Chapter 508: Being from a humble background is not a shame

Chapter 508: Being from a humble background is not a shame

While Chen Lin was attacking the major private markets in Sanduao Bay, the coastal defense inspections were speeding across the sea, passing imperial edicts one after another to the shipping departments of the five major hinterland cities. In the Overseas Governor's Office, this time the crackdown on smuggling, tobacco sales, and private markets was carried out in all directions in the Ming Dynasty. This was to maintain the safety and smoothness of sea routes.

This is the most intuitive manifestation of imperial power. It is a visible hand and a visible knife, which improved the Ming Dynasty's customs duties and business environment.

Each five-masted ocean crossing ship took four to five three-guard plywood ships, and then took ten to fifteen battleships to attack the five private markets in Sanduao Bay, and the remaining The next two private markets were the missing one among the three. When all the pirates fled to the private markets where there was no war, they completely fell into Chen Lin's trap.

The navy laid a huge pocket in the two adjacent private markets, which Chen Lin called a sheepfold.

Sheepfold was personally led by General Wu Weizhong, with a total of three infantry battalions of 10,000 people. They landed at Fenghuomen Dazhai and set up a siege network by land. The Ming Dynasty Navy could also carry out ground advancement. , after all, only ground advancement can complete the expedition, so when the navy goes ashore, it is the foot camp. This is reflected to the extreme in daily training.

Due to the influence of the combat environment, the navy at this time can actually be called an army on board the ship. The battle for sea control is naturally important. However, because the Ming Navy has large ships, fast ships, and many guns, the enemy The sea surface strength is too lagging behind, so daily training still includes a large number of land combat projects.

The sheepfold was chosen at the mouth of Jiaoxi, which is a river due north of the entire Sanduao Bay. There is a road there that leads to the outside of the mountain. It is the only way to escape. Wu Weizhong set up three blocking ambush on that small road, which depleted the morale of the pirates layer by layer and finally eliminated them.

Chen Lin's flagship slowly approached Lijia Village, Zhangwan, like a huge monster quietly stopping on the sea, slowly passing through the sea that was only one mile wide, behind it were fifteen lines of three The splint warships slowly spread out their lines, and twenty battle-seat ships were waiting for the bombardment, preparing to attack the coast and land on the beach.

Lijia Village is the venue for this trade conference, and it is also the main battlefield to defeat the Japanese pirates tonight.

No one noticed the arrival of the fleet. This was already deep in Sanduao. Most of the sentries in the seven private markets were set up at the Qili estuary. They had been cleared and eliminated one by one by the coastal defense inspections.

Chen Lin held up a telescope and looked at the bright lights of Lijiacun.

The trade fair is held in the name of the Buddhist Bon Festival. On this day, various temples hold activities such as chanting sutras, water and land monasteries, setting off flames, and lighting lanterns. However, it is obviously not a Buddhist meeting. , but a carnival of pirates.

Lijiacun is a drug den. From the intelligence point of view, it is far less shocking than seeing it with your own eyes. In front of each bonfire, countless people lie on the couch, leaning forward and puffing out smoke.

Wherever the telescope can see, there are countless women, half-clothed and walking among the crowd. There are red-haired women, Japanese women, black women, and Han women. Their eyes are wandering. , lying on the ground asking for the pipe like a dog, no matter what they do, it seems that having the pipe is enough.

There were constant cheers on the beach. It seemed that there was an auction in the center of the village. There was an incredible price, or there were shocking goodies, such as ambergris, pearls, etc. Gems and beauties are possible.

“There was a debate in the court about whether human nature is good or evil at first. Seeing this scene, maybe human nature is evil. If you don’t learn when you are young, your nature will change. It has always been said that no If you study hard, human nature will change. Confucianism is really hard to convince me. Is this the original nature of human beings? How different is it from thousands of animals in the world? "Chen Lin put down the telescope. , said to Chen Tiande with a complicated expression.

Man, is he really the spirit of all things?

"Light the torch and shoot the arrows." Chen Lin exhaled and began to give orders.

