Chapter 1445: Qin Lang's Southern Tour
Chapter 1445 Qin Lang's Southern Tour
Under the blue sky.
In the vast deep sea, a fleet is braving the wind and waves. In front of the big treasure ship of the Qin family, Anguoxiangwang, a group of dolphins are swimming in front of the ship.
They jumped up from time to time on the sea surface at an extremely fast speed, then dived, jumped up again, and moved forward in a peculiar way, but it was pleasing to the eye.
“The crew likes these guys very much in the sea, just like magpies on land.”
Qin Lang stood on the deck, next to his eldest son Qin Jun, and many old guys from Luzon. Hezhou and Nanfangzhou.
The sea in Shaoxing in early summer is very beautiful.
This piece of ocean between the Big Island of Thousand Lakes (Mindanao Island), Shaoxing Islands (Palawan Islands), Borneo, and West Hezhou (Soviet-connected Weixi Island) has a well-developed fishery.
Now it has almost become the inland sea of Luzon, and is even affectionately called Luzon Sea by Luzon people. The Sulu Sea between Shaoxing Islands, Qianhu Island and Borneo is called Shaoxing Sea.
As for the seas between Xihezhou and Dongshengzhou (Xinfeng Neia Island), which are further south of the Luzon Sea, they are called Fragrant Seas because of the Spice Islands.
This time, Qin Lang and his party started from San Francisco Port, took the western route, passed through the Shaoxing Islands, and stopped at Princess Harbor. After the tour, I met the Boni king and queen couple who came to pay their respects, and chatted with the adoptive daughter and his wife about home affairs to increase friendship, and then continued to fly eastward.
Depart from Jiaxing Islands (Sulu Islands) to Qianhu Island, and arrive at Qianhu Port after replenishment and rest at Jiaxing Port.
Along the way, stop and go, enjoy a lot of scenery along the way, and also see the expansion of Luzon over the years.
In the past, the seas were barren and full of indigenous barbarians, but now they are all the land of Luzon. The trading ports in the sea are also the military ports of the conquerors. Not only trading merchant ships, but also warships and warships are also patrolling and cruising on the sea.
On the fertile estuary plain, there are plantation manors, and there are always Tunbao manors of the knights next to them.
"I feel that the changes along the way are really great." Qin Jun sighed, "I fought here for more than ten years, and the resistance of the barbarians here was quite tenacious, and a large number of barbarians even ran to the sea to fight We hunted down pirates, occupied desolate islands, ambushed our merchant ships in small boats, and attacked our pioneering strongholds. At that time, we were not only stormtroopers, destroying indigenous strongholds that dared to resist, but also firefighters, rescue everywhere The merchant ships and strongholds that were attacked, rounded up those pirates and captured them back to the dock to hang them."
"After all, it's been more than ten years." Qin Lang smiled while holding a teacup.
When Qin Jun first entered the dynasty, the Luzon Islands had basically quelled the resistance of the natives, leaving only a few scattered forces reduced to pirates and bandits.
"In recent years, the combined fleet of the South China Sea Propaganda and Consolation Commissioner has expanded considerably. Now it has a total of 10,000 people, including more than a hundred ships of various sizes, and 5,000 marines. There are several military bases. It can berth at more than a dozen ports in ten countries in Southeast Asia for supplies."
The military expenditure of this naval fleet is the customs tax collected by the United Fleet from all merchant ships in the South China Sea.
All merchant ships navigating within the oceans of the ten countries in Nanyang must pay this customs tax, which will be collected by the United Fleet. After paying it once, you can get a tax bill and a flag, and then you can use it throughout Nanyang Smooth sailing.
The United Fleet even gives special benefits to the merchant ships of the ten-nation alliance member countries. They can directly pay taxes according to the size of the merchant ships, pay annual membership fees, and then no longer have to pay taxes within one year. do not care.
This customs tax was proposed by Qin Lang to be collected as a special military expense for the joint fleet. It was earmarked for the purchase and maintenance of ships and weapons of the fleet, the construction and maintenance of naval bases, and the military rewards for naval soldiers. combat military spending.
Thanks to this money, the strength of the combined fleet has now increased to 10,000. There are several naval bases. The ships and weapons are good. The training is also sufficient, and the salary and salary are not bad.
The United Fleet has a general staff, which is composed of generals sent by the ten countries of the alliance, but in fact this joint fleet is controlled by Luzon, and the general staff only communicates with other countries and provides military intelligence sharing.
The command is in charge of the command office appointed by Qin Lang. The presidential commander is also the supreme commander of the fleet. The following commanders and deputy commanders are responsible for personnel, training, equipment, logistics, etc.
The United Fleet does not belong to the Luzon Armed Sequence, but belongs to the Nanyang Propaganda Department, so it can be regarded as the Tang Army. Their main responsibilities are to maintain peace and stability in the Nanyang region, combat pirates, **** routes, protect merchant ships, and even provide maritime rescue. And have the obligation and responsibility to fight against the rebels in the alliance countries.
