Daming pirates

As for the assassination of Zehu, he refused to admit it, saying that he had no knowledge at all and did not arrange for anyone to assassinate him. Anyway, the murderer was not caught on the spot, so this matter could not be pinned on him at all.

Afterwards, the matter reached the capital. In fact, everyone understood why Yu Zehu was killed. Although it was indeed wrong for Yu Zehu to do what he did, Yu Xiaotian also did it too harshly. More than a thousand Guangzhou defenders were killed.

Ten warships were killed by Yu Xiaotian like chickens and sheep, and they were killed in the Lion Ocean.

Yu Zehu was actually killed by someone sent by Yu Xiaotian while he was in Guangzhou City. Yu Xiaotian's method of revenge was a bit too much.

Chongzhen was furious after hearing this, but in the end he just issued an order and reprimanded Xiaotian, and did not dare to do anything to Xiaotian. Moreover, now that he was using Xiaotian, he did not dare to deal with Xiaotian too harshly.

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Moreover, this time Chongzhen asked Yu Xiaotian to go south to pacify the pirates in Guangdong and Guangxi, and Yu Xiaotian did receive frequent successes. Although there were bullets everywhere accusing Yu Xiaotian of being arrogant and domineering, judging from the news coming back from Guangdong and Guangxi, Yu Xiaotian adopted this method.

This method can indeed work wonders to pacify the pirates along the coasts of Guangdong and Guangxi.

The two powers are harming each other, whichever is the lesser. Nowadays, the pirates in Guangdong and Guangxi are the biggest problem, and others have nothing to do. Only by letting Yu Xiaotian go and do it, can these pirates be brought to justice. Moreover, these pirates are indeed on the shore with many big locals along the coast.

The collusion is so deep that it is indeed impossible to pacify the pirates without destroying these big players who colluded with the pirates.

Even if the pirates are now calmed down, with these big families colluding with the pirates, as soon as Yu Xiaotian leaves, these big family gentry will immediately cultivate more pirates. These pirates are like cutting leeks, and they will grow after cutting them.

Once harvested, it will never be completely cut off.

Therefore, although Yu Xiaotian went too far, the problem was fundamentally solved. Even if Chongzhen could not think of such a thing, someone had thought of it for him. Among the capital, there were Yu Xiaotian's group of spokespersons, so they would naturally do it for Yu Xiaotian.

Heaven spoke and explained this matter clearly to Chongzhen.

In this way, after Chongzhen listened to the advice of these people, he understood the benefits of Yu Xiaotian's actions. Moreover, someone reported to Chongzhen that the current situation was such that strong medicine must be used to cure the chaos. On the surface, it seemed that

What Yu Xiaotian did was a bit excessive, but it could bring long-term peace and stability to the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi and completely solve the problem of pirates.

After Chongzhen figured this out, he naturally would not embarrass Xiaotian too much, and he also felt that Yu Xiaotian was still useful. Although this guy was domineering, he was still willing to be used by the court, and it was better to do things for the court.

He tried his best, and this time he personally led his troops south to suppress the bandits, which proved the problem, and Chongzhen felt a little more relieved.

However, there was no way to let Xiaotian continue to be so domineering, so Chongzhen could only adopt a compromise method in the end. He reprimanded Xiaotian and offset the original reward for the Daya Bay victory, and no longer gave another reward.

But this kind of treatment can be said to be neither painful nor itchy. Everyone knows that this kind of punishment is just a slap raised high and gently dropped, which is almost like itching. Now all the soldiers in Guangdong understand the truth.

That is, even if you don't want to provoke the evil god Yu Xiaotian, you will definitely not be able to get rid of him.

The Guangdong generals, from the commander-in-chief down to the generals, who had been gearing up to fall out with Yu Xiaotian because of this matter, immediately stopped talking about Yu Zehu's murder.

Through this incident, Tian Ye truly succeeded in establishing his authority on the ground in Guangdong, making everyone understand that they can offend anyone at the moment, but they must not offend Xiaotian.

In the next more than half a year, Yu Xiaotian no longer personally led troops south to clear out pirates on the seas of Guangdong and Guangxi. After sitting in Hong Kong for a period of time, he handed over the suppression of bandits to Cyclops and others, and he

He then set off back to Weitou Bay.

Although doing this is a bit unjustifiable on the surface, after all, the imperial decree asked Yu Xiaotian to personally lead the army south to suppress the bandits, but now he has entrusted the matter to his subordinates and ran back to Weitou Bay to stay. This is obviously a bit uncomfortable.

Give the court face.

But everyone thought that this was because Yu Xiaotian was losing his temper. He won a great victory in Daya Bay, but because of a conflict with the Guangzhou garrison, the court did not reward him. Instead, he was reprimanded. That's why Yu Xiaotian was unhappy and did this.

Yes, this should show an attitude to the court and embarrass the court.

But in fact, Yu Xiaotian did this because he returned to Fujian this time and had more important things to do. It was now the eighth year of Chongzhen.

In the early eighth year, the refugee army Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Luo Rucai and other 13 families and 72 battalions gathered in Xingyang, and then divided their troops into three groups to sweep across Henan. Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others led their troops eastward and entered Fengyang Prefecture in the first month of the year.

