Wagangzhai was breached, Cui Shanhu was caught, and all the bandits in Yongan were also exterminated by Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, but the matter was far from over.

Cui Shanhu is "easy to speak", because he has lived too long as the emperor of the soil, he is used to enjoying it, he is afraid of death and punishment, he doesn't need to threaten and intimidate, he doesn't need to be tortured, he asks him something, he recruits something, and he cooperates very much.

The things he recruited were enough for Zhang Bin to be busy.

Not surprisingly, the prefect of Huizhou and the prefect of Yong'an accepted bribes from him, so they turned a blind eye and let him do whatever he wanted.

Zhang Bin actually guessed this a long time ago, because Xie Zhenggang and the last time they came, there was Yong'an's arrest to arrest him, and to confiscate their muskets, this is actually the ghost of Yong'an Zhixian County, or it may be that Cui Shanhu wants this batch of muskets, or he wants to intercept this batch of muskets to sell for money, in short, he sent the arrest.

The reason why Zhang Bin didn't immediately send someone to arrest him was mainly because he didn't want to startle the snakes, after all, the army to encircle and suppress the bandits was not ready at that time.

Of course, there is no such problem now, the bandits have almost been exterminated, and these corrupt officials should also be punished, Zhang Bin immediately sent Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao to arrest the prefect of Huizhou and the county of Yong'an.

This time, the problem is here again, Huizhou and Yongan can't be left alone, Zhang Bin thinks about it, there is really no suitable candidate, because he has so many cronies, and almost all those who can be promoted at this time have been promoted.

There is no way, he simply transferred Song Yingsheng to be the magistrate of Yong'an, and Han Zhiliang of Yuanchenghai magistrate to be the prefect of Huizhou, let's make do with it first!

Song Yingsheng is nothing, and it is not strange to raise someone to be the magistrate of the county, if it has a relationship, when the officials elect officials, they can directly be elected to the magistrate.

Han Zhiliang is a bit too much, from the prefect of the seventh grade to the prefect of the fourth grade, it is not so fast to take the rocket, Zhang Bin has no choice, he can only let people on the top first, as for Chongzhen, he can only play, this is an expedient measure.

This is indeed an expedient measure, Huizhou Governor Chongzhen likes to let whoever he wants, let whoever he wants, he is too lazy to think about it so much, there are still a lot of things waiting for him to deal with.

Among them, the biggest thing is the problem of the local tyrants and squires.

As early as more than a month ago, many officials of the Cheng Xuan Political Envoy Department, the Criminal Envoy Department, and the Guangzhou Prefect's Yamen confessed a large number of local tyrants and squires who colluded with them, and this time, Cui Shanhu confessed a large number here, and there were few local tyrants and squires in the entire Guangzhou Mansion and Huizhou Mansion who were clean.

Almost all of them are in collusion with corrupt officials, bandits and bandits, of course, this is also due to the general environment, in these places, it is not easy to mix with corrupt officials and bandits, but this does not mean that they can be forgiven, because they themselves are a part of this environment, and it can also be said that they are one of the driving forces behind this environment.

These local tyrants and squires thought that they had been fooled, but in fact, Zhang Bin also didn't want to startle the snake so he didn't clean them up, and he could also close the net at this time, and a team of Qi family soldiers were sent out, according to the map, all the local tyrants and squires who colluded with corrupt officials and bandits, all of them were arrested!

After these people are arrested, the question arises again, what to do with the land under their names, it can't be completely wasted.

More than half of the land in Guangzhou and Huizhou is in the hands of these people, and they collude with corrupt officials and bandits to grab land.

There are many ways for them to grab land, and to put it mildly, they unite with corrupt officials and corrupt officials to levy harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes under various names, so that when the corrupt officials and corrupt officials make money, they can also force the common people to sell the land to them slowly.

The vicious ones directly collude with the bandits, and take away or even kill the common people in the villages, so that the land of the common people will become ownerless, and they will unite with the corrupt officials and corrupt officials to make the entire yellow book, and then give some money to the bandits, and these lands will become theirs.

Zhang Bin, a local tyrant and squire who annihilated humanity, was naturally not polite, all the land was confiscated, all the family property was confiscated, and the people were arrested and tortured to extract confessions.

He will not report to the Criminal Department, because these local tyrants and squires are inextricably linked with officialdom, and if they report it, they don't know how much trouble will come to their door.

Sometimes dealing with vicious and vicious people is to be more ruthless than them, he has no power to execute criminals privately, but these people are not executed, but they are very likely to bring trouble to themselves, rather than let them find trouble for themselves, it is better to kill them directly.

In this way, even if the trouble is found, it doesn't matter much, with a confession in hand, it is said that people committed suicide in fear of sin, why, no?

