Wandering the Heavens

September is the time for autumn hunting. A fleet of 50,000 people sailed out of Tianjin Port and docked in Laizhou Prefecture, Shandong for half a month. Currently, the fleet needs to be expanded and split. Jiaozhou, Laizhou Prefecture under Shandong and Xiangshan County under Guangdong were selected in the plan. During this half month, the main purpose was to investigate the sea conditions in Jiaozhou and select local intended sites for establishing a military port.

In fact, Yu Xian had considered Taiyuan Island, but the current infrastructure there could not support a fleet.

After the inspection, the fleet continued to sail and began formation drills when entering the Yellow Sea. If they encountered Japanese pirates' ships, they could also fight them.

These were all minor skirmishes. After entering the East China Sea, the cleanup officially began. There was a bloody storm in the East and South China Seas. All non-Ming official ships except fishing boats were sunk. Several Frankish ocean-going ships were also accidentally sunk. Afterwards, it was heard that the leader of the ocean-going fleet wanted to surrender the natives on these islands.

The fleet wiped out all the civilian smuggling merchant ships at sea, and for a time, impeachment memorials flooded Zhengde's desk.

Many people participated in this impeachment. In addition to officials from Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places, even officials from Anhui, Jiangxi, and Huguang joined in the fun.

This is such a pleasant surprise! If it weren't for the grand court meeting, Zhengde would have laughed out loud.

Zhengde wanted to laugh, but the ministers who submitted the impeachment memorial could not. They never thought that the reasons they had used to suppress the emperor in the past would now be used by the emperor to suppress them, and the first move was a killing move.

"I have submitted a report impeaching the officials who were responsible for clearing the Ming Dynasty's waters. I suspect they have violated the sea ban decreed by Emperor Taizu Gao. I have ordered the Jinyiwei of the East Factory to arrest them all and conduct an investigation!"

The originally lively court meeting became much quieter after the turmoil during the arrest.

Zheng Yang led the fleet to clear the sea. The first thing was to maintain and implement the maritime ban of Emperor Taizu. There was nothing wrong with clearing out the ships that went out to sea privately. Opposing this fleet cleanup was equivalent to opposing Taizu. The East Factory had work to do again. They arrested the ministers who had submitted the memorials and asked them why they questioned the maritime ban of Emperor Taizu.

Anyone who doesn’t make good use of this political correctness is a fool.

In addition, this voyage was also to fight against Japanese pirates. Many islands where Japanese pirates were entrenched were recaptured by the fleet, and all the pirates on them were killed, bringing peace to the people living along the coast. Everyone knows clearly why these people wanted to be impeached.

In fact, it was very simple, because the imperial court soldiers took action, and their families and benefactors' businesses in Shanghai were hit hard. At the same time, the common people were grateful for the imperial court's kindness, and it had nothing to do with Mr. Zhang, Mr. Li, and Mr. Wang, and they did not get any benefits.

This familiar style reminded them of the large-scale prison operation that was launched by the East Factory a few years ago. Not many people died in that case of collusion with the Japanese pirates. Except for the three people who made the initial report and were executed, the other ministers were basically demoted and their property was confiscated.

I originally thought that after the dead eunuch changed his name and became a subject from a slave, his morality would also be elevated, but who knew he would still be so vicious and shameless.

They have thought about changing the emperor over the years, but think about the Shenjiying directly controlled by the emperor, the even more terrifying Dongchang, and the 500,000 craftsmen on the railway construction site.

It is estimated that if the emperor died a moment ago, all the court officials in the capital would die with him, and their lives would be extremely miserable.

At that time, let alone power and orthodoxy, it was hard to say whether the family would survive.

Returning to the fleet, seeing that the training for the landing operation was already in good shape, Yu Xian wanted to go north to bombard Japan. It seemed that they were having a fierce village battle at the moment.

The fleet left the Nanyang Sea, which was almost turned into a no-man's land, and headed northward. However, when they arrived at the Ningbo Port, they received news from the Nanjing Ministry of War that Prince Ning had rebelled.

The communicator also issued a real-time warning of the impending departure.

You really know how to pick the time!

It took Prince Ning a total of thirty-five days from his rebellion to his defeat and capture. It was too late for him to catch up in Ningbo. He ran for his life with twenty experimental steam-powered warships, but in the end he couldn't even get a sip of soup.

But there was no other way now. Yu Xian ordered the fleet to rest and took 12,000 people on a steam warship from Songjiang Prefecture into the Yangtze River, rushing upstream.

They arrived early and arrived late, and after the siege of Anqing was lifted, they continued up the river and finally found a bargain in Poyang Lake.

"Sir Zheng, we have entered Poyang Lake. According to the latest news, the rebels and the imperial army are currently fighting. What should we do?" The deputy general asked. The fleet was not far from the battlefield. How should we fight?

"I remember the intelligence said that Prince Ning imitated Chen Youliang's method of using iron chain boats and told those bastards that if a shell fell into the water, the money for the shell would be deducted from their military pay." Yu Xian calmed down his excitement.

I'm about to meet Wang Yangming, how should I behave?

It was too early to think about this problem now, so we should defeat the Ning Wang army first. Even with the iron chain linking the boats, there were still a few shells that did not fall on the rebels' battlefield group, and the wages of those gunners would be deducted.

Wang Shouren saw twenty ships emitting black smoke entering the battlefield. Before he could figure out what was going on, the enemy directly fired at Prince Ning's ships.

"Lord Wang, where are these reinforcements coming from?"

Wu Wendi was finally able to escape from the supervision team and come to Wang Shouren to take a break. He wanted to stroke his beard out of habit but then he remembered that he had just been burned.

"This is probably the Shenji Battalion stationed at Tianjin Port. They went out to sea to eliminate the ships and Japanese pirates that violated the maritime ban in the sea area."

Wang Shouren's face twitched when he talked about this. He had suffered many years to realize the unity of knowledge and action, and now this dead eunuch had demonstrated it to him in a practical way.

"This... then why did they appear in Poyang Lake?" Wu Wendi felt very bad.

"Of course we are here to quell the rebellion, but I don't know who is in command of these twenty black smoke warships? Don't be distracted, the rebels are already showing signs of defeat. Pay attention to our formation, especially those who escaped from Prince Ning's flagship." Wang Shouren became worried.

He has not had a good impression of this dead eunuch over the years, and he doesn't know whether the appearance of this fleet on the battlefield of suppressing the rebellion is a good thing or a bad thing.

The originally stalemate situation quickly became one-sided due to the intervention of the fleet. The rebel navy suffered countless casualties under the fleet's bombardment, and the infantry quickly surrendered when they saw the navy's defeat.

"This is my family affair, why should I trouble you, sir?"

Although Prince Ning was a prisoner, he did not have the slightest awareness of being a prisoner. He was riding on a tall horse, and looked graceful and elegant.

"Come here, capture the traitor Zhu Chenhao!"

Wang Shouren was about to order the soldiers to pull Prince Ning off his horse when he heard a shrill and old voice coming from behind him. Several guards stepped past Wang Shouren and his men, roughly pulled Prince Ning off his horse, and quickly put handcuffs and shackles on him.

"I am Prince Ning, how could you, the East Depot bastards, be so rude!" Prince Ning struggled to get up and shouted angrily.

"Zhu Chenhao, you don't have to show off like that. Since I have already captured the Iron-Hearted Divine Marquis Zhu Wusi, I don't mind capturing another one like you, Zhu Chenhao." Yu Xian walked to the front and said slowly to Zhu Chenhao, who was puffing his beard and glaring.

"You...you are Cao Zhengchun!" Zhu Chenhao could no longer remain calm.