Chapter 351: Can't get it right? I feel powerless. I'll ask.

The dialects in Fujian are very different from those in the north. The children of the Zheng family are all natives from Fujian. The Shandong children sent to Macau are all dark and cannot understand what the other party is saying.

These Fujian sailors on the boat also knew that the other party could not understand, and they also had a lot of talks without any scruples. At most, these Shandong people could speak Mandarin at home, and most of them spoke native language. Listening to these lucky guys talking in dialect, they seemed to you not understand, so I dared to speak boldly, and I was really frustrated. When I saw the other party talking, I hid farther away.

However, you always have to see a ghost when you walk on the night. Among the dozen foreigners who follow the boat, there are really those who are familiar with Fujian dialect. In the eyes of these Fujian sailors, foreigners are not interested, and foreigners who know Chinese are not interested, but they don’t believe that they will be killed. Foreigners will understand Fujian’s local language.

I didn't shy away from speaking at all, but if there was any, I would never miss the ears of those who were interested.

The foreigner who was brought by the Jiaozhou garrison today was also one of the dozen foreigners brought from the south by the priest Federer, but this person was indeed interesting.

When I met Li Meng, the rules were made in full. The official language was a straightforward word. When I reported to my home, the name was also interesting, and it was called "Zhang Lipu".

Spain was a world empire in this era, with its colonies all over the world. From the whites in Spain, the black slaves brought by them, and the local indigenous people, these people married each other and produced various mixed races. At that time, Spain adopted a rather despicable means to divide them.

According to the amount of white bloodline in the body, the class level of this mixed-race child is divided. A certain race is born as noble, and a certain race is lowly after birth.

Zhang Lipu is a descendant of a Spanish businessman in Macau. No one knows what happened back then. However, a white group of mixed-race children like him would not accept him. The Han people would not accept him either. He has been alone in Fujian, Guangdong, and in Southeast Asia since he was a child.

Perhaps because of the talent in language or because of life, this Lipdi Chinese and Spanish is not to mention, even the dialects of Guangdong and Fujian are familiar.

This time, Father Federer recruited foreigners to come here. Although Li Meng didn't know the specific situation, judging from the number of people recruited, it was obviously not so smooth. Maybe this Lipu foreigner was not a foreigner, and the Ming people were not a mixed-race of Ming people. It was just like this.

He was proficient in dialects everywhere. When he was on the boat, he spoke to the Chinese in Mandarin and foreigners in Spanish all day long. He was a sailor on the boat. He was not a cautious person and did not shy away from speaking, but Zhang Lipu could hear clearly.

Zhang Lipu, who grew up in the Ming Dynasty, also understood the importance of the matter. Naturally, he knew that the Zheng family's merchant ship went north to the Qing Dynasty. This matter can be big or small, or it can become his own level of advancement.

As a result, when they were about to get off the ship, they told the children on the ship who were here. After getting off the ship, the staff among the people hurriedly passed these words to Jiaozhou City.

Li Meng's expression remained unchanged, but he turned his eyes to the garrison of Jiaozhou City standing beside him. The Zheng family was an ally of the Jiaozhou Camp, and the words of this foreigner were really unconvincing.

The guard saw Li Meng looking over and quickly bowed and reported:

"Bizhi has already sent the letter to Xinyang Water Camp and rushed to send the horses quickly. Jiaozhou private port has also arranged fishing boats to go out to sea. I don't know the news about Dengzhou, but the fishing boats reported that the Zheng family did have cargo ships left the port and then headed north."

To the north, there is indeed another route to Japan, but Li Meng probably understood in his heart that the Zheng family must have colluded with the Qing Dynasty. This kind of wealthy family with local separatist colors has no concept of ethnic or country. The Zheng family and the Manchu Tatars do business. The profits must be generous.

Moreover, for Zheng Zhilong, dealing with the Qing Tartars was also a kind of betting and speculation. No matter how the world changes in the future, there will always be room for him.

I guess this camp did not obtain the harbor or Haikou, otherwise, Zheng Zhilong would not have not contacted him.

Li Meng let out a long sigh. After coming to this era, he always felt powerless. When he learned about the sayings of China and barbarians, he thought that this was the same as the concept of nations in later generations, and he aroused and operated some things by arousing the blood of the nation.

But the longer you are in this era, the more Li Meng understood what the concept of China and barbarians were. Barbarians lived in China and were China. No matter what kind of barbaric nation you were, no matter how you acted randomly after entering the pass, as long as you occupied the enemy of China, it was China.