Guangdong Mountain High Emperor is far away, it is beneficial to these corrupt officials and local tyrants and squires, and it is also beneficial to him, as long as it is well controlled, it is difficult to spread the news here, they can control it, and they can control it even more.

The only problem is that all the land in their hands is distributed to the people for free, and it is definitely not okay for people to do this, free things, no matter how fair you divide them, some people will say that it is unfair.

If it is evenly distributed according to households, some farmers have more people in their families, and some farmers have fewer people in their families, people will say that you are unfair, no matter how many people in your family you divide so much land, what does it mean, is it boring?

If it is distributed evenly according to the population, people will also say, why not divide it evenly according to the household, the more people will divide more, is it greasy!

After thinking about it, it was not appropriate to do anything, and Zhang Bin had a headache to death.

There is an even more troublesome problem, and that is how to deal with these bandits.

slaughtered all, that is simply a massacre, a total of thirty or forty thousand people;

If you don't slaughter it, it's a heavy burden, thirty or forty thousand people, just to eat, at least ten thousand taels of silver a month, and it's a waste of food to keep them;

If you release them all, let alone do it, these people are not good people, and if you release them, the whole of Guangdong will be chaotic again.

With a headache for several days, Zhang Bin thought of many ways, but none of them were very appropriate, and in the end, he simply picked the most beneficial way for himself.

Farmers can apply for a maximum of 10 mu per household, this is not free, each mu is calculated at 20 taels, no need to pay money immediately, you can slowly hand over the grain to repay, but it must be paid off within 20 years.

In this way, more than half of the confiscated land will be divided, and the basic food and clothing after each peasant household has ten more acres of land will definitely be no problem, and no one dares to say anything, I am not giving it for free, it is to collect money, and you can also choose not to.

In this way, there are about two million acres left, and he replaced them all near Nanhaiwei, connecting them into a large farm across Guangzhou and Huizhou, and then stationed 5,000 guards in Nanhaiwei, specifically watching the captured bandits farming here, and he also let out the words, this is a labor reform, the transformation is good, ten years later, not only let you go, but also give you a share of the land!

What will happen in ten years, who knows, the world will be chaotic, and he is also ready to expand the army crazily, the grain produced in these lands will be used for military rations, and the money used by those farmers to buy land will be used for military expenses, let's make do with it first, anyway, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing are covering, and Chongzhen can't know about Guangdong.

Of course, exterminating the thieves and cleaning up the local tyrants and squires, there are not only headaches, but also things that make people happy, for example, the gold and silver treasures that have not been copied out, although the harvest is not as much as last time, it is also quite amazing, Cui Shanhu alone here, there are millions of taels of silver, and the other dozens of small thieves add up more or less, there are more than 100,000 taels, and those local tyrants and squires, each family also has tens of thousands of taels, this adds up, there are more than three million taels of silver alone!

Zhang Bin thought about it and still didn't hand over the money to Chongzhen.

Because bandits are rampant here, the court doesn't know that there have been so many years, why are you everywhere as soon as you take office?

If he reports it, people may still think that he killed a good person and risked his merits!

Also, it is also a taboo to clean up the local tyrants and squires, and there are a few of the court officials' families who are not local tyrants and squires.

Therefore, this matter cannot be reported, and it will be in great trouble to report it.

With this money, Zhang Bin is going to build a large cannon foundry in Guangzhou, and there are also military craftsmen in the Guangdong capital here, and he just called him to make guns, and he is about to start a war with the Netherlands.

He even wanted to imitate the Dutchman's ship type and develop a super battleship, of course, this is not possible for the time being, because he is really not available, the bandits on the Yongan side have been exterminated, and the artillery of the Guangdong naval division warships over there is almost equipped, and it is time to clean up the water bandits and pirates.

He left Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, Han Zhiliang and Song Yingsheng to deal with the aftermath in Huizhou, and he took Qi's army back to Longxue Island.

In order to save time, he plans to clean up the bandits and exterminate the pirates at the same time.

He first sent 40 teams of elite special operations battalions, each with one wheel, led by Zhang Cha, Zhao Ru, Wang Er, and Sun Biao, to conduct a carpet search of Qiongzhou Mansion, that is, the coast of Hainan Island, directly from the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions, and be sure to find the lair of the pirate Liu Xiang.

Then, he led more than 500 warships united by the Fujian Navy Division and the Guangdong Navy Division to cover directly in the direction of Shunde.

In fact, the water bandits do not have much combat effectiveness, the reason why it is not easy to exterminate, mainly because they are too scattered, near Shunde, the waterways are vertical and horizontal, I don't know how many rivers, islands, sand, beachheads, water bandits are generally a few boats, or even a boat, wherever you go, you can't chase it.

