Chapter Three, Twenty-seven Moments in the Four Years of Chongzhen III The third moment: Confused Long Aotian November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Taiwan Strait, Penghu Island On the top floor of the Penghu Governor's Palace, the private bathroom attached to the Governor's bedroom "Wow" "The evening breeze blows gently at Penghu Bay, and white waves follow the beach.
There are no coconut trees to intoxicate the setting sun, just a sea of blue."
Accompanied by the sound of the toilet flushing, Zhang Wei, the newly joined "thief leader" and "expatriate veteran" of Penghu, hummed a song, tied his trousers, wore a pair of slippers, and walked out of the bathroom with an unkempt appearance.
Next, he took out a wooden toothbrush from the bamboo tube hanging on the wall, dipped it in "high-end" tooth powder mixed with shell powder, refined salt, gypsum, spices, herbal powder and other ingredients, and then took it He walked to the balcony with a porcelain cup filled with water, overlooking the Penghu scenery in the early morning, while brushing his teeth with a mouth full of foam.
Under the blue sky, white clouds, blue sea, and golden beaches, under the morning light, the scenery of the Penghu Islands is as beautiful and moving as ever.
In general, the Penghu Islands are composed of three main islands and a few scattered small islands.
Among them, Penghu Island is the largest, followed by Xiyu and Baisha Township.
The three islands combined cover approximately more than 100 square kilometers, accounting for 89% of the entire archipelago.
The island has either exposed basalt landforms or broken coral reefs.
The actual area covered by vegetation and soil only adds up to 20 to 30%.
The land that can be cultivated by humans is naturally even less.
But if you rely on the sea to eat the sea, changes will occur.
As for the diet structure, if sea fish is the staple food, then life will be quite manageable.
Therefore, as early as the Song Dynasty, Penghu Island already had a wharf for Quanzhou fishermen to rest and repair their boats.
Although it was abandoned in the early Ming Dynasty, it gradually flourished again during the Zhengde and Jiajing years.
By the Wanli period, there were several Thousand Islanders live here.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the "maritime giants" Li Dan brothers were operating here.
Penghu was already quite prosperous.
Not only was it rich in seafood, but it also guarded the main channel of the Taiwan Strait and was a good port leading to Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
Li Dan was originally on the main island of Penghu.
After more than ten years of operation, it has become like a small town.
After that, Zheng Zhilong successively defeated various heroes at sea, seized Penghu as his foundation, and then gathered the heroes at sea to raid the coast of Fujian.
At the same time, Penghu was used as a hub to develop trade with Japan and Southeast Asia, thereby making huge profits and making the island extremely prosperous for a while.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, as Zheng Zhilong was recruited and became a guerrilla general, and returned to Quanzhou in great glory.
The Zheng family, a series of maritime tycoons who originally occupied Penghu, also landed in southern Fujian, bought real estate, built mansions and manors, and never returned, and the Penghu Islands became desolate again.
Of course, among the maritime heroes who originally followed Zheng Zhilong and gathered in Penghu, apart from the vast majority who moved to the prosperous places in southern Fujian, there was also a young man named Zhang Wei who was Zheng Zhilong's sworn brother who did not follow.
Zheng Zhilong went to Quanzhou to enjoy wealth, but returned Before Zheng Zhilong was recruited, he went to Taiwan, a place where birds had no shit, to cultivate wasteland and dig food from the soil.
When the maritime lords were enjoying themselves in Quanzhou, and were satisfied in the center of singing, dancing and feasting, they occasionally I will feel sorry for Zhang Wei, an idiot who went to Taiwan.
Closer to home, in any case, for the Zheng Zhilong Group that has moved to Quanzhou Zhongzuo Institute, after taking control of the southern Fujian land, Penghu has almost become a dispensable place, and the defense force is naturally very sparse and slack.
