open sea

Chapter 119
The local thieves who had been entrenched in Huangliangdu for several years were wiped out overnight.

So far, all areas of Xiangshan except Haojing are under the control of the imperial court, and the waterways between Xiangshan County, Shunde and Xinhui have also returned to stability.

Xu Laoyao's head was sent to Guangzhou by flying horse, and the old Anshan Shizhai was also demolished. The next day, all kinds of ox carts and horse-drawn carts were transferred from Xiangshan Qianhu Station.

For most of the flag troops at the Xiangshan Thousand Households Institute, this was just a long-distance training of less than a hundred miles back and forth.

Of course, it also includes climbing training.

The road that Deng Zilong and Sun Aobu climbed the mountain was bombed by the gunpowder planted by Mr. Xu. Deng Zilong was lucky and courageous, and the mountain road was not completely blown up.

Sun Ao’s luck was worse. The mountain road on his side might have been unstable. The bandits’ gunpowder exploded and collapsed, not to mention hurting a lot of people and blocking the mountain road. In the end, they had to go down the mountain the same way. , Come along the road of Chen Mu.

As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, the people on the mountain had already started to come down, so he simply sent someone back to adjust the horses and horses overnight, and waited at the foot of the mountain to find Chen Mu to receive his punishment.

If the battle plan was not achieved, it would be fine to say that it was nothing at all, or that it would be fine to be demoted if it was too big.

Chen Mu didn't say any punishment directly, but he just took the troops back to Xiangshan after resting overnight, and all the rewards and punishments will be discussed after returning to Xiangshan.

Along the way, Wei Balang's little face was almost purple. He had only learned a few words, but it was his duty to record meritorious deeds and punishments, and he didn't have any proficient documents to write for him. Just memorizing the name almost made him worry to death.

He had never looked at a person so seriously, but he kept looking at Shi Qi on the way back to Xiangshan.

In the past, Shi Qi was responsible for recording the war profits in Qingyuan. Although Wei Balang is responsible for it now, Chen Mu also knew that he was not enough to calculate so many things for the time being, so Shi Qi was responsible for calculating the war profits.

A failed scholar is no problem in both math and records, which makes Wei Balang very—not admiring, he is simply envious of his good learning.

Back at the Qianhu Office, Shi Qi presented three volumes of records at the Qianhu Yamen, namely the list of rewards and punishments on the battlefield written by Wei Balang, the summary of war profits written by Shi Qi, and the list of the remaining parties of Xu Laojiao. Shi Qi asked: "Qianhu Let Deputy Sun Qianhu coerce and lure the captives, and make up this list, in order to wipe out the rest of Mr. Xu's party?"

Shi Qi wondered in his heart, if he wanted to catch them all in one go, he could just garrison in Huangliangdu for a few days, why bother to go back to the Thousand Households and ask for a list?

"Catch them all at once? Since Chen said he will let them go, let them go."

Chen Mu smiled nonchalantly, and said: "Send someone to send this list to County Magistrate Zhou. We, the Thousand Households, will let the past go. Chen can't control the inspection department."

Chen Mu looked through the directory in pain and joy, but at the same time it was a little complicated.

On the battlefield, the loot is seized, and black people eat black people to make wealth come easily and quickly.

The local bandits are no better than the rebels. The rebels robbed the silver and had no place to spend it, so they carried a lot of money. After searching all the corpses, only more than 170 taels were found, and after searching all the houses in the cottage, they got more than 7 pieces of Tongbao of different years.

On the contrary, there are 600 taels of silver hidden in Xu Laojiao's Shizhai.

Now seven or eight hundred taels of silver is already a small amount of money in Chen Qianhu's eyes, which doesn't make him feel particularly happy about it.

Among the trophies, what really pleased him was the weapons and armor. Including all the yellow beams seized, more than 300 spears and spears, more than 30 pairs of bows and crossbows, more than 20 firecrackers and bird blunderbusses, more than 56 pieces of leather armor, [-] There are many pairs of scales and armor, and [-] fishing boats are hidden on the bank of the Qi River.

