Chapter 229: Catch the ducks and have an early decisive battle

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 229: Catch the ducks and have an early decisive battle

Chapter 228

Chongming in May is fine when there is wind, but it is very muggy when there is no wind.

Cheng Shijie was a man who knew how to enjoy life. He had a pond opened in the southwest corner of the Princess Mansion, which was connected to the river outside to form an independent swimming pool.

But this swimming pool is a bit big, about two to three hundred acres.

Cheng Shijie was not unaware that Zhu Weiti had doubts about him and had deep resentment.

Of course, his principle is not to explain, not to avoid, and not to take responsibility.

After swimming in the swimming pool for a long time, Cheng Shijie wiped the water off his body with a towel when he returned to the terrace on the shore. He looked at Zhu Weiti sitting next to him, frowning a little.

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Princess, what's wrong with you? You're so sad and worried?"

Zhu Weiti shook his head and said: "No..."

"Are you tired of staying in Chongming? Why don't you go back first?"

Zhu Weiti said: "Husband, do you think I am a jealous woman?"

"no!"

"Then you're still... hiding it?"

Zhu Weiti said: "I said once that I would help you bring Yang Yunniang and Gu Ziyi into the house, but you...how..."

Cheng Shijie sighed, what was supposed to come finally came: "Princess, does she know who lives near our princess mansion?"

"this……"

Zhu Weiti was slightly startled: "There is no one nearby!"

Zhu Weiti's Princess Mansion was actually the original old Chongming County. After the county seat was abandoned in the 39th year of Wanli, the county seat was moved fifteen kilometers northwest.

Most of the entire county was destroyed by floods. Only Shen's courtyard was mostly preserved due to its good construction quality. There are no other houses around it now.

Zhu Weiti thought of the stables in the yard. The more than fifty horses had not moved. If Cheng Shijie rode out, he would definitely hear the movement.

"I have a lot to do lately!"

Cheng Shijie didn't lie, he has actually been very busy now.

Putin once said: "Although Russia's land is very broad, not an inch is redundant."

This sentence is actually very applicable to Ning Haijun. Others in the Ming Dynasty may not have that much desire for land, but the problem is that the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty are very eager for land.

In terms of Liaodong, the Liaodong Governor-General's default area for Jiannu was bounded by the Taizi River. The area north of the Taizi River was controlled by Jiannu, while the area south of the Taizi River was controlled by Liaodong.

But in fact, as immigrants from Liaodong flocked to Liaoyang and central Liaoning, during the spring plowing in the seventh year of Chongzhen, many people quietly went to the area north of the Taizi River on sheepskin rafts or small wooden boats. They burned the weeds.

Begin to clear the land and plant crops such as wheat, potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes.

This move was actually a test, firstly to test the Liaodong Management Committee, and secondly to test the reaction of the slaves.

However, the Liaodong Administrative Committee did not express this clearly, but directly applied for land deeds for the immigrants who reclaimed wasteland. This time, the immigrants became more and more bold.

According to incomplete statistics, sixteen new towns have been established in the area north of the Taizi River, and about 2.6 million acres of land have been reclaimed.

In order to protect their fields, these people spontaneously organized patrols. After planting crops, they spontaneously began to use soil, transplant bushes, and build a simple defense line.

The people of Liaodong were so conscious that Ning Haijun also moved the patrol scope further north. The current Jiannu were unable to cope with the oppression of Ning Haijun and could only further shrink it.

Therefore, in May of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Ning Haijun actually controlled the area south of the Hun River.

The Hun River, also known as the Xiao Liao River, is only 25 kilometers away from Shenyang City, which means that Ning Haijun can launch an attack on Shenyang at any time. In this case, Jiannu still chose to give in.

More crucial is Shuangchengwei. Originally Shuangchengwei belonged to an enclave in Liaodong, but in fact, with the shrinkage of Jiannu, Shuangchengwei has been expanding outwards, first connecting with the Tumen River and Yalu River. Later, Liaodong expanded eastward and occupied Anton. At this time, the enclaves of the Shuangcheng Guards also became one.

