After arguing for more than a month about whether to aid North Korea, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty finally came forward by Emperor Zhengde and decided to aid North Korea, and the soldiers were divided into two ways, the first way was that the Jianzhou Jurchen of Liaodong attacked the savage Jurchen, and forced the savage Jurchen to withdraw with the strategy of encircling Wei and saving Zhao, and the second way was that the four sea divisions with great achievements rushed to the South Sea of Korea to clear the Japanese people.

For the assistance of the Ming Dynasty, the Korean envoys were grateful, and climbed on the Jinluan Hall and kept shouting "Your Majesty's benevolence". In addition, in addition to sending troops, Zhengde also symbolically assisted North Korea with a batch of weapons and food, although the amount was not large, but it showed the Ming Dynasty's support for North Korea.

Originally, there were still many ministers in the DPRK who opposed Zhengde's insistence on aiding North Korea, after all, now the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty, and it was impossible to support the expedition of the army, but when they heard Zhengde's aid plan for North Korea, they also wisely shut up, after all, whether it was going out of Lu to Jianzhou Jurchen or the Four Sea Divisions, the imperial court did not have to spend any money and food, and even the Four Sea Divisions also brought a lot of loot to the imperial court last time they went on an expedition, and the occupied Malacca was a rich land, which could provide a lot of taxes for the imperial court every year. Maybe this time it will also bring some surprises to the imperial court.

After Zhou Zhong received the order to send troops from the imperial court, he immediately organized a naval division of 3,000 people, including 30 warships, and it is worth mentioning that among these 30 warships, there are five captured Portuguese warships, of course, the sailors under Zhou Chong are now operating these warships, Zhou Zhong forced the Portuguese prisoners of war to teach the operation of the Daming Navy Division on the Portuguese warships, and often sent these Portuguese warships to patrol, and this time he selected five Portuguese warships with the best performance to accompany the army. In order to test the actual combat ability of the Four Sea Divisions to operate Portuguese warships.

This expedition to North Korea did not need to be personally led by Zhou Chong. After all, he is the governor in addition to military affairs. There are still countless government affairs to deal with in his hands, not to mention that he doesn't understand the command of the army at all, the last expedition to Malacca was mainly to encourage the soldiers, but now the Four Sea Divisions often have been boosted after the last actual battle, so Zhou Chong, a layman, no longer needs to run around with the army, as long as he sits in the governor's palace and doesn't let the army's logistics mess up.

This time it was Chang Xiao who led the army, and now he has been promoted to the general of the Four Seas Division. The status is only below Shen Ying, but although Shen Ying is the nominal chief soldier, he is directly in charge of the land battalion, and most of the affairs of the sailor are in charge of Chang Xiao and Qu Lie. Chang Xiao is the descendant of Chang Yuchun, when Zhengde arrested the descendants of Zhu Yunwen in Malacca, the Huang family has a subsidiary family surnamed Chang, who is also a descendant of Chang Yuchun, Zhou Zhong was afraid that Chang Xiao would be implicated, so he was transferred back, and Chang Xiao also knew that this was the Governor's protection for himself. This made him grateful, and he swore many times in private that he would repay him with death. Zhou Zhong was also very relieved of him, so he gave him the task of assisting North Korea.

In addition to Chang Xiao, the general who led the troops, there was also a little eunuch with the army, this little eunuch was named Wang Liang, who was the person next to Wang Gui, originally he was not surnamed Wang, just to please Wang Gui, so he simply worshipped Wang Gui as his godfather, although he was a few years older than Wang Gui, but it did not affect their father-son relationship, for example, this time Wang Gui sent Wang Liang to Chang Xiao's army as a supervisor, but Zhou Zhong had warned Wang Gui and Wang Liang before, these eunuchs can be a supervisor, but they must not interfere in the management and operation of the army, Otherwise, they will all be driven back to the capital, and let Gu Dayong send other people. Wang Gui also knew that Zhou Zhong was the number one celebrity in front of His Majesty, and he really couldn't afford to offend, so he naturally agreed.

Speaking of Wang Gui during this period of time, he also lived very comfortably, especially after Zhou Zhong beat down the port of Malacca, he has been staying there and not coming back, first, the port of Malacca is stationed with heavy soldiers, so he needs to be the eunuch of the prison army to sit in person, in addition, he also saw that the port of Malacca is very oily and water, not to mention, just the ship that Zhou Zhong gave him brought him a lot of income, almost every month can have thousands of taels of silver in the account, sometimes even reached tens of thousands of taels, he has taken out his old book, and ordered a few more ships in the shipyard, and also asked the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce to find some reliable sailors, and was preparing to form a fleet of his own, and it was precisely because of this that he didn't have the heart to follow Chang Xiao to a poor place like North Korea.

When the three thousand sailors led by Chang Xiao left, Zhou Zhong personally saw him off, because the military situation was urgent, and he needed to keep it secret, so Zhou Zhong did not prepare any send-off ceremony, but personally poured a bowl of wine for thorough and Chang Xiao on each battleship, and then accompanied them to drink it all, and then shouted: "Go!" ”

Hearing Zhou Chong's order, Chang Xiao and others immediately turned around and boarded the ship, the horn on the battleship immediately sounded, and the sails were raised, and then Chang Xiao and others, who were standing at the stern, saluted Zhou Zhong on the shore, and then commanded the battleship to advance towards North Korea.

