The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 489
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. If you go north against the wind, the speed of the ship will be very slow, and the sailing time will double.

It will be a smooth journey when it is fully loaded again, and the average speed will increase by [-]% to reach [-] knots. It is not a dream.

It is nearly [-] nautical miles from Lingao Port on Hainan Island to Huangjiawan Island. The fleet can only go north by an average of [-] to [-] nautical miles per day. Including the time required to stop for supplies, it is conservatively estimated that it will take a full month.

When going south, it was smooth sailing day and night, and it could sail an average of 150 to [-] nautical miles a day. It should be able to arrive in about half a month. Huang Sheng roughly calculated the time and gave enough margin. He thought that two months would be enough, and the follow-up troops should catch up by the end of October. arrive.

The high-level township braves and immigrants who came from the north had a one-month adaptation period before going into battle and their bodies should have recovered.

The immigrants who came later have been participating in the labor of repairing bridges, roads and seawalls, and there will be an hour of military training every day.

It has been more than half a year now, and the obedience and discipline of the new immigrants have improved, and their physical fitness is better than that of the refugees from Guangdong and Guangxi.

The situation of Huang's family is very good. Hainan Island has been completely captured, and the population has increased by 70. They plundered Guangdong to fight against pirates.

All the refugees from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian were taken in, and the number was more than [-]. The troops of the Long March attracted [-] refugees from several provinces who actively followed.

The speed at which they obtained wealth through robbery was astonishing. The Huang family had more than [-] large and small seagoing ships, of which [-] to [-] were large ships that could sail long distances, and the smaller seagoing ships were more than enough for the route from Lingao to Leizhou.

The total value of the gold and silver treasures seized from the lairs of many pirates and bandits has exceeded one million taels of silver.

Huang Sheng couldn't understand why Daming always felt embarrassed and burdened when fighting. He could support war with war, but the Huang family would become three points stronger every time he fought.

The same is true of those colonial empires in history. Britain, a small island country that has been fighting and plundering constantly, has become an empire on which the sun never sets.

And the Jiannu in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, with a population of only a few hundred thousand, were also poor soldiers who redeemed their weapons and fought continuously, and finally laid down a world of flowers and flowers, and everyone became slave owners.

Why did the Han Chinese make the country weak and poor when they fought wars?Huang Sheng believes that Confucianism is deeply rooted, and he is not enterprising.

Huang Sheng's policy is "do to others what you don't want done to yourself", so money, food, and population must be converted into combat power. Now that there is a source of income, a large number of people are needed.

As long as there is a "Huaxia Big Bank", there will be a task force to take in refugees, so the population of Huang's family is increasing every day. At the end of September, it was close to 260 million, including more than 90 males.

Without the convenience of sea transportation, it would be an impossible task to quickly deploy troops, transport people, and supplies. Therefore, Ming was able to capture Annan, but it was unable to hold on to this place.

Huang Sheng came once and for all. Annan didn't need to stick to it in the future. They were all tough Han people with swords.

This must also be done. The Guangshou migrant movement gathered in Hainan Island and the pioneers gathered in Qinzhou have tens of thousands of households, more than [-] people. It is a disaster not to give them enough land and job opportunities. It is imperative to take them to Da Viet to compete for living space.

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Da Viet invaded Guangnan easily and broke into the side wall, and the whole country was jubilant. Zheng Bing was dazzled by the victory for a while, and increased his troops several times in an attempt to unify the Da Viet that had been divided for decades.

The complacent Zheng Bing once again issued a mobilization order, and the left-behind general led the reassembled [-] troops across the side wall to the south. He thought this should be the last straw that crushed Guangnan Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened. The soldiers and civilians of Guangnan Kingdom learned that the powerful Ming Dynasty had promised to send troops to rescue, and they gained the confidence to defend the territory.

They almost relied on every city and every cottage to resist desperately. The two sides fell into a bitter battle and a tug-of-war.

