If you can't get a broom, you won't get a dust off. If you want the British to bow your head, you have to see the truth on the battlefield.

At present, the Northern Navy's minion army has reached 8,000 troops in India, which is three regiments. Two of them are stationed in the south of the British Madras region, and are facing the tens of thousands of British troops. In addition, there is a battalion of Goodlor, which is locally governed in the south, which is also a French colony, and the anchorage of the Northern Navy's South Asian fleet is located there.

For the British army, Ding Guofeng's strategy is to keep the enemy still. As long as we restrain tens of thousands of British troops and ensure that they cannot invest their troops in the melee between the three major regimes of Deccan.

Although French Governor Leclerc had returned to the throne of governor, he was a bare commander. Moreover, this guy was a royalist returning party and had no support from Europe for the time being. As part of the agreement between Zhao Xin and Mrs. Elizabeth, in January this year, Beihai Town provided Leclerc with a loan of 500,000 Spanish silver coins through the Bacheng Military Control Commission, which was used as fund for his recruitment of troops.

Leclerc has visited Ding Guofeng three times in the past few months, trying to persuade him to launch an attack on the British army, and then force Madras to surrender through a naval blockade, and then the two families divide the British colonies.

He thought this way with a historical complex. During the "Austrian War of Succession of the Throne", the French briefly occupied Madras, and after the signing of the Aachen Treaty, it was returned to the United Kingdom.

The problem is that Ding Guofeng doesn't want to shed blood for the French, even if the blood of the servants is not enough. It takes six months of uninterrupted training for a servant soldier from entering the barracks to entering the battle, and it takes eight months for the lower-level officers to take eight months. The personnel, time and equipment costs during the period are very high. Especially when these peasant-born guys master formation and bayonet battles, the North Navy Training Department was worried.

Besides, Beihai Town is not interested in occupying a large area of ​​colonies in India. It is enough to have a small stronghold here, which is for Chinese merchants to take a break and serve as a trans-ocean trade transit station. That location has been chosen long ago, and it is the Danish stronghold in the south, Tranquiba.

According to Zhao Xin, if Leclerc had the right to transfer Louisiana to us, it would be okay to beat him, but unfortunately he had no power. Let alone him, even Louis Charles had no right to transfer it at the moment. The first thing he had to do was to get back from Spain first.

So the French should take a shower and go to bed. They are just a supporting role in this war.

On the third day after Dundas left, a huge transport team consisting of five thousand Tamil natives and more than three thousand cattle and horses carried a large number of gunpowder and weapons made by Beihai Town. Under the escort of a battalion of servants and a thousand French mercenaries, he set out towards Bingram to the west. Prince Ali, the son of Tipu Sultan, would take a large number of personnel there to meet and then transport the supplies back to the capital.

Now Mysore has regained the Salem area ceded to the British. Coupled with the secret agreement between Ding Guofeng and Tanjavur Sultan, the material transportation line from local governance to the Mysore Kingdom has been completely unobstructed.

On the same day, five large transport ships belonging to the North Navy's South Asian fleet started anchoring and sailing from the Port of Fort St. David to the south of the local governance. With a large amount of food, escorted by three thousand-ton frigates, they headed towards the Port of Jalalabad on the western coast of the South Asian continent.

At the beginning of this year, Zhao Xin ordered the five jungler ships seized and repaired from the Dutch to the South Asian fleet, and then transferred two sailboats and gunboats from Zheng Wenxian's first squadron. This greatly increased the strength of the South Asian fleet and became the maritime overlord in the western part of the Bay of Bengal.

In another month, the rainy season in South Asia will come. At this time of year, no war can be fought, so I can only wait until November. So Ding Guofeng has to send some things to Tip before the rainy season. If the floods flood, land transportation will be completely interrupted. At sea, since the Kingdom of Mysore has no navy at all and is unable to deal with the British naval blockade in Mumbai, Ding Guofeng can only send water and land to provide a thousand miles of support.

Since most of the troops were to be watched by the British, Ding Guofeng had no time to take care of Tranquiba, who was identified as the object in his pocket. After he came to the local management, he learned from the French that the Danes had built a large fortress in Tranquiba, Desburg. Relying on the many intelligence collected from French merchants, Ding Guofeng inferred that in order to completely occupy the place, at least one regiment of troops would be enough.

