At dawn, Kokura Castle on the shore was like a piece of fat in front of more than a dozen gunboats, which was the bridgehead for the Maori family to enter Kyushu Island, and Otomo Sorin, at the cost of marrying his daughter to Kobayakawa Hidebo, nominally recovered Kokura Castle and Chikuzen half of the country, but in fact, Okura Castle surrounded the Kobayakawa family with a group of old and important ministers led by Shirai Hyogo head Keitoshi and Starling Echizen Shoukei, and there were about 500 samurai under his command.

However, in front of the Fran cannon, all samurai are ants, and the Ogura Castle guarded by these 500 samurai is a fortified castle for other daimyos, and for good officials, it is no different from paper paste.

"Maocai, is this what kind of castle Hayakawa is full of?" Hu Litao stood on the top floor of the tower and looked at the so-called city that was mostly made of wood, and couldn't help but disdain.

The obedient official nodded and said with a smile: "Brother Hu family, this is Kokura Castle of Kobayakawa Hidebo, by the way, this guy is still the sworn brother of Tachibana Somao who cut off the head of the chicken and burned the yellow paper." The two of them spoke the Da Ming dialect, and the sister Chiyo beside the obedient official naturally couldn't understand it, Hu Baihu's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he said loudly: "Maocai rest assured, the end will let this city chicken and dog not stay." ”

"That bag is now a hostage in Osaka Castle!" The obedient official smiled, and Hu Litao grinned and said, "Then let's push it directly to Osaka City." "This way to destroy several families, Hu Litao is high-spirited, and his act of conquering cities in other countries completely satisfies the bottom of the heart of a military general.

"Brother Hu, get ready to fire!" The obedient officer did not answer, but waved his hand directly, and the flag soldiers in the hanging bucket at the highest part of the mast immediately raised their flags.

This bombardment of Ogura Castle, most of the old ministers of the Kobayakawa family passed by, such as the Otomo family also has some Franco cannons purchased from the Ming Dynasty over the years, but it is basically only the thickness of the bowl, not to mention that it comes by land, and it can't be concealed, and the obedient official comes from the sea, as the so-called ship is strong and the cannon is sharp, in short, it is just boiling water to scald ants, and the plaything in the hands of the obedient official is general.

At this time, we have to spend some pen and ink to turn around and describe Zhong Guerrilla and others, Zhong Li Zhong Guerrilla stayed in Ryukyu for a day, and waited for all eight ships to return to the island, then separated from the jade dragon Li Yufu, and left Li Yufu a small boat dozens of military guards, these dozens of military guards are actually those who lent the Yan family last time, these people have been plundered by pirates for such a long time, and there is no good fruit to eat after returning to the military guard, so he simply waved his hand and gave them a boat, Let them follow the owner of Li to Fusang to find his brother Zheng Guofan, the guerrilla of Zhong, to eat rice.

Naturally, Li Yufu understood that this also meant surveillance, and he didn't say anything about it, anyway, they all got on the ship of the governor of Zhejiang.

Zhongli returned to Ningbo with the big head, and when he arrived at the sea route about two days away from Ningbo, he was about to be fine, and ran into the ship of Dinghaiwei, the governor of Zhejiang.

There is an official to ask, mud horses, Li Shaonan and Cai Tai's Dinghaiwei warship belongs to the turtle! After chasing for so long, it was only a two-day voyage?

This has to be said that under the Ming system, the governor and the chief political secretary went to the territory of another country by boat, which is unjustifiable in any case, and this is equivalent to the provincial governor and secretary of the provincial party committee and commander of the large military region in later generations who went to visit other countries without going through the central government, and you can still be said to comfort the officers and soldiers if you walk around your own territorial waters twice, and you have set foot on the territory of other countries, which is unjustifiable in any case.

For example, Zhongli, he came out with the Eight Guards warship to suppress bandits, and you said that your political secretary and governor also came out to suppress bandits, that's too nonsense, really when the princes of the imperial court are pigs' heads!

Therefore, Li Shaonan and Cai Tai hung up the full sail all the way, but they chased it to the Ryukyu Kingdom, which could not be chased anyway, whether it was Li Shaonan or Cai Tai, they could not afford this responsibility, and the political secretary and governor of the province set foot on the Ryukyu Kingdom together, if the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom gave an edict to the court, both of them would be finished.

Therefore, Dinghaiwei's warship had to turn its bow around, in fact, Zhejiang Governor Cai Tai looked at Li Shaonan's dead gray face like a dead wife, and secretly laughed in his heart: Mud horse, Li Shaonan, Li Shaonan, you also have today.

