Chapter 507: It's not a shame to come from a humble background
When Chen Lan attacked the major private markets in Sanduao Bay, the coastal defense inspection was speeding on the sea, passing a holy decree to the five hinterland cities and the four overseas governors' offices, and this crackdown on smuggling, selling tobacco, and opening private markets was carried out in all directions in the Daming Maritime Frontier, which was to maintain the safety and smooth flow of sea routes.
This is the most intuitive embodiment of imperial power, which is a visible hand, a visible knife, and an improvement of the Ming tariff and business environment.
Each five-masted ship crossed the ocean, with four to five three-guard plywood ships, and then ten to fifteen warships, and went straight to the five private markets in Sanduao Bay, and the remaining two private markets were surrounded by three missing one, and when all the pirates fled to the private markets without war, they completely fell into Chen Lan's trap.
In the two adjacent private markets, the sailor laid a huge pocket, which Chen Lu called a sheepfold.
The sheepfold was personally led by the general Wu Weizhong, a total of three infantry battalions of 10,000 people, landed in Fenghuomen Dazhai, marched by land, set up an encirclement network, and the Daming Naval Division can also carry out ground advancement, after all, only ground advancement can complete the conquest, so the naval division went ashore, that is, the infantry battalion, which is reflected in the daily training is very extreme.
At this time, because of the influence of the combat environment, the naval division can actually be called the army on the ship, and the struggle for sea supremacy is naturally important, but because the Daming naval division has large ships, fast ships, and many guns, and the enemy's sea surface strength is too backward, so the daily training still includes a large number of land combat items.
The sheepfold was selected at the mouth of Jiaoxi, which is a river due north of the entire Sanduao Bay, where there is a road that can lead to the outside of the mountain, which is the only way to escape, and Wu Weizhong set up three blocking ambushes on that path, depleting the morale of the Haikou layer by layer, and finally eliminating it.
Chen Lan's flagship slowly approached Lijia Village in Zhangwan, like a huge monster quietly parked on the sea, slowly passing through the sea only one mile wide, behind him were fifteen three-masted plywood ships, slowly spreading the line, and twenty battle-mounted ships were waiting for the shelling, ready to storm the coast and land on the beach.
Lijia Village is the place where this trade conference was held, and it is also the main battlefield of the peaceful war tonight.
No one noticed the arrival of the fleet, which was already in the depths of Sanduao, and the sentry posts of the seven private markets, most of which were set up at the seven-mile estuary, had been clearly arranged by the coastal defense inspection and eliminated one by one.
Chen Lan held the clairvoyant mirror and looked at the brilliant lights of Lijia Village.
The fair is held in the name of the Buddhist Bon Festival, and on this day, various temples hold activities such as chanting pujas, water and land dojos, fire vents, and lanterns, but it is clear that this is not a Buddhist meeting, but a carnival of pikos.
Lijia Village is a drug den, in terms of intelligence, far from the shock that I have witnessed with my own eyes, before the bonfires, countless people lie on the couch, tilt their bodies, spitting clouds and mist.
As far as the clairvoyant mirror can see, there are countless women, unclothed and shuttling through the crowd, there are red-haired women, Japanese wandering girls, black women, and Han women, their eyes wandering, lying on the ground like dogs begging for smoking guns, no matter what they do to them, it seems that as long as there are smoking guns, it is enough.
There were bursts of cheers on the beach, and it seemed that there was an auction in the center of the village, where there was an incredible price, or a shocking good, ambergris, pearls, precious stones, and beauties.
"There has been a debate in the court, saying that people are inherently good at the beginning, or are they evil, seeing this scene, perhaps, human nature is evil, young do not learn, sex is migration, it has always been said, if you don't learn well, human nature will change, Confucianism is really difficult to convince me, is this the original nature of human beings good? What is the difference with the thousands of animals in this world? Chen Lan put down the clairvoyant mirror and said to Chen Tiande with a complicated face.
Are people really the spirits of all things?