So he can only wait patiently. When the rainy season comes, everyone will stop and return to their own houses, and he will be able to free up his hands to deal with the Danes.

When the territory is bigger, there are many things. When the gourd is pressed, the water floats up, and the west is temporarily calmed down, and something happened to the Kinmen on the other side of the ocean is another accident.

In mid-May 1794, Zhao Xin, who had just disembarked in Boli and was about to inspect the steel plant, received a telegram from Ruchi. The three thousand Spanish troops were invading, and he promised to annihilate the invading enemies and give them a heavy lesson.

The reason why Ruchi dares to say this is because the number of overseas corps stationed in the Kinmen area has exceeded 1,200, and the troops are quite strong. In addition, the "Java" will send a batch of ammunition and daily necessities every time they send supplies. Basically, as long as they don't waste, the Spanish will not get any cheaper.

In his telegram, he proposed that given that the goal of this battle was not only to defeat the Spanish army, but also to take the central valley in the east, he requested to send at least two to three thousand immigrants to Kinmen.

Zhao Xin discussed with Chen Qingsong, who was accompanying him, and the other party expressed his difficulties. Now the Civil Affairs Department has devoted most of its energy to agricultural development in the Nenjiang Plain. Currently, immigrants from Jiaodong will be sent to Heilongjiang City and Melgen to settle, and there will be no extra people at all. However, this kind of thing will naturally not help Boss Zhao. When the inspection is over, he has already made an idea.

A few days later, half of the members of the "29-person committee" held a monthly regular meeting in Furdan City. At the meeting, Zhao Xin came up with a plan and proposed to recruit North Koreans to Kinmen in the south bank of the lower reaches of the Tumen River. After discussion with the congregation, he finally reached an agreement, but the number and proportion of personnel were adjusted appropriately. That is, the first batch was transported to 300 households first, and the number was controlled between 1,000 and 1,500 people; if the effect was good after half a year, another 500 households were sent.

Speaking of which, although I got the southern bank area in the lower reaches of the Tumen River, Beihai Town has also brought a big burden, because the five northern towns under the rule of the Li Dynasty were too poor and basically had nothing to do. In recent years, the Qing army's stationing has caused local officials and the people to complain.

After the Northern Navy entered, it was found that ordinary local people actually feed on quinoa (a kind of wild Chinese medicine) on a daily basis. Many people didn’t even have decent clothes and could only wear clothes made of dog skin to keep warm in winter. Although the Qing Dynasty used to trade in Qingyuan and Huining every year, the Li Dynasty only allowed designated merchants to participate and did not allow people to trade, ordinary people could not enjoy the benefits of trading, and instead were heavily exploited.

Originally, because of the war, many of the people of Li Dynasty on the south bank of the Tumen River fled to Funing County; some villages could not even see chickens or dogs. However, after more than a month, when the secret line of the Intelligence Bureau began to spread news of the North Navy sending relief in Qingyuan Prefecture and Wencheng, many families who really couldn't survive secretly ran back one after another, and there were even many people who were fishing for troubled waters.

The Li Dynasty was both angry and annoyed by this, but the local officials in Funing County were secretly happy because the pressure on refugees was reduced.

However, these people only realized that the North Navy's relief was not a one-time food supply, but a grain card, and they could only get three days of food rations at a time. Moreover, all those who received the relief had to register in accordance with the yellow book of the Li Dynasty government, and at the same time issue temporary identity cards with photos.

In this way, those who come to make a living from Funing County, Xishuiluo and Jingcheng face a choice, should they stay in the local area or leave with three days of rations?

The post roads leading to various places have been set up by the Northern Navy to check check checkpoints, and they are wide and strict. Basically, they don’t want to leave when they come back. If you want to run, you can only hike the mountains, but even if you walk in the mountains and wait until you go back, the food will be eaten up on the road.

As the number of people in the Li Dynasty stayed on the south bank of the Tumen River increased, how to resettle the next step became a problem that Beihai Town needs to solve. When spring plowing began, the contradiction of insufficient people and land became increasingly prominent; there was not much arable land suitable for planting on the south bank of the Tumen River, and in addition, the land capacity was poor and the yield was low, which was not enough to support so many people. In the past, Zhao Xin's idea was to send some people to East Siberia. Now, let's develop a new continent.

