After Xiong Wencan read the letter, he immediately almost burst into tears, and said to the servants again and again that Yu Xiaotian still remembered the old and did not see the wrong person at the beginning.

Although Xiong Wencan was dismissed this time because of Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian came to give him charcoal in the snow at this time, which immediately made Xiong Wencan feel warm in his heart, and even went out in person to meet the leader of the family who led the team over and escorted him back to his hometown.

Especially the two hundred families sent by Yu Xiaotian, each of them is very strong, and they are elite soldiers at a glance, this time Xiong Wencan is relieved, at least there will be no trouble on the way back to his hometown this time.

He has been an official for so many years, and he has really accumulated a lot of goods, and now he has been dismissed and sent back to his hometown, which will inevitably cause some people to make things difficult along the way, and may even attract some thieves to worry about, although he also has dozens of family members, but I am afraid that his safety cannot be guaranteed.

On the way from Guangdong to my hometown in Sichuan, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and I have to constantly change boats and cars along the way, and God knows what will happen.

There are many officials who are on the way back to their hometowns or dismissed officials on the way home, they were ambushed by gangsters, and they couldn't even return home, so they were killed on the way.

With these 200 elite family members, he can sit back and relax along the way, and Yu Xiaotian made it clear that these family members do not need to be raised by him, and Yu Xiaotian will be responsible for bearing their expenses, which is equivalent to giving Xiong Wencan another big gift, Xiong Wencan is still grateful to Xiaotian at this time.

And the reason why Yu Xiaotian sent Xiong Wencan these two hundred families, in addition to expressing it, is undoubtedly to show the world that he Yu Xiaotian is not the kind of person who knows how to repay his kindness, Xiong Wencan treats him well, and now because he is implicated, he is dismissed and returns to his hometown, he can't forget this friendship, and he is not powerful, and he does not avoid Xiong Wencan like a snake and scorpion because he was degraded.

In addition, he also had a purpose in doing this, to escort Xiong Wencan back to his hometown, and to send two hundred elite subordinates to Sichuan first, so that he could openly save his face in Sichuan as Xiong Wencan's family, which could be regarded as a foreshadowing for the future attack on Sichuan.

Now that Xiong Wencan has been demoted, the situation will undergo great changes in the future, since Xiong Wencan cannot serve as the governor of the five provinces, then with Wang Jiazhen's ability, it is difficult to appease Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others, and in the future, the development of the current situation will completely deviate from the original trajectory.

Now Yu Xiaotian can no longer see clearly, in the future, the development of the Wandering Army will go to what extent, but one thing is certain, with the current ability of the Ming Dynasty, it is absolutely impossible to completely exterminate these Wandering Army, even if they defeat Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, there will be more murderers in the future, and the strategy currently adopted by the Ming Dynasty is invincible for the Wandering Army.

And Chongzhen's idea now is obviously to want to exterminate the exile army first, and then think about how to deal with him Yu Xiaotian, poor Chongzhen is afraid that this idea will be completely frustrated, he doesn't know what he is wrong with, so it is impossible for the exile army to be completely wiped out.

Even if Chongzhen almost wiped out the exile army, there was still a group of Jiannu in the north who were still staring at the Daming Pass, and it was impossible for Chongzhen to free up his hands to deal with him Yu Xiaotian.

Now what he is waiting for in Xiaotian is an opportunity to destroy the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, although he also knows very well that the change of any dynasty is indispensable for a large-scale bloody storm, and it is indispensable to overthrow the entire society, but he still wants that when he rebels, he can reduce the suffering of the Chinese people and reduce the destruction of social resources, and this opportunity, he thinks is not far from him.

Yu Xiaotian couldn't get sick under this pretense, and it dragged on for more than half a year, and the imperial court sent people to inquire about his condition several times, and sent people to visit Yu Xiaotian, but the result was that Yu Xiaotian was very sick, and even the officials who were sent to visit Yu Xiaotian replied to the court that Yu Xiaotian was infected with heavy soldiers.

After Chongzhen heard this, he still didn't dare to rest assured, so he sent three imperial doctors to visit Yu Xiaotian in Fujian to find out whether Yu Xiaotian was really sick on his behalf.

However, the three imperial doctors have not yet entered Fujian, just walked to the territory of Chuzhou, and on the way to the car was attacked by bandits, three imperial doctors were killed on the spot, and the remaining two imperial doctors also disappeared inexplicably.

As a result, the matter of sending the imperial doctor to investigate Yu Xiaotian's condition could only end there, and Chongzhen had to believe the news sent back by Fujian, that is, Yu Xiaotian was really sick, and the illness was not light.

