Chapter 231: Recruitment
After receiving Xiao Wu's order, Duke Li immediately led the Fubo Town Navy to Dongpu in a separate way.
The Ming Navy was not afraid of dividing troops to weaken its own strength. In the Nanyang, except for the Spanish and East India Company and the Dutch, the Luzon Ming Navy could basically walk sideways.
Even the navy warships in a town are not something that Mikitakara's Akira Navy can compete with.
Du Li led the Navy warship in Fubo Town to Jiading in a fierce manner. Three days later, the sea camp officers and soldiers who walked north through the Meidi River finally passed the news back to Meidi City.
Yang Yandi had known that there was such a day, but he didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty Navy would come so quickly.
Before, when he was leading troops to Dongpu to rescue, Yang Yandi had a long talk with Chen Shangchuan in Nongnai City.
The two Ming leaders were worried about Guangnan's betrayal and the threat from the Zhenlafan people, so they also discussed the surrender of the Luzon Ming court.
Chen Shangchuan was naturally happy to surrender to the Ming court, but now Dongpu has long been in vain after the ravages of the Zhenla Fan Army.
Cham City to the north can no longer stop Guangnan, which is eyeing him.
Previously, Guangnan placed the Ming people on the territory of Zhenla to use the Ming people's manpower to develop the southern territory for Guangnan. Now, Zhenla and the Ming people are both defeated, and Guangnan, who has broken up, will inevitably have some plans for Dongpu.
Instead of surrendering to Guangnan and including tens of thousands of Ming people in the territory of Dongpu and Dongpu into the Guangnan territory, it is better to lead the Ming tribes of Dongpu to surrender to the Ming court of the Luzon, at least the Ming court of the Luzon was also a Han regime.
The Ming generals from Dongpu did not object to this. If there were no Ming court's merchant gang guards to help Qianhai camp, thousands of Han people would have been slaughtered by the Zhenlaban people, and Nongnai City would have been destroyed.
Therefore, Wang Shi, Li Shi and other generals were still very grateful to the Ming army.
These Ming generals also supported Ding Ge's proposal, which also gave Yang Yandi and Chen Shangchuan confidence.
"Sir, today the Luzon Ming Dynasty naval army mobilized troops to come to Meidi must have ill-intentionedness. We should build a city to defend it." After Huang Jin heard that the Ming Dynasty naval army arrived, his first reaction was to persuade Yang Yandi to send troops to resist.
"General Huang, the Ming court sent a navy to Meidi to help the Ming people in Dongpu to resist the Zhenla foreign soldiers." Yang Yandi said with a wry smile.
"Then why should I come to Meidi instead of going north to Jiading?" Xue Wenjing also frowned, very resentful and uneasy about the arrival of the Ming Navy.
"Sir, we should send soldiers to Haikou to set up defenses no matter what. If the Luzon Ming army invades Meidi, the officers and soldiers of Haikou's Haikou could not resist it at all." A deputy general of the left and right battalion advised.
"Okay, the left and right camps sent 300 troops to Haikou with me to meet this Duke of Qin." Yang Yandi waved his hand and said with a smile.
But before the officers and soldiers of the left and right battalions gathered into the camp, the second wave of officers and soldiers sent by Yang Yong also arrived in Meidicheng and sent back to Luzon the news that the Ming court had recruited Meidiming people.
This time, Xu Bin actually came here in person.
When Yang Yandi learned that the Navy's ginseng general came to Meidi City, he was also shocked and hurriedly welcomed Xu Bin into the city.
This time, Xu Bin dared to go to Meidi with his own risk, mainly because he found out a lot of information through the Luhai merchants. He also knew that Meidi was the Ming people, the officers and soldiers had a good impression of the Ming court, and Yang Yandi also wanted to surrender to the Ming court of Luzon, so he went there in person.
Yang Yandi naturally did not dare to neglect Xu Bin's arrival.
He quickly asked Xu Bin to rest at the inn, while he discussed with the generals in the camp.
When they heard that Xu Bin came this time to recruit the Meidi Ming people, these Ming generals opposed it.
For two consecutive days, Yang Yandi and the generals' discussions ended unhappily.
Xu Bin waited at the inn for two days before meeting Yang Yandi on the third day.
"Sir, we have occupied Meidi for several years. Now the weather is good and the food is abundant. There are thousands of mercenaries. Why should we submit to the Luzon Ming court and be motivated by those Luzon Ming people?" Huang Jin advised.
He has been encouraging Yang Yandi to be independent these days. Even before, when Midi and Toura were controlled by Guangnan, he had encouraged to resist Guangnan several times and persuaded Yang Yandi to make Meidi king.
However, because the Ming people first arrived at that time, they still needed Guangnan's support, although Yang Yandi was independent, Midi surrendered to Guangnan.
"General, Meidi is just a small place. It is not impossible for the lord to lead his army to stand on this. Just relying on Meidi, a small place, how should he protect himself?" Seeing that Huang Jin actually persuaded Yang Yandi to become independent, Xu Bin felt it was a little ridiculous and hurriedly said.
These days he has looked at Midi's army carefully.
But I found that these troops were just scattered soldiers and brave men.
Not to mention anything else, even the weapons in war are mainly swords and guns.
Not to mention the army's artillery, even the fire guns are pitifully few, and most of them are fire gate guns.
No wonder these Ming people from Dongpu and Meidi were beaten by Zhenla's Shengfan, and even had to rescue the Sihai Chamber of Commerce. This is something that Luzon dared not even think about.
"If the adults surrender to the Ming court of Luzon, the adults can still garrison Meidi, and the Ming court will give Liwu Town and the left and right camps silver pay and armies to resist the Zhenla Fan army." Xu Bin glanced at Huang Jin and continued.
"I wonder how much military equipment and food pay is needed to give to the officers and soldiers of Liwu Town." Hearing the words "food pay", the Ming generals present looked over and stared at Xu Bin one by one.
Seeing this, Xu Bin secretly felt happy that the price was not enough to be discussed.
Ever since Wang Li of Lu Hai used the food and grass and silver that Lu Hai had hoarded in Hoi An Port and persuaded the Midi Akira to send troops to Dongpu, Xu Bin understood what these Ming people really wanted, it was nothing more than money and food.
So Xu Bin personally brought three boxes of Yongli silver balls and borrowed hundreds of pieces of wool from the Land and Sea Chamber of Commerce, and presented them to more than ten generals from Liwu Town within two days.
After being guided by Xu Bin, these generals naturally agreed to surrender.
Therefore, at this time, except for a few generals such as Huang Jin who refused, most Midi Akira generals were just waiting for Xu Bin to report a suitable price.
"If the lord surrenders to the Ming court and grants the lord General Meidi, the lord can allocate 150,000 taels of silver and 30,000 stones of grain and grass to Liwu Town and the left and right camps every year, as well as various muskets and cannons."
After hearing this, the Ming generals present nodded one after another, especially the general Xue Wenjing, the general of Liwu Town, showed joy.
These days, because I had just arrived in Meidi, I had to recruit refugees to reclaim land. Therefore, Liwu Town has not paid silver pay for more than a year, and even had to rely on the sea camp to loot the merchant ships passing by nearby areas to subsidize soldiers.
Now that I surrender to the Ming court, the Meidiming people can obtain 150,000 silver taels and 30,000 stones of food and grass in a year, which is enough to support thousands of soldiers and their families. It can be said that Xiao Wu also invested a lot.
Chapter completed!