Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 61 What Happened

War should always be the last resort to solve problems in unavoidable situations, just as the "Art of War" said: go up to attack the enemy, secondly attack the enemy, secondly attack the army, and then attack the city.

The problem is that there are very few people who understand these and are able to implement them firmly.

There are countless counterexamples at all times and in all over the world.

For example, in the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong gave up Huairou and decided to use force to resolve the chaos in Jinchuan. More than 30 million taels of silver.

Hundreds of years later, a certain world's largest country is jumping into regional wars that it thinks it can afford again and again.

In contrast, Zhu Yuan knew that Zhu Yuanzhang happened to be the one who most firmly implemented the series of offensive principles in "Sun Tzu's Art of War".

Lao Zhu, who started with a low allocation and could not be lowered, was able to aspire to the top of the world in just a dozen years, and it is inseparable from his military principles that he will never lightly start a war as long as he can "subdue the enemy without fighting".

Whenever there is a big battle, Lao Zhu never minds making friends with other opponents temporarily, and never gives up even the last chance to surrender, just like Pingjiang Suocheng, who obviously has an absolute advantage, Lao Zhu still waited patiently for more than half a year , I only hope that Zhang Shicheng can voluntarily surrender.

All of this avoids unnecessary loss of strength to the greatest extent.

Although this makes people who read history very uncomfortable, because it is often seen that Lao Zhu was still calling others brothers and sisters before, and then they fight in a blink of an eye, which is not open enough.Or read that this one surrendered and rebelled again, and that one rebelled and surrendered again. I knew why it was so, how clean it was with a single knife.However, if Lao Zhu is such a reckless man who doesn't play 'virtual' and starts fighting at every turn, he may not be able to unify the world in decades, let alone ten years, and at the same time, he may make himself weaker and weaker.

Zhu Yuan took the initiative to ask for orders to come to the southeast to open up a sea grain road, and there were many problems to be solved.

One of them is the many pirates occupying the islands near the sea.

The sources of these pirates are very complicated. There are coastal people who could not survive at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng's old department, Fang Guozhen's old department, and the Yuan court's former department who fled. fishermen.

If the problem of pirates is not dealt with, it will undoubtedly cause great troubles to the sea food road in the future.

So, what to do?
Suppress them one by one?

impossible.

First of all, it is impossible to count how many islands there are along the coast of Daming.Moreover, despite the fact that most of the islands are within a hundred miles of the sea, this is not a few hundred years after having motorized ships, tens of kilometers away can be reached in an hour or two in a blink of an eye.

In the age of sail, even if the distance is only thirty or fifty miles, it may take a day to walk on the sea.

Moreover, there are tens of thousands of islands, and the pirates can just find one to nest in it, and the officers and soldiers may not necessarily find it after searching for a year.Even if they were lucky enough to find them, the pirates either fled by boat or got into the dense forest on the island, and it would be even more difficult to exterminate them.

Therefore, after discussing with everyone, Zhu Yuan used some of Wang Yangming's experience in suppressing bandits in Jiangxi in his memory, and combined with the actual situation, he came up with a whole set of plans.

The core two words, or 'heart attack'.

First of all, let the naval fleet brought by Huagao patrol the four directions, and when they encounter pirates, they will be wiped out by the way to show their prestige.

Then, advertise.

It is not just that the pirates of all parties are required to surrender within a time limit, but the responsibility for offenses can be reduced.The more than 1000-word notice also encourages coastal fishermen to provide clues to the authorities about the pirates, and stipulates rewards.At the same time, he promised that as long as the bandits killed the leader and surrendered, not only would they be exonerated, but they would also be rewarded.If a group of pirates wiped out another group of pirates and used their achievements to surrender, not only would they be exonerated and rewarded, but they could also be incorporated into the army and obtain official positions.

Similar kinds.

Zhu Yuan believed that as long as this announcement was gradually spread, even if the bandits along the coast did not come to surrender, it would definitely create a state of panic.

This allowed Zhu Yuan's goal to be basically achieved.