The match scratched the sandpaper and ignited with a puff of puff. A slight smell of sulfur spread. Each torch was ignited. A loud arrow with a sharp whistle pierced the sky and suddenly burst into the air. It exploded, and fireworks like blooming pear blossoms were sprinkled on the sky.

The torches on the horse-drawn boats lit up, and soon they connected together to form a long dragon of torches, which was reflected on the sea.

The sound of the arrow rising into the air and exploding did not seem to attract the attention of anyone in Lijia Village, because the people on the beach were immersed in the smoke, and the trade fair in the field was at its most intense.

Drums and horns began to sound, and flags began to wave between the moonlight and firelight. The artillery that had already finished loading ammunition was aimed at Lijia Village. After the big red flag was waved down with force, , the artilleryman ignited the gunpowder, which squeaked and burned rapidly with white smoke, igniting the gunpowder in the gun barrel. A violent explosion exploded in the gun chamber, and was bound by the gun chamber. The blooming bullet with a wooden delay fuse , roared out from the barrel in the explosion.

The blooming bombs rotated across the sea and flew towards Lijia Village. The delayed fuse burned out and the blooming bombs exploded. The fragments of the blooming bombs and the caltrops in the gunpowder were scattered with a whistling sound. came out, and in an instant the entire Lijia Village was under the cover of artillery fire.

Chen Lin did not command the fleet to turn around, but quietly waited for the filling. There was no need to change direction. The time required for the ship to start and turn around had already been filled. Only in the battle of annihilation at sea would it be possible. The tactics used did not apply here, and Ming's battleship did not move, waiting for the second round of shooting.

Lijia Village is on fire. The first artillery coverage has turned Lijia Village into a sea of ​​fire, and the artillerymen avoided the rear of the village, where slaves were traded. In the second round, A third round of artillery coverage ensued.

If there is insufficient gunpowder, Chen Lin will choose to land the battleship from elsewhere, and then march on land. Now, he will land after saturation bombing, because the enemy can no longer form effective resistance and completely Blinded.

Under the action of the oars, the battleship sailed towards the beach very smoothly, without even arrows. One thousand and five hundred people began to gather on the beach, and they attacked halfway across the river before forming a battle. The formation is the best time for the defenders to counterattack during the landing battle, but the pirates who were unable to organize an effective counterattack did not even realize what was going on. The navy had already completed the formation.

Chen Lin kept observing the battlefield with a telescope, and there were five battleships as reserves. When the front was in danger, the reserve would be replenished immediately to prevent the front from collapsing. In the landing battle, only You can win but not lose, because there is no retreat behind you.

But Chen Lin's reserve team was completely prepared in vain. The soldiers in the reserve team could only watch eagerly as Pao Ze performed his meritorious service, while he stomped anxiously on the ship!

In this landing battle, the Ming Dynasty relied on the advantage of artillery shells and firecrackers to fight a battle of annihilation. The enemy's morale had completely collapsed. In other words, the opium-smoking pirates had no morale at all.

“This war of wealth can be fought with any dog!” Chen Lin wanted to show off his commanding skills, but there was no such opportunity. One thousand five hundred well-trained navy soldiers could easily defeat him! Quickly annihilate the pirates gathered in Lijia Village.

The reserve team finally landed, but they could only do some cleaning work on the battlefield.

Conductor? If a dog can bark like this twice, this is an absolute advantage. Chen Lin can't wait to become the first to be in the battle and charge forward!

The pirates also have something to say: They are just pirates, and the pirates are just a mob! The majestic Ming Dynasty Navy, the powerful Ming Dynasty army raised with more than two million silver a year, was really put on the battlefield. Even the invincible fleet was not seen but the opponent's Ming Dynasty Navy! One regiment has more firearms than all the pirates combined! Actually came for a sneak attack! A sneak attack on their rabble! Is there any justice? Is there any royal method?

The battle was over before dawn, and even the battlefield was cleaned.

While the battlefield was being cleaned, something happened that made the soldiers relatively silent. A Han woman who survived the artillery fire attacked the navy soldier, only because the navy soldier kicked her down. Taking out her pipe, the young navy soldier pushed her away, and finally he could only subdue her and tie her to a pillar with scattered clothes.

