Chapter 42                                                             �

In March, the grass grows and the birds fly.

If the spring in Datong still has a trace of the cruelty of winter. However, the spring of inaction is already gentle. The drizzle is like the sadness that a girl has nowhere to spend, falling on people's hearts.

Wu Tinghan has grown a lot older. The villa he built was opened and saw the lake. The spring scenery of the lake seemed to be a beautiful embellishment in this season, reflected in his study. It added a hint of naughty spring to this serious and ancient study.

But at this moment, Wu Tinghan didn't care about this at all. He almost said furiously: "It's ridiculous that the Ming Dynasty raised millions of soldiers, which could make only dozens of people arrogant. It disturbs the place and makes it ridiculous."

Although Wu Tinghan has not been an official for a long time, he is a person who is indifferent to the sand. In recent years, he has been devoted to sorting out the theory of Qi and trying to find a new way out for Qi and he has left all ordinary things to his children.

After all, Wu Tinghan was old, had a high seniority, and was an official. In the local ecology of the Ming Dynasty, there were local gentry. Generally speaking, the county magistrate would not provoke the Wu family. The Wu family clan also relied on Wu Tinghan. Wu Tinghan said that he would not care about the matter, and his children below did not dare to trouble him with some trivial matters.

But what they have met now is no longer trivial matter.

An old man in his forties and fifties said, "Uncle, there is no other way in the clan. The county magistrate asked us to train the village soldiers, set up baojia, and protect the country and the people. Every household had to pay money. Uncle also knew that every family had a difficult sutra these days, so he could only ask for the uncle to come to him. Can he tell the county magistrate and waive the money and food of the Wu family."

Wu Tinghan fell into deep thought.

On the one hand, he knew that even though he had been an official, he had already left the tea. On weekdays, the county magistrate gave some respect for face. There were still some, but there were more. In such major matters involving money and food, Wu Tinghan might not have such a great face. After all, his academic knowledge was declining, and even if there were a few officials in Beijing, he would be far away from the water and not as thirsty as near. As for his relationship with Zhou Mengchen, Wu Tinghan did not publicize it to the outside world, and most people didn't know it.

After all, Wu Tinghan did not have the idea of ​​borrowing Zhou Mengchen's power.

It may not work even if he comes forward.

On the other hand, he also found that the situation was wrong.

The 32nd year of Jiajing was the year when Japanese pirates began to become rampant.

He had a series of war reports from last year to the present. He defeated Songjiang, went to Shanghai, fought Qingcun, Wenzhou, attacked Haiyan, and even went deep into the Yangtze River to attack Taiping and burned ships. The entire Nanzhili was panicked. The person who was the biggest stimulation to Wuwei locals was the Japanese pirates' battle to attack Taiping.

First of all, Taiping was too close to Wuwei. From Wuwei boarding the ship, he went down the Yangtze River. In just one or two hours, he arrived at Taiping Mansion. Wuwei was still called Wuwei in later generations. Taiping Mansion was called Dangtu in later generations. They were all located west of Nanjing. This influence was too bad.

The number of Japanese pirates was not large, and they actually did not invade Taiping City. They just snatched the market around the port of Taiping Prefecture, and burned the last fire.

As a result, the prefectures and counties around Taiping Prefecture became nervous. Like Wuwei's magistrate, there were naturally many people who collected money, grain and trained the soldiers in the village.

Dayi is here. Wu Tinghan doesn’t know how to refuse.

Compared with the four prefectures in Jiangnan, Wuweizhou is just a surprise. However, the Songjiang, Shanghai and Suzhou areas have been around since last year and this year, and the Japanese pirates have appeared repeatedly, making the Jiangnan area confused.

At this time, the largest Japanese pirates were Wang Zhi, Xu Hai, Chen Dong, and Ye Ming. As for the sporadic pirates, there were countless Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates attacking the Taiping Prefecture did not belong to one of these Japanese pirates. I don’t know where the sporadic Japanese pirates came from and went up to Taiping to save a vote.

Tang Kekuan, Lu Tong, Yu Dayou, and many other generals have also emerged in the past one or two years.

However, the Ming Dynasty had many problems in fighting against Japanese pirates.