Zheng Bing's army that crossed the side wall is close to [-]. Seven CDs of the regular army of Dayue Kingdom are in Guangnan Kingdom. In addition, there are no less than [-] civilians who come and go to transport supplies. In order to unify the great cause, Dayue Kingdom has done its best.

The Guangnan Kingdom fought even harder and couldn't bear it any longer. Many active ministers had already started flirting with the coach of the Dai Viet Kingdom, Zheng Ting, intending to surrender.

This phenomenon is not uncommon in feudal dynasties. The ruler refused to surrender, the common people could not be the master, and too many princes and ministers with vested interests began to change their minds in order to keep their property and official positions.

Ruan Fuyuan, the lord of Guangnan, who lived like a year, once again sent Hu Mingshan and several ministers to Hainan Island, imploring Ming to send troops to liberate Guangnan and Daoxuan as soon as possible.

Huang Dongshan met Hu Mingshan and others, and gave them a good idea to let Daming send troops quickly. Several ministers of Guangnan Kingdom went back overnight to make a fuss.

In mid-October, Huang Sheng once again convened civil and military officials from the three provinces to report the situation of the war against bandits in the temporary residence of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in Qinzhou, and showed everyone more than [-] pirate heads.

Of course, these heads were obtained by the Huang family's fight against pirates, exterminating bandits, and Pingli District in the past year or so, and now they all become proof of meritorious service to the court.

These heads do not need to be artistically processed at all. There are everyone in the pirates, not to mention Li people, Kunlun slaves are not new, and there are even more pirates.

Huang Sheng told the adults that after this period of encirclement and suppression, he finally discovered why Guo Huaiyi was so daring.

It turned out that he had colluded with Zheng Bing, the power minister of the Dayue Kingdom, and was canonized by the Dayue Kingdom as the King of Qiongya County. General Huang Mingdao was caught off guard when he was suddenly killed by the Dayue Navy during a fierce battle with Guo Huaiyi's pirates.

The Ming army suffered heavy losses, so they had to give up attacking Hainan Island for the time being. As Dayue Kingdom continued to reinforce Guo Huaiyi and provided a large amount of military supplies and food, the siege plan was now difficult to implement.

If the supply of Hainan Island is not cut off and the pirates are beaten to an unsustainable level, it may be difficult for Guo Huaiyi to accept the recruitment obediently under the premise that the pirates still have wishful thinking.

Just when the civil and military officials were discussing, Ruan Dan, the king of Jiaozhi County, the envoy of Guangnan Kingdom, came to Qinzhou to see the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

He brought the King of Guangnan's letter of credence, which clearly stated the fact that the Guangnan Kingdom had discovered the collusion between the Great Viet Kingdom and the Guo Huaiyi pirate gang, and he also brought a lot of evidence.

The so-called evidence is the correspondence between Zheng Bing and Guo Huaiyi forged by Hu Mingshan and others. In the letter, there are such things as taking Hainan Island and looking for opportunities to seize Guangdong, etc., which are full of pride in opening up the territory for the Dayue Kingdom.

Ever since, the memorials of the officials of the three provinces were urgently dispatched from Liubaili to the capital with the news of victory in the first battle in the South China Sea.

The gains in the south cannot be transported to the first level to repay the merits. It is too hot and too far away, and it will be troublesome if there is an accidental epidemic.

Emperor Chongzhen saw the good news and learned that since Huang Sheng took office, the situation in the South China Sea has undergone a turning point, from Guo Huaiyi's continuous attack on the coast of Guangzhou to the Ming army's continuous attack on Hainan Island where Guo Huaiyi was entrenched.

Emperor Longyan Dayue asked the cabinet to discuss the rewards. He was quite annoyed by the feedback from the civil and military forces of the three provinces about the collusion between the Dayue Kingdom and Guo Huaiyi. He had already seen the credentials of the Guangnan Kingdom accusing the Dayue Kingdom of colluding with pirates to seize the land of Daming Xin, and passed the decree to the platform for discussion .

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