In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one.

For Governor Xu, a busy man, time is like a turtle bastard, always slipping away quietly without him noticing.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Chinese New Year's Eve of the second year of Jiajing, and the city of Hangzhou was lit up with lights, and every household was replaced with a brand-new Spring Festival in front of their doors, and even the earth dogs that were frightened by the sound of firecrackers and jumped all over the streets exuded a smell of the year.

However, today's Governor's Yamen Mansion is very deserted, and there is no other person, because Xu Jin is not there. During the New Year, the old man was not at home, and the two little cabbages in early spring and early summer were too lazy to open up, and they couldn't lift their spirits all day long. Wang Cuiqiao is better, at least there are hundreds of Persian music scores as spiritual sustenance, but in the dead of night, he will worry about his stomach and pray for his triumphant return as soon as possible.

"The hateful Westerners have caused my lord to live in peace during the New Year." As she kneaded the dough vigorously, she muttered smuttering, the piece of dough under her hand changing shape under her ravage, probably thinking that the dough was a Westerner.

Chu Chun sat quietly next to him, also listlessly wrapping dumplings, although the old man was not at home, this dumpling still had to be eaten, to please a good idea.

Chu Xia sighed, threw away the dough and sat down, pouted with his hands on his cheeks, and said, "Sister, where did you say that the master is now, this is the New Year's Day, I don't know if he has eaten dumplings?" ”

"I guess I've arrived in Fuzhou, dumplings should be eaten, and the fireheads in the army will also make them." Hatsuharu said in a speculative tone.

It is said that on the twelfth day of the winter month, Xu Jin received the news of the annihilation of Chang Guowei's entire army in Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, and couldn't help but be furious. is the so-called coming without being rude, even if Xu Jindang decided to free up his hands to clean up the Westerners.

Of course, Xu Jin was not carried away by the anger, he knew the gap between the Great Ming Naval Division and the Westerner fleet, so he did not rush to order an attack, but spent a month and a half to prepare. On the one hand, they stepped up preparations for the training of sailors on ships, and on the other hand, they urged the Nanjing Ordnance Bureau and the Military War Bureau to rush to build firearms day and night.

Finally, on the 25th day of the second year of Jiajing, everything was ready, and the conscientious Governor Xu could not pass the year, and personally led a powerful fleet to set sail from Hangzhou Bay, taking advantage of the north wind, murderously went south to Fujian, and pointed his sword at the Westerners entrenched in the coastal area of Guangdong.

Governor Xu's fleet is a bit terrifying, just the main battle of the three-masted Dafu ship has a hundred bows, a two-masted centipede ship of 500 bows, all kinds of clippers, grain ships, horse boats, boats, etc. more than 2,000 bows, a total of 30,000 troops, if you add the people who are responsible for logistics and supply, the total number can be doubled.

In addition, the fleet is equipped with a total of 500 Ming version of the Franc machine gun, 2,000 traditional guns, 3,000 flintlock guns, 5,000 old-fashioned firearms, and a large number of conventional long-range attack weapons such as bows and crossbows.

I have to say that Xu Jin spent nearly two months preparing this water division, which is the most powerful Ming Dynasty water division after Zheng He went to the West, of course, this water division is also very money-burning, and the daily expenses are like flowing water, almost emptying the treasury of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Xu Jin didn't want to delay for a moment, he wanted to solve the problem of Westerners in one fell swoop, and finish it in one battle.

Governor Xu's invincible armada set out from Hangzhou Bay on the 25th of the lunar month, and sailed south while the north wind was strong, waving flags everywhere to cover the sky and the sun. The large and small pirate gangs entrenched on the uninhabited islands off the coast of Daming suddenly scattered, ran a little slower, and were crushed by the terrifying firepower in an instant.

In this way, the huge fleet went all the way south, swept away the leaves of Zhejiang and Fujian Province with the autumn wind, and ten days later, that is, on the fifth day of the first month of the third year of Jiajing, the fleet arrived in Fuzhou, the seat of Fujian Province.

The political envoys of Fujian Province led the local gentry, a total of more than 300 people at the Fuzhou wharf to greet the governor, however, Xu Jin did not enter Fuzhou City, and continued to sail south after taking supplies, which greatly disappointed the local officials who had carefully prepared the "program" to pat on the back.