For example, when the Mongol Yuan entered the world, the Central Plains was originally the richest place in the world, but after the Mongol Yuan destroyed the irrigation system, it began to weaken step by step.

There are also various policies to divide the people of the world into four levels, to treat the Han people as human beings, as well as various policies to support millions of Mongolians in the world, and various extremely vicious means.

Even this kind of Tartars had been passed down for more than a hundred years, and was called orthodox and the king of China. The Ming Empire also wanted to compile the Yuan Dynasty and recognize their status. After being expelled from the Central Plains and returned to the grassland, they became barbarians and beasts.

Under this concept, what Li Meng was worried about was that what Li Meng wanted to use and implement was actually something completely incompatible with this era.

In this era, no one in the world treated the Qing Tartars outside the control of the world as a terrible threat. For them, this was just a force that was also fighting for the world. It was no different from the Ming court and Li Chuang. All the powerful forces who were qualified to bet and speculate had to do was to choose one of them to decide to surrender, or join the competition themselves.

People in this era are not wrong. They don’t know what will happen in the next three hundred years and what will happen in three hundred years.

In order to maintain their own rule and maintain a nation that is hundreds of times more powerful than their own nation, what kind of high pressure and policies will the Qing Tartars adopt, and what kind of darkness will they create for this China?

It really makes people feel very tired. Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, the representative scholars and officials, realized that the Qing troops outside the pass were the main concerns of the Ming Dynasty, but they only realized that this was the only one. They could not imagine that the war at this time might be between two nations, between civilization and barbarism, in order to fight for the next few hundred years of luck-led war, which determines where China can reach among the world's nations.

However, although it is helpless to know this, it has not reached the worst level. The solution is.

The foreigner kneeling in front of Li Meng made him feel very interesting. With his previous experience, he had seen Chinese people who spoke foreign language and acted no differently from foreign devils. These two Japanese devils looked up at the sky when they saw the Chinese people, and were servile when they saw the foreigners.

But Zhang Lipu in front of him almost turned out to be the opposite. Although he was like a foreigner, he spoke the Ming Dynasty's official words and did not show any foreigner's appearance in his behavior.

If such a person is in modern times, he is afraid of speaking a Chinese sentence, but in this era, it is completely different. Although the gap between the Ming Dynasty and Europe has slightly widened, the winner has not yet been decided. In the eyes of Westerners, the East represented by the Ming Empire is still a symbol of civilization.

Perhaps it was a little puzzled. Seeing this guest being polite and completely Chinese-style mixed-race, Li Meng actually felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier.

However, to think about it another way, it is not surprising that Zheng Zhilong can do the beheading business with him, Li Meng, a warlord who is like a separatist, and go to do the business with the Qing Tartars.

"Zhang Lipu, do you regard yourself as a foreigner or as a wise man?"

This Zhang Lipu doesn't seem to know any professional machinery or military technology, but such smart and sleek people are lacking in such figures. Whether it is Houshan or the shopkeepers below, they are too stern in their work. They are obviously a businessman, but they are more like soldiers when doing things.

This mixed-race man still needs to be recruited. When he heard Li Mengxiang’s question, Zhang Lipu was indeed smart. He kowtowed on the ground and answered:

"The great man treats the small as a Ming person, the young man becomes a Ming person, the great man treats the small as a foreigner, and the young man becomes a foreigner!"

His answer made Li Meng laugh and waved his hand to ask the Jiaozhou garrison to lead the people down. This Zhang Lipu is really suitable for Lingshan Trading Company.

When the Jiaozhou garrison and Zhang Lipu walked out of the house, Li Meng's face turned cold, but from beginning to end, Sun Chuanting sat on the side was always slow to taste tea and read books, and he didn't even comment on what happened here. Zheng Zhilong had a relationship with the Qing Dynasty, which was expected.

In Shandong, where large ships can be docked, namely the Lingshan Private Port in Ducheng, Dengzhou and Jiaozhou, the other ports are in the sea ban, in order to prevent the Japanese pirates from landfilling and destruction.

Dengzhou Fucheng Seaport and Lingshan Private Port have built coastal defense forts, and each has troops stationed. With the combat effectiveness of the Zheng family's naval army, it is impossible to attack.

