The siege of Fuzhou City was finally successfully lifted after Xu Da and Li Jin arrived.

The leader of the Nanyang pirates, Chen Zuyi, united with the Japanese in the southeast coastal area, and raised an army of 100,000 pirates, wanting to capture Fuzhou City in one fell swoop.

So as to unite the warriors in the two Guangxi regions, as well as the Tusi in Guangxi and other places, to make a rebellion together.

Once Chen Zuyi completed his plan, he would be a great warlord sitting on the land of the three provinces.

Coupled with the support of 100,000 pirates behind him, it can be said that he can attack and retreat.

Chen Zuyi ambushed Deng Yu, the Duke of Weiguo, in the Quanzhou area of Fujian Province and won a complete victory.

Then besiege Fuzhou City, once Fuzhou City is lost, the southwest will be in chaos, and Chen Zuyi will be able to complete his grand cause.

It's a pity that in the end, under the blows of Xu Da and Li Jin, it fell short.

The 100,000-strong army was wiped out, and the foundation accumulated for several years was once lost.

Chen Zuyi finally died in the annihilation of the clan, died in Fuzhou City, and died in the hands of Xu Da.

Hundreds of thousands of people were saved by Xu Da in the fire and water, which can be said to have turned the tide and helped the building to fall.

Now that the siege of Fuzhou has been lifted, hundreds of thousands of people have been released from the inner city by Deng Yu, but now the outer city is in ruins.

Next, it will take at least a dozen years of recovery before it is possible to recreate the previous prosperity.

After hundreds of thousands of people left the city, they spontaneously began to extinguish the fire in the city.

And Xu Da and Li Jin were in the camp outside the city and saw the grizzled Deng Yu.

At this time, although Deng Yu was injured in many places, his mental state was very excited, and after seeing Xu Da, he was even more excited to give Xu Da a big hug.

"Xu Da, I didn't expect you to really come, do you know, I thought I was going to die for the country."

"It's great that you're here in time!! Hahaha!! ”

Xu Da was also very happy to see that Deng Yu was in good shape.

After all, Deng Yu is an old brother who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world very early, and Xu Da and Deng Yu worked together under Zhu Yuanzhang, so naturally they had an excellent relationship.

Coupled with Deng Yu and Xu Da, the two have similar personalities, so they are naturally very compatible.

"The superior heard that you were besieged in Fuzhou City and were in danger, so he hurriedly ordered me to lead the army south and come to the rescue."

"In the heart of the superiors, your importance is above me!"

Xu Da half-jokingly teased Deng Yu, but Deng Yue was full of gratitude, and arched his hand towards the north:

"If it weren't for the blessing of the superior, I'm afraid that you and my brother will never see each other again."

After speaking, Deng Yu looked at Li Jin.

I only felt that Li Jin was very faced, and I hadn't seen it before, so I didn't understand why he appeared by Xu Da's side.

But seeing Li Jin's plump and handsome appearance and dignified appearance, he knew that Li Jin was estimated to be extraordinary, and asked:

"I don't know what this little brother is called?"

"Li Jin, the county commander of Xiashanghu County, has seen Wei Guogong."

Li Jin saw Deng Yue asking about himself, and replied:

"I heard that the situation of Wei Guogong was critical, and the emperor ordered me and Xu Dashuai to rescue Wei Guogong together, but fortunately it was timely."

"The defense of the country is safe and sound, presumably the emperor will be happy."

Deng Yu was even more confused, why did he send a county commander to rescue himself? Besides, Li Jin is so young, even if he goes to the battlefield, what use can he have?

Xu Da next to him explained:

"If you can relieve the siege of Fuzhou this time, you have to thank Li Jin well."

"If it weren't for Li Jin, we wouldn't have been able to rush to Fuzhou so quickly."

"It is precisely because of the navy under Li Jin that we can go all the way to Fuzhou Mansion unimpeded."

"Navy?"

Deng Yu's eyes were puzzled, he had never heard of Da Ming and this class.

But listening to the name, it should be related to the sea, could it be a water army?

However, thinking of the sea, Deng Yu reflexively remembered Zhu Yuanzhang's sea ban, which has been issued for so many years, and no fleet will be able to go to sea in the Ming Dynasty.

"Wei Guogong, where are you from?"

"At sea!"

Deng Yu suddenly couldn't sit still, you must know that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to the matter of banning the sea, and no one is allowed to go to sea at all, and if he is discovered, he will be beheaded immediately.

Now Xu Da is openly breaking Zhu Yuanzhang's ban, but he is afraid that there will be no good fruits to eat.

Xu Da knew what Deng Yu was worried about, so he just explained lightly:

"The emperor knows about this, and he has been secretly planning to go to sea for a long time, and the person in charge of going to sea is the Li County Commander in front of him."

