Just when Lu Yan was about to raise troops in Fuzhou Mansion, he rode a flying horse to report.

The Dutch sent six warships to attack Chinese fishing boats, capture Chinese fishermen, and force them to build a fortress on Penghu Lake.

A Penghu fisherman took advantage of the Dutch's unpreparedness and stole a fishing boat to report to the police.

Unexpectedly, the war broke out in Fujian, and those officials had the strength to pay attention to the fisherman.

This fisherman had no choice but to inform the rebels, after all, Lu Yan's reputation was still very good in Penghu.

It was only at this time that Lu Yan thought of the Dutch's invasion of Penghu.

Due to the recent fierce battle with the Ming army, he actually forgot about it.

This couldn't help but make him ponder, what should he do?

Whether to continue the attack on the Ming army or to destroy the Dutch.

Jia Xu quickly understood Lu Yan's thoughts, so he glanced at him, and then said to Lu Yan: "Lord Wang, it's just a group of barbarians, at most you only need to send one general to go, and you will definitely be able to pacify this group of barbarians." And this is a matter that the imperial court should be in charge of, and it has nothing to do with us. ”

Lu Yan shook his head.

"You don't understand, the fortress is not easy to fight. And the Dutch dare to kill our fishermen, if I don't know, and if I do, then I can't ignore it. ”

As an angry young man in later generations, when he encountered this kind of foreign invasion, of course he should put aside his prejudices and put his guns to the outside first.

As for joining forces with Da Ming, don't think about it, even without him, Da Ming dragged on for a year to drive the Dutch out.

By then, the daylilies would be cold, and the fishermen who had been captured would either be exhausted to death or sold into slavery, so the attack on Penghu Lake had to be done as soon as possible.

Hearing this, Jia Xu couldn't help but feel extremely dissatisfied.

Isn't this thing a great thing?

However, Jia Xu strongly opposed Lu Yan's plan to personally conquer Penghu.

"Now the official army of the Ming Dynasty should have been assembled, if you go to quell the rebellion at this time, once the north and south roads of the Ming Dynasty attack at the same time, in case we fail because of insufficient troops, wouldn't it be a pity."

Jia Xu said bitterly.

Lu Yan shook his head, now that his strength is 17,000, it is still possible to resist the attack of the Ming army for the time being.

Jia Xu's temperament is simply to regard all living beings as ants, and to see himself or his great cause.

"Don't worry, I will be back in ten days at most, and it won't have much impact."

Seeing that Jia Xu still wanted to persuade again, Lu Yan waved his hand and said: "I have made up my mind about this matter, and the military advisor doesn't need to persuade again." And the Dutch projectile division, which can be destroyed in the palm of its hand, will not affect us too much. ”

"Give the order and order the fleet to prepare for the battle. This time I was going to take a thousand foot riders with me, while the others continued to follow the plan. After capturing Fuzhou, the city defense was strengthened and prepared to deal with the attack of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Yan sighed.

It seems that his plan to go south has been put on hold for the time being, and his plan really can't catch up with the changes.

Seeing that Lu Yan had made up his mind, Jia Xu was not easy to persuade again, and finally began to prepare for Lu Yan's expedition to Penghu.

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Just when Lu Yan was about to go to Penghu to exterminate the Dutch, outside the city of Hangzhou, the wind and the sun were beautiful.

However, there was no usual scene of busy traffic, and a large number of officers and soldiers guarded the official roads, prohibiting civilians from going on the road.

Some officials and squires were focused together, waiting under the scorching sun for the bandit suppression officers sent by the imperial court, the governors of the four provinces.

At present, Li Jing's army has moved north again and left the confines of Wenzhou Prefecture.

This has seriously touched the interests of these officials and gentry.

Every war is a major reshuffle of interests, even if these gentry have children in the court.

But in the face of the rebellion, there is nowhere to go, once the city is slaughtered, then it is the decline of a family.

Moreover, they heard that Lu Yan had always liked to raid the house, which could not make these gentry feel very worried.

Therefore, they spare no effort to suppress thieves.

