Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 697 Exile, Ocean

Gao Hongtu can run, Lu Daqi can run, Zhu Yihai can run, he Zheng Zhilong can't run, this Fujian is the hometown of his Zheng family, when Ning Yuan abandoned the territory of the South China Sea overlord, he also wanted to recruit the court, because Zheng Zhilong still couldn't bear this landscape in his bones What's more, all his family property is in his hometown in Nan'an, and his big house that is comparable to a palace is still being built there. If you lose these, you might as well kill him.

What's more, Zheng Sen is still under Song Qingshu's subordinates. Although he doesn't know that he is now a North Korean general and his important position on the battlefield of the general town, after all, there is such a relationship. Zheng Zhilong still has a way out. Although he is not reconciled, Zheng Song However, the two dragons in the East China Sea and the South China Sea are facing each other, and they are equal, bowing their heads to Song Qingshu. He really can't save face, but now, he has to bow his head.

Since I can't run, don't run either!On the one hand, they were dissatisfied with these smoky Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats who had failed to succeed and failed, and on the other hand, they also made a contribution by the way. Lu Daqi, Gao Hongtu, Zhang Guowei, Zhu Dadian and a series of civil servants such as the important ministers of Lu Wang supervised the country did not escape. , was given a spoonful of stew by the Zheng Family Iron Man Team.

On the fifth day of June, Liu Zongmin's army, who built rafts and dragged cannons down the river, finally reached the city of Fuzhou, known as Fujing. The flag of the Ming Dynasty was pressing down on more than 200 civil servants of the King of Lu Jianguo, including the carriage of Jianguo Zhu Yihai.

What does it mean to save face?Under such circumstances, Zheng Zhilong hadn't come yet. It was his younger brother Zheng Zhibao and the youngest son Zheng Shimo who presided over the Zheng Family's Iron Man team who took the lead to welcome them. They were comrades who fought side by side together back then. The bearded Liu Zongmin came riding in heavy armor, and the two knelt down on the ground in embarrassment, holding the key of Fuzhou in both hands and kowtowed.

"The guilty minister paid homage to the great general of the Celestial Dynasty. The guilty minister came too late, and I hope the general will forgive me!"

After all, to give Zheng Sen a face, Liu Zongmin didn't put on the face of a winner, but quickly got off his horse to help him, muttering.

"Please get up quickly! Please get up quickly! You are all sons of the court? In short, you are all sons of the court. If you get lost, there is no crime at all. The commander forgives you, hurry up and get up for me!" "

He opened his mouth and wanted to be polite, but in the end he forgot all the speech written by the secretary in a few words, and his face was full of suffocation, and Zhang Fei pierced the needle. On the contrary, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Shimo and other Zheng family were all relieved, and they also showed a smile, and turned around and waved to the densely packed Lu Wangjian officials standing at the gate of the city, who looked like dead parents.

"General Liu, this is a gift from my father to the commander-in-chief. Except for Zhang Cai, Huang Binqing and a few others, all the rest are captured!"

Only Zhang Cai, Huang Binqing and others had the military power in their hands, and Zheng Zhilong missed all of them, and the rest were powerless civil servants. Fortunately, these guys can be regarded as the backbone of King Lu's supervision of the country. Coupled with Zhu Yihai's capture, the regime of King Lu's supervision of the country has officially perished.

At the beginning, he knew Lu Daqi, Gao Hongtu and others, but now seeing them standing dejectedly and bending over at the gate of the city, Liu Zongmin was quite excited and stepped forward to brush Gao Hongtu's beard.

"Hey, Lao Gao, you can really run, from Yingtian to Shaoxing, from Zhoushan to Fuzhou, how about you run again?"

"Humph!"

Gao Hongtu turned his head angrily.

On June 30th, Song Qingshu personally led [-] national defense troops and finally arrived in Fuzhou. At this time, except for Tingzhou, where there are many ethnic minorities, the whole province of Bamin has been reincorporated into the territory of the Ming Empire. Since Jinling started fighting, Jiangnan has finally recovered half of it. The most important significance is that the southeast coast was once again opened up by Song Qingshu. He had a bad relationship with Zheng Zhilong before, and the cargo ships carrying Southeast Asia could only go to the outer sea. Dongsha and other places stopped by the Songjiang River. Now the entire southeast coast Most of them were taken back. Once again, the goods brought back from the Southeast Asian colonies can directly radiate to the south of the Yangtze River through Fuzhou.

Moreover, when Song Qingshu arrived, the big businessmen in Fujian really welcomed him. Before their leader Zheng Zhilong had a falling out with Song Qingshu, the Fujian merchants who originally traveled all over Southeast Asia were blocked and stared at everywhere. The business has shrunk. The trade between Macau, but now, Luzon, Batavia, and even the farthest India, they can go again. After coming, Song Qingshu also encouraged business and industry, and built Jiaduobao Bank in Fuzhou. For a while, Here too, like Jiangsu and Zhejiang a while ago, industry and commerce developed rapidly, and newly built workshops sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

The busiest place is the estuary of the Minjiang River. With the recovery of Fuzhou, in just one month, this place was fully occupied by merchant ships from Southeast Asia, including Spanish ships, British ships, and Tu ships from various ethnic groups. For the southeast peninsula ship, these aboriginal people dreamed of the opportunity of direct trade with Ming Dynasty before, but now this change of part-time job makes them ecstatic.

