It's been three days since he went to sea, and Zhang Wu is depressed. They wanted to find the pirate's lair, and then clean it up, but unfortunately after so much time there was no harvest, occasionally saw a passing caravan, caught a few ships and nothing else, it was not easy to find the pirate's lair in the vast sea.

When Zhang Wu led people to drift on the sea, a "storm" enveloped Zhangjia Village.

First of all, Maoming County was attacked by traitors, and the news spread to the provincial capital Yuezhou, which made the prefect angry and filmed the case, attacked the county seat and plundered the population of the county, what is this? This involves the issue of rebellion, there are rebels in the places under his jurisdiction, although he is not directly responsible, and the matter of the local rebellion is sent to the imperial court, a charge of dereliction of responsibility cannot be escaped, Beiping was breached, the imperial court was forced to move south, and is fighting for power in Nanjing, and no one cares about the matter when it is sent to the top.

If there is an anti-thief in the jurisdictional area, no matter whether the above is investigated or not, it is impossible for the prefect to leave it alone, otherwise the anti-thief will get bigger and bigger, follow Li Zicheng as the anti-thief, break through Beiping, and the thief will follow to learn, no need to do anything about Beiping, just break his Yuezhou Mansion, and the prefect can only pack up his things and escape, how can this kind of thing happen!

Since there are rebels, then send a large army to suppress it, it seems to be a simple question. But what made the prefect blush a little was that he was happy to eat empty pay in peacetime, but when he needed an army, he found that there was no army available!

In the imperial court's books, there are many military households in eastern Guangdong Province, but that is for the Son of Heaven to see, or to deceive the Son of Heaven, as a provincial prefect, can he be full of empty salary, or he took the lead in eating empty salary, the money and grain issued by the imperial court to the military households in eastern Guangdong Province first passed through the prefect's hand, and the money and grain were less than half, and then when they were issued, they were handed over by each person in charge, and the little money and grain in the hands of the military households could not support the military households at all, and now the military households in the provincial guard center can fight the war, and there are very few people who can fight. The flight of military households is not a matter at all.

Usually fool everyone as if they don't see it, they are all living on empty salaries, it's rare to be confused, and now you have to use people to fight in the past, and you can't fool around again. This is the prefect's dilemma.

However, the things that the anti-thieves did came one after another, and they did the same thing as the anti-thieves in the north, killing officials, cleaning up the local heroes, and emptying the local scourge. The prefect spread the news to all counties in the province.

Needless to say, in the eyes of the prefect, the crowd was excited, and the local heroes wrote letters one after another, demanding that the anti-thieves be eliminated, because if the anti-thieves were not eliminated, when they came, their own lives would be in danger.

In this case, the prefect let the lower ones be strong, and it was much easier for the landlord to send people over to crusade against the thieves.

After a month of fighting, the prefect reached an agreement with various forces, and it is needless to say what the agreement is.

In terms of managing the locality, the prefect may be able to know, but it is necessary to dispatch troops, and the prefect, as a civilian official, is a layman in the military aspect, thinking that he can win with a large number of people.

Without waiting for the anti-thieves army to set off, the bad news came again, and another county town was broken by the anti-thieves, which is simply, that is, when the prefect heard such news, he almost gritted his teeth, this is a provocation, not killing is not enough to calm the anger, and at the same time be afraid, because if the anti-thieves are not eliminated earlier, it will get bigger and bigger, and it will be difficult for the government to suppress it at that time, and it will not be good at that time.

In this context, led by the prefect, starting from Yuezhou Mansion, all the way to Maoming County, there were families along the road, and the people joined the army, and arrived at Yuntan Town, less than 100 miles away from Maoming County, and the army of rebels was more than 30,000.

Chen Zijian, who is in Dianbai County, does not know about the news of the government, because he is not concerned about collecting intelligence from the outside world, and he does not know that a large army has come to suppress it.

