Yang Shiwei smiled bitterly and said, "Why is Brother Zheng so embarrassed by the old man? ”

Zheng Liqi also smiled bitterly and said, "It's really helpless...... Knowing that the group of thieves invaded the realm, my generation was dressed in vermilion, so I could only sit back and ignore it, I didn't plan to go to the city tonight, I drank at home, the more I drank, the more depressed I became, I was a twenty-three-year-old junior scholar, and my career was quite smooth, and I wanted to be a good official in the local area, so I re-entered Beijing as an official. Now I am very confused, Dawei is in such a situation, no wonder Wang Yue, who was originally quite honest, has become like this, what is the point of me worrying about national affairs? ”

"Let's look at the Northern Expedition." Yang Shiwei said: "If the Northern Expedition wins, I will play, and I will ask the center to take power, clarify local political affairs, and establish authority." Second, please send more forbidden troops to the heart and southeast of the country, there is no need for many Fujian roads, and five more battalions of forbidden troops are almost enough. Third, it is necessary to rearm the armed forces. Fourth, and the most important one, if the country still wants the income from overseas trade, it needs to spend a lot of money to rebuild the water division, although these four plays, although it is still not the case, but if it can be shown and cannot be governed, then the Great Wei Dynasty will not be long in existence. ”

Zheng Liqi once exchanged a secret letter with Xu Zixian, and Xu Zixian's statement was the same as Yang Shiwei's, he complained at the right time, but he really didn't expect that Yang Shiwei's opinion was actually the same as Xu Zixian.

But Xu Zixian made it clear, he didn't look optimistic about the results of the Northern Expedition, if Great Wei could not fail miserably, even if it was fortunate to invite the heavens, the luck of the heavens.

A small defeat, or stagnation, is the most advantageous outcome.

And if you want to win, it is completely impossible.

The most important key is not that the forbidden army is not good at fighting, the system of the Great Wei Forbidden Army is built by Taizu, after more than 200 years, although the forbidden army is not as elite as when the founding of the country, nor is it as well-equipped and well-paid as when Xuanzong had sufficient financial resources, and in any case, this is a strong army created by the Great Wei with the strength of the country, and the Westerners and the Beiyu have also been fighting, and the Donghu has also been at war for nearly twenty or thirty years, and the experience on the battlefield is also quite rich.

In this northern expedition, there are a group of famous generals who lead their troops to the north, and there is no problem with the army and generals.

What is worrying is logistics and financial resources, with the current financial reserves and logistical capacity of the Great Wei, it is impossible to support an expedition of hundreds or thousands of miles, and if this battle is not half fought, the country's financial resources will have to go bankrupt, and there will be big problems and troubles in logistics.

Zheng Liqi thought that Xu Zixian was a little alarmist before, but now he feels that he is afraid that he and Yang Shiwei in front of him are too optimistic.

The plackets of the two vermilion-robed adults blown up and down in the night wind, Zheng Liqi shrunk his neck, and suddenly said: "The famous doctor recommended by the mansion seems to be called Wang Xinyuan?" ”

Yang Shiwei frowned and said: "It is indeed this person, a native of Jianzhou, who recommended him to treat Mingda, but he refused and went back to Jianzhou, I think this matter cannot be forced, so I let him go." ”

"It's very interesting." Zheng Liqi said with a smile: "Nan'an Town's business group practice, because the guard place and Jianzhou's general group had several frictions, when the two sides were confronting, Jianzhou's general group met Wang Xinyuan's family who fled from Jianzhou to Fuzhou, when he was arrested, he clashed with the Nan'an army on vacation, and the two sides fought, but because the brigade was confronting the merchant group, in the end it failed to fight, and many people died on the Jianzhou side, and the government army was not injured and took Wang Xinyuan away. ”

Yang Shiwei was interested and said, "Of course, this matter is in charge of the punishment envoy?" ”

