Wu Yi's name is Risheng and his pseudonym was Shuoqing. He was from Wujiang and was a Jinshi in the 16th year of Chongzhen.

The 16th year of Chongzhen was the year of life and death in the Chongzhen Dynasty. After that year, the Jiashen Kingdom was about to change.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, Yang Tingjian's list was admitted to 205 people. These Jinshi faced the destruction of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and the Shun army occupied Beijing. When the Qing army entered the pass, they also made different choices.

The top scholar Yang Tingjian chose to live in seclusion. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he did not enter the Qing court for his entire life. Chen Mingxia, Song Zhisheng, and Liu Zhaoguo surrendered to the Qing court and served the Qing court. Wu Yi, Zhang Jiayu, and Li Changxiang chose to raise an army to fight against the Qing army and all died to fight against the Qing army.

Shortly after Zhao Ming returned to Zhoushan, news came from Chongming that Wu Yi was killed by Fan Wencheng in Nanjing. Before his execution, Wu Yi was worshipped in Xiaoling Mausoleum and was executed by Lingchi of the Qing Dynasty. More than 30 gentry and backbone of the Tiandihui were killed.

When Zhao Ming heard the news, he was very sad and set up a mourning hall in the army to worship and ordered the entire army to mourn for three days.

Zhao Ming went north to restrain some of the Qing army, making the Qing army unable to launch a fierce attack on the Ming Dynasty on the front battlefield, but the Qing army was still more than enough to encircle and suppress local rebels.

After the Qing Dynasty decided to clear out the rebels from all over the country, in addition to the Taihu Wuyi army being suppressed, the three Wang Guangtai brothers in Yunyang, Huguang, launched an anti-Qing uprising in response to Du Yinxi's counterattack on Yuezhou, and Wang Guangtai led the remaining troops to flee into the Kuidong area.

In addition, He Zhen, Sun Shoufa and others in Hanzhong, Shaanxi led the anti-Qing righteous army and were also defeated by the Qing army. Sun Shoufa was ambushed by the Qing army and pacified Guanzhong. In Hanzhong, He Zhen led the remaining troops and entered the Kuidong area.

If, according to historical development, there were several Shun troops, after the failure of the anti-Qing struggle, they moved to Kuidong and formed more than ten large and small rebel armies, which were later famous Thirteen Kuidong families.

In July of the third year of Longwu, the areas controlled by the Qing Dynasty, except for Shandong, Liaodong, and the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with the rebels supported by Zhao Ming, the rebels controlled by themselves and lack the support of the official army were either wiped out or hibernated in the ravine and temporarily dormant.

Although the eastern coast of the Qing Dynasty is now uneasy, with the implementation of the sea ban strategy, and the Qing Dynasty's economy did not rely on the ocean and did not encourage commerce, Jiangnan handicraft workshops went bankrupt rapidly and the commodity economy was destroyed. Most of the cotton fields and mulberry fields in Jiangnan, Henan and other places were converted into grain cultivation. The Qing Dynasty gradually had enough food, and its strength would inevitably steadily improve.

After the implementation of the sea ban strategy, a hundred miles of unmanned areas appeared in coastal areas, making it difficult for Zhao Ming to harass the Qing Dynasty and could not interfere with the vast inland areas controlled by the Qing Dynasty.

If the areas controlled by the Qing Dynasty gradually stabilize, then the vast territory controlled by the Qing Dynasty will gradually increase its manpower and material resources, forming a tendency to crush the Ming Dynasty.

This made Zhao Ming feel a little anxious, recognized the huge gap between the Ming and Qing dynasties, and put away his contempt for the Qing Dynasty.

In mid-July, Chen Zilong and others who had disappeared for many days came to Zhoushan. Zhao Ming received a lot of talents, and they also brought two news.

First, He Tengjiao recovered Yuezhou, and second, Emperor Longwu finally left Fujing and arrived at Tingzhou Prefecture, Fujian to the east of Ganzhou. As soon as Huguang welcomed the army arrived, he was preparing to forcefully leave Fujian and go to southern Ganzhou.

