The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 528 Restoration of Hainan Island

In order to keep the civil and military forces of the three provinces from wanting to kill Guo Huaiyi's group, Huang Sheng informed everyone of Guo Huaiyi's strength, and also secretly revealed how difficult it was for him to recruit this powerful pirate.

The civil and military forces of the three provinces all agree, they think that the country's affairs are so difficult that they can stop fighting in the South China Sea early, so it's no big deal!Unanimously stated that they wrote to the imperial court to recruit Guo Huaiyi, and it would not hurt to give him a trivial guerrilla for coastal defense.

The conditions were negotiated, and the decision whether to recruit Guo Huaiyi was not up to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, nor could the officials of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian make the decision. Civil and military officials who had the right to go directly to heaven on the same day wrote memorials and sent them to the imperial court in an expedited six hundred miles.

The imperial court has been terrified by Liubailijia. Either the bandits attacked the city and pulled out the stronghold, or the Jin army invaded aggressively. This time, it finally saw a good thing.

In the court hall, the exhausted Emperor Chongzhen saw that Huang Sheng had fulfilled his mission and was about to regain Hainan Island in just two years. He was eager to get Ming to withdraw from the south, and seeing Guo Huai surrendered, he naturally agreed to the conditions given by the civil and military officials of the three provinces.

The imperial decree was immediately issued in red, and Guo Huaiyi became a third-rank coastal defense guerrilla. In history, Zheng Yiguan's official position was disrupted by Huang Sheng, and Guo Huaiyi, one of Zheng Yiguan's eighteen Zhimao, was turned into Guo Huaiyi.

The Ministry of War approved the coastal defense guerrilla generals to directly lead 600 troops and [-] warships to garrison Lingao, and the rest were handed over to the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi for dispatch.

There was a constant rush of six hundred miles, and finally at the beginning of July came the news that Mr. Huang Sheng led more than [-] Ming troops to successfully recover Hainan Island.

After the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi landed on the island, there was no bloodshed, and Guo Huaiyi did not use any tricks. The Ming army successfully took over nine counties, and Yu Lingao County was handed over to Guo Huaiyi.

Huang Sheng finally wrote the first report to the imperial court. The main content is: because Qiongzhou has been in turmoil for more than two years, the Li people in the central mountainous area have rioted one after another, and the population of Hainan Island is now declining and the law and order are worrying.

I adapt measures to local conditions, and all the executive officers of the prefectures and counties, because the battle to pacify the mountainous area will be protracted, for the safety of the scholar-bureaucrats, I suggest that the court appoint civilian officials to take up their posts in this place after three years.

The news spread to the palace, and Emperor Chongzhen once again went to the ancestral temple to comfort his ancestors.

At the Great Court Meeting, all civil and military officials discussed whether to agree to Nan'an Hou Huang Sheng's request, and whether to abolish the military control of Hainan Island three years later and send out officials to carry out civil governance.

After a lot of rhetoric, a consensus was finally reached, and everyone agreed that the military control of Hainan Island for three years was reasonable, reasonable and feasible.

The civil servant is actually afraid that his disciples and old friends will be sent to Hainan Island to serve.

Because all civil and military officials above grade [-] in Hainan Island have disappeared, so far no one is alive or dead.There has been no news for more than two years, and nine out of ten of these officials died in the chaos.

Now even the "God of War" Nan'an Hou thinks that Hainan Island is in ruins, with bandits in the mountainous areas and remnants of pirates on the seashore who are constantly looting houses.

All the lords of the Chaotang Gungun know that Hainan Island is isolated overseas, and there is no way to escape if there is trouble. It is also a veritable "poor state" with no money. Of course, they resolutely gave up sending officials when the political situation in Hainan Island is unstable.

They not only asked the sage to follow Huang Shenghou's request, but also greatly praised Nan'an Hou for being considerate of scholar-bureaucrats, so that a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall.

Since everyone agrees, Emperor Chongzhen gladly accepts advice, and the imperial decree is issued, and the cabinet approves the request of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Huang Sheng is asked to return to Beijing to report on his work and accept the award.

Huang Sheng's strength has reached the point where he can look down on the world, he can't go to the capital rashly, throwing himself into the trap is simply ridiculous.

