"This boy has a round face and a big forehead, and is born with the appearance of wealth. With your support, he will soar to the sky." Zheng Zhilong shook his head.

Li Xiao smiled and said nothing!

If it hadn't been for my arrival, your Zheng family's foundation would have been destroyed in the hands of this kid.

The incident got a bit big, and the presiding monk hurriedly ran out of the meditation hall. When he saw Zheng Zhilong, he saluted him. The Zheng family was actually the largest wealthy man in Quanzhou. The main hall of Kaiyuan Temple was built with the money from the Zheng family.

Seeing Zheng Zhilong and Li Xiao walking side by side, the old monk knew that this young man was not a simple man. After inviting the two of them to sit down in the meditation room, he personally cooked some vegetarian dishes. Zheng Zhilong did not lie, this old guy's vegetarian dishes were cooked

It's really good.

Especially the vegetarian fish dish, it really tastes like fish. It’s just that the old monk has been a vegetarian since he was a child. How does he know what fish tastes like?

Zheng Zhilong didn't leave just when he wanted. If he wanted to leave Quanzhou Prefecture, he had to solve a problem.

Before Li Xiao arrived in Quanzhou, sporadic armed fights between natives and foreigners had begun to occur in Fujian. These days, it has become a fire-fighting situation. The armed fights between natives and foreigners have become more and more fierce. From separate and sporadic vendettas, they have developed into the demolition of villages.

The so-called village demolition is when the native Hokkien people and the Hakka people destroy each other's villages. They kill all the men in the village, take away all the women in the village, and set the village on fire. The method is extremely cruel.

"Actually, this kind of thing started during the Wanli period. At that time, there were continuous wars in the north, and many people fled from the north to the south. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas are rich, but they are also overcrowded, and the people there are extremely xenophobic. Northerners are not good in Jiangsu and Zhejiang

After establishing a foothold, many people went south to Fujian, which we called guests.

At first, the guests and the indigenous Fujian people could live in harmony, but as time went by, the guests gained a foothold, and relatives and fellow villagers who had not done well in Jiangsu and Zhejiang came to seek refuge. The number of guests gradually increased, and so did the land space required.

.After decades, the Hakka people have become a common phenomenon in Fujian.

You know, we don’t have much arable land in the Fujian land. How can we accommodate so many people, so the indigenous Fujian people and the Hakka people began to have conflicts." Zheng Zhilong stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the fortress in the distance, unable to do anything.

Li Xiao was extremely surprised!

The village in front of me is not a village, it can be called a fortress. The fortress I built in Liaodong to defend against the Tatars cannot be compared with it in terms of quality or quantity.

Every village here is a strong fortress.

There are also some strange villages. The houses in the whole village are connected to form a circular tube tower. Looking from a distance, it looks like a missile silo. A trench more than ten feet wide was dug around the tube tower. According to Zheng Zhilong, the turbid water inside

It is full of sharp bamboo thorns. If you dare to step in, your feet will be pierced through.

Li Xiao was a little surprised. How could such a village be demolished? How could it be done?

Our Liao army is considered elite. If we want to break through such a battle fortress, we have to use artillery. They are all villagers, where do they get the artillery?

"The government can't control it?" Li Xiao asked with a frown.

"I can't control it. The situation here is complicated. The soldiers sent here are either helping here or helping that side. It's good to be able to stay in the military camp and remain neutral. I've asked many times over the years to mobilize troops from other provinces, but you also know.

In recent years, the Tatars in the north have been making trouble, and then you are making trouble. The court has no way of sending reinforcements!

As a result, I can only watch helplessly as the locals and guests are making trouble. The trouble has been going on for two or three years now. As long as they don't affect my Quanzhou city, I can only watch." Zheng Zhilong's words were quite helpless.

Li Xiaocai didn't think that what this guy said was true. It was mainly to mediate the fight between the natives and the foreigners, which was of no benefit to Zheng Zhilong. If there was any benefit to be taken advantage of, he would have taken action long ago.

"Here we come. On the other side of the red flag are the indigenous Fujian people, and on the other side of the white flag are the Hakka people." Zheng Zhibao, standing on the top of the mountain, pointed to the distance with a telescope and shouted.

Li Xiao raised his binoculars and was really shocked. A large group of people marching with red flags came from the distance. Those guys with red scarves on their heads held swords, guns and sticks in their hands. There was even a group of about a hundred people.

The team was holding firecrackers in their hands. At the end of the team, a slow-moving ox cart pulled a cannon. Li Xiao recognized it at a glance as a Fo Lang machine gun imitated by the Ming Dynasty.