When Ruqi received a telegram from Beihai Town, his first reaction was that I was damn! The co-committee treated him as a trash can and sent him to Kinmen whatever he didn't want. The reason why he complained was that the current population composition of Kinmen is a hodgepodge in the east, west, south and north.

Here are the teaching companies of the North Navy, interns from the military academy, members and families of the Kuye Island security team, Hakkas from Jiaying from Borneo Prefecture, surrendered soldiers and families of the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners, and there are also green camp prisoners, former White Lotus Cultists, former members of the Tiandihui Society, former bandits, Miwak Indians, and even black slaves who escaped. If another group of Koreans came, it would be really "a gathering of heroes and a meeting of carrots."

Starting from February 1794, as the news of the discovery of the Koloma gold mine was sent back to Beihai Town, Zhao Xin decided to increase the population transfer to Kinmen. Except for the miners supported by Borneo, there was no one in the civil affairs department. In the end, he had to continue to draw 2,000 people from the people who had been serving labor after the service of the Hokkien Land and Kuye Island, and then the Jinglei was sent over.

Although Ruchi felt "sad and angry", he still had no choice but to accept the reality.

This telegram signed by Zhao Xin clearly states that new immigrants in the pass must first meet the agricultural development strategy of the Nenjiang Plain, and at the same time they must deliver personnel to the oil mining project on Kuye Island. We must know that food security is the top priority. The reason why Beihai Town dares to spread food to feed so many people depends entirely on large-scale agricultural mechanization investment and sufficient oil supply. Once oil cannot keep up, grain production will be reduced, although it will not be "bang 𤭢", it will still waste a lot of money to buy food.

"What you said is right, it's right!" Ruqi whispered Zhao Xin in his heart, handed the telegram to the staff for archives, and then turned his attention to the war with the Spaniards.

The Kinmen side was able to learn that the Spanish army was attacking, but it was actually the news brought by the two black slaves.

The New Spain Governor's District in the 18th century, like the United States, was generally enforced by slavery. In history, it was not completely abolished until Mexico's independence in 1825. Among these slaves, there were also a large number of African blacks. From the early sixteenth century to the mid-17th century, nearly 80,000 blacks were transported to Mexico, and they have reproduced to this day, and have exceeded 500,000.

Black slaves were widely distributed in coastal plantations in Mexico, and some were also servile in the army, belonging to the private property of soldiers and officers, and had a status worse than that of the Indians. Due to excessive fatigue, hunger, disease and inhuman treatment, slave escape and resistance occurred frequently, but in most cases they were suppressed mercilessly.

The same was true for the two black slaves. They couldn't stand their hunger, so they went to the kitchen to steal a few pieces of bread at night, but were discovered by sentries. The next day, each of them hung up and whipped twenty whips. After that, the two became more and more angry, and decided to escape. Walking south was equivalent to falling into the trap and going east into the Santa Clara Mountains. Unexpectedly, the two confused insects were lost in the mountains. When they were discovered by the soldiers of overseas soldiers who were hunting in the mountains, they had only half their lives left.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! When we learn that there are 3,000 Spanish troops coming to attack him, Ruchi's heart is also thumping. This is different from bullying the strongholds of only a few dozen defenders, the Spanish are serious.

Fortunately, the officers of the overseas corps are all the backbone of the Northern Navy who have been through the battlefield. Although they don’t know much about the strength of the Spanish army, they think they will not be much better than Tsarist Russia. So they quickly formulated a plan to “tempt the enemy to go deeper”.

That is, through small-scale resistance, he abandoned San Jose, Guadalupe and Santa Clara de Assis, retreated northward with great strides, lured the main force of the enemy to the hilly areas south of the Kinmen Fortress to fight to the decisive battle. At the same time, he used the narrow terrain of the Kinmen Peninsula to ambush a battalion of troops in the San Bruno Mountains. When the time came, he would encircle the enemy's flanks and cut off the retreat route.

As the war approached, the atmosphere in the Kinmen Fortress became tense. In order to relieve the uneasy mood, many female family members of the overseas corps went to the uncovered Taoist temple to burn incense and pray. Among those who burned incense and worshiped the gods, there were actually several Indian men and women wearing animal leather jackets.

