On the second day of the establishment of the Yun Navy, Zhao Bufan led 2,000 iron cavalry and 3,000 crossbowmen to march into the adjacent Donghai Town, and in the name of rectifying Cangzhou's coastal defense, he ordered the branch of the Jingtao Gang to evacuate Cangzhou immediately. Ma Rulong, the hall master of the Jingtao Gang, hurriedly sought negotiations, but when he came to the military formation and saw Zhao Bufan in military uniform, the whole person was stunned.

"Wood officials?"

"Don't be rude, this is General Zhao, the commander of the forbidden army!"

"Nine-Tailed Divine Fox Zhao Bufan!" Ma Rulong took a breath in shock, his face changed sharply, and he clenched his fists in a panic and explained: "General Zhao, our Shocking Waves Gang has never had anything to do with the Yunhai Faction, and we have never colluded with foreign enemies, I don't know what General Zhao is saying about leading his troops to come this time?"

Zhao Bufan sat on his horse and looked at him with a smile.

"Ma Rulong, since we met that day, I have admired you very much in my heart, because you are a smart person!"

"How can a villain be so virtuous, he is not worthy of such love as a general!" Ma Rulong hurriedly clenched his fists, his face even more worried.

"This is the truth!" Zhao Bufan's tone was calm and slow, but with indescribable authority. "But it is precisely because you are smart that I hope not to cause unnecessary conflicts today, and now I officially inform you that Cangzhou will not allow any big civil forces to exist from now on, and take your people to leave Cangzhou!"

"General Zhao, what are you ......" Ma Rulong's eyes widened in astonishment.

"Cangzhou will have a naval division to undertake coastal defense in the future, its name is Yunhai, do you understand now?" Zhao Bufan asked with a smile.

Ma Rulong's face turned like earth in an instant, he already understood what Zhao Bufan meant, and knew that this was to swallow the coast of Cangzhou alone.

"General Zhao, your appetite is too big!"

If the big cake on the coast of Cangzhou is used for personal gain, then this move can indeed be called a big deal, but Zhao Bufan actually wants to use this benefit to rejuvenate the country and strengthen the army, and to consolidate coastal defense.

"Big? I don't think so, but if you think it's big, it's big!"

In Ma Rulong's view, this is completely the style of the minister, but it is this kind of arrogance and unreasonableness, but it makes the original complex problem simple, after a moment of silence, Ma Rulong seems to have figured it out, smiled and hugged his fists again: "Then congratulations to General Zhao, I hope there will be good cooperation at sea in the future!"

"I'm glad you have such a vision, there will definitely be more cooperation between Yun Haijun and your Storm Gang, and you will be glad for your current choice in the future!" Zhao Bufan stared deeply into Ma Rulong's eyes, exuding a strong sense of confidence.

Ma Rulong smiled and bowed deeply.

When he saw Zhao Bufan sitting on a war horse at this time, he felt an indescribable strangeness in his heart, he always felt that this person was either a madman, or a person who shook the world with a horsewhip in his hand, and that look and smile made him feel pressured and incomprehensible.

Ma Rulong withdrew, and it took him one day to withdraw all the main forces of the Storm Gang, leaving only more than 20 masters to deal with the aftermath!

That's unbelievably fast!

When Zhao Bufan received the report, he was extremely stunned, it was difficult for him to imagine how the other party could complete the evacuation in one day, and he was even more surprised that Ma Rulong made such a decisive choice, and couldn't help but rush to the beach to check in the cold wind.

When he saw all the ships of the Storm Gang sail out of the harbor in an orderly manner, he stood silent, letting his robes be lifted high by the sea breeze.

"Whoever can recruit Ma Rulong, I will make him the commander of the military capital!"

Saying this, Zhao Bufan suddenly waved his battle robe, turned around and left, leaving only the stunned generals looking at each other!

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On the second day of the evacuation of the Storm Gang, Donghai Town was directly brought under military control, and Zhao Bufan forcibly stripped it from the local government, ordered the Yun Navy to suspend all affairs, and gathered the villagers to merge Dongxian Town and Donghai Town into a large-scale medium-sized port, renamed Dongxian Port.

