The city of Guangzhou was breached in one day, and the tens of thousands of horses that Li Huixian had painstakingly assembled collapsed not long after under the power of thirty red-coated cannons.

Li Huixian himself fell into the moat and did not lose his life, but he was captured alive by the rebels.

Li Huixian, as the prefect of Guangzhou, was quickly recognized and escorted to Mo Qian.

Looking at Li Huixian, who fell into the soup, Mo Qian shook his hand and said, "Hold it down, lock it up first!" ”

Li Huixian was very backbone, and when he saw Mo Qian sitting on top of the war horse, he couldn't help but spit in front of Mo Qian.

"Phew, anti-thief, rebel thief!"

The rest of the officials of Panyu County, Guangzhou Prefecture, were frightened when they saw the prefect scolding Mo Qian so badly.

None of them had the courage of Li Hui to commit suicide first, and chose to surrender on their knees the moment the rebels broke the city.

Mo Qian admired Li Huixian's courage, no matter how he was an official, just by virtue of his backbone, Mo Qian could conclude that he was a character.

Mo Qian looked at Li Huixian and said: "I respect you as a man, you can commit suicide and martyrdom, you can be regarded as a loyal minister, come here, press Lord Li in prison, give preferential treatment to students, don't beat and scold, and provide me with good wine and food!" ”

When Li Hui heard this, he immediately guessed that Mo Qian had the intention of surrendering him, and he immediately said: "Rebel and thief, you have the ability to kill me with one sword, don't act like this, I won't surrender you." ”

After scolding Mo Qian, Li Huixian set his eyes on a group of former colleagues kneeling on the side of the road.

"You apostolic and ungrateful, you will not die a good death!"

A cadre of officials in Guangzhou Prefecture and County was scolded by Li Huixian and couldn't raise their heads, so they shrunk their heads in their crotches and acted as turtles.

However, Chengwu Chunhua of Panyu County stood up and pointed at Li Huixian and scolded: "Lord Li, why be so angry, King Mo is the master of the world, we are not betraying the Lord to seek glory, but abandoning the darkness and turning to the light!" ”

Li Hui first saw that the person who spoke was Wu Chunhua, and couldn't help but narrow his eyes, and sneered: "Just you? I'm afraid that if you want to be a lackey for others, others may not be able to look up to you, Wu Chunhua, you won't die sooner or later! ”

"Phew, I'm sure I'll die later than you, you old thing!"

Li Huixian was in his fifties, and he was so insulted by the thirty-year-old Wu Chunhua that he couldn't get angry, and he wanted to raise his hand to beat Wu Chunhua on the spot.

Li Hui was simply watched by the two soldiers first, and before he could take a step, he was stopped by the two soldiers and taken away directly.

Looking at the back of Li Huixian leaving, Mo Qian would look back at Wu Chunhua who had just spoken

As soon as Wu Chunhua saw Mo Qian looking at him, he immediately took two steps forward, and said flatteringly: "King, what do you command?" ”

Mo Qian coldly popped out a word from his mouth: "Get out!" ”

With the capture of Guangzhou, the rebels achieved a strategic victory and achieved the expected goal before sending troops.

But Mo Qian obviously would not stop there, he divided the army of 30,000 into five routes, with Guangzhou Mansion as the center, and directly expanded outward.

Within seven days, Shunde, Dongguan, Conghua, Guishan, Sihui, Dong'an and other counties around Guangzhou Prefecture were quickly breached, and the righteous army frantically captured the city in Guangdong like a devastation.

In just half a month, most of the land in Guangdong was planted with the banner of the rebel army, and the prefects of Shaozhou Prefecture in northern Guangdong and Huizhou Prefecture in eastern Guangdong were greatly surprised when they learned the news of the fall of Guangzhou Prefecture.

The prefects of the two prefectures sent people overnight to ask for help from Zheng Zhilong in the neighboring province of southern Huguang and Fujian.

It is said that Zheng Zhilong's troops include Han, Japanese, Korean, Austronesian, African blacks and other races, with a total strength of up to 200,000 people.

Zheng Zhilong was also greatly surprised to learn of the fall of Guangdong, he called a group of his subordinates, and discussed: "Unexpectedly, not long after the Inspector (Xiong Wencan) left Guangdong, Guangdong fell into the hands of the Mo thief, and now two-thirds of the land of Guangdong has fallen into the hands of the Mo thief, what do you brothers think?" ”

Zheng Zhilong had defeated the joint attack of Liu Xiang and the Dutch the year before, and the South China Sea area was now his territory.

Zheng Zhilong knew that his advantage was in the navy and fighting on land, and he didn't know what the origin of this Jiangxi Mo asked was.

He himself started as a pirate, but he accepted the edict of the imperial court, which was fortunate enough to get a guerrilla general, and later promoted to a general soldier.

