South of Kagoshima in the Toeisatsuma Domain, a large fleet is slowly heading north.

In front of this fleet are fifty terrifying giant ships, followed by hundreds of wheels, no need to ask, this must be Zhang Bin's Fuguang Naval Division fleet.

However, this time the fleet did not go to Kagoshima to threaten the Shimazu clan, the lord of the Satsuma domain, nor did it go to Edo to intimidate the Tokugawa clan, the shogun, and their target was Tanegashima.

By this time, the Toei shogun had agreed to open the three port cities of Kagoshima, Kochi, and Osaka as treaty ports, allowing Ming merchants to trade freely in the three places, and at the same time, the Ryukyu Kingdom had already received five islands, including Tanegashima and Yakushima, from the Satsuma Domain.

Zhang Bin led the fleet this time mainly to find a port on Tanegashima Island to build a fortress, a city and a fort, as a forward base for attacking Dongying in the future.

Of course, what he told the king of the Ryukyus country was to borrow a place for the Ming merchants to transit, because Kochi and Osaka were a bit far away from the Ryukyus, and the Ming merchants needed to rest here to replenish their food and fresh water after coming from the Ryukyu Island.

King Shangfeng naturally didn't have any opinions, these five islands were all grabbed by the Ming King for him, so what's the big deal if people borrow a port.

This kind of sub-island is a long and narrow island in the north-south direction, the length of the north and south is more than ten miles, but the width of the east and west is only two or three miles, there are three fishing villages on the island, respectively called South Tanegashima Village, Middle Tanegashima Village and North Tanegashima Village, all located on the west coast of Tanegashima.

The fleet went all the way north along the west coast of Tanegashima, and the first place it arrived at was the village of Minamitanegashima, Zhang Bin carefully observed it with a telescope, and the harbor in this place was too small, and there were no warships at all, so it definitely wouldn't work.

He shook his head, and with a wave of his hand, ordered the fleet to move on.

Soon the fleet came to the village of Zhongzhongdajima again, there was no harbor here at all, it was a small pier stretched into the sea alone, there was no need to look at it, Zhang Bin directly waved his hand to order the fleet to continue north.

At this time, he was already a little worried in his heart, if he wanted to go to North Tanegashima Village, it would be troublesome, then he had to go to the east of Tanegashima to find a port, the fleet had to go around in a circle from the east coast of Tanegashima, not to mention, the east side was still facing the ocean, and he needed to face the storm at sea, and if he didn't do well, something would happen, which was really a headache.

Fortunately, Kitatanegashima did not disappoint him, there was a harbor about three miles away, and it was no problem to dock one or two fleets, and the land near the harbor was relatively flat, so it was no problem to build a small city.

He directly summoned Qi Yuangong, Yu Chenglong, Chen Hui and other generals to get off the ship, came to the flat land near the port, planned the location of the fortress and the scale of the city in detail, and then ordered Chen Hui to stay here with ten Weiyuan battleships to arrange the construction of the fortress and the city, while he himself took Qi Yuangong and Yu Chenglong to lead the remaining fleet to Kagoshima.

He went to collect the money by the way, because the Satsuma Domain had no warships at this time, so he had to take the money himself.

As for the Tanegashima base, including the base of Naha Port, he handed it over to Chen Hui, and he mobilized 5,000 guards for Chen Hui, and in the future, the Tanegashima base and the Naha Port base were garrisoned by the Toban Guard, and these two places were named Toban Defender Upper Front and East Defender Upper Middle, which is equivalent to the two thousand households of the East Defender.

Shimazu Tadashi didn't know what Zhang Bin was doing at this time, and his sailors were blown away by Zhang Bin, and now even going to sea has become a problem, so it is naturally impossible to go to Tanegashima to investigate, and he has always thought that Zhang Bin or the Ryukyu Diet will return the five islands to the Satsuma Domain in twenty years.

Of course, Zhang Bin would not tell him this, and after taking an indemnity of one million taels of silver, he led the fleet back to Ryukyu Island.

It's been almost two months since this trip to the Ryukyus, and the Satsuma clan has also been submissive to him, and he has also given Chongzhen a million taels of silver, and he has already arranged the rest of the things, and it is time to go back and pay the errand.

What he didn't expect was that when he went to bid farewell to King Shangfeng, King Shangfeng respectfully handed him a letter of state, which was full of praise for Chongzhen and gratitude to Zhang Bin.

Zhang Bin solemnly accepted the national letter of Ryukyu, and said goodbye to King Shangfeng, and then embarked on the return journey.

