Taizhou was located in Baiyue in the pre-Qin period, the so-called Baiyue, seven or eight thousand miles from Jiaozhi to Huiji, Baiyue miscellaneous, each with its own caste.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty was subordinate to the prefecture, until the early years of the Tang Dynasty, only five counties gathered to set up the state capital, and named Taizhou after Tiantai Mountain in the territory.

After that, the administrative area of Taizhou was quite chaotic, and every once in a while it would be divided or filled with one or two counties, and even the name of Taizhou disappeared in the long river of history.

It was not until the Yuan Dynasty re-established Taizhou Road, and Zhu Yuanzhang changed the road to the house in the early Ming Dynasty, and Taizhou Mansion reappeared in the world, under the jurisdiction of Linhai, Huangyan, Taiping, Xianju, Tiantai, Ninghai six counties.

Taizhou Mansion is near the sea, because there are many mountains in the territory, the typical pattern of seven mountains, one water and three fields, and because the geographical location is not good, the transportation is not convenient, so Taizhou is the first batch of deep participation in the maritime trade in the Ming Dynasty, and the maritime merchants gathered in Taizhou are by no means less than Ningbo Mansion.

But Taizhou is also the most seriously affected by the Japanese invaded area, long before the destruction of Ligang, there are often a large number of Japanese invaders in Taizhou, although Tan Lun was praised by later generations as a famous general against the Japanese, even if he went into battle shirtless, it was barely maintained, until last year Xu Hai and Wang Zhi went to war, Tan Lun was slightly relieved.

A convoy slowly drove out of the gate of Xianju County and headed west, and five or six carriages were quite eye-catching, attracting many passers-by.

"Which young master came out to play in the mountains and rivers?" Some passers-by said disdainfully: "It looks good when you meet a widow." ”

Although Wang Zhi and Xu Hai were at war, there were still small groups of Japanese pirates who often invaded the southeast coast, with Ningbo and Taizhou being the most frequent.

The sharp-eyed one saw clearly, "It's only five or six carriages, and if you look at the cavalry in front and behind, there are dozens of them, even if they encounter a small group of pirates, they can run away." ”

The sharper-eyed sneered, "Run? What are you kidding, didn't you see the bamboo spear? ”

"Oh, that's the male soldier under General Qi Shen!"

After the successive battles, the people in Taizhou and Ningbo regarded Qi Jiguang as a savior, and the characteristics of the wolf tooth whisk carried by the Qian family's guards were obvious.

However, it is not wrong to guess, after Qian Yuan and his party left Hangzhou this time, they went upriver from the Fuchun River, entered Jinhua Mansion through Yanzhou Mansion, and went to Yiwu to visit Qi Jiguang.

After a long night of talking, Qi Jiguang asked his younger brother Qi Jimei to escort him with 20 personal soldiers, and went west from Huaxi to Taizhou Mansion, settled in Xianju County, and then went west from Yong'an River to Taizhou Mansion and Guo Linhai County.

There is a sign of the governor of Zhejiang, Qian Yuan has borrowed official ships in all parts of the southeast, Xiao Qi carefully taught the four maids to kill the Three Kingdoms in it, she just played well like this, and the others lost along the way to turn their faces, and Qian Yuan stood at the bow of the boat, not enjoying the scenery, but carefully observing the terrain.

Looking down at the map again, there was no contour line on the map of this era, and Qian Yuan could only do something excellent based on the local chronicles and the information he had collected before.

"Looking at Taizhou, the southeast plain, the river is longitudinal and horizontal, but there are continuous mountains in the northwest and southwest, the traffic is unfavorable, and the guest army will come to help very slowly, and Taizhou can only fight alone, unlike Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, or Jiaxing, Suzhou, and Songjiang can be connected together."

Qi Jimei nodded again and again, "That's true, the Japanese invaded Shaoxing and Ningbo, even if they were defeated, the officers and troops stationed on the border of Hangzhou could immediately go down the river to help, but Taizhou ......"

Speaking of Ning Shaotai, but in fact, Qi Jiguang's main area of activity is only in Taizhou, Qian Yuan recalled, it seems that before going south to Fujian and north to Jimen, several big victories of Qi's army occurred in Taizhou.

