Chapter 145: Choosing a Target
The most important thing is that he allocated money from the treasury of the domain, and ordered the coastal provinces to vigorously build ships and revitalize the sailors, which has now had a certain effect.
According to his statistics, the number of naval warships in the coastal areas of Fujian has risen to more than 400, and there are more than 200 new ships of various kinds in various water villages, some of which are confiscated large ships of some maritime merchants, which were allocated to the sailors after a simple repair.
Of course, taking advantage of this opportunity, many officials made a lot of money and forced some of them to donate to the government, so that many of the shopkeepers of the shipyards went bankrupt, but in any case, under his preparation, the strength of the Fujian sailors was greatly improved.
In addition, he ordered Yu Zhigao, the commander-in-chief of southern Fujian, to sit in Quanzhou to train the naval division, and Zhang Jiace, deputy general of Fujian, to sit in Fuzhou to train the naval division.
In his opinion, the time to deal with the sea wolves is relatively ripe now, so recently he has secretly prepared and started to operate to attack the sea wolves, at least to expel them from Nanri Island and recover Nanri Island.
But now there is a Zheng Yiguan, and there is a lot of trouble in the Zhangquan area, which makes Zhu Yifeng a little dilemma, whether to clean up the sea wolf first, or whether to clean up this Zheng Yiguan first, has now become a problem in front of him.
So he secretly gathered his staff and began to discuss the matter.
In fact, his staff had already guessed Zhu Yifeng's intentions, but in the past, Zhu Yifeng never mentioned the matter of going to attack the sea wolf, so it was naturally inconvenient for them to be bored, but now that Zhu Yifeng has expressed his position, then they should consider it for their master.
During this time, these staff have been paying attention to the activities of the sea wolves and the pirates along the coast, to be honest, they don't have too much ill feelings towards the sea wolves, the sea wolves know how to advance and retreat, and when they have something to do, there is never less of them.
Moreover, except for Zhu Qinxiang's intentions to disadvantage them last year, the sea wolf attacked the coastal area many times, and usually did things quite restrained, and was not like their peers, specializing in plundering for a living.
Speaking of which, this sea wolf is really not too evil, but some local gentry are actually some local snakes, and they hate them very much, because the sea wolf has done a lot of things, which is beneficial to the people, but it greatly infringes on their interests, so that these gentry and local local snakes try their best to put pressure on the government, and want the government to mobilize troops to solve the sea wolf and restore their previous so-called order.
This is also the reason why the two governors tried their best to eliminate it, because they represented the interests of the gentry and the scholars, and the thoughts of ordinary people, they could not pay much attention to them, and heard more of the voices of these people, so in the eyes and ears of high-ranking officials, the sea wolf was heinous.
Now that Lord Futai thinks that the time is ripe, then it is time for them to think of a way for him to arrange the suppression, but now there is a Zheng Yiguan, which makes Zhu Yifeng a little dilemma for a while, and he doesn't know who to do first.
Among the staff, there is a person named Tian Youren, who is Zhu Yifeng's most trusted staff, and he has been doing things with Zhu Yifeng for a long time, and he has won Zhu Yifeng's trust very much.
Among Zhu Yifeng's many staff members, this Tian Youren is the chief of staff and the first assistant, so his words have a lot of weight among the staff.
After understanding Zhu Yifeng's thoughts, Tian Youren gathered his colleagues together and said to them: "This is the case now, Lord Futai has a headache for this matter.
Now with the efforts of Lord Futai, the silver here in Fujian should be there, the strength of the naval warship has increased dramatically, and the Fubiao town mark in various places has been rectified by the adults in the past six months, and the combat power has increased a lot, so the time is basically ripe!
But at present, there is a Zheng Yiguan, this Zheng Yiguan has raided the coastal areas many times in Zhangquan and other places, and even surpassed Chu Cailao, becoming a big disaster!
So the headache of Lord Futai now is whether to suppress this sea wolf first, or to suppress Zheng Yiguan first, since you and I are trustworthy people of Lord Futai, then we should make more suggestions for this matter! ”
After listening to this, the staff immediately expressed their opinions, and some people suggested that Zheng Yiguan should be eliminated first, the reason is very simple, Zheng Yiguan came in to cause the most trouble, and this person is newly rising, and his strength should not be as strong as the sea wolf, which can be seen from the fact that Zheng Yiguan has never dared to cross the Quanzhou area, to Xinghua Mansion and the coast of Fuzhou to make trouble, it can be seen that Zheng Yiguan is also very afraid of the sea wolf.
