Chapter 405 404 Fujian defeated

Wei Guangde had his own goal, so from that moment on, he seemed extremely enthusiastic about Professor Yu.

Because of the meaning of the palace, Wei Guangde searched for information in the name of finding documents related to northern Mongolia, and actually collected and sorted out information related to Maritime and Trade.

Wei Guangde has seen many problems based on what he has collected now. At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he actually wanted to close down and be self-sufficient. This may be influenced by Zhu Yuanzhang's background.

He may think that wealth should be accumulated bit by bit and stayed in China, without knowing that through transactions, we can make wealth more.

Therefore, even though limited trading began during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, there were more policies that were forced to adopt.

It is like the tea-horse trade carried out in the border areas. The fundamental purpose is to solve the problem of insufficient war horses in the Ming army. It is carried out in an official mode, which not only controls the total transaction volume but also increases the income of the court.

Although the idea is good, after a hundred years of development, it has long become corrupt.

Judging from the information we found, Wei Guangde found that during the Hongwu period, the price of a high-quality horse in the tea-horse trade was 120 kilograms of tea, but now it is 80 kilograms. It seems that tea is more valuable, and the price of horses is falling.

But the reality is that tea prices have risen a little over the past century, but the rate of increase is far less than that of the high-quality horse prices.

It seems that tea prices rose and horse prices fell in the tea-horse trade were beneficial to the court, but the actual result was that the Ming army now lacked war horses.

Are the horses that trade really less changing due to exchange value?

It may not be that a large number of horses were not traded to the court. It seemed that the court profited, but in fact it was at the cost of the weakening of the military's combat power. The horses had already flowed into the private markets.

Wei Guangde planned to talk about these things against King Yu later, but now he still has to finish the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the northern grassland ethnic groups first.

However, what he didn't know was that Yin Shidan and Zhang Juzheng outside the window also began to whisper.

"Is this what Shandai said appropriate?"

Zhang Juzheng was a little confused. He didn't know how Gao Gong and Chen Yiqin taught King Yu when he was there.

Although Yin Shidan also felt that something was wrong, some of the things Wei Guangde said were actually reasonable when he thought about, but there were slight differences with the current court.

However, Wei Guangde did not impose his will on King Yu. After all, King Yu is already an adult and has his own thoughts. Therefore, when Wei Guangde analyzed, he told King Yu about the current views of the outside world and the opinions he still obtained from the information. For King Yu himself, the most important thing is to encourage King Yu to have his own thoughts.

Yin Shidan looked inside through the window. King Yu was older than Wei Guangde, and the situation in the room really felt a little inconsistent.

"It's just to put forward some ideas, which is not a rebellious one."

Yin Shidan whispered to Zhang Juzheng, "In fact, Your Highness is already an adult. He has his own thoughts. Suqing often teaches Your Highness this way."

One of the most important reasons why Gao Gong was respected by King Yu was that Gao Gong would not impose his ideas on King Yu, but would explain them from many aspects when explaining, and those that were recognized by the outside world, and those that were refuted. In the end, what King Yu chose to believe depends on King Yu's own ideas.

When King Yu and King Jing left the palace, they were actually considered adults and had completed basic education in the palace, but their thoughts were not mature enough.

Gao Gong's education on King Yu can be regarded as teaching according to his aptitude, but the result seems to be very good, and he is very compatible with King Yu's temper.

At this moment, a little eunuch appeared at the gate of the courtyard. He came in with a note in his hand. Seeing Yin Shidan by the window, he walked over quickly after taking two steps in three steps.

Yin Shidai laid the sleeves of Juzheng, and the two left the windowsill and walked over.

The eunuch handed over the note in his hand, and perhaps he knew that his prince was in class inside, so he lowered his voice and said, "The news sent back by Lord Gao."

Although the status of King Yu seems to have been cleared, the Prince Yu's mansion still did not relax his vigilance and stared at the troubles in the court every day. Whenever there is a major incident, the Prince's mansion will know it as soon as possible.

