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The emperor was very happy, and the emperor's son was very young.

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Just when the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil, the general's mansion of Haizhouwei welcomed a happy event. Ding Baiying, who was more than nine months pregnant, gave birth to a big fat boy for Lu Cheng smoothly.

Lu Cheng thought for a long time and named his first son in this world Lu Junhong.

Jun can be a gentleman or a monarch.

A scholar must be magnanimous and resolute, and he has a heavy responsibility and a long way to go.

If there is another son next, he will be named Lu Junyi and Lu Junyuan. It is much easier to take two or three names at once.

The addition of a new member to the General's Mansion was also a great event. Lu Cheng specially gave rewards to all the servants in the mansion and set a time for the full moon wine.

Just after the child was full of one month, Lu Cheng married Zhang Yan.

While Lu Cheng's General's Mansion was full of happy events, the Ming Dynasty was also doing its best to quell rebellions everywhere.

Starting from July, the rebels in various parts of the Ming Dynasty were suppressed one after another, and troops from all over the country began to gather towards Shandong to encircle and suppress Xu Hongru's rebels.

Xu Hongru's rebels soon ran out of food and food. Under the advice of several generals under his command, they retreated to the coastal area, retreating step by step and resisting step by step.

When retreating to Junan, Xu Hongru was still surrounded by the Ming army and could not escape again.

However, the rebels under his command escaped under the leadership of some generals and went to some places in Linhai.

Then, the rebels were taken away by some ships and fled to some islands along the coast.

Later, the rebels were dispersed again. Some became pirates, some became fishermen and civilians on some overseas islands, and some were quietly sent to Liaodong to cultivate land.

Not long after, Shandong Governor Zhao Yan ordered to investigate all towns and villages that were affiliated with the rebels. Anyone who was related to the rebels was directly arrested and beheaded to serve as a warning to others.

However, just after Zhao Yan issued this policy, the governor was assassinated in his own house that night. The murderer left a wooden sign with the words "Kill the innocent!" on it.

After that, the rest of the officials stopped the investigation, and even those grassroots officials who wantonly implicated innocent people became much more honest.

After this incident, the pirate group led by Ding Chong and Ding Tai grew rapidly, and the newly added pirates were all civilians who had escaped from the capture and pursuit of the government troops. At least they had experienced life-and-death battles and had seen blood.

When these people were equipped with ships, weapons, and even muskets, they began to grow rapidly.

Not long after, Ding Xian, with dozens of special forces, mixed in the pirate group, led two or three thousand pirates, directly looted two seaports of Lee's Korea, obtained a batch of ships, and then went south along the coast and occupied the coastal islands of Shandong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

At this time, a group of colonists from the Netherlands were occupying Penghu Island near the southern Taiwan Province. After occupying Penghu, this group of colonists confronted the Ming Navy and demanded that the Ming Dynasty trade with them.

The Governor of Fujian flatly rejected the colonists' request for trade, and actively prepared the navy, ready to go to war with the colonists.

At this time, the navy still had a certain combat effectiveness.

Lu Cheng did not allow the pirate group to continue to go south to participate in the battle between the Ming Navy and the Dutch.

According to the habits of the Ming court, if the pirate group supported by Lu Cheng went south to the Wandao, I am afraid that the Ming Navy would deal with the pirates first and then the colonists.

In the autumn of the second year of Tianqi, the entire southern Liaoning ushered in a rare bumper harvest. People from all over the country stored the harvested corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes with joy, thanking God for the good weather and General Lu who made them full.

This year, the Later Jin did not harass Liaodong, but was busy further conquering the Mongolian tribes on the grassland.

But the tribes on the grassland followed the water and grass, and they could migrate all their tribes at any time, and they were not willing to be younger brothers to the Later Jin.

The Later Jin used the Khorchin tribe as a vanguard to help them clear the Chahar tribe, and then attempted to attack the Tumed and Khalkha tribes, but the Tumed and Khalkha tribes united, and with the support of the Ming Dynasty behind them, the Khorchin tribe suffered heavy casualties and it was difficult to make any progress for a while.

What made the Later Jin even more headache was that the Khalkha tribe actually learned to use the Ming Dynasty's gunpowder weapons, causing considerable casualties to the Later Jin cavalry.