Regardless of whether the bandits voluntarily surrendered, fled overseas, or stopped and hid themselves as civilians, the coastal bandits will be greatly reduced.

Next is a slow simmer.

By strengthening the navy, opening up the ocean, and continuously improving the lives of the people along the coast, we will completely eradicate the living space of pirates step by step.

In comparison, the previous sea ban was definitely the most stinky move.

It's like a person who has a sore on his leg. Instead of treating it carefully in order to recover, he cuts off his leg directly...Decision is decisive enough, but from the perspective of later generations, it really doesn't look very smart .

Of course, it is also the limitation of the ancients, thinking that this 'sore' cannot be cured by law.

To the south of Zhoushan, the sea outside Xiangshan.

Huagao negotiated terms with Qianhu Yanxun, the former navy army under Zhang Shicheng's command, and soon successfully won the old Zhang Shicheng's army with a total of 700 people.

While escorting these people onto the ship, some scribes from the fleet also went to the island on purpose, and posted many safety notices on conspicuous boulders or tree trunks.After finishing these, it was already past noon, and the south wind happened to come. Huagao gave up his original idea of ​​continuing south, and decided to take the opportunity to return.

Back to Dinghai, it was already evening.

The time is February eighteenth.

It was only eight days since I came to Mingzhou on the day of Jingzhe on the tenth day of February, but Hua Gao felt that it had been a long time.

Looking at the column of smoke rising from Zhaobao Mountain outside Dinghai City, it is a navigation beacon built recently, where smoke is raised during the day and a fire is lit at night.Looking at the still busy seaport construction site on the south bank of the Yongjiang River under the setting sun, Huagao came to his senses. That feeling was because everyone was driven to do too many things by a certain little ancestor in just eight days.

Thinking of this, Hua Gao was a little worried.

After leaving for three days, I hope that the little ancestor will not be tired and sick again, otherwise, no matter how great his contribution is, it will be in vain.

The fleet berthed into the east pier of Dinghai City, which is still temporarily serving as a military port.

Huagao briefly explained that he asked the coming Mingzhou Guard Commander Tongzhi Changduan to temporarily detain Yan Xun and his party in the barracks of the shore guard. With Zhao Xu, Qiao An and other followers hurried into the city,

He didn't even return to his own home, and rushed to the west of the city, Hua Gao went directly to Zhu Yuan's mansion of Ying Haishi.

As soon as you enter the door, you feel that the atmosphere is not right.

Passing by the concierge, some soldiers in the mansion who were not on duty either stood or sat around, murmuring, and one of them raised his hand and gestured, as if he had seen something extraordinary.

When we came to the main courtyard where Mingyuantang was located, the officials who were busy on weekdays were still present today.Seeing Hua Gao and the others appear, the two officials who were standing in the corner of the courtyard whispering to each other immediately stopped talking, saluted and left in a hurry.

This weird atmosphere made Hua Gao feel hairy.

Pulling past a clerk holding a stack of papers absent-mindedly and about to pass by, Hua Gao stared and asked, "Where's Hanlin?"

The official seemed to be awakened suddenly, and the documents in his arms were scattered all over the floor.

Seeing that it was Hua Gao, he slowed down, remembering the question the Governor asked just now, he quickly raised his hand and pointed towards the west garden.

There is still a bit of... longing in his eyes.

Longing for? !
Hua Gao didn't have time to ask more questions, so he walked towards the west courtyard.

When he came to the garden in a hurry, he didn't even need to ask. Hua Gao only saw that there were six soldiers standing guard outside the reception flower hall with the plaque of "Mingxintang" not far away, and went straight there.

Zhao Xu and Qiao An also quickly followed in a daze.

As soon as the three of them arrived at the entrance of Mingxintang, Xue Shu, the magistrate of Dinghai County, walked out of the door in a trance with a strange expression of refreshed cognition, shook his head, nodded again, and murmured , ignoring Huagao and the others as if he had lost his soul, and walked mechanically to the outer courtyard.

This……

What happened so horribly? !
(End of this chapter)