Zhang Dascara ended his trip to Dongguan with ten sea vessels, including three test ships. These three ships are already giants in Zhang Da Scarra's eyes, and each ship has twenty guns, which makes him invincible in the Beibu Gulf.

The ship was followed by 500 sailors, officers and men of the sea patrol. Zhu Hongsan naturally didn't feel at ease about delegating power to outsiders, so he tried to mix sand as much as possible. Zhu Hongsan asked him to take the old and weak to Dongguan to take over the fields and become a rich man on the grounds that Zhang Dascar's hands were too old.

Zhang Dascara also knew what Zhu Hongsan meant, but he had no outside intentions, plus it was really good to go to Dongguan to have a stable life, and he also had an explanation for his old brothers, so he happily agreed.

The group returned to Yong'an Prefecture on December 20, and as soon as they arrived in Yong'an Prefecture, Zhang Da Scara met with Fu Wenlong and asked for instructions on what to do next. Dafan who rebelled against the revolution was even more ruthless against his former comrades, and Zhang Dascara needed a chance to prove his loyalty to the king of Chu now.

Fu Wenlong naturally gave him this opportunity and ordered him to lead the team to clean up all the pirates in the Beibu Gulf. Zhang Da Scara was originally the biggest pirate in the local area, and he cleared the doors of the shipowners everywhere on the sea, but this time it was really a weasel in the rabbit nest, and all the pirates in the Beibu Gulf poured blood mold, and they were cleaned up in a few months.

Fu Wenlong has not been idle in the past half a month, Confucian intellectuals have played very well with this strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack, and the three big Wang families were the first to be unlucky. was killed by Fu Wenlong in collusion with pirates, which really fulfilled the old saying that the government Yin who destroyed the door and the county order that broke the family.

The Ruan family and the Zheng family became the target of wooing because of their weak power, and the two of them divided the business left by the Wang family equally. Fu Wenlong's hand is really beautiful. After all, the Ruan and Zheng families are just two maritime merchants, although they have nothing to do and make a cameo appearance as pirates, but they can't be compared with the state's violent organs at all, not to mention that there are 3,000 musketeers outside the city. The Wang family's manor was blasted open by this group of musketeers, and the people of the Ruan family and the Zheng family were watching from the sidelines.

With the big rooster of the Wang family, the other two monkeys are obedient. The Ruan and Zheng families fully cooperated with Fu Wenlong, asking for money and money. Yong'an Prefecture has not been renovated inside and out, the state government has been built, and the damaged gate has been replaced with a new one.

After handling the internal affairs, Fu Wenlong began to find a way to find a source of money, in the past, Yong'an Prefecture relied on selling stolen goods for pirates, but now pirates have become officials and soldiers, which will lose a lot of income. Although Zhang Dascara sometimes runs an old business, but after all, he can't rob it openly. Therefore, opening up new sources of wealth has become Fu Wenlong's main task.

Fu Wenlong has been in the prefect of Guangzhou for five years, and his administrative experience is not mentioned. On the way to come, he thought that Yong'an Prefecture has no special products, unlike Leizhou Mansion has a sugar industry, Qiongzhou has iron ore, and if you want to say that there is a little advantage, it is the salt field. In later generations, the annual output of 200,000 tons of Qisha salt field was in Yong'an Prefecture.

When he passed through Leizhou, Fu Wenlong visited Ma Jiyuan's salt drying field, and Fu Wenlong was very greedy. borrowed a few salt-drying craftsmen from Ma Jiyuan, preparing to build a salt farm in Yong'an Prefecture as well.

Fu Wenlong took the craftsmen to all corners of the coast, and finally found a good place in the outermost part of Fangcheng Bay, the terrain is flat, the sea water is very salinous, and Fu Wenlong built a salt drying field in this place.

Just when Fu Wenlong was doing his best for the development of Yong'an Prefecture, Zhu Hongsan's sternly worded letter came. After reading it, Fu Wenlong was so angry that he trembled, and scolded: "Does this faint king think that we haven't done anything here?" ”

Ma Shaoguang took the letter and looked at it, and said: "You can't care about King Chu, we have been here for almost two months, and we have only shipped out two ships of coal, which is really too little." ”

Fu Wenlong thought for a while and said, "Boyu, the day after tomorrow, you prepare, you take someone to Vietnam to see if you can get more coal." ”

Fu Wenlong is a civil official after all, but in his heart, he still feels that he should look good when he eats, and if he can sell it, don't do it. But Zhu Hongsan cares about those, and he doesn't want money and Zhu Hongsan's intentions.

