Chapter 985 1074 Vast land and abundant resources?

Chapter 985 1074 Vast land and abundant resources?

"Sir, an urgent document from the Ministry of War."

Yu Dayou was writing in the study room in the backyard of the Governor's Mansion. As he got older, he gradually felt that his energy was running out.

While he still had energy, Yu Dayou recently began to sort out his manuscripts, sorting out some of the manuscripts left over from the years of fighting in the south and the north, and planned to compile a few military books to pass on to future generations.

Speaking of which, Yu Dayou began to abandon literature and join the military in the 13th year of Jiajing, and fought in the south and the north for forty years, and he has accumulated a lot of manuscripts.

In the 14th year of Jiajing, he passed the military examination and was awarded the title of Qianhu and the defense of Kinmen.

Recommended by the Minister of War Mao Bowen, he served as the garrison commander of Tingzhang and defeated the pirate Kang Lao, and was awarded the title of deputy commander, and quelled the rebellion in Xinxing and Enping.

In the 28th year of Jiajing, recommended by the Right Deputy Censor-in-Chief Zhu Wan, he served as the commander-in-chief of the defense against Japanese invaders, quelled the rebellion of Fan Ziyi in Annan, and stabilized the situation in Hainan.

In the 31st year of Jiajing, he began to fight against Japanese pirates. He was called "Yu's Army" and was called "Yu Long Qi Hu" together with Qi Jiguang. He wiped out the Japanese pirates who had been causing trouble for many years.

In the 38th year of Jiajing, Yu Dayou came to the Datong Governor Li Wenjin and led his troops to attack Bansheng City. After discussion, he built a wheelbarrow to deal with the enemy's cavalry. In actual combat, he used 100 wheelbarrows and 3,000 cavalry and infantry to defeat the enemy in Anyinbao.

Li Wenjin reported this system to the court, and the court began to set up a military vehicle camp.

Then Yu Dayou defeated the enemy in Guangwu, so he was awarded the merit of pacifying Wang Zhi, and was recommended by the Governor of Sichuan and Lakes Huang Guangsheng. He was re-employed and used as the lieutenant general of Zhenhuang.

In the 40th year of Jiajing, Yu Dayou was ordered to collect the thief Zhang Lian from Raoping, Guangdong, and captured Zhang Lian and his subordinates Xiao Xuefeng alive.

Starting from the 41st year of Jiajing, Yu Dayou once again participated in the war to encircle and suppress Japanese pirates. He successively commanded the Battle of Xinghua and the Battle of Chaozhou as the general officer of Fujian and Guangdong, and won countless military exploits.

In the 45th year of Jiajing, Li Yayuan rebelled in Heyuan and Wengyuan. Governor Wu Guifang recruited 100,000 soldiers and sent Yu Dayou to fight. Yu Dayou led his troops to attack Li Yayuan's lair, captured and killed more than 14,000 people, and recaptured more than 80,000 civilians. The court granted him the title of General Pingman.

In the second year of Longqing, the pirate Zeng Yiben rebelled in Guangzhou and Fujian. The magistrate of Chenghai was captured, and the garrison Li Maocai died in battle. Yu Dayou led the Guangdong soldiers to fight. Yu Dayou led Guo Cheng, Li Xi and others to suppress them and captured and killed Zeng Yiben.

In the fifth year of Longqing, Huang Chaomeng and Wei Yinbao in Guangxi rebelled, robbed and killed government troops and civilians, and robbed property.

Governor Yin Zhengmao recruited 140,000 soldiers and sent Yu Dayou to fight. Yu Dayou divided his troops into four groups, broke the thieves' nests, annihilated all the enemies, beheaded more than 8,400 people, and captured Huang Chaomeng and Wei Yinbao alive.

After this battle, Yu Dayou was promoted from hereditary centurion to hereditary commander for his merits.

After summarizing the war experience against Japanese pirates in recent years, Yu Dayou found that although the Japanese pirates came from the sea, they were good at land battles but not at sea battles.

Therefore, with the support of Wei Guangde, Yu Dayou reorganized and trained the naval forces of the southeastern provinces into a naval force, and selected Fuzhou ships to fight the Japanese pirates at sea, namely the Ming Dynasty South China Sea Navy, and Yu Dayou was named the admiral of the naval force.

In terms of naval tactics, Yu Dayou also pointed out that naval warfare is nothing more than using large ships to fight small ships, using the majority to fight the minority, and using large guns to fight small guns.

During the actual combat, the navy established by Yu Dayou cooperated with the army of the Ming Dynasty and effectively dealt a devastating blow to the Japanese pirates.

With such rich combat experience, the thought tremor left by Yu Dayou is also amazing.

Some time ago, Yu Dayou had sorted out some manuscripts and compiled books such as "The Secret of Military Strategy", "Draft of Zhenmin", and "Guangxi Selected Front Soldiers' Exercises".

Of course, the books are numbered. These days, unlike later generations, they do not need to be reviewed by the court. The main thing is to find a bookseller to print them.

