Chapter 232: Unexpected

Jiang Feng didn't expect this to be such a situation, although he suddenly remembered that this might be a modern witticism "beautiful women cry and let me bubble", although it is vulgar, but it is also quite revealing.

Originally, he snatched Xia Cuiyu back for the Xia family's fleet, but now it is very unrealistic to do it immediately, the Xia family has thousands of mouths, hundreds of private soldiers who can fight, and dozens of ships. These attractions to Jiang Feng are not small, for him, this is equivalent to a ready-made fleet or fleet.

However, the Xia family is far away in southern Fujian, and Jiangfeng is in Dengzhou, and the two sides are thousands of miles apart. In the past, there was not much feasibility of rebellion on land, there was only one road on the sea, but the dozen or so small and medium-sized ships in Jiang Feng's hands, plus the fleet of more than two dozen ships that Monk Li's vitality was far from recovering.

Or we can add the Spanish brig, which has no chance of winning against the Xia family's fleet, not to mention, in the intelligence of Xia Zhang who came over this time, Xia Qingjiao has already colluded with the Japanese Kou. The forces can't be judged, so if they can't form an absolute advantage here, Jiang Feng can't act recklessly.

If it was a forced entry, Jiang Feng would not have so much psychological burden, but after Xia Cuiyu knelt in front of him and said that sentence of revenge, I would make a personal promise. Jiang Feng was a little embarrassed, and after all, this was in his own mansion, and it could be seen that although Su Guanyue and Liu Fangrui were indifferent to this matter, they were not too happy.

In the end, it was Liu Fangrui who made the arrangement to open up a small courtyard in Jiang Feng's mansion for Xia Cuiyu to live in, and he didn't care about Jiang Feng. You can go as you like, and no one will force anything. On weekdays, meals and various things are carried out together, which can be regarded as a family.

More than a dozen clansmen of Cuiyulou and the Xia family, under the orders of Xia Zhang and Xia Cuiyu, were all taken over by Jiang Feng, and they can be regarded as a stronghold of Jiang Mansion in Dengzhou City.

Monk Li also bought a mansion near Jiangfeng Mansion, although he is now dilapidated, but the silver in his hand is considered a big family in the people, so he naturally doesn't care. It's just that the cold in the north of Dengzhou is completely different from the humidity in Fujian, which makes him quite unaccustomed.

Now he is just anxiously waiting for his family to arrive in Dengzhou soon, so that the family can spend the Spring Festival and Chinese New Year's Eve together.

However, this year's weather is quite cold, not to mention people from the south like Li Guangtou, even the local aborigines also say the same, it is really much colder than in previous years.

The winter is colder, and a high-ranking family like Jiang Feng's family naturally wears thick clothes, and the fire in the house is warm, but there is some interest in it. However, for poor families, they can only find some scattered firewood and grass to make a fire, barely supporting the past, such a cold must freeze to death, it is not too unusual, according to the statistics of the Dengzhou Mansion, before Chinese New Year's Eve, one hundred and seventy-three people were buried outside the city.

In the later period of the Wanli Dynasty, the weather around the world slowly became colder, which is the so-called Xiaoice period, the temperature decreased, and various natural disasters occurred frequently. It directly led to the great peasant uprising and the scourge of the border passes. The climate of the Xiaoice River is already a sign at this time.

The continent of East Asia was even colder than in other years, and for the northern Ming Dynasty south of the Great Wall, winter did not have to be cultivated, but it did not have much effect.

In the steppes north of the Great Wall, the livestock of various Mongolian tribes froze to death in large numbers in this bitter cold weather, which is the basic survival of the herdsmen.

In previous years, the Mongolian tribes entered the prison in the autumn when the horses were fat, but this year's situation made them unbearable, if they didn't go to the Central Plains to rob, I'm afraid it was difficult to say whether they could pass this winter. People are poor and crazy, the most terrible, the peasants of the Central Plains Dynasty are extremely poor and can't survive, and they will rebel.

The first reaction of the tribes on the grassland was to go to the Central Plains to rob, grab food, and rob people. In the past, when it was relatively quiet in winter, no one thought that the Mongolian tribes would attack the south without "playing cards according to the rules", and the momentum and ferocity were more than in previous years.

For a time, the beacon fire at the border gate was in the sky, and countless urgent documents flew into the Beijing division like snowflakes.

The chief eunuch Huang Jin is usually around Emperor Jiajing, so the government affairs of the ceremonial supervisor are handled by Luo Jing and Zhang Zhinian, who rank second and third. In fact, the celebrant and the cabinet are the center of the country, deciding the handling of the country's government affairs, and Jiajing has only been on the throne for eight years.

Not only is the rotation of the civil and military officials outside, but even the officials of the inner dynasty have been changed like washing, but dealing with government affairs is not something that anyone can do temporarily, Luo Jing and Zhang Zhinian are the old people of Xingxian Palace, and the other is a subordinate eunuch who used to be the master of ceremonies.

