Before sending troops to the Japanese Nu Kingdom this time, Yang Zhen was most worried about repeating the same mistake that the Yuan army made when it attacked the Japanese Nu Kingdom twice hundreds of years ago, that is, encountering a storm at sea and having to withdraw its troops.

However, fortunately, in addition to several major sea storms at the beginning on the sea to Yingzhou Island and for a period of time after occupying Hirado Island, after September and October, Yang Zhen and his crew sailed

The team did not encounter any serious storms.

Because of this, Yang Zhen's trip went smoothly, beyond Yang Zhen's own imagination at the beginning.

Especially on the way home, in order to bring back safely and smoothly the gold, silver, rice, sulfur and other materials obtained from the trip, as well as the hostages captured from Kyoto, Yang Zhen deliberately sought stability and deliberately slowed down the speed of the fleet.

Finally, nothing went wrong.

On the evening of October 6th, Yang Zhen, who had left Fujiang Island for more than a month, returned to the place of departure more than a month ago with his fleet, which had not only not become smaller but had grown several times after several battles.

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Shen Yongzhong, who was ordered to stay on the Five Islands, especially Fujiang Island, heard the news and led his troops to welcome them. They were equally overjoyed when they saw the huge fully loaded fleet returning and the tired but happy Yang Zhen and his party.

It took more than a month after Yang Zhen led his team to leave, but no news came back after that, which made Shen Yongzhong, who stayed behind on Fujiang Island, very worried.

After all, Yang Zhen's current position is too important, especially for the various generals and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians under the jurisdiction of Jinhai and Denglai Second Town, there is absolutely no room for any mistakes.

Once Yang Zhen is defeated, or some other accident occurs, the good situation of Jinhai and Denglai Second Town may fall apart in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, after Yang Zhen led his team to join the Dutch and jointly conquer the east coast of Japan, not only did Shen Yongzhong, who stayed on Fujiang Island, have been worried, and the longer the time went by, the harder it was to sleep and eat.

Lin Qingye, Qiu Guangyi, Chen Shunong, Jin Yukui and others who were in Hirado Island, Yingzhou Island, Tsushima Island and other places also sent people and ships to Fukue Island every now and then to inquire about news.

Of course, including the Assistant Camp Office of the General Town Government far behind Lushunkou, they also sent people again and again to follow the immigration ships to Yingzhou Island to learn about the progress of Yang Zhendong's expedition against the Japanese slaves.

One can imagine the worries of the generals in the Lushunkou rear area about this matter.

Shen Yongzhong greeted Yang Zhen, and while accompanying Yang Zhen to rest in Fujiang City not far away, he told Yang Zhen all these situations one by one, which also made Yang Zhen sigh with emotion.

"You said the Assistant Camp Affairs Office sent people to Yingzhou Island?"

"Yes, Governor, this is the third time recently."

"Is there anything important?"

"This, I have never heard of."

"Who is here this time? Where is he now?"

"This time, Wu Chaozuo's eldest son, Wu Weigong, nephew-in-law of Zhang Bing, the assistant camp affairs officer, is here. Wu Weigong is still waiting for the governor on Yingzhou Island!"

"Um."

Yang Zhen knew about Wu Weigong, because it was Yang Zhen's order that Wu Weigong entered the Assistant Camp Affairs Office to help with camp affairs.

The staff of the Assistant Camp Affairs Office of the main town government are replaced very quickly, often half of them are replaced in one year or half a year.

Correspondingly, the various affairs of the main town government's assistant camp affairs office are very complicated, and a large number of manpower need to be added at any time to help with the camp affairs.

Therefore, the younger and more promising family members of various generals in Jinhai Town, as well as the younger and more promising young talents under various generals, became the main source of supplementary manpower for the Assistant Camp Affairs Office.

This is how Wu Weigong entered the Associate Camp Affairs Office.

The reason why Yang Zhen knew about him was because when Zhang Degui recommended to Yang Zhen the sons of the assistant generals and deputy generals to join the assistant camp affairs office to help with camp affairs, Zhang Degui pointed out his identity to Yang Zhen and asked if he should avoid suspicion.

Then check it off.

Because this Wu Weigong was not only the son of Wu Chaozuo, but also the nephew-in-law of Zhang Degui, the assistant general manager of the Camp Affairs Office.

Zhang Degui married the widowed sister of Wu Chao Zuo and therefore became Wu Weigong's uncle.

Originally, this kind of kinship was nothing. They had no blood relationship with each other and were not very close.

However, after Wu Chaozuo's sister gave birth to a son for Zhang Degui, the situation changed.

Zhang Degui was worried about Yang Zhen's overthinking, and began to pay attention to avoiding suspicion.

However, in order to show his trust in Zhang Degui, Yang Zhen laughed off Zhang Degui's so-called avoidance of suspicion. Not only did he not check Wu Weigong off, but he also named him to enter the Associate Camp Affairs Office as a passerby.

At this moment, when Yang Zhen heard that Wu Weigong was still waiting for orders on Yingzhou Island, he first nodded and thought for a moment before saying to Shen Yongzhong:

"Let's do this. Early tomorrow morning, you will send a boat to Yingzhou Island to bring the news of the triumphal return of the governor, so that Qiu Guangyi, Chen Shunong and others can be prepared to respond.

"In addition, you can send another boat to Hirado Island and order Lin Qingye and Jin Yukui to return to Yingzhou Island before the tenth day of the lunar month! Tell them that the governor will arrive at the latest on the tenth day of this month.

