Daming pirates

In addition, the Sea Wolf Merchant Fleet has been in Chongzhen for ten years, and it has also completely opened up the grain trade channels in Siam, established a good relationship with the local Siamese king, and received official support from Siam, making it possible for Siam to produce rice.

A large amount of rice is exported to Hailang. On this freight route, Hailang invests hundreds of ships every year to rush to Siam to transport rice back to Fujian.

This Siam can provide Sea Wolf with hundreds of thousands more stones of food every year to feed a large population. Not only that, Sea Wolf has also reached an agreement with the Spanish ruler of Luzon, and can purchase a large amount of food from Luzon every year.

Rice was shipped back to Fujian. This allowed Seawolves to now have access to several channels for importing grain, allowing them to store more grain for their future use.

In the past two years, the new grain purchased is no longer only stored in Taiwan Island and the coastal areas of Fujian. In order to explore the north in the future, a lot of grain has been quietly transported to Shandong in the past two years and stored in Fushan Institute and Zhifu.

The island also has Yangma Island and other places.

What makes Yu Xiaotian most gratified is that a large amount of land has been reclaimed on Jeju Island. This land has been fully utilized and a lot of potatoes, corn and other crops have been planted. At least the annual output can be used by the island.

In addition to food for the soldiers and civilians, there is still a bit of surplus, so he doesn't need to worry about Jeju Island for the time being.

After Yang Sichang proposed the strategy of suppressing bandits in four directions and six corners in the ninth year of Chongzhen, the government and military forces in various provinces began to coordinate and launch a more planned suppression of the peasant army. After two years of suppression, the peasant army began to gradually

The prosperity turned to decline, and several major defeats were suffered in succession, which made the scope of activities of the peasant army begin to be squeezed.

However, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui and other peasant army leaders were also constantly adjusting their strategies, guerrillas everywhere, and continued to carry out activities in the border areas of Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi and Sichuan. Although they suffered consecutive defeats, they were not completely wiped out.

Even so, the overall situation in the Ming Dynasty seems to be improving to a certain extent, and the area where the peasant army operates is gradually being compressed.

By the eleventh year of Chongzhen's reign, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other troops had been compressed to the border area between Huguang and Sichuan, and were forced into the mountains. The situation was already quite unfavorable to them.

Some peasant armies led by Li Zicheng were driven back to the Shangluo area of ​​Shaanxi Province and were blocked in the mountains by the government troops. The situation was also precarious and the area of ​​activity was extremely compressed.

Some peasant armies led by Lao Huihui and others were trapped in Huoying Mountain, Macheng, Huguang, Guangzhou, Henan and other places.

There are also some leaders of the peasant army who have surrendered or died under the attack of the official army in the past two years. The peasant army, which once numbered nearly one million, has been divided by the official army at this time and can no longer respond to each other. It is no longer Chongzhen Jiu.

The situation that existed a year ago, where people came and went without any scruples, was no longer the case.

Therefore, at this time, some optimism began to appear among the government and the public, believing that the annihilation of the refugee army should be around the corner and would not last much longer.

At this time, Chongzhen's mood began to gradually improve. In addition, Lu Xiangsheng was transferred to the Xuanda area to take charge of Xuanda's defense and annexed grain reserves in the Xuanda area. It has also achieved initial results, making the defense level in the Xuanda area significantly improved.

Big improvement.

So at this time, Chongzhen began to become optimistic, believing that with his efforts, the situation in Ming Dynasty had improved, and everything seemed to be moving in a good direction.

This reminded him of Yu Xiaotian in the south again, so he began to think about how to deal with Yu Xiaotian again. During May of the 11th year of Chongzhen's reign, he summoned all ministers to discuss how to deal with Yu Xiaotian again.

At this time, all the ministers began to maintain an optimistic attitude towards the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. Most of them believed that these refugee armies should be wiped out in a short time. At this time, it is indeed time to consider solving the problem of Yu Xiaotian, otherwise let them go.

Zhu Yu Xiaotian was entrenched in the south, which really made it difficult for people to sleep and eat well. Sooner or later, he would be a henchman of the Ming Dynasty.

So after discussion, the ministers agreed that after the refugee army was wiped out, they would immediately mobilize the armies of Huguang, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangxi and Guangxi, a total of 150,000 heavy troops, and merge them into Fujian to launch a conquest against Xiaotian.

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At that time, Chongzhen can order Yu Xiaotian to come to the capital for questioning. If Yu Xiaotian comes to the capital according to the order, he will be arrested in the capital. But if he resists the order and disrespects it, then he will be punished in the name of resisting the order.

He was demoted and dismissed from office, and then all armies invaded Fujian and captured him!

Even if this guy relies on the strength of the navy at hand, escapes from Fujian in a ship, and retreats to Taiyuan Island, he can at least uproot his power on land. Even if he cedes territory and becomes king, he will still be alone overseas.

As for shaking the foundation of Ming Dynasty.

After Chongzhen and his ministers discussed it, the matter was decided for the time being. Even Chongzhen had already made up his mind in advance and decided to choose one of Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng to send to him when the time came.