The only way to exterminate them is to cover them, not to miss any waterways, and to launch a comprehensive search of the entire area, so that they have nowhere to hide.

This requires a lot of sailors and many ships, and before Zhang Bin, no one would be able to organize so many sailors and warships at one time, even if they wanted to exterminate them, they were powerless.

Zhang Bin is different, he has people, some ships, compared with the powers, the armed warship in his hand may not be nothing, but, compared with the water bandits, it is an invincible weapon, the water bandits don't even have artillery, compared with the sailor warships, they are a scum.

Within five days, the entire waterway near Shunde was completely wiped out, not a single boat of the water bandits was gone, and the water bandits also caught two or three thousand, Zhang Bin was too lazy to take care of it, and directly threw it into the labor camp, and let Cao Wenzhao over there be responsible for the placement.

At this time, the pirate Liu Xiang's lair was also found, it turned out that he built the lair in a harbor in the northwest of Qiongzhou Mansion, that harbor, there are several small islands outside, the entrance to the harbor is blocked, and the entrance is also quite narrow.

Liu Xiang was quite honest during this time, he gathered all the pirate ships in his lair and didn't go anywhere, because his owner, the Dutch East India Company, gave him instructions not to fight with the Daming Naval Division, pay attention to preserving his strength, and prepare to cooperate with the main fleet of the East India Company to have a decisive battle with the Daming Naval Division!

Historically, Liu Xiang did cooperate with the main warships of the Dutch East India Company and the Daming Navy Division to have a decisive battle, that is, the famous Battle of Liaoluo Bay, as a result, the combined fleet of the Dutch East India Company and the pirate Liu Xiang was overturned by the Fujian Navy Division led by Zheng Zhilong.

However, the naval battle in history took place in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and the Dutch East India Company did not know when it would be launched at this time, anyway, they had already informed Liu Xiang that they were ready for a decisive battle.

The reason why they value Liu Xiang is, of course, not his combat effectiveness, they mainly want to use Liu Xiang's fleet to block the suicide attack of the Ming army.

As soon as the Ming army launched a ruthless attack, their warships were not able to beat super battleships, and they were not even as good as armed merchant ships, but they had many small ships, and once they fought hard, they set the ship on fire, and crashed into it and died with the big ship.

This method of warfare, called fire attack, is actually a suicide attack.

This is what the Dutch are most afraid of, because they have no way to defend at all, and the artillery may not even hit a large ship ten or even tens of meters long, let alone a small boat several meters long, once the Ming army does not want to die and launches a suicide attack, they will have to kneel.

At this time, the Daming Naval Division was still quite heroic, the navies of the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and other powers were defeated by them, and the reason why the Great Ming Naval Division could win every time was not because of how advanced their warships were, but because they were brave, because they fought and died, because they dared to set their ships on fire and die with the enemy!

Therefore, the Dutch want to pull Liu Xiang together, Liu Xiang's combat effectiveness is nothing to them, but Liu Xiang's warship can help them block the suicide attack of the Ming Navy, which is why the Dutch value Liu Xiang.

However, this time the Dutch were destined to be disappointed, because they had not yet launched an attack on Zhang Bin, but Zhang Bin had already launched an attack on Liu Xiang.

When Zhang Bin received the news, he immediately led more than 500 large and small warships to go up from the south of Qiongzhou Mansion, and a big battle began.

This was the prelude to the war between the Daming Naval Division and the Dutch East India Company, and it was also the last battle of Zhang Bin to exterminate the pirates.

As long as Liu Xiang is exterminated, there will be no pirates on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty from now on.

This battle was actually not fierce, because Liu Xiang miscalculated the firepower of the Daming Naval Division, and he believed that as long as the narrow entrance was blocked, the Great Ming Naval Division would have nothing to do with him even if it had more than 500 warships.

He didn't know that Zhang Bin had already equipped the warships of the Daming Navy Division with more than 200 thousand-pound Buddha Franc machines, and the entrance was not only narrow but also quite weak, less than a mile thick in total, that is to say, firing artillery outside the entrance could completely cover most of the harbor.

It doesn't matter if you guard the entrance, anyway, the entire harbor behind is only five or six miles deep, Zhang Bin directly ordered all the warships equipped with the rear thousand pound Franc machine to line up outside the entrance and bombard the inside.

The Daming sailor bombarded outside for nearly an hour, and most of Liu Xiang's pirate ships were sunk, and the remaining half could only shrink into the depths of the harbor far from the entrance.

More than 500 against more than 100, this is a battle without suspense, after nearly two hours of broadside battle, the pirate Liu Xiang, finally surrendered, the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, so far there are no pirates!