So after Chongzhen thought about it again and again, before the Shangyuan Festival passed, he issued an order to order Xiaotian to prepare the water division, personally lead the water division south to Liangguang, and be controlled by Xiong Wencan, and level the Haikou along the coast of Liangguang.

It just so happens that these two goods are old partners, Xiong Wencan can probably understand this Yu Xiaotian's temper, and should be able to move Yu Xiaotian, and now Yu Xiaotian has soldiers and ships, so take the opportunity to let him go south and fight with the pirates, weakening and weakening his strength.

Chongzhen also sacrificed the magic weapon of using thieves to contain and consume these generals who could not lose their tails, and played a wishful thinking, and at the same time he also asked people to send a message to Zou Weilian, try not to provoke this Yu Xiaotian, try to meet his requirements, and let him send troops to Liangguang as much as possible.

Zou Weilian never thought that the imperial court would handle this matter like this, and the imperial court would turn a blind eye to Xiaotian's occupation of Taiyuan Island, and asked him to meet Yu Xiaotian's request as much as possible, and let Yu Xiaotian send troops to both Guangzhou.

So Zou Weilian hurriedly convened his staff to discuss what was going on, and everyone discussed for a long time, and finally figured out the current thoughts of the imperial court, when he figured out the worries of the imperial court, Zou Weilian couldn't help but sigh, the imperial court is now for these martial artists, it can be said that it is already a rat trap, and they dare not clean them up, so they can only adopt a gentle policy to drive them to do things for the imperial court.

Now the imperial court wants to let Yu Xiaotian lead his troops south to clear the pirates along the coast of Liangguang, so as to weaken his strength and control him, which is really a stinky move, because Yu Xiaotian's strength at sea is so strong, not to mention that the imperial court is not clear, even Zou Weilian can't figure it out completely.

Letting Yu Xiaotian go south is actually similar to the return of the tiger to the mountain, which is tantamount to openly including the coastal areas of Liangguang into Yu Xiaotian's sphere of influence.

But Zou Weilian has no choice, now Yu Xiaotian can't beat him, he can't scold, the whole piece of hob meat, don't say that he can't help it, now even the court is very jealous of him, and he doesn't dare to take him lightly.

Therefore, Zou Weilian had to follow the instructions of the saint, put together a batch of materials for Yu Xiaotian, and raised 80,000 taels of military salaries for him as a salary, so that he could send troops to the south and Guangxi in the near future.

These movements between the government and the opposition are naturally in the grasp of Xiaotian, the Ming court has never had any secrets at all, as long as they are willing to spend money, even Chongzhen can inquire about where he sleeps on any day, let alone these things.

Yu Xiaotian also knew about this matter, and completely tested the current attitude of the imperial court towards him, although Chongzhen already knew that he controlled the island of Taiwan, but this time he didn't even let out a fart, but asked him to send troops south to Liangguang to suppress bandits, and his purpose and idea can be said to be obvious, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but feel sneered at Chongzhen's small actions.

Zou Weilian wanted to put on small shoes for him and play him a copy, but the result did not meet Zou Weilian's expectations at all, and now the imperial court still asked Zou Weilian to pinch his nose to raise military salaries and materials for him, which more fully illustrates the current scruples and weakness of the Ming Dynasty.

Since this is the case, he doesn't have to worry, he will completely tear his face with Da Ming in the near future, as long as he softens a little, then he can still buy a few years of maneuver time.

So Yu Xiaotian did not continue to drag on after knocking Zou Weilian a stroke, and sold Xiong Wencan a face, and at the end of February, he personally assembled his sailor warship in Weitou Bay, and announced that he would go south to the sea with the sacrifice flag.

It is still true to say that gold will shine sooner or later, and it is undeniable that some people are born to do great things.

Zheng Yiguan, who was driven out of the coastal area of Fujian by Yu Xiaotian in his early years, led the remnants to flee to the coastal area of Liangguang, and first lived a life of exile in the coastal area of Guangdong for more than a year, and his subordinates were almost completely scattered.

At the worst time, there were less than 200 people left under Zheng Yiguan's command, and only a few ships remained, completely becoming a small pirate.

But Zheng Yiguan still has some ability in the end, and later he gradually gained a firm foothold in Guangdong, began to gradually recover his strength, and after a few years of operation, he actually cheered up again.

Now Zheng Yiguan has become a force to be reckoned with along the coast of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Guangzhou, controlling Shangxiachuan Island and many small islands off the coast of Guangdong, and his command has once again expanded to have two or three hundred ships of various kinds, and thousands of people under his command.

Now that he had lost the trade route of Japan, and he did not dare to provoke Yu Xiaotian lightly, he made full use of his own Catholic and the advantage of being more familiar with Europeans, and made great efforts to trade with the sea in the Liangguang area, and re-exported the products of the Liangguang area to the Spaniards and the Dutch, including the Portuguese in Macao, and established contacts.

He also gave up his previous hostility to the Spaniards, opened up the route to Manila, and started trading with the Spaniards, in addition to Zheng Yiguan is also a ruthless person, in the coastal area of Guangdong, it can be said that he did all kinds of evil, robbing past merchant ships is really a lot, through Guò's efforts in the past few years, he once again accumulated a fortune, and also rearmed his warships.

