Zhongzhen Camp finally withdrew to Luzon Island as he wished, and established Zhongzhen Brigade there. Because most infantry were in Zhongzhen Camp, few cavalry and severely lacked war horses, Zhongzhen Brigade was set up as an infantry brigade. Later, the cavalry and artillery were strengthened and then turned into a mixed brigade. Li Mingxun promised to be a senior high school, to give Zhongzhen Camp a division, and give it the number of the Fifth Infantry Division.

Considering that after the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Mixed Brigade of the Southern War Zone was expanded into the Third Infantry Division, there was only one division-level unit away from the expansion of Zhongzhen Camp into the division, and the Zhongzhen Division was not far away that day.

After the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi, the United States received a population in addition to the silver and money, mainly the soldiers under the Three Han vassals, the Green Camp soldiers and their families on both wings, as well as the criminals and their families in Guangdong and Guangxi. The total population exceeded 220,000. The criminals and Han vassal generals were publicly shot at the city of Guangzhou. A large number of family members were registered as slaves, and those with a slightly lesser guilt were exiled, and the least the sentence was sentenced to labor reform.

The labor reform criminals went to Tainan and Luzon for labor reform, while the exiles were sentenced to different places of exile according to the size of the crime. The United States has established three complete chains of exile.

The first article starts from Kaohsiung, after the exile is on board, heading south along the east coast of Luzon Island, heading to Beiliu City, the only sea outlet of the Kagayan River in this city. Because the Kagayan River enters the sea from south to north, most of the local immigrants are refugees from Beiliu County, Guangxi, so they are named Beiliu City. The loyal voyage will also arrive here, and they will develop and reorganize them.

After lowering the guilt and the family members who were exiled to the North, they continued to go south to Licheng, which was the Spanish city of Legaspi. This city under the jurisdiction of the Security Bureau and the Admiralty did not accept exiles, but accepted serious slaves. They would provide supplies to the exiled ships and allow them to continue south to Jincheng, where most exiled prisoners were exiled, while some special exiled prisoners would go to more distant Australia.

These exiles were some Green Camp soldiers with less guilty crimes. After the exile was exiled, they would still bear labor reform punishment of varying time. It was just because the distance between the exiled was different. The same exiled prisoners would need labor reform for fifteen years in Beiliu, but only five years in Jincheng. The Green Camp soldiers with less guilty crimes were exiled to Australia and sentenced to less than ten years in labor reform. After they arrived in Australia, they would become free people.

Because the United States expedition ship has mastered the East Australian warm current, there is no need to detour the Tasman route anymore, so the speed is much faster.

The second route also departs in Kaohsiung, first arrives at Fort Glory, then head south to Manila Bay. The third stop is United Port (Prince Port) located in Palawan area. This is the territory of Luzon merchants in Palawan trading company. It is a newly established colonial company. Its main capital comes from Luzon, and the board of directors is all Luzon merchants. The Luzon region has the largest number of foreign merchants and overseas immigrant merchants in the United States, so it is named this way. The headquarters is also named United Port, which is actually modeled after the British East India Company. The full name of this company is: a company that London merchants trade in East India.

Leaving Union Port, he entered Brunei Port. During the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Borneo Development Company had already taken over the city. The reason for the war was that Chinese merchants sold pig bristle brushes in Brunei Port, which caused a big rebound among local residents. Although it was later proved that it was a rumor that the merchant was selling horse bristle brushes, it was no longer important. The Borneo company used the Brunei Sultanate to massacre foreign merchants by intervening. The army of two thousand people destroyed this small country in the South China Sea and plundered nearly 100,000 people in the country as slaves. The Brunei royal family, which took the Chinese as their ancestor, was no exception. The Brunei Port had just taken over and was when the population was needed.

The next stop is naturally Jincheng, Wendao Port. After staying in Wendao Port to replenish supplies, they will continue to go south through Banten Port. The British-Dutch war is in full swing, and the two East India companies in the East are hard to part with. In the Indian Ocean, the Dutch launched a naval battle, and in the East Indies, the Dutch launched a land war. The new governor, Matt Solko, first reached an armistice agreement with the Malan Blue Sultanate, and then prevented the army from conquering the Banten Sultanate and burning the British commercial stations in the territory. As a default compensation for this, the Dutch East India Company assigned one of them to the China Shipping Group as a demilitarized zone.

