open sea

Chapter 1529 Disarm
The sudden outbreak of war in the north surprised Chen Mu who received the news.

It wasn't the war that was astonished, at least in the eyes of Chen Mu, whose subordinates drove large ships to fight all over the world, war was nothing special.

What's remarkable is that Yang Zhaolong can't control the various tribes. Chen Mu always thought that Muye and the Five Great Lakes were lands subject to the empire.

Those tribal leaders can live a good life in their hometown, and they can fight wars if they want?
But after thinking about it carefully, he was relieved.

That was the situation in the west coast and central part of Asia. In the past, they were all under the rule of the Western Kingdom, and their lives were not as good as pigs and dogs. The shackles put on them by the Spaniards were broken by the Ming army.

The stronger the Ming army's control over the people on a piece of land, the more it means that it used to be the battlefield where Ming and Western countries confronted each other.

Surrounding it were scattered tribes where the original tribal organization was dismantled by the Spaniards. This effect was no less than a revolution.

In Muye on the east coast, the stronghold of the Iroquois and Hurons, the Ming army occupied it peacefully. The old tribal organization has not been broken up. The Ming court and the Eastern military government in the far distance have almost no restrictions on it. , Makino Zhixian, who is close in front of him, is more like a partner.

They cultivated tobacco fields to pay taxes for the imperial court, powerful women went to the mining area to mine in exchange for salary, and children entered the Chinese language school, but if there was a problem, they would first seek help from the tribe, and if they could not solve it, they would go to the yamen for mediation.

Just like the clan forces who fight with weapons without authorization, perhaps it is not because of the low prestige of the government, but because the tribes are closer and more organized and trustworthy. They are symbiotic, not to mention... If the longhouse alliance is compared to clans, their The clan power is indeed too great.

As long as this alliance still exists, the government will not be able to control Muye as much as possible. Even the longhouse alliance fighters who joined the Ming army, as long as they are still in Muye, the government will not have much control over them.

Unless, like the historical method of the British Empire colonizing India, the troops of the Longhouse Alliance were transferred to Changsheng to guard, and the Changsheng troops were transferred to Muye to guard.

But that's not the effect Chen Mu wants. It's very boring to use all the power to internal friction and guard against oneself.

Compared with the cause or outcome of this war, Chen Mu cared more about exposing the extremely weak control of the Dongyang military government over Makino.

If this problem is not resolved, in the future, whether Muye is the magistrate or the magistrate, the interests of the yamen and the longhouse alliance will be at odds, and a split will occur.

As for the war itself, the opponents are very weak. They have no firearms, no iron weapons, and no horses. The tactics they use are no different from those of the Iroquois and Huron, so they cannot be the opponents of the Longhouse Alliance.

It was enough for him to care only about the aftermath of the war.

But before Chen Mu could decide whether to remind Yang Zhaolong to solve this problem by himself or leave the matter to Li Zhi, a new letter was sent to the military office.

The amount of new information is enormous.

To put it simply, the Mongols disarmed the Sutan envoys and the envoys of the kings of Europa at the mouth of the Gulf Highlands and nearly executed them all.

It took Chen Mu a lot of effort to understand the ins and outs of the matter.

"The Mongols are under the command of General Hei Yunlong. According to them, after the Northern War began, all the troops in Muye were mobilized. The men of General Hei who led the army were all horse teams, which were not easy to be transported by rail carriages, so they arrived at the front line. The speed is actually slower than that of Yangzhi County."

It was Pei Xiao who reported to Chen Mu. His subordinates were the first to arrive at the scene with the Gulf of Mexico Fleet, and passed on the first-hand information to Daxi Port.

"The battle situation is overwhelming. General Hei's troops have arrived at Hulan Guard on the shore of Lake Michigan. The banner troops of the guard have been marching westward for several days with the command envoy. Seeing that the direction of the river is unclear, they sent scouts to drive ore boats in the lake to divide into more than ten routes. Explore along the river."

"Some of them went upstream to the north, and some went downstream to the south. The last boat went south along the river, and finally sailed from the mouth of the highland river into the Gulf of Mexico. The boat traveled more than three thousand miles."

"The other two fleets are envoys to participate in the World Conference of Nations. Recently, the sea has been rough and it has been raining heavily. Two of the ships' masts were broken."

"The commander-in-chief also knows that their ships can't be put down like ours, so they can only sail along the coast and camp on the highlands on both sides of the river mouth, one east and one west."

Chen Mu nodded slowly, and asked, "Those are all messengers, what happened to almost having them execute?"

The words are very particular, almost killed and almost executed have completely different meanings, almost killed, maybe because of conflict or something.

But the letter said that they were almost executed, which meant that Yebushou from Heiyunlong's command did so according to the order.

"They are messengers. The soldiers under the command of the Black General do not know that on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, the troops of the Black General strictly follow the orders of the military government, and execute orders to warn, expel, bombard, and annihilate all barbarians encountered on the shore."

"These envoys set up camp on the bank and sent fast horses to Daxi Port to ask the heavenly army to transfer the ship. They didn't know if they didn't receive them at night. They saw the camps on the highlands on both sides of the bank at night, so they went into the camp and the bank to investigate. They are barbarians, and there are too many people and horses that they can wipe out, so they steal horses and boats at night."

"Yebushou thought the people in these two camps were pirates from the east."

Speaking of this, Pei Xiao couldn't help laughing, and there was even envy and admiration on his face: "When they woke up, four boats were lying across the river, and hundreds of cannons were aimed at the camps on both banks. , put down all the muskets and armor soldiers of the mission, and let them tie themselves up."

"Later, they were ready to be executed according to the law. This is what the black general said. The barbarians with no weapons or only a few weapons were blown to the shore by the wind and landed on the shore. After they were found, they would be given water and food to drive them away from the coast. If you don’t leave, you will be locked up for interrogation.”

"But if you use gunboats and gunboats, those who have more firearms, those who have not landed will be expelled by ships, and if they cannot be expelled, they will be sunk; those who have already landed, needless to say, are all capital offenses."

Chen Mu frowned. Thinking about this matter like this, it is true that those who do not work at night are not only not faulty, but their craftsmanship is also very beautiful, but it is definitely not easy to end when this matter has evolved to this point.

The Conference of the Nations of the World was the last event during his tenure as Minister of the East, but he never expected that such a thing would happen before it even started, and it was not a good start.

"Later, why didn't anyone die?"

"Fortunately, there was Asubadul from the Crimean Khanate on the Christian ship, and he was able to communicate with Ye Bushou with words, which saved a bloody rain."

Chen Mu originally frowned, but after hearing this sentence, he immediately frowned again, and raised a finger to stop Pei Xiao's words.

"Wait a minute, Crimean Khanate?"

Chen Mu was a little dazed. He knew about the Crimean Khanate. In the speed sandal fleet that came earlier with Osman, there was an envoy from the Crimean Khanate.

And it is said that it is a country of speed, how come there are messengers mixed into the ship of the Christian world.

"They sent envoys to both sides?"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)