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Two thousand Great Qin Royal Navy and thirty clipper warships raised their sails high into the clouds and quickly sailed out of Baiqi Port.
When the Qin merchant ships in the harbor heard that the ocean-going fleet was going to attack Dagon, many of them immediately followed.
The business competition in Baiqi City is extremely fierce. Seeing that there is a new way, the merchants have followed the pace of the navy in the past two years and have tasted the sweetness, so they are naturally flocking to it.
Unfortunately, there are very few clipper ships on civilian merchant ships nowadays, and clipper ships are more than twice as fast as old sailing ships, so they find it difficult to keep up with the warships that are as fast as the sea.
But it doesn’t matter. No matter how powerful the Royal Navy is, it is impossible to move the city of Dagon. As long as the first batch of merchant ships arrive, they can always grab a lot of business opportunities.
In addition to the two thousand people taken away by Hai Rufeng and the five hundred people led by Du Qianshi Ren to build a port in Temasek, Ke Chenshu who stayed in Baiqi City still had three thousand troops and another fifteen thousand vassal troops. Of course, he would not be idle.
In addition to leaving some troops to defend Baiqi City, most of the troops immediately headed towards Surabaya on the northeast side of Java Island, preparing to vent their anger on the rebel leader Basha.
It can be said that at this moment in the South China Sea, the entire situation is very tense. The South China Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, and the Ocean-going Fleet are all competing to set sail, heading towards the Indochina Peninsula like a pack of wolves.
Gu Rong's East Sea Fleet's target was Thang Long City (Hanoi) controlled by Zheng of Jiaozhi, Zheng Sihai's South Sea Fleet's target was Hue City in the south of Jiaozhi controlled by the Nguyen family, and another fleet led by Chen Hui was sent to help Siam recapture Ayutthaya. Hai Rufeng's target was Dagon (Rangoon) in Dongwu. All in all, the entire coastline of Indochina was almost covered by the artillery of the Qin Royal Navy.
Axioms are only within the range of cannon.
The navy received the order this time to occupy what they could, and not to dwell too much on what they could not, and to focus on plundering wealth and population. Daqin needed to build roads and develop agriculture, industry and commerce, which required a lot of free labor.
When Ma Liuliang, who was playing hide-and-seek with Cen Yin in the mountainous area of southwest Guangxi, heard about the commotion caused by the navy, he jumped up instantly like a cat whose tail was stepped on, waving his sword and cursing: "Fuck you, you bastards of the navy, do you have any shame? I have been hiding in this place where chickens don't lay eggs and birds don't shit for so long, and I haven't even had a chance to eat something hot, and they made such a big scene. Are they going to have a feast? Do they think I am just a decoration?"
Hou San's face turned red, and he shouted, "That's right, that's right, Lord Hou, the court is not fair this time..."
"Hou San, are you blaming His Majesty? Believe it or not, I will kill you first."
"My Lord, you misunderstood. How dare I blame His Majesty? I mean those... Ministry of War. It was the Ministry of War that issued the combat order. It was the officials of the Ministry of War who were dishonest. Damn you, you let us take our time before. Now that we have meat to eat, you let those bastards of the navy take over. Isn't this bullying?"
Wu Xiaoliu also said, "My Lord, Shenglong Mansion should belong to us..."
"What are you arguing about?" Tang Yue, the deputy chief, finally couldn't stand it anymore. After dismissing Hou San and Wu Xiaoliu, he said to Ma Liuliang: "My Lord, don't be too ambitious..."
"Bah!" Ma Liuliang interrupted Tang Yue with his usual attitude, "If it weren't for the fact that I wanted to cooperate with the imperial court to weaken other chieftains, I would have killed Cen Yin and his few remaining defeated generals. I've had enough. I don't want to play hide-and-seek anymore. Come on!"
"exist!"
"Pass the order down, the entire army will attack immediately and flatten Tianzhou City!"
"My Lord, calm down, calm down. Tianzhou City is not an enemy city. You can't really flatten it."
"Mr. Tang, you are the only one who talks too much nonsense. I know what's going on."
Ma Liuliang had always been a man who did not follow the rules. In order to catch up with the feast in Indochina, he could not help but get angry. He assembled a large army and immediately attacked Tianzhou City. Cen Yin, who had been beaten like a frightened bird by him, immediately abandoned the city and fled when he heard that General Liuliang was coming.
We have to abandon the city. The Qin army's rockets are too powerful and the city can't stop them. The wise thing to do is to escape into the mountains.
