Zhao Heng and Lu Wanzhi rushed to Mingzhou overnight, and the Mingzhou Navy was indeed a plate of scattered sand.

The Mingzhou Navy has a total of 50,000 people and 600 warships, and in the past six months, it has lost more than 10,000 navies and 100 warships, and now there are only 40,000 navy and 500 warships.

Losing one battle after another, the prince and the eldest prince both fell into the sea, life and death are unknown, and the dragons have no leader.

There are two generals in the Mingzhou Navy, one is Cao Qin and the other is Jiang Suling's father Jiang Chao, the two are quite contradictory now, Cao Qin feels that he should not fight at sea, and now the army's heart is broken, but Jiang Chao feels that the life and death of the prince are uncertain, and he should go to sea to find the whereabouts of the prince, rather than being shocked by those Japanese pirates.

When Zhao Heng arrived, Cao Qin and Jiang Chao had just quarreled.

Zhao Heng saw the two people in front of him, and showed his own tiger talisman and said: "Your Majesty has an order, in case of special circumstances, the king of this county can order the three armies, and your Mingzhou Navy is also among the orders." ”

Cao Qin and Jiang Chao saw Zhao Heng and saluted again and again: "See the prince of the county." ”

Lu Wanzhi said: "My father-in-law has been in Mingzhou for almost twenty years, how could he fall into the sea this time and his life and death are unknown?" ”

"Alas, this year's military rations are very scarce, and the winter day next to the East China Sea is already bitterly cold, and the sea breeze is still strong, and finally a boatload of military rations came and was robbed by pirates......"

Zhao Heng frowned and said, "Little military food? How is that possible? ”

Jiang Chao said: "This year's military rations are very small, all rice bran is just that, even rice bran is pitiful, we went to Mingzhou Zhizhou to ask, said that this year's Jiangnan grain is not harvested, Mingzhou has military rations are these, in this winter, the ship is already hard, if there is no food, where can there be a war?" ”

Lu Wanzhi said: "Mingzhou Zhizhou? Isn't it Shen Luozhi? Why didn't he say it earlier if the military rations were not enough? ”

Zhao Heng also said: "The military food is not enough, why don't you tell the court?" ”

Jiang Chao sighed and said: "Yuanshui can't save the near fire, even if you go to the imperial court, it will take two months to come and go, in previous years, Mingzhou's military rations were the most and the best, no one dared to owe Mingzhou's military rations, and this year I don't know how there is a shortage of food."

And the ships of the Japanese pirates were not so good before, and this year those Japanese pirate ships are comparable to our Dasheng military ships, so that the prince underestimated the enemy and was surrounded by enemy ships, and he had to abandon the ship and flee behind. ”

Zhao Heng said: "Then is there still a shortage of military food in Mingzhou now?" ”

Cao Qin said: "Yes, there is a severe shortage of military food, all of them were good food in previous years, but this year they can't even eat rice bran, and the pirates of the Japanese Kingdom are very powerful than in previous years, and the army's spirit is about to disperse." ”

Zhao Heng said: "Zhizhi and I will go back to Yuezhou and settle accounts with Shen Luozhi!" ”

Zhao Heng and Lu Wanzhi did not stop, and drove back to Shanyin and went to the mansion of the governor of Yuezhou, before dawn.

Zhao Heng ignored the obstruction of the small servants in the Zhizhou Mansion, entered the main courtyard, kicked through the door of the master bedroom, and saw Shen Luozhi, who was sleeping soundly inside.

Zhao Heng pulled up Shen Luozhi's neckline, "Why don't you give food to the Mingzhou Navy?" Why is it only given to the rice bran of the Mingzhou Navy, or is it picked and searched? ”

When Shen Luo first woke up, listening to Zhao Hengzhi's words, he thought he was dreaming, and when he saw Lu Wanzhi standing at the door with a lantern, he realized that he was not dreaming.

