When the morning sun rose, the atmosphere of panic and restlessness had already enveloped the entire city.

Gan Tang could feel the oppression brought to the military households by the entry of Haikou into Guangdong.

On the battlefield, people are really angry and powerful.

The soldiers and civilians of Great Xia wanted to produce, harvest grain and crush rice, think about the armor, and also ask the military households to come and protect the fields and main roads within a radius of twenty or thirty miles. Robbers don't need to think about this, they just need to kill and rob, and that's enough.

There is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, but that's exactly what they're doing right now.

In the south, the news of the battle in Shantou faintly came, and the fires burning in some fishing villages along the coast seemed to be still spreading, but they were still in a huge chaos, and it was not known whether the Haikou and the people were fighting, or whether the Haikou and the local township army were fighting.

As one of the closest cities in Guangdong to Xiamen, Shantou has gradually developed from a small fishing village to a large county with a population of tens of thousands since Xiamen's thriving maritime trade, and has not suffered from war for more than 100 years.

At least for the people living in Shantou, the sense of crisis of war is like an abyss after all. It is also for this reason that when I learned that the pirate was killed from the sea, the nightmare became a reality overnight, and at this time, every household in the city was suddenly a little confused.

Zhu Fushuai led two hundred elite Taihu Lake sailors and entered this chaotic coastal county town at noon, there were many pedestrians on the streets, although the streets dozens of steps wide were not to the extent of rubbing shoulders, but all kinds of voices were indeed noisy, some people wanted to escape from the city, and some people wanted to enter the city to hide, and among the crowd more than ten meters away, it was an abrupt scene that made all pedestrians have no time to react.

But it's not noisy, it's because it's too poignant.

It was a scream of "Ah-", the shout of the dying man tore this sound, because he just turned his head, what Gan Tang saw in his eyes, and the metal cold light shot out by Jingran, it was too fast, like the fan blades of an electric fan, and in an instant, two circles of phantom were drawn, and the blood flew high above the pedestrian's head with the scream, and a broken arm rose into the sky.

The chaotic voices, those who can figure out the situation and those who can't, those who react and those who don't, are all mixed at this moment.

"Ahh

Ding Ding Ding ~ Ding ——

For a whole month and a half, with the arrival of winter, there were constantly Tanma to the Shantou Township Army to promote Liao Yunze to bring news about the coastal areas of Guangdong-a large number of Haikou landed in the coastal counties of Huizhou Prefecture.

The Xiang army guarding Huizhou has a certain strength, but it is mainly the elite of the Wude Battalion in Guangdong. These days, due to the ban on the coast, the main military strength of the Wude battalion has also gathered from the inland to the coastal cities, and the army guarding the inside and outside of the city is about five or six thousand people.

Seeing that Huizhou was well defended, Haikou plundered and was driven away by the Xiang army, and the rest of the party scattered to various places; Zengcheng in Guangzhou Prefecture sent a police report, Maotian was plundered, and Conghua County, which was only 30 miles away from Shantou, also sent out an alarm, but when the commander of the Huizhou Xiang Army led a large army to encircle and suppress, it was nowhere to be seen, and the Haikou could not take advantage of it, and came to Shantou.

At noon today, there was chaos in the south, and Liao Yunze's army immediately shrank, closed the gates on all sides, issued alarms, resisted the enemy, and began to suppress the chaos in the city.

The army was not enough to defend the city, and the empty salary was serious, and there should have been 600 township troops according to the regulations, but in fact, Liao Yunze had less than 400 people, and half of them were old and weak.

Due to the wealth of this place, the equipment is quite well-equipped, but the combat power cannot be guaranteed.

In the chaos that began at noon, in addition to listening to the development of this chaos and sending troops to defend the four gates, the county officials of the county Yanei and Liao Yunze and others in the middle of Shantou did not have any rules on how to retreat from the enemy.

They couldn't clearly understand what was going on, and they were all waiting for some exact news.

When this kind of thing is close at hand, and they don't have enough resources at hand, they don't necessarily have many backbones, and at this time, the fire spread in the north of the city.

It must have been pirates who took advantage of the chaos to enter the city early, and it is difficult to say how many there were. At this time, I can only pray for the combat strength of the Wude Battalion for the time being, and push it all the way.

When Zhu Fu came to the county office, read out the warrants of Gan Tang and Li Yu to them, and quickly took over the city defense, they put down half of their hearts.

In Quanzhou, a few days ago, Li Yu went into the city alone to meet Dong Li, and the two had a fierce quarrel over the ownership of the rights of the Quanzhou naval army, forming a stalemate.

Great Xia to the Wen Imperial Army, originally Quanzhou Navy to Quanzhou Zhizhou control, now Quanzhou not to mention Zhizhou, not even the command of the army, Quanzhou one state and eight counties, eighty percent of officials are suspected of smuggling and corruption, Dong Li was imprisoned, Quanzhou government is paralyzed.

At the time of this chaos, all kinds of demons and monsters have popped up, and even the call to support Pu Shou Geng's takeover is not small.

The foreigners in Xiamen were also anxious in their eyes, because many vital interests were at stake, and they hoped that the Great Xia government would restore the apparent order in Quanzhou at an early date.

More and more merchant ships stayed at the docks in Xiamen and Quanzhou, and the goods stored on the shore were piled up.

As the Yamen City Shipping Division that manages transactions, Pu Shougeng stopped all goods from entering and leaving in the name of cooperating with Shangguan to investigate the case, which is why he caused the current situation.

Faced with the questions raised by foreign businessmen, Dong Li patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, I have sent someone to Beijing a few days ago to ask for a decree, and the political hall will definitely be able to quickly settle the situation, and the missing officials can be replenished in one or two months at the latest!" ”

Businessmen from all over the world still wanted to ask for details, but Dong Li just blindly talked nonsense, and when it came to the key points, he either talked big or played haha, which made Chinese and foreign maritime businessmen quite speechless.

For this problem, Gan Tang is very clear.

But he has no right to intervene, because he had swept away a group of corrupt officials in Quanzhou before, and he did not communicate with this local official, Dong Li was just angry with himself.

The root cause of this situation is the result of the distrust between the Queen Mother and the political hall.

This kind of situation is also what Gan Tang wants, in the absence of absolute strength in his own hands, only by muddying the waters, can all plans have the possibility of becoming a reality.

Gan Tang didn't dare to say this kind of thing, including Dong Li and Li Yu, he had to hide it clumsily, so as not to cause messy trouble.

Today, businessmen from Western countries came to Quanzhou Yamen to make trouble with Dong Li, and the foreigners couldn't tell Dong Li, a Confucian who didn't know how to trade, so they simply chatted about religion, art, politics, literature, fashion, and ...... One by one, they talked about it.

Dong Li couldn't interject, so he could only murmur and complain: "These Yangyi are really difficult to serve." ”

Only Song Ci's eldest grandson, Song Qing, who was following Dong Li, could communicate with them.

After some conversation. The Portuguese consul took a keen interest in this young man of Bactria and even invited him to a salon party hosted by his wife at his official residence two days later.

These days, Gan Tang has been busy with the layout of the bandits on Shuangqi Island.

Most of the time, Gan Tang stayed in the small courtyard of Li Mo'an in Xiamen, which was an inconspicuous courtyard in Xiamen, but it was the center of the turmoil in the entire Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Today, after lunch, Gan Tang threw down his rice bowl and prepared to go out, today the Portuguese consul is going to hold a salon, he received the news from Song Qing very early, today he wants to pretend to be Song Qing's friend, and follow Song Qing to get in.

Gan Tang not only wants to complete the things explained by the imperial court this time, but also wants to understand the situation of countries in the world in this era.

Attending such a gathering is a good place to start.

The architecture of Xiamen belongs to the international style, the scenery is beautiful, and it is the world of foreign devils.

Gan Tang and Song Qing were escorted by Shao Huan and Zhang Yan, all the way to the Portuguese consul's residence, Shao Huan asked curiously: "Lord, what is that dragon killing in Fanyi?" Where can I find a dragon to kill? ”

"Hahaha," Gan Tang was amused by him, and said Koko, "Salon is the French word SaLon, and the ladies and ladies of Paris often turn their living rooms into social places, inviting some dramatists, families, poets, musicians, painters, and politicians...... Everyone chatted freely. ”

"Isn't it just Laqua (the Shandong dialect version of the chatter), what kind of is to kill dragons," Shao Huan sneered, "The foreign woman just doesn't abide by the way of women, and she invites so many men to her home in the daytime, maybe she wants to do something." ”

Gan Tang smiled: "What you said is very insightful. ”

Shao Huan was very impressed by this compliment, and said unashamedly: "That is, in the past few years in Wudang, Master Zu often praised me for my cleverness, otherwise I would not have chosen me to come to the prince's side among so many disciples." ”

All the way to the nonsense, soon came to the official residence of the Portuguese consul.

Before they could go in, they saw an elderly pastor leading a girl in a pleated dress to walk towards each other, the girl was originally running and jumping, and seeing that Gan Tang and the others were dressed well, she hurriedly put one hand into the crook of the priest's arm, and the other hand held the hem of the skirt, and instantly turned into a lady.

"Huh!"

When the priest heard someone laughing, he turned his head to look at Gan Tang, as if he had no impression of a Great Xia man like him. And Song Qing is also wearing civilian clothes today, and the priest doesn't know that he has met the only prince of Daxia today.

When the little girl heard the laughter, she blushed, looking at her in a dress, which open Yanmar was different from the later generations, she was a delicate and graceful woman, about 1.63 meters tall, her waist was very thin, Yingying could hold it, and her body looked a little thin. is different from the general angular white women, with a soft goose egg face and marked facial features, which is very in line with the aesthetics of the Orientals.

An Indian butler led them in, Gan Tang, Song Qing. The priest and the little girl both entered the living room, while Shao Huan and Zhang Yan stayed in the side room to drink tea.

Several people had gathered in the living room, nine foreign devils and three Asian faces.

After being introduced by López, the owner of the salon, Gan Tang finally figured out their identities. In addition to the López couple, the other seven foreign devils are Anne, the wife of the Spanish consul, Mariana, the daughter of the Dutch commercial agent, the Roman nobles Herman and his wife, the Italian painter Lentini, and the French priest Henry and his adopted daughter Grace, whom Gan Tang saw in front of the door.

Among the three Asian faces, one is Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the shogun of the Japanese shogunate, who sent Katsuki Yamada, the head of commerce in Bactria to the Great Xia. The other two are very young, the man is Pu Shougeng's eldest son Pu Lidong, and the woman is Lu Jingya, a famous prostitute from Jiankang, Lu Jingya seems to have come with Pu Lidong, and the two of them sit together, looking very affectionate.

Grace came in and sat down beside Mariana, and it seemed that the two young men were very talkative, and they sat together and bowed their heads and talked about something.

After all, Song Qing was the personal entourage of the local feudal officials in Fujian, and was invited by the master to sit down beside him.

Gan Tang didn't know anyone well, so he found a place to stay by himself.

Soon, several foreign devils came in one after another, both men and women, and the businessman Teng Sen was still a handsome guy.

There is also a Daxia person who is too young, almost the same as Gan Tang, and he is only fourteen or fifteen years old. He was holding a large stack of manuscript paper in his arms, and seemed to be a little restrained, and when he saw that Gantang's place was relatively empty, he went straight to Gantang and sat down.

"Hello, my name is Gan Tang, and I am a painter." Gan Tang took the initiative to greet him.

The young man smiled shyly: "My name is Guan Hanqing, and I write opera." ”

Gan Tang knew very little about history, but he still had some impressions of the giants who left their names in history, and he immediately remembered who Guan Hanqing was. This Jun is the founder of Chinese opera, the first of the four masters of Yuan opera, and his most famous masterpiece is the world-famous masterpiece "Dou E's Injustice".

His life to create a 'boiled, steamed, hammered, fried, a copper pea' image is widely praised, is the leader of the Yuan Dynasty music circle, by the descendants of the "song saint".

Isn't this benevolent brother in Dadu? How did you get to Great Xia!!