Ten days later, the Quanzhou Prefecture was set up in the hall

"Li Zhizhou, Cui Tongju!" Wu Miaoshan, the deputy inspector of the Quanzhou Land Inspection Department, bowed to Li Sanjian and Cui Yongzi and said: "After investigation, the thieves who set fire and assassinated on the night are pirates from Tongpan Island in the East China Sea. ”

"Pirates from Tongpan Island again?" Li Sanjian asked with a blushing face.

At this time, Li Sanjian was extremely angry, so angry that he couldn't control himself, so angry that he really wanted to desperately send troops to exterminate the pirates.

Of course, the premise is that Li Sanjian has troops to come out...

The East China Sea pirates were rampant, not only attacking several Quanzhou villages in the month of Layue, but also setting fire to Quanzhou on Chinese New Year's Eve, thus causing panic among the people of Quanzhou, of course, this New Year in Quanzhou was also frightened and so-so.

Not only that, but the thieves actually plotted to assassinate the officials of the imperial court, the governors of a state, so retrograde, almost no different from rebellion, such retrograde, Li Sanjian can play the Ming court, please send troops immediately.

scared Li Sanjian's mother, wives and concubines into not daring to go out, which was also one of the reasons why Li Sanjian was angry.

At the same time, what Li Sanjian still can't understand is that since he took office, he has not taken any action against the pirates on Tongpan Island, so why did they come to the door and assassinate him?

"Li Zhizhou!" Wu Miaoshan replied when he heard this: "The people of my dynasty like tattoos and tattoos, and the thieves of Tongpan Island are no exception. After investigation, there is a copper cottage on Tongpan Island, and the people who enter the village have to get tattoos, which is the mark of the thief, and the subordinates have experienced the corpse of the thief in addition to the night, and there are such marks on it. In addition, the subordinates interrogated more than ten thieves who had been put on death row, and it was concluded that these thieves were all thieves of Tongpan Island, and it has been ascertained that the leaders of Quanzhou except for the night are two people, one is Lai Hei, the fourth commander of Tongpan Island, this person is called 'Dumu Bi', and the other is a woman, Lai Hei's wife, Huang Sanniang, called 'Sea Rakshasa', is the leader of the nine pirates, and these two people have died under the knife and gun on New Year's Eve. ”

"Li Zhizhou, Cui Tong's sentence, this is the confession of the thieves in Quanzhou prison." Wu Miaoshan then put the confessions of the pirates captured by Zhang Kan on top of the case of Li Sanjian and Cui Yongzi.

"Four leaders, nine leaders?" Cui Yongzi looked at the confession and asked, "How many leaders are there in the pirates of Tongpan Island?" How many pirates are there on this island? ”

Wu Miaoshan is really a cadre, an experienced head hunter, Cui Yongzi secretly said in his heart, only more than ten days, he found out the general situation of the pirates.

"Back to Cui Tong's sentence." Wu Miaoshan replied: "There are about 2,000 thieves on Tongpan Island, the leader of the thieves is named Xie Huaizhong, who is a habitual bandit who has been plundering the sea all the year round, and is called 'Feitianjiao'; the eight leaders are named Xie Huaiyi, and Xie Huaizhong are two brothers, and the people of the rivers and lakes send 'Rolling Sea Jiao'; the second leader is named Fei Jingyang, and the number is 'Snake by the River'; the third leader is named Gu Longyun, and the number is 'Turning the Mountain'; the fourth leader is Lai Hei, because one of his eyes is blind, so he is called 'One-Eyed Biao'; the fifth leader is named Liao Han, and the name is 'Beast Tengu'; and the sixth leader is named Mizunochuan, and the number is 'Mizunogawa, number' According to investigation, this person is a Japanese man; Zhu Guangming, the seventh leader, is called 'Wuhualang', and the eighth leader is named Xie Huaiyi, who is Xie Huaizhong's own brother, and the people of the rivers and lakes send 'rolling sea Jiao'; and the nine leaders are the woman who died. Li Zhizhou and Cui Tong judged that this group of thieves has been entrenched on Tongpan Island for more than ten years, and has been endangering the coastal people for more than ten years, and the government has been unable to obtain several encirclements and suppressions, so this group of pirates is becoming more and more rampant, and there is no one in sight. ”

"Fortunately, it's not a hundred orders and eight generals!" Li Sanjian sneered when he heard this: "Widows? The little Japan of the straight sissy thief also came to join in the fun? One day, Lao Tzu will lead the troops to stir up the small island, and one day, Lao Tzu will lead the troops to set foot on the Japanese island. . . . ”

What will one hundred single eight be? The dignified governor of Quanzhou was actually in front of the public, and in the hall of the state yahuanghuang, so that all the officials of the state government were stunned and looked at each other, I don't know why Li Sanjian caused him so much anger when he heard the word "wolf"?

Japan is an island country located in the northeastern part of the Song Dynasty, and many of the officials of the prefecture still have some understanding of this.

Japan is a small country, and the Song Dynasty does not look at him squarely, but Japan admires and respects the Song Dynasty very much, and basically pays tribute every year, and comes to the dynasty every year, so the relationship between Japan and the Song should be relatively good.

At this time, Li Sanjian suddenly said that he would lead his troops to level the Japanese island...

Did Japan recruit you and provoke you? made you Li Sanjian grit your teeth like this, as if the Japanese had dug up the ancestral grave of your Li Sanjian family... That's what everyone thought in their hearts.