Shen Luozhi said: "I did this to collect evidence from the Yuyue County Lord. ”

Lu Wanzhi frowned and said, "What? ”

Shen Luozhi looked at Zhao Heng in front of him and said, "You let go of my collar first." ”

Zhao Heng said: "You deducted the military rations of the Mingzhou Navy, and my father and my eldest brother are now unknown in life and death, let me let you go?" If it weren't for the year-old friendship between you and me, I would have let you kneel down and talk to me by now. ”

"Zhao Heng, let go." Lu Wanzhi walked into the house, looked at Shen Luozhi's eyes and said, "I believe him." ”

Shen Luozhi raised his eyes to look at Lu Wanzhi and said, "Thank you, Mr. Lu." ”

Zhao Heng reluctantly let go of Shen Luo's way: "Zhizhi, do you trust him?" ”

Lu Wanzhi said: "Well, I believe him, he is my apprentice, I believe that Shen Luozhi, who can write such an article, must have a strong backbone, and will not deduct military rations." ”

Zhao Heng said: "But this time, the military rations given by the Mingzhou Mansion are indeed less, and this military rations are much less than in previous years. ”

Shen Luozhi pulled the collar of his clothes and said, "This matter starts from the first two months, when the county lord of Yuyue found me and coerced me to help her make a great career. ”

Zhao Heng frowned and said, "I know that Aunt Gui'an and Lord Yuyue are not good people!" If it is really their mother and daughter, the brothers and sisters that Concubine Hui said before her death are Aunt Gui'an! ”

Shen Luozhi said: "I was coerced and lured by the Yuyue County Lord at that time, so I informed His Royal Highness the Grand Prince of the ambition of the Yuyue County Lord, and His Royal Highness the Great Prince asked me to do my bidding."

After all, the eldest princess Gui'an had meritorious service from the dragon back then, and it would not work if she wanted to bring down the eldest princess Gui'an without conclusive evidence.

His Majesty died of injuries and deaths when his brothers were injured when he ascended the throne, and only the King of Chu and Princess Gui'an were left.

If there is no evidence today, I will only rely on my own evidence to attack the Lord of Yuyue and the eldest princess of Gui'an, I am afraid that it will be difficult to convince the public and damage Your Majesty's reputation.

Therefore, His Royal Highness the Great Prince asked me to cooperate with the Lord of Yuyue to collect evidence from it, so that I could take down the eldest princess of Gui'an in one fell swoop. ”

Zhao Heng said: "Why are you hiding such an important matter from me? ”

Lu Wanzhi said: "According to you, this pirate of the Japanese Kingdom is not from the Japanese Kingdom, but a subordinate of the eldest princess of Gui'an?" ”

Shen Luozhi nodded and said: "Yes, there have been continuous floods in Jiangnan over the years, and there is Ji Yan to help, so the eldest princess Gui'an has been looking for refugees in Jiangnan to be included in the pirate team.

There are many small islands in the East China Sea, and they use the merchant ships of the Ji family to put the recruited soldiers on the island for training, and the eldest princess of Gui An already has an army in her hands, she will recruit a group of troops every year and send them to the island, and the materials, weapons, and armor are covered by the merchant ship team of the Ji family, and now the lord of Yuyue said that their army at sea has 100,000 people. ”

Zhao Heng was surprised: "One hundred thousand! How could there be so many? ”

Shen Luozhi took out the map and said: "I pretend to take refuge in the county lord of Yuyue, this is the map given to me by the county lord of Yuyue, many small islands are scattered with the soldiers of Princess Gui'an, and even some of them are soldiers from the people of the same island.

On weekdays, the army of the king of Chu only dealt with pirates, and he didn't know that the fishermen on the surrounding islands had already become the soldiers of Princess Gui'an, which is why the merchants such as the Ji family earned so many silver taels every year, but there were no silver taels to pay taxes, and they were all used to support these sailors. ”

Lu Wanzhi said: "One hundred thousand is incredible, but the Ji family has big ships that trade with foreign merchants almost every day, and it is really not difficult to rely on these merchant ships to transport food to these soldiers. ”

Shen Luozhi said slowly: "The official of the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Department is the person of Princess Gui'an, I have found this evidence, and I was planning to hand it over to Your Majesty when I returned to Chang'an for the New Year, but I didn't expect it to ......."

Zhao Heng was extremely annoyed and said, "What are you waiting for when you have evidence?"

Lakh! That's 100,000 people, how many people are there in the Mingzhou army?

You still want to wait a month before you submit the evidence, and then we will be captured by someone! Shen Luozhi, you are really stupid! ”

Lu Wanzhi said: "Don't worry, let's go back to Mingzhou first, whether it is the pirates of the Wa Kingdom or the rebels of the eldest princess of Gui'an, we need to defend them outside the Dasheng Sea area." ”