After the Han and Jin dynasties, the Hu people were in chaos, and the descendants of Yan and Huang were reduced to two-legged sheep.

The Guanlong aristocracy, mixed with the blood of the Hu people, relied on force and pride to dominate the north.

The Great Sui Dynasty has not yet been too young to unify the world, and the world is in turmoil again, and the Tang Dynasty has taken its place.

In the early period of the Tang Dynasty, the national strength was prosperous, relying on the advantages brought by the government military system, elite iron cavalry and strong bows and blades, the Silk Road was opened and expanded.

At that time, the scale of trade at sea was limited, and the fleet of the government and the private sector could only rely on a few routes to exchange hard currency such as silk, silk cloth, tea, Tang sancai, and books for gold, silver, ginseng, furs, jewelry, and sulfur from Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Wa, and Nanyang.

From the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the dominance of maritime trade shifted from the government to the people.

After a devastating rebellion, the Tang army's army quickly retreated from the Western Regions and Mobei. On the way, the trade volume of the Silk Road plummeted, and the trade volume from the South Seas to the crescent moon world soared, and the Maritime Silk Road gradually took shape.

In the chaotic era at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the land of Yanhuang was chaotic for decades. The local festival envoys only recognized money, grain, knives and guns, encouraged merchants to make money, and maritime merchant groups appeared.

The feudal town gave birth to the Great Zhou. The Great Zhou put an end to the situation of many feudal towns and continued the tradition of valuing commerce and money.

The Great Zhou Yanwu Xiuwen created an unprecedented prosperous era. Nearly two hundred years after the founding of the country, the achievements of the Great Zhou Dynasty in "strange skills and ingenuity" far exceeded all the accumulation of the previous millennium, "Heavenly Creation", "Building the French Style" and "Wujing General Essentials" marked the wisdom and wisdom of the descendants of Yan and Huang.

The ocean-going vessels built according to the ship samples ensure the standardization, and the carrying capacity of hundreds of tons often meets the needs of the maritime community. The comprehensive use of the compass, multi-faceted sails, and watertight compartments has pushed the Dazhou sea ship to a new height, and the risk of sailing thousands of miles has been greatly reduced.

The Great Zhou lost control of the Silk Road on the road, and attached great importance to maritime trade with the crescent world, and successively opened municipal shipping offices in Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou and Dengzhou, mainly responsible for three affairs:

Extraction, that is, tax extraction. The city division divides the goods into coarse and fine goods, and collects taxes in different categories, generally not more than two-tenths.

Bomai, that is, the government buys. For bulk goods, the Great Zhou government has the right of first refusal and preferential bargaining power, and private merchants should be ranked last.

Shipping, that is, escorting materials to Bianjing and other places. There are many professionals in the city, and they have great innate advantages in organizing fleets and transporting large quantities of goods.

Not only the maritime chambers of the Great Zhou will cross the ocean, but also the merchants of the crescent moon world will also come to the Great Zhou. To this day, Fanshang clearly occupies a dominant position in the foreign trade of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and almost monopolizes the shipping lanes west of the South Seas.

I don't know when it began, without the permission of the meniscus merchants, the sea ships of the Great Zhou Dynasty could not bypass Tianzhu and continue westward.

Only the goods of the Great Zhou were hard currency, and only the copper coins of the Great Zhou could pass through the Liao, Goryeo, Dongying, and Nanyang countries. The sea ships of the Great Zhou have the best comprehensive performance, and the weapons of the Great Zhou are the most advanced......

There are two internal and external reasons why the Great Zhou maritime merchants, who did not lack the spirit of adventure, were humiliated to lose their dominant position in maritime trade.

Internally, the frequent wars in the land of Yanhuang and the unfavorable accumulation of family business are only secondary reasons.

The key point is that Confucian literati have always been wary of open-minded private merchants, and deliberately restricted private merchants from engaging in lucrative bulk trade.

On the contrary, the Confucian literati trusted and valued foreign merchants, and even supported them and suppressed local merchants. This point makes it difficult for many businessmen to understand, thinking that the Great Zhou people are too cheap.

