Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 996 Runs North and South

Zhao Xiaowu and Yang Wenyue listened to the translation of the locals.

After all, there is a big difference between Shaanxi dialect and Cantonese dialect.

As the envoy of Pirez, he also learned the local dialect.

"We are willing to pay taxes to Marshal He, the hammer bandit, and we are willing to give 1 taels of silver to the two distinguished adults."

Zhao Xiaowu snorted coldly, signaling Yang Wenyue to speak.

He has to make the final decision. The war has reached this point, and it cannot be easily ended.

The reinforcements from the barbarians have not yet arrived.

The commander-in-chief has long said that foreigners are afraid of power and not of morality. Only when you scare them in one breath, will you become respectful to you in the future.

Being unreasonable now is the label of a hammer bandit.

Because what I say is reasonable, you sound unreasonable.

Yang Wenyue picked up the silver sent by the envoy and looked at it carefully. Seeing that the envoy was relieved, he smiled and said:

"Cut off both of his ears."

Amidst the envoy's screams: "You tell that Portuguese that he has only one choice, either to surrender or to die in this land.

He chose to fight against the Hammer Bandits, but when the war ends is out of his control. "

Zhao Xiaowu snorted: "Peace talks, you barbarians are also worthy!

If you don't surrender within an hour, don't blame Lao Tzu for killing me. "

The Portuguese envoy returned with screams.

Money spent.

It didn't work out.

Although this amount of money is nothing to what they earn.

But the intentions of the gang of thieves have been found out, and they want to occupy this place.

After listening to the words of his cronies, Pirez understood that the world of Ming was about to change after all.

The Ming government cannot keep its own interests here, and it is useless to give them more money.

Zheng Zhilong probably also reached an ulterior secret with the hammer bandits.

These people still have the last way, and that is to leave this place by boat.

But some people have lived here for decades on leases.

It is impossible to abandon this place and retreat.

The Governor-General stationed in Malacca would not allow this to happen.

Backed by Guangzhou, you can get a large amount of goods, and you can make countless profits with just a little handover.

Pirez still didn't give up, he didn't want to hand over his life and death arbitrarily for others to decide.

The next thing to do is to stick to this place and wait for the governor's support.

But things are not as easy as he thought.

The hammer bandits are an army. As a violent machine, hammering some pirates and their descendants is simply not something they can stop.

They may be able to navigate the sea, but if they want to fight inland, it is impossible to be an opponent of the army.

Coupled with the lack of armaments in the south, they, the pirates, can still fight, not to mention the elite soldiers from the north.

Pirez raised the white flag first before the Governor's reinforcements arrived, and had to surrender, begging for his life.

Anyway, it was not uncommon for his ancestors to surrender to Daming before, as long as his life was guaranteed.

So a large wave of Portuguese became prisoners of war of the hammer bandits.

Hammer bandits generally have preferential treatment for prisoners of war.

Just work hard, and by the way, rescued a large number of local people who were bought by the Dutch as slaves.

Zhao Xiaowu didn't pay much attention to the Portuguese. He fought from north to south, and he found that the resistance of the official army was getting less and less, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was getting weaker and weaker.

These Yi people just built some small castles.

For the hammer bandits who have attacked the city and broken through the dangerous pass several times, it is nothing.

After gaining a firm foothold in Guangzhou, the next step was to prepare ships to train the navy, and to prepare for the counterattack of the official army.

Lin Chao relied on the locals to be familiar with the terrain, and constantly sent people to inquire about the situation of the hammer bandits.

Unexpectedly, he directly learned the news that the hammer bandits beat the Portuguese violently.

Zheng Zhilong's reply was that he would not save him, and there was no news from Zongbing Yu.

Obviously, without an order from the imperial court, it is impossible for them to send troops to fight casually.

Lin Chao has nothing to do at the moment, and he doesn't want the pirates he supports to show up, otherwise they won't be the opponents of the hammer bandits when they land.

I have to endure it for the time being, but the Hammer Bandit's offensive against Guangdong has not stopped.

Zheng Zhilong paid attention to the war in Guangdong day and night. The Portuguese surrendered, and the Ming army could not resist at all.

The hammer bandits are rampant in Guangdong, and they are invincible.

He realized a truth, the reason why He Jinzhao was so rampant was because he had enough confidence.

There are 6 to 30 people sent to Guangdong alone. Then he occupies the land of three provinces, and there are only [-] to [-] soldiers under his command. How can he send so many people to meddle in the shipping business?
After Zheng Zhibao and others came back, Zheng Zhilong was horrified to find that the Hammer bandits did nothing wrong when facing the common people, and even took the initiative to attack those officials who oppressed the common people.

