Chapter 109: A Storm at Sea
The typhoon raged for three days.
On the fourth day, the wind stopped, but the beach was in a mess.
Many people living on the shore started to catch the sea early.
The typhoon not only brought wind and rain, but also brought many rare catches.
Han Lingshan rarely allowed these people to rest for two days.
He himself came to the beach, stepped on the still surging waves at his feet, and looked into the vast depths of the mist.
As for the sea, he fell in love with it from the first moment he saw it.
"It would be great if I could transform into a giant fish weighing ten thousand pounds and making waves."
Facing the vast expanse of blue waves, Han Lingshan couldn't help but murmur to himself.
Liu Poxi, who was two steps behind him, said quickly: "I am a hero. I don't need to turn into a fish to make waves."
Han Lingshan looked back. Liu Poxi said: "I may not be able to marry you."
Liu Poxi said in a low voice: "I am in ruins. It would be great if I could serve you for a while. I don't dare to propose marriage. "
Han Lingshan shook his head and said: "It's not that I dislike you for bringing two children, but..." As he spoke, he seemed to remember something terrible and couldn't help but shake his head.
Liu Poxi didn't care at all, she held Han Lingshan's hand and said, "My family background must be quite big. How can someone like me enter the mansion, and I don't dare to pray that I can pamper me?" I just ask you to come and see me in your spare time."
Han Lingshan nodded and said, "That's not bad. Someone will pick you three up and leave Chaozhou in two days. Going to a new place to settle down, although I will be ridiculed by all my brothers, it doesn't matter.
The older one will go to study where I went to school, and the younger one will live with you. It’s time to go to school.
I have a small yard there with no shortage of food and clothing. You can raise your child with peace of mind. I also have a hundred acres of grain farm there. I have already written to you. Let people build a house on the ration field.
After the house is built, you will go there to settle down.
Someone will give you my salary. I should have saved a lot. , It’s enough for you and your mother to survive.”
Liu Poxi knelt down in the tide and burst into tears.
"I must keep my family secret and dare not talk about my relationship with you."
"This has nothing to do with me. If it weren't for my current errand, It doesn't matter if you just say it's my outer room. Go ahead and pack your things. You can use the gold and silver in my bag as you wish." After Han Lingshan finished arranging Liu Poxi's arrangements, he walked along the coastline. While walking, I picked up some seafood from the beach and threw it into the fish basket from time to time. At first glance, I looked no different from the fishermen on the beach.
Liu Poxi was so happy that she almost jumped up. She thought that this man would just give her a sum of money and send her away. She never expected that he would actually arrange for their mother and son to live in the fiefdom..
This far exceeded all her expectations.
Although Uncle Jiu said there were no good people in the Jinyi Guards, Liu Poxi was willing to believe in this unattractive man, well, she would risk her life to believe it.
In Liu Poxi's heart, this tiger-like man didn't bother to do anything to deceive her or hurt her. This was completely unnecessary.
Two days later, the warship Han Lingshan had mentioned arrived.
Three large lucky boats worth 400 yuan!
It is not equipped with artillery or batons, just three merchant ships.
The person who came to deliver the ship was still the white-faced Qian Hengbao.
This time his expression was extremely solemn, completely lacking the humorous look of the past.
"There is no other way. You want it urgently, so we have no choice but to do this. We contacted Zheng Zhibao and hoped to have three battleships. Zheng Zhibao said there were none, no artillery, and no sailors. They were not even prepared to give more. We are a piece of wood.
Zheng Zhilong already knew about Han Xiufen's great power at sea, and he was a little afraid.
When they fought against the Dutch in Liaoluo Bay, they used it. They fought fifty gunboats and hundreds of fireships, but they faced only one lightly armed merchant ship.
Even so, the battle was extremely difficult and suffered heavy damage.
< p>Only two armed merchant ships were burned, and the rest escaped. The only ones killed were the pirates who were attached to the Dutch.At the beginning of the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, the Dutch eliminated Zheng Zhilong in one fell swoop by attacking the port. More than twenty new gunboats equipped with twenty to thirty-six cannons
It is difficult to say who suffered more damage in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay
In Fujian, the Dutch. Weak and weak, we had to surrender.
If the heavy warships faced by Han Xiufen were used against Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong would not be able to resist it.
You must know. Our largest Fu ship is nine feet long, while the Dutch's medium-sized warships are more than twenty feet long.
The biggest firepower of the Fu ship is only one Hongyi cannon and six Qianjin Folang machines. The rest are small cannons such as bowl-mouth guns. The so-called red barbarian cannons are eighteen-pound cannons salvaged from sunken Western ships.
According to the news from Han Xiufen, the Dutch. The strongest battleship "Qi Province" carried 80 cannons, including 12 36-pound guns, 16 24-pound guns, 14 18-pound guns, 12 12-pound guns, and 26 6-pound guns.
The most common mid-level warships in the Dutch fleet at that time had an average of 50 cannons, of which more than half were 18-pound or above cannons.
And in the Dutch navy along the Ming Dynasty, more than half of them had guns. , many ships carry less than 30 guns, which is equivalent to a light battleship in Europe.
And even this kind of light battleship, in the eyes of the former Fujian governor Nan Juyi. It is also an insurmountable obstacle.
