At the end of October, the rebellion in Hanzhong still hadn't been put down, and now the eastern coastal region sounded the alarm again: waves of Japanese pirates kept invading, with Quanzhou Prefecture in Jiaozhou being hit the hardest. Every time they landed, they burned, killed, and looted, plunging the coastal commoners into unspeakable misery.
The Emperor flew into a rage once more and appointed Cui Wei, the Duke of Ningguo, who had experience in naval battles, as the Great General to Resist the Japanese Pirates, commanding a force of one hundred thousand to rush to Quanzhou and fight them off.
Gu Qingheng was appointed as Vanguard Officer, and Qi Jingyi as the officer in charge of escorting provisions.