Zheng Liqi sneered: "Wang Yue doesn't pay attention to the rules a lot, but that's in Jianzhou!" If he wants to stretch out his hand to Jianzhou, he has to ask me if the torture envoy agrees. I sent someone to the scene to investigate this matter, and the case was closed with fighting injuries and murder, and those government soldiers moved the document to Nan'anhou Mansion and ordered them to check out people...... If Mingda replied that he couldn't find out, then of course I wouldn't really send someone to the Eastern Domain to investigate the case, the more Wang suffered a loss in this matter, he didn't want to swallow this bad breath, he had to swallow it! ”

The place where the conflict occurred was the junction of Jianzhou and Fujian, and Wang Yue, the prefect of Jianzhou, could check it, and Yang Shiwei, the prefect of Fuzhou, could of course also check it. But in the case of fighting injuries and murders at the junction of the two states, the conclusion must still be to bring out the punishment envoy, and Wang Yue, a dumb man, will be decided.

Yang Shiwei was in a slightly better mood, but he still said angrily: "Wang Panyun is getting more and more troublesome, those dirty and smelly, cats and dogs, all under his command, all the mines are suspended, I think the court can't spare his hands now, I'm afraid of local trouble, as long as the Northern Expedition is over, Wang Panyun, the prefect, will not be used." The imperial court collected more than one million yuan in iron taxes a year in Jianzhou, and he was ruined by himself, which is simply unknown. ”

Zheng Liqi said: "The root is still on top, and it's useless for my generation to be anxious." ”

This "top" does not refer to the two prefectures, after all, the two prefectures are now in charge of the Northern Expedition, and the energy is really not taken care of, and it is to ensure local tranquility.

But appeasement made Lin Douyao unable to restrain the officials under his command, sitting back and watching Jianzhou being messed up, he fought with King Zhao for an inch of land in the city, the two only cared about fighting for power and profit, and they were obsessed with maintaining their power every day.

In the normal season, it is impossible to see the level of a person's wrists, only when it is really necessary to make a decision to control the overall situation, the level of a person's level can be seen.

Yang Shiwei also agreed with Zheng Liqi's meaning, but it was inconvenient for him to speak out with his identity, so he only said at the moment: "The thief goes to the Eastern Domain, and the Eastern Domain is in danger." However, the old man felt that as long as Mingda's illness could be cured, the thief was just talking and laughing. ”

Zheng Liqi nodded deeply and did not speak.

The status of the five pirates is the result of years of fighting, and their subordinates basically include the most brave, strong, and daring pirates in a certain place.

It is not easy for ordinary miscellaneous thieves to enter the direct camp of the five thieves, such as Chen Yutai, who is famous for the Qishan thieves, but he is just a vicious dog who guards the gate of Fuzhou for the five thieves, and he is not even qualified to be classified as a direct one.

The five thieves were directly subordinate, and most of Wang Zhi's generals followed him for many years, and his subordinates who followed him in the sea off the Great Wei and in the area of Siam Chenla were mostly Mingzhou and Guangzhou.

Most of Pu Xingfeng's subordinates are Tianfang and Manchu Jiaren.

And Yan Qi and Liu Dan, most of their subordinates are Luzon, Siamese and Annamite.

Now the two thieves are coming, more than 30,000 people, and the two high-ranking officials in front of them, the expectation of Xu Zixian is that he can still break the enemy for a while, Xu Zixian's past record is too dazzling, and the two big men are not willing to say bad words when they are in battle, but after the two of them finished speaking, they have not spoken for a long time, Xu Zixian's illness, now everyone does not know, and even if this Nan'an Hou recovers, whether he can lead thousands of soldiers and horses to defeat the giant thieves who have been on the sea for many years, it is really unpredictable, and no one can ensure it.

The night was cool and the wind was urgent, both of them felt that their minds were heavy, the center only cared about the northern border defense, it was difficult to reach the place, and the local officials gradually began to behave misbehaps, centrifugal and detached, the northern captives, the eastern Hu, the western Qiang, and then the sea thieves from the south, the national situation of the Great Wei, the wind and rain, is it really a cycle of three hundred years of chaos, and now it is time for great chaos?

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The morning light was faint, and there were some weeds on the flat ground at the port, and as soon as the sun appeared, the dew drops were evaporated by the sunlight.

