The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 356 Visit from Dongjiang
There is another ship on Huangjiawan Island going to Tianjin Wei. This is a Galen ship equipped with twelve six-pound copper-cored iron cannons. There are more than sixty people on board. Like Daming.

This is the tribute ship of the King of Jiaozhi County in the distant Guangnan Kingdom. Ruan Dan came to Daming to pay tribute on behalf of Guangnan Kingdom. One is a Westerner with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Such a combination is definitely exotic, because even the boats and people are genuine imported products, no one can tell that they are fakes, and they have the credentials of the Guangnan Kingdom in their hands.

Ruan Dan went to the Ming capital to get a reward, so of course he would not go to Guangnan Kingdom, but to return to Huangjiawan Island to disband and return to their previous jobs.

It is still early to seek to seize Jiaozhi. First, we have smoothed out the relationship and obtained the official recognition of Ming Dynasty. The current layout of Lingao is to use this place as a springboard to launch a surprise attack from the sea one day to regain the homeland of Jiaozhi.

The Huang family system now has 18 soldiers and civilians, and the quality of the soldiers it provides is getting better and better, but it is impossible to turn all young people into soldiers.

In principle, one out of three draws will be selected for admission, and it is planned to recruit [-] musketeers and [-] sailors through open recruitment.

After all, many jobs need excellent educated young people. It is imminent to study scientific farming and improved varieties that are resistant to cold, because the Huang family already has hundreds of thousands of acres of land that can be cultivated, and this number is still growing.

Huang Sheng sent 100 of this year's graduates to work in the experimental field of Juehua Island, allowing these young people to enjoy the treatment of soldiers to encourage them to devote themselves to researching agriculture.

Dozens of potato, sweet potato, and corn varieties brought back from Manila are urgent research projects. We strive to select and breed varieties that can be planted in the north, and try to plant them on a small scale in Zhongmingbao in one or two years.

The twenty missionaries who came to Huangjiawan Island were fascinated by such a highly civilized and open beautiful island, secretly glad that they chose to go north despite the cold.

But the land here is much more expensive than that of Daishan Island. If we want to build a cathedral designed like Daishan Island, the gold brought by it may not be enough.

They came to discuss with Mr. Huang whether they would consider building a small church.

Unexpectedly, Master Huang solved the problem for them and asked them to borrow money from the Huang family with the church under construction as collateral. The Huang family will have a fleet of ships sailing to Manila next year, and then they can repay the loan after winning the investment from the church.

Mr. Huang also asked them for help, and asked the missionaries to teach planting potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn in the experimental field of Huangjiawan Island School.This question is not difficult, and half of the missionaries know it. The climate here is not much different from that of Spain, so they think it is no problem.

Now we have a three-pronged approach. We can learn from the planting technology of Europeans, we can refer to the technology of farmers in Manila, and we have the technology that Huangjiawan Island’s agricultural technology students have studied in the past two years. The school’s experimental field should be able to produce research results. .

The missionaries who started to build the cathedral found that the labor on Huangjiawan Island was relatively expensive, but their work efficiency and technology were world-class, and many people could understand the drawings.

They were not ridiculed when they tried to preach. The people here are very polite, and they gradually gained believers.All missionaries are also learning Chinese while preaching, and it is too inconvenient for them to bring a translator to preach every time.

They also often go to the hospital to visit the wounded and sick, pray for the dead, and provide help within their ability to those in need.They found that there are already many Westerners working here, and Western surgery has been clinically applied.

So a few missionaries who thought they had good medical skills also came to the hospital to help the dying and heal the wounded, and their medicines and techniques were carefully studied by the medical workers of the Huang family.

At the end of the year, a visitor from Dongjiang Town came to Huangjiawan Island. Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of Pingliao, had made life much easier in Dongjiang Town because of the trade with the Huang family. Mao Wenlong deliberately brought a lot of bear paws, antler, Special products such as Dongzhu and Korean ginseng came to pay homage to the famous Master Huang in the early years.

