Wang Zunde slowly folded the letter neatly, folded it, and put it back into the envelope. www.biquge.info I am afraid that I will have to make some achievements in Jinghai 33 this time.

Soon after the emperor ascended the throne, he was working hard, and from the eunuchs around the emperor, it can be seen that the emperor is a very diligent person. If he does nothing during his tenure as governor, I am afraid that he will have to abdicate and make way for a Jinghai capable member like Xiong Wencan.

At this delicate juncture, if he mishandled the affairs of Jinghai and lost his sacred heart, then the impeachment would be full of twists and turns, and his fate would be known regardless of whether he would lose his official position and dismissal.

If you are determined to rely on Jinghai to do something to stabilize your official position, you must find an ally, otherwise there will be opposition from all over the officialdom, and even if Wang Zun Degui is the governor, he will not be able to suppress it. In the officialdom of the two Guangzhous, the governor Gao Shunqin had the most resolute attitude towards "clarifying the ocean" and could be cited as Austrian aid.

Gao Xunji hated the maritime merchants, the pirates, and the Westerners very much. He made several statements to Wang Zunde that he wanted to ban trade with the Francis of Haojing.

The reason why Gao Shunqin hated the Fran machine man was also simple: because the Fran machine man was a "giant cannon", "no one dared to approach", and he also trafficked all kinds of prohibited things. Wang Zunde thinks that Gao Xun's attitude may be largely due to the fact that there is such a "disobedience to the king" on the ground in Guangdong.

In fact, for Wang Zunde, although the Francois has to cause some trouble to the local area from time to time, it is still interesting on the whole. Of course, the so-called Zhiqu does not mean that they pay an annual rent of 500 taels to Xiangshan County on time -- this is not even a drop in the bucket for the income of the whole province of Guangdong.

Recently, the Franji people have repeatedly sent businessmen to Guangzhou for activities, up and down, and have given a generous gift to officials from all sides -- they hope to join forces with the Ming to attack Liu Xiang. According to them, Liu Xiang colluded with the Hongmaoyi people who had plundered the coast and occupied Penghu to build a fortress during the Apocalypse, with the intention of disadvantageous to the Ming Dynasty. As for whether this statement is true or not, only God knows.

Wang Zunde couldn't help but sigh: this sea matter is really complicated, but the government knows nothing about this mysterious sea world.

He paced back and forth in the study, and after a while, he made up his mind and shouted to the door, "Someone! ”

A personal servant appeared at the door.

"You go, and invite Mr. Lu and Mr. Li immediately."

These two people are his two henchmen. Lu Yizhong served as a prefect for several terms, and Li Xijue was a jinshi during the Apocalypse, and he had never been awarded an official and had been living at home. Both of them are in their early forties and fifties, and they are in the prime of life, and they are not only full of poetry and books, but also have a deep understanding of various practical government affairs. He invited these two aides to hear their views on the pacification of the waters of Guangdong.

As for the other officials of this province, all of them are as slippery as loaches, and their ability to blame and pass the buck is greater than the other. If you want to listen to some practical advice, you can only rely on your staff.

However, after these two staff members came, they could not come up with any brilliant ideas for a while -- strategy is based on intelligence, and without intelligence, it is impossible to even make trouble about who the enemy is, and where is there a strategy to speak of. Since the end of Wanli, all kinds of heroes on the sea have swirled and swirled, with many names, and there are dozens of large stocks with names left in the official documents, but their actual situation, the government knows very little, and most of them are hearsay.

As for Liu Xiang, it was just a force that only emerged in the early years of Chongzhen, but in recent years, it has expanded very rapidly and has become a problem at the mouth of the Pearl River, which has attracted people's attention.

Although Lu and Li have the heart to share the worries of the proprietor, they themselves don't necessarily know more about this Haikou than Wang Zunde, so how can they make suggestions? What Li Xijue came up with was nothing more than the old tricks of Hu Zongxian and others to deal with the Japanese invaders back then, and he couldn't talk about any new names.

But Lu Yizhong was silent beside him. In his opinion, Li Xijue's strategies are all feasible strategies, but they cannot solve the fundamental problem. The proprietor doesn't plan to wipe out the pirates on a large scale at all, and even if he wants to, he can't do anything, in a word, he has no money.

Whether it is moving to the sea, stepping up the export of goods on the shore, and training the brave ...... of the townships along the coast and rivers All of these measures require time and money. Now the situation of the government is that there is a lack of money, and without money, you can't do anything.

The government has neither money nor time, but the people who control Taiwan feel that they have no time -- Lu Yizhong is more clever than others in speculation, and in light of the recent situation in the government and the opposition and the situation in Guangxi and Fujian, he quickly understood the actual thoughts of the proprietor: Xiong Wencan could not give all the money to Xiong Wencan.

Since Zheng Zhilong was appeased, the giants of the southeast coast, Yang Liu, Yang Qi, Li Kuiqi and others have been wiped out in two or three years. Xiong Wencan's reputation as a "Jinghai Capable Member" has been recognized by the government and the opposition. In such a situation, Liu Xiang, who continues to wreak havoc in Guangdong and even expands, has become an embarrassing comparison. The governor of Liangguang must do something.

Although I know what the proprietor thinks, it's another thing to come up with an idea. He thought about the situation he was facing: it was not the Jiajing Dynasty at the moment, and the imperial court still had a lot of money and food, and it could build ships and train soldiers. Now the proprietor only has such a big plate, he can't bloom on all sides, and attack in multiple ways, only by finding a group of pirates to suppress it, win a big victory, and capture the bandit leader. Moreover, the sailors of the imperial court have always been ineffective in naval warfare, and they must be able to make contributions in land battles.

"It would be nice to have a place like Shuangyu and Tuen Mun." Lu Yizhong said.

Li Xijue was also quite shrewd, and immediately understood, and nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

During the Jiajing period, merchants from Zhejiang and Fujian colluded with pirates to smuggle trade, and in order to avoid the control of the imperial court, they built an underground maritime trade and commercial center on Shuangyu Island in Zhoushan, Zhejiang. With the support of the maritime merchants of Zhejiang and Fujian, the pirate leaders Li Guangtou and Xu Dong swelled rapidly, and Shuangyu Island almost became a country within a country. In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, Zhu Kun, the right deputy imperial envoy and governor of Southern Jiangxi, served as the governor of Zhejiang, and the governor of Zhejiang, Fujian and coastal defense. The following year, he gathered a heavy army to attack Shuangyu Island, wiped out all the pirates, burned down the island's merchant houses and walled cities, blocked the shipping lanes, and completely razed this gold-absorbing island that extracted the wealth of the imperial court to the ground.

The Battle of Shuangyu Island was a great success and became a textbook example. What Lu Yizhong meant was to find a pirate gang with a fixed base and destroy it in one fell swoop with the power of thunder, while Liu Xiang, who was erratic and difficult to find, obviously did not meet this condition.

(To be continued.) )