Chapter 188 The situation in Ming Dynasty is great!
Su Ze saw off Wang Daokun, a special guest.
Wang Daokun did not reveal his identity in Nanping County, but immediately left Nanping County, and then went to Tingzhou Prefecture next door with a guard of honor.
Inspector Wang seemed to be in a good mood. He did not dismiss any students in Tingzhou Prefecture and returned to Fuzhou Prefecture to prepare for the provincial examination.
The time came in May of the 34th year of Jiajing.
Those students from prefectures and counties who were not inspected by Wang Daokun were secretly grateful, and some were as regretful as Huang Shixing, missing an opportunity to shine.
Zhang Sijing's letter to Wang Daokun fell into disgrace, but Zhang Sijing still gathered with college students and government students at the "Humble Room Pavilion" to talk about the facts. When he talked about the traitorous party and the country, he cursed the traitorous officials in lamentation.
In particular, Fang Wanghai, who had already been promoted, was accused of being a traitor. Although Zhang Sijing did not publicly speak ill of Fang Wanghai, the flattering students praised him instead, saying that he was a gentleman and refused to attack the same year. .
The Yanping prefect newly appointed by the imperial court has not yet arrived, and the two levels of government offices at the prefecture and county are delicately maintaining a balance, maintaining a state of keeping water in the well without invading the river.
Su Ze sent people to the tea gardens in Wuyi Mountain and asked them to continue making black tea, and collected tea from tea garden owners who were willing to make black tea.
The weather this year is really not good, and many tea leaves have no time to dry. Since Su Ze's tea garden harvests tea, it can save the labor of transporting it to the town below the mountain, and the number of tea gardens producing black tea has gradually increased.
However, this year's tea production season is coming to an end, the weather is gradually getting hotter, and spring is coming to an end, and the young leaves of the tea trees will no longer be able to be pinched anymore.
Su Ze turned a shop he bought from Cai's family into a filling workshop. The wooden boxes and ceramic tea cans he ordered from the county were transported here, and then he filled the black tea and sealed it before sending it to Changning. Wei transports it to Yuegang for sale.
Su Ze had to sigh with emotion. The tea trade was indeed a huge profit. Just such a tea garden and the black tea purchased sporadically earned him 600 taels of silver. You must know that this amount of money can buy twenty francs. If it's a machine gun, if you replace it with a blunderbuss, it's nearly 600 shots.
However, it was obvious that the Portuguese did not have so many guns in the Far East. Diogo, the general representative of the Far East, immediately stated that he would immediately send a ship to Malacca to order more muskets.
However, this also exposed the information that the Portuguese had established a foundry in Malacca to manufacture guns.
Sure enough, according to Father Pierre, the Portuguese had already recruited Chinese craftsmen to make cannons in Malacca, but for a long time the cannons produced by the cannon foundry were not up to standard, and only the muskets were barely usable.
A few years ago, the Governor of the Far East in Goa replaced the Director of Guns. In recent years, Malacca's Vulcan guns have gradually become usable.
However, at present, most Japanese people are ordering, and the Portuguese have not been able to open the Ming Dynasty market.
It turned out to be a scam. No wonder Diogo agreed so easily.
Su Ze quickly wrote to Lin Mojun, saying that when buying a cannon, the Portuguese must let the Portuguese test the cannon in person. They must not let their own people test the cannon, and they must not pay if the barrel is exploded.
On the fourth day of May, the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, Su Ze bought a pot of realgar wine from the street and returned to the editorial office of "The Surprise".
In the Ming Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival is already a very grand festival. Customs such as drinking realgar wine, eating rice dumplings, and racing dragon boats have been formed. Scholars will go out of the city to climb mountains together to pray to Qu Yuan for a smooth exam.
Lin Qingcai returned to the clan to celebrate the festival. Chen Chaoyuan brought rice dumplings. Su Ze gave him realgar wine and made an appointment to go out of the city to climb up tomorrow.
"By the way, Brother Rulin has two of your letters and they have been placed on your table."
Su Ze nodded. There was only one day off for the Dragon Boat Festival, and he was not planning to go back to Changningwei for the holiday. He had made appointments with several counties. Follow the example of your classmates by climbing high to celebrate, and then take advantage of the holiday to take a look at your own property, save some time during the holiday, and wait until the end of mid-May to return to Changningwei.
Back in the house, Su Ze saw two letters on the desk.
The first letter was relatively flamboyant, and Su Ze saw that it was from Lin Mojun.
Nowadays, the two communicate very frequently, and they exchange letters every few days. The last letter was on May 1st.
Su Ze was naturally happy to communicate with Lin Mojun. Through this method, he could understand the dynamics of Changning Guard and discuss military tactics with Lin Mojun.
Opening the envelope, there were two pieces of letter paper inside. When I opened it, I saw that it was another letter from Yu Dayou.
Today's date is the fourth day of May, and Yu Dayou's letter was written on the ninth day of April, which was a month ago.
