Just when the giants of the sea gradually noticed Lingao, another bigwig 14 figure in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province also noticed, he was Wang Zunde, the governor of Liangguang. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhaoqing is located in the west of Guangdong, in the middle and lower reaches of the Xijiang River, adjacent to Wuzhou in Guangxi in the west, and Foshan in Guangdong in the east, the geographical location is very important, from the 43rd year of Jiajing, the Governor's Palace is located here.

The spring sunshine shines through the gap between the bamboo trees outside the window, spreading mottled shadows on the square brick floor. The breeze shook the green bamboo, and a curtain of broken water flowed back and forth like a stream. In the Governor's Palace, the bamboos have all turned green, the withered yellow leaves of winter are fading one by one, and the courtyard is full of life.

Wang Zunde was reading a letter with his head down in the study at this time. His dress is very simple, almost indistinguishable from a Han Ru. Wang Zunde is known for his simplicity, always dressed in vegetarian clothes on weekdays, and has a reputation for honesty in the officialdom.

This is a letter brought back from Beijing by one of his protégés. The content is nothing more than the shortcomings of the parents, all kinds of news, and the trend in the court. It turned out to be nothing, but he felt an inexplicable worry, and what caused him to worry was the "epilogue" that came with the letter.

According to the custom of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to a text, people wrote letters with the so-called "supplementary enlightenment". A conscription is an anonymous letter that is used to ask for an errand or to discuss a confidential matter.

He picked up the first sub-letter.

The content above is the news of the battle between the imperial court and the Jianyu and the Liukou. The war in the east has temporarily calmed down since the imperial court recovered Zunhua, but the situation in the northwest is getting bigger and bigger day by day, and it is gradually burning the prairies. Moreover, among them, the post guards, town soldiers, and military households in Shaanxi Town are "quite a lot of thieves".

When Wang Zunde saw this, he couldn't help but sneer, thinking that this was just expected.

The arrears of the town soldiers are already calculated on an annual basis, and the reduction of post guards is even more defeated. Northwest Shaanxi is a bitter cold place, no better than Jiangnan and Guangdong such anointed places, you can barely survive if you want food, it turned out to be a bitter and half-hungry and half-full bastard life, and now they are laid off, where is there a way to survive if you don't rebel? I am afraid that such a chaotic situation will not be suppressed in seven or eight years.

He dropped the note and picked up the next one.

This encyclopedia is very brief, but it is more important. It is mainly said that since Xiong Wencan recruited Zheng Zhilong, the situation on the southeast coast has stabilized, and the emperor seems to be satisfied with this, and is urging Xiong Wencan to "clarify the ocean" as soon as possible.

"Humph!" Wang Zunde snorted. Xiong Wencan's hand is just a thief attacking a thief, and he wants both sides to lose and reap the benefits of the fisherman, but this matter may not be as simple as he thought.

Although Guangdong has not dealt much with Zheng Zhilong, he has learned a lot, and the news is mainly from Franco, including Zheng Zhilong's family history and his special relationship in Japan.

Wang Zunde knew very well that Zheng Zhilong was by no means a good type, nor was he an ordinary pirate who would be satisfied with the empty title of a military general like Haiphong guerrilla. After that, he refused to withdraw from the Zhongzuo Institute and stole Jinxia, the purpose of which was nothing more than to use it as a port to trade with Japan and other places. Every year in Guangzhou City, there are Francophone people who come to trade, and a lot of useful news can be drawn from their mouths: for example, the Zhongzuo Institute is more ideal as a trade port than Yuegang; The purpose of Zheng Zhilong's repeated attacks on Yuegang was not to rob, but mainly to force the merchants to dare not trade in the local area anymore.

"Zheng rebels against the wolf's ambitions, and his intentions are huge, and he is definitely not sincere in submitting to the imperial court", this is Wang Zunde's private comment to Zheng Zhilong.

But Xiong Wencan doesn't see it that way. For more than a year, he has continued to support Zheng Zhilong's ships with heavy artillery, and even sent a lot of Hongyi cannons cast by Wang Zunde for Fujian. Zheng Zhilong in Fujian is simply to get the wind and rain. The Zheng family bought a lot of farmland and properties in Fujian, and even extended their hands to Guangdong, buying many farms and industries, and there were farms he purchased outside the city of Guangzhou, which was simply extremely paradoxical.

But after all, Zheng Zhilong wiped out Li Kuiqi and other pirates who had accumulated years one by one, as long as Xiong Wencan's good news continued, no impeachment would work. On the government and the opposition, there are quite a few people who agree with Xiong Wencan's approach. The court discussion is very beneficial to him, and it is very possible to see the momentum and be promoted.

These news seem to have nothing to do with Guangdong, but Wang Zunde knows that Xiong Wencan has a reputation as a capable member of "a peaceful thief and a good way in the sea", and if he is promoted, most of them will come to Guangdong.

Xiong Wencan is now the governor of Fujian, and he has made great contributions, but he does not necessarily have to be transferred only to the governor of Guangdong, and even if he is to be transferred to Guangdong, it is also from Wang Zunde's hands -- during the reign of Tianqi and Chongzhen, there was no longer an independent post of governor of Guangdong, but he was the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong, and if he could not achieve some decent merits, not only would the duties of the governor have to be demarcated, but I am afraid that the position of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi would not be stable.

And if you want to compare with Xiong Wencan in terms of merit, the best way is to exterminate the pirates in the Guangdong Ocean.

It's just that the pirates on the surface of the Guangdong Ocean are not easy to get along with. The first major stock is Liu Xiang, who has been patrolling the Pearl River estuary for a long time, and from time to time he has gone deep into the Pearl River to rob and plunder villagers and ships, and block the trade abroad.

The Franco-Rang man from Macao came to talk to him twice in three days, hoping that the two sides would jointly attack him. The Franz machine man has a large plywood ship and a Hongyi cannon, and his combat power is considerable, but the Ming Dynasty can't send people and horses.

If you want to go in, you have to pay the army and prepare the ships, which will cost a lot of money. The political envoy of Guangdong has been crying poor, saying that there is no silver in the treasury. At present, most of the money for the cannons cast in the provinces is still owed. The price of the guns allowed by the Ministry of Industry has not been seen until now.

However, Guangdong has a lot of financial resources, and if it really wants to fight, it can still be done without sticking to the first place, but it is a little worthless. Moreover, the Guangdong officialdom knows nothing about Liu Laoxiang's details, and even less than the Francos knows about it.

Without a guide, it would be wishful thinking to find Liu Xiang's fleet between the vast sea and countless small islands. In the end, it was nothing more than another loss of troops. The imperial court could afford to lose in the past, but now it can't afford to lose, and losing a battle means that it will never recover. Thinking of this, he was very irritable.

However, recently, there is a group of pirates that are very rampant, swallowing up a lot of scattered pirate forces, and there is a tendency to sit big, and according to the news from all sides, it can be concluded that this group of pirates is different from Liu Xiang, they have a fixed stronghold, which is in Lingao County, the capital of Qiongzhou.

Wang Zunde is not afraid that pirates have a stronghold, but he is afraid that pirates have no stronghold. Compared with looking for the opponent's fleet in the vast sea, it is much less difficult to find the opponent's lair and go straight to the Yellow Dragon, it depends on whether you can show the determination to do this, in other words, whether there is this value.

(To be continued.) )