Since Zheng Yiguan is making trouble now, then he should use troops against him first, which is relatively more certain.
However, some people disagree with this opinion, because their reasons are also very good, and they know very well why Zhu Yifeng, after succeeding as the governor of Fujian for more than half a year, has made great efforts to overhaul war equipment and build boats, and the main purpose is to deal with the sea wolves and recover Nanri Island.
And now, although Zheng Yiguan is in trouble in the Zhangquan area, he is not like a sea wolf, entrenched on an island, and the more important reason is that Zheng Yiguan is uncertain, and now he can't figure out where his lair is.
If you want to suppress Zheng Yiguan, at least you must find Zheng Yiguan's old camp before you can suppress it, but now even his old camp does not know where the road is, and it is rumored that his old camp is now roughly in the Penghu area, but it is not clear what island it is on.
Even if the old camp of Zheng Yiguan is located, Penghu is too far offshore, and the last time Nanju Yinan Futai moved the people in order to drive away the red-haired people entrenched in Penghu, but it took a full year to finally expel the red-haired people from Penghu.
Because Penghu is too far away, once it is used, the need for logistical support is too great, and it seems that the financial resources have recovered a little, but who knows how much it will cost to fight this battle.
There is another problem, that is, if Zheng Yiguan did not compete with the official army, he learned that the official army was attacking him, so he directly sprinkled oil on the soles of his feet, abandoned his old camp, and found a place to hide.
On the contrary, Nanri Island, where the sea wolf is entrenched, is very close to the shore, starting from Xinghua Mansion, the nearest place is only a dozen miles away, and it can be reached by raising your legs.
And the sea wolf has been operating Nanri Island for a long time, and it will not be easily abandoned, even if there are rumors now, it is said that the sea wolf occupies a large area on Taiyuan Island, and the immigrants are farming, and it seems that they want to use Taiyuan Island as their lair, but Taiyuan Island is not the territory of the Ming Dynasty, their purpose is only to drive the sea wolf away from Nanri Island and recover Nanri Island.
Therefore, it is more certain to fight Nanri Island than to go to Zheng Yiguan, the sea wolf is running away, and the monk can't run away from the temple, as long as they are driven out of Nanri Island, then as for whether they can be destroyed or not, it is not the key, it is enough to drive him to Taiyuan Island.
But for this proposal, there are also many people worried, because they have been paying attention to the movements of the sea wolf recently, although the sea wolf has been relatively quiet recently, and has not messed around along the coast, but they still remember the sea wolf's power.
Last year, the sea wolf fleet bombarded the Puxi Institute, burned down the Nanri Water Village, and annihilated the battle of the naval warships gathered in the Nanri Water Village, but they are still vivid.
It is rumored that the sea wolf can forge its own Hongyi cannon and can also build its own ship, which is no longer a wind legend, and it is basically certain that this is true.
What's more, they have all heard recently that the sea wolf fought a battle with a large fleet of the Dry Wax people in Manila on Taiyuan Island, and instead of losing to the large fleet of the Dry Wax people, they made a big victory, almost wiped out the large fleet of the Dry Wax people, and even captured two large plywood ships of the Dry Wax people.
This is not a trivial matter, when Nan Juyi attacked the red-haired people in Penghu, he used as many as 200 sailor warships, and the red-haired people only had a few large and small plywood boats in Penghu, but they always let the official army and sailors have no way, several battles, the officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses, only heard that the sailors used fireboats, and finally burned a red-haired man's plywood boat, and it was a sloop, the opponent's big splint boat, they had no way.
However, the sea wolf only relied on their own strength to wipe out the fleet of large plywood ships of the Tessy people, which shows that the strength of this sea wolf at sea is probably not something they can deal with.
This is also the biggest reason for opposing the attack on the sea wolf, and those who support the attack on the sea wolf have no solution to this, but they believe that although the sea wolf is strong, it is a thief after all, and Nanri Island is very close to the land, so their advantages may not be able to be brought into play.
What's more, now after half a year of preparation, the officers and soldiers are not as unbearable as before, and many new warships have been built, and these warships have also found ways to add some Hongyi cannons, even if the sea wolf is very strong in naval battles, it may not be able to stop the official and military fleets that are pouring towards Nanri Island like a tide.
In addition, many of them have always been skeptical about the sea wolf's defeat of the Gan Lace fleet, thinking that this incident is just a rumor, and it may be a rumor released by the sea wolf himself, not to mention that the battle happened on Taiyuan Island, and no one else can confirm the authenticity of this matter except for the sea wolf's people.