Comics and simple "cartoons", naughty children can only be obsessed with for a while. Sometimes they draw things that are gradually falling off in the rain all day long. It may not be that he finished watching them in the blink of an eye. Chen Xi doesn't have so much time to draw new content.

However, it is much easier for Chen Xi to talk about this thing by relying solely on words.

The reason why Chen Xi didn't let Zhu Houzhao know about martial arts is because the naughty child was too young, had a simple mind, and had a low imagination of the picture in his mind. In an era of information-closed, it was too difficult to count on a **-year-old child to understand martial arts.

But now Zhu Houzhao is twelve years old, equivalent to a sixth-grade student in later generations. Not only do he basically recognize words, but he also knows a lot of human relationships and worldly styles. He is already able to understand the beauty of martial arts stories, so that he can entertain and establish a correct value orientation while setting up a correct value orientation.

The greatest hero is to serve the country and the people!

The first martial arts movie that Chen Xi gave to Zhu Houzhao was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and then "The Legend of Condor Heroes". These two books are basically enlightenment books for martial arts, and as long as they are involved, they will be addicted to it. As for the "Slaying Dragons" of the Trilogy of the Condor Heroes", it is equivalent to the unofficial history of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the "Dragon Slaying Sword" in the book is seriously taboo, so Chen Xi is not going to take it out.

With Zhu Houzhao's reading level, a book called The Legend of the Condor Heroes is about 1.1 million words, and a book called about 50,000 words. In other words, there are as many as 22 books, which can be read for about two or three months. With the time of repeated reading and reminiscing, Chen Xi's writing level can barely keep up.

Just as Zhu Houzhao was devoted to studying martial arts, Chen Xi was preparing to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. As soon as the busy farming season ended in autumn, it was time for the army to send troops to sweep away the bandits, and he had to do all the preparations before the expedition.

But before this, there was another happy event, that was Tang Yin's marriage.

Tang Yin, the most famous talent of the Ming Dynasty, finally got his wish and married Miss Xia. However, he seemed to be a son-in-law. Even if he got married, he could not immediately fulfill his family with Miss Xia. This made Tang Yin not as happy as he imagined.

However, in this era, the significance of a marriage letter is very important. As long as the marriage between Miss Xia and Tang Yin is confirmed, it basically means that the two can be together and grow old. With the good tutor of the Xia family, Miss Xia is definitely a gentle and humble wife after she gets married. She will not take the initiative to have disputes with Tang Yin. If a couple is not in harmony, the key is whether Tang Yin will divorce his wife.

The wedding was lively, but Chen Xi was not too concerned about it.

Originally, this was just to use the Xia family to be anxious to cheer for the old lady and help Tang Yin "scam" a girl who is as beautiful as a flower, because in Shen Xi's eyes, no matter how hard she looks, she felt that Tang Yin was not worthy of Miss Xia.

But one of the two sides was willing to fight and the other was willing to be beaten. Chen Xi just did a favor and did not owe anyone, so things just passed.

The General Administration and the Censorate Office are still causing trouble for the Governor's Office, and merchants are strictly prohibited from cooperating with the Governor's Office, and violators are punished severely. However, Chen Xi has the foreign trade ports of Fuzhou and Quanzhou. As the cooperation with the Folang Jiren deepens, the chambers under Chen Xi will have a steady stream of goods exchanged with the Folang Jiren. The sea salt, which is almost worthless for Folang Jiren, accounts for an important ratio, and the salt prices in the three southeastern provinces quickly fell to about 30 cents.

Although the price of salt of 30 cents is still a little higher for ordinary people, it is finally much lower than the usual price of 40 cents. As for areas close to the salt farm, the salt price directly fell to around 20 cents, and the salt price in Guangzhou is even more exaggerated. Since many people bought salt in combination before, the salt shop could not be sold at all. Now it is only 17 kilograms, and no one cares about it.

During this period, Chen Xi spent two or three hours a day writing a book and handing it over to Huiniang, and then printing it into the printing workshop run by Huiniang and Li Jin and making money, the rest of the time was to organize official documents and treat corn and sweet potatoes planted in the backyard of the inn.

Now corn is waist-high, and in addition to growing strongly, sweet potatoes have begun to appear.

