In the evening, Li Yuntian held a banquet in a restaurant in Xin'an City to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Li Daniu and his party, and there were hundreds of people participating in the banquet, and the whole restaurant was full, and the atmosphere was relaxed and cheerful.

Li Yuntian, Mu Sheng and others were in the most luxurious box of the restaurant, drinking and listening to Li Daniu talk about what they had seen and heard on the way south.

Of particular interest was a war that took place on the island of Sumatra, where Li Da Niu sent troops to assist the Old Port Xuanwei Division in defeating the invading Java Dynasty and driving it back to Java in one fell swoop.

It was precisely because of this war that Li Daniu was stranded in the old port for more than a month, which in turn affected the return date of the fleet.

In the thirtieth year of Hongwu, the Java Majapahit Dynasty destroyed the Srivijaya Dynasty on Sumatra Island, when there were more than 1,000 Ming people living in Srivijaya, and Liang Daoming, a native of Nanhai, Guangdong, was the new King of Sriwijaya.

Liang Daoming led his troops to guard the northern territory of Srivijaya against the Majapahit, and in the following ten years, due to the increasingly strict maritime ban of the Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians crossed the sea from Guangdong to join him, so that Liang Daoming established a firm foothold.

In the third year of Yongle, Emperor Yongle sent Liang Daoming's fellow townsman, Tan Shengshou, the superintendent of the Imperial Procuratorate, and Yang Xin, a thousand households, to Zhao'an with an edict.

Liang Daoming accepted the invitation of Emperor Yongle, and together with his deputy Zheng Boke, he entered the tributary party, that is, the local local specialty, and then returned to his hometown in Guangdong to settle down, leaving his deputy Shi Jinqing to command the military and civilians.

In the fifth year of Yongle, Zheng He led a fleet to the West to return from the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, and was attacked by the pirate Chen Zuyi when passing through the old port.

In the same year, Shi Jinqing sent his son-in-law to Beijing to pay tribute to Emperor Yongle, and Ming Chengzu then ordered Shi Jinqing to be the ambassador of the old port, and based on Palembang in Sumatra, the southernmost department of the Ming Dynasty - the old port of the old port.

So far, the Old Port Propaganda Division has become the farthest territory in the south of the Ming Dynasty and the only overseas territory of the Ming Dynasty......

In the twenty-first year of Yongle, Shi Jinqing died, and his son Shi Jisun succeeded him.

The Majapahit dynasty in Java was not willing to let Shi Jisun own the old port, which was an important port in and out of the Strait of Malacca, and had always wanted to take it for himself, but he was afraid of the prestige of the Ming Dynasty and did not dare to act rashly.

Since Zheng He had not been to the West for several years, the people of the Majapahit Dynasty gradually became emboldened, so they began to harass the Old Port Xuanwei Division.

The territory of the Old Port Propaganda Division is only a part of the territory in the north of the Sriwijaya Kingdom, and the remaining territory of the Sriwijaya Kingdom has been occupied by the Majapahit Dynasty.

Before Li Daniu led the fleet to the Old Port, the Majapahit Dynasty had already encroached on a piece of land in the southern part of the Old Port Propaganda Division, which was unable to drive it away due to its numerical inferiority.

As a general of the Ming Dynasty, Li Daniu naturally would not ignore this provocative behavior of the Majapahit Dynasty, so he mobilized the escort of the Ming Dynasty to counterattack, and drove the army of the Majapahit Dynasty out of Sumatra Island in one fell swoop, so that the territory of the Old Port Xuanwei Division expanded to the northern tip of Sumatra Island, facing the Majapahit Dynasty on Java Island across the sea.

According to Li Yuntian's arrangement, he left 2,000 sailors and dozens of officials in the old port city to enhance the strength of the Old Port Propaganda Division, and prepared to gradually build it into a military base of the Ming Dynasty overseas.

When Li Yuntian was chatting and laughing with everyone in the restaurant, Li Li in Yi'an City looked at a letter in his hand expressionlessly, his face was gloomy and terrifying.

The letter was a letter of accusation, in which a rebel general who had followed Le Ly's army in Thanh Hoa Province reported to Le Lê, revealing that Nguyen Yan and Tran Yuan were secretly contacting rebel generals and intended to do something wrong.

It is worth mentioning that this rebel general was not in Yi'an City, but was stationed in a county town that confronted the Ming army in Thanh Hoa Province, and since even he knew about Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan's plot, it showed that the matter was very serious.

What particularly annoyed Li Li was that the rebel general told him in a letter that there was now a rumor circulating among the rebels that the reason why the Ming Dynasty's Dingnan General was able to win three battles and three victories in Jiaozhi was to attack Anliang County at night, then ambush the rebels at Luoyepo, and then recapture Langjiang Mansion, because Li Li and General Dingnan secretly reached an agreement in exchange for General Dingnan's support for him as the Great Tusi of Jiaozhi.

Otherwise, with the situation back then, the rebels had already conquered the entire territory of Jiaozhi, how could they end up like this.

Two things have become excellent evidence of this rumor, one is that the Ming army successfully retreated at Thanh Hoa City and the rebel general Li Ge in charge of the siege did not pursue it, and the other is that the 7,000 rebels in Lang Giang City abandoned the city in the face of more than 10,000 Ming troops cobbled together by Tan An and Lang Son provinces.

