In the first battle of Xiuzhou, the Henghai Navy intercepted the Dashi Haikou, destroyed and captured more than 10 large ships and dozens of small boats, and countless Haikou fell into the water and died. Han Shizhong's report on the victory document said that more than 3,000 enemies were annihilated. In the battle on the shore, because the coastal states and counties hated the Haikou very much, until the end of the battle, the regimental training soldiers rushed to the front, leaving almost no prisoners, and after the war, more than 1,000 heads were killed.

Deng Su was overjoyed when he heard the news of the victory, and immediately came to the Prime Minister's Mansion to see Chen Dong.

The rebellion is only temporary, but the root of the disadvantages of academic politics hindering the prime minister's government is buried in the imperial court system. Although the imperial court disposed of Hou Huanyin by thunderous means, it suppressed Wu Zilong. However, the hidden dangers in the system have not been removed. However, Lai's generals served their orders, and in the past few months, Yue Fei captured the Daimyo's Mansion and consolidated Henan, Zhao Xingde reconciled with the imperial court, and the generals recaptured Jingdong Road. Han Shizhong defeated the Great Eater Sea Kou like a bone-possessed body. Draw your sword and look around, and the foreign enemy will be subdued. Deng Su originally planned to make a statement to Chen Dong, seize the opportunity, convene the academic administration, revise the Great Rite Law, re-establish the central authority, and revitalize the dynasty.

"Shaoyang, Heng Navy's big victory, what a big victory!"

As soon as he stepped into the signing room, Kou Minzhong, the secretary of the household department, and Lin Zhengan, the secretary of the military department, turned around at the same time, Deng Su immediately stopped, and said to the two with an embarrassed face: "Lord Kou, Lord Lin." "Kou Minzhong was nominated by Xuezheng alone, and he was a scholar of the household department who separated the power, and Lin Zhen was a martial artist, and in front of them, he was not easy to speak out.

Chen Dong nodded, his eyes gloomy, and his index finger tapped lightly on a fold spread out on the table.

Kou Minzhong bowed his hand to Deng Suluo, and continued: "Chen Xiang, Han Xianggong used a little trick, and the Henghai Navy and the Liangzhejiang regiment practiced to exterminate more than 3,000 sea bandits. It can be seen that the existing sailors are enough to deal with the pirates. The imperial court was already unable to make ends meet, and the new patrol division was built, which cost even more food and wages, and cost the people and money. Listening to what Chen Xiang said, the sailors of the patrol sea still have to sail thousands of miles and go on an expedition to the princes of Dashi, and the official thinks that this is a matter of reckless military force, and it is better to do less. ”

Chen Dong glanced up at Kou Minzhong and didn't speak for a long time. The other party's face was clear, and there was a melancholy look in his eyes. Although Kou Minzhong was elected to check and balance Chen Dong, there was no personal grudge between the two. In all fairness, Chen Dong also admires Kou Minzhong. This person has an excellent official reputation, is very honest and upright, during the Xuanhe period, he was appointed as the head of the household department, and later entered the position to participate in politics, was reprimanded for his direct advice, and accumulated labor and illness for the treatment of the river, said that when he returned to his hometown due to illness, he was like a eunuch for decades, and all his money and savings were used to help the destitute river workers, but in Kou Minzhong's tenure, the Yellow River water did not break the embankment once. After returning to the township, Kou Minzhong was willing to be indifferent, and never sought personal interests for his relatives. It is precisely because of his talent and virtue that he can convince the public that Kou Minzhong was elected by the public scholars and politicians as the head of the household.

"Establish a South China Sea Naval Division and crusade against the Great Food," Chen Dong paused word by word, gritting his teeth, "There must be no delay." Kou Minzhong's face changed, and he was about to speak, when Chen Dong pushed the recital on the table in front of him. Kou Minzhong picked it up, this is the twist and turn of Fujian Road, he opened it and looked at it, his face changed suddenly, and muttered: "This, this...... How so? ”

Just a few days ago, the great water eater got the help of Neiying, and invaded Quanzhou, and the pirates robbed the city for two days and one night, looting goods piled up, dozens of big ships could not be loaded, and only worthless goods were thrown at the dock, and Yang Fan fled far away. Although the Quanzhou gentry suffered heavy losses, fortunately, the Haikou did not kill too many people.

Clinker, just breathed a sigh of relief, yesterday morning, Haikou went and returned, could not capture the city, turned to attack the Yongning Village, Baolin Village, Fashi Village outside the city, every time the village was captured, the people in the village were slaughtered. Looking at the head of Quanzhou City, I saw women throwing themselves into the sea, blood flowing into streams, and the sea water was red. After the slaughter of Sanzhai by the Great Food Haikou, he left a message and threatened to avenge the first battle of Xiuzhou, and killed outside the city without counting, so he set sail away again, and burned the Song Guohai ship anchored in the port.

"I don't share the sky with the thieves!" Chen Dong patted the case and said, "Even if the South China Sea sailor chases him to the ends of the earth, he will take revenge!" ”

Deng Su took the fold from Kou Minzhong's hand, and after reading it, his face was grim, and he handed it back to Kou Minzhong, and muttered to himself, Quanzhou is Chen Dong's hometown, and his relatives don't know if there is any damage? This time, the Great Eater Haikou has touched the scales. The Song people value the countryside the most, and even Kou Minzhong can't persuade Chen Dong to endure this shame.