However, for military books like Yu Dayou, booksellers generally do not print such books because of insufficient profits. They are still more keen on printing the Four Books and Five Classics because they are not worried about selling.

Therefore, Yu Dayou's books either keep the manuscripts in his own hands and spread them in the form of manuscripts, or spend money to find booksellers to print them.

But obviously, this approach is definitely a loss.

Because books like military books really have no market in the market, and the cost cannot be recovered at all.

This is also the reason why many ancient books, perhaps recorded in historical materials, have disappeared until now.

There are really few books, so few that they cannot be passed down.

Although the Han people invented movable type printing very early, the invention did not actually reduce the cost of printing books much.

Because Chinese characters are complicated and diverse, the cost of printing books with movable type may even be higher than that of woodblock printing.

The countries that really enjoy the benefits of movable type printing are Western countries that use phonetic letters, which do not need too many fonts.

Hearing that there is an official document from the Ministry of War, it is still urgent, Yu Dayou frowned.

Putting down the manuscript in his hand, he reached out to take it from the hand of the personal soldier, quickly checked the seal, and then opened it to read.

However, in Yu Dayou's already old face, there was indeed a look of doubt at first, and then shock and shock.

Doubt, of course, after seeing the content of the document, he found that something seemed wrong after calculating the time.

However, after seeing the order from the Ministry of War, there was the shock and even shock behind.

"Send an order immediately, and have Deng Zilong come to see me as soon as possible."

Yu Dayou did not put down the document in his hand, but gave the order directly.

"Yes, sir."

The personal soldier clasped his fists and agreed, then turned around and ran out of the house to convey the order.

Yu Dayou read the document again from beginning to end, and finally his eyes fell on the time when the document was issued.

Yes, I finally know what I felt was wrong before.

Calculating the time, the time when my official documents were delivered to Beijing, when this document in my hand was issued, it should still be on the way.

Obviously, this order was not issued by my report, and the court heard the news through other channels.

"Send troops to intercept, and don't let the Lin Feng pirate group return to the coast of Daming."

Yu Dayou frowned and thought carefully about the meaning of this order.

According to habit, shouldn't it be to send troops to encircle and suppress the Lin Feng pirate group?

Why would the wording use interception instead of encirclement and suppression?

How could he know that because Zhang Juzheng did not support Wei Guangde's expansion plan in Luzon at the first time, Wei Guangde was worried that Lin Feng would choose to return to the coast of Daming to continue to be a pirate after being frustrated in Manila.

Although the intelligence is a bit late, we have to do something anyway. It is impossible to really wait for the cabinet to convene the six ministers to discuss.

Moreover, even if Lin Feng had already run back from Luzon, sending troops to expel him while he was still unstable and then driving him back to Luzon would actually have the same meaning.

What Wei Guangde wanted was actually for Lin Feng to take root in Luzon so that the Ming army would have a reason to send troops to Luzon.

These things naturally could not be written in official documents, as they were documents to be kept on file, so they could only be worded in a special way to let Yu Dayou discover the hidden secrets.

On the other hand, Wei Guangde's messenger had already entered Zhejiang and was rushing over.

Now Wei Guangde's plan was to find ways to keep Lin Feng's pirate group in Luzon and not let them come back, no matter what the final decision of the court was.

For this reason, he specifically found Tan Lun and asked him to write this official document and send it to Yu Dayou in Zhejiang at full speed.

Although Yu Dayou did not understand the meaning at this time, he also found something wrong.

However, facing this urgent official document in his hand, he still had to take action.

More than an hour later, Deng Zilong was called back from the seaside water fort and entered the admiral's office.

"I pay my respects to the admiral."

Yu Dayou was already waiting in the lobby, and Deng Zilong saluted him as soon as he entered the lobby.

"Get up, take a look at this document."

Yu Dayou handed the urgent official document sent by the Ministry of War to Deng Zilong and asked him to read it himself.

Although he didn't understand why, Deng Zilong still took it and quickly read it.

There are really few illiterate generals in the current Ming Dynasty. Almost all of them have read books, and some even have official titles.

So there is no obstacle in writing or reading official documents.

After reading the official document, Deng Zilong frowned and asked: "Sir, what is the meaning of this blockade? Don't you want to prevent Lin Feng from returning to Daming and continuing to cause trouble on the coast?"

"It should be this meaning, but it's strange why the documents of the Ministry of War are written in this way, instead of asking us to gather a large army to encircle and suppress them."

Yu Dayou said puzzledly.

After a moment, Yu Dayou put away his previous expression and said to Deng Zilong in a serious tone: "I called you here, first, to let you read this official document, and also to prepare as soon as possible and lead the troops to patrol the sea. If you find any trace of Lin Feng, intercept and expel him immediately."

"Sir, you are giving such an order now, right?"

Deng Zilong wanted to say if it was too late, but he didn't say it after all.

Yu Dayou had already considered this matter before. It was strange. Tan Lun was not a person who didn't understand military affairs. He would not give such an order.