On the afternoon of the sixth day of the first lunar month, Xu Jin led the fleet to arrive at the Jinjiang Wharf, the seat of Quanzhou Prefecture in Fujian. Yu Dayou, the general of southern Zhejiang, and Fang Zixing, the prefect of Quanzhou, led the crowd to wait here.

Jinjiang Wharf at sunset, but seeing the flag waving, the sails covering the sky and the sun, Xu Jin, the governor of Zhejiang, left the ship under the support of the generals, and the generals totaled Wang Lin'er, Xie Erjian, Qi Jingtong, Cen Lan, Yu Linsheng, Xiong Bai, Wang Duo, Wang Zhi, Feng Guoqing, etc., the end is a strong soldier and a strong horse, and the stars are like clouds.

When the local gentry of Quanzhou Mansion saw such a majesty, they were even more respectful and walked on thin ice. Yu Dayou took the lead in stepping forward, landed on one knee and bowed his hand: "The last general, Yu Dayou, will see the marshal." ”

Xu Jin looked at the radiant young general in front of him, nodded with satisfaction, and over time, this will definitely become the pillar of the Ming army, and said with a smile: "General Yu, please get up, the battle is not bad." ”

"Xie Dashuai!" Yu Dayou stood up heroically, a young man in his early twenties, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he was praised by the handsome handsome.

In terms of military exploits, many of the generals are not inferior to Yu Dayou, such as Wang Lin'er, Xie Erjian, Qi Jingtong, Cen Lan, etc., all of whom have made great achievements, but in terms of eye-catching performance, no one can match Yu Dayou.

After Yu Dayou recovered Fenghua County, he only led 5,000 recruits who had just been recruited from Yiwu to fight all the way from Taizhou Mansion in Zhejiang Province to Quanzhou Mansion in Fujian Province with great momentum, crisscrossing thousands of miles of sea borders, exterminating dozens of large and small gangs of thieves, and killing and capturing more than three or four times the number of their own troops.

The key is that Yu Dayou has always been in charge, Xu Jin has basically not given him instructions since he appointed him as a general in southern Zhejiang, and everything is decided by himself independently, and this kid has lived up to Xu Jin's high expectations, handed in a perfect answer, and is indeed a rare handsome talent.

Next, Xu Jin exchanged a few words with the officials and gentry of Quanzhou Mansion and then led the crowd into the city, and early the next morning, the fleet set sail again, but instead of continuing south, it crossed the strait to Taiwan Island.

It is worth mentioning here that Taiwan in the Qin and Han dynasties was called Yingzhou, during the Three Kingdoms period it was called Yizhou, in the Sui and Tang dynasties it became Ryukyu, and in the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan was also called Dongfan, Jilongshan, Bengang, etc., in short, the name of Taiwan was only in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Because the Ming Dynasty implemented the maritime ban policy, Taiwan did not attach importance to it, so the current Taiwan is still a wild land, only tens of thousands of local aborigines live on the island, and the pirates and thieves along the coast of the Ming Dynasty took the opportunity to come here to build nests, so Taiwan has become an out-and-out bandit den. It was not until the later Apocalypse that Taiwan was invaded by the Spaniards, and it was occupied for decades until the end of the Ming Dynasty that it was recovered by Zheng Chenggong.

is the so-called grass and rabbits, since Xu Jin is here, he will naturally not let Taiwan be in a state of three regards, so that the later Spaniards will be cheaper, so he took advantage of the situation to lead the fleet to Taiwan.

At this time, there were more than a dozen groups of pirates entrenched on the island of Taiwan, but as soon as Xu Jin's army arrived, these snakes, insects, rats and ants immediately scattered and fled for their lives, and those who moved slowly either surrendered or were killed.

In just two days, all the thieves on the island of Taiwan were all wiped out, and the local Gaoshan aborigines were also led by the head people, tremblingly kneeling down in front of Xu Jin to express their surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Xu Jin asked for the establishment of the Penghu Inspection Department in Taiwan, and appointed the local indigenous chief as the governor of Dongfan, and incorporated Taiwan as a province under the rule of Fujian Province, and since then it has justifiably included Taiwan in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After all the arrangements were settled, three days later, Xu Jin left an army of 1,000 people temporarily stationed at the chicken coop dock in Taiwan, and then continued to lead the main force of the fleet south to Guangzhou Mansion in Guangdong.