"Honorable lord, when I negotiate with Lord Mao in a while, can I let him pay part of the remuneration with tea and silk?"

The red-haired fan asked again.

"Absolutely."

Lu Yan said with a smile.

It's a shame that everyone else turned their heads in other directions, and there were others who wanted tea and silk as a reward, instead of silver.

After saying hello to the burgers guarding the gate, Lu Yan led them to Mao Wenlong's mansion.

"Sir Grenwell, the captain of the Revenge, has seen my lord."

After seeing Mao Wenlong, the red-haired man immediately saluted a gentleman and said.

He was the captain of the British Revenge, and many warships in the British Navy were named after the Revenge, and Lu Yan's one was one of the most famous.

It took part in the great invasion of Britain by the Spanish Armada, in which it and the Triumph inflicted heavy damage on the flagship of the Spanish Armada, the Saint-Martin.

Later, in the Battle of Flores, six ships of the British fleet went to rob the Spaniards of their treasure ships, but they were ambushed by the Spaniards.

In order to cover the evacuation of the other companions, the "Revenge" broke off alone, and a desperate battle took place in which one battleship faced 50 warships alone.

Eventually, the ship was captured, and its captain, Grenwell, died of his wounds.

So Grenwell was not only a British navy, but also a typical pirate.

With a displacement of 460 tons and 36 heavy guns and a number of light guns, the Revenge was a good warship in Britain at the time, and of course it could not be compared with the Spanish Armada.

But even so, it cost Lu Yan 1840 points of combat exploits.

Mao Wenlong glanced at them nonchalantly, and then talked to Grenwell about the conditions.

After some "intense" bargaining, the two parties finally reached an agreement that both parties were very satisfied with.

Mao Wenlong hired these sailors to fight for him at the price of 5 silver per sailor and a certain amount of tea and silk, and he would provide them with food, gunpowder consumption, and other expenses, and he had to try to persuade the imperial court to allow them to trade.

Grenwell and his sailors were to fight for Mao Wenlong with all their might, and they were to obey all reasonable orders of Mao Wenlong before driving out the Jurchen reinforcements.

Both parties are very satisfied with this agreement.

Mao Wenlong felt that he had taken a considerable advantage, and he only needed to pay a salary of 5 yuan a month to hire a gunner, and the monthly salary of any soldier in the nine sides was more than three times that of this.

As for tea and silk, Mao Wenlong didn't pay attention to it at all.

A large number of Dock forts had recently surrendered to them, so they had captured a great deal, and a few of them would have been enough to deal with the sailors.

Grenwell was also very satisfied, and tea and silk were in their possession only to the aristocracy.

Lu Yan was also very satisfied, and his goal could be regarded as achieved.

All in all, it's an agreement that satisfies all three parties.

After the matter of his greatest concern was settled, Ghuawell ordered all the artillery to be carried to the city, and then built a fort on the city wall.

The head of Zhenjiang Fort is only 3 meters, which is too narrow.

Whether it was an 11-pounder, a 16-pounder or a 24-pounder cannon, the shortest was three meters, and the walls could not fit at all.

Lu Yan also began to redeem all the remaining battle exploits, and one elite warrior after another joined his garrison army of Zhenjiang Fort.

After seeing these elite people, he smiled Mao Wenlong from ear to ear, and praised the great leader Xue It was too interesting, and he must ask the court to add him as the capital when he turned around.

In this regard, Lu Yan could only pout secretly, the person you should really thank is me.

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Beijing City, where the Ming Imperial City is located, with the advent of autumn, Beijing, which has been poisoned by high temperatures, finally ushered in a touch of coolness, and the cool breeze makes people feel extremely comfortable.

But Beijing's high-ranking officials and civilians felt little pleasure.

Since the war with Houjin, the Ming Dynasty has been defeated repeatedly.

Fushun was lost, Qinghe was lost, Kaiyuan was lost, Tieling was lost, Shenyang was lost, and even Liaoyang, the largest fortified city outside the Guan, was lost.

The successive defeats made the people in Beijing panic, and many people worried that the Jurchens would not break into the pass like the Mongols.

Many high-ranking officials and nobles have quietly sent their families to the south, and even the Beijing officials are no longer as hot as before, and even some Beijing officials have taken the initiative to request to be sent to the south.

The good news is not nothing, that is, the famous "bear barbarian" Xiong Tingbi has finally been employed.

The prestige of Xiong Manzi is still very effective, after the Jurchens captured Kaiyuan and Tieling, as soon as the imperial court sent Xiong Manzi to the Northeast, the situation in the Northeast was immediately stabilized, and the Jurchens did not dare to invade the south for several years.