For this news, Chongzhen and the ministers still breathed a long sigh of relief, Yu Xiaotian is seriously ill, this is good news for the imperial court, as long as Yu Xiaotian is seriously ill, then he has no threat to Daming, and even Yu Chongzhen secretly cursed, Yu Xiaotian had better not be sick this time and hang up completely! That would mean that God had cut off a huge problem for him.

Since Yu Xiaotian is in poor health, Chongzhen naturally can't transfer him to the north to quell the chaos, so throughout Chongzhen's ten years, Fujian seems to be quite calm, Yu Xiaotian does not go to the government to trouble, and the government does not take the initiative to provoke Yu Xiaotian.

However, the Fujian officials, during the ten years of Chongzhen, cut off the supply of food and salary to Xiaotian's department, and tried to curb Xiaotian's subordinates in terms of grain and money.

In the first few months, Yu Xiaotian was unable to see things because of "serious illness", and this matter never broke out, but after the end of the year, Yu Xiaotian's subordinates finally broke out, Zhangquan, Xinghuafu, Jianning, Yanping, Tingzhou and other places, Yu Xiaotian's subordinates, almost at the same time, under the leadership of the general, rushed into the city, surrounded the local prefect yamen and yamen in various places, arrested the magistrates, and beat them in public to ask for food.

Yu Xiaotian's generals in various places claimed that if the government did not pay them and allocate grain, they would kill the officials and rebel, and send troops to Fuzhou City, and the Fujian officials were forced to allocate part of the food and salary to the Yu family's army, which slightly appeased the Yu family's generals and did not let the Yu family's army continue to make the situation bigger.

In this matter, the Fujian officials also realized that it was basically impossible to use the rations and salaries to control the Yu family army living under the command of Yu Xiaotian, and this could only force Yu Xiaotian's subordinates to cause chaos earlier.

During this period, the Fujian government also tried many times to divide the generals of the family and military departments, and adopted some methods to increase the number of officials and enter the knighthood, so as to induce some of the generals under Yu Xiaotian to break away from Yu Xiaotian and be used by the imperial court, but such actions had little effect, and it could even be said that there was no effect at all.

Some of these generals of the Yu family army who were lobbied flatly refused in person, while some of them were vain and full of haha, but they resolutely refused to listen to the government's greetings.

Nowadays, in Fujian, because of the tense relationship between the Ministry of Xiaotian and the government, there will be some troubles in various places from time to time, of course, there are also some bandits, taking the opportunity to make trouble, and the government cannot transfer the generals under the jurisdiction of Xiaotian at all, and can only be soft on Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian is different from other warlords, Yu Xiaotian has his own financial supply, and he does not rely on the food and salary allocated by the government and the court at all, so he can completely free himself from the system, so that the Ming government and the court have no way to take him at all, which is why the government and the court have always been jealous of Xiaotian and dare not touch him.

Although Yu Xiaotian was "seriously ill" during the period, the work of the sea wolf did not stagnate, and all aspects of affairs were taken care of by special personnel, and they were gradually advancing according to the plan.

New infantry battalions and artillery battalions were formed in various localities, and training was in full swing in various localities, and all kinds of weapons began to be distributed and equipped into the newly formed units.

Now their navy controls almost all of China's coastal areas, and each fleet is responsible for a considerable sea area, but Yu Xiaotian did not add many ships to the navy, nor did he give them a large number of military expansions, but each fleet expanded a naval battalion, to put it bluntly, it was the Marine Corps of later generations.

In addition to garrisoning some coastal fortifications, these naval battalions can independently carry out some landing operations without the participation of the army, in addition to garrisoning some coastal fortifications when needed.

However, at the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian summoned the commanders of the major fleets and talked with them secretly for a long time, and the generals of these navies returned to their jurisdictions with satisfaction, and no longer mentioned the plan to expand the army.

As for what Yu Xiaotian and the admirals talked about, few others knew about it, and after the generals of the navy went back, they didn't mention it, so after a while, no one cared about it.

In short, in terms of the army, during the period from the tenth year to the first half of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, 16 battalions were expanded, two artillery battalions, 11 infantry battalions, two baggage battalions, and one cavalry battalion, and the strength of the army was expanded by 20,000 people.

The army said that they were the backbone of the Yu family's army, but the navy mocked them that if it weren't for their navy, the army would be a ball! From the south to the north, the army wants to maneuver along the coast and leave the navy to transport them, so they rely on two legs!

If there is no navy to supply the army, then the army will probably not even be able to eat in the future, and as a result, such arguments often lead to a fight between the two sides in the end, and one by one the noses and faces are swollen.

(The desert laughing spring breeze brothers got off to a good start today, giving a heavy reward, and the ranking of the monthly ticket list is more gratifying, brothers continue to strengthen fire support!) Kneel and thank you! ）