Smuggling Daming

Zhou Zhong only lived in Ningbo Fucheng for one day. On the second day, Yu Wenyuan led him to Dinghaiwei by the sea, which is the port where their boats docked yesterday. Not far behind the port is the famous Zhenhai Tower, which is also the Dinghaiwei. Whenever there is an important matter, the chief of the guard will have someone beat the big drum upstairs to summon the generals to discuss matters.

However, after Zhou Zhong came to Dinghaiwei, he did not go to Zhenhai Tower. Instead, he asked Yu Wenyuan to take him to the military camp not far from Zhenhai Tower. Originally, the entire Dinghaiwei was divided into five thousand households: front, back, left, right, and middle. There are a total of [-] soldiers and [-] warships. It can be said that the organization is very complete, which is already very rare among the guards of the Ming Dynasty.

Among the five thousand households in Dinghaiwei, one of the thousand households is stationed on Zhoushan Island, and the other is stationed in the Guoju area, which is across the sea from Shuangyu Port, and sea ships enter and leave Shuangyu Port. At that time, you can often see all the warships of Qianhu patrolling, but this Qianhu firm has long been bought by various chambers of commerce in Shuangyu Port. They will also help out.

Except for the two thousand-household offices above, the other three thousand-household offices are all stationed near Zhenhai Tower, responsible for the defense of the entire Ningbo Port, and these 3000 people are also the main force of the Ningbo Navy. Half of the barracks are water villages. All ten warships are moored in the water village.

When Zhou Zhong and the others came to the Dinghaiwei Naval Division barracks, they thought they saw a scene of training in full swing, but what they didn't expect was that the entire barracks was in a mess.The sergeants were either drunk, or gathered together in small groups to gather money, and what's more, there were even a few officers who looked like officers with their heads in their arms, humming a ditty.This kind of scene can indeed be regarded as full of enthusiasm, but it should not appear in the barracks.

Those sergeants who were having fun in the barracks saw people like Yu Wenyuan in official uniforms coming to the barracks, and they didn't even pay any attention to them. They didn't even come forward to interrogate them, so Zhou Zhong and the others just let them Entering the barracks swaggeringly, if he hadn't known in advance that this was a barracks.I'm afraid Zhou Zhong thought he was entering a lively pleasure-seeking place.

"This...is this Dinghaiwei's barracks?" Zhou Zhong stepped aside a drunk soldier who was staggering around, and asked Yu Wenyuan with an incredulous expression on his face.

I saw that the three officials Yu Wenyuan and Lu Kuo were also full of embarrassment. After a while, Yu Wenyuan said with a wry smile on his face: "Master Zhou, we don't know why Dinghaiwei looks like this. We have also been to the barracks. But all we saw were sergeants practicing seriously, and we have never encountered such a situation.”

"Hey, if Zhou's guess is correct, Mr. Yu must have sent someone to notify Ding Haiwei before you came, right?" Zhou Zhong said with a sneer.

I thought that Dinghaiwei's navy was one of the only two complete navy left along the coast of Daming, but seeing the situation in the barracks now, Zhou Zhong couldn't help being very disappointed.Shenying had analyzed it with him at the beginning, telling him not to place too much hope on the Daming Navy.After all, the navy has not gone through war for many years, and it is good to be able to practice normally, but now it seems that the navy of Ding Haiwei in front of him may not even be able to maintain normal drills.

"Master Yu, since Cheng Quan is not here, then the commander should be here, but I don't know where this person is?" Zhou Zhong sighed lightly here.Now he doesn't have any extravagant hopes for the navy's combat power, he only hopes to pass his emergency drills for several months.Just let them sail to Malacca safely. As for the Portuguese, let Shenying and the Beijing camp he brought solve it.

"My lord, please come with me. The commander knows that Qu Lie should be in the barracks." Yu Wenyuan replied immediately at this moment, and now he really wants to ask Qu Lie why the barracks of Dinghaiwei became like this?

It seemed that Yu Wenyuan had indeed been to the military camp, and he was also very familiar with the buildings here. After walking through several camps with Zhou Zhong, he came to a relatively quiet courtyard. It is said that this is where Qu Tongzhi worked.It's just that before Zhou Zhong and the others entered the yard, they immediately smelled a pungent smell of wine. When they walked through the yard and entered the room, they were almost suffocated by the smell of wine inside.

As expected by Zhou Zhong, there were a mess of cups and plates on the table in the room, and five or six rough military men sitting around them were drinking bowl after bowl of wine, but it was strange that, This should have been a very enthusiastic scene, but the soldiers in the room all had sad faces, and no one spoke, as if they were drinking stuffy wine.

