Zhu Qinxiang, who had just arrived and didn't even have a warm chair, was stunned at this time, because these news reports were so dense that he was almost dizzy, and then a rumor began to flow out of the market, that is, this time the sea wolf suddenly broke out and attacked the coast, not because it was aimed at him, the new governor of Fujian, Zhu Qinxiang.

It is rumored that the reason why the sea wolves suddenly attacked the shore this time was precisely because after Zhu Qinxiang took office, he wanted to cut them sea wolves, and their sea wolves have been entrenched in the coastal areas of Fujian over the years, but they have always been self-denying and have not wantonly harmed the people along the coast, but Zhu Qinxiang wants to send troops to suppress their sea wolves, so their sea wolves want to give Zhu Qinxiang a color.

After listening to these rumors in the market this time, Zhu Qinxiang was angry, if this is true, then the sea wolf is clearly demonstrating to him! He was a governor anyway, and he had just given him a dismount as soon as he was appointed to the sea wolf, and he faintly threatened him, to make him succumb, how could he bow to a group of pirates, and if he gave in, wouldn't it be a joke?

So Zhu Qinxiang quit this time, and immediately recruited Liu Yinglong, a coastal defense guerrilla who was sitting in Xinghua Mansion at this time, and ordered him to immediately rectify the water camp warships in Xinghua Mansion and go to sea to pursue the sea wolf thief ships.

Liu Yinglong is about 40 years old, born is Kong Wu powerful, the year before last he had followed the Nanju Yibing to Penghu, and the red-haired people had fought head-on, quite brave, and had military exploits, after recovering Penghu last year, Liu Yinglong was promoted to the post of Fujian coastal defense guerrilla because of his military exploits, and moved to Xinghua Prefecture, Xinghua Guard.

Liu Yinglong was ordered to rush to the Yamen, the governor of Fuzhou Prefecture, to obey the order, and when he learned that Zhu Qinxiang wanted him to lead his troops to the sea to chase down the sea wolves, he couldn't help but look embarrassed.

As soon as Zhu Qinxiang saw that Liu Yinglong didn't respond for a long time, knelt down but refused to accept the order, he immediately became angry, and said angrily: "Liu Guerrilla! Why didn't you take the order? Is it difficult to disobey the order? ”

Liu Yinglong hurriedly lay on the ground and leaned over and said, "Don't dare!" Please forgive your sins! The marking is not to disobey the order, but to mark it is really difficult! Please Futai Lord Mingjian! ”

Only then did Zhu Qinxiang restrain his anger and nodded: "You say!" ”

Liu Yinglong cautiously raised his head and said, "Lord Futai! The sea wolf has recently attacked the shore, and this matter has been known under the mark, and people have been sent to strengthen the prevention in the area of Xinghua Mansion!

But recently, Lord Futai wants to lead his troops to go to sea to pursue him, not because he is greedy for life and afraid of death, but because his current strength is really not good!

Although he was a coastal defense guerrilla and was responsible for preparing for the Japanese invasion, he was only told that the three water camps in Xinghuawei were originally 1,600 people, but after taking inventory, he found that in fact, all the old and weak were counted, and there were less than 700 people, and more than half of them were missing!

In the past, there were a total of 53 large and small warships of the Xinghua Weishui Battalion, but over the years, the sailors and warships here have fallen into disrepair, and most of them have long been scrapped and rotted on the shore!

At present, there are less than ten warships left, barely usable, and these ships are all in tatters, and they are not ready to fight the pirates!

Lord Futai ordered to go to sea to arrest thieves, and the mark is really inadequate, so to mark the warships and troops under his current command, it is said to be chasing and suppressing sea wolves, I am afraid it is difficult to even go to sea! Therefore, he hesitated to accept the order rashly, and hoped that Lord Futai would be clear! ”

When Zhu Qinxiang heard this, his head felt a little big, although he also knew that in recent years, since Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou went back then, the trouble of the Japanese has been reduced a lot, and the coastal defense in the south has become increasingly relaxed, and the abandoned water camps in various places, even if they are still preserved, the warships have fallen into disrepair and are no longer usable!

After he arrived here, he also inspected two water camps in the vicinity of the Minjiang River in Fuzhou, where the warships were all mottled, and some of them had leaked and sunk on the shore, deep in the mud and sand, and the water battalion soldiers were even more short of personnel, and they were indeed useless.

But he didn't expect that Liu Yinglong's subordinates in Xinghua Mansion were also in this situation, even more serious than the situation in Fuzhou, so he frowned and asked, "Is this really the case?" ”

Liu Yinglong hurriedly nodded and said, "How dare you deceive Lord Futai under the mark!" I asked my soldiers, and there was an old soldier who said that since the end of the Wanli year, they have not built a new ship there, and most of the old ships have long been decayed after so many years, and even the remaining ships are also some silver taels allocated by Xinghua Mansion a few years ago, and some of the decayed warships were dismantled, and the available wood was put together, and now it is unbearable!

