Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 369 367 - We have acquaintances in Daming!
The rumbling dark thunder made people feel very depressing, and the wind and waves from the sea seemed to be whistling past this place again.

Changle is a good place.

But it's not a safe place either.

The population here is relatively complex, and it is in a state of multi-ethnic coexistence. It is often a collective of one village and one town, and these collectives basically do not obey each other, and there are often some fights and noises.

And because Changle is located on the southeast coast, on the south bank of the Minjiang Estuary, there are more than 30 large and small islands in the territory. The most annoying thing about persimmon bullying is that they often run away when they are squeezed, making it hard to catch and annoying.

There are struggles inside and enemies outside.

That's basically what the place has been like over the years.

Also because of these circumstances, the folk customs in this place are a bit tough.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the people here often go hunting in the sea. After all, a coward can't become a sailor who rides the wind and waves.

When Zhen Yong first came here, he was often troubled by these situations. He wrote to Zhen Wu many times to ask for advice. some comments.

In the end, Zhen Yong split up, established the prestige of the imperial court, and then painted cakes to seek unity. In addition, the local chief secretary has been doing mediation work, so that the situation here has been greatly improved, and it is almost unanimous to the outside world.

It's just that these things are easy to say, but it really took a lot of effort for Zhen Yong to operate them. Just talking about establishing the prestige of the court caused Zhen Yong a lot of trouble.

Because the waterways here are criss-crossed and completely different from the north, Zhen Yong was unable to use his strength many times, and finally asked Zhen Wu to borrow several water warriors from Chen Xuