"What Lord Zhao said is extremely true."

"Your Highness can also directly use the name of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to issue a notebook."

"Let's tell Lord Lin to come out of the notebook." The more King Zhao thought about it, the more he felt that it was true, and the more he felt that it was true, the more he felt scared and nervous in his heart.

This emotion had a great impact on him, and the wine and food in front of him were completely unattractive to him.

There are still a few tables of guests outside, Xu Ziwen entertains those secondary-class guests for his father, since the Yaji of Zhao Wangfu has not done anything, Xu Ziwen has probably done this kind of thing in the palace.

After Xu Ziwei came back from the front line of the Northern Expedition, he practiced martial arts every day, and went to the heads of various battalions of the Xiang Army to inspect them.

Those generals also knew the "habits" of the eldest prince, and they were all big swings very often, which made Xu Ziwei very satisfied.

King Zhao was originally satisfied with these two sons, but now thinking about Xu Zixian, then thinking about what he did in the Eastern Domain, and then looking at the son who looked like a beautiful son in front of him, a sense of boredom arose in his heart.

At this time, it may be a laughing stock in the future, although King Zhao is not a first-class smart person, he always knows how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Everyone was in a bad mood, but fortunately, Zhao Debang sent an official over during the banquet, saying that he had allocated 200,000 yuan to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, in addition to some food, equipment, medicinal materials, tents, oilcloths and other military supplies.

Zhao Debang apologized, and the copper coins and materials given were not much, because there was not much stock in the Fuzhou treasury, and some of them had to be allocated to the pacification envoys.

As for Fujian's annual financial income of more than 10 million yuan, as well as a large amount of material materials, of course, they were deported to the center in batches long ago and used in the Northern Expedition.

King Zhao doesn't care about this, his Metropolitan Governor's Mansion also has a regular allocation every year, but there is no excuse There is no way, with the excuse of war, he has made more than 100,000 yuan in this war, and in terms of the income of Zhao Wangfu of hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, it is already a large amount of income.

It's just that when I think about Xu Zixian, a junior, who was originally suppressed by Zhao Wangfu, he couldn't eat, but now he has 180,000 yuan, I'm afraid that this kid doesn't care about it at all.

Nan'an Town has an income of at least nearly one million yuan a year, which is enough to make King Zhao red, and I heard that Xu Zixian also made a salt farm in the Eastern Domain, and sold a large number of them on Fujian Road and other roads, according to the distribution of some staff in the mansion, the profit is at least more than one million a year.

Coupled with his cotton fields and textiles, King Zhao secretly even gritted his teeth, he really didn't see it, his cousin Lao Nan Anhou was a sincere gentleman, but his son was so good at economic and financial affairs.

Thinking of Xu Zixian's abilities, King Zhao felt all kinds of feelings in his heart, and he looked down on Xu Yingbin, who was honest and down-to-earth...... When Xu Yingbin served as the defense envoy of Qizhou, he almost succeeded in exterminating the Qishan bandits, if it weren't for the fact that King Zhao was not angry and drew a ladder behind Xu Yingbin, I am afraid that the previous generation of Nan'an Hou would have been famous in the Great Wei.

It is also strange to say that the first generation of Nan'an Hou is ridiculous and useless, he is a gentleman clan, and he has not even received a national duke. His children and grandchildren are more capable from generation to generation, which is really strange and indescribable.

All kinds of thoughts were mixed in his heart, especially thinking of the situation after Xu Zixian's success, King Zhao almost couldn't get up in one breath, and his chest felt extremely suffocated, and he was simply disgusted to death.

After a while, King Zhao said to He Deqing and Liu Jie: "You want to suppress the army, take a part of the food, and transfer the money to you, don't make trouble, don't shake the morale of the army, and avoid trouble." ”

"I know." The commanders of the two chamber armies were in good spirits and hurriedly agreed.

A group of generals of the box army left happily, what is the general trend, they don't have to pay much attention, the sky is falling and the king of Zhao is out of the head, they are happy that there is money and food to share, and other things are not important.

King Zhao was full of concerns, and when he left from the elegant hall, he didn't notice that the threshold was too high, and he almost fell!

When King Zhao returned to the inner study, under the shadow of the lamp, there were already several people waiting.

King Zhao's spirits perked, the people who can wait here are all his henchmen, and they are quite powerful henchmen, ordinary people, even if they want to sell their lives, they have to see if King Zhao has that value, and if they are not valuable, they can't enter the most secret study of this palace.