Now that the imperial court has reactivated Xiong Manzi, presumably hearing Xiong Manzi's prestige, the Jurchens should also be a little timid.

But the good news didn't spread for long, and the news of the discord between Xiong Manzi and Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, came again.

Xiong Manzi insisted on the defensive, and according to his tripartite arrangement, Quang Ninh should build a fortress along the Liao River and meet the Jurchen attack head-on with cavalry.

On the sea, boat divisions were widely distributed in Tianjin, Denglai and other places, constantly attacking and harassing the coastal areas of the Jurchens.

The east is connected to North Korea, and the side cooperates, relying on each other's momentum, which is his tripartite arrangement.

However, Wang Huazhen, the new upstart of the imperial court, insisted on attacking, and now the armies from all walks of life are constantly rushing to Guangning, and Wang Huazhen's confidence is becoming more and more sufficient.

He first sent 20,000 foot riders to guard the Sancha River, lined up along the river, every dozens of steps, built a shack, and placed six soldiers.

At the same time, he believed that he should propose to borrow troops from the Mongol Lin Dan Khan, if he could borrow 400,000 troops from the Mongols, plus with Li Yongfang as the internal response, once the army crossed the Liao River, the Jurchens would definitely collapse themselves.

The two had a lot of trouble in the court because of their different political views, and Xiong Manzi was originally a Liaodong governor, so he should control Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong.

However, Xiong Manzi has a relatively straightforward temperament, and often speaks badly and hurts people, and many important ministers in the court have a very bad relationship with him, and the popularity of people in the court is extremely poor, and not many people are willing to speak for him at all.

On the contrary, Wang Huazhen is different, and now all important positions in the DPRK and China are controlled by the Donglin Party.

Ye Xianggao, the head of the cabinet of Donglin Party members, was his teacher, and Zhang Heming, the secretary of the Ministry of War, had a very bad relationship with Xiong Manzi, so he fully supported Wang Huazhen, but he did everything he could, and even instigated Wang Huazhen not to be controlled by Xiong Manzi.

In addition, it is said that the eunuch party has a good relationship with it, so Wang Huazhen can be said to be windy and rainy in the court, and more than 140,000 of the 150,000 troops in Guangning are all in his hands, and he does not listen to Xiong Manzi's orders.

This caused the strange phenomenon that the governor of Liaodong restrained the strategy of Liaodong instead.

The reason why Xiong Manzi is called a barbarian is, of course, he is also a short-tempered person, and of course he is almost mad when he is insulted like this.

So Xiong Manzi and Wang Huazhen kept quarreling because of the Liao matter, I will definitely oppose what you agree with, and I will support what you oppose.

Neither of them is a broad-minded person, but because of the discord between the two, the Liao affair became more and more inextricable.

In the end, under the mediation of the princes of the court and the emperor, Xiong Manzi's dignified Liaodong Jingluo was transferred out of Liaodong.

Of course, the common people of Beijing are aware of the disagreement.

The court of the Ming Dynasty is like a dilapidated house leaking everywhere, and when something happens, the old and young masters in Beijing will always know it as soon as possible.

Since ancient times, the old and young masters of Beijing City love to talk about the world's major events, so they all point to the country, inspire words, and hate to replace them with their bodies.

Therefore, they often sigh for a long time, calling the future of the Ming Dynasty not good.

But on this day, a cavalry outside Beijing suddenly rushed towards the city gate.

The soldiers defending the city were about to stop him, when a word came from his mouth.

"Eight hundred miles expedited! Get out of the way! Death to those who stand in my way! ”

Hearing this, the soldiers hurriedly retreated, and at the same time ordered the common people and homeless people who had entered the city to quickly dodge, so as not to affect the cavalry who reported the news.

"Border Emergency! Zhenjiang Fort victory! ”

At the moment of entering the city, the cavalryman shouted loudly.

As soon as I heard this, the people around me boiled.

"Zhenjiang Fort victory? Where is Zhenjiang Fort? ”

Soon someone asked.

Many people can't answer this question, after all, Zhenjiang Fort is really remote.

Moreover, information is not developed in these years, and many people have never even been to places hundreds of miles away, let alone Liaodong, which is thousands of miles away.

As the cavalryman shouted all the way, more and more people knew about the victory of Zhenjiang Fort.

More and more people knew about this incident, and the city of Beijing was also full of talents, and soon people who had been officials in northeastern Liaoning told them that Zhenjiang Fort was a military fort near the Yalu River, which was originally used to defend against the Japanese invaders.