The United States recognizes that this area belongs to the Dutch and pays taxes and a symbolic annual rent of one or two taels. No military activities are allowed in the area nor troops and warships are stationed. In fact, the China Shipping Group only provides a stronghold for immigrants. After supplying Banten, the immigrant ship will go south. Here, the immigrant ships are divided into two routes. One is to go to the three strongholds in South Africa in winter in the southern hemisphere with the help of the southeast wind, and the other is to go to the city of Western Australia in summer with the northwest wind.

The second route provides exiled prisoners for South Africa and Australia, but there are differences. Many of the exiled prisoners who went to Australia were just captured Qing troops, while those who went to South Africa were old prisoners who performed well in labor camps. The various strongholds in South Africa were too far from their homeland. The United States needed to ensure that the residents who went there were reliable, so as not to give other colonists the opportunity to take advantage of it. Australia is different, there is an isolated island where no one dares to pass it.

The third route takes the Western route, departs from Hong Kong, attacks Qiongzhou Prefecture, Kowloon, Huacheng (Peking Dayan), Lion City, and Penang along the way, and finally arrives in Tengcomali on Ceylon Island. Of course, it has been named Xiangwan Port by the Senate for producing spices.

These exile routes will pass through many strongholds in the United States, and the court's conviction of exiled prisoners is not static. At the strongholds along the way, when the exiled prisoners are sick and weak and unable to move forward, the prisoners can choose to stay, but the sentence will be aggravated. For example, if a person who has been exiled to Brunei for ten years of labor reform, if he chooses to stay in the Fort Glory, the labor reform time may be increased to thirteen years.

When the court verdicts, the longer the exile, the fewer the labor reform period, the more you choose to be exiled, and going to Australia will directly become a free citizen.

These are open exile routes, and Jincheng has not yet been made public, so the last two routes are also immigration routes. In terms of immigration, the country will also encourage commercial immigrants or merchant ships to support immigration. Merchant ships from Xiangwan, Western Australia, Cape Town and other places will be given trade privileges if they bring immigrants who are willing to stay in the local area when they arrive. For example, in the era of cotton shortage, the number of immigrants brought directly determines the amount of cotton delivery. After the victory of the Sino-Dutch War, a large number of Dutch ships that were captured, seized, and deducted debts and some retired warships became the first choice for exile ships.

In addition to the route of Kingstown, there are routes to the Americas that have not been made public. A Prince Orange-class armed transport ship captured in the Sino-Dutch War served on this secret route. In this way, the two ships sent 900 to 1,000 people to Kingstown in the Americas every year (more than one-third of the losses on the road, so they were exiled prisoners).

The exile system made overseas territories and colonies very support the wars of the United States on the mainland, and for the people they exiled were either soldiers with martial arts or officials who knew the words and literacy far exceeded those in the country, which also laid the foundation for the spread and growth of Chinese civilization overseas.

In early August of the eighth year of Yongli, Li Mingxun cut the ribbon for a shipping school in Hong Kong. This shipping school was funded by the Shen Tingyang family and the Zheng Cai family. The purpose is to cultivate sailors, navigation, management, ocean trade and foreign language talents. It serves various large and small shipping companies and ship owners. The largest enrollment amount is the sailor department. The shipping study will take nine months to one year to train sailors who are competent for ocean sailing, and the largest number will be immigrant sailors.

The so-called immigrant sailors are not sailors from other countries, but sailors willing to go to the overseas territories of the United States. These sailors study in shipping schools without paying tuition fees. After they are completed, they will naturally recruit major shipping companies and ship owners who conduct ocean trade, and these people will pay tuition fees for them.

The victory of the Sino-Dutch War, the development of South Africa, the development of Australian colonies, and the Indian Ocean region became the trade scope of United States merchants, and the ocean sailors were urgently needed. Ocean sailors often caused the death of a large number of sailors. Therefore, when traveling to the Indian Ocean, the sailors were over-made. Although the captains hired immigrant sailors, they would spend some money, but after arriving at the destination, they would obtain corresponding trade privileges, so it was simply a profitable deal, which was much more cost-effective than finding immigrants in the market.

After the ribbon was cut, Li Mingxun rode his horse to the dock and boarded the newly launched battleship Zhuque. Shen Tingyang was with him. Li Mingxun said: "Shen Gong's shipping school was suitable two months ago. Why did it last until today to cut the ribbon today? It has simply missed many people's studies."

Shen Tingyang said: "If you have the head of state to cut the ribbon, it is appropriate to wait for two months."

Zheng Cai smiled and said, "Brother Shen is afraid that the Head of State will really fight with Zheng Chenggong."