Hearing Fu Wenlong say this, Ma Shaoguang said: "Okay, uncle, don't worry, I'll take the team to take a look." ”

"Boyu, although the Vietnamese are not of my Chinese and Miao descent, they are also deeply educated by Confucianism, and it is best to solve it peacefully." Fu Wenlong was afraid that Ma Shaoguang would make things bigger, and now they only have 3,000 people, and the Hongji Coal Mine is in the hands of the Zheng family in North Vietnam. The Zheng clan has more than 100,000 troops.

After the two went back, they called Wang Jinbao and arranged for him to lead 2,000 people to Hongji the day after tomorrow.

Wang Jinbao also got a secret letter from Zhu Hongsan, with a sentence on it: "Do you keep the musket bullets to get cubs?" "How many times has Wang Jinbao followed Zhu Hongsan to be born and died, of course he knows what King Chu means.

But Wang Jinbao was also very difficult, after all, when he came, Zhu Hongsan ordered him to listen to Fu Wenlong's dispatch. Without Fu Wenlong's order, he did not dare to send troops without authorization.

Now that he got Zhu Hongsan's secret order, coupled with Fu Wenlong's finally letting him lead the team out, Wang Jinbao was overjoyed. As for Ma Shaoguang being directly ignored, although Ma Shaoguang is the nominal governor of Yong'an Prefecture, the King of Chu did not order to listen to Ma Shaoguang's words.

On the third day, Zhang Da Scara was also Zhang Shoubei, and brought five ships to pick up Wang Jinbao. Hongji from Yong'an Prefecture to Halong Bay is very close, with a straight-line distance of only 300 miles, plus Zhang Shoubei is the ground-sitting cannon in this place, and the various routes are clear. So three days after the departure, I came to Hongji.

In later generations, this place was rich in high-quality anthracite thermal coal, which was an excellent fuel for steam warships. The coal seam in this area is thick and the topsoil is thin, which is conducive to open-pit mining. The mining area is more than 100 kilometers long and 20 kilometers wide, with coal reserves of 2.2 billion tons.

Zhu Hongsan has long coveted this place, he used to suffer from the lack of ships, and this place belonged to Vietnam, and the Ming Dynasty's decree was not good, so Zhu Hongsan finally had to use lignite from Guangdong.

Hongji Port was not a big place in the Ming Dynasty, and there were several small fishing villages near the sea. When these Vietnamese fishermen saw five huge ships coming from the sea, they immediately fled one after another.

When Wang Jinbao came ashore, all the people in the village ran away. Wang Jinbao was very annoyed and wanted to find someone to ask about the situation.

Wang Jinbao sent 200 people to escort the craftsmen ashore to see where the coal mine was, and after half an hour the craftsmen came back, he said: "General Wang, the coal mine is about a mile away from the sea, and there is no need to mine it in some places, just load it directly on the ship, and it is all open-pit ore veins. ”

Wang Jinbao was also very happy when he heard this, but he saw that there was no one in the village by the sea, or he could mine it now if he didn't catch dozens of people. The more Wang Jinbao thought about it, the more angry he became, and ordered the village to be set on fire, and all the livestock that could be pulled away were taken away, and all the big livestock were killed. In the end, several small fishing boats near the sea were scuttled.

Ma Shaoguang on the boat saw Wang Jinbao's cruel methods, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Captain Wang, these fishermen ran away, what did you sink their boat for?" ”

Before Wang Jinbao could speak, Zhang Da Scara on the side said: "My lord doesn't know, these fishermen usually fish, and when they see a lone merchant ship passing by, they will rob the merchant ship and kill all the personnel, so they are all innocent." ”

Hearing Zhang Da Scara say this, Ma Shaoguang had nothing to say.

Wang Jinbao asked, "Zhang Shoubei, is there a bigger town around here?" ”

"About fifty miles from here, there is a big town, about 3,000 people."

Wang Jinbao nodded and said, "Okay, let's go there." ”

Zhang Da Scara asked, "Does Head Wang have any ideas?" ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu needs coal, let's find merchants to buy it too slowly, it's better to loot a few towns and see what we can gain."

When Ma Shaoguang heard that he was going to kill people and set fires, he hurriedly said: "No, I don't allow you to kill like this." ”

Wang Jinbao didn't take Ma Shaoguang in his eyes at all, and said: "The King of Chu ordered me to listen to Fu Wenlong's dispatch, but he didn't say to listen to your Ma Zhizhou's dispatch. ”

Ma Shaoguang knew that his Zhizhou was not bullshit in the eyes of these Qiu Ba, Ma Shaoguang trembled with anger, and said: "I will write a letter to the King of Chu when I go back, suing you for not listening to the dispatch." ”

Zhang Da Scara also looked down on these intellectuals, and said: "That's a matter for the future, now we have to complete the task of the King of Chu first." ”

After Zhang Dascara finished speaking, he discussed with Wang Jinbao how to attack that town.

The plan was simple, first three gunboats would come in close range and fire, and then the army would go ashore and try to capture as many people as possible.