As for the Ryukyu Kingdom, since the fortress and the city had not yet been built, Zhang Bin specially left Chen Hui with twenty Weiyuan battleships and twenty wheels, which were stationed in Naha Port and Tanegashima respectively, in case Dongying played any tricks.

After returning to Toho, he immediately wrote a letter of repetition, summing up the trip to the Ryukyus in an understatement, which probably means that he defeated the Toei Satsuma Domain after a hard fight, and they promised not to invade the Ryukyus, and other things were vaguely passed.

He didn't want to show his merit too much and arouse Wen Tiren's hostility, after all, the court was still their world at this time, and if they tried their best to rectify themselves like Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Chonghuan, it would be quite a headache.

Therefore, he simply downplayed it as if he had defeated a small prince in the small country of Dongying, it was not worth a damn at all, and he only casually mentioned the question of silver, and asked Chongzhen if he wanted to send it to the capital immediately, or send it with the taxes.

He believed that Chongzhen would understand what he meant and give him some benefits.

After writing the fold, he carefully checked it several times and felt that there was no problem, so he ordered someone to send it to the post station with the Ryukyu national letter, and let the post station be sent to the capital for 800 miles.

What will happen to Chongzhen after receiving the fold, will he be very happy and reward him well?

This time, he was afraid that he was wrong, because Chongzhen had already been overwhelmed by the peasant rebel army at this time.

This time, he lifted a stone to shoot himself in the foot, pressing the peasant rebel army step by step, forcing the peasant rebel army to advance eastward.

At the beginning, when the peasant rebel army was driven to Shanxi, he should actually send troops from east to west, and the rebel army ran in the direction of Shaanxi, so that the armies of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces could sandwich the peasant rebel army in the middle, and they could not move.

He commanded blindly and ordered people to drive the peasant rebel army all the way to the east, but he wanted to drive the peasant rebel army away from Shaanxi, lose its foundation, and slowly consume it.

If the natural disasters in Shaanxi alone are more serious, or if the corrupt officials and landlords and gentry in Shaanxi alone oppress the people, and the common people in other places are living well, it is completely impossible for them to rebel, and his strategy is still a good plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle.

The problem is that the entire northwest has suffered serious natural disasters, and the corrupt officials and landlords and gentry in Shanxi have also oppressed the people, and what is even more terrible is that Shanxi and Henan are the two provinces with the highest concentration of royal clans, and the peasants here have been squeezed worse than Shaanxi, but no one here has taken the lead in rebellion, so they did not take advantage of the trend.

As soon as this peasant rebel army came, it was like a little spark thrown into the withered grass, and it burned violently after a coax, and the number of tens of thousands of peasant rebels who had fled from Shaanxi was soaring, and soon soared to more than 200,000!

More than 200,000 peasant rebel army in the east of Jin is simply uncontrollable, soon Luzhou, Zezhou was captured by the peasant rebel army one after another, Chongzhen had to transfer the Xuanda governor Zhang Zongheng and Shanxi governor Xu Dingchen to encircle and suppress, and they were originally stationed in the west of Pingyang and Fenzhou, they directly suppressed the peasant army through the Taihang Mountains, to the north of Henan Zhangde Mansion, from the north of Zhili Daimyo Mansion is more than 200 miles away.

Chongzhen only realized at this time that if the peasant rebel army went crazy and rushed in the direction of the capital, they would be able to rush to the capital in less than a month, because there was no army stationed from the Daimyo's Mansion to the Shuntian Mansion at all!

If more than 200,000 anti-thieves rush to the foot of the capital, then their face will be lost, although these anti-thieves are unlikely to break through the capital at this time, but he can't afford to lose this person.

Two years ago, he was attacked by Jiannu around the capital for a while, and after two years, he was surrounded by anti-thieves and wreaked havoc in the capital, where did he put his face!

In fact, Zhang Bin is mainly responsible for this situation.

Why?

Because in history, when the peasant army rushed to the Daimyo's mansion, Lu Xiangsheng was rectifying the military equipment of the Daimyo, Guangping, and Shunde prefectures, and the Tianxiong Army of Megatron was trained during this time.

At that time, the peasant army marched eastward from Zhangde and wanted to coerce the capital, but it ran headlong into the Tianxiong army led by Lu Xiangsheng, and was beaten by Lu Xiangsheng, so there was nothing to do in the capital.

The problem is that at this time, Lu Xiangsheng has been pulled by Zhang Bin to be the governor of Fujian, so there is no garrison in the Daimyo Mansion at this time, basically as if there is no defense!

This made Chongzhen anxious, he took out the map and took a closer look, and suddenly fell into a dilemma.