Therefore, when Taiwan's Zhang Wei suddenly raised the flag of rebellion and joined forces with the "Australian" fleet on Hainan Island to fight back to Penghu from Taiwan, he took the place without any blood with almost no effort.
At that time, Zheng Zhilong had already been defeated in southern Fujian and his entire army was wiped out.
The general of Penghu only had a few hundred old and weak soldiers under his command who were not fully armed and did not even have a warship.
He was not a direct descendant of the Zheng family, but was an old acquaintance of Zhang Wei.
How could he still be willing to fight to the death?
Then, Zhang Wei became the governor of Penghu.
At the same time, he reluctantly accepted the reorganization of the Senate and gave up his direct troops and foundations in Taiwan.
This was not only the general trend, but also half-rejected by Zhang Wei himself because he really couldn't think of it.
What else can you choose?
In fact, as a Long Aotian-style time traveler who always felt very good about himself, Zhang Wei had some unusual ambitions at the beginning of time travel.
When he was still working for Zheng Zhilong, he He deliberately wanted to recruit celebrities in history and form his own team.
It's a pity that he came too early.
Among the future "Three Heroes of Taiwan", Liu Guoxuan and Feng Xifan were not born yet.
As for General Shi Lang, who later conquered Taiwan and destroyed the Zheng family, he was only a few years old.
I don’t know if it was because the arrival of Zhang Wei and Huang Shi changed the history of the late Ming Dynasty.
Shortly after Zhang Wei took refuge with Zheng Zhilong, Shi Lang's father Shi Daxuan died in a maritime conflict, making Shi Lang an orphan at a young age in this time and space.
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All the athletes who had gathered under his father's banner dispersed, leaving only a few loyal family members and a small boat.
This was probably the case for the pirate gangs in the late Ming Dynasty.
If they were prosperous, they would eat from the same pot.
I don’t know how many people there are.
If things go slightly wrong, everyone will immediately disperse.
There is absolutely no loyalty or cohesion at all.
Zhang Wei took the opportunity to take advantage of his good popularity among the tycoons in Penghu, and tried to win over him.
Finally, he took the young lady Shi Lang under his command, barely satisfying his celebrity collecting habit.
Next, Zhang Wei "asked for trouble" amidst the sneers of the Penghu tycoons.
He ignored the maritime trade that made a fortune every day, but took Shi Lang to Taiwan to reclaim wasteland and cultivate land, and by the way took over the former Some of the immigrants left by Nian Yan Siqi and Li Dan, two seniors in the piracy industry, once moved some refugees from Fujian to Taiwan to cultivate wasteland.
They wanted to open a branch base, but they waited until Zheng Zhilong took over.
Later, because the Zheng family was determined to return to Fujian, no one took care of the rudimentary sub-base that had just been built in Taiwan.
It eventually fell into the hands of the Dutch, who then complacently operated this piece of their own territory.
With the foresight of the travelers and some subtle good luck, Zhang Wei soon opened up large areas of rice fields and sugar cane fields in Taiwan, built small towns and cottages, and everything seemed to be prospering.
However, just one year later, the situation changed dramatically.
After Zheng Zhilong swept through southern Fujian with great enthusiasm, he suffered a huge defeat in Xiapu in northern Fujian.
He was beaten so badly by Huang Shi, a famous general who had just been transferred from Liaodong, that he had to be reduced to ashes.
He fled back to Penghu Island, licking his wounds and preparing to form an army to fight again.
Even Zhang Wei was extorted from a lot of food and materials, and even had to ask the Zheng family to support him in Taiwan.
In response to the above requirements, Zhang Wei had not completely separated from the Zheng family group at this time, and Zhang Wei, who had an unstable foothold in Taiwan and was weak I couldn't refuse at all, so I had to knock out my teeth and swallow it.
To make matters worse, the Dutch who colonized Taiwan also took the opportunity to add insult to injury and forced Zhang Wei to pay heavy taxes, which wiped out the previous prosperity.