"Light the torch and set off the arrow." Chen Xuan spat out a turbid breath and began to order.
The match slashed across the sandpaper, puffed and ignited, spreading with a slight smell of sulfur, torches were ignited, and an arrow with a sharp whistle pierced the sky, and suddenly exploded in the air, like fireworks like pear blossoms blooming, sprinkled on the sky.
The torches on the horseboats lit up and soon joined together, forming a long line of torches, which was reflected on the surface of the sea.
The sound of the arrow rising into the air and exploding did not seem to attract the attention of anyone in Lijia Village, because the people on the beach were immersed in smoke, and the trade fair in the field was at its most intense.
The sound of drums and horns began to blow, the flag began to wave between the moonlight and the firelight, the artillery that had already completed the loading of ammunition, aimed at Lijia Village, after the big red flag was waved hard, the gunner ignited the powder twist, the medicine twist sneered and smoked white smoke and burned rapidly, igniting the gunpowder in the gun chamber, the violent explosion exploded in the gun chamber, and was bound by the cannon chamber, and the flowering shell with a wooden delayed fuse whistled out from the cannon chamber in the explosion.
The flowering bomb swirled across the sea, speeding towards Lijia Village, the delay fuse burned out, the flowering bomb exploded, the fragments of the flowering bomb and the thistle terrestris in the gunpowder scattered out with a whistling sound, and in an instant the entire Lijia Village was covered by artillery fire.
Chen Lan did not command the fleet to turn around, but quietly waited for the loading, there was no need to change directions, the time it took for the ship to turn around from starting to turning around had already been filled, and the tactics that would be used in the battle of annihilation at sea did not apply here, and the Ming Dynasty's battleship did not move, waiting for the second round of shooting.
Lijia Village was on fire, and the first artillery coverage had turned Lijia Village into a sea of fire, and the artillerymen, avoiding the rear of the village, where slaves were traded, followed by the second and third rounds of artillery covering.
If the gunpowder was insufficient, Chen Ling would choose to let the battleship land elsewhere and then march by land, and now, it is after saturation bombing, and then land, because the enemy can no longer form effective resistance and is completely defeated.
Under the action of the oars, the battle boat went towards the tidal flats, very smoothly, not even arrows, 1,500 people began to assemble on the beach, half-crossing, before forming a battle formation, it was the best moment for the defenders of the landing battle to counterattack, but the Haikou who could not organize an effective counterattack had not even reacted to what was going on, and the sailors had already completed the formation.
Chen Lan kept observing the battlefield with a clairvoyant scope, and there were five battleships as reserves, when the battle line was in danger, the reserves would be replenished immediately to prevent the collapse of the battle line, and the landing battle could only be won but not defeated, because there was no way to retreat behind him.
But Chen Luan's reserve team was completely prepared in vain, and the soldiers of the reserve team could only watch the robe make meritorious service with their eyes, and they stomped their feet on the ship in a hurry!
In this landing battle, the Ming Dynasty stubbornly relied on the superiority of artillery shells and firearms to fight a war of annihilation, and the enemy's morale has completely collapsed, or the opium-smoking pirates have no morale at all.
"This rich battle can be fought by a dog!" Chen Luan wanted to show his command art, but he didn't have such an opportunity at all, and 1,500 well-trained sailors and soldiers quickly annihilated the Haikou gathered in Lijia Village.
The reserves finally landed, but they could only do some work to clean up the battlefield.
Command? If you change a dog to bark twice, you can fight like this, this is an absolute advantage, Chen Lan can't wait to become the first to enter the battle and charge ahead!
The pirates also have something to say: they are just pirates, and the pirates are a rabble! The dignified Daming Naval Division, the strong army of the Ming Dynasty raised by more than two million silver a year, is really put on the battlefield, and even the invincible fleet is not seen by the opponent's Daming Naval Division! One battalion has more firearms than all the pirates combined! Actually came to sneak attack! Sneak up on their rabble! There is no heavenly reason! There is no royal law!
Before dawn, the battle was over, and even the battlefield was cleaned.