This kind of expansion in Liaodong adopts a subtle and silent approach, which is obviously more covert, more thorough, and leaves people speechless. The key is that there are no future troubles and the cost is very low.

Cheng Shijie did not pay too much attention to Liaodong. The main reason was that Ning Haijun had absolute strength in Liaodong. If Jiannu wanted to fight, Ning Haijun could accompany him at any time.

The most important thing is that Cheng Shijie needs to immigrate in the direction of Da Yuan.

Of course, due to the inconvenience of the news, Cheng Shijie still didn't know at this time that his adopted sons Cheng Shi and Li Zhixiang had captured Luzon. Of course, this was only in name. In fact, they only occupied Manila City and the Pasig River. The actual control of the areas on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is only about 5% of the entire Luzon, about 5,000 to 6,000 square kilometers.

"Liaodong is our basic base. While we are expanding in Liaodong, it will not affect our strategic layout in Nanyang. We must increase our power projection to Luzon and Dagang, and penetrate into Dagang and Luzon!"

Cheng Shijie actually didn't know that his strategic planning was already far behind.

But the problem is that Zheng Zhilong is blocking Hangzhou Bay, and Cheng Shijie really has no way to deliver personnel and supplies to Da Yuan and Luzon.

However, as the original transit base, Chongming Island has experienced unprecedented prosperity due to the arrival of immigrants. Now Chongming Island has gathered 30,000 to 40,000 refugees. Shen Boyun is responsible for resettling these refugees and is extremely busy every day.

But at least I have some clues, thanks to the rich work experience I accumulated in Liaodong and laid a solid foundation.

Using these refugees, we first built the Huandao Avenue, Chongming City's carriageway, north-south long streets, back streets, and later maintenance, excavation of drainage ditches, planting of road trees, and shops, houses, warehouses, and grass markets along the streets. When buildings are built one after another, a lot of labor is required.

In order to accommodate the labor force, Ning Haijun plans to immediately expand the island protection embankment, the east pier and the southeast pier. The spinning and weaving workshops that were previously used to house the families of the displaced persons are also preparing to be completed.

Although the land of Chongming Island is limited and the number of people it can accommodate is limited, once things are figured out, it will be much easier to follow the same pattern. Continue to expand the spinning and weaving workshops and build other workshops and workshops. It can also accommodate a large number of people. of labor.

These refugees are actually on Chongming Island temporarily. If Zheng Zhilong's fleet leaves Hangzhou Bay, these refugees will be transported to Dayuan, where immigration and border work will be carried out.

The resettlement work of these refugees is also very cumbersome. It is necessary to sort out those who have expertise and skills among the refugees, and the manpower must be used rationally.

Generally speaking, resettling refugees requires a large amount of arable land. Jiangnan has been prosperous for hundreds of years. After full development, it will naturally not be able to accommodate more immigrants.

The influx of refugees not only caused a large number of public security problems, but also caused a serious surplus of local labor force, which caused a sharp drop in labor prices, so that ordinary local tenants were even hostile to the immigrants.

Liaodong’s method of resettling refugees is to provide work-for-relief. Work-for-relief can effectively solve the problem of short-term displacement and refugee strandedness. In addition, large-scale household handicrafts, workshops, and even larger-scale handicraft factories can outperform pure farming on cultivated land.

Accommodate more remaining labor.

Shen Boyun and the Shen clan followed these two ideas in Liaodong to resettle the refugees. After the initial chaos, many things became clear. With so many people in Chongming, everything seemed in order.

Even Shen Boyun himself could not imagine that it would go so smoothly at first. Although it was very hard, he was also very excited.

From childhood to adulthood, Shen Boyun has seen many people in his life, but he has never seen anyone whose skills in managing the world are as good as Cheng Shijie's. He often thinks in his heart, is Cheng Shijie really satisfied with surviving in the chaotic current situation?

Those who are capable should know the way to stay dormant. The current situation is chaotic, but it has not become irredeemable. It is said that the times create heroes, but if the times do not provide for them, it will be difficult for heroes to emerge.

Don't look down on the likes of Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zheng Zhilong, etc., but most of the earliest grasshoppers jumping around since ancient times were destined to make wedding dresses for others.

