"Zhang Xianzhong? Also from the Quanzhou Command Division? But I'm not impressed. ”

Li Hongji is a native of Shaanxi, and most of the Shaanxi who joined the army either joined the Northern Army because of the integration of the nine border towns, or they were in the newly established Western Army, and there were only a handful of people like him who went to the eastern coast to join the Southern Army.

So if there is really a fellow who serves in a region, as long as there is no big problem with the people, with the friendship of the ancient Chinese people, the two should at least be very familiar with each other, not to mention life and death brothers.

"Of course you don't remember, it's true that he is from Guanzhong, but he is not from the Southern Army."

"Western Army?"

"It's a bit related, he robbed the Western Army's salary, and after being arrested, he was sent to Dongshan Prefecture last year."

"Then why do you say it's my comrade-in-arms?"

"You also stole and sold the armaments of the Southern Army. Hahaha, okay, I'm kidding. ”

If someone else said so, Li Hongji would judge whether it was a provocation or bullying him based on the specific situation at the time and the micro-expression on the person's face, and then give feedback that he would immediately fight back or temporarily withhold it.

But when Liu Yifeng said this, Li Hongji felt that he should really be joking, after all, Liu Yifeng is not a boring person. has been a big leader for so long, and he has never seen him oppress anyone, and the means of managing everyone are also in place, with principles and bottom lines, and he is more capable of managing people than the middle-level officers he has seen in the Southern Army.

"It's not funny!"

"Okay, I apologize."

There is also the fact that Liu Yifeng has a natural attitude towards anyone who can make you perceive that you are equal. Those who are lower than him can feel it, and those who are higher than him can feel it.

Why Wu Sangui subconsciously dislikes Liu Yifeng, firstly, because Liu Yifeng's excellence aroused his young man's refusal to admit defeat, and secondly, he was accustomed to the attitude of people with lower status than him to welcome him. Liu Yifeng also greeted him, but anyone with eyes could see that it was pretending, and it was neither humble nor arrogant in nature.

Even if it is the most disciplined Southern Army, the boss will never apologize to his subordinates if he jokes.

In ancient times, the concept of relatively equal human rights was as conspicuous as a candle in the night. Some people don't like it, but some people use it very much.

"Seriously, we need you, we need you to raise a team to defend the miners."

Seeing that he was down to business, Li Hongji didn't care about the previous joke and asked, "Because of that Zhang Xianzhong?" ”

"Yes."

Liu Yifeng told how Zhang Xianzhong led the Minfu Rebellion, how he occupied the mining area, how he retreated in the face of the encirclement and suppression of the Maritime Safety Bureau, how he colluded with the brown-skinned savage natives, how he attacked the trading houses and explorers of Jinshan City, and how he played hide and seek with the Maritime Safety Bureau of Jinshan City.

Li Hongji's expression became serious, this fellow of his own is definitely a capable person, and his ability to lead the team and his management ability is definitely not weaker than Liu Yifeng.

Those people who are far away from their hometowns and riot in places like Dongshan Prefecture are absolutely confused and frightened in their hearts. Maybe they will be reckless when they riot, but after calming down, the unknown future and unfamiliar environment will definitely make many people have the idea of simply confessing and surrendering. It is very difficult to manage this part of the people well, in addition to killing people and establishing authority, the control of people's hearts and the distribution of interests are absolute knowledge.

Then there is Zhang Xianzhong's ability to oppose encirclement and suppression.

In general, Dongshan Prefecture is more suitable for bandits than Daming itself, Daming is that all traffic arteries are under the control of the government, and an invisible net can lock bandits in a certain mountainous area. Perhaps the imperial court does not have the ability or the will to go into the mountains to exterminate them for the time being, but at least this invisible net can control the losses caused by these bandits to a minimum.

On the contrary, Dongshan Prefecture has a small number of areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and it is still a very small minority, and the vast area allows Zhang Xianzhong to use guerrilla tactics to the extreme.

When the encirclement and suppression force of the Maritime Safety Bureau is tired of following his ass, he will do a big job, grabbing property, equipment, food, and people, and this encroachment posture allows the Maritime Safety Bureau to shrink its strength to protect important areas.

When Li Hongji said these judgments of his own, Liu Yifeng was even more determined to accept this talent. Because of these things summarized by Li Hongji, he can understand and agree with them at the first time, but if you make him think, he will die because of his lack of relevant concepts and experience.

"He doesn't have a firecracker, does he?" Li Hongji asked.

"There shouldn't be, firecrackers are contraband after all, only the Maritime Safety Bureau has them."

"Not necessarily, the final buyers of the firecrackers I sold at the beginning were not the explorers of the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate who liked to go to the jungle to catch Kunlun slaves, but the gold diggers in Dongshan Prefecture. Especially after this Zhang Xianzhong appeared, I estimate that the confiscated firearms on our ship were prepared for the people of Jinshan City. ”

Liu Yifeng touched his nose and did not speak.

"But without firearms, you can make your own bow and arrows, and this gang of bandits is indeed very difficult to entangle."

Looking at Li Hongji, who was already subconsciously estimating Zhang Xianzhong's combat effectiveness, Liu Yifeng said with a smile: "So, are you coming?" ”

Li Hongji looked up at him, and said with a smile: "That big leader, I might as well be respectful." ”

Get!

