The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 380 Pioneering Spirit

The task of these three pirates to regain their freedom is simple, they only need to remember seven words "a year has passed."

It's these simple seven words that make Zheng Yiguan have nightmares all the time. The Ming army was trustworthy and set a three-year deadline. Now a year has passed. How can I develop if I can't plunder Daming and stay here?

Zheng Yiguan no longer has the confidence to go to war with this Ming fleet. He is an old pirate and knows how to fight at sea.

When Huang Sheng's warships were fully driven like crucian carp crossing the river and were half a mile away from the wharf in Hong Kong, every warship fired warning shots. The range and intensity of the artillery fire frightened Zheng Yiguan, who had been observing with binoculars.

The speed of the Huang family's warship made this senior pirate who made his fortune by the ocean bitter. He knew that he could not avenge him in this life, and secretly thanked the Ming army for letting him go.

If I really gathered all my strength to get back the situation last time, I am afraid that Zheng Yiguan will no longer exist in this world. There is no doubt that once the battle is fought, my warship will neither be able to fight nor escape, and the entire army will be wiped out. inevitable.

Zheng Yiguan finally made up his mind to go to Nanyang to seek development and strive to grab a piece of land to operate. If he had to, he could surrender to Mr. Huang for his help. He immediately called a meeting of his old brothers to study where to seize.

After the armed parade in front of Zheng Yiguan's house, the Huang family's fleet came to Jinmen Port to resupply. Xu Xinsu had already been notified by Ye Chengjing's servant that all supplies were ready.

Not only that, Ye Chengjing has been waiting here for more than ten days. Last time he saw Mr. Huang accompanied by a woman, this time he also brought two concubines and four attendants.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Huang actually took the old woman out to sea, Chu'er is a respectable person of the fourth grade, how can Ye Chengjing's status be compared with that of a concubine, they are so respectful and cautious that Wanfu is at a loss.

Huang Sheng had already brought more than a dozen of the Ye family's buddies and tents with him on Zhoushan Island. He didn't expect that this young master was waiting in Jinmen to follow him to the sea. Huang Sheng had a good impression of this young master Ye who liked to explore Talk to him on an equal footing.

Time has passed and Ye Chengjing is not as calm as the previous few times. It’s nothing. It’s the name of Huang Sheng Zhuangyuan and the scholar of the Hanlin Academy who abused this son. He is the elder of the pavilion. Looking up at Mr. Huang who seemed to be unattainable, Mr. Ye was lost.

This year, Xu Xinsu has regained his vitality. Because he escaped from death, he changed his mind and will never be a miser. He remembered Master Huang's teaching that money is of no use, only a strong ship and sharp guns will last long.

Huang Sheng was very satisfied with the Kinmen Island under the care of Xu Xinsu, and asked him to give the Huang family a piece of land close to the Kinmen port. Huang Sheng planned to build an indestructible small stone fortress at the port.

The master builder of the Huang family has already drawn the blueprints. The castle is not big, as long as it can garrison 400 people, and the castle wall can deploy [-] cannons. Next year, the Huang family will come here to open a bank.

The fort to be repaired, like Zhongming Fort, Fushan Fort, and Daishan Fort, is a western bastion structure, fully considering the crossfire formed by artillery and muskets when thermal weapons are deployed, and the blind spots are picked up by "flying thunder".

This fort is named 'Golden Gate Fort'. It is [-] steps away from the port and [-] steps away from the city of Kinmen guarding thousands of households. It also has a tall beacon lighthouse.

Money and food, as long as money and food can be controlled, what else can't be controlled?Huang Sheng was planning to open the "Huaxia Big Bank" along the coast first, and then along the river. When he reached the world, he would firmly control Daming's finances.

Huang Sheng planned to build the treasury in a strong fortress on the island. Anyway, the most convenient thing in this era is water transportation, so there is no inconvenience.

The small amount of business is handled by the branch below, and the loss is limited if the enemy takes it away from the old den. This is the same as the fact that there is no cash in the savings office under the modern bank.

Large amounts of cash must be transferred to several islands to complete. The Huang family can send warships to help transport them and send soldiers to escort them.

The Huang family's strong ships and powerful guns have been invincible in the China Sea for more than a year. The castle on the island is stationed with two hundred firearms troops. As long as there is water, food and weapons reserves, the enemy will not be able to defeat them for several months. .

This has been verified by history. Man Qing Kang Mazi's army of thousands of people used tens of thousands of people for logistical support, and besieged Lao Maozi's isolated and helpless Far East expedition team of hundreds of people.

After fighting for more than a year, he failed to succeed, and finally signed an alliance with others under the city, giving up the vast and boundless Siberia region.

Here is close to the sea, as long as you stick to it for a month, the reinforcements of the Huang family will definitely arrive, and they will deal with the enemies who take the initiative to provoke and dare to besiege the Huang family's fortress.

Huang Sheng is going to take them to catch them, one by one strung up the pipa bones, escorted to the coastal city, and beheaded on the spot after the sentencing meeting again and again.

The direction of development relying on the ocean has been verified by history. England, an island country with limited resources, can have as many people as they have resources and as much land as they can. However, they rose in the Age of Discovery and became an empire with colonies all over the world on which the sun never sets.

Why can they support enough force to defeat any enemy?Without him, trade plus plunder and blackmail.

Huang Sheng is going to follow the example of the rise of the United Kingdom, laying out the coastal areas of Daming one by one, using the islands as bases, with a powerful navy as the guarantee of force, and constantly winning new territories.

As long as Huang Sheng wins the territory, it will become the permanent land of the Han people. He will not suffer from indigestion like the British, and finally spit out a lot, because the Han people have a population advantage that the British cannot match. Of course, the Han people account for the vast majority of the territory. The real owner of the place.

In the "Golden Gate Fort", there are not only silver warehouses, but also thirty silos for storing grain. If you want to keep grain at 20 million shi, Huang Sheng left behind a few construction master craftsmen and Liu Shifu's musketeers here. construction.

Musketeers are not afraid of being stationed abroad now, because the Patriarch has clarified the rules and regulations, and the troops stationed abroad adopt a rotation system. After the local village warriors who can replace them are trained as soon as possible, the remaining Patriarch troops will gradually decrease.

Sometimes a group of people go to an unknown place to work and live for a year or so is actually very interesting. This is the reason why trees move to death and people move to live. The reason why Westerners rise in the age of great navigation is that they are willing to leave their homes to explore unknown places. .

Huang Sheng is deliberately cultivating the pioneering spirit of the teenagers under his command, and will go to South America, North America, and Africa to colonize in the future. These young soldiers who open their eyes to the world will become the rulers of the colonies.

In mid-June, the fleet departed from Jinmen Port to Manila Port. Due to the constant traffic of merchant ships on this route, there were many pirates. Of course, the Huang family obeyed the law of the sea and the strong survived, but the Huang family still tried their best to convince others with virtue.

After showing off their speed and firepower, if the ships they see don’t surrender, they choose to convince people by force. If they don’t, they can only become dead. There is no way for everyone to make a living at sea like this.

Killing a colleague not only got their ships and goods and captured slaves, but also lost a competitor. Wouldn't it be too bad for yourself not to do it.

Why did the Dutch rise so rapidly? They were "sea coachmen" and "sea scavengers" at the same time. Why did the Dutch have so many sea ships?That is the result of self-built and robbed.

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