Externally, the merchants of the crescent moon world have always been grouped, and they are also highly accomplished in shipbuilding, navigation, and business.

The meniscus moved east along the coast, establishing a series of ports and settlements over the course of a few hundred years. After controlling the ocean-going shipping lanes and monopolizing the spice trade in the South Seas, the Crescent merchants continued to move to Quanzhou and Minh Chau via Champang, the port of Capitol and Canton in South Vietnam.

Although they didn't understand, since Da Zhou treated them preferentially, allowed them to maintain strict canons, and allowed them to live in a centralized manner and manage themselves to maintain their independence, the Meniscus naturally laughed at it.

"Fan Ke Return" appeared.

After 100,000 crescent moon merchants settled in Guangzhou during the previous dynasty, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places in the Great Zhou Dynasty reappeared in a grand situation, gathering a large number of exotic visitors with high noses, deep eyes and beards.

Pu Shou was the most famous, wealthy, and powerful fan in Quanzhou, and his family spent several generations migrating eastward from the crescent world.

More than 100 years ago, Pu Shou's family settled in Zhancheng; Seventy years ago, Pu Shou's family settled in Guangzhou; Forty-five years ago, Pu Shou's family came to Quanzhou.

The Great Zhou attached great importance to influential meniscus merchants, allowing them to naturalize and allow them to become officials through scientific examinations. There are more crescent merchants who are officials at all levels of the yamen and serve in important departments such as the city department, and the treatment given by the Great Zhou Dynasty to the crescent merchant group is very favorable.

Pu Shou was not satisfied. He has been familiar with Confucian classics since he was a child and has a deep understanding of the prosperous world of the Great Zhou.

Learning and excellence is a master, and those who do not become officials have no status after all, which is a motto of Pu Shou. He doesn't want to be limited to helping to take care of the city's shipping department and help Quanzhou officials attract more meniscus merchants, he wants to take control of the Quanzhou city's shipping division!

On April 28, the sea near Taizhou.

"What's going on ashore?"

On the passenger ship, which is spacious and comfortable, the escort fleet to Quanzhou Zhizhou, south of the Yangtze River, squinted and looked at the coast a few miles away.

Pu Shou pays great attention to protecting his eyes, and his eyesight far exceeds that of Lord Zhizhou, who is short-sighted, and he can see it at a glance. He saluted meticulously and replied respectfully in smooth Da Zhou official dialect:

"Lord Hui Zhizhou. It was more than 1,000 people chasing hundreds of people to fight, and the official army of Xu is Fujian Road defeated the Fangla rebel army and recaptured Taizhou. ”

Lord Zhizhou relaxed when he heard this, stroked his beard and said: "Lord Yu is worthy of being praised as a prime minister, but just nailing on the south bank of the Qiantang River makes the Fang La thief army south of the Qiantang River very uncomfortable. ”

Lord Zhizhou looked at the scarlet official robe on his body, and then looked at the pictures of flowers and birds embroidered on the official robe, and felt very unpleasant. The fifth-grade and sixth-grade officials wore crimson official robes, and the official robes below the sixth rank were embroidered with landscapes, and he happened to be stuck on the side.

Lord Zhizhou looked at the sea and said with emotion: "I don't know when I will be able to wear the official robe embroidered with mountains and rivers." ”

Pu Shou secretly despised in his heart, but his mouth was flattering: "My lord is not afraid of the difficulty of collecting materials, and personally escorts grain, grass, soldiers and horses to Jiangnan, and several lords will definitely be promoted." ”

"Thanks to your contacts with those merchants, the government has enough ships. Although you are from a businessman's background, you have already been naturalized in Da Zhou and are dedicated to learning. This official and several Shangguan will definitely play the Ming Dynasty, and several ministers will see that you have made great contributions, and it is also very possible to promote you to be in charge of the city department. ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Taizhou was indeed pacified by the Fujian Road, so that this civilian official led the army to take it.

It has been more than ten days since the Great Zhou army started a full-scale war.

