Chapter 1526╭(′▽`)╭(′▽`)╯

Counting it, it has been almost three months since Admiral Anne of the Li Family of Daming left the waters of Daming and sailed to the west.

At that time, she took away a fleet of five battleships including the flagship "Xiangfeihu" super battleship, but left behind a bearded admiral of the East China Sea, fifteen ships of the same size and a whole team of A freshwater fortress city with complete shipbuilding and cannon crafting.

Thus, a certain bearded man started operating here in the Daming sea area.

During this period of time, of course, there was a lot of good news from Nanyang, such as: Admiral Anne defeated the Portuguese, surrendered the Dutch, recovered the entire Nanyang from those Westerners, and seized nearly Hundreds of merchant ships and warships plus countless rare treasures and other legendary deeds?

Although no one knew how their great admiral managed to accomplish that feat with just five warships, they all already knew that the news was true and had been verified anyway.

Because, until now, a steady stream of merchant ships are carrying the banner of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce from Nanyang to Daming to transport a large amount of spices, medicinal materials, gold, silver, sugar gum, pearls and corals, etc. The goods made the Li family's caravan family, which was still a little struggling due to expansion, become rich.

However, due to the war in Daming and the incomprehension of local government orders, etc., the goods of the Li family can basically only be sold in the coastal areas such as Hangzhou and Quanzhou in the control area of ​​​​the Li family, or in places such as Silla and Wa, while the northern part of Daming is in chaos. There is no room for those Nanyang goods on the Internet.

After all, compared with those luxuries and condiments, what is more needed in the war-torn and turbulent north is rice, wheat or other staple foods that can be eaten, rather than those spices or spices. Luxuries that can only be seen but not eaten!

Moreover, although the north is in great need of food, there is no trading environment at all during the war. Therefore, in addition to mainly conducting trade with the Japanese side, the current Li family caravan is more about transporting refugees. The people of Ming Dynasty who had no choice but to starve to death moved to Xiaoliuqiu Island, which was never valued by Ming Dynasty, and their freshwater fortress city to open up wasteland.

And during the three months that Annie was away, the huge port fortress city had already accommodated nearly fifty thousand people of the Ming Dynasty, plus the Princess Changping of the Ming Dynasty, Aimee Zhu, and her entourage.

Three months ago, when the old eunuch who was frightened by the rebellious soldiers followed the bearded admiral of the Li family to Danshui on a battleship with strong guns and guns, he saw the fortress city that was even bigger than the capital of Ming Dynasty. After seeing those strong soldiers, terrifying cannons and more warships, they said nothing and were unwilling to leave this safe place.

Moreover, in order to repay, they also, in the name of the eldest princess of Ming Dynasty,

Da Huzi was directly appointed as the admiral of Daming's navy and the admiral of the East China Sea, and then they nested in the palace-like governor's mansion in the city and refused to leave.

As for that poor Princess Daming, the admiral of the East China Sea of ​​the Li family, that bearded man didn't make things difficult for her.

After all, for the Li family, which has a big business and countless money and people, it is not a big deal to support an old eunuch, a princess of Ming Dynasty and the few maids he brought. He tried to persuade him once, but found that the other party said nothing After Ken easily returned to Hangzhou, he had no choice but to let it go. He just ordered the officers stationed in the fortress to try their best to meet the other party's requirements and sent people to strictly ensure their safety.

Up to now, the Li family can be regarded as developing and growing!

Their Li Family Chamber of Commerce controls countless ships and strong soldiers, has strong ships and guns, and has a port fortress city as a logistics base, and even 'controls' the only surviving legitimate genuine card of the Ming Dynasty. The princess, at the same time, firmly controls the coastline of Quanzhou and Hangzhou and radiates influence towards the inland provinces, making those merchants and bureaucrats who have been secretly involved in smuggling and sea trade jealous and hateful, but they still hate them helpless.

However, although the Li family is very powerful now, there are still some obstacles.

For example, today, Li Dabeard, who had just finished handling some defense in Hangzhou, was approached by a guy who claimed to be the capital of Yangzhou before he had time to go to lunch.

The bearded man didn't know the other party, but the other party made it clear that he wanted to see him. As a last resort, he had no choice but to meet the other party in his admiral's mansion near the river.

"Well?"

"Admiral Li, why are you not polite when you see me?"

