I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 97
After today's duty ended, Yan Song and Xu Jie did not leave in a hurry, but stayed to discuss the specific salary increase plan. The whole cabinet was brightly lit, and only two figures were left busy.

"Come on, let's have a cup of tea first!" Xu Jie said, and poured a cup of tea for Yan Song who was in deep thought.

The thoughts in Yan Song's mind were completely disturbed by Xu Jie's words, so he simply stopped thinking about it, picked up the teacup, and took a sip.

"Good tea! It's better than the tea leaves His Majesty gave me." Yan Song then put the teacup aside and commented.

"Old Yan Ge is really a holy family member, His Majesty even gave you tea?" Xu Jie was secretly upset when he heard what Yan Song said, but on the surface he still put on a look of admiration.

"If Xu Ge always wants to drink, I'll have someone deliver some to your house another day." Yan Song said with a warm smile on his face.

"Then thank you Yan Ge for being old!" Xu Jie responded with a smile.

"Oh, Your Majesty has found us a hard job. This matter is related to the salaries of many officials in the imperial court. If the formulation is not perfect, not only His Majesty will not be able to spare us, but even those officials, big and small, will have to be behind our backs." Poke our spine!

After Yan Song finished speaking, he picked up a reviewed memorial and read it.

"Yeah, we're stuck in the middle, and we're getting angry at both ends."

Xu Jie also sighed with emotion.

"Keep thinking about it, no matter what, we have to come up with a practical and feasible method."

"Yes!"

……

Fujian, Zhangzhou Prefecture.

Since the First World War in Shouning County, the army commanded by Hu Zongxian has been in full swing. It has fought more than a dozen battles, large and small. The areas occupied by Japanese pirates have also been recovered!

And the three armies joined together, more than [-] people in total, camped in the outskirts of Zhangzhou City, and launched a general attack in the early morning of tomorrow. After all their achievements, they will completely wipe out the last group of Japanese pirates entrenched in Fujian Province!

In the main tent, Hu Zongxian looked at the map of Fujian Province hanging on the wall, and asked everyone: "Is the navy at the Ministry of War in place?"

"My lord governor, the navy at the Ministry of War has arrived and completely blocked the escape routes of these Japanese pirates at sea. Right now, these Japanese pirates have become shackles!"

Seeing Hu Zongxian's questioning, Yu Dayou immediately stood up and responded.

"Well, just wait until the morning of tomorrow, order the whole army to launch a general attack, completely wipe out these Japanese pirates, and rescue the people from the dire straits!" Hu Zongxian looked around at the crowd and ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

"Oh, by the way, how are things going with what I told you earlier?" After Hu Zongxian finished speaking, he turned his eyes to Tan Lun and Yu Dayou and asked.

Tan Lun and Yu Dayou naturally knew what Hu Zongxian was referring to. The purpose of this army dispatch was not only to suppress the Japanese, but also to clean up those gentry who hid their population and annexed their land!

Immediately afterwards, Tan Lun stood up first, took out a booklet, and handed it to Hu Zongxian: "My lord governor, here is the list of the gentry I dealt with! Except for some of the property obtained to reward the soldiers, the rest are intact. Keep it in a safe place, and after the war is over, it can be transported back to the imperial court."

Hu Zongxian took the booklet from Tan Lun, flipped through it roughly, and saw that it was densely packed with names of people, and then Hu Zongxian turned it to the last page, which recorded the confiscated property in detail, a total of 7303 million taels!

"Well, you did a good job." After reading the contents of Tan Lun's brochure, Hu Zongxian turned his attention to Yu Dayou again.

"My lord governor, this is the brochure of the young general. What the general wants to say is the same as Mr. Tan!" Yu Dayou said, and handed out a brochure to Hu Zongxian.

Hu Zongxian took the booklet and looked it over roughly. The number of gentry disposed of by Yu Dayou was not as many as Tan Lun, but the confiscated property was much more than Tan Lun's, a total of 8609 million taels!

"This time the army went out, all the expenses were added up, and the total cost was 100 million taels, but in the blink of an eye, more than 2000 million taels of silver were stolen from the homes of these gentry and landlords. Cooperating with us this time, we are here to make money for the court!"

Hu Zongxian said, stroked his beard, and laughed loudly.

"Oh, by the way, are the 150 Franco cannons ready?" Hu Zongxian asked such a question immediately after being happy.

"My lord, everything is ready! Just wait until tomorrow when the city is attacked, the Japanese pirates can have a taste of the power of the cannon." Qi Jiguang immediately stepped out and replied loudly.

"Okay! Everyone, go down and rest first, recharge your batteries, and launch a general attack tomorrow morning!" Hu Zongxian ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

……

Zhang Lian, the leader of the Japanese pirates, looked anxious and was pacing in the room in Zhangzhou City Government Yamen.

At this moment, the person he sent out to inquire about the news returned to the mansion. Zhang Lian seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, and asked quickly: "How, did you find out anything? Who is the Ming army outside the city?" commanding?"

"Report...report to the leader. The Ming army outside is led by Governor Hu Zongxian of Zhejiang Province. In addition, he has Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Tan Lun and other generals under his command."

The person in charge of inquiring about the news did not dare to conceal it, so he recounted the information he had inquired about to Zhang Lian.

"Go down." After hearing the news reported by his subordinates, Zhang Lian waved his hands and said in a hoarse voice, as if he had lost his soul.

"Yes!" Seeing this, the subordinate quickly walked away, fearing that he would be involved.

"It's over, it's over, it's over!" After his subordinate left, Zhang Lian fell to the ground like a walking corpse, muttering non-stop.

Now everything makes sense, why this Ming army is so brave, in just one week, it recovered all the territory previously occupied by its own people.

Hu Zongxian, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Tan Lun all have extremely impressive records, and they are even better at dealing with Japanese pirates!
Even if his troops are several times larger than the opponent's, Zhang Lian has no confidence that he can beat these few. Right now, these famous generals are leading more than [-] well-equipped elite soldiers of the Ming army to the city, and they will only wait for tomorrow morning. Then launched a general attack.

At this moment, Zhang Lian's heart was filled with endless regret. He hated that he should not be so reckless, and he should not listen to the bullshit of those gentry and landlords, thus putting himself in such a deadly situation.

Zhang Lian knew that with the help of these people in Zhangzhou city, he would never be able to defend the city!These people are more active than anyone else when they rob houses and people, and once they officially start a war, they will definitely be defeated.

Therefore, Zhang Lian decided to take the looted treasures and run away secretly. In this way, the green hills would be left in peace and dormant, waiting for the right time, before doing anything!
With such thoughts in mind, Zhang Lian summoned his cronies. A dozen of them, carrying a large amount of treasure, sneaked out of the government office and marched towards the port, where several ships for escape were parked.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they reached the port, they were stopped. A group of soldiers appeared from nowhere and surrounded Zhang Lian and his cronies.

"What do you want to do? Do you want to rebel!" Zhang Lian looked at the soldiers approaching him with malicious intentions, tightened the bag containing the treasure in his arms, then drew out his long knife, and threatened.

"Hmph, is the leader going to abandon me?" The leader of the group of soldiers stood up and mocked.

Without waiting for Zhang Lian to reply, he continued, "I'm sorry, sir, you are not the only one who wants to live, we also want to live, so we are offended."

"Go!"

"Ah!" There was a scream, and all of Zhang Lian's cronies were killed.

(End of this chapter)