Zhu Yuanzhang, who was reprimanding Hu Weiyong, heard the shout of victory coming from outside the door just as he opened his mouth.
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked, and his eyes turned directly from Hu Weiyong to outside the palace and towards the door.
Not long after, a messenger, covered in dust and with a weathered face, rushed in from the door like wind.
"Great victory, the battle of Fuzhou City. Wei Guogong Xu Da joined forces with Deng Yu and Li Jin to defeat the pirates under Fuzhou City."
"More than 100,000 pirates were wiped out, and countless people were killed."
Zhu Yuanzhang's face showed a look of ecstasy, he slapped the case and stood up, shouting:
"Okay, Xu Da has lived up to our expectations for him."
Hu Weiyong and Zhu Biao in the palace were dumbfounded when they heard the battle report. They were stunned by Xu Da's amazing achievements.
The little eunuch beside him hurriedly presented the memorial in the hand of the messenger to Zhu Yuanzhang.
After picking up the memorial, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't wait to read it, wanting to see how Xu Da used more than 17,000 men to defeat the pirate's 100,000 army.
Zhu Biao stood aside, tilting his head and looking at the memorial.
After Zhu Yuanzhang read it, he was overjoyed.
Beautiful, so beautiful.
It can be said that Xu Da's battle perfectly achieved Zhu Yuanzhang's strategic purpose.
Not only did they wipe out an army of more than 100,000 pirates in one fell swoop, but even the pirate leader, Chen Zuyi, was shot to death.
From now on, the waters of the South China Sea in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions will be clear and free from pirate intrusions.
The Japanese pirates and pirates in Fujian were also wiped out by Li Jin and his people.
Pinghu Camp can be said to be a perfect naval base. Zhu Yuanzhang keenly discovered this episode in the memorial.
After Li Jin proposed to capture Pinghu Camp, Xu Da's move south this time was basically in an invincible position.
Pinghu Daying is isolated overseas, but it is the most critical island guarding the Fujian waters.
It is connected to the Fujian and Zhejiang regions to the north, the Nanhai and Guangdong and Guangxi regions to the south.
It can be said that if the sea is to be opened in the future, all merchant ships that want to trade with Nanyang will pass through this area.
Li Jin suggested that Xu Da attack the Pinghu camp, which can be said to have hit the snake more than seven inches.
Then Xu Da's plan to lure the enemy deeper and burn the city with fire was even more devastating, wiping out a hundred thousand pirates in one fell swoop, without even using a single soldier on his own.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang was also very shocked by the effect of artillery being used on a large scale for the first time on the battlefield.
A total of ten thousand pirates, under the baptism of artillery, could not survive a cup of tea.
With such terrifying lethality, he deserves to be called the God of War.
Zhu Yuanzhang agreed very much with Li Jin's evaluation, and felt that the evaluation of artillery as the god of war was very pertinent.
At the end, Xu Da summarized the battle.
In this battle, the Ming army killed a total of 103,000 pirates and captured more than 17,000 pirates.
Most of these pirates were lucky enough to escape by hiding in wells or creeks in the city.
After seeing the Ming army approaching the border, these pirates did not accept death as Chen Zuyi did, but directly chose to surrender.
After all, after being hungry for two days, they couldn't muster the strength even if they wanted to fight the Ming army.
“Okay, that’s really great!!”
After Zhu Yuanzhang read it, he exclaimed in surprise. He had originally planned to hold a funeral for Deng Yu, but he didn't expect that it would take a turn for the worse.
Xu Da not only rescued Deng Yu, but also killed Chen Zuyi, Zhu Yuanzhang's henchman.
Even the 100,000 pirates under Chen Zuyi will all be wiped out, which can be said to be an outstanding achievement.
Zhu Biao followed Zhu Yuanzhang and read the memorial all over, feeling very happy in his heart.
However, when he thought about the hundreds of thousands of people in Fuzhou who were homeless, Zhu Biao still couldn't bear it, and he said to Zhu Yuanzhang:
"Father, the city of Fuzhou has been destroyed by fire and the people have been displaced."
"My ministers thought that we should allocate money to Fuzhou and let the prefect of Fuzhou build houses for the people."
