"Your Majesty, the squire of the Beijing Division and the Military Department blocked Yinxi in an urgent report, and the Zunhua guard general Shang Kexi under the command of Li Tianyang, the king of the South China Sea, had more than 40,000 people, and entered the customs on October 15 to invade the territory of my Ming Dynasty, and went down to Miyun and Pinggu on the fifth day."

"At the same time, the Shanhai Pass guard, led by Wu Jie's thieves, went south to attack Tianjin Wei, and attacked Tianjin Wei on both sides with the naval division, and 50,000 troops have come to the city."

……

In the Fengtian Hall of Nanjing City, the Ming Dynasty had finally had a little joy before, and with a letter of 800 miles of urgent secret letters submitted to the Ministry of War, and then transferred to Emperor Chongzhen by Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, there was an uproar in the court, and all kinds of emotions flowed above the hall.

"Good, so daring!!"

"Ahem, ahem!"

Emperor Chongzhen, whose body was weakening day by day, had an unnatural crimson complexion, and his hair was angry, but he was a little more aggrieved.

"I knew that Li Tian raised this fang to feed an unfamiliar beast, but now it is really the opposite, and he should be punished!!"

"Ahem, ahem!"

The only thing that still makes Chongzhen a little calm is that their Ming Dynasty has already been a little mentally prepared for the rebellion of Hongmen, and now although the other party suddenly invaded, everyone was not very surprised.

"What do you think should be done?"

After venting the anger in his heart, after Chongzhen returned to the emperor's unfathomable and profound posture, he turned his head and began to ask his group of ministers for their opinions.

"Your Majesty, Li Tian's foundation of the thief Kou is on Dayuan Island in the South China Sea, in the opinion of Weichen, at this time, I will draw salary from the bottom of the kettle, and first cut off its foundation branches and leaves, as for the Beijing Division, there is still a 100,000 army of Yin Xi Shilang garrisoned, and Li Fang's soldiers and horses may not be able to go down in a short time."

Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the military department, stood up at this time and offered his own strategy.

"The minister also thinks that Jiangnan is the foundation of my Ming Dynasty, and Hongmen has been operating in Jiangnan and other places for a long time, so it is necessary to take precautions, and first clear out the thieves and minions in Jiangnan!"

Several more ministers echoed and said what was in their hearts.

Even the first assistant Shi Kefa agreed: "The military department is pertinent in his words, since the king of the South China Sea has risen to the top, then our dynasty does not need to be tactful with him, and I should first stabilize the important places in my court." ”

"However, the matter of reinforcing the Beijing division should not be taken lightly, when the people should be mobilized to enrich our army, and at the same time send a decree to Sun Chuanting, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi in the southwest of Shudi, so that he can speed up the speed of clearing out the Daxi thieves!"

“……”

After all, the Ming Dynasty has always been on guard against the rebellion of Hongmen Li Tianyang, so all the subordinates who have a heart will inevitably have more calculations in the dark, but it also makes Emperor Chongzhen above the palace rarely show satisfaction.

"Zhongqing's suggestions are all honest and honest words of the country, Shi Aiqing, you first negotiate a feasible article, and then make a reply!"

"Ahem, ahem!"

Although it was only two or three hours of morning discussion, for Emperor Chongzhen, who had little exercise and was frail and sickly, he couldn't support it anymore, so he waved his sleeves and let his father-in-law wear it and retreat.

The subsequent matter was discussed by Shi Kefa and other cabinet ministers, and finally submitted to Chongzhen for review and sealing, and when it was conveyed to Fujian, Zhejiang and other places, it was on the third day.

Such a major resolution, in the past, was rarely decisive in the Ming court, but in the end it was still a little late.

When the yamen of the governors of Fujian and Zhejiang, as well as the minions of the local Jinyi Wei and the East and West Factories, went to various places to search for the members of the Hongmen Qixintang and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, they were greeted by empty houses that had been closed for several days, and not only were the shops and houses empty, but even the slightest bit of goods were carried away.

Unfortunate enough to follow was that those businessmen and gentry who had dealt with Qixintang and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, but were not core allies of the other party, were arrested and imprisoned one after another.

These are obviously businessmen, workshop owners, landlords and others who have been affected by the pond fish and have been angry, and they have a deep background behind them, and they can naturally be released from prison by spending some money to make a difference.

However, those businessmen and landlords who have no background and have a huge fortune finally became the scapegoats of Hongmen, and as Hongmen's minions, they were either bankrupt and sent to the army, or their heads fell to the ground and their wives were separated.

There is no way, Hongmen's real minions run quickly, in order not to be blamed by Shangfeng, and at the same time to take the opportunity to make a windfall, the Ming officials, who have always been kind and ruthless, can only point to Lu as Ma Meng's foolishness.

Of course, there are a lot of benefits to falling to the Ming Court, with the interference of Jinyiwei and the East and West Factory, even if the officials under the bottom reach out to embezzle, they dare not make a big splash, and in the end the big head still falls into the Ming Mansion.

Most of the pond fish in Jiangnan were first-class businessmen with a lot of money, and with their arrest and imprisonment, their net worth was exceeded, and the final harvest made the treasury of the Ming household department fat a lot.

With this benefit, coupled with the existence of thousands of scapegoats of businessmen and others who were implicated, although there is still a lot of dissatisfaction, Emperor Chongzhen can only stop here for the time being.

More than ten miles away from Kinmen Island, the Ming Dynasty gathered tens of thousands of troops from the south of the Yangtze River, trying to attack the Hongmen headquarters and the Ming Dynasty's nearest stronghold, but the battle lasted for several days, and the Ming officers and soldiers lost thousands, but they could not help the geometry of the Kinmen Island that was shaking on the sea level.

The gap between the current naval division of the Ming Dynasty and the Hongtang fleet is like the difference between heaven and man, and the thirty "Jiaolong-type", "Yangfan-type", and even the latest "Qinglong-type" battleships of Hongtang swung forward in front of the narrow strait, but all the pieces of wood that appeared on the sea surface were beaten to pieces by the opposing fleet and buried at the bottom of the sea.

And the most infuriating thing is that Hongmen has obviously launched a military operation outside Liaodong Pass, but it is closer to Daming Nanjing City, which should be the core of Hongmen, on Dayuan Island, facing the land south of the Daming River that is only two or three hundred miles away, but it seems that there are not many ideas.

However, their Ming Dynasty could not help but take precautions against the Hongtang fleet, and hundreds of thousands of troops were deployed on the long coastline south of the Yangtze River, which made the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, who were already scarce, even more stretched.

In addition to guarding against the 30 warships in the Kinmen Island Strait, the Hongtang fleet also had 40 main warships of various types, cruising along the Daming coastline, and taking advantage of its high-intensity mobility, sometimes appeared on the coasts of Shandong and Jiangsu in the north, and suddenly appeared in Guangdong, Qiongzhou, and other places in the south, so that the soldiers stationed in various places did not dare to relax their carelessness a little, and tightened their minds to deal with the officers and men of the Hongtang Navy Division who might appear in front of their stations at any time.

(End of chapter)