The future military god of the Ming Dynasty seemed to regard the Lin family as a tree hole, and the words used in the letter became more and more casual.
It turned out that Yu Dayou suffered another defeat and was demoted again.
Su Ze couldn't help but sigh, if the fight continued like this, Yu Dayou might even lose his hereditary position in hundreds of households.
After reading the letter quickly, Su Ze was very speechless. He could only lament that Yu Dayou would be defeated even if Han Xin was reincarnated. The Ming Dynasty was really too weak.
This time the defeat occurred in Caojing. From the name, you can tell that this is a water transportation channel and a battleground for military strategists.
Yu Dayou's troops and horses were seriously damaged, so Zhang Jing allocated some of the Guangxi wolf soldiers to him.
The so-called wolf soldiers are private soldiers belonging to the Zhuang and Yao chieftains in Guangxi. They were hired by the Ming Dynasty to fight.
These wolf soldiers are wild and untamed, and their appearance is different from that of the Central Plains people. They also like to wear weird masks and have their tattoos exposed on their shirts, so the Japanese pirates were very afraid of the wolf soldiers at first.
But in Yu Dayou's letter, he criticized these wolf soldiers as useless.
They do not obey military discipline and only know how to ask for rewards. In Yu Dayou's opinion, these are not elites at all, but a group of paper tigers.
He is still the kind who is bluff externally and cruel and cruel internally.
Yu Dayou was not prepared to lead these wolf soldiers into battle, but Zhang Jing was now in a very bad situation. Even the censor of Qingliu began to write letters to impeach him. He urgently needed a victory to prove himself, so he wrote many times asking Yu Dayou to lead them. The wolf soldiers went into battle.
Yu Dayou had no choice but to lead two thousand wolf soldiers out of the canal path, preparing to attack the Japanese pirates entrenched in Chuansha and Tuolin.
At first, Yu Dayou did gain some small victories, but the generals of these wolf soldiers became confused. Because of the high reward Zhang Jing offered before leaving the station, they all asked to pursue the Japanese pirates.
Yu Dayou originally wanted to fight steadily, but he was urged by these wolf soldiers and led his troops out of the canal path, but he was ambushed by the Japanese pirate coalition.
Thousands of wolf soldiers died in this battle, and Yu Dayou only led his troops to break out of the siege.
The remaining wolf soldiers did not return to the army, and simply became Japanese pirates and began to plunder the people of Zhejiang.
Seeing this, Su Ze could only sigh. For the army, discipline far outweighs personal bloodiness.
After entering the age of firearms, discipline is combat effectiveness, which is also the breeding ground for the birth of full-time soldiers.
Well-trained veterans are more lethal on the battlefield than young and brave recruits. Professional soldiers also promoted the advancement of military technology and military doctrines. This led to the rapid development of military doctrines in the 16th and 17th centuries. Su Ze took this as a warning and wrote in his notes that "sending untrained soldiers to the battlefield is murder."
But counting the days, the day of Ming’s counterattack is coming soon.
Zhang Jing can no longer afford to lose and will definitely organize a big battle as soon as possible to prove himself.
This is also the reason why Yu Dayou was defeated many times but still did not remove him from his post and allowed him to continue to lead the troops.
Even Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, could no longer hold back Zhang Jing at this time.
If the situation in Zhejiang continues to deteriorate, neither Qingliu nor the strict party will reap the benefits.
The other letter was naturally from Lin Mojun. What Lin Mojun sent was the latest news from the Japanese-controlled General Administration in Fujian.
As Su Ze had expected, the balance in Fujian was quickly broken.
On the 20th of last month, Bao Xiangxian, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, ordered the commander-in-chief of Guangdong Beibo Commander-in-Chief Wang Bai to attack the pirates on the sea in Guangdong.
This time, the general manager of the Guangdong Haibei Japanese Army tried his best and spent a lot of money to hire Portuguese people docked in Macau to assist in the battle.
This battle killed more than 1,200 people including Xu Quan, the Japanese pirate leader in Guangdong, and recruited more than 350 people. The sea area was slightly peaceful.
Encouraged by his colleagues in Guangdong, the Japanese general in Fujian could not sit still and ordered all the guards to prepare for war and expel the "Deer King" who was roaming the sea in Fujian.
After receiving the news, Lin Mojun immediately followed Su Ze's instructions, hid the Centipede in the dock, evacuated the immigrants near the port of Dong'ao Island, and stopped reporting the news.
But what happened next was something Lin Mojun couldn't understand.
Because Lin Mojun no longer pretended to be the Deer King to patrol the sea, more and more coastal guard ships were cruising at sea. Soon five guard posts reported and fought on their own to drive away the Deer King.
Lin Mojun:? ?
Although Lin Mojun no longer plays the role of King Deer these days, he will "occasionally" drive the warship of the garrison to "pass" Dong'ao Island, but he has never seen any Ming warship dare to approach Dong'ao Island.
