Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 499 Entering Taiwan
Shuiyun Pavilion in Xiyuan, Beijing.

Li Jing, Li Anguo and his son sat quietly in the pavilion fishing.

In the past two months, Li Jing has been fishing in Shuiyun Pavilion for an hour every afternoon, and he often brings his eldest son Li Anguo to fish together.

Li Jing came to Shuiyun Pavilion to fish mainly because he wanted to relieve his nervousness.

Ever since he transferred troops to Fujian, Li Jing's heart has been hanging in his heart. What Li Jing worried about was not the army, but the navy.

With the strength of Daming's current navy, Li Jing would be lying if he said he was not nervous about dealing with a sea overlord like Zheng Zhilong.

But Li Jing is the supreme military commander of Ming Dynasty, no matter how nervous he is, he can't let it appear on the surface.Even if it is pretending, Li Jing has to pretend to be confident.

As for taking Li Anguo out to fish, it was because Li Jing found out that his son was quite lawless after he came to Beijing.

Li Jing knew what caused it. When he was in Shanxi, Li Jing’s reputation was not yet prominent. In addition, Li Jing strictly ordered his family not to reveal Li Anguo’s identity. The teachers in the school did not know that Li Anguo was Li Jing’s son. Discipline is naturally severe.

But after entering Beijing, Li Anguo's identity could not be kept secret (he went in and out of the prime minister's house every day, and was surrounded by guards, so he couldn't keep it secret if he wanted to). Everyone knew that Li Anguo was Li Jing's son, so they naturally doted on him, Li Anguo Being young, in such an environment, it is natural to form bad habits.

After all, Li Anguo was Li Jing's eldest son. Although Li Jing didn't force his son to learn this or that, he still had high hopes for his son, and he didn't want his son to become a playboy.

Li Jing knew that in order for his son to change those bad habits, he had to change his restless temperament.If the son's personality can calm down, then the bad habits that have just developed can be corrected.

The most able to temper a person's character in daily study, one is to write calligraphy frequently, and the other is painting.Practicing both calligraphy and painting requires calmness, concentration and elimination of distracting thoughts.

It's a pity that Li Jing doesn't know anything about painting, and Li Anguo obviously inherited this. No matter how much Yuan Keli and Yuan Shu teach him, he can't learn painting.

As for calligraphy, Li Jing really couldn't handle his stinky handwriting. He taught his son to write, but Li Jingsheng was afraid that his son could write at his own level.

Li Jing can't guide his son in daily learning, so he can only start with daily activities.

This activity is fishing, and fishing requires patience. Li Jing took his son out fishing just to sharpen his temper.

Li Jing and his son were fishing, and the soldiers brought Gao Qi to Shuiyun Pavilion in a hurry.

Looking at Li Anguo who was concentrating on fishing beside Li Jing, Gao Qi suddenly smiled and said, "Brother, Anguo is more and more like you."

Li Jing smiled: "An Guo is very smart, smarter than me, but he is unstable, so I took him out to fish."

"How old is he! You can grind his temper now, but don't grind him into an old master." Gao Qi laughed.

Li Jing shook his head: "No, his nature is not the kind of person who doesn't know how to adapt, and this cannot be changed."

"Hehe, if that's the case, I think Anguo will be able to take over from big brother after 20 years." Gao Qi laughed.

Li Jing shook his head lightly: "It's too early to say, wait until he is a few years older, and put him down for a few years to hone and see."

Putting down the fishing rod, Li Jing smiled: "You, every time I come to my fish, I can't catch fish leisurely. Looking at you, do you have any good news today? Oh, you also brought a box, it can't be a gift for me Bar?"

Gao Qi smiled and put the box on the coffee table and said, "There is good news and bad news. I don't know what to say. As for this box, it was sent by Sun Huacheng, saying that there are good things to honor you."

Li Jing smiled, picked up the teapot on the coffee table beside him, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Gao Qi, "The bad news is that Sun Chuanting suffered a defeat at sea. I can take it."

"Hehe, Sun Chuanting is better at fighting than monkeys. If you want him to be annihilated, the elder brother thinks too much of Zheng Zhilong. He didn't lose the battle." Gao Qi laughed.

"What's the bad news that you haven't lost the battle?" Li Jingqi asked.

"The bad news is that Sun Meng sent Sun Huacheng to station in Taiwan. While the Hongyi fleet was sailing, Sun Huacheng occupied Zeelandia City, and captured the Hongyi governor and garrison commander." Gao Qi sighed. tone way.

Li Jing got up abruptly when he heard the words: "What? Sun Huacheng captured the city of Zeelandia? He also captured the governor and commander of the Netherlands? Are you serious?"

"It's absolutely true, this is a joint report signed by Sun Meng and others." Gao Qi took out a letter from his cuff and handed it to Li Jing.

Li Jing took the letter and quickly opened it. After reading it carefully, he suddenly laughed and said, "Sun Huacheng is doing well, he actually captured the city of Zeelandia."

Seeing Li Jing's excited face, Gao Qi smiled wryly and said, "Brother, Sun Huacheng has occupied Zelanzhe City, how can Hong Yi give up? We are still powerless against Zheng Zhilong now, if we add Hong Yi, I'm afraid... ..."

Li Jing waved his hand: "I had long planned to recover Taiwan, but our navy is weak, so I didn't dare to act rashly. I didn't want Sun Huacheng to occupy the city of Zeelandia. Now we can save the boss's strength."