When the battlefield was being cleaned, something happened that made the soldiers relatively silent, a Han woman who survived under the artillery fire, she attacked the sailor soldiers, only because the sailor soldiers kicked over her cigarette gun, and the young sailor soldier pushed it away, and finally had to subdue it and tie it to the pillar with scattered clothes.
This Han woman is dead.
It's not because the young soldier is tied up with a problem, but because the woman is addicted, and she keeps hitting the pillar, bleeding nonstop, and finally bleeds too much and dies.
"It's not your fault." After Chen Lan knew this situation, he comforted this young soldier, he was only nineteen years old, just selected to the water division for only one year, this was the first time he followed the water division to attack, the death of the Han woman, so that this young soldier, a little sad, said that it was good to report to the Son of Heaven, save the head of Qian, saved, but not completely saved.
"I'm a country man, and I don't know any bullshit, so I'll show you, why do we want to crack down on smuggling." Chen clapped his hands, and a group of tied men and women were thrown on the beach, a total of more than 20 people, all of whom were Han.
These 20 or so people, after being thrown on the beach, were tied up strongly, but they still kept twisting, like worms.
Everyone in the Navy Division looked at each other, that was the fear of the unknown, what kind of thing did this make people look like this? If you want to become like this, it is better to die early and be reborn early, this appearance is more unacceptable than death.
Chen Lan looked at the insects on the ground with a complicated expression, and then turned to everyone and said: "In order to control them and let them serve the pirates willingly, the pirates gave them opium, the long one is three or five years, and the short one year or two years, and it will be like this, so, the pirates, I have to suppress it, I have to suppress it!" ”
"Don't let the pirates rob my coastal fishing villages in the Ming Dynasty, and don't let the smoke and soil poison the Ming people."
"We were ordered by the emperor to level the Sandu Ao Haikou, you avenged these suffering people, the Haikou was exterminated by us, you rescued the Ming people of the slave trade behind the village, this is to report to the Son of Heaven, save the head of Qian!"
Chen Lan is actually not good at explaining these, many veterans understand, recruits don't know much about these, and they are confused about what they are fighting for, this is a living example, this is the meaning of the existence of the sailors, guarding the safety of the Ming Sea, protecting the people of the Ming Dynasty from being robbed by the pirates, and ensuring that the smoke and soil will not poison the Ming people by the sea.
The 'bugs' will be escorted into Beijing and sent to the Jie Yuan, where the chief medical officer will try to help them get rid of drugs, not detoxification, and long-term use of opioids is not psychological dependence, but physiological changes.
In the first battle of Lijia Village alone, the two-masted ships captured 235 ships, 150 boxes of tobacco and soil, more than 5,000 bags of tobacco, 500 taels of gold, 127,000 taels of silver, a number of nautical charts, rescued more than 300 people of the Ming Dynasty, captured 300 Japanese prisoners, and more than 1,300 outlaws.
This harvest is actually nothing, the most important thing is to harvest a large bay suitable for the old nest of the military port! Chen Lan expressed his heartfelt gratitude and thanked the Haikou for their exploration.
The battles of the other four private markets were much the same, relying on artillery superiority to cover them, and then rushing to land on the beach, only one of the private markets organized the pirates to put up a negligible resistance, and was completely crushed by the naval division.
Ling Yunyi led the guest soldiers to confront the Daming Beijing camp before, and the reason for the defeat was that the Daming Beijing camp did not use artillery and firearms, otherwise the battle situation would be completely one-sided, and the firepower configuration of the naval division was even stronger than that of the Beijing battalion, because every landing operation of the naval division could only win and not be defeated, and defeat was the annihilation of the whole army, so the equipment of the naval division was more sophisticated and more expensive.
Wu Weizhong waited all night, and he was a little sleepy when he waited, and only then did he wait for the Haikou who broke up and fled, there were only more than 300 people, and even the first line of defense was not shaken, and the Haikou army had been completely wiped out, and the pocket array of 10,000 people surrounded 300 people...
