1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 557
December 1645, 12, Batavia.

How difficult life is, Zhou Yingping, who escaped from Daming, deeply understands and empathizes with him.However, at present, he is not worried about the daily difficulties and hardships, but what worries him most is how to cater to the king of Hanzhou--Qi Tian when he arrives in Hanzhou.

After the ship arrived at the port of Batavia, Zhou Yingping took his family and walked straight to the Hanzhou warehouse on the east side of the pier, planning to rest for two days before continuing to the Hanzhou mainland with Hanzhou's armed merchant ships.

In June, when the Boluo troops of the Qing army attacked Huai'an, Liu Zeqing fled without a fight and retreated to Haizhou.Zhou Yingping immediately took his family and followed the refugees to the beach, and then took a sea boat all the way south to Guangzhou.

After staying in Guangzhou for several months, after several conversations with Zhou Gui, the shopkeeper of the Hanzhou Warehouse, he learned that Qi Tian was not too upset about his behavior of leaving without telling him, so he thought about whether he could take shelter in Hanzhou.

At the end of September, the city of Nanjing was broken, and Emperor Hongguang was nowhere to be found. Duoduo led the army to march south again from the north.By November, Susong, Changzhou, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places in the south of the Yangtze River were successively captured by Jiannu, and officials and Ming troops almost surrendered.

Although, the crown prince of Denglai announced the supervision of the country in October when the life and death of Emperor Hongguang was unknown, and ordered officials from all over the country and the Ming army to obey Denglai's decree.However, in the face of Jiannu's turbulent offensive and the fragmented national situation, all localities were unable to organize effective resistance, making Jiannu's journey unstoppable without any resistance.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Yingping felt that Guangzhou was not so safe anymore.So, I asked for a letter of recommendation from Gui on Tuesday, and bought some local materials needed in Hanzhou in the Guangzhou market. I drove my two lucky boats and headed to Hanzhou before the northwest monsoon started. come.

Relying on Tuesday Gui's recommendation letter, Zhou Yingping received special care from local civil affairs officials in Nanping Fort (now Cam Ranh City, Vietnam), Xinsheng Island (now Vietnam Phu Quoc Island) and other territories controlled by Qi State, which saved a lot of trouble.

After staying on Xinsheng Island for a week, they came all the way to Batavia with two Qi ships returning to the mainland of Hanzhou.

"Are you an old friend of my king?" The shopkeeper of Batavia Hanzhou Warehouse couldn't help but widen his eyes when Zhou Yingping mentioned that he had an affair with the king ten years ago.

"Hehe, ten years ago, I traveled all the way to Hanzhou with your King Qi. Unexpectedly, ten years have passed, and your Hanzhou is now more and more prosperous." Zhou Yingping said with emotion.

"Since I have an old relationship with the king of my family, and I am still the veteran of the co-founded Hanzhou, I forgive you for being negligent." The shopkeeper of the warehouse said respectfully: "During this rest period, but if you have orders, please tell them directly. In addition, I agree The Chinese representative in Batavia happens to be in the city, would you like me to inform him?"

"Who is this representative?" Zhou Yingping asked.

In ten years, I don't know how many people still remember him who landed in Hanzhou. More than 20 days ago, in Nanping Fort, Zhang Wenqi, the young general manager of Annan, still recognized him and took good care of him, which flattered him.

"Huang Mingfang used to be a descendant of the surname Huang from the family of the Sultanate of Brunei. Moreover, he had studied with the king of my family for several years, and he is the king's confidant."

"Oh, Huang Mingfang?" Zhou Yingping thought for a while, and seemed to have a vague impression. He remembered that he was the youngest son of Brunei Guohua Human Rights Minister Huang Binyuan. At that time, he was only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy.

By the way, Qi Tian seemed to be at the same age at that time.

In the evening, after Zhou Yingping and Huang Mingfang had a banquet, they returned to their room and heaved a long sigh.

"Master, why are you sighing?" Zhou Liushi asked softly when she saw her husband's distraught appearance.

"Oh, I regret it!" Zhou Yingping shook his head and said, "Who would have thought that a group of pirates really established their foundation in Hanzhou, and finally became an independent country. The boy in the past has also become the king of Qi! Back then, if I could follow closely behind, I would definitely be rich and honored for life. Why did I run away in such panic?"

"In any case, the master also has a friendship with Hanzhou!" Zhou Liushi said: "Perhaps, King Qi remembers the past, and it is not known if he will give you a fortune again."

"Hehe, the King of Qi is the Lord of Hanzhou, and he has thousands of gaps in his chest. I'm afraid most of them don't remember me." Zhou Yingping smiled wryly and said, "However, if you can present the gift we brought from Guangzhou, maybe you can It pleases him a little bit.”

"You... the person you bought from Guangzhou is dedicated to King Qi?"

"Does Madam think that I bought it to enjoy alone?" Zhou Yingping saw the strange expression on his wife's face, and couldn't help laughing, "I'm going to run away all the way to find support, how can I have the desire to commit adultery again?"

"Using color to deceive the king, won't it cause the anger of King Qi?" Zhou Liushi was a little worried.

