The siege of Fuzhou City was finally successfully lifted after Xu Da and Li Jin arrived.
Chen Zuyi, the great pirate leader of Nanyang, united with the Japanese pirates in the southeastern coastal areas and mobilized an army of 100,000 pirates to capture Fuzhou City in one fell swoop.
In this way, he united the powerful nobles in Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as the chieftains in Guangxi and other places, to cause rebellion together.
Once Chen Zuyi completes his plan, he will be a big warlord sitting in three provinces.
Coupled with the support of 100,000 pirates behind it, it can be said that it can advance, attack, retreat or defend.
Chen Zuyi ambushed Deng Yu, Duke of Wei, in the Quanzhou area of Fujian and won a great victory.
Then besiege Fuzhou City. Once Fuzhou City is lost, the southwest will be in chaos, and Chen Zuyi will be able to complete his grand plan.
It's a pity that in the end, under the attack of Xu Da and Li Jin, the success fell short.
An army of 100,000 people was wiped out in ashes, and all the resources they had accumulated for several years were lost in one fell swoop.
Chen Zuyi eventually died and his family was wiped out. He died in Fuzhou City in the hands of Xu Da.
Hundreds of thousands of people were saved by Xu Da from the fire and water. It can be said that he turned the tide and helped the building to collapse.
Now that the siege of Fuzhou has been lifted, hundreds of thousands of people were released from the inner city by Deng Yu, but the outer city is now in ruins.
Next, it will take at least ten years of restoration before it can regain its former prosperity.
After hundreds of thousands of people left the city, they spontaneously began to put out fires in the city.
Xu Da and Li Jin met the disgraced Deng Yu at the camp outside the city.
Although Deng Yu was injured in many places at this time, his mental state was very exciting. After seeing Xu Da, he was even more excited and gave Xu Da a big hug.
"Xuda, I didn't expect you to actually come. Do you know that I thought I was going to die for my country?"
"It's so great that you showed up here in time!!! Hahaha!!!"
Xu Da was very happy to see that Deng Yu was in good condition.
After all, Deng Yu was an old brother who had followed Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the world for a long time. Xu Da and Deng Yu worked together under Zhu Yuanzhang, so naturally they had a good relationship.
Coupled with the fact that Deng Yu and Xu Da have similar personalities, they naturally get along very well.
"The superior heard that you were surrounded in Fuzhou City and in danger, so he quickly issued an order for me to lead the army south to come to the rescue."
"In the heart of the superior, your importance is higher than mine!"
Xu Da half-jokingly teased Deng Yu, but Deng Yu was filled with gratitude and cupped his hands toward the north and said:
"If it weren't for the blessing of the superior, I'm afraid you and I will never see each other again."
After saying that, Deng Yu looked at Li Jin.
I just feel that Li Jin is very unfamiliar, I have never seen him before, and I don’t understand why he appears next to Xu Da.
But seeing Li Jin's rich, handsome and handsome appearance, he knew that Li Jin was probably an extraordinary person, so he asked:
"I wonder what I call this little brother?"
"Li Jin, the magistrate of Shanghu County, has met Duke Wei."
When Li Jin saw Deng Yu asking him, he cupped his hands and replied:
"Hearing that Duke Wei was in critical condition, the emperor ordered me and Marshal Xu to rescue Duke Wei. Fortunately, we arrived in time."
"Mr. Wei is safe and sound. I believe the emperor will be very happy."
Deng Yu was even more confused. Why did he need to send a county magistrate to rescue him? Besides, Li Jin is so young, even if he goes to the battlefield, what use will he have?
Xu Da next to him explained:
"You have to thank Li Jin very much for being able to relieve the siege of Fuzhou this time."
"If it weren't for Li Jin, we wouldn't have been able to get to Fuzhou so quickly."
"It is precisely because of Li Jin's navy that we were able to reach Fuzhou Prefecture unimpeded."
"navy?"
Deng Yu's eyes were puzzled. He had never heard that the Ming Dynasty had this kind of army.
But judging from the name, it should be related to the sea. Could it be the navy?
But thinking of the sea, Deng Yu reflexively remembered Zhu Yuanzhang's sea ban. After the sea ban had been issued for so many years, the Ming Dynasty had no fleet able to go to sea.
"Wei Guogong, where did you come from?"
"maritime!"
Deng Yu suddenly couldn't sit still. You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to the ban on sea. He does not allow anyone to go to sea at all. If he is discovered, he will be beheaded immediately.
Now that Xu Da is openly violating Zhu Yuanzhang's ban, I'm afraid there will be no good results.
Xu Da knew what Deng Yu was worried about, so he simply explained:
"The emperor knows about this and has been secretly planning to go to sea for a long time. The person in charge of going to sea is County Magistrate Li in front of me."
