Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2171 Flower dispute (seventy-nine)

  Kipshuimen Strait is one of the important waterways leading from Hong Kong’s harbor to the Pearl River Basin. It is called Jishuimen because of its fast currents, but because the name is considered unlucky, it was changed to Kashuimen from a homophonic sound.

The location of the pirates is extremely hidden. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and one side is close to the sea, and the other side by the sea is closed by Chek Lek Kok Island, which is a natural harbor against wind. Ideal hiding place.

  Lantau Mountain is also known as Lantau Island. Nick had been there the last time he went to Macau, and had dealt with smugglers. This time he came to Lantau Island again to join the anti-smuggling fleet anchored at Kap Shuimen.

This fleet consists of 30 warships, each equipped with 50 sailors. It was originally supposed to be commanded by Chief Liu, but now he is dead and four lieutenants under the Chief are in charge. Each warship weighs only 250- 300 tons, there is no wave breaking device, the width including the hull plate is 12-15 feet, the sail is made of woven linen, and the seam of the sail is fixed with bamboo poles. Compared with European sails, the resistance of this sail is higher. The wind capability is stronger, but this advantage does not make up for the shortcomings of the warship itself. In terms of sailing speed, this kind of warship is not even better than the worst sailing ship.

  The anchors are made of a hard, heavy wood they call "ironwood", which they say is chosen because of its durability. There is no pilot on the ship, and the helmsman steers the rudder. They don't like to sail long distances, and they don't start the warship at full speed when sailing on the sea. They just sail along the coast along the compass bearing line.

   There were many people watching the excitement on the shore, because the Guangzhou Navy’s anti-smuggling ships had not yet faced off against pirates across the sea. Their opponents were generally smuggling ships, and the smuggler’s effective method was bribery, not head-to-head confrontation. They know very well that if it's just smuggling, it's just a fine of silver taels, and once the anti-smuggling officers and soldiers are injured, it will be a death penalty.

The harbour that had been busy on the last visit was now emptied, and even the European clippers docked in the winding waterways for shelter from the wind were nowhere to be seen. Longhair stood on the deck, and his mouth continued to make a rude screeching noise.

There was an Indian ship that didn't seem to have received news beforehand, and actually sailed to the harbour. The sailors on the ship were all scared, as if they were ready to run for their lives at any time, and they were busy with tension. After leaving this waters, the anti-smuggling ship symbolically chased it for a while and let it go, and no other ship made such a farce after that.

  Cao Xi was holding a telescope to check the situation of the enclave. There were many gray tents in the enclave, there were probably thousands of them. Even if two people lived in one tent, there were more than 2,000 people.

  The people on the shore thought that the fleet was involved in a desperate struggle, but Nick felt that the Qing generals were probably just trying to make a splash and make some superficial comments. When Emperor Kangxi was not in power, in order to deal with Zheng Chenggong, the four major ministers again imposed a sea ban. Not only did all ships not go to sea, but also the coastal residents of the six provinces of Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong had to move inward for 12 miles. The tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields form a no-man's land, thereby cutting off Taiwan's supplies.

  The pirates were very annoyed by this sea blockade, so they broke up into pieces, divided into several small fleets, and launched burning, killing and looting operations in more than 20 areas at the same time, and the entire coastal area was shrouded in terror.

  Zheng Yi or Sister Long asked his subordinates to strictly abide by discipline and not go ashore without permission, otherwise they would be severely punished.

The imperial edict was fully implemented in the first few years, which led to the abandonment of fisheries in the coastal areas and the desolation of the countryside, and the ban on the sea was not revoked after Zheng Chenggong's death, which reminded Nick of the proverb "The fire at the city gate affects the fish in the pond". Come.

After Kangxi unified Taiwan, the first glorious era of pirates came to an end. After a hundred years of recuperation, another pirate gang publicly rebelled. The pirates were not only numerous, but also more advanced in equipment than officers and soldiers. They bought a lot of British flintlock guns and cannons, and bought large ships in Vietnam and other places. Sometimes they are not afraid of the British navy.

The command post is located on a small island near Da'ao Town. Da'ao Town is part of Lantau Island. The residents on the island were driven away or they ran away by themselves. Their houses were occupied by officers and soldiers, and Nick lived in one of them. people's homes.

   The inside is very clean, and there is a very rough statue of "Mazu" in the house. You can see Macau when you walk out of the door.

  In the afternoon of Nickelodeon, the Portuguese in Macau also came. They sent six warships to cooperate with the Guangzhou Navy to encircle and suppress the pirates.

   The honorary title of the Admiral is the Prime Minister of the Military Door. If the order of exhibition sea continues to be implemented, military prestige is very necessary.

   On the second day, the combined fleet carefully searched for all the gathering places in this sea area that might become pirate dens. The vast formation seemed to scare them away, and the entire enclave was isolated and supplies were cut off.

   But Cao Xi did not plan to besiege for a long time, he was afraid that someone would take advantage of the emptiness of Guangzhou city to attack.

   Zheng only formed a loose pirate alliance, and pirates of other flags are likely to take advantage of the situation, so the next admiral will face a full-scale naval battle, and even the current admiral cannot leave.

  The best result is that the pirates fled in fear, the governor and the admiral jointly wrote a report to the emperor, how the Great Water Division was heroic and so on.

