Although the generals made a lot of noise, no one dared to think of rebellion.

No one expected that someone would call for a rebellion on the spot.

There was an instant silence all around, and everyone turned their heads to look.

In the middle, a mighty man, who looks to be in his thirties, with a beard all over his face, is Li Yuan's confidant and favorite general, and the current commander of Jieshiwei, Wei Chengdong.

Wei Chengdong's sentence was reversed, which startled everyone at the scene.

Li Yuan quietly looked at everyone's expressions, and then said sharply: "Bastard, Wei Chengdong, you are so bold, come here, pull Wei Chengdong down and cut him down." ”

Guards on the left and right sides stepped forward.

Cao Kun saw that he hurriedly stepped forward to stop the guards: "The governor of the sword left people, and Brother Wei was also impulsive." ”

"Du Du is angry, Brother Wei drank with us last night, there was too much wine, drunk, it was drunk."

"The governor is angry, and Brother Wei still doesn't kneel down and admit his mistake."

Many commanders and envoys at the scene rushed up, some grabbed the guards, and some knelt in front of Li Yuan and pleaded with him.

others pushed Wei Chengdong to the ground and made Wei Chengdong apologize.

Li Yuan's face turned red, and he pointed at Wei Chengdong and said, "You erection, talking nonsense, if I don't cut him down and spread it, won't the court want to cut me?" ”

Cao Kun immediately turned around and said sharply: "It's all my own brothers here, everyone will forget it after hearing it, whoever dares to spread it, Lao Tzu will kill his whole family." ”

Everyone echoed and expressed their support.

But Li Yuan's face was pale, and he still didn't say a word.

Talking about brothers, it is not necessarily at a critical time.

At this time, someone on the left stood up: "Everyone, don't be impatient. ”

Everyone turned their heads to look again, and it was Li Yuan's old brother Wang Zhong who spoke.

Wang Zhong partnered with Li Yuan when he was in Weizhou, like a brother, and then surrendered to the king of Yan together, this time Li Yuan went to Guangdong to serve as the commander of the capital, he was the commander of the Guangdong capital and the commander of the Lianzhou Guard.

Wang Zhong said: "Don't make any noise, everyone, listen to the governor finish speaking." ”

Everyone hurriedly looked at Li Yuan again.

Li Yuan said again: "The Political Secretary and the Zhengnan General's Mansion have spoken, according to the will of the imperial court, let all of us withdraw the money we have earned over the years, and we will not blame the past——"

Hiss, everyone at the scene gasped, shocked and angry.

Li Yuan continued to sigh: "I thought about it all night last night, I am also old, I just hugged my grandson, I really can't stand the toss, this is all the commander, I think it's done to the end, the court wants to be exempt, let me be exempt, as long as I don't trouble me, I want to go back to my hometown safely and enjoy Qingfu, so these silver, I plan to quit." ”

The faces of the "grass" generals were all green, and some people just wanted to speak.

"But." Li Yuan's voice became louder, and he continued: "I followed King Han in Beiping, and I still have some savings, but my brothers have always been bitter in Guangdong, a place where birds don't, and many brothers have been in debt before in order to support their families, and now they are finally able to pay it off, and they can withdraw the money they used up again." ”

"That's it, that's it, the money is all gone, return it."

The generals said in unison, this meat eaten in the mouth is going to withdraw, who will.

"Brothers, don't worry, I'll go back and beg the two political envoys and General Tan, I'm a veteran of Jingnan, Tan Qing used to call me General Li when he saw me, but now, he is in a high position, I hope he will give me a few thin noodles."

"If it really doesn't work, brothers in difficulty can tell me, I'll do my best, I can help everyone as much as I can."

The generals said excitedly, how can we let the governor help us.

Everyone thought that they might have to quit if they had finally got some money in the past few years, and they scolded one after another, some scolded the political secretary, some scolded the southern general's mansion, and then some scolded the imperial court.

Li Yuan dared to conclude that if the king of Han raised an army and fought in Guangdong, he would surrender and subordinate everywhere.

After everyone scolded the meeting, Li Yuan signaled everyone to go back first, go on duty as usual, dry salt, everything is as usual, the court has not dealt with the decision for a day, and it will be the same for a day, he will find a way to deal with this matter.

The generals left scolding, and everyone was worried about getting them back.

As soon as the generals left, Li Yuan immediately called Wang Zhong, brought a hundred taels of silver, and a little seafood, and went to find Tan Qing, the general of Zhengnan.

Tan Qing's Zhengnan General's Mansion was in Nanningwei, and Nanningwei was on the west side of Guangdong, adjacent to Qinzhou, Guangdong.

Wang Zhong took the land route from Lianzhouwei to be relatively close, but he happened to go to Dianchengwei to have a meeting, so after the meeting, he walked directly from the waterway, got on the boat from Deqingzhou, and could take a boat all the way to Nanningwei, even by land and water, and arrived in Nanning Wei in less than two days.

Wang Zhong got off the boat from the Bachi Zhai Division near Nanningwei, and as soon as he got off the boat, he felt that both sides of the river were all military camps, and there were sounds of drills everywhere, and later I learned that after Tan Qing arrived here, he rerecruited new soldiers in the local area on the grounds that Nanningwei participated in the battle of Jingnan and suffered heavy losses, and then the imperial court fought Annan again, and requisitioned some soldiers and horses from Guangxi and Guangdong, so Tan Qing was recruiting and training troops everywhere.

This dog thing, Wang Zhong scolded secretly, and then found Nanningwei and asked to see him.