This makes many people wonder how good news can come from such a remote place.

The border war has always been a matter that people are keen to discuss, not to mention that the imperial court has won a big victory after successive defeats.

As a result, the victory of Zhenjiang Fort has become a hot topic of discussion.

Some people from some sources sent people to inquire, and after the dissolution of the court, people finally understood the ins and outs of this matter.

Mao Wenlong, a guerrilla training guerrilla, led more than 200 troops to the sea frontier 3,000 miles away, not only recovering the coastal islands.

And got acquainted with a group of righteous bandits, with the help of this group of righteous bandits, they not only broke through Zhenjiang Fort and killed more than 1,000 enemies, but also the nearby forts heard the wind and returned to the Forte for hundreds of miles.

When it was the first major victory since the war between the Ming and the Houjin.

After knowing the news, many people were dumbfounded, the princes of the DPRK and China were bound by countless bonds, and the hundreds of thousands of troops gathered were all defeated in successive battles, but they were defeated by more than 200 people in this area.

That's weird.

Moreover, it is said that the princes of the court and the central government have a lot of praise for Mao Wenlong, and they have asked for additional reinforcements to Mao Wenlong, the allocation of materials, and the addition of silver taels.

Of course, the Holy Lord agreed to this, and decided to promote him to the rank of general.

After the news came out, the old and young masters in Beijing were all overjoyed.

Many people set up wine and banquets to celebrate this rare victory.

Of course, the imperial court is happy to see all this.

Recently, the bad news in Liaodong has simply piled up, one after another.

This great victory was able to calm the hearts of those who were panicking.

But what they didn't know was that the imperial decree was not well executed.

Those reinforcements either didn't move at all, or they didn't move forward after rushing to the Sancha River, and they didn't even allocate any supplies to Mao Wenlong's hands, Mao Wenlong only received a pitiful 1,700 taels of silver in the first year of the Apocalypse, of course, this bit of silver has to go through the layers of officials to peel the skin, and it would be good to have 800 taels in Mao Wenlong's hands.

Other than that, there was not any supplies.

In other words, if 200 people are counted, each person can receive 4 taels of silver, which is not counting the pension for the soldiers who died in battle.

Of course, if you add the new Ding that Mao Wenlong just recruited and those under Lu Yan, they will definitely not be able to get one or two in their hands.

Mao Wenlong set off in May, and it was a total of 8 months by the end of the year.

Therefore, if you only rely on the silver issued by the imperial court, Mao Wenlong's subordinates will definitely starve to death if they kill the enemy.

Therefore, this year, Mao Wenlong could only fight alone.

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Just when Lu Yan was preparing for the Jurchen counterattack, Liaoyang City.

After capturing Liaoyang City, Hachi has been very busy.

On the one hand, he issued the very famous policy of granting land to the people, in which all Han Chinese cultivated land was deprived, and then it was divided into three men, and one hectare of land was planted together.

Of course, he did this not with good intentions, wanting to achieve greatness, but to better suck blood from the Han people to feed his own army.

And when he was old, this policy was also completely reversed by him.

When he was old, he not only slaughtered Han Chinese, but he drove all of them to the farms to work as slaves, even in the army.

In addition, he also planned to move the capital from Hetuara to Liaoyang, for which he also requisitioned a large number of Han Chinese to build Xinjing.

Of course, his decision was opposed by many post-Kim ministers.

They thought Hetuara was very good, it was surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there were many properties of their own, and they had long been used to it.

If they move to Liaoyang City, they will feel unaccustomed.

However, Hachi insisted on going his own way and insisted on moving to Liaoyang.

In fact, to a certain extent, Nu*rhachi's decision was right, and it was Nu*erhachi's move to move the capital from Hetuara to Liaoyang, which made the Jurchens get rid of the Mongols' habit of grabbing and running, so as to truly enter the level of competing with the Ming Dynasty for world dominance.

In addition to these, many Han Chinese were driven out of Liaoyang.

**In order to avoid the sinicization of the Jurchens, Hachi maintained the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens. It was planned that the Jurchens would live in a group in Liaoyang City, not mixing with the Han people, and of course all the ancestral property of the Han people belonged to them.

Coupled with a lot of things such as forced head shaving, **Hachi has been busy recently.

However, what happened in Zhenjiang Fort finally disrupted all this.