Since there is no infringement, although the number of people and equipment of Xinyang Water Camp is far inferior to that of the Zheng family's naval army, there is no problem in defending the port and cooperating with the fort.

Moreover, the main force of the Zheng family fleet is active in the south and its foundation is in Fujian. It will not rashly put a large number of forces into Shandong. It will not be worth the loss. The Zheng family's land combat capability is actually a joke. When it is in conflict with Guangdong pirates, it will also hire Japanese ronin.

Even if the Zheng family communicated with the Qing Dynasty, it would be a briefing news at most. It would not be possible to have any substantial threats, but he would not have any valuable news for this briefing. Jiaozhou Camp has a strict baojia system in Shandong and has divided military forbidden areas in various places. It is very vigilant and it is difficult to reach the sky if you want to find out what you see or see.

Based on various reasons, the Zheng family colluded with the Qing Dynasty and did not harm Shandong, so Sun Chuanting naturally would not treat it as a big deal.

Things were not a big deal, but Li Meng was not in a good mood. Soon, Huang Ping, the commander of the Shandong Salt Gang, rushed over. Li Meng sent his personal soldiers to summon him, and naturally he wanted to come quickly, but there were also emergency military newspapers from Henan.

The priorities are divided. Of course, things in the Zhuxian Town area of ​​Henan should be regarded as the top priority. Sun Chuanting also brought the iron mask and turned around from the coffee table to listen together.

This news can be said to be a bit incredible and a bit horrifying. After the 50,000 soldiers led by Yuan Zongdi and Tian Mixiu made a circle, they appeared behind the officers and soldiers of Zhuxian Town.

It sounds like intercepting the retreat of officers and soldiers, but what the 50,000 soldiers in the camp did was to dig trenches. The wide and deep trenches that could not be climbed out after falling in, it seemed like they wanted to circle the 400,000 officers and soldiers, and cut off water and food supplies.

Starting from the digging of this trench, the troops of the subsequent camp continued to follow. Li Zicheng's camp was famous for his "good attack" and the so-called good attack means good at attacking cities and villages.

The soldiers who broke into the camp were good at civil engineering, and most of them were miners. They were even more good at such excavation and construction. It is said that they had a considerable scale within one day.

From the beginning of excavation, subsequent soldiers and horses continued to appear, and the trenches were dug longer and longer. If you want to cross the trenches, you may only have to place the cloud ladders for siege, and the cloud ladders were placed horizontally, and load bearing was also a problem. Moreover, there were so many cloud ladders in Zhuxian Town.

But the news from Henan that even though Li Meng was in a very bad mood now, he couldn't help laughing out loud. Zhuxian Town had 400,000 Ming troops. Only General Yang Guozheng led 3,000 troops to attack once. As soon as he fought, he was defeated by the troops who broke into the camp. The three,000 troops were dispersed at that time. General Yang Guozheng fled in a panic with several personal guards.

Next, no officers and soldiers came to attack, all of whom were huddled in the military camp, watching the trenches outside dig longer and gradually wrapping the officers and soldiers.

This is indeed a joke. It seems like a group of hares, watching the hunters slowly circle them in with wooden bamboo cages. They knew that after they were completely circled, they would die. Waiting for the fate of the hares to be killed and eaten, but these hares just don't move and wait for death there.

If there were really a hare, they would jump a few times. I just don’t know if Zuo Liangyu and others would jump. At the west side of Zhuxian Town are Li and Luo Lianjun, and to the north are Kaifeng City and the Yellow River with the city gates closed. To the east are getting longer and longer, and they have to be wrapped up in a trenches.

Zhuxian Town is about to become a desperate situation, but until the Shandong Salt Gang sends back the news, Ding Qirui, Zuo Liangyu and others have not made any noise.

After laughing, Li Meng was really worried that the bad appearance of officers and soldiers would not cause any harm to the refugee army after fighting. After the defeat, the defeated soldiers and supplies would strengthen the refugee army. As the saying goes, two tigers will fight against each other, and the possibility of both losing money will be greater.

However, looking at the situation in front of you, the officers and soldiers are sheep. Given to tigers such as refugee troops, they will definitely be more powerful and more troublesome after eating.

That huge arrangement must be launched at the same time. If Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's millions of refugees easily defeated the 400,000 officers and soldiers under Zhuxian Town and grew stronger, all the prior arrangements would probably become useless arrangements.

The situation of the Li and Luo coalition forces has changed, and Nanzhili cannot be launched...

