The mighty Yangtze River, a thousand miles, flows eastward, to Tongzhou Wolf Mountain above 300 miles, no danger pass, is the first pass of the Yangtze River.

In the thirty-third year of Jiajing, the court decided to take Wolf Mountain as an important town, and it was necessary to use the general army and important ministers, but to issue an edict to pass through the Tai staff general Deng Cheng and his commander, as the chief military officer of Wolf Mountain.

In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Deng Chengxin was ordered by the court to discuss the placement of boats, and hundreds of ships arrived to raid Wolf Mountain. Deng Cheng's boat division was less than 40 ships, "countless sunken ships, thieves burned boats and landed on the shore, resumed land warfare, and killed them all in Baipu and Rugao, and people called them miraculous feats in the southeast."

Sixty years have passed, and the Wolf Mountain Fort has never seen the footprints of the Japanese invaders, and the vicissitudes of time have passed, and the scene of the commander-in-chief gathering heavy troops is no longer seen.

In the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, the general army went to Wolf Mountain, and it was still managed by Tongtai as a general, with more than 1,000 troops stationed.

The current Tongtai general surnamed Zeng, named Guohua, hereditary Haizhou Wei Baihu, its official location is Tongzhou Rugao, and he has never asked much about the Wolf Mountain Fort.

On this day, he hurried to Wolf Mountain, because of the news from the fort, the Wusong Water Battalion in the south of the Yangtze River suddenly raised the flag of the Royal Navy, and then dispatched 100 ships to go up the river, but along the way, they saw the merchant ships and seized them, and even the fishing boats in the river also told them to rush back.

Seeing this situation, the Langshan Fort was puzzled, so it sent people to cross the river by boat to inquire, but was told that the Wusong Water Camp was now a navy, and that the Commander of the Maritime Eunuch Wei Gong had ordered the river to be closed off from now on, and the plates would not be launched.

Immediately after that, the so-called navy wrote the Langshan Fort, asking the fort to cooperate with the navy to seal the river, saying that the sealing of the river was meritorious, and the admiral and eunuch would ask the court for merit.

The fort received the document, and the escrow manager did not dare to specialize, so he quickly passed the general.

Although Zeng Guohua was in Jiangbei, he received a rumor from Suzhou a few days ago, ordering him to rectify the headquarters and monitor the Wusong Water Camp in Jiangnan. Zeng Guohua was also very puzzled by this official document, and he didn't know what the governor Yamen asked him to do to monitor Wusongshuiying.

He knew that the Langshan Fort had been in disrepair for many years, and that a small number of the original boat divisions had been dismissed, and that he had no ability to monitor the Wusong Water Battalion, so he was suspicious of the governor's Yamen order, so he specially sent people across the river to investigate, and then made arrangements after the situation was clarified.

didn't want the news to be replied to, so Wu Songshui Camp directly deceived him.

Since there is Wolf Mountain Town, the fort and the well water of the Wusongshui battalion do not interfere with the river water, and the Wusongshui battalion is only a guerrilla, but Zeng Guohua is the deputy chief of the general, even if the soldiers and horses are not as good as the other party, there are no ships, but the official position is here, and a guerrilla dares to ask the general to bow down and obey orders, how can he endure it.

What's more, the admiral of Nalaoshzi is a maritime eunuch, Zeng Guohua is unheard of. Under the mixture of anger, the fast horse rushed from Rugao, wanting to see what the hell was going on in the Wusongshui camp opposite.

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Do it yourself, have plenty of food and clothing.

Gonggong Wei explained to his subordinates the significance of sealing the river and forbidding the sea.

As the green-skinned Zhao Baole said, instead of asking for others, it is better for people to seek themselves.

According to Zhao Baole and others, at present, pirates (maritime merchants) are concentrated in the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang, and there are actually no gentry directly engaged in maritime trade in the south of the Yangtze River. However, the land south of the Yangtze River is very important in the maritime trade, which can be said to be the most critical link.

This link is the production and circulation of goods.

