The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 612
The army planned to bring 60 immigrant men, and after successfully taking the foothold of the "Old Port" in Sumatra, [-] or [-] family members of these [-] men arrived one after another.

Next, immigration will become the norm. After all, the land is vast, and millions of people are enough to make a living.

Most of the people preparing to emigrate to Sumatra are from the Central Plains, and they are now under militarized management. Their job is to build roads and water conservancy facilities.

When you come to the new territory, you will get land for reclamation. Of course, each household will have five acres of private plots that are not taxed. Immigrants who have performed meritorious service can get more private plots, and grassroots officials such as Baochang, Jiachang, Lichang, etc. have more private plots.

Sumatra's climate belongs to the equatorial rainy climate, with high temperature and rain all year round, evenly distributed seasons, and no drought period.The exercises of the Huang family and horses are all targeted, mainly to allow the soldiers to adapt to fighting in rainy and high temperature conditions.

Fortunately, the training grounds are located in Hainan Island and Toe Province. The climate here is relatively close to that of Sumatra Island, and it is also hot, rainy and quite humid.

Ge Chengjie's Qian Zong is seriously overstaffed, because most of his original Qian Zong formed by foreign nationalities has more than doubled the number of Koreans, Ryukyu people, Franji people who actively signed up and passed the selection, and of course there are also Kunlun slaves and Japanese Ronin.

It is not surprising that there are so many more foreigners, because maritime plundering occurs almost every day. On such a long route from Liaohai to Malacca, there are nearly [-] Huang family naval warships and armed merchant ships.

All the men in Huang's family are brave and brave. Even the No. [-] Fuchuan refitted warship with only a few dozen sailors and gunners dared to use its incomparable artillery to escort merchant ships, beat rabbits and plunder other countries that appeared in sight. merchant ship.

In order to save costs, there are now more than [-] merchant ships running commercial routes in this vast sea area without force. More than seventy percent.

But Huang Sheng still thinks it is too little. To double it within three years, at least the total tonnage of the ships of the Huang family system must reach half of that of the Dutch coachman at sea, and then spend another three years trying to surpass this Western Yi.

Since the rise of the Huang family in the China Sea, the sea food served by the coachman on the sea is actually not delicious.

The Dutch were the first to take the risk of building a merchant ship that could only transport goods but not mount artillery.

The cost of doing so turned every voyage into a risky gamble of fate, but its advantage was that the cost of shipbuilding was low, and the price was only half that of British merchant ships, so the competitiveness of freight was unparalleled.

When this kind of Galen ship encounters pirates, it can only use the speed of the ship to escape to escape the fate of being plundered. However, the warships and armed merchant ships of the Huang family have obvious speed advantages, and they are equipped with fixed telescopes on a large scale, which can detect other countries in advance. merchant ship.

Therefore, [-]% of the Xiyi merchant ships seized in recent years came from the Dutch.

If Huang Sheng succeeds in gaining a foothold in Malacca, he will inevitably expand the scope of his plunder to the Indian Ocean. At that time, he will also seize a large number of Galen ships from Xiyi.

The Huang family is developing rapidly, is training intensively, and is conducting actual combat exercises. All the soldiers and civilians are always preparing for the southward expansion of Malacca.

At the same time, a legal tome was also published in written form and distributed to the grassroots. The content was concise and to the point, and it was not mature enough to belong to the Basic Law. It was only dozens of pages.

In the army, there is one officer above the general banner officer, and all civil officers are covered. Even the security chief who manages [-] households must be familiar with it.

Most of the content does not conflict with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, but relative human rights are given to concubines and concubine children, clan power is eliminated, and all civil lynchings are prohibited.

There is also a law that forbids any woman to bind her feet. Regardless of whether she is active or passive, she will be held accountable.

In contrast to the prosperity of the Huang family system, Daming's new year is not going well.

In the winter of Chongzhen's sixth year, the sad emperor was once again disturbed by the bad news brought by the urgent Liubaili.

It's not that the confidants are seriously troubled by the slave bandits, but it's really unexpected that the bandits from Shaanxi intensified and spread rapidly to Shanxi, Henan, and Sichuan.

On November 24th, a group of rogue bandits jumped out of the siege of the Ming officials and troops who had been waiting on the sidelines by taking advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River.

The rogues who escaped Lianke Mianchi, Lushi, and Xuanyang counties entered Henan from Shaanxi. Since then, wars and disasters have occurred in the Central Plains for years.

Henan Governor Xuanmo assembled heavy troops to block the bandits from fleeing into the capital. At this time, the bandits had no specific target at all.

Since the plan to go north to North Zhili to rob was blocked, the rogues turned southward, passing through Ruzhou to Xichuan, Neixiang, Guanghua, and Nanyang. As a result, the proletariat was created crazily and artificially, and the Central Plains were corrupted overnight.

Snow is boundless, and on the official road in Mianchi County, Henan Province, in the west of Henan Province, many hungry and cold refugees staggered eastward with the old and the young.

That's because they heard that as long as they find the "God of War" family, all ordinary people will have a way out.It is said that there are many ordinary people in Guide Mansion who can't survive for a long time. They have defected to the "God of War" and now they can not only survive, but also live until their stomachs are full.

Some ordinary people told everyone in convincing terms that a servant of the "God of War" came to Mianchi County a few days ago.

They also posted pictures and left words in many prominent places, which clearly stated that if the common people could not survive, they could go to the fiefdom of the "God of War".

There are plenty of fields for everyone to till, and it's guaranteed that no one will starve to death.

"Brother Li, are the rumors about the 'God of War' true?" A middle-aged man with a wrinkled face and gray hair asked Old Li, who was trekking hard together.

His name is Wang Laoshi, and he came here after fleeing from the border of Shanzhou. He is lucky because he has three Kong Wuli sons, and all nine members of his family are still there.

The man surnamed Li affirmed: "Brother Wang, how many times have I said it? Many common people are chattering, just to make everyone unable to survive and go to the Huang family."

Wang Laoshi decided to flee with his family because he heard rumors that the servants of the "God of War" would feed the people who went to defect and would cultivate the land in the future. Be more comfortable.

(End of this chapter)