Chapter 145 Select the Target

The most important thing is that he took silver from the treasury and made the coastal governments vigorously build ships and revitalize the sailors, which has now received a certain effect.

According to his statistics, the number of marine warships along the coast of Fujian has now risen to more than 400. The branches are in various water villages, including more than 200 new ships, some of which are some large ships of marine merchants that have been identified. After simple repair, they are allocated to the sailors for use.

In addition, a new batch of warships have been built in various places, and there are more than 100. Of course, taking advantage of this opportunity, many officials are full of pots and forcing some boats to donate to the government, so that many shopkeepers of the boathouses have gone bankrupt. However, in any case, under his preparation, Fujian sailors have gained strength. It has been greatly improved.

In addition, he ordered Yu Zhigao, the general of southern Fujian, to sit in Quanzhou to train the water division, and Zhang Jiace, the deputy general of Fujian, to sit in Fuzhou to train the water division. Now the strength of the navy has also increased significantly. In addition, the various artillery weapons allocated to them have greatly revitalize the Fujian Marine Division.

In his opinion, the time to deal with sea wolves is relatively mature now, so recently he has secretly prepared to start to operate and suppress sea wolves, at least to expel them from Nanri Island and recover Nanri Island.

But now a Zheng Yiguan pops up and makes a lot of trouble in the Zhangquan area, which makes Zhu Yifeng a little embarrassed. Should he deal with the sea wolf first or this Zheng Yiguan first? Now it has become a problem in front of him.

So he secretly summoned the staff and began to discuss the matter.

In fact, his staff have probably guessed Zhu Yifeng's intention, but in the past, Zhu Yifeng did not mention the matter of suppressing the sea wolf, and they naturally did not want to be bored. But now that Zhu Yifeng has made a statement, these staff should consider their masters.

These staff have been paying attention to the activities of sea wolves and pirates along the coast during this period. To be honest, they don't have much dislike of sea wolves. Seawolves know how to advance and retreat. During the New Year's holidays or when they have something to do, there have been a lot of them.

And in addition to the fact that the sea wolf attacked the coastal area many times last year because of Zhu Qin's intention to disadvantage them, it is usually quite restrained. Unlike their peers, they specialize in looting for a living. The sea wolf is very well-known in the coastal area and is also favored by the poor people along the coast.

Speaking of this, this sea wolf is really not too evil, but some local gentry are actually some local snakes, and they hate them very much, because the sea wolf has done a lot of things that are beneficial to the people, but it greatly infringes their interests, so that these gentry and local snakes try their best to give it to the government. They want the government to move troops to get rid of the sea wolves and restore their previous so-called order.

This is also the reason why the two governors want to eliminate it, because they represent the interests of the gentry and scholars. They can't pay much attention to the ideas of ordinary people. They hear more about the voices of these people, so in the eyes and ears of senior officials, the sea wolf is heinous.

Now that Futai adults think the time is ripe, it's time for them to find a way for him and arrange for him to suppress it. But now a Zheng Yiguan has emerged, which makes Zhu Yifeng a little embarrassed for a while. He doesn't know who to do it first.

There is a man named Tian Youren among the staff, who is Zhu Yifeng's most trusted staff. A long ago, he worked around Zhu Yifeng and worked steadily, which was trusted by Zhu Yifeng.

Among Zhu Yifeng's many staff, Tian Youren is the chief of staff and the first assistant, so his words are very important among the staff.

After understanding Zhu Yifeng's idea, Tian Youren gathered his colleagues and said to them, "That's how it is now. Lord Futai has a headache for this matter.

Now, with the efforts of Futai, Fujian should have silver. The strength of sailors and warships has increased sharply, and Fubiao town standards in various places. In the past six months * After many rectifications, the combat effectiveness has been greatly enhanced, so the time is basically ripe!

However, at present, Zheng Yiguan has emerged. This Zheng Yiguan has repeatedly attacked coastal areas in Zhangquan and other places, and even surpassed Chu Cailao and become a major harm!

So Lord Futai's headache now is whether it is better to suppress this sea wolf or Zheng Yiguan first. Since you and I are trustworthy by Lord Futai, we should make more suggestions for this matter!"

After listening to this, the staff immediately expressed their opinions. Some people suggested that Zheng Yiguan should be cleared and suppressing first. The reason is very simple. Zheng Yiguan came in for the most disasters, and this person is a new rise, and his strength should not be as strong as that of sea wolves. Zheng Yiguan has never dared to cross the Quanzhou area to Xinghua Prefecture and Fuzhou. The shore was in turmoil, which showed that Zheng Yiguan was also very afraid of sea wolves.

