"Is Deng Maoqi planning to be treacherous?"

Shen Yichen asked coldly.

After learning that the imperial court was going to conquer Luchuan four times, Shen Yichen had already realized that the matter of Zhao'an was likely to change, after all, with Deng Maoqi's heroic potential, it was impossible to miss the excellent opportunity for the emptiness of the southeast defense.

Things went as expected, Ye Zongliu dispatched elite miners to leave the camp with the furnace ding, preparing to cut down the grass and eradicate the Japanese after the fact.

But without Ye Zongliu and the core force of the miners, relying on Jiang Fucheng's strength and prestige alone, he could not compete with Deng Maoqi at all. Even if he is not under house arrest, he does not have much say in the rebel army under the current circumstances, and it is a matter of time before he is overpowered.

It's just that Deng Maoqi's methods are even cleaner than Shen Yichen imagined, and he directly put Jiang Fucheng under house arrest without leaving any future troubles for himself.

"Chief Deng is ambitious, but Ye doesn't think he is a treacherous person."

Facing Shen Yichen's inquiry, Ye Zongliu knew very well what the consequences would be once he affirmed Deng Maoqi's treachery.

The memories of fighting side by side, and the experience of being born and dying together, made Ye Zongliu always reluctant Deng Maoqi and Shen Yichen to stand on the opposite side.

At that time, officials and bandits must perish one side.

And there is no suspense in the answer, Deng Maoqi will definitely die!

Shen Yichen could understand Ye Zongliu's state of mind and embarrassment, but it was impossible for him to let Deng Maoqi's unrealistic delusions go.

"Wang Neng!"

With a shout, Wang Neng, who was standing outside the door and waiting, walked in and said, "The proprietor, my subordinates are here." ”

"Hurry up and inform the three guards stationed in Fuzhou, Quanzhou Prefecture, and let them be ready for battle. In addition, Xu County ordered him to lead the fleet to Fuzhou Port. ”

"Subordinates obey."

At this moment, Wang Neng no longer had any hesitation, even if he used to be a miner, but now he is his master!

"Grey Fire Head!"

"The subordinates are here."

"Go to Fuzhou City to inform the state capital guards and troops, and immediately set off to Quanzhou Mansion to support, and those who delay will be killed!"

As early as when Shen Yichen ordered the three guards of Fuzhou to go to Quanzhou Mansion to suppress the formation, he also recruited soldiers and horses from all over the province to assemble. However, later the matter of recruiting security was negotiated, considering the pressure of logistics and not wanting to irritate the rebel army too much, the soldiers and horses of other state capitals in Fujian were temporarily stationed in the old barracks of Fuzhou Sanwei to listen to orders.

Fueling tactics is a taboo for soldiers, before Shen Yichen can show the most peaceful side, when war is unavoidable, then he has to use the power of thunder, not to give the other party any breathing room.

"Yes, my subordinates will go to Fuzhou City."

As soon as Canghuo's front foot stepped out, he heard Shen Yichen continue to shout on his back foot: "Where is Wu Rui!" ”

"Humble duty!"

"Go to the Fuzhou Port Wharf to inform Li Zan that this official will soon use them to suppress bandits and quell the rebellion, and at the same time issue double salaries to recruit the Fujian military household Liangjiazi, and this official will expand the Fuzhou Port Naval Division to 10,000 people in the shortest possible time!"

During this time, nearly 6,000 people from the five major water villages of the Fujian Navy Division and the six major ranger guards came to Fuzhou Port to receive the 20 Daming treasure ships that had been built for drill training.

They are all the absolute elite of tens of thousands of people who were eliminated all the way during the peak of the Fujian Naval Division, and they have rich experience in the control of sail warships.

For empires that want to conquer the seas, it is often not the ship that is most lacking, but the sailors who control the ship. Until the moment of last resort, Shen Yichen didn't want this group of sailors to suffer heavy casualties, so he could only temporarily carry out the army expansion plan.

Recruit military households who farm on weekdays, as well as fishermen along the coast of Fujian, to temporarily make up for the difference in their own troops.

"Commanded by humility."

Wu Rui said yes, and then ran towards Fuzhou Port without looking back. Judging from Shen Yichen's deployment, he has gathered all the imperial court soldiers and horses of the Fujian Political Division, preparing to fight a decisive battle with the rebel army.

If you win, the war will be quelled in an instant, and if you lose, with the current situation of the emptiness of the southeast defense, I am afraid that Deng Maoqi can really achieve his ambition of sealing the territory and splitting the territory!

Compared with Shen Yichen, who was busy mobilizing before the war, Ye Zongliu, who was standing in the house watching all this, felt an indescribable discomfort in his heart at this moment.

After the war began, there would be no such thing as "only punishing the evil", and the 100,000 rebels would become the object of surrounding.

Replaced by the officials of the Fujian Political Department in the past, Ye Zongliu felt that with the current situation, the rebel army had at least a seventy or eighty percent chance of winning. But now the opponent is Shen Yichen, he knows too well the other party's style and methods, and his influence in the army and locality.

