Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 492 Going North Again
"It's cheap for these vulgar warriors, forget about the bastards!"

The vitality of the Donglin Party comes from its reputation. After all, 1000 million taels of grain were given out. According to the share, Zhang Pu’s own several hundred acres of fertile land could be worth tens of thousands of dans. It was easy to use food like a noose to hold Song Qingshu's throat, but before he could be strangled, Song Qingshu kicked him over and rolled his eyes. Zhang Pu was so angry that he slapped the table and cursed.

After all, the leader of the Fushe was still young and energetic. Although Qian Qianyi was very angry just now, he smiled again and persuaded him with a smile.

"Mr. Renxue, don't you just order yellow and white things? It's no big deal. He made a big splash this time, and he didn't hesitate to accept the hot-handed General Ping Liao to blackmail our food. Doesn't it mean that he is begging for a lack of food for the living army?" ?He is a thief in the Song Dynasty who is benevolent and righteous, buying people's hearts, and there will only be more and more gangsters under his hands. This year will not work, and next year we will tighten up and strangle this thief to death sooner or later!"

"Old Qian, I heard that the Song thief discovered a big island in the south, which is the Little Liuqiu in the ancient book. Da Dao stockpiled food and broke our plan to eliminate thieves, what should we do?"

Wu Changshi who was on the side was careful, and couldn't help asking, but Qian Qianyi laughed out loud, reached out and picked up a piece of pork ribs with golden nanmu chopsticks, and stuffed it into his mouth. Throwing a spare rib back to the plate, he quickly spit it out in disgust, and just pretended to be an old fox in the strange eyes of everyone.

"Didn't you realize that there is a lot more sugar on the market recently?"

"Of course, my shop still wants to get some more, but it's all controlled by the Song thief's business, these bastards!" Zhang Pu looked at the table angrily again, and then saw Liu Rushi's contemptuous eyes again before he knew he was He lost his composure again, but luckily Qian Qianyi's words made the embarrassment go away.

"Nowadays sugar is cheap enough to be eaten by traders and pawns. Song thieves brought it back from Xiaoliuqiu Island. The price of sugar is indeed higher than the price of grain. Judging by the purchase volume, it may not be less than tens of thousands of boxes. How big can an island be? Song thieves are motivated by their interests, and with so much sucrose supported, how much land can be cultivated for food, my nephew is too worried!"

"And as long as my teacher is in charge of the Chao Gang, let alone ordering food, what can a Song thief do? At that time, we will be in the court class, and we can flex our muscles. Why don't we worry about not being able to deal with the Song thief?"

Going ahead, Zhang Pu said cheerfully again, listening to his words, all the leaders of the Fushe Society brightened their eyes, especially Wu Changshi, but no one noticed that the old Qian Qianyi, the bright pair of gentlemen In the eyes, there is a stream of jealousy and resentment.

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"Marshal, my old Liu helped you get the food out of the hands of those rotten scholars!"

Qian Qianyi and others are still plotting and planning, while Liu Zongmin came back happily, but when he first came in, he obviously felt that something was wrong in the meeting room. Zheng Sen, a prodigal who he looked down upon, was pointing at the map with a serious face. , the little mischievous William who was even more contemptuous of him was no longer so proud, and opened his mouth to scream something.

"What, what's the matter?" After being stunned for a moment, Liu Zongmin asked stupidly, and Song Qingshu couldn't help but sigh after listening.

If you really come out to mess around, you always have to pay it back. You have always been on guard against revenge from the Dutch East India Company. Now at this juncture, they are here!A total of fifteen main battleships, an expeditionary force composed of unknown numbers of people, went northward from Batavia by the north trade wind, and what is more complicated is that this Dutch expeditionary force did not go directly to Tainan, but He went to the chicken coop in Taipei, and only now did he know that there is actually a Spanish colony in Taipei!
Now the influence of the British East India Company in Southeast Asia is still too small. Song Qingshu's Ming West India Company mainly trades with the Spanish and Portuguese. Now that Spain and the Netherlands are colluding together, Song Qingshu is in a difficult position. Let's fight?Affecting trade, and in Luzon, there are also a large number of Chinese businessmen and Chinese, many of them are their own people.Another cancer remains.

Especially that fellow Little William who was still chattering on and on.

"General Song! Now the people of my British Empire have also been implicated this time. Batavia and the Dutch side openly attacked our trading houses and killed more than 30 legitimate businessmen in our country. It is simply unforgivable. As an ally, I demand You immediately lead your armada and crush Batavia!"

Song Qingshu didn't speak, Zheng Sen had already sneered.

"When attacking the officers, I didn't see a British Empire warship or a British Empire sailor. I don't know when the East India Company of the British Empire became an ally of my West India Company! Besides, dealing with slavery is the most important thing now. It's a big deal, Song Shuai doesn't have the energy to care about those broken islands of yours!"

"You! Offensive officer, I, the British East India Company, also provided information and blueprints of ships! In Chinese terms, you are crossing rivers and demolishing bridges!"

"So the only fan-haired devils who can stay in Dayuan are you eagle-eyed people! Don't want to? If you don't want to, you can stop doing business with our West India Company and get out..."