Since Zheng Yiguan is fierce now, he should use troops first, which is relatively more certain.

However, some people disagree with this opinion, because their reasons are also very sufficient. They know very well why Zhu Yifeng has made great efforts to repair combat gear and build boats after succeeding as Fujian governor for more than half a year. The main purpose is to deal with sea wolves and recover Nanri Island.

Although Zheng Yiguan is a disaster in Zhangquan, he is not on an island like a sea wolf. The more important reason is that Zheng Yiguan's whereabouts are uncertain, and now he can't figure out where his nest is.

If you want to suppress Zheng Yiguan, at least you have to find Zheng Yiguan's old camp before you can suppress it. But now even know where his old camp is. There are rumors that his old camp is now roughly in the Penghu area, but it is not clear on what island it is.

Even if he knew the location of Zheng Yiguan's old camp, Penghu was too far from the shore. The last time he lived in Yinan Futai in order to drive away the red-haired people who were in Penghu, he stirred up the masses, but it took a full year to finally drive the red-haired man out of Penghu.

Because Penghu is too far away, once it is used, it requires too much logistical support. It seems that some financial resources have been restored, but who knows how much it will cost in this battle.

There is another problem, that is, if Zheng Yiguan didn't compete with the officers and soldiers, he learned that the officers and soldiers were advancing and suppressing them, he directly sprinkled oil on the soles of his feet, abandoned his old camp, and found a random place to hide. The final result of the officers and soldiers still returned in vain. At that time, they opened their bows and did not turn back. If they could not catch the other party, it would become It's a joke.

On the contrary, Nanri Island, where sea wolves are coiled, is very close to the shore. From Xinghua Prefecture, the nearest place is only more than ten miles away, just lift your legs.

Moreover, the sea wolf has been operating Nanri Island for a long time and will not easily abandon it. Even now there are rumors that the sea wolf occupies a large area on Taiyuan Island and immigrated to cultivate. It seems that they want to regard Taiwan Yuan Island as their nest, but Taiwan Yuan Island is not a Ming territory. Their purpose is just to take the sea The wolf left Nanri Island and recovered Nanri Island. Even if he did his best, he could make a victory to the court.

Therefore, it is more certain to fight Nanri Island than to find Zheng Yiguan. The sea wolf is running away and the monk can't run away from the temple. As long as they are driven out of Nanri Island, it is not the key to destroy the sea wolf or not. It is enough to drive him to Taiyuan Island.

However, many people are worried about this proposal, because they have been paying attention to the movements of the sea wolves recently. Although the sea wolves have been relatively calm recently and have not been chaotic along the coast, they are still fresh in their memory of the power.

Last year, the sea wolf fleet bombarded Puxi, burned the Nanri Water Village, and annihilated the naval warships gathered in the Nanri Water Village, but they are still vivid.

It is rumored that the sea wolf can cast its own Hongyi cannon and build its own ship. This is no longer a rumor. It is basically certain that this is true.

More importantly, they have heard that the sea wolf fought a battle with a large fleet of the dry wax people on Taiwan Island and Manila. Instead of losing to the large fleet of the dry wax people, they made a big victory, almost destroying the large fleet of the dry wax people, and even captured two large splint ships of the dry wax people.

This is not a trivial matter. When Nanjuyi attacked the red-haired man in Penghu, he moved as many as many as 200 warships as the navy, while the red-haired man had only had a few large and small splint boats in Penghu, but always left the officers and sailors unable to do anything about it. After several battles, the officers and military sailors suffered heavy losses. They only heard that the sailors used fire boats and finally burned one A red-haired splint boat, and it is also a sling boat. There is nothing they can do about the other party's big splint boat.

However, the sea wolf destroyed the whole fleet of a large Thai splint ship based on their own strength, indicating that the strength of the sea wolf on the sea is probably not what they can deal with.

This is also the biggest reason to oppose the suppressing of sea wolves, and those who support the suppressing sea wolves have no solution to this. However, they believe that although the sea wolves are strong, they are thieves after all. Nanri Island is very close to land, and their advantages may not be brought into play.

What's more, after half a year of preparation, the officers and soldiers are not as bad as before. Many new warships have been built, and these warships have also tried to install some Hongyi cannons. Even if the sea wolf is strong in naval battle, they may not be able to stop the official fleet rushing to Nanri Island like the tide.

In addition, many of them have always been skeptical about the defeat of the sea wolf's fleet, believing that this matter is just a rumor. It may be the news released by the sea wolf itself. What's more, the battle took place on Taiwan Member Island. Except for the people of the sea wolf, no one else can confirm the authenticity of this matter. .