Then, after collecting the records and legends of Huangshi, Zhang Wei immediately made a shocking judgment: This was definitely a time traveler.
At the same time, Marshal Huang Shihuang across the Taiwan Strait also keenly noticed Zhang Wei and his group on Taiwan Island.
As a Long Aotian style traveler who always felt very good about himself, Zhang Wei immediately and naturally regarded Huangshi as his biggest opponent.
But Huang Shi, the Fujian general, was obviously not easy to deal with.
Not only did the opponent have an impressive record that frightened the Eight Banners, but he also had the most powerful battlefield command ability of this era.
He also had a modern army that could defeat the Jurchen cavalry with a spear array head-on, and was known as invincible in the world.
Compared with the infantry, Zhang Wei's gang of minions were simply a mob.
Fortunately, Huangshi's troops could not cross the Taiwan Strait, leaving Zhang Wei still time to think about countermeasures.
Next, with a batch of modern small department stores suddenly appearing on the market, and a secret letter written in Chinese Pinyin from Huang Shi, Zhang Wei finally discovered to his extreme frustration that not only was he not the only one in the world, The protagonist of the time-travel, not even the only one, is Huang Shi.
Marshal Huang, the legendary hero who shocked Liaodong and killed Nurhachi, is actually just a pathfinder for a huge time-travel group that is about to arrive in Lingao County, Qiongzhou.
At that time, Zhang Wei really thought that Huang Shi was making a cameo as Rambo, so he sneaked into Liaoyang alone to kill Nurhaci, and was almost scared to death by this superman.
After a while, the spies sent in advance sent back news from Lingao that an incredible large iron ship was really coming.
So, after Zhang Wei let out a long sigh, he had to put away Long Aotian's arrogance and completely fight for hegemony in the world.
Thought: There is no way.
If he is an official of the Ming Dynasty, he may be able to use the power of the court to nip this time-traveling group in the bud, although this is difficult to do.
But his identity at this time is just a small pirate leader, a real "foreigner" and "a criminal who does evil".
In the eyes of the Ming Dynasty officials, he is probably more annoying than the Mongolian Tatars.
Nowhere to borrow.
The Traveler Group on the Lingao side is not only well-prepared and has strong overall strength, but also has the most powerful insider in the officialdom, Fujian General Soldier Huang Shi.
It is conceivable that the Ming government will choose to trust Huang Shi. , or choose to trust yourself
As an outsider at the time, Zhang Wei was not very clear about the fact that Huangshi was attacked and ostracized by the Donglin Party because he had been attached to the Eunuch Party.
Not to mention that Zheng Zhilong, Zhang Wei, had gradually revealed his intention to leave the Zheng family and work alone, and it was impossible to continue to gain Zheng Zhilong's trust.
Even if Zheng Zhilong is determined to eliminate the Lingao Chuangzong, and there are still a group of old opponents such as Liu Xiang, Li Qikui, Zhu Cailao, etc. who have not yet been eliminated, the Zheng family fleet cannot leave the Minhai and expedition to Qiongzhou, otherwise it will be tantamount to being exposed Show your weakness and let some old enemies stab you.
As for Zhang Wei's own strength in Taiwan, let alone mention it.
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There were only a total population of 5,000, more than 300 soldiers, and six ships, one of which belonged to Shi Lang.
Two ships belonged to Taiwan's early immigrant leaders He Bin and Guo Huaiyi, and they were all merchant ships, not war ships.
The firearms only include two or three crude cannons that look terrible, and the soldiers have never had any decent large-scale combat experience.
Due to the excessive taxation by the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong, Zhang Wei's finances are barely enough to maintain the status quo.
For the time being, he cannot spend more money to recruit refugees in Fujian and Guangdong.
It is conceivable that in the next time, if he cannot get rid of With the heavy shackles on his head, it is difficult for him to significantly expand his strength.