In the past, such news had to be bribed to the clerks in various yamen to inquire. Now that Gao Gong has become an official in the court, the news has become more informative, and naturally he also plays the responsibility of informing others.

He took the note and nodded to him. After the eunuch left, Yin Shidan looked down at the note in his hand, and then frowned.

Zhang Ju was not talking, but Yin Shidan did not come over when he was reading the notes.

Yin Shidan took Zhang Juzheng into the house next to him, and then handed the note in his hand to Zhang Juzheng, saying, "You can take a look, Fujian has suffered a defeat and the encirclement has failed."

"So fast?"

Zhang Juzheng was a little surprised. How long has it been since the court made the decision to wipe out the rebels? Fujian launched the first encirclement and suppression operation, which is not in line with his impression of the efficiency of local governments.

Yin Shidan understood what he meant and smiled bitterly, "The court asked Zhang Lian and his gang of thieves that the Fujian government could not have guessed that the capital had already known it. At that time, it should have begun to dispatch troops and generals to be encircled and suppressed.

Moreover, the previous memorials actually mentioned that when Zhang Lian and others were bandits, the local government actually mobilized large troops to encircle and suppress them, but they were unable to completely wipe them out.

Because it was September and October, I was worried that the Japanese pirates would arrive as they were, so I dispatched a large army to suppress the thieves to return to the coastal prefectures to defend against the Japanese pirates."

"I think it was the time when they were almost wiped out, which made the rebels awaken. They would sooner or later be wiped out by the imperial army. It would be better to join forces to strengthen their strength, and it would be even less likely to be wiped out."

Zhang Juzheng had read the notes in his hand and sighed and said, "What a pity."

"The next year, March and April are the time when the Japanese pirates come to the east. There are only two months left in the middle, so I am afraid that I can't encircle it. After all, I have already occupied 100,000 people. If the army is not drawn, it will be difficult to completely wipe out it out in one go."

Yin Shidan was already sitting in his position and said to Zhang Juzheng, "Actually, the way Shandai said might be better at that time.

Mobilize the official army to station in the prefectures and counties outside the thief, block the thief's forces and expand outward. As long as people are blocked in the encirclement, you only need to wait until the surrounding army is mobilized and then wipe out one after another."

"It is impossible to eliminate the rebels at once, as it will indeed damage the majesty of the court and will also increase the morale of the rebels. The morale of the surrounding officials will also be damaged. It should not be."

Zhang Juzheng nodded and agreed, "Will the court transfer Shandao to this failure?"

"Not that, there are many elite soldiers and powerful generals in the south, and there is no shortage of Wei Guangde."

Yin Shidan shook his head and said, "Even Tan Lun from Zhejiang should be able to do it. I heard that he has trained an army in the past two years and has made great achievements in fighting against Japanese pirates. I think the court will choose to choose the generals nearby, but I just hope that he will not go back to the old path and hurriedly send troops to encircle and suppress the enemy, but in the end he returned in disgrace."

It has been more than half a month since Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng were ordered to enter Prince Yu's Mansion, and now it has come to December of the 39th year of Jiajing. When the various yamen were about to be sealed, news from Fujian came and soon spread throughout all yamen in the capital.

Almost all officials looked shocked when they heard the news.

They were surprised by the speed of the Fujian government's reaction, and they mobilized their troops so quickly to start to encircle and suppress the rebels. On the other hand, they felt unacceptable that the official army was defeated by the rebels so quickly.

Fujian is not a peaceful place. The official army there has participated in the pursuit of Japanese pirates many times, so there must be practical experience, but such an army was defeated in a few days.

Before, most of the Beijing officials were disdainful to Zhang Lian and his gang of rebels. In their opinion, they were just gathering 100,000 mobs, and taking advantage of the opportunity of the court's full efforts to eliminate the Japanese pirates to occupy the mountain and become king. Once the official army becomes serious, it can be destroyed every once in a while.

