"My lord, what a chance. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The Imperial Court is going to recruit troops in Alaska, and it is also announced that all men who are conscripted into the army this time will be pardoned for their past crimes. ”

Alaska, Juneau, is already exactly what a Ming city looks like, and the residences in the city are blue brick and blue tile buildings.

The Governor's Mansion is a mansion composed of three large courtyards, and in the Governor's Palace, a literati who looks like a staff member admonishes an old man with gray temples but piercing eyes.

"Is this a good opportunity? The recruits are all criminals, but the soldiers don't move. ”

The old man hesitated.

The staff said with a smile: "Even the criminals have been recruited, presumably the troops are tight, although it is not to the point of armed prisoners in the Qin Dynasty, but if the adults write a letter to advise and send the Alaskan garrison to help the war, I believe the imperial court will not disagree." So, is the opportunity coming soon? ”

The old man laughed: "Those who know me, Liu Weiye!" ”

Liu Wei is also a criminal, but his identity is somewhat different, he is a criminal officer who was exiled for corruption.

When he arrived in Alaska, he was treated favorably by Governor Zhang Qianshan, and he didn't suffer much, but he found that Zhang Qianshan's kindness to him was just buying people's hearts, and he saw that this person was ambitious at the first time.

He didn't know the inside story of Zhang Qianshan being transferred to Alaska as the governor more than 20 years ago, but he keenly noticed that things were abnormal, Zhang Qianshan won people's hearts, and his purpose was absolutely impure, but this person was the emperor's father-in-law, and he really couldn't figure out what kind of disobedience this person could have.

couldn't see through him and didn't say anything, the other party accepted him when he wooed him, slowly approached him, and finally found some inside stories.

He found that at this time, not only did he win him over, but all the criminal officials who were exiled from the country would be treated favorably by him and accept his favor.

Liu Wei became more and more convinced that Zhang Qianshan had a disobedient heart, although a money-greedy official like him did not understand the thoughts of those careerists, he just needed to know that Zhang Qianshan had a plan.

Slowly approached, expressed his loyalty at the right time, and approached Zhang Qianshan's inner circle step by step, and it took five years of hard work for Liu Wei to truly become Zhang Qianshan's henchman.

At this time, the information he received was even more terrifying, and he found that Zhang Qianshan's rebellion had been done quite solidly.

Zhang Qianshan co-opted the criminal officials from the Ming Dynasty, and the local forces did not do much work.

It turned out to be a deserted place, and when the Russians were here, they didn't have much to do but hunt for furs.

Zhang Qianshan's work was still fruitful, he used the criminal officials as his staff, built cities here, encouraged reclamation, and in such places, he even opened up millions of acres of arable land, although the output was not much, but it was enough for self-sufficiency.

Although it can be said that winning over criminal officials and running a place can be said to be buying people's hearts and laying a solid foundation, a normal official may also do this, and what is really enough to prove that Zhang Qianshan has the intention of rebellion is that he is cultivating force in private.

In addition to co-opting the criminal officials, Zhang Qianshan also took a special look at those exiled gang members, and all the leading bosses befriended him, and even worshiped him. Alaska exiles a group of such brave and ruthless heroes every year, and Zhang Qianshan has recruited thousands of such people to his advantage.

What shocked Liu Wei the most was that Zhang Qianshan even bought the local natives.

The natives here are divided into three branches, there are some Indians who make a living by fishing along the coast, which are called fish barbarians by the local Chinese, there are Indians who hunt for a living in the inland mountains, and the Chinese call them mountain barbarians, and there is a group of Eskimos who hunt seals for a living on the northern ice sheet, which the Chinese call the ice barbarians.

These three barbarians belonged to different tribes, and did not form a unified tribe, and their forces were quite scattered.

But Zhang Qianshan relied on gifts, mainly wine, trade, etc., to establish a close relationship with one tribe leader after another. It can be said that Zhang Qianshan gave an order, and these tribes could be used by him, because these tribes only knew Zhang Qianshan, but not the Ming court. The total number of these people is 20,000 or 30,000 Ding Zhuang, which is a force that cannot be underestimated.

In addition, Zhang Qianshan also has a rich source of wealth, otherwise he would not have the ability to woo criminal officials or even buy barbarians.

Zhang Qianshan discovered several gold mines here, but kept them secret, secretly found someone to mine them, and became his own small treasury, but it was not known to the imperial court. After more than ten years of accumulation, Zhang Qianshan has accumulated a fortune that is enough for him to rebel.

After discovering these inside stories, Liu Wei didn't want to go crazy with Zhang Qianshan for the first time, but told the emperor the news through the relationship for the first time, he hoped to make meritorious service in this way, get the emperor's pardon, and it was best to let him be an official again, and let him return to China at the worst.

The emperor quickly replied to him, telling him that the emperor actually knew these things, but because of Zhang Qianshan's identity, it was difficult for the emperor to do it, and the emperor hoped that Liu Wei would help handle this matter.

After Liu Wei received the emperor's message, he was excited to cry bitterly, the emperor asked him for help, what a good opportunity, the matter is done, the exoneration is a trivial matter, and regaining the emperor's favor is the greatest benefit.

So Liu Wei has been lurking in Alaska for a few years, silently helping Zhang Qianshan to do things, and doing his best, which makes Zhang Qianshan very satisfied and takes him as a confidant.

Liu Wei also brought his family here, and expressed his determination to live and die with Alaska, which made Zhang Qianshan praise in front of many confidants.