Therefore, as a person with enough sense, Zhang Wei thought about it in Taiwan and finally decided to curb Long Aotian's arrogance.
From then on, he stayed humble and took refuge in Lingao County, Hainan Island, which was called the man by the Ming Dynasty scholars.
The Traveler Group, known as the "Short-haired Thief", also relied on its foundation in Taiwan and its connections in the Fujian Sea as a bargaining chip to try to get better treatment conditions.
In the end, after some bargaining, Zhang Wei finally got the title of a veteran for the sake of being a fellow traveler, and basically successfully integrated into the group.
Previously, under Huang Shi's insistence, Lin high wear The Yue Zhe Senate has given several of his favorite generals such as He Dingyuan, Jin Qiude, Zhao Manxiong, and Zhang Zaidi the status of "alternate senators" to enjoy the treatment of a senator, such as maids, etc., but there are no senators. that power.
Since even the natives of this time and space can become elders, there is no reason to exclude Zhang Wei, who also comes from modern times.
In this way, Zhang Wei gave up the small private group he was running in Taiwan in frustration, forgot about the Wangtu hegemony he once fantasized about, and integrated into the large group of Lingao Travelers Senate.
Although the loss was not small, there were also many gains, mainly in living a comfortable life more similar to that of modern people.
For example, he finally used coconut oil soap, smoked cigarettes, and lit a relatively bright kerosene lamp again.
Of course, even with the current strength of the Lingao Senate, it is far from being able to replicate everything in daily life in the 21st century.
Many things can only be made into specious imitations, such as using tooth powder instead of toothpaste. , as well as candies with weird flavors.
But for Zhang Wei, having these is already very pleasant.
In particular, the white porcelain toilet in his bedroom bathroom moved him even more: anyone who had not experienced the harsh sanitary environment of the seventeenth century would probably have a hard time understanding his behavior.
Touching.
Hey, forget it, even if you are a time traveler protagonist, not everyone can claim the title of emperor.
After all, the emperor only has one throne.
I remember in those urban or official novels, the protagonist could become a CEO of a large company, a famous director, or he could be considered a Long Aotian-style winner in life.
After all, he is now a prince in Penghu, and he will be at least a first-level leader in future generations.
Such a life is considered a success no matter how you look at it, not to mention that there will be opportunities to continue to climb up in the future.
Zhang Wei felt so comforted in his heart Say it yourself.
After brushing his teeth carefully, washing his face, and straightening his appearance in the mirror, Zhang Weicai calmly walked down the stairs and went to the restaurant for breakfast.
The table covered with white tablecloth has been set with exquisite tableware and sumptuous food: preserved egg and lean meat porridge, bean paste rice dumplings, fragrant grilled salted fish, and small bottles of pepper to accompany the meal.
The plates, rice bowls and spoons are all bone china fired from the porcelain kiln of the Lingao Senate.
The "national emblem" of the Senate is uniformly burned on them: the geared wheat ears under the wings of a golden double-headed eagle and the "holy ship" pattern. .
Shi Lang, who lives with Zhang Wei in the Governor's Mansion, has already started eating for a while.
His orderly next to him is actually a close confidant who has served the Shi family for several generations, packing his armed belt and combat boots.
I saw the kind-hearted middle-aged man sitting on a small bench, carefully oiling Shi Lang's boots, and using powder ground from broken tiles to polish the metal parts of the armed belt, trying to make them look shiny.
Bright.
Shi Lang is only ten years old this year.
Although he has encountered many changes in his life, he is still a very innocent young boy in general.
He likes all kinds of fresh and exquisite utensils: after receiving the order specially made for him by the Lingao Senate, After seeing the "General's Edition" Boy Scout uniform, Shi Lang was fascinated by this elegant and mighty luxurious uniform.
He wore this dazzling outfit every day and swaggered through the streets and docks of Penghu.