Huang Sheng warmly received Mao Wenlong and his military officers at the "Wanghai Pavilion" restaurant. The two had a happy cooperation and of course they had many things in common. During the banquet, Huang Sheng asked Dongjiang Town to give his confidants some military positions.

The military officers in Dongjiang Town are worthless, they are all empty-handed about their grades and cannot get real power, and I don't know what Master Huang is going to do?

But Mr. Huang's gift in return was too generous, and Mao Wenlong was really embarrassed. He obviously came here to give the gift to express his gratitude, but now it has become a reward.

Because Huang Sheng gave Dongjiang town three hundred pairs of iron armor, three hundred step bows, thirty thousand feathered arrows, three thousand bottles of Xifeng Liquor, five thousand shi of rice, three thousand shi of corn, and one hundred gift boxes of soap. The total value of the gift is close to 5 taels of silver.

Dongjiang Town is a guerrilla armed force behind enemy lines, and it competes with guerrillas from all walks of life in the Anti-Japanese War of later generations.How many commanders, large and small, are there in the anti-Japanese troops of later generations?
The same is true of Mao Wenlong's subordinates. There are so many generals under him that the court doesn't take it seriously at all. Of course, there will be no pay and troops. Most of them are generals with empty ranks.

Jiannu was already poor, but Dongjiang Town was even poorer. The soldiers of Dongjiang Town dared to fight with their lives.

Hong Xie hated Mao Wenlong deeply and had no choice but to do anything. The Dongjiang Town behind the enemy line could not be underestimated to contain Jiannu. The site that Jiannu painstakingly managed was robbed by Mao Wenlong once, and the effect was exactly the same as Hou Jin's robbery of Daming.

Doing to others what you don't want yourself to do to others, Hong is planning to eliminate the threat from the rear. I don't know how much effort it took, but Dongjiang Town still exists tenaciously.

Mr. Huang just wanted a few empty titles from Dongjiang Township, so there was nothing to say about it. Commander General Mao Wenlong immediately asked the subordinates to go through the formalities on the spot.

One of the guerrilla generals in Shenmi Island became Huang Sheng's personal captain Liu Guozheng, and Sun Zhenhuai, Ma Yue, and Niu Ben served as the generals of Qianzong and Bazong respectively under his command.There are quite a few generals in the air on Shenmi Island, and there are two participating generals in Dongjiang Town and seven or eight guerrilla generals.

Huang Sheng stated that next summer it would not be a pleasure to take Dongjiang Town's troops from Mi Island guerrilla generals to North Korea to find slaves, and that any gains would be considered Dongjiang Town's military merits.

Mr. Huang is going to attack the Jiannu left behind in North Korea. Of course, this is the greatest support for Dongjiang Town. It turns out that Mr. Huang is afraid that sending troops to carry out a surprise attack will pass through the actual control area of ​​Dongjiang Town.

Mao Wenlong suddenly realized that he had already heard about the fighting power under Master Huang's command. This time, he saw with his own eyes that the Huang family's fierce soldiers were much more than last time. He was confident in Huang Sheng's intervention in North Korea. He stood up and expressed his opinion:

"No matter when Master Huang leads his troops to attack, I will not sit back and watch. A certain son under his command will definitely cooperate actively in the battle."

With these words, Huang Sheng believed that Mao Wenlong had been actively attacking and building slaves in the enemy's rear, which made the Hou Jin army care about one thing and lose another.He said: "Shuai Mao is the bravest commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty. A strong general has no weak soldiers. With the full support of Dongjiang Town, it will not be a problem to teach slaves a lesson."

Mao Wenlong knew that the court was in disarray, and he was in a panic. He didn't know how the new king would treat Dongjiang Town. He and Hou Jin had been damaged in many battles, and all the farmland in North Korea was lost. Seeing that it was unsustainable.

(End of this chapter)