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Chapter seven hundred and fourteen.

The battle at Poyang Lake continues. Liu Zongmin is a typical land tiger. When he gets into the water, he becomes a dog. The main force of the Shun Army is all northerners. The fishermen who are bound to be well-behaved but do not work hard. There is a Western proverb now-or-never, and now or never! In front of Liu Zongmin, who missed the opportunity to fight, Poyang Lake seems to have become an insurmountable gap for the Dashun Army.

Apart from jumping out and cursing every day after getting drunk, Liu Zongmin did not launch any decent attacks.

On the other hand, Shi Kefa naturally had no brains and launched a large-scale attack. Although he was not a coach, Shi Kefa's head was at least not clamped by the door. He knew his strength and was able to hold on to the stalemate because of the advantage on the water. After getting off the ship, his 70,000 troops tied up a piece of them, might not be able to defeat 10,000 cavalry of the Shun Army.

Moreover, to defeat the enemy, it is not necessary to fight to the death on the battlefield. After the battle on June 17, Liu Zongmin had already begun to decline. You should know that the refugee army was sweeping the floor and had no concept of logistics backbone. Now the food and salary that supported Liu Zongmin's battle was almost entirely the hoarding of Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang. In other words, if Shi Kefa was patient, he would consume him and attract him until the moment he was at the end of his life, he would win if he didn't fight.

On the other hand, Shi Kefa inherited Zuo Liangyu's mission to defend against the Dashun Army in western Huguang, but also inherited Zuo Liangyu's "fine tradition"!

Raise the enemy and respect yourself!

The times create heroes. Even if they are stiff like a stone in a pit, Shi Kefa has been polished over the past few years of ups and downs in officialdom. He is very aware of the virtues of his former comrades. Once there is no imminent threat, Jiang Yueguang Gao Hongtu and others will abandon themselves again without hesitation. Then he will seek the greatest benefit for himself in this war.

Shi Kefa's struggle also brought great changes to the entire Nanming of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou.

It takes money to change the army! If the court can't take it out, then you have to pay for it with the policy! The first thing you benefited from was these Fushe, who cooperated with Shi Kefa. The leader of Fushe was not only sentimental in the Qinhuai River pleasure boat. This time he was a member of the Congress, and then packed his luggage and headed south.

He, Zhang Pu! A frustrated literati who failed the exam several times during the Chongzhen period, was just a sixth-rank censor after the Donglin coup. Now he has finally turned around. Now he is the governor of Wenzhou, a court official who is engaged in business overseas, and is wearing a second-rank purple robe!

With his recovery, the main class of industry and business that had been suppressed during the Donglin Party era finally recovered.

There is also a lucky city in Wenzhou.

The Ming Dynasty has been prosperous for more than two hundred years, but the most famous foreign port is Quanzhou. Compared with Quanzhou and Hangzhou, Wenzhou has developed well, but it is just a big one among the shorts. But this time, it is simply a nouveau riche. The narrow Wenzhou city has been crowded with more than 100,000 people. The rich people who escaped from Changshu, Suzhou, Nanjing, Huzhou, and Huguang immediately brought their family funds to this newly opened port. Everyone has been poor for the past two years and is impatient to go south to Southeast Asia to make money. With the support of funds, the ports and warehouses were also densely packed within half a month, and the shipbuilding industry here flourished.

Wenzhou is not far from Fuzhou. Since ancient times, most of Jiangnan wood comes from Huangshan, Huizhou. After the supply of Hui merchants was cut off, the large wood mainly produced in Borneo became the mainstream of the market again. It was burned in the past two years and had to be rebuilt. The expensive large wood was sawed into an exquisite mortise and tenon structure in the hands of the Fuchuan Shipman who re-created the job, and pieces of wood with self-locking function were knocked onto the ship. In the eyes of these "hungry" capitalists in Jiangnan, the loose wood began to slowly accumulate into a ship. The feeling was like watching his son grow up from a young age.

However, there were privileged classes at any time. Gao Hongtu and Qian Qianyi ordered the burning of ships from small and medium-sized sea merchants that had no high status and had no backing in the court. The real landlords and sea merchants were still stationed in the port. Although it was a mockery of the Donglin Party's rule, it has indeed seized the opportunity now. On the morning of the first morning of July, since the court issued the sea order, the first sea boat to go out to sea in the South Ming Dynasty was in Mao Jue's old acquaintance. Now, the money from several rooms in the Qian family has led it to sail out of the sea.

These three great fortune ships are mainly decorated with Jingdezhen official kiln porcelain obtained by Qian Qianyi through relationships, and the other two ships are made of metal utensils, tools, etc. Compared with Jiangnan, the productivity of Central Asian countries is still quite low, and these were all popular goods a few years ago.

Standing proudly at the unique lucky boat, looking at the seaside with its raised bow. In the endless sea, Qian Zeng seemed to have seen the scene of Southeast Asian local merchants rushing to buy into the clouds and stuffing white silver into his arms as soon as he took action a few years ago. He couldn't help but laugh, and he almost didn't have a mouthful of saliva.

But just when he was happy, in the sea where he had not seen people for ten days or half a month, another sail shadow suddenly appeared.

This is much more grand than his three blessed ships. There are eleven merchant ships. You can see that they are all sharp in front and thick in the rear. They are also hanging soft canvas sails closer to the west. The spinnaker at the front is blown by the sea breeze, like a toad belly.