The three powers of the Ming Dynasty were separated, the command envoy, the military, the political envoy, the administration, the inspection envoy, and the judiciary, but in general, because the Ming Dynasty was noble and lowly, so the political department was higher than the other two divisions, so the mutual restraint of the three divisions has become an empty word, and the governor of the three divisions or more is the overall planning of the three divisions, which is the nominal supreme governor of a province.

However, the supreme governor does not mean that he has the greatest power to speak, Li Shaonan ran Zhejiang before Mrs. Cai, and firmly hugged the thigh of Zhang Whale, the prince of Dongchang Factory, so many times he did not buy the account of Cai Tai Cai's governor, and Mrs. Cai held the thigh of Mu Jiu, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, and she was more than capable of self-preservation, but she was not enterprising enough, so on the surface, she was also in harmony with Li Shaonan, but in fact, who would like to have a disobedient guy under her hands?

Yes, he Cai Tai wants to engage the Yan family, although the Zheng family and the Yan family have heard that there is some relationship, but this is not not done yet, that Zheng Guofan was a celebrity, and he entered school at a young age, which is quite rare even in Jiangnan, where the literary style is gathered, this kind of talent is naturally intelligent, and he must not tear his face with me because of this, I ran to the sea to find you Uncle Zheng Xiaoguo, you have to miss me well!

Therefore, Mrs. Cai is sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, neither happy nor defeated, nor worried, the old man is waiting to see your Li Shaonan's jokes.

And Li Shaonan, it was really like a dead father, at this time, I couldn't wait to go back a few days ago, and then kill my brother-in-law Hou Xiaobai.

God seemed to hear his plea, and immediately sent his brother-in-law to his eyes.

Lu Lou of the three masters maintained Hou Xiaobai and Wenren's family, all the way to Zhejiang, Hou Xiaobai was frightened, and ate a stray bullet, and launched a cold and heat at sea, and played for a while, that's it, not honest, muttering that he wanted to find his brother-in-law Zhejiang Buzheng Secretary Li Shaonan to go back to find a field, and now the three masters and him can be regarded as the same enemy, and immediately comforted him and said, Master Hou, our ship is fast, we can get to Zhejiang in two days, although there are many people and ships behind, but not as fast as our ship, you can recuperate with peace of mind.

It's a pity that although they are fast, but the fast ship of Bawei is not slow, two days to chase down, almost only a few hours of sea route for them, if they do not happen to catch up with the slow return of Dinghaiwei's warship, Bawei's fast ship will definitely be able to catch up with them before arriving in Ningbo.

In fact, at this time, Zhejiang has been in an uproar in the officialdom by the news that Concubine De's father and younger brother are in Ningbo.

How did the news get out? This has to talk about the eunuch Li Chuncun Li Gonggong of Zhejiang City, this guy is a eunuch, the eunuch's surname Xi is like an octopus in the sea, if you see a hole, you have to drill into it, and a eunuch who can't drill the camp is not a qualified eunuch.

Although this guy went to Ningbo to be a eunuch, the door to the palace was not broken, you know, eunuchs like them understand Jane's truth in the emperor's heart better than anyone else, so their habit of sending things to the palace during the New Year's holidays is even more outrageous than the Beijing office in later generations, and they got the news that Concubine Zheng was promoted to Concubine De.

I have to say that Li Chuncun's father-in-law is a father-in-law with great luck, and the eunuch he sent to give gifts to the palace is called Duncan, this Deng Gonggong has just been transferred to Zhejiang from the palace for less than a year, and when he gave a gift to Concubine De, he met an acquaintance, and the most useful little bean father-in-law around Concubine De.

This little father-in-law named Dou Dou before he was purified was a person from Daxing County, Shuntian Prefecture, so he was a fellow villager of Concubine De, of course, if he was just a fellow countryman, he was not necessarily so reused, he knew Concubine De Niangniang before he was purified, of course, at that time, Concubine De was still a little girl in Daxing County, and the relationship between the two can be called a neighborhood.

This little bean was personally castrated and sent to the palace by Lao Tzu, who is addicted to wine, and in a few years, with his clear eyebrows and low eyebrows, he was quite popular, and Duncan's father-in-law met this little father-in-law at that time.

