Lu Ming

Chapter 191 Coastal Defense Guerrilla
The "Shangfang Sword" system that is often seen on TV in later generations was actually officially implemented since the "Three Great Marches" during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the Tatar chieftains of Ningxia gathered troops to rebel, and the Ming court encircled and suppressed the rebellion with Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Gansu, "giving Shangfang sword".

Afterwards, Ye Mengxiong stormed the city and "put all the worshipers to death and surrendered two thousand people." Kuaibai's son Kuai Cheng'en and others were kidnapped and taken to the capital, where they were all executed.The victory of this battle gave the Ming court a taste of the sweetness, and the frequency of giving Shang Fangjian began to increase.

The basic effect of the Shangfang sword is that the emperor granted the governor the right to override the legal system: "judgment at the opportunity", "beheading below the fifth rank", "dismiss from the post below the third rank".

Therefore, Xiong Wencan also has a legendary treasure in his hands. Once the so-called Shangfang sword is released, there will be no brothers from then on.

Xiong Wencan, who was sitting in the hall at the moment, really wanted to invite his brother, Shang Fangjian, to cut off the dog's head on the neck of the chattering guy in front of him.

Who is this guy?Lin Shudi, Tong Zhi of Fuzhou Prefecture.

Xiong Wencan was originally in a good mood.

The conversation with Cao Chuan last night allowed Old Xiong to get enough promises from both public and private aspects, and some of them even exceeded his expectations, which made him very happy.

Unexpectedly, Cai Shanji, the Zuo Buzheng envoy, brought him another surprise this afternoon.

Before this, Lao Cai had only vaguely expressed his opposition to recruiting Zheng Zhilong—after all, it was he, Xiong, who was in charge of this matter, and Lao Cai couldn't say much about it.

Today, Cai Shanji wore a full set of ceremonial guards to show his attitude in the Fuya lobby.He is now expressing his attitude to Governor Xiong Wencan on behalf of all the Fujian gentry and businessmen who disagreed with recruiting Zheng Zhilong.

Lao Cai has the exclusive right to commemorate matters. Today's conversation will soon be reported to the capital.

What about Xiong Wencan?Xiong Wencan is also very happy, this is a sleepy pillow, just in time for the rain!
If it was before last night, Lao Cai came to express his attitude, then Xiong Wencan would feel that Lao Cai was a little abrupt: Is this forcing the palace?Who decides after all?

Overnight, however, the situation was completely different.

Xiong Wencan is now wishing for a strong local force to support his decision to appease the crossing people.

After all, if Lao Xiong recruits Cao Chuan, it is tantamount to overturning the decision made by the court at the beginning; Lao Xiong has to bear political pressure-once he goes through all the affairs and fails, and Zheng Zhilong continues to make trouble, then Lao Xiong can It's completely blamed.

This is also the reason why Old Xiong hesitated again and again and did not dare to make a decision lightly, even though he himself was very optimistic about the crossing forces from Hangzhou.

Very good, just in time Cai Shanji, dressed in cremation with lightning, just jumped out so abruptly.

Lao Xiong managed to avoid laughing three times at the time: such an important political decision, Lao Cai must have a memorial, which is tantamount to sharing half of the blame on his head!
In fact, after happily sending Lao Cai away in the afternoon, Lao Xiong even thought about the theme of his memorial, Your Majesty, it’s not Lao Xiong, I’m a brain-dead, look at these Fujian local officials, they don’t advocate recruiting Zheng Zhilong.
All the good mood was destroyed after seeing Lin Shudi, Tong Zhi of Fuzhou Prefecture.

Lin Shudi rushed to the Yamen in the afternoon, sneaking up to ask for an interview.

Of course Xiong Wencan knew what Lin Shudi was going to say.This person is Zheng Zhilong's mouthpiece in Fuzhou. Since he took office in Fumin, this guy has come to encourage him to recruit the Zheng family more than once.

However, Xiong Wencan couldn't drive this guy away after all, and he couldn't refuse to see him either—wasn't this clearly telling people that he didn't want to appease Old Zheng?
At this critical stage, Old Xiong will naturally not be so brain-twitched as to reveal his plans to the outside world.

So even though Lao Xiong is honored as the governor of a province, he can only suppress the tempting idea of ​​asking flying swords to kill people, and sit in the courtroom expressionlessly, quietly watching this guy pretending to be aggressive——Lin Shudi This guy's professional title is rank five, which happens to be the upper limit of flying sword beheading.

During today's trip, Lin Shudi's latest quotation from Zheng Zhilong is the famous saying in history: "If someone dared to refuse the army, he had no choice but to earn a title. He should serve the imperial court with all his might. Rest easy."

Xiong Wencan said nothing.

Years of cultivating energy in the officialdom has made him feel extremely angry, but his face is still calm.

The old bear who has been cultivated by a certain force to be gentle and modest, and never seize power has long been a proud and arrogant old bear. Now, facing Zheng Zhilong's outrageous remarks that are clearly coerced by the military and enclosing the southeast, there is no historical forbearance. .

The next moment, the old bear stroked his long beard lightly, with a gentle smile on his face: "I know what Zhilong means. You go back, and there will be news in just a few days."

Lin Shudi left happily.

Today was the first time he saw the smiling face of the old bear, so he was in a good mood. Lin Tongzhi was full of confidence in the future caress at this moment.

