The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 262 Wuqiao Mutiny
On November 27th, Kong Youde arrived in Wuqiao, encountered heavy rain, wind and snow, and the troops were short of supplies. The soldiers did not pay for food at the house of Wang Xiangchun, a wealthy family.

On the other side, Li Jiuyuan spent all the horse money that Kong Youde gave him. Kong Youde was very desperate when he heard the words, and soon the soldiers rioted and burned the Wang's manor.

Kong Youde has nowhere to advance or retreat, and think about what happened in his life. He finally followed Mao Wenlong, a wise master, but was killed by Yuan Chonghuan. (Because the Liaodong army in Dengzhou was at odds with the Shandong people, they closed their doors and stopped the market along the way and refused to sell them).

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became. Finally, under Li Jiuzheng's instigation, Kong Youde decided to mutiny.

At this time, Kong Youde probably just wanted to ask the court for an explanation of his grievances, and did not intend to betray the Ming Dynasty.

But the court of the Ming Dynasty didn't think so. They couldn't beat Houjin, and they couldn't kill you, a traitor?

In the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde turned back to Shandong, fell into Linyi, Linxian, Shanghe, and Qingcheng, and led his troops to Dengzhou.

Sun Yuanhua urgently ordered Zhang Tao to lead the Liao soldiers to guard Dengzhou, and Zhang Ke, the commander-in-chief, sent out troops to fight.

But Zhang Tao's subordinates were all familiar with Liao soldiers, Kong Youde and others, and they soon took refuge in Kong Youde.

Kong Youde made people pretend to surrender, sneaked into Dengzhou City, conspired with Geng Zhongming in the city, attacked from inside and outside, and finally captured Dengzhou City, captured Sun Yuanhua and guarding Song Guanglan alive, sub-road inspector Wang Mei and other officials.

The general Zhang Keda firmly held Shuicheng for several days, but finally fell.

This one is so big and really steadfast, first kills his wife and concubine, and then commits suicide in Taipinglou.

Sun Yuanhua led the Portuguese in the city to fight to the death. More than a dozen Portuguese were killed or injured, all of whom were captured alive.

Kong Youde was considered benevolent and righteous, and released Sun Yuanhua, Zhang Tao and others.

Kong Youde was actually a very righteous person, he was lenient to his acquaintances and friends, later he passed through a certain prefecture and county, and the magistrate there was kind to him, so he didn't attack, and directly led his troops to go around.

Sun Yuanhua and Sun Yuanhua were immediately arrested when they returned to the capital, and they were all executed in the end.

Poor Western scholar Sun Yuanhua did not die at the hands of Kong Youde, but was killed by Chongzhen.

When Ding Yi heard the news, he further established his goal of sweeping the world. If Lao Tzu really helps Chongzhen to work hard, whenever he loses once, he may be chopped off by you.

After Kong Youde captured Dengzhou, he got 10 soldiers and horses, [-] horses, [-] taels of salary, ten Hongyi cannons, and one hundred and four Western cannons.

It can be said to get rich all of a sudden.

In the original history, he got [-] Hongyi cannons and [-] Western cannons.

However, due to the arrival of Ding Yi, he snatched half of his Portuguese in advance, and Qin Nan and Lu Chao kept buying all kinds of iron materials, craftsmen and other materials here, so that the scale of Sun Yuanhua's firearms camp was smaller than in history. .

At this time, the Ming court urgently ordered Xie Lian to be the deputy imperial envoy and governor of Denglai, and Xu Congzhi, who participated in politics, to be the governor of Shandong.

The mutiny in Dengzhou, like in history, affected Dongjiang Town.

When Ding Yi was going to pick Qin Nan back last time, everyone was still wondering.

But soon, the Dengzhou mutiny, Zhang Keda died, and the news spread to Lushun, many generals felt incredible.

Lushun in history was also captured by the rebels immediately, and Chen sometimes rebelled at that time.

But now that Lushun is in Ding Yi's hands, it is extremely stable.

However, since the Dengzhou military rebellion, there are large and small ships coming and going on the sea every day, and the Dongjiang Islands are testing each other.

