Comic strips and simple "cartoons", bear children can only be obsessed with for a while, sometimes all day long to draw things that the rain gradually stops, saying that he may not be able to read it in the blink of an eye, Shen Xi does not have so much time to draw new content. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, it is much easier for Shen Xi to say this thing by relying only on words.

The reason why Shen Xi didn't let Zhu Houzhao know that there was such a thing as martial arts novels was because the bear child was too young at that time, simple-minded, and his imagination for the picture in his mind was not high.

But now Zhu Houzhao is twelve years old, equivalent to a sixth-grade student in later generations, not only does he basically recognize the words, but he also knows a lot about human feelings, and he has the ability to appreciate the wonders of martial arts stories, so that he can have fun and pastime at the same time, and establish a correct value orientation by the way.

The great man of chivalry, for the country and the people!

Shen Xi's first martial arts novel to Zhu Houzhao is "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and then "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". These two books are basically enlightenment readings for martial arts novels, and as long as they are slightly involved, they will be indulged in. As for the "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" of the Condor Trilogy, it is equivalent to the wild history of the Ming Dynasty, and the "Dragon Slaying Knife" in the book is seriously taboo, so Shen Xi is not ready to take it out.

With Zhu Houzhao's reading speed, a "Shooting the Condor" is about 1.1 million words, and a book is about 50,000 words, which means that there are as many as 22 volumes of this book alone, and you can read it for about two or three months.

While Zhu Houzhao was concentrating on studying martial arts novels, Shen Xi was preparing to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. As soon as the busy farming season in autumn was over, it was time for the whole army to send troops to sweep away the bandits, and he had to make all the preparations before the expedition.

But before that, there was another happy event, that is, Tang Yin's marriage.

Tang Yin, the most famous genius of the Ming generation, finally got his wish and married Miss Xia, but he seemed to be a door-to-door son-in-law, and even if he got married, he couldn't have a marriage with Miss Xia immediately, which made Tang Yin not as happy as he imagined.

However, in this era, the significance of a marriage letter is very significant, as long as the marriage between Miss Xia and Tang Yin is confirmed, it basically means that the two can raise their eyebrows and grow old. With the good tutor of the Xia family, Miss Xia is definitely a docile and humble wife after passing the door, marrying a chicken and a dog and a dog, and will not take the initiative to have disputes with Tang Yin.

The marriage was lively, but Shen Xi was not too concerned.

Originally, this matter was to take advantage of the Xia family's eagerness to rejoice for the old lady and help Tang Yin "trick" a girl who was like a flower and jade, because in Shen Xi's eyes, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that the current Tang Yin was not worthy of Miss Xia.

But the two sides were willing to fight and suffer, Shen Xi just did a favor and did not owe anyone, and the matter passed like this.

The political envoy and the inspection envoy are still making trouble for the Governor Yamen, and it is strictly forbidden for businesses to cooperate with the Governor Yamen, and violators will be severely punished. However, Shen Xi has the foreign trade ports of Fuzhou and Quanzhou in his hands, and with the deepening of cooperation with the Franc Machine, the Chamber of Commerce under the control of Shen Xi has a steady stream of goods to exchange with the Franc Machine, and the sea salt, which is almost free of money for the Franc Machine, occupies an important ratio in it, and the salt price in the three southeastern provinces quickly falls back to about 30 Wen.

Although the price of salt of 30 Wen is still higher for ordinary people, it is finally much lower than the price of 40 or 50 Wen in the past, as for those areas close to the salt farm, the price of salt directly falls to about 20 Wen, and the price of salt in Guangzhou is even more exaggerated.

During this period of time, Shen Xi spent two or three hours a day writing a book and handing it to Hui Niang, and then making money after printing it by the printing workshop run by Hui Niang and Li Jin, the rest of the time was to sort out the official documents, and also to cook the corn and sweet potatoes planted in the backyard of the post house.

Today, corn is waist-high, and sweet potatoes, in addition to thriving, are starting to have small rhizomes.