This Han woman is dead.

It was not because there was something wrong with the young soldier's binding, but because the woman was addicted and kept hitting the pillars, bleeding, and finally died of excessive bleeding.

"It's not your fault." After Chen Lin learned about this situation, he comforted the young soldier. He was only nineteen years old and had just been selected to the Navy for only one year. This was his first time following The navy attacked, and the death of the Han woman made the young soldier feel a little sad. He promised to report it to the emperor and rescue the head of Guizhou. He was saved, but not completely.

"I'm a country person, and I don't know any nonsense. Let me show you why we want to arrest smuggling." Chen Lin clapped her hands, and a group of tied men and women were thrown on the beach. There were two of them. More than ten people, all Han Chinese.

After being thrown on the beach, these more than twenty people were tied tightly, but they were still twisting, like worms.

Everyone in the navy looked at each other in confusion. It was fear of the unknown. What is this thing that makes people look like this? If he wants to become like this, he might as well die early and be reborn early. This appearance is even more unacceptable than death.

Chen Lin looked at the insects on the ground with a complicated expression, then turned around and said to everyone: "In order to control them and make them willingly serve the pirates, the pirates gave them opium. It takes three to five years in the long term and one or two years in the short term to get like this. Therefore, the pirates must be suppressed. They must be suppressed!”

“Don’t let the pirates plunder our coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty! Fishing village, don’t let the smoke and dust poison the people of Ming Dynasty.”

“We obeyed the emperor’s order and wiped out the pirates in Sanduao. You avenged these suffering people. The pirates were wiped out by us, and you saved the village. The common people of the Ming Dynasty after the slave trade, this is to report to the emperor and save the head of Guizhou!”

Chen Lin is actually not good at explaining these. Many veterans understand this, but the recruits don’t know much about these and are confused about why they fight! , this is a living example, this is the meaning of the navy's existence, to guard the safety of the Ming Dynasty's maritime borders, to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty from being plundered by pirates, and to ensure that the smoke and dust will not poison the people of the Ming Dynasty by sea.

'Chongzi' will be escorted to Beijing and sent to Jiecu Hospital. The chief medical officer of Jiecu Hospital will try to help them detoxify. It is not detoxification. Long-term opioid use is not psychological dependence, but a physiological change. .

In the battle of Lijiacun alone, 235 two-masted ships were captured, 150 boxes of tobacco, more than 5,000 bags of tobacco, 500 taels of gold, 127,000 taels of silver, With a number of pins on the sea map, more than 300 Ming people were rescued, 300 Japanese pirates were captured, and more than 1,300 people fled. These captives would pick up bells and send them to plantations or northwest mines, killing 1,700 pirates. More than a hundred people.

This little gain is actually nothing. The most important thing is that we have gained a large bay that is suitable as a base for a military port! Chen Lin sincerely thanked the pirates for their exploration.

The battles in the other four private markets were similar. They relied on artillery superiority to provide coverage, and then stormed the beach to land. Only one private market organized sea pirates to resist insignificantly, and was completely crushed by the navy.

Ling Yunyi led the guest soldiers to confront the Ming Dynasty’s Jingying Camp before. The reason why they were defeated was entirely because the Ming Dynasty’s Jingying Camp did not use artillery and firecrackers. Otherwise, the battle would be completely one-sided. The navy’s firepower configuration was even greater than that of the Jingying Camp. Powerful, because in every landing operation of the Navy, it can only win but not lose. Failure means the entire army is annihilated. Therefore, the Navy's equipment is more sophisticated and more expensive.

Wu Weizhong waited all night, feeling a little sleepy when he waited until the pirates broke up and fled. There were only more than 300 people. Even the first line of defense was not shaken. The pirates were all gone. The army was wiped out, and a pocket formation of 10,000 people surrounded 300 people...

The battle plan of catching turtles in an urn was completed beyond expectations.