Chen Xi planted the small rhizomes, tubers and seedlings of sweet potatoes separately, greatly expanding the planting area... He wanted to cultivate the root buds and seeds that were planted on a larger scale before winter, and the next year was divided into two crops. The first crop was planted in a small area outside the city, and the second crop could basically be promoted and planted hundreds of acres of land.

In the promotion of corn and sweet potatoes, if corn and sweet potatoes are used as seeds in each season, the scale expansion will increase in geometric multiples.

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On October 16th, Chenxi gathered troops from Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces to Guangzhou Prefecture, and arrived at some generals recruited from local garrisons. At this point, the size of Chenxi's army was officially determined, equivalent to the troops of four thousand households, one in Fujian and Guangxi, and Guangdong soldiers were recruited from different garrisons, with a total of two thousand people.

As for the generals, they are basically thousands and hundreds of households in the garrison. Most of these people have hereditary generals. They are experienced in local bandit suppression and fighting ethnic minorities. As for large-scale group operations, they are confused and ignorant.

Chen Xi temporarily placed the troops in the school grounds east of the city, and then summoned all the generals to the governor's office to hold a mobilization meeting, which roughly explained the direction of the march.

Judging from the overall number of bandits, Guangdong has more coastal areas than Fujian, but in terms of the number of Japanese pirates and the degree of harm, it is more serious in Fujian and Zhejiang. Chenxi adopts the strategy of being easy first and then difficult, first completely quelling the bandits around Guangzhou Prefecture, and after a stable rear, then attack to eliminate the bandits.

Most of the coastal pirates were actually portrayed by Ming pirates.

Of the ten Japanese pirates, nine of them may be Chinese, and even the leaders of the Japanese pirates may be Chinese, and the Japanese are just doing odd jobs in it.

This is also the Chinese nation has always believed in "foreign monks can recite scriptures" and has always had great awe of foreign countries. I heard that the cruel Japanese pirates came, and their legs were so scared that they were weak and they gave up resistance and were slaughtered. But if they heard that they were pirates, their intentions to escape and resist were usually very prosperous.

This trick is more effective for the government.

Even if the government set the task of destroying bandits, it would not attack the Japanese pirates, but would only encircle and suppress the bandits in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, when the pirates learned from the Ming Dynasty, they first found a few real Japanese people to come back as guests of honor, and then went out to burn, kill and loot. They all said that this was the Japanese pirate team, and the team often grew rapidly.

Chenxi cannot count the number of Japanese pirates on the southeast coast, and there are provinces such as Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other provinces, and their power is scattered. It is extremely difficult to find them one by one under the sea ban.

Some pirates and Japanese pirates killed people and robbed goods, and almost never left a living pirate. Even if they were alive, they were kidnapped back to be slaves and tyrants. The expansion of pirates basically started with capturing tyrants. After working with Japanese pirates for two years, even if they didn't, they couldn't turn back. Because in the eyes of the government, these people captured by Japanese pirates were all defined as "Japanese pirates" or "connecting with Japanese pirates". After entering the thief's nest, they ran out and were caught and wanted to be beheaded. Since the left and right were dead, it would be better to follow the Japanese pirates to have a big fight.

As for the recruitment of peace, it was not popular in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. It was basically impossible to become a thief for a day and want to be a good citizen again after going back.

When the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, it rarely offered olive branches to bandits. Only when the country was declining in the late Ming Dynasty would it take a compromise policy against bandits, there would be actions to urge the pirate leader Zheng Zhilong, and there would be a strange thing about Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong betrayed and surrendered, and surrendered and rebelled.

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This one opened by Chenxi will not work well.

The soldiers and horses drawn by Guizhou and Fujian provinces are basically the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. Young and strong people stay at home to farm and guard their families. Only the two thousand soldiers in Guangdong are relatively elite, of which 600 are the personal soldiers assigned by Li Che to Chen Xi before, and they are considered to be aware of the bottom line.

Chen Xi sent scouts to investigate the situation of Japanese pirates and pirates, and sent messages back one after another, and the information they received was extremely complicated. The main reason was that the scouts had not been trained and were afraid of death. They just listened to the wind and rain. After they came back, they said that there were Japanese pirates everywhere and there were murders and robberies. They may be old things and cannot be done accurately.

