Huzhou Mansion is located in the northwest of Zhejiang, the south bank of Taihu Lake, the west of Jiaxing Mansion, the mountains are continuous, the forest is dense, but there are mountains and rivers, the people and the people in addition to farming, mostly to the silk weaving industry for a living, the overall is quite rich. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The seat of Huzhou Prefecture was located in Wucheng County at this time, and this Wucheng County was also called Wuxing County, and the name of Wucheng County and Wuxing County was abolished in later generations, and it was directly called Huzhou City.

And the Wucheng County mentioned here also happens to be the hometown of Wen Tiren, the current governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.

Wen Tiren's hometown is in Nanxun Town, Wucheng County, in this era.

Therefore, since receiving the news of the outbreak of civil unrest in Jiaxing, Wen Tiren has some uneasiness and apprehension in his heart.

The reason for this is that, on the one hand, it is true that Zhejiang is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the reason for the civil unrest is also related to his policy of strictly transferring the disaster victims of Fujian and Zhejiang to the sea and resettlement in Fujian and Zhejiang, and on the other hand, because the area where the civil unrest broke out is too close to his hometown, he is worried that his relatives and his old land and beautiful houses will be affected and affected.

Wen's fears soon became a reality.

When Tu Achou and others led the rebels to abandon Jiashan County, all the way to the west, and went straight to Huzhou Mansion, Wen Tiren couldn't sit still at all, and while speeding up the transmission of Fan Jingwen's recital, he summoned Fujian's soldiers and horses to prepare to go north to Zhejiang to quell the rebellion.

At this time, except for the 3,000 young and strong governors who managed to recruit from the coastal victims after Wen Tiren took office, other troops in Fujian could not be mobilized.

This is not because there are no soldiers in the Fujian Metropolitan Guards, but because these Fujian battalions and guards are already overstretched and cannot be mobilized.

After the outbreak of the civil unrest in Zhejiang, Wen Tiren, who knew the situation in Zhejiang, found Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, as soon as he received the report of Fan Jingwen, the governor of Zhejiang, to discuss sending troops to Zhejiang to help Zhejiang suppress the civil unrest.

At that time, Xiong Wencan looked around and said to Wen Tiren: "Lord Junjun think carefully. The land of Fujian is different from Zhejiang, although Zheng Zhilong has been attached to the imperial court, willing to be my Ming sea barrier, but after all, it has not been attached for a long time, and has more than 10,000 elite soldiers, in addition to the water division, there is also a land division, if the Fujian soldiers are sent to the north, it will be useless to have less, and there will be chaos and elbows! ”

Of course, Fujian has soldiers, although Yu Dayou's son Yu Zhigao was not the opponent of Zheng Zhilong and other pirates when he was alive, and was defeated again and again by Zheng Zhilong and his subordinates, but the armament along the coast of Fujian was already the best among the three provinces along the southeast coast.

The reason is very simple, because the plague along the coast of Fujian was the most serious in those years, and after the plague was lifted, due to the existence of Zhangzhou Yuegang, the only foreign trade port, the pirates along the coast of Fujian have always been much more rampant than in other places.

Therefore, Fujian's military armament has always been valued by the imperial court and successive governors, along the coastline from north to south, there are six relatively substantial coastal guard posts of Funingwei, Fuzhouwei, Zhendongwei, Pinghaiwei, Yongningwei, and Zhenhaiwei, with a total of 14,800 guards and 10,300 naval divisions, totaling 25,100 land and water troops.

These troops look like a lot, but these belong to the establishment of posts, and it is difficult to say how much in fact, but they are certainly less than this number.

Although Wen Tiren took office as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he conducted a preliminary verification of the soldiers of the battalions and guards in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, but the situation of empty salaries was a difficult problem to solve in the system of the capital guards at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after Wen Tiren verified, he also gave a 20% discount to the number of soldiers in the battalion guards in Fujian and Zhejiang.

Then, according to the establishment of the imperial court, 3,000 superintendents were recruited, and at the same time, the governor Xiong Wencan was asked to raise 2,000 fubiao according to the system.

Wen Tiren and Xiong Wencan are both civil officials from the third list of jinshi, and they have a natural distrust of people like Zheng Zhilong, and they appeased him and appointed him just out of helplessness, and out of political performance considerations, it is impossible to let him go with real confidence.

This time it was the same, as soon as Wen Tiren and Xiong Wencan talked about sending troops to quell the chaos in Zhejiang, Xiong Wencan naturally mentioned the huge threat of Zheng Zhilong's subordinates.

