On June 15, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Pingyang County ordered Zhang Bin to organize Pingyang Soli and representatives of farmers to gather in Dongmen Mountain to promote the cultivation of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In the natural disasters and military disasters that have been intermittently for more than ten years, potatoes and sweet potatoes have been easily planted and the yield is amazing, and I don't know how many lives have been saved in the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that this day is the beginning of Zhang Bin's rescue of Daming.

The promotion of Dongmen Mountain is of great significance, enough to go down in history!

And on this day, a major event also happened in the distant Dongying.

Hirado Kaluo Yan Siqi was dissatisfied with the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan and plotted to rebel, and he and 28 people, including Yang Tiansheng, Chen Jinji, and Zheng Zhilong, worshiped the alliance as brothers on this day, preparing to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate in one fell swoop.

These two things were originally not related, and Yan Siqi and Zhang Bin had nothing to do with each other, but Yan Siqi's other identity made him and Zhang Bin faintly linked.

Yan Siqi is not only a snail in Hizen Kingdom, but also one of the largest maritime merchants on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, and the maritime merchants in this period have another identity, that is, pirates!

In other words, Yan Siqi is one of the biggest pirates on the southeast coast, and Yang Tiansheng, Chen Xinji, and Zheng Zhilong also have the identities of both businessmen and thieves.

When they are on the southeast coast, they can also use the strength in their hands to warn other pirates and let them talk about some rules, and when they go, the pirates on the southeast coast are no longer restrained, and an undercurrent is secretly surging.

At the end of this day, at the southern end of Pingyang County, at the fishing port of Aojiangkou, the fishermen who set up stalls were leisurely packing up their things, and a black spot appeared on the sea in the distance again, and the fishermen fled in panic again.

This time it's still not a pirate, it's still a Daikin warship.

However, there were a lot of warships coming this time, more than 20 large and small.

This is Zhang Chengde, a thousand households of Dajin, sent someone to send potatoes and sweet potato seeds to his precious son Zhang Bin, of course, 900,000 catties of seeds cannot be sent at one time, and it has been transported several times one after another, and this time it is already the last batch.

The fleet approached, and the fishermen on the shore ran away again, this time, there was really no one in the fishing port, Zhang Bin did not come, and he did not send anyone to greet him, because he had no idea that there would be seeds sent over that day.

The leader of the team is still Zhang Bin's second brother Zhang Guan, he didn't care about the escaped fishermen, they used warships to do private work is a violation of military discipline, and the fewer people they see, the better.

The seeds sent over this time were more than 100,000 catties, and it took nearly an hour for ships of all sizes to unload all the seeds from the ship, and that amount was more than 200 truckloads.

After the seeds were unloaded, the fleet began to sail back, this time, Zhang Guan did not go back with the ship, but commanded more than 500 elite guards, pushing potatoes and sweet potato seeds, and rushed to Pingyang County.

Naturally, they will meet a lot of ordinary people along the way, but they all know that this is to deliver potatoes and sweet potato seeds, so after they saw the convoy, they were not curious, nor did they watch, let alone come forward to obstruct it, but took the initiative to step aside and watched the convoy pass by with burning eyes.

This is their hope for food and clothing in the future!

Zhang Bin was naturally so excited to learn that his second brother personally sent the seeds over, so he hurriedly dropped the military book in his hand and went straight to the corridor in front of the lobby.

At this time, the convoy has entered the county government, and at this time, both sides of the county government road have also changed greatly, 900,000 catties of potatoes and sweet potato seeds, the county government's warehouse can not be placed at all, Zhang Bin had to let people build pergolas on both sides of the spacious road to store seeds.

More than 200 flatbed trucks were pushed in, and the entire corridor had been crowded with water, Zhang Bin walked to the steps of the lobby and looked for a long time but did not find any trace of his second brother, which is a bit strange, what about his second brother Zhang Guanren?

Just when he was puzzled, a guard with a cart squeezed up and told him that his second brother Zhang Guan took people to the guest house on the right side of the county office.

He's so strange, why is the second brother so mysterious?

He took Zhang Cha and other officials to squeeze into the guest house to take a look, there were already more than ten flatbed trucks in the courtyard, and his second brother Zhang Guanzheng commanded people to remove the cloth curtains on the cars.