They actually attacked Fengyang, the hometown of the Zhu family, and dug up Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral grave.

This incident shocked both the government and the public. Chongzhen issued an imperial edict for the first time, vowing to wipe out the refugee army. He appointed Hong Chengchou as the governor of the five provinces of Shan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hu, and Henan, responsible for the comprehensive control of the refugee army in several provinces.

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The refugee army has grown to an unprecedented level this year. The total number of dozens of peasant armies has exceeded hundreds of thousands. Moreover, they are very mobile, like locusts, constantly moving from one army to another.

They flew from one place to another, eating and robbing everything they passed, and recruiting more refugees to join them. Naturally, most of them were forcibly recruited.

In addition, they severely damaged the social foundation. Although they destroyed the upper social structure and robbed and killed many large landlords and gentry families, they also completely destroyed the entire social productivity.

Although the people in some places were living very hard lives, they could still farm and provide food resources to the society. However, once the peasant army passed by, the production base of these places was completely destroyed, leaving more people unable to make a living.

, they can only flee or join the refugee army, eating together and waiting to die.

With the expansion of the scope of activities of the refugee army, the refugee army, which was previously limited to Shaanxi, has swept into several provinces, and these provinces are all important grain-producing provinces in the Central Plains. Once the refugee army passed by, everything was destroyed, making

Famine is like a plague, rapidly spreading to more places.

The refugee army also used this method to continuously expand its power. As for the government, in the past, each province fought on its own. They only considered sweeping away the troubles in front of each other. They had no rights themselves, so they only considered driving the refugee army out of them.

As for the territory under their jurisdiction, it is none of their business if the refugee army goes to other provinces.

Therefore, in the past few years, the government has basically not seen much success in suppressing bandits. On the contrary, the number of refugee armies has increased and suppressed, to the point where they have even dug up the ancestral graves of the Zhu family.

Yu Xiaotian has never denied that the refugee army was forced to embark on this path. However, the vast majority of the people in the refugee army did not do so out of voluntariness. Instead, they were forced to do so by the refugee army.

For those who do not join the refugee army, it is unimaginable that this situation will seriously damage the foundation of the entire society.

But this is a necessary path. The end of an era must first destroy the overall social structure, especially the upper-class social structures. In the two to three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the upper-class society has monopolized too many social resources.

It has led to serious unfair distribution of resources throughout society, to an outrageous degree. Therefore, as the end of an era, this social structure must be broken up and redistributed.

If he gets involved now, he will have to roll up his sleeves and go into battle to do this kind of thing in person. This will definitely have some impact on his reputation and accumulate too much hatred for him to pacify the country in the future.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian thought about it, discussed it with his counselors, and finally thought that it would be better for him not to intervene in this matter too early. Although Ming Dynasty was almost exhausted, he still had a breath left and was not yet completely exhausted.

It has reached the point of collapse, so these refugee armies and even slaves are still needed to continue to hollow out the Ming Dynasty building until the foundation of the Ming Dynasty building is completely hollowed out.

At that time, it was time for him to knock down the Ming Dynasty's edifice.

Therefore, the most important thing for Yu Xiaotian right now is to keep a low profile and continue to accumulate strength. Seeing that after the Battle of Daya Bay, the important pirates in Guangdong and Guangxi have been severely hit, and there is no need for him to continue to lead troops to deal with them.

It's been suppressed.

He then returned to Weitou Bay, essentially returning to Taiwan Island to supervise the development of various basic processes.

Nowadays, throughout Fujian, Yu Xiaotian's influence has penetrated into various places, and he has become a secret manager. At this time, the official government on the surface has been emptied in many places. It can be said that government orders cannot leave the city.

He even went as far as to go to the yamen without leaving the county seat.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian no longer only focuses on the infrastructure development of Taiwan Island, but has shifted his attention to the mainland of Fujian.

Fujian itself produces coal, and there are also large and small iron ore deposits. However, these resources in Taiwan are poor and coal and iron cannot be supplied by themselves. In the past, they could only be transported from land to Taiwan, which required a lot of manpower and material resources.

To transport these raw materials to Taiwan Island, the transportation cost is really not low.

Now that he has extended his influence to all parts of Fujian, the Fujian government has completely lost control of him, so now he does not need to continue to export resources to Taiwan Island, but the primary processing and even secondary processing of many raw materials.

All can be done on land in Fujian.

In this way, he only needs to transport processed raw materials, such as important steel raw materials, directly to Taiwan Island in the future, which can reduce a lot of waste of transportation capacity.

So after he was adopted, he began to operate this matter secretly, merging and acquiring private iron yards and iron mines all over Fujian, especially the Longyan area, the main producing area of ​​coal and iron in Fujian, which was the focus of his control. He did not care about the local area.

He had basically annexed all the government-private coal and iron mines and iron fields, and almost all the official ones had his hands on it. Most of the iron ore produced fell into his hands.

(I still want to thank Brother Da Mo Xiaochunfeng for the reward. It’s the end of the month and I’m asking for monthly votes again!)