Because Yu Xiaotian suffered too much loss on hand, Zheng Yiguan completely realized the disadvantages of the weapons on hand, so in the past few years, he has worked hard in Guangdong, trying to buy all kinds of Western artillery to arm his warships, and also spent a lot of money to buy several almost scrapped Western-style sailing ships from the Dutch and Portuguese.

After he got his hands on these ships, he wasted a lot of effort to repair them, so that they could regain their ability to sail and fight, and equipped with a lot of cannons, with his means, so that his men's combat strength increased rapidly, and by the time of Chongzhen's seventh year, he had become one of the largest pirate forces in Guangdong, and had a firm foothold on the coast of Guangdong.

At this time, in the coastal area of Guangdong, in addition to Zheng Yiguan, there were several other large-scale pirate forces, one of which must be said, that is, Liu Laoxiang, one of the members of the Eighteen Zhi who had allied with Zheng Yiguan in history, and some people directly called him Liu Xiang.

It's a pity that in this era, Liu Xiang did not have an alliance with Zheng Yiguan, nor was he able to establish any eighteen Zhi, Liu Xiang is still Liu Xiang, Zheng Yiguan is still Zheng Yiguan, although the two know each other, but the relationship is not good.

Especially after Zheng Yiguan was driven to Guangdong by Yu Xiaotian, Liu Xiang also took the opportunity to collect a lot of Zheng Yiguan's old departments, and the two sides formed a great enmity, and there have been many dirty disputes between each other over the years.

Moreover, Liu Xiang started earlier than Zheng Yiguan in Guangdong, and at the beginning of Chongzhen, he grew to a scale with thousands of subordinates and hundreds of boats, and controlled the area of the Pearl River Estuary, and regarded the Pearl River Estuary as his territory, which no one could covet.

The Pearl River Estuary is also the mouth of the sea in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, and has always been an important place for maritime ships to enter and exit.

Over the years, many people want to kill Liu Xiang and take away the Pearl River Estuary, but they have never been able to kill Liu Xiang, but Liu Xiang has become stronger and stronger, and by the end of Chongzhen's seventh year, Liu Xiang's subordinates have concentrated twenty or thirty large and small pirates, and the number of pirates can be mobilized, more than 10,000 people.

Although Zheng Yiguan has re-emerged over the years, he has no way to take Liu Xiang, and the two sides have to fight several battles every year, which can be said to have their own victories and defeats, but no one can eat anyone, and they are always in a state of stalemate.

Therefore, although the pirate forces along the coast of Guangdong are numerous, relatively speaking, they are in a delicate balance, of course, there are also Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao who belong to the Xiaotian forces, although the strength of their two forces is not very strong, but there is Yu Xiaotian's support behind them, and the equipment is relatively sophisticated, and ordinary people really have no way to take them.

In particular, Yan Siqi's department now has nearly 200 ships of various kinds, and there are at least dozens of large fortune ships and Guangzhou ships that can be used as war ships, and even Liu Laoxiang is very jealous of Yan Siqi, and generally does not dare to provoke Yan Siqi lightly.

Of course, Liu Xiang is also very aware of the situation in Fujian, and over the years, he has always been a little unconvinced by Yu Xiaotian at first, thinking that the huge coastal area of Fujian, why should Yu Xiaotian occupy it? If you have money, everyone will make it, and you can't let Yu Xiaotian take advantage of it.

Therefore, five years before Chongzhen, Liu Xiang had colluded with many pirate forces in Guangdong, and tried to infiltrate the coastal areas of Fujian many times to grab territory.

But Yu Xiaotian has long regarded the coastal areas of Fujian as his forbidden territory, and he will not allow others to get involved, so over the years, it can be said that he must come out when he hears the police, Liu Laoxiang and those pirates in Guangdong have repeatedly invaded the coastal areas of Fujian, and sometimes even as soon as they appeared, they were blocked by Yu Xiaotian's sailors, and they were beaten in the face, and they fled back to Guangdong with a disgraced face.

Sometimes Yu Xiaotian, in order to raise thieves for self-respect, found out that after they attacked, he did not intercept them, but opened an opening for them to go ashore and plunder, and after they made things bigger, Yu Xiaotian sent people to intercept them, often Liu Laoxiang They couldn't get much cheap, and they gave Yu Xiaotian to work in vain.

So after coming and going, Liu Xiang and they also knew how powerful Yu Xiaotian was, this Fujian was really not a place they could stay, so since Chongzhen attacked Fujian for the last time in five years, they never dared to go to Fujian to make trouble.

Liu Xiang was deeply jealous of Xiaotian, and used to hate Xiaotian very much, and intercepted and killed the merchant ships of the sea wolves in the sea around Guangdong many times, but after they did it several times, they found that even the merchant ships of these sea wolves were difficult for them to deal with, and they often had to pay a heavy price to take the ship down, and it was really not cost-effective to do this business.

This is not counting, as long as they rob the ship of the sea wolf, it will not be long before retribution is coming, there are always a number of unidentified clippers along the coast of Guangdong, operating along the coast of Guangdong, very few people know their identity, but the shape of these clippers is known, this kind of clipper is called the flying word clipper, which is the unique ship type of the Seawolf Group, and only the Seawolf Group has built.

These clippers usually roam the coast of Guangdong, and they also buy and sell ships, but as soon as they learn that someone has robbed a merchant ship of a sea wolf, they will quickly gather and begin to launch a murderous revenge against the troublemakers.

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