Shen Xi planted the small rhizomes, tubers and seedling stems of sweet potatoes separately, greatly expanding the planting area...... He wants to cultivate the roots and shoots and seeds for the next year's larger-scale planting before the winter, and the next year will be divided into two crops, the first will be planted in a small area outside the city, and the second crop can basically be popularized and planted on hundreds of acres of land.

In the promotion of corn and sweet potato, if corn and sweet potato are used as seeds in each harvest, the scale will increase exponentially.

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On 16 October, Shen Xi's troops and horses requisitioned from Fujian, Guangdong, and Guizhou provinces gathered in Guangzhou, along with some generals recruited from the local guards. At this point, the size of Shenxi's army was formalized, equivalent to 4,000 soldiers and horses, one each from Fujian and Guangxi, and the Guangdong soldiers and horses were recruited from different guards, with a number of 2,000 people.

As for the generals, they are basically thousands and hundreds of households in the guards, and most of these people are hereditary military generals, who have rich experience in local bandit suppression and warfare with ethnic minorities, and they are ignorant of large-scale group operations.

Shen Xi temporarily placed the soldiers and horses in the school field in the east of the city, and then summoned all the generals to the governor's yamen to hold a mobilization meeting, which roughly explained the movement of the march.

Judging from the overall number of bandits, there are more bandits along the coast of Guangdong than in Fujian, but if we talk about the number of bandits and the degree of harm, the Fujian and Zhejiang regions are more serious, and Shenxi adopts the strategy of first making it easy and then making it difficult, first completely quelling the bandits around Guangzhou Prefecture, and then attacking to eliminate the bandits when there is a stable rear.

In fact, most of the coastal pirates are dressed as Ming pirates.

Of the ten Japanese robbers, nine of them may be Chinese people, and even the leaders of the Japanese may be Chinese people, and the Japanese are just miscellaneous among them.

This is also the Chinese nation has always believed in "foreign monks will chant scriptures", has always had a great awe of Fanbang, I heard that it was a murderous Japanese robber, frightened that the legs were weak, give up resistance to be slaughtered, but if you hear that it is a pirate, the mind of fleeing and resisting is usually great.

This trick is more effective for the government.

Even if the government sets the task of exterminating the bandits, it will not attack the bandits, but will only encircle and suppress the bandits in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the pirates of the Ming Dynasty learned well, first found a few real Japanese people to come back as guests, and then went out together to burn, kill, and plunder, and the outside world always called this the Japanese team, and often the team grew quickly.

Shen Xi could not count the number of Japanese pirates on the southeast coast, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other provinces were all there, and their forces were scattered, and it was extremely difficult to find out all of them under the situation of sea ban.

Some pirates and pirates kill people and rob goods, almost never leave a living mouth, even if they are alive, they are kidnapped back to be slaves and strong men, the expansion of pirates, basically start from catching strong men, follow the Japanese for two years, even if they don't follow, there is no way to turn back, because in the eyes of the government, these people who were captured by the Japanese are all defined as "Japanese robbers", or "Tong Wa". Entered the thief's den, ran out and was caught and was going to be killed, since the left and right are dead, it is better to follow the Japanese to fight.

As for the matter of Zhao'an, it was not popular in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it was basically impossible to become a thief one day, and then want to be a good citizen again.

When the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, it was rare to throw an olive branch to the bandits, and only at the end of the Ming Dynasty when the country was decadent, would it adopt a compromise policy towards the bandits, and there would be a move to appease the pirate leader Zheng Zhilong, and there would be Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rebelled and surrendered, and surrendered and rebelled.

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Shen Xikai's meeting didn't work well.

The soldiers and horses drawn from Guizhou and Fujian provinces are basically the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the young and strong stay at home to farm and look after the family, and only the two thousand soldiers and horses in Guangdong are relatively elite, and 600 of them are the personal soldiers transferred to Shen Xi by Li Che before, and they can be regarded as knowing the roots.

The scouts sent by Shen Xi to investigate the situation of the pirates and pirates came back one after another, and the information they got was extremely complicated, mainly because the scouts were not trained, and they were all greedy for life and afraid of death.

The pirates and pirates did not send anyone to release the fake news, and Shen Xi received a large number of smoke bombs here, and in general, basically there may be pirates everywhere along the coast, and everywhere seems to be peaceful.

