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"In case of prevarication, the people do not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, the people are like thieves, the soldiers are like thieves, and the officials do not know their traces, this is the coastal defense of the coastal areas of Zhejiang?" Chen Yu said coldly.

"Not only that, but the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division and the Zhejiang Salt Transportation Division colluded with these large military and other major households along the coast to buy official salt at a low price, and then resell it at a high price, and then share it equally with it after making a profit." Wei Wenli sighed and said, "All in all, this place is full of holes!" ”

Corruption is a very serious problem at present, otherwise a prefect would not have copied hundreds of thousands of taels of silver casually, and for the private salt, the profit is even more large.

The so-called "endowment of the world, salt profit is half", it can be seen that the salt profit is huge, but now the salt endowment collected by the imperial court is pitiful, and the opening of the law has become a decree for the Shanxi Jin merchants to profit, which has to be said to be a ridiculous thing.

In order to meet the lack of grain at the border gates, Zhu Yuanzhang asked merchants to transport grain to supply the border gates, and the border gates gave the warehouse money, and then the merchants went to the local transshipment department to exchange for salt introduction, and after obtaining the salt introduction, they could sell it by themselves.

The implementation of the Kaizhong Law has to be said to be an important means of dispatching national defense and finance, and it can also be seen that those politicians in the early Ming Dynasty decided to be clever political means!

This method was good at the beginning, but after the Chenghua and Hongzhi dynasties, the nobles and emperors rewarded Chengfeng, and this reward was not only limited to land, but also an important thing, that is, salt introduction. Since then, private salt has prevailed, and the salt law has gradually been destroyed.

The husband can get six coins of silver, and he can get six hundred gold for a thousand dollars, and a person who is a wanderer can sit on a thousand gold without accumulating steps, and private salt has such a big benefit, how can it not make people rush to it? The imperial court did not have a perfect management method, which led to the further flooding of illicit salt.

Official salt is not profitable, private salt is profitable, these businessmen are naturally not stupid enough to sell official salt!

Chen Yu nodded thoughtfully, "You go and prepare, and accompany the official tomorrow, and the official wants to see what is going on in coastal defense, Zhejiang." ”

Wei Wenli nodded, but he was still faintly worried: "Although it is the end of October now, it is still possible for the Japanese to wander in the sea area and rob the coastal continent." ”

"Well, you will send troops with you tomorrow." Chen Yu said, "There should be no problem with the army drill here, right?" ”

"The problem is no, it's just that they are all recruits from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they are all not in actual combat, so the lower officials are still a little worried, pull them to patrol, in case they encounter Japanese ......."

"Are there no veterans?" Chen Yu asked strangely.

"Well, adults don't know, those veteran oilers rarely practice on weekdays, and they go to the sea to make profits in their spare time, just that group of people, I'm afraid that even ordinary people are inferior to ordinary people when they see the Japanese Kou!" Wei Wenli said angrily.

"Yes, I see." Chen Yu said lightly: "Recruits are recruits, they always have to go through some training." ”

After coming out of Dusi, Chen Yu did not return to Chen's mansion, but went straight to the mansion of the eunuch Liu Jing with Shen Fei.

After Mai Xiu was rectified by Chen Yu, the imperial court experienced a game between the cabinet and the eunuchs, so it did not send eunuchs to guard Zhejiang.

Since Liu Jin's victory, Zhejiang's fat gap was naturally filled by Liu Jin with his own people, and Liu Jing, the eunuch who guarded Zhejiang, was not called by this name, if he tasted carefully, he could know that this was Liu Jin's homonym.

This person was originally called Wang Jing, serving as the supervisor of Shangshan, and he was not even qualified to be called a eunuch, but Liu Jin was a Taoist, so this Wang Jing naturally ascended to heaven.

This Wang Jing was very good to Liu Jin when Liu Jin was trapped in Shangshan Prison, and the biggest investment in his life was probably this one.

In order to thank Liu Jin for his kindness, Wang Jing changed his surname and recognized Liu Jin as his godgrandfather.

Now Chen Yu still has a lot of things to count on Liu Jin, so he naturally has to take Liu Jing with him on this trip, how to say that the duty of the eunuch to guard Zhejiang also has the power to inspect all parts of Zhejiang.

Liu Jing knew Chen Yu's identity and knew Chen Yu's prestige among the eunuchs in Beijing, so he naturally regarded Chen Yu as his own and readily agreed to Chen Yu's trip.

Everything is ready, the east wind is not bad, because today's blowing is the east wind, a group of people under the leadership of Wei Wenli, set off from the bank of the Qiantang River in a two-masted boat, and accompanied by more than 200 sailors.

All the way from the Qiantang River to Hangzhou Bay into the sea, the route of this trip is not specified, to the north is Haining, Shaoxing, etc., but Wei Wenli naturally knows that Chen Yu will definitely not go north, yesterday has already asked himself, so the big ship went directly south all the way through Sanshan, Guanhaiwei, Longshan and went straight to Zhoushan.

The road was relatively safe, the sea breeze was blowing, and the blue waves were thousands of miles, so it was not pleasant, but Chen Yu always faintly felt that it was too calm here, but it was a little abnormal.

