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After Li Yunlong heard this.

He raised his hand and slapped Monk Wei on the head.

Dayou cursed, "Did you hear me, you frivolous monk? Don't be so ignorant of the world just because you have practiced Kung Fu for a few days!

No matter what happens in the future, you must be careful and live well. Do you understand?"

Monk Wei was not angry at all.

He laughed cheerfully and said, "Hey, Captain, I understand! No matter what happens, I will treat it with caution..."

Li Yunlong said to Mao Wenlong again: "Thank you for your reminder, Brother Wenlong. I will remember this favor. In the future, if I can be of use to you, Brother Wenlong, please feel free to ask for help."

Mao Wenlong: "Old Li, you are being too polite, aren't you? We are brothers! Why are you being so polite to me?"

Brigade Commander Chen: "Look, you are just busy talking. You are really neglecting General Mao. Come on, let's talk in the room."

Then several people walked to a place not far away.

The soldiers built a temporary barracks.

After sitting down in the house.

Brigade Commander Chen said: "I wanted to go there in person to discuss future cooperation with General Mao, but I didn't expect General Mao to come to our side first."

Mao Wenlong: "What do you mean by general or not? Just call me by my name."

Brigade Commander Chen: "Then I will be so arrogant as to call you Brother Wenlong?"

Mao Wenlong: "This is more comfortable to hear than calling me brother. Haha..."

Brigade Commander Chen: "Since you asked me to call you Brother Wenlong, then you should not be so polite to me and just call me Old Chen."

"Well, it's not appropriate for me to call you Lao Chen, right?" Mao Wenlong said flattered.

Brigade Commander Chen: "What's inappropriate about this? You call them Lao Li and Lao Zhao, and it's just right to call me Lao Chen, right?"

Mao Wenlong: "Well, Brigade Commander, you..."

"What's this and that? Call me Lao Chen!" Brigade Commander Chen interrupted Mao Wenlong and said.

Mao Wenlong: "Okay, Lao Chen, I won't be polite to you then."

Brigade Commander Chen: "Why are you being so polite? Why should we be so polite? We are all friends and partners in the future. There is no need to be so polite to each other. Just be casual and natural."

Mao Wenlong: "It was mainly because I suddenly saw a historical figure and was a little excited. It was hard for me to keep a normal state of mind."

Brigade Commander Chen: "Hey, what historical celebrities? If we must talk about historical celebrities, you are the historical celebrity to us!

By the way, you should have met with Yuan Chonghuan, right? What was the result of the meeting today? "

Mao Wenlong: "I came here for this very reason. Yuan Chonghuan has bad intentions. He set his sights on my guns and ammunition. Can I give them to him? Of course not!

In addition, there is that fellow Yuan Chonghuan, who mentioned several things such as moving towns, checking troop numbers, banning sea trade and changing routes. I feel like there is a big conspiracy behind this.

I have some guesses about this, but they are so shocking that I am not sure if they are correct! So I thought about coming to talk to you and analyze this matter together. "

In fact, before Mao Wenlong came.

Brigade Commander Chen and Zhao Gang were also not idle.

The two based their understanding of historical events on Mao Wenlong's current situation.

Already aware of Mao Wenlong's current situation.

Made a more comprehensive analysis.

But Zhao Gang and Brigade Commander Chen are not scholars who specialize in history.

Regarding the situation in the late Ming Dynasty.

In fact, I don’t know much about it.

For example, the word "move town" mentioned by Mao Wenlong just now.

Don’t they know what’s going on?

Zhao Gang asked, "Brother Wenlong, can you tell us about these things in detail? Then we can analyze them."

Mao Wenlong: "Okay, let's talk about checking the number of soldiers first. That is to find out how many soldiers I have under my command, and then distribute military pay and food according to the actual number of people.

To put it bluntly, they are targeting me, Mao Wenlong. I have done so many things like sucking the blood of soldiers and drawing salaries without doing any work. Why don't they investigate others but only me?

Of course, I, Mao Wenlong, am not afraid of them coming to investigate, because I have never been paid for nothing. What I am afraid of is that someone is deliberately targeting me and doing something to me.”

Brigade Commander Chen nodded and said, "In the late Ming Dynasty, there were indeed many cases of people eating empty salaries. It can even be said that it was a very common thing.

Brother Wenlong, you didn't eat empty salary, which is very rare. The reason why others targeted you in this matter is probably because they were jealous of the military power you hold.

In that era when civil officials controlled military power, your Dongjiang Town Army, brother Wenlong, was isolated overseas, far away from the central government, and was not controlled by the civil service group at all, and its combat effectiveness was extremely strong.

Compared to other armies of your time, the Dongjiang Town Army is already very powerful! And such a powerful army is not under the control of the civil service group, others will definitely target you!"

Mao Wenlong: "Yes, I think so too. Next, let's talk about the relocation of the garrison. During the Tianqi period, many ministers, including Yuan Chonghuan and the Minister of War Wang Yongguang, submitted memorials to request it.

They wanted to move Mao Wenlong to a closer place, from Pi Island to Lushun or Gaizhou (Gaitao) or other places. However, people like Fengcheng Hou Li Chengzuo opposed the move, so the matter was finally dropped!

From January to February of the first year of Chongzhen (1628), the former Denglai Governor Wu Zhiwang, the Right Censor of Engineering Pan Shiwen, and the Censor Fan Ruzi all impeached Mao Wenlong and brought up the issue of moving the garrison again.

Emperor Chongzhen was fooled into agreeing to check the number of soldiers in Dongjiang, and ordered a discussion on moving Mao Wenlong to another garrison.

However, there were also sober ministers who expressed their opposition. The ministers in the court argued over and over again, but there is still no final result! Now that Yuan Chonghuan has brought up this matter, it is obvious that he has no good intentions..."

The map of Liaodong brought by Mao Wenlong before.

Afterwards it was left to Li Yunlong and others.

At this time Li Yunlong took out the map of Liaodong.

Several people gathered around the map to study it.

Zhao Gang: "From a strategic and tactical perspective, Pi Island is better than Lushun and Gaizhou. Yuan Chonghuan and his men cannot fail to understand this.

They want Brother Wenlong and his soldiers to move from Pi Island to another place. This is really intriguing!"

Brigade Commander Chen asked, "Brother Wenlong, while you were stationed at Zhapi Island, did you find any merchant ships heading to the Korean Peninsula or Japan?"

Mao Wenlong: "We have encountered them once or twice, but the merchant ships would avoid us as far as possible. I have no idea where their destination is!"

Brigade Commander Chen: "That's right. Ever since Zheng He's voyages to the West during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the sea has been banned on the surface.

However, in reality, overseas trade has been developing all the time, but it is completely controlled by local aristocratic families and interest groups.

During the Chongzhen period, merchants, led by the eight major Shanxi merchant families, continuously supplied food and even strategic materials such as salt, iron, swords, guns, bows and arrows to the Later Jin in order to make huge profits.

The eight major Shanxi merchants made a lot of money, would the sea merchants turn a blind eye to such huge benefits? There must be sea merchants who want to do business with the Later Jin, but the location of Pi Island happened to be stuck in their shipping lane, so they had to move the town. "

Mao Wenlong slapped his thigh and said, "Old Chen, your analysis is absolutely correct. This is most likely the truth of the matter."

Zhao Gang: "Unscrupulous businessmen will do anything for profit!"

Li Yunlong: "Damn it, those guys should all be arrested and shot!"

Mao Wenlong: "Those guys really deserve to die, but this is just a piece of cake, the really abominable things are still to come!"

Li Yunlong glared: "Is there anything more abominable?"