The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 371 Login
Mr. He looked at this group of barbarians and despised them in his heart.

You are risking your lives, how can you trust an outsider like me so much?
As for the 500,000 taels of silver, Master He really wants it, but you have to be alive to spend it!
This is the tax silver collected by the Guangdong Customs last year, all of which are official silver ingots minted by the Governor-General's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi at fifty taels each.

Even in the Qing Dynasty when silver was flowing in in large quantities, fifty taels per ingot was considered a very large silver ingot. With Mr. He's wealth and status, he had no place to melt it, let alone dare to use it directly.

Moreover, the whole story of the tax is very clear, and King Ren De will definitely investigate it in the future, so it cannot be concealed at all.

Captain Good was a little drunk. Although he kept reminding himself to be careful, Mr. He brought him the best Cuban white rum. For sailors who love alcohol, this was God's best gift to them, and no one could refuse it.

Seeing the Europeans in the house drinking rum in big gulps and gnawing on roast goose and suckling pig in an ugly manner, Mr. He despised them even more. With such a character, what great things could they accomplish?

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Master He said to Captain Goode, "Guangzhou is now unattended, and the soldiers who supervised the Thirteen Commercial Houses' communication with the outside world are no longer here.

Everyone is in such high spirits today. To celebrate our upcoming victory, why don't I find some beautiful ladies to come over and have a good time."

These European guys are suffering!
The shortest of them also came from India. After arriving, they went to Shisanhang and waited for the required goods to arrive.

During this period, you cannot leave at will. The house is not big, the food is a bit poor, and there are no other entertainment activities.

Hearing Mr. He being so "reasonable", Captain Good seemed to feel that this was not a good idea, but he was only the convener, not the leader of the others, so he reluctantly agreed amid the loud cheers of the others.

Soon, women's laughter could be heard outside the Thirteen Hongs, just one street away. A small boat with red lanterns hanging on it was approaching on the Pearl River, and one could vaguely see the alluring figure of a woman posing seductively at the bow of the boat.

The Europeans, who had been holding it in for several months and were inevitably harassed by the burly sailors on the ship, could no longer hold back and came to greet them howling.

But suddenly, just as a Dutchman opened the wooden door that blocked the Thirteen Factories from other blocks in Guangzhou, something unexpected happened. A musket shot directly into his head.

It turned out that those women dressed in colorful clothes were all members of the Kunlun Mountain Gang in disguise.

Those sounds of women laughing were made by Cantonese opera singers.

Captain Good looked back in horror and searched around, only to find that Mr. He had long since disappeared. He quickly ran into the house and was about to light fireworks to warn the merchant ships on the Pearl River.

But the first sounds of explosions and musketry were heard on the Pearl River. Due to the restrictions of the Qing Dynasty, the British and American merchant ships entering the Pearl River had their cannons removed. Even if these guys had hidden some, it was impossible to pull them out and install them immediately.

Therefore, once attacked, these merchant ships weighing hundreds of tons could often only rely on a small number of flintlock rifles for defense.

Faced with the sudden attack of more than a thousand officers and soldiers of the Xingtang Navy, they had no ability to resist at all.

Oh, no, there were also two or three hundred sailors from the French East India Company. They were the ones who pointed out the locations of the British and Dutch merchant ships.

"Damn!" Captain Good took out two pistols. Damn French, damn Qing people, no, Seres, you are all cunning devils.

After cursing in his heart, Captain Good prepared to go up and fight. He was going to die anyway, so he might as well take a few people with him before he died.

But just as he took out his pistol, he was thrown to the ground. When he looked up, he saw a Frenchman in oriental official uniform looking at him excitedly.

Brigadier General Manuel Bonn laughed heartily, "You damn Li Goudan, you chased me out of Pondicherry like a stray dog back then, you never expected this day!

Hand over the silver that does not belong to you, and perhaps you will have a chance to return to India, otherwise I will make you live a life worse than death."

Of course Manuel Bonn was lying. Captain Good had no chance of survival.

Because he was a senior employee of the British East India Company, he was not only a senior captain, but also the trade commissioner of the British East India Company in Guangzhou.

At a time when France is eager to tie Xing Tang to its chariot and keeps hinting to Mo Zibu to prepare to send troops to India, killing the senior employees of the British East India Company in Guangzhou and then swallowing up their property is undoubtedly a better choice than attacking India.

This not only showed Xing Tang's attitude of standing with France and pledged its allegiance, but it was also not very difficult.

But Goode's crew didn't know. He was silent for a while, and when Manuel Bonn appeared with a thick and long whip, he immediately compromised.

Just when the Xingtang Navy dealt with the biggest destabilizing element, Li Xianwen led 30,000 troops back south through Xiangshan County.

However, among his 30,000-strong army, which looked neatly dressed and impressive, there was actually not a single regular soldier.

The main force was the pirates recruited by Li Xianwen and some trained Hongmen members, and the rest were mostly militiamen from the counties north of Guangzhou.

Well, the son-in-law is quite capable. He recruited soldiers on the spot and did it in a proper manner. He really has some of the style of his ancestor Li Zicheng. As Li Xianwen moved south, the situation in Guangdong became clear. Before he even reached Guangzhou, larger-scale uprisings broke out in Zengcheng to the north of Guangzhou and Dongguan to the southeast.

These two places were originally the places with the most intense resistance around Guangdong. When the Qing Dynasty controlled Guangdong more than a hundred years ago, the Three Loyalists of Lingnan basically operated in these places.

Li Xianwen gave up the urge to enter Guangzhou and only sent 500 people to escort Zhou Dianshi of Panyu County into the city to deter the city foxes and rats from taking advantage of the fire to rob and avoid riots.