Deng Yu was shocked and had to re-examine the young county magistrate in front of him.

How Zhu Yuanzhang rejected going to sea, Deng Yue understood.

When discussing the ban on the sea, Deng Yu also participated, but Deng Yu did not express any opinions.

However, there were other imperial historians and civil officials who once advised that the sea should not be banned, because during the Song Dynasty, maritime trade became the main source of national finance.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the sea trade was also very developed, and in the Ming Dynasty, the sea trade should continue to develop, so as to obtain overseas benefits.

It is a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang believes that the Japanese in the coastal areas are becoming more and more rampant, and the opening of the sea will do more harm than good, and it is easy for the Japanese to become bigger.

Zhu Yuanzhang believes that Daming is rich and can be completely self-sufficient, and he wants to build a country that does not rely on maritime trade and can survive healthily.

In addition, the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty was still in the north, and Zhu Yuanzhang issued a ban on the sea despite public opinion.

For this reason, he also killed the commander Yushi, a head of the household department, because these officials insisted on preventing Zhu Yuanzhang from banning the sea.

Now, Zhu Yuanzhang will take the initiative to choose the matter of opening the sea, and he will hand over the matter to Li Jin, which is enough to show Li Jin's ability.

Although Deng Yu does not know enough about the sea.

But as the Wei Guo Gong of the Ming Dynasty, Deng Yue knew how rampant the Ming Dynasty's pirates and pirates were.

These Japanese robbers are entrenched in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, just like flies, although they are annoying, but their strength should not be underestimated, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would not have to issue a sea ban order to avoid these Japanese robbers.

However, Li Jin was able to bring the navy from the northern Zhejiang region to Fuzhou unimpeded, and he could also relieve the siege of Fuzhou.

Deng Yu's attitude towards Li Jin has quietly changed, at first he was regarded as a junior, but now he treats Li Jin as an equal and intersects with his peers.

The three of them talked for a while, and then Xu Da proposed:

"Now that the crisis in Fuzhou City has been passed safely, we should immediately write to the emperor to explain the matter."

"At the same time, we must also report to the court, so that the princes of the court can rest assured."

Deng Yu nodded in agreement, and Li Jin had no opinion.

Soon, a document drafted by Xu Da and signed by Deng Yu and Li Jin had been written and sent to Yingtian at an expedited speed of 800 miles.

……

Inside the upper study.

Hu Weiyong was reporting to Zhu Yuanzhang on the recent construction of the highway at this time.

"Your Majesty, now that the weather is cold, the Japanese slaves that I bought back have been frozen to death."

Hu Weiyong's face was sad, he didn't expect that the construction of the highway would encounter such a troublesome thing.

The weather was too cold, resulting in a large number of slaves being froze to death, and the progress of the project was repeatedly delayed.

Seeing that it was about to be delivered, but the progress was not half completed, Hu Weiyong was very frightened and had to cry to Zhu Yuanzhang again.

But Zhu Yuanzhang's mood now is very bad.

What is the situation of the battle in Fuzhou City, there is no news until now.

It has been nearly ten days since Xu Da and them went south, but neither Deng Yu in Fuzhou City, nor Xu Da and Li Jin at sea have reported the military situation.

This feeling of losing control made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry in his heart.

But now that he is far away in Yingtian City, the matter of Fuzhou City, he is beyond the reach of the whip, so he can only wait quietly for the result.

Hu Weiyong came to the door at this time and came to cry to Zhu Yuanzhang, but he basically bumped into the muzzle of the gun.

"Bastard, now that it's winter, don't you know how to buy some clothes for those slaves and give them a little shelter from the cold?"

"Why do you have to wait until people freeze to death before you know that there is a lack of manpower?"

"What about the outcasts you recruited?"

When Hu Weiyong heard this, he couldn't say anything about the bitterness in his heart.

When he first bought it, Li Jin once explained that these slaves were cheap billets and had to be used to death in order to be obedient.

Hu Weiyong found that these Japanese slaves really didn't have to be too good to them, so he squeezed these Japanese slaves to death.

But who knew that these Japanese slaves were so non-resistant to frost, and in just a few days, more than half of them froze to death.

As for the homeless, on such a cold day, if the homeless people are allowed to work, Hu Weiyong is afraid that they will also be frozen to death like slaves.

Exiles are not the same as slaves, they are the people of the Ming Dynasty.

If under Hu Weiyong's hands, the people of Daming are frozen to death in large numbers, then Hu Weiyong doesn't have to do it.

Hu Weiyong was about to open his mouth to explain, but suddenly heard a herald outside the palace shouting excitedly:

"Great victory, emperor, great victory in Fuzhou!!"