It turned out that the disciples of the Yunhai faction were comprehensively reorganized, and Wei Chengfeng selected the most elite and warlike 500 people to become the main battle establishment, full-time to control the five Yunhai, and the rest were assigned to the logistics department, responsible for the maintenance of ports and ships, and other logistics chores.

Because the original foundation of the Yunhai faction is very strong, coupled with the rich experience of Wei Chengfeng and others, the militarization of Dongxian Port has been promoted very smoothly, and the initial structure is basically completed in half a month, and the entire layout design takes a long time, according to Wei Chengfeng's estimate, it will take at least three years to complete.

More than a month later, at the beginning of February of the eighth year of Zhenghe, Dongxian Port basically completed the militarization and reorganization, and the Yunhai Navy began to operate with great fanfare in the name of Juxianzhuang, and it was still mainly based on maritime transportation and commerce, and became the only force operating maritime affairs in Cangzhou.

Subsequently, Zhao Bufan ordered Shan Tinggui, the holy water general, and Wei Dingguo, the Shenhuo general, to lead a thousand crossbowmen to stay in Dongxiangang, and he led his troops back to Bazhou. At this time, the northern Xinjiang has also completed the change of defense, in addition to the main force of the Liangshan Army, the 20,000 multilateral armies in the northern Xinjiang of Bazhou and Cangzhou have been reported one after another, and they are officially under his control.

On the day he returned to Beiwolf Village, Zhao Bufan briefly reviewed the training of the Liangshan Army, and then returned to the General's Mansion to write four letters.

A letter was sent to Zhu Bocai, hoping that he would send the masters of the Imperial City Division to Cangzhou, and through the assistance of Wei Chengfeng and others, he would wipe out the interest groups that had originally participated in colluding with the Dongying people.

A letter was addressed to Emperor Zhao Ji, bluntly stating that the purpose of sending troops to Dongxian Town was to exterminate the Dongying pirates, and stated the interests and harms, requesting that Dongxian Town and Donghai Town be included in the Cangzhou border defense.

The last two letters were addressed to Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng, and each letter contained two pieces of paper, one was a blank piece of paper, and the other was written with only seven words: Cangzhou Forbidden Army and Shipping.

Among these letters, the first two are not a big problem, and the real key is the last two, because this is related to whether the matter of sending troops to Cangzhou can be completely suppressed.

In fact, the court also exploded in the past two months.

In a short period of two months, officials in Cangzhou and several nearby prefectures impeached Zhao Bufan more than 20 times in succession, accusing him of more than a dozen major crimes, such as transferring troops without authorization and plotting against him.

Emperor Zhao Ji was furious and ordered the Ministry of War, the Imperial City Department and the Privy Council to send people to investigate.

The ministers led by Tong Guan and Yang Jian believed that Zhao Bufan should be beheaded immediately for public display, but under Zhu Bocai's operation, a large part of the old ministers and good generals in the court tried their best to argue, and the two sides argued, while Cai Jing and Cai You and others remained neutral.

This situation made Emperor Zhao Ji unable to make up his mind, and Empress Zheng firmly stood on Zhao Bufan's side, so the handling of the incident was delayed again and again.

It was at this time that Zhao Bufan's letter was delivered to the capital.

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Cai Jing has been very idle these days, because the current fierce struggle between the DPRK and China has nothing to do with him, so he can cultivate himself and relax for a few days, but he knows the situation in Cangzhou very well in his heart, and he knows everything about Zhao Bufan's secret operation, and even some officials wrote to impeach him at his behest.

The reason for doing this is, of course, waiting, he is waiting for how Zhao Bufan will respond.

"Cai Xiang, Northern Xinjiang Zhao Bufan's secret letter!" A tearing voice appeared behind Cai Jing, and the person who came was an old man, his face was wrinkled and squeezed into a heap, the bridge of his nose was very high, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and his spirit was restrained, obviously a master of the house.

