Ningbo Dinghaiwei, that is, the location of Zhoushan in later generations.

Dinghaiwei has jurisdiction over five thousand households, including Zhoushan Zhongzhong Thousand Households, Zhoushan Zhongzuo Thousand Households, Thousands of Households after Crossing the Mountain, and Da Song Shouyu Thousand Households.

Zhoushan Archipelago is the largest archipelago off the coast of China, located in the northern waters of Zhejiang Province south of the Yangtze River estuary and east of Hangzhou Bay.

Among them, Zhoushan Island is the largest, the name of Dinghai Island in the Ming Dynasty, with an area of more than 500 square kilometers, second only to Taiwan and Hainan Island, at this time Chongming Island has not yet been formed, and most of the coastal cities in Jiangsu have not yet been exposed in the tide.

After explaining the matter of agricultural development, Zhu Cihong said goodbye to Jiang Fengyuan and then set off for Dinghaiwei, Ningbo Prefecture, to inspect the coastal defense affairs there.

Shen Shouchong, the commander of Haiwei, and Huang Binqing, a general of Zhoushan, personally led 500 soldiers out of the city ten miles early to wait for them.

Finally, a series of dense flags and honor guards appeared in the distance, and the noisy iron cavalry formation saw that the faces of everyone in Dinghaiwei changed, and Huang Binqing, who was beside Shen Shouchong, couldn't help but tremble lightly, shocked by the power of such majesty.

Seeing that the crown prince's guard of honor was gradually coming, Ding Haiwei commanded Shen Shouchong to immediately bow in front of the guard of honor and shouted: "Shen Shouchong, the deputy general of Ningbo Mansion, respectfully invites His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Jin An!" ”

Zhu Cihong walked out of the guard of honor, raised his hand and said, "Xing!" ”

Before leaving, Zhu Cihong had a careful understanding of Shen Shouchong, the commander of Dinghaiwei, of course, now that the guard system in Jiangnan has been abolished, Shen Shouchong has been transferred to the deputy general of Ningbo Prefecture, and he is still guarding the Dinghai Acropolis, in charge of the Zhejiang Naval Division, and arresting pirates.

Zhu Cihong knew that Shen Shouchong was a hereditary martial artist, and his father, Shen Yourong, a national hero in the late Ming Dynasty.

Shen Yourong can be said to be the first general in Chinese history to recover the island of Taiwan, he successively served as an official in Jiliao, Fujian, Zhejiang, Denglai and other frontier or coastal defense outposts, and also fought in the Korean War of the Wanli Dynasty.

Shen Yourong spent half of his more than 40 years of military career on the coast of Fujian, and during the Wanli period, he led his army into Taiwan and the Penghu Islands three times, annihilated the Japanese invaders, drove the Dutch invaders, and successfully defended the southeast coast and Taiwan Island.

Shen Shouchong is the sixth son of Shen Yourong, after Shen Yourong's death, Yin Si served as the commander of Dinghaiwei, and the Shen family in history was full of loyal martyrs.

Shen Shouchong was killed by Li Zicheng in the suburbs of Beijing in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen; Shen Shouchong's fourth brother Shen Shouyue was beheaded by the Qing army in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi because he actively supported Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan to resist the Qing Dynasty, and Shen Shouchong's eighth brother Shen Shouyao organized a righteous army to resist the Qing in the second year of Shunzhi, and was defeated and killed.

Zhu Cihong has some expectations for Shen Shouchong, a famous general, and hopes that he can have his father's ability to make a contribution to Daming coastal defense.

Shen Shouchong looks dignified, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a slight sideburns and beard, is the appearance of a standard general, the five hundred soldiers he brought, although the clothes and armor are shabby, but the spiritual temperament is very full, it seems that after some strict training, from the military appearance, it is much stronger than other soldiers of the Ming army such as Zuo Liangyu and Liu Liangzuo.

Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "Shen Shouchong, you have trained a good soldier!" ”

Shen Shouchong hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has won the award, and the last general is ashamed." ”

Although Shen Shouchong was alone, he had also heard of the deeds of Zhu Cihong and Tianwu Army, and at this time, he saw that Zhu Cihong was very young, his eyes were like electricity, and he saw that he had the demeanor of a king, and he did not look as domineering and ferocious as the legend.

Looking at the people and horses brought by the crown prince, all of them are well-armed, energetic, morale is high, the queue is strict, and the murderous atmosphere is pervasive, Shen Yourong is envious.

Under Shen Shouchong's opening, the honor guard team entered the Dinghai Acropolis, the guard of the Ming Dynasty, which was actually a city, and most of the residents in and around the city were military households.

Although the buildings and streets of the Dinghai Acropolis are very dilapidated, they are clean and lively, and the spiritual outlook of the residents is also good.

After coming to the original commander's yamen to sit down, Zhu Cihong said: "The governance here is good, Shen Shouchong, how long have you been here?" ”

Shen Shouchong bowed and replied: "Back to Your Highness, it has been two years since the last general was in Dinghaiwei. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, Shen Shouchong was born as a martial artist in the first year of Chongzhen, and a martial artist can govern the place properly, which can be regarded as some ability.

In fact, Shen Shouchong once served as a left-behind general in Chengtian Mansion, one of the four major mansions, because he was as upright as his father Shen Yourong, he offended many people and was impeached and demoted here by the imperial history.

Zhejiang was one of the most economically developed areas in the Ming Dynasty, but Dinghaiwei was in a remote area by the sea at the southern end of Ningbo Prefecture, with no overseas trade, and the economic development was very average, which was quite a disguised exile.

When Zhu Cihong implemented the new policy and abolished the guard system, there was also turmoil in Zhejiang, and the Qianhu Office in the back of Chuanshan and the Qianhu Office in Zhoushan under the rule of Dinghaiwei, the two thousand households planned to respond to the gentry rebellion, and also wrote a letter to persuade Shen Shouchong to do things together.

Shen Shouchong pretended to agree, and summoned the Zhoushan counselor and the five thousand households under his rule to hold a banquet in the Dinghai Acropolis to discuss the matter.

On the banquet, Shen Shouchong suddenly attacked, killed the two thousand households on the spot, and hung the heads of the two thousand households outside the city to show the public, and ordered all the generals and military households of Dinghaiwei, and those who rebelled will be killed!

The entire Dinghaiwei army and people were shocked, no one dared to rebel again, in the Zhejiang Weisu colluded with the gentry and businessmen to rebel, the five Dinghaiwei did not participate in the rebellion, Shen Shouchong was promoted to the deputy general of Ningbo Mansion because of his merits.

Zhu Cihong praised Shen Shouchong's exploits a few words, and said: "Now the military households have been settled?" Were the soldiers' salaries paid on time? ”

Shen Shouchong said with a smile on his face: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the military households of Dinghaiwei each household have been given fifty acres of military land, and the soldiers' salaries have also been paid by the governor's yamen on time, one or two or five yuan of silver per month. ”

In the Ming Dynasty, military households do not have their own military fields, and it is not uncommon for soldiers to not pay military salaries all year round, and military households can not escape from the famine and go to the city to work, so they can only help the officers farm and barely make ends meet.

Shen Shouchong has never received a penny of military salary since he arrived in Dinghaiwei, and in the past two years, his military households have barely carried it by farming and fishing, since the Zhejiang Wei system was abolished, the military land occupied by the gentry was redistributed by the governor's yamen, and the sailors and soldiers also had a fixed military salary, and everyone felt that spring was coming, and the days were better.

The free military families and the soldiers who were allocated to the fields thanked Zhu Cihong for his benevolent government from the bottom of their hearts, and were more willing to support the imperial court with all their hearts.