The battle plan of catching turtles in the urn was completed beyond expectations.
Chen Lan wrote the good news and handed it over to the coastal defense inspection, and the coastal defense inspection threw the 'bugs' one by one onto the hydrofoil sailboat and galloped towards the Beijing division.
"This Li Yashi didn't learn anything else, but he learned the skill of sycophancy." Zhu Yijun looked at a miscellaneous newspaper in front of him, with a look of disgust, the original Li Yashi who was kneeling with the Ministry of Rites with his neck was gone, and only Li Yashi who was sloppy and patting horses was left.
Li Yashi said in the miscellaneous newspapers: [Pingbo Jinghai, is the thunderous wrath of the Ming Emperor, this is the Ming Dynasty, the supreme majesty, a little turn over, can crush the Haikou thousands of miles away; This is the Ming Dynasty, the wise and martial majesty, a holy decree can protect the people of the world; This is the Great Ming, when the sleeping lion king wakes up, everyone must surrender. ]
Zhu Yijun took out Chen Lan's good news again, and looked at it beautifully.
This is the third time he has come out with good news today, in order to prove that he is indeed in Ping, twenty Japanese prisoners were sent to the capital division, and the ministers of the court went to interrogate.
"Feng Banban, at the beginning, Yu Shuai valued Chen Luan, because he was from a humble background, or to put it more clearly, he valued him and there was no one in the court." Zhu Yijun leaned back in his chair, held the good news, and talked about the old things.
There are a lot of people who can fight, why Chen Luan?
Feng Bao thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, it's not a shame to come from a humble background. ”
Chen Lan has practiced martial arts since he was a child, likes to make friends with Ren Xia, says it is good, it is Ren Xia, and if it is ugly, he is a prodigal in the market, has a very bad reputation, likes corruption, does not advocate morality, is short-tempered and irritable, likes to charge ahead, Jiajing forty-one years, Chaozhou, Yingde caused a civil unrest, Chen Lan joined the army to quell the rebellion, and became a commander.
In the Pingwu Wandering Kou, constantly promoted, commanding the servants, the Guangzhou garrison, the commanders, the generals, the Zhaoqing guerrilla generals, is one of the generals under Yin Zhengmao, Yu Dayou snatched Chen Ling from Yin Zhengmao's hands, became the general of the Songjiang Town Water Division, and then promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief, after Yu Dayou returned to Beijing in old age, he became the chief soldier of the Daming Water Division.
Yu Dayou values Chen Lan's humble background, which means that Chen Lan has no one in the court, and can only rely on His Majesty, and can only become a hardcore imperial party.
Chen Lan is very clear about this, and Yu Dayou also told Chen Lan very clearly, the Ming Jing Division is in the north, and the Navy Division is in the south, if the general army is under the door of any minister in the court, His Majesty will inevitably hesitate about the Navy Division.
Chen and Yu Dayou's experiences are very similar.
In the original history, Chen Lan's life was extremely bumpy, and he suffered losses and suffered losses in the court.
He can fight well, just because there is no one in the court and there are many ups and downs.
In the fourth year of Wanli, Chen Lan followed Lingyunyi to quell the rebellion of Luo Panshan, Chen Lan had meritorious service in pacifying and became the deputy chief soldier, as a result, the governor of Guangdong Yushi Luo Yinghe impeached Chen Lan for greedy money, Chen Lan was deposed, and the Wolf Mountain Rebellion rose again, and the court had to reinstate Chen Lan again, and after quelling the rebellion, he was deposed again.
In the twenty-first year of Wanli, the first time he entered the DPRK to resist the Japanese, Chen Lan led the soldiers of Jizhen, Liaoyang, Baoding, and Shandong towns, and entered the DPRK to resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders, and won a great victory, because the imperial court and the Japanese negotiated peace, Chen Lan was demoted to Chaozhou, and it didn't take long for him to be deposed again.
This is indeed a fact, there is no one in the court, Chen Lan didn't even have the opportunity to fight, won the battle, and was dismissed, and later Shi Xing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was also imprisoned and died in prison because of the peace negotiation.
