Do you know? If you go to Southeast Asia now, you can earn hundreds of taels of silver a year! If you eat delicious food, drink spicy food, and marry two or three concubines, that is a really fairy-like life." On September 1, 1704, outside a house near Qinzhou Port Wharf, Guangxi, several guards were chatting.

They were guarding a small warehouse, and the inventory in the warehouse had basically been pulled clean, leaving only a little rain gear, shoes, farm tools and some miscellaneous items, empty. Otherwise, these young boys would not have been so idle, and they would have been staring wide as if they were facing a great enemy.

There is no way, who has made them become poor in the army? For them, they are reluctant to throw away things when they are broken. It is common for a single piece of clothing to wear for more than ten years. In just a few years, they have been living a better life. At least they can eat enough, and all kinds of supplies are paid according to the human hair. They can get two yuan per month. This is a good life that they never dared to think about before.

Yi Congjun was established at the instruction of Tang Chengzhi, director of the Lianwu Management Committee. In fact, it was the tens of thousands of people who were originally remnants of Li Sixing of the Southern Ming Dynasty. After reaching an agreement with Vietnam, they spent more than a year to evacuate the mountainous areas of northern Vietnam in four batches. One of the main reasons why it delayed so long was that Li Sixing wanted to withdraw the people who were still in Yunnan and Guangxi. These people were remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty and were unwilling to surrender to the Xin Dynasty. Many of them became bandits and faced great

The encirclement and suppression of the Shun government was in a difficult situation. In terms of reason, Li Sixing would not sit idly by. What's more, many of them were sent by him to let them develop behind enemy lines. After all, the mountainous areas in northern Vietnam were poor, and often they had to cross the border into Yunnan. The two provinces of Guangxi were fighting for autumn wind, so it was naturally much more convenient for someone to take on it. However, now that we have received the promise of the people on the East Coast, we don't have to persist in the local area, so we can evacuate them all, so we can avoid the end of no good ending.

It is precisely because of this that when the last group of people arrived at Qinzhou Port by ship in March 1703, the size of the entire Yi army had reached more than 50,000, which was amazing. However, these 50,000 people, actually had little combat power. The guns were less than 10,000 cannons, only more than 30 guns, 300 horses, 2,000 armor, and more than 15,000 cold weapons. They were almost their entire family. The military uniforms were ragged, and many people could not even afford to patch them, so the ripped holes in their clothes were exposed, which made the East Coast military officers who came to transport supplies stunned: There are so many troops in the world that are so poor?

The consultants who came to register the soldiers for a while squatted in the military camp and shook their heads. In their opinion, except for a few elite soldiers, most of the soldiers had a good face, were thin, weight, height, bust, grip strength, and endurance. Perhaps because they had been in the jungle and mountainous areas for a long time, many people also suffered from various chronic diseases and needed urgent care.

Therefore, 50,000 Yi joined the army - to be precise, more than 30,000 adult men, the rest were old, weak, women and children - looked amazing, but the Lianwu Management Committee only needed to mobilize security groups from five or six counties to beat them to pieces. There was no way, the reality was so cruel. Compared with the East Coast soldiers who were well-equipped, well-trained, eating canned soybeans and beef every few days, whale and fish, they were younger brothers in all aspects, except for their mental health. The long-term wandering career in the mountains of northern Vietnam has made them extremely weak. If the East Coast people do not rescue them, perhaps within ten years, this army will collapse without fighting.

After Yi went to Lianwu, 50,000 people were divided into two groups, one group of 30,000 people were sent to Fangchenggang, managed by the Southeast Asian squadron of the Navy's Third Fleet, helping to build roads, docks, lighthouses, forts, warehouses and military dormitories; the rest were hired by the Taiwan Bank, and apartments and residential buildings and military villas sold to government civil servants in Qinzhou and Wuzhou. Now, after a year and a half, they have supported themselves, and their situation has improved greatly. Everyone can have enough food and receive wages (although only two yuan). Yichenggang also made some money because of the subcontracting project, so he had the spare time to buy some industries in Qinzhou Port to serve as office spaces and material warehouses of the military department.

In addition to in infrastructure work, they are sometimes requisitioned as bandit suppression troops and guarding places. Although they lack weapons and guns and cannons are all rags, how good can the bandits and thieves be equipped? Even with the secret support from Shunguo, it is impossible to have too many. Therefore, they are basically crushing, and the tasks are completed very well and have been commended by Director Tang many times. Some young officers who have emerged were even appreciated by the advisory group and were sent to Wuzhou for a short period of study to learn the construction and management of modern troops to improve their business capabilities.

