The first step of Fan Jinyan's plan is very simple, which is to ensure that Li Dingguo returns to Leizhou safely, and will not be killed by Li Zicheng under other pretexts.

How can we get Li Zicheng not to kill him? That's why he had to suffer a little.

Since Fan Jinyan has the nickname of a butcher, he will act in his true colors, so that he can deserve his name as a butcher, and his image will be completely branded in the hearts of the Confucians of the mission.

Therefore, Fan Jinyan killed one of them, showing even more barbarism than a barbarian, that is, brutality.

Immediately afterwards, when he was about to kill Li Dingguo, the head of the mission, Li Tong would bring a group of civil officials to the rescue, further letting Confucianism see his cruelty, and the same for his own people.

Of course, in order for Li Tong to behave more realistically, Fan Jinyan secretly changed the script and asked Wang Dashan to kill Li Tong. He wants the Confucian to think that he is a madman, and if he disagrees, he will open the killing ring.

Then, Sophie's appearance ended in a completely stereotyped his image in the hearts of the Confucians.

Arrogance, arrogance, brutality, madness, and lust.

In addition, Li Dingguo also received 30 military sticks before leaving, and directly lost half of his letter.

Originally, Li Zicheng wanted to get rid of Li Dingguo with the help of Fan Jinyan, but as long as he saw Li Dingguo's miserable situation and the words of the Confucians, he could at least ensure that Li Dingguo's life would not be in danger in a short period of time.

Perhaps, when Li Zicheng heard the Confucians say how Li Dingguo was loyal to him, how he reprimanded Fan Jinyan, and how he could soften his heart, it was not impossible for him to reuse Li Dingguo happily

After Li Dingguo left, Qiongzhou returned to its former calm.

Of course, the so-called calm is only superficial.

In order to cope with the upcoming war, in addition to leaving 1,000 soldiers stationed in Nanzhou, the rest of the 9,000 soldiers of the Nanda Battalion Headquarters and the 2,000 Li soldiers of Qin Yuan's other divisions, a total of 11,000 people, were all transferred to the Beida Camp in Beizhou, and a total of 21,000 people in the Beizhou Battalion defended against Li Zicheng's attack.

At the same time, Fan Jinyan was afraid that Li Zicheng would send people to travel long distances around Guangxi and Yunnan to attack Annan, so he also sent people to inform the general of Annan, Mo Yao, to go north to garrison.

Annan doesn't care if he loses it or not, what he cares about is which dozen or so shipyards along the coast are about to be completed, which is a cornucopia of money, and it will be too delayed to build it if it is destroyed. Time is money, what is lost is not time, it is silver spent in vain!

As for the sea, Fan Jinyan didn't pay much attention to it. After all, in the entire southeast coastal area, and even in the entire South Seas, except for the Dutch, there is no one who can match his eyes.

However, Fan Jinyan never thought of taking the initiative to attack, and he did not have the slightest advantage in the number of soldiers, and the casualties of the active landing operation were too great, which was not what he wanted. Moreover, he also has to give Li Dingguo time to lay out.

The most important thing is that Fan Jinyan still wants to see what way Li Zicheng has to build a bridge with a sand boat to connect the two places.

Could it be that this old boy really can't do any spells?

Just because of curiosity, Fan Jinyan never sent a fleet to destroy Li Zicheng's shipyard, but only ordered them to guard it strictly, so as not to be exploited by this old guy

Leizhou Mansion Shunming Palace, Yin'an Palace.

This used to be the yamen of the prefect of Leizhou Prefecture, after Li Zicheng occupied here, he turned the prefect's yamen into his own palace, and the yamen hall with the words "Ming Jing hanging" was naturally changed by him to the Yin'an Palace for discussing politics.

Regardless of scale or decoration, it naturally cannot be compared with the Jinluan Hall of Daming Palace in Beijing, and there is no comparison at all.

The hall is full of generals wearing the Ming Dynasty Mingguang armor, and under the hanging plaque of the mirror is Li Zicheng, who is wearing a black and red dragon robe, which is the color he specially chose when he chose the dragon robe, and he admired the perseverance and indomitable spirit of the ancient Qin people. Therefore, he chose black as the main color of the dragon robe.

fled all the way south and was defeated all the way, Li Zicheng was almost desperate, but after knowing that Qiongzhou was rich, the ambition that was about to be extinguished was rekindled.

In Li Zicheng's view, as long as he takes Qiongzhou, uses the wealth of the enemy country in Qiongzhou, recruits troops and horses, and rebuilds the Dashun Empire, it is not impossible.

At this time, Li Zicheng regained his former vigor, and asked the generals below with a smile: "How is the training of the 50,000 soldiers?" How many warships were built? ”

Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew and his most trusted person, on the surface, Li Dingguo is the second person, but in fact he is, and he is also the person who is responsible for the training of soldiers.

Li Guo, who was in his early thirties, was in the prime of life, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a beard, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like he was in his fifties, but he took a step forward, hugged his fists and replied: "Your Majesty, the training of soldiers has been completed, and what is missing is to go to the battlefield and see blood." ”

Although Li Zicheng is no longer the emperor, his old subordinates still regard him as the Son of Heaven as always.

"Hahaha" Li Zicheng laughed out loud after hearing this, and then said excitedly: "Okay, very good, what about the battleship?" ”

"Your Majesty, 100,000 people have built it day and night, and they have hoarded thousands of ships." Tian Jianxiu, a subordinate general standing next to Li Guo, replied.

"Okay." Li Zicheng patted the armrest of the chair, stood up, shouted hello, and then said: "Order the soldiers of all departments to prepare, and send troops to Qiongzhou in ten days."

"Your Majesty." At this time, Tian Jianxiu hurriedly objected: "The battleship is very easy to catch fire, if this matter is not handled properly, our army will definitely be attacked by the Qiongzhou Navy!" ”

Li Zicheng was not only not annoyed, but said with a laugh: "Brother Zong, tell Jianxiu to let this kid also gain knowledge." ”

Yuan Zongdi is the same as Li Guo, he looks like a tiger, but he is more rugged, I saw that he also laughed, "Your Majesty has long ordered your ministers to use cement to create some good things, which can not only prevent fire attacks, but also guard against artillery attacks."

It turned out that the good thing that Yuan Zongdi said was cement.

With the continuous expansion of the cement factory, Fan Jinyan gradually allowed merchants to sell this building material, but he didn't expect that this thing would be used by Li Zicheng and deal with him in turn.

In fact, their method is very simple, that is, to smear the exposed side of the warship with a layer of cement, which has a certain fire prevention effect, and will not sink because of the weight.

As for guarding against artillery attacks, it was a bit of a technical work, according to their idea, that is, to make a batch of square stone bars one meter long and one foot in diameter out of cement and iron bars in advance. After all the battleships were connected with iron locks, the stone bars were built into two strong walls, and the soldiers could shuttle through the safe passage in the middle of the artillery fire on both sides.

In this way, a strait that seemed to be like a moat was broken by Fan Jinyan, a financial fan.

This battle, whether it succeeds or fails, will go down in history.

(To be continued.) )