For Chang Xiao to lead the troops, Zhou Zhong is still very relieved, the last time in Malacca sneak attack on the Portuguese, Chang Xiao performed very well, it seems that Chang Xiao inherited his ancestor Chang Yuchun in military talent, in addition to Chang Xiao for the Portuguese warship is also very important, and even personally learned from the Portuguese prisoners of war for a long time, the application of Portuguese warships is also quite experienced, the reason why this time with five Portuguese warships, is for Chang Xiao to practice, After all, the shipyard of Shuangyu Port is already building the warship of the Valen ship designed by Chilava, which combines the advantages of the Portuguese warship and the Damingfu warship, and it is not good to know the operation and application of the Portuguese warship.

Before seeing off Chang Xiao, Zhou Zhong also deliberately found the other party and talked secretly for a long time, mainly to tell him not to fight hard when he encounters an enemy, everything is based on the premise of preserving the strength of his side, after all, North Korea is not a Ming Dynasty, and it is not worth their hard work.

In addition, for Chang Xiao's strategic goal this time, Zhou Zhong also gave Chang Xiao a lot of freedom, such as Chang Xiao's army nominally went to help North Korea to suppress the rebellious Japanese people, but Zhou Zhong only let Chang Xiao sneak attack the back road of the Japanese people, that is, Tsushima Island in the Tsushima Strait, as long as it occupies here, and in case of a counterattack by the Japanese people, they will fight if they have beaten it, and if they can't fight, they will leave, and then they will be stationed on Jeju Island, which belongs to the territory of the Koreans, and the Ming Dynasty is the suzerainty to assist them. The right to be stationed anywhere on the territory of the DPRK.

In fact, Zhou Chong originally gave Zhengde the idea and asked the Four Seamen to help the Koreans encircle and suppress the rebellious Japanese people, but he didn't have any good intentions, but thought of inserting a lever between Korea and the Japanese Kingdom, no matter what changes there were in Korea in the future, or contact with the Ashikaga family of the Japanese Kingdom, it would become very convenient. As for those rebellious Japanese people, in Zhou Chong's view, there is nothing to be afraid of, as long as Chang Xiao and they go around Tsushima Island, those Japanese people naturally do not dare to stay in Korea for a long time, as long as the Japanese people withdraw from Korea, the strategic purpose of the Ming Dynasty to promise North Korea will be achieved.

After sending away Chang Xiao's army, Zhou Zhong returned to his governor's palace to deal with government affairs, the most important of which was to ask Zhengde for a batch of sweet potato seedlings to be sent to Taiwan Island, because the most disaster victims were transported there, although Taiwan's land is fertile, the climate is also very suitable for farming, especially rice, almost three crops a year. But unfortunately, the land there is all wasteland, and it will take at least a few years to become a field, but in these years, I am afraid that the food produced by those wastelands will not be enough to feed the immigrants.

However, although the wasteland is not suitable for planting rice, there is no problem in planting sweet potatoes, after all, this thing does not pick the ground, and the yield is large, so as long as the victims pick out a few plots of land to plant sweet potatoes, I am afraid that there will be a year's ration. Originally, the sweet potato was dedicated to Zhengde by Zhouzhong, and he also left a lot of sweet potatoes at home to plant, but there are too many people in Taiwan, and the sweet potato seedlings provided by his family are not enough.

After writing the fold, immediately sent someone to send it to Zhengde, in addition, Zhou Zhong also took out all the sweet potato seedlings stored at home last year and sent them to Taiwan to plant, sweet potatoes are very cheap, and they are not divided into agricultural time, as long as the weather is warm, just plant on the line, more sweet potatoes that bear for a year, and half a year is OK, but there are fewer sweet potatoes, so I am not particularly anxious.

After dealing with government affairs, Zhou Zhong stood up and stretched, recently it was either military affairs or government affairs, he came to work every day at dawn, and he could only go back at night when he was in charge of the lights, Jinxuan and Lingyun, the two pregnant women, were okay, and now the whole family is taking the two of them as babies, it doesn't matter if they have themselves or not, but they are a little cold to Bai Mengwan, who was just included in the door some time ago.

Thinking of Bai Mengwan, Zhou Chong's face couldn't help but bring a smile, he only thought that this woman was beautiful and smart, and the reason why he was willing to be a concubine for himself was actually just to repay his kindness, but after accepting her into the door, he found that Bai Mengwan really liked herself, and this kind of liking was very pure, and she took care of herself, so it can be said that she is the one who cares about herself the most in the family.

"I've finally finished my military and government affairs today, and I'll be able to relax for a few days, let Mengwan cook two side dishes, and then drink two drinks with me, just relax a little!" Zhou Chong moved his stiff body, and said to himself with a smile, since he has snubbed Bai Mengwan in the past few days, then I will compensate her well today, thinking of Mengwan's fair and delicate body, Zhou Chong also felt a burst of heat in his heart.

When he re-entered the study next week, he went straight to the courtyard where Mengwan lived, but as soon as he entered the courtyard, he heard a burst of crying from the house. (To be continued......)