Chen Lin wrote the good news and handed it over to the coastal defense inspection. The coastal defense inspection threw the 'worms' one by one onto the hydrofoil sailboat and sped towards the capital. Zhu Yijun quickly received the good news. , the action of calming the waves and clearing the sea is still continuing. "This Li Ya Shi has never learned anything else, but he learns the art of flattery very quickly." Zhu Yijun looked at a newspaper in front of him with a look of disgust. The Li Ya Shi who was holding his neck and kneeling down with the Ministry of Rites was gone. , only the flattering Legas is left.

Legazhi said in a miscellaneous newspaper: [The calm sea is the thunderous wrath of the Ming Emperor. This is the Ming Dynasty. His supreme majesty can crush him with just a slight turn of his body. The pirates who died thousands of miles away; this is the Ming Dynasty, the wise and powerful Majesty, a single imperial edict can protect the people of the world; this is the Ming Dynasty, when the sleeping lion king wakes up, everyone must surrender. ]

Zhu Yijun took out Chen Lin's good news again and looked at it happily.

This was the third time today that he had come up with a successful report. In order to prove that he was indeed fighting against the Japanese pirates, twenty Japanese pirate prisoners were sent to the capital, and the court ministers were free to interrogate them.

"Feng Banban, when Yu Shuai valued Chen Lin, he valued his humble background, or to be more clear, he valued the fact that he had no one in the court." Zhu Yijun leaned on the back of his chair and held his hand. Good news, talking about old things.

There are many people who can fight, why Chen Lin?

Feng Bao thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, it is not a shame to be born in a humble family."

Chen Lin has been practicing martial arts since she was a child and likes to make friends with Ren Xia. To put it nicely, it is Ren Xia. A street libertine with a bad reputation, fond of corruption, not advocating morality, grumpy and irritable, and fond of charging ahead. In the forty-one year of Jiajing, civil unrest broke out in Chaozhou and Yingde. Chen Lin joined the army to quell the rebellion. Became a commander.

In the fight against the Japanese bandits, he continued to rise through the ranks, commanding the Qianshi, Guangzhou garrison, commanding the Qianshi, Shenjiang, and Zhaoqing guerrilla general. He was one of the generals under Yin Zhengmao. Yu Dayou forcibly followed Yin Zhengmao He snatched Chen Lin from his hands and became the staff general of the Songjiang Town Navy. He was then promoted to deputy commander-in-chief. After Yu Dayou returned to Beijing in his old age, he became the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty Navy.

Yu Dayou valued Chen Lin's humble background, which meant that Chen Lin had no one in the court and could only rely on His Majesty, and could only become a die-hard imperialist.

Chen Lin is very clear about this. Yu Dayou also told Chen Lin very clearly that the capital of the Ming Dynasty is in the north and the navy is in the south. If the general soldier is the disciple of any minister in the court, your majesty will definitely treat the navy There will be hesitation.

The experiences of Chen Lin and Yu Dayou are very similar.

In the original history, Chen Lin's life was extremely bumpy, and he suffered the loss of having no one in the court.

He is good at fighting because there is no one in the court who has experienced many ups and downs.

In the fourth year of Wanli, Chen Lin followed Ling Yunyi to put down the Luopangshan rebellion. Chen Lin was successful in putting down the rebellion and became the deputy general of the army. As a result, the governor of Guangdong, Luo Yinghe, impeached Chen Lin for being greedy for money. Chen Lin was dismissed, and the Langshan rebellion started again. , the court had no choice but to revive Chen Lin again. After quelling the rebellion, he was dismissed again.

In the 21st year of Wanli, Chen Lin entered the DPRK to fight against the Japanese for the first time. He led the troops from Jizhen, Liaoyang, Baoding, and Shandong towns and entered the DPRK to resist the Japanese invasion. He won a great victory. Because the imperial court negotiated a peace with the Japanese, Chen Lin After being demoted to Chaozhou, he was dismissed again not long after. This time the reason was that Chen Lin bribed Shi Xing, the Minister of War, to get the job of leading troops to Korea to fight against Japanese pirates.

This is indeed a fact. There was no one in the court, and Chen Lin didn't even have a chance to fight. After winning the battle, he was dismissed from office. Later, Shi Xing, the Minister of War, was also imprisoned because of the peace negotiation, and Lu died. Heavenly prison.