The Fujian military governor suppressed Xiao Tianzhu.

However, it seems that the imperial court can never keep secrets. Such confidential discussions reached the ears of Hailang Xizuo in the capital that night.

The intelligence officers were shocked when they heard the news. They quickly sent people to send the news back to Fujian as quickly as possible, and released homing pigeons to use relay methods to try their best to send the news back to Yu Xiao as quickly as possible.

In the hands of heaven.

It only took Yu Xiaotian a few days to receive the news from the capital. Although the news brought back by the carrier pigeon was very rough, he could roughly understand what the imperial court was planning.

After Yu Xiaotian finished reading the small note, not only did he not feel any nervousness, but he sneered at it, casually placed the small note on the candle, lit it, and burned it to ashes.

Seeing Yu Xiaotian's nonchalant look, Liu Tong and Lin Yiyang were extremely nervous and quickly asked Yu Xiaotian how to deal with it.

Yu Xiaotian lit a pot of pipe, took two puffs, and sneered: "You are too high-minded about the person sitting in the court! Just with him and his talented people, you want to

Completely annihilating the refugee army is almost like a dream!

These guys are full and full, and they haven't even mentioned the matter of annihilating the refugee army yet, but they are starting to take advantage of me now. It's really ridiculous!

I can bet you that the Ming court and government, even though they seem to have achieved little results in the past two years, I can guarantee that they will never be able to wipe out those refugee armies!

Is it so easy to exterminate the refugee army? Hum! Now that the imperial court is increasing wages every year, the people can no longer survive. What can they do if they don’t rebel? The only way to survive is to rebel, otherwise they will be forced to do it sooner or later.

And die!

Now it seems that the imperial court has the upper hand for the time being, but this is the result of the imperial court's all-out efforts. Don't forget, there is still an army of slave builders in the north, waiting eagerly. If it is not what I expected, the slave slave army will definitely enter the pass in the near future.

Great plunder.

At that time, the imperial court will definitely transfer troops and horses to the north to serve the king. These refugee armies will have a chance to breathe, and they will definitely resurrect immediately!

So I'm not nervous at all, because even though the court has a good idea now, they have no chance at all, so why are you nervous?"

After everyone listened to Yu Xiaotian's words, they breathed a long sigh of relief. Although they were not afraid that the imperial court would send troops to suppress the attack, after all, this time the imperial court secretly discussed that it would mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to enter Fujian. Faced with this,

With hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers, it always takes some effort.

But now seeing Yu Xiaotian's unconcerned look, they felt that Yu Xiaotian's words were very reasonable. With the current methods of the court, the people really couldn't live. Apart from rebellion, there really was no better way.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian was not blindly optimistic when he said firmly that the imperial court could not wipe out these refugee armies.

In addition, his views on Jiannu were not without purpose. With Jiannu's previous two large-scale invasions and plundering, it can be seen that Jiannu no longer has the slightest fear of the Ming Dynasty, and it is bitterly cold outside the pass.

It is true that the slaves would not be able to survive unless they entered the customs and carried out plunder.

The last time the slaves entered the customs and snatched back the things and property, they have now almost exhausted them again. Among the slaves who were kidnapped, in addition to the retained ones, a large part of them have now passed through the sea.

The wolf trade was taken back by the sea wolves, enriching their sea wolf population.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian expected that the Jiannu slaves might enter the customs and plunder again in the near future. From the analysis of the reports they received, there was sufficient basis, and Yu Xiaotian was not just talking nonsense.

If Yu Xiaotian guessed it again this time, then the Ming Dynasty wanted to mobilize a large army into Fujian to suppress the Yu family army after wiping out the refugee army. It was indeed a castle in the air and could not achieve its goal at all. As long as the slaves were established in the north,

If the peaceful civilian army is not wiped out, then the Ming Dynasty will never be able to spare the strength to come to Fujian to conquer the domestic army.

So Lin Yiyang, Liu Tong and the others immediately breathed a long sigh of relief, no longer as nervous as before.

Yu Xiaotian chatted with everyone for a while, and after dealing with some matters that required his decision, he suddenly said:

"By the way, having said that, let me tell the staff that we will arrange to send more troops to Denglai as soon as possible in the near future to strengthen the strength of several important strongholds there. From Zhifu Island and Yangma Island, we will send them to

Replenish more ammunition and food, and if transportation capacity permits, allocate some artillery and artillery to them to enhance their defensive strength.

If the Jiannu go south this time and attack where they are, tell them not to hold back and give me a hard beating. The more killed, the better!

Let them prepare in advance and make sure to take in more people when the slaves go south! The people taken in this time do not need to continue to be transported south, they will be resettled on the spot, and qualified personnel will be selected and trained on the spot.

The Xiangyong regiment training task is to complete the training of 5,000 new recruits within half a year.

These recruits who are trained on the spot are required to complete basic subject training in the recruit camp within half a year so that they can meet the requirements for going into battle!

If possible, the number could be raised to 10,000!"

(Monthly ticket! I want a monthly ticket!)