In the south of the capital, there are no troops to be adjusted at all, and they can only be transferred from the north, but there are many troops in the north, including more than 100,000 Liaodong troops, and nearly 50,000 border troops near Jizhou Town and Changping, but these troops Chongzhen does not dare to transfer.

Huang Taiji's nose is very smart, once Da Ming has any moves, he can know for the first time, if he transfers the Liaodong Army, he will definitely attack the Guanningjin defense line, if he mobilizes the soldiers and horses of Jizhou Town, he estimates that there will be another thousand-mile sneak attack!

Further to the northwest defense line, the border troops of Xuanfu Town and Datong Town are running with the ass of the peasant army under the leadership of Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda.

Chongzhen has been entangled for a few days, and he already has a little idea of mobilizing Guan Ning's iron horse.

Historically, he transferred Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao to lead Guan Ning Tie to ride to clean up the peasant army, at first Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao chased the peasant army everywhere, but later, Huang Taiji ran to Datong Town to harass, Cao Wenzhao had to return to garrison, lost the opportunity to exterminate the peasant army.

In short, Cao Wenzhao was transferred from Houjin and the peasant army by Chongzhen in this way, and finally led 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry to rush into the 200,000 peasant army, fought until he was exhausted, drew his sword and killed himself!

However, at this time, Chongzhen couldn't transfer Cao Wenzhao, because Cao Wenzhao was also sent to Fuguang by Zhang Bin, and he was thinking about who to lead the Guanning Iron Cavalry to support, when Zhang Bin's recital and Ryukyu's letter arrived.

In such a short period of time, Zhang Bin actually repelled the Japanese invaders!

Moreover, judging from the letter sent by the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Japanese were already scared by him, and it is estimated that they will never dare to attack the Ryukyus in the future.

Of course, he didn't know that Zhang Bin had built a fortress in the Ryukyus and stationed troops, so the Japanese naturally did not dare to invade again.

King Shangfeng also knew that he couldn't talk nonsense about this, he knew quite well that the Ming Dynasty was strictly forbidden to trade with Dongying, and Zhang Bin's garrison in Naha Port was also for the convenience of doing business, so he didn't mention these things at all, just praised Chongzhen and thanked Zhang Bin.

If he usually receives this kind of national letter, Chongzhen should probably be happy, and the words of praise and praise are his favorite to hear.

However, he was not happy at all at this time, and even when he saw that Zhang Bin had given him a million taels of silver, he did not show any excitement, because he had been distraught by the peasant rebel army at this time.

However, seeing Zhang Bin's twists and turns, he suddenly had a new idea, as if it was a good choice to transfer Zhang Bin to garrison Beizhili!

Zhang Bin has never let him down, last time even Huang Taiji was driven away by him, and he couldn't deal with a group of peasant troops with little combat effectiveness.

As soon as this idea popped up, it could not be contained, and he directly asked Cao Huachun to draw up an order, ordering Zhang Bin to quickly lead the army to the Daimyo's Mansion to resist the peasant rebel army.

Chongzhen is sometimes like this, thinking of something, he immediately makes an order, and it doesn't matter if he does it right or not, and whether people can complete what he explains, anyway, if he thinks it can be done, you have to do it, if it doesn't, you're done!

If it were someone else, I guess it would be over.

Because Fujian is four or five thousand miles away from Beizhili, if you lead a large army by land, you will not be able to reach it in a month or two, and when you arrive, the peasant army is estimated to have rushed to the capital.

When Zhang Bin received the will, he was also unclear by Chongzhen.

Is there any mistake, everyone rushed to Zhangde Mansion, and you actually asked me to rush over from Fujian to stop them!

He knows Chongzhen's temperament very well, the will has been made, if you don't do it, it's over.

He didn't care about exposing the speed of the steamer, anyway, the last time he made up a smooth sail and rushed to the capital for a few days, Chongzhen also believed, after receiving the will, he directly ordered 10,000 Qi family troops, brought 1 million taels of silver from the Satsuma Domain, brought Lu Xiangsheng, led 20 Zhenyuan cruisers and 100 wheels, and went straight to Dagu Port in Beizhili from the sea.

Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng did not return to Fuzhou at this time, otherwise I am afraid that it will be delayed for another day.

This time he must bring Lu Xiangsheng with him, because his future is in the Daimyo, and he is in this battle with the peasant army.

The world-famous Tianxiong Army can't disappear because of himself, he decided to take this opportunity to help Lu Xiangsheng train the Tianxiong Army as soon as possible, so that he can gallop the world!