"Master Yu, why are you here?" The soldiers who were drinking inside were taken aback when they saw Zhou Zhong and the others coming in, and then the big bearded man in the lead quickly saw Yu Wenyuan who was behind Zhou Zhong, and immediately threw He poured down the wine bowl and went forward to salute. At the same time, he looked at the young Zhou Zhong curiously, because Zhou Zhong was not only wearing the uniform of the commander-in-chief, but also standing in front of Yu Wenyuan. This makes people have to be surprised.

Seeing this bearded man, Yu Wenyuan immediately said: "Qu Tongzhi, this is His Majesty's newly appointed Admiral Zhou Zhongzhou, who is here to take over Dinghaiwei. In the future, you will all be Admiral Zhou's subordinates. Hurry up and meet Admiral Zhou!"

This bearded man is Qu Lie, the commander of Dinghaiwei. When he heard that the young man in front of him was actually the admiral of the world personally appointed by His Majesty, he was also taken aback. , See Lord Admiral!"

Not only Qu Lie, but also several other men who drank with him, when they knew Zhou Zhong's identity, followed Qu Lie and saluted Zhou Zhong, and at the same time reported their positions. To Zhou Zhong's surprise, , Among these few people, there are actually three deputy Qianhu, and there is another governor. Although they are all high-ranking military officers, they are all Qianhu's deputy, and they don't have much real power in their hands.

"Qu Tongzhi, are you guilty?" Zhou Zhong didn't show any kindness to Qu Lie and others' salute, instead he asked with a cold snort.

"This..." Qu Lie didn't expect that Zhou Zhong would start to question himself as soon as we met. Do you know what crime you committed?"

"What's the crime?" Zhou Zhong snorted again when he heard this, and pointed in the direction of the barracks in front of him and asked sharply, "Just now when the admiral came to the barracks, he found that all the soldiers were not under any control. Not only did they not practice as usual, but they even drank Now that Cheng Quan is not here, as the commander of the guards, isn't it your responsibility?"

Hearing that Zhou Zhong blamed himself for this incident, Qu Lie was taken aback, and the officers behind him showed somewhat dissatisfied expressions.However, the expression on Qu Lie's face changed a few times, and finally he bowed his head and confessed: "My lord, the villain is guilty..."

"Brother Qu, it's not your fault. Why do you want to take the blame for Cheng Quan?" Qu Lie hadn't finished speaking, but a general behind him interrupted first, with a look of grief and indignation on his face .

"Brother Wu, the commander is not here. I, the commander, do have the responsibility to take over the management of the guard. Now that the barracks are in chaos, I will naturally bear the greatest responsibility!" Qu Lie said in a deep voice at this time, but at this time A look of humiliation flashed across his face.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Zhong couldn't help becoming more interested. He didn't pay attention to Qu Lie's words, but walked up to the officer surnamed Wu who spoke and asked with a smile, "If the admiral remembers correctly, , you should be a deputy Qianhu, but just now you said that Qu Lie was taking the blame for Cheng Quan, what's going on?"

"Admiral Admiral, this subordinate is just feeling aggrieved for Big Brother Qu!" I saw that Deputy Qianhu Chief Wu looked a little restrained when facing Zhou Zhong, saluted him and said, "According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the commander is not here. At that time, it was true that Commander Tongzhi took over the management of the army, but the entire Dinghaiwei knew that Commander Cheng did not get along with Brother Qu, and Commander Cheng relied on his higher rank to take away all the power from Brother Qu, even if it was He's not in the barracks, and Big Brother Qu can't even interfere with the management of the barracks, so even if the barracks are in chaos like this, we and Big Brother Qu can only drink here!"

Hearing what Wu Qianhu said, Zhou Zhong was also taken aback, then turned around and asked Qu Lie, "Qu Tongzhi, what Wu Qianhu said is true, did Cheng Quan really take away all the power from you?" ?”

Hearing Zhou Zhong's question, Qu Lie struggled again on his face, but in the end he gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, all of them are incompetent subordinates, and Commander Cheng has indeed taken it out of my hands a long time ago." I really can't get my hands on the management of the army, but as a commander, Qu has an unshirkable responsibility for the chaos in the barracks now!"

Seeing that Qu Lie was so responsible, Yu Wenyuan and others behind Zhou Zhong also showed their approval, but Zhou Zhong sneered in his heart. Just as he was about to replace Cheng Quan with him, Ding Haiwei immediately appeared Tongzhi, the commander who is at odds with Cheng Quan, this is like someone delivering a pillow just after falling asleep. Although it is very timely, it is too timely, and it is unbelievable that it is so timely.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong showed a sneer, looked at the generals behind Qu Lie and the others, then at Yu Wenyuan and the others, and then said: "Brother Yu, please go out for a while. Come on, this admiral has something to say to me alone and Qu Tongzhi!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)