jdhmnovel Chapter 1113 Does my brother-in-law have some new ideas again?
Chapter 1113 Does my brother-in-law have some new ideas again?
Li Mingchen looked at Li Qi, then at Chang Mao and Chang Sheng, and couldn't help but sigh, "The pressure is immense."
Chang Sheng touched the corner of his mouth and couldn't help but sneer, "Didn't you, Krupp, dare to leave the pass with only eight hundred herdsmen back then? What, are you chickening out now?"
Li Qi's eyes darted around, and he said, "Look at how you talk! Although Krupp's rank is higher than ours, don't forget that he's a generation younger than us—his mentor, the Master, is our brother-in-law!"
Chang Mao pretended to suddenly realize something: "Brother Qi is right, Krupp is indeed a generation younger than us."
Li Mingchen, his face dark, snorted coldly and said, "They're just a few rebels; I don't even care about them."
"What's giving me a headache right now is that Fujian is a mountainous region with a fierce and unruly population. If our forces suffer too many casualties, won't we be laughed at to death by Xu Yungong and Tang Ding?"
As soon as Li Mingchen finished speaking, the Chang brothers, Chang Mao and Chang Sheng, stopped laughing.
Despite their relatively unknown reputations, Xu Yungong and Tang Ding were no pushovers when it came to leading troops in battle. None of these second-generation nobles from the Huaixi military families were pushovers.
What if our group suffers more casualties than theirs...
Damn it, even if I were lying in a coffin, these few despicable bastards might still use it to make trouble.
Chang Mao said with a dark face, "I say, Krupp, it doesn't matter if you're afraid of embarrassing my brother-in-law, but you can't damage my reputation."
Li Qi chuckled twice and said, "Whether it's Grandfather Mao or not doesn't really matter. The key is whether you, Krupp, can still retain the title of the most promising disciple under the Duke of Ying after losing the war?"
Li Mingchen's face immediately darkened further.
There are four people in the room.
Three of them came from a farm in Ningyang County.
There are no good people at Ningyang Farm!
Especially Li Qi, that guy was no good to begin with, and he learned a lot of random knowledge at Ningyang Farm, and now he's using it all on me!
Li Mingchen was too lazy to pay attention to the three inhuman guys anymore. Instead, he called his personal guards to bring him a map and then said to Chang Mao and Chang Sheng, "Chang Mao, you lead the Yongning Guard straight to Quanzhou Prefecture, then west to Foershan, then turn northeast to Hubao Pass, take Dehua, and then cooperate with Pinghai Guard and Zhendong to wipe out the rebels in Xinghua Prefecture and Fuzhou Prefecture."
"Chang Sheng, you will lead the Penghu patrol inspectorate and work with the Dengzhou fleet and Zhenhaiwei to guard the Fujian coast. Remember, unless you have an order from His Highness the Crown Prince or the Grand Master, not a single sail is allowed to go to sea. If anything goes wrong, you will be held responsible."
At this point, Li Mingchen turned his gaze to Li Qi: "Prefect Li, Guishan Island and Huoshao Island, as well as Lanyu, Xiaolanyu, Liuqiuyu, Ganjuyu, Huapingyu, Pengjiayu, and Mianhuayu, these small islands, shall be handled by the patrol officers and yamen runners of your Yizhou Prefecture."
“Benbo, I don’t care what method you use, I have only one requirement: these islands cannot become hiding places for the rebels.”
"As for the remaining Shaowu Prefecture, Jianning Prefecture, Tingzhou Prefecture, Zhangzhou Prefecture, and Yanping Prefecture, I will leave them to you."
Chang Mao, Chang Sheng, and Li Qi immediately bowed and accepted the order. Li Qi stroked his chin and said, "There is a large island to the east of Yizhou that belongs to Ryukyu. Krupp can send someone to Ryukyu to have them send troops to patrol the island, in order to prevent any..."
At this point, Li Qi shook his head again and said, "Let's forget about Ryukyu. It's a small country with few people and not much military strength to spare. Rather than having them send troops, it would be better for Yizhou Prefecture to send people to patrol."
Li Mingchen nodded and said, "Then your Yizhou Prefecture should send people. Anyway, Ryukyu is currently making a fuss about annexing China, and they'd love for you to send troops over."
Li Qi nodded in agreement and added, "Besides Ryukyu, Krupp can also send people to contact those short and ugly Japanese."
Who?
Li Mingchen glared at Li Qi. "Short and ugly? Brother Qi, have you forgotten that the master hates those short and ugly Japanese the most in his life?"
"If I lose to Xu Yungong and his group, at most they'll just laugh at me a few times."
"But if I, this humble lord, dare to bring those short, ugly fellows to Fujian and use them to quell the rebellion, I'm afraid I'll be hung up and beaten by the magistrate!"
Li Qi glanced at Li Mingchen sideways and said, "Who said you were going to bring that shorty to Fujian? You might dare, but I certainly wouldn't!"
Li Mingchen was slightly taken aback, and Li Qi continued, "What I mean is, you can send someone to those short and ugly Japanese, and tell them to blockade the ports of Japan to prevent certain scoundrels from sneaking off to Japan."
"And it's not just the shorty's side."
"We also need to send greetings to vassal states like Korea, the Monkey Kingdom, Siam, and Burma."
"And we need to greet them before Xu Yungong and the others."
Chang Sheng glanced at Li Qi with obvious displeasure. "What, do you think I and the Dengzhou Fleet would let someone escape to Japan?"
Li Qi snorted coldly and said, "You don't know anything!"
"If you can defend the waters off Fujian, can Xu Yungong and his men defend the waters off Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong?"
"How many people would it take to defend a coastline that stretches for thousands of miles?"
"Or to put it another way, even if you can hold out, Xu Yungong and Tang Ding can also hold out, so what?"
"It's just a matter of giving a heads-up; I believe none of these vassal states would dare disobey."
"If they can stop one of them, then it will be a testament to our foresight, and we can at least consider it a contribution."
At this point, Li Qi glanced at Chang Sheng again and said sarcastically, "Use your brain! Someone like you is a disgrace to Ningyang Farm!"
Chang Sheng snorted coldly, while Li Mingchen tapped the table and said, "Brother Qi is right. Giving a heads-up is better than nothing."
Chang Sheng shut up reluctantly, while Li Mingchen smiled sinisterly again: "Master's wife is due to give birth in a few months, but these bastards keep jumping out and causing trouble, preventing the master from being by her side. If we don't kill them all this time, won't the master not even have time to accompany his junior brother as he grows up?"
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"This time, the Chang brothers, Chang Mao and Chang Sheng, got a huge advantage."
Zhu Biao, holding his teacup, said with a smile, "It's one thing that Krupp is in charge of the command, but the key is that Qi-ge'er is also helping them. In this respect, Xu Yungong and Tang Ding have suffered a loss in silence."
Yang Shaofeng hummed in agreement, and after some internal calculation, said, "With the Chang brothers, Xu Yungong and Tang Ding leading the charge, and with the Duke of Cao and the Duke of E overseeing things, this rebellion should be quelled before the end of the year."
Zhu Biao immediately sat up straight and looked at Yang Shaofeng, asking, "Brother-in-law, do you have some new ideas again?"