Chapter 2106 Attacking Hongmao
120,000 taels, Wen Rensheng took out 50,000 taels and trained 500 troops in the governor's camp.
It is equivalent to one person consuming 100 taels of silver per year.
A decent salary these days is 2 taels of silver a month.
With real pay, we can beat most teams.
Then there are vegetables, food, silver, armor, weapons, horses, fodder, beans, eggs, stirrups...
When all the miscellaneous items are added up, another 50 to 80 taels will be consumed in a year.
Of course it can be reduced, and the combat effectiveness will also be reduced.
Of course Wen Rensheng would not do that.
Relying on others now is not a long-term solution.
Chinese people pay attention to what is right and what is said.
If the name is not correct, soldiers will have doubts when fighting. If they have doubts, their morale will easily be shaken.
But he already has a way, which is to train at sea.
There are many islands overseas. Find an island overseas and train your troops intensively.
As for Haihai’s routine, it does not have an official background like the Ming Dynasty.
It's a battle between red grasshoppers and a jungle on the sea.
Fighting at sea requires fast boats and sharp guns.
The king of the offshore sea is a large number of fire ships + galleys, which are won by collision with many people.
Even the red-haired men were defeated by the Zheng family’s fleet.
And he can copy this move.
But the Zheng family cannot control Yuanyang.
Because Zheng Zhilong has no big picture after all, he is just a pirate + maritime businessman.
Of course, I got old later.
He obviously had a lot of money and was extremely wealthy, but he did not systematically learn the Western shipbuilding methods.
However, in the offshore area, relying on fireships and gunpowder tactics, the Zheng family still dominated. They defeated the red-haired people several times, always with great victories, forcing the red-haired people to give in and achieve stable trade cooperation.
Since then both sides have reached a balance.
One side relies on official background to form land supply channels, and the other side dominates overseas trade.
The two sides balance each other and do not interfere with each other's routes.
The Zheng family monopolizes short-distance routes to Japan and Southeast Asia, and dominates East and Southeast Asia. Every ship has to pay a peace certificate, and a royal flag costs three thousand taels for a large ship.
But the red-haired people can still monopolize the ocean routes to Europe, and can still occupy many islands in the South China Sea.
This also prevented the Zheng family from intervening in the many islands in the southeast. Zheng Sen came to power and wanted to change the situation, but he died young, at the age of 39, and it was said that he died at the age of 38.
There are only a few islands in the north, and Dajuan Island is the largest. How can it compete with the Manchu Qing occupying the entire hinterland?
The Zheng family, which was originally able to break the situation, lost strategic depth due to Zheng Zhilong's short-sightedness, completely sank, and strategically failed.
If they can vigorously develop ocean-going shipbuilding and fight with the red-haired people at all costs, instead of just focusing on making money in maritime business, they will be able to win half the world.
Of course this is inevitable.
For talents formed under feudal rule, if they could reach the level of the Zheng family, it would be considered a ceiling.
At least it gives people hope.
And we can’t blame them entirely. Although there are many Ming people settled in many areas in the southeast, the total number is still small, and they were killed so badly by the Spanish Red Hairs that they cannot develop.
As a result, the Zheng family has never set its sights on the many islands in the southeast, nor has it been set as its foundation.
After all, we are just one family, not one country.
And Wen Rensheng also knew that the most profitable business of the Zheng family was to collect raw silk goods and ironware from the south of the Yangtze River, and then sell them to island countries.
Then buy silver containing copper from the island country, come back and refine it, and get an additional 10% profit.
Every time you come and go, your profits will be doubled.
At least twice as much.
Moreover, most of this route can be driven close to the coast, and there are very few ocean routes. It is considered extremely safe and mature.
Sailing northeast from the Jianfu coast, passing through Kinmen and Keelung Mountain, and then heading north along the coastal waters of the Ryukyu Islands, you can reach the island country of Yakushima.
This route is quite safe. Generally, an accident will occur only a few times out of a hundred.
It’s pretty safe.
The Zheng family occupies this profitable line of making money without losing money, and has accumulated a net worth of tens of millions, with annual profits of around one million.
So Zheng Chenggong was able to organize thousands of armored soldiers with one person to confront the main force of the Manchu and Qing cavalry head-on, and forcibly defeated the opponent under the Yingtian city wall.
It's a pity that he was not familiar with land warfare and wanted to succeed in the first battle, so he brought a large number of family members and women ashore.
After being charged by the opponent's cavalry, the soldiers saw their family members being attacked, their morale was shaken and collapsed, and the good situation was over.
Later, he could have made a comeback. After all, he had a lot of wealth, but he suddenly fell ill and died.
