1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 350 Immigrants on Hanxing Island

"What is this? It's packed in cans, and it doesn't look like wine!"

"Hey, that should be lighter." A Hanzhou sailor said with a smile: "It's canned food produced by the Jianye City Cannery Factory. There are various flavors. Oh, it seems that there are fruits. It's sweet, that's good eat!"

The wharf of Dili Port is full of people, and there are all kinds of materials that have been transported from the ship. Rice, sago, sugar, wine, muskets, and gunpowder are all piled up on the wharf and spread all over the floor.Almost all the Hanzhou soldiers and civilians in Dili City ran to welcome the arrival of the Hanzhou fleet.

When Qi Dajiang and his party attacked the fleet two days away from Niu Island, after discussing with several captains, they decided to visit Dili City.Therefore, the fleet assigned the "Yang Wei" to escort the Dutch armed merchant ship captured by Ambon City, and many prisoners continued to Niu Island. The remaining four warships and "Flying Fish 5" began to turn to the southwest. Coming towards the port of Dili.

Six days later, four Hanzhou warships appeared outside the port of Dili, leaving two Dutch armed merchant ships carrying out blockade missions there.When the original four ships heard that Ambon Port was attacked by the Hanzhou Fleet, they immediately separated two ships and went to Ambon for support.

Facing the four warships in Hanzhou, the Dutch armed merchant ships did not resist. After a mild battle, knowing that they were invincible, they withdrew from the battlefield very wisely and sailed towards Oecussi (now East Timor) West Enclave Pant Makassar).

Because the Hanzhou Fleet was eager to get in touch with Dili City and unload a large number of supplies, it did not take advantage of the victory to pursue it. After releasing the "Flying Fish 5" to guard the west, four Hanzhou warships entered in batches. Port of Dili.

"Third brother, you... have suffered this year!" Qi Dajiang reached out and patted Qi Dalu's shoulder, looking at his dark and thin appearance, his eyes were a little moist.

"...It's not so hard." Qi Dalu had a sore nose, trying not to cry out, "I almost starved to death here. Fortunately, I made it through. Second brother, my wife gave birth to a boy, or girl?"

"It's a girl." Qi Dajiang said with a smile: "The eyebrows and eyes are very similar to you."

"It's not good for a girl to be like me." Qi Dalu said happily: "It should be as good-looking as her mother."

"Or, you and I get on the boat to Beikoubao, and then, find an opportunity to return to Jianye....Go and see their wives." Qi Dajiang said.

"I can't leave yet. If I want to leave, the morale here will drop by half." Qi Dalu said: "Besides, you have sent us so many things. Dili City will definitely feel better for a while. .I’ll stay here for a while longer. It is estimated that the Dutch will not come here after seeing that the blockade will not have any effect.”

Qi Dajiang stared fixedly at Qi Dalu, seeing his firm eyes and calm expression, he was relieved for a while. After so much, the third child finally grew up.

"Commander Qi, do you need to continue unloading overnight?" At this moment, Xu Chuanxing, the company commander of the [-]rd Marine Corps, came over and asked Qi Dajiang for instructions.

"Everyone work harder tonight, light the torches and unload the goods overnight." Qi Dajiang looked at the sky, it was already dusk, "Dili Port is not far from the Dutch Oecus stronghold, I am worried that they will provoke more wars The boats came and intercepted us. So, at the latest, we have to leave by noon tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements now." Xu Chuanxing nodded in agreement, then turned back to Dili City to prepare torches and other lighting.

"With these supplies, even if the Dutch block you for more than half a year, you should be able to survive it, right?"

"Even if you don't come, we can still persist." Qi Dalu grinned and said, "We grow about six or seven hundred acres of grain and vegetables outside Nancheng, enough to feed more than 700 people in Dili City. "
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"We can no longer transport people to the island. We may not have enough food." Zhang Wenqi said to Luo Rucheng with a bitter face.

"No way." Luo Rucheng looked at Zhang Wenqi in surprise, and said in disbelief, "I saw that the warehouse was full of grain a few days ago."

"My brother Luo, don't you look at how many people there are on the island." Zhang Wenqi said: "There are more than 8000 people. They consume five or six tons of grain every day. After a month, that is about two hundred tons. Although the warehouse There are still more than 300 tons, but there are still more than 50 days until the immigration season in December!"

"Isn't the island reclaimed so much arable land, and harvested a season of grain?" Luo Rucheng also thought about going to Daming again to try to get the number of immigrants to 1.

"Most of them are newly reclaimed cultivated land, and the grain output is a bit low, which is not enough to make up for the shortage." Zhang Wenqi smiled wryly. She originally planned to realize the food supply for 5000 people a year, but now it seems that she is too optimistic up.

Luo Rucheng's fleet returned to Hanxing Island from Midway Island in early August, and after a few days of repairs, they took three ships to Daming to collect immigrants.In more than two months, they went back and forth three times in a row and transported more than [-] hungry people back to Hanxing Island.

During the period, to his delight, the "Xingye" was not in trouble, but was blown to the vicinity of Luzon by the storm.They found an island and temporarily settled all the immigrants there.In the next month, Chang Guangmin organized armed sailors and immigrants to attack the Luzon native tribes near the island.Several native camps were broken up, and more than 400 immigrants were collected enough to last for three months.In mid-September, he returned to Hanxing Island and participated in the collection of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty.

