The Northern Expeditionary Army won a great victory, and the news of the reconquest of Shandong quickly spread throughout the southern provinces.

Fujian, knowing that looking at the Tang newspaper from the imperial court, Zheng Zhilong was silent for a long time.

"Deliberately expelled the western thieves to my Fujian, but he led a large army to attack Shandong, how cunning Chen Yue is!" Zheng Zhibao said angrily.

Last year, with the joint efforts of the Jiangxi Army, the Beijing Battalion, and the Zhejiang Army, the remnants of the Western Thief Zhang Nengqi finally crossed the mountains and entered Fujian.

And such a big military operation, Chen Yue, the king of Qi, did not notify the Fujian side to participate, causing the western thieves to easily break through the Xianxia Pass.

At first, Zheng Zhilong didn't react, but when Chen Yue led the troops to the Northern Expedition, he finally understood that it was likely that Chen Yue deliberately drove the thieves into Fujian, and then he could transfer troops to the Northern Expedition. Isn't this fucking beggar-thy-neighbor?

But what about it? You have to fight the thief army honestly and strive to annihilate the thief army as soon as possible.

The foundation of the Zheng family is in Fujian, since the imperial court recruited an as the general army of Fujian, the Zheng family's business on the sea has become more and more prosperous, but many goods transported by the sea trade have to be raised on land, especially after Zhejiang has become the territory of the Eastern forces, the Zheng family's goods can only come from Fujian and Guangzhou. If Fujian is beaten by the thief army, the loss for the Zheng family is incalculable!

However, although Zheng Zhilong's subordinate division is powerful, the infantry in Fujian is good, and most of them are guards, and their combat effectiveness is poor.

Zheng Zhilong dispatched troops to fight against the thief army, but suffered heavy defeats one after another, and was beaten by the thief soldiers all the way to Yanping Mansion, with extremely heavy casualties. Only then did I know how many pounds and taels I had.

Fujian has not been at war for a long time, and the soldiers are already negligent in training, and the equipment is not good, Zheng Zhilong is rich but the enemy country is not willing to give his subordinate soldiers better equipment. That is, the water division of his descendant is treated better, but the ordinary soldiers are in tattered clothes and are no different from other Ming troops. Coupled with the fact that the most elite troops in Fujian were transferred by the imperial court to follow Zheng Sen to attack Sichuan in Yiling, the remaining army combat effectiveness was even more lackluster.

However, the western thief who followed Zhang Nengqi was an old thief who traveled through several provinces, with rich combat experience, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides was incomparable.

After suffering a series of defeats, Zheng Zhilong knew that he was powerful, and hurriedly mobilized his most elite descendants to Fuzhou, so that he could block the offensive of the thief army and ensure that Fuzhou was not lost. But he had no time to take care of the Tingzhou Zhaowu Mansion in western Fujian. Not long ago, Zhaowu Mansion asked Fuzhou for reinforcements, Fujian Governor Zhang Kentang ordered Zheng Zhilong to go out to rescue Zhaowu, how dare Zheng Zhilong leave Quanzhou's lair, it is false to attack Zhaowu with a thief army, and the plot to enrich the rich area of Fuzhou and Quanzhou is true, perfunctory past.

So Zhang Kentang no longer paid attention to him, but wrote to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to send troops into Fujian to encircle and suppress the thief army!

"Big brother, if the imperial army enters Fujian, it will be easy to invite God to send God!" Zheng Zhibao shouted.

Zheng Zhilong rolled his eyelids: "What can we do?" Let you train and train your troops, you are all fucking eating empty salaries and drinking soldiers' blood, one is better than the other, but when it comes to the war, you are blind! Fujian belongs to the Ming Dynasty, not our Zheng family, what reason do you have not to let the imperial army's army in? ”

"I ......," Zheng Zhibao stammered and had nothing to say.