The first is that there are few troops who can fight and dare to fight. Take Tang Kekuan as an example. He was originally from Xuzhou and was from a hereditary military family. He had become a deputy general. As a result, he failed in fighting against Japanese pirates and was demoted to a general. He left the road and received permission. He went back to his hometown to recruit soldiers. So he recruited thousands of soldiers from his hometown and then fought again. Although it cannot be said that he had never lost the battle. At least he was never demoted because of the defeat.

In fact, Qi Jiguang's experience of finding ways to recruit troops and fighting again after defeating the war was a common experience for many generals to beat the Japanese. Only the soldiers they recruited were not as good as Qi Jiguang.

In the entire Jiangnan, there are only a few armies, Yu Dayou's Fujian soldiers, Tang Kekuan's Lianghuai soldiers, Lu Tong's Zhejiang soldiers, and others cannot be fought.

The second problem is that the Japanese pirates do not have unified command. If they are beneficial, they gather together, and if they are not profitable, they will scatter. This makes the generals who quell the rebellion very troubled. Because if they have no way to judge the idea of ​​using the Tartars. After all, there are four or five big leaders and countless small leaders. Each person has one idea. How to judge how they fight?

If there were many soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, all regions would have been deployed. But the total number of troops that could be fought in Jiangnan was only 20,000 to 30,000.

The defense is as long as Haizhou in the north and Wentai in the south. How can there be no omissions?

In short, the 32nd year of Jiajing was a process of quantitative change to qualitative change. There were not any Japanese pirates before. However, the officials below tried every means to press down and cover the cover. With the speed of news transmission in this era, some things could be hidden.

There are only many good news.

In fact, the cabinet already felt that the situation in Jiangnan was not good. There was nothing wrong with it, and there were too many victories. After so many victories, it turned out that a powerful bandit leader was not caught, and it seemed that the war was far from over. The superiors had long doubted what happened in Jiangnan. So many victories were not a mess. After all, Tang Kekuan, Lu Tong, and Yu Dayou could still fight. It was just that the officials below wrote off all the defeats. This showed that the victory was always fought, but the more the war was, the bigger the war.

As a member of the Wu family and the highest-ranking one in the family, he had to think about the Wu family. However, as an official of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Tinghan also had to think about the court and the Ming Dynasty in his heart.

Wu Tinghan knew that even if the Wu family paid the money and the governor of Wuweizhou would not be able to spend money on the Wu family. He would be more to maintain the prefecture city and waterways. For the court, this was the only thing that could be done. But for the Wu family, this was not a good choice.

After all, Wuweizhou's waterway is crisscrossing. It is very likely that the Japanese pirates rushed out of that path. People from the Wu family may not be able to resist it.

"Master, the fifth young master is back." While Wu Tinghan was thinking, he suddenly heard someone coming to report outside.

Wu Tinghan felt aroused in his heart and said to himself: "But what happened to the north?" He immediately called Wu Guoshang in.

After Wu Guoshang came in and gave the ceremony, he stepped back and left and told Wu Tinghan all the things that burning experiments proved that everything was full of energy. After Wu Tinghan heard this, he stood up and wandered for a while. He asked Wu Guoshang some questions. Some of the Wu Guoshang can be answered, while some questions cannot be answered by Wu Guoshang.

Wu Tinghan sighed and said, "It seems that I am going to Datong."

Wu Guoshang said: "Today, the child is here to pick up his father."

Wu Tinghan said, "It's just that. Now there's something difficult." Wu Tinghan told the matter that the county magistrate wanted to collect money and grain. Wu Guoshang felt aroused and said, "Father, what's the problem? I have the name of the uncle in my hand. I don't believe that the county magistrate will not give his uncle face."

Wu Tinghan hesitated and said, "It's not good to always contribute to the court."

Wu Guoshang said, "Then it happens. This time, the uncle sent a hundred cavalry to escort the master to Datong. These hundred cavalry are all Datong elite cavalry and have experienced many battles. I left ten people at home and asked them to train the Wu family as coaches, and they could also do things for the county in a hurry. After all, even if they paid the money, how much money the county magistrate would have been put into practice. I heard that most of these Japanese pirates were only over a hundred. It was enough to leave so many people."

Wu Guoshang has been in Datong for a long time. Although he has never been on the battlefield, he has strong confidence. That is, Datong Jingqi is the best in the world.
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