Chapter 146                                                                                                                             

Zhou Mengchen said: "Where is Wu Ping now?"

Wang Daokun said: "Wu Ping entrenched on Nan'ao Island and gathered tens of thousands of people. He heard that he knew that after the army headed south, he was ready to use Nan'ao as the core to resist the royal army."

Zhou Mengchen said to himself: "Nan'ao." Then, he glanced at Xu Wei. Xu Wei immediately understood and took a map of Fujian from the side.

Zhou Mengchen took it, glanced gently on the map and said, "It seems that Nanao is not from Fujian, right?"

Wang Daokun said: "What the Lord said is. Nanao is the place where Fujian and Guangdong provinces are entrusted. Because of this, the two provinces are shirking each other. Both sides are unwilling to pay the bill, which made Wu Ping gradually grow up. He used Nanao as the foundation, recruited vendors and sailed across the East and West Oceans. He gathered tens of thousands of people. Moreover, Nanao is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and is a dangerous place."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Can there be a detailed map of South Australia?"

The map in Zhou Mengchen's hand is quite bad. For Nan'ao Island, it is just a sign that looks like a dumbbell, with the terrain on it, and the above is blank.

Wang Daokun said: "I am ashamed of myself, I am not."

Zhou Mengchen didn't say anything. He had two generals Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, and had 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers who dared to fight. No matter how dangerous Nan'ao was, what could it be? If this matter was left to Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang joined forces, Zhou Mengchen was naturally relieved.

However, Zhou Mengchen had fought many wars and had long been used to knowing it before fighting. Then he asked about the map. It would be fine if he didn't. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, it was normal for many places to have maps, and it was abnormal to have maps. And even if there were maps, the accuracy of the map was not worth believing.

Zhou Mengchen said: "What is the third problem?"

Wang Daokun said: "In theory, this third problem is not in Fujian, but we must worry about it. This person is Zhang Lian, Guangdong. He just started a rebellion in Meixian County and occupied the junction of the two provinces. I just heard that he seemed to have become emperor."

Zhou Mengchen was stunned and said, "Have you been promoted to emperor?"

Wang Daokun said: "It seems to be true."

Zhou Mengchen suddenly became angry and said, "Why not speak early?"

Zhou Mengchen can handle ordinary thieves calmly, but if someone below proclaims emperor, then the time will be different. For the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Mengchen was a serious dereliction of duty. Although Zhou Mengchen governed the six provinces more to suppress the Japanese pirates, if Zhang Lian was determined to be emperor, no matter how many people he had under his command, everything from Guangdong Province to Zhou Mengchen would be responsible.

Wang Daokun said: "There is no intention of reporting in Guangdong, so it is easy for us to break it out? However, I heard that the fight in Guangdong was not going well."

Zhou Mengchen was also helpless when he heard this.

He understood the mood of Guangdong very well. After all, a great thief who suddenly came out of the emperor was to sacrifice his merits. He first slapped the thief, and then reported it to the court to minimize the influence. Zhou Mengchen thought that if he had been, he would have done this.

However, Zhou Mengchen did not think that Guangdong Province could get what he wanted. On the one hand, it was an understanding of the southeastern troops. Guangdong Province has been fighting for wars for a while, not a big battle, but some wars of the plains and the ground. All Guangdong still has some elite soldiers.

But the problem is that the situation in the entire Southeast is related to Zhang Lian's geographical location.

The Japanese pirates seriously disturbed the people's livelihood in the southeast. In order to pacify the Japanese, the imperial court abused the people's power in the southeast. This is why Zhou Mengchen would rather withdraw money from banks than increase taxes, or use money at the prefecture-level level because the people's power in the south of the Yangtze River have been overdrawn.

The Jiangnan area was the richest place in the Ming Dynasty. This was the case in Jiangnan, so there was no need to say anything else.

This is also a natural disaster and man-made disaster.

Although the imperial court certainly had the idea of ​​increasing taxes from various places and subsidizing military use, the most important reason was the increase in the amount of officials below.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen had been mentally prepared for someone to cause trouble below. Since someone had taken the initiative, it would not be able to calm down in one or two days. Secondly, it was because of geographical reasons.