Xu Fuzuo also quickly sent Shen Shikui over.

It was the first ten days of December at this time.

It was half a year ago that Shen Shikui came here last time, and when he came to Lushun again this time, he was already dumbfounded before he got off the boat.

At the entrance of the Lushun alley, there were clouds of ships and countless dock workers. On both sides of the alley, there were forts one after another, stretching for several miles, with the black muzzles facing the outside.

Because there is no threat from the sea now, Ding Yi's gun is still a 24-pound gun, and Ding Yi plans to build a larger 48-pound gun for coastal defense next year.

The guerrilla Zhang Tao who came with Shenyang Shikui (at this time he had not led troops to Dengzhou), came to Lushun for the first time, and he was not only dumbfounded: "Is this Lushun?"

"They have more ships than our Phi Islands?"

"Many businessmen will go to Lushun right now, and they may not be willing to go to our Phi Island." Shen Shikui said sourly: "Not all of them are Ding Yi's boats."

In the past, when Mao Wenlong was there, he controlled the entire maritime trade of Phi Island, and all the ships to and from the Dongjiang River went to Phi Island, but Ding Yi was less than two years old, and his business was booming. Many merchant ships like to go to Lushun first.

"This man is really powerful. In a few years, I think Pi Dao should be decided by him." Zhang Tao said solemnly.

He followed Shen Shikui and Ding Yi to Japan, and saw Ding Yi's overwhelming ability.

Take 20 taels of silver to go, and you can bring back more silver and a boatload of goods when you come back.

To be able to marry a Japanese woman there, Zhang Tao is extremely convinced.

Shen Shikui smiled slightly, seeing that he was Ding Yi's father-in-law, Ding Yi had the final say, of course it was fine.

Their ship docked quickly, and many cargo ships were unloading and loading.

People came and went on the pier, and many Liao people shuttled among them, but he quickly noticed one thing.

The Liao people who work here all have relaxed expressions, and many of them are smiling, chatting with each other while working.

The spirit of the whole person is completely different from that of Phi Dao.

In Phi Island, there are also Liao people who will be requisitioned to load goods at the pier, but those Liao people are dull-eyed, listless, weak, and procrastinate when they work.

"Master Shen, why do I feel that this place is a bit different from us?" Zhang Tao also felt something different.

Shen Shikui sighed: "It's the same farmland. Ding Yi's farmland is better than ours. I don't understand. Why?"

After getting off the boat, I saw that the road surface was very smooth, which was obviously just repaired. The road and both sides were clean and fresh, and there was almost no garbage in sight.

The guards at the pier will not be like Phi Island, they are all standing up and down, and some are sitting.

The guards here stood motionless and would only leave when shifts changed.

Seeing them get off the boat, only then did a leader come over quickly: "Greetings to Mr. Shen."

He actually knew Shen Shikui.

"Okay, no courtesy, I'm here to see Ding Yi." Shen Shikui smiled, not daring to put on airs in front of these people.

"Mr. Shen, just go straight along this road."

Shen Shikui walked along the main road with a few people and some gifts for his daughter.

Not far away, I saw two bastions, one on the left and the other on the side of the road, with a city gate in the middle.

This is the first land line of defense at Lushunkou.

The corners of Zhang Tao's mouth twitched slightly, this guy really can build forts, and he likes building forts so much.

Ding Yi knew that the father-in-law was coming, so he rushed over to meet him.

When Shen Shikui met, he asked, "The imperial court has ordered us to send troops to perforate the hole to be virtuous."

"Xu Zongbing means, I want to ask whether you will send troops from Lushun?"

Because Lushun was in charge of Xu Fuzuo, the court asked Xu Fuzuo to send troops, Xu Fuzuo wanted to send troops himself, and Ding Yi also wanted to send troops, so I asked Ding Yi what he meant.

Of course Ding Yi is unwilling to send troops. Right now is not the time to send troops. When the situation in Dengzhou deteriorates, it will be the time for him to clean up the mess.

(End of this chapter)