Chapter 44: Five Village Warlord Zhu Hesheng Qiu Monthly Pass)
Of course, Zhu Hesheng is super fierce!
Because he is now a warlord with territory, army, and even a "military industrial system"!
His father Zhu Jushan originally had two lands: Tianwang Village in Danan Mountain and Jinghai Fort near Haimen Bay at the foot of Danan Mountain. It is called a "fort village", but it is actually a village. Tianwang Castle is a bandit village. Most of the villagers were the old subordinates of the Tang King who followed Zhu Jushan out of Wen'an City.
A few days ago, Zhu Hesheng also received false news that the Tianwang Village was captured by Shang Zhixin. Later, he sent brave Su to take more than 100 "armys" to see it. On the third day after Yang Qilong left Gucheng Village, he just "returned back triumphantly". Oh, it was not actually triumphant, because nothing happened in the Tianwang Village, and it was a false alarm.
Jinghai Fort is a pirate village. The villagers are all the old relatives of Su Dadu (Sulli). After Daboling and Yongmao Su defected to the Dananshan Tianwang Castle, they slowly gathered in Jinghai Fort. However, most of the old relatives of Su Li were old, weak, women and children (most of the strong men had died in battle) and some half-old men, so they could not produce many soldiers.
Moreover, these "pirates" don't go out much now, and they mainly rely on farming the coastal land at the foot of Danan Mountain to live a life of the flat land. Although this was not a prosperous era in the early years of Kangxi, because the population suffered a large loss during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the conflict between people and land almost did not exist (unless it was artificially created by coastal migration). Therefore, it is relatively easy to dig food from the land.
In addition to the two villages of Tianwang Village and Jinghai Fort, Zhu Hesheng also brought the three villages of Longjingdu, Longtiandu and Narita from the boss Hui.
Although these three "capitals" are the so-called "town capitals", in the view of Zhu Hesheng, who is used to having "one.4 billion brothers and sisters", the population of these three "town capitals is in the Chaoshan area of later generations, which is a village.
The total population of these three towns is 35600... There are also a lot of children. I wonder if there are 600 adults with a 600 yuan?
Therefore, Zhu Hesheng, a warlord with five villages, including Tianwang Village, Jinghai Fort, Takayama, Longtiandu, and Naritadu, seems to have a bit of a déjà déjà sensation as a village chief in Japan!
Moreover, the Zhu warlord currently has a weak control over the three villages of Longjingdu, Longtiandu and Naritadu, because these three villages are all one village and one clan!
Longjing is all surnamed Ma, Longtian is all surnamed Li, Narita is all surnamed Lin, and the males in a village are all surnamed, all living in large and small buildings, and they are also armed.
With the order of the tribe leader of the three surnames, they could mobilize one or two hundred male men to guard the circumambular building!
In addition, the three surnames of Ma, Li and Lin are now intermarried and have a group of people. Before the Qing Dynasty moved the border and banned the sea, there were more than three clans in Longjingdu, Longtiandu and Narita. At that time, the families often fought each other to compete for land and water sources. However, after the coastal relocation, the population of Longjingdu, Longtiandu and Narita areas decreased sharply, and land and water sources were no longer scarce.
How to survive in the gap between the remnant Ming forces represented by the boss Hui and the Qing government is the biggest problem facing these three clans.
Zhu Hesheng is now the latest and most difficult problem facing the patriarchs of these three surnames!
Grandson Zhu San!
Good Mountain King, you don’t want to do it, but you just took the banner of Prince Zhu San and Grandson Zhu San... And according to the news that the Li family, who sold private salt in Puning and Jieyang, is probably the only one who has just become a "five-club warlord"!
This is really a disaster for the extermination of the clan!
In the lobby of Gucheng Village, Zhu Jiawei Building, Zhu Hesheng, wearing a Taoist outfit (not a Taoist priest suit, but a Confucian robe from the Ming Dynasty), was looking at the tribe leader of the three surnames who were led in by Daboling.