Deng Maoqi really overestimated himself, and the rebel army's chances of victory may be less than one percent!

"Leader Ye, how is the communication about the Wako?"

After explaining the measures to deal with Deng Maoqi, Shen Yichen turned his attention to Song Zhang and the Japanese Kou. Since the imperial court cannot sanction such corrupt officials, it has no choice but to do the right thing for heaven by itself.

"I have already met the leader of the Japanese Bandits on the outlying islands of the open sea, and I have agreed to take advantage of the dark moon and high wind on the first day of the fifth month."

The first day of May?

Shen Yichen estimated in his heart, now there are still five or six days left at the end of April, and Deng Maoqi should not dare to make too much action in the face of the reinforcements of Fuzhou Sanwei.

"Leader Ye, how many people do you have under your command now?"

"In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I brought five thousand people out this time, otherwise it would not be unbalanced within the rebel army."

When he said this, Ye Zongliu was a little annoyed in his tone, if it weren't for the five thousand miners who left the camp with the elite of the furnace ding, there might not have been a matter of Jiang Lutou being placed under house arrest at all, let alone the next battle!

"Do you still remember that I once told you to let the strong and brave men in the righteous army voluntarily join the Fujian Navy?"

"Leader Ye, it's now!"

Shen Yichen looked at Ye Zongliu with burning eyes, thinking of the life-saving grace in the past, he would not forcibly "take over" the righteous army in the hands of the other party.

But no great unification dynasty would allow armed forces to be independent of their control, let alone rebels.

The miners of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian are the best source of soldiers in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, they should not be consumed in the civil war, the imperial court sailors now need people, and the Ming Dynasty needs a hundred battles to conquer the four seas in the future.

The time is now!

Suddenly hearing Shen Yichen say this, even if Ye Zongliu had prepared in his heart a long time ago, when he was asked to give up the military power in his hands at this moment, it was a little difficult for people to accept it calmly.

Do you really want to put down the swords and guns in advance and let the brothers who have followed you desperately join the former "mortal enemy"?

When Shen Yichen returns to Beijing one day to resume his life, will this group of brothers be liquidated by the imperial court, will they still live a life of hunger and cold, and will they no longer have the ability to resist?

For a while, Ye Zongliu had a lot of feelings in his mind, and he didn't know how to give Shen Yichen this answer.

Seeing Ye Zongliu's difficult choice, Shen Yichen did not urge him to express his position immediately, but said softly: "Ye Zongliu has worked hard all the way, why don't you rest for one night first, and then give me an answer tomorrow." ”

After that, Shen Yichen was ready to call Bian He to come in and lead Ye Zongliu to rest first.

"Admiral Shen, no need!"

The embarrassed expression was fleeting, and Ye Zongliu, who raised his head again, had an extremely resolute face on his face.

"Joining the Imperial Court Sailor is already the best fate for our brothers, Ye has nothing else to ask for, but to ask Admiral Shen to take more care of these miner brothers in the future, they are actually a group of hard-working people."

Hearing Ye Zongliu say this, the expression on Shen Yichen's face became serious.

"Leader Ye, rest assured, I, Shen Yichen, will never treat the miner brothers badly, they will expand their territory in the future and lay a foundation for future generations!"

"I believe Admiral Shen, so I will inform my brothers to go to Fuzhou Port."

"Okay."

Looking at Ye Zongliu's back in the distance, Shen Yichen stood alone in the empty room, and for some reason suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of exhaustion.

The direction of history is now more and more out of the trajectory, Shen Yichen feels that every step he takes is like walking on thin ice, and he has the net worth and lives of thousands of people, and he no longer has any capital to make mistakes.

If he loses, the chips on the table are at least hundreds of thousands of heads in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty!

Compared with Shen Yichen's trembling, the lights in Fuzhou City were bright, and Xining was singing and dancing with the officials of the Third Division of Fujian, as if the rebel crisis that was close to Chi Qi had disappeared.

Listening to the Fujian singing music on the stage, Xining said to Song Zhang beside him with an unfinished expression: "Song Fantai, we heard that the best female singer in Fujian singing music was accepted into the room by you, can there be such a thing?" ”

Hearing Xining mention this kind of thing, Song Zhang didn't know how to answer for a while, so he could only cover it up and say, "This...... Xiaguan ...... Probably ......"

Looking at Song Zhang's panic worried about being found wrong, Xining was simply disdainful in his heart. Isn't it that Shen Yichen extorted 200,000 taels of silver, as for the fear of becoming like this?

"Song Fantai, don't think too much, our family just likes to listen to music, and we are curious about what the best female singer in Fujian has to say."

Xining took the opportunity to explain, he is not just listening to music.

Realizing that the other party was not "fishing for law enforcement", Song Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly smiled: "Father-in-law Xi misunderstood, how could the lower official think too much, because he was worried that the noise of his own female singer would not reach your ears." Since the father-in-law has this Yaxing, then the lower officials will pick a good day to enjoy tea and music together. ”

"Very good, just the third day of the next month."

"Just according to what my father-in-law said."