"Chen Yue, the king of Qi, is now on an expedition in the northeast of Shandong, the imperial court is headed by Shi Kefa Qian Qianyi, Chen Yue has a holiday with us, but there is no contradiction between Shi Qian and us, plus Qian Ge is always Damu's mentor, and the court will not do anything to our Zheng family." Zheng Zhilong analyzed.

"I'm afraid that the court will turn over the old accounts of King Tang again." Zheng Zhibao is quite a bit of a thief.

"No, there are so many ministers in the court and the central government involved in the case of King Tang, even Qian Qianyi's ass is not clean, now that Chen Yue is not here, who has the mind to toss an old case again!" Zheng Zhilong shook his head and said.

Thinking that Chen Yue sent troops to the Northern Expedition to eliminate 200,000 Qing troops to recover a large amount of lost territory, but he could not even exterminate the remnants of the Western Thieves who had wandered to Fujian, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but be depressed, and he could no longer have the mind of being hostile to Chen Yue.

"Chen Yue, King of Qi, don't be an enemy with him!" Zheng Zhilong said to Zheng Zhibao.

"We should concentrate all the strength of the Zheng family and exterminate the western thieves as soon as possible, so as to demonstrate the importance of our Zheng family in Fujian, to make the imperial court pay attention to us, and to maintain the power of you and my brother!"

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A great victory in the Northern Expedition is that even the Zheng family brothers have stopped a lot, not to mention other places. Guangxi's Guiwang family was originally very dissatisfied with Kunxing's prison state, and some officials in Liangguang also had other thoughts, after all, compared with Princess Kunxing, Guiwang's line was more legitimate for succession. However, a big victory made many people dare not move anymore, and the powerful power of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, was enough to deter all Xiaoxiao. So some people hoped in their hearts that Chen Yue would be defeated by the Manchu Eight Banners in the next battle, so that they would have the courage to make trouble again.

In short, this spring, the provinces to which the Ming Dynasty belonged were particularly stopped, but a new problem appeared, that is, the problem of food and salary supply for hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line.

The consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line is an astronomical amount, at least 100,000 quintals of grain and 500,000 taels of silver every month, which is a great test of the financial strength of the imperial court. You must know that the annual income of the imperial treasury is only two or three million taels, where can you get so much silver?

Therefore, Wang Yin, a scholar of the cabinet university, suggested that the imperial court should increase the commercial tax, and set up customs in Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou and other important cities, no matter what business, no matter anyone's business, all of them will be subject to an additional commercial tax of 11.

However, Wang Yin's recital had already flowed out, and he was immediately attacked by the courtiers, and the civil officials accused him of competing with the people for profit, and he was a traitor!

"In the past, when Wei Zhongxian was eunuch, the mine tax supervisor ran rampant everywhere, causing chaos in the world and making life difficult. Now the imperial court has finally settled down and won a great victory in the Northern Expedition. Wang Yin actually proposed to increase the commercial tax and compete for profits with the people, wouldn't it be to make the world chaotic and let the great cause of the Northern Expedition die, Wang Yin's heart can be punished, and the imperial court should remove his scholars and send them to prison for questioning! "The clerk gave the matter to Zhang Zhenghuan and said so.

And with Zhang Zhenghuan's impeachment, other imperial historians also came up like mad dogs, looking like they wanted to put Wang Yin to death.

At the critical moment, the first assistant Shi Kefa spoke, saying that Wang Yin, as a university scholar, had the duty to give advice and ideas when the front-line soldiers were short of food and grass, and reprimanded the imperial historians for not making trouble unreasonably! The princess of the prison country also spoke out to return the bullet seals of the imperial historians, and the matter was calmed down.

However, how to solve the problem of grain and grass on the front line has become a difficult problem, if it is not solved, the momentum of the Northern Expedition will not be able to continue, and the Northern Expedition is likely to be futile again!

At the critical moment, a telegram from Chen Yue, the king of Qi, arrived in Nanjing, proposing a solution to the front-line food and salary.