518, drunk orchid under the cherry blossom tree (2)
"Well done, well done!"
On the side of the basketball court, Yu Guozhen wiped his sweat and praised loudly.
Qi Niu flew up on the court and just completed a slam dunk, which was his most enjoyable enjoyment when he wasn't fighting.
Yu Guozhen even joked, saying that after the world is peaceful, he can consider forming a professional basketball game and making Qi Niu the hegemon of basketball.
This is naturally just a joke, there will only be more things after the world is peaceful, definitely not less, like Yu Guozhen can still take one day every ten years to play basketball, but at that time, it would be good to have one day a month to play ball.
"Official, Gandi urgently!" He just wiped off his sweat, and a low voice came from his side, and Yu Guozhen's good mood suddenly disappeared.
After taking the urgent report, taking it apart and looking at it, Yu Guozhen fell into deep thought.
Zhang Xianzhong said that he would go south to seek revenge on Yu Guozhen, and he publicized this matter everywhere, to some extent, because he saw the court's suspicion of Xinxiang. Those bigwigs in the court must be very happy to see Zhang Xianzhong's rogue army and Yu Guozhen's new Xianghuwei fighting to the death and losing both, so Yang Sichang really opened the net and let Zhang Xianzhong run south.
As a result, Zhang Xianzhong played a big move beautifully, broke into the Jiangxi realm from the Hunan realm, and seemed to be approaching the southern Zhili and Zhejiang realms!
Among them, of course, there is the influence of Yu Guozhen. Among the people around Zhang Xianzhong, there were those who were bought by Gao Erzhu, and through their influence on Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong felt that if he could occupy the area of southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang. is another Zhu Yuanzhang.
But where would Yang Sichang, who came back to his senses, let him be like this, Yang Sichang chased and intercepted again, desperately driving Zhang Xianzhong south, Zhang Xianzhong suffered two defeats in a row at the hands of Zuo Liangyu and others. I had to take the road to the southeast, from the stone city walled over the Wuyi Mountain, and broke into the Fujian realm.
After entering the Min realm. There is almost no obstacle in front of Zhang Xianzhong, the hills and mountains in the Fujian realm. It is also easy for him to scatter and walk through the liukou, and in the blink of an eye, the realm of western Fujian is almost turbulent!
At this point, the time is ripe.
"I think Boguang has also gotten the news, so it's time to start doing it." Yu Guozhen thought in his heart, and ordered in his mouth: "Pass the news to Mr. Mao and Mr. Song." β
"Yes!"
Hu Wei went to deliver the message, and Yu Guozhen took a deep breath. Raising his eyebrows, he didn't know what he was thinking.
Nan'an Shijing is Zheng Zhilong's hometown, but also where his lair is, he is mixed with the wind and water, the so-called wealth does not return to the hometown such as brocade clothes night walking, after recruiting An, he used the wealth he accumulated at sea, in his hometown to buy land to build a house, it is said that only he built a house. That's a million taels of silver!
If the big family business is naturally heavily guarded, and there are thousands of family members, servants and brave people, Yu Guozhen intends to completely eradicate the Zheng family, so he has to send people to attack Shijing. Responsible for this task. Naturally, it was Tian Boguang. As early as after making a plan to deal with the Zheng family, Yu Guozhen made preparations, when Zhang Xianzhong fought with Yang Sichang and Shi Kefa on the border of Jiangxi and Zhejiang, Tian Boguang had already sneaked in with the Huwei Teaching Brigade, and there were 3,000 people in ambush in Wuyi Mountain.
Zhang Xianzhong entered the Fujian realm, and of course the news would reach Tian Boguang, and according to the plan, he was going to start acting.
"The Zheng family has thousands of guards, but those thugs have limited actual combat ability, of course, they can't compare to the tiger guards, and it is not a problem to defeat them and destroy the Zheng family. The real problem is after this incident...... What will the reaction of the court be like? Can the people disturbed by the thieves come all the way to Xinxiang? If not, will the local officials be able to settle them? β
Yu Guozhen's worry is not that he can't defeat the Zheng family, but that he is always worried about the people.
He has always been very sober, even if the people have such and such problems, it is also the land he is rooted in and the source of his strength: Huwei comes from the people, researchers come from the people, and the workers and peasants of Xinxiang all come from the people, even himself, and also from the people. He can guide the people and supervise the people, but he cannot ignore the people and treat the lives of the people as if they were a mustard.
If the leader is arrogant and treats the people like a mustard, then the people will regard him as an enemy. The kind of stupid person who asks whether to speak for the government or for the people does not realize at all that if there are no people, what is the point of the existence of the government?
The Ming Dynasty was abandoned by the people, not because of Chongzhen - Chongzhen personally has such and such character shortcomings, but the emperors in history are much more perverted than him and worse than him, but in the entire officialdom, from the central officials, to the local magistrates, prefectures, and then to the gentry who constitute the cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty's rule, are all rotten at this time. It is precisely for their own selfish interests that they do not take the people seriously, so the social atmosphere despises the people, and the people will be coerced by it.
If it weren't for the government pushing the people to the rogues, there would be a few innocent people who are willing to be thieves!
Thinking of this, the basketball game in front of him was not so interesting, Yu Guozhen got up and left, wanting to summon Gao Erzhu and ask about the details of the resettlement of the people. As a result, I was able to get out, and a messenger hurried to meet me: "Official, the Yellow Falcon is back!" β
"So fast?"