As we all know, the silk, tea and iron produced in Jiangnan and the porcelain produced in Jiangxi are the favorite things of foreign merchants, but the land south of the Yangtze River is the most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty, as early as the beginning of the country, the ban on the sea was strictly enforced, so that although Jiangnan has experienced the war, but for more than 200 years, there has never been a maritime (pirate) group, and there has never been a common people because there is no way to live and go out of the sea (Kou).

On the contrary, the coastal people of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong, because of the barren land, have no way to live, and if they are poor, they have a big heart, and in order to survive, they often go into the sea to join the thieves, and they gather their lives.

These outlaws gradually developed from the initial private trade at sea, sometimes business, sometimes stealing, becoming a large armed smuggling group at sea, and eventually forming a powerful force.

Today, this force is no longer the outlaw sea disciples at the beginning, but has formed a huge group dominated by the coastal gentry of Fujian and Zhejiang.

They secretly manipulated the Daming sea trade, led the big and small thieves on the sea, obtained huge benefits, and looked for officials who could speak for their interests in the DPRK, and finally, the Zhejiang Party was born.

The former first assistant Shen has always been the leader of the Zhejiang Party, and the current first assistant Ye Xianggao is also proud of Fang Congzhe, who was born in the Zhejiang Party, among the cabinet ministers who were recommended by His Majesty the Emperor's Imperial Authority.

According to the request of Wei Gonggong, all affairs in Beijing should be transmitted to Jiangnan if they were published in the Di Bao, and those that were not published in the Di Bao should also be transmitted to Jiangnan.

In addition, the office also had to buy off the bookstores of the large and small yamen, and obtain first-hand information from the "little people" in these yamen on a pay-per-article basis.

The most important thing is Liaodong, and Gonggong Wei particularly emphasized that the news about Liaodong, whether it is the inscriptions of officials or the recitals, or the gossip of the post stations, or the "gossip" of merchants who come and go outside the customs, must be sorted out in detail and submitted regularly.

For this reason, Chen Mo recruited many idlers in Beijing in the name of Wei's father-in-law and asked them to specialize in this kind of work. In terms of Jinyiwei, because of the existence of Tian Ergeng, some news that outsiders don't know can also be known to Grandpa Wei.

In this way, coupled with the interrogators who specialize in presenting information, Wei Gonggong's intelligence agency is beginning to take shape, but it is not detailed enough, and the sources of information are limited.

At best, it can be regarded as a "second-class dealer".

Gonggong Wei also couldn't spare his hands to sort out his intelligence network for a while, and there were very few talents in this area, so now asking Chen Mo to be there can be regarded as an opportunity for the personnel left in Beijing to exercise. When the maritime affairs make achievements, Wei Gonggong will inevitably start the formation of an intelligence system.

If there is a gambling plate for the cabinet personnel now, Gonggong Wei will definitely spend a lot of money on Fang Congzhe. This big guy, like Ye Xianggao, is the big man who really decided the fate of the late Ming Dynasty.

Because, both of them are the highest decision-makers and executors of the empire. The latter is also the key person in the two major cases of moving the palace and red pill.

In his heart, Gonggong Wei didn't want Fang Congzhe to enter the cabinet, and this person from the Zhejiang Party would definitely have trouble for his Gonggong Wei's maritime affairs, but he couldn't stop it.

Therefore, he must be fast now, and before the new minister has time to react, the Royal Navy has already thundered and banned the sea of the Ming Dynasty.

Making a fortune is not a dinner party, the Donglin Party may be able to ease up with Wei Gonggong, and the Zhejiang Party and Wei Gonggong are afraid that you will die.

Zhejiang's sphere of influence is Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and these three provinces are the main bases for maritime trade.

If Gonggong Wei wants to monopolize the huge profits on the sea and want to be the sea overlord of East Asia, it is imperative to clean the three southern provinces.

Therefore, he set the first target of the Royal Navy Mobile Detachment on the three southern provinces of the gentry.

This is the first class, and it is also the so-called "outside must first settle inside".