Gao Qi said: "However, Taiwan is isolated overseas, Sun Huacheng may not be able to gain a foothold in Zeelandia City."

"Well... that's right. Taiwan is isolated overseas, and Sun Huacheng's troops are weak. It may be difficult to defend. Gao Qi, immediately give Sun Meng an order to send five battalions of troops to Taiwan, and then ask the logistics department to deploy Fifty heavy artillery pieces were sent to Taiwan." Li Jing said.

Seeing that Li Jingtie was determined to occupy Taiwan, Gao Qi stopped dissuading him.

After pondering for a while, Gao Qi said: "Since the commander-in-chief wants to occupy Taiwan, the general who will lead the army has to be chosen well."

Li Jing smiled: "I think Sun Huacheng will do it, but Sun Huacheng seems to be just a battalion commander, and his rank is a bit lower. Sun Huacheng has made great achievements this time, and he was promoted to Fujian general in charge of Taiwan's military affairs."

"Brother Sun transfers another five battalions to station in Taiwan, then there will be seven battalions in Taiwan's garrison, which is nearly one division's strength. Let Sun Huacheng be promoted to the rank of general supervisor, isn't the rank a little lower?" Gao Qi laughed.

Li Jing shook his head and said, "Accordingly, Sun Hua has made such great contributions to the establishment of Taiwan, and the governor of Taiwan's military affairs should be appointed as a deputy general. However, Sun Huacheng's qualifications are still relatively young, and he was only a battalion commander before. He was suddenly promoted to be a deputy general. I am afraid that some old people will not accept him. , Suppress him now, and when he makes contributions in the future, we can promote him logically.

In addition, if Sun Huacheng is promoted to lieutenant general, he won't be able to be promoted in the future. He can't be promoted to general, right?Regardless of whether he has that ability, even if he has that ability, would the old people who followed us back then obey his control? "

Gao Qi nodded slightly upon hearing this.Now that Sun Huacheng is being promoted as a lieutenant, those old brothers really don't look good.

Seeing that Gao Qi had no objection, Li Jing continued: "Just stationing troops in Taiwan is not enough, we also have to set up prefectures and counties in Taiwan, and only by setting up administrative and political offices can Taiwan truly be regarded as the territory of our Ming Dynasty.

Hmm... This matter needs to be done quickly, Zhang Ao must send people to Taiwan to survey the terrain, divide the prefectures and counties, and then arrange for officials to come to Taiwan to manage the administration. "

"We are not familiar with Taiwan's customs and geography, so we are in a hurry to station officials rashly?" Gao Qi pondered.

Li Jing smiled: "Don't be afraid, with Sun Huacheng around, the aborigines in Taiwan will not be able to make waves. I have met Sun Huacheng, and if he is not allowed to fight, he will feel uncomfortable all over.

If he only had two battalions in his hands, he might not dare to act rashly due to lack of troops, but now Sun Meng has transferred five battalions to him. You can see, if he wipes out those disobedient natives in Taiwan, he will be considered a white-collar worker. Bing back.

However, if we want to govern Taiwan well, we still have to rely on the natives of Taiwan. Sun Huacheng has never been educated, he only knows how to rush and fight. "

Gao Qiwen laughed and said: "Sun Huacheng is a person I heard from Zhang Chu. He is quite obedient. As long as you tell him the matter, he will definitely be able to do it cleanly."

Li Jing smiled and said: "Because of this, I asked Cao Wenzhao to send someone to assist Sun Meng, so Cao Wenzhao took him from Dingguo."

After a pause, Li Jing suddenly said, "By the way, what did Sun Huacheng give me?"

Gao Qi smiled and pushed the box towards Li Jing.

Li Jing opened it, and saw a brocade box on top of the box, opened the brocade box, and saw a pipe in the brocade box.

Seeing that Sun Huacheng brought him a pipe, Li Jing couldn't help but frowned.

"There's a letter inside, brother, let's see what this kid says in the letter." Gao Qi laughed.

Li Jingjing nodded, took out the letter, and read it carefully.

After looking at it for a while, Li Jing sighed softly and said, "It's really embarrassing for this kid. He heard from the governor of the Netherlands, De Bauer, that smoking can cure diseases and refresh himself, so he got me a pipe and some tobacco for me I refresh myself."

"Oh, it's really hard for him to have such filial piety." Gao Qi laughed.

Li Jing shook his head: "Although smoking can refresh one's mind, it is harmful to the human body, and it is also addictive."

"Ah? Didn't it say it can cure diseases? How can it be harmful to people? Sun Huacheng should not harm elder brother!" Gao Qi said in surprise.

Li Jing shook his head: "What does Sun Huacheng know? If he listens to what others say, he will believe it."

Gently took out the pipe, Li Jing looked at it for a while and said: "This pipe is very exquisite in workmanship, and the materials are very exquisite, so it must be worth a lot. Our Daming can't make such an exquisite pipe for the time being. It was begged from De Bauer."

As he spoke, he opened the silk cloth inside the box and saw that it was filled with shredded tobacco.

Li Jing sighed softly, squeezed the shredded tobacco into the pipe, asked the guard for tinder to light it, and took a light puff.

"Brother, didn't you say it's harmful to people? Why are you still smoking?" Gao Qi was surprised.

Li Jing smiled: "It's harmful to people if you smoke too much, it doesn't matter if you smoke less."

(End of this chapter)