prosperous age

Chapter 61 Chapter 61
Wu Zhankui reminded Wei Guangde to prepare well for the government examination. A servant outside the door came in to report and a messenger came.

"Guangde, you continue to eat, let's go out and have a look."

Wu Zhankui got up and said to Wei Guangde who was eating, and took Wei Meng out of the room.

Hearing the messenger, Wei Guangde guessed that it might be the Zhang family from Fucheng who sent the news.

Continue to bury his head in eating, Wei Guangde knows that his own children and family members can't get involved in these things, and he might be scolded if he gets involved, anyway, he won't take the next county test, his father has already agreed, so he should study his homework with peace of mind. .

When Wei Guangde came out after finishing his breakfast, he saw an uncle's personal soldier leaving with a messenger. Wei Guangde nodded at the man, and walked into the next room by a strange coincidence.

There were only uncle and father Wei in the room, but seeing the two of them, Wei Guangde, seemed to be in a bad mood. Both of them were frowning, and the news from the messenger must be very bad.

"Uncle, Dad, what's the matter with you?"

Wei Guangde still asked with concern, in fact, in his heart, he was sure that something happened, maybe what he said last night was true, he was going to the north to defend against the Tartars.

"You should go back to Bengshan Castle tomorrow and study hard with Master Sun, then there will be a way out."

Hearing his son's question, Wei Meng said with a smile uglier than crying.

"The news is confirmed? North?"

Wei Guangde tentatively asked, although he knew what he was thinking, he still asked.

"No."

Unexpectedly, Father Wei would immediately deny it, and it didn't look like a fake.

Not going north?
Wei Guangde is already familiar with Wei's father's habits, and his father's straightforward answer must not be fake, and it must be wrong to worry about it last night.

But now the performance of father and uncle, it seems that the news they received is more terrifying than going to the north, which is strange.

"Let's talk, it's nothing, it is estimated that the news will spread soon."

Wu Zhankui looked at Wei Meng with a wry smile.

"What's the matter?"

Wei Guangde's curiosity was really aroused, what else could he do if he didn't go to the north?
Could it be that someone in Huguang rebelled, or there was a big disturbance in Guangdong?

No matter how bad it is, there are major incidents in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, and the chieftains there seem to be unstable, rebelling from time to time.

Southwest, it seems that this is really the case.

Wei Guangde remembered reading reports that mentioned that during the Ming Dynasty, leaders of ethnic minorities often rebelled in the Southwest.

There are high mountains and dense forests over there, and it is very troublesome to encircle and suppress the rebellion. Often, it will be delayed for several years or even longer to suppress the rebellion.

That's all Wei Guangde could think of, he felt as if he had guessed the truth, but Wei Guangde was not complacent, if he really went to the Southwest to suppress the rebellion, it would not be something ordinary people can do.

In fact, Wei Guangde knew in his heart that there was actually another disaster in the southwest, and that was Burma.

I remember reading articles on the Internet that both the Ming and Qing dynasties fought against Myanmar, and they both seemed to suffer a lot.

At the time of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong lost a lot of battles with Burma several times, that is, he relied on his strong family background to force the opponent to surrender. It's "Shiquan old man", anyway, it's just a compilation.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty started to play this trick from the time of Kangxi. In the war with the Raksha Kingdom, they claimed to defeat the opponent several times, but in the end the signed treaties kept ceding the land. From this we can also see the so-called victory to the end What happened.

Thinking a little farther, Wei Guangde is still concerned about where his uncle and father will be sent this time?

"It's not sure yet, go to Zhenjiang to gather, maybe go north, or go east."

Wei Guangde's words confused Wei Guangde.

Going north is easy to understand, but what does going east mean?
"A large number of Japanese pirates appeared in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, and there were also a large number of sea-going ships. A few days ago, a small group of Japanese pirates landed in Ningbo Prefecture. The Nanjing Ministry of War was worried that the Japanese pirates would go up the river and wreak havoc on Nanzhili and Zhejiang, so we moved to defend Zhenjiang. The plan to join the aid after the war in the north started.

However, according to the news from Jiujiang Mansion, the Japanese pirates may make big moves this spring, and there are even rumors that the Japanese pirates have gathered tens of thousands of people on the coastal islands.

The news is false and true, and there is no credence there. "

"Japanese pirates? Tens of thousands of Japanese pirates?"

Wei Guangde was really shocked when he heard what his father said.

The Japanese pirates, Wei Guangde has often been mentioned by people since he passed through, is mainly because of the heavy traffic on the Yangtze River, and the merchant ships can quickly spread the news along the Yangtze River.

In Wei Guangde's impression, what he heard before were dozens of Japanese pirates, but he was really frightened when he heard the tens of thousands of Japanese pirates from his father.

This is Jiangxi, far away from the sea, but it does not mean that there is no defense against Japanese pirates.

In history, of course, Japanese pirates have never been to Jiangxi. Not to mention the Taicang Guard guarding the estuary of the Yangtze River downstream, and the Zhenjiang Guard behind, that is, there is Anqing Water Camp on the other side of Anqing. It is impossible for Japanese pirates to go to Jiangxi.

However, there are many water bandits in Jiangxi, and that is Poyang Lake. In order to eliminate the water bandits in Poyang Lake, the Nanhu Camp was specially formed.

Well, because of his background in the guard, Wei Guangde knows much more about the Daming Guard than outsiders.

To be honest, this is also because Wei Guangde traveled along the Yangtze River, so he has a better understanding of the locations of cities along the Yangtze River.

Although time has passed, the locations of cities and counties in later generations are definitely different from the current prefectures and counties, but they are still roughly the same. Therefore, although I have not seen a map of this era, Wei Guangde still has an idea when he hears people talking about it. Location.

This is much better than my elder brother, or even my father.

Although they can proficiently name the guards in various places, they just know the general direction, so they can't tell the specifics.

However, Wei Guangde also knows a lot of things about the guards. He said that this Taicang Guard was actually called Zhenhai Guard before. The name of the next guard coincides.

"There are too many guards in Zhejiang, why do you want our Jiujiang guard to go there?"

Although Wei Guangde knew that the fight against the Japanese pirates was a national war and he shouldn't say that, but he still didn't want his father to go there.

The Japanese pirate rebellion in the Jiajing Dynasty, he read a lot of novels and analysis articles in the Ming Dynasty. Before that, it was a small disturbance, but in the Jiajing Dynasty, it was a big chaos, and it seemed that it took a lot of energy to solve it.

However, through the battle against the Japanese, Qi Jiguang and that Yu Da and so on, and there must be some generals who also gained promotion by virtue of their achievements in the suppression of the Japanese.

Relatively speaking, the risks outweigh the benefits.

This is Wei Guangde's point of view, to suppress the Japanese, let Qi Jiguang and other great gods do it, his father should not be able to do that.

(End of this chapter)