Chapter 194 piracy to contain

After reading this letter, Xiong Wencan almost burst into tears and repeatedly said to the servant that Yu Xiaotian still missed the past and did not see the wrong person at the beginning.

Although Xiong Wencan was dismissed this time because of Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian came to give him help in the snow at this time, which immediately made Xiong Wencan feel warm. He even went out in person and met the head of the family who led the team and escorted him back to his hometown. The people showed great respect for Xiong Wencan. , Xiong Wencan is very comforting.

In particular, the 200 families sent by Yu Xiaotian are very tough. At first glance, they are elite soldiers. At this time, Xiong Wencan is relieved that at least there will be no trouble on the way back to his hometown this time.

He has been an official for so many years and has really accumulated a lot of money. Now he has been dismissed and sent back to his hometown, which will cause some people to make things difficult along the way, and may even attract some thieves to worry about him. Although he also raises dozens of family members, I'm afraid he can't guarantee his safety.

On the way from Guangdong to my hometown in Sichuan, the mountains are high and dense, and you have to keep changing boats along the way. God knows what will happen.

Many officials were ambushed by evil people on their way back to their officials or were dismissed, and they were killed on the way home. There are many such things, and now there are many soldiers and horses everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and they are extremely unsafe on the way.

With these 200 powerful families, he was restless along the way, and Yu Xiaotian understood that these families did not need to be raised by him, and Yu Xiaotian would be responsible for their expenses, which was equivalent to giving Xiong Wencan another big gift. At this time, Xiong Wencan was still grateful to Xiaotian.

The reason why Yu Xiaotian sent Xiong Wencan to these two hundred family officials is undoubtedly to show the world that he is not the kind of person who knows how to repay his kindness. Xiong Wencan treats him well. Now because he is implicated and withdraws from office and returns home, he can't forget this friendship, and he is not powerful. Because Xiong Wencan was demoted, he avoided him like a snake and scorpion.

In addition, he also did this for a purpose. By escorting Xiong Wencan back to his hometown, he sent 200 elite men to Sichuan first to make it exist openly in Sichuan as Xiong Wencan's family, which can be regarded as a foreshadowing for the future strategy in Sichuan in advance.

Now that Xiong Wencan has been demoted, the current situation will change greatly. Since Xiong Wencan cannot be the governor of the five provinces, it is difficult to appease Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others with Wang Jiazhen's ability. In the future, the development of the current situation will completely deviate from the original trajectory.

Now Yu Xiaotian can't see where the development of the exile army will go in the future, but one thing can be certain that with the current ability of Daming, it is absolutely impossible to completely eliminate these exiles. Even if the accomplices Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are killed, more will emerge in the future. The strategy currently adopted by Daming is invincible for the exiles.

And Chongzhen's current idea is obviously to eliminate the exiles before considering how to deal with Yu Xiaotian. Poor Chongzhen is afraid that this idea will be completely defeated. He doesn't know where he is wrong, so it is impossible for the exiles to be completely eliminated.

Even if Chongzhen almost eliminated the exiles, there was still a group of Jiannu in the north who were still staring at the Ming Pass. It was impossible for Chongzhen to free up his hand to deal with Yu Xiaotian.

Now he is waiting for an opportunity to destroy the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop. Although he is also very clear that the change of any dynasty is inseparable from a large-scale bloody storm and the overthrow of the whole society, he still thinks that when he rebelled, he can overcome the suffering of the Chinese people. Reduce some and reduce the destruction of social resources, and he thinks this opportunity is not far from him.

Yu Xiaotian couldn't get sick for more than half a year. The court sent people to inquire about his condition several times and sent people to visit Yu Xiaotian, but the result was that Yu Xiaotian was very ill. Even the officials who were sent to visit Yu Xiaotian replied to the court that Yu Xiaotian was infected with heavy soldiers.

After listening to this, Chongzhen still couldn't rest assured, so he sent three imperial doctors south to visit Yu Xiaotian to find out on his behalf whether Yu Xiaotian was really ill.

However, three imperial doctors have not yet entered Fujian. As soon as they arrived in Chuzhou, they were attacked by bandits on the way. Three imperial doctors were killed on the spot, and the remaining two imperial doctors also disappeared inexplicably. Afterwards, the local government found out that the thief who attacked the team of imperial doctors was active in the area of Huoying Mountain (Dabie Mountain area). ) The old man returned to what the subordinates had done.

As a result, the matter of sending a royal doctor to investigate Yu Xiaotian's condition could only end. Chongzhen had to believe the news sent back by Fujian, that is, Yu Xiaotian was sick and was not serious.

