When Liu Pei secretly returned to Shandong, he received two good news, or good news for him.

The first news is that Li Dan has died. In normal history, Li Dan died in mid-July. I don't know why it dragged on until mid-September this time? Liu Pei guessed very maliciously, probably to wipe Zheng Zhilong's buttocks, so he couldn't die in this breath!

When Liu Pei got the news of Li Dan's death, he went to a big stone in his heart! This is a man who can truly rule the oceans! After he died, the pirates and maritime merchants of the sea were scattered! Although inertia can still hold them together, rifts are inevitable.

Those little pirates and little maritime merchants who secretly took refuge in Liu Pei are proof of this! Because they know that once Li Dan dies, there is likely to be a new round of reshuffle at sea. Small groups of people like them have a very poor ability to resist risks, and they disappear when a big wave hits! There is wealth in the sea, but there is also risk equivalent to wealth!

Therefore, Liu Pei immediately ordered Liu Jiang to speed up the purchase and division of pirates and maritime merchants. Liu Pei also gritted his teeth and gave Liu Jiang 50,000 taels of silver, so that he could use it specifically to buy small shares of pirates. Don't ask them to defect, as long as they help deliver the message and unleash the rumors.

At the same time, Liu Pei asked Liu Jiang to release a new rumor again, saying that Zheng Zhilong had secretly negotiated with the Ming court. In the rumors, Zheng Zhilong contacted those officials, and how much silver he sent, it was rumored that he had a nose and eyes! Even Zheng Zhilong's official position has been arranged, saying that the Ming court promised him the position of a guerrilla general, on the condition that he exterminate several pirates with great resentment.

When this rumor spread, the pirates were greatly divided! You must know that the maritime merchants have no good impression of the government, and many pirates are forced and exploited by the government to go to the sea to become criminals, and many of them have blood feuds with the local government! And Liu Pei's rumors are aimed at this part of the people.

Even more deadly in the rumors were the pirates whom the court had named to be destroyed. Liu Jiang very cleverly arranged the names of these people to Zheng Zhilong's opponents! This made Zheng Zhilong even more unable to defend himself! This series of moves will definitely disrupt Zheng Zhilong's pace of internal integration.

The second news came that Nurhachi had died of illness. This made Liu Pei feel very regretful! Although he knew that he would not have the opportunity to face Nurhachi directly, he still felt a trace of regret that he could not slash Nurhachi. However, Liu Pei turned his head and was relieved that he might cut off his son's head.

Nurhachi, as in the previous history, died in mid-September. In modern times, many people say that Yuan Chonghuan killed Nurhachi with a cannon, which is actually very wrong.

When Ning Yuan was victorious, although it was said that he did bombard Nurhachi's location with heavy artillery, it is very likely that Nurhachi was not even injured, and was a little frightened at most. After all, the accuracy of artillery at that time was too poor, and it was all up to faith to hit!

And at that time, all cannons used spherical solid shells, or grapeshot shells. Grape shells can't go far, so the ones Yuan Chonghuan used to bombard Nurhachi must still be spherical solid shells. If Nurhachi is hit by a solid cannonball, let alone whether he can go back alive, I'm afraid he won't even get the whole corpse!

In actual history, after the defeat of Ningyuan, Nurhachi led his army to the steppe in mid-April to conquer the Mongolian Khalkha, "entering the Xila wooden wheel and obtaining its livestock". In May, the Ming general Mao Wenlong attacked Anshan, and Nurhachi returned to Shengjing. On 21 May, Nurhachi went out of the city to greet Obabale of the Horqin tribe who had come to Shenyang. It can be seen that there is no problem with his body.

Later, it was also said that Nurhachi was not directly hit by the shell, but was hit by debris and stones splashed by the shell, and finally the wound turned into dorsal gangrene. But it's even more unlikely. Because at the time of the shelling, Nurhachi was facing the direction of the muzzle. If the cannonball hits him in front of him, the splash of stones will only hit him in the chest, not in the back.