All the secret agents in Beizhili were active, and Caier's wife was also in full swing in diplomacy. Finally, it was concluded that the imperial court had no attempt to deal with Huang Sheng at all.

With intelligence gathering, Huang Sheng would not put himself in danger. The court of Ming Dynasty did not keep secrets. If there is a big move, it is impossible for someone who is interested to inquire about it to be unaware.

What's more, several cabinet ministers are his best friends, and the noble circle is also a partner, and the father-in-law is a British prince with great power. It is impossible for every ally to betray him at the same time if there is a disturbance.

Huang Sheng grinned and prepared to go north to Tianjin Wei to go to Beijing to report on his duties, and returned the soldier seal letter to take the long-overdue title of Duke of the Southern Kingdom.

Daming seems to have no rewards and no seals for himself. It stands to reason that the next step should be put on the shelf, or the old rule of death for those who play the game.

However, Daming, which was plagued by internal and external troubles, would go from bad to worse in the following years. Emperor Chongzhen might not be able to strengthen his back. In history, he had endured the warlords who had military power, and promised officials to give them food and money to appease them.

Huang Sheng didn't have the idea of ​​playing with Chongzhen at all, he just picked up what was missing and made up for the omissions, and tried his best to keep the Han people from dying in this troubled world, and kept the demographic dividend of the Han people as much as possible. The president is safe and sound.

Huang Sheng would not provoke Chongzhen, nor did he think of rebelling and going to war with Ming Dynasty, but chose to encroach gently. Anyway, he has a foothold. At present, there is a shortage of land and population. The matter of land expansion should be delayed, and the matter of immigration should be urgent .

However, due to excessive land annexation in the Ming Dynasty, too many small people in Shengdou had no land, coupled with the continuous drought, locust plague, and military disaster in the north, resulting in a large population without production and insufficient living space, unable to produce and save themselves.

The Huang family system and Ming Dynasty complement each other, which will better solve the vicious cycle of the refugees in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty turning into rogues. The final result is that Huang Sheng gets the people, and Ming has fewer rogues. Why not do a win-win situation?

Of course this is wishful thinking, how can you allow others to snore and sleep beside the couch?Gradually, Huang Sheng will face Ming's counterattack, and how to resolve it needs to be guided by the situation and local conditions.

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Because of Guo Huaiyi's good performance, he is a good naval fighter, and the director of Huang Sheng's employing staff did not arrange for him to participate in military operations when he attacked Dayue, but let him continue to cause disasters in the South China Sea.

The little poor navy of the Dayue Kingdom was dealt with casually, and the Huang family's navy did not need a few warships to escort the transport ships. It would be too wasteful not to use such a powerful navy.

Therefore, let Guo Huaiyi take advantage of his current pirate status to make this glorious plundering business bigger and stronger. "Grabbing" comes much faster than "earning" at any time!

Veteran pirate Guo Huaiyi fulfilled his mission and spent the past two years trying his best to ambush merchant ships and warships.

He used all kinds of tricks, waiting for a rabbit to ambush on the route, stalking and chasing pirate ships from a distance to dig out their old nests, etc., and so on.

The "Lugong Island" and "Zhanggong Island" of the Huang family are only a dozen nautical miles away from Haojingao. Gu San worked here for half a year and returned to work in Zhoushan.

He was taken in by Huang Sheng when Juehua Island was in danger in the sixth year of Tianqi, and he is now a senior manager.

This is the Hong Kong of later generations. There are many small islands in the outer sea. The Huang family built tall lighthouses on several islands, which is self-interested and beneficial to others.

Later, Guo Huaiyi discovered that it was also conducive to robbery.Because on the lighthouse closest to Haojingao, you can clearly see the ships coming and going at Haojingao port with a high-power fixed telescope.

The private soldiers of the Huang family used binoculars to monitor the Haojingao port around the clock. As long as they found a merchant ship leaving the port, they would play semaphore or light codes to the sentinel ships, and then communicated to Guo Huaiyi's command ship one by one.

Immediately, the sentinel boats would follow the ships from a distance, and soon these warships and merchant ships in twos and threes would find themselves surrounded by dozens of warships with sharp gunfire.

(End of this chapter)