Then the people gradually woke up, and they slept on the flat ground surrounded by brick and stone buildings, either lying on their stomachs or lying down.

There was silence everywhere, and the first thing these people felt when they woke up was like a dream, except for weeds, there were brick and stone paved roads and brick and stone buildings everywhere, and the appearance and form were a little strange, if they had seen a lot, they would not have recognized what kind of building it was.

It is different from the wooden buildings of the Great Wei Dynasty, the eaves arch bucket, and the beam and arch buildings with many wide bays of the Ming Hall, and also different from the various buildings of the Japanese people, Luzon people, and Nanyang countries.

The dome of the Celestial Man and the spire of the Tessy Man are also different.

The architectural style of the Eastern Domain is mainly practical, simple and heavy, and the group of thieves is waiting for it, and when you wake up, you feel still in a dream.

Luo Wu and the others finally gathered again, they went ashore in the port last night, searched the port before dark, and then continued inward, and after a certain distance they finally did not dare to continue forward, so they stayed in the same place.

They knew that their strength was too weak, and if the island was interested, they would send someone to kill them. After the First World War in Qizhou, Luo Wu and others knew that the elite of the Nan'an Fu Army was not inferior to the forbidden army, and they were not lucky about what would happen to them if they met the enemy.

In the early morning, everyone woke up from their sleep, and found that the head on their necks was still there, which was really an unexpected surprise, and now everyone gathered again, this time more carefully, and continued along the buildings in front of the port, both sides were tall brick buildings, and there were many places with raw brick bricks, stacked in stacks, and the high brick kilns seemed to have residual warmth.

In addition, there are woodworking factories and shipyards, both of which are located in the north, and the smell of wood flowers is still strong and blows in the wind.

Going forward again, there are open spaces and some buildings, there are several roads all the way to the east, two or three miles away, it is the official road like the jade belt that spans the north and south, in the early morning sun, you can see that there are long bases, rejecting horses, arrow towers, it seems that there are a large number of people carrying bows and arrows to patrol and guard in the area of the long base.

Behind the official road, there is a large plain, it seems that there are cotton fields and houses, cotton has bloomed, from a distance, it is a sea of flowers as white as snow, it is really a rare beauty.

Luo Wu and the others didn't dare to move forward at this point, so they had to follow Yan Qi's instructions in advance, continue to move forward, and put up the prepared banner of the Qishan thieves.

Yan Qi's banner is a white belly snake embroidered on a black background, cold and terrifying, while Liu Dan is an image of the beach god in his country, which seems to be related to the sea, probably praying for smooth sailing at sea.

The Qishan thief flag is embroidered with black crows on a red background, which is what Chen Yutai means, what is the intention, and no one knows it now.

After the crow flag was erected, Luo Wu breathed a sigh of relief and sat down cross-legged, behind him was a clearing for several miles, enough for the pirates to set up a formation, his task had been completed, and the next thing was to pray that he could survive the battle.

Yan Qi and Liu Dan also woke up early in the morning, and Liu Dan took a small boat to Yan Qi's flagship.

The two have worked together for many years and are intimate, and the outside world also believes that the two are one.

In fact, if the two do not work together, the strength of these two of the five thieves is not enough to compete with the forces of either side, but even so, Liu Dan never stays in Yan Qi's flagship, and every time he gets on the ship, the guards with swords and armor get on the ship first, and the number of Yan Qi's subordinates is the same, and then Liu Dan will continue to board the ship, if he is not prepared, he will never meet with Yan Qi.

"It's time to go ashore and line up." Liu Dan took a closer look at the situation on the island, this time he also climbed the mast to watch it himself, it was a big battle involving tens of thousands of people, and it was the future of this pirate coalition that was decided, so it was not to be careful.

At this time, they could see a large group of gray-robed soldiers gathering in the northern part of the long base, all sitting cross-legged, probably waiting for armor or waiting for morning food.

If it had been prepared in the middle of the night, breakfast would have been eaten by now, and it should not have been so, because it took a lot of time for the bandits to get ashore on the ship, and it was just dawn in the morning, and the battle should have begun at noon.