But now it seems that this is not the case at all.

By this time, many people remembered that Fujian was similar to the southwest, and it was all mountainous. It seemed that it was really difficult to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress rebels.

Think about the southwest region, there are actually many rebels of all sizes not being wiped out. However, they are all known as kings, and none of them dare to be emperor like Zhang Lian, who dares to be the emperor.

Moreover, because Zhang Lian has now raised the banner of rebellion, the court must be particularly concerned, so he dare not hide the news just like in the past, and only reports it if it cannot be hidden. Instead, he immediately reported the news of the defeat to the capital.

Who knows if the Jinyiwei has been staring here all the time?

Yin Shidan and Zhang Juzheng in the room were still talking about Fujian, and they heard the sound of Wei Guangde and King Yu talking and laughing outside. It should be the end of this class.

The two stood up and walked out. Sure enough, they saw that King Yu had walked out of the study door, followed by Wei Guangde and Li Fang.

"Your Highness."

Yin Shidan and Zhang Juzheng hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Two gentlemen, flat."

King Yu hurriedly reached out to help him and said.

"This is the news from outside today. Please take a look at it too."

Yin Shidan stood up, took out the note just now from his arms and handed it to King Yu.

"There is nothing big in the court today, it's almost the New Year."

King Yu smiled relaxedly at this moment, and before Li Fang could go over, he reached out to take the note handed over by Yin Shidan. He looked down and frowned in an instant.

Although Wei Guangde, beside King Yu, was very curious whether something had happened in the court today. He saw that Yin Shidan and Zhang Juzheng's expressions were not as relaxed as they looked, but he was just curious, and he would know in a while.

Li Fang on the other side just took two steps. When King Yu reached out to take the note, he had already retreated to King Yu.

"How could it be so fast that it was defeated in just three days."

King Yu had already read the notes in his hand and looked up at Yin Shidan in disbelief.

Yin Shidan smiled bitterly, "How can you be defeated if you are ambushed?"

Zhang Juzheng next to him had a serious face from beginning to end. When King Yu didn't ask him, he would choose to stand there quietly without saying a word.

Failed? Hunting?

Wei Guangde naturally guessed what happened. No wonder Yin Shidan and Zhang Juzheng both appeared with those faces. It was indeed bad news.

As expected, King Yu is the future emperor. As long as anything that is unfavorable to the court happens now, it is actually unfavorable to King Yu.

This has long been agreed in the Yu Royal Party that they have the awareness of purging the ruling of the dynasty and laying a solid foundation for the Yu Royal ascending the throne. It is no longer the same as before, but just for their respective promotions and interests.

In the end, the king of Yu belongs to him. If he was really beaten by that group of thieves, the one who suffered the loss in the end would still be the king of Yu. Why don’t they come forward to deal with it?

However, Wei Guangde did not agree with Yin Shidan's words.

Who said that if you fall into an ambush, you will definitely fail?

That is just what literati subconsciously think, as if they say so in books, as if they must be defeated if they are ambushed. Who stipulates?

If the official army has strong combat power, even if it is ambushed by the mob, the winner will be unknown. It only means that the army is either too arrogant or has made such a command mistake.

Wei Guangde has carefully paid attention to the information in Fujian and concluded that thieves are mobs. How powerful can an army composed of Fujian's cellars, boatmen, miners, and refugees have?

"Tell me in the house."

After hearing Yin Shidan's words, King Yu nodded slightly, and then took everyone back to the study room. However, the study room was no longer his class, but the place where they discussed the matter.

King Yu handed the note to Wei Guangde and asked him to see it too.

Although Wei Guangde had roughly guessed something on the side before the two talked, he still looked down.

Sure enough, tens of thousands of Ming troops gathered in Zhangzhou Prefecture and set out to fight against the bandits. On the third day, most of them retreated and returned.
To be continued...