In the evening, in the backyard of the Yi'an Mansion, Li Yuntian was in a side room checking the thick stack of official documents on the table in front of him.

"Big brother, he's here." As the door was pushed open, Lei Ting walked in, followed by a man with his head bowed and wearing a military uniform.

"Sinner Cai Fu, knock on the chief soldier!" Hearing this, Li Yuntian raised his head and looked at the man, who took a step forward, knelt on the ground and said with his head touching the ground.

"General Cai, although you are guilty, you have lost your way back, and this official is very relieved." Li Yuntian held his hand upwards at Cai Fu's void and said quietly.

Hearing Li Yuntian call him "General Cai", Cai Fu was taken aback, and couldn't help but look up at Li Yuntian, his eyes were full of surprise, where is a rebel general like him still qualified to be called a "general".

"General Cai, your affairs have already been initiated by the emperor, and the emperor has agreed, as long as you can assist the official army to quell the rebellion in Jiaozhi, then you will be pardoned."

A smile appeared on Li Yuntian's face, and he explained in a deep voice, "Now that Li Li has been captured and the rebels have collapsed, you are now innocent of merit and demerits, and this official has placed your family in Jiangnan, if you are willing to go to Jiangnan, then this official will send someone to send you to reunite with your family." ”

"Mr. Xie." Cai Fu was stunned at first when he heard this, he didn't expect that Li Yuntian had already invited Emperor Xuande for him, and then reacted, and hurriedly kowtowed to Li Yuntian again, and said excitedly, "The great kindness of the adults, the humble position is unforgettable!" ”

"Daddy!" At this moment, a surprise voice suddenly came from the door, and a sergeant of the Xiaowu Army appeared at the door, looking at Cai Fu who was kneeling there quite excitedly.

"Second child, why are you here?" Hearing this voice, Cai Fu couldn't help but get up and turn his head to look, looking at the sergeant with a surprised expression, he was Cai Fu's second son Cai Xin, it stands to reason that he should be in Jiangnan now.

"Dad, it was the chief soldier who asked the child to come." Cai Xin glanced at Li Yuntian and said to Cai Fu excitedly.

Once upon a time, Cai Xin thought that he and his family would definitely die, and they could be executed by Emperor Xuande at any time, especially one night when the family was suddenly taken out of the prison of the Criminal Department.

But things were beyond Cai Xin's expectations, he and his family were not executed, but were taken to a courtyard on the outskirts of Beijing to settle down, except that there were no other restrictions except that they could not leave the courtyard gate, someone would send food and vegetables regularly, although the life was worrying, but it was thousands of times better than the dark and damp prison.

A month ago, Cai Xin was brought to Jiaozhi, he originally thought that the imperial court wanted him to persuade Cai Fu to surrender, but after coming to Jiaozhi, no one let him go to Yi'an Mansion, where the rebels were located, until yesterday I didn't know that he was not here to persuade him to surrender, but to take Cai Fu home together, he was shocked in his heart, and he didn't know what happened.

"General Cai, the second son is here to pick you up." Li Yuntian became very excited when he saw Cai Fu's affection, so he said to him with a smile.

"Lord Commander, I don't want to go back to Jiangnan, I am willing to follow you to the death." Cai Fu, who was in surprise, suddenly came back to his senses when he heard this, and after a deep groan, he solemnly bowed his hand to Li Yuntian, he had already heard the meaning of Li Yuntian's previous words just now.

Li Yuntian just said very clearly that if Cai Fu is "willing" to go to Jiangnan to reunite with his family, then he will send someone to send Cai Fu home.

This means that if Cai Fu is unwilling to go to Jiangnan, Li Yuntian has other things for him to do.

"General Cai, this official wants to set up an overseas port in Borneo in the South Seas to facilitate my maritime trade in the future, are you willing to serve as the foreign affairs officer of the port and deal with the locals specifically?" Li Yuntian immediately laughed when he heard this.

He really didn't misunderstand Cai Fu, although Cai Fu made mistakes, but he was sophisticated, sleek, and had many years of experience in dealing with foreign people in Jiaozhi, plus he must have been enlightened after experiencing a life and death catastrophe, and he did not dare to betray the Ming Dynasty again, so he was the most suitable person to operate in Borneo.

Borneo is the island of Kalimantan, with Sumatra to the west and Luzon to the east, which is an important springboard from Daming to Sumatra.

"Willing to do it." Cai Fu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he never thought that Li Yuntian's target would be Borneo, and then he agreed, people like him who have been in the officialdom for most of his life have long been accustomed to the career in officialdom, so that he suddenly gave up the power in front of him and left the officialdom, it was worse than death for him.

Most importantly, he had heard about the overseas trade led by Li Yuntian, and had a premonition that Li Yuntian was going to strengthen maritime trade, and Borneo was obviously the most important part of sea navigation, and the power in his hands would also increase.

"Okay, you go to Jiangnan to reunite with your family first, and then you will have a hand in half a year." Seeing Cai Fu happily agree, Li Yuntian nodded with satisfaction and said in a deep voice.

At the end of this year, he will start his second overseas trade, when Cai Fu will go with the fleet, and after arriving in Borneo, he and the people of Jiangwutang will stay there to run the port and consolidate and expand their territory.

"Master Xie." Cai Fu hurriedly thanked Li Yuntian, happily left with Cai Xin, and left Yi'an Mansion the next day to go to Jiangnan to get together with his family.

After experiencing the surrender of the rebels, Cai Fu almost lost his head before the ghost gate, and also harmed his family, so now he cherishes the family affection with his family.