In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, the Japanese invaded Korea for the second time, Chen Lan took five thousand Guangzhou guest soldiers, galloped to North Korea in the starry night, at that time Li Rusong was in Liaodong, the light enemy was besieged and killed, the Ming Dynasty had no general, Chen Lan entered the court, became the chief military officer of the imperial Japanese, and began to preside over the major events of the anti-Japanese war.
Anti-Japanese arguments, Chen Lan's first merit.
In the twenty-eighth year of Wanli, Chen Lan led the general seal and pacified the battle of Yang Yinglong in Banzhou.
Wanli's three major expeditions, the two major expeditions are Chen Lan's down, Chen Lan's life, hundreds of large and small, has never had a defeat, but throughout his life, he did not get any title, for the Wanli Emperor saddle before and after the horse for many years Chen Lan, in his later years has been in Huguang, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong Town, these places in the Ming Dynasty belong to the land of miasma, that is, exile will go.
The Ming Dynasty has never lacked outstanding people who can win battles, nor has there been a shortage of responsible officials.
Now Chen Ling has someone in the court! That's the Ming Emperor!
Zhu Yijun looked at Chen Lan's good news, and said with a little disgust: "If you can't write poetry, don't write, it's elegant." ”
Chen Lan wrote a poem, which is exactly the same as Qi Jiguang's poetry style now, they are all limerick poems, and they are written: [Hu Yi is millions in the city, why don't you go and chant a poem?] ]
There is no discipline, that is, to mock those lowly Confucians in the court, to recite poems that cannot be refused, to stand and talk all day long without backache, to point fingers at things that do not understand, and to intervene even in war.
Chen Lan is actually very envious of Li Rusong for having a good father, at a young age, he has already become the deputy chief soldier of the Beijing Battalion, and at the same age, Chen Lan is still doing Ren Xia on the street, and there is a Ren Xia who has not had a meal.
"Your Majesty, the trading house has already entered the market." Feng Bao reported a large amount of money into the trading line, the entry was relatively slow, the first entry was only one million silver, and did not rise, the Ming Emperor did not intend to wave the sickle easily, the main purpose of the entry was to deter those dealers, not to do anything wrong, not to harvest, just through periodic adjustment, to maintain a certain rationality.
Zhu Yijun hopes to use absolute influence to make the trading house always maintain a trace of rationality, instead of chicken feathers.
"What did the official say?" Zhu Yijun picked up the recital on the table, but he didn't discuss the recital of the trading house, and the big hat that usually gathers prosperity and profit has already been deducted.
Feng Bao's face was extremely complicated and he bowed his head and said: "The officials are busy distributing and carrying water, and they are fighting fiercely. ”
"Ah, this..."Zhu Yijun was stunned before saying, "Then let them continue to carry water." ”
The imperial historian is carrying water, this is the recent bustle of the Ming Jingtang, every day when carrying water, are onlookers, pointing at the imperial history, the way of heaven is a good reincarnation, and the official who points at others on weekdays is finally pointed at.
Zhu Yijun didn't have time to see the excitement in person, but from the recital, he could also see the grievances of the imperial historians, and the emperor who had every opportunity reviewed the recital.
In response to the news of Li Le, the governor of the heavens, he had completed the census of the 14 prefectures of the Southern Ya, and it was expected that in early August, the abolition of slavery would be completed, and Li Le had planned to do it in mid-July, but Li Le could only carry out it slowly.
Nanya set up seven engineering regiment battalions with a total of 84,000 people, dredged the waterway, and built 12 official factories, mainly iron smelting, weaving, cotton spinning, etc., especially cotton spinning has four, the construction of the engineer regiment battalion, there will be a number of small lime factories, iron factories to build, and carried out a small section of the gallop construction, from Ma'anshan to Nanjing.
Before breaking even, about 670,000 silver was needed, and Li Le chose to pledge this investment.
