1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 337
"I don't think this season is the best time to return." Qi Dajiang felt the strong southeast wind and said with a wry smile: "The journey back is estimated to take twice as long as expected."

"Well, we are sailing against the wind." Niu Hu standing beside Qi Dajiang nodded and echoed: "However, thanks to the fact that we have a few old sailors on board, as well as those Portuguese and Spaniards, otherwise we can only wait until Migrants can only be transported when the north wind blows around December."

From Hanxing Island (today’s Miyako Island) via Midway Island (today’s Palau Koror Island) and Weiyuan Island (today’s New Guinea Island) to return to Hanzhou mainland, the best return time should be between December and January. At that time, with the help of the annual northwest trade wind, we can return to Hanzhou very quickly.

And in June and July every year, the southeast monsoon prevails along the entire eastern immigration route, which is conducive to the departure of the fleet from Hanzhou to Daming to collect immigrants.

At present, under the guidance of some Portuguese and Spanish officers and old sailors, Qi Dajiang and his party of four ships are facing the headwind, constantly changing the angle of the sails, zigzag on the sea, and sailing southward with difficulty.Midway Island, which can be reached in seven or eight days under the condition of downwind, is expected to take twice as long to arrive.

"We can ask Zhang Wenqi to occupy all the several islands near Hanxing Island, so that we can make some construction. Before the season when the north wind prevails every year, it is best to stockpile 8000 to [-] people. Then, we organize the fleet to transport together." Qi Qi Da Jiang said: "In this way, we go to Daming in June and July every year, and return to Hanzhou in December. Everything goes smoothly, and the efficiency must be higher than it is now."

"If all our large ships come to pull people, it is estimated that 6000 to 1 people can be transported back at one time. At that time, there will still be many people stranded." Niu Hu sighed and said: "If we can have thirty or forty ships Big boats are fine, they can pull more than [-] people at a time."

"Yes." Qi Dajiang nodded and said, "Maybe in two years, we will have thirty or forty large ships. At present, it is a big deal to free up seven or eight ships to carry them back and forth against headwinds, and we can make ends meet. Make an extra trip or two. By the way, how many soldiers in your [-]st Marine Corps are willing to retire."

When the Marine Corps became an army, Qi Tian suggested to Cao Xiong that soldiers should be released from military service according to their wishes after three years of service.Then the civil government arranges their future work, or compensates them with some retired money, and manages the granted fields by themselves.

Today, most of the soldiers of the First Marine Corps, which was first established, are due to be discharged.Therefore, this time Niuhu is going to take all of them back to the mainland of Hanzhou, return them to the retired soldiers, and replenish the personnel, and then carry out a period of rest.

"I asked below, and almost [-]% of the soldiers want to leave the Marine Corps and live a normal life with their families." Niu Hu said: "Our Marine Corps goes out to fight for more than half a year. Some soldiers really care about their families. It’s also common sense.”

"Marine soldiers are easy to recruit, but the crew of our navy has always been difficult to replenish." Qi Dajiang said: "When I was in Quanzhou a few days ago, I knew that Zheng Zhilong actually had nearly [-] sailors, and on the mainland, There are endless supplements, think about it, it's really enviable!"

"But I think that Zheng Zhilong's appearance may not last long." Niu Hu pondered for a while, and then said: "He manages the entire Ming Dynasty's navy as his own army. The coastal area of ​​Fujian is like an independent kingdom. Now it is the court. I can’t take care of him. Once the bandits are put down in the Ming Dynasty and the Jiannu is defeated, maybe we will attack him and punish his navy.”

Qi Dajiang glanced at Niu Hu, and said softly: "What if Daming dies?"

"..." Niu Hu was stunned, and then said: "If Daming dies, maybe Zheng Zhilong can rely on his strong financial resources and military strength to sweep across the southeast coast and become a veritable Sea Dragon King!"

Qi Dajiang looked at the sea in the distance and didn't speak, but he was thinking about what Qi Tian said in his heart.Jiannu in the far northeast may sweep the entire Ming Dynasty, everyone will become their slaves, and the long-inherited Han civilization will suffer a huge blow.However, he always had doubts about these words, how could it be possible to annex the entire land of China just by relying on Jiannu's few people.

"Sin!" Suddenly, a mournful voice came from the stern of the ship.

Qi Dajiang and Niu Hu looked back immediately, and saw at the stern of the ship, several immigrants were carrying several corpses, ready to throw them into the sea.Standing beside him was a thin middle-aged man with disheveled hair, shaking his head and shouting with grief and indignation.

"This is my family who lived well in Ming Dynasty, but now I am buried in the sea to feed the belly of the fish. What a pity! How painful!" The man looked up to the sky and sighed: "The heaven and the earth are not benevolent, and they treat all things as straw dogs; the saints are not benevolent, and take the people as grass dog!"

When Qi Dajiang saw this person, he couldn't help but smiled wryly. This middle-aged man was exactly the scholar who was introduced by Zhou Zhougui from Guangzhou a few months ago and was forcibly taken aboard by them.Qi Dajiang and the others were deeply inspired by his analysis and countermeasures about the situation around Annan, and followed his suggestion to seek an alliance with the Annan Zheng family to deal with Guangnan Kingdom (Annan Ruan family). Failed to achieve the goal.

But this person had been a juror in Jiangxi, and he had a lot of knowledge and knowledge, so Qi Dajiang naturally wouldn't let him vote for Zheng Zhilong, so he took him on the boat all the time, and looked for opportunities to send him back to the mainland of Hanzhou.

