Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 539 Arriving in Dengzhou
The treasure ship was floating on the sea, and Zhao Wen stayed in the cabin and rarely went out, always drawing the blueprint of the Zhiyuan ship.

The Zhiyuan Ship is a traditional steam-powered ironclad ship. Now, it is an invincible existence. Even if it confronts the enemy head-on, no ship can stop it.

To put it bluntly, even if there is only one ironclad ship, even if it encounters hundreds of warships in the West, it will not be afraid.

Under absolute advantage, quantity becomes a dispensable thing.

This level of crushing is equivalent to comparing a soldier with a spear and a bow with a soldier with a 56 punch, and there is no comparison.

When the treasure ship drifted on the sea for nearly a month, Zhao Wen finally arrived in Dengzhou.

At this time, Zhao Wen's drawings were almost finished.

Because it is an ironclad ship, the number of drawings is very large.

Moreover, Zhao Wen also zoomed in on some parts. If not, the craftsmen who built the ironclad ship might not be able to understand it.

Sitting in the cabin, Zhao Wen looked at the drawings on the table and let out a sigh of relief, "The drawing is finally finished, it took me so long!"

There are many drawings of the Zhiyuan ship, which were bound into a booklet by Zhao Wen.

In order to draw the drawings of the Zhiyuan Ship, Zhao Wen has not had a good rest for a long time.

"The drawing is finally finished!" Zhao Wen took out a wooden box and put the drawings in it.

"My lord, we have arrived in Dengzhou!" Just then, Li Xiaosan walked in.

Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaosan, "It's here? I didn't expect it to be so soon!"

Zhao Wen's mind was all on the blueprints along the way, so he didn't pay attention to the passage of time at all.

Zhao Wen picked up the box containing the drawings of the Zhiyuan Ship, put it in his arms, and walked outside.

At this time, the treasure ship had already docked at the port.

Zhao Wen stepped off the treasure ship and came to the port under Li Xiaosan's personal guard.

Although it is winter, the number of civilians at the port has not decreased.

The folks at the port are extremely busy, constantly moving goods on the port.

Apart from Zhao Wen's fleet, there are some other merchant ships docked at the port.

These merchant ships looked at the approaching treasure ship and hurriedly made way for the treasure ship.

These merchant ships are basically owned by the Maritime Association, so when they saw the mighty treasure ship fleet, they got out of the way very wisely.

Today's Dengzhou has become a huge port, and many businessmen come here to do business.

The lush port also feeds a lot of people, and these people who are busy on the port are the young and strong in the surrounding villages.

These people would come here to work during the slack season, earning some money to supplement their families.

The people in Dengzhou didn't know that this place had become Zhao Wen's territory. The only ones who knew the news were the gentry in Dengzhou, apart from the merchants who had been floating on the sea.

These gentry have basically turned to Zhao Wen now, after all, they can make a lot of money by following Zhao Wen.

These gentry in the late Ming Dynasty only had their own interests in their eyes, and it was normal for them to change masters.

As soon as Zhao Wen set foot on the port, a middle-aged man in a uniform trotted over with a flattering expression.

"I've seen Mr. Chief Soldier!" The middle-aged man hurriedly saluted Zhao Wen. "The room is ready, and the reception banquet is also ready!"

This person is the steward Zhao Wen stayed in Dengzhou to manage the port of Dengzhou, and he has been waiting here for a long time.

Because he didn't know the exact return time of Zhao Wen, the steward basically went to the port every day to check.

Zhao Wen nodded and said to him, "Let's lead the way!"

"Obey!" The steward saluted hurriedly, then turned around and led the way for Zhao Wen.

"My lord, there is one thing that I don't know whether to say or not!" The steward walked in front of Zhao Wen, and turned around hesitantly.

Zhao Wendao: "If you have anything to say, just say it, don't hide it!"

"My lord, it's like this. Last month, the former governor of Denglai was transferred by the court, and a new governor was replaced." The steward said.

Zhao Wendao: "The new governor? What's the matter with the new governor? He can give him whatever he wants. If he is willing to submit to me, he is naturally welcome. If he is not willing, then give him some means."

The steward said as he walked: "My lord, this person has an unusual background, and his ability is not small.

This man's name is Yang Sichang, and I heard that he is the minister of the Ministry of War. He offended the emperor for some reason, and was finally sent here to be the governor. "

The Governor of Denglai was originally set up to control Dongjiang Town. Since Mao Wenlong surrendered to Zhao Wen, the position of Governor of Denglai has become embarrassing, and finally became an irrelevant position.