In order to contain the Zheng family, the Manchu Qing Dynasty used the cruel method of moving borders and banning seas, killing countless people. Only then did the Zheng family lose their land goods and gradually decline.
Speaking of which, the reason why Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty was actually because his lifeline, the channel for stocking up, was controlled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
It would be impossible for him to safely collect raw silk and sell it to the island country.
In this case, he chose to bow his head.
Instead of finding ways to contend.
It's a pity that he forgot that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not the Ming Dynasty. The Manchu Qing Dynasty relied on the Eight Banners as its core and was hard-hearted. It had already decided to pull out this sting.
It is impossible for Han vassal towns to survive in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.
Wen Rensheng cannot use advanced technology or advanced ideas now, but there is still no problem in copying the Zheng family.
After all, the failure of the Zheng family lies in their lack of vision.
Wen Rensheng is now a Juren.
But people can still be promoted without becoming officials.
It would be dangerous if Jinshi did not become an official.
A Juren has a considerable status in the southeastern Shilin.
He now has a good excuse to stand on his own feet.
Half a year later.
500 elite men have been trained and formed an independent battalion in the Biao Camp, named the Selected Front Camp.
Wen Rensheng deliberately added swimming and boat training to his training.
The excuse is to fight against the red-haired people.
Then Wen Rensheng found Governor Wang.
Proposed to conquer the red-haired people who occupied Pengdao.
"Uncle Shi, the red-haired people were repulsed last time, and they are coming again this time. If we want to get rid of it once and for all, we need to set up counties on it, and at the same time occupy Dajuan Island behind it." Wen Rensheng Said directly.
"It's just Pengdao, why do we still need to occupy the big officials? It's called Dongfan, but it's a barbaric land." Governor Wang was a little worried.
A bureaucrat like him only wants to make meritorious deeds and does not want to be troublesome.
"Uncle Shi, the land in Damen is fertile, especially the fresh water in the north. The climate is colder, similar to the north. We can accept a large number of refugees and take them away, which can reduce the hidden danger of rebellion." Wen Rensheng said .
“But taking the emperor’s people overseas is a serious crime.” Governor Wang shook his head.
"In this case, we will only be stationed in Pengdao for the time being, but I also ask you to recommend me as the prefect of Penghu."
"You are already a Juren, and now you are a member of the same government. You know, why would you go to this barbaric place overseas to serve as the prefect?" Governor Wang said in confusion. "The Donglu are tyrannical and have won many battles, but they are not good at water battles. We occupied Pengdao to cultivate farmland to prepare for the future." Wen Rensheng said.
Governor Wang frowned a little: "No matter how strong the Donglu are, they are just the second Mongols. They cannot shake the foundation of our Ming Dynasty."
It is now the first year of Chongzhen. When the Holy King comes to court, all the ministers are very inspired.
Little did they know that the danger was imminent. In the second year of Chongzhen, the Eastern captives would detour through Mongolia, climb over the border wall, invade the capital, and plunder.
During the most dangerous Little Ice Age, we used Daming’s blood to survive the famine.
The Ming Dynasty had nowhere to plunder, and it was too decadent. The rice from the south of the Yangtze River could not help the famine-stricken areas in the north.
Finally, the peasant army was completely shaken down.
So Wen Rensheng shook his head and said: "Now the Donglu have formed an alliance with the Northern Lu and unified the northern grasslands. They couldn't defeat Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan's defense line before, but now they can bypass the grassland. In this way, they can use In a few years, they will become the northern captives during the Jiajing and Wanli years."
"Ah!" Governor Wang was shocked when he heard this.
In fact, many discerning people can see this situation.
We are also strengthening the strength and defense of important towns near Jiubian and Gyeonggi.
However, the same sentence remains: financial ruin, corruption from top to bottom, and powerlessness, we can only sit back and watch the danger come.
You can see, it’s useless.
Everyone knows they are going to die, but who can escape?
"As a result, the country will be in danger by then. In the former Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was attacked by the Jin people and floated in the sea. Now we have to find a way out for the royal family in advance."< br>
Why did Wen Rensheng say this?
Why don’t you keep silent and make a fortune?
It's very simple, he cannot use advanced technology and advanced ideas.
We must try our best to bring into play the greatest power of this era: the gentry and the government.
The former is far better than the latter.
If he immigrated silently, he might only have hundreds of thousands of people in seven or eight years.
Still unable to match the potential of the Qing Dynasty.
If the imperial court takes the lead, there will be more than one million people in a year.
This is not bragging.
Historically, Zheng Zhilong will immigrate as an official official in the next few years.
Southern Fujian suffers from frequent droughts and hordes of hungry people.
With the support of Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan, Zheng Zhilong once again recruited tens of thousands of Zhang and Quan disaster victims. "Everyone was given three taels of silver, and three people were given an ox."