Tan Qing was on the playground when he received news that Wang Zhong, the commander of the Guangdong Metropolitan Command, asked to see him, and he was inexplicably wonderful.

"Take him to the living room and wait for me, I'll be back right away." Tan Qing said that he would return immediately, which made Wang Zhong wait for half an hour.

Half an hour later, Tan Qing finally came to see Wang Zhong.

Wang Zhong's face is not good-looking, when Jing is difficult, when Tan Yuan is still there, Wang Zhong's level is higher than Tan Yuan, Tan Qing is just one of Tan Yuan's followers, but now Wang Zhong is several levels behind Tan Qing.

But there was no way, he could only follow the courtesy of his superiors.

Tan Qing asked, what is the important thing that you are stationed in Guangdong, and now you are coming to my Guangxi?

Wang Zhong said, Guangdong Youwei reported that Du Si was drying salt, so he told Zhou Yun's report all over again, and Tan Qing's face also changed greatly at that time.

Guangdong is poor, Guangxi is also poor, Tan Qing is actually a poor place, fortunately, the waterways are smooth, and they can get a steady stream of support from other places in the Ming Dynasty.

He doesn't have any oil and water himself, so you guys are doing so much oil and water down there?

So Tan Qing's first thought was jealousy, then shame, and then anger.

Wang Zhong finally said: "This Zhou Yun's report is a matter of chasing after the wind and shadows, exaggerating the facts, in fact, it is that a hundred households below organized more than a dozen relatives in the family to do this in private, and now the political envoy seems to want them to withdraw the money, and the money has been spent, how can they return it?" ”

"What does Governor Li mean, I still have to ask the general for help and explain it to the imperial court, the governor is in the Jing difficulty, and the general is also an old acquaintance--"

Tan Qing sneered when he heard it, after I became a general, Li Yuan never visited me, and now that I have been found to have something, I don't want to return the money, so I want to come to the door and ask me for help. How can there be such a good thing in the world?

Tan Qing said coldly: "Is the matter clear, is it just a hundred households doing this, or are many people doing this?" ”

"It's very clear that only one hundred households do this."

"Then there is only one hundred households to return the money, it's not a big deal, let him return the money." Tan Qingdao.

"This—" Wang Zhong's face was extremely ugly.

He thought for a moment and stammered: "Maybe, perhaps, there are other generals to join, if you let everyone return the money, I'm afraid it will cause a mutiny--"

Tan Qing was furious: "As many people participate, as many people will return the money, if you don't return it, the court will investigate it, don't blame the general, turn your face ruthlessly." ”

You scare me, I think which of you dares to mutiny? A few generals, what can they change?

Wang Zhong had no choice but to say goodbye, and brought a gift before leaving.

Tan Qing only said no, let him take it back, but Wang Zhong ignored it and left directly.

Afterwards, Tan Qing's subordinates brought the gift from Wang Zhong to Tan Qing, and Tan Qing was half dead in anger.

When I call Huazi, a hundred taels of silver, a little seafood.

He thought about the attitude of Li Yuan and Wang Zhong, and then looked at the hundred taels of silver, the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and immediately wrote a letter to the imperial court, and at the same time wrote a letter to the political envoys of Guangdong, this matter must be dealt with seriously, find out the facts, how many generals participated, how many people must return the money, if they can't return the money, they will all be dismissed, and even punished.

Tan Qing wrote a letter to contact the political envoy, demanding a strict investigation and return of the money, which soon spread throughout Guangdong, and all the guards and institutes in Guangdong received the news one after another, and immediately scolded up and down, especially Tan Qing's saying that he would also be punished, which made the generals angry and complaining.

But when the Ming Dynasty was in its prime, everyone could only endure it.

The situation in Guangdong is like a copy in Fujian, Xu An also followed Li Yuan's strategy, and also first recruited the coastal guard to go into the water together, and then someone reported something, and then the imperial court ordered a strict investigation and demanded that the generals return the money.

All the process is the same, this is also because the imperial court also takes into account that it is now fighting Annam, and many Guangdong and Fujian guards have sent troops, so they are willing to give a light punishment and return the money.

But they didn't think that many people couldn't bear to withdraw the money they had received.

Now, Guangdong and Fujian are just one fuse away.

In late February of the fourth year of Yongle (1406).

Nearly ten large ships of 500 materials slowly approached the expanded Haiphong Port, which was the envoy ship from Beijing.

The sea flood control is in the north of Sai Kung Port and east of Thanh Hoa.

At the beginning, Zhang Fu sent people to escort the Hu father and son to Jingshi, and they went this way, so the people from the imperial court also went this way.

In September last year, the Ming army destroyed the Hu clan, and then reported to the Beijing Division, and the Beijing Division arranged a while, and the original way from the Beijing Division to the sea, from Zhenjiang to the sea, along the east all the way to Haiphong Port, it was already February of the following year.

Haiphong Port was originally an important port in Annam, and in later generations it should be second only to Saigon Port, and now it is the largest port in Annam.

After Zhu Gaoxu replaced Zhang Fu, he immediately organized the locals to expand the port of Haiphong, and then confiscated more than 100 large ships from Annan, all of which were stationed near the port of Haiphong, and finally because they could not be released, they sent several batches to Guangdong and Fujian.

On this day, as soon as the ten ships of the Beijing Division arrived in the sea near Haiphong Port, they saw from a distance that the front was densely packed, and there were countless ships of various sizes like ants blocking in front of them, making it impossible for their ships to approach Haiphong Port.

(End of chapter)