Since Concubine Zheng met Xiaodouzi once, she asked Wanli to ask for Xiaodouzi to serve by her side, and when Concubine Zheng was promoted to Concubine De, Xiaodouzi's father-in-law was even higher, for a while, he seemed to be the most popular father-in-law in the palace, but although this guy is young, he is quite proficient, which may have something to do with his father, who was drunk and wanted to beat his son when he was a child.

The eunuchs have big rules, talk about the dignity and humility, a pond of grass carp, no one wants a black fish in the pond to stir up the water, such as the so-called emperor Liu Jin of the Wuzong Dynasty, that is also to offend too many people, even the eunuchs themselves can not tolerate Liu Jin.

This Duncan gave a gift to Concubine De, to be honest, he didn't expect to see Concubine De, the gift was given, then he was satisfied, he never thought that Concubine De Niangniang wanted to see him through Xiaodouzi, this Gonggong Deng was worried for a while! I don't know if it's a disaster or a happy event.

When he saw Concubine De, his hanging heart finally fell back into his stomach, and it was a great joy at that time, Concubine De's father and younger brother are now in Zhejiang? This, this, this, this...... What a thick thigh!

In fact, Concubine Zheng has always been secretly concerned about her own Lao Tzu and younger brother, especially her younger brother, the two have lost their mother since childhood, it can be said that they depend on each other, and they can also be called the eldest sister like a mother, in short, after entering the palace, Concubine Zheng is the most worried about her younger brother.

But she was just a little palace maid at the beginning, and she secretly asked someone to send a few taels of silver to the family, until she looked at Wanli and became Concubine Zheng, at that time, she began to care about the family, but she was still a little out of reach.

But after being canonized as Concubine De, she couldn't hold it back, and immediately asked her Lao Tzu in front of the emperor for the official position of the Governor of the Zuo Capital of the Governor of the Five Armies of Nanjing, this position is only able to sit on the military generals and nobles, in fact, smart people can see that the emperor is obviously pampering this Concubine Niangniang, which is to prepare for the Hou Feng Bo Feng Hou.

However, at this time, the Wanli Emperor was only twenty years old, Zhang Juzheng had just fallen, Feng Bao had just gone to Nanjing Xiaoling to eat old rice, although the two gods fell, but the emperor did not completely control the government in his hands, and his younger brother King Lu was still raised in the palace by the Empress Dowager Li, King Lu was graceful, good at calligraphy, liked music, and had a good reputation among the courtiers.

Therefore, it is not easy for Concubine De to ask for the position of Zuo Du Governor for Father Zheng, to be honest, this is also what the emperor did at the risk of being scolded by the courtiers, but the strange thing is that all the cabinet elders are silent, and there is only one who has a fold in the imperial history, which can almost be ignored.

It is not surprising that this situation occurs, you must know that Concubine De was sealed by the Empress Dowager Chen, and the emperor's mother, the Empress Dowager Li, remained silent on this matter, and the ministers were not fools, and they vaguely felt that this matter was too dangerous, so it was better not to get involved. Empress Dowager Chen is the queen of the first emperor, Empress Dowager Li is just the concubine of the first emperor, and the mother is expensive by her son, and now the Empress Dowager Chen has named the emperor's favorite Zheng as the concubine, what does this mean? The queen mother of the two palaces fought. As the so-called immortals fight mortals suffer, let's not get involved.

Therefore, Daddy Zheng became the governor of the Zuo Capital of the Nanjing Five Military Governors without knowing it, and he was also a member of the first grade, and it was also at this time that Zhang Jing, the governor of Dongchang, gave Li Shaonan Xin'er, telling him to be honest and not to offend the national uncle and the little uncle.

A country wants a person to be rich and rich, but in the palm of his hand, it is difficult for a person to save a country. Concubine De asked her father for the position of the governor of Zuodu, and with the acquiescence of Wanli, she began to lay out her brother with great fanfare, first of all, pie fell from the sky, and she smashed Shen Bang Shen Dunyu of Daxing Zhixian County, and was directly transferred to the prefect of Ningbo.

From the sixth product to the third grade, it is no longer enough to describe it with the promotion of three levels in a row, and the rocket cadre, the strange thing is that this paper appointment was actually adopted by the cabinet and the Ministry of Officials, and together with his appointment, there is also the old man of Daxing County, who served as the deputy envoy of the Zhejiang Department of Learning, which is equivalent to the vice governor in charge of culture, education and health in later generations, in short, the old man almost scared out of a myocardial infarction.

The experience of these two people can only be described as a step to the sky, the cabinet and the ministry are afraid of being beaten by the gods and mortals, so they close their eyes and stamp them.