"Qi Qi Great Khan, Xincheng Zhao guerrilla sent someone to report, and a Ming army suddenly appeared near Zhenjiang Fort. This Ming army numbered about 400 people, and they were led by the training guerrilla Mao Wenlong, and not only broke through Zhenjiang Fort, but also occupied a large area of nearby territory. The fort officials of Tangzhan and Dangerous Mountain were captured by those fort people and sacrificed to Mao Wenlong, and Kuan Dian and Sanyang had already surrendered to the enemy. They also slaughtered the Jurchens on a large scale, and the Jurchens within hundreds of miles were almost completely culled. ”

One day, when Hachi was holding a meeting of the Eight Great Gushan, a personal soldier walked in with a military report from the front.

"What do you say? Bring it to me. ”

Hachi couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this.

Those Baylors were also very surprised, which horn of this Mao Wenlong came out of nowhere, and how did he poke out such a big basket.

After reading the report handed by the soldiers, Hachi's face became extremely gloomy.

Since the war with the Ming Dynasty, he can be regarded as a hundred victories, but he didn't expect to capsize in the gutter and be stabbed by hundreds of Ming troops.

"Father Khan, a small Ming army dares to offend our tiger power, why don't I lead my men and horses to destroy this Ming army."

At this time, the Great Belle said.

Since Dai Shan was revealed to have had an affair with **Hachi's Fujin, while being cautious, he has also kept working hard to perform in order to redeem his impression in **Hachi.

As long as **Hachi orders it, he will complete it to the letter.

Because he knows that Hachi is a very ruthless person.

He not only killed his younger brother Shuerhaqi, his eldest son Chu Ying, but also killed the Fujin who had an affair with him.

Killing his wife, killing his brother and killing his son is a person like Hachi, tiger poison does not eat children, and Hachi's extermination of humanity can be seen from this.

Huang Taiji's eyes flashed, and he also stood up and said, "Father Khan, leave this kind of trivial matter to me." Recently, there have been a lot of things in Liaoyang, and I'm afraid that the eldest brother needs to be in charge himself. ”

Hachi gave them a cold look, knowing that they were fighting in the dark again.

Dai Shan didn't speak, but his face couldn't help but change.

All the sources that exposed his affair with **Hachi Fujin pointed to Huang Taiji, originally after Chu Ying's death, Dai Shan was successfully promoted to the eldest son.

In addition, he has the two banners in his hands, and his strength is extremely strong, and it is almost expected that he will take over the throne after Hachi's death.

But as soon as this incident came out, he took over the Khan position almost zero, and it was already good if Hachi didn't kill him.

Therefore, among the four most powerful kings of the Eight Banners, Mang Gurtai is brave and unscrupulous, and it is impossible for Hachi to pass on the throne to him.

Amin is the son of Shulhaqi, and Hachi is very wary of him, and it is good not to kill him.

Therefore, it was almost the only option for Hachi to pass the throne to Huang Taiji, because no one could compete with him.

Now that Hachi is old, although Huang Taiji only has a banner in his hands, he is prestigious in Houjin, and he doesn't know how many people secretly stammered him.

The Ming army in Zhenjiang Fort was not large, as long as the army sent would definitely be able to exterminate it, it was obvious that Huang Taiji did not want him to make this contribution.

For the secret battle between them, Hachi is happy to see it, so that he can take advantage of the consolidation of his position.

Therefore, Hachi did not break their minds, but said with a calm face: "Don't worry, you two don't worry, you all have something to do this time." ”

Dai Shan glanced at Huang Taiji with an ugly face, and Huang Taiji smiled, as if he didn't look at Dai Shan's unkindness.

"Amin, Huang Taiji."

"My nephew is here."

"The son is here."

Amin and Huang Taiji hurriedly responded.

"I order you to take 3,000 men and horses each to Zhenjiang Fort to quell the rebellion, and kill anyone who dares to follow the thief. After quelling the rebellion, the people of Zhenjiang were relocated inland. ”

Hachi said in an extremely cold tone.

"Yes, Great Khan."

They hurriedly said.

Huang Taiji smiled, but Dai Shan was not good.

"By the way, there is also Tong Yangxing, give Tong Yangxing a clockwork sweat, if he wants to avenge his brother, you can let him lead his men and horses to go with you."

"Yes, Great Khan."

"Dai Shan, Mang Gurtai."

Hachi said again.

"The son is here."

"I order you to lead 2,000 soldiers and horses each to move the people of Jinzhou and other coastal areas to Fuzhou. After sixty miles along the coast, I don't want to see another Nikan. ”

Hachi said coldly.

"Yes, Great Khan."

Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai hurriedly said.

"Go and prepare now, remember, go early and come back early."

In Hachi's eyes, this is just a small task, and there will be no twists and turns at all, but he didn't expect that because of the appearance of a small butterfly, it would set off a monstrous storm.