If the cannonball falls behind him, the splashed debris and stones will not hit him at all, and will only continue to splash behind him. It doesn't hurt anyone at all! Therefore, the root cause of Nurhachi's death was that he died of serious illness. However, when this demon died, it was said to be very miserable! Legend has it that he had dorsal gangrene and then ulcerated sharply, and his internal organs were visible before he died! It's painful to think about this way of dying. But this is the retribution he deserves.

Liu Pei was very emotional after reading the Di newspaper. This adversary is finally dead! In fact, if he was still alive, it might be more beneficial to the Ming Dynasty. Because at this time, Nurhachi was old, bent on conquest by force, and extremely hateful to the Han people!

And the Chinese nation is the least likely to be conquered by force! If he lived for more than ten years, because of his warlike and hateful nature, he might fall into endless confrontation with the Ming Dynasty. In the end, Da Ming may drag down Houjin with the advantage of volume. The result is still the same sentence, God bless Daming!

And his heir, Huang Taiji, is different! Huang Taiji has a deep understanding of the huge difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin. Therefore, he began to reuse Han officials and Han people, tried his best to alleviate the contradictions between the Manchus and Hans, attached importance to learning and using the culture of the Han people, and let a large number of Han people return to their hearts, which is the success of Huang Taiji!

It can even be said that the founder of the Qing Dynasty was not Nurhachi, but Huang Taiji! Nurhachi was only uniting the Jurchen tribes, which was essentially a tribal alliance. It was only then that Huang Taiji completed the transformation of the tribal alliance into a centralized state.

After fully understanding all kinds of information, Liu Pei wrote an order to secretly withdraw the soldiers stationed on Xindao again, leaving only a dozen people disguised as Xindao and still had people active. This was mainly because he was afraid that Zheng Zhilong would suddenly raid the new island again and cause losses. If there are few people, you can slip to the bottom of the cliff by rope on the cliff and escape in a small boat. If there are too many people, there is no way.

The second order issued by Liu Pei was for the shipyard to stop the manufacture of other ships and make every effort to build warships. At present, Liu Pei's naval school teaching is very effective, and a large number of sailors have been trained. In particular, Liu Pei's two whaling ships played an important training role. The new sailors honed their sailing skills on the whaling ship, the whales and the wind and waves honed their courage, and after a period of internship on the ship, the rookies became veterans!

So now Liu Pei has a group of sailors waiting for the ship, as long as the ship is made and the ship is run in for a few days, they will be qualified naval soldiers! What is even more commendable is the artillery unit led by Liu Ning, who has trained a large number of qualified gunners.

Liu Ning also creatively made a turret that could be shaken, simulating the condition of the ship in the wind and waves at sea to practice shooting. This is very productive for training gunners! The captains all said that these groups of gunners were much better than the previous ones.

It's a pity that the consumption of training gunners is too great! The iron shells fired during daily training can be recovered, but they must be recast. Because after the impact of gunpowder and the impact of the landing, they are all deformed! That's a huge expense, not to mention the countless pounds of gunpowder consumed!

However, Liu Pei gritted his teeth and took out the money. He firmly believes in a sentence that a cannon with a hundred rounds is better than a cannon with a hundred shots. Although this sentence was said by Heihachiro Togo!

His third order was to let his ships start provoking at sea. But it is a limited provocation. Just like when robbing ships, Liu Pei's men were friendly to other ships, and only took 20% of the value of all the cargo, gold and silver. But you're welcome to the fleet of Zheng Zhilong and his allies! Not only did they take a lot of cargo, but they also humiliated their sailors.

Liu Pei's purpose in doing this was to humiliate these low-level sailors and make them reflect upwards, forcing Zheng Zhilong to go to war as soon as possible. After all, they are all men of the sea, so why should I be humiliated? And while I was humiliated, the leader couldn't come up with an effective counterattack! This is something that the men of the sea absolutely can't stand it! If you can't come up with a countermeasure here and your allies, it will turn the people below apart.