"But there's a benefit." Qian Yuan smiled, "If you win the battle, the credit belongs to Yuan Jing alone." ”

Qi Jimei frowned, "Isn't there still a prefect?" ”

"Governor Tan is a civil official, where is it." Yang Wen on the side complained: "If you can hold Taizhou steadily, it will not be difficult for Qi Shen to be promoted to a general soldier." ”

Qian Yuan glanced at Yang Wen, since he entered the Taizhou Mansion yesterday, this guy has been a little unable to sit still, usually Yang Wen has very little to say, but these days he has become a chatterbox.

Going down the river, the boat speed is quite fast, and it sets off early in the morning, and before the sunset goes down, the group has arrived in Linhai County.

Yang Wen, who had not stopped talking along the way, finally stopped his mouth, his hands were tightly clenched into fists, the city gate of Linhai County in front of him was dilapidated and old, there were many traces of swords and axes on the city wall, and the soil by the moat was purple-black, I don't know how much blood was mixed with the blood of the widows and the guards of the city.

"It has been more than three years since the 32nd year of Jiajing." Qian Yuan said calmly: "The debt has also been paid off, if you are interested, I can recommend you to join the army, whether it is Taizhou or Qi Yuanjing." ”

With the traffic moving forward into the city gate, after the inspection of the guards of the city, Yang Wencai said after a while: "The young master has come to Taizhou, stay by the young master's side, and don't worry about no chance to kill the widows." ”

"Are you really a young master, I'm a broom star?" Qian Yuan scolded with a smile: "I'm too lazy to care about you, let me go." ”

Zhang San on the side breathed a sigh of relief, "If you really leave, I will slap you!" ”

"Where's the talk?" Wang Yi shook his head, "It's just that as soon as Yang Wen leaves, I'm afraid that the recruitment of guards will slow down." ”

When I entered Taizhou Mansion, the first place to go was naturally the government office, and my mother Tan moved to Taizhou, only saying that I was going to find my cousin Tan Lun, and I didn't say anything else.

All the way south, Qian Yuan wrote several times, but he didn't know whether he didn't receive it or missed it, and he never received Tan Lun's reply, Qian Yuan was a little anxious.

The soldiers guarding the gate of the government were quite elite and very vigilant, and when they saw dozens of men on horseback escorting the convoy over, they immediately summoned dozens of soldiers to come forward for interrogation.

A quarter of an hour later, Tang Shunzhi, the Tongzhi of Taizhou Mansion, strode out of the mansion, and Qian Yuan bowed deeply, "I'll see Jingchuan Gong in more than two years." ”

Tang Shunzhi stretched out his hand, the young man in front of him had faded from the youth of more than two years ago, and his demeanor was calm with a compelling spirit, and there was no longer laziness in Chongde County.

"Good, good!" Tang Shunzhi nodded and said: "Since Chongde said goodbye, I heard that the exhibition of talents has been built repeatedly, and he has successfully entered the department, the old man and Zili are quite pleased. ”

Tan Lun's wife stayed in Jiangxi, and only came to Taizhou alone to take up her post, with only two side rooms around her, Xiao Qi was taken to the backyard, and Qian Yuan went to the study to meet Tan Lun before Tang Shun.

This is a dark-faced middle-aged man, not tall, but his eyes are solemn, quite majestic, he has repeatedly killed the Japanese in person over the years, there is a waist knife next to the desk, and a map and a long sword are hung on the wall, he does not look like a civil official, but has the appearance of a military general.

Tan Lun is a twenty-four-year-old Zhongjin sergeant, is a well-known young talent in Jiangxi Province, with a calm temperament and a strategic belly, this is a genius who can comprehend the art of war from ant fighting, and in later generations he is a famous general who can be as famous as Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Li Chengliang.

"Nephew Qian Yuan to see my uncle." Qian Yuan bowed in a proper manner.

"Get up." Tan Lun put down his pen and looked at the young man in front of him carefully.