Yingzhou Island!”

"I humbly obey my orders!"

Shen Yongzhong was in awe from the bottom of his heart for his cousin-in-law.

Back then, when he followed Zu Zerun into Songshan City to persuade him to surrender, he never thought that Yang Zhen would be where he is today.

At that time, Shen Yongzhong had almost concluded that the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the rise of the Qing Dynasty were destiny. Yang Zhen, who defended Songshan City and resisted stubbornly, was just a mantis trying to use his arms as a chariot and could not cause much trouble.

All in all, he had followed his heir, Shen Zhixiang, and was fully prepared to be loyal to the Qing captives.

But who would have thought that a meeting in Songshan City would change the fate of Shen Yongzhong, his heir, Shen Zhixiang, and the entire Xushun Gongsuo generals.

Correspondingly, the once-powerful Qing Dynasty now no longer looks like it was destined to do so.

On the contrary, under the rule of Yang Zhen, the number of households in various areas under the jurisdiction of Jinhai Town and even on the islands within the jurisdiction continued to increase, food harvests were bumper year after year, and immigrants lived and worked in peace and contentment, making it look like a royal paradise.

Looking at the Qing Dynasty that he once served, and then thinking about the tragic situation of the Ming Dynasty refugees that he saw outside the Weixian refugee camp, even people like Shen Yongzhong, who realized it in hindsight, have gradually realized that destiny

Not elsewhere.

And nine times out of ten, in Jinhaizhen, a corner of the sea and sky, it is his cousin-in-law Yang Zhen.

Especially this time, Yang Zhen teamed up with the red-haired ghost to conquer the Wonu Kingdom and returned with a full load. Not only did they bring back a large amount of real money, but they also captured the Emperor of the Wonu Kingdom.

When Shen Yongzhong learned the news, he was already very sure and had no doubt that his cousin-in-law Yang Zhen was the one destined to be his.

Therefore, in front of Yang Zhen, Shen Yongzhong couldn't help but behave more respectfully and diligently than before.

The next morning after Yang Zhen arrived at Fujiang Island, Shen Yongzhong got up early. According to Yang Zhen's instructions, he arranged for two express ships to go west to Seogwipo on Yingzhou Island to report the news to Qiu Guangyi and others.

Go north to the Japanese castle in Hiradoshima Town to find Lin Qingye and others to deliver orders.

Yang Zhen, who had been nervous and apprehensive all the way, completely relaxed after arriving at Fujiang Island, and rested for a day and night in Fujiang City, which was already beginning to take shape.

When Yang Zhen left Fujiang Island at the end of August, Fujiang City was just a stone enclosure surrounded by newly built stone walls.

Except for a large village house and a few warehouses originally built by the Goto clan, there are almost no decent barracks facilities in the city.

But when I came back and landed on the island this time, I found that not only were there new immigrants from Santun who moved from Yingzhou Island, but the previously shabby and simple Fujiang City also had the appearance of a real castle.

The previous stone fence has been made of cement concrete and has been thickened and more than doubled in height.

There are towers on the city gates and forts on the walls.

In the not-so-large castle, in addition to the previous large manor houses and warehouses, rows of neat barracks and warehouses were also built using stones, concrete and felled wood.

Although when Yang Zhen arrived, there were still many barracks facilities and city fortifications under intensive construction, the new sea fortress Fujiang City had already begun to take shape.

With this castle, coupled with the immigrants from the three villages who have landed for farming and a considerable number of standing troops, the southern gateway to the Goto Islands, Hirado, and Iki will be enough to guard.

If we cooperate with the garrisons of Hirado and Iki, especially the Japanese castle on Hirado Island, then in the next one or two years, as long as the Dutch do not end, Yang Zhen will not have to worry about the security here.

Of course, the most important measure to defend the newly opened territory is to relocate a considerable number of immigrants from Jinhai Town or Denglai Town as soon as possible.

Otherwise, the island would be desolate and uninhabited, and the garrison would have a hard time providing food and wages, making life unsustainable. As time goes by, the island would inevitably be abandoned or withdrawn.

I think back then, the Ming Dynasty set up many guard posts on the grasslands north of the Great Wall after several northern expeditions to Mongolia. However, within a few years, they were abandoned and withdrawn because they were isolated outside the Great Wall and had difficulty in supplying supplies. At the same time, there was no danger to defend.

, and handed over a large area of ​​land beyond the Great Wall to the grassland tribes moving south.

Now, since Yang Zhen has occupied the Goto Islands, Hirado, Iki and Tsushima Islands, he must hold on to them and not make such mistakes or repeat the same mistakes.

At sunrise in the early morning of October 8, the 14th year of Chongzhen, the sea west of Fujiang Island was in good condition with light wind and fine waves. After resting for a day and night in Fujiang City, Yang Zhen once again led the entire fleet to set sail and sailed towards Yingzhou Island.

It is not too far from Fujiang Island to Yingzhou Island. In the past, if we set sail early in the morning, we would have arrived by nightfall that day.

But this time, because almost every ship in the huge fleet led by Yang Zhen was fully loaded, they could not go faster, and they did not dare to take any risks, so they took almost twice as long as usual.

It will set off in the early morning of the eighth day of October and will not arrive at Seogwipo Sea until sunset on the ninth day of October.

At this time, Lin Qingye and others, who set off later than him, had already arrived at Yingzhou Island several hours earlier than him.
Chapter completed!