When Zhou Mengchen saw Zhang Lian’s location, where was the handover between the two provinces, it was clearly the handover between the three provinces, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong, and there were mostly mountains. As mentioned before, the terrain between Wenzhou and Taizhou in the south of Zhejiang was actually similar to that of Fujian, but was classified into Zhejiang. By the same token, Chaozhou was actually closer to Fujian in humanities and geography, but was classified into Guangdong.

The same is true.

However, the Guangdong army can only take action in Guangdong and must not cross provinces. This will cause great inconvenience to military operations.

Due to the fact that the proclaimed emperor, Guangdong does not want to inform Fujian. How to inform us? Someone who has proclaimed himself emperor. If we talk to Fujian, Fujian will not be in charge of Guangdong. If we don’t say it, as long as Fujian joins the encirclement and suppression, this matter will not be hidden.

Maybe the board on it has been knocked down before Zhang Lian has been taken down.

Zhou Mengchen took a deep breath and said, "Tell me about this Zhang Lian."

Wang Daokun said: "Yes. The lower officials don't know much about Zhang Lian, but they know that he participated in Zheng Bayi, Dapu and made trouble. Zheng Baxuan died and his subordinates belonged to Zhang Lian, and made a big fame in the hands of Zhang Lian. The reason why the lower officials paid attention to him was because many Fujian bandits came out in full swing and defected to Zhang Lian. The momentum was huge. I guess that Zhang Lian's subordinates are not less than Wu Ping, and they are even above Wu Ping. Because Zhang Lian's troops are hidden in the deep mountains, many things cannot be understood. I am worried that Zhang Lian will have a great trouble in the future."

Zhou Mengchen said, "It has become a big problem." Zhou Mengchen pressed his forehead slightly, and he was completely unprepared for this matter. It also shows that the so-called governor of six provinces and eight provinces is simply not feasible. This is why the governor system in the Qing Dynasty was at most two or three provinces. Because no matter how many, it was impossible to control it.

If Zhou Mengchen hadn't come to Fujian, how could he know that the Guangdong region would have pressed such a big thunder.

On the one hand, Zhou Mengchen was worried that this thunder would affect him. On the other hand, he was even more worried that if such a big problem occurred without any preparation, it would affect his governance in Fujian.

Zhou Mengchen was silent for a while and said, "Brother Wang, you and I won't be polite. What do you think Zhang Lian should deal with?"

Wang Daokun said, "The officials thought that Zhang Lian would rather let him go first."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Why?"

Wang Daokun said: "At this moment, Guangdong will oppose it. When Guangdong makes a mess, it will definitely ask the adults to intervene. At that time, it will naturally get cooperation from the top and bottom. Moreover, it is better to make mistakes than to make the achievements."

Zhou Mengchen smiled bitterly in his heart. This is a very realistic question.

Zhou Mengchen didn't know at all about what the situation was like in Guangdong. He didn't care much as long as Guangdong didn't report any Japanese pirates. On the one hand, he couldn't take care of it. After all, Zhou Mengchen had a lot of things, and Guangdong was very far away.

He knew that Guangdong had been quelling chaos and encircling bandits. But that was all. I heard from Wang Daokun that Zhang Lian was already the second-generation leader of these bandits, and the first generation was also called Zheng Ba.

With the mentality of covering up and down in Guangdong, Zhou Mengchen rashly intervened, not only would he not get kindness, but he would even be blamed. After seeing what Ruan E did, Zhou Mengchen's team no longer had any illusions about provincial officials and themselves.

When Guangdong cannot cover the lid, Zhou Mengchen intervenes again, he can punish Guangdong for this matter and replace it with a few people he caring about. It will also be very helpful for the subsequent quelling of the chaos.

Moreover, Zhou Mengchen has not finished his work in Fujian yet. Even if he wants to intervene, he will not be able to free up his troops for a while.

Zhou Mengchen thought of this and said, "Okay, let's do it according to Brother Wang's wishes. However, we cannot do nothing here. We also ask Brother Wang to send some people to guard Yongding Pinghe and other places. We cannot let Zhang Lian cross the line. We cannot let Zhang Lian affect our affairs."

Wang Daokun immediately bowed and said, "The emperor understands."
Chapter completed!