However, after a good life of one or two years, they had to say goodbye to the comfortable Lian Wu. Because the central government had decided that the Yi army would leave in batches before the end of 1705 and go to overseas colonies to explore. In order to "urge" them, Tang Chengzhi urgently took the Second Mixed Army Regiment back from the Ningshao area to prevent accidents. The Yi army had no choice but to obey orders. After all, their lives still depended on the people of the East Coast, with no money, grain, and supplies, what else could it be? And it has been two years younger to Lian Wu. Have you seen the people of the East Coast change your clothes? Well, military uniforms, kettles, baggage, engineering and weapons, etc., new ones were issued, but what about the most critical rifles and cannons? Sorry, I still used the original junk goods. I can't resist. What should I do?

As if to better control the Yi army, the East Coast people also planned to divide it into two parts. One was led by Li Sixing and went to the Malacca city area in batches to settle in. Anyway, the East Coast government purchased a lot of land outside the city through various white gloves, which was enough to allocate. If the Dutch protested, it would not matter. First, it would be scattered to the small island opposite the Strait of Malacca, slowly explored, and took it slowly, and established the East step by step with the model of surrounding the city in the countryside.

The shore people have a population advantage in the local area, and then they will evolve peacefully. With the strength of the eastern coast naval fleet and the current situation of the continent, the Dutch dare not move. As long as they dare not move, they cannot break the situation and can only sit back and watch the situation lose control step by step. Or even if they move, are you Li Sixing an incompetent? Don't worry, when you get there, you will replace you with new weapons. If you train well, you will not be able to fight back.

The other part is specially selected by the Jiang brothers who are familiar with each other and have a close relationship with the East Coast. Yes, it is the Jiang Yingyu and Jiang Guoyu brothers! They were middle-level officers of the Li army and had a certain influence, but they still couldn't stand alone. However, with the strong support of the East Coast people, everything is not a problem. Shortage of supplies? Give it! Shortage of equipment? Give it! Someone is not convinced? Transfer it to you! Take so many measures, as long as your Jiang brothers are not too wasteful, you will definitely be able to do it!

The two brothers Jiang Yingyu were a little nervous, but with the strong persuasion of the East Coast consultant, they eventually developed ambitions. And their abilities were indeed good, and they had a group of little brothers under their command. After they were stationed everywhere, they had to be nepotist at this time, otherwise they would definitely not be able to control the troops. At present, they barely controlled the approximately 15,000 people allocated to them by the East Coast people, making a vague distinction. It was not that the old people from the Li tribe called them "betrayal", but to be honest, what if they bear some intimacy in the face of the benefits that are within their fingertips? Many people don't have this opportunity! If Jiang Yingyu had not had a lot of contact with the East Coast people and had been recognized by the boss, he would not have had this opportunity to bear the intimacy.

This is fate, it's amazing!

The destination of Chiang tribe is not Malacca, but the Philippine Islands. To be more precise, their target is the area around Manila Bay. Of course, this requires waiting for the opportunity, that is, when the East Coast people go to complete war with the Spaniards, they will cooperate with the East Coast troops to capture this core city in one fell swoop, and then take it for themselves, and believe that this day will not be too far away.

In the future, East Coast people will gradually migrate a group of people here to improve the local population structure and control it more securely. It is unrealistic for the East Coast government to colonize the entire Philippine Islands for the time being, but it is still possible to occupy a small part of it - especially the essence of Manila Bay - to influence the other two colonial forces on the archipelago in the future, giving the East Coast Navy and Army a base.

Manila, Brunei, Malacca, Timor Island, and Rabaul are like a ring lock, surrounding the entire East Indies. The rich resources on the archipelago, such as spices, wood, food, fishery resources, various minerals and even rich human resources, will become the objects of the East Coast colonial empire in the future, and will become the nutrients to support the people of the empire and maintain their favorable living conditions.

We are serious about colonization!

At present, the preliminary preparations for voyage to Southeast Asia have begun, and the first thing to do is public opinion propaganda. This matter was handled by the people from the Syphilis Patient Statistical Investigation Bureau, and they are professional. Li Sixing's tens of thousands of people in the army had no opinion. After being promoted and brainwashed by people from the East Coast, he basically believed that Southeast Asia was a place full of opportunities and was no longer very repulsive to going there to explore, which solved a lot of trouble.

Malacca and Manila will both be under the jurisdiction of the Malay Management Committee in the future. Their current headquarters are located in Brunei and their strength is not very strong. However, with more than 50,000 Yi troops joining the army, their strength will usher in explosive growth. In the future, its influence in the South China Sea and the East Indies will increase greatly, becoming an important and even dominant force in the local area.

Europeans shouldn’t have come to Asia, and it’s time for you to pack your luggage and leave in the future!
Chapter completed!