Chapter 1140： Capture the Tamsui Port

Ma Lin has inquired, and the reputation of Feng Xu, a hundred households in Jinyiwei, is not bad. Although there is also the fierce reputation and greed of the factory guards, but they are still honest, and they will do things when they take the money. Moreover, the heart is not too dark.

In fact, as a factory guard, you can't do it if you want to be innocent. Because the chief supervisors of Changfan and Jinyiwei are eunuchs (Jinyiwei may not be led by eunuchs, but in the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei was often controlled by eunuchs), and most of them were greedy.

It is absolutely terrible to have a greedy boss. If you do n’t give gifts to your boss, you must be wearing small shoes. Moreover, some Jinyiwei were sent unluckily to the grasslands outside the Saipan because they did not send money or did not send enough. While investigating intelligence outside the Cypriots, it is not like walking sideways in the Central Plains region. On the outskirts of Mongolia, if the identity is revealed, there is only one way to go.

Therefore, in order not to be dispatched to the outskirts or other bitter cold areas, Jin Yiwei officials had to give gifts to them. The senior Jinyiwei officials gave gifts to the eunuchs in the palace, the middle Jinyiwei officials gave gifts to the upper Jinyiwei officials, the lower Jinyiwei officials gave gifts to the middle Jinyiwei officials, and the ordinary Jinyiwei gifts to the lower Jinyiwei officials ...

But they ca n’t pay for it by themselves? Therefore, in order to raise money for the superiors, the Jinyiwei had to blackmail the people. Or, accept bribes and use money to help others.

Of course, Jin Yiwei does not blackmail ordinary people because there is no oil or water. The people they blackmail are generally rich households and businessmen because these people are rich.

Businessmen don't need to talk, their status is low. Unless there is a strong backing, Jin Yiwei is staring at it, and he will definitely have to make money and eliminate disasters, and be charged with protection fees. For those rich households, Jin Yiwei mainly collects evidence of illegality from the other party, and then uses this as a threat to blackmail money. There are also corrupt officials, who are also the targets of Jin Yiwei's love for extortion. The ransom technique is similar to that of the rich and powerful households in those places.

However, that is the general situation. When the factory guards were powerful, Jinyiwei not only dared to blackmail the wealthy and corrupt officials, but even dare to blackmail without evidence. For example, Liu Jin is now in power, and the factory guards have a great power. The hundred officials must retreat when they meet.

But what needs to be pointed out is that Jin Yiwei is not like a TV movie in the later generations. Everyone is a master. They are all similar to 007.

The actual situation is-Jin Yiwei has no kung fu master at all, although there are, but the number is definitely not much. Moreover, they don't want the spies in the spy movies to be so coquettish.

The way they inquired about the information was quite crude and direct-soliciting a group of rogues as helpers, or informers. Then, let the informants go around to find out the news. Jin Yiwei himself stayed at home or in a restaurant to wait for information. When you encounter valuable information, you will get some money, but it is all copper coins, but it will not be like silver or silver tickets as on TV. Normally, they will also take the informants to the ordinary merchants to extortion protection fees in order to support them ... Generally speaking, Jin Yiwei is a group of powerful and promiscuous leaders ...

Moreover, Marin gave Feng Xu 2500 two silvers, by no means a small amount. Because, the price of the Ming Dynasty is very cheap. 2500 two, can buy hundreds of cattle. It was handed over to Liu Jin. With this money sent, Feng Xu can completely seek to transfer to the Fushu area of ​​Jiangnan, or to promote a deputy thousand households or something. Of course, sending money at this time is destined to float. Because, Liu Jin will fall soon ...

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However, Marin will not be kind enough to remind each other. Because, this is not easy to say. Maybe, Feng Xu will report Marin's words. Then, Marin begged for Liu Jin's things ...

Therefore, Ma Lin didn't care what Feng Xu and Feng Baihu got the money to do. He only had to do his own thing.

However, from Quanzhou to send people to report in Beijing, there are three or four thousand miles on the way. If you ride a horse, you have to walk for more than a month. It's not that there is no rush for 800 miles, but that's the emergency military situation on the bottom of the ship. The Malin tribute is not an emergency military situation and cannot be passed by this means. Otherwise, unauthorized use of expedited delivery may cause you to lose your head. Therefore, Feng Baihu is naturally sent to Beijing on horseback, and he will not change horses non-stop along the way. If you go normally, it will take more than a month. The **** team of silver to Beijing will have a longer time to go, it is estimated that it will take more than two months.

