"Weiliang, you don't have to persuade me anymore!"
"As a father, I have made up my mind that I must return to my Ming Dynasty in this life!"
"No matter how good this Batavia is, it is not under the rule of my Han family. You can buy a house, but you can't settle down."
"I have read books about sages all my life for my father. I don't want to be buried in a barbarian land after my death!"
"Although Luzon is not my hometown, it is still under the rule of the Han family!"
Mr. Li looked up at the north, his thin face full of longing for his homeland.
"I want my grandson to live openly as a Han Chinese, wear Confucian shirts, comb his hair in a bun, read articles by sages, follow ancient rituals, and be crowned twenty..."
Li Weiliang looked at his father's originally cloudy eyes, but now they were shining brightly, and nodded subconsciously. The education of loyalty and filial piety he had received since childhood made him dare not disobey his father.
"Son, I will arrange it for you!"
"You will go to Luzon first to provide support for the whole family. It will take some time for my son's property to be transferred to Luzon."
"Also, after the family moves to Luzon, we cannot give up the industries in Batavia. I plan to let my second brother take over the mines and manors in Batavia. I will accompany my father to Luzon!
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Mr. Li nodded slightly and said.
"When the time comes, my father will open an academy in Luzon, recruit thirty or fifty students, enlighten the children, teach some saints' articles on the Four Books and Five Classics, and entertain his grandchildren, and he will be able to smile like a child!"
Li Weiliang respectfully resigned and began to prepare for his family's relocation.
The Li family is a big family, with dozens of people from top to bottom, two to three hundred maids and servants, and countless gold, silver, antiques, and valuables. Naturally, relocation is not a simple matter.
Even if the old man takes his grandson away first, the preparations required are not easy!
Just as a gift from the old man himself, there were several boxes of valuable manuscripts, several boxes of spring and summer clothes, dozens of sets of his favorite four treasures of the study, vases, desks, pen washers, bookshelves and other items.
few.
In addition, there were nearly twenty maids and servants waiting around.
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The port of Batavia is still busy, with countless large and small ships coming in and out every day, handling massive amounts of cargo.
The crowd is still crowded!
The laborers shouted loudly and loaded and unloaded a large amount of cargo from the ship.
In addition to cargo ships, there are also many passenger ships taking people.
Many Chinese helped people old and young to board the ship, paid their tickets, and headed for Luzon Island, which was recovered by the Ming Dynasty.
In the eyes of these Chinese people, although Taiyuan Island was recovered by Guo Xingye, Taiyuan Island is too close to the mainland.
I don’t know when the slaves will be built and they will go to Dajuan Island!
Although they wanted to return to the rule of the Han family, they were not willing to risk their whole family.
Therefore, Luzon is their best choice!
Of course, while a large number of Chinese people are pouring into Luzon, many people also choose to settle in Taiyuan Island.
On the one hand, it is because of the prestige accumulated by the Zheng family for decades across the sea, and on the other hand, in the eyes of these Chinese, compared with Luzon, Daguan is the true hometown of the Han family.
A middle-aged man with fluttering sleeves, wearing a Confucian shirt and a Confucian crown on his head, stood on the bow of the ship, looked into the distance, and chanted.
"Throughout the ages, no hero can find a place like Sun Zhongmou."
"On the dancing pavilion and singing stage, the wind is always blown away by the rain."
"The grass and trees in the setting sun, the ordinary alleys, where the slaves of human nature once lived. I think of those days, when the warriors were fierce and powerful, they could swallow thousands of miles like a tiger."
"Yuan Jia hastily sealed the wolf in Xu, and won the hasty visit to the north."
"Forty-three years ago, I still remember the beacon fire on Yangzhou Road. Looking back, I saw a shrine of sacred crows and drums under the Buddha and Li Temple. Who can ask: Lian Po is old, can he still make a living?"
One mouthful of eternal happiness·Guting in the north of Jingkou is nostalgic for the past, expressing the unfulfilled ambition of Xin Qiji.
