So he simply used his own advantages to contact those original pirates and current maritime merchants. Many of the Meihua Club had officials from Jiangnan, and these officials had many contacts with each other. Naturally, they were interested in the gentry who sold goods overseas.
There are also contacts.
Those gentry were naturally closely related to the maritime merchants, so Hu Zhiyu contacted many maritime merchants step by step. He originally wanted to use these maritime merchants to cause some trouble for Liu Haojia and make some money by the way, but he found out
These maritime merchants have long been unified, and a pirate king similar to Captain Wufeng has emerged!
Moreover, this pirate king is not as flamboyant as Captain Wufeng, he is very low-key! So low-key that most people in the world don't know that the maritime merchants have been integrated!
Moreover, after these pirates were unified, they had sources of food, medicine, and even weapons and gunpowder, and their dependence on the shore was greatly reduced. Now the gentry could no longer control them! Moreover, Hu Zhiyu found out that the pirate king seemed to be fighting with Wu.
Ning Hou has a very close relationship with him and is subservient to him, which makes it even more difficult for him to attack!
Just when Hu Zhiyu was about to stop, news suddenly came that Liu Haojia was going to go on an expedition to Japan, which made him feel like he had seen an opportunity! So he waited patiently for the news from Japan!
But to his surprise, Liu Haojia's expedition to Japan not only failed, but came back with a large amount of money. This made him feel very frustrated! But this also made him understand one thing: there are really big profits overseas.
!
At this moment, he suddenly thought that if he could really hold these maritime merchants in his hands, wouldn't he be the uncrowned king of the sea? So he repeatedly calculated and found that as long as Liu Haojia was killed, the foundation of maritime merchants would be destroyed. He then used
The method of win over and divide these pirates will be used by him!
Moreover, Liu Haojia also provided him with a new idea to expand profits outwards. Wouldn't it be more profitable to use these pirates to plunder and divide the spoils himself? So he thought of pushing Liu Haojia to go out to patrol the border, and then use Mongolians to
Ambush him and kill him!
Zhang Yuanfeng's eyes lit up after hearing Hu Zhiyu's plan, and he was sure that Hu Zhiyu was telling the truth! And he was also shocked by the mountain of silver presented by Liu Haojia. It seems that the fastest way to make money in the world is robbery! So he did not hesitate.
Said: "It is my duty to eliminate traitors for the country!"
Hu Zhiyu smiled and said: "If the Zhang family can participate, we will be more confident. After all, the Zhang family is more familiar with the outside of the border wall."
But Zhang Yuanfeng said with a straight face: "Head of the club, what I said is that I want to participate!"
Hu Zhiyu was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then smiled and said, "That's fine, but I don't know how many tribes Zhang Xiandi can influence without relying on the Zhang family's words?"
Hu Zhiyu was not surprised at all by Zhang Yuanfeng's sudden idea! You must know that the Ming Dynasty is a clan society, and the patriarch is in charge of almost everything in the family! Although Zhang Yuanfeng holds great power in the Zhang family and seems to be extremely prosperous, to be honest
He is just a big shopkeeper under Zhang Siwei! It’s just that this big shopkeeper has some shares and can get some money!
Now that he saw the opportunity to be his own boss, how could he not seize it! Moreover, Hu Zhiyu believed that Zhang Yuanfeng had been in charge of the Zhang family's business for so many years, so he must have some savings and manpower in private! Even if it was not enough, he would borrow the name of the Zhang family a little
It’s enough to achieve what you want!
As expected, Zhang Yuanfeng said: "Don't worry, the leader of the society, there is no problem in motivating the two tribes to take action! I just don't know which tribe the leader of the society can contact, we need to coordinate!"
After the two reached an agreement, they began to deliberate on a rough plan. The initial plan was for Hu Zhiyu to arrange for someone to push Liu Haojia to patrol the border. I guess many people in the court disliked him, so it would be better to send him outside the border wall, at least for the sake of peace.
Out of sight is out of mind! It would be better if there was an error outside the side wall! So the two people quickly reached an agreement and finalized the plan.
More than ten days later, when the Yinshan incident was still spreading word of mouth among the people, a doctor from the Ministry of War wrote a memorial asking the cabinet whether it would arrange border patrols this year. If so, he suggested that the Wu'an Army
The reason for leaving the border wall is that the Wu'an Army has recently been formed and the soldiers have no experience and need to be tempered!
This memorial went up step by step according to various procedures. Everyone who came into contact with the memorial passed it without hesitation. When the memorial was passed to the cabinet, it was naturally transferred to Zhang Siwei. He could have directly
It was approved, but for some reason he always wanted to say hello to Zhang Juzheng.
So he walked up to Zhang Juzheng with the memorial and said: "First Assistant, please read this memorial."
Zhang Juzheng put down his pen and took the memorial to read. After reading it, he turned his head and looked at Zhang Siwei deeply for a while before saying: "There is some truth in what is said in the memorial. This kind of newly formed army always needs to be beaten. Anyway.
It’s been quiet outside the side wall for a long time. It’s okay to go out for a walk, so you can just approve it!”
Zhang Siwei said: "Chief Assistant, how many people should go out this time?"
Zhang Juzheng thought about it and said: "It is said that the Wu'an Army has tens of thousands of people, but we can't use that many people for patrolling the border, so we can just send out three thousand people! Although the treasury has some savings now, it is not a waste of money."
when."
Zhang Siwei nodded and agreed, then went back to his seat to give instructions and handed the memorial out. When the memorial arrived in the inner study, Feng Bao's place was also smoothly covered. The matter was settled!
Speaking of which, Feng Bao didn't have a good impression of Liu Haojia! Because since Liu Haojia had a relationship with Emperor Wanli, Emperor Wanli hadn't summoned him for a long time! He didn't look very good even when he needed to ask him something.
He feels that he has fallen out of favor! So he can't deal with Liu Haojia now, even if he is disgusted with him!
By the time Zhang Jia heard the news, it was too late to dismiss the matter. He hurriedly sent a letter to Tianjin to let Liu Haojia know about it.
Liu Haojia was also surprised when he received the news. He didn't expect that the border patrol would fall on him! But after being surprised, he was happy because he also felt that his soldiers needed to be tempered! And there is no risk in border patrol.
The incident just gave the inexperienced soldiers a lesson.
So he wrote back a letter to Zhang Jia, expressing his willingness to accept the order, and then began to reorganize his team. He dispersed more than a thousand soldiers who had gone through the war and distributed them among various camps. He believed that these soldiers would be enough to pass on their experience.