Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 187 Brotherhood

Jiang Feng hunted.

A fleet is coming, covering the sky and river, with countless silver sails connecting the sky.

On the mast of the Dafu ship, which is as tall as a building, there is a yellow general flag. Under the flag, the burly and tall bodies of Jing Lubo and Zhezhi Navy Admiral Huang Binqing stood on the third deck, despite the wind and waves, but remained motionless.

Behind him, several armored generals stood.

"Unexpectedly, we came back in just two months." Huang Binqing sighed.

The man standing on his left looked at the looming land in the distance, and didn't answer. This man doesn't look tall, but if he gives his name, he can shock three times in the southeast sea. He is a benevolent thief, surnamed Zhou and named Hezhi.

Because of Ming's special maritime policy, there were many pirates in the southeast.

Zhou Hezhi is a native of Fuqing, Fujian. He studied as a teenager and dreamed of being named on the gold list. In Fujian, a remote place with eight mountains, one water and one field, he changed his destiny through his official career. However, from Song to Ming, Fujian was a famous province of imperial examinations. The competition in the imperial examinations was also extremely fierce. Although Zhou Hezhi worked very hard, he still failed to achieve any results.

At the age of 20, like many young people from his hometown, he resolutely went to sea and worked on the maritime trade route from Japan to the Ming Dynasty. Because he had studied, he was young, smart, humble and polite, so he quickly made a name for himself. head.But also because of his heroism and righteousness, he was framed by the jealousy of his fellow countrymen, and was finally forced to leave Japan. Later, he was valued by a famous name and adopted as his adopted son.

After receiving the support of the daimyo, Zhou Hezhi returned to the sea, got his own ship, and started to be a pirate, robbing those fellow merchants who used to squeeze him out, but he was good at stealing, even if he robbed, he only robbed half of the goods , did not kill a single person.

As time goes by, the reputation of benevolent pirates in the sea has spread far and wide.

Later, he sneaked back to his hometown, but was reported by his fellow villagers and imprisoned. However, in the name of a benevolent thief and with good connections, he managed to bribe the jailer. After three years in prison, he escaped and continued to roam the sea.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, he accepted Zhao'an and was awarded the title of General Manager, but soon after, he was reinstated as a pirate.

After Huang Binqing was stationed in Zhoushan, in order to expand his strength, he recruited troops everywhere, especially like to recruit pirates. Zhou Hezhi traveled across the sea and was known as a benevolent thief and was recruited. So Huang Binqing recruited Zhou Hezhi in every possible way, and finally succeeded in recruiting Zhou Hezhi into the group, and awarded him The post of commander of the navy.

Even relying on Zhou Hezhi's relationship in Japan, he opened up a trade route from Zhoushan to Japan, and forcibly snatched food from the Zheng family in Fujian.

Huang Binqing was defeated in the Yangtze River and returned to Zhoushan, and he was able to quickly gain a foothold, relying on an island to support his soldiers and horses, and continued to expand his troops. Zhou Hezhi contributed a lot.

Right now, he is also the real second-in-command of the Zhoushan Navy. Huang Binqing is in charge of the navy of the former court army, while Zhou Hezhi is in charge of the volunteers, that is, the recruited pirates from all walks of life.

During the process of recruiting Zhoushan by Lu Jianguo, Huang Binqing bowed his head so quickly to obey the imperial edict, which also had a lot to do with Zhou Hezhi. Don't take it seriously.

With Wang Zhiren's army on the outside, Lu Jianguo's firm attitude, and Zhou Hezhi's persuasion to accept the edict, he finally received the edict to hand over Zhoushan and lead the navy to the north.

Huang Binqing put his hand on the hilt of his waist and pointed to Chongming Island that appeared in the distance.

"Chongming has a population of more than [-] people. If it can be controlled, it will not be worse than Zhoushan." He smiled bitterly. When he came here, he had a good plan. It would not be a loss to exchange Zhoushan for Chongming.But on the way here, I received a lot of new news.

Lu Jianguo had already arrived in Chongming one step ahead.

King Yiyang abdicates and returns to the vassal, surrendering to Lu Jianguo. Lu Jianguo personally leads the navy to attack Chongming. On Chongming Island, which has just experienced civil strife, Huang Wuchang, Gu Rong, and Gao Jinzhong are loyal to the three forces, but they have their own ghosts and strife.