This seems to him to be a very normal operation.

But what frightened him was still to come, that is, the hammer bandits distributed money, grain and fields to a group of poor ghosts, and abolished Daming's exorbitant taxes.

Even if it is him, it is just a daily aid to the people to buy a good reputation, but he has never thought about distributing any land to those people.

Fujian has eight mountains, one water and one field, and the fields are even more pitiful.

Otherwise, so many people would not have followed him to Nanyang to make a living at sea.

The exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the frontier were extremely serious, and the oppression of the common people by local officials and gentry was also extremely serious.

Anyway, it was far away from the emperor, even if the imperial court wanted to investigate, the investigators of the imperial court might die.

Now that the hammer bandits are doing this in Guangdong, Zheng Zhilong believes that most of the people are willing to submit to the hammer bandits and accept their rule.

"Brother, this hammer bandit is really not a good person." Zheng Zhibao's face was very ugly.

If after the hammer bandits seized the world, they did the same in Fujian, wouldn't all his thousands of acres of land be given to the poor?
"We've got to find a way to mess with him."

"No hurries."

Zheng Zhilong shook his head, if the Hammer Bandits go to sea, they can still do something.

After all, the sea is extremely stormy, and it is normal to sink dozens of ships at a time.

On land, such a thing cannot be done.

The vanguard sent by He Jinzhao alone is so powerful. How much resistance will the Zheng family have left when his army comes to attack?
Is it possible to give up the family business left by the ancestors and flee to the sea?

Zheng Zhilong was unwilling to face this kind of thing.

Besides, he thought that since He Jinzhao wanted to get involved with Haiyun, he couldn't get around him, and he definitely wouldn't deal with him in the same way as Xiang Guangda.

Zheng Zhilong believes that he is valuable, and being needed by others is a valuable person.

He thinks he is needed.

Whenever there is a big event, although Zheng Zhilong will call the brothers of the Zheng family to discuss it, but in fact he still acts arbitrarily, and he has his own thoughts.

Since the hammer bandits want to get involved in shipping so much, everyone has a great foundation for cooperation.

The ocean is big enough, Nanyang side listens to the banner of his Zheng family, and there are Dutch pirates raging around, sharing the opportunity to trade with him in Japan.

In the rest of the world, more Yi people have long been profiting as pirates and merchants.

It doesn't matter if there is one more He Jinzhao.

As far as the current strength and ambition of the Hammer Bandits are concerned, Zheng Zhilong has some expectations in his heart.

After all, the previous imperial courts never paid much attention to Haili.

If the imperial court paid more attention to it, it would be a good thing to go further afield to occupy the territory of those barbarians.

What's more, He Jinzhao's current demand is only to be a supplier, and Zheng Zhilong is extremely welcome.

The more times you run the boat, the more profits you will make.

What supports the running of the ship is that there are enough goods.

In the final analysis, interests still understand people's hearts better.

The merchants in Guangzhou warmly welcomed the hammer bandits, and exorbitant taxes were abolished.

Shareholders and servants are also welcome to the Hammer Bandits. With the fields they can rent and plant, they can buy them ten years later.

The only ones who were unhappy were the gentry, because the hammer bandits were not cutting their flesh, but killing them.

Fortunately, he was able to run, but his luck was not so good. After being judged by the people, his heads were all hung on the city gate.

After the benevolent policies implemented by the Hammer bandits in Guangzhou were spread, the poor people in the surrounding area looked forward to the early arrival of Master Wang day and night.

More gentry began to call back the captive pirates to protect the earned wealth.

Many pirates were people with status when they landed, and most of them were supported by gentry.

The more the government imposes sea bans, the more money they can make.

These are the people who are the last to let others take a share.

Therefore, once the imperial court has the voice of opening the sea, it will be opposed by a large group of people. Except for a small number of people who have bad brains and are used as guns, most of them are for their own interests.

What happened in Guangdong far away spread in a small area, and it was impossible to spread it to the outside world quickly.

Huang Taiji of Liaodong was not idle either. When he arranged for the Qing soldiers to build a city in Yizhou, Zhang Cunren once again offered a strategy to capture Jinzhou.

As Zu Dashou's lieutenant, he wholeheartedly wanted to drag Zu Dashou into trouble.

Why did you run away and let us be traitors?
If you want to do it, do it together, don't want to run away.

Zhang Cunren hoped that Huang Taiji could focus on farming species, but he wanted to lead his elite soldiers to Jinzhou and call on the Mongols to come.

At the same time, we must capture a large number of Liao people, use them as spies, and spread our Qing Dynasty's appeasement policy.

Zhang Cunren believed that the treatment of the Qing army would definitely beat the Ming army, even the Guan Ning army could not compare.