When the time comes, Shen Boyun believes that Cheng Shijie will also act accordingly. As the saying goes, you can know the whole leopard by looking at one spot. From Cheng Shijie's acting style, we can see that Cheng Shijie is by no means limited to the hypocritical one of "loyalty, justice, benevolence and filial piety".

Set people.

Shen Boyun made up his mind to follow Cheng Shijie, no matter how difficult the road was, he would continue on.

Cheng Shijie is not afraid of Zheng Zhilong attacking Chongming Island, nor is he afraid of him attacking Wusongkou and Changxing Island. In these three places, Ning Haijun has deployed forts. Frankly speaking, as long as these forts are not destroyed, even if Zheng controls all the warships,

It’s no use coming up!

Of course, the shortage of troops was Cheng Shijie's biggest headache. Cheng Shijie did not select young men from the immigrants to join Ning Haijun. The main reason was that the composition of the immigrants was complex and the immigrants' physiques were too weak to adapt to Ning Haijun's high-intensity training.

The biggest problem for immigrants in Dadan is actually the climate. Today's Dadan has not yet been developed. Just like Liaodong in the past, there are wetlands everywhere because of the abundance of water. Wetlands can easily breed mosquitoes, and mosquitoes are the biggest natural enemy of immigrants.

Don't underestimate small mosquitoes. Large mosquitoes are very domineering. No matter how strong a man is, if he is bitten, he will get fever, shake, and there is a high chance that he will die.

When Cheng Shijie was preparing immigration officials, he was not as simple and crude as Zheng Zhilong, who just threw people over and ignored them. Instead, he had to prepare a large amount of medicinal materials.

Cheng Shijie gave an order to the doctors invited by Shen Boyun, asking them to develop some prescriptions to treat trauma, colds and fevers. In fact, Cheng Shijie can bring special medicines from later generations, but the problem is that the amount he can carry is very limited. How to solve the problem

The best way is to reserve it here tomorrow.

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Since the last attack on Wusongkou failed, Zheng Zhilong actually still wants to fight, but there are different voices within the Zheng Group. Unlike Cheng Shijie's Ning Haijun Group, Cheng Shijie is the only chairman of the Ning Haijun Group, and he has absolute autonomy

right.

However, the Zheng Group does not belong to Zheng Zhilong himself. This huge Zheng Group was made up of Li Dan, Yan Siqi and others. Although Li Dan died, he still had a son named Li Guoji. Although Yan Siqi

There is no son, but there is the Yan family.

You must know that Yan Siqi practiced martial arts at the age of five. He practiced Sanjiu in winter and Sanfu in summer. He learned good kung fu during the coming of cold and summer. In ancient times, people were poor in literature and rich in martial arts. The influence of the Yan family is actually not weak.

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In the past, the shareholders of the Zheng Group followed Zheng Zhilong in robbing pirates and merchants and making a fortune together, so everyone naturally obeyed him. However, seeing that Ning Haijun was so difficult to bite, the shareholders of the Zheng Group were not happy. The losses were so big, even if it was true.

Despite huge losses, they defeated Ning Haijun, but they also suffered heavy losses.

More importantly, Zheng Zhilong always likes to use side branches first and then the main body when using his troops. This is somewhat similar to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's behavior. The first to go to the battlefield in the Jiannu war were their Han army, or the Mongolian servant army, Sauron and Xibo.

After the enemy was beaten half to death by these servants, the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners would swarm in and take advantage.

This is of course no problem for enemies with a small force, but it is not possible when facing Ning Haijun. A few small bones suffered heavy losses and almost lost all their capital, so they are naturally not happy.

Zheng Zhilong was very angry. Of course, he had reason to be angry. The fleet was indeed not the private property of Zheng.

Under the leadership of Zheng, this fleet has been victorious and has created a prosperous situation. The assets and strength of the shareholders have generally increased several times. Isn't it fair to them?

Isn't it natural for them to repay each other with death for their cruelty?

Why is it that now that the fleet has only suffered a small setback, they are clamoring to quit and withdraw, without giving him any face?
To be continued...