If    is defeated, even if he will not be beheaded like Zhang Guangsi, the good reputation that the Admiral has accumulated in Guangzhou over the past three years will be "outweighed by the merits and demerits".

When Emperor Yongzheng first ascended the throne, because of the unstable situation, he did not dare to attack Yinsi directly, but adopted a divide-and-conquer approach, reusing Yinsi on the surface, making him a prince, making him the head of the prime minister and ministers, and at the same time dealing with him. The people around you attack.

  After the death of Emperor Kangxi, the living Buddha of Mobei, Zhebuzundamba Hutuke, who was nearly ninety years old, came to go to the funeral. Unfortunately, he passed away in Beijing. The Qing court sent a high-level funeral team to send the coffin back to the grassland. Yongzheng used this justifiable excuse to send out the least important ten princes in the "Eight Kings Party" before the Shangyuan Festival.

  Yin's resistance to Xinjun was very heavy, and he was stagnant as soon as he reached Zhangjiakou, leaving a false pretense.

  It was also in the first month of the first year of Yongzheng, when the fourteenth elder brother came back from the northwest. According to the usual practice, he could not live without a clan before the army. He planned to send the nine elder brothers to the northwest.

At that time, Nian Gengyao was preparing to pacify Qinghai. Yinzhen was taken to Xining for surveillance before and after he arrived in the army. In the spring of the second year of Yongzheng, Nian Gengyao won a great victory in Qinghai. From then on, fighting in the Qinghai-Tibet region was not a non-fourteen brother. Not anymore.

When the news of Nian Gengyao's victory reached BJ, it coincided with the first Qingming Dynasty when Emperor Kangxi was buried in Jingling. Yongzheng led the princes and ministers to pay homage. In the previous year, Yongzheng planned to keep the fourteenth elder brother in Jingling. Mausoleum, but the fourteenth elder brother did not take this elder brother and the emperor in his eyes at all.

  After the great victory in Qinghai, the first thing Emperor Yongzheng did when he returned to BJ was to rebuke Yinsi in the "killing eagle incident", and to show all the ministers the decree that he would cut off justice with him. Yinsi begged repeatedly to save his face. But this document was still handed over to the Zongren Mansion, and Yinsi would take it out and circulate it whenever he had any trouble.

  The tenth elder brother who resisted the decree cut the jue and was transferred back to BJ for permanent ban, while the fourteenth elder brother also changed from guarding the mausoleum to being banned in Jingling.

   won the monstrous wealth, and at the same time may become a new threat to the emperor. Nian Gengyao's subsequent fate also left Yongzheng with a reputation of "little grace". Compared with the high-risk path of joining the army, being a civil official is much less risky, and Zhao Kuangyin does not need to "release the military power with a glass of wine".

   "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tool". Among the four treasures of the study, the "pen" is the first one. At present, the most widely circulated and the best pen is the Hubi, which is produced in Huzhou, Zhejiang. Qianlong did not use a lake pen to write small letters and Zhupi, or rather a pen produced in Huzhou, but a wolf-hair pen produced by Moxiangzhai Pen Village, Xianwengang Town, Jiangxi Province. This is also a famous hometown of writing brushes. Wang Xizhi and Wang Bo both used them Xianwengang's writing brush.

   Every year officials pay tribute to thousands of lake pens, but these pens are not used by Qianlong. The painters and officials like Liang Guozhi also use pens. The pen of Xianwengang was hand-picked by Qianlong when he went to Jiangnan.

   In theory, it is the scent of ink, but the ink is like black lacquer, the night is quiet, and there is a **** smell when the lights are dimmed. The National History Museum is located in Xihuamen, but it is only a temporary institution for writing history, and the national history is stored elsewhere. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Ming Shi moved from the Forbidden City to Dongchang Hutong, the former Dongchang Hutong.

  The Qing court once reprimanded Siam Thonburi king Zheng Xin for "taking the country wrongly", and the note Nick got was devastating.

   If there is only one, the Admiral is right to destroy it, but it is printed, and I don’t know how much it spreads in the southeast with a large population, so that everyone can take a share of the pie by “fighting the Qing and restoring the Ming”.

  In ancient times, people used bamboo slips to record characters, and they used a knife and a pen to engrave on it. Later, it is said that Meng Tian invented the brush, but the title of "scholar with knife and pen" is still retained.

  Song Huizong's skinny gold body is full of gold, but he didn't know how many lives it would take to write it. It's no wonder that when the admiral took the note from Nick, he seemed to have taken a glass of poisonous wine from the emperor.

  The note is a "life reminder". The square inkstone that Nick gave to the admiral was engraved with the pattern of "Tianlu", which was a common style in the Song Dynasty.

  Tianlu is like a deer and has a long tail. It has the effect of exorcising evil spirits and can ward off disasters. Yongan Bailu was a tomb-suppressing beast in the Han Dynasty, which means to protect the safety of the ghost house.

   At the same time, it also represents "destiny" and "royal position". A short time ago, the admiral went to calculate a hexagram, but I don't know what he predicted.

   Destiny can also be remedied, long relatives are contemptible.

   The current situation makes Juren wonder if he is a "Shen Sha Lone Star", why is he unlucky for whomever he votes for?

   (end of this chapter)