open sea

Chapter 1275
In the center of the Ming Empire, the clouds are calm and the wind is breezy, but on the other side of the ocean, Chen Mu is particularly anxious this spring.

The plague in Spain is not over yet. The latest situation known to the Eastern Military Government is that the plague has swept across the west coast of Europe. In Ireland, Zhu Xiaoen’s offensive was stopped by the plague in Dublin. The Netherlands and France were both more severely affected by the plague than Spain. Only England suffered from the blockade of Plymouth. Avoided a catastrophe, but Elizabeth also lost Plymouth.

The last news of Plymouth came from Muye. Cao Changqing, the head of the dragon and tiger, asked for help from Muye County last month, announcing that the Son of Heaven got another piece of land in a daze.

The good news is that they occupied Plymouth, a large village with more than 2000 residents and walls, and captured the local shipyard and six large and small warships moored in the port.

The bad news is that even if there are six warships, they may not be able to hold them. Hawkins and Drake, the brave generals of the English navy, are lobbying the royal family in London, vowing to take back their hometown.

Yang Zhaolong, magistrate of Muye County, did not respond to this. He sent someone to send the news to Chen Mu, and then on the sixth day before Chen Mu had time to respond, he sent another team to tell Chen Mu that the situation had changed—after confirming that the situation had changed. After Plymouth was free of plague, tobacco tycoon Li Yuxi sprinkled money to recruit soldiers in tobacco fields [-] miles south of Muye. Within three days, he recruited more than [-] local Baojia soldiers;

On the sixth day, which was also the day when Yang Zhaolong sent the second letter to Chen Mu, the four merchant fleets of Quanshang Company, a subsidiary of Hexingsheng, assembled at Makino Nagashima Port, and hundreds of merchant ships quickly merged and armed, forming 77 fleets equipped with Franc aircraft. Armed merchant ships with guns, [-] Fu boats transporting supplies, and a huge mixed fleet of [-] fire boats, Li Yuxi personally led the fleet, and under the leadership of the escort fleet of Quanshang Company, it sailed towards Plymouth in a mighty manner.

Quanshang Company's escort fleet is a reward from the Eastern Military Government for the amount of tax paid to it last year. All ships are built in Asia. Its flagship is the Chihai-class military ship named Jinjiang. The side is equipped with 32 generals of Zhenshuo, and the stern is equipped with two 24-unit Shenwei mechanism arrows and a Baihu used for side-to-side battles.

There are also five four-hundred-year-old shark ships under it. The entire fleet is led by a general flag of the Eastern Army. Experienced Luzon soldiers - all old sailors who joined the caravan when Li Yuxi opened a mine in Luzon.

And in Yang Zhaolong's letter, after Li Yuxi left, the Quanzhou Company was still recruiting soldiers in Muye and the surrounding ministries, and they were still purchasing supplies for possible subsequent battles, and this was an act of the government, which was the worst part of the whole thing.

As soon as Plymouth's request for help was sent to Muye, Li Yuxi came to the door and asked Yang Zhaolong straight to the point if he could help. Yang Zhaolong didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that it is always a good thing to have someone to help. When the army came over, it was true that the Dongyang elite soldiers could not spare many troops after dispatching the Fuyuan fleet.

So Yang Zhaolong agreed, and wrote an official document to Li Yuxi, Zhun Quanshang Company raised Muye Zhuangyong to help Plymouth... He didn't expect that Li Yuxi would have such a big reaction.

No effort was spared.

They all underestimated the enthusiasm of the Asian natives, especially the Iroquois tribes in Muye. The tree of peace they planted needs to be watered with the blood of war. As a result, the Ming army came to prevent them from fighting with others, so don’t worry about it Depressed, but the Ming army still used their troops to organize Baojia daily drills, taught bows and crossbows, and passed on to the Miao people to make steel weapons.

They are countless times stronger than before, and they have cultivated their abilities to the fullest. Now I heard that there is a tribe belonging to Ming in the east sea that needs help?
To be honest, for ordinary people, if you don’t pay money, you will go, and if you give money, you will go, not to mention that Li Yuxi gave a lot of money.

Li Yuxi, a tobacco merchant, followed the market price of recruiting people to go to sea as Japanese pirates along the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty. He would pay ten taels of silver when he applied for the recruitment, and he would pay him two taels of silver every month thereafter.

Although Zou Yuanbiao has some criticisms about this matter, he believes that merchants should obey the orders of the imperial court even if they are overseas. Even if the military government will agree, he will wait for the military government to agree before going to war. How can he go to war without authorization?

What's more, going to war is meaningless to the officials. The island barbarians are a piece of barren land. The fields are not enough to support people, and the goods are not enough for the rich. The three thousand households in Plymouth are worth more than Li Yuxi. The preparations for this expedition cost over 6 taels in just six days.

This kind of thinking is not even related to the old and new officials, because that is the way the land is.

"Except for merchants, do you all think Li Yuxi is a fool? He spent all his efforts to aid the army and help the war, just for a piece of useless land and [-] useless households? That piece of land cannot be used for farming, but it can be used as his commercial port and pirate port. , Freeport, North Asia is extremely easy to sail there, with smooth sailing, the Clippers can reach it in [-] days, and his tobacco is concentrated there, and can be sold to the west coast of Europe and even places we haven’t been to.”

"As long as he agrees to this battle, the Anglo-French Channel will open the door for him. He can sell tobacco to Northern Europe without the Dutch. Maybe we can find Moscow one step ahead of His Majesty. As long as - as long as a few more gates are opened, I will I feel that as long as this battle is won, those watchdogs may not dare to stop Daming's boat."

In the yamen of the Oriental Army Mansion in Mexico City, Chen Muyang, wearing a lion pattern breastplate and wearing military boots, pointed at the map of Northern Europe obtained from Spain behind him. He started from Plymouth, stopped in London, and continued to draw eastward towards Amsterdam. Follow the picture to the north and belong to Oslo, Norway. In fact, Oslo belonged to the United Kingdom of Denmark and Norway at this time, but the time of this picture is relatively long, and Denmark and Norway still have a clear boundary.

After Oslo, there are Copenhagen in the south, Memmer in the Principality of Prussia, Lübeck in the Hanseatic League, Stockholm in the Kingdom of Sweden, and Novgorod, a vassal state of the Principality of Moscow.

"This market is very large. He produces a lot of tobacco, grows more, enough to sell to everyone, and opening up new markets means that both the military government and the imperial court can receive more taxes-in the East, those who attack the empire It is the responsibility and obligation of the companies under the Toyo Military Government to protect the cities of the empire from the enemy.”

"We also want to send troops. The two thousand-ship ships newly built in Daxi Port launched last month were named this afternoon, and another ten shark ships were transferred. Two fleets will be reorganized on the [-]th, named Changsheng Ship and Makino Ship. Hu led the team, with three thousand rods of matchlocks in Changsheng County, eight hundred catties of lead rods, and thirty thousand catties of gunpowder, and prepared sufficient supplies to rush to Plymouth."

(End of this chapter)