At this time, Empress Dowager Li finally made a move, saying that the mourning family has never heard of it, and with such a step to the sky, there is no need for decency in this world.

In fact, there is no fool who can get into the position of Pavilion Elder, and he can pass such an outrageous appointment, he is indeed for a reason, and the resume of the examination department was handed to the Empress Dowager Li, and the Empress Dowager Li was dumbfounded when she saw it.

Shen Dunyu, of course this person Empress Dowager Li knows, her dead ghost husband Jinshi when Emperor Longqing was originally a leader, but he was said by the emperor to be a mistake, and he was brushed to the top of the second class, and he was in Daxing Zhi County over the years, and twenty-four prefectures and counties under the rule of Shuntianfu, only he was on the top every year, you can't accept it, but you just won't be promoted, this kind of person's qualifications, it's not good, and it may be worse to enter a cabinet, but if you are a prefect, you can't say that people are not qualified anyway.

And the old gentleman Cheng Luncheng of Daxing County is cautious, his qualifications are even older, he is still a Jinshi in Jiajing year, and he has not moved his nest in Daxing County for more than 20 years, and Daxing's cultural governance, that is, the promotion rate, not to mention the twenty-four prefectures and counties of Shuntianfu, even in the entire north, it is also the number one, this kind of person is a widow sleeping on the top of the head, so he cannot be promoted.

But now that he has been promoted, even if it is the Empress Dowager Li, she can't find fault with it, in fact, this resume and appointment are attached together, and no one can speak, you can't say that a county magistrate who is excellent in the annual assessment is not qualified to go down to the local area to be a prefect! What's more, people still have the name of the second-class top jinshi! Teaching the old gentleman Cheng Lun Cheng Shen is also the same truth.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Li was immediately dumbfounded, and then she understood why the cabinet and the ministry had been appointed by the two, which was clearly to show those undesirable jinshi in the world, you have to stay up and work hard, sooner or later, you can be like these two people, and you will not treat you badly.

To put it bluntly, a group of old foxes in the cabinet took advantage of the fight between the two queen mothers, and by the way, they hitched a ride and showed the majesty of the cabinet in front of the officials of the world.

Even if she is the queen mother, if she is really forced to revoke these two appointments, it is clear that she can't get along with all the unambitious jinshi in the world, and the wise man will not do it, so the queen mother Li has to pinch her nose and admit it, but she is so angry in her heart! I sprinkled my anger on Zhang Siwei, the first assistant of the cabinet, okay Zhang Siwei, if it weren't for the mourning family to support you, would you be able to sit in the position of the first assistant of the cabinet? For such a big thing, you don't talk to the mourning family, you wait, the mourning family will call you good sooner or later.

In short, the daughter-in-law Concubine De slapped her mother-in-law, the Empress Dowager Li, and the Empress Dowager Li was repeated, and she had to pinch her nose and suffer it.

Concubine De took advantage of the victory, and directly intervened in the Jinyi Guard, and at this time, the commander of the Jinyi Guard made Liu Shouyou just fall, because his biggest backer Feng Bao also fell, and it was Luo Sigong who came to power, when he was summoned by Concubine De, this Luo Commander also trembled, you know, the successive commanders of the Jinyi Guard have died well, but he has just come to power, and his ass has not yet covered the heat!

And in history, Wan Guifei's younger brother Wan Tong also served as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, so this Luo commander was wondering, did Concubine De ask me to take the initiative to move the position of Uncle Xiaoguo!

The entanglement in his heart, he is willing to come down after taking the position, and the so-called success and fame will retire, but in fact, if measured by this moral benchmark, there are about less than four slaps of qualified people in history, even if it is Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty, the ending is also very sad, but this does not prevent the person who sits on the top from continuing to occupy the position under his ass, as long as he sits on it, no one is willing to take the initiative to come down.

Others don't know, he is very clear as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Concubine De is now helping the emperor to approve the folds, what kind of favor this is, if he refuses to move his position, what will the outcome be!

When he was sweating profusely and knocked on Concubine De's mother, Concubine Zheng reassured him with a word, and kowtowed to Concubine De three times in a row, what Concubine Zheng said was very simple, the palace is in one day, and your position will be stable.

This is obvious, everyone is a smart person, and they will never say anything like [you write a letter of allegiance] [Niangniang, Weichen will definitely serve to death], but the meaning, in fact, is what it means, Concubine Zheng promised Luo Sigong that no one would move the position under his buttocks, and Luo Sigong naturally wanted to repay the favor, and from then on he would be Concubine De's mother.

