Chapter 148: Reinforcements

Sailing at night is very risky. This is especially true at sea. Even such a risk does not deter those who take risks.

Several three-masted ships quietly broke out of Taiwan, dispersed, and sailed towards Fuzhou and Zhangzhou. They are Zhu Houhuang's messengers who sent out to ask for help.

It's just a night's work. Fuzhou has gotten the news.

"What?" Luo Lun was so shocked that he almost jumped out. The crime of losing a family domain. Civilians, scholars, and doctors can't afford it, let alone a mere eunuch.

If the emperor wants to kill a scholar, it will take some trouble. But if you want to kill a eunuch, you don't even need to leave a reason, and you can take your life with a wave of your hand.

Luo Lun's eyes widened and he stretched out a hand. Teeth don't fight up and down. I can't get up in one breath, and I can't say what I want to say.

Immediately, a few little eunuchs stepped forward and patted their chests and backs. Luo Lun coughed twice, coughed out the thick phlegm violently, and said, "Quick, quick." Hurry up and send troops to rescue His Royal Highness King Yong. Fast. ”

However, the departure of a fleet is never simply a matter of urging twice.

Luo Lun's order to urgently send troops arrived, and Mu Youwei, the chief military officer of Fujian.

Mu Youwei has never given Luo Lun face, Mu Youwei is a tributary of the Mu Wangfu in Yunnan. Even if it is a tributary of King Mu's Mansion, he does not take a eunuch like Luo Lun in his eyes.

But he doesn't take Luo Lun in his eyes, it's not that he doesn't put His Royal Highness King Yong in his eyes.

To get along with the vassal king, you need to be well measured. Especially Mu Youwei's surname Mu, his every move not only represents himself, but also the Mu Wangfu behind him. So special attention is required.

Therefore, when Zhu Houhuang was in Fujian, Mu Youwei shirked something, and almost never showed up in front of Zhu Houhuang. But it's one thing not to see Zhu Houhuang keeping his distance from the vassal king. But knowing that King Yong was in danger, he didn't save him when he saw death. So much so that the fall of the vassal king is another matter.

Mu Youwei understood and began to prepare, dispatched the warships of each guard station, and assembled in Xiamen. Prepare to cross the sea to Penghu. When I got to Penghu, I would do some more considerations.

Zhu Houhuang's envoy who asked for help came to the Wei Mansion in Zhangzhou. Wei Sheng took the letter signed by Zhu Houhuang himself, and was a little distracted for a while. After a while, he said: "His Royal Highness King Yong, is there someone Wei in the governor's room?" ”

Wei Sheng came from a family of seafarers, and his ancestors traveled back and forth in the South China Sea during the Song and Yuan dynasties, even though the sea was forbidden in this dynasty. But since Taizu, the ban has been relaxed. The Wei family naturally got their old business again.

It's just that it can only be done quietly, and the neighbors in the countryside, even the local county magistrate, know what the Wei family is doing. However, the Wei family branch business. He never swaggered in his hometown, and no one knew that the famous shipowner of the South China Sea merchant was just a rich man in his hometown.

The Wei family has a lot of property, and they don't dare to show it easily. At this moment, King Yong's invitation made him surprised and delighted.

King Yong's division of Dongyong, this is a major coastal event, especially for people who run the sea, it is a pivotal thing. Although Wei Sheng is concerned, it is still absolute, and King Yong's affairs are like floating clouds in the sky, and they have nothing to do with the Wei family.

Today's matter, which had nothing to do with the Wei family, suddenly came to them, making Wei Sheng not know what to do for a while. He muttered for a moment, then told the messenger to stand down. Call your two sons over. Wei Sheng is very old, and his two sons are in charge of overseas affairs. The eldest son is called Wei Dalin, and the second son is Wei Ruizhou. Son-in-law Lei Faying. These people are the right-hand men that Wei Sheng relies on the most.

Wei Sheng first passed the news to his son-in-law, and they circulated it to each other for a while. On top of such a major matter, no one dares to speak first.

Wei Sheng twisted the beard on his chest and said, "Boss, you speak first." ”

Wei Dalin said: "No matter where His Royal Highness King Yong heard about my Wei family's reputation, we can't ignore it. Otherwise, you will offend His Royal Highness King Yong, and the disaster will be deep. ”

Wei Sheng nodded secretly in his heart, and said in his heart: "Indeed, you can't offend the vassal king casually. Especially a vassal king who was deeply favored. ”

Zhu Houhuang's various legends are confusing. None of them shows that there is a deep relationship between Zhu Houhuang and Zhengde.