In the northern battlefield, this thing is a backward weapon that has been eliminated. This is also Li Xiao's fault. His arrival has caused a spurt in the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty. Various advanced weapons are emerging one after another, and Western imports are seriously unsuitable for the increasingly fierce competition.

battlefield.

Looking at the team on the opposite side wrapped in white turbans, the number was obviously smaller. But the guys in their hands were not weak at all, and there was no shortage of guns and artillery. Li Xiao even looked at it and saw that some things looked like primitive rocket launchers.

The principle of the rocket launcher is similar to that of the famous firecracker monkey. It is lit on fire and explodes when it escapes. The technological content is not very high, but the villagers in these years have tinkered with it, which really surprised Li Xiao.

The red side takes the main action, and the white side relies on the villages to arrange troops.

It was obvious that the leaders of both sides were quite military-minded. Especially White, who did not passively defend inside the walled city. Instead, he lined up with his back to the walled city to face the enemy. This was beyond Li Xiao's expectation.

Normally in this situation, many people without military knowledge would huddle inside the walled city and passively defend themselves.

If the opponent does not have artillery, hiding in the walled city is indeed a good way to defend. Unfortunately, artillery has already appeared on the battlefield.

As long as one blasts them with artillery, the people huddled in the walled city will not only be unable to effectively fight back, they will not even be able to rush out and fight for their lives. They will be completely surrounded by people in this circular tube building like a missile silo.

If the other party starts setting fire, no one in the Tongzi Tower will survive.

After the two sides formed their formations, they first exchanged artillery fire. Then the musketeers started shooting!

They were all primitive fire cannons. Both sides stood in rows and shot at each other. In Li Xiao's view, this was lining up to kill. When the musketeers were almost exhausted, they would launch a hand-to-hand charge. Bows and arrows flew in the sky, and the remaining musketeers on the ground worked hard.

Load and launch.

Although the number of White troops was small, they were protected by the crossbows and artillery on the wall. They were able to kill and injure many native Fujian people! This was not like a civilian fight, but more like a regular confrontation between two armies.

Li Xiao firmly believed that the kings of medieval Europe did not have this level of tactics when fighting.

"After several years of fighting, I have made progress. Before, I only knew how to rush up in a chaotic manner, slashing and killing. Now I am better. When my soldiers face a battle, I am afraid they won't fight as hard as they did." Zheng Zhilong

He sighed helplessly.

"These soldiers are made by fighting, not training. Soldiers who have been on the battlefield are absolutely two different things from those who have not been on the battlefield. Veterans with combat experience are the greatest wealth of the army." Li Xiao nodded.

According to what Zheng Zhilong said, this group of people has been fighting for several years. It is not unusual to have such tactical literacy. Those with poor tactical literacy will probably be buried in the ground.

Li Xiao was suddenly startled! He glanced at Zheng Zhilong who was looking at ease.

So ruthless! Zheng Zhilong controls Ba Fujian and has the financial resources of the South China Sea waterway. It is absolutely nonsense to say that he cannot quell the armed fighting between the natives and the guest. Zheng Zhilong is raising soldiers. With these soldiers he fights on weekdays, as long as he pays to recruit them, he will immediately

Can form a large army capable of conquering and fighting.

I brought myself here to visit today just to let myself see this scene. It is also another manifestation of surrender to Li Xiao. It seems that Zheng Zhilong has not been idle during the more than ten days he has been in Quanzhou.

He must have used flying pigeons to send letters to contact Zheng Sen in the capital. Quanzhou is so far away from the capital. There must be a transfer station in the middle. The Zheng family's plans are not small.

Zheng Zhilong only handed over this last trump card to Li Xiao after gaining Zheng Sen's understanding of electricity, which was regarded as giving up his ambition.

Okay! Sure enough, none of the heroes in troubled times is like Yi Yu.

"Yes! If the soldiers in my camp are equipped with the same equipment as theirs, they will definitely not be their opponents." Zheng Zhilong glanced at Li Xiao.

"Looking at their battle, it is estimated that the total number of people is more than ten thousand. I have two battalions of marines on the ship. As long as I mobilize the marines, I should be able to annihilate them all in less than two hours.

This is just the Marine Corps. If it is Ao Ye's first division, or the second division that is coming to Fujian...! A reinforced battalion should be able to solve the battle within an hour." Li Xiao's understatement made the people next to him

Zheng Zhibao almost screamed in surprise.

