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Chapter 290 The Yuan Family in Dongguan

Although Zhao Peng was a novice in his previous life, he was still familiar with Yuandududu because the controversy about this person was too great. Some people said he was a traitor, and some people said he was a national hero. When Zhao Peng was still in school, there was an incident of slapping a certain coat of clothes and calling him a beast. He became very interested in this and specifically consulted many materials.

The final conclusion is that if you are a traitor, Yuan Dudu is not considered a traitor, because he is not qualified to be a traitor, and he is just a teammate with a very ambitious and talented pig.

In fact, Yuandududu did not do this alone. The border army had never done this before? Except for Xiong Tingbi who had better control over this matter, even when Sun Chengzong was the Liaodong governor, he could not stop this matter. Since Xiong Tingbi was wrongly accused of imprisonment, the situation in Liaodong quickly became shattered.

Xiong Tingbi was indeed very unfair. In fact, the responsibility for Guangning's defeat was not Xiong Tingbi. Although Xiong Tingbi was the governor of Liaodong at that time, the military power was in the hands of Wang Huazhen, who was born in the Donglin Party. Xiong Tingbi could not stop Wang Huazhen's wrong tactics, which resulted in Guangning's defeat.

As for Xiong Tingbi who found Donglin Party member Wang Wenyan, he asked Wang Wenyan to come forward to save him, and promised to give Wei Zhongxian 50,000 taels of silver to save his life. In the end, Xiong Tingbi could not take out the silver and was killed, which was even more irrelevant. Xiong Tingbi had a bad relationship with the Donglin Party member, how could he ask Wang Wenyan to save him? What's more, Xiong Tingbi is a clean official, so how could he have so much money?

So after Zhao Peng came to this time and space, he looked through the case materials archived in the Jinyiwei, and concluded that Wang Wenyan used a trick to kill someone by borrowing a knife to kill Xiong Tingbi! The purpose of the Donglin Party doing this was to protect Wang Huazhen.

To be honest, it is not unfair to arrest all of the Donglin Party’s charities, the Jinyiwei arrested them all into the imperial prison.

But this time and time have passed, and the past has passed. Now Zhao Peng wants to develop industry and commerce, he cannot do without the support of the Donglin Party. He can turn all the Donglin Party into the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie through his own means, and their land has also become farms, and tenants have become industrial workers. What's more, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, there were not many Donglin Party surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, that is, Qian Qianyi and Hou Fangyu, and most of the Donglin Party members, such as Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng, Li Banghua, Shi Kefa, Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi, etc., all died heroically for their country. Even Qian Qianyi later supported Zheng Chenggong's anti-Qing.

In fact, the Donglin Party members have the backbone. There are not many Donglin Party members who are greedy for life and fear of death. It can be seen from the fact that Wei Zhongxian arrested the Donglin Party members and tortured them severely, that the Donglin Party members are still very hard.

To sum up, there are three dangers of the Donglin Party: one is greed, the other is a pit, and the third is to eliminate dissidents and provoke party disputes.

Of course, greedy people can cooperate. The essence of capital is insatiable. Zhao Peng can use the Donglin Party to develop industry and commerce, and at the same time develop maritime trade and open up overseas colonies.

However, to open up overseas colonies, it requires blood. Didn’t Marx say that there are blood and dirty things flowing in every pore of capital? At this point, the Donglin Party is still not cruel enough. They are too influenced by Confucianism. These scholars who resist overseas will think of educating rather than massacre.

Zhao Peng believes that the kind of person who is of our race will have different feelings. The best way to kill those natives who do not accept the kingdom is to kill them.

It is not unfair to kill them at all. The indigenous peoples in Java, Jinzhou (Kalimantan Island), and Sanfoqi (Sumatra) once owed a lot of blood debts to the Han people. Not to mention their previous massacre under the acquiescence of the Dutch rulers, let alone the indigenous people in the 1960s and 1990s after World War II?

To repair these indigenous people, the Donglin Party may not be able to do it, but someone can do it, so Zheng Sen will do it.

Although Zheng Sen was a Confucian scholar educated, he was ruthless in his methods to the natives. After Zheng Sen regained Taiwan, the local Big Belly Kingdom rebelled, and Zheng Sen killed Liu Guoxuan without hesitation and killed the Big Belly Kingdom with few people.

