Chapter 177: The Southeast's Turmoil (I)

Just when Wanyan Haiya was looking for clues left by Zhao Jun on the old battlefield.

Shi Yufeng set foot on Yunguam Island again, but this time, Shi Yufeng came to Yunguam Island without the scenery of a fleet driving into the dock of Yunguam Island in the past.

This time, Shi Yufeng only had two lonely boats sailing to the dock of Yunguam Island alone.

When Shi Yufeng set foot on Yunguam Island, his image was very different from the past, and Shi Yufeng was a Confucian scarf and a Confucian shirt, dressed as an elegant scholar. But this time, Shi Yufeng, who stepped on Yunguam Island, was in short brown straw shoes, and this outfit was no different from a fisherman who returned from fishing, so He Tengxiao didn't recognize him when he saw him at first sight.

It wasn't until Shi Yufeng called him General He that He Tengxiao realized that this was Shi Yufeng. Shi Yufeng stood in front of He Tengxiao like a fisherman, and looked at the two small boats that sailed into the dock, behind the two small boats were empty, and there was a vast sea with no end in sight, the sea was very clean, and there were no extra boats

"Why is Brother Yufeng so embarrassed?" He Tengxiao was surprised.

"It's a long story, General, the trading company speaks." Shi Yufeng walked towards He Tengxiao with a fist on the island.

Shijia Trading Company is the largest and most elaborate trading company on Unguam Island. This land is the land used by He Tengxiao in the past to be assigned to Shijiajian Trading Company.

In charge of the trading company is Wen Kelong, a merchant of the Shi clan, and Wen Kelong has had a good time in Yunguam this year, so he is not at ease. The Shi family monopolized the trading in Gaizhou through this trading company, and three months ago, the Shi family's business gradually reached Fuzhou, and they had taken the first step towards Fuzhou. Ten years of operation in Liaoyang City is not worth the results of one year of operation here.

Childe's vision is right, Childe sees the right person. He Tengxiao's performance in the past year and a half even exceeded everyone's expectations, who would have thought that He Tengxiao could leap from a hundred households to a general in one year? With this rocket-like promotion speed, I am afraid that in the past hundred years, there has only been such a demon in Liaodong.

Shi Yufeng's embarrassed state also surprised Wen Kelong, who would dare to believe that the person who looked like a fisherman in front of him would be the personable son and brother of the past.

Shi Yufeng ignored Wen Kelong, who was stunned, and went straight to the trading company to freshen up and change into clean and comfortable clothes. When he appeared in front of people again, Shi Yufeng seemed to be another personable son.

Shi Yufeng told He Tengxiao about his experience of going north this time, and this trip to the north was his most embarrassing trip to sea so far.

A complete armed fleet went to sea and went north, but it was robbed by pirates on the way. It was what most people thought was safe. In previous years, when pirates and pirates were rampant, they would not appear in that area.

The result can be imagined, the ferocious pirates attacked Shi Yufeng's armed fleet, there were a large number of pirates, and although Shi Yufeng's armed fleet was well-equipped, it was finally defeated by the large number of pirates.

All the supplies in the fleet, along with the ships, became the spoils of the pirates. When the pirates were about to occupy the ship, the old crew cut the rope and lowered the lifeboat to escape. Coincidentally, when they disembarked, it happened to be a storm and waves, and the pirates did not chase after them, so they escaped by chance.

The appearance of Haikou in the sea area where it did not usually appear in the past can only show that in the southeast coastal area, the trouble of Haikou and Japanese pirates has become more serious.

Last year, the imperial court issued an edict to strictly order Xia Zhenxian, the governor of Jiangnan (Jinling), to supervise the matter of clearing and suppressing the Haikou bandits. He also issued an order to focus on clearing the pirates in order to restore the empire's maritime trade routes, and did not allocate Xia Zhenxian's military funds to clean up the pirates. In the year since the decree was issued, Xia Zhenxian's suppression of Haikou has not only achieved the expected results, but has also caused a scandalous incident of Jinling sailors killing their bosses.

Even the internal military spirit of the Jinling Navy Division, which relied on the extermination of the Japanese and Haikou, is still like this, and what else can Xia Zhenxian do.

Thinking of Xia Zhenxian's identity as Lu Zongcheng's protégé, He Tengxiao guessed, will Xia Zhenxian be the next Gao Guang?

"I can't imagine that the pirates and pirates on the southeast coast are rampant to such an extent." Although He Tengxiao was not very optimistic about the situation in the southeast of the empire, the deterioration of the situation in the southeast sea was still beyond his expectations. ”

He Tengxiao sighed with emotion.

Shi Yufeng's fleet was hijacked by pirates, and the supplies this time were gone. But in the next step, to develop a large island like Changsheng Island, it is difficult to move an inch without enough materials.

"Don't say it's Jiangnan and Zhejiang, now even the water under Fujian is much deeper than Jiangnan and Zhejiang." Shi Yufeng said.

In recent years, the Huguang area has been full of pirates and water pirates, and the southern part of the Yangtze River (i.e., Nanzhili) and Zhejiang have been rampant, and only the Fujian branch sandwiched between the two is very peaceful, and there has been no major movement.

The situation in Fujian is very similar to that in Liaodong, the Central Plains was in turmoil at the end of the Tang Dynasty, a large number of Han people moved south, and the eight major ethnic groups in the Central Plains moved south and entered Fujian. The eight major ethnic groups that moved into Fujian, led by the royal family, are known as the Fujian Eight Tribes. The migration of the eight ethnic groups into Fujian has greatly promoted the development of Fujian and its integration with the political and cultural integration of the Central Plains.

The Eight Great Clans even became the label of Fujian for a time. During the Southern Tang Dynasty, shortly after the Tang Dynasty fell apart. The rest of the seven major clans in Fujian respected the Wang clan as the king, known as the king of Fujian in history, and established the Fujian state with Fuzhou as the capital. In the chaotic period of the Hu people and China, Fujian in the southeast rarely maintained such a pure land.

The good times did not last long, after the death of the first king of Fujian, Wang Shenzhi, due to the young age of his son, a coup d'état occurred in Fujian, and the Southern Tang Dynasty took advantage of the fire to rob, taking advantage of the internal turmoil in Fujian to attack the Fujian State, and the Fujian State repelled the attack of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but it was also greatly injured, and since then it has been in a slump, and finally it was eaten and annexed by the Southern Tang Dynasty. The state of Min ceased to exist.

Although the Min Empire has long since disappeared with the wheel of history, the Eight Great Clans still have a decisive influence in Fujian. In particular, the Fuzhou royal family is worthy of the name of the largest family in Fujian.

After the early occupation of Fujian in the early days of the empire, the measures taken towards the Fujian region were similar to those of Liaodong. Use the influence of the Eight Great Clans in Fujian to control Fujian.

But unlike the four major families in Liaodong, the power of the eight major clans in Fujian has been weakened little by little in the past three hundred years, and now the eight major clans in Fujian basically have no real power left. did not have the same heavy troops as the four great families of Liaodong.

Shi Yufeng said that the depth of the water in Fujian can set off waves in Fujian, except for the eight major families headed by the royal family in Fujian, He Tengxiao can't think of anyone else who can set off waves in Fujian.

Nanzhi and Zhejiang are still making trouble, and Fujian is in turmoil again, which is really eventful. (To be continued.) )