But what these people didn't notice was that the real gold and silver and raw materials from Japan were pulled in by boats from the Americas, and what they got in exchange were clothing, bedding, black tea, daily necessities and luxury goods that had been made according to European aesthetics. Even carriages, ceramic tiles and other industrial products, the famous scissors of later generations were propped up in this way, and the funds that originally supported the industrialization of the European bourgeoisie began to flow into China continuously.

But on July [-]th, Fuzhou Port, which was already very lively on this day, became even more lively today.

27 wanted criminals who sold their bodies after Jiannu occupied Yingtian, and then actively implemented the order to shave their hair and make them easier to obey. Their hands were stained with the blood of their compatriots. They were publicly tried by the accompanying war court and read directly in the north of Fuzhou. The crime was executed on the guillotine, and most of the remaining officials of the King of Lu, including Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, were sentenced to three to ten years in prison, their personal property was confiscated, and they were escorted to Yingtian to serve their sentences. Song Qingshu didn't kill the first offenders, but sentenced them to exile.

There's no point in killing them at this point, and sometimes being alive is more painful than being dead.

Not only are the dozens of important ministers supervised by the king of Lu, but also the root cause of the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River. Today, more than 30 people are exiled with them. The prisoners of war, for them, the death penalty is too high, and the imprisonment is too light, just to sentence them to develop a huge Southeast Asian colony, it can be regarded as atonement for their numerous previous crimes.

In particular, a newly launched Haidayu-shaped giant ship is the flagship, which is jointly invested by the West India Company and [-] other large and small companies. It has a huge fleet of [-] large and small battleships and transport ships. Japan finally crossed the entire Pacific Ocean along the North Pacific Warm Current and arrived at the west coast of North America in the New World.

A few years ago, during the war with Spain, the Spanish Empire ceded an area of ​​western North America as compensation to Song Qingshu. However, due to backward navigation technology, Song Qingshu could only look at it on the map for a long time. Years of ocean experience accumulated, and now, the preparation for this prerequisite feels almost ready, and it is time for this feat in the history of China's nautical history.

And before, both the Magellan route and the Columbus route took the southern route of the Pacific Ocean, detouring from the southernmost tip of South America into the Pacific Ocean, passing through the Philippines and India along the southern equatorial warm current, and returning to Europe. This time, the route Song Qingshu asked to take was James Cook, the British navigator who discovered the Hawaiian Islands in [-], took the course in the Pacific Ocean, which is truly across the Pacific Ocean. If this route is completed, Ming Dynasty will also have a unique direct route to the Americas.

Even without mentioning the resources of the New World, the United States is the country with the largest or second largest food production in the future. Thinking about its vast large-scale farms and pastures, it is enough to make every poor and landless Chinese family share like a landlord family. Huge land, it is now [-], and the construction of the Thirteen British Colonies has not yet been completed. If they can land on the west coast first, the significance to Ming Dynasty will be infinite.

So even if the immigrant fleet is composed of a group of sinners, it is still enough to make Song Qingshu, many major shareholders of the West India Company and the main leaders of the newly emerging [-] large companies come to see them off in person.

Gao Hongtu, Lu Daqi and other criminal officials have also been stuffed into this team. The mainland can no longer accommodate them. Maybe it is a kind of kindness for them to start a new life in a distant place!

"Heaven has the virtue of good life! Although you have committed many crimes, the empire still gives you the opportunity to pay off your crimes. Board the Mayflower and open up new lands for the empire. This is your future destiny to open up frontiers for the empire. Tuotu, the empire will pardon your crimes and give you the right to cultivate new colonies, but those who dare to flee back to the Ming Dynasty, when you set foot on land for the first time, it will be the day when you will be hanged!"

"Board!"

The sailors and warriors hired by a lot of money have been on standby on the Haida fishboat, frigate, and transport ship named the Mayflower. With the cadenced reading of the law enforcement officers of the Imperial Criminal Department, more than 5000 people from Han Eight Banners, Green Camp, and Mongols And the huge immigrant group composed of their voluntary family members boarded the ship from the towering stairs under the guard of the army with a sense of excitement.

On the other side of the port, a large group of people gathered together, saying goodbye to each other sadly.

Although they are criminal officials, Gao Hongtu, Lu Daqi and others are famous all over the south of the Yangtze River, and there are many disciples who came to see them off. They used to be high-ranking officials of the empire, but now they are not even considered left-moving people, as if witnessing an era The end of the story, with tears and whirling, is also accompanied by infinite desolation.

"Let's go, my lord!"

"My lord, take care!"

A farewell was said, but it happened that a large crowd surrounded Song Qingshu to cut the ribbon for the new ship. Suddenly, Gao Hongtu, who was in shackles, broke through the guards excitedly, but rushed to the front of Song Qingshu's team to stop him , in the astonishment of a large group of people, pointed at Song Qingshu's nose and shouted loudly.

"Song thief, don't think you won, justice is at your fingertips! One day, you will step down hastily under the accusation and scolding of thousands of people!"

Seeing Gao Hongtu's beard and hair all frantic, in an instant, the entire send-off team became dead silent...

(End of this chapter)