Even if he is King Zhao's biological son, Xu Ziwei can sometimes come in and stand for a while, and Xu Ziwen is not qualified to walk into this study at all.

Seeing a eunuch holding the door curtain, King Zhao's figure appeared outside the door, and several people waiting in the room stood up and greeted King Zhao together.

"Did you all hear the news?" When King Zhao sat down, there was still some residual shock and panic on his face, and he said to Liu Guangsi, who was closest to him: "Guangsi, you are a veteran of the forbidden army, is this news true?" ”

Liu Guangsi looked arrogant, and when he heard King Zhao's words, he immediately shook his head and said: "The Great Wei Forbidden Army defeated 30,000 or 40,000 pirates with three armies, and I don't dare to say that I have such a certainty. I know that I have repeatedly defeated several times the enemy, but what kind of opponent is that? A group of scoundrels, rangers, mountain bandits and village bandits, the battles they fought could be won by changing the forbidden army, which was nothing. On armor, everyone in the forbidden army has armor, the sword card hand wears triple iron armor, wears a hood, wears an iron mask, has iron gloves, net boots, weighs seventy pounds, holds a knife card in front of the array, or charges, or blocks the enemy's attack, the archers have chain mail or cotton armor, and the crossbowmen are also, each army has at least two hundred and fifty divine arm bows, more than 1,000 archers, plus waist crossbows, kick crossbows, eight bull crossbows, an order, ten thousand arrows are fired together, and the north and the east are not daring to be the sharp edge of the forbidden army. You can only flank and guerrilla. Even so, the pirates are fierce and strong, have been in battle for a long time, and have quite a lot of armor, their weapons, bows and arrows, are carefully crafted, and they also have trebuchets, and they are not under our army in terms of long-range attacks. The forbidden army has more than 6,000 people in three armies, and it really doesn't dare to say that it has a chance of victory against tens of thousands of pirates, depending on morale, grain routes, geography, array, and the situation of the enemy. Your Highness, I am an old man, even if I receive more than 6,000 people, I don't dare to fight this kind of package ticket! What's more, how many battles has Nan Anhou fought? His reputation, please forgive me, Your Highness, is just touted by everyone who sees that the clan is not capable of fighting. His Royal Highness King Qi, it was too much to carry the latter and break the old man's heart! ”

Lin Zhien, the commander of the other forbidden army sitting on the side, slapped his thigh and shouted: "Nan Anhou is stubbornly promoted, I can also fight the battles he fought, if you want to say that he defeated tens of thousands of pirates, kill me I don't believe it." ”

"That's exactly what I said." Liu Guangsi had a smile on his face, and there was no lack of contempt, and he continued: "What is the Nan'an regimental training? The armor is less than a thousand, plus some shabby cotton armor, at most two thousand collar armor, and more than half of the soldiers have no armor and are wearing military robes. Bows and crossbows are all commonplace, and the strength of the three armies, the divine arm bow is only more than 100, which is less than one army of the forbidden army. In addition, the foot bow, the kicking crossbow, the eight-bull crossbow, does he have it? The Northern Forbidden Army, there are still a lot of artillery deployers, although they are left by Taizu, they can't go far, but they fire at one hundred and fifty paces, and the sound is shocking, and the lead is like a fan, and all of them are killed immediately, the flesh and blood are blurred and not humanoid, what does the Nan'an regiment practice? It's just a pitiful god arm! ”

Like ordinary generals of the forbidden army, Liu Guangsi is also limited to his own experience. He did fight for many years, the forbidden army in the southeast was sometimes transferred to Yungui to quell the rebellion in the southwest, and sometimes he went to Jingxiang to conquer the overly arrogant mountain bandits.

Such a veteran trusts his past experience, the strength of the forbidden army, one is a strong one, and the other is a military advantage.

Jiajian is the forbidden army's excellent equipment, of course, not all of them wear iron armor, hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops are all wearing triple armor, and the power of the Great Wei cannot do it.

But the archers and crossbowmen wore light armor, and the sword and player in front of the battle or the long-standing hand wore heavy armor, and this was always done.

In addition to the strength of the armor, but also with the advantage of the soldiers, this advantage is not the long sword or horizontal knife held by the soldiers, but the power of the bow and crossbow.

The establishment of the forbidden army is more than 2,000 people, except for a small number of cavalry, the vast majority of them are infantry. Among them, there were about 2,000 foot soldiers, about 700 to 900 sword and card players, and the remaining more than 1,000 people, most of them were archers, and half were crossbowmen.