In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, the Japanese pirates attacked North Korea for the second time. Chen Lin led 5,000 Guangzhou guest soldiers and galloped to North Korea at starry night. At that time, Li Rusong was in Liaodong. He underestimated the enemy and rushed in and was surrounded and killed. The Ming Dynasty had no more As a general, Chen Lin entered the court and became the chief military officer in the war against the Japanese. He began to preside over major anti-Japanese affairs.

On the merits of resisting Japanese aggression, Chen Lin was the first to achieve success.

In the twenty-eighth year of Wanli, Chen Lin led the general seal and quelled the battle of Yang Yinglong in Bozhou.

Two of the three major campaigns of Wanli were fought by Chen Lin. Chen Lin fought hundreds of battles throughout his life, and was never defeated. However, he did not obtain any titles throughout his life. , Chen Lin, who had been in charge of Emperor Wanli for many years, had been guarding Huguang, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Guangdong in his later years. These places were smog-infested places in the Ming Dynasty, and they were places where people were exiled.

The Ming Dynasty has never lacked heroes who can win battles, nor has it lacked responsible officials. The Han Dynasty has always been loyal and loyal.

Now Chen Lin has someone in the court! That is the Ming Emperor!

Zhu Yijun looked at Chen Lin's good news and said with slight disgust: "If you can't write poetry, don't write it, it's arty."

Chen Lin wrote a poem, which is similar to Qi Jiguang's current poetry style They are exactly the same, they are all limericks, written as follows: "Millions of barbarians are coming to the city, why don't they go and recite a poem?" ]

There is no rhythm, just mocking the humble Confucians in the court, reciting poems and composing poems to resist the enemy, standing and talking all day long without backache, giving pointers on military affairs that they don't understand, and even intervening in battles.

Chen Lin actually envied Li Rusong for having a good father. At a young age, he had already become the deputy commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp. At the same age, Chen Lin was still working as a knight on the street, and never missed a meal. Ren Xia.

"Your Majesty, the entry into the trading house has ended." Feng Bao reported that a large amount of money was invested in the trading house. The entry was relatively slow, and the first entry was only one million. Silver did not rise. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty did not intend to wave the sickle easily. The purpose of entering the market was mainly to deter those bookmakers from misbehaving, not to harvest, but to maintain a certain rationality through periodic adjustments.

The gap between the evil of human nature, Zhu Yijun hopes to use his absolute influence to enable the trading house to always maintain a trace of rationality instead of being a piece of chicken feathers.

"What did Yan Guan say?" Zhu Yijun picked up the memorandum on the table. He didn't even discuss the memorandum about the trading house. The usual big hat of amassing profits has long been withheld.

Feng Bao bowed his head with a very complicated expression and said: "The officials are busy distributing and carrying water, and they are fighting fiercely."

"Ah, this..." Zhu Yijun was stunned and then said: " Then let them continue carrying water."

The censor Yanguan is carrying water. This is the latest bustle in the Ming Dynasty. When carrying water every day, there are people watching, facing the censor. Pointing fingers, God's way of reincarnation, Yan Guan, who usually pointed fingers at others, was finally pointed at.

Zhu Yijun did not have time to watch the excitement in person, but the resentment of the censors can also be seen from the memorials. The emperor, who was busy with everything, reviewed the memorials.

The bad things that shocked the allies, such as Cao Ge Sochi and Seoul Sochi, finally have a result. Governor Yingtian Li Le reported that the census of the 14th Prefecture of Nanya has been completed. , it is expected to complete the abolition of slavery in early August. Originally, Li Le planned to carry out the task in mid-July, but due to the deployment of the Navy, Li Le could only proceed slowly.

Nanya organized seven engineer battalions with a total of 84,000 people, dredged waterways, and built 12 official factories, mainly engaged in iron smelting, weaving, cotton spinning, etc., especially cotton spinning, there were four In the construction of the engineering regiment camp, a number of small lime factories and ironworks factories were established, and a small section of the Chidao was built, from Ma'anshan to Nanjing.

Before breaking even, an investment of approximately 670,000 silver was required, and for this investment, Li Le chose to give in and ask Haoyou to pledge.