Zhang Wei greeted Shi Lang casually and was about to sit down to eat when he heard Shi Lang ask, "Uncle Zhang, in two days you will sail with the fleet to Liaodong, and follow that Marshal Huang to Dongjiang Town.
Are you taking in refugees?”
"Yeah, why do you want to follow me to see the scenery in the north?"
Zhang Wei asked casually while drinking preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
"I heard that it's so cold in Liaodong right now that it can freeze people's noses off."
The chubby young lady Shi Lang quickly shook his head, "I just don't think it's cost-effective.
There are also a lot of refugees in Fujian.
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Why?"
We have to travel all the way to Liaodong to get the population, and the travel expenses are very expensive."
When Zhang Wei was engaged in land reclamation in Taiwan, he did not avoid Shi Lang when calculating various income and expenses.
When he was free, he even taught him a little arithmetic.
Under the influence of his ears and eyes, this little chubby man now understood some of the basic principles in this regard. .
"There's nothing I can do.
Those people are all old acquaintances of Marshal Huang.
The more expensive the toll is, the more expensive it is.
It's not us who pay for it anyway."
Zhang Wei made a haha and dealt with it, while Shi Lang did not continue to struggle with this issue.
He just quickly finished the last few bites of breakfast, slipped off the table humming the warship march, and ran to the cat nest next to the window sill. , teasing a little tabby cat I just got yesterday.
In fact, in Zhang Wei's heart, he was very dissatisfied with Huangshi's insistence on sending ships north to take in the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town.
The main problem is not that the shipping distance is too long and the cost is too high.
In this era when population is the potential for war, hundreds of thousands of people can be obtained at one time, and the extra cost is nothing.
Anyway, it is just going to Fujian and Guangdong. and selling more "Australian products" in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
But the problem is that behind Dongjiang Town, there is also Dengzhou Town in Shandong Province with ulterior motives.
This northern armed group, which was also brought together by travelers, seems to have an unfriendly attitude towards southern forces like them.
It's hard to say whether Huangshi will be attacked from behind by the water camp in Dengzhou Town when he recruits refugees in Dongjiang Town.
Although he is certainly not an opponent of the Senate fleet, it is still a trouble to some extent.
Moreover, although Huangshi once had a great reputation in Liaodong and the generals returned home, that was after all a few years ago.
As the saying goes, it’s time for people to leave, and Huangshi’s flag raised in Liaodong today may not have the same extraordinary appeal as in the past.
Of course, since Marshal Huang Shihuang insisted on going to Liaodong, and got the collective support of the Senate After the vote passed, Zhang Wei naturally had no choice but to sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman.
Besides, even if things don't go well, at least it won't be very dangerous.
Neither Dengzhou Town, the Hou Jin Army, nor the Koreans can defeat the steam battleship of the Lingao Senate.
With such thoughts in mind, Zhang Wei finished his breakfast hastily, wiped his mouth, and then habitually smoked "a cigarette after the meal."
The cigarettes produced by the Lingao Senate are divided into several brands, and the highest-end ones are called "Holy Ship Brand", the mid-range is "Bairentan", followed by " "Gaoshanling", the cheapest low-end cigarette is "Dazhuo".
But whether it is a high-end cigarette or a low-end cigarette, Zhang Wei feels the same when he smokes it: the rustling shredded tobacco keeps falling down, and it takes just a few puffs.
I burned my fingers to avoid burning my lips when the cigarette was about to burn out.
He had to use a hollow tube made of bamboo, wood or cardboard, that is, a cigarette holder, and attach it to the cigarette to smoke.
But no matter how uncomfortable these crudely made cigarettes were, they were at least slightly stronger than the dry pipes of this era, so Zhang Wei could only make do with smoking.
However, Zhang Wei recently had a new choice: "Wen Dengxiang" from the mysterious Dengzhou Town in Shandong Province.