But in the past few years, Zheng Zhilong has been staying in the mansion he just built, tidying up his days to eat, drink and have fun, and live a retired life.

But now that a tiger suddenly came to his side of the couch, Zheng Zhilong had to start to be alert.

He sent people to find out about this Jiangxi Mowen, and within a few days he got a report from his subordinates.

Hearing that Mo Wen's rebellion has only been more than two years, he has already laid down half of the Jiangnan, Zheng Zhilong, the god of war of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, actually feels a little incredible.

"Could it be that those armies of the Ming Dynasty are all wine bags and rice bags?"

With this question in mind, Zheng Zhilong definitely did not use troops against Mo Qian first, but first sent an envoy across the sea to Guangzhou to ask for Mo Qian.

Mo Qian, who was resting in Guangzhou, heard that the person who came was Zheng Zhilong's messenger, and immediately became interested in the father of this national hero.

He personally received the messenger.

As soon as the two sides met, the envoy gave Mo Qian an ordinary etiquette without humility.

"Cheng Lifu, the envoy under the command of Master Zheng, the chief soldier of the Fujian Navy Division, has seen Lord Mo, the governor of Jiangnan!"

"Mr. Cheng, please take a seat, Mr. Cheng has come from afar, what is the matter?"

Cheng Lifu arched his hand and said: "Your Excellency, my family's general soldiers sent me to ask the governor, as the governor of the south of the Ming Dynasty, how could you send troops south to Guangzhou, now the prefects of Huizhou and Huzhou are asking for help from Zheng Zongbing, they are afraid of the governor!" ”

Mo Qian laughed and said: "What is Zheng Zongbing asking, as the governor of Jiangnan, he is an important member of the imperial court, and my duty is to manage half of the Jiangnan for His Majesty."

Now that there are bandits everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, the governor led the troops to exterminate the bandits in the territory, which is justifiable and famous, and Huizhou and Huzhou have nothing to fear? ”

When Cheng Lifu heard this, he had to give Mo Qian a thumbs up in his heart, and secretly praised: "Shameless enough!" ”

Of course, Cheng Lifu can't say this directly now, he is just here to touch Mo Qian's bottom to see if he wants to attack Fujian.

If he wanted to attack Fujian, then he would turn around and leave, and immediately persuade Zheng Zhilong to send troops to Guangdong, just taking advantage of the chaos in Guangdong now, and then occupy it first.

If Mo Qian had no intention of attacking Fujian, then the two sides would negotiate the line, and everyone should not cross the line if they have nothing to do, so that everyone can do business peacefully with peace of mind.

Mo Qian already knew Cheng Lifu's thoughts in his heart, and he deliberately said: "Lord Cheng, I admire your family's general soldier very much, there are thousands of warships, and more than 200,000 soldiers under his command have armor, which is the southeast barrier of my Ming Dynasty, and the loyal guardian of my Ming Dynasty's thousands of miles of coastline, to be honest, I very much hope to be able to meet your family's general soldier, and I believe that he is also the same as me, and they all cherish each other." ”

"That's that, my family always praises you, saying that you are an unborn hero, Yingjie, in just two years, you are already the master of the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, presumably in a few years, you will definitely go further!"

When Mo Qian heard this, he pretended to be surprised and said, "Oh, go further? Could it be that I, Mo Qian, was destined to be able to be crowned a king? Then my Mo family's ancestral grave is really smoking, ahahaha! ”

Cheng Lifu didn't expect this Jiangxi rebel to be so bold, and even dared to say such a thing as a king, and he really deserved to be a rebel, and he didn't speak without a mouth.

Cheng Lifu could only laugh a few times, and flattered: "Your Excellency the Governor has descended from heaven, and the king is just a matter of being captured, my family's chief soldier asked me to say hello to you, he asked, you have finished suppressing the bandits in Guangdong, where are you going to suppress the bandits?" ”

Mo Qian's eyes narrowed, and he answered: "Naturally, I went to Guangxi, that place in Guangxi, I heard that there was a lot of chaos, I am going to go to Huizhou Mansion and Huzhou Mansion first, and wipe out all the bandits there, and then immediately turn around and go to Guangxi."

As for this Fujian, Zheng Zongbing is a rare good official, how can there be bandits in this kind of place on the rich side of Fujian's governance, besides, Zheng Zongbing has hundreds of thousands of armor under his command, who dares to be a bandit in Fujian, that's not a big lantern in a pit, isn't looking for! ”

Hearing Mo Qian say this, Cheng Lifu understood in his heart that the governor of Jiangnan seemed to be very knowledgeable about current affairs, and he didn't have the courage to fight with the chief soldier.

Cheng Lifu soon returned to Fujian and brought Mo Qian's meaning to Zheng Zhilong, and Zheng Zhilong was relieved when he learned that Mo Qian had no intention of Fujian.