Shi Kefa, the governor of Yangzhou, led his people into the hall of the bearded admiral's mansion. He first glanced at the strong sailors guarding around him, and then turned his head to look at the ten huge warships in the Qiantang River outside the window. In the end, he still lowered his face and said in a bad tone, as if he was going to give the bearded man a blow?

"salute?"

"strangeness……"

"I am the admiral of the East China Sea of ​​the Li family and the admiral of the navy of the Ming Dynasty, why should I salute you?"

The bearded man was a little baffled, so much so that he withdrew the hand that he originally wanted to invite the other party to sit down, and then looked up and down the uninvited guy in front of him with a puzzled face, who also claimed to be the supervisor.

"you!"

"presumptuous!"

"This official is a supervisor, a scholar of the Jianji Palace, and a minister of the Ministry of War. He was ordered by the emperor to be the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang military affairs. His rank is the second rank. Why do you have no rank, and you are an admiral of the navy who is in charge of everything? How dare you treat me like this?" rude?"

Shi Kefa got a little angry, and directly blew his beard and stared at the bearded man with disdain.

You must know that Daming does not have the official name of a navy, and the so-called Admiral of the Daming Navy or Admiral of the East China Sea is not a serious official name at all. Anyway, Shi Kefa didn't know about it. It's just under the management of Shibo Tiju.

Just like his Yangzhou, the person in charge of boat sailors is just a small promotion from the fifth rank, and the so-called admiral of the Daming Navy and East China Sea Admiral in front of him is estimated to be around the third rank at the highest rank. But now, the other party dared to be so rude when they saw him as the Minister of the Ministry of War?

"this……"

"Master Shi Du, you are the minister of the Ministry of War appointed by the emperor of Southern Zhili, and I am the admiral of the East China Sea appointed by the authentic Princess Daming of Northern Zhili. We do not belong to each other, why should I salute you?"

Shaking his head, seeing the bearded and staring old man in his forties in front of him, the bearded man sighed, and then he didn't intend to continue to argue with the other party on this issue, but directly signaled the other party to take a seat, and then he took a step forward Back to his own main seat.

"Bold!"

"You dare to say such a rebellious thing, you... do you want to rebel?!"

Hearing the bearded man's words, Shi Kefa couldn't help but gasped, and then his tone of refutation became more severe.

"rebel?"

"No!"

"It's you who want to rebel, right?"

"The heirs of Emperor Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty are still there, but you support King Fu as emperor. I would like to ask, what is your intention?"

Shaking his head, the bearded man ignored the other party, just looked at the other party with a half-smile and asked in a bad tone.

At the same time, he was still a little baffled, and he didn't know what kind of confidence the other party had. How could he want to use the condescending tone and attitude of the superior to the subordinate as soon as he came to the door?

"Simply ridiculous!"

"She is just the princess of the late emperor of Ming Dynasty, not the prince!"

"If I don't support King Fu, is it possible that I want to support her, Aimee Zhu, and let her do the act of a rooster in the morning?"

Shi Kefa yelled angrily, like a raging tiger, staring at the bearded man who was still rude and dared to ignore him, and took the lead to sit back on the chair.

If this is not Hangzhou, not his Yangzhou, and this place has already been controlled by thousands of soldiers of the opponent, and there are still giant ships of the opponent in the Qiantang River, he might have ordered the order to kill the invincible man in front of him. The arrogant man who has no father, no respect, and no elders has been sent to prison for questioning.

"why not?"

"Didn't the Tang Dynasty also have Wu Zetian?"

The history of the bearded man is not good, and he hasn't read many books, but he only knows that the empress has not been out before, so, looking at the old man in front of him who wants to boss him around as soon as he meets him, his heart swells. Also faintly had some kind of idea.

"you!!"

"That's all!"

"I won't tell you that!"

"I'm here this time, I just want to ask you, what is your intention in gathering heavy troops here in Hangzhou, dispatching boats, hoarding arms, weapons and food?!"

Yes, Shi Kefa took the risk to come to Hangzhou in person this time, just to ask what the admiral of the Daming Navy, who has a princess in his hands and seems to want to do the ridiculous thing of 'holding the princess to make the princes', really wants to do!

At the beginning, he actually wanted to test and ask the truth slowly, but now that the two sides have fallen out, he can't take care of it so much for the time being.