The Japanese pirates and pirates did not send anyone to make a holiday news, so Chenxi received a large number of smoke bombs. Comprehensively, there may be pirates everywhere in the coastal areas, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with peace everywhere.

On the contrary, the information provided by merchants is relatively accurate, but few are still insightful.

In this case, it is naturally not suitable to send troops, but now it is the slack season. Before the spring of the next year, the troops of the garrison can be mobilized at will, and it is also a period of relatively calm for Japanese pirates. If the opportunity cannot be taken to eliminate the thieves, the activities of the bandits will be rampant again during the busy farming season.

Therefore, Chen Xi could only send troops to sweep away the bandits before the end of the year.

However, the transportation of grain and materials was not very timely. Without the help of the yamen of the governor, the local grain prices in Guangzhou were high. On the surface, the ironwork workshops in Foshan and other places did not dare to refuse the chores assigned by the yamen of the governor, but they were perfunctory and slackened off and the weapons they built were unable to be in place. Chenxi had to transport materials entirely by Fuzhou.

This time, the soldiers and horses gathered together and could not return without success, so Chen Xi planned to clear out the bandits near Guangzhou Prefecture in the first step.

Four thousand soldiers and horses went south from Guangzhou Prefecture, passed Zhaoqing, Gaozhou to Leizhou Prefecture, and killed one round and one round. After the spring of the next year, they would go north from Guangzhou Prefecture to directly clear the pirates and Japanese pirates along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian. The first round of bandit suppression will be completed.

The plan is good, but it is difficult to implement.

In addition to lacking military rations and ordnances, he also lacks another important thing, that is, the warship.

The ships collected were almost all civilian bird boats and black-tailed boats. Chenxi did not want the owner to suffer losses, so they all gave rent. However, these ships had not undergone special transformation and could only be used for transportation. Real marching and fighting was not very useful. Chenxi was very interested in the large ships that the Flangers crossed the continent and crossed the ocean.

Nowadays, the Flangerman is equipped with Clark sailboats and Galen sailboats, with tonnages ranging from 400 to 800 tons. Whether it is manned cargo or war, they are all the best ships of this era. Chen Xi detained the Flangerman's ships at Quanzhou Port, but unfortunately, the court later negotiated with the Flangerman and returned all the ships.

Folang Jiren is now doing business with the Ming Dynasty and is a little afraid of Chen Xi and dare not invade the territory of the Ming Dynasty. However, sea boats are the prerequisite for Folang Jiren to become the overlord of the sea. They cannot borrow, and they are also prepared to steal others. This matter particularly makes Chen Xi confused.

The shipbuilding technique of the Ming Dynasty, due to the imperial ban policy, had lagged behind the West in the Zhengtong period. Taking Nanjing Longjiang Shipyard as an example, during the Hongwu and Yongle periods, "more than 400 households came to Beijing to build ships, and the clerks and entrusted them into four wings." By the time of Hongzhi period, there were only more than 100 households left, and shipbuilding was basically no longer possible.

At least Chenxi, there are no craftsmen at present, to build a large ship that can carry the Flang machine cannons and unobstructed at sea in a short time.

The Clark sailing ships and Galen sailing ships of Flanger are not only ready-made, but also the Flang cannons, and the gunners and shells are both ready-made.

The Florians and wolves are ambitions to destroy Africa, West Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia while dominating the ocean. At best, they are a group of pirates. It is not feasible to reason with pirates, and they may even bite them. The best way is to cheat and get the ship first.

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ps: This was a private matter and I didn’t want to say it, but when I saw everyone questioning the emperor’s renewal, I explained it.

The emperor's hometown is Baihe Town, Longquanyi, Chengdu. Although the emperor entered the city as early as the 1980s, the tombs of his ancestors remained there. Last month, the village called to inform that the country had requisitioned land to build a car city, and all the tombs would be moved away. Therefore, in the past two months, the emperor has been looking for a cemetery in the suburbs of Chengdu to select a place to bury the skeletons of his ancestors.

The state's grave relocation fee this month has been reduced and it is required to move away before the end of September, so the emperor has to seize the time to find a suitable cemetery, and then there are many things to be arranged...

The emperor apologizes to everyone here. When everything is settled, the emperor will resume normal renewal and repay everyone with continuous explosions! (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!