If Lord Futai doesn't believe this, you can ask the prefect of Xinghua to know that there is no lie under the standard! ”

This time Zhu Qinxiang scratched his head a little, originally he thought that this time he would recruit Liu Yinglong and send Liu Yinglong to the sea, although he would not be able to take back Nanri Island, but at least he could beat the sea wolf, and use the color to hit their arrogance, but he didn't expect to get such a result.

If he still forced Liu Yinglong to go to sea, then Liu Yinglong would definitely not dare to say no, but he was sure that even if Liu Yinglong went to sea, he would at most go around the coast of Xinghua Mansion, and it would be impossible to chase down those sea wolf ships.

Therefore, this time, he had to make another plan, so he immediately summoned the people who commanded the envoy and inquired in detail about the situation of the naval division on the Fujian side, as well as the troops and ships used by Nan Juyi to attack Penghu.

But after asking such a question, Zhu Qinxiang couldn't help but be even more discouraged.

It turns out that Fujian now has tens of thousands of troops on paper, and there are 120 guards in various places, and there are more than 10 coastal water villages, which on the surface seems to be huge, but in fact over the years, Fujian's armaments have been slack, the war equipment has not been repaired, and the number of soldiers in various garrisons has been seriously shortage, and in fact the available troops are only 30,000 people, and the number of warships on the register is hundreds, but in fact there are only more than 200.

The last time Nan Juyi commanded the red-haired people who attacked Penghu, almost used most of the warships in the entire Fujian, but the number was still insufficient, so he had to temporarily recruit some merchant ships and fishing boats to participate in the battle, and in the battle of Penghu, these ships were also damaged.

In order to fill these vacancies afterwards, although Nan Juyi also thought of a lot of ways to add some warships to some waterhouses, but this was only more or less to make up for some shortcomings, in fact, the number of warships of the Fujian Navy Division in the past two years has not increased, and with the decay of the ships, there has been a decline.

If Zhu Qinxiang wants to deal with the sea wolves, he must at least follow the example of Nan Juyi last year and mobilize most of Fujian's warships to participate in the battle, otherwise it will be difficult to overwhelm the current sea wolves in terms of numbers.

But this matter is easier said than done, don't look at Zhu Qinxiang is the governor of Fujian at the moment, but if you want to launch such a large-scale military operation, it is not a matter of a word, which involves the mobilization of a lot of soldiers and horses to participate in the war, everyone knows that when the army of the Ming Dynasty is mobilized, it is necessary to pay the salary first, and also to supply a part of the previous arrears to the generals, and once someone dies in battle, it is necessary to give a pension.

In short, if such a large number of troops are to be mobilized, this military capital is a big problem, and it is difficult to start a military operation of this scale without 120,000 taels of silver.

After Zhu Qinxiang arrived in Fujian, he also inquired about the stock of silver and the reserves of grain and grass in the treasury of Fujian, but the result was not optimistic, Nan Juyi spent a lot of silver when he attacked Penghu, and all the provinces in Fujian contributed a lot of money, and now the treasury of each province is not full, so it is indeed not an easy thing for Zhu Qinxiang to raise so much military funds in the short term.

Therefore, after Zhu Qinxiang waved his hand to drive away Liu Yinglong, he had to order the coastal state capitals to strengthen the defense of the coastline, and the counties should summon the township to prevent the attack of the sea wolf.

Under the command of Yu Xiaotian, the sea wolf launched a month-long raid on the coast of Fujian, and after finding that the government had not made a stronger response, it also died down and ended this large-scale raid on the shore.

In this month, the sea wolves have gained a lot, they have raided more than 70 villages along the coast of Fujian, and these villages are carefully selected in advance, in each village, there are one to two or three large families, but the property recovered from their homes is as high as tens of thousands of taels of silver, not counting some of these cultural toys and other things, if counted, the estimated value will be doubled.

In addition, from these large households, also obtained a large number of cattle, mules and horses, etc., which is also the materials that the sea wolf urgently needs, Tamsui Village and chicken coop village are now in a large area of pioneering, manpower alone is not possible, and large livestock are urgently needed to help with farming, this large number of mules, horses, and cattle greatly alleviate their demand for animal power.

In addition, their biggest harvest is the captive population, through this month-long operation, the sea wolf from the coastal area of Fujian, a total of thousands of people, although less than half of the labor force, but such an operation is carried out by the whole family.

For these ordinary villagers who were kidnapped, although the sea wolves behaved very tough and vicious when they plundered, they actually did not harm these people after forcibly entrapping them offshore.

(Today, I would like to thank the Eagle Warriors for their reward, and I will update another chapter in the afternoon!) This month, I decided to watch no less than two shifts a day, thanks to the brothers for their help! Let's get off to a good start! Hehe! ）