He has a group of navies under him, and if he really puts it on land, he may not be able to defeat Mo Qian.

Since Mo Qian didn't mean to harass him in Fujian, Zheng Zhilong didn't bother to care about Mo Qian, so he would just continue to be his soil emperor in Fujian.

When the time came to December, the rebel army under the command of Mo Qian, under the leadership of several fierce generals, swept away Guangdong with a thunderous force, and even the Shaozhou Mansion bordering Huguang was broken by the rebel army.

When the two prefectures of Huzhou and Huizhou saw the red-coated cannon in the black hole, they directly raised their flags and surrendered.

Except for Leizhou and Qiongzhou, the southernmost prefectures in Guangdong, the rest of the provinces have been returned to the Shunyi army, and the territory of the righteous army has been expanded for a time.

On the eighth day of the twelfth month, on the day of the Laba Festival, Yi Jiu, who was promoted to chief military officer because of his military exploits, led an army of 5,000 troops from Yangjiang and went straight to Leizhou Mansion along the coastline to kill.

On the 12th, Leizhou was breached, and the rebel army and Qiongzhou Mansion faced each other across the sea.

But at this time, the rebels could only look at the sea and sigh because they did not have a warship to cross the sea.

On December 15, Mo Qian ordered the whole army to rest on the spot, and the generals of all armies went to Guangzhou to celebrate the success, and feasted the whole army to prepare for the New Year.

It's obviously too late to go back to Wuchang for the New Year, and it will take half a month to travel on the way, not to mention that Mo Qian still has a lot of big things to do in Guangdong.

The first is that the Portuguese arms have not yet arrived, and the second is that the Canton Mansion is not peaceful.

The reason why it is not peaceful is mainly due to the ** businessman in Guangzhou Prefecture.

Guangzhou, as the gateway to the South China Sea, was one of the most popular cities for overseas merchants, as they could buy Chinese tea, porcelain and all kinds of fine cloths.

As long as these things are shipped to Europe, they are equivalent to a lot of gold and silver coins, which is a lot of wealth.

If you can carry ten ships of cargo in one trip, as long as ten ships can return safely to Europe, the profit is simply unimaginable.

Therefore, there are many foreign devils in Guangzhou who do business here, and they have all kinds of complex relationship networks and various purchase channels.

In the past, when doing business, the government didn't care what you pulled or how many things you pulled, as long as you gave money, the government would give you a bill to open a bank, and with this bill, you could leave the port smoothly.

But now it's different, after Mo Qian came to Guangzhou, he quickly sent troops to be stationed on the port wharf, and sent officials who knew the market to check the goods.

Officials will calculate the amount of tax to be paid based on the value of the goods.

For example, in the previous boatload of tea, foreigners would bribe 500 taels of silver to the government through the seller in Guangzhou, and this boatload of tea could go to sea.

Of the five hundred taels of silver, four hundred taels went into the pockets and pockets of the officials of the Guangzhou Prefecture, and the remaining one hundred taels were divided between the treasury and the soap officials.

As a result, the imperial court did not receive any tariffs in Guangzhou, and because there were too many things exported, domestic prices also rose.

A group of officials in the imperial court only know how to dance and write, intrigue, and how to understand the horror of this kind of commercial taxation.

As soon as Mo Qian captured Guangzhou, the first thing he saw was to collect tariffs.

All goods going to sea, whether porcelain cloth or tea, as long as they are embarkated from the docks of Canton Prefecture, are subject to tax.

Moreover, Mo Qian also sent officials who understood the market price of goods to collect taxes.

These officials all came from a family of squires and landlords, and many of them had been merchants and knew the prices of various commodities.

These people's homes were all raided by Mo Qian, but Mo Qian did not kill them all, but gave them a chance to mend their ways, that is, to serve the righteous military government.

Mo Qian is not the kind of person who I don't need you if you are the landlord, no matter what kind of cat you are, you are a good cat if you can help him get things done.

Mo Qian built a new yamen in the Guangzhou Prefecture, called the Customs, and he stuffed all the merchants' children into it, and each official sent officials from the Integrity Department to watch over them, so as to stop them from embezzlement.

Obviously, these counterpart officials were very effective in collecting taxes, and they collected 100,000 taels of silver in less than half a month.

This time, the foreign devils can't stand it, they are out of real silver, such a high export tax, the profit has been reduced by a full three.

The foreigners wanted to find the customs officials to pay bribes, but they had no way out, because the customs officials did not care about them at all.

No, the foreigners found the Guangzhou merchants who sold them goods, and these merchants were authentic Chinese.

As soon as they heard that the tariffs were so high, they immediately realized that it could affect their export business.

Soon, the group of merchants began to form a group and openly bribe the customs officials!

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