Both sides wanted to fight for the control of Chongming. Gao Jinzhong secretly asked Zhang Guozhu and Li Chengdong in Taicang to surrender, and asked the Qing court for titles and official positions with his 5000 troops, and demanded control of Chongming.

Duoduo's reply was that as long as Gao Jinzhong led his troops to shave their heads and surrender, they were welcome to join him, and he would keep his original job, but he did not agree to hand over Chongming to him.

Not to mention granting him an earl, Gao Jinzhong hesitated a little because of this matter.

Just at this time, a brotherhood suddenly appeared on the island. I don’t know when this brotherhood appeared, but they suddenly rebelled. There were pirates, dock workers, Jianghuai refugees, and even local powerful landlords, farmers, etc. , in short, there are many responders.

They suddenly rose up and stunned the three forces on the island. When everyone was caught off guard, the Brotherhood actually captured Chongming County.

Just as the three sides were gnashing their teeth and about to attack the county seat, Ruan Jin arrived leading the navy.

Nine big bird boats went down the river, and the guns fired in unison. They chased the Zongchuan, Tong'an, rice boats, Fuchuan, and Sandboats.

Gao Jinzhong, Huang Wuchang, and Gu Rong's three forces had their own ulterior motives, and lost the county town carelessly, and were killed by the navy from behind, causing chaos immediately.

Ruan Jin successfully defeated the three of them without much effort.

Huang Wuchang, Gao Jinzhong, and Gu Rong surrendered one after another.

Chongming successfully won.

It turned out that this brotherhood was a peripheral intelligence organization formed by Chen Qianfu, who was in charge of intelligence, and developed in the form of a secret society in the south of the Yangtze River to attract members.

The origin of the name of the Brotherhood is the sentence that Lu Jianguo said when he preached to the world, whoever fights against the captives with righteousness, no matter whether it is a gentry or a grassroots man, is a brother in the whole world!

Because the Northern Expeditionary Army developed smoothly in the south of the Yangtze River, the Brotherhood also developed very rapidly in various places, and received the support of many gentry, officials, and grassroots people, and expanded fissionally.Chen Qianfu sent many backbones to Chongming to form a brotherhood, especially after King Yiyang and others surrendered, he used the relationship of Shen Tingyang, who was born in Chongming, and Jing Benche, who was in the Sihui camp on the island, and other relationships, and quickly penetrated into Chongming. all aspects of the island.

Therefore, Gao Jinzhong and the others, who were still busy fighting among themselves, were completely caught off guard once they launched an attack.

The Chongming Brotherhood revolted, and it was also the Brotherhood's official debut.

Huang Binqing hadn't arrived in Chongming yet, but Chongming had already changed hands several times, and now it even fell into the hands of Jian Guo, who was on the island.An edict has been issued to set Chongming Island as the residence of Fubo Town, the inland navy of the imperial camp's pro-military navy, and Zhoushan as the resident of Dinghai Town, an overseas navy of the imperial camp's pro-military navy.

At the same time, Chongming was also the residence of the admirals in the south of the Yangtze River, and also the temporary administrative office of the governor of Huaiyang.

In short, although Chongming Island was said to be given to Huang Binqing, the admiral of the Zhezhi Navy, it is no longer exclusive to him, and he can only be stationed on one of the several sand islands.

He had to live with the Admiral Jiangnan, the Governor of Huaiyang, and the Neihe Navy.

But things have come to this point, and Huang Binqing can no longer turn back.

"When I left before, Chongming had a strong army. Who would have expected that in the blink of an eye, King Yiyang had abdicated and returned to the vassal. Those governors, governors, general soldiers, supervisors, servants, etc. of the past died or surrendered."

Zhou Hezhi, who was behind him, kept silent. He knew that although Huang Binqing complained, he had no other choice.

He looked at Chongming in the distance, and he was eager to meet His Highness Jian Guo, and he thought of the little friend Zheng Sen he met at sea back then, now he has the surname of Cheng Guo.

"The general situation in this world is becoming a bit confusing." Huang Binqing sighed a few times, and then ordered, "Sail down and anchor in the middle of the river. The fleet will anchor here. All generals will come to the island with me to meet His Highness Jian Guo!"

(End of this chapter)