Suddenly arrived at this position, naturally he was in a hurry. Naturally, the cabinet scholars and the six scholars will not take the initiative to help there, and they will wait there to see the excitement.

Now the border guards warn, Xuanfu, Datong, Jifu these places are all set of cowards, the barbarian cavalry is lifeless attack, and the emergency documents of the generals on the nine sides are shouting that they need support and need food and grass.

If Liu Jin or Zhang Yong were in the center back then, when they encountered such an emergency document, their first reaction would definitely be to scold those officers who were in an emergency, and then ponder the punishment.

The Ming Dynasty won the country from the hands of the Mengyuan aliens, and naturally regarded the Mongols on the grassland as the biggest enemy, and the two sides could be said to have won and lost each other on the battlefield in the north, but there were also "Tumubao Changes" This kind of war example makes people laugh and cry, and the emperor was robbed to Mongolia.

But by the time of the Zhengde period, the military advantage of the Ming Dynasty was already quite obvious, and now it is even more so, the reason why the generals of the nine sides are so anxious to ask for silver and support is nothing more than to want more benefits. However, this kind of truth is understood by the border generals and the ministers of the court, but these internal officials do not understand, Emperor Jiajing simply ignores it, and he also understands it in his heart. Although the Mongols at the border pass attacked quickly, they were not threatening at all, and Emperor Jiajing was still there to seek alchemy.

This made the two eunuchs anxious, and the two of them were still discussing with the ministers of the foreign court at the beginning, and allocated grain, grass, soldiers and horses. Later, I gradually panicked and began to mess up.

Eunuchs are often not as good as those ministers outside, even if they have more experience, they are more comprehensive in dealing with them, and the eunuchs and internal officials do things more without considering the consequences and recklessness.

Their idea is very simple, since the resistance of the nine sides is ineffective, presumably the generals and soldiers are incompetent, then transfer a general who can fight well, and lead the elite soldiers to success.

The two of them have been dealing with official documents from various places for more than a year, and they are also accustomed to reading documents that falsely report military exploits, but there is a unit that can be said to be extremely brave, and every time they report their merits, they are real, and they all have documents that are verified by local yamen at all levels, and this kind of genuine military exploits is too rare.

I have only heard that the coastal pirates have entered a no-man's land, killing and injuring a number of soldiers and civilians. Only this Jiang Feng was in the face of the Japanese invaders and cut off a number of heads.

If such a brave general is allowed to go to the border pass, presumably the problem will be solved immediately, Luo Jing and Zhang Zhinian together, and then find the military department and various responsible yamen to discuss. Immediately, a transfer document was sent to Jiang Feng in Dengzhou, Shandong, ordering him to immediately go north and guard Jizhen.

Jizhen is close to Jingshi and is one of the most important border passes. The general soldier of Jizhen is a slippery head, he faces the least pressure there, but he does not lag behind the other border towns in terms of asking for people and money.

And in fact, the border army of Jizhen and the cavalry of the barbarian department fought several times and gained the upper hand. The Mongolian cavalry came in a hurry, there was comparable to the border army that was waiting for the battle, and the general soldiers of Jizhen had already made up their minds, and when they were asked for food, they immediately reported to the imperial court, which really killed a lot of Tartars.

Jingshi, Jiubian, Mongolia, some are cornered, some are in a hurry, and some are stealing and cheating. However, the messenger of the Beijing division quickly left Beijing and went to Dengzhou, Shandong Province to issue a document for allocation, and the order was to transfer it to the border pass of Jizhen as soon as possible, and go out to fight against the barbarian tribes.

Those old oilmen in the military department and the governor's palace knew in their hearts that such an allocation might not be completed in a month or two, and if the restrictions on the arrival date were too harsh, I was afraid that it would provoke a mutiny at that time, and then again, if it was a month or two later, the battle outside the border would have been fought long ago, and the reason why the Mongol Tatars fought such a war in the deep winter was that in addition to preparing to grab something to spend the winter, there were also other intentions. Naturally, the supplies for the winter can be loosened.

However, all of the above Dengzhou Mansion did not know, Jiang Feng's subordinates only lived in Tieding, where Luo Yi lived, was closer to the border pass, at that time, Baoding and Jingshi, Tianjin was really difficult to judge who was close to the border pass Great Wall, and knew nothing about Mongolia.

Jiang Feng and the Dengzhou battalion sent the messenger away with gloomy faces, for Jiang Feng, if he was transferred to the border pass, it would be equivalent to giving up the territory of Dengzhou, but now the private port of Dengzhou and the private salt of Shandong are already his financial pillars, and the scale will become bigger and bigger.

Walking into the courtyard and seeing that there were all his own people around him, Zhang Liang gritted his teeth and said:

"Master, we can't give this golden mountain to others!"

Jiang Feng looked back, Zhang Liang, Zhao Xiucai, Luo Yi, Yang Da and the Liu family brothers all had the same indignant expressions. Jiang Feng said coldly:

"Luo Yi, you go to Mengxian County!"