There are also two broken small general guns, which belong to the front-loading smoothbore guns. They are old objects from the Yongle period. They are all small guns weighing two to three hundred catties. bomb.

Fortunately, this group of local thieves was trying to repair the two cannons. If they came later, Chen Mu would have to face the local thieves with two cannons.

The most interesting thing is that the cannons of the Yongle period were cast on the front of these two statues, and the words "Shunde Qianhusuo" are written on the side.

But now the cannon was his.

As for his pain, it came from the list of rewards and punishments, which recorded more than 90 names of Fu Yuanbu and Shi Qibu respectively, of which 76 people were to be punished-these stupid people actually picked up the silver thrown by the enemy on the battlefield!

He hadn't figured out how to punish him yet, fines or food reductions would definitely not work, because the Banner Army would starve to death if they ran out of food, that was a big weapon to kill them, and it shouldn't be used lightly.

His purpose is to let the Banner Army know to listen to him, not to kill these Banner Army who are so precious to him that they lure them from everywhere.

As for the doubt, it came from Xu Lao Yao's last words.

"Dan'er, do you know who Xu Jinmei is?"

After Shi Qi left, only Li Dan was left in the hall, so Chen Mu tapped on the tea table to express his doubts, and said: "Before Xu Lao Yao died, he said that Zeng Yiben and his elder brother Xu Jinmei would come to avenge him, Zeng Yi I know, but who is Xu Jinmei?"

If he begged for mercy before he died, he might let him go if he met someone with a soft heart, and he would try his best to treat him; the youngest Xu would say harsh words to himself before he died, isn't he a fool?
But having said that, even if the youngest Xu begged for mercy, Chen Mu would not let him go, and probably let Fu Yuan wipe his neck with a knife.

I beat them all, but let them go?
There is an old saying that no one is allowed to snore and sleep on the side of the couch. If Chen Mu wants to build a water village in Xiangshan, there will be no thieves in the territory under his jurisdiction.

"Xu Jinmei?"

"Xu Jinmei is the youngest brother Xu?"

Li Dan obviously knew Xu Jinmei, and then he slapped the tea case hard and said: "Father, Xu Jinmei was in Haojing before, and he just left when the child came to Xiangshan!"

"Where did he go?"

"I don't know about this kid. Maybe he went to the chicken coop to find Lin Daogan? Or maybe he went to Nan'ao to find Zeng Yiben. They are Japanese pirates called by his adoptive father. In fact, there used to be two groups. One was Wang Zhi, who was powerful. The base is in Wo; the other group was originally Xu Dong, my father, Xu Hai and others who were in Shuangyu, and were later exterminated by the imperial court, and Wu Ping has the final say in Minguang Overseas."

Speaking of these things, Li Dan was very familiar, and said with his hands: "Now that Wu Ping is dead, the pirates who respected him as the leader in the past are divided into several factions. Lin Daogan from Chenghai, he has the final say on the chicken coop; after Xu Dong's death, Nan'ao will be left to him. The snatched son Xu Chaoguang is the master, but he was killed by his subordinate Mo Yingfu a few years ago, and now they are still in Nan'ao; Zeng Ben wanted to avenge Wu Ping and always fought against the court, so he couldn't get a good place."

"But there are too many others, so it's hardest to deal with." Li Dan said, looking at Chen Mu, and said, "Xu Jinmei is Zeng Yiben's subordinate, adoptive father, if you put it this way, Xu Jinmei lived in Haojing for a long time before, and she will Could it be...Zeng Yiben failed to fight Chaozhou last year, so he wants to fight Guangzhou this year?"

Chen Mu didn't speak, but Li Dan described to him a complete scroll of Japanese pirates in Fujian and Guangxi during the Jiajing period, how powerful the pirates of the Ming Dynasty were, and they could run across the South China Sea.

If this kind of power can be gathered in one place, the Spice Islands can be snatched as a colony, right?
"Don't care if he comes or not, first get Hao Jing's two 35-gun ships over!"

　It turns out that this is the feeling of going to Sanjiang, very happy!
　　I hope everyone is happy too, good morning!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)