Chapter 185 Eat for nothing

Xiong Wencan did not object to Yu Xiaotian's request. As long as Yu Xiaotian doesn't make too much trouble, he doesn't drive the generals and fleet directly outside Guangzhou. As for occupying a remote place, he will occupy it! Anyway, after cleaning up the pirates of Guangdong and Guangxi, Yu Xiaotian is expected to return to Fujian, and it will not be too late to take them back.

But they couldn't imagine what Yu Xiaotian had thought. As soon as he arrived at the middle gate, he immediately began to build a lot on the shore.

The pirates captured in the Battle of Daya Bay were not in a hurry to transport them back to Taiwan Island as laborers this time, but got them all here, all of which were used as hard labor, so that they could cut wood, dig foundations, build wall, and circled a city on the ground of Tsim Sha Tsui, the later Hong Kong. On the scale, people were sent to supervise the construction of a large castle here.

In addition, at the seaside, that is, Victoria Harbor in later generations, manpower was separated and construction began on the spot. Various dock facilities and a trestle bridge were built for ships to dock and unload in the future.

He has already made plans to build a new city and a new seaport here, imitate Weitou Bay, and make it his base in Guangdong.

In the future, merchant ships in Guangzhou will go to sea and trade here without paying him, hum! Don't want to do any more overseas business in the future.

Controlling the mouth of the Pearl River, he will never spit out this area again, and Guangdong has a unique advantage over Fujian.

The whole merchant ship in Xiananyang basically needs to be loaded here and departing from Guangzhou to supply enough goods and go to Nanyang for business.

There are at least thousands of merchant ships gathered here every year, and at least 10,000 ships entering and leaving the mouth of the Pearl River. The annual cargo throughput is so large that the number is amazing. If these ships are effectively controlled, it can double the income of sea wolves every year. Not big.

These funds can be used to feed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and equip them with more weapons and warships. Therefore, the real purpose of Yu Xiaotian's trip south is not to suppress bandits, but to occupy Hong Kong Island. At this time, Hong Kong Island is not actually called Hong Kong Island. Local people often call it Aozhou.

It is precisely because Yu Xiaotian took a fancy to the unique geographical and hydrological conditions here and determined to go south to control this area first, and then gradually develop it into the largest import and export trade port in the south.

At present, Yu Xiaotian has achieved this goal. Next, he will establish his power here. The eight teams he has sent now will go deep into the Pearl River mouth to sweep, which is actually the preliminary preparation for him to control the overseas trade in this area in the future.

Of course, it will take a long time to build infrastructure here. All kinds of conditions here are not as good as those in Weitou Bay for the time being. Now it is far from having a large number of cargo ships to unload goods here. This process will take at least two to three years.

And during this period, it happens that the sea wolf is going to suppress bandits here, and can use this time to improve the infrastructure here. This time difference is quite appropriate. When he manages this area, it is estimated that it will be time to turn against Daming. At that time, Guangdong wants to go back to this area, then the door It's all gone!

However, the construction of various infrastructure here requires a very large amount of human, material and financial resources. In terms of manpower, Yu Xiaotian has already thought that this time he will get a large number of prisoners of war. These prisoners of war are the best human resources, and among these prisoners of war Many people are vicious pirates, which is perfect as consumables.

As for financial resources, Yu Xiaotian will be under a little pressure, but at present, it seems that he can still hold on, but he is slightly nervous and will not affect the overall situation.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian will not do this matter himself. Someone is responsible for arranging it, and he intends to put most of the facilities in place as much as possible, so after arriving here, he took it away in person, checked the terrain here, and asked people to draw a local map and mark it. Out of the terrain, a preliminary plan was made, and the subordinates in charge of construction were made to carry out a detailed design according to the preliminary plan he gave.

In fact, this work will not take long. Although he has just occupied this area, in fact, two or three years ago, he has sent people here to conduct a secret field survey. He has already known the situation here. Various planning and design plans have come out several sets as early as last year.

When Yu Xiaotian returned from Denglai this time, he reviewed these plans and initially selected one of them in line with his ideas. This time, he just observed them on the spot and made some fine adjustments to this set of plans. The construction department can quickly adjust the original plan and put it into construction immediately. .