The Zheng family of Jiaduobao Company did not merge after all, but Zheng Zhilong took a stake in the West India Company, which was proposed by Song Qingshu and jointly established by thirteen directors, so there is nothing wrong with Zheng Sen taking one of our West India Company, but the two quarreled Song Qingshu himself had a big head, and finally couldn't help but slapped the table angrily.

"enough!"

In the end it was the majesty of the commander in chief, and even Liu Zongmin trembled all of a sudden.

"Jiannu is my life-and-death enemy of the Ming Dynasty. If Hong Chengchou falls into their hands, when we regret it in the future, we must go north to rescue the siege of Songshan. William, even if my begging army belongs to Ruying's East India Company Allies, but not your nanny! You have two divisions of troops, enough to protect the interests of the two in Taiwan, and outside of Taiwan, if you can't even gain a foothold, you don't need to negotiate business with us! "

The yellow-haired William who reprimanded these words was stunned, but unfortunately now the initiative is in Song Qingshu's hands, and he is not a stick, like those stupid native princes in Southeast Asia, who were led by the nose by white people like them, and they were out of breath for a while. Had to put on a pitiful look.

"General Song, cooperating with the East India Company will definitely be your best choice. We are in India..."

"see a visitor out!"

This time Song Qingshu didn't want to talk to him at all, Xiaobao said please with the revolver on his shoulder, Xiao William had to back out with a sad face and step by step.

Taiwan is the retreat and room for maneuver in the future, and Jiannu is also the enemy of life and death. This is really a difficult multiple-choice question, but before Song Qingshu rubbed his forehead and walked out of the two choices, the third more difficult choice But he broke in suddenly.

"Ma'am, the commander-in-chief is working, you can't go in!"

"Step aside!"

The sound of arguing suddenly came from the corridor, and a moment later, amidst Xiao Bao who had just seen off the guests with a sad look, it was Little Pepper who rushed in anxiously, and an ominous feeling suddenly arose in Song Qingshu's heart.

"Jiaojiao, what happened?"

"Sister-in-law, can you not send troops to Liaodong?"

Hearing this, Song Qingshu's face couldn't help turning dark. A few women are pampered, but he is also a person with his own opinions. He can give them some things to do. The general direction must be in his own hands, and he will never allow others He raised his beak, but before Song Qingshu got angry, Little Pepper, who knew him too well, eagerly put the letter in his hand on the table.

"Father's letter! Don't forget, what you promised back then!"

Fu Wang's letters have been received quite a lot, but this is the first time that they are so sloppy and dirty. The yellow cover seems to be soaked in sweat, revealing an ominous smell. He opened the letter in astonishment and looked at it at a glance. Song Qingshu's expression was also the same. It quickly became gloomy.

This matter is still related to Li Zicheng. Thirteen days ago, Li Zicheng's army broke through Yanshi, and most of the outer barriers of Luoyang City have been removed. Now a major force of the Ming Dynasty has been wiped out outside the pass. Yang Sichang was newly defeated and was unable to go north to rescue , the Central Plains is even more empty of troops, and Luoyang is in crisis!
When he dragged King Fu onto the pirate ship, Song Qingshu made a solemn promise that if something happened, he would come to his rescue!

But now, going north to conquer the Liao Dynasty is already on the verge of an arrow, and it has to be launched. At this time, it is time to retreat. To the imperial court, to the Donglin Party that just attacked in Jiangnan, and to the people of Jiangnan, there is no way to explain it. Songjin's defeat is like a domino The first domino that started to promote the disintegration of the Ming Dynasty. If this matter is not handled well, it will become the first domino of the beggar army. I read the letter of King Fu for about seven or eight minutes before Song Qingshu was satisfied. Standing up again with a sweaty head.

"In Dai County, there are the second and third divisions with Scarface, and I can mobilize Qiu Ming's Yanmenguan Army. This is [-] soldiers and horses! I can write to order Scarface to send troops south to rescue Luoyang City, Jiaojiao, what do you think?"

After all, Dai County is the place where it started. Although most of the family members of the beggar army moved to Anqing long ago, and many even went to Taiwan with them, the people here are still very important. Song Qingshu's order is equivalent to draining most of Dai County. Some defenders, if there is a length error here, this northern stronghold will be lost.

But Little Pepper is not an unreasonable person. On the contrary, she was born in the royal family, and her vision is much higher than that of Caiwei. Although she is still worried, but Song Qingshu can compromise to this point, she still nodded her head with difficulty.

"Just as the officer said!"

Touching the corners of her red and swollen eyes, Song Qingshu sighed deeply again.

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About seven or eight days later, Rulin Academy still gathered the food and sent it to the Songjiang Naval Wharf. Several battleships from Taiwan were also transferred back. Now the other side can only rely on Zhang Huangyan, Bayintu and Li Dingguo's army and fort support. In Songjiang, Song Qingshu once again assembled a main fleet that was almost the same as that for Zheng Zhilong. Most of the elite soldiers and generals of the Qihuo Army were dispatched to gather in Songjiang.

On the pier, troops could be seen everywhere carrying supplies to the ship. It was still the Haiquan, standing on the bow, Song Qingshu looked gloomyly to the north. In his eyes, there was a cloud of clouds, as if a thunderstorm was about to come ...

(End of this chapter)