"Big brother, can he do it?" After Cai Fu's father and son left, Lei Ting looked at Li Yuntian with some concern, no matter how Cai Fu had also defected to the enemy, she actually didn't trust Cai Fu, and she didn't guarantee that he would defect to the enemy in the future.

"Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious, the eldest brother believes that he knows how to go in the future." Li Yuntian smiled, leaned over and continued to check the official document in front of him.

Lei Ting couldn't help but smile when she heard this, and secretly admired Li Yuntian's courage in her heart, I am afraid that no one except him would dare to reuse a general like Cai Fu.

Cai Fu and his son left Yi'an on the same day, along with several important rebel figures who had been captured, including Li Li and Fan You, who would be escorted to the capital to face trial.

Li Yuntian stayed in Yi'an Mansion until the twentieth day of the first lunar month, and after dealing with the military and political affairs of Yi'an Mansion, he set off for Jiaozhou City to participate in the ceremony of returning to Jiaozhou City by the three divisions of Jiaozhi.

In these days in Yi'an Province, the Ming army quickly wiped out several Tusi in Yi'an Province with the residual power of exterminating the Jiaozhi rebels, and distributed the land and property of Tusi to the people under its rule like other places in Jiaozhi, so that there was no more Tusi in Jiaozhi.

On the same day, the first great dynasty of the year of Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty was held in the Taihe Palace, and Emperor Xuande had already known in advance that Li Yuntian would launch a final blow to the Jiaozhi rebels at the end of last year, so he deliberately postponed the time of the dynasty for a few days, and set it for the twentieth day of the first month.

The person who went to the capital to report the victory of Jiaozhi arrived in the capital on the evening of the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, and secretly entered the palace and presented Li Yuntian's report document to Emperor Xuande.

It is worth mentioning that the person who reported the news arrived at the training camp on the outskirts of Jiangwutang on the eighteenth day of the first month, but in order to cooperate with Emperor Xuande to announce the good news of Jiaozhi on the day of the Great Dynasty, he deliberately stayed until the evening of the nineteenth day of the first month before entering the city.

The next day, when the civil and military ministers entered the palace, the newsboys of the "Ming Xin Bao" excitedly waved the newspaper in their hands and shouted loudly through the streets and alleys, spreading the news of the Ming army's victory in Jiaozhi everywhere in the capital.

This made the capital immediately sensational, and the people rushed to buy the "Ming Xin Pao", although today's "Ming Xin Pao" has been printed twice as much as usual, but it is still sold out before noon.

As the saying goes, Li Yuntian naturally wanted to take advantage of his convenient conditions in Jiaozhi to suppress the rebellion and publish the battle report of Jiaozhi by "Mingxin Bao" as soon as possible, so as to consolidate the position of "Mingxin Bao" in the eyes of the people in Beijing.

In the Taihe Palace, the first thing that the place was chosen to do in the Great Dynasty was to let the inner servants read the good news sent by Li Yuntian in high spirits, and it was not until then that the civil and military ministers of the Taihe Hall were surprised to know that Li Yuntian had quelled the rebellion in Jiaozhi, and the scene was in turmoil, and the ministers were talking about this matter in private.

In fact, since Li Yuntian besieged the rebels in Jiaozhi in Yi'an Mansion, these high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the main hall already knew that there would be such a day, but when this day really came, especially when Li Li was captured alive, everyone was still shocked in their hearts.

When Li Yuntian left the capital two years ago with 3,000 Xiaowu troops, no one would have thought that he would be able to achieve such a great victory as today, and it can be said that he had achieved a complete victory against the Jiaozhi rebels, even Zhang Fu and Zhou Zheng, the mainstays of the Ming Dynasty.

Obviously, after the Jiaozhi counterinsurgency, Li Yuntian's reputation in the army has skyrocketed, and his prestige is close to that of Zhang Fu and Zhou Zheng.

And judging from Li Yuntian's military exploits this time, it is a sure thing to become a marquis, even if he becomes a prince of the country, it is logical, after all, Li Yuntian turned the tide on the battlefield of Jiaozhi, and no one can match the nobles of the Manchu Dynasty with such achievements, so it is not an exaggeration to enter the title of the prince of the country.

In order to commend the brave and good warrior Xiaowu army, Emperor Xuande specially issued an edict, ordering the cabinet and the military cabinet to send personnel to hand over the three armies to reward the three armies, and reward the Xiaowu army with 100,000 taels of silver, and the reward silver does not go to the treasury of the household department, but is spent by the royal treasury, which shows his love and attention to the Xiaowu army.

For Emperor Xuande, the victory of Jiaozhi can be said to have given Xuande a good start in the past four years, and he naturally wanted to reward the hard-working Xiaowu army in a good mood, and at the same time, he regarded the Xiaowu army as a descendant army.

With the arrival of the great victory in Jiaozhi, the Zhenwu Bofu was suddenly full of people, and the dignitaries and nobles in the capital came to visit, everyone knew that Li Yuntian would definitely be added to the rank after returning to Beijing and become the pillar of the Ming Dynasty.

This made Zhou Yuting tired of coping, and at the same time, she was secretly happy for Li Yuntian in her heart, not only made great contributions but also guarded the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for maintaining and promoting the relationship with the daughters of various high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the capital, Zhou Yuting would have rushed to Jiaozhi to fight side by side with Li Yuntian, since she became Li Yuntian's wife, she has undergone a lot of changes, and she is no longer the impulsive girl of the past, and gradually adapted to her new role, and did her best to protect the Zhenwu Mansion.