Chongzhen and the ministers still breathed a long sigh of relief. Yu Xiaotian was seriously ill, which was good news for the court. As long as Yu Xiaotian could not afford to be seriously ill, there would be no threat to Daming, and even Yu Chongzhen secretly cursed that Yu Xiaotian had better not get sick this time and completely hang up. It's good to drop it! That's equivalent to God cutting off a huge confidant for him.

Since Yu Xiaotian was in poor health, Chongzhen could no longer transfer him north to calm the chaos. Therefore, during the whole ten years of Chongzhen, Fujian seemed quite calm. Yu Xiaotian did not go to trouble with the government, and the government did not take the initiative to provoke Xiaotian.

However, Fujian officials still cut off the supply of food and salaries to Xiaotian's headquarters for ten years, trying to curb Xiaotian's men in terms of grain and money.

In the first few months, Yu Xiaotian could not see the matter because of his "serial illness", and this matter never broke out, but after the end of the year, Yu Xiaotian's men finally broke out. Zhangquan, Xinghuafu, Jianning, Yanping, Ting, Tingzhou and other places, under Yu Xiaotian's command, almost at the same time, rushed into the city under the leadership of the military generals, Bao He surrounded the local magistrate's office and local government gates, arrested the local officials, and beat them in public for food and salary.

Yu Xiaotian's generals claimed that if the government no longer paid them food, they would kill the officials and rebel and send troops to Fuzhou City. Under pressure, Fujian officials had to allocate part of the grain to the Yu family army, which slightly appeased the Yu family soldiers and did not let the Yu family army continue to make trouble.

Through this incident, Fujian officials also realized that it was basically impossible to control the Yu family army under Xiaotian's command. Doing so could only force Xiaotian's men to make trouble earlier.

During this period, the Fujian government has also repeatedly tried to divide the military departments and take some measures to induce some of the subordinates under Xiaotian to leave Xiaotian and be used by the imperial court, but such actions have little effect, and it can even be said that they have no effect at all. .

Some of these military generals who were loded outrightly refused to face, while others were falsely entrusting and laughing, but resolutely refused to listen to the government's greetings.

Nowadays, due to the tense relationship between Yu Xiaotian's department and the government, something will sometimes come out in various places. Of course, there are also some bandits who take the opportunity to make trouble. The government can't transfer the soldiers under Xiaotian's jurisdiction at all, and can only be soft on Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian is different from other warlords. Yu Xiaotian has its own financial supply and does not depend on the grain and salaries allocated by the government and court, so he can completely stay out of the system, so that the Ming government and court have no way to deal with him. This is why the government and the court have always been taboo about Xiaotian. The reason why I dare not touch him easily.

Although Yu Xiaotian was seriously ill, the work of the sea wolf did not stop. All aspects of affairs were handled by special personnel and gradually moved forward according to the plan.

A new infantry battalion and artillery battalion were formed in various places, and training was carried out in full swing in various places. Various weapons began to be distributed and equipped into the newly formed troops.

The navy has complained a little about the continuous expansion of the army. Now that their navy controls almost all the coast of China, and each fleet is responsible for a considerable sea area, but Yu Xiaotian did not add many ships to the navy or give them a large number of troops. It is just that the fleets have expanded one sea. Barracks, to put it bluntly, is the marines of later generations.

Once needed, these naval camps can not only station some coastal fortresses, but also carry out some landing operations independently without the involvement of the army.

However, at the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian "dragged the sick body" and summoned the commanders of the major fleets and talked with them for a long time. Only then did these naval generals return to their jurisdiction with satisfaction and no longer raise the plan of expansion.

As for what Yu Xiaotian talked about with the admiral, others little about it. After these naval generals went back, they also kept silent about it, so after a period of time, no one cared about it.

In a word, in terms of the army, from ten years to the first half of the 11th year, 16 battalions were expanded, two artillery battalions, eleven infantry battalions, two heavy battalions, one cavalry battalion, and 20,000 troops were expanded, making the army generals open his mouth and Meng Fei and others happy to grin and see the sea again. When those colleagues in the army, their chins were raised one by one.

The performance of this army made the naval generals scoff and ridicule their army colleagues from time to time. There was a lot of friction between them. The army said that they were the backbone of the family army, but the navy mocked them that without their navy, the army would be a ball! If the army from south to north wants to maneuver along the coast and leave the navy to transport them, they can rely on their two legs!

If there is no navy to supply the army, then the army's group of turtles may not even eat shit in the future. As a result, such a dispute often leads to a fight between the two sides, one by one.

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