Ten thousand or several thousand people, only enough to fight for an hour? He very much suspected that Li Xiao was bragging, but he couldn't get angry because of his face.

"Among the Liao army, the first and second divisions are the most capable troops. In the bloody battle against the Tatars in Liaodong, they were as ferocious as the Tatars and could not get any advantage from Master Ao and Commander Yuan. Not to mention these rabble, I just want to

I left southern Fujian, but I didn’t want to leave this difficult problem to Master Yuan!”

Li Xiao didn't even look at Zheng Zhilong and said calmly: "The fight between the two sides is nothing more than grabbing living space and resources. Fujian only has so much space and resources. The Fujian people have been in Fujian for so long and have already occupied the best resources.

When the Hakka people came to Fujian, they naturally did not get much benefit. At first, they were able to tolerate it because they were weak. But as the number of people increased, they began to need more. This was the source of armed fighting.

As long as this source is removed, both sides will naturally draw fire from the bottom of the cauldron, and this pot of boiling water will slowly cool down." Li Xiao smiled slightly, as long as the source of the matter is found, it will not be difficult to solve.

"Oh, how will the commander resolve the fight between the two sides?" Zheng Zhilong was surprised and didn't understand why Li Xiao said it so easily.

"It's very simple! Across the sea is Yizhou. He Kegang has led people to cultivate Yizhou for ten years. The land in Yizhou cannot be cultivated by his tens of thousands of people. As long as Yizhou is opened to immigrants, whether it is Hakka

Both human beings and Fujian natives can immigrate to Yizhou.

However, I believe that the Hakka people who like to immigrate more should be Hakkas. When they arrive in Yizhou, they will be registered as household residents and issued household registration. In the future, whether they join the army or study, they will be no different from ordinary Ming people. I think this is just

Just one piece has a fatal attraction for them."

Zheng Zhilong nodded. Sitting in this position, Li Xiao is really capable.

It seems that Li Xiao has seen through his intentions, which is also a sign to Li Xiao. From now on, the Zheng family will no longer be involved in the military and surrender to Li Xiao.

The news brought by Zheng Sen was actually in two parts. One part said that if the Zheng family controls electricity, it will not only be as rich as the enemy, but also have a unique voice in China.

The other part is about the strength of the Liao army. Looking at China now, even if all the opposition forces unite, they will definitely not be the opponent of the Liao army. The most important navy of the Zheng family was destroyed by the English fleet, and the Zheng family has no one to bargain with.

capital.

Giving up control of the South China Sea and Fujian and Guangdong in exchange for the wealth of the Zheng family's descendants for generations to come is the best way out for the Zheng family now.

The purpose of bringing Li Xiao here today is to hand over the Zheng family's last trump card. To make it clear to Li Xiao that the Zheng family has withdrawn from competing in the world.

Now that Li Xiao has come up with the solution, it means that Li Xiao understands what Zheng Zhilong means. Both parties have a tacit understanding that from now on, the Zheng family can rest assured and be rich.

While the two people were talking, corpses were already littering the ground below. Both sides paid an extremely heavy price, but the living people continued to be killed. In the end, the Hakkas outside the walled city were no longer able to match the numerical superiority of the indigenous Fujian people, and gradually

It shows a desperate situation.

The indigenous Fujianese were the main force and had been watching the battle but did not participate in the battle. At this time, like wolves smelling blood, they fiercely charged towards the weakest part of the battle line.

The Hakka people had already boarded the last reserve team, and no one could push forward. They could not withstand the charge of this new force. In an instant, the Hakka people were rushed to pieces. Many people began to move forward.

As he fled inside the walled city, the native Fujian people chased him and killed him inside the walled city.

Soon a fire broke out inside the walled city, and Li Xiao could even vaguely hear the screams of women and children.

"This kind of thing went on for several years. Sometimes it was the Hakka people who attacked and destroyed the cities of the indigenous Fujian people. Sometimes it was the indigenous Fujian people who attacked the cities of the Hakka people. It was like this every time. They were all murderers, and

They were all killed. They look pitiful now, but when they killed others, they were equally bloody and cruel.

Anyone who doesn't mention the murder knife is not a knife. No one here is innocent." Li Xiao sighed. When things have reached this point, it is no longer clear who is right and who is wrong. The murderer is seeking revenge.

, those who seek revenge are also avenged.

Killing and killing, they are all poor people fighting to stay alive!

The flames below were burning, and thick smoke rose straight into the sky. The indigenous Fujian people carried the trophies and escorted the captured women and children away. They left behind burning flames, the howling wounded, and corpses everywhere.
Chapter completed!