It’s really what Sun Chuanting told in private that foreign affairs cannot be thought of, and it’s not that you planned what you planned, others followed you.

Looking at the news sent back from Henan, Li Meng was there for a long time. Sun Chuanting hesitated and whispered:

"Master, did General Ma draw some troops back? If the bandits defeat Zhuxian Town's troops, we must have enough troops to make arrangements in northern Zhili."

Li Meng was quiet for a while before shook his head and said:

"If you don't go to Beizhili, there are still some grass-roots teams gathered by the imperial court in the capital. Let them disturb us. Let's guard the territory in front of us and wait for an opportunity to act."

After saying that, he turned around and called Yuan Wenhong, the chief clerk who was waiting outside, and said:

"The command of Jinan Daying, Dengzhou Army, and Jinan Daying are all in their efforts to defend Jinan Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture and Beizhili, and the entire army is on guard. Dengzhou Army will assist in defending the Qingzhou Military Defense Zone. At the same time, we will do a good job of defense of various seaports in Shandong and strictly inspecting people with ulterior motives. We must not let people with ulterior motives sneak into Shandong from the port. We will send the command of Qingzhou Army Ma Gang and Qingzhou Army to recover troops and concentrate them in the northern part of Huai'an Prefecture, so as to seek mutual care for Yanzhou and Qingzhou, Shandong."

Li Meng gently patted the tabletop with his hand and said again:

"Send an order to Chen Liu, the Huaiyang Army, to stay in Zhengyang Town, as the territory of Nanzhili, Shandong soldiers should bear more responsibility. At the same time, send a letter to Fang Er from Yangzhou to help him handle the military supplies for the Huaiyang Army. Let the people from Lingshan Trading Company discuss in detail."

Yuan Wenhong stood on the long table beside the recording. After Li Meng finished writing, he picked up the paper and blew a few breaths, let the ink marks be dried, and handed it to Li Meng for confirmation. If confirmed, it would form a document. After printing, the messenger was used to transmit the troops to each army. When Li Meng gave the order, Sun Chuanting was listening carefully.

Li Meng is about to post a document, and Sun Chuanting said in a deep voice:

"Master, this is just the situation at the moment, and there has not been a definite result. Since the army has already been arranged, you might as well wait. There is no harm."

Li Meng is good at everything when doing things, but he always seems to be fucked in some details, which makes Sun Chuanting, a person who is a governor and important minister, very confused. Why does Junyan seem to be a little childish in these details? The reason is that modern people come here. Some subtle rhythms will not be changed for a while.

What Sun Chuanting said was also to the point that the arrangement of the army had already begun. If there were any changes at present, it would be too unnecessary to suddenly consume food and grass costs.

As soon as the planner said this, Li Meng understood the meaning after a little thought, and immediately spoke:

"The Qingzhou army was stationed on the spot, and the 5,000 soldiers led by Gaoke returned to Huai'an Prefecture. Chen Liu's troops should not be defended in Zhengyang Town, and appropriately put pressure on Zhang Xianzhong and Ge Zuo Fifth Battalion!"

Rather than being the chief clerk, he was the chief secretary beside Li Meng. However, Yuan Wenhong had no complaints. I don’t know how many people envied him for such good luck.

Yuan Wenhong was not vague when changing the orders here. He directly drafted the orders one by one. He asked Li Meng to confirm one by one. Naturally, there were personal soldiers who had their hands on the side to take the seal and stamp it. Put it in the envelope and seal it with fire paint.

The restaurant where Li Meng is located, the cavalry messengers who were sending messages from the fast horses outside were ready at any time. Three shifts were on the turn of the order. Someone answered it immediately and ran down quickly. In a short while, you could hear the sound of horse hooves outside and go away.

It can be predicted that in the next period, it will be very leisurely, but Li Meng has no mood to enjoy it at all. It is also predictable that the heroes of the world did not follow his ideas in his game of chess. To be precise, the cowardice and incompetence of the officers and soldiers in Zhuxian Town really exceeded his expectations.

After reporting the news, the idle people retreated. Huang Ping also saw that Li Mengdi's expression was not very good, and he was unwilling to touch this bad head in the house.

Just as he was about to bow and leave, he heard Li Meng speak in a depressed voice behind him:

"Catch someone from the Zheng family and have to go out recently and know some people in the background. Don't let the Zheng family know. When they ask, we just don't know."
To be continued...