The wine was scattered, and the confidant little eunuch who had sent a message to Shen Yichen before behind Xi Ning leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Grandpa Xi, did you deliberately arrange for Song Zhang to go out of the city?" ”

"It seems that you have been with our family for a long time, and your head has brightened a lot."

"But the child doesn't understand, didn't you say that you would redouble your revenge on Shen Yichen, why do you keep helping him?"

"As soon as I finished praising your aura, I asked a stupid word!"

Xining reprimanded the little eunuch, but there was a smug look on his face.

"Shen Yichen, this son always wants to drop out of our family and fight with Wang Zhen, so that he can reap the benefits of the fisherman."

"Then we can also plan and stimulate the contradiction between him and Wang Zhen. If Song Zhang died in Fujian inexplicably, do you think Wang Zhen would swallow this breath? ”

"When the time comes, we will inevitably find ways to investigate strictly, this son is used to acting recklessly, isn't the evidence in our hands?"

Hearing Xining's idea of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, the little eunuch still remembered Shen Yichen's threatening words at the beginning.

"Hi grandpa, but Shangshu impeached you and signed it, and it can be regarded as being put on the same ship by Shen Yichen. If the unauthorized murder of the court officials is found out by the prince, won't we be implicated? ”

I saw a sneer on Xining's face at this moment: "The crime is severe, even if our family is implicated in the unauthorized killing of the military attaché, at most it will be punished and demoted by the Long Live Lord, and what accident will happen to Song Zhang, our family is completely unaware." ”

"If Song Zhang is really dead, plus the charge of murdering Wenchen, do you say that Shen Yichen would dare to kidnap our family again, and all will be prosperous, and all will be lost?"

"At that time, it was Shen Yichen who conspired against him, and Cheng Guogong couldn't save him!"

After finishing speaking, the smile on Xining's face became even worse.

Dou Yi's death made him be pinched by Shen Yichen. But if Song Zhang's death is added, Shen Yichen's crime will be far greater than his own, and it may be impossible to say who will handle it at that time.

That's why, Xining not only did not object to Shen Yichen's move, but on the contrary, he also disregarded various assists.

He waited for Shen Yichen to make a move to Song Zhang, and he couldn't bear the charge of killing officials and plotting rebellion!

"Hi grandpa's clever calculation, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the child to learn the fur in this life!"

"Heh, then study hard."

Shen Yichen didn't know Xining's abacus, or even if he knew, he would not hesitate to carry it out according to his plan.

After all, officialdom is a world of mutual pitfalls, and it is normal for the other party to want to get back to the field.

As for whether you can hold it, I'm afraid it's not that simple.

A few days later, in Fuzhou Port, Shen Yichen stood at the bow of a treasure ship, and behind him stood Li Zhan, Ye Zongliu, Xu Fengyuan, and the chief of the Fujian Health Department and the head of the Qianhu Bureau. In the wharf and port open space below, there was already a crowd of people who could not see the edge at a glance.

The 6,000 officers and soldiers of the Fuzhou Navy Division, the 10,000 soldiers and horses requisitioned from the guards in various parts of Fujian, the 5,000 miners and furnaces brought by Ye Zongliu, and the 8,000 strong men recruited from the Fujian military households and coastal fishermen with Shen Yichen's fame and prestige.

Not counting the original craftsmen and errands of Fuzhou Port, the total number of soldiers and horses gathered here at this time was close to 30,000!

Coupled with the Fuzhou Sanwei stationed in Quanzhou Mansion, Shen Yichen has gathered 40,000 imperial soldiers and horses in a short period of time, and the actual combat strength against the 100,000 righteous army is actually not a disadvantage at all.

"Li Guerrilla, have you seen it, this is the establishment of the water division that the official promised to make!"

Li Zan looked at the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on the dock, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

He never thought that Shen Yichen could really make up for the shortage of Fujian sailors for many years in a short period of time, and he was not a few old, weak, sick and disabled, and it was obvious to the naked eye that they were all strong and brave people.

What made Li Zan even more unimagined was that Shen Yichen could still bring in rebels to enlist in the army!

"The last general is completely convinced, and in the future, this life will be Shen Admiral's, and he will never frown when he fights."

"Guerrilla Li, you should know that this official doesn't like to lie. If you say it, you must do it! ”

"Do as you command!"

Li Zhan's tone was resolute, without a trace of hesitation.

He was not only impressed by Shen Yichen's ability and courage, but also because Li Zan knew very well in his heart that only Shen Yichen in the Ming Dynasty could reproduce the grand occasion of Zheng He's trip to the West and repeat that magnificent time.

If you can fight the four seas again, you would rather die!

"Okay, this official will give you at most half a month to rectify the soldiers and horses, and then you will go to Quanzhou to quell the rebellion, and Fujian's safety is in this move!"

Shen Yichen is full of murderous spirit, this is his hole card in the face of Deng Maoqi's rebellion!

Or to put it another way, Deng Maoqi should be honored, he will be the first rebel leader of the Orthodox Dynasty to experience the landing operation of the Ming fleet!