As for the "Tuoye" that did not receive any information, it was probably thrown into the seabed by the storm and buried in the belly of the fish.

Hanxing Island has now built two small forts and several temporary camps for immigrants.However, due to the shortage of artillery, more than a dozen artillery positions were built on the pier fort, but they were still empty, waiting for the artillery to be transported from the mainland of Hanzhou before they could be installed.

In order to better control the thousands of immigrants on the island, Li Fade, the company commander of the Second Marine Corps, mobilized more than a dozen officers and veterans, and began to train more than 300 township soldiers on Hanxing Island.The village soldiers are equipped with a large number of swords, spears and some muskets, and conduct half-day drills in case of emergencies.

Several people in charge on the island once thought that if Hanzhou occupied the island, even if the Ryukyu Kingdom did not come to intervene, the Satsuma clan that controlled Ryukyu would definitely send personnel to come again, and even organized armed soldiers to come. expel them.

But more than half a year has passed, no matter whether it is the Ryukyu Kingdom or the Satsuma Domain, no one has ever come to ask again, as if they have selectively ignored the current situation of the island.

"Since the food reserves on the island are not enough, let's find someone to borrow some." Luo Rucheng looked at the few people in the room, and said in a deep voice: "Captain Li, the local soldiers on the island can maintain the safety of this place." ?”

"If it is a small-scale foreign invasion, it should be enough to deal with it." Li Fade thought for a while, and then said: "I am afraid that the enemy will come with 2000 people, which is a bit dangerous. Although most of the immigrants are strong and strong, most people need to It takes months of breeding and training to be usable."

"In fact, we can send half of the marines to go out with the fleet to borrow food, and leave half of the soldiers to defend Hanxing Island." Zhang Wenqi said softly: "The Annans attacked Xinsheng Island twice, but they were all destroyed. The local soldiers there also Even after going through a lot of battles, we invited them to the coastal towns of Annan, and we thought they would be worthy of a battle."

"What Wen Qi said is true." Li Fade said with a smile: "The local soldiers in Laohu not only have some battle experience, but also have a lot of firearms. They should cooperate with half of our marines to kill those defense forces in Annan. More than enough."

"In that case, let's get ready and set off for Xinsheng Island in a few days." Luo Rucheng said, "If there's time, we can return to Daming and bring back some people."

As he was talking, Lu Yuanliang, the captain of the township soldiers on Hanxing Island, hurried over to report that there were more than [-] immigrants making trouble, and they were confronting the township soldiers who were going to maintain law and order, each holding farm tools.

"Did you have enough to eat?" Li Fade scolded angrily: "You need to know that the muskets of our Marine Corps are not fire sticks!"

With that said, he got up and walked outside the house.Luo Rucheng and Zhang Wenqi were also taken aback. Over the past few months, the immigrants have been honestly and under the arrangement of the immigration managers appointed by Hanzhou, working hard to build camps and cultivate farmland. There has never been a direct violent resistance incident.

The crowd came to a temporary camp on the southeast side of Fort Hansing. More than 50 marine soldiers had dispersed most of the surrounding immigrants, and then forced a group of immigrants with various agricultural tools at the edge of the camp with guns.

"What's the situation?" Li Fade glanced at the immigrant who was holding a farm tool, and asked the captain of the Marine Corps in front of him.

"I don't know what's going on." Tan Zhongfu reported: "We were on duty at the pier, and a village soldier came to report that there were immigrants rebelling, so the platoon leader brought us here."

"They are Tartars!...Kill them!" Someone from the surrounding crowd suddenly shouted.

"Yes, they are slaves! Kill these Tartars!"

"...We are not Jian slaves." The group of immigrants holding sticks and farming tools on the opposite side said sadly: "We are Liao people, not Tartars!"

Only then did Li Fade notice that the hair on the heads of more than 20 people who were confronting the Marine Corps soldiers was shaved.You know, almost all the immigrants from Ming Dynasty have long hair.These people are not monks, and their heads are bald, so there is naturally a problem.

"Shoot guns into the sky and let them throw away the belongings in their hands!" Li Fade ordered.

As the marines fired warning shots, the group of immigrants holding sticks and agricultural tools knew they couldn't resist. They threw away their things one after another, and then they were kicked to the ground by the soldiers and tied up.

After a little questioning of these shaved immigrants, everyone learned that they were indeed Ming people from Liaodong. Because they could not bear the bullying and humiliation of Jiannu, they fled from Gaizhou to the seaside, and then floated to Jiaodong with sticks of wood in their arms.From more than 70 people before they went into the sea, to the coast of Jiaodong, only more than 20 of them survived.

"This Jiannu doesn't treat the Han people as human beings at all!" Zhang Wenqi's face changed a little after hearing those Liao people tell what happened to them in Liaodong.

"We Han people are probably not as important as their livestock in the eyes of the Tartars." A Liao man cried and said, "Three years ago, we were captured by Jiannu from Hebei to Liaodong. In winter, we froze to death." Half. Just before we fled, there were not many people left who were taken captive with us. Those Tartars are all beasts!"

(End of this chapter)