Shen Tingyang smiled awkwardly and said, "Although the head of state is just a word, I am trembling in my heart after all. This time, King Yanping has many faults, and the head of state should blame him. I feel that there is still some friendship, so I will go north to Zhoushan with the head of state."

Li Mingxun smiled: "Mr. Shen still has a friendship with me, but it depends on him Zheng Chenggong, at least I have a peaceful heart."

"If peace is there, why should I lead such a fleet?" Shen Tingyang asked.

Among Li Mingxun's fleet are battleships Qinglong, Qilin, Xuanwu, Zhuque, Taiwan-class battleships Luzon, Yongning, Nanhua, Australia, heavy cruisers Vladivostok, Penang, a total of eight battleships and two heavy patrols. In addition, there are six sail frigates. Among these warships, Zhuque, Nanhua, Australia, and two heavy patrols were launched after the Sino-Netherlands War, and this battleship fleet is enough to destroy the navy of Zhoushan.

Lee Mingxun smiled and said, "If there are wars, there should be Marines and Gallery Fleets in the fleet."

What Li Mingxun is telling the truth is that when fighting in Zhoushan, the powerful battleships are indeed not as effective as the sailing fleet. Only leading the battleships is a deterrence rather than a war.

Chen Tingyang's face was pale and didn't know what to say. He shook his head helplessly. The fleet headed north. Because of the wind, it was only on the twelfth day that it was the sea area of ​​Zhoushan. Li Mingxun was famous for sending Chen Tingyang to Zhoushan and led a large fleet to pass through major ports such as Zhoushan and Daishan. He also conducted an artillery drill outside Zhoushan Port. The scene of hundreds of heavy artillery fired appeared in front of the Guo family, and then headed north to Sijiao Mountain.

Li Mingxun sent someone to send Chen Tingyang to Zhoushan, without mentioning his conditions at all, and only the same thing was to ask Zheng Chenggong to come to Sijiao Mountain for negotiations. It was only ten days to arrive. Li Mingxun did not say what would happen in ten days, but no one would not understand.

Zheng Chenggong did not go directly to Sijiao Mountain, but on the third day after Li Mingxun arrived at Sijiao Mountain, he sent an envoy to Sijiao Mountain. However, the envoy did not see Li Mingxun, and the letter written by Prince Yanping handed over was not responded, and it was impossible to open it. The envoy was also an eloquent person. When the attendant reiterated that Zheng Chenggong would come to see him in person, the envoy asked him where Zheng Chenggong came to see him.

Zheng Chenggong is no longer the original national surname. During the period when Li Mingxun recovered Guangdong and Guangxi, Zheng Chenggong contacted the Yongli Emperor who was far away in Anlong Prefecture, Guizhou through secret channels, and reached a secret political alliance with Sun Kewang. Zheng Chenggong is now the general of the Yanping King of the Ming Dynasty, who was controlled by the southeast coastal waters and land armies, and was recognized by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The former governor Zhu Yihai continued to watch matters in Zhoushan as a military supervisor.

In this way, the Zhoushan army is no longer a member of the Unified Front of the Anti-Qing Imperial Front. Li Mingxun, the leader of the Anti-Qing alliance, could not order Zheng Chenggong to come to see him. Zheng Chenggong and Li Mingxun are not in the same regime and the same country, so how can they take the initiative to come to the door?

Li Mingxun’s answer to the envoy was, why did the country come to see him? Only I am stronger than him!

The envoy was speechless and had to go back to Zhoushan. Within two days of his departure, Zheng Chenggong stepped onto Sijiao Mountain Island. It turned out that he had already arrived by boat. He sent an envoy to test first, but he would not come here in person. Although this behavior was called cautious by his subordinates, he was still afraid of the strength of the United States Navy, because Zheng Chenggong knew very well that even though Sijiao Mountain was very close to Zhoushan, the loss of time at sea often occurred. Zheng Chenggong worked hard for several years to achieve today's achievements. How dare he take risks? Furthermore, what is Li Mingxun's intention? Zheng Chenggong really cannot guess.

Under the guidance of the attendant, Zheng Chenggong left the dock full of battleships and came to a small temple. Sijiao Mountain played the role of an immigration transfer station for a long time. The storm on the sea was harsh, life and death were unpredictable, and people had no way to rely on it. So you built this small temple with bricks and tiles, and there was a Buddha statue in it. The Buddha statue was solemn, but there was a hint of anger between the eyebrows and eyes, which made it even more severe.

"General, your knife." The attendant stretched out his hand at the door.

Zheng Hongkui shouted, "What's your master's mind? He actually..."
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