Deng Yu was shocked and had to re-examine the young county magistrate in front of him.
Deng Yu knew how repulsive Zhu Yuanzhang was to going to sea.
When the sea ban was discussed, Deng Yu also participated, but Deng Yu did not express any opinions.
However, other censors and civil servants once advised that the sea should not be banned, because during the Song Dynasty, sea trade had become the main source of national finance.
Maritime trade was also very developed during the Yuan Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, maritime trade should continue to be developed to obtain overseas benefits.
Unfortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang believed that Japanese pirates were becoming increasingly rampant in coastal areas, and opening the sea would do more harm than good, and it would also make it easier for Japanese pirates to become more powerful.
Zhu Yuanzhang believed that the Ming Dynasty was vast and rich in resources and could be completely self-sufficient. He wanted to build a country that could survive healthily without relying on sea trade.
In addition, the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty was still in the north, so Zhu Yuanzhang issued a sea ban against all opinions.
For this reason, they also killed the imperial censor and the head of the household department because these officials insisted on preventing Zhu Yuanzhang from banning the sea.
Now, Zhu Yuanzhang actually took the initiative to choose to open the sea, and also handed the matter over to Li Jin, which fully demonstrates Li Jin's ability.
Although Deng Yu didn't know enough about the sea.
But as the Duke of Wei of the Ming Dynasty, Deng Yu knew how rampant Japanese pirates and pirates were in the Ming Dynasty.
These Japanese pirates were entrenched in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty and other places. They were like flies. Although they were annoying, their strength should not be underestimated. Otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have issued a sea ban to avoid these Japanese pirates.
However, Li Jin was able to lead the navy from the Zhejiang region in the north to Fuzhou unimpeded, and was able to break the siege of Fuzhou. It must be said that Li Jin did have two skills.
Deng Yu's attitude towards Li Jin has quietly changed. At first, he treated Li Jin as a junior, but now he treats Li Jin as an equal and a peer.
The three of them talked for a while, and then Xu Da suggested:
"Now that the crisis in Fuzhou City has been safely passed, we should immediately write to the emperor to explain the matter."
"At the same time, we must also report our victory to the court, so that all the princes in the court can feel at ease."
Deng Yu nodded in agreement, but Li Jin had no objection.
Soon, a victory document drafted by Xu Da and signed by Deng Yu and Li Jin was completed and sent to Yingtian at a speed of eight hundred miles.
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Go to the study room.
Hu Weiyong was reporting to Zhu Yuanzhang on the recent highway construction status.
"Your Majesty, the weather is cold now, and those Japanese slaves we originally bought have frozen to death."
Hu Weiyong looked sad. He didn't expect that building a highway would be such a troublesome thing.
The weather was so cold that many of the slaves they bought froze to death, and the progress of the project was repeatedly delayed.
Seeing that it was time to hand over the work, but the progress was not even half completed, Hu Weiyong was very panicked and had to cry to Zhu Yuanzhang again.
But Zhu Yuanzhang's current mood is very bad.
There is still no news about the battle situation in Fuzhou City.
It has been nearly ten days since Xu Da and the others went south, but neither Deng Yu in Fuzhou City nor Xu Da and Li Jin at sea reported military information.
This feeling of losing control made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry.
But now that he is far away in Yingtian City, the matters in Fuzhou City are beyond his reach, so he can only wait for the results quietly.
Hu Weiyong came to the door at this time and cried to Zhu Yuanzhang, which was basically hitting the muzzle of a gun.
"Bastard, it's already winter, don't you know how to buy some clothes for those slaves to protect them from the cold?"
"Why do we have to wait until people freeze to death before we realize the lack of manpower?"
"Where are the refugees you asked to recruit?"
When Hu Weiyong heard this, he felt bitter in his heart that he couldn't express.
When he first bought them, Li Jin had told them that these slaves were cheap and had to be used to death to be obedient.
Hu Weiyong discovered that these Japanese slaves did not need to be too kind to them, so he squeezed these Japanese slaves to death.
But who knew that these Japanese slaves were so intolerant to the cold that half of them froze to death in just a few days.
As for the refugees, if the refugees were allowed to work in such a cold weather, Hu Weiyong was afraid that they would freeze to death like slaves.
Refugees are different from slaves, they are the common people of the Ming Dynasty.
If a large number of people in the Ming Dynasty froze to death under Hu Weiyong's hands, then Hu Weiyong would not have to do it.
Hu Weiyong was about to explain when he suddenly heard a messenger outside the palace shouting excitedly:
"Great victory, Your Majesty, great victory in Fuzhou!!"