As for the long base, it seems to stretch for a long time, it should be the people on the island who are strong, because the clothes are mixed, not uniform, and obviously the weapons are insufficient, many people only carry bows and arrows, and do not have long knives, horizontal knives and other weapons.

"The soldiers and horses on the island are indeed elite." Yan Qi had already seen it before, and at this time, he was sitting cross-legged on the bow of the boat, looking at his fingernails, and said slowly: "But they don't have much armor, and the Divine Arm Bow is a sharp weapon of the Wei people, and they don't have much." The people are too strong to fight, so don't pay attention. In this battle, only a few thousand Nan'an army were defeated, and then they were able to kill all the islanders. ”

"It's not easy to kill all of them." Liu Dan said with a smile: "We must run to the mountains to escape, we have no way to search the mountains on the island." ”

They have all been to the Eastern Domain before, but they are still quite familiar with the geographical environment of the Eastern Domain, it was originally a barren island, the development is extremely poor, when the pirates break Zhangzhou, they can destroy the Eastern Domain with only a few thousand troops by the way, but no one has this idea at all, except that Yan Qi can kill people for fun, what can others gain by breaking the Eastern Domain? Linen or deerskin?

Although it is very different now, it is expected that there will not be too much grain storage on the island, and it is impossible for pirates to raise troops in the fields, so they can only get on the boat and leave after looting, and try to search for the islanders and kill them, which is really impossible for the Eastern Domain, which has thousands of miles of mountains.

"It's enough to kill the Nan'an Mansion army and invite Yu Pu Xingfeng to reward."

Yan Qi ordered the attendant to fetch the wine, and Liu Dan had a lamp for each person, and the two clinked glasses and drank, the liquor dripped down Yan Qi's beard, wet his chest and clothes, Yan Qi threw the lamp and said: "My department is 17,000, your department is 11,000, and 28,000 people are going to go ashore to line up, so we have to hurry." ”

Liu Dan responded and said: "Tell everyone, open the array, listen to the command of the leader, watch the banner action, don't come nonsense." ”

After all, after the Chinese immigrants passed, their civilization was only slightly higher than the primitive tribes, and there were many countries that did not even have their own writing, and the war was a vendetta between the tribes.

The thieves gathered on the sea, and the most they robbed merchant ships was the combined force of two or three ships, and only when they went ashore to plunder, they gathered dozens of ships, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands.

There is no need to reorganize the array, nothing more than to loot from the weak point, if you meet a complete army, then quickly retreat, conquer more than 100,000 bandits in Zhangzhou, but when the Fujian Road Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army of more than 30,000 people arrived, the group of thieves retreated, Pu Xingfeng wanted to try the Wei army's reality, and the small battle was defeated, so he knew that the Great Wei was not a short time to break, so he also led the army to retreat.

The pirates do not talk about military formations, but they only use the leaders of each ship in peacetime to lead each department, and then use the leader of the gathering in peacetime to divide the leaders of each ship, or hundreds of people in each regiment, or more than 1,000 people in each regiment or even two or three thousand people, Yan and Li are only in charge of the overall situation, and cannot directly be in charge of the leaders of each department.

After the flag was unfurled, the pirates on all ships cheered together, they did not understand the big picture too much, only that the island had a lot of buildings, and it seemed that it was a wealthy place, not as desolate as it was rumored.

For ordinary thieves, the big plan is not what they know, and it is not their concern, and it is the most important thing to be able to grab the goods.

Many pirate leaders have been issued gold, silver, copper coins or valuable things before coming to the Eastern Domain, which were given to the two big thieves by Pu Xingfeng, and Yan Qi and Liu Dan sent some of them, but after layers of deductions, very few fell into the hands of ordinary pirates.

Defeated the Eastern Domain, grabbed something into the arms, this is the benefit of their own really handed, seeing the flag ordered to land, the group of thieves did not know that the island was heavily defended, they only knew that the Qishan thieves had been fine after the island, and thought that the island was poorly guarded, and suddenly all the boats cheered and shouted.