Yan Song and his party and Yangming attacked each other in order to compete for the position of governor of Zhejiang, and they had a posture of starting to do things if they disagreed, which made other officials in the capital tremble, for fear that they would accidentally get involved in the struggle between the two factions.

In the end, he adopted the suggestion of Mao Bowen, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and made a peace with him, and promoted Zhao Wenhua, who was elected by Yan Song's party, to the right deputy imperial envoy of the Imperial Court and the governor of Zhejiang, and promoted Tang Shunzhi, who was elected by the Yangming lineage, to be the counselor of the military department in the southeast.

In this way, the officials elected by both sides have been promoted, Jiajing means that everyone wants everyone to calm down, and the officials of the two factions do not dare to disobey Jiajing too much, so even if this matter passes, the capital finally returns to tranquility.

On the surface, it seems that Yan Song's party has gained a lot of money this time, but in fact, Yang Ming is the final winner, and Mao Bowen's suggestion was actually provided by Yang Cong, but it was just relayed to Mao Bowen by Nie Bao's mouth.

The reason why Yang Cong arranged it like this naturally has his reasons.

At this time, it seems that civilian officials have more power than military generals, and governors have more power than counselors in military affairs, but in fact, it is not, at least, the actual situation in the southeast is not like this.

Even if Zhao Wenhua becomes the governor of Zhejiang, it doesn't make much sense, because he has no soldiers under him!

If he wants to mobilize troops and horses, he must go through Tang Shunzhi, and Tang Shunzhi has already been explained by Yang Cong, what Zhao Wenhua says, on the surface, he will do it, but in fact, it is naturally not to pee on him.

Anyway, almost all the main forces in the southeast are at sea at this time, and it is impossible for Zhao Wenhua to go to the sea to keep an eye on the fleets of sailors in various provinces, they don't just do whatever they want.

Zhao Wenhua wants to snatch the maritime trade, there must be someone, the provincial sailors do not listen to him, he is equivalent to having no hands and feet, when the time comes, he will dare to "privately" let the maritime giants organize the fleet to do business, and the provincial sailors will rush up to "encircle and suppress"!

Anyway, the duty of the provincial sailor fleets was to eliminate pirates and pirates, and he didn't dare to speak out even if he suffered a dumb loss.

This is Yang Cong's countermeasure, using force to control the text, so that Zhao Wenhua's order can't get out of Jinling City!

Zhao Wenhua didn't know that Yang Cong had already set up a set for him, and when he ran to Jinling City to take office, Yang Cong had already packed his bags and was ready to leave for the southwest.

He originally thought that he could use the elite of the guards gathered by Yang Cong to restrain Wang Zhi, so as to slowly regain the right to trade at sea, but he never thought that Yang Cong would directly take away 20,000 foot soldiers, and there would be 5,000 foot soldiers left in the entire five southeastern provinces.

These 5,000 foot soldiers were not gathered together, but scattered in the five provinces, and they were also tasked with guarding the capitals of each province, so they could not be mobilized at all.

As for the sailors, Yang Cong only vaguely explained that now the sailors of the provinces are chasing pirates and pirates at sea, and they can't come back at all!

Yang Cong left like this, he not only took away 20,000 foot soldiers, but also took away Yu Dayou, Lu Boring, and Liu Xian, the three generals, leaving only Tang Kekuan and Qi Jingtong, the two foot soldiers and sailors in charge of the five provinces.

Zhao Wenhua was completely blind, and he didn't know how to start snatching the business on the sea from Yang Cong.

Anyway, Daming has begun to deploy troops, what is Annan Mo doing?

They are fighting at this time, it is not so easy to usurp the throne, even if the royal family of the Hou Li Dynasty is killed by him, those powerful ministers of the Hou Li Dynasty will not obey it, and wealthy families like the Zheng clan of Annam and the Annam Ruan clan will not serve him as a fisherman.

The Annam Zheng clan and the Annam Nguyen clan have found a royal clan relative Li Wei Ninh, who claims to be the son of Le Zhao Zong, and set him up as Le Trang Zong, at this time Le Trang Zong has gathered many Hou Lê relics to restore the country in the south of Annam, and has captured the western capital of Annam, Thanh Hoa, Mo Deng Yong is busy organizing a large army to go to conquer it.

In other words, the main army of the Mo clan in Annam was confronting the restoration forces of the Later Lê Dynasty near Thanh Hoa at this time.

When Yang Cong received the news, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch, this Jiajing, he was really confused, he believed the words of Xia Yan and Yan Song without understanding the situation, where would Mo Dengyong attack Daming, even if he had the guts, he didn't have so many soldiers!

