From Wusong to the north, there is the Yellow Sea, which is yellow in color.

The theory of the Yellow Sea originated from the Yellow River taking the Huai River and changing the road. The original Yellow River entered the sea through the northern Zhili and the Tianjin Haihe River channel entered the sea. Now it enters the sea from Huaian Prefecture (north of Jiangsu) in Zhili in the south. Because the Yellow River brings a lot of mud and sand, the color of the coastal water surface becomes yellower. Over time, it is called the Yellow Sea.

For more than a year after going south, Eunuch Wei has never swam on the sea, so this time I went north and wanted to have time to take a tour, so I could leave a good sentence like "No matter the wind and waves, it is better than walking in the garden."

However, the sea area north of the Yangtze River in Nanzhili where the fleet passed through made it difficult for Eunuch Wei to realize his dream, and the fleet basically had no way to dock and land. The reason was that the sea area in northern Jiangsu was full of mud flats and no beaches.

The tidal flats in some places stretch for hundreds of miles. Don’t say that the fleet cannot land, even if it extends inland for two or three hundred miles in the area, there is no official road.

The only official road was built in the seawall built by Fan Zhongyan during the Northern Song Dynasty. Later generations built this seawall as the basis and built a national highway across the north and south of China. The northernmost part is the capital and the southernmost part is in Guangdong.

Eunuch Wei believed that this was probably why the Japanese pirates had been attacking and harassing the southeast and never appeared on the northern coast.

Geographically, the north of the Ming Dynasty must be closer to the Japanese mainland, and then the Japanese attacks during the Jiajing period were always in the southeast, and the fundamental reason was four.

First, the northern coast of the Ming Dynasty was not as prosperous as the southeast.

The second is that the northern coastal terrain is not conducive to the landing of Japanese pirates.

Third, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army gathered in the north is higher than that of the south.

Fourth, the so-called masterminds of the Japanese pirates are actually Han people on the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, and they are more familiar with the Southeast.

Under the influence of these four factors, the Japanese pirates did not invade the heart of the north of the Ming Dynasty, because for them, it was completely unworthy of the gains.

After three days of the fleet, the weather was extremely warm. Eunuch Wei held his hands and looked at the distant coast, and asked where Ruan Dacheng was forced to pull him up.

Ruan Dacheng didn't know where this place was. He hurriedly went to find a chart to see it. After looking at it, he confirmed that this area should be Yancheng County, which belongs to Huai'an Prefecture.

"Oh, Yancheng."

Eunuch Wei nodded. He had a special relationship with this place.

Yancheng is named after salt, which is very famous. The northern part of the county belongs to Huaian Prefecture, and the southern part belongs to Yangzhou Prefecture. Lianghuai Salt Field is also within the scope of this county, and they are all under the jurisdiction of Lianghuai Salt Administration in Yangzhou. The dense reeds on the tidal flats can reach hundreds of miles from south to north, and cranes with red-topped heads and deer-like animals can be seen from afar.

Lianghuai Salt Field does not dry salt, but boils salt.

Reeds are necessary to boil salt, so the places where salt people live are mostly called "tuan", "duan", and "field".

"Two people came out of Yancheng, one is Lu Gongxiufu and the other is Zhang Gongshicheng. These two are both great heroes of our Han family. We should remember them as descendants, remember them, and remember them for generations..."

Eunuch Wei remembered that today happened to be Qingming Festival, so he specially burned incense on the boat and taught his subordinates about the heroes.

Lu Gong Xiufu is a national hero. Lu Xiufu, the famous prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, resisted Yuan Dynasty. In the Battle of Yashan, Emperor Hu would rather die than surrender and jumped into the sea to die. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians followed him and jumped into the sea to die!

In this battle, China was conquered by the northern nomadic peoples as a whole for the first time, and the Chinese civilization declined and fell, so there is the saying that "there is no China after Yashan."