Cen Yin and Tianzhou chieftain Fang Nuo were chased all the way by Ma Liuliang, and finally fled into Qingting Mountain on the bank of Youjiang River. Qingting Mountain is rolling and densely covered with ancient trees. It was not easy for Cen Yin and his two thousand men to hide there to wipe them out in a short time.
Ma Liuliang was so anxious that he kept scratching his cheeks at the foot of the mountain. He had 10,000 mountain troops and 5,000 local soldiers from various chieftains. The number was not small, but once they entered the mountain, they would be playing hide-and-seek in the dense jungle.
Ma Saner suggested cautiously: "My Lord, why don't we send people to set fire to all sides and burn down this bird forest?"
If it were someone else, they would definitely consider what to do if the fire spreads once such a forest is set on fire. However, Ma Liuliang did not think much about it and immediately sent people to set fire to Qingting Mountain from all sides.
For a moment, the fire burned the forest, illuminating the sky and the earth, and billowing black smoke filled the air for a hundred miles. Tang Yue only realized that Ma Liuliang had brazenly set fire to the mountain after the fire started. He couldn't help but jump up and down and said, "Ma Liuliang, you... you did a bad thing. Once the fire started, it spread and couldn't be stopped at all. Do you know how serious the consequences will be?"
"It's not serious at all. It's just a burn, so what? I'm just trying to eliminate the miasma, you know? The trees are too dense, so there's a lot of miasma. I'm trying to eliminate the disaster and cure the disease for them."
"You... you still think you are right." Tang Yue was so angry that he was shaking. In the end, he had to use the emperor to pressure him. "You are so reckless and reckless. Wait for His Majesty to punish you."
When mentioning the emperor, Ma Liuliang said disapprovingly: "Whether or not your Majesty will punish me is your business, so stop complaining, sour scholar."
Ma Liuliang felt that the emperor would at most scold him and would definitely not really punish him, so he felt relieved. He set a big fire that not only burned Qingting Mountain, but also burned Cen Yin and Fang Nuo's 2,000 remaining soldiers into barbecue.
Afterwards, Ma Liuliang, without the permission of the Southwest Governor Tian Yimu, took advantage of the victory and summoned the chieftains of Guangxi, ordering them to follow him to attack Jiaozhi. Ma Liuliang entered Guangxi twice and became very famous among the chieftains of Guangxi.
Seeing that the rebellious Si'en Prefecture chieftain Cen Yin was wiped out by Ma Liuliang, the chieftains in Guangxi did not dare to be negligent and sent out some troops in accordance with the order, more or less.
While heading south, Ma Liuliang gathered the troops sent by various chieftains and rushed towards Zhennan Pass in a hurry.
After Ma Liuliang left, the forest fire in Tianzhou burned for a full half month, affecting Tianzhou, Fengyizhou, Guohuazhou, and Si'en Prefecture. Many mountains and forests were burned to the ground. Even though these mountainous areas were vast and sparsely populated, the fire eventually left tens of thousands of natives homeless.
Tian Yimu, the governor of three provinces who was in charge of the policy of converting native peoples to Han people, rushed to Tianzhou to resettle the refugees while urgently reporting to the court.
Before Tian Yimu's urgent report was delivered to Nanjing, Qin Mu had already received Ye Bushou's report.
Seeing the emperor frowned, Huang Lianshan thought he would be furious, but after Qin Mu put down his pen, he asked calmly: "Where is Ma Liuliang now?"
"Your Majesty, we have probably reached Zhennan Pass."
"This guy is getting bolder and bolder. If we don't give him a beating, he might just poke a hole in the sky."
Huang Lianshan bowed his body, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised. In fact, he knew that Ma Liuliang was a young man with a naive mind, but he was very loyal. The emperor trusted him more than other generals and liked him from the bottom of his heart.
Judging from the emperor's tone, it was just a warning, which meant that he would not really do anything to Ma Liuliang.
Huang Lianshan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, in fact, although the action of Marquis Jiande was a bit reckless and left tens of thousands of natives in the four states homeless, on the other hand, it is not entirely a bad thing. At least it will be of great help to Governor Tian's land reform.
These natives were originally scattered in the mountains and were wild and difficult to tame. Now General Ma has driven them down the mountain with a fire. Once they are centralized and settled, these native states can be directly governed by officials from time to time."
"That's true, but if everyone is as reckless as this guy, how many fires can he burn in my Great Qin? Come, tell me my order. Marquis Jiande was so bold and reckless that he set fire to the mountain, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless. Considering his meritorious service in suppressing bandits, he can be spared the death penalty, but he cannot escape the punishment of life. I will punish him with 100 military sticks and a year's salary, so that he can make up for his crime and make up for his meritorious service."
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