This is the first time Qian Yuan has seen Tan Lun, but it is not the first time Tan Lun has seen Qian Yuan, in the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing, Tan Lun was appointed as the director of the Nanjing Rite Department, and he once went to Huating as a guest to meet Qian Yuan, who was only eleven years old at the time.

As the saying goes, three years old sees big, ten years old sees old, at that time Qian Yuan was already well-known in Huating, he read well, he was beautiful, and his mouth was poisonous.

At that time, Tan Lun was quite disappointed, his sister had two sons, one gave up his career and turned to business, and the other was smart but had an extreme temperament.

But I didn't expect that seven or eight years later, Tan Lun spelled out a completely different Qian Yuan bit by bit from the mouths of his colleagues, letters, and even from the official documents issued by the Governor's Mansion and the Governor's Yamen......

More than a month ago, Tan Lun received a letter from Hu Zhengmeng, a flower explorer in the same year, in which Hu Zhengmeng blew Qian Yuan into the sky...... It's not too exaggerated, entering Beijing alone to stir up the storm, moving freely between many forces, Jian entered the Yuwang Mansion in the emperor's heart, and was regarded as the head of this department in the same year.

"More than three years ago, you entered the Wang Minying Shogunate." Tan Lun's first sentence was to ask for guilt, which provoked Tang Shunzhi on the side to pout, he and Tan Lun's colleagues for more than two years, knew that although this person was not small-minded, he never forgot about this matter.

More than three years ago, with the efforts of Qian Yuan, Yu Dayou and Lu Bo led their troops to the north, and mingled with the Japanese in Songjiang Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, and won the appreciation of the two Beijing bigwigs, so that Wang Min should be promoted to the right attendant of the military department, but Taizhou at that time was ...... Tan Lun, who had no support, struggled to support him, and was seriously injured and dying before he could save the city.

How did Tan Lun forget?

Qian Yuan calmly arched his hand and said: "Ligang was destroyed, the Japanese invaders were everywhere, Taizhou was mountainous, Songjiang Plain, Shetaizhou, aid Songjiang and Suzhou, and replaced by uncle, the same will be true." ”

This sentence blocked Tan Lun back, he is proficient in the art of war, and naturally knows that it is the best choice, Tang Shunzhi smiled and said: "Zhancai is this temperament, he can repay Li by throwing a peach, he doesn't take half a step back in the face of Banzhou Gong, Zili, do you still want to scare him?" ”

Zhang Jing clashed with Qian Yuan in Taozhai Town because of the looting of wolf soldiers, and Zhang Jing had to transfer troops to encircle and suppress him, but Qian Yuan did not retreat, and this matter had already spread throughout the southeast.

Tan Lun said stupidly: "You're not afraid that I will die in battle!" ”

"My mother was worried that my nephew had sent people to send medicinal herbs and supplements, but he was looted by Japanese bandits and bandits in Jinhua Mansion." Qian Yuan arched his hand and asked, "Where do my mother and little sister live now, and my nephew will go to see them first." ”

Tan Lun's face changed, and he said half-loudly: "Huangyan County." ”

"What!" Qian Yuan suddenly changed color, Huo Ran got up and said, "Huang Yan! ”

Huangyan and Taiping are the two counties closest to the coastline in Taizhou, and if the Japanese want to attack Linhai, they must attack Huangyan first.

"Zhancai, Zhancai." Tang Shunzhi got up and explained: "If it wasn't for the letter I received before, Zili and I didn't know that your mother had moved to Taizhou Mansion, and Zili had a lot of effort to find it. ”

"Why don't you persuade him to return to Linhai?"

"Her mouth is worn out, she just refuses!" Tan Lun looked frustrated and puzzled, "Don't even let me drink saliva and drive me out." ”

The majesty he maintained before was gone, Tan Lun revealed his true nature, rubbed his fingers and wondered: "The third sister had the best relationship with me before she left the pavilion, and I didn't offend her!" ”

Qian Yuan stood there expressionlessly, thinking about everything in his heart, "I also ask my uncle to let the children and dependents stay in the backyard temporarily, and send two more guides, I will rush to Huangyan overnight." ”