The governor sent Yang Xiong, the secretary and supervisor, to personally go to Weinan to study in Nanju.Yi asked for details of the Penghu naval battle that year.
Nan Juyi said: When fighting against the red-haired navy, one must be extremely cautious. A slight mistake will result in the annihilation of the entire army.
Although he won the Penghu naval battle, his victory was not glorious.
It was he who first used treacherous means and then detained Dutch officers during negotiations, and then used more than 10,000 people and 200 ships to besiege the Penghu stronghold. At that time, the Dutch defenders were less than 1,000 people.
And due to time constraints, only crude fortifications were built. In this way, more than 10,000 people in the Ming Dynasty spent a lot of effort to break through the fortress.
In the end, some Dutch were allowed to escape by boat.
This battle cost 170,000 troops.
The fight was so difficult despite having an absolute military advantage. Nan Juyi never mentioned this matter since he left Fujian and took office.
Lingshan, the reason why the county magistrate wants to deal with Zheng Zhilong this time is not out of selfish motives, but because this Zheng Zhilong has become an obstacle to our development of a strong navy.
Although I don’t understand why you only need three lucky ships, such power is completely insufficient when facing a shark like Zheng Zhilong.
You have to be cautious! ”
After listening carefully to Qian Hengbao’s introduction, Han Lingshan couldn’t help but sigh.
Time is indeed important...
As expected, the county official He is extremely wise...
The County Lord's vision is indeed tens of thousands of miles long...
The County Lord's mind really encompasses the whole world, rather than the Ming Dynasty.
The Emperor of Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiannu, Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, these people are really noobs in the fish pond...
"I want Han Xiufen's report on Hongmao, all of them. ! "
"What do you want this for? It’s still top secret. ”
With Qian Hengbao’s words, Han Lingshan has automatically classified this guy as a rookie.
The purpose of Yushan Academy is to pursue innovation. , Seeking change, this guy who came out of Yushan Academy has no interest in these sudden peaks, and has absolutely no ambition.
Like Yun Zhao, Han Lingshan was encountering. When he is a fool, he also likes to remain silent, and can only tell him the fact that he is a fool with his eyes.
Qian Hengbao naturally discovered from Han Lingshan's eyes that he had been classified as a fool. Seeing this fact, he immediately said: "I can help you apply, and the rest depends on whether the secretary will approve it or not. "
Han Lingshan sighed and said: "I am so thirsty for knowledge, but you actually have to go through lengthy channels and directly send the news to the county magistrate. I want to see Han Xiufen's manuscript. ”
“The manuscript is encrypted.
Han Lingshan sighed and said: "This is the result of you idiots not studying well in Yushan Academy. You can't understand Han Xiufen's encrypted documents. Do you think I can't understand it either?" "
Qian Hengbao muttered: "How did I know?Those tadpole-like words are so important. ”
If you talk too much to idiots, you will become stupid yourself. However, Qian Hengbao behaves more well-behaved than his son in front of him, so naturally he should pay attention to it.
< p> "Be prepared. The imperial court's recruitment of Zheng Zhilong has a lot to do with Cao Huachun. "Qian Hengbao said in surprise: "Is it related to Cao Huachun?
Han Lingshan said irritably: "The pirate Wang Zhi was killed by Hu Zongxian. Isn't this a profound enough lesson?"
Zheng Zhilong is three points smarter than Wang Zhi. He has no direct channel to Tianting. Do you think he will surrender?
The person who recruited Zheng Zhilong to surrender was Xiong Wencan, and Xiong Wencan was one of the first people to be exonerated when Cao Huachun was handling the unjust case of Wei Zhongxian.
These things are clearly written in Zhou Guoping’s capital statistics book.
You never read these messages when doing business, right? "
"You are just suspicious! "
"Fuck you, go and see it now. As long as I start to doubt a certain person, it will definitely be true.
Without the emperor’s approval, do you think the people of Fujian would regard the Zheng family as the Great Wall?
Without the emperor’s consent, do you think Zheng Zhilong’s trade scope extended to all parts of East and Southeast Asia?
Why do you think he can be in Dashani, Feni, Champa, Luzon, Jingang, Beigang, Dayuan, Hirado, Nagasaki, Mumbai, Banten, Old Port, Badawi Asia, Malacca, Cambodia, Siam and other places do whatever they want?
Why does it have a military strength of 20,000 people from various races including Han Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Austronesian speakers, black Africans, etc., and a fleet of more than 3,000 large and small ships?
Why would the county magistrate be so afraid of him that he would ask me to take action to get rid of him and then dismantle Ba Zhi? ”
Every time Han Lingshan said why, he took a step forward, and Qian Hengbao was forced to take a step back until Qian Hengbao was forced to an abandoned wooden boat. Shan then put his hand on the wooden boat and looked down at Qian Hengbao, who was knocked against him.
"Take my woman to Yushan, send the eldest child to the academy, and the younger one in the belly. Place them in my library, wait until the house on my fief is built, send them to the fief, and then take out my salary from the Secretary of State and give it to that woman.
If someone asks you, do you know what to say? ”
Qian Hengbao was sweating profusely and nodded repeatedly. He had no idea why he would nod his head to do such a shameful thing that would make his classmates laugh at him forever.