It is not surprising that there were a few Japanese pirates in the East China Sea of the Great Song Dynasty, and the whole of Japan cannot be blamed for these few Japanese pirates, right?

You must know that among the pirates there are not only Japanese people, but also people from overseas countries such as Goryeo, Mayi, Srivijaya, Cochin, and Champong, and at the same time, in general, the Japanese people among the pirates should be said to be relatively rare.

Flattening the Japanese island with troops? You, a civil official, the champion of "Jiao Didi" and Wen Zou Zou, still want to personally lead the troops into battle? I guess I peed my pants as soon as I went into battle... Everyone couldn't help but say secretly in their hearts.

In other words, even if you, Li Sanjian, have the power to lead the army, but if you attack an overseas country, how can you say that you will fight?

However, Li Sanjian's foul language aroused the favor of the military attache of the Quanzhou Prefecture, and they all felt that Li Sanjian was their "fellow believer"...

"Li Zhizhou... Cui Yongzi then couldn't help but say to Li Sanjian: "Step... It's not too late to talk about the matter of pacifying Japan in the future, the current pirates on Tongpan Island are so rampant, it is really intolerable, I don't know what Li Zhizhou thinks about this? ”

"Takami? Where does Li have any high opinions? Pirates in the East China Sea are rampant... Yao was imprisoned, what happened? Li Sanjian was talking, and suddenly saw Yao Yu and a messenger whispering below, and at the same time, Yao Yu showed a sad and indignant expression, so he asked in surprise.

"Li Zhizhou, Cui Tongju!" Hearing this, Yao Yu said to Li Sanjian and Cui Yongzi angrily: "The Layue pirates attacked several villages in Quanzhou and captured more than ten soldiers of our army. Scholar.... Soldier.... They were actually hanged alive on the ship by the thieves of Tongpan Island, and the death was terrible, hey, hateful, hateful! ”

When the officials of the state government heard this, they immediately looked at each other, and they exchanged heads and whispered one after another.

Everyone also knew that the pirates were brutal before, but in any case, they didn't expect the pirates on Tongpan Island in the East China Sea to be so brutal? It's just lawless and unscrupulous.

The pirates in the East China Sea are by no means limited to Tongpan Island, and they also have confrontations with the officials and soldiers from time to time, but generally speaking, the pirates do not dare to kill the officials and soldiers so much, and after they are caught, many pirates have put the officials and soldiers back. Even if they kill, they will kill a very small number of one or two people, and the reason is that the pirates are still afraid of angering the government and the imperial court. And this time, the pirates of Tongpan Island not only executed more than 20 officers and soldiers, but also adopted an extremely cruel punishment, that is, drying up and dying, how can this not be shocking, how can it not make people angry?

The killing of prisoners is rare even if the two armies clash.

This was not only shocking and angry, but also severely humiliated the Quanzhou government and Li Sanjian and other state officials.

"Smack!" Li Sanjian was furious, smashed his fist on the bookcase, and said angrily: "The thief insulted me too much, I swear not to give up with him!" ”

"Li Zhizhou, send troops!"

"We are willing to lead the troops to fight to the death against the thieves!"

"Exactly, if you capture the thief, you will definitely break his body into pieces!"

The military generals of the state government were also furious, and they all came out and shouted.

"Shut up, go down!" Cui Yongzi was furious, got up and brushed his sleeves and said, "Where is Tongpan Island?" What is the terrain there? There are more than 2,000 pirates on Tongpan Island, but how many ships do they have? And how many warships are there? What kind of weapon was used? How many of the more than 2,000 thieves are there to fight? I don't know the details, how can our army send troops? With more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in Quanzhou, can I wipe them out in one go? What if you lose again? ”

The military attachés were speechless when they heard this, and they retreated.

After Cui Yongzi repelled the military attachés, he said to Li Sanjian: "Li Zhizhou, the thief is unknown, you must not act rashly, and you must not mess with yourself." ”

"Cui Tong's judgment is reasonable!" Li Sanjian took a breath, stabilized his angry mood, and said slowly: "The thieves of Tongpan Island rely on nothing more than the vast sea, coming and going without a trace, so that we want to fight with it but have no way to find it, and since the pirates have been entrenched in Tongpan Island for more than ten years, and the pirates have been operating for a long time, then presumably this island is like an iron wall, difficult to overcome, so the matter of suppressing thieves should be thoughtful, so you can do it, I don't know what good strategies you have, just speak freely today." ”

Li Sanjian was angry, of course, he wanted to immediately send troops to exterminate the pirates and return Quanzhou to a peaceful world, but as Cui Yongzi said, he thought twice before acting.

At present, there is a shortage of people and ships in Quanzhou, especially the lack of good fighters and warships, almost if there are no ships and no people, what can be done to exterminate the pirates on Tongpan Island?

With more than 3,000 Quanzhou Xiang troops? Li Sanjian estimated that these 3,000 miscellaneous soldiers would go to sea to suppress the bandits, and it would not be long before the entire army would be wiped out.

Cui Yongzi nodded approvingly when he heard this, and was relieved that Li Sanjian was no longer impulsive.

"Li Zhizhou, Cui Tongju!" Zhou Fangwei, the judge of Quanzhou Prefecture, came out and said: "The lower officials think that the top priority at present is to stabilize the morale of the Quanzhou army and the people, so the defeat of our army and the killing of the soldiers must not be publicized. ”

Li Sanjian and Cui Yongzi nodded together when they heard this.