On the contrary, the information provided by the businessmen is relatively accurate, but there is still very little insight.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally not suitable to send troops, but now it is the agricultural slack season, and before the end of October to the beginning of spring sowing of the next year, during this period of time, the soldiers and horses of the guards can be mobilized at will, and it is a period of relative calm for the pirates, if they cannot take the opportunity to exterminate the bandits, when the farmers are busy in the next year, the activities of the bandits will be rampant again.

Therefore, Shen Xi could only take advantage of the end of the year to send troops to sweep away the bandits.

However, the transportation of grain and materials was not very timely, without the help of the political envoy Si Yamen, the local grain prices in Guangzhou were high, and the iron workshops in Foshan and other places did not dare to refuse the errand assigned by the Yamen on the surface, but they were perfunctory and slack, and the weapons built could not be put in place for a long time, and Shenxi relied on Fuzhou to transfer materials.

This gathering of soldiers and horses could not return in vain, so Shen Xi planned to clear the bandits near Guangzhou Mansion as the first step.

4,000 soldiers and horses, all the way south from Guangzhou Prefecture, through Zhaoqing, Gaozhou to Leizhou Mansion, kill one back and forth, and wait for the spring of the next year, and then from Guangzhou Mansion to the north along the coast, directly wipe out the pirates and pirates along the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian, and the first round of suppression of bandits will be completed.

The plan is good, but it is difficult to implement.

In addition to the lack of military rations and ordnance, he also lacked another important thing, and that was the warship.

The requisitioned ships are almost all civilian bird boats and black-tailed boats, Shen Xi does not want the owners to suffer losses, so they all give rent, but these ships have not undergone special modifications, and can basically only be used for transportation.

Today, the Franc is equipped with Clark and Galen galleons, with tonnages ranging from 400 to 800 tons, and they are considered the best ships of this era, whether they are carrying people and cargo, or fighting wars. At the beginning, Shen Xi detained the ship of the Francophone in the port of Quanzhou, but unfortunately, after the imperial court negotiated with the Francophile, he returned all the ships.

Franc machine man is now doing business with Daming, he is a little afraid of Shen Xi, and he does not dare to invade the territory of Daming, but the sea ship is a prerequisite for Franc machine man to become the overlord of the sea.

The shipbuilding of the Ming Dynasty, due to the forbidden sea policy of the imperial court, has lagged behind the West in the orthodox years, only taking Nanjing Longjiang Shipyard as an example, Hongwu and Yongle years, "more than 400 residents, come to Beijing to build ships, subordinate to the promotion department, and organize them as four compartments", and so on to the Hongzhi period, there are only more than 100 households left, and they have basically not built ships.

At least Shen Xi, at present, there is no craftsman to build a large ship that can carry the Franc cannon and be unimpeded on the sea in a short time.

And the Clark and Galen galleons of the Franc man, not only the ships were ready-made, but the Franc cannons were also ready-made, and the gunners and shells were ready-made.

The ambition of the Francophile man, the wolf son, dominates the seas and destroys many countries in Africa, West Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia at the same time, at best, it is a group of pirates, it is not feasible to reason with the pirates, and they may be bitten back, the best way is to be abducted and deceitful, and get the ship first.

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ps: Originally, this was a private matter and I didn't want to say it, but I saw that everyone questioned the update speed of the Son of Heaven, so I explained.

The Son of Heaven's hometown is in Baihe Town, Longquanyi, Chengdu, although the Son of Heaven entered the city as early as the eighties, but the graves of his ancestors remained there. Last month, the village called to inform them that the state had requisitioned land to build the Auto City and that all graves would have to be moved, so for the past two months, Tianzi has been looking for a cemetery in the suburbs of Chengdu so that the bones of his ancestors can be buried in a certain place.

By the end of this month, the cost of moving the graves made up by the state had come down, and it was required to move by the end of September, so the Son of Heaven had to hurry up to find a suitable cemetery, and then there were still many things to be arranged......

The Son of Heaven is here to apologize to everyone, and when everything settles down, the Son of Heaven will resume normal updates and repay everyone with continuous outbursts! (To be continued.) )

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