It is also very interesting to talk about this Taoist temple. Among the immigrants sent at the beginning of the year, there was an old Taoist priest named Ma Benchu. When he looked at the roster, he thought it was quite magical. Unexpectedly, when he found the Taoist priest and asked him, he realized that this person was caught by Zhao Xin and the others from Guangdong.

Well, Ma Benchu ​​was the Taoist priest who was invited by Sun Shiyi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, from Sanyuan Palace seven years ago, and planned to use the "yinmen formation" to destroy the Thunder God cannon. Not only did he fail, he himself was captured by Zhao Xin and others, and sent to the Essay land to dig coal.

Although Ma Benchu ​​failed to "subdu the demons", he was indeed the descendant of the Longmen Sect of Luofu Mountain. Not long after he arrived at the Hokkien Coal Mine, he stood out because of his proficiency in medical skills and herbs, and was assigned to be a doctor at the medical center in the coal mine. Although this person looked white in his hair and beard, he was actually for the purpose of creating a person-designed dye. His real age was only forty-five years.

Life in the coal mine is so hard. Although Beihai Town is not unfair to treat food and clothing, life without spiritual sustenance can really torture people crazy. So a year later, Ma Benchu ​​took the opportunity to ask the custodian if he could build a Taoist temple here.

The guard asked you what gods you were planning to offer to? Ma Benchu ​​said that I would worship Doumu Yuanjun. This god is the mother of the stars in the sky, with three eyes, four heads, and eight arms. It is transformed by the innate yin energy of Yuanshi Tianzun. He always practices kindness and saves all sufferings, just like Guanyin Bodhisattva in Buddhism.

After Zhao Xin learned about it, he checked it out and thought it was not a big deal, so he agreed.

With the completion of that small-scale simple Taoist temple, a group of coal-digging prisoners also had spiritual sustenance. Not only did they have fewer fighting, but many of the later White Lotus scholars also changed their beliefs. In this way, Taoist Ma guarded the Taoist temple in the mining area while treating people. After six years, he also accepted more than a dozen disciples. If the Civil Affairs Bureau had not allowed him to issue a certificate of tribute, he might have really established a sect in the Essay Land.

In view of Ma Benchu's contribution to stabilizing the mental state of the hard-working group, the Civil Affairs Bureau ended his sentence three years ago and sent him to Beihai Town Central Hospital for a while. He discussed it with Hong Tao, Wu Xianhou, Wang Xichen and others in medicine and benefited a lot.

At the end of last year, Master Ma heard that he was going to recruit people to Kinmen, so he took his two apprentices to sign up without thinking. When he was at the Beihai Town Central Hospital, he was fooled by Hong Tao, saying that the other end of the sea was the "Fusang East of the East Sea" mentioned in the "Shan Hai Jing". He felt that he was less than 60 years old this year and was in good health, so it would be worthwhile to be able to take a look.

After chatting with Master Ma, Ruqi became interested in using Chinese religious beliefs to compete with Spanish missionaries, and to cure diseases and save lives, attracting more Indians. Ma Benchu ​​had this intention, so he did it as soon as he said it.

Only three months later, seven unfinished houses with cement inside and outside were completed in the southeast of Kinmen Fortress. Although the courtyard and interior and exterior decoration of the temple had not yet been formed, several statues of gods carved with wood and soil had been rushed to the altar.

The Jade Emperor, Dou Mu Yuanjun, Ci Hang, and Guan Sheng Emperor are naturally indispensable, but in one of the side halls, there are two unknown statues of gods, with red silk covering their heads, which look mysterious.

On the day when the statue was revealed, when Master Ma took off the red silk, Ruqi looked up and down at the two kind-hearted eyes, five long beards, wearing Taoist clothes, and with wolf-headed crowns and eagle-headed crowns on his head for a long time, and asked Ma Benchu ​​curiously, "What kind of god is this?"

"The Infinite Heavenly Lord."

Ma Benchu ​​swayed the whisk and looked like a fairy-like figure and said, "Don't you want me to recruit Indian believers? These two gods are the eagle gods and the wolf gods, and they are designed for them."

Ruqi laughed loudly and said to himself, "I am convinced by U." He gave a thumbs up at Old Dao Ma and said, "You really have it!"
Chapter completed!