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Marin didn't want to wait like this, so he decided to do something ...

Coincidentally, the dozen or so clay kilns set up by Kong Tai near Keelung City burned a lot of bricks, which was too much to use. After thinking about it, Marin decided to build more buildings.

While looking at the map of Taiwan Island, Marin suddenly remembered one thing-if he used Taiwan Island as a site to return to Daming, but this point of Keelung was not enough for the Ming Dynasty to make him a local toast. Because, Keelung is too small ...

Keelung only has some flat valleys in Keelung Bay. Most other areas are mountains. For example, west of Keelung is the famous Datun Mountain. Datun Mountain is also an important landmark reference for ships sailing in the nearby waters, and its effect is somewhat similar to a lighthouse. Of course, it is a lighthouse during the day.

Moreover, Marin knew that in Datun Mountain, there are huge reserves of natural sulfur mines with reserves of more than 2 million tons.

The importance of sulfur Needless to say, it is an important ingredient of gunpowder. Moreover, there was no natural sulfur in the ancient China Central Plains area, mainly through the extraction of sulfur from pyrite, the cost is higher.

The Datunshan Sulphur Mine is natural sulfur, no need to extract, just dig in the past. As for how to find sulfur mines? This is too simple, smell with your nose ...

The taste of sulfur ore is great, and the sulfur dioxide gas generated by its oxidation is extremely pungent. Moreover, the sulfur mines in the Datun Mountain area seem to be located on the surface. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, many mainland merchants came to Datun Mountain to purchase natural sulfur from local indigenous people. It is impossible for the indigenous people to know how to excavate sulfur underground, so the natural sulfur mine in Datun Mountain is obviously located on the surface. It is easy to find sulfur mines by sending people into the mountains to find and smell.

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The sulfur mine is also an important bargaining chip to join Daming. After all, Daming does not produce natural sulfur, and the price of sulfur is higher than that of saltpeter. However, the sulfur mine alone is not enough.

Marin wanted to become a prefecture or a prefecture, and if he wanted to be a prefecture or a prefecture, at least he had enough territory.

Therefore, Marin decided to send troops to take more sites to deal with the officials sent by the Ming dynasty ...

If there is only a small area in Keelung Bay, it is estimated that officials sent by the court will have difficulty passing Marin's request. Because the land is too small, it is equivalent to a township, and it is a small township. Or, it's a big town. At this point, let alone Tuzhi Prefecture or Tuzhi Prefecture, Tuzhi County can not be mixed.

Therefore, Marin needs to win a bigger site to show his strength. When the Ming dynasty sent officials to verify it, they could pay the post.

So, Marin turned his attention to Taipei not far from Keelung ...

Or ~ www.novelhall.com ~ To be more precise, Marin took a fancy to the Taipei Basin ...

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The Taipei Basin is about 240 square kilometers. On the mountainous island of Taiwan, it is already a large plain area. Moreover, there is the famous Tamsui River in the Taipei Basin, and the river basin is definitely the best area for rice cultivation. You can grow sweet potatoes even in areas that do not depend on rivers.

Even if only an area of ​​100 square kilometers is developed as farmland, there are 150,000 mu ...

Roughly developed the Taipei Basin, enough to cope with and fool the Ming Dynasty. After all, the site here is not small, and it is suitable for opening up as an agricultural area.

At the same time, the Taipei Basin is close to Keelung, which is convenient for Kong Tai to control and manage ...

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In addition, Marin happened to bring a thousand soldiers over. It was originally intended to take them to the Ming Dynasty to pretend, but now it is just fine. Therefore, Marin intends to take this thousand soldiers to attack the Taipei Basin and bring it into jurisdiction.

However, the Taipei Basin is surrounded by mountains. To enter the Taipei Basin, we must first occupy the exit of the Taipei Basin-Tamsui Port at the Tamsui River ...

Tamsui River is the main river in the Taipei Basin, and its estuary is located in Danshui Port in later generations. And upstream through the Tamsui Port, you can also smoothly enter the Taipei Basin ...

Therefore, Marin organized the fleet and the army to depart from Keelung Bay, and soon arrived at the Tamsui Port of the Danshui Estuary, and launched a landing here ...

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