These two news surprised Zhao Ming. At this time, the situation of the anti-Qing Dynasty was still acceptable. Emperor Longwu was still a rare item for Zheng Zhilong. Zhao Ming felt that if he was Zheng Zhilong, he would never let Emperor Longwu leave Fujing.

Now that Emperor Longwu has left Fujing, if Longwu is revived in the future, how could Zheng Zhilong have a good life?

Zhao Ming didn't understand Zheng Zhilong's thinking, but Zheng Zhilong's thinking was strange. It was reasonable that if the King of the Sea did not do it, he would not seek refuge with the Lord of the Qing Dynasty. If he did not understand his ideas, it was reasonable.

Compared to Longwu's departure from Fujing and moving to Tingzhou, what surprised Zhao Ming even more was that He Tengjiao actually restored Yuezhou.

After all, Longwu left Fujing and went to Tingzhou in history, but He Tengjiao had almost no such moment of becoming so powerful in history.

Could it be that He Tengjiao was brave after knowing his shame and finally understood that he took advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army in the East China Sea to restrain Duoduo and once took over the opportunity to defeat Yuezhou?

Zhao Ming was confused, but it was indeed a happy thing that He Tengjiao recovered Yuezhou, lost the Hunan portal and recovered, and the situation in Huguang was temporarily worry-free.

In addition, if Emperor Longwu could leave Fujian and go to Ganzhou to join the army that was loyal to him, the situation in the southwest's anti-Qing situation would definitely improve in the future, and Zhao Ming would not have to struggle.

Most of the Ming army in southern Gan and Huguang were loyal to Emperor Longwu. If Longwu could get loyalty from Shunshi, then the army that obeyed Longwu would have more than 200,000.

In this way, the strategy of "Rongwu going down to Wuchang and down to Jianling" Zhao Ming's army entered the Yangtze River and approaching Jinling. Zhu Yihai went from north and south of Zhejiang, and the strategy of three people joining Jinling may be realized.

Now the Qing Dynasty is intending to restore the north and establish a stable rule. With the advantages of large territory and large population, it will widen the gap with the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Zhao Ming was almost at the war in the inland, so he could only develop his own strength first and wait for the opportunity to give the Qing Dynasty a fatal blow.

On Jintang Island, a large number of people have moved, and the main living people are craftsmen, sailors and troops.

At the foot of Jintang Mountain, the workshop stretches for three or four miles, with more than 800 craftsmen and nearly 10,000 apprentices. They work day and night to produce various equipment, military funds, as well as some shoes and coats for trade.

At this time, Zhao Ming, Chen Mingyu and others inspected the workshop. Zhao Ming explained: "This governor is based on the sea, and the warship is the foundation. This time, the fleet has been sailing for a long time, and many ships have been damaged. The shipyard must repair the warship as soon as possible. In addition, the gunpowder that had been reserved has been consumed, and the workshop must make more batches of gunpowder as soon as possible."

Chen Mingyu nodded and said, "The governor went north to Lianghuai and Shandong and obtained a lot of money and materials. Among them, the treasury had 1.2 million taels of silver, 50,000 pieces of cloth, 300,000 kilograms of thick iron, 50,000 kilograms of salt, and 4,000 kilograms of cattle. The results were abundant. There was no problem with these gains, repairing warships, and manufacturing gunpowder. The only problem was the shortage of food."

Zhao Ming frowned and said, "Is the food shortage very big?"

Chen Mingyu said: "The governor obtained 400,000 stones of grain from Lianghuai, and the gains were actually very generous. However, these gains have been consumed by the Shandong Yimin people who have been recruited. Under the rule of the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang, the original population is 650,000. The governor of Shandong Lianghuai, and recruited more than 600,000 people. The population doubled, and the food gap doubled."

Zhao Ming pondered: "How is the situation of Taiwan's settlement? It should be barely enough for Taiwan's food!"

Taiwan is rich and it is okay to support seven or eight million people. The population is less than two million now. As long as Taiwan is developed, the food problem should not be big.

Ma Shiao said, "Governor, Taiwan is not peaceful now. It is affected by the attacks of Spain and natives. The summer harvest this year is very bleak, and the autumn harvest is probably also affected."

Zhao Ming raised his eyebrows, "There is such a thing!"
Chapter completed!