In Fujian, in Changle, Huzhou.
Yang Liulang stood in the trench, looking at the several large ships on the sea, gritting his teeth.
The late emperor listened to the words of that scoundrel Yan Song and forbade the Ming Dynasty from going to sea, thus implementing a maritime ban.
Subsequently, several shipyards were shut down, resulting in the Ming Dynasty having very few naval forces.
The warships were old relics left by the founding emperor. They hadn't been maintained for years and had been rotting at sea. Now, let alone going to sea, it was questionable whether they could even carry people.
Fortunately, the regent was farsighted and had built more than a dozen ships six months in advance, which barely managed to withstand the usual Japanese pirate raids.
This time, the Japanese pirates who came were rather strange. They were flying the banner of the Locust King and came to visit the Ming Dynasty in the name of diplomatic envoys, requesting permission to land.
Yang Wenguang ignored them and rejected the Japanese request.
He came to Fujian specifically to defend against Japanese pirates.
Before leaving, Li Chang'an specifically instructed that people should be careful of the Japanese pirates, as they had no morality and were no different from animals.
He was told to be wary of the Japanese, because only dead Japanese were good Japanese.
After Yang Wenguang refused their request to land, the Japanese pirates did not retreat, but instead, more and more ships roamed the vicinity.
Looking at these ships, Yang Wenguang felt both furious and aggrieved.
When did the waters of the Ming Dynasty become a place where you Japanese pirates could freely patrol?
Unfortunately, he had no other means of countermeasures besides those dozen or so large ships.
All we could do was keep warning the Japanese not to come ashore.
Seeing the increasing number of Japanese ships, Yang Wenguang immediately realized something was wrong and quickly sent an urgent message to Li Chang'an requesting his support.
As Yang Wenguang had predicted, the number of Japanese pirate ships had increased to over a hundred, and many ships from other countries had also arrived.
Portuguese, Korean, and some pirate ships also gathered nearby.
This discovery sent chills down Yang Wenguang's spine; he could clearly sense that things were becoming increasingly wrong.
This is a conspiracy against the Ming Dynasty.
Now, he has no other choice but to wait for Li Chang'an to come over and can only passively defend.
Because with only a dozen or so ships, it's impossible to go out to sea and fight them head-on.
Moreover, apart from the men he led, the soldiers in Fujian were utterly incompetent; the local army was completely corrupt.
They draw salaries without working, recruit the old, weak, sick, and disabled, don't train them, and lack unified command. Most importantly, the soldiers here have absolutely no idea what discipline or ideology is.
Besides being good at bullying ordinary people, all they do is flatter and fawn.
Compared to his subordinates, he was utterly useless.
Not to mention, his troops have all undergone ideological education and unified training under Li Chang'an, and are now completely different from before.
However, not all of them were beyond redemption. General Qi, who was stationed in the Quanzhou area, and General Zheng, who was in charge of maritime patrols, were both considered useful talents by Yang Wenguang.
There's no need to save the others.
Yang Wenguang has been here for several months, and the first thing he did was to carry out a major reform of the military.
Things didn't go smoothly at first, but after Li Chang'an sent Zhang Xianzong over, things went much more smoothly.
His status as a Confucian sage, coupled with his position as one of the world's top experts at the terrestrial immortal realm, made him seem like a god to others.
Even Emperor Jianyuan was helpless against him and could only engage in open and covert struggles.
In other words, Li Chang'an no longer took this Confucian sage seriously.
In his eyes, there was no difference between terrestrial deities and ordinary people.
After being clad in the Emperor's Armor, it's just a matter of one slap per person.
If one slap doesn't solve the problem, then give it a serious slap.
As for using a sword, Li Chang'an dared not use it.
Last time, he cleaved a world in two with a single sword strike, splitting many galaxies in half; the power was truly terrifying.
And it was just a serious strike from the Emperor Armor.
Li Chang'an couldn't even imagine how terrifying it would be if the skill were used.
The tiger-head cannon on his shoulder has also been transformed into a two-way foil launcher.
Yes, what's being launched from inside isn't an energy attack, but a two-dimensional foil.
A two-dimensional foil that can be launched from a designated location and transform the entire world into a two-dimensional form.
There are also those with less power. The Emperor Armor has a skill that can fire a light bullet the mass of a star. After the light bullet is fired, it can quickly collapse and compress, generating a black hole with a diameter of 600 billion kilometers.
This is the least powerful skill that Li Chang'an found in the Emperor's Armor.
A light blast that could devour the solar system.
Li Chang'an felt that it was somewhat unreasonable for such power to appear in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhang Xianzong also felt that it was quite unreasonable.
He had previously speculated that Li Chang'an was a celestial disciple who had descended to earth to save the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Now he feels that Li Chang'an may not be some kind of divine disciple anymore.
Since that sword strike, Zhang Xianzong has no longer felt the presence of God.
Everything in the world has changed, leaving no trace.
It's like a book that's been torn in half; once it's torn in half, nothing is certain what will happen next.
Therefore, Zhang Xianzong felt that what the sword cleaved open was not just other worlds.
The Heavenly Dao of this world might also be cleaved away by Li Chang'an with a single sword strike.
The thought of this made Zhang Xianzong panic.
In his mind, Li Chang'an's status was instantly elevated to an unprecedented level.
He really couldn't think of anything that could supersede the laws of heaven.
Therefore, he didn't take the Japanese pirates' attempt to invade the Ming Dynasty seriously at all.
Even if there are other experts like him in other countries, he doesn't care.
Fish whenever you feel like it, and read the Spring and Autumn Annals whenever you feel like it.
As long as Li Chang'an is still alive, the Ming Dynasty will never be overthrown.
He looked at the anxious Yang Wenguang beside him and offered some words of advice.
"Alright, General Yang, there's no use in being anxious. You might as well just fish in peace."
After saying that, he grabbed a handful of grain and threw it into the sea to make a nest.
He learned this from Li Chang'an, but he wasn't as generous as Li Chang'an, throwing tons of grain down to create a feeding ground.
No one is as bad as Li Chang'an, who can never catch a fish and just curses on the shore.
Yang Wenguang felt irritated and was about to say something when he noticed Zhang Xianzong look up at the sky and then immediately kneel down in a panic.
"You're telling me to relax, but why are you panicking?"
Zhang Xianzong didn't speak, but simply gestured towards the sky with his lips.
Yang Wenguang looked up and saw a golden light swirling in the sky before crashing down on them.
With a loud bang, the golden light landed, sending dust flying everywhere.
After the dust settled, a golden suit of armor appeared before Yang Wenguang.
He opened his mouth, then immediately realized what he was doing and knelt down on the ground: "This humble official greets Your Highness, long live Your Highness!"
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