Yu Yunwen fought indiscriminately on the south bank of the Qiantang River, and then closed his door. Originally stationed in Xiaoshan, Keqiao, Mingzhou and other places, the Fang La army defending the sea route and the back road was frozen in place and could not move, which was equivalent to being abolished.

Pan Wende, the general of the Yongle Dynasty, could only abandon the strategic location of Taizhou and steadily retreat to the port of Mingzhou. If it is dead on the front line, if the Great Zhou army lands from the coast behind it and encircles it from the north and south, the unstable battle situation in the south of the Qiantang River in the rear will collapse by half.

Fujian Road appeased Wang Shixin, who was diligent in official affairs, concerned about the small people, and famous for his outstanding articles in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and was admired by the scholars of the world.

A wooden and calm head of the Xiangjun respectfully led Wang Shixin's horse and approached the south gate of Taizhou City.

The south gate of Taizhou City was smoky and burning, the masonry was broken, the wooden beams collapsed, and the rammed earth was scattered. The Fang La army, which had no time to escape in the city, had been cleared, and the generals of Fujian Road dared to invite Wang Shixin to enter the city.

Wang Shixin motioned to the head of the horse to lean back, and relied on his own strength to dismount safely. Looking at the soldiers of the Fang La Army who were being held aside, crying and convulsing, Wang Shixin felt a little unbearable, but he didn't say anything.

The Fuzhou Soldiers and Horses Prison who had not yet reached the age of confusion walked out of the city gate quickly. His robe was stained with blood, his forehead and back were covered with wet and sticky sweat, and he lowered his head and hugged his fists:

"I have already checked the southern city, although I haven't found more Fang Lajun, but I still ask the chief manager to be stationed outside the city."

The pacification envoy is in charge of the garrison and anti-theft along the way, and he also serves as the head of the horse infantry army, but he has no real power in peacetime. The actual person in charge of commanding the troops is the division of the soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the road division, as well as several soldiers and horses of the forbidden army stationed along the road.

Wang Shixin is a civil servant, and the reason why the army went smoothly was mainly because he did not interfere much with the command of the warriors, was good at listening to the opinions of the generals, and was able to pick the best plan.

Wang Shixin nodded, accepted the suggestion of the Fuzhou Soldiers and Horses Supervisor, squinted at the Fanshang horse team riding tall horses for a while, and asked in a low voice:

"Even the capital eunuch, is it easy to use the five hundred horses in Quanzhou who returned to the court?"

Seeing that Wang Shixin agreed to stay outside the city, the soldiers and horses of Fuzhou breathed a sigh of relief, no longer worried about Wang Shixin's safety, and replied:

"Easy to use! The Pu family was right, the horses that returned from Fanke ran very fast, and the scimitars were also very sharp, directly crushing the 2,000 people of Fang La's army. If it weren't for the five hundred cavalry put together by Fanshang, Fang La's thieves would not have retreated so quickly. ”

Wang Shi thought about it and asked Lian Dujian to bring him a set of equipment later.

At noon, after observing a few Arab horses, Wang Shixin also checked the Uzi steel scimitar in the hands of the Arab warriors.

Wang Shixin frowned and said in his heart: It's just a matter of plotting the position of the city's shipper, after all, the crescent moon merchants rely on the Great Zhou to make a fortune, as long as they do their errands well and pay enough taxes, it is not a big deal. If Pu Shou dares to have bad intentions, this official will definitely let him know how powerful!

Taizhou City, south of the Qiantang River, is a leg of the Yongle Dynasty in the east, and a leg in the west is the city of Sucheng and Jinhua that are closely connected together.

Pang Wanchun on the West Road and Pan Wende on the East Road have long had a tacit understanding, as long as one side can't withstand it, the other side will also retreat at the same time. lest the Great Zhou Army seize the opportunity and completely abolish all the way.

Liu Guangshi led 100,000 men, women, and children to use the wheel warfare method, and the ants attached to the wall, which was more than the exile army.