You know, Hangzhou is not too far away from Yangzhou and the Gyeonggi area of ​​​​South Zhili, and it is also connected to waterways and canals, and the bearded man in front of him has heavy troops, giant ships and cannons, and he is still gearing up here. How could they feel at ease, and how could they not come to ask about the situation if they had been ignoring the orders of the new emperor who was supported by Nanzhili?

If the other party suddenly sends troops northward and uses force against Nanzhili and Yangzhou, I am afraid that the fragile defense lines they have hastily arranged to fight against the intruders and slaves going south will collapse immediately!

"ah!"

"So you're here to ask about this?"

Slightly stunned, the bearded man finally understood why the guy in front of him who didn't have much friendship would come to visit suddenly, and when he came, he would blow his beard and stare at him, and even swear at him, it turned out to be such a thing.

"Do not worry!"

"Master Shidu, I am not dispatching troops to deal with you. I am planning to go north to Beizhili to find trouble with those traitors and slaves!"

While talking, the bearded man suddenly laughed.

That's right, he planned to use ten battleships and some armed merchant ships plus large merchant ships as troop carriers and head north to Tianjin and Shanhaiguan to see if he could block Shanhaiguan and attack near Gyeonggi, and then recover the capital.

"you……"

"You want to recover Beizhili?"

"That……."

"How many soldiers do you have under your command?"

Unexpectedly, the bearded man really wanted to regain the capital, and Shi Kefa froze in an instant. Therefore, he opened his mouth first, hesitated for a long time, and finally asked carefully with a cloudy expression.

"If you don't count the support staff and sailors..."

"About 15,000 soldiers, right?"

"And they're all musketeers!"

The bearded man thought for a while, and finally said the number he thought was more accurate.

Anyway, he can only dispatch about 15,000 musketeers at most, and there will be no more. At most, he will transport hundreds of newly cast cannons from the artillery workshop in Danshui, and then recruit some assistants. Artillery only.

At that time, he plans to divide the fleet into two teams, a team of more than 5,000 people will take five battleships to attack Shanhaiguan, land from the old dragon head, and see if they can win the number one pass in the world.

The other 10,000 people landed from Tianjin, and then approached the capital by land!

In fact, Big Beard doesn't know whether he can beat it or not, but anyway, their Li family's warships are invincible, so if he can beat him, he will continue to fight. loss.

In short, his main purpose is not to make it easier for those Jian slaves who committed crimes and trespasses! He just wanted to let those Jiannu know that the reason why their savages outside the pass were able to break through the capital was nothing more than good luck, and they, loyal souls of the Ming Dynasty, had never been afraid of them!

"laugh!"

"What's the use of a mere 15,000 soldiers and all of them carrying firecrackers?"

"Listen to my advice..."

"Admiral Li, although your courage is commendable, but now is not the time for the Northern Expedition, and Jiannu's spirit is strong. I advise you not to seek death at this time!"

Shi Kefa couldn't believe it. The bearded man in front of him actually gathered more than 10,000 people and wanted to counterattack Jiannu, and he also directly attacked the Gyeonggi area, so he didn't know what to say.

"ha!"

"That's no ordinary musket, it's a rifled flintlock Minie rifle!"

Rifled flintlock Mines rifle, the whole gun weighs about ten kilograms, and the caliber is 17.8mm. Each bullet weighs 32.4 grams. The effective killing distance can reach thousands of meters, and accurate hits can be guaranteed within 600 meters, and the power is quite huge.

Most people only think that their Li family's fleet is only strong and powerful, but they don't know that their muskets are also very powerful, much more powerful than those weird firecrackers equipped by the Ming army.

You know, in this era, the range of most artillery is only a few hundred meters, and the rifles of their Li Family Chamber of Commerce, as their Admiral Anne said, are the last glory of the front-loading guns. The artillery range of Jiannu is much farther than that of Jiannu, and this colleague is also the reason why Beard dared to gather almost all the forces he could command to prepare for the Northern Expedition of Jiannu.

Although he had also heard the nonsense that "Jurchens are dissatisfied with ten thousand and invincible", he also felt that Jiannu's cavalry might really be very powerful, but he didn't believe it. With a rate of fire of about three to four rounds per minute from the Mines rifle, how many cavalry in Jiannu can rush to the front of their musketeers?

