1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 545 Gathering Soldiers ([-])

On July 1645, 7, when Qi Guo and his party arrived at Chongming Island, they were intercepted by more than a hundred small boats.

After some negotiations, they learned that the Donglai Fleet was the navy of Qi State, a friendly foreign state of the Ming Dynasty in the past, and more than 20 days ago, they fought with the Zhenjiang Navy to build slaves on the Yangtze River, so they offered wine and food to the Qi State Fleet.

The person who now controls Chongming Island is Gu Rong, who was nicknamed Gu Sanmazi in the past. He was originally a pirate.Since May of this year, the Qing army has moved southward, and Zhu Chaobu, king of Yiyang, the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, fled to Chongming.However, Gu Rong saw the chaos in the world, so he had a different idea, preparing to kill Jing Benche, the Jiangjiang supervisor appointed by the Hongguang court, and support Yiyang King.

Although Jing Benche was a civil servant, he ran fast. He led a group of soldiers and horses to flee to Ningbo.Not long after, because he did not want to follow Dongpingbo Liu Zeqing, one of the four towns, to become a slave, and he had a long-standing friendship with Shen Tingyang, a Chongming squire, the general Tian Yang, the general Zhang Pengyi and others led thousands of troops and more than [-] ships. , came to Chongming, and joined Gu Rong's department.

They all elected Yiyang King as the master, Tian Yang as the governor, and Gu Rong as the general. They planned to use Chongming as the base to raise the anti-Qing banner.

When Niu Jinming left Chongming, he made an appointment with Tian Yang, Gu Rong and others. If he could not gain a foothold in this place, or needed military support, he could send people north to Changshan Island, and the State of Qi would definitely help.

On July 7, the fleet returned to South Changshan Island, and immediately began to evacuate immigrants.It is planned to take advantage of the summer to transport some of the many hungry people gathered in Denglai to Jeju Island.After all, the climate there is mild, the rainfall is abundant, and the land is considered fertile.Get more people there, at least you can get more food and reduce the consumption of materials in the Denglai area.

In November last year, North Korea tried to send troops to retake Jeju Island, but was repelled by more than [-] soldiers from Jangsan Island on the island and more than [-] self-rescue troops. logged in.With the increasing number of Ming people on the island, their strength is also increasing. North Korea's current weak military strength alone may not be able to retake Jeju Island in a short time.

In addition, I heard that many Ming people on Jeju Island respected the order of the Ming prince and ruled the Ming Dynasty. The Korean soldiers and civilians felt a little guilty in their hearts, turned away from the position of vassal, and helped build slaves to attack the suzerain country. The Korean monarchs and ministers, who claim to be Confucian civilization, seem quite embarrassed.

Since the Ming people on the island are more powerful than our Korean army, let them occupy Jeju Island first.
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On July 7, South Changshan Island.

The Crown Prince Zhu Cihong of the Ming Dynasty now lives in Penglai County and handles the military and civilian affairs of various prefectures and counties with many Denglai officials, but King Ding, King Yong and the two princesses have always lived on Nanchangshan Island.

At the beginning, when the Highnesses came to the island for the first time, Zhao Hongxing, the Commander of Changshan Island, not only specially gave up the former Commander's Mansion as the Prince's temporary residence, but also organized hundreds of civilian husbands to urgently build several halls and residences for them. Nobles and relatives live and live with handymen.

A not-so-high wall roughly encloses the entire Prince's temporary residence.The surrounding security personnel were first in charge of the Qi State Marine Corps. Later, Denglai Town was established, and the general Jiang Yongrui dispatched more than 100 reliable soldiers to replace the Qi State Marine Corps.

Ziying led a few handymen to the corner gate on the west side of Xingyuan, and saw a few officers and soldiers of the Qi State Marine Corps standing in front of two carriages, laughing and talking, one of the heroic officers saw Ziying and the others, Immediately showed a longing look.

"Our first immigrant fleet from the Qi State has arrived on the island from the mainland, bringing a lot of food and clothing produced locally, and specially pulled two carts to enjoy with several His Highnesses." A civil affairs official of Changshan Island handed over to Chao Ziying and others Said.

"Thank you, my lord." Ziying quickly glanced at the officer of the Qi State Marine Corps out of the corner of her eyes, then bent her knees and bowed in a salute, "Your highnesses have sent your servants here, thank you Qi Fan for your kindness, and wait for His Royal Highness to return to the island. , and return the gift."

"Please report back to your Highnesses, this is a brief expression of my heart from the Qi State, and there is no need to be polite." The official of the Qi State shook his head and said: "The Ming Dynasty was in chaos, and we also fled because of it. Keep the thoughts of Great Ming, and even more respect the virtue of the Prince of Ming Dynasty. Now I only hope that His Highness the Crown Prince will work hard to restore the Ming Dynasty."

Ziying thanked her again, and then ordered several handymen to fetch the supplies on the carriage, and several marine soldiers standing beside them also enthusiastically helped unload the goods.

