Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Guangdong Lianzhou Hai'an Institute and Qiongzhou face each other across the sea. After the Taiping army occupied Guangdong, a military port was built here, becoming the second major military port of the Guangdong Navy after the Pearl River Huangpu Port. Wu Yuan, the commander of the naval division of the expeditionary army, set up a deputy general of the water camp here, and Liao Ruixiang, the governor of Guangdong, also sent envoys to take over Qiongzhou Prefecture, and obtained 13 counties in three prefectures, including Danzhou, Yazhou, and Wanzhou, with a total of 67,000 Dingkou. the rest. The more than 4,000 members of the original anti-Qingyi division on the island were all reorganized into the Qiongzhou Security Corps, responsible for recruiting the ethnic minorities on the island who did not obey the king, and encircling and suppressing pirate dens, and responsible for local security. Because of their unwillingness to be under the jurisdiction of the Han people, the Li ethnic group on the island continued to rebel. Several armed groups of the Li ethnic group were active in the Wuzhishan area. The Qiongzhou authorities failed to encircle and suppress them twice.

The Guangdong side immediately dispatched two brigades from the newly built town of a Taiping army stationed in Leizhou to cross the sea on a Guangdong naval vessel. After four months of encirclement and suppression, they finally succeeded in suppressing the Li ethnic group. "Liu", set up Taiping Prefecture in the original Li nationality area. More than 20,000 Li people were moved from mountainous areas to areas with convenient transportation, built villages and townships, and taught farming.

At the beginning of the year, due to the trade between Guangdong and Annan, especially the increase in the volume of grain transportation, Song Xianggong, the left-behind scholar who also served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, ordered the Guangdong Governor Yamen, Qiongzhou and Guangdong Navy to build a military port in Lingao to serve as the port of Annan and Guangdong waterway. The transfer station has since formed two headings, one is Hongji in Annan to Xuwen in Guangdong, and the other is Guangning in Annan to Lingao and then to the former Shanzhai Pearl River. In addition, Song Xianggong encouraged Guangdong merchants to trade with overseas. Because large-scale trade with Luzon and other places was temporarily unavailable, Guangdong merchants focused their attention on the Annan area.

The opening of the two waterways ensured that the large amount of food and resources obtained by the expeditionary army from Annan could be quickly transported to Guangdong, but at the same time, the prosperity of these two waterways also attracted the attention of pirates active in the South China Sea, forcing the Guangdong Navy to turn its focus. In the siege mission of the pirates. After a series of encirclement and suppression, the rampant pirate activities were effectively curbed, but could not be completely eradicated. This is mainly because the pirates' dens are difficult to find in the vast sea, and secondly, the pirates have changed their strategies and stopped attacking the Taiping Army's grain shipments. Ships, but specifically attacked trade ships that were not escorted by military ships, and immediately absconded after they succeeded. By the time the ship merchants reported that they had been robbed, the pirates had long since disappeared.

The main force of the Guangdong navy has been incorporated into the expeditionary army, and the remaining ships can only perform offshore combat missions. Therefore, Wu Yuan, the commander of the expeditionary army navy, set up a marine corps, all equipped with fire guns, shocking the sky. Firearms such as mines were put into the **** of merchant ships in units. Of course, all the necessary costs are borne by the ship merchants, and the ship merchants will pass on this part of the cost to the Annan people who trade, and a little lowering of the purchase price will be enough to cover the additional cost of protecting the ship.

In addition to encouraging merchants to engage in maritime trade, the Guangdong side also plans to organize maritime merchants. Some warships that have been eliminated from the navy, and even active warships are sold to these maritime merchants at a discount. , All swords, bows and crossbows are sold. In addition, two crew training centers have been set up in Guangzhou, Qianshanzhai and other places, which are specially responsible for training seafarers for maritime merchants. The training standards of these two crew training institutes are completely the training standards of naval fighters. The only difference is that these people will be civilians, not soldiers.

Some people worry that such arming of the maritime merchants will inevitably make the maritime merchants form an armed group in the future, which is not conducive to the jurisdiction of the imperial court. Only this worry will not affect the implementation of the policy at all due to Song Xianggong's arbitrariness and the reason of "arming the ship to protect the ship". Even Song Xianggong has suggested to Nandu that soldiers who have served for three years from the Guangdong navy and the expeditionary navy should be directly transferred to the crew, so that the maritime merchant's fleet can cope with the attacks of pirates alone without the **** of the navy. .

"If you want to avoid being robbed by pirates, you must have the ability to rob pirates. Arming merchant ships is a good thing for the country and the people. What Guangdong has to do is to ensure that the goods of maritime merchants are sold by the government, and the profits earned are used to restore people's livelihood. ."

"Sea trade must not be limited to Annan. When the conditions are ripe, we will expand to further places. Back then, when the **** Sanbao went to the Western Ocean, he went to many places. There are many good things that I did not have in Daming, and there are many suitable places. Living, we don’t have the ability to go on an expedition yet, but we might as well let the folks and those sea merchants develop. Some places have been seized by Westerners, and we have slowed down a lot, but it is not too late to make up for it.”

Zhou Shixiang of the Southern Capital returned two letters to Duke Xiang of Song, and brought him a hand-painted map called "The Complete Map of the Western Ocean".

"It's ashore, it's ashore!"

In Xuwen Hai'an Port, dozens of warships with sails appeared in the eyes of the soldiers and civilians on the shore. The soldiers who had been on the boat for more than ten days waved their hands excitedly in the cabin, and the land seemed to be their most desired gift.

After the ship docked, a group of soldiers in red military uniforms descended from the deck one by one~www.wuxiaspot.com~ When many soldiers set foot on land, they couldn't help holding up the soil under their feet and sniffing it hard. A sniff.

These soldiers were all the former Guangxi Green Camp soldiers who were transferred back from the eleventh and twelve towns of the expeditionary army, and some of them were from the Han army in Annan. During the two years in Annan, these Green Battalion soldiers have been reborn and become real Ming soldiers.

At the beginning, when they went to Annan, these green battalion soldiers thought they were being assigned, and they would never be able to return to their homeland again in this life. Even in Annan, they can be a blessing, they can enjoy the sumptuous meal provided by the Annan people, but no matter how good it is, it is not their homeland after all.

The inseparability of the homeland is a complex in the heart of every Chinese. This complex, which has been handed down for thousands of years with the blood, is a complex deep in their hearts and bones. No one, anything, can change this complex.

Those Annan Han people who set foot on the homeland said by their ancestors for the first time opened their eyes and looked at everything in front of them curiously.

This is the homeland, the homeland where ancestors woke up in their dreams and cried in their dreams?

"Master did not give up on you!"

The deputy governor of the expeditionary army, Lu Guangzu, also had a sour nose. When he knew that he was going to bring these 8,000 soldiers back to his home country, he didn't sleep all night. He drank a lot, got a lot drunk.

"Send the order, and tell the brothers to be more strict, and don't be laughed at by the friendly troops that we are monkeys from Annan."

Lu Guangzu got off the boat with a smile, and the moment he went ashore, he was really refreshed. On shore, some officials were waiting for him.

"Commander Lu, the commander of the army!"

An officer stepped forward and handed a military order to Lu Guangzu.

"Bring it!"

Lu Guangzu nodded, and the general took a look at it, and his face suddenly became very strange.

"The commander wants me, Lu Guangzu, to fight Yunnan?"

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