Fortunately, the Red Turban finally expelled the Tartars, restored China, and revived the Chinese civilization and did not sink for thousands of years!

"What is the spirit of Yashan? It's better to die than surrender!"

When Eunuch Wei burned incense to Lu Xiufu's magic card, he first proposed the "Yashan Spirit". He pointed out that the "Yashan Spirit" is the national spirit of our Han family and the fierce spirit of our Han family. Faced with the invasion of foreign races, each of us Han people should take the initiative to resist bravely and would rather die than surrender.

"In the Battle of Yashan, we Han people were defeated, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians died for our country. From then on, we Han people became slaves of the Tartars. But why can we restore our country and drive away those Tartars?... Because we Han people have a spirit, today the alien race can defeat us, occupy our land, and ask us to be their slaves. But as long as we Han people are not exterminated for a day, we can finally take revenge, and finally drive away the alien race, and even destroy them all!"

Eunuch Wei emphasized that the national spirit of the Han family is the spirit of the Ming Imperial Army, and the Ming Imperial Army and the Han people are inseparable. The Imperial Army is not only the personal army of the emperor, but also the most steadfast defender of the Han people!

"Everyone, we hope that you can always remember the national spirit and integrity shown in the Battle of Yashan and the Battle of Yashan. Every soldier of the Ming Imperial Army has the responsibility to devote himself to the survival, self-esteem and self-defense heroes of our Han nationality!"

Eunuch Wei said this with emotion. As the expansion of the Ming Dynasty imperial army has been officially put on the agenda, the inheritance and spirit of the army must also be put on the stage.

The Ming Dynasty Imperial Army cannot be an army that strives for money and future, but it must become a vanguard, guardian, and pioneer of the Han nation.

Therefore, ideological work must be started and strengthened.

The clear-cut promotion of the "Yashan Spirit" in the army will help the officers and soldiers change their thoughts.

Regarding Zhang Shicheng, because of his defeat in the dynasty, Eunuch Wei was not inconvenient to talk about so much, so he only talked about his deeds against the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhang Shicheng led the Yanmin Uprising in the late Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and established the Great Zhou regime. His uprising troops traveled across Jiangsu and Zhejiang, controlled the most prosperous areas in southeast China, and cut off the main source of pseudo-Yuan grain and fiscal revenue. The battle of Gaoyou became famous all over the world, dismantling the main force of the one-million-yuan army led by the pseudo-Yuan minister Xiang Tutuo. There is no doubt that Zhang Shicheng was a great hero in the fight against the pseudo-Yuan.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the authors of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, who are widely circulated on the market, have both served Zhang Shicheng. However, Zhang Shicheng was eventually defeated by the Taizu of the dynasty, but whether it is official or private, Zhang Shicheng is still a famous hero of the anti-Yuan.

Eunuch Wei didn't say much, and his subordinates knew it well.

"Da Cheng should record the speeches about our Yashan spirit, extract them, organize them, and organize them to study soon."

After finishing his speech, Eunuch Wei did not forget to instruct Ruan Dacheng to sublimate his speech.

This talented man Ruan and the second generation of rich people were obviously used by him as a pen.

Ruan Dacheng was very distressed. He felt that he was completely exploited by eunuch Wei, but he had to do what he said.

He had a premonition that if he could not escape from the "sea of ​​suffering" as soon as possible, he would likely become the minion of Wei in the eyes of the world and everyone would despise him.

Seeing the blue sky and white clouds and the breeze was not wafting, Eunuch Wei suddenly felt excited and called out to put down the boat, took dozens of followers to row the boat to the dock, and picked up the small crabs and mud snails barefoot on a mudflat.

After picking it up for more than an hour, I was satisfied and returned on the boat. Then I asked someone to soak the mud snails in water to spit out sand, and then I asked them to choke with materials.

Two days later, when the fleet arrived at the Haizhou (Lianyungang) area, my father-in-law finally tasted the long-lost taste.
Chapter completed!