Especially the latter one, which even left a window for the joint fleet to interfere in the internal affairs of the allies.
Therefore, this army has 10,000 sea and land troops. The main base is in Nanyang Qinjiaxi Port, and the sub-bases are located in Malacca Lion Port, Sunda Strait Coconut Port, and Qinjia Anlan in the Andaman Islands between the Bay of Bengal and the Sea of Myanmar on the Indian Ocean. port.
There is also Fubo Island on the island of Bali between Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands.
One master and four lieutenants, five bases of the United Fleet, except for Yegang, which belongs to the concession of the Qin family's Shandi Dynasty, the others are the Qin family's own overseas territories.
Especially in terms of location, these five bases are located on several important shipping routes in Nanyang, especially in the necessary places to enter and leave Nanyang.
To enter and exit Southeast Asia, the base of the United Fleet cannot be bypassed.
Before Qin Lang left Beijing, he personally asked the emperor for the title of Nanyang Consolation Envoy, in order to further strengthen his voice in the Nanyang region, and mastered a Nanyang Fleet of ten thousand people, so this Nanyang Consolation Envoy But it's not just an empty title.
Rather, it has a strong influence on the countries in the Nanyang region, especially in recent years, the Nanyang Spice Alliance, which has become more mature and has greatly benefited all countries, has made the entire Nanyang region closer and closer. .
Qin Lang never thought of annexing the whole of Nanyang, which is unrealistic.
However, strengthening the Nanyang alliance and forming a close alliance with Luzon as the leader is worth the effort.
Now, after 20 years of hard work, this alliance has made good progress in economics and trade, regional security and other aspects.
Especially through Qin Lang's alliance with his relatives, the ten countries have been fighting fiercely in recent years. Among Qin Lang's descendants, many of them married princesses from other nine countries, and Qin Lang also took many righteous daughters, righteous Granddaughters, even concubine granddaughters, were married to princes and nobles in various countries.
In addition, Qin Lang has been working hard to promote Confucianism and Confucianism, Han Chinese, and even Tang system standard weights and measures in the ten countries these years. cultural circle.
Today, the alliance holds spring and autumn councils in San Francisco and Lion Harbor every year, in San Francisco in autumn, in Lion Harbor in spring, and occasionally in Xigang, Coconut Harbor, Xinjinshan or Princess Harbor, Shanghai, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Qianhu, etc. Hong Kong held a meeting of senior officials of the Alliance.
The former Nanyang powers Huyue, Nanben, Tuoluo and other countries have all been wiped out by the Tang Dynasty. In the past 20 years, the Ten Kingdoms have also annexed many small countries and tribes within their respective spheres of influence. The alliance acquiesced and even supported it.
As long as the sphere of influence of other allies is not violated, everyone supports each other, and sometimes they are even invited to send troops to assist. Anyway, they are paid. For example, Luzon not only provided arms sales of warships, weapons and armor several times, but even directly After joining the navy, the Qin family did not lose money afterwards. The arms sales were already very profitable, and after sending troops to support them, they also received a large number of slaves and spices as compensation after the war according to the agreement.
The joint naval division will basically send troops to support every time. This is also a kind of actual combat training, and it is also a time to strengthen the prestige of the fleet, and it is also a time to earn extra money.
Under such circumstances, there are no good pirates in Nanyang nowadays. Even if there are, they are some indigenous barbarians or desperadoes who don’t know anything, but these people are difficult to become popular, and they come and go.
In various ports in Nanyang, some pirate leaders are often hanged to show the public. As for ordinary pirate members, they are not eligible to be hanged, and they will not be wasted. They will usually be sold as slaves and bought by Luzon nobles The manor planted serfs or went to mines or worked in workshops such as shipyards and iron factories.
Of course, those who are less lucky, or some ruthless people with blood and debts, will also be sentenced to exile in Nanding Prefecture.
Nanyangzhou is the Australia of later generations. It is now a wild continent forgotten by the world. It is just kangaroos and aborigines. The Qin family spent thirty years working there, and only built a few small strongholds. some villains.
Mining, grazing, planting, fishing, these people live a nearly primitive life, and never have the chance to leave in their lifetime.
The supply ships only go two or three times a year, and the living conditions are extremely harsh.
Even the vast majority of them have to be single, and they can't even see a woman. Except for ewes and kangaroos, the rest of them are only female aborigines, but the premise is that they have to fight, and they have to beat them well. For example, that Kangaroos are not to be trifled with.
The natives living in harsh environments are even cannibals.
The situation in Qin Jun's Dongsheng Prefecture is a little better, because its northwest peninsula is next to the Spice Islands, and the Jiaxing Islands and Qianhu Island are located northward, so in the past ten years, Qin Lang has personally helped him take care of it, and now it is also It still looks a little bit.
(end of this chapter)