Every time there is a battle, the forbidden army fires thousands of arrows, with a foot bow, a strong crossbow shoots from a distance, whether it is the northern captives, the eastern Hu, or the southwest, they cannot confront head-on under such a fierce offensive of the forbidden army.

Even if it was Donghu, its heavy cavalry rarely directly charged the military formation of the Great Wei Forbidden Army, and hitting the flank was their only way. The defeat of the Wei army was mostly due to cavalry tactics such as being suppressed, besieged, attacked, and cut off grain routes. The Donghu people are very patient, they are like a pack of wolves surrounding the travelers in the desert, at first the brigades are on guard with knives, the wolves are not in a hurry to attack, they besiege the travelers, from time to time pretend to attack, and when the travelers are sleepy and tired, they suddenly rush up and bite for a while, if the humans still have the ability to resist, they will retreat, and then continue to follow, one day does not work for two days, or even three days or four days, until the goal is reached.

The tactics of cavalry against infantry, as long as the infantry side does not have the cover of cavalry, is harassed, takes turns to sneak attack, is attacked by enemy cavalry on the flank, and cuts off the food route, this is the natural advantage of cavalry over infantry.

The generals of the forbidden army rely too much on long-range troops, which has become the biggest drawback of the Great Wei Forbidden Army, but there are very few that can be seen, and it is obvious that Liu Guangsi and others do not have too high knowledge.

King Zhao was persuaded by everyone in turn, and he felt a little relieved, but he still sighed and said: "There is a rumor that has come out, I'm afraid that the Eastern Domain will still win, what will happen in the end, we have to see how it is." ”

"I'm going to see it." Li Gu, who had not spoken up, hugged his fists and said: "As soon as the news comes out, there will be a lot of pearl diving boats and fishing boats going to sea, these people are not working for a day and cannot eat, and the pirate ship is gone, they must be the first to hold back." Under the next willing to disguise himself as a pearl diver merchant, he went to the sea near the Eastern Domain. ”

"It's a bit too risky." King Zhao was a little moved, but Li Gu was his most relied on staff, and this was secondary, many confidential matters in the Zhao Palace, and some forbidden and confidential matters were also Li Gu's helpers, in case he had an accident, was captured by pirates, or fell into the hands of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, it would be too much fun.

"It's okay," Li Gu said in a deep voice, "I will tell the boatman to be cautious and not to take too much of Meng Lang's adventures." ”

The generals of the forbidden army present were all disapproving, they didn't believe that the Nan'an Hou Mansion could defeat the powerful Luzon two thieves with more than 6,000 government troops, that was something they didn't dare to ensure when they gathered five armies, they didn't want to believe it, of course they thought that Li Gu was going to run in vain this time, but they didn't want to say it because of Li Gu's identity.

"Don't relax your guard in the city." King Zhao finally instructed: "If there is really news of victory, the Nan'an Hou Mansion will report it to the pacification envoy Si Yamen, even if Lin Shuaichen is not in Fuzhou, we can get the news as soon as possible, whether it is true or not, we will know when the time comes." ”

Although they didn't think so, Liu Guangsi, Lin Zhien and others still got up and hugged their fists, and they all promised to come down.

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In the middle of the night, Lin Douyao arranged for the officials left behind in Fuzhou, and sent a small official and a few guards out of the city, because most of the forbidden troops and box troops left behind in the city were Zhao Wang's people, they refused to be accommodating, and it was indeed too risky to open the city gate in the middle of the night.

They were rushing to Quanzhou, Lin Douyao did not stay in Fuzhou, the forbidden army had five armies, three armies stayed in Fuzhou, three armies were all Zhao Wang's people, seven or eight out of ten of the Xiang army were controlled by King Zhao, two armies in Quanzhou, one army was controlled by Lin Douyao, and most of the other army was also controlled by Lin Douyao.

If the five armies are in Fuzhou, plus the city garrison camp, the robbery camp, and the power controlled by Lin Douyao, King Zhao is slightly stronger, and Lin Douyao has a righteous name, after all, all the big and small things in the local area are to appease the envoys, and the Dadu Governor's Mansion is only to assist in the management of the Xiang army, and even garrison and fight, theoretically it is still the pacification envoy to command the Dadu Governor's Mansion.

Under the moonlight, the people who came out of the Fuzhou Mansion City rode their horses and galloped, the two states were separated by nearly four hundred miles, even if the official road was maintained quite well, the group changed horses every two post stations, and when they arrived at the Quanzhou Mansion City, the Quanzhou City Gate had been closed for a long time.