Both of them also knew that immigrating to Dongfan would definitely further strengthen Zheng Zhilong's power, but they had no other way, even if they knew that it was a cup of poisoned wine with a chronic attack, they had to drink it with their necks up.

They could not find any better way than to throw them to Zheng Zhilong and let him transport them all to Dongfan Island for resettlement.

Fortunately, the victims along the coast of Fujian have long had the habit of going to sea to make a living, so they are not so resistant to the imperial court moving them to Dongfan for resettlement, so there are not so many thieves who resist immigrants to go to sea like in Zhejiang.

However, they still do not dare to take it lightly.

Therefore, they cannot transfer the troops of the local guard stations, and the supervision and maintenance of the two of them are the only reliable force to ensure the stability of Fuzhou today, and they cannot be moved lightly.

Wen Tiren thought about it and said to Governor Xiong Wencan: "Of course I know what Brother Da Meng said. Moreover, now, Zhejiang Province is in turmoil because of immigrants to the East, and although Fujian Province is calm for a while, it is difficult to say that it will not be instigated by traitors and suddenly become chaotic.

"However, I will also give you a solid account here, Zhejiang Xihu Prefecture is the hometown of brothers, where the tombs of fathers and relatives are located. If the brother is not the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he naturally has nothing to say, and everything is subject to the imperial court's strategy to quell the chaos.

"It's just that now my brother is the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and there are police in Huzhou, if Wen sits idly by, how can he have the face to face his hometown in the future, if the clan father has a case, it will be even more inredeemable!"

Xiong Wencan's character is Dameng, and his official position is naturally younger than Wen Tiren, that is, his age is two or three years younger than Wen Tiren, and the reason why Wen Tiren calls him so much is to express a kind of meaning that the superior degrades to the subordinate to show closeness.

This is also a popular practice in private in officialdom at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

When Xiong Wencan heard this, he was silent for a while, and finally he could only nod in approval and said, "What Lord Jun said is human nature. Helping to suppress the rebellion in Zhejiang is a major event of the imperial court and the duty of the army rulers. It's just that if you send troops, in Xiong's opinion, you can't go out from the coastal capital of Fujian Province. ”

Wen Tiren saw Xiong Wencan say this, of course he also knew what he meant, so he said: "Then send Zheng Zhilong's men and horses north to Zhejiang to help suppress the rebellion of Tu Augly." ”

Wen Tiren said this, twisted his beard and smiled, and looked at Xiong Wencan quietly.

When Xiong Wencan heard this, he nodded and said, "Lord of the Army, in my opinion, in Xiong's opinion, this matter should be handled like this!" ”

Seeing that Xiong Wencan agreed, Wen Tiren continued: "Since Brother Da Meng also has this view, then I bother you to go to Tong'an, meet Zheng Zhilong in person, and tell him about it, and he will send 5,000 troops and send a cronie general to lead the people north." The reason is that there are also signs of instability in Fujian, and the troops of the guards in various places cannot be deployed.

"In addition, let me make it clear to him that the food and salary for this dispatch of troops will be provided by Zhejiang Province, and Wen will personally sit in command of the army, and he will send more elite soldiers to help, if his subordinates make meritorious contributions, Zheng Zhilong will also make contributions."

After Wen Tiren finished speaking, Xiong Wencan looked at Wen Tiren thoughtfully, and finally bowed down and hugged his fists and said yes.

The next day, Xiong Wencan, under the escort of his own people, went south to Tong'an.

Before Zheng Zhilong was attached, he controlled the route from the north of the Fujian Sea to Ryukyu and Japan, and to the south to Haojing, Luzon and other places with the bases of Penghu, Kinmen, Dongfan and other places.

And this includes Quanzhou, Xiamen, and Yuegang, which were the most prosperous ports for coastal maritime trade in the late Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Zhilong and his brothers were naturally very satisfied with this, so they thought that the court's appeasement was very sincere, and they were also a little more sincere in their submission to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Xiong Wencan arrived in Tong'an, met Zheng Zhilong's brothers, and showed them the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Wen Tiren, and his intentions, Zheng Zhilong's brothers readily agreed to the request of the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang and Xiong Wencan.

Three days later, Zheng Zhilong sent Zheng Xing and Chen Hui to assist his most trusted brother Zheng Zhihu, and led 5,000 men and horses to sail north to Fuzhou along the coast with more than 120 large and small ships.

Three days later, Zheng Zhihu's fleet went north to pick up Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and his 1,000-strong Chinese army in Fuzhou, and then set sail north to Hangzhou Bay again.