But when it was recited by this middle-aged man, it was full of pride and ambition for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and to brave all odds!
He wants to go to Luzon and join the Liberation Army. Even if he is a small official in the army, he has to complete the great cause of the Northern Expedition!
Behind the middle-aged man, a young man in green shirt hugged his father's waist with a helpless expression, fearing that his father, who could not swim, would accidentally slip and fall into the water.
On a boat nearby, someone heard the middle-aged man reciting poems, but they couldn't help but cheer loudly.
"good!"
"What a strong man, he can swallow up thousands of miles like a tiger!"
"How could we, with so many heroes in the Central Plains, let the Tatars steal the artifacts of Zhongzhou?!"
He was a short, stocky man, with a face full of the weathered look that is common among sailors making a living at sea.
On another boat nearby, an old man wearing silk and brocade clothes also stood on the bow of the boat and chanted.
"Gold is worn with swords and white jade, and the light shines through the window at night."
"My husband has not yet accomplished fifty years of service, so he picks up the sword and takes care of Bahuang alone."
"Jinghua makes friends with all kinds of wonderful people, and they live and die together in harmony with each other."
"The shameless person has no name in the history of thousands of years, but he repays the emperor with a heart of loyalty."
"You came to join the army in the Han Dynasty, and the Nanshan Mountains were covered with snow and jade."
"Ugh! Although three households of Chu can destroy Qin, how can China be empty and deserted?"
Reading Lu You's "Jin Cuo Dao Xing" relieves the sadness and anger in my heart, and at the same time expresses my ambition.
The middle-aged man saluted with clasped fists.
"My father-in-law has such great ambitions!"
"..."
The ship pulled anchor and set sail, sailing northward.
A large group of Chinese people living in Southeast Asia headed north towards Luzon with full enthusiasm.
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Da Yuan Island!
As Ma Xin and others returned from Luzon, Zheng Chenggong immediately ordered the encirclement and suppression of the rebellious Zheng Tai and the Dadu Kingdom who dared to help Zheng Tai.
The Zheng army marched from all directions to encircle and suppress the remnants of Zheng Tai and the Dadu Kingdom in the mountains!
In order to reduce casualties, Zheng Chenggong hired a large number of Japanese samurai with superb martial arts skills.
Zheng Jun took these Japanese warriors as the vanguard and launched an attack on the Dadu Kingdom in the mountains.
These Japanese samurai were highly skilled in martial arts, but on a large-scale battlefield, their personal martial arts might not be of much use.
On the battlefield, the main thing is the cooperation of the group, and the role of individual martial arts is weakened to the extreme.
But in such small-scale sieges and encounters, personal martial arts becomes very important.
The short Japanese samurai showed great fighting ability.
While launching an encirclement and suppression campaign, Zheng Chenggong also tried every means to cut off the source of supplies for Zheng Tai and the Dadu Kingdom.
With Zheng Chenggong's two-pronged approach, Zheng Taihe's Dadu Kingdom quickly fell into decline and fell into complete decline.
The soldiers under Zheng Tai chose to rebel and defected to Zheng Chenggong again.
Even Zheng Tai's top confidant chose to rebel, cut off Zheng Tai's head, and asked Zheng Chenggong to surrender.
Zheng Chenggong agreed to their surrender, but it was not enough to ask for Zheng Tai's head, he also wanted the head of the King of the Potbelly Kingdom.
The rebels had no choice but to draw their swords against the Dadu Kingdom who had helped them!
Zheng Chenggong took the opportunity to send troops, and by cooperating internally and externally, the dangerous villages in the Dadu Kingdom were attacked one after another.
Finally, at the end of 1661, the fifteenth year of Yongli, Zheng Tai's rebellion was finally put down.
However, Zheng Tai's rebellion had just been put down when Zheng Chenggong received news about the cursed water disaster from the remnants of Li Dingguo in Myanmar!
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