He calmly pledged the money, and only begged these slaves who had no deeds to stop rioting in disorder.
After all, this huge manipulation of Gogo Sochi really scared the rich families a lot, and even the absolutely liberal poetry society bookstore, because it did not have the support of the powerful right, also returned to the wings of the theory of limited freedom, and Lin Fucheng once again became the leading figure of the liberals.
There is no longer any doubt about the discussion of the boundaries of freedom, and it is necessary to follow public order and good customs, and to obey the laws of the Ming Dynasty.
Ling Yunyi heard about the progress of the census of Dingkou in Qingzhang, Henan, and there was no obvious progress, but Ling Yunyi began to drastically cut redundant personnel, and the redundant staff in Henan was bloated, much more serious than Ling Yunyi imagined, and the people who worked were so tired that they didn't even go to the point of work, and Ling Yunyi was not used to them, either they went to Qingzhang and surveyed Dingkou, or they were dismissed.
The opposition on the ground in the entire Henan is not loud, after all, Ling Butang did not kill anyone, it was already blessed by the ancestors, and the redundant and bloated personnel were cleaned up drastically, and the progress was very fast.
Zhu Yijun was in a very good mood, after reviewing the recital, he met the two concubines who had just entered the palace, the heroic Guo Yunyao, gentle as the water king Xiyue, the two concubines were still learning the etiquette in the palace from the old grandmother, they would not sleep in a short time, they were not very old, only sixteen years old, they were very nervous when they faced the saint for the first time, and their heads were banging.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Yijun came to the Wenhua Hall again and began the daily court meeting.
"Chen Lan led the sailors to destroy seven private markets in Sanduao Bay, this is the Jieyin from yesterday, Chen Lan said bluntly in the recital, there are big people to cover it up, the courtiers are there, who is that, now stand up, I can spare his life, the monarch and the minister, within eight pi, I am not so unkind." Zhu Yijun looked at the courtiers and said calmly.
The courtiers are all old faces, and a few of them are still the ministers of the society who are suspicious of the lord and the country, Zhu Yijun doesn't want to make it so ugly.
"I'm very simple, everyone knows it very well, don't think you can't find out, it's still too late to explain now." Zhu Yijun saw that no one spoke, and repeated the principle of doing things, when he talked for the first time, the conditions he gave were the most generous, and he kept his promises.
If you really wait for it to be found out, you will inevitably be beheaded for public display, pulled to the entrance of the vegetable market, the corpse will be separated, and the whole corpse will not be allowed, how embarrassing, the emperor is not decent, and the courtiers are not decent.
"Your Majesty, although the courtiers have their own opinions, they are all loyal to the monarch and the backbone of the country, and the ministers think that there are no ministers in the Wenhua Palace." Hai Rui stood up and spoke on behalf of the General Constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he didn't think that the Ming Princes would bless Haikou, the main reason was that he couldn't commit it, and the crime of being a messenger was confirmed, and the scolding he received was about the same as Qin Hui.
As soon as Hai Rui spoke, the courtiers were relieved, Hai Rui has repeatedly caught corruption for many years, and it is very accurate to see people, and the courtiers don't even have a scandal in the outer room, for the sake of silver, isn't it even scolded with the entire family tree?
Are courtiers really that clean? Not really, but it is definitely not dirty to that extent, you must know that Yan Song and Yan Shifan are already the worst kind of traitors in the Ming Dynasty, Yan Song and Yan Shifan let Hu Zongxian be peaceful, and in the end, he didn't make a fuss to raise his own self.
"Your Majesty, the great uncle also has a time of bones." Hai Rui thought about it for a while, and gave Wan Shihe an example, Wan Shihe is the one with the softest body among the courtiers, but Wan Shihe has not been admonished once or twice.
"Hai Rui, I didn't mess with you!" Wan Shihe was furious when he heard it, and shouted out by name, what does Hai Rui mean! He didn't mess with Hai Jui!
Feelings he Wan Shihe, is the floor tile of the morality of the Ming courtiers, right?
(End of chapter)