Liu Yifeng was very happy, and continued to discuss with Li Hongji how to deal with Zhang Xianzhong and test him casually. The two had a heated discussion until the crew came to inform them that it was time to go back to bed.

Liu Yifeng hugged Daha, Sanha and Siha, who desperately licked him, returned to the cabin, and fell asleep beautifully. Zhang Xianzhong may or may not be a problem, but no matter what, he already has a card that can deal with him.

In the Maritime Safety Bureau of Qishan City under the night sky of Dongshan Prefecture, Song Yingxing was still in the office, and he was dealing with Zhang Xianzhong's affairs.

"Lord Song, let me go."

"No, Brother Yang, you still have to assist Lord Song, let me go."

"Two brothers, it's just a little thief, it's really too much to let the two of you go with a knife, I'll go!"

Yang Changbai, Sun Xin and Wu Sangui are all vying for the task of leading the team to exterminate Zhang Xianzhong, in their minds, this Zhang Xianzhong is already a traitor. This merit is picked up for nothing, and you can also go to the legendary Jinshan City to visit, which is beautiful.

The other officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau did not speak, and several of them, who were not very old, had a wonderful banter hidden in their eyes, obviously they did not agree that the killing of Zhang Xianzhong was a beautiful difference.

Song Yingxing glanced at his three students and shouted one person's name: "Li Yan." ”

"The lower official is here."

Standing up was a weak scholar in his 20s, although he was wearing a simple 7-grade official uniform of the Maritime Safety Bureau, but in terms of gentleness and elegance, he was not much worse than Sun Xin, a child of the family who was dressed in brocade.

"Tell them more about Zhang Xianzhong's situation."

"The subordinate obeys."

Li Yan walked to the center of the hall, and very cleverly did not explain to Yang Changbai and the three people, but to the main entrance of the lobby, so that Yang Changbai and the three people did not feel targeted.

"Zhang Xianzhong, a native of Bianding County, Yan'an Prefecture, Guanzhong, has just been crowned weak."

Yang Changbai and the three of them looked at each other, they thought that Zhang Xianzhong was a 3, 40-year-old bandit barbarian, but they didn't expect to be so young. Just turned weak, that is, only 20 years old, similar to them.

"He was born in poverty, and since he was a child, he followed his father to sell dates, walked between the markets, and made friends with mostly low-class people. In the 51st year of Wanli, it became the fast arrester of Yan'an Mansion, because of the large number of eyeliners, many arrested people were arrested, and they were very important. ”

"In the 52nd year of Wanli, because of the fighting with people in the Qinglou, he vowed to redeem himself for a Qing people, gathered a group of outlaws, robbed the military salary of the Western Army, robbed 13 firearms, and paid more than 1,300 taels."

13 firecrackers!?

Yang Changbai and Wu Sangui, two people with decent military experience, looked at each other and exchanged shocks in their eyes.

The local garrisons did not have firearms, and at most some of them had three-eyed guns. Zhang Xianzhong grabbed the team that transported military salaries, not the army of armaments, so these 13 muskets can only belong to the Western Army, which means that he fought with the Western Army and won the battle!?

Although the combat effectiveness of the Western Army is not weak, although it is a unit just formed by the Ming Dynasty, the core of the Western Army is the grassroots officers of the Northern Army and the upper-level officers of the Southern Army, and most of the recruits are from good families. Whether it is the brave fighting of the Northern Army or the stern military formation of the Southern Army, the soldiers of the Western Army they have cultivated are not ordinary bandits to deal with.

This incident aroused the anger of the Western Army and the imperial court, and sent the Western Army's recuperating troops in Luoyang to exterminate them in Kunshan and capture Zhang Bandit alive. This was sent to the capital after the autumn to ask for beheading, and was later incorporated into the 52-year Minfu fleet of Wanli and sent to Jinshan City, Dongshan Prefecture as a miner. ”

Yang Changbai and the three of them all turned their heads to look at the latest map of Dongshan Prefecture hanging on the wall on the left side of the lobby, the Jinshan City area has been marked, and they can see that Jinshan City is built by the sea. The area about 200 miles east of Jinshan Castle is marked with a mountain mark, which reads "Gu'er Mountain".

The map given by the explorers who disappeared last year went deep into Gu'er's Mountain.

Li Yan pointed to the western area of Gu'er Mountain and said: "It is here that the explorers who wholesale the cash mine discovered the rough gold ore, and a large number of trading houses began to dig mountains and mine in this area. It was here that Zhang Bandit launched a riot, attacking a total of 7 mining areas of the trading houses, and most of them took refuge with him, except for a small number of people who chose to flee, and it is estimated that the number was more than 300. ”

"Our Maritime Safety Bureau, together with the Southern Army stationed in Qishan City, sent a team of 100 people, including the Fire Gun Team, into the mountains to encircle and suppress them, except for a small number of people who are unwilling to take refuge in Zhang Bandit's own mining area, we have no gain, we can only judge from the traces that Zhang Bandit led most of them to flee into the depths of Gu'er Mountain."

"This year, there have been successive disappearances of trading houses and explorers, most of them have not found their bodies, and a small number of people who escaped said that a Han man surnamed Zhang did it, and the point is that in his team, there are brown-skinned savages. According to the latest news of the attack, the number of Zhang bandits' men has exceeded 500. ”

"Impossible!"