"Heh, Zhao Bufan, you choose Zhu Bocai, don't you still want to come to me now?" Cai Jing smiled faintly, gently put down the tea bowl in his hand, his old face showed a little smugness, closed his eyes and wandered in the rocking chair for a while, and then reached out to take the secret letter.

But when he unfolded the secret letter and saw the short seven words on it, he instantly straightened up in shock, and the cold light in his eyes flashed.

"Hmph! Zhao Bufan, do you think that with Zhu Bocai's support, you can be on an equal footing with the old man?

After saying that, he angrily threw the letter out.

"Yun Zhen, fill in 10 million pieces of white paper and send them back to Bazhou, so that Zhao Bufan can understand how to behave!"

The asking price of 10 million yuan is absolutely impossible to achieve, Cai Jing's move is obviously dissatisfied with Zhao Bufan's letter in the tone of a transaction, he is still worried about Zhao Bufan's marriage to Zhu Lian, this time he hopes that Zhao Bufan can beg him.

Interest is fundamental, if Cai Jing really wanted to reject Zhao Bufan, he would not reply at all at this moment, and the completely unreliable sky-high price was to show that he wanted this benefit, but he was very angry, dissatisfied with Zhao Bufan's attitude, and wanted to force him to write a letter again to beg for help.

Yun Zhen has followed Cai Jing for many years and is Cai Jing's confidant, how could he not understand his thoughts, gently stretched out his hand to take the letter in the air, and was about to reply to the letter, but when he saw the content of the letter, his face changed slightly, and he was silent and did not leave.

Cai Jing turned his head in surprise: "Why don't you go yet?"

"Engong, this letter can't be replied like that!" Yun Zhen shook his head slightly.

"What's wrong?" Cai Jing asked strangely.

"Engong probably forgot, the Cangzhou Liutun Forbidden Army is an empty camp, and those military salaries are ......" Yun Zhen didn't continue, just raised his head and looked at Cai Jing.

"In my house!" Cai Jing suddenly thought through the key, and his expression was uncertain.

Yun Zhen glanced at him and said in a low voice: "Among the seven words written by Zhao Bufan, the four words of the Cangzhou Forbidden Army are simply threats, and the white paper is sugar cakes, he is doing both soft and hard. This time, he sent troops to Cangzhou without authorization, causing such a big incident, and also involved the Cangzhou forbidden army, which was obviously premeditated. If the Holy Lord really investigates this matter strictly, then it will inevitably pull out the Cangzhou Forbidden Army, and this forbidden army is really turned out, it is simply an empty camp, and it will be difficult for Engong to get out at that time!"

Cai Jing wrinkled and trembled, and said with a cold face: "At that time, the saint only had two choices, one was to pardon Zhao Bufan and the old man, and the other was to punish both Zhao Bufan and the old man, no matter what the result would be, Zhao Bufan would tie the old man to the boat!"

Yun Zhen thought for a while, a little doubt flashed in his sharp eyes, and he hesitated: "Engong, in fact, what I am more puzzled about is that Zhao Bufan has adopted the Yunhai faction, what does he want to do by making those people of the Yunhai faction into the Cangzhou Forbidden Army? How does he raise these people? What do you do with them? If he raises them to make money by sea, he can obviously have more and easier ways, and there is no need to spend so much trouble at all!"

"He's still young, and the idea at this time should be to revitalize Haiphong!" Cai Jing quickly took over, shook his head and said: "I don't care about this, it's a good thing that he is willing to do it, but the old man now feels that there is another mystery hidden in his seven words!"

"What's the mystery?" Yun Zhen wondered.

Cai Jing didn't think about it earlier because he was angry, but after calming down and thinking about it at the moment, he quickly figured out a lot of things, he took the letter back from Yun Zhen's hand and carefully observed it, and after a while, he said categorically: "The four words of his Cangzhou Forbidden Army are not only a threat to me, but also a condition, he wants to take away the entire establishment of the Cangzhou Forbidden Army, but he doesn't want money and food and military salaries, that is to say, the establishment of the Cangzhou Forbidden Army belongs to him, and the money and food and military salaries belong to me, and he helps me fill this empty camp!" (To be continued.) )