Zhang Bin looked at the car, slot, slot, slot, big knife, spear, bow and arrow, bird gun, armor, shield, what is this for? These more than ten carriages are all full of weapons!

Of course, he wouldn't think that his second brother Zhang Guan brought people to occupy his county office, the question is why did he bring so many weapons!

He couldn't help but step forward and pat Zhang Guan's shoulder and asked, "Second brother, why are you bringing so many weapons?" ”

Zhang Guan was stunned by him, turned his head and saw that it was Zhang Bin, and he immediately said seriously: "I have received reliable information that pirates will raid the northern coast of Fujian and southern Zhejiang in the next few days. My father ordered me to lead troops to help you defend Binh Duong. ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he was startled, the pirates were coming to plunder!

He hurriedly asked, "Unlikely, pirates have rarely come ashore to plunder in recent years?" ”

When Zhang Guan heard this, he sighed and said: "Alas, in the past, it was Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong and other sea merchants who pressed these pirates to talk about the rules, but now that they have all gone to Dongying, the pirates in the southeast will naturally be ready to move." ”

Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong, and Zhang Bin naturally knew that Zheng Zhilong was not very famous at this time, and after two years, this guy would be the leader of the southeast, and he asked puzzledly: "What are they doing in Dongying?" ”

Zhang Guan said embarrassedly: "I don't know this very well, it seems that the Tokugawa shogunate suppressed the Ming maritime merchants, and they were not convinced, and they were ready to rebel over there." ”

Damn, these guys are really fierce enough, but these big pirates have rebelled, and the rest of the little pirates dare to be so rampant?

He asked a little incredulously: "Aren't there many guards along the coast, aren't there still sailors, aren't these little pirates afraid that they won't be able to come back?" ”

Zhang Guan shook his head and sighed: "Alas, fifth brother, you don't know, at this time, the governor of Fujian, Nanju Yinan, is commanding the main force of the Fujian Navy Division to fight with the Dutch in Penghu, and he has been fighting since February this year, but the Dutch have built a lot of forts and fortresses on the island, and Nanda has been unable to attack for a long time, so he has ordered all the guards in Fujian to transfer Dafu ships to support, and a general attack will be launched at the beginning of next month." The pirates had a close relationship with the Dutch, and they commanded the pirates to raid everywhere in order to distract our forces and gain respite. If Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong were here, they would definitely not agree to help outsiders fight Daming, the problem is that they are not there now. ”

There is such a thing, Zhang Bin is really not very clear, however, he knows that the Daming Sailor is still very good, although the equipment is getting worse and worse, but, whether it is the Yongle Dynasty against the Nanyang States, or the Wanli Dynasty against Dongying, or even the Apocalypse and Chongzhen Dynasty against the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and other European powers, there is a Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has never been defeated!

He also knew that the Daming Naval Division had defeated the Dutch colonial fleet many times, and the Fujian Naval Division led by Nan Juyi would definitely win, so there was no need to worry about this at all, the question, what does the Fujian Naval Division's war with the Dutch in Penghu have to do with Zhejiang?

He asked puzzledly: "Isn't there Jin Xiangwei next to Pingyang, and the pirates dare to come?" ”

Zhang Guan said disdainfully: "The guards here in Zhejiang, the guards have fled seriously, the drills are wasted, the military discipline is lax, the guards are about to become tenant farmers, and they have long been abolished, and it would be good if the pirates didn't fight them." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, his heart darkened, what his second brother said was indeed the truth, the guards of the Ming Dynasty, there are really not many people with combat effectiveness at this time, this problem is quite serious, but now he has no way to solve it, so he can only wait until he takes power in the future.

In the end, he said with luck: "Even if the coastal guard posts are about to be abandoned, a group of little pirates can't do it, do they really dare to come?" “

Zhang Guan nodded affirmatively: "They really can't do it, but if they can't do it, they will come, the Dutch are almost finished, it's strange if you don't go crazy and instruct them to mess around." Besides, if the pirates scatter ashore and run away, there is nothing we can do with them. “

Speaking of which, Zhang Bin no longer has any luck, it seems that the pirates are really coming!