Dawn will come before it arrives, the sunrise is still below the horizon without a trace, the sky is dim, many stars are still twinkling. Zhu Pingan got up early, no, is up the chair, last night he stayed up late to write a few official documents, have been Yin time, just lying on the table, squinting less than an hour.
Because of the serious lack of sleep, Zhu Pingan got up, the spirit is a bit unhelpful, in order to refresh, Zhu Pingan played a bucket of well water from the outside, wash, by the way, in the purification room simply took a cool bath.
The well water was drawn cool, and a ladle poured down from above, and it instantly lifted his spirits and refreshed his mind.
“Painful!”
With a ladle into his soul, Zhu Pingan could not help but shout out, pouring ladle after ladle of cool water onto his body.
After taking a cool shower, Zhu Pingan was instantly refreshed, as if his entire body had been resurrected with full blood.
The post-war reconstruction was a complicated affair, and each item needed to be expedited.
Zhu Pingan put on his clothes, took the official document that he stayed up late last night to write, and quickly walked out of the three halls, ready to let Liu Mu take ten yamen to ride on a fast horse to send the official document to the Taizhou government, and in addition, he himself took Liu Dazhou and others to continue to go down to the countryside.
“Ya ……”
Zhu Pingan had only stepped out of the third hall when he heard a cry of alarm and then collided with Painter who was carrying a food box.
Painter had come from the inner mansion to deliver breakfast to Zhu Pingan, she knew that Zhu Pingan was used to waking up early, so she got up before dawn today to make breakfast, and when she was done, she delivered it to Zhu Pingan at the first opportunity.
Painter wanted to give Zhu Ping An a surprise, did not expect to step into the third hall, and went out with Zhu Ping An collided with, painting the body is smaller, only had time to let out a cry of surprise, the whole person will be anxious to go out of Zhu Ping An hit backward and fell over, but in spite of this, painting the heart of the mind firmly hanging on to the food box, like a ground squirrel, clinging tightly to the food box, the food box will be protected in the embrace.
The expected scene of falling on the ground did not happen, but fell into a pair of arms, Painter opened her eyes in confusion, as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Zhu Pingan, and couldn’t help but blush, it turned out to be the male son who caught himself in time.
“Painting, why are you here? Didn’t I tell you yesterday that I’ve been quite busy lately and would be settling my three meals a day outside.”
As soon as Zhu Pingan helped Painter up, he saw the food box that Painter was carrying and couldn’t help but say softly.
“Sir, the rice sold outside, how can it be as good as the heart of their own cooking, they don’t bother to put in oil, they don’t bother to put in salt, and what’s more, they don’t know if the ingredients they use have been washed, how uneasy it is to eat it.”
Painter put the food box on the table in the house, broke his fingers and blah blah blah back, said the head of the road.
Cough cough, you are willing to put salt, eat you a meal, I have to drink at least two more pots of water this day.
Zhu Pingan looked at the food box that Painter had placed on the table, the corner of his mouth couldn’t help but twitch a little, all forming a conditioned reflex.
“Gongzi, hurry up and eat your breakfast, after eating breakfast, you can only have strength for the day.”Painter urged with an expectant face.
Okay!
Can’t discourage the child’s motivation ……
Zhu Pingan opened the food box under Painter’s expectant gaze and moved his chopsticks, well, some surprises, the salty flavour of the meal made by Painter today was a lot lighter than before, although the flavour still needs to be improved, but it was quite a lot better than before, in order to save time, Zhu Pingan solved the food box in three tries.
Gongzi eat good fast, it seems that I do the cooking is very delicious Well …… buns little maid painting a little floating, a wave of pride on the small face, if there is a tail, this will be her little tail designated up.
“Gongzi, urgent report.”
Zhu Pingan hurriedly finished his meal, fetched his official documents, and was about to go out when he heard Liu Mu’s voice outside the hall begging for an audience.
“Brother Mu, please come in.”Zhu Pingan invited Liu Mu in.