"In less than two months, the direction of the trade winds will change, and this group of beasts has grabbed enough, and they will definitely sail back." Chen Dong said angrily, "The new ship could not be built in time, so the merchant ship was requisitioned to rebuild the warship." How much food and salary is left from the Jinghai coupons? The household department is given priority to the Yamen of the sea patrol division. The military department asked Zhao Xingde to go to Yangzhou as soon as possible, take over the warship and go to sea, and pursue the Great Food Haikou, even if they can't catch up, they must not be allowed to burn and loot all the way back. ”

Kou Minzhong didn't say anything right. Chen Dong nodded, and said to Lin Zhen with a cold face: "This time, Quanzhou was entered by Haikou by the seamen, and it was the city that was opened by the city as a gate. Da Shi Haikou has insight into the reality of my coastal states and counties, one is the Hu merchants who have long lived in the Great Song Dynasty as the internal response, and the other is those thieves who forget their righteousness for profit. In addition, in order to prevent problems before they occur, the coastal states and counties were informed to build a wall to enclose the big food factory. All the big eaters,......" he frowned, "and the mongrels of the Southern Fan, all of them were sent to the Fan Fang to be taken into custody." During the period when we were at war with Da Shi, they were not allowed to leave Fanfang for half a step without the permission of the Ministry of War. If you can't make a living, you can weave cloth in it for food. ”

"The subordinate obeys." Lin Zhen hugged his fists.

Kou Minzhong sighed, Deng Su's eyes moved slightly, and he didn't object. This time, Chen Dong is really angry.

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In Tongzhou, it was quiet in a big house, and Zhou Jun sat in the hall in a daze.

After tomorrow, this ancestral house will not be his. Zhou Jun guards hundreds of acres of ancestral fields, usually likes to make friends with some reckless heroes, and has a reputation for being anxious and righteous in the rivers and lakes, but he has little friendship with the Qingliu gentry in this county. He was a little sloppy in the farming industry, the Liao State entered the Kou, the loss of family property was not small, the land tax set by the government became heavier and heavier, the price of rice was cheap, and the tax was even heavier when converted into silver. And the tenant complained, Zhou Jun couldn't bear to increase the rent, and went back and forth, so that he asked for a loan to pay taxes, so that he was framed by the enemy, and all the land and ancestral houses were mortgaged.

"Brother Zhou, as long as you say a word, the brothers will go in the water, go in the fire, and never blink!"

Zhou Jun raised his head, and at some point, there were already more than a dozen people standing in the hall, Hao Shishi, Wu Ying, and Zhang Heiniu, all of whom were heroes. When he was drinking yesterday, Zhou Jun was angry, and he was determined not to do anything, and he would rather burn down this ancestral house than let the enemy occupy it. Everyone immediately quarreled, saying that instead of being so aggrieved, it was better to do nothing, help Zhou Jun kill the enemy, and end this grievance. Recently, the Haikou have made a lot of trouble, and the big cannibals have robbed Quanzhou, and the goods they have obtained are piled up. As the land annexation of various states and counties became more and more severe, there were many displaced people in the countryside, and there were not a few people who fell into the grass and went to sea to become bandits.

A rooster was carried upside down into the hall, his neck was slashed with a knife, and the blood of the chicken dripped into the liquor. Hao Shishi brought the blood wine of the uprising to Zhou Jun, he brought it over, looked at the red color in the bowl, his expression was complicated, he took a deep breath, raised his head suddenly, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, he glanced at the brothers in the house, and said in a deep voice: "In this world, it is his dog who forced us to rebel!" Today, I'm the opposite, brothers, come, do this bowl! ”

"!" Zhou Jun tilted his neck and drank all the blood wine.

"Whoever doesn't let us have a good time, we can't make them feel better!" He threw the bowl to the ground and smashed it to pieces.

"Good!" "Do it with Brother Zhou!" "It's the other way around, his grandmother's!"

"They let us sell our sons and daughters, and we killed their whole family!"

After shouting loudly, everyone drank the blood wine one after another, and they were all inexplicably excited, and their eyes were as bright as night owls. Someone took out the blade that had been prepared earlier, wiped it again, and then carefully wrapped it in a cloth. Drinking blood wine is just the beginning, tonight, everyone has to kill people, and it is really a vote.

"Let's go!" Zhou Jun grabbed the green cloth and wrapped it in a knife, and more than a dozen strong men followed him.

That night, the Tongzhou lord Bo Zhangyuan's family of eleven people and six servants were slaughtered by the whole family. The murderer dipped the blood of the deceased and wrote on the powder wall the words "The murderer Zhou Junye has nothing to do with others". The next day, when the news of the murder spread, the whole city was horrified, and the officials immediately came to arrest people, but found that the door of the Zhou family's ancestral house was open, and it was empty. On Qigong Mountain, Chongming Island, not far from Tongzhou, there is an additional bandit who occupies the mountain.

Zhou Jun hid in Qigong Mountain for a period of time, and found that the government had issued an official document on sea fishing in the land prefecture and county, but he could not be pursued at sea. Chongming Island was desolate and there was no food, so this gang of thieves waited for an opportunity to seize a sea ship, and coerced dozens of sailors to become sea bandits. Zhou Jun did not rob the poor, but robbed the passing merchants and rich households, grabbed ten pieces of property, and occasionally gave two or three of them to the poor people, playing the guise of "doing the right thing for heaven" and "robbing the rich to help the poor".

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Outside the Hanyang Gate in Ezhou, the east is white, the morning sun has not yet risen, and the river is covered with a hazy morning mist.

There were not many people on the shore to see them off, and a group of officials separated a few high-ranking officials from other idle people. At first glance, it seems that the eunuch in the capital is bidding farewell to his friends, but if someone sees it, he will be surprised. On the pier trestle, His Majesty and the Prime Minister stood together, watching a building ship slowly sail away from the dock. Chen Xiang's face was still calm, but His Majesty's face couldn't hide its gloom.