In February, Fuzhou City.

On the city wall, the Wei soldiers patrolled back and forth, and the soldiers with muskets at the city gate checked the people who entered, and the defense appeared to be extremely tight.

At this time, outside the city gate, a group of cavalry escorted a senior officer, galloping over, causing the people on the road to dodge.

The cavalry galloped all the way to the city, and was stopped by the gatekeeper with a horse rejection, and the cavalry reported his identity, and after showing the documents, the defenders immediately moved away from the horse rejection stake, and the cavalry immediately surrounded the large man into Fuzhou City.

The person who came was none other than Liang Yizhang, who came from Guanzhong to Fujian to take over the southeast affairs.

After the cavalry entered the city, they galloped to the front of the governor's palace and stopped, Liang Yizhang turned over and dismounted, and Ding Qirui, who got the news, had already come to the door to greet him.

"The Liang Pavilion Department is here from Guanzhong, and it is far away!" Ding Qirui's expression was a little ugly.

Liang Yizhang took a deep breath, "Old Inspector, let's talk about it inside!" ”

During the Chongzhen period, when Ding Qirui supervised Henan, Liang Yizhang was the prefect of Germany, and Ding Qirui was his old boss.

The two entered the governor's mansion and sat down in the hall, Ding Qirui retreated, and after everyone left, he suddenly said in a deep voice: "What does the court plan to do with me?" ”

Liang Yizhang sighed, "Your Majesty asked me to take over the old overseer, the governor of southeast affairs." The old superintendent was transferred back to Beijing to be questioned by the imperial court. ”

When Ding Qirui heard this, he seemed to be relieved, and said to Liang Yizhang in a deep voice: "The situation in the southeast is vicious, and the Liang Pavilion Department should take over the southeast, so you should be cautious." ”

Liang Yizhang said: "I first came to the southeast, what did the old inspector teach me?" ”

Ding Qirui sighed: "I originally wanted to delay until the Nanyang Naval Division could fight a battle, and I didn't want the Ming army to attack in advance. After the start of the war, I held on to several important places, guarding the naval division and the shipyard, and the Ming army's naval division was mobile, plus the coastal intelligence should be provided, and the Ming army could always attack the weak points of coastal defense. Although I kept the sailors and the shipyard, I also lost Zhangzhou, Funing, Wenzhou, Taizhou and other places. ”

Liang Yizhang frowned and said, "The situation is like this, and the old superintendent didn't try to turn the situation around?" ”

Ding Qirui said: "Naturally, there is, on the one hand, I asked Zhao Guogong to order cavalry reinforcements to various places, and on the other hand, I wrote a letter to ask the imperial court for support, intending to wait for the water and land reinforcements, and then find an opportunity to attack Xiamen and Nanao, sweep the islands entrenched by the Ming army along the coast, and counterattack." However, the cavalry repeatedly failed to rescue, and the reinforcements were not heard, so they could only barely survive until now. ”

Liang Yizhang's expression sank, nodded, and did not continue the topic, but asked: "Old Inspector, today I have brought tens of thousands of reinforcements, and the Beiyang Naval Division has gone south to help in the war, how to deal with Nanming." ”

Ding Qirui said: "If you want to reverse the decline, you must first wait for the opportunity, find the opportunity to attack Jinxia first, and then take Qiongzhou." If you capture Jinxia, Zheng Sen's naval division will have to retreat to Penghu and even Taiwan, and it will be difficult for the Ming army fleet to supply, and it will be difficult to transmit information, and the round-trip time will increase, so it will be difficult to cooperate with Qiongzhou. Taiwan is too far from the land, it is difficult to recover it for a while with the strength of the naval division, Qiongzhou is close to the land, and the naval division is weaker than Zheng Sen, I suggest that you take Qiongzhou first, and once Qiongzhou is obtained, Taiwan will sooner or later be occupied by the imperial court. ”

Liang Yizhang nodded heavily and said to Ding Qirui: "Thank you for the teachings of the old superintendent." ”