At present, they are not short of manpower. The Battle of Daya Bay provided him with thousands of labor. These thousands of people are currently enough for the construction of basic docks, trestles and fortresses. In addition, he will also transfer some construction craftsmen from Taiwan to be responsible for directing and supervising. These hard labors are carrying out construction. As for defense, as soon as he took this area, he has ordered the army to transfer an infantry battalion here to guard the area and supervise the work.

At present, he has the support of Xiong Wencan and the imperial court. The Guangdong military will not provoke him. The main defenses are the hard labor camps that have been built here, as well as those pirates who have not been wiped out. The strength of one battalion is enough, and once there is a big trouble here, use the basics here. Shi, there is no problem for these troops to hold on for a month. At that time, his family can send troops to reinforce at any time.

In order to strengthen the defense power here, Yu Xiaotian's one-eyed dragon turned around to station a sea detachment of about 20 warships here, and another naval shore artillery company. With such a force to guard this area, Yu Xiaotian can basically rest assured.

Yu Xiaotian spent more than a month here after arranging various things here. Eight companies sent to the Pearl River Port have basically ended their military operations in the Pearl River Port after more than a month of busy work.

This time, Yu's army went deep into the military operation around the mouth of the Pearl River. According to statistics, eight companies copied more than 70 village castles. The owners of these 70 castles are local rich families and some squires, and most of them are notorious in the local area.

They all colluded with pirates, with human evidence and material evidence, and can completely verify their crimes. Although they have great energy in the area of Guangzhou, and even their relationship can reach the Beijing court, but under the thunderous means of Xiaotian, they have no time to rebel. Ying, even if their hands and eyes are open and there is someone in the court, it will be out of reach now. When their relationship above reacts, Yu Xiaotian has done everything.

In this Pearl River Estake operation, Yu Jiajun captured thousands of prisoners in this area, including pirates and recalcitrant villagers, as well as the families and domestic slaves of these large families. It can be said that they almost completely destroyed the upper social structure in this area and renewed the power of the local rich and gentry. Card.

As for the captured property, not to mention, almost every day, ships transport the ship's wealth to Hong Kong and pile them up in temporary concentration.

Looking at Yu Xiaotian making such a fortune, the local garrison was really jealous. Guangzhou garrison Yu Zehu watched Yu Jiajun rampant in his jurisdiction. First, he felt that his face was not bright, and then he saw that Yu Jiajun could buy so many goods every day, so he was even more jealous.

So he couldn't resist this** in the end. Unexpectedly, he boldly took dozens of warships and more than 1,000 generals to try to stop the ships transporting goods and captured sea wolves to Hong Kong on the river. He * a boat on the spot, killed dozens of Yu's sailors, and tried to intercept more sea wolves. Ship.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian was annoyed. Yu Xiaotian immediately sent troops into the lion ocean at the mouth of the Pearl River and found Yu Zehu's fleet on the surface of the river. He beat him in the face without saying a word. What is reasonable or unreasonable, now his fist has the final say.

Although Yu Zehu is a garrison of Guangzhou, he also has one or two thousand soldiers and dozens of so-called warships on hand, but when he meets Yu Xiaotian's fleet, although it is only a small fleet, it is still a scum.

After the First World War, Yu Zehu was almost beaten and lost *. Only two of the so-called warships he took fled back to Guangzhou. Fortunately, he was not killed on the spot because he was not on the ship at that time. The rest of the officers and soldiers were slaughtered by the soldiers of the Yu family army.

This incident was really a lot. Yu Zehu was so scared that he fled back to his home in the city and wanted to go to complain to Xiong Wencan, but before he could go out much, he was hit by a bullet that he didn't know where he came from. A shot hit his heart. He didn't even say a word and fell to the ground and died on the spot.

His own soldiers were not even found where the gun sounded after the event, and the master was killed in Guangzhou.

A government impeached Yu Xiaotian, saying that Yu Xiaotian used force against the Guangdong garrison without authorization, killed Guangdong officers and soldiers indiscriminately, and assassinated Yu Zehu.

However, Yu Xiaotian took the lead and captured several prisoners and sent them to Xiong Wencan. He also told Yu Zehu about sending troops to intercept his men and ships, and told Yu Zehu to stop his normal suppression of bandits.