After almost a decade of lurking, it's finally time to harvest.

Liu Wei couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, and wrote a letter tremblingly and handed it to his son.

"Send it out carefully."

The son nodded, he knew all the words on the letter, but he didn't know the meaning when it was connected, because it was superstitious encoding, not a sentence at all, and he knew that after he sent it back, someone would be able to solve it.

Liu Wei's son quietly went to the telegraph office, and after sending out the letter, he carefully destroyed the original, and deliberately made a few circles on the road before returning to the Liu family's mansion.

When Liu Wei saw his son come back, the boss was unhappy.

"Why are you back, you should stay there and wait for news!"

Reluctantly, the son went to the telegraph office again, the days in Alaska were too short, and it was too cold after the day, and he really didn't like to stay outside.

The reply from the country was not long in coming.

It's also a bunch of gibberish, Liu Wei didn't want the code book to decipher it, he has this kind of ability, he has been a spy for so many years, so that he has developed a cautious character, but in fact, he is very bold, and he doesn't dare to be corrupt, you must know that the supervision system of the Ming Dynasty is known as the strictest in the world.

The reason why he was bold and corrupt was that he was sure that he had done meticulously and had the confidence to deceive everyone, but he didn't want to go, and he finally met a tiger, and a prosecutor who was proficient in accounting found that his accounts were three percentage points different from the same position in other places, while the economic development of the place where he was located was not bad at all.

After the incident, he came to Alaska, and then he was more cautious in doing things, and finally did not make another mistake, otherwise let alone meritorious service, he didn't know how to die, he knew too well how many criminal officials who refused to be wooed by Zhang Qianshan over the years.

The content of his translation is only twelve words:

Contact the garrison, secretly trap and save face!

Liu Wei knew the emperor's difficulties, once his father-in-law rebelled, the emperor's face was really not good-looking.

Therefore, it can only be secretly confined, not publicized.

Liu Wei understood the emperor's difficulties, and he felt that he could think more and be more thoughtful for the emperor.

For example, Zhang Qianshan's roots were broken.

After receiving the emperor's secret order, Liu Wei soon secretly visited the commander of the local garrison and showed him the emperor's secret order, and the other party said that he would obey the arrangement.

That night, Zhang Qianshan's mansion was captured by the garrison, and it was impossible for his mansion not to be strictly protected, during which more than 100 Zhang Qianshan's doormen were killed.

When Liu Wei appeared in front of Zhang Qianshan as the emperor's secret spy, Zhang Qianshan laughed and called him a good son-in-law, he really didn't misunderstand people.

Then Liu Wei began to persuade Zhang Qianshan to cooperate, and he hoped that Zhang Qianshan would cooperate and come forward to mobilize the 20,000 or 30,000 barbarians and send them to California to fight.

At this time, Zhang Qianshan did not cooperate at all, and bluntly said that he wanted to kill at will, and he had already lived enough.

Liu Wei saw that the threat could not be achieved, and he moved to understand the reason, and said with human feelings, let Zhang Qianshan think about his daughter, his daughter is the imperial concubine, and gave birth to the emperor's only son, who is destined to be the queen mother in the future, and his grandson is destined to be the emperor.

Zhang Qianshan was very displeased, he really didn't seem to have the motivation to live, and he became much older all of a sudden.

After three days of persuasion, Zhang Qianshan is like ten years old, he has to be strong all his life, he thinks he is a hero, he doesn't talk about family affection, in the end, he still failed, he has been operating hard for more than 20 years, and he was planted in the hands of a villain.

Zhang Qianshan finally agreed, he finally said that his grandson could be the emperor in the future, that is also he Zhang Qianshan won, did not come to this world in vain, but he said that he did not want to see Liu Wei, but wanted to talk to the commander of the garrison.

He asked the commander to send a superstitious letter back to China to state his thoughts to the emperor, he admitted his guilt and did not care about punishment, but he told the emperor that Liu Wei was a villain, and if he could, he would not use it, otherwise it would endanger the stability of the country.

But the emperor did not reply to his suggestion at all, but the next day Liu Wei came to him in glory and discussed with him about the Alaskan barbarians.

It turned out that the emperor appointed Liu Wei as the staff officer of the Ming Expeditionary Force, and went south with the Alaskan army as a staff officer, including the more than 20,000 barbarian soldiers, all of whom were dispatched by him.

Zhang Qianshan was very disappointed, but he sneered in his heart, his son-in-law still didn't trust him in the end, and he didn't even believe his words of dying, this kind of emperor who couldn't listen to his advice would die sooner or later, thinking that Zhu Jinglun might become a king of the country, Zhang Qianshan had no reason to look forward to it.

He didn't say anything, and invited the chiefs of the barbarians to his mansion to drink wine, and then the barbarians quickly gathered their warriors and promised to help the brothers of the Ming Dynasty go to the south to fight.

20,000 Alaska Indian warriors, accompanied by a thousand Alaskan garrisons, went south with Liu Wei.

The commander Huang Qianyuan needs to recruit as many soldiers as possible from the 300,000 Alaskan criminals before heading south.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also began large-scale recruitment operations in South America, in the Nanyang region, in Saigon, in New Guinea, in Qingdao, Qinhuangdao and other northern control areas.

The United States launched a conscription system, and the Ming Dynasty recruited all Chinese, and this war showed signs of continuous expansion, and no one knew what the future would hold.