During this continuous conflict, the number of infantry under Lu Cheng's command had approached 50,000, and he also raised more than 2,000 cavalry, managing the entire Liaonan like an iron barrel.

Among the four guards in southern Liaoning, the other three guards except Haizhou Guard also developed rapidly under the impetus of multi-party trade, renovated the city and strengthened the city defense.

Even Penglai, which is across the sea from Jinzhou Guard, was also driven, and the business became more and more prosperous.

Compared with the prosperity of southern Liaoning, the northeastern region of Liaodong is much worse.

Although Xiong Tingbi was also trying hard to govern, the court's food and salary could not keep up, and the supply of materials was sometimes available, which directly led to some officers having to dismiss some soldiers and even doing their old business and eating empty salaries.

Xiong Tingbi repeatedly wrote to the court, requesting the allocation of food and salary. But after suppressing the peasant uprisings in various places, the court could no longer raise any food and salary.

This peasant uprising also uncovered the last fig leaf of the Ming Dynasty, making this dynasty that was coming to an end even more precarious.

In the court, the struggle between the eunuch party and the Donglin party became more and more intense. The Jinyiwei and the East and West Factories arrested people everywhere, confiscated homes and exterminated families, making the whole capital a mess.

At the end of October, the sea caravan under Lu Cheng passed through the port of Tianjin Wei and took away a group of people sent by the Intelligence Department and transported them to Liaodong.

These people were some small officials of the sixth and seventh ranks in the court. They did not have much power in the court, but they were accidentally involved in the struggle between the eunuch party and the Donglin party. Some of them had even been targeted by the Jinyiwei.

People from the Intelligence Department contacted these officials in advance. As long as they were willing to resign and leave, the Intelligence Department would escort them out through the special channels they established and take the waterway directly to Liaodong.

There were already more than one or two such officials. Lu Cheng had greeted Lu Wenzhao and asked him to take care of them when he could, and let them go if they should, and turn a blind eye to those who should be turned a blind eye.

It is worth mentioning that Lu Cheng has also sent a lot of money to Lu Wenzhao in the past two years to help him make further progress in the officialdom. From the original Qianhu, he has been promoted to the commander of the Northern Pacification Division.

Lu Wenzhao naturally returned the favor. Sometimes when he met some unimportant and capable officials, even if the other party had not committed any crime, Lu Wenzhao would let the Jinyiwei go to scare them, forcing them to leave the capital and then be secretly sent to Liaodong.

In order to allow these officials to work with peace of mind after arriving in Liaodong, the staff of the Intelligence Department usually sent all their families to Liaodong.

Although this method is not very bright, it is very useful.

Especially in the past few months, almost every month there are two or three small officials who are sent to Liaodong with their families and settled in various places in southern Liaoning.

Anyway, as long as they are targeted by the people of the Intelligence Department, they may be targeted by the people of the Jinyiwei next. In the end, they can only accept their fate obediently, and even be grateful to these unknown saviors.

Of course, some smart people may have seen some tricks, but they are powerless to resist.

For those officials, being able to leave the dragon's den and tiger's lair of Kyoto City and go to Liaodong to do some down-to-earth work is already a very good result.

On this day, Lu Cheng, led by Lao Bao from the Intelligence Department, went to meet the officials who were sent here.

On the way to meet these officials, Lao Bao approached Lu Cheng and chuckled twice: "Sir, I have something good to tell you."

"What good news can you have? If you have something to say, please speak up."

"Yes, sir. Among the officials who came this time, there is a director of the Ministry of Works, surnamed Zhou, named Zhou Wencheng. This director Zhou has two daughters, one fifteen and one twelve, both of whom are standard beauties. Your lord, you only have two wives at home now, why not take these two into your home."

"Lao Bao, what do you mean? Is your general that kind of person? By the way, what are the names of the two girls?"

"The two Miss Zhou, their maiden names are: Miao Xuan, Miao Tong. Your lord, please rest assured that we in the Intelligence Department will never embarrass other people's families."

Lu Cheng was also stunned when he heard this. If these two are really the two heroines in the original play, then it is really an unintentional success...