot control the sea routes. If we control the sea routes, then we will not face direct threats in Taiwan, Ryukyu, Luzon and other places. In other words, we have naval forces that can land and fight anywhere along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, while the imperial government can only defend passively. ”
Yin Feng nodded in praise: "That's right, Mr. Xu is right; we have the right to control the sea, so we have strategic initiative at sea. Whether to fight or not, where to fight depends on me, but, simply The attacks on the coast were also indestructible to the court; during the Jiajing period, Wang Zhi and others succeeded repeatedly in attacking the coast, but were eventually defeated by the government army because they could not go deep into the inland and defeat the main force of the government army; and the court was also in the process of defeating the government army. With the vast mainland, the recovery ability is almost unlimited. As long as they are given time, they can recover and continue to block the coast and cause trouble for us."
Xu Hongji and Zeng Shan are not as good as this. It’s not that they have short-sighted vision, but that Yin Feng takes advantage of time travelers and can see problems from a broader historical perspective.
"The ship owner's words were really enlightening, and it made me suddenly realize it," Xu Hongji flattered him with a rare slap.
Yin Feng smiled and said, "What I mean is that we cannot be satisfied with making small fuss at the beach. We must directly hit the key points of the court in order to force the Zhu family to negotiate with us." His words are already in line with The court and the royal family had no respect.
Zeng Shan asked suspiciously: "Will the court negotiate with us?"
"We can't eat the entire Ming Dynasty in one breath, and the court cannot eat us either. Negotiation is certain," Yin Feng was very confident about this.
Xu Hongji said: "Where is the key to the imperial court? First, taxes in Jiangnan; second, water transportation; third, safety of the capital, so where should we start,"
Yin Feng smiled and said, "Let's wait and see, we will surprise the court. Zhao Tie and Chen Zhongji go north. You should guess that they are going to threaten the important area of Beijing and Qu. I have arranged several other surprise troops, haha, go. Let’s see, there is still another problem now, which is to pass a manifesto at the shareholders’ meeting to declare to the public that our confrontation with the court is just and in line with God’s will.”
Xu Hongji and Zeng Shan immediately guessed that Yin Feng wanted them to draft this manifesto. They looked at each other and saw the passionate fire in each other's eyes: This manifesto will make the two famous for the ages, or It has been infatuated for thousands of years.
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The shareholders' meeting was held at the China Military Exercise Field, which was something that no shareholders expected.
Yin Feng announced from the beginning that in addition to discussing the dividend issue of the previous year, the shareholders' meeting would be put aside other topics and mainly discuss how to deal with the imperial ban.
At the conference, Zeng Jingshan, on behalf of the Zeng family, informed everyone of a message: The old Zeng family's house in Quanzhou had been set on fire by officers and soldiers the day before yesterday, and all of Yin Feng's houses were turned into white land.
At the same time, merchants from the capital, Luoyang, Jinling, Hangzhou and other places showed through their personal experience that the Ming government had begun to attack wealthy businessmen.
When everyone was panic, angry, panic and complaining, Yin Feng added fuel to the fire again and announced several news: The Chinese company Luoyang, Jinan branch manager Jinping beheaded in the capital, and the nephew of the wealthy businessman Luo Xuri of Haicheng Luo Jing was also sentenced to beheading the marquis of the prison.
"Is the court really going to do it?"
"What nonsense is this? The government has already dealt with us. My silk warehouse has been sealed by the government a few days ago."
"What should we do? We are all in Taiwan, Ryukyu hide from the limelight."
"Hide, when will we hide, our family's gold and silver can be moved here, but what should we do with our business? Will we be sitting on the sea and eating up the mountains?"
"No, the money we earned with hard work did not offend the court, nor did we give corrupt officials a lot of money. Does the government still want us to lose our money?"
"We have suffered a great loss a few years ago. Now the imperial court is going to cut off our life. What should we do?"
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No one proposed to confront the court.
Although after more than ten years of influence, shareholders and company employees have become accustomed to relying on force to protect their own interests, it is mainly to exercise this force against external forces in the Ming Dynasty, so that everyone can immediately point the goal of exercising force to safeguard their rights and interests. The court still has great psychological barriers.