"But how to save it, how to do a little effort, is a big problem." Wei Dalin said.

Indeed, the foundation of the Wei family is logically illegal and undisciplined. It's just that the dignitaries and nobles above are fed layer by layer. A tacit attitude was adopted. If the Wei family rescues King Yong too much, after exposing the true strength of the Wei family. Put the Wei family in the sun.

Whether the Wei family can withstand this kind of sunlight is another question. There are fewer people sent out, and they are not used at all. There are many people dispatched, and the strength of the Wei family is exposed, and they have to face the prying eyes of jackals, tigers and leopards. It was a dilemma for a while.

Perhaps Wei Dalin understands Wei Sheng's mood best. Wei Sheng nodded again and again when he said this.

"Father." Wei Ruizhou couldn't help but speak, he was more than ten years younger than Wei Dalin, and now he was only a weak champion, heroic, not to be outdone, and said: "My family obviously has such strength, but it is under the small officials in the county, the child is not convinced, and now King Yong is expanding Dongyong, recruiting heroes, Xu Dong is just a trader, that is, before having the Yongguo Water Master, it can be said that it is the glory of the ancestors, and my Wei family is compared." The so-called merit is better than saving the fight. I'm pouring out of the nest, and I'm sure I'll be able to make the Francos unable to eat and walk around. How can he not reuse this merit to defect to King Yong? ”

"Second brother. Since becoming an ancestor, the more capable my Ming vassal king is, the more bleak the end will be. Yes, King Yong is a character. But defecting to King Yong, it is simply gambling with the lives of the clan, and if it succeeds, if it doesn't work, don't you remember the punishment of Fang Xiaoru's ten clans. Wei Dalin said sharply.

"Big brother, King Yong may not be concerned about that position. Why worry? Wei Ruizhou was also a little distressed. I don't know how to convince my eldest brother of stubborn thoughts

"Even if King Yong doesn't care, can the Manchu Dynasty let go of a prince who is in charge of the army?" Wei Dalin showed no weakness.

"Alright." Wei Sheng shouted in a low voice: "What kind of system." ”

Although Wei Sheng has not cared about things for a long time. But the authority of the old father is also deeply rooted in the Wei family, and he ordered his two sons to understand and be speechless, and they didn't dare to say a word.

Wei Sheng didn't know how to break it off for a while, and said, "Fa Ying, what should you do with the Wei family?" ”

Lei Faying said: "The eldest prince is right, today's matter, if you are not careful, my Wei family will not survive in Zhangzhou, it can be said that it is a crisis step by step." And the second son is also right, Zhangzhou can no longer accommodate the Wei family, and if it is dormant in Zhangzhou, the Wei family will be like this, and there will be no greater progress. ”

Although Lei Faying is not a son-in-law, the Lei family cannot be compared with the Wei family, so before Lei Faying speaks, he will make a round. to show that there is no offense against both.

Wei Sheng already knew the character of this son-in-law, and said: "Don't beat around the bush, have something to say." ”

Lei Faying said: "Zhangren, I think who told King Yong, the news of my Wei family." ”

"Who else could it be, Xu Dong Xu boy?" Wei Sheng said.

"In that case, will Xu Dong hide his strength for my Wei family? I'm afraid that now the strength of my Wei family has been known to King Yong, and it is useless to conceal the strength. Lei Faying said calmly.

As soon as these words came out, Wei Dalin was suddenly shocked, although the Wei family's sea ships were not as many as hundreds, but the maritime alliance led by the Wei family had such strength. Such strength has been exposed, where can the political envoys of Fujian tolerate the Wei family, especially now who doesn't know that in Fujian it is a powerful eunuch. With the eunuch's greedy nature, he didn't know what kind of actions he would have after knowing the wealth of the Wei family. Hide your strength to offend King Yong, if you don't hide your strength, you will be devoured by I don't know how many jackals, tigers and leopards, and for a while the Wei family has no way out.

Lei Faying said: "I don't know who King Wei Yong came up with such a plan. Let my Wei family be in a dilemma, if the Wei family doesn't want to flee overseas, the best way is to defect to King Yong. ”

In fact, it is not that there is no other way, such as defecting to the dignitaries and dignitaries, such as the group of nobles in Nanjing, or those big families in Jiangnan. It's just that from then on, the Wei family can only be enslaved by others. In this way, it is better to defect to King Yong.