"In the prime of King Qi, I heard that there were only two queens and concubines around him. In addition, Hanzhou is remote, and there are no beautiful women. The Qingyuan I bought from Guangzhou is very talented, and he will definitely please the King of Qi. In this way, If we can slightly eliminate the rebellious act of leaving without warning, maybe we can make King Qi treat us differently, and make my Zhou family take root in Hanzhou."

I still remember that during the Warring States period, Lu Buwei once offered Zhao Ji and a different person to the King of Qin, so that he was able to be prominent in the Qin State and worshiped as the prime minister.Presenting a beauty to the King of Qi by myself, I don't expect to be named a marquis and a prime minister, but it is feasible to get a little wealth, I think.

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Some people want to go to Hanzhou wholeheartedly, hoping to obtain a long-term wealth, while some people are full of apprehension and uneasiness about going to Hanzhou, thinking that it is a wild and dead place.

The two Qi State armed merchant ships that arrived in Batavia with Zhou Yingping were full of immigrants, and they were a group of immigrants with a special status. There were more than [-] former sailors of Liu Zeqing's navy.

In July, Tu Lai, the head coach of the Qing army, led troops to attack Denglai, and ordered more than 7 sailors from Liu Zeqing's navy to directly attack Penglai County by sea. More than 200 small boats were sunk, and more than [-] people were killed or injured. The rest were captured and temporarily detained in Weihaiwei town.

In August, the Qi Marine Corps cut off the rear of the Qing army, and caused Liu Zeqing and Li Benshen to suddenly turn around on the battlefield, defeating the Qing army. Tulai fled back to Qingzhou with only a thousand cavalry.

After capturing these officers and soldiers of the Liu Zeqing Navy, Qi Dajiang, the governor of the Qi State Navy who presided over the Denglai military, immediately selected more than [-] people from them, and shipped them to several overseas territories in Annan in batches. All pulled back to Hanzhou mainland.Although this group of naval officers and soldiers have never experienced ocean voyages, they just operate tank boats on the canal, or just go around the sea, but they are still better than landlubbers without any experience.With a little training, we can supplement the fleet of the navy or the fleets of various shipping companies, and strengthen the sea power of our country.

When this group of surrendered troops was arranged to be transported back to the mainland of Hanzhou, although everyone was told that at that time, as long as they were born to serve Qi for a few years, everyone would have a great future in the future. Houses, land, and even wives The Qi government will give them all.

However, it took these officers and soldiers all the way from Denglai, to Annan, and now to Batavia, which lasted more than a month and traveled tens of thousands of miles, which made these people panic.After hearing that there are still more than [-] days left for the next journey, many people showed a look of despair.

You must know that they were former Daming water transport ship crews and guards compiled by Liu Zeqing, not those starving people who had nothing and voluntarily went to Hanzhou to immigrate.It was only because of the defeat that he was captured and transported back to their homeland by the people of Qi.The long distance made them think that they had reached the horizon, as if they were exiled, and it must be a wild area.In this way, not to mention the division of houses and fields, or division of wives, I am afraid that I will never be able to return to Daming for the rest of my life, let alone offer incense and kowtow to my ancestors.

In the dead of night, the more than [-] surrendered troops who were temporarily arranged in the Hanzhou warehouse, some of the brave ones who were unwilling to be reconciled to the fate, connected with each other, and after easily knocking down several Hanzhou guards, they escaped under the cover of night. Warehouse, hidden into the wild.

After the navy ship officers and soldiers and many guards who were resting in the warehouse woke up, they quickly organized, suppressed the remaining restless surrender bullets, and closed the entire Hanzhou warehouse.

At dawn the next day, the head shopkeeper of the Hanzhou warehouse and the head of the fleet did some inventory, and they suddenly found that there were more than [-] officers and soldiers who escaped last night.This kind of escape in the middle of the transfer of immigrants has never happened in the immigration process in the past ten years.When everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, they could only go to the city to find Huang Mingfang, the representative in Batavia, and tell them what happened last night.

After Huang Mingfang heard the news, apart from being shocked, he couldn't laugh or cry.What is this called!Seeing that they were about to reach the door of the house, the immigrants ran out instead.If the Dutch knew it, they would definitely gloat and see our jokes.

The descendants escaped from the Hanzhou Warehouse in the middle of the night, when the city gate of Batavia was still closed, so they could not escape into the city, but scattered into the wilderness.

But in this way, it is a bit difficult to find.What is even more worrying is that many Dutch farms outside the city may hide them and take them as coolies, which will be a bit troublesome.

I informed Jiapidan, a Chinese in the city, and asked him to help organize people out of the city to search for it.As for how many people can be retrieved, we can only do our best to obey the destiny.

Thinking about the future, there will be a large number of immigrants passing through Batavia every year in Qi State, and it is inevitable that such immigrants will repeatedly flee on their own.However, the land was under the jurisdiction of the Dutch, and it was impossible to establish a stronghold to protect the immigrants.

It would be the best if we could find a small island or a key point by the sea nearby and establish a supply transfer point that is completely controlled by Qi.

However, the entire Nanyang Islands are regarded as their own taboo by the Dutch, will they easily allow Qi to do so?

(End of this chapter)