With a complicated expression, Zhang Wei took out a cigarette from the cardboard cigarette case of "Wen Dengxiang" and followed Lingao Compared with other cigarettes, Shandong's "Wendengxiang" already has a filter tip, and it is also claimed to be soaked with more than ten kinds of herbs, including sea dog whip.
Aphrodisiac for aphrodisiac Therefore, Zhang Wei hesitated for a long time, and finally put away the box of "Wen Deng Xiang" without daring to smoke: After all, he didn't know the ingredients of "Wen Deng Xiang" as well as Lingao's cigarettes.
God knows what is in this filter.
What should I do if the people in Shandong have very low moral standards and use opium to make buyers addicted?
However, just when Zhang Wei took out a "Holy Ship Cigarette" from another cardboard box and was about to light it, the orderly soldier hurriedly rushed in, disturbing his elegance and puffing up smoke.
"Report Governor, there is an urgent telegram from the central government."
Zhang Wei frowned and took a look at the telegram.
The expression on his face suddenly changed.
After a long time, he explained to Xiaopangdun Shi Lang who came over curiously, "The plan to go to Liaodong has been urgently canceled.
Uncle Zhang This time I don’t have to go to the north to freeze in the ice and snow.”
"Oh, that's right.
It sounds good, but why is that?"
Shi Lang asked curiously.
"Because there are Australians coming to Qiongzhou, we all have to prepare to welcome them."
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For some reason, Zhang Wei was obviously a little embarrassed when he said this.
"Uncle Zhang, who is Australian, aren't you, Marshal Huang, and those uncles and aunts in Qiongzhou all Australians?"
Shi Lang was even more puzzled.
In order to explain their origins and identities to the natives of the Ming Dynasty in this time and space, the group of time-travelling people in Lingao, Qiongzhou, all called themselves "Australians" to the outside world.
They also concocted a set of "The survivors of the Song Dynasty scattered across the sea after the country's collapse, and they lived in Australia."
There is a saying that if the road is rough and blue, then a country will be built again."
Zhang Wei, who is also a time traveler, naturally had to pinch his nose and call himself an "Australian" after joining the Lingaozhong group: although at the time of his time traveling, there were probably only kangaroos, koalas and kangaroos in Australia.
Aboriginal people with stone tools.
But now in Australia, the situation is different.
Thinking of the shock, panic and shock in the entire Senate when Lingao received the radio signal from Australia for the first time at the end of last year, Zhang Wei couldn't help but want to grin: After all, this should be said to be Li Gui When I meet Li Kui, I still pretend to be real, and sometimes the truth is also fake.
Although the group of time-travelers currently entrenched in Australia may not be able to confidently claim that they are "Australians" "It's not us guys who have been sent outside a long time ago.
It's the high officials from Australia who are coming, and they are coming in a big, big iron ship."
Zhang Wei thought for a while and tried his best to use Shi Lang's words.
He said in understandable words, "How about we go watch the fun together then?"
"Is the big iron ship as big as that holy ship in Lingao?"
Shi Lang blinked and continued to ask.
"It should be bigger than the iron ship in Lingao.
Maybe it will bring a few kangaroos to open our eyes.
It's what uncle told you before, the kind that stands taller than a person, boxing "A giant rat who is very good at wrestling and wrestling."
Zhang Wei was joking casually, but silently lamented in his heart: The days since time travel are really like a heart-beating game, the bustle and bustle are a bit unbearable.
If even Zhang Wei, a guy who spends his days leisurely under the sun on the beach, feels that these days are like a heartbeat game.
So on the distant battlefield in western Liaoning, a certain person who was the darling of the times and the Lord of Destiny was about to suffer a heart attack from being stimulated by various heartbeat games.
"The city of Ning Guta was burned down by a group of big iron birds raining down fire from the sky.
What the hell are you talking about?"
"Everything said by the servant of the Great Khan is the truth."
Looking at the furious Huang Taiji, a certain Jurchen general replied tremblingly. oshow7: