The news of Xia Yan's downfall reached the south, and the merchants of the sea celebrated. In particular, there were rumors that the new prime minister Yan Song had also accepted gifts from the maritime merchants, and even made Shuangyu have made three dramas in a row. All the rumors in the market revealed good news, thinking that a new era was coming soon.

However, these people are their own professions in the storm, but they are laymen in the Ming Dynasty officialdom after all! Even high-level leaders such as Xu Dong, Wang Zhi, Xu Weixue and others do not have the ability to accurately predict the political trend.

The relationship between Zhu Wan and Xia Yan is not like that between Zhao Wen and Yan Song. They have no personal relationships too closely. Xia Yan initiated Zhu Wan, but felt that Zhu Wan was competent for this job and was not considered to be a private person. In addition, the central government's changes need to be transmitted to the local area. For Yan Song, his top priority is still in the north, so after Xia Yan's fall, Zhu Wan's power in the southeast continued.

In April of the 27th year of Jiajing, the sun sets in the evening and the sea fog is hazy. Before the sings of the sea merchants and pirates on the Shuangyu Islands were dissipated, and some people fell drunk on the ground.

Zhang Yue was also in Yuegang at this time. He was writing a letter to Li Yanzhi to report the situation here and wanted to ask him about the situation in Beijing. Zhang Yue also thought that the victory of opening the sea was in sight. Halfway through his letter, there was a sudden burst of killing sounds from the sea! Zhang Yue was shocked and stopped writing and asked, "What happened?" He ordered someone to go to investigate. After a moment, his subordinate ran back and shouted, "Shopkeeper Zhang! Run! Run! The officers and soldiers are coming!"

"Officers and soldiers?" Zhang Yue said in surprise: "Where did the officers and soldiers come from?"

"I don't know! There is fog around and I can't see clearly, but many people rushed in from the port, and some injured people shouted at the officers and soldiers!"

Zhang Yue made a quick decision: "Check it out now! Let's go!"

Tongli didn't have much goods in Shuangyu, but he just wanted to bring some confidential letters and other things with him. He was also afraid that he would lose the seized ones in the middle - such as the correspondence between Li Yanzhi and Zhang Yue - and burned them on the spot!

After a little while, more than twenty people calmed down, they ran to the south of Shuangyu, where two emergency sea boats were moored.

"Wait," Zhang Yue asked his deputy to leave with his things first, "I'll go and meet Li Daguan!"

At this time, Shuangyu was in chaos, with shouts of killing everywhere. The residential areas and markets in the west had already caught fire. I don’t know whether it was the government army setting fire or the sea merchant setting fire by themselves. When Zhang Yue ran to Li Guangtou’s residence, he was no longer there. Under the leadership of Li Guangtou’s subordinates, he found Li Guangtou who was commanding in the chaos! At this moment, his eyebrows were burnt, and his body was covered with soil and blood, but there were less than twenty people obeying his command!

"Li Da's guidance!" Zhang Yue shouted: "Let's go!"

Li Guangtou heard the voice, glanced at Zhang Yue, recognized who he was, and shouted: "You go first! I want to cover Xu Longtou!"

Zhang Yue shouted: "When is it now! Let's talk about it with your own care!"

When Li Guangtou heard this, he said angrily: "Get out!"

Zhang Yue was stunned and looked ashamed. Li Bald Head suddenly pulled him closer and whispered: "You are not a blood-licking material on the knife. I don't blame you. If you can escape, remember to tell Sanzai! No matter what happens, don't pay attention to me! The life of the family is on him!" With a pulling hand, he tore off his two half-burned eyebrows and handed them to Zhang Yue, and pushed him away.

Zhang Yue was pushed by him and staggered. Seeing that Li Ballot not only did not escape, he led people to break into the sound of fighting. He sighed inwardly and whispered: "Take a big man, take care of yourself." He collected his eyebrows very well, and then went to find the boat.

A considerable number of merchants in Shuangyu were reluctant to leave their belongings and were cleaning up in the war. As a result, the more delayed they were, the more trouble they were. However, some people still broke their arms to protect themselves and escaped from the sea of ​​fire. These people got on the boat smoothly. When Zhang Yue's ship started, dozens of sailboats had already started together and rushed towards the west exit.

The warships of the official army were actually far inferior to those of the maritime merchants, fortunately, the fog and the slackness of the maritime merchants made the official army rush to the island, so that they could avoid their weaknesses and make them better. In addition, the maritime merchants were caught off guard and lacked a unified organization. The scene was even more beneficial to the official army! But the official army was not able to do so at the sea. At this time, the dozens of ships gathered together were only a small part of the total number of ships in Shuangyu, but they were not intercepted by the official army. Zhang Yue's stern was mixed in and escaped from Shuangyu smoothly.

Zhang Yue sat in the sea boat and touched Li Guangtou's two eyebrows in his arms. He was worried about the safety of this old boss, and he thought about how things would develop in the future. The waves in the night were heard, but the road in front of him was still shrouded in the fog. He tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep at all.

The next day, the sun shone again. Zhang Yue climbed out of the cabin and saw that the fleet had gathered hundreds of large and small sea boats. The maritime merchants who had escaped from the disaster were like frightened birds. For a moment, no one knew what to do, or even where to go. Almost all followed the sailboat in front without hesitation, and the sailboat in front actually didn't know where the purpose was.

Suddenly someone said to Zhang Yue: "Hey, isn't that the owner of the Wufeng ship?"

Zhang Yue looked up and saw Wang Zhishe's ragged shirt and dirty face, and was standing on the bow of the boat in a daze. Zhang Yue thought to himself: "He's going to see the opportunity."

The fleet continued to move forward, and I don’t know how long it took to leave, but finally stopped at Lieyu. The sea merchants were shocked and then discussed what to do. From the afternoon to the night, people gradually said, “The snake cannot do without a head. I think we should launch a leader first and then decide where to go.”

Everyone applauded. Zhang Yue noticed that the person who spoke was Xu Weixue.

At present, the pirates are placing seniority and ranks, and then pushed Wang Zhi out. Wang Zhi was humble for a while before she shed tears by the bonfire: "Now Xu Longtou is not sure about his life and death, and we are surviving the disaster. Everyone can respect him and push Wang to carry this burden. If Wang refuses again, it will be a loss of your trust. However, the road ahead will be difficult. Everyone needs to work together to overcome the difficulties together."

Everyone said yes, and followed Wang Zhi and said, "I can't accomplish anything by myself, I have to introduce a few more leaders." Then they introduced eleven more leaders, Xu Weixue, Wang Qingxi, Mao Haifeng, Hong Dizhen and Zhang Yue were all among them, and there was also a Captain Folang and a Captain Huihui.

Wang Zhi comforted the sailors of the sea merchants and went to rest, but gathered with eleven leaders around the campfire to discuss the plan. Zhang Yue changed his mind and said, "According to the current situation, it is better to go to the senior officer."

Hong Dizhen is also from Fujian, and she applauded when she heard this. Several leaders nodded and said yes, but Wang Zhi was silent and dissatisfied. Xu Weixue said: "I'm afraid it's inappropriate. First of all, the senior officials heard that it's quite a bit too much. It's hard to say whether they can tolerate us."

"What are you afraid of!" Hong Dizhen pointed to Zhang Yue and said, "There is a big shopkeeper here with Tongli here! Besides, the official is a port opened by Li Huiyuan, how could he not accept us?"

"How could I not know these two relationships?" Xu Weixue sighed and said, "But we need to rest and rest now, so we can't make trouble anymore. Compared to Shuangyu, although the officials are farther away from the mainland, they are also very close. I am afraid that if we go to the officials, we will provoke the officials. At that time, not only will it bring disaster to the officials, but we can't live in peace ourselves!"

Zhang Yue was going to urge all the sea merchants to go to the senior officials, but when he heard Xu Weixue's words, he didn't dare to speak. Suddenly, he thought: "But why did Wang Zhi refuse to go to the senior officials? Are he really thinking about the senior officials?"

Hong Dizhen asked, "What should you say?"

"I think it's time to go to Japan." Xu Weixue said: "One of the way, our ship can still support it, secondly, our ship has cargo, and we can make a profit as a capital to make a comeback when we go to Japan. Thirdly, we have shops and foundations in Japan. We don't have to worry about being unfamiliar places when we go there. Fourthly, Japan is far away from the mainland, and it is impossible for the official army to cross the sea to Japan to pursue us, so we can slowly recuperate there to achieve the future."

After his analysis, most of the maritime merchants felt it was reasonable, but Hong Dizhen still said: "I still think of the officials taking a break in the boat. My brothers are from Fujian. Since Li Huiyuan opened the sea, everyone has regarded the officials as the front yard of Fujian. Now something is wrong, and I don't go to Japan without going to the officials. I'm afraid they will make a fuss."

Wang Zhi didn't force him, and said, "Since that's the case, then we will go our separate ways and be responsible for each of us."