Ding Qirui sighed, "I assisted the two dynasties, the previous dynasty failed to pacify Zhongzhou, and now I have failed to stabilize the southeast, I really have the trust of His Majesty, and I only want to love the mountains and rivers for the rest of my life." ”

Liang Yizhang said: "Old Inspector rest assured, I expect Your Majesty to reuse you." ”

Ding Qirui waved his hand, "Since the cabinet is here to take over the affairs of the southeast, then we will recruit the southeast civil and military, and after the handover is completed, I will leave for Guanzhong to be questioned." ”

At that moment, Ding Qirui summoned the civil and military, Liang Yizhang took out the holy decree, took the sword of Shang Fang, read out the will, and officially served as the governor of the southeast.

After Ding Qirui completed the handover, he was escorted by Xuanyiwei and left Fuzhou with a depressed expression.

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Jiangnan, Songjiang Province, the center of silk and cotton spinning in the world.

Although Gao Yihuan took special care of the textile industry in Jiangnan, gave a lot of preferential policies, and distributed a lot of orders to Jiangnan, many workshops in Jiangnan still went out of business.

The war spread in the southeast, and the imperial court had to tighten the coastal defense, which made the goods in the south of the Yangtze River piled up, and the workshops could not recover their costs.

Huating Chen is a famous silk weaver in Songjiang, with more than 800 looms and more than 3,000 employees.

Chen Yuanwai heard that the war would soon end, and once the war subsided, a large number of maritime merchants would come to buy goods, so there was no reduction in production, but who knew that the turmoil in the southeast had been chaotic from last year to this year, and there was no sign of improvement.

He mainly produces high-quality silk, mainly sold overseas, now the goods are piled up, can not be sold, hired workers to pay, the upstream of the mulberry farmers, silk reeling merchants Jia came to urge the payment, Chen Yuan outside the support for a few months, the savings are spent, then can only borrow money everywhere.

In Songjiang City, in a restaurant, Chen Yuan's relationship with the outside trustee found a rich family and borrowed 50,000 taels of silver.

"Chen Yuanwai, signed an IOU, and the 50,000 taels of silver tickets can be taken away." A wealthy Yangzhou businessman smiled slightly.

Chen Yuanwai looked at the IOU, but was a little hesitant, "Zhou Yuanwai, can I think about it again." If you don't get up, you have to take away the workshop and the goods, and my workshop is more than 50,000 taels, not to mention the goods? ”

The rich Zhou Yuanwai smiled and said: "This is just a mortgage, I can't just lend you money without nothing." I heard that the imperial court has sent the Liang Pavilion to supervise the southeast, and the Beiyang naval division has also been transferred to the Nanyang, and I expect that the southeast will soon be pacified. If you don't want to borrow it yet, that's okay, you can sell the workshop to me, but the price has to be lower~"

"No! The workshop is my brainchild! Chen Yuanwai shook his head immediately, but the workshop will not be able to survive tomorrow without money, the hired workers have blocked the door, and the upstream suppliers are ready to take him to the official, and he must raise money.

Zhou Yuanwai looked at him calmly, drinking tea with tea, Chen Yuanwai was entangled for a while, and finally gritted his teeth, "Okay!" I signed. ”

At that moment, he took a brush, signed an IOU, and pressed his handprint.

"Hehe~ three points of profit! Zhou Yuanwai put it away, a full 50,000 taels. Zhou Yuanwai smiled.

Chen Yuanwai picked up the silver ticket, counted it, arched his hand, and left.

As soon as the others left, a young man came in with a fan, and Zhou Yuanwai immediately got up and said with a smile: "Young master, it's okay!" ”

The young man bowed slightly, "That's a good job!" ”

Zhou Yuanwai was worried: "Young master, what if he is still on the list?" ”

The young man shook the paper fan coquettishly and pointed to the country, "Don't worry, the southeast can't settle down for a while, and he will definitely not be able to do it." Not only him, but the owner of the entire southeast will be changed this time. ”