Why did you expel the Deer King?
The most exaggerated thing is the Dinghai Guards Qianhu Station in Fuzhou Prefecture. This group of insects is said to have bought a Japanese boat from Yuegang and dragged it back to Fuzhou Prefecture Pier. They said they sank the Japanese pirates' flagship, and King Lu led his men to escape. The country of Japan.
Relying on a broken ship, a few Japanese pirate flags, and a few tattered Japanese knives, the Fujian Dusi Yamen and the Beiwa Commander-in-Chief actually asked for credit for Dinghaiwei and reported to the Ministry of War that Fujian also had a great victory at sea and defeated King Lu.
Su Ze was speechless when he saw this result. He still overestimated the moral bottom line of these coastal guards in Fujian.
However, this saves trouble. It seems that these guards do not have the courage to board Dong'ao Island to check whether the "Deer King" has evacuated.
It's just that the protection fee business can't be done.
However, the Fujian Coastal Guard fabricated military merits at all costs, and the Guangdong and Guangxi suddenly exerted their efforts and hired Portuguese to fight against the Japanese, which made Su Ze smell something unusual.
The most serious Japanese disturbances were in Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.
Now Fujian and Guangdong have achieved results and eliminated Japanese pirates at sea.
Why did the Zhejiang region in the south of the Yangtze River, where the imperial court invested the most, transferred the most generals and soldiers, and spent the most money, failed to achieve any success and instead suffered defeat?
What a profound calculation!
Sure enough, Zhang Jing, the governor of Zhejiang who only knew how to fight military wars but not deal with political accounts, would be replaced by Hu Zongxian. Emperor Jiajing had already lost patience with him, and if he performed meritorious services later, his crime would have been confirmed.
The imperial power under the autocratic system is the most impatient creature in the world.
When every wish you have can be fulfilled,
anything you say casually will be regarded as an imperial edict, and
there will be someone to cover up and bear any mistakes you make,
people will lose their respect for objective laws and think that all difficulties are possible. Those who are victorious, and those who are not victorious are the problems of the people below.
Not only Jiajing, but also his grandsons, and his grandsons' grandsons.
They delusionally believe that an imperial edict can immediately change the status quo, that any war can be decided in one battle, and that any policy can have immediate results.
The subordinates can only create enthusiasm and deceive the superiors by saying "it is not a small good, but a great situation".
Su Ze sighed, Zhang Jing's death was already doomed the moment the Japanese pirates in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian were pacified.
Su Ze picked up the pen and wrote a reply to Lin Mojun, asking her to continue to pay attention to the movements of Dong'ao Island, not to let the officers and soldiers land on the island, and to hide the skin of the deer king for the time being, quietly waiting for the next opportunity when the water becomes muddy.
Su Ze opened another letter. This letter had elegant handwriting and was written on fine paper. It looked like the signature on the cover was Mrs. Li, who had just moved back to Quanzhou Prefecture.
Su Ze smiled slightly, how could Mrs. Li write a letter to herself? Sure enough, she saw familiar handwriting. This was a letter from Fang Ruolan to herself.
Su Ze wrote a greeting letter to Mrs. Li a few days ago, but calculating the date, it should not have been sent to Quanzhou Mansion. The date on this letter should be that Miss Fang had just moved to Quanzhou Mansion and wrote to Su Ze. Believed.
I have to say that Miss Fang is a very interesting person.
What she was talking about were the trivial things in life. For example, when she moved back to her old house to tidy up the old house, she discovered that a citrus tree she planted with her uncle when she was a child had grown up, and she recalled some childhood memories.
She also found a new pastry recipe from her uncle's collection of books. Her description of the process of making pastries using tangerine peel was quite lively and interesting.
Of course, not all the letters were happy. Fang Ruolan also complained about the miserable experience of her mother forcing her to learn how to be a female worker.
Thinking of Lan Zhihuixin, Miss Fang spent a long time embroidering the mandarin ducks into chickens, and Su Ze also smiled.
In addition to these interesting trivia in life, Miss Fang also brought a piece of news.
Her uncle is a doctor at the Imperial College in Nanjing. In the letter sent by her uncle a few days ago, she talked about matters in the imperial court.
"The Ministry of Military Affairs sent a petition to Yin Zhengmao to cast coins, and the Ministry of Household Affairs reconsidered that copper coins can be cast in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangdong, Shandong, Fujian and other provinces where copper is produced." Is Fujian going to cast copper coins
?
Fang Ruolan said that her uncle reminded Mrs. Li in a letter to exchange the copper coins at home for silver as soon as possible, as Fujian's money law would be in chaos.
Fang Ruolan couldn't figure out why the imperial court wanted to mint copper coins in Fujian, but the money law would be confused, so she wrote to Su Ze for advice.
Su Ze thought for a while, picked up his pen and started writing a letter.
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