"In short, Master Shi, you can rest assured that although Mr. Li is not very fond of your Nanjing court and does not respect your emperor, he will not easily attack you at this time. Be the one who loves you and hates you. For the matter, you just put your heart back in your stomach!"

"Just wait and see!"

"At most half a month, when the big ships of our chamber of commerce in Nanyang are in place, I will swear to the teacher and set off."

During the recent period, Big Beard is just mobilizing supplies here in Hangzhou, and the supplies purchased from Naha, Wa Kingdom, and Nanyang to Tamsui City are almost enough.

After two days, he will go to Danshui with some of the new recruits and a large amount of supplies. At that time, they will also set off directly from the new fortress city and drive northward to expel the Tartars. It is said that these people who have just established the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty will definitely not know about it.

"..."

"Since that's the case, I hope you can do it yourself!"

The words are not speculative, and seeing that the other party is not only rude but also quite ignorant, there is no way, Shi Kefa struggled for a while, seeing that he could not be persuaded, and finally knew that the other party was not targeting Yangzhou and Nanzhili, he snorted coldly He waved his sleeves and left, not intending to say much to this bearded and rough man who ruled Hangzhou and Quanzhou separately.

Of course, he also felt in his heart that letting the power of the Li family's fleet consume and test each other with Jiannu would not do any harm to their court in Nanzhili?

"this……"

"Master Shidu, don't you want to stay for lunch?"

The bearded man suddenly stood up and pretended to stay with the other party, but unfortunately, the other party ignored him at all, and directly led him out arrogantly and angrily.

...

While the bearded man in Hangzhou was gearing up to prepare for the Northern Expedition to establish slaves, the turmoil in Calicut in the Indian Ocean had been going on for several days.

The five ships of the Li Family Fleet were directly outside the port, and a black-painted gun barrel was pushed out of the gun door, directly blocking the entire port, and many sailing ships could only hide from a distance after seeing it. Driving or taking a detour, I dare not approach Calicut at all.

Because ah, Chamenlin Aphmad Nagpur, the maharaja and great businessman of the Mughal dynasty in India, was tied to the flagship "Xiangfeihu" by the Li family admiral Anne Hasta from Ming Dynasty. It has been three full days on the mast.

During this period, Nagopur's people and the fleet also tried to attack the Li family's fleet and rescue their masters, but in the end, they all failed, and even the fort in Calicut Port was bombed several times , the entire fort was almost completely in ruins, and the wharf of this originally prosperous port city was directly paralyzed for several days, and the city of Calicut was also panic-stricken, and many people fled here.

No one knows how long this situation will last, because the ships of the Daming Li Family Fleet are still anchored outside the port and have not left, and they will shoot a few shots at the sea in the dock from time to time. I don’t know if it is a threat or something else. mean.

"Annie!"

"Just now that fat man said he was convinced, he was willing to surrender, let us put him down, and give him food and drink as soon as possible?"

At this time, on the flagship of the "Xiangfeihu", Song Yifeng suddenly broke into the captain's room, then lay down on the head of the bed, and said to a certain distressed little girl who was in a daze.

"..."

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"It took only three days to give in. It must be fake, and it must not be sincere. Let's hang him up for another day or two and see!"

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He yawned and stretched, but finally Anne replied like this.

"ah?"

"But……"

"What if he dies?"

"Didn't you say that you want his Chamber of Commerce and forces to help us keep an eye on those British and French here?"

Song Yifeng was a little puzzled. When they had a meeting before, they decided to subdue Nagpur and let the other party treat them as the nails of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce nailed here in the Indian Ocean. But refused?

"Do not worry!"

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"He's so fat, with so much fat and energy, he won't die so easily!"

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"We must let him suffer more, otherwise, I don't know what evil plans he will have!"

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This time, Annie didn't intend to use magic to enslave the other party directly, but to use violence to destroy the other party's spirit and will, so that the other party would never have the courage to resist their Li family for the rest of their lives!

Therefore, if you continue to hang the opponent on the mast for a day or two, there will be nothing wrong with it, and it will just happen to lose weight for the opponent.

Besides, Anne saw from the window of the captain's cabin that the clouds in the sky seem to be very thick today, and it seems that the wind and rainstorm are about to blow. Good for the other party to cool down and replenish water?

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