At this moment, the group of maritime merchants were divided into two parts, most of which went to Japan with Wang Zhi. Later, Wang Zhi raised a banner in Hirado and the five islands. The East China Sea maritime merchants went to visit many times, and Poshan also formed an alliance with him. The two complemented each other and became even more powerful. Hong Dizhen took the way to the south with Zhang Yue. On the way, when he talked about Wang Zhi's refusal to go to the senior official, Hong Dizhen smiled and said, "How could he be the senior official! Now he is as anxious as a dog in a family, and he is busy like a fish that has escaped the net. When he goes to the senior official, wouldn't he be incorporated like Xiaowei Lao? When he sees Chen Lichang, he will be left with one shoulder. If he meets Li Huiyuan in the future, where can he stand there?"

Zhang Yue smiled and nodded.

Soon after he arrived in Penghu, Li Jie heard that he was back, so he rushed to the dock and grabbed Zhang Yue and asked, "Where is the second uncle!"

Zhang Yue was very sad. He took out the two burnt eyebrows and told Li Bald Head what he had entrusted to him. A man who didn't frown when Li Jie didn't frown at the same time, holding the eyebrows, couldn't help but shed tears. Chen Yuting advised: "Second Young Master, don't be sad. Li Daguan takes good care of the world, and there should be no problem." Wang Mumin shouted loudly, and was about to take people to search the sea to rescue him.

At this time, another small boat rushed into the port, but Zhenhaiwei took the risk of sending people to report the news, but two bad news were reported: one was that Xu Dong and Li Guangtou were arrested, and the other was that Zhu Wan actually filled in Shuangyu!

When Wang Mumin heard this, he was furious, but Chen Yuting said, "This is a good thing." Wang Mumin said angrily: "What a good thing!"

Chen Yuting said: "What we are afraid of is that the Grand Manager has an accident in the chaos of war. Now it is clear that it is in the hands of the government army, and that is, it is not life-threatening, but we are more likely to do things. We have people in the public sectors in Fujian and Zhejiang, so we are not afraid."

When Zhang Yue and others heard this, they said, "What Chief Chen said is very true."

When Li Jie and Wang Mumin thought it was reasonable, they gradually calmed down. Chen Yuting said, "But why Zhu Wan filled out Shuangyu? This is really strange."

In the next few days, news from all sides continued to come, and Chen Yuting and others could figure out the whole story.

It turned out that Zhu Wan's plan to capture Shuangyu had been long-term. She was neither due to Xia Yan's resignation nor was she affected by Xia Yan's fall. She was just following the original plan. Zhu Wan was in charge of military affairs in Southeast China and had great power. This time she combined the forces of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces to jointly attack, intending to "achieve the results in one battle"!

During this period, Zhu Wan mobilized troops to suppress bandits everywhere, and the frequent small forces were mobilized into the normal state. Xu Dong and Wang Zhi also had fantasies about the coastal literati and doctors, and they were less alert, so they were hidden.

After the preparations for the troops, Zhu Wan ordered the Fujian commander Lu Tong to be the commander and launch a night attack in the foggy weather, and indeed captured Shuangyu in one fell swoop!

This twin island is a natural good harbor. It is not only a trading base for maritime merchants, but also suitable for naval deployment. It is a natural military and commercial dual-purpose base. Even Li Yanzhi has been coveting it for a long time, but he just has to be in the pocket and cannot reach the limit.

When Li Yanzhi first started to mobilize the robbery cave in Penghu, he immediately set up a village. The Penghu area quickly established a sound-organized Chinese society, and gradually expanded its radiation power to Luzon.

Zhu Wan also flattened Shuangyu today, but his subsequent approach was to burn out all the residential houses, markets and fortifications that Shuangyu had built, and then drove the soldiers and soldiers, spending a lot of effort to transport earth and stone to fill this natural port! In the battle of Shuangyu, except for killing all the maritime merchants and breaking up a group of pirates, it was not good for the economy and national defense of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Yuting was very strange about Zhu Wan's approach. Why don't you use it for yourself if Shuangyu is such a good place? Is Shuangyu not the Ming Dynasty? He didn't know that Zhu Wan also had his helplessness, because the premise of managing Shuangyu well was to allow trade with overseas so that Shuangyu could revitalize the port trade of Shuangyu and then use the profits of trade to support soldiers. Otherwise, if it was just a military port, the Ming government would throw hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at this place every year, which was an impossible policy to be accepted!

Zhu Wan's thinking obviously did not reach Li Yanzhi and Xu Jie's level. He was not able to realize the potential of this good harbor, so he was worried that keeping it would become the nest of the "thieves", so he adopted a simpler and easier to accept by the court: once it was filled! Then the troops were reduced in the line, turning a military-commerce dual-purpose good harbor that had already formed a climate into a dead harbor, and the East China Sea islands continued to continue wilderness under such a policy. (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in. There are more chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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