Chen Yu and his entourage's ships landed in Zhoushan from Dagang, and the thousands of households in Zhoushan's Zhongzhong and Zhongzuo Qianhu had been waiting in Dagang for a long time, and they were not a little surprised to see the eunuch Liu Jing and Wei Wenli, the commander-in-chief of Beiwei, arching a young man in the middle.

This young man is handsome, looks kind, and has a kind face, but who knows that this young man is the one who is stunned?

Before he arrived in Zhejiang, he had already killed a prefect, and what was even more terrifying was that he was just a governor of Zhejiang's imperial history, and he actually arrested people on the ground in Nanzhili, where did you make Nanzhili's imperial history face rest?

But the strange thing is that this kid has nothing to do at all, and the governor of Zhili's imperial history has not put a single fart!

The thousands of households in Zhoushan are called Lin Yuan, and the names of thousands of households in the left are called Zhenhongwei.

Before arriving in Zhoushan, Wei Wenli had already told Chen Yu the origin of the two of them, and the thousands of households in Zhoushan were the distant cousins of Lin Fu, the political envoy of Zuobu in Zhejiang, and Lin Fu was a member of the Lin family of Fujian merchants.

The Red Guard of the Thousand Households in the Center Left is the descendant of the Fujian Commander Folded Kaixun, and it is a banner placed in Zhejiang by the military system of the Southeast Folding Family.

Chen Yu already knew something, so at this moment, seeing the two of them greeting him warmly, he also said with a smile: "It's a sin to bother the two thousands of households to greet them in person!" ”

The polite words are more beautiful than the other, which is also the standard for these people to survive as officials, and after a pleasant greeting, they went to Zhongzhong under the leadership of two thousand households.

The atmosphere of the dinner was very harmonious, and even the harmony was too much, and the officials of the two thousand households, hundreds of households, and the general banner were all poured down by Qi Jingtong alone.

This is the charm of the men who have been in the northwest, not that these Jiangnan people can compare.

After leaving the thousands of households, Chen Yu asked Qi Jingdao: "Didn't you drink too much?" ”

"Just the amount of alcohol these cubs have? Lao Tzu's soaking in urine can give them a stomach! Qi Jingtong said boldly.

Shen Fei glanced at Qi Jingtong, and then asked Chen Yu, "My lord, where are we going now?" ”

"Continue south." Chen Yu said, "Shenjiamen is the first choice for the Japanese to land, let's go there and have a look." ”

"Your Excellency...... Do you know? Wei Wenli asked incredulously, he thought that Chen Yu didn't know about the situation in Zhejiang's coastal defense, and even if he did, he only knew it from his own letters, but when Chen Yu said this now, Wei Wenli suddenly felt that he still underestimated Chen Yu.

"Since we want to rectify coastal defense, how can we not understand the Zhejiang form?" Shen Fei said lightly to Wei Wenli, "Lord Chen's current mastery and understanding of Zhejiang is definitely not worse than yours!" ”

Looking at Chen Yu's back, Wei Wenli admired a little more.

There are two thousand households in Zhoushan, one beacon tower in coastal defense, and three water villages, among which a water village is set up in Shenjiamen to resist the Japanese invaders.

It stands to reason that Shenjiamen, as the primary place to resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders, should have a stricter military arrangement, but when Chen Yu and the others arrived near Shenjiamen, they were simply shocked.

At night, a few people drove straight into the Shen family's door, not even a single guard, the four or five of them were like going straight into a no-man's land, occasionally meeting one or two soldiers who were patrolling, or a thin and old man, looking at that appearance, I was afraid that a gust of sea breeze would blow him away, and what was even more ridiculous was that when they saw Chen Yu and a few people, they didn't even let out a fart!

Chen Yu's lungs were about to explode, and he shouted: "You two stop me!" ”

The two veterans heard the shouts from behind and ran away.

Chen Yu couldn't laugh angrily, and gave Shen Fei a look, and after a while, Shen Fei brought the two back.

"A good man spares his life, a good man spares his life!" The two veterans immediately knelt down for Chen Yu and kowtowed like pounding garlic.

"You're from the guardhouse?" Chen Yu asked.

"Zhoushan Zhongzhong Thousand Households under the banner of General Li." The two veterans replied very honestly.

Chen Yu held a hint of luck in his heart, and continued to ask, "Who are your thousands of households, how many people are in your thousands of households, how many ships are there, what is the navigation ability, how many firearms are there, and what is the range?" ”

He thought that these two veterans were soldiers, and what they said was also made up casually to deceive Chen Yu, but Chen Yu was wrong, and only listened to the two veterans' 1510 words: "Our thousand households are Lin Yuan, and there are still 1,500 banner troops and ten ships in thousands of households, but they are all showcased, and they can't go out to sea at all, just to cope with the inspection above. ”

"Firearms have been damp for a long time and have long been unusable." The two veterans said it all in one breath.

Qi Jing angrily grabbed the collar of a veteran and said, "You fucking soldiers are so spineless? This is a military secret, don't you know? It was leaked like this? ”

"You can't lie to your grandfather, can you? We said everything we could, and a few grandfathers still spared us, right? The two veterans knelt down and bowed their heads and begged for mercy. (To be continued.) )