Chapter 165: Greeting the New Boss

But Zou Weilian forgot one thing, that is, over the years, the soldiers used in Fujian were basically Yu Xiaotian's soldiers, and whenever there was chaos in Fujian, Xiong Wencan's first thought was to transfer the soldiers and horses under Yu Xiaotian to go to suppress, and the other officers and soldiers, over the years, have basically been put on hold, and it is useless to be idle.

Therefore, since June, all parts of Fujian have suffered a typhoon disaster, suffered large losses, and there has been a shortage of military salaries again, so this time Zou Weilian did not find a way to solve the problem of military salaries for Yu Xiaotian like Xiong Wencan, so that it has been delayed until now, and the generals under Yu Xiaotian's command have not received the salary for nearly half a year.

In addition, after Zou Weilian arrived in Fujian, there were people everywhere who gave Yu Xiaotian eye medicine, and many people went to Zou Weilian to tell Yu Xiaotian about the black state, saying that in the past few years, Yu Xiaotian has been flying and domineering in Fujian, enclosing fields, abducting people, bullying men and women, controlling the sale of illegal salt, occupying Weitou Bay, treating Weitou Bay as his private property, wantonly collecting the fare for going to sea and trading without authorization, and extorting businessmen and gentry......

So many people complained, and Yu Xiaotian was said to be a heinous person, although Zou Weilian didn't dare to believe it, but the three of them became tigers, and there were many people who complained, so naturally Zou Weilian couldn't help but believe it, so he had a sense of disgust for Xiaotian.

Zou Weilian even wrote a bullet for this purpose, impeaching Xiong Wencan for being too arrogant and indulgent in Xiaotian when he was in Fujian, making Yu Xiaotian too domineering in Fujian, and sent someone to Beijing.

But Zou Weilian is also because of this, he has been paying attention to Yu Xiaotian's situation, Yu Xiaotian led the troops to quell the rebellion in Shandong, he has been inquiring, whether it is gossip or the news in the official newspaper Tang Bao, he is very concerned.

This time Yu Xiaotian led the troops north to quell the rebellion, and in the battle of Denglai to suppress the rebellion, the Fujian soldiers became the absolute main force, and the rebels on the Denglai side were repeatedly victorious, and they almost never heard of their defeats.

In this way, Zou Weilian found that Yu Xiaotian was indeed a military talent, so he checked the battles related to the pacification of chaos in Fujian in recent years when Xiong Wencan was in Fujian, and only then did he find out that it was not Yu Xiaotian who was domineering, nor Xiong Wencan's eccentricity.

But over the years, whenever there are rebellious people or a large number of bandits and pirates in Fujian, Yu Xiaotian is basically responsible for the work, and these chaos are almost all finally pacified by Yu Xiaotian or his soldiers.

In recent years, the coastal areas of Fujian have been quite calm, since Yu Xiaotian was appeased, the situation of Haikou raiding the shore along the coast of Fujian has been reduced by at least eighty percent, and even if there are occasional Haikou raids, Yu Xiaotian's sailors can basically be said to be out when they hear the alarm, which greatly deters those pirates.

Nowadays, the pirates regard Fujian as almost a dead place, and they do not dare to set foot on the coast of Fujian to make trouble, which can also be said to be all thanks to the maintenance of filial piety, which has made the coastal area of Fujian appear unprecedented peace.

Even the red-haired people, who were quite arrogant in the first few years, have become quite peaceful in recent years, and they have not been to the coastal areas of Fujian once to cause trouble, making the entire coastal area of Fujian very peaceful in recent years.

But Yu Xiaotian's other practices, Zou Weilian is quite unaccustomed to it, the most important thing is that he controls Weitou Bay, and replaces Yuegang with Weitou Bay and becomes a private port for him, but all Fujian maritime merchants want to go to sea, they must go to sea in Weitou Bay, and the maritime shipowners along the coast of Fujian must pay Yu Xiaotian 1,000 to 2,000 taels of silver every year before they can be allowed to go to sea to trade, otherwise the ship will be confiscated by Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian is only this entry, and he makes a lot of money, so that many people who used to make money by relying on sea trade are very angry about this and want to get a piece of the pie, but Yu Xiaotian regards this sea as his private industry, which is inadversible and impermeable, and it is impossible for anyone to share some profits from it.

And the reason why Yu Xiaotian is angry is because he is too domineering and takes advantage of everything, and now the Fujian gentry and officials are in order to make a fortune, who secretly has no connection with Tonghai trade? Many of them bought their own boats and hired people to sail them out to sea for business.

Even if some people are less timid, or if they don't have enough funds, they will lend their spare money to some maritime merchants to eat usury profits and share some profits from them.

Yu Xiaotian's collection of tolls to the sea touched their interests, so many people don't want to pay this money, but Yu Xiaotian doesn't look at anyone's face, if you want to go to sea, you can take the money, or you can take the money, otherwise whoever you are, as long as the ship goes to sea and does not get the order flag given by the sea wolf, as long as it is discovered by the sea wolf's anti-smuggling ship, the ship and property will be confiscated immediately.