The head of the Ma family is a scholar, famous for Jackie Chan. He is not old, he is just a gentle and elegant white-faced scholar... But Zhu Hesheng knew that this white-faced scholar was a bit ruthless character.
Because the Ma family in Longjing has the most people among the three surnames, and his family also has the most turtledove-legged muskets!
The head of the Li family is an old man named Li Youcai. His forehead is very high, he looks like an old birthday star, and his face always has a kind smile that makes money. However, Eunuch Pang had told Zhu Hesheng a long time ago that Mr. Li Youcai is actually a big salt owl... a cruel person!
The patriarch of the Lin family looked like a decent farmer, with a sun-tanned face, who looked honest and not like a villain. But people should not behave like a person! This person's real name is Lin Ahu, and his flower name is "Hulin". He is thirty or forty years old and has an old acquaintance with brave Su and Daboling. Back then, he was a gunner under Dadu Su. After Dadu Su was defeated, he took some fellow comrades to his hometown Narita to live in seclusion.
Therefore, the Ma family of Longjing and Li family of Longtian all rely on turtle-footed muskets to resist the Qing soldiers, while the Narita Lin family, which was at the forefront (Narinata is located at the north, relatively close to Puning County controlled by Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers), directly mounted the cannons onto the surrounding building!
Relying on these two cannons, Lin Ahu had repeatedly repelled the Qing soldiers who had "forced to move" and were the most capable of fighting among the three tribes of Ma, Li and Lin!
So now he has been pushed to the front by Ma Xiucai and Old Man Li to be the first to be a leader.
Zhu Hesheng looked at Lin Laohu with an amazing look and was also ready to be the first to take him down.
After taking him down, Ma Xiucai and Old Man Li didn't dare to sing opposite each other in person.
So Zhu Hesheng asked Daboling to take out the granular black gunpowder he had just prepared for Lin Ahu to show.
"Aunt, get a bowl of gunpowder to reduce the fire for Brother Ah Hu!"
"What? Use gunpowder to reduce fire? What do you mean?" Lin Laohu became even more angry when he heard this, and his eyes were about to explode.
"Ahulin, how about this gunpowder?" Daboling smiled and took out a packet of granular black gunpowder that had been prepared long ago, then poured it into an empty iron bowl, and pushed the bowl of gunpowder in front of Lin Ahu.
"This..." Lin Laohu glanced at it, and his eyes lit up, "It's not bad! Where did it come from?"
Of course it's good! This is black granular gunpowder, which Zhu Hesheng spent a lot of effort to make. Because this thing needs to be granulated, it's much harder to get it than sweet gunpowder.
"Look!"
Zhu Hesheng is now ruthless and doesn't talk much, so he directly asked Daboling to ignite.
I saw Daboling take out a fire note that looked a bit like a cigar, pull out the lid and blew it a few times, making the flames burn more vigorously. Then she tore off a piece of burning hemp paper and threw it into the bowl, "boomed" some, and lit the bowl of gunpowder.
When gunpowder encounters fire, of course it will burn violently, and a large amount of white smoke will emerge.
Seeing the color of the smoke, Lin Ahu's mouth was round.
The cleaner the smoke, the higher the purity of the gunpowder. The higher the purity, not only will it burn vigorously, but it will also have fewer impurities, which will not easily corrode the cannon chamber.
After a while, a small bowl of gunpowder burned out, and only a small amount of residue was left in the iron bowl that was burned a little red.
"Okay, good stuff!" Lin Laohu was an expert, of course he had already seen the trick. He looked at Zhu Hesheng, "Architecture Zhu, is this gunpowder from the Red-Haiguo?"
Zhu Hesheng laughed: "Ahu, this is prepared by myself!"
"You made it?" Lin Ahu's eyes were almost protruding, "Really?"
"Of course it's true," Zhu Hesheng smiled, "Ahu, don't you know that I'm good at refining gunpowder and using cannons? Isn't this the name of my cannon Zhu?"
Just talk nonsense! Lin Ahuxin said: "Who doesn't know that your artillery Zhu Huaming was obtained because of your particularly bad temper?"
Chapter completed!