The two things are completely unreasonable, if Li Ge went to pursue the retreating soldiers and civilians of Thanh Hoa City, then he would definitely be able to annihilate a huge part of it, but Li Ge did not do so unusually, and if the 7,000 rebels in Lang Giang City defended the city, the Ming troops in Tan An Province and Lang Son Province who had temporarily put together would not be able to capture Lang Gang City at all.

In these two incidents, Li Ge, who sat back and watched the retreat of the soldiers and civilians of Thanh Hoa City, was undoubtedly pushed to the cusp, if it is said that the rebels of Lang Gang City were worried that the Ming Xiaowu army would attack Lang Gang City after landing from Xin'an Province by sea ship, so they withdrew, this is understandable, but Li Ge saw that the soldiers and civilians of Thanh Hoa City calmly withdrew, and strictly ordered his subordinates not to pursue, which is incomprehensible.

When the rebels had the upper hand in Jiaozhi, no one would mention the retreat of the Ming army from Thanh Hoa and the withdrawal of the rebels from Langjiang, but now the rebels were caught between the north and south by the Ming army and the Champa army, and became the turtle in the urn, which made the rebels' morale float and the contradiction was reborn.

Ever since he was trapped in the city, his temper has become more and more irritable, so no one dares to tell him about the gossip in the market.

If it weren't for the rebel general who had been following Li Li for a long time to report this matter to Li Li, Li Li would have been kept in the dark, which would have made matters worse for him.

Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan can be said to be the most talented Wenchen generals around Li Li, Ruan Yan is good at strategy and Chen Yuan is good at fighting, quite prestigious in the rebel army, last year it was Chen Yuan who led the army to raid Qingyun City, cut off the road for the king of Champa to retreat south, and then blocked the king of Champa in Kata City, and finally died under the sword of the rebels.

Once Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan secretly unite, it will be an extremely bad thing for Li Li, and he is likely to be overshadowed by the two.

The so-called groundless rumors will never appear in the army for no reason, and there must be someone secretly stirring up trouble.

Thinking of some of the contents circulating in the market that only Li Li and Ruan Yan know, especially Li Yuntian's promise to Li Li Jiaozhi Tusi, the only people who know are Ruan Yan except Li Yuntian, General Dingnan and Li Li, which makes Li Li can't help but suspect Ruan Yan.

Li Li didn't know now that the young man who negotiated with him in Xiaohe Town back then was General Dingnan of the Ming Dynasty, and he always thought that Li Yuntian was the confidant sent by General Dingnan to negotiate with him, and he would never have thought that Li Yuntian would come to Xiaohe Town alone to see him.

Obviously, if Li Yuntian had spread the news, then the Ming army would have already carried out propaganda with great fanfare to undermine the morale of the rebels.

But since the Ming army launched an attack on the rebels, the transaction between Li Yuntian and Li Li has never been mentioned to the outside world, as if Li Yuntian did not want people to know about this matter, so Li Li naturally ruled out the suspicion of Li Yuntian and General Dingnan, after all, it was a taboo for the Ming army to negotiate peace with the enemy army in private.

In Li Li's view, Li Yuntian negotiated peace with him only when he was forced to do so, but Li Yuntian was too cunning and treacherous, and even used the tactic of delaying the army, not only using a year to accumulate strength but also inducing him to attack the city of Zhancheng, so that he fell to the current step.

If the rumors in the rebels were spread by Ruan Yan, then the secret collusion between Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan is likely to be true, and even Li Li will fall into passivity if the two join forces.

"Someone, pass on General Cai!" After putting down the report letter in his hand, Li Li frowned and pondered for a long time, and shouted loudly to the soldiers outside the door.

General Cai in Li Li's mouth naturally refers to Cai Fu, since Cai Fu escorted Li Ge and Li Li's family to escape from the encirclement of the Ming army in Jiaozhou City, he has gained Li Li's trust, and after arriving in Yi'an City, he has served Li Li and Li Li's family with all his heart, and now he has become Li Li's henchman.

At this moment, compared with the rebel generals under his command, Li Li believes in Cai Fu, an "outsider", because Cai Fu is a rebel general of the Ming Dynasty, he has no foundation in the rebel army, so he can only rely on Li Li, and in Li Li's eyes, there is no doubt about the servant.

Obviously, when it comes to Li Li's core interests, domestic servants are far more reliable than those rebel generals, so Li Li will think of Cai Fu for the first time, Cai Fu is not only loyal to him, but also has been up and down in the Ming officialdom for twenty or thirty years, and is used to seeing the battles of officialdom, so he can give him advice.

"Lord Wang, what can the villain do for the prince?" Not long after, Cai Fu walked into the room with a flattering face, bowed down and said to Li Li.

"Look at this." Li Li quietly handed the report letter to Cai Fu.

Cai Fu hurriedly took it, opened it and was slightly stunned, his eyes flashed with a look of surprise, and then hurriedly read the letter, and respectfully placed the letter on the table in front of Cai Fu.

"General Cai, what do you think about this matter?" Li Li witnessed Cai Fu, and saw that Cai Fu was only slightly stunned, and immediately realized that Cai Fu might also know about it, so he stared at him and asked in a deep voice.

"Lord, the villain is an outsider, and he shouldn't be involved in this kind of military affairs, but since the prince can afford the villain, then the villain can only know everything, and he can't say anything."

Cai Fu looked very embarrassed when he heard this, and when he saw Li Li staring at him, he hesitated, as if he had made up his mind, bowed to Li Li, and said in a deep voice, "If there is something wrong with the villain's words, I hope the prince will forgive him!" ”