Five days later, the government crusaded against the rebel army arrived in Maoming County, easily occupied the county, after Maoming County was emptied by Chen Zijian, he ignored it, leaving a group of old people, more than 30,000 government troops came over, what the result is needless to say, because Chen Zijian had been sacked once before. There is not much money and food, and the government wants to lose face, and it can't do anything about robbing the elderly, even if it wants to rob the people, what is there to rob.

Although Maoming County is not the focus of Chen Zijian's development, it is relatively in the territory, after the government army came to occupy the county seat, Zhangjia Village, who was aware of it, finally received the news, and then quickly went to Dianbai County to inform Chen Zijian.

At that time, Chen Zijian received the news and was stunned for a moment, only to know that the government was still influential, and he actually sent people to encircle and suppress him, and he was a little speechless. Why didn't you send someone over earlier if you have this ability, it took a few months to send someone over, the efficiency of the government, tsk, it's enough.

In addition to Chen Zijian's personal guard regiment, there are also two regiments in Dianbai County to clean up the operation, Chen Zijian directly ordered the two regiments to return to Zhangjia Village, and there are three regiments in Maoming County in different places, which are also transferred back to Zhangjia Village and wait for orders.

After the government army occupied Maoming County, they did not directly kill Zhangjia Village, about the matter of Zhangjia Village, they collected intelligence, and mobilized the troops of the surrounding counties to come over to jointly encircle and suppress the rebels in Zhangjia Village.

Although the guard office is useless because of the empty salary of civil officials, and the combat effectiveness of the guard can be said to be in name only, but the government can seconded a lot of manpower, and the county towns around Maoming County, Gaozhou County, Huazhou County, Wuchuan County, and Yangxi County, received an order from the prefect to send people to gather in Maoming County, and when Chen Zijian returned to Zhangjia Village, Maoming County had already gathered more than 50,000 troops in eastern Guangdong Province.

The army of more than 50,000 was composed of military households, powerful people from all over the country, gentry and families, and local people, among whom the military households were the least numerous, less than 5,000 people. The rebel army is huge, but there is an obvious drawback, these people are put together temporarily, and when the battle is going well, it is easy to say, if the battle is a little stronger, this ragtag army will collapse in an instant.

Of course, the civilian representatives who presided over the army did not think so, thinking that victory could be determined by numbers, and this idea was previously used on the Northeast Tartars, and the result was that the Northeast became the world of the Tartars, and the surrounding areas of Beiping were robbed by the Tartars every year.

Since the government sent people over, Chen Zijian returned to Zhangjia Village and told all the people to return to Zhangjia Village or take refuge elsewhere, while he set off with the returning army to Maoming County, a battle that would determine the future of eastern Guangdong Province.

The government army won, the seemingly prosperous development of Zhangjia Village was directly killed, and Chen Zijian fled with the fate of the remaining volunteers. Chen Zijian won, and Guangdong Province will be his final say, and there is no force in Guangdong Province that can stop him, and neither can the government.

Zhangjia Village, except for Chen Zijian's personal guard brigade was sent to the sea to look for pirates, because it was not easy to convey the news to the sea, and did not come back for the time being, the remaining five brigades of volunteers all returned to the barracks, and the five brigades of volunteers who came back were hundreds less than before the departure, all of whom were killed or injured or disabled by the landlords, Haoqiang, and gentry and gentry in the cleaning operation.

Anything can complete casualties, Chen Zijian has nothing to do about the death of the volunteers, eating may choke people, not to mention that the volunteers want to rob people of all their money and food, may not die, but the benefits are not nothing, the volunteers that Chen Zijian saw are even more murderous, they are considered veterans, in eastern Guangdong Province, there is no force that can be compared.

The volunteers of the five brigades suffered a total of several hundred casualties, and the harvest was also not small, with more than 100,000 taels of gold, one million taels of silver, and 500 tons of grain. That's the money of the two counties.

Grain was piled up in the 150 newly built warehouses in Zhangjia Village, and it was possible to move such a huge amount of money back thanks to the transportation team formed by Chen Zijian.

Without more than 25,000 transporters, the volunteers would not be able to transport back even if they captured more money and food.