"Yang Sichang? Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War?" Zhao Wen immediately thought of Yang Sichang in the late Ming Dynasty when he heard the name.

Yang Sichang is the son of Yang He, the governor of the three sides. When Li Zicheng and others were just rising, Yang He once pointed out that Li Zicheng and his like did not really want to rebel, but had to rebel because of hunger and cold.

For this reason, Yang He proposed the strategy of "maintaining appeasement, supplemented by pursuit and suppression".

Thanks to Yang He's efforts, the recruiting policy has achieved some success, and almost all the thieves from various ministries in Shaanxi accepted the recruiting policy.

But because the imperial court could not come up with the money to settle the rogues, the strategy of recruiting security quickly failed, and the rogues rebelled again.

Chongzhen also dismissed Yang He for this reason.

When Yang Sichang became the Minister of the Ministry of War, in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Yang He, he proposed the strategy of "four positives and six corners, and ten sides to spread the net".

To be honest, Yang Sichang's strategy was really good, but it's a pity that the court officers and soldiers couldn't do it, and finally failed.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang went to Huguang to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong as a "supervisor and assistant minister".

Although he defeated Zhang Xianzhong at Manau Mountain in Sichuan, he was pinned down by Zhang Xianzhong with suspicious soldiers, exhausted, and finally escaped by Zhang Xianzhong with a false soldier.

In the 14th year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong rushed out of Yang Sichang's siege, broke through Xiangyang, and killed Xiangwang Zhu Yiming.

After Yang Sichang heard the news, he knew that he couldn't survive. After all, it was a felony to fall into a vassal, not to mention that Zhang Xianzhong escaped from under his nose.

He was afraid that being accused by Chongzhen would implicate his family, so he took rhubarb every day.

Rhubarb has the function of defecating and clearing the intestines. Taking it every day has a great impact on the body, so it didn't take long for Yang Sichang to die from an overdose of rhubarb.

"What happened to Yang Sichang? What does he want to do?" Zhao Wen recalled the information about Yang Sichang in his mind, and then looked at the steward.

This Yang Sichang is not a waste who doesn't know the five grains and does not work hard. He is a person with certain abilities. Although he is not as good as Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, he is better than people like Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru.

The steward replied: "My lord, this Yang Sichang doesn't know what's going on. Ever since he came to Dengzhou, he has been squatting in the governor's office behind closed doors. When he first took office, we even asked people to visit him. But he didn't see us at all.

During this time, he saw no one.We thought he was afraid of us, so we didn't care.

But later, we bribed one of his entourage, and according to what this entourage said, we knew that this Yang Sichang was now trying to deal with us. "

Yang Sichang didn't know that Dengzhou and other places had become Zhao Wen's possessions. When he first came, Yang Sichang still wanted to make achievements here, and then he was transferred back by Chongzhen.

But just after he arrived here, the people in the yamen directly told him that Dengzhou and other places have become Zhao Wen's possessions.

If Yang Sichang is in peace, then let's make a fortune together. If he is not in peace and wants to expose this matter, then don't blame them for being rude.

When Yang Sichang heard this statement for the first time, he didn't quite believe it. After all, this is Shandong, Dengzhou, and there is a North Zhili in the middle of Xuanzhen.

In Yang Sichang's view, Zhao Wen just conquered Shanxi, and now he is in Liaodong. Yang Sichang really couldn't figure out when Dengzhou would be occupied by Zhao Wen again.

In order to find out the situation, Yang Sichang sent out his entourage to patrol Dengzhou.

According to various sources, Yang Sichang finally had to believe this reality.

Not long after he arrived, the steward sent someone to visit him.When he knew that the visiting people were Zhao Wen's subordinates, he hurriedly had these visiting people kicked out, and at the same time stayed behind closed doors, thinking about how to deal with Zhao Wen and how to get Dengzhou back from Zhao Wen's hands .

It's not that Yang Sichang didn't think about running away, returning to the capital, returning to his hometown, or surrendering to Zhao Wen.

However, he was thrown in Dengzhou because he offended Chongzhen for some things. If he ran back like this after staying in Dengzhou for a few days, he would probably be imprisoned by Chongzhen directly, and he would definitely die by then.