They have mobilized various relations, urging the imperial court to send a large army to suppress the thieves as soon as possible.

As for whether the imperial army can exterminate the rebels, these people also have different opinions.

Some people think that they can win, after all, they are just a rebel army, how can they withstand the army of the imperial court.

But some people feel pessimistic, Lu Yan was born in Liaodong and should be familiar with military affairs.

Moreover, coupled with the fact that they have been almost invincible recently, Fujian and Zhejiang do not know how many armies have been defeated by them, even the army of the imperial court does not dare to say that they will win.

After waiting for two hours, a carriage was finally late under the escort of officers and soldiers.

The officials hurriedly greeted them, and then a thin man with a tired but smiling face walked down.

"See Lord Overseer King."

The governor of Zhejiang hurriedly stepped forward and said.

The officials from all walks of life in the back also hurriedly stepped forward to pay their respects.

With a smile on his face, the thin literati whispered, "Ladies and gentlemen, please get up quickly." ”

This thin literati is Wang Zaijin, who is the secretary of the military department and concurrently serves as the military affairs of Jingluo Ji, Liao, Denglai and Tianjin.

Originally, his task was to build a city and fight with the Jurchens, but fighting with the Jurchens was really a business with his head on his head.

Recently, Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, and Xiong Tingbi, who patrolled the east, defeated Guangning, and now they are all in prison, so it depends on when the knife will be cut.

Far away, Liaodong Jingluo Yang Hao attacked in four ways, defeated Salhu, and was also betrayed to death, waiting to be executed.

There is also Yuan Yingtai, the governor of Liaodong, who committed suicide because of the defeat of Liaoshen.

There are a few good endings for the governor of Jinglu who fought with the Jurchens, and the senior officials of the court and the central government did not regard going out of the customs as if they were on a ghost road.

Zhang Heming, the secretary of the military department, was worried about the responsibility for the defeat of Guangning, so he asked himself to supervise Shanhaiguan.

The ministers of the court and the central government were overjoyed, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse was also like a savior, giving him an official promotion and a sword, and giving him a python robe and a jade belt monk's sword.

But I didn't expect to walk for 17 days before I reached Shanhaiguan, and after arriving at Shanhaiguan, I just arrested spies, treated the Mongols well, and it didn't take long for me to resign and return home on the grounds of illness, which made the princes of the court and China angry.

Later, he appointed the governor of Xuanfu, Xie Jingbang, as the strategy of Liaodong, but Xie Jingbang was extremely timid and regarded Liaodong as a ghost.

Three times in a row, he resigned from his heavy responsibilities.

Angry, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was furious and dismissed him from his post as a citizen and never used it.

Since then, no one has been willing to go through Liaodong.

However, there must still be people in Liaodong, and Shanhaiguan is too close to Beijing.

In case the Jurchens come in at any time, they will directly hit the city of Beijing.

No one wants to serve as the Liaodong Economic Strategy, so it will be pushed by Tingtui.

So in March of the second year of the Apocalypse, the Emperor of the Apocalypse summoned the Nine Secretaries of Kedao to elect the Jingluo in the Central Government.

Each person has a pen and fills in their own candidates.

After being busy from morning to evening, Wang Zaijin finally returned with the highest number of votes and became the best choice for Liaodong Economic Strategy.

Although everyone wants to be promoted and make a fortune, this Liaodong strategy is a hot potato that absolutely no one wants to do.

After learning that he had become the governor of Liaodong, Wang Zaijin was almost frightened, so he immediately resigned from his important position.

However, Emperor Tianqi was not allowed, and he was promoted to the secretary of the military department and concurrently served as the right deputy capital of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and passed through Jiliao, Tianjian, Denglai and other affairs.

This is an unprecedented position with enormous power.

But Wang Zaijin did not have the slightest sense of joy, and if he could, he was still willing to be his own soldier.

He understood that if he resigned, the angry Emperor of the Apocalypse might send him to prison, so he had to take office.

But before he took office, he played a series of games, claiming that Shanhaiguan was not enough to rely on, and devalued the value of Shanhaiguan.

