With a cry, the adults fell down in panic, turned around and fled, or pulled their guards in front of them.
In short, for a while, the city wall was in chaos, and the majesty of the Southern Ming Dynasty was greatly lost.
But the shelling of the Wavebreaker did not cause a bloody storm on the city wall.
The reason is simple. In this first round of bombardment, Wang Haitao asked the artillerymen to choose the lower part of the city wall as the target for bombardment, rather than the top of the city wall.
He had already seen the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty on the city wall with his telescope.
Obviously, if this round of bombardment catches all these high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, it will be difficult to achieve the purpose of his trip.
Wang Haitao came here in the Breaking Wave this time not just to show off the power of the Xinghai Kingdom, but also to be assigned by the chief executive Zheng Xiangdong to reach some agreements with the Zhaowu regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty if possible.
After all, for now, the Xinghai Kingdom has no plans to destroy the Zhaowu regime in one fell swoop.
In that case, the Qing army will only take advantage, and the Xinghai Kingdom, which is trapped on the South China Sea Island, will not get any benefits except a waste of force.
After the senior officials of the Ming Dynasty woke up and descended from the city wall, Wang Haitao asked the artillery to target the city wall.
After more than ten rounds of shelling, a tower on the wall of Gwangjufu was bombarded and collapsed, and the shells flying over the wall into the city also caused some damage.
After that, the Wavebreaker stopped in Bailongtan.
With this stoppage, the entire sea trade in Gwangju Prefecture was cut off.
Any merchant ship that wanted to go down the Zhujiang River was bombarded by the Breaking Waves when it approached the exit of Bailongtan. Even a brave merchant ship was sunk directly.
After what happened, none of those merchant ships dared to pass by.
Fortunately, those business owners are not fools and know how to complain to the governor.
And it is impossible for the governor to see such a strange ship exist forever.
In that case, the entire Nanming Zhaowu regime would be completely stripped of its dignity.
In fact, after Emperor Zhaowu learned of the matter, he summoned the ministers of the court and central government to discuss the matter overnight.
Naturally, there were ministers who were familiar with business affairs and told them that this was a bandit who was entrenched in the northern part of Nanhai Island.
Emperor Zhaowu was a little dumbfounded when he heard this.
He knew that not long ago, Governor Guangdong sent Governor Biao Battalion to Nanhai Island to suppress bandits, but how come in the blink of an eye, this bandit came to the door?
In this regard, the governor, who secretly felt something was wrong, could only use the excuse that the sea route was far away and the military was unclear.
But no matter whether Governor Biaoying was defeated or something else, the thieves were blocking the door, the matter had to be resolved.
Otherwise, if this blockage lasts for half a month, the entire Gwangju Prefecture will be plunged into chaos, not to mention the tax and money lost during this period.
So early the next morning, a small boat rocked close to the Breaker.
There was a white flag hanging on the boat, and there was only one boatman, an old man with a goatee and a scholar's shirt.
The old man told himself that he was Zhang Sanxu, an aide under the command of Liu Desheng, the governor of Guangdong, who came to deal with the bandit's invasion of the country on the order of the governor.
This Zhang Sanxu looked proud and proud, but after getting on the boat, he found that the boat was actually made of steel. He couldn't help but have a look of shock on his face, and his aura suddenly dropped.
Wang Haitao, as the general leading the Xinghai Kingdom's envoy this time, naturally accepted this three promises as its owner.
Zhang Sanxu's purpose of coming was very clear, which was to ask the thieves to go back to where they came from and stop making trouble outside Guangzhou Mansion.
To this end, the governor can offer some benefits.
Of course, what San Xu said was that the major trading houses were suffering from the inability of merchant ships to travel and were willing to spend some money to buy the way.
Wang Haitao had no intention of engaging in a quarrel with Zhang Sanxu and directly revealed the purpose of his visit.
When the Zhaowu regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty sent troops to invade the Xinghai Kingdom, they had to pay war reparations and open major ports to the Xinghai Kingdom.
When Zhang Sanxu heard these words, he almost sat down on the ground in shock.
The maximum authorization he received during this trip was to pay a few thousand taels of silver.
But listening to what this Kunshou meant, he might have to pay hundreds of thousands of taels in compensation, and also open all the major ports?
It feels a bit like losing power and humiliating the country.
As a result, Zhang Sanxu did not dare to promise anything and could only leave in a hurry.
When he returned to the governor's yamen and explained what had happened, the officials who had been waiting here slapped the table angrily, and they were eager to leave the city and fight to the death with the bandits.
But they are just talking about it.
After being angry for a long time, when Emperor Zhaowu sent someone to inquire about the situation, the governor could only convey the other party's conditions.
When Emperor Zhaowu summoned his ministers, the court was in chaos.
The main war faction and the appeasement faction got into a fight, and several civil servants even got excited and punched each other. They gave up only after being scolded by Emperor Zhaowu.
This is not surprising. By this time, the Ming Dynasty had become the Nanming Dynasty, and the Nanming Dynasty had two emperors. The majesty of this emperor was far less than before.
But no matter what, the previous shelling really frightened many ministers. Especially at this time, the sound of shelling from the Breaker could be heard from a distance.
So in the end, Emperor Zhaowu had no choice but to agree to the recruitment.
Of course, in name it is appeasement, but in fact everyone knows that it is just to pay compensation to get the other side to withdraw its troops.
The master, Zhang Sanxu, was ordered to go to the Wave Breaker again to discuss compensation and other matters with Wang Haitao.
However, Zhang Sanxu's order was to try to compensate as little money as possible. As for the opening of the port, it didn't matter.
After all, at this time, people in Nanming didn't feel like they were losing power and humiliating the country.
Benefits that cannot be obtained on the battlefield are also difficult to obtain at the negotiation table.
In front of Wang Haitao, even though Zhang Sanxu was very eloquent, in the end he only raised the compensation to 100,000 taels of silver.
Of course, Wang Haitao did not intend to push the Zhaowu regime into a corner, so he said that Xinghai State could sell firearms and artillery out of the ties of being both descendants of the Han people.
"Is this true?"
When Zhang Sanxu returned to the governor's office to report the situation, Governor Liu couldn't help but almost jumped up from his chair when he heard this.
The Kun thief's guns and artillery were so powerful that they had already come to fruition at this time.
Just today, businessmen from Nanhai Island have brought the news.
There was not only the news that the governor's camp was wiped out, but also the news that several thousand households had been defeated by the Kun bandits.
Therefore, everyone in Nanming almost had their own understanding of the sharp guns of the Kun thieves.
Now that Mr. Liu heard that the Kun thief was willing to sell his sharp guns, he couldn't help but feel ecstatic in his heart.