Chapter 202: Expanding Power
Looking at the iron gate of Kam Tin Wai, one of the spoils that Weizhou transported from Hong Kong Island to Keelung by speedboat, Qin Hao clearly saw the smug smile between the lines of the victory report.
However, unlike other Keelung generals, Weizhou's cruel methods were also jaw-dropping.
All the direct descendants of the Deng family who were adults were beheaded, and the other four families were asked to hand over the personnel who participated in intercepting the Keelung army according to the reward list of the five major families confiscated from the Deng family that day.
In the victory report, Weizhou made the following suggestion to Qin Hao:
For the people captured by this group of people, either all of them should be beheaded or sent to various mines and forests in Keelung to do hard labor. In short, they should not be allowed to get away with it so easily, and they should not be let off for the sake of stability.
We must set an example that anyone who dares to confront our army will not have a good end!
This guy! What a cruel method! But Qin Hao likes it!
This method was well within his mind, and the necessity of killing the chicken to scare the monkey is self-evident!
"Although killing more is useless, since these people have offended our army, they must not be allowed to go unpunished. Commander Weizhou of the Western Route Army will report the list and number of these people, and the navy will take over and send them to the land of Xinna!"
Qin Hao was quite satisfied after dropping the pen in his hand and looking at the lines of words on the document.
All the thousands of direct descendants of the five tribes in Jinping County (from young men to the elderly, women and children) were sent to the newly developed Tenth State.
This Tenth State is the familiar Australian region.
After taking over the island of Luzon, the Spaniards (still a Spanish colony at this time) transferred this land to the Keelung Army. It became the place where the Keelung Army used to send these criminals. This place was named the Tenth State by Qin Hao without integrity, which roughly means another state outside the Nine States of the Central Plains.
"It's time to let the kids of the Navy Training Fleet go to the Tenth State!" Staring at the newly made Tenth State outline map on the wall, looking at the huge map that almost occupied the entire wall.
Thinking about the land that would later appear as a country riding on the back of sheep and a country sitting on a mine cart, as well as the large amount of wheat and wool produced on this land, and the jellyfish, venomous snakes, big bay crocodiles, great white sharks in the waves, kangaroos that can box, koalas that can only sleep... and other indigenous people living on this land.
Qin Hao felt more and more that it was correct and wise to send the five major families and similar rebels in the future to this land!
Half a month later, the thirty ships of the Navy Training Fleet set off for Hong Kong Island with sails like clouds, where they would accept thousands of exiles handed over to them by the Western Route Army, and then escort them to the Tenth State for resettlement, and build simple ports and immigrant settlements there.
Of course, Qin Hao did not let them fend for themselves. For the sake of safety and livelihood, the Keelung Army would issue them self-defense weapons of the same standard as those of various garrisons, including simple copper cannons, small Portuguese machines, matchlock guns, and ordinary weapons such as swords and spears, which were even more common equipment.
Along with them, there were also many agricultural tools and production tools made of wrought iron and nine-turn steel.
These people were not only exiles from the Tenth State, but also pioneers of the Tenth State.
They might die or be injured here, but in the end they would play their remaining heat here, which was Qin Hao's purpose, just like the British in the original time and space.
Chu Yibing, the commander of the Keelung Navy training fleet, naturally would not do trivial and complicated things like an ordinary junior officer. After he and Weizhou explained clearly to their subordinates, they sat aside to drink tea and talk, and naturally there were capable subordinates to handle the delivery of materials and personnel.
"Brother Chu, please!" Weizhou filled a small teacup with hot tea and bowed to invite Chu Yibing to have tea.
"Brother Wei, please!"
Chu Yibing took a sip, and suddenly an image appeared in his eyes, but it was someone he had never seen before.
Standing behind Weizhou to the right, a big man besides several personal soldiers, although standing with his hands down, he was still full of murderous and majestic.
"Who is this little brother?" Chu Yibing pointed his finger at the man with a five-foot-long wood-cutting knife on his back and asked Weizhou.
"Chenjiu, come and meet General Chu."
Inviting Zhan Chenjiu to come and greet Chu Yibing, Weizhou proudly introduced the origin of Zhan Chenjiu to Chu Yibing.
"This Chen Jiu is a good man. He was the first to raise the banner of resistance against grain and taxation in Lingdong. Later, with the Zhan family as the backbone, he once had nearly 10,000 soldiers. Unfortunately, the quality of the soldiers was mixed. Soon, he was besieged by the local government troops and militia in Lingdong, and his subordinates were scattered. The government troops and militia chased him all the way, but fortunately he met our army in Huizhou."
"General Meng did not abandon Chen Jiu and took him in. Later, he gave Chen Jiu food, wages and weapons, and sent more than a hundred people to help Chen Jiu gather his subordinates and reorganize the camp. Chen Jiu now has 2,000 troops under his command. They are all trained by the chief instructor sent by the general using the equipment of the Keelung Army! Fighting together with the general's direct subordinates, their combat effectiveness is already on par!"
Wei Chu and the others knew very well that Zhan Chen Jiu's team, whether openly or secretly, was already a peripheral force of the Keelung Army. There were more than ten teams with similar status in Lingdong.
All of them are secretly controlled by Keelung, and those that maintain independence but are still controlled by instructors are countless!
Once the war breaks out, Qin Hao will give an order, and within ten days, at least a hundred cities in Lingdong will have to change their flags.
"Brother Chu, why are you the one going out to sea again this time? Is the war going badly with Gu Shixing of the right-wing fleet?" Weizhou was half concerned and half selfish.
He was eager to know the situation in Lingxi. How was Gu Shixing, who also accepted the task of disrupting Lingxi, doing? Was he better or worse than himself? They graduated together. If the gap was too big, it would be embarrassing.
"Which part do you want to hear?"
Chu Yibing cunningly blinked his eyes that were a little blurred by the sea breeze, deliberately teasing his compatriot.
"Brother Chu, tell me quickly. The military newspaper said it very clearly. You traveled everywhere, transporting supplies and food, and you are the most informed! If he encounters any difficulties, I can also go west to help him. After all, we are a family. "
Chu Yibing looked like he didn't believe you, he knew the two were fighting openly and secretly.
But then again, Gu Shixing's actions in Lingxi were much smoother than those in Weizhou.
Facing the pacification envoys, local prefects, local magistrates, local tyrants and landlords in Lingxi, Gu Shixing was not polite at all and attacked them one by one.
This made these local tyrants in Lingxi unlucky for eight lifetimes. They had not suffered such a big loss since Di Qing in the Song Dynasty.
In the past The hatred accumulated from fighting enemies made them watch helplessly as Gu Shixing used artillery fire to break through the so-called indestructible fortresses and official villages, dragged out the once powerful chieftains, and killed them one by one in front of slaves and poor peasants.
For a time, blood flowed like a river. Facing Gu Shixing's iron-blooded methods, the people of Lingxi were helpless.
What Gu Shixing did afterwards was similar to what Weizhou did. They also implemented Keelung's people-friendly policies step by step to win the hearts of the people.