And he also unabashedly proposed in the recital that it would be his great luck if he could be dismissed and returned to his hometown.

For Wang Zaijin's shamelessness, the ministers of the court and the central government were extremely despised, but they did not mean to dismiss him at all.

dismissed him, and no one was willing to supervise Ji Liao, so it was better to let him stand up to him there.

Later, after learning that Lu Yan had raised troops to serve the queen, Wang Zaijin was simply overjoyed.

This is simply his savior!

So he asked to go and lead troops to quell the rebellion.

After all, compared to the murderous Jurchens, Lu Yan looks obviously a soft persimmon.

For Wang Zaijin's careful thinking, from the emperor to the courtiers, it couldn't be clearer.

There is only one answer to all of them, and that is no.

But Wang Zaijin did not give up, and he was still sparse from time to time.

claimed that if he was allowed to lead the army, it would be absolutely easy to counter the rebellion, and offered his own counterinsurgency strategy.

Later, Wang Zaijin proposed to spend 930,000 silver to build a side wall in the Balipu area.

was vigorously opposed by his subordinates Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Yuanhua and others.

Yuan Chonghuan even made a small report to Shoufu Ye Xianggao twice, accusing Wang Zaijin of not doing it.

Later, Emperor Tianqi sent Emperor Tianzi and Dongge University scholars to the front line in person to see if they wanted to build a side wall.

As a result, it was found that Wang Dajin seemed to be only half a bucket of water in military affairs, and he only understood a little, but he didn't understand everything.

So he proposed to Emperor Tianqi that it was not enough to be in Jin, and Wang Zaijin should be replaced.

Although Wang Zaijin was very dissatisfied with Sun Chengzong's contempt, he was still willing to stay away from this dangerous position, so he was willing to go to quell the rebellion again.

Later, after the deliberation of the ministers of the court and the central government, the armies of the four provinces also needed an important minister to go and control them.

It's good to simply send the king to Jin, as for the passage through Liaodong, Sun Chengzong, the emperor of the Son of Heaven, asked himself to be willing to take over the hot potato that everyone refused.

And Wang Zaijin finally got his wish and left the ghost place in Liaodong.

Wang Zaijin still likes this very much, and finally he doesn't have to fight against the Jurchens.

After greeting the officials in Zhejiang for a while, he entered Hangzhou City with them.

The officials in Hangzhou deliberately flattered Wang Zaijin, a senior member of the court and the central government who came to quell the rebellion.

Especially in the several state capitals in the south, Lu Yan's army had already put their knives on their necks.

Once Lu Yan attacked, he didn't know how much money he would lose, so he couldn't wait for Wang Zaijin to send troops immediately.

They have the money to contribute, and they have the power to contribute.

They are willing to contribute the vast majority of the government's expenses along the way, and the rest is shared by the local government.

Wang Zaijin is still very pleased with the enthusiasm of Zhejiang officials.

After all, in foreign wars, food and salary are definitely the most important thing.

However, he knew that the reason why these people were so enthusiastic was that they hoped that he would send troops to eliminate the rebellion as soon as possible.

Now not far from Hangzhou, nearly 50,000 troops from all walks of life have been gathered.

Coupled with the soldiers and horses of other state capitals in Zhejiang, as well as the soldiers and horses of Guangdong and Fujian, he believed that it would be easy for one Lu Yan in Dangping District.

For Wang Zaijin's confidence, those officials and gentry were also very happy.

After all, they all hoped that the rebellion would be quickly put down.

During the banquet, Wang Zaijin kept showing off his art of war.

bluntly bluffed some people who don't know the art of war, Wang Zaijin is definitely not ignorant of the art of war, otherwise he would never be elected by everyone as the Liaodong Economic Strategy.

Only people who know a lot about the affairs of the court will feel worried, whether this governor of the four provinces is reliable or not.

What Lu Yan didn't expect was that not long after he left on his front foot, the imperial court mobilized a large army to encircle and suppress it.

And Fujian and Zhejiang will soon usher in a real big battle.

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Thank you very much for the tip from the good foodie lazy man and the renewal ticket from Kanekawa.

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