"Recently, everything... is okay?" Ziying approached the Marine Corps officer calmly and asked in a low voice.

Yue Zhongwu grinned, looked around, saw that no one noticed them, quickly took out a suet jade from his bosom, stuffed it into Ziying's hand, and said in a low voice: "I have been on the island recently. Rest in bed, everything will be fine...but, I always miss you in my heart."

When Ziying heard the words, she blushed immediately, and gave Yue Zhongwu a light glance.

Ziying is Princess Kunxing's close maid of honor Aimee Zhu. She entered the palace at the age of eight and has always been by Princess Kunxing's side.A year ago, I came to Nanchangshan Island with the prince and others. When the Marine Corps sent troops to protect them, I met Yue Zhongwu by chance. After chatting for a few words, I was surprised to find that the two were from the same township of Bazhou, Hebei, and He used to be a neighbor in a village, and then gradually became acquainted with each other.

One is a young and heroic junior officer of the Qi State Marine Corps, and the other is a handsome court lady with deep strengths, who is also from the same township, and gradually develops a trace of admiration for each other.

But the identities of the two are very different, and they live in troubled times. They don't care to think about what the future will be, but they just think about each other in their hearts.

Back at the barracks, Yue Zhongwu looked extremely happy and excited, thinking about how he could marry Miss Ziying back home in the future.As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't help but start to think in my heart, it seems that there are some obstacles to marrying a princess maid.In addition, do I have to ask the company commander first, if members of the Qi Guojun get married, will there be any status or geographical restrictions?

"How can there be restrictions on the marriage of our Qi soldiers?" The company commander looked at Yue Zhongwu, who had quickly risen from a soldier to a platoon leader in less than two years, and said with a smile: "Even if you marry a princess, We don’t have any taboos in the army. What’s the matter, which girl are you looking for? I warn you first, don’t use force on the immigrant women on the island, the military police in the army will stare at us .”

"Military regulations, I know by heart by heart, I will never violate the military law." Yue Zhongwu quickly waved his hands and said: "I just want to find out first, the taboos of marriage in our army, so as not to suffer in the future."

"In my opinion, it is the best to have a daughter-in-law in the Ming Dynasty. If you return to the mainland of Hanzhou and want to find a wife you like, it will be difficult!" Lu Bingyan said with emotion: "Like me I married a daughter-in-law a few years ago, and she was an Annan woman arranged by the local immigration department. Grandma’s, it’s been a few years, and she can’t even speak Chinese well. I was thinking, don’t wait for me to go home. Dad can’t even shout, that’s the end of it!”

"That's right, the one I want to marry is naturally a Daming woman." Yue Zhongwu said proudly: "The children born in the future will all be purebred Han Chinese!"

"That's the best. After you give birth to a daughter, you must marry my son. In this way, my descendants will have more Han blood."

"Company Commander, if the woman wants to marry me and someone obstructs her, how can she handle it?" Yue Zhongwu asked cautiously.

Thinking of Miss Ziying being the maid of the princess, if it weren't for the troubled times, it would be difficult for him to meet her in his life.Although the princess is in trouble, and she is still supported by the force of our Qi country, she is the former nobleman of the Ming Dynasty after all. Even if she is a maid, I am afraid that it is not something that a small soldier can expect casually.

But the young Mu Ai will not consider too many difficulties, and will only try his best to get together with the one he loves.

"There are tens of millions of refugees in Denglai. If any woman is married by an officer and soldier of the Qi State Marine Corps, it will be her blessing." Lu Bingyan said loudly: "Although we cannot get married in the army, as long as we If the girls in our army are interested in women, and if they like each other, they will naturally try their best to let them return to Hanzhou by boat and settle down, waiting to marry the boys in our army.... Hey, shit, why don't you Will you fall in love with the lady of an official in Denglai? If her parents stop her, I can't help it."

Yue Zhongwu was stunned when he heard the words.Although Miss Ziying has no parents, she has a master, and the master is the princess of Ming Dynasty.If the princess does not agree to marry her maid to him, what should she do?

"Company commander, the regiment commander told all the officers to go to the official hall for a military meeting!" Suddenly, a messenger broke in.

"Oh?" Lu Bingyan stood up, grabbed the military cap on the head of the bed, and put it on his head, "What is the military discussion?"

"News from Jiaozhou, Liu Zeqing from Huaibei is calling!"

"What?" Lu Bingyan was stunned when he heard the words, "Isn't that Liu Zeqing an uncle of the Hongguang court in Nanjing? A month ago, our fleet teamed up with the Zheng family to block Jiannu from Jiangbei and protect them from Jiangnan. safety. At this time, are they considered friendly forces? How could he beat us like a bastard?"

"I don't know either." The orderly replied with a wry smile, "Most likely he was sent to Jian slaves and was driven to attack us."

(End of this chapter)