Yu Guozhen was very surprised, when the Yellow Falcon went to Tamluo for the first time, it took twenty-five days before and after, and it took nearly thirty days when he came back, and this time it took only forty days to come and go together, he thought about it and asked: "What is the situation, nothing has changed, right?" β
"The ships are all in good condition, and it is said that this time it is extremely smooth, and when the speed of the ship is fast, it also sails to twenty or thirty miles, and after the waterway is familiar, the steamship can be much faster than the sailing ship, and the speed is not much different with the wind and the wind."
Yu Guozhen nodded, very satisfied.
The "Yellow Falcon" was developed on the basis of the original steamship, and because Yu Guozhen was prescient, it did not use paddle wheels on both sides, but directly mounted the blade-shaped propeller. In order to determine what kind of propeller is the most suitable, the institute has conducted many tests at a half-young age. Therefore, the Yellow Falcon is relatively mature, and what is really lacking is the test of long-term sea voyages. From Xinxiang to Tamna, the sea route is about 5,000 miles long but less than 6,000 li, and if the speed of 30 miles is maintained, it is 200 hoursβit can be reached in less than nine days.
Yu Guozhen is convinced that with the construction of stronger hulls, more scientific propellers, and greater power of steam engines, the speed from Xinxiang to Tamna may be faster in the future!
"Is there anyone on board?" Seeing that the messenger still had something to say, Yu Guozhen asked again.
"Yes, official, an official of the Wa Kingdom has come, and he has specially sent the governor to say that he is the chief elder of the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Wa Kingdom, and he has come to meet the official."
In addition to him, there were several women from the Wa Kingdom...... Ahem. β
The correspondent couldn't help but smile when he said this, and it was obvious that the appearance of those women made him find extremely interesting.
Yu Guozhen was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Nonsense, nonsense, the veteran dares to tease me!" β
His order was passed to Tamna, and others couldn't understand it, but Shogan would definitely be able to guess it. After six years of training, Jiang An's current strategic vision is far beyond the reach of others, under his seemingly playful appearance, his temperament is actually extremely cautious, and he is the first among Yu Guozhen's subordinates.
So sending a few Japanese women here is actually to ridicule him, didn't he say that he wanted to "get drunk orchids under the cherry blossom trees", and send a few orchids to make him drunk.
Soon after the messenger came, a messenger from the Wa kingdom came.
The "old middle" sent by the Tokugawa family is none other than Abe Mid-Autumn Festival.
As an important minister of the Tokugawa family, he was no stranger to sailing, but it was the first time he had taken a steamship like the "Yellow Falcon". After seeing the speed and wonder of the "Yellow Falcon", he originally thought that he would not be shocked by what he saw, but he did not expect that after arriving in Xinxiang, what he saw shocked him even more.
This is definitely not supposed to be a city that exists in the world!
When the original emperor thought that there was a fairy mountain beyond the East China Sea, he sent boys and girls to find this ethereal fairy mountain. Abe Mid-Autumn felt that the city he was stepping on was the legendary land of immortals!
Therefore, when he was brought to the six-story office building and waited to be received in the hall below, he respectfully knelt on the ground according to the etiquette of the Japanese people.
Fortunately, although the plastered concrete floor was a little cooler, it did not cause problems with his knees, and the appearance of him kneeling there was seen by the new Xiangren who came in and out from time to time, and they were inevitably a little surprised, and then began to ask who he was. When they learned that he was an envoy sent by the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Wakuni Kingdom, and his status in the Tokugawa Shogunate was equivalent to that of the Ming Dynasty, everyone couldn't help but smile and feel very proud.
At the beginning of the Zheng family's turmoil, everyone thought that it would be a protracted war, but they did not expect that the Zheng family's encirclement network had been launched for less than half a year, and an important part of it had already collapsed.
Originally, Abe Zhongchu thought that he would have to wait a long time to be received by Nanhai Bo, which was the privilege of the victor over the loser. But judging from the clock placed in the hall, it was only ten minutes later, and a person hurried downstairs: "Abe Laozhong, my lord asked you to go up." β
Abe Zhongqiu was very surprised by the youth of the personnel under the entire Xinxiang system, but this person was a little old, and he was short, with a pockmarked face, and he didn't look good. Abe Zhongqiu guessed that at this age, under Xinxiang Nanhaibo, he should be an important minister, so he said: "There is labor, there is labor, the minister sees that this highness is extraordinary, and he doesn't know his honorable name, and he has any position in Nanhai Bo's mansion." β
As he spoke, he respectfully handed over a small bag.
The bag is a golden judgment, and with Abe's Mid-Autumn Festival's perception of the officials of the Ming Kingdom, no one will refuse this unexpected wealth. But the dwarf pockmark raised his chin arrogantly and threw the bag back to him: "The Japanese people just don't know the rules, do you think that we Xinxiang still need to take bribes?" β
"My surname is Song, Song Xiance." Dwarf Mazi snorted: "Don't use those tricks, just go up honestly." β
The other party's attitude made Abe Mid-Autumn feel ashamed at the same time, but also secretly frightened.
If the bribery can't impress the other party, then it only means one thing, and the benefit that the other party can get by opening his mouth is much greater than his bribe! (To be continued)