Letting the Ming army patrol the sea must have other meanings, and the most important thing is the word "intercept".

Waving his hand, Yu Dayou said: "No matter sooner or later, since the military order has been issued, it must be executed.

If you find any trace of Lin Feng at sea, understand interception and do not allow them to return to the coast of our Ming Dynasty.

Pay more attention to those islands during patrols"

Yu Dayou's instructions were naturally several important places, areas that had been occupied by Japanese pirates for a long time.

There are peninsulas connected to the mainland, and islands and reefs isolated overseas. The Japanese pirates have been operating for a long time and are very familiar with the nearby waterways. They are already adept at dealing with the encirclement and suppression by the Ming Dynasty official army.

"If you find any traces, remember not to completely block and suppress them, but to drive them to the sea and chase them to the south."

Although he did not understand Wei Guangde's plan, Yu Dayou had been a military general for many years and had been dealing with the Ministry of War for a long time. He had figured out the intentions of the capital.

"Drive them to Nanyang and harm the barbarians?"

Deng Zilong did not think too much, but felt that the military order in his hand was a bit strange. After hearing Yu Dayou's order, he made such a guess.

"Maybe."

Yu Dayou just said a word, and then waved his hand, asking Deng Zilong to go down and prepare.

The navy went to sea, of course, it was not just going to go, but also to transport fresh water and food, as well as arms to the warships.

The current Ming Dynasty navy is no longer the army that relied on cold weapons in the past.

Yu Dayou referred to the maritime combat experience of the Yi people and combined it with his own situation to develop new tactics for the navy.

In fact, the so-called new tactics are more like imitating the experience of Western naval warfare, and began to try the combat mode of cannon bombardment.

Of course, the Ming army's original habits such as fire ship attacks, ramming and boarding battles have not fallen behind.

It's just that the current boarding battle is not bad against pirates. With the tall hull of the Fu ship, the enemy on the deck can be suppressed, so that the Ming army can take the lead in the boarding battle.

But now the hull of the Yi people's sea ships is not low, the advantage of the Fu ship has almost disappeared, and ramming the opponent's ship is not feasible, leaving only the fire ship as a way to fight the enemy.

But under the intensive artillery fire, it is actually difficult for the fire ship to get close.

The Ming Navy was also forced to make changes.

If they don't change, they will really fall behind.

Deng Zilong left and returned to the water fort to prepare. Yu Dayou was still sitting there in a daze, thinking about the meaning of the order from the capital.

Almost two days later, the navy finally received news that the preparations for going to sea were almost complete.

Although the officers and soldiers of the navy cursed in their hearts, it was almost the end of the year, who would still want to go out to sea, and they all wanted to spend the New Year quietly on the shore.

But military orders are like mountains, even if they are reluctant to go out, they have to execute them when the order comes.

Quickly mobilize the necessary items from the arsenal and the local government treasury. When the last batch of materials were loaded on the ship, Deng Zilong sent someone to pass the news to Yu Dayou in the admiral's office.

"My lord, the messenger from Wei Ge Lao in the capital has come, saying that there is an important letter to be handed to you in person."

Yu Dayou was preparing and was about to go to the water fort to board the ship and go to sea immediately. The personal soldiers came into the room to report in a low voice.

When Yu Dayou heard about Wei Guangde's letter, he immediately understood that it must be related to the Ministry of War getting the official document.

Only the Ministry of War can use the 800-mile express.

After meeting the messenger of the Wei Mansion and reading Wei Guangde's letter, Yu Dayou finally understood Wei Guangde's plan.

After leaving the Admiral's Mansion and heading to the water fort, Yu Dayou was a little worried.

Wei Guangde's order was a little difficult to execute. Lin Feng might not obey and run to Luzon.

In any case, he had just offended the barbarians in Manila. If he ran to Luzon, wouldn't that be like running into a gun?

As for Luzon Island, although Yu Dayou had never been there, he had heard from businessmen that there seemed to be nothing worth talking about there.

The fundamental reason why Luzon could not develop was that there was a lack of specialty products there, and even the minerals were not discovered until many years later.

Because the place is too poor, no one is interested in it. This is also the reason why Luzon still maintains a relatively primitive tribal rule and has not formed a country.

However, due to geographical reasons, the land there is actually good for planting.

But Yu Dayou would not believe that Wei Guangde was interested in the land there. Could it be that the Ming Dynasty still lacks such a small amount of land to grow food?

It can only be said that the Han people closed their external ambitions because of the four words "vast land and abundant resources".

Also because there is no decent opponent around, they gradually closed their eyes to the outside world.

Does China really have a lot of resources and lack nothing?

Looking at the future, we can actually know that we are actually very short of resources by importing a large amount of materials from overseas every year.

It's just that the small peasant model in ancient times limited the consumption of the people, so it was able to achieve internal circulation in a closed situation without relying on the outside.

When the model changed, I found that my resources were so scarce.

However, this is not something that the current Ming people can realize, and can only rely on external forces.