Jinhua City was broken, Liu Guangshi took the selected elite around the city, looked at the Fang La army who retreated alternately, and sighed:

"There are a lot of capable thieves in Yongle, if you give them some more time, I really don't know what the battle situation will be like."

The fierce general Wang De replied: "A few rulers are discerning, how can they not know the difficulties of the Yongle puppet dynasty? Fang La won't have a chance. ”

Liu Guangshi put his hand on his forehead and carefully observed the retreating Fangla army along the narrow edge of the Jinqu Basin, "From here to Yiwu for nearly 100 miles, there is no danger to defend along the way. The next step is to fight the important town of Yiwu, and the Fang La rebel army will definitely fight to the death. ”

"A fierce battle is coming, and I hope that the siege of the city in the past few days will allow my soldiers to grow."

Wang De has a lot of complaints, and said in his heart:

In order to make the adults in the court feel that he had saved a lot of money and food for the country, and felt that he had reduced the burden on the local government, Liu Zhaojiao actually recruited a large number of bandits, rogues, monks, and homeless people. 100,000 people looks scary, and there aren't many soldiers who can use it. ”

"100,000 mouths, a lot of food in a day. Liu Zhaozhi did not dare to offend the scholars, so he acquiesced to 100,000 people to find grain and grass by themselves, harming the small people. There are so many evil things that have been done, and the local scholars have to pay for food and food to deal with the aftermath, which is really ......"

"Could it be that Liu Zhaojiao planned to do so from the beginning? In any case, after all, he is bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, and only let some adults in the court appreciate him. ”

Wang De's guess is right, Liu Guangshi is a low-key hooligan.

Liu Guangshi didn't want to offend the gentry, and he couldn't afford to offend. It's just that the court can't give too much money and food to Liu Guangshi, and it can't be transported to Liu Guangshi, who is located in the middle of nowhere.

Liu Guangshi, who doesn't want to have no achievements, has his own way. He secretly instructed 100,000 people to harass the small people, and naturally committed many evil deeds, but did not gain much.

However, the big families in Quzhou, Shinzhou and other places were scared. Liu Guangshi has 100,000 people, and if those people continue to make trouble, who dares to guarantee that they can't force another Fang La? Fangla in the south of the Yangtze River has not yet been pacified!

The gentry, tea plantation owners and merchants got together, gritted their teeth and took out enough money and salt and sauce for 100,000 people to eat for three months, just hoping that Liu Guangshi would quickly lead the people out of the house, and they saw Liu Guangshi's chaotic 100,000 "army" and their scalps were numb.

Liu Guangshi disgusted the rich man fiercely, and when he parted, he also had a handful of snot and tears, saying that he did not lead a good army and did not have the ability to find grain and grass for 100,000 people. In the end, it was the gentry who was the pillar of the dynasty who understood the righteousness and took the initiative to donate money and food, and he admired it very much, and he must die for the dynasty.

Liu Guangshi thought that he had done enough slick kung fu on the surface, but he didn't know that the scholars and businessmen who knew it well had been shocked by his shamelessness to the point of collapse. If you get cheap and sell well, you can play shameless in front of the reader seriously, and there is no one in Da Zhou.

Some officials and idle Confucians were angry, but they wrote to their classmates, old acquaintances and protégés in Bianjing, and scolded Liu Guangshi for being too shameless. I don't know what the final result will be, but it's true that the saints' children breathed a sigh of relief.

By the end of April, Fang La's army had retreated on the south bank of the Qiantang River and to Yiwu in the west.

Pan Wende in the east withdrew from Taizhou, leaving behind a dozen strong camps in the mountains from Taizhou to Mingzhou.

Pan Wende also learned the lesson of Yu Yunwen's surprise attack on Hangzhou Bay, and concentrated all the soldiers who knew how to strengthen the naval army. He ordered the scattered sailors to drive small boats to shuttle back and forth between the bays and islands where the hydrological conditions were harsh, the passage of large ships was impassable, and the landing was not suitable for landing, basically cutting off the possibility of the landing of the Great Zhou army's fleet.