Early the next morning, who would have expected that those few people returned again, carrying or dragging a few pieces of wood. A quick glance revealed that these people had not gone far at all, and were probably in the mountains not far north of Chikan Town.

I cut a few pieces of wood and moved them over.

Guo Huai looked at the wood one by one and found that it could be used, whether thick or thin, but the most important thing was that these people turned into lumberjacks and were working for him, so he kept his word and asked someone to take out a few kilograms of salt and pointed out.

He looked at the wood that had been transported and said, "These rough woods are very good and are worth half a catty of salt. These thin ones are not good. Together they are half a catty of salt!"

The people were so happy that they chopped some wood and found that it could be exchanged for something. They took the salt and left happily.

Guo Huaiyi was overjoyed and went to report to Wan Jun and Zheng Chenggong. Wan Jun said, "This is the power of capital. I think it won't be long before the people around here will become our lumberjacks."

Sure enough, a few days later, a large group of Ban people came to Chikan Town carrying wood on their shoulders to exchange for salt. Guo Huaiyi exchanged the wood one by one.

In this way, what is used every day is just a drop in the bucket of the salt drying field, but the large amount of wood obtained in exchange and the land suitable for reclamation are all a cost-effective transaction.

However, after a few days, the number of Fan people cutting wood gradually decreased. Guo Huaiyi found out after some painstaking exploration that it turned out that the Fan people had cut wood in exchange for goods in the past few days, and the salt they collected was enough for the entire tribe to use for one or two years, so most of them

He returned to the mountains and resumed his hunting life.

Guo Huaiyi had no choice but to come to Wan Jun again to discuss countermeasures. Wan Jun was watching the new fleet drill in the bay. After listening to Guo Huaiyi's words, he recalled modern business routines and gave Guo Huai some guidance, "You gave Fan people the consumption channels.

Too narrow!”

Guo Huaiyi was confused, "What consumption channel?"

Wan Jun said, "For example, the Fan people don't want anything else except salt?"

Guo Huai thought for a while and said, "Some people like fine wine, but fine wine is not like salt, and you may not be able to buy it even if you have money on the island."

Wan Jun said, "It's all the same. If the Fan people can make a living by cutting trees, why do they have to go back and hunt hard? Firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea, as long as you think about it, what can't make the Fan people obedient?"

Guo Huaiyi suddenly realized, "I understand!"

On the second day, Guo Huaiyi changed his strategy and ordered people to guard the north. All the wood he received was given money according to its thickness and the quality of the wood. He also built a simple shed next to it, which was filled with various commodities.

, from tea leaves and cloth to ironware, from knives and porcelain to needlework, as long as someone wants it, they can buy it with silver at a clearly marked price.

There was nothing the Fan people wanted but couldn't make, so they had no choice but to send people to cut down trees again. As a result, the number of Fan people gradually began to increase again. The entire dense forest near Chikan Town was cut down, and all the trees in the mountains were cut down.

The Ban tribe began to go down the mountain and stationed themselves near the forest on the north side.

After buying a battle line and wanting cloth, wearing clothes and wanting a house, the Ban tribe is being transformed by commodities.

By the end of September, the tribesmen in the nearby mountains were affected, and more tribes came down from the mountains to make a living by logging wood in exchange for money.

As the deforested dense forests moved northward, the clearings became places where Han people cultivated fields. From Chikan Town to the north, not only did the abandoned village regain its popularity, but more Han people used it.

As a relay station, push all the way further north of the island.

The new warship followed Zheng Jun in the Gulf for two months of training

, has basically acquired combat effectiveness. Zheng's large ships transported thousands of prisoners from Annan to Taiwan, in addition to a few ships of grain and salt.

At the same time, there is also new information.

In the past six months, the entire war situation has undergone earth-shaking changes. First in the northwest, Li Dingguo laid siege to Lanzhou for five months, broke through the Qing army's defenses, captured Han Dai, the leader of the Eight Banners Zhenghong Banner, and Zhang Yong, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Province, and captured the Eight Banners.

There were 3,000 soldiers and more than 58,000 soldiers in the green camp, and then they marched all the way to Jiayuguan!

In the direction of Ningxia, Wu Sangui led troops to counterattack several times after May, but Ai Nengqi defended the Great Wall and was repulsed.

Moving toward Shanxi, Azig returned from Beijing and took up his position in Taiyuan again. He fought against Liu Tichun's army many times in Taiyuan, but neither side made much progress and remained in a stalemate.

The most violent changes occurred in Jiangnan. In March, Xie Qian, the Shandong rebel army, led an attack on Huai'an Prefecture. He was defeated by Liu Zeqing in Suqian and fled all the way back to Xuzhou. Then he was defeated again in Xuzhou and was captured and killed by Liu Zeqing.

After receiving the news of Xuzhou's defeat, Li Chengdong led his troops to Xuzhou and defeated Liu Zeqing.

Then in April and May, Jierhalang personally led the Eight Banners Army, led Liu Liangzuo, Geng Jingzhong and others to attack Xuzhou with heavy troops.

Zhao Boyuan learned of Jierharang's movements and led troops from Anqing to Xuzhou. The armies of both sides gathered in Xuzhou, and a big battle suddenly started in Xuzhou.

The details of the battle were unknown in the letter, but the Wanjun army knew the result. The Manchu and Qing troops were routed, the Eight Banners and the Green Camp suffered heavy casualties, Jierhalang fled north in a hurry, and the Chinese army seemed to have suffered heavy losses. After pursuing them to the front line of the Yellow River, they

Stopped.

