Li Jie and his boat went down the river, leaving the capital far behind, and at the same time leaving the disturbances in the city behind, Li Jie was a little worried about his family at first, but as time passed, he also slowly focused on this task of patrolling the coast.

Li Jie's purpose of this trip was Mingzhou, but a few years ago, in order to avoid the name of the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Ningbo. According to the news sent from the coastal area, the Japanese first landed in the Quanzhou area, plundered and then went north along the coast, and when they encountered the Ming army guarding the shore, they turned around and left, and when they encountered a place where the army was empty, they immediately pounced like hungry wolves.

According to these news, the ultimate target of these Japanese is likely to be Ningbo, the port of Ningbo is very special, although Zhu Yuanzhang has issued some maritime ban decrees, but Ningbo is an exception, not affected by the sea ban, the port here is developed, the people are relatively wealthy, what the Japanese are trying is just money, so they will definitely not let go of Ningbo.

Li Jie's ship speed is very fast, after all, down the Yangtze River, it was originally smooth, only three days, to reach the mouth of the Yangtze River, but there is no shadow of Shanghai in later generations, now this place is called Songjiang Mansion, and there is also a part of Suzhou, and there is even a separate guard, called Jinshan Wei, there are heavy soldiers in the guard, and it is also the main use of guarding against the Japanese.

Li Jie they changed the sea ship in Jinshanwei, and walked for two days before they came to the port of Ningbo, only to see that the sails here are like clouds, the port is full of large and small ships, and all kinds of people are walking on the boat and shouting, making the whole port lively.

Li Jie's ship was an official ship, and when they came to the port, there were officials who personally led the way, and the officials of Ningbo Prefecture had already received the news that Tang He was coming, and they were all waiting on the dock at this time.

Li Jie accompanied Tang He to get off the boat, and the officials waiting on the dock opposite also immediately greeted him, led by a tall and thin middle-aged man, who took the lead in saluting Tang He and said, "The prefect of Ningbo has a visit to the Duke of Xinguo!" ”

"No need to be polite!" Tang He looked at Wang Lun and nodded, and then other officials stepped forward to salute him one by one, and introduced themselves by the way.

"Junior Fang Guan visits Shibo!" But at this moment, I suddenly saw a military attache come forward to salute Tang He, and also called him Shibo, obviously the relationship with Tang He is not ordinary.

Li Jie also looked at this military attache at this time, and saw that the other party was a middle-aged man about forty years old, not tall, but extremely strong, with tanned skin, a Chinese face, and good facial features.

"You are the second child of the Fang family, I haven't seen you for many years, but you are becoming more and more similar to your father!" Tang He was also very happy to see this middle-aged man and laughed.

Seeing that Tang He still remembered himself, this military general named Fang Guan was also very happy, and immediately exchanged a few words with Tang He, and then stepped aside, and the people around him also showed envy to him, after all, for them, the magistrates, having someone in the court means having a backer, and it is convenient to do anything in the future.

"Fang Guan?" Li Jie didn't have any impression of this unfamiliar name, and in addition, in his memory, there didn't seem to be any surname Fang among the founding heroes, where did this Fang Guan come from?

After these officials saluted Tang He, Tang He introduced Li Jie to everyone, and when they learned that the young man in front of them was actually a concubine who His Majesty had just canonized, they were all very surprised, and immediately stepped forward to salute again, Li Jie also behaved very modestly, which left a good impression on these officials.

The prefect of Wang had already prepared a banquet in the city, and wanted to catch the wind for Tang He and Li Jie, and Tang He did not refuse this, because through the banquet, he could get acquainted with the local officials and get a preliminary understanding of the local situation.

Li Jie was a little uncomfortable with this kind of officialdom, and he didn't like to drink, so he sat silently beside Tang He, and finally survived until the end of the banquet.

Returning to the residence arranged for them by the Wang Governor's Mansion, Li Jie had the opportunity to ask Tang He: "Grandpa Tang, who is that Fang Guan, and you always know him?" ”

"Don't know!" I saw Tang He smile a little mysteriously, and then asked Li Jie rhetorically, "Do you know Fang Guozhen?" ”

"The famous wallgrass?" Li Jie was also very surprised when he heard Fang Guozhen's name, "Could it be that Fang Guan is Fang Guozhen's son?" ”

"Yes, Fang Guan is Fang Guozhen's second son, the current commander of Ningbo Wei, in charge of Ningbo's naval army, this time to clear the Japanese invaders, his naval army is the main force!" Tang He nodded.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, there were some other anti-Yuan forces, which may not be as famous as Zhu Yuanzhang and others, but their strength was not weak at all.