If he surrendered to Zhao Wen, if the court knew about it, Chongzhen's family would definitely not be able to survive with Chongzhen's temperament.

Therefore, Yang Sichang thought, first pretend not to know, pretend not to know that this place has become Zhao Wen's pocket, first mix here slowly, and wait until he comes up with a perfect plan to bring Dengzhou back .

At that time, if he returns to the capital, he will definitely be promoted.

Yang Sichang thought very simply. In his opinion, this place is not close to Zhao Wen’s Xuanzhen Town and Shanxi that he captured, so Zhao Wen should not have stationed troops here. Judging from the news that the entourage who went out inspected, this is indeed the case.

Yang Sichang felt that as long as Zhao Wen had no soldiers here or Zhao Wen had few soldiers, it would not be impossible to get Dengzhou back from Zhao Wen.

At that time, relying on this credit to return to the capital, he will definitely be reused by His Majesty at that time.

Zhao Wen only stationed 100 soldiers with live ammunition in Dengzhou. Although these soldiers were small in number, their weapons were powerful, so [-] soldiers could handle it.

"Treat us?" When Zhao Wen heard this, it was as if he had heard a very funny joke. "Yang Sichang wants to deal with us? This is really a big joke, just him? Why does he deal with us? How does he want to deal with us?"

It's not Zhao Wen's arrogance, but the facts.

Now the Ming Dynasty has nothing to do with Zhao Wen, and now a little Yang Sichang says he wants to deal with him, this is not hitting a stone with an egg, what is this?
"My lord, we don't know either. We only found out about this a few days ago. Now that Yang Sichang is staying in the governor's office, he is thinking of ways to deal with us.

We originally thought about arresting this guy directly, and we were going to do it these few days. Before we could act, the adults arrived. "The steward stopped and looked at Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen sneered and said: "Hehe, Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang, let's go, go directly to the governor's office, I want to meet this Yang Sichang today!"

After Zhao Wen finished speaking, he looked at Li Xiaosan behind him, "Go and take the guard battalion that has assembled on the pier, I will wait for you here. Take as many as you have assembled, there is no need to bring them all."

Li Xiaosan cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, and then ran towards the pier.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Xiaosan ran over with a thousand guard soldiers.

Zhao Wen looked at the soldiers of the guard battalion who came over, and looked at the steward, "Let's put aside the matter of eating first, let's meet this Yang Sichang first!"

Zhao Wen walked towards the governor's yamen as he spoke.

Zhao Wen has been to Dengzhou more than once, and he is also very familiar with Dengzhou, so he naturally knows where the governor's office is located.

Zhao Wen was wearing a woolen coat and walking on the streets of Dengzhou calmly.

The soldiers of the Guards Battalion also wore woolen coats, and followed behind Zhao Wen with their heads held high.

Not long after, Zhao Wen led the soldiers to the gate of the Governor's Yamen.

"Come on, kick the gate of the yamen open for me." Zhao Wen pointed to the gate of the governor's yamen in front of him and shouted loudly.

As soon as Zhao Wen's voice fell, seven or eight burly personal guards rushed out.

They walked to the front of the gate and kicked directly towards the gate of the yamen.

Amidst the sound of kicking the door, the gate of the yamen was gradually kicked open by them.

Sitting in the study in the backyard of the yamen, Yang Sichang had a stove in his arms, and was sitting at the desk writing a memorial.

The memorial he wrote is nothing but the real situation in Dengzhou and the accusation against Zhao Wen.

Before he finished writing, he heard the sound of someone kicking the door.

Yang Sichang hastily put down the brush in his hand, put the stove in his arms on the table, stood up and walked outside.

"Go and see what's going on!" Yang Sichang walked to the door and said to the attendants standing at the door.

Before waiting for the followers to go out, several followers who were originally in the front yard hurried to Yang Sichang.

"My lord, I'm sorry. A group of soldiers and horses came. There are a lot of people. It seems that they should be soldiers and horses from Xuanzhen. They rushed in!" A follower looked at Yang Sichang in panic.

Yang Sichang's face changed drastically, "What? What did you say? Is what you said true? Are they really soldiers from Xuanzhen? There are still many people? What's going on?"

"My lord, we don't know either. Since you ordered the door to be closed, we haven't been out except for the yamen servants who deliver meals every day. We don't know what's going on."

　Thanks to the bookworm's father for the reward, thank you for your support! ! !

　　
　
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