"Mr. Cui, don't be so sentimental." Qi Dajiang walked to the man, cupped his hands and said, "It's not easy to sail a boat on the sea. Besides, there are many immigrants, and there are always people who are not comfortable with the wind and waves at sea. The cabin is small and there is no extra space for placement. The dead can only be thrown into the sea."

"They survived in Daming, but they died on your Hanzhou ship. You are doing harm to people!" Cui Shaochuan said angrily.

"Mr. Cui's words are not true." Niu Hu interjected, "The dead who were just thrown into the sea, even including the immigrants on all our ships, they are all starving people who are dying in Daming. If we don't wait for them If they were transported from Daming, they might have been dead for a long time!"

"Then..." Cui Shaochuan knew that these immigrants were all starving people in the north of Daming, and Niu Hu could not refute them, and said bitterly: "Then they are in Daming, at least they can be buried in the land of Daming after death. And No, discarded in the sea, there is no place to die."

"But we saved most of the people." Qi Dajiang said in a deep voice: "In the future, we will come to Daming to save more people, and let them come to our Hanzhou to live and work in peace. In Daming, there are too many people who can't live the one who goes down."

"Are you so sure that these people will survive when they arrive in your Hanzhou?" Cui Shaochuan asked disdainfully.In a remote continent, it is expected that there is no output, most of them live by trade and plunder, and the rich can only be a few people.

"There are so many soldiers and sailors on board, you can ask anyone at will. Can the Ming immigrants who came to our Hanzhou survive and live and work in peace and contentment?" Qi Dajiang said: "They may not be as rich as the people in the south of the Yangtze River, but at least You can eat enough, have clothes to wear, and a house to live in."

Cui Shaochuan casually glanced at the dozen or so sailors and marines on the deck, seeing their expressions as they should have, he couldn't help being secretly surprised.You know, among the dynasties of all dynasties, having clothes to wear, houses to live in, and enough to eat is already considered great rule.Although it is not ruled out that Hanzhou is due to the small number of people, they are able to devote their small financial and material resources to improving the living standards of the people in the territory. This shows that Hanzhou is not just a simple pirate force, but is seeking A regime, a country's direction.

On Xinsheng Island, Cui Shaochuan witnessed the powerful firearms of the soldiers of Hanzhou, which wiped out more than [-] so-called elite soldiers in Annan on the island. Moreover, their boats were huge and sailed across the sea, as if they had not weak force.However, they are too far away from Daming, tens of thousands of miles away!

"Mr. Cui, my fourth brother is also the head of our Hanzhou People's Government. He once said that in the next few years, Daming will definitely perish." Qi Dajiang said in a deep voice: "At that time, the entire territory of Daming will be destroyed." , it must be in chaos, soldiers and horses everywhere will fight and kill each other, the people will be displaced, and the number of dead will be unknown. At that time, Ming Dynasty did not have a pure land, and there was no safe place to live. Although our Hanzhou was established thousands of miles away We have the same blood and inheritance as the Han people in Ming Dynasty, so we naturally have to take on the important task of saving more people and culture of Ming Dynasty."

"The Ming Dynasty is dead, but it's just a change of dynasty. You are a remote and small country, and you still want to rebuild China?" Cui Shaochuan asked rhetorically.

"The Shenzhou land is sinking, and it may be difficult to recreate it." Qi Dajiang said: "Perhaps, our Ming Dynasty died, and it was not a simple change of dynasty, but another incident of Meng Yuan."

"What happened to Meng Yuan?" Cui Shaochuan was stunned, then sneered and said, "There are hundreds of millions of people in my Shenzhou, even if the Ming Dynasty is dead, how can the barbarians occupy my land in China?"

"Jiannu." Qi Dajiang said bravely: "Jiannu has repeatedly violated our northern territory, and even penetrated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty several times. Maybe the Tartars will destroy our Daming country like the Jinmeng of Song Dynasty."

"Slaves and clowns, including women and children, are only hundreds of thousands of people, how dare they take over our land!" Cui Shaochuan felt that Qi Dajiang's words were very absurd.To talk about the destruction of Daming, it would be better to mention those rogues who ravaged several provinces in the north to make people more convincing.

At the end of the dynasty, ordinary refugees will gather like this, and the heroes will compete for the throne. It's like putting many heroes in a pot to raise a cup. After fighting until the end, there will always be a leader who stands out from the encirclement and dominates the world.Just like at the end of the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties, Hongwu wiped out all the heroes, and finally made the Northern Expedition, expelling the Tartars in one fell swoop, and rebuilding the country of the Han people.

"If a few years later, Jiannu really wiped out the world, what does Mr. Cui think?" Qi Dajiang asked.

"Building slaves to rule the Central Plains, the Han people in the world will fight together!" Cui Shaochuan said loudly: "How can the majestic land of China be contaminated by fishy smell?"

"Hundreds of years ago, the Jurchen Tartars occupied half of the world. After more than a hundred years, the Mongols have contaminated our entire world."

"Therefore, the barbarians will not have a century of national destiny." Cui Shaochuan said confidently: "Although the slave chieftain can be fierce for a while, he will eventually be driven out of the land of China by my son of the Han family."

"What if the Hu people occupy our country and break the curse of the century-old national destiny?" Qi Dajiang sighed, and said Qi Tian's words: "Eggs should not be placed In one basket. We Han people, we Chinese people, it’s better to have more inheritance and more choices.”

(End of this chapter)