Speaking of the prefect of Fuzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't look very good and snorted coldly:
"Qian Yu, the prefect of Fuzhou, had fled back to his hometown in Zhejiang the day before the pirates besieged the city."
Zhu Biao was stunned, but seemed to have thought of something and continued to admonish:
"In this case, it is better to let Li Jin stay here and serve as the prefect."
"Li Jin has the ability to govern. Let him act as the governor of Fuzhou. It will not take a few years for Fuzhou to return to its former prosperity."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his eyes lit up, but in the end Zhu Yuanzhang still shook his head and refused:
"Li Jin can't leave Shanghu County yet, he has more important things to do."
Zhu Biao didn't know why, and he didn't know what Zhu Yuanzhang meant by the more important things.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not explain, but looked at Hu Weiyong and said:
"Wei Yong, there is a way to build a highway."
Hu Weiyong had kept his head down, listening to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao discussing matters in Fuzhou. He felt that matters in Fuzhou had nothing to do with him.
After all, as long as he repairs the highway honestly, everything will be fine and his promotion will go smoothly.
Now after hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, he couldn't help but look at Zhu Yuanzhang with doubtful eyes.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't talk nonsense. He just threw the memorial to Hu Weiyong and asked him to take a good look at it.
Hu Weiyong picked up the memorial and read it carefully, word for word, from beginning to end, for fear of missing a few words.
After reading the last sentence, Hu Weiyong felt deeply shocked. Not only was he shocked that Xu Da broke from 10,000 to 100,000, but more importantly, Zhu Yuanzhang had already done such a big thing behind the backs of his ministers.
Go to sea! ! navy! ! Destroy the Japanese pirates! !
Hu Weiyong did not expect that a few days ago, there was a lot of buzz in the capital that Shanghu County was going to sea, but it turned out to be true.
And looking at this matter now, the driving force behind it is Zhu Yuanzhang.
Li Jin is just a pawn, the real boss is the current emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although I don’t understand why Zhu Yuanzhang changed his mind and wanted to go to sea, judging from this memorial, Zhu Yuanzhang’s plan to go to sea has basically been completed.
Apart from anything else, Shanghu County had secretly built a naval fleet capable of sweeping away Japanese pirates. This alone showed that Zhu Yuanzhang had already begun planning and implementing the matter of going to sea.
But Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang knew nothing about this. They thought they were Zhu Yuanzhang's number one confidants before, but now it seems that they still don't know many things.
This made Hu Weiyong break into a cold sweat.
This memorial stated that the Ming army led the naval fleet to sweep away the Japanese pirates in Zhejiang and the largest pirate gang in the south. Now all preparations for going to sea have been completed.
It seems that Zhu Yuanzhang no longer intends to hide it anymore, and will announce the lifting of the sea ban on another day.
Hu Weiyong couldn't help but swallowed when he thought of this.
If this is the case, then their Huaixi Group is already one step behind.
Going overseas has been a major event since ancient times. If they can take the lead in opening up the sea, then their Huaixi Group may be able to expand in this way.
Thinking of this, Hu Weiyong began to think about how to take the lead in opening the sea.
"Weiyong, what are you thinking about? We asked you to read the memorial, do you understand it?"
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Hu Weiyong had read the memorial for a long time and had no response, so he couldn't help asking questions.
Hu Weiyong was awakened by Zhu Yuanzhang and brought back to reality. He quickly bowed and replied:
"I understand. Your Majesty wants to say that Duke Wei has captured so many pirates. These pirates can be used as slaves to help me build the highway."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction. It has to be said that Hu Weiyong still has a bright mind. It saves effort to talk to smart people.
But Zhu Yuanzhang's purpose of letting Hu Weiyong read this memorial was not that simple.
Next, Zhu Yuanzhang continued to ask with deep meaning:
"Wei Yong, now we want to open the sea again, what do you think?"
Hu Weiyong thought, here we come.
He had known for a long time that Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely ask about this matter. Fortunately, Hu Weiyong had already thought of his words in his mind.
"Your Majesty, I think this is not allowed."
Hu Weiyong refused directly, but this sentence made Zhu Yuanzhang stunned, thinking, did Hu Weiyong not understand what he meant?
But what Hu Weiyong said next really shocked Zhu Yuanzhang, and he looked even more favorably on Hu Weiyong.