When developing overseas colonies in the future, Zheng Sen's maritime power will be needed to cooperate. As long as Zheng Sen's people are there, they can show no mercy to the rebellious natives.

Just as Zhao Peng was thinking about it, the fleet had already arrived at the estuary of the Pearl River.

Standing on the stern rudder tower, looking out, there is an endless sea in front, and behind is the endless and wide Pearl River. The east bank of the Pearl River is Dongguan Humen, but in this era, Dongguan is still under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou.

"Damu, let the fleet dock to the left." Zhao Peng pointed to Humen and said.

In this era, there were no forts from Humen. The Ming Dynasty was quite strong. Western colonists could enter the Pearl River by merchant ships, but warships had to consider it if they wanted to enter the Pearl River. The Ming Dynasty, the Spanish, the British, and the Dutch fought, and in the end they all ended with the Ming Dynasty winning.

Although the Westerners were strong in ships and powerful in artillery, they came from afar. It was not surprising that the Ming army defeated the Western colonists with the support of the people. However, in the Qing Dynasty, the country did not know that there were people, and the people did not know that there were countries, so how could they defeat foreign enemies? In the Sanyuanli fight against Britain in the Opium War, those warriors who defeated the British with hoes and local weapons were not only not valued by the court, but were suspicious of the Qing court. It can be seen that a court that defended the Han Dynasty was better than defended the barbarians, how could it not be defeated?

During the Opium War, the people near the Pearl River Estuary rowed small boats, approached the British warships, and sold eggs, fruits, vegetables and other food to the British. When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, the Han people even helped foreign troops transport weapons and ammunition, and also helped foreigners build ladders to lead the way for foreigners.

The Zheng family fleet docked a hundred steps away from the beach. There was no pier for large ships to dock here. The ship could only park on the sea surface and be picked up by small boats to the shore.

"All staff change their clothes!" Zhao Peng gave the order.

All the Jinyiwei replaced them with big red mandarin duck battle jackets and goose yellow fan hats. A few people wore red leather armor on the outside of the Mandarin duck battle jackets and six-petal pointed iron helmets on their heads. After disguising, the team looked like an ordinary Ming army. This is because the Jinyiwei's clothing was too eye-catching. If they were wearing flying fish suits and wingless black gauze hats, they might not have found anyone, and someone would have informed the Yuan family long ago, and the Jinyiwei would have been empty. They disguised themselves as ordinary Ming army and went to Dongguan to search the Yuan family, so that they could avoid leaking the news in advance.

After the preparations were completed, Zhao Peng first sent someone to fire a firework rocket, then took the Jinyiwei down from the big ship, boarded the small boat, and then rowed the boat to approach the shore.

The boat was leaning on the shore, and the spy of the Jinyiwei who had just received the fireworks signal came to the beach to welcome Zhao Peng and Jinyiwei.

"Lin Shuisheng, the man with a humble position, will meet the Marquis!" A strong man with a fisherman looked forward to salute Zhao Peng.

"Lin Shuisheng, a typical southerner name." Zhao Peng smiled and helped Lin Shuisheng up.

"Please let Bei Yi get on the boat. Let's get on the boat first. Bei Yi takes you here." Lin Shuisheng said.

"Please board the ship!" Zhao Peng made a gesture.

Zhao Peng and the Jinyiwei returned to the boat again, and Lin Shuisheng also boarded the boat. After all the crew boarded the boat, the sailors of the Zheng family army rowed the boat. Under Lin Shuisheng's leadership, the boat sailed into the Dongjiang River, went upstream, and headed to Shuinan Village, Shijie Town, where the Yuan family was.

Go to Shuinan Village, Shijie Town, and do not walk on the main road of the Dongjiang River, but enter from a small river on the edge of the Pearl River. In fact, this small river is not small, with a width of about two hundred steps wide. If it is in the north, it is considered a big river. However, in the Pearl River Delta, such a small river can only be regarded as a very small tributary of the Pearl River.

The small sampan team walked upstream along the gentle river. The fleet walked for more than half an hour and sailed twenty miles.
Chapter completed!
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