Because he was from the Guan Ning Army.

Zhang Cunren's analysis and suggestions on the Liaodong War made Huang Taiji extremely satisfied and strengthened his belief in capturing Jinzhou.

Before the siege, Huang Taiji went to Jinzhou to inspect in person, and wrote a surrender letter by the way, urging Zu Dashou to surrender as soon as possible.

Even though Huang Taiji knew it was useless, but he had already reached the fish pond, it was unreasonable not to throw two shots.

Before Huang Taiji wrote the surrender letter, many veterans of the Guanning Army also wrote to him continuously, but Zu Dashou did not reply to a single letter.

The truth is a good habit that can't be read back.

This time Zu Dashou was quite disdainful of Huang Taiji's affectionate surrender letter.

This time the emperor didn't know what went crazy, or the officials below seemed to have taken the wrong medicine.

The loss of rice beans transported from Tianjin to Liaodong is extremely small, which is the first time in so many years.

Zu Dashou even wondered if these grandsons forgot to drift away.

Zu Dashou knew that Hong Chengchou, governor of Liaodong, was going to fight the Qing army.

Has Hong Chengchou surpassed Yang Sichang to become the number one civil servant in Chongzhen's heart?

But Zu Dashou couldn't figure out why those courtiers stood behind Hong Chengchou and helped him do things well.

Daming was already so weak that he was powerless to stop the rogue bandits in the Central Plains, and he even sat back and watched the hammer bandit He Jinchao occupy the three provinces without any intention of recovering.

Just as they wanted to confront the Qing army outside the pass, they were powerless.

What are you doing so early?
Zu Dashou felt that if those courtiers could not drift away like this time, let him support more Guan Ning's elite.

Does Huang Taiji still have a chance to become emperor?

Even Zu Dashou didn't think that Huang Taiji had the opportunity to cross Mongolia and enter the Great Wall, and plundered the inland several times.

Now it seems that the imperial court is going to fight desperately, Zu Dashou thinks there is little hope.

As long as Ning Jin's line of defense is kept intact, it will be very successful.

"Uncle, whether it is the emperor or the courtiers, this time is not normal."

Wu Sangui, who has been hanging out with the senior officials of the Guanning Army all year round, feels very abnormal.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon." Zu Dashou put Huang Taiji's letter on the table: "Something must have happened during the period that we don't know about."

Wu Sangui also threw Zhang Cunren's letter urging him to surrender on the table:
"However, our grain and grass reserves have increased. Even if Huang Taiji colonizes Yizhou and wants to besiege our army for a long time, it will not take advantage of it."

Zu Dashou nodded, and if he could maintain a confrontation in western Liaoning, Daming would be invincible.

Huang Taiji once again made a detour to disturb the affairs in the pass, he really had nothing to do.

Who let the rogues stir up chaos everywhere and restrained a large number of officers and soldiers?

"It's tricky." Zu Dashou stood up and looked at the map hanging horizontally:

"The Central Plains is in such a mess, and He Jinzhao, who is entrenched in the northwest, has not even moved at all. This is not normal."

"What does uncle mean?"

Wu Sangui felt that if He Jinzhao was someone who wanted to enjoy himself for a few years, that would be extremely normal.

Not everyone can maintain wise decisions all the time.

For a postman like him who has been poor since childhood, once he gains power, it is impossible not to make up for it madly for a few years.

So he guessed that He Jinzhao might really be courting eight girls every night.

"No, a person like him must be arranging tricks on the chess game. It's just that you and I don't have any sources of information, so we have no way of knowing."

Zu Dashou didn't think that He Jinzhao was an ordinary hero.

He has carefully examined He Jinzhao's fortune. He ran from riotous Shaanxi to semi-riot Shanxi, and only after gaining a firm foothold at the junction of Northwest Shanxi and Shaanxi did he develop and grow.

Over the years, almost no mistakes have been made.

Such behavior is extremely embarrassing.

In today's world, there is no need to be more prominent than others, as long as he makes few mistakes, it is enough to make him look like a tiger.

Zu Dashou felt that He Jinzhao was such a person. He used various forces to continuously occupy the territory and strengthen himself.

After he took Shaanxi, he cut off Hong Chengchou's way back.

Then everyone thought that he would slowly manage Shaanxi like Shanxi, but he marched into Sichuan and Shu in one breath, and there was no more news after he captured this place.

This person's judgment on the situation is by no means comparable to other people.

In other words, in terms of people's livelihood governance, others are not his opponents at all.

Zu Dashou even felt that if He Jinzhao had practiced for a few years, he would surely catch up with Huang Taiji, who had trained with the army since he was a child, in commanding the army.

(End of this chapter)