Maybe some officials want to say, is the emperor a fool, just let Concubine De intervene in the government and even Jinyiwei, but if we turn over the history books, we will find that the vast majority of the women who have been favored by the emperor in all dynasties are women with great power. We may be able to look at it from another point of view, the emperor is sitting on the dragon chair, and he is no longer like an ordinary man who needs a woman who is submissive, maybe he hopes to have a woman who can talk to him about the world's major events like a confidant, rather than a woman who relies on beauty all day long.

In short, Concubine De, who was commanded by Jinyiwei to make Luo Sigong loyal, already has a faint right to speak in the imperial court, and with Jinyiwei's allegiance, it is naturally easy to investigate whether her younger brother and father have been bullied or something.

This is the key, Concubine De Niangniang met with Duncan Deng's father-in-law, and then, sent a brocade guard Baihu and the most useful little bean to Zhejiang, almost only three days later than Dongchang Governor Zhang Whale sent Fanzi to inform Li Shaonan privately.

And the admiral Li Chuncun, the eunuch of Zhejiang City, who was on the door, was suddenly overjoyed, what? Is it a concubine? , this is the right time for me to develop Haruko!

He immediately threw the affairs of the city to Duncan Deng's father-in-law, and then he didn't care if he would be delicate in his crotch, and rode straight to the yamen of the Zhejiang Political Division, Li Shaonan was naturally gone, and Li Cunchun's father-in-law was neither male nor female, so he naturally went straight to the back room, "Li Shaonan, you come out of our house." ”

When he coerced out Li Shaonan's behavior from Hou Xiaohong's mouth, he immediately turned his face, and regardless of Hou Xiaohong, who was pulling his shirt, he kicked it first, and then turned around and went home, and asked Xiaodouzi's father-in-law and Jinyi Wei Baihu Cheng Rui all the way, and rushed to Ningbo on the big boat of the Yamen of the City Bo Division.

This announced that Zheng Liancheng, the national abbot, sat in the position of the left governor of the Nanjing Five Military Governor's Mansion, naturally it was not their turn, that one had a holy decree, but Xiaodouzi and Baihu Cheng Rui went south, which was to protect Zheng Guofan, the younger brother of Concubine De Niangniang, in fact, Jinyi Wei Baihu Cheng Rui also used the waist card to transfer two Hangzhou Wei's ironclad ships.

Concubine De Niangniang naturally didn't know that her younger brother was doing a good thing overseas, she was just because her younger brother was bullied by the Wenren clan, and she wanted to be angry with her younger brother, the most favored woman of the emperor of a huge empire, and she wanted to engage in an outdated five-grade fate, it was not an easy thing, not to mention that there was Jinyiwei to do things for her. Within a few days, she picked up the bottom of Wenren's family, even what was the name of her own father and mother, who else was in the family, which year, month, and month she sold to others as a private house, what was the name of the first dead ghost husband she married, and there were still some people in the family, everything was investigated clearly.

This is the reason why Xiaodouzi's father-in-law and Jinyiwei Baihu Cheng Rui went south, as for Li Shaonan, who invited Wenren's family, hum, a big member of the party, with the support of the governor of Dongchang, it may not be easy to get you out of power, but it is really easy to let you have a good time.

In short, when the speedboat of Wenren's family, Hou Xiaobai and Lou Wei, the three masters, collided with the Dinghaiwei warship that turned around and came back slowly, Li Cunchun's father-in-law also arrived from Ningbo and will catch up with Li Shaonan and others, at this time! Zhongli Zhong's guerrilla fleet of eight guards also returned, Zhongli scolded those subordinates, why anchored at sea?

Those subordinates cried with sad faces, big brother, the other party's clipper caught up with Dinghaiwei's warship, and the people on board seemed to be pulled onto Dinghaiwei's warship, and I looked at the flag, which seemed to be the flag of the governor.

Zhongli shouted, then you are still afraid of a fart. His subordinates were scolded by him, and muttered to themselves, you are not afraid, we are afraid! Chasing and killing the lifting division is a big crime.

However, Zhongli is really not afraid, you must know that he is a useful cadre under Mrs. Cai, one is his own person, the other is Li Shaonan's brother-in-law, enemy, who will Governor Cai help, isn't it obvious.

At that moment he said sharply: "Pull out the anchor, pull up the full sail, and catch up." ”

(To be continued)