It’s just that his steps are still a little smaller.
Follow Wen Rensheng’s approach and directly immigrate millions of people.
As for how to eat on the island.
The Chinese people have been a herbivorous people since ancient times. At this time, there is grass everywhere and they can just eat it.
Eating it all can also solve the problem of malaria caused by too many mosquitoes.
Of course, this cannot be said completely, but it can be done this way.
At this time, the government still has no execution ability.
Otherwise, all the hungry people in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places will be taken overseas and exiled.
But this difficulty is too high.
If the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats could do such a thing, they would have destroyed the Donglu long ago.
However, the Manchus and Qing Dynasties were able to do it.
Because they are cruel enough.
Isn’t it more difficult than this to move the border and ban the sea?
You want to know how many people are there within 30 miles of the coast?
There must be tens of millions of people.
Anyway, they just have four words, kill them if you don’t leave!
Kill him and leave.
The Ming Dynasty did not dare to do this. It was worried about its reputation because it did not have a core to support its force. Once it took action, the legitimacy of its court would be gone.
Later, when Zeng Shatou was under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, he learned this trick from his Manchu ancestors. If there were too many people and not enough land, what would happen if they rebelled?
After killing them all, the land will be divided.
It’s that simple.
If there had not been an invasion of foreigners and the rise of a new army, this trick could have been used for tens of thousands of years.
This is the eternal ability...
After Wen Rensheng finished speaking, Governor Wang was greatly shocked: "My nephew is indeed a loyal minister of the country. He can think of others but not others. In this case, of course I will help him."
He also thought that if he made a decision, With this kind of foundation, won't he be able to become Optimus Prime in the future?
Are you afraid that you won’t be able to become the first assistant?
So the two of them planned to start by driving away the red-haired people.
Only by driving out the red-haired people can we get great merit from the court and get the name of a pioneer.
Then Governor Wang made a memorial.
The court discussed it.
The emperor has just ascended the throne and is full of energy.
The imperial court issued an order for the red-haired people to occupy Pengdao again, and ordered Governor Wang to summon the navy to drive away the red-haired people.
Then Governor Wang issued a general governor's order and called in two general soldiers to discuss.
They are Yu Datao, the commander-in-chief of Jianfu.
Zhangzhou Commander-in-Chief Zhou Ming, the former commanded the navy, while the latter had a relatively strong team of servants.
Wen Rensheng observed these two people.
I found that both of them had the intention of making great achievements, and they were not generals who were just waiting to die.
Moreover, Yu Datao is more loyal and serious. He is considered a person who wants to move forward bravely at the end of the dynasty.
"The red-haired men's ships are powerful, have many cannons, and are good at musketry. They are really difficult to deal with." Yu Datao said directly.
It seems that he usually studies his opponents and knows them well.
"Li Tongzhi, what do you think?" Governor Wang directly asked Wen Rensheng to talk to the two of them.
"That's right, so we have to use our own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses. Their strengths are big ships and cannons. Their shortcomings are that they come from afar and have few people. We can dispatch tens of thousands of people, and they are the most powerful. Send out two or three money men."
"Their boats are big but the number is small, our boats are small but the number is large."
"We have the offshore advantage. We can pretend to attack. The opponent will definitely come to besiege us near the port. We will ambush a large number of small boats nearby. Once the opponent approaches the port, we will immediately besiege the opponent from all sides and win with fire ships!"< br>
Wen Rensheng said methodically.
"This is a very good plan." Yu Datao agreed as soon as he heard it, because this was also what he wanted to do. He originally thought that the other party would be able to talk on paper, but unexpectedly he actually thought of something. It seems that this time No need to worry about meeting a boastful civil servant.
"Before using fire ships, we need to practice more. This time I ordered the express shipping company to reimburse 200,000 taels of military expenses, and at the same time requisitioned 200 fire ships and transformed them into fast and flexible ships. Since it is a fire attack , you need to use strong fire oil, and there are huge nails on the bow of the boat. Once it hits the opponent, it will not escape."
"But if the opponent is outside the port and they use the wind to maneuver, it will be difficult for the small boat to catch up. and their cannons are quite accurate because they have a very long range and our fireships will lose morale within a short time." Zhou Ming raised a question.
"It doesn't matter. The red-haired people have always been arrogant. As long as we reduce the range of the fort, they will definitely come close to the harbor and shoot. We will take the opportunity to quickly send out the small boat. Their ship will turn slowly and will definitely be entangled by the small boat."< br>
“Of course this is only the first strategy. We can also widely offer rewards to find where the red-haired people are stationed and take the initiative.”
“But no matter what kind, we must train strictly. Try to make the soldiers proficient in this method of warfare."
(End of this chapter)