Shi Yaoyou admitted defeat and calmly pledged the money. He only asked these slaves who had lost their indentures to stop rioting in disorder.

After all, this massive campaign to attack Sochi really frightened the rich. Even the absolutely liberal Poetry Society and Bookshop, without the support of powerful right-wingers, returned to power. Returning to the wing of the limited liberal theory, Lin Fucheng once again became a leading figure in the liberal camp.

There is no doubt about the discussion of the boundaries of freedom. We must abide by public order and good customs, and we must abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Ling Yunyi reported that there was no obvious progress in the census of Dingkou in Qingzhang, Henan. Instead, Ling Yunyi began to drastically eliminate redundant staff. The redundant staff in Henan was bloated, which was much more serious than Ling Yunyi imagined. The work was so tiring that they died, and those who didn't work wouldn't even go to work. Ling Yunyi didn't tolerate them either. He would either go to Qingzhang and do a census of the dingkou, or he would be dismissed from office.

There was not much opposition on the ground in Henan. After all, Ling Butang did not kill anyone. It was already blessed by the ancestors. The drastic cleanup of redundant and bloated personnel was progressed very quickly.

Zhu Yijun was in a good mood. After reviewing the memorial, he met the two concubines who had just entered the palace. Guo Yunyao was heroic and handsome, and Xiyue was as gentle as the water king. The two concubines were still studying in the palace at the old nanny's place. Etiquette, I won't be sleeping in a short time, and I am not very old, only sixteen years old. I was very nervous when I met the saint for the first time, and I banged my head.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Yijun came to the Wenhua Hall again and began the daily court discussions.

"Chen Lin led the navy to attack and destroy seven private markets in Sanduao Bay. This is the good news that came yesterday. Chen Lin bluntly said in the memorial that there were high officials covering up for him, and the court officials Everyone is here, who is that, stand up now, I can spare his life, the king and his ministers are fighting, I am not so unkind," Zhu Yijun looked at the courtiers and said calmly.

The court officials are all old faces, and some of them are still ministers of the country. Zhu Yijun doesn't want to cause such an ugly scene.

"I'm very simple. Everyone knows it very well. Don't think that you can't find it out. It's still too late to explain it now." Seeing that no one spoke, Zhu Yijun repeated his principles of doing things. He talked about it for the first time. At that time, the conditions given were the most generous, and they kept their promises and fulfilled their promises.

When it is really found out, they will inevitably be beheaded and taken to the market entrance. The body will be separated and the body will not be intact. It will be embarrassing. The emperor will be disgraced, and the courtiers will be disgraced as well.

"Your Majesty, although the court ministers have their own opinions, they are all loyal to the emperor and the country. I believe that there are no sycophants in the Wenhua Palace." Hai Rui stood up and spoke on behalf of the General Constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He did not I think that the Ming Dynasty will protect the pirates, mainly because they will not commit the crime. If the crime of treason with the Japanese is proven, the scolding they will receive is about the same as that of Qin Hui.

When Hai Rui spoke, the courtiers all breathed a sigh of relief. Hai Rui had repeatedly caught corruption for many years, and he was very accurate in judging people. The courtiers didn’t even have any scandals about their foreign affairs. They were colluding with the Japanese just for money. That was not joint and several. Is the entire family tree scolded?

Are courtiers really that clean? Not entirely true, but they were definitely not that dirty. You must know that Yan Song and Yan Shifan were already the worst traitors in the Ming Dynasty. Yan Song and Yan Shifan allowed Hu Zongxian to pacify the Japanese, and in the end they did not cause trouble to raise the bandits.

"Your Majesty, even the great uncle has his bones." Hai Rui thought for a while and gave Wan Shihe as an example. Wan Shihe was the softest among the court officials, but Wan Shihe Shihe bluntly gave advice not once or twice.

"Hai Rui, I didn't offend you!" Wan Shihe became angry when he heard this and shouted out by name, "What does Hai Rui mean?" Wan Shihe didn't offend Hai Rui!

The feelings of Wan Shihe are the floor tiles of the morality of the court officials of the Ming Dynasty, right?

(End of this chapter)