For this reason, many people were bankrupt by Yu Xiaotian, and hated Yu Xiaotian to the bone, and now Zou Weilian has served as the governor of Fujian, and Zou Weilian is not a local official in Fujian, and he does not understand the situation in Fujian, so they took the opportunity to give Yu Xiaotian eye medicine.

Zou Weilian is also very dissatisfied with Xiaotian's approach, such a large benefit, but Yu Xiaotian has eaten it, and the court government can't take advantage of it at all, although he is a Qing official, he doesn't plan to make a fortune from it, but seeing Yu Xiaotian holding a lot of money, he is still a little blushing.

In addition, there is another point, that is, Yu Xiaotian has now publicly accused Taiyuan Island, and regards the entire Taiyuan Island as his private property, and Zou Weilian actually does not know how big Taiyuan Island is, but he has only heard that Taiyuan Island is very large, and some people even say that Taiyuan Island is half the size of Fujian.

Yu Xiaotian occupied Taiyuan Island, but did not include Taiyuan Island in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but regarded Taiyuan Island as his private property, how is this good? To put it bluntly, does this guy have any plans to take Taiyuan Island as his lair in the future, cut the land and become the king of himself?

As soon as he thought of this, Zou Weilian felt very angry, in his heart, this whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, since Yu Xiaotian has now been appeased and has become the general of the Ming Dynasty, then even if he is a court official, since he is a court official, then he can't have this kind of thought.

Taiyuan Island is so big, he owns it, and when it is his own private property, how can this be done? At least he wants to hand over Taiyuan Island to the imperial court and include it in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty has not expanded a little land for many years, and over the years, Jiannu has also occupied Liaodong, and the Mongolian tribes have also begun to be restless, making the Mongolian area also an enclave, and the Mongolian tribes have now become vassals of Jiannu.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty is shrinking day by day, if he can force Yu Xiaotian to assign Taiyuan Island to the territory of the Ming Dynasty and serve the Ming Dynasty, this is undoubtedly a matter of glory.

So Zou Weilian secretly made up his mind, thinking about how to persecute Yu Xiaotian, hand over Taiyuan Island to Daming, and include it in the territory of Daming.

Zou Weilian thought about it again and again, but still thought that it would be better to do this matter directly, Yu Xiaotian is still the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty after all, if he is interested, if he does not have the heart to stand on his own, then he should understand that it is inappropriate for him to do this, and if he doesn't get it right, he may agree to his request.

But he waited left and right, but Yu Xiaotian never came to Fuzhou to see him, which made Zou Weilian a little annoyed, but he couldn't inquire where Yu Xiaotian was now.

A general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, now he can't find anyone, which is a joke, so Zou Weilian sent people to find Yu Xiaotian's subordinates, and asked them to inform Yu Xiaotian and let Yu Xiaotian go to Fuzhou to meet him.

When Zou Weilian was waiting for the fire, someone ran to the governor's yamen on this day to report that Yu Xiaotian had led a fleet of more than 20 warships to the mouth of the Minjiang River and berthed at Langqi Island at the mouth of the Minjiang River.

Zou Weilian breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that this guy was finally back, and he originally wanted to give Yu Xiaotian a dismount, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't think it was very suitable, after all, Yu Xiaotian's return to Fujian this time was to return to his teacher, this time he played well in Denglai, and his achievements were impressive, if he was too neglectful of him, he would inevitably be caught by someone in the future and impeached him.

So he thought about it again and again, and decided to let people go to the dock to greet Yu Xiaotian and arrange a relatively grand welcoming ceremony, after all, Yu Xiaotian represented Fujian to send troops to Shandong this time, and he fought so beautifully, which can be regarded as adding glory to the faces of Fujian people.

When Yu Xiaotian arrived at the South Gate Wharf of Fuzhou, there were suddenly gongs and drums and firecrackers, and Wang Yongji, the prefect of Fuzhou, came to the wharf in person, and Zou Weilian, the acting governor, greeted Yu Xiaotian.

On the dock, Wang Yongji led the officials to toast Yu Xiaotian and congratulate him, which was regarded as a tribute to his achievements in quelling the rebellion in the north.

Yu Xiaotian also had a smile on his face, greeted them with a haha, and tossed on the dock for a long time, and then under the escort of the guards, he went to the governor's yamen and met Zou Weilian.

Zou Weilian, as the first official in Fujian, is much higher than Xiaotian, so it is understandable not to go to the dock to greet Yu Xiaotian in person, but Yu Xiaotian is still quite dissatisfied, because if it were Xiong Wencan, he would definitely deign to greet him at the dock at this time, but this Zou Weilian obviously did not buy his account, it seems that in the next period of time, between Zou Weilian and him, I am afraid there will be an open and secret battle.

Sure enough, after Yu Xiaotian entered the governor's yamen, he saw Zou Weilian, Zou Weilian didn't even get up, just sat behind the big case, and received Yu Xiaotian's salute, but he indifferently said some words of congratulations that were not salty or light, and then asked people to give Yu Xiaotian a bench to sit on, but he didn't even give Yu Xiaotian a big chair.

Yu Xiaotian began to get annoyed in his heart, and said in his heart, you Zou Weilian, Lao Tzu has just returned to the teacher, you kid actually don't give Lao Tzu face so much, it seems that you guy, you want to give Lao Tzu a dismount!