For example, Fang Guozhen was originally a smuggler of salt, and because he was falsely accused, he had to lead his relatives to flee into the sea, and later simply raised troops against the Yuan, led his subordinate army to crisscross the southeast coast, and later led his troops to attack Zhang Shicheng, and even won seven battles and seven victories, forcing Zhang Shicheng to take refuge in the Yuan Dynasty for self-protection, and he also took the opportunity to occupy the area of eastern Zhejiang.

Fang Guozhen is extremely tactful, sometimes to the Yuan Dynasty to surrender, sometimes and rebel again, later when he defected to the Yuan Dynasty, on the one hand Zhang Shicheng offered the grain to Mengyuan, on the other hand to please Zhu Yuanzhang, and later even accepted the Yuan Dynasty to seal the official position, the official to Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province Zuo Prime Minister, the title of Qu Guogong.

However, Fang Guozhen's days around the source did not last long, as Zhu Yuanzhang sat up, he quickly lost the qualification of the wall grass, and was finally attacked by Zhu Liangzu, Tang He, and Liao Yongzhong, as a result, Fang Guozhen surrendered after defeat, Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill him, but was also awarded an official position, and later when Fang Guozhen died, Zhu Yuanzhang also personally set up a sacrifice, which was regarded as a good death.

"Fang Guan, this kid is more shrewd than his father, Fang Guozhen didn't want to surrender at the beginning, it was Fang Guan who persuaded his father to surrender, in addition, Fang Guan is proficient in water warfare, and the water army under him is also Fang Guozhen's old foundation, and his combat power is quite good!" At this time, Tang He introduced again.

In fact, before he came, Tang He had already inquired about Fang Guan's news, and he also knew that this time to inspect the coastal defense, Fang Guan's naval army was extremely important, otherwise he and Fang Guan had not seen each other for more than ten years, and it would be impossible to recognize him at a glance.

Li Jie also felt the bottom of his heart when he heard Tang He's words, originally he was most afraid of the erosion of the Ming Dynasty's coastal defense, and there were no available troops in his hands at that time, but now with Fang Guan's naval army, he didn't have to worry about this problem, if it really didn't work, he could also transfer troops from Jinshanwei.

It was not early, and Li Jie felt a little tired after chatting about business, after all, the journey was also very hard, so he also said goodbye to Tang He, and prepared to go back to the room to have a good rest, and discuss specific things tomorrow.

However, Tang He stopped him and said, "Don't be in a hurry to leave, there is an important person who will come to see us later!" ”

"Anyone else? Who is it? Li Jie also asked in surprise when he heard this.

"You'll know when he comes!" I saw that Tang He deliberately sold a pass.

This made Li Jie even more curious, so he had to wait patiently, Tang He asked his grandson Tang Sheng to make tea and bring the chessboard, and then asked Li Jie to accompany him to taste tea and play chess, which made Li Jie also a little speechless, it seemed that the person would not be able to come for a while.

waited until the time of the lamp, and it was completely dark outside the window, only to see Tang Sheng come in and report: "Grandfather, he is here!" ”

"Let him in!" Tang and his head were not raised.

Tang Sheng agreed, and then walked in with a person, only to see that this person was neither fat nor thin, with a medium stature, and almost no features in his facial features, that is, he belonged to the kind of person who couldn't be found in the pile.

"Jinyi Wei Qianhu Jiang Zhen visited Xin Guogong and Li Banyu!" The visitor walked forward quickly and saluted.

Hearing that the other party turned out to be Jinyiwei, Li Jie also reacted immediately, no wonder Tang He deliberately waited for the other party, probably wanting to learn more about the situation from Jinyiwei, after all, there was still very little news from the officialdom before, and it was all on the surface, if you really want to understand the local area, you still need to ask Jinyiwei.

"Wait a minute, your name is Jiang Xuan!" Li Jie suddenly shouted with some surprise, just now he was only paying attention to the identity of the other party's Jinyiwei, and now he suddenly noticed the name Jiang Xuan, if he remembers correctly, this Jiang Xuan seems to be the person who took over Mao Xiang and became the second commander of Jinyiwei.