“Your Excellency, an urgent report just came in, the next door Taiping County town was captured yesterday afternoon by the Japanese bandits, the same group that lost from our Jingnan. In addition, Ninghai and Xianju counties to the north were also plundered by another group of Japanese pirates, and it is unclear if they have captured the county. I heard from the people who fled that Taizhou Prefecture City was also besieged by the Japanese.”
Liu Mu came in and reported, one piece of news was more shocking than the other.
Taiping was overrun by the Japanese?
Zhu Pingan frowned tightly, what is the governor of Taiping doing, when the Japanese invaders disembarked from Jingnan the day before yesterday and besieged the county seat of Jingnan, Taiping County had already received the news, right, and should have taken precautions in advance, right? That group of Japanese have already lost most of their troops in Jingnan! The feathered arrows are all gone! How could it still be overrun by the Japanese so quickly?！！！！ Zhu Pingan really couldn’t figure it out.
In addition, Ninghai and Xianju had also been attacked by the Japanese, and even Taizhou Prefecture had been besieged by the Japanese! It seems that these gangs of Japanese pirates were in a group and selected Taizhou Prefecture as a looting target! There must be at least 10,000 Japanese pirates in this group. 10,000 Japanese pirates, this is a group of Japanese pirates that cannot be ignored.
Previously, the Japanese force in Zhejiang was led by Chen Si Pan, but it was annexed by Wang Zhi at the beginning of the year.
So, what is the relationship between this group of Japanese pirates and Wang Zhi? Were they under Wang Zhi?
It should not be.
According to history, after Wang Zhi annexed Chen Si Pan, he became the largest Japanese pirate force on the sea, and Wang Zhi’s ambition was expanding, intending to set up a country of his own, replacing the tribute status of the Japanese, and monopolising the trade with the Ming Dynasty. During this period of time, Wang Zhi was busy merging and expanding his power on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was busy seeking for the “tribute”. He had great expectations for the imperial court, and for this reason, he had been restraining the Japanese pirates under his command not to go ashore to loot and pillage, so as to avoid destroying the general situation of the “tribute”.The Japanese were not allowed to go ashore to plunder, so as not to ruin the “tribute” situation. During this period of time, Wang Zhi’s Japanese invaders had a short honeymoon period with the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Zhi would not order his Japanese invaders to go ashore to plunder.
However, Wang Zhi’s Xu Hai and other subordinates and Wang Zhi philosophy is not consistent, always disobedient to Wang Zhi management, could it be that they secretly do it? Possibly, but unlikely, more than 10,000 Japanese plunder Taizhou is too big, they do not dare so blatantly against the will of Wang Zhi, destroy the “tribute” situation.
Then, the biggest possibility is that this group of Japanese pirates are not from Zhejiang, but from Fujian and other places. Although Wang Zhi’s power was the most powerful in the southeast, he had not unified the Japanese pirates, and many of them in Fujian and other places did not obey him.
Zhu Pingan did not analyse the source of the Japanese invaders because he had nothing better to do, but to analyse the situation.
If they were foreigners, they could not have stayed in Taizhou for long. On the one hand, the imperial court would send troops to eliminate them, and on the other hand, they came from Fujian to violate Zhejiang Taizhou, crossing the border. After Wang Zhi annexed Chen Si Pan, he regarded Zhejiang and other places as his own sphere of influence, and he would not allow Fujian’s Japanese to cross the border, and would definitely expel them and attack them.
Of course, even if Wang Zhi under the disobedience of the Japanese, do not serve Wang Zhi constraints, sneak ashore looting, that they are not long stay, if it is found by Wang Zhi, the consequences are not they can afford.
Therefore, no matter what kind of situation, this group of Japanese will never stay in Taizhou for a long time, and will definitely rob a handful and run away.
In this case, then Jingnan can rest assured that the reconstruction, in addition to their own can also grab a handful of war heroes, as long as the right plan, the success rate is very high, this kind of opportunity for a civil official is a hundred years rare ah.
Zhu Pingan reached out and touched his chin, falling into thought.