Xiong Wencan is also full of confidence in recruiting.

So that night, he met Cao Chuan again, and under Cao Chuan's recommendation, he met the big and round sailing coach Sha Zhengming.

It was the same study room, still bright white solar light, but this time there were 2 more people coming out of the room.

One is Sha Zhengming, and the other is Comrade Emeifeng holding a folding fan—Old Xiong is no longer afraid to show his tendency to appease in front of the most capable staff.

"What a tall man!"

Even though this person was kneeling, the old Xiong couldn't help but gasp when he first saw Sha Zhengming, who was 1 meters tall and covered in tendons in the small study room.

After Sha Zhengming got up, the old Xiong took a closer look at the big monk who was dressed in a monk's robe and kept a straight inch, and admired: "Where did the monk become a monk before he fell into the grass, and eat such a good skin?"

"Hui Fujun, when Zhengming was young, he became a monk in the Baoji Temple of the Pure Land Sect in Siam. Thanks to the blessing of the strong incense in the temple, he stole a lot of sesame oil from the abbot, so his body is slightly bigger than others."

"Hahaha." The three people sitting on the chairs in the room laughed at the same time.

"Sit down and talk." Old Xiong shook his head with a smile at this moment: "What an honest monk."

During the pre-training, Sha Zhengming, who was set as a simple, honest and reckless person, naturally didn't know how to be humble at this time, and sat down on the chair.

"Well, Monk Sha, the army will be reorganized in another day, do you dare to fight that Zheng?" At this time, Xiong Wencan slowly asked the topic of today's meeting.

After Sha Zhengming heard this sentence, his nostrils fluttered, his eyes were used to anger, and he stood up from his chair suddenly: "I will kill Zheng Zhilong like a dog!"

After the playwrights got enough of the drama that night, they quietly retreated from Fuya, leaving behind a gift list and taking away the promise.

Three days later, at the same time in this small study, a major event finally happened in this plane: Xiong Wencan, dressed in an official robe, formally accepted the surrender form of "Cao Chuan" who was kneeling in front of him, and gave it back to Cao Chuan. Sichuan's "Fujian Coastal Defense Guerrilla" affidavit and official seal.

Yes, it is the most formal coastal defense guerrilla report.The people who traveled through did not intend to control Lao Xiong like the old Zheng in history, and asked for another empty title of "Five Tigers Guerrilla General"-except to show that bumpkins know nothing about officialdom, there is no benefit.

Although Cao Chuan's official position as a guerrilla will eventually need to be endorsed by the imperial court, since Xiong Wencan, as a senior official in Fujian, has recommended the official position of Cao Pirates, the imperial court will definitely not refuse.

Therefore, from this moment on, Xia Xianze's original plan to appease—the policy of the cross-traveling forces developed with the help of the Ming court's power towards the Ming president, has taken the first step.

And the "slot" plan, which was implemented from Hangzhou before, has come to a perfect conclusion at this moment-Zheng Zhilong still failed to pass the interview in the end, and was stuck at the last hurdle by the crossing crowd.

What will be replaced next will be the "Struggle" plan, which focuses on tactical ambushes and crusade against pirates.The behind-the-scenes heroes who are active in Fuzhou City will die down, and the next stage will be some other time travellers.

As "Cao Chuan" took over the action of the confession and the official seal, the wheel of history changed drastically here, and the crossing forces started the process of lying on the Ming Dynasty to suck blood.

The big hat of "gaining the country is not right, seeking to usurp the throne" is not worn by the cross-border people in vain-this act of appeasement, at least, can save everyone 5-10 years of development time.

The reason is simple: the work permit issued by Xiong Wencan for "Coastal Defense Guerrilla" is universal for the entire Ming Dynasty.

In other words, from this moment on, even if the civil service system despises Cao Guerrilla, the fleet with the banner of "Guerrilla General Cao" can still enter any port in Daming to purchase any materials and personnel, including all items that are prohibited from export by the government. .

Traveling across the public business, you can swagger to do business from north to south in the future.As the reputation of suppressing pirates spreads in the future, the Ming court will gradually rely on the warlord Cao who holds a large army.And at that time, it will be extremely easy to dump goods to the provinces of Ming Dynasty, transfer population at the same time, and control the trend of history, and the strength of the crossing crowd will inflate like a balloon.

Compared with the benefits obtained at the strategic level in the future, the obedience and weak strength that Xiong Wencan sees now are the biggest disguise of a certain power.

Old Xiong would never have imagined that there would be a flat push technology called industrialization in this world.In the traditional sense, the so-called comparison of strength and overall control will soon be overwhelmed in front of machine tools and assembly lines, and the traversing crowd will use faster speed to gain deeper control of all sites within the range of guns.

After the secret conferring ceremony that night, despite the huge class gap, Cao Chuan and Xiong Wencan, who are already court officials, are considered close colleagues from a legal point of view.

Therefore, the next two colleagues naturally talked about how to deal with Zheng Zhilong's problem.

Here "Cao Guerrilla" was already prepared, so he put forward two strategies on the spot that Lao Xiong could choose at his own discretion—there was no inferior strategy, and the worst strategy was to kill the whole army and find Lao Zheng to fight. This is too stupid and no one will support it.

(End of this chapter)