After the alarm came, Zhangzhou City was directly and completely closed, and people used hanging blue to enter and exit, and materials were suspended.

The gates of Fuzhou and Quanzhou were only open for one hour at noon, and the gates were stopped after the time had passed, and if pirates were found to be ashore, they would close the gates completely, and seal them with vehicles and sandbags.

Fortunately, things did not develop to this point, and the token of the pacification envoy was obviously more effective in Quanzhou than in Fuzhou, and after checking that it was correct, the deputy commander of the military capital defending the city directly ordered the city gate to be opened, and this team of people entered through the city gate, saving a lot of tongue and effort.

Lin Douyao did not live in the Quanzhou Mansion, it was too noisy, he lived in a temple in the city, drove the monks out, leaving only the people who sprinkled and sweeped, and moved in with the officials of the pacification envoy, and the soldiers of the forbidden army stood outside to guard and guard, and the security was very strict.

When the knights galloped on horseback, the horseshoe drew a spark on the bluestone road in Quanzhou City, even if Quanzhou City was still quite lively at this time, this team of foreign knights was still eye-catching, making many people look sideways.

His task was also so urgent for the knights on his horse that they didn't have time to look at the great trading city.

Due to the threat of piracy, the number of ships coming over in recent months has dropped by more than seventy percent, and even so, there are still several hundred ships anchored in various ports in Quanzhou, and in addition to the ships of the Great Wei Dynasty, quite a few are Tianfang ships, as well as ships from the Eastern, Western, and South Seas countries that come to trade.

Wa Kingdom, Champang, Chenla, Siam, Laos, Annam, Sriwijaya, Lan Fang, Manchu Thorn, Mughal, Tianfang, and even some unknown small merchants from Africa, they are either high-nosed, deep-eyed, white-skinned and blue-eyed, wearing white robes, or short-haired, dark-skinned southeastern people, or short-haired, dark-skinned distant merchants, and some with short swords, or short muskets stuck in their waists, curly hair, also white-skinned and blue-eyed Tessians.

It's strange to say, the Taixi people also have hideous appearances, after all, there are very few good people who dare to drift on the sea for a few months to come to the side of Dawei. But the Tessie people seem to be much kinder and more normal than the heavenly people.

The most people in Quanzhou City are still Tianfang, and there are groups of white-robed men hanging around everywhere.

They do not drink alcohol, they do not like women to come out and show their faces, and they even reprimand those who come out to do things as if they were wives of their own family.

These people are quite arrogant, after all, the Tianfang people at this time regard themselves as the first power, in fact, they are about the same, their empire spans the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and the population is more than that of the Great Wei, although there are many ethnic groups in the country, different sects, and more than fighting, but in general, the Tianfang people have not yet seen their decline, if they can defeat the Three Buddhas, and then master the sea choke point from Asia to Europe, even if the Taixi people can get a lot of gold from South America, they have no way to trade in Asia, And to send wealth and goods back to Europe.

If so, the Celestials will remain strong, and they are still trying to continue to expand.

In terms of the current situation, the pirates are coming, and the merchants of all countries and the soldiers and civilians of Great Wei are all panicking, only those white-robed men are still arrogant, and they are not hiding from anything in Quanzhou City, but because the trade between merchants from various countries has been temporarily stopped, they have nothing to do for the time being, so they can only wait in the city.

Even at sea, the Celestial Merchants have nothing to fear, unless they encounter a small group of pirates who are not controlled by any big power, and the Celestial Traders may be in danger.

As long as there are powerful and famous pirates, they will never and dare not rob the Heavenly Merchant.

Pu Xingfeng, the strongest pirate king among the pirates is the Tianfang people, the two Luzon thieves cooperated with him, Kang Tianqi did not want to anger Pu Xingfeng, Wei Shang, the maritime merchants of any country would be robbed and killed, only the Tianfang ship would go unimpeded, no one would be embarrassed, let alone kill people and rob goods.

So when these knights from Fuzhou rode their horses and galloped in the market, many people showed panic on their faces, only a group of Tianfang people wandered in the market, they were actually secretly drinking, walking staggered, but when they returned to their own country, they all became serious people who did not drink at all.

The knights didn't pay much attention, they asked the way, and then galloped over, the leading officials did not stop at all, and when they arrived at the door, they called someone to report it, and after someone led the way, he hurried to Lin Douyao's residence.