Afterwards, Li Xianwen gathered militiamen from all over the place, numbering nearly 50,000 soldiers, and marched towards Huizhou in a mighty force.

The reason for going to Huizhou is that Huizhou is the residence of the Governor of Guangdong. It is also a rare place in eastern Guangdong where mountains and plains meet. The terrain is complex, and it is close to the sea and the river. It is a place that military strategists must fight for.

Although it sounded powerful, the Green Camp soldiers in Huizhou City were panicked.

The Guangdong Green Camp has always been the best-equipped and largest Green Camp in the Qing Dynasty, with nearly 70,000 soldiers.

But now, Guangdong's economy is developed, and most of the Green Camp soldiers near Guangzhou are not in the camp but working everywhere. They only report for duty when they are called, and they split their wages in half with their superiors.

Other places far from Guangzhou could not get this money, so they began to collect empty salaries. This directly resulted in the Guangdong Green Camp, which had nearly 70,000 soldiers, being able to deploy less than 40,000.

When Agui sent troops to Beihe, people in Guangdong did not dare to say that they could not provide troops, so they could only grit their teeth and send troops. A total of 20,000 people were sent out, but in the end, almost no one came back, and even the admiral was killed in the battle in Beihe.

Now in the governor's office in Huizhou, Wei Dabin, the general of the left wing of the Guangdong Green Camp, is acting as the governor, and he has only a thousand or so soldiers under him.

There is also Zhang Chaolong, the lieutenant general of the Guangdong Governor's Central Army who fled from Guangzhou. His one thousand men still have some combat effectiveness.

Of these two people, Zhang Chaolong was a military general who emerged from the pile of dead bodies in Jinchuan, and Wei Dabing was a military scholar who was summoned by Emperor Qianlong many times, so he was very loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

Li Xianwen originally wanted to persuade Wei Dabin to surrender on the grounds that Wei Dabin was a Hakka from Jiaying Prefecture, but Wei Dabin ignored him completely, so Li Xianwen had no choice but to send troops to attack.

However, Huizhou City had high walls and thick walls, and those who had not yet abandoned their status as Qing Dynasty generals were diehard traitors. In addition, Li Xianwen lacked large artillery, and his army was a temporarily recruited militia, so they were unable to break through Huizhou City for a while.

Fortunately, when he was in a stalemate, Yin Chengfang took Song Xiang back to Jiaying Prefecture.

The Hakka people in Jiaying Prefecture were the ones who followed King Mo the most, and almost every family had someone who depended on King Mo for a living.

Therefore, Song Xiang and others immediately led the crowd to gather troops in various places, preparing to attack the prefecture to respond to the Xing Tang Army. However, before everyone set off, the prefect Chen Renmao let down his braids, shaved his head, and took the initiative to rebellion.

It turned out that Chen Renmao was the magistrate of Pingyuan County in Jiaying Prefecture and was recently promoted to the position of prefect. He knew the situation in Jiaying Prefecture very well and knew that these people would cause trouble sooner or later.
So he had secretly taken his only son to his side. His parents had died early, and his wife had hidden in the countryside, waiting for this day.

The Hakka people who vowed to make great achievements for King Mo were at a loss for words and could only agree to the governor's joining. They then began to gather 10,000 soldiers and marched south to Huizhou.

The situation in Chaozhou was not much different. Mo Zibu did nothing but send Chen Lian, who was still recovering from his injuries, to Chaozhou.

The people of Chaozhou had been going to Southeast Asia all year round. When they saw Chen Lian coming back, they said nothing. They immediately sent their young men to rush into the cities, killed all the prefects and county magistrates of the Qing Dynasty, and then besieged the Chaozhou General's Office.

In early May, the Hakka soldiers from Jiaying Prefecture and the Chaozhou soldiers from Chaozhou arrived outside Huizhou City respectively. Li Xianwen had sufficient troops and buried fire mines to blow up the city wall of Huizhou.

Wei Dabin, the general of the left wing, and Zhang Chaolong, the lieutenant general of the Fu Biao, were all killed in the battle. Thousands of the Green Camp soldiers who resisted stubbornly were killed or wounded, and the rest were captured.

Also in early May, Mo Zibu ordered Generals Wang Wubing and Chen Guangzu to assist his brother Mo Zihuang and lead 3,000 men from Wuding Town along the coast from Beihe into western Guangdong.

The villagers in western Guangdong responded one after another, and the officials of various prefectures, counties and districts of the Qing Dynasty either fled or were killed, and a few were captured.

Afterwards, the Xingtang Army rushed to Gaozhou, an important town in western Guangdong.

The military chief of Gaozhou was the deputy general guarding Gao, Lei, Lian, Luo and other places in Guangdong, and this configuration was obviously higher than that of an ordinary general. In fact, it was the military reinforcement of the Qing Dynasty in western Guangdong after the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi moved back to Guangzhou from Zhaoqing.

But unfortunately, Gaozhou is Chen Shangchuan's hometown, and there are many Chen clan members in Gaozhou spread all over the place.

Therefore, before Wuding Town reached Gaozhou, the Gaozhou volunteers had surrounded the city. The few hundred remaining Gaozhou Green Camp soldiers were also very straightforward and opened the city to surrender.

By the end of May, the entire Guangdong Province, except for Shaoguan, Nanxiong and other places, had basically been conquered by the Xingtang Army.

Mo Zibu also arrived near the Pearl River Bay on a large ship. I, King Mo, am finally going to set foot on the land of my hometown for the first time.

(End of this chapter)