In fact, at this time, Hong Tiezhu had already sent people to infiltrate in the direction of Nanyang, because the production capacity of merchants on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty gradually returned to the level of the peak, and most of the grain of the squires in various places was sold to the Yang family at a high price, plus the Nantai Shipyard was making every effort to produce Dafu ships for commerce, so that the fleet capacity of Wang Zhi and Hong Tiezhu increased greatly, and the market in Dongying was actually a little saturated at this time, and even, the price of grain had begun to fall.

In order to ensure profits, Yang Cong has long intended to open up the Nanyang market, and the first stop of the Nanyang market is Annan.

In other words, Annan actually has fake fishermen under Hong Tiezhu collecting all kinds of information at this time, and Yang Cong can naturally quickly inquire about Annan's current situation.

He stood on the newly built large dock in Moon Harbor, looking at the dense warships on the sea, and couldn't help but show a smug smile on his face.

Xia Yan and Yan Song estimated that the task of conquering Annan Mo's clan was difficult to complete, and now it seems that this matter is simpler than clearing out pirates and pirates, Mo Dengyong wants to know that he has assembled an army on the border of Guangxi, and it is estimated that he can be scared to pee his pants!

In fact, he had already started to prepare, and at this time, the "left" 20,000 infantry elites and all the sailor warships in the five southeastern provinces had basically gathered in Yuegang, just waiting for his order, and he could set off.

Xia Yan and Yan Song actually missed one point, that is, the problem of grain transportation.

Grain does not have to be transported by land, it is more convenient to take the sea route, because the sea is flat and flat, there is no obstacle at all, and a sailing ship like the Cangshan boat, if the wind is downwind, does not need to spend much manpower at all, even if it is not downwind, the fleet composed of pure Cangshan ships can also go back and forth between Guangxi and Fujian within a month, so Yang Cong does not have to worry about the problem of grain transportation at all.

At this time, Yang Cong did not consider the problem of grain transportation, because he was testing Lu Bo and Liu Xian.

These two are famous generals in the southeast, judging from their performance in the past few years, they are really worthy of their reputation, Yang Cong has actually intended to accept these two people as cronies for a long time, but the two have been on duty in Guangdong and Shandong, and he has no time to inspect the two places, so it has been delayed until now, and he has a showdown with the two.

What is the port doing this month, Yang Cong did not hide it from them, and even, in the past few days, he asked Yu Dayou to take the two of them to the nearby warehouse for a turn, they must have known that this is a distribution center for maritime trade.

I just don't know what they think about engaging in maritime trade privately, Yang Cong pondered for a while, and then asked: "Ziming, Weiming, what do you think of this Moon Port?" ”

The two looked at each other awkwardly, and finally Lu Bo, who was still relatively old, arched his hand and said, "My lord, this is a bit of a violation of the sea ban, right?" ”

This is not only a bit of a violation of the sea ban, but also a complete violation of the sea ban.

Lu Boring can say this, which proves that their heads are not tendons.

Yang Cong couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Whether the sea ban is right or wrong is not said for the time being, I believe you should be clear about the reasons for the rampant piracy of the Southeast Pirates and the Waikos, you say, if this official does not take the initiative to organize a fleet to transport the surplus goods of the Ming Dynasty to Dongying, which is short of materials, can the pirates and pirates be killed?" ”

This one!

After all, Lu Bo and Liu Xian are serious generals, and it is really difficult for them to discuss this kind of illegal thing.

However, there was a hint of abruptness on both of their faces, and it was clear that they had already figured out the connection between the sea ban and the pirate pirates.

Yang Cong then said: "Sometimes you can't be too pedantic, you know, Lord Zhu Zhu is good enough, right, what is the result?" He is too obedient and ignores the interests and needs of the people in the southeast, do you know? Also, why can't the imperial court even come up with hundreds of thousands of taels of military spending, have you ever thought about it? ”

Lu Bo and Liu Xian still didn't speak, but they both had thoughtful expressions on their faces.

Yang Cong waited for them to think for a while, and then continued: "You should also know that the maritime giants do this business, have they ever considered the interests of the imperial court?" I only hope you can understand that the reason why I did this was also a last resort, because if I don't do it, the maritime giants will do the same, and I have done it, whether it is the southeast or the southwest, or even the northwest, there will be no shortage of military funds for wars, and the maritime giants will not give a penny to the imperial court. ”

Lu Bo and Liu Xian glanced at each other again, but Lu Bo bowed his hand and said: "My lord, we are all martial artists, we don't understand this, we only know that if we follow the adult, we will not be defeated in a hundred battles!" ”

This is already obvious, they don't care what Yang Cong does, they just want to follow Yang Cong to win the battle!