Now I am in a good mood. Even if my colleagues are enemies, Qian Zeng can't help but wave his slap high happily.

"Hey, brothers on that side, are you all good?"

He was so enthusiastic that he shouted a few times, but no one blazed him. Instead, the other ship leader pointed at him like a monkey, and then the already bulging sails pulled a little further.

So, while Qian Zeng was judging, the Hangzhou merchant fleet, which was originally behind his fleet, accelerated several times with him, and then several more accelerated and ran ahead of him.

Just like Baojun and BMW racing, after a while, Qian Zeng couldn't even see the taillights of the other party. He put his butt on his face with enthusiasm. He was so angry that he hummed in disappointment and hummed a commonly used adjective for discrimination in the north and south.

"The barbaric and unreasonable Beiwaizi!"

Flipping his sleeves and carrying the unique elegance of the Southern scholars and officials, he got off the boat and drank a small wine again.

However, not long after, Qian Zeng's mood of drinking suddenly became gone.

There was a sudden increase of archipelago in the vast ocean. In history, I would rather be like Taiwan than an island like this. The Ming Dynasty also had to fight several bloody sea battles with the Dutch people. It was because the Penghu Island in front of me had a great effect on the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade!

The merchant ships from Jiangnan sailed for three or four days, and the first batch of freshwater supplies was about to be consumed. The merchants from Jiangnan would moor and anchor here to provide supplies.

But here, Qian Zeng was stunned.

"What, 30% of the tax!!!"

Penghu has changed a lot compared to a few years ago. The originally stranded mudflats were piled up in the sea with concrete and a deep water port of ten miles long, so that the ships that shuttled back and forth could stop directly at the port without sending small boats. This was particularly convenient, but Qian Zeng would rather be the small broken island from a few years ago! Looking at the captain of the East India Company who boarded the ship to inspect, he was jumping up and down in anger like a firecracker with his butt.

"It's simply a robbery! Do you know who I am? The second room of the Qian family in Changshu, Qian Qianyi, is my uncle of the clan. You, a young soldier, are worthy of extorting me here? Get out of here, otherwise I will let you go without any food!"

It is probably from a serious Liaodong navy, and he has a very big taste in the words of Jiaoliao. Listening to Qian once pretending to be there, the sailor who was on the boat to check was sneered and slapped his chest carefully.

"My dear mother! Grand Secretary of the Grand Historian kowtowed to our boss and gave away women is such a big background! I'm scared to death!"

He pointed his thumb back and looked at the first-class battleship of the Northern Ming Royal Navy stationed in Penghu. He hummed proudly again: "I can give it! Our baby can't give it! Either you will continue to sway in the sea, or you will have 30% of the tariffs, and you will dare to blow up the thorns. Please don't care about your grandma's Qian Grandson Qian Dazi, and you will all be bombarded with honeycomb coal!"

"Brothers! Fire at me!"

The entire South China Sea border has reached the coast of Indonesia in later generations, and it has become a big rear here! If it weren't for suppressing the pirates of the Ming Dynasty, the coastal defense team would have almost retreated. It would be boring to station here. The sailors who had already made a fuss were really afraid that the world would be in chaos. Listening to their team's whistle, the other end rolled up their sleeves, and the cannon windows opened one by one, and the red cannons weighing one or two tons were exposed one by one. Before the muzzle was lit, the money once immediately became scared and showed a sad and ugly smile.

"Oh, Master, I'm kidding you! Why are you so angry? Who wouldn't you hurry up and bring the best Biluochun to relieve the fire for Master!"

"It's not easy for us to take a trip to goods, and 30% is too much. Look, can we be more comfortable?"

It's so hard that it's soft. This is a typical method of enlisting and corroding by the Jiangnan clan. He is smiling. He must have been stuffed into the hands of the sailor. Who knew that the sailor was long but the hot one was like a hot one. He threw the silver to the ground, roaring angrily than just now.

"You mother, how dare you bribe the Imperial officer?"

"Come!"

"Oh!"

Qian Zeng was almost scared and cried. He kicked Yin aside in a complete tragic manner, hugged the sailor's thick and smelly thighs, and howled in a pity.

"Mr. Jun. This is also a small business! If you get 30% of your skin, you will lose money! Then I will pay the debt with my wife and children! Please, please show your compassion!"

Not to mention, this guy has been doing business all year round, and he is really awesome to pretend to be crying and commit misery. Even the hot sailor was fooled. Unfortunately, even this Oscar-level performance was useless here, full of pity. The sailor's father touched Qian Zeng's head like that.

"It's also a pitiful kid! But you tell me this is useless! The treaty was signed by you Grand Secretary Qian and a group of other mixed officials with His Majesty. The tax revenue of the Southern Shang Dynasty to the territory of our Beiming is 30%!"

"If you really can't make it! Just run south! You can look at an old guy like you who can show off and bring goods, you can't afford to spend dozens or hundreds of taels of silver a year!"

It’s not soft or hard, and it’s not hard. Qian Zeng is really out of his way.

He leaned against the shore and fell to the ground and let people unload 30% of the goods. Seeing the Southeast Asian dwarf coolie hired on the dock moving boxes, Qian Zeng's heart was like bleeding. For the first time, he had the urge to slap his powerful uncle Qian Qianyi in the face.

"What kind of bird treaty was signed?"
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