After Jierhalang fled north, the Qing forces in the south of the Yangtze River were once again wiped out. The officials and gentry clowns in Nanjing abandoned the banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and raised the banner of the Ming Dynasty again. They once again attacked the king of Lu, Zhu Yihai, who is now the Ming Dynasty.

The Emperor Tong presented a surrender form.

The Donglin gentry lost all face, and Wan Jun couldn't help but count in his mind how many times Nanjing had surrendered in the past few years. From the first time the Qing soldiers went to the south of the Yangtze River, Nanjing surrendered without a fight, and then surrendered to the Chinese army.

, then rebelled and surrendered to King Lu Zhu Yihai, Zheng Zhilong surrendered again when he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and now he has surrendered to King Lu again, five times.

The Hongwumen of Nanjing City may have kneeled out of the pit, but I wonder if the knees of the officials and gentry in Donglin are still straight.

Their power shrunk to only the Guangdong and Fujian areas. The two emperors of the Ming Dynasty were still at war with each other. However, after two or three years of fighting, the outcome was finally decided.

The troops of Emperor Datong were defeated by Emperor Yongli in Chaozhou. Emperor Zhu Yihai relied on Zhang Huangyan to hold on, leaving only a small territory around Xiamen.

However, as Nanjing raised the banner of the Ming Dynasty and worshiped the Datong Emperor Zhu Yihai as Zhengshuo, the power of the King of Lu expanded violently again, and at once owned the entire Zhejiang and most of Jiangsu.

Zhu Yihai was quite courageous. After receiving the surrender in Nanjing, he laughed several times in the court hall and threw the surrender on the ground. He only said, "It's disgusting to see this repeated. I'd rather worship someone else."

I don’t want to see these shameless people worshiping me, so I immediately sent envoys to surrender to the Chinese army!

He Tengjiao was stationed in the Jiangxi area. After receiving the news, he sent troops to Xiamen to take over the defense. The ancient wonder appeared again. The former Ming emperor, Zhang Huangyan and other ministers, knelt down and begged for surrender to the former Ming minister He Tengjiao.

Seeing King Zhu Yihai of Lu kneeling down

Begging to surrender, He Tengjiao first bowed to Zhu Yihai, then accepted the surrender and reported the surrender to Chang'an. Everything else remained as usual.

After defeating King Lu, he learned that Xiamen had surrendered to the Chinese army. Emperor Yongli's troops did not dare to attack the Chinese army for a while, so they retreated to the Chaozhou area, and both sides were in peace.

Nanjing was in a dilemma for a while. The officials and gentry had just surrendered to King Lu. Unexpectedly, Emperor Datong was disgusted and surrendered. Now that the emperor he had declared allegiance to was gone, how could he still use this banner? He could only send people instead.

Guangzhou presented a surrender form to Emperor Yongli.

The battle in the Central Plains was so exciting, and I missed many things. The fragments about the bloody battle in Xuzhou in the letter aroused Wanjun's imagination. Now that the fleet training has been completed, I think the season of strong winds on the sea has passed, and it is time for Wanjun to return as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, on this day, Zheng Chenggong and Guo Huaiyi suddenly came to Wan Jun together, "Something happened in our northernmost village near Wuxi, and all the villagers who moved there were killed!"

Wan Jun said, "What's going on? Didn't all the Han people in Beiken send soldiers and horses to protect them?"

Guo Huai said, "Yes, we sent twenty soldiers, but the soldiers and people guarding the village were all killed."

Wan Jun's heart suddenly became angry, "Have you found out? Who did it?"

Guo Huai said, "We found out that it was done by the Fan people. We found out through the mouths of the Fan people that there is a Dadu Kingdom established by the Fan people on the island in the north. It was them who did it!"

Wan Jun wondered, "Why have I never heard of the Big Belly Country?"

Guo Huaiyi said, "At the beginning, the Dutch banned the Han people from entering the north of the island, so we knew very little about it. According to the tribesmen who were logging, this big-bellied king was called Kama Blind. It was established by many tribes together. Soon

I sent people to fight with them a few times before, and the Dutch also fought against the Big Belly Country back then."

Wan Jun said, "The Fan people can't even make a sword, how can they beat the Dutch?"

Guo Huai said, "The head of state clearly knows that the Dutch have few soldiers, with only three or four hundred soldiers at most. Even so, they defeated the Dadu Kingdom many times. Later, the Dadu Kingdom sued for peace from the Dutch, and the Dutch nominally ruled

The whole island.”

Zheng Chenggong said, "If we want to develop Taiwan Island, this big country must be solved. If the massacre of villages is not handled properly, the Han people will be panicked in the future, and who will dare to open up to the north again!"

Guo Huai said, "Not only us, but also several tribes among the logging people were attacked by the Dadu Kingdom. It is said that they were trying to rob the tribes of salt."

Wanjun said angrily, "It doesn't matter what country it is. Killing my soldiers and massacring our Han people is a crime worthy of death. Lead your troops and horses to Wuxi immediately!"

Zheng Chenggong cupped his fists and said, "I'll go right away!"

Wan Jun said to Guo Huai again, "We still need help from the Fan people in the dense forest. You can find some Fan people tribes that have fought against the Dadu Kingdom and ask them to send troops together to attack the Dadu Kingdom."

Guo Huai patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, head of state, this matter will be taken care of by me."

After the two people left in a hurry, Wan Jun stood by the window of Rezhelan City, looking at the green mountains and forests in the distance, and thought to himself: It seems that before returning to Xiamen, all the hidden dangers here must be removed first.

It was almost October, and it had been a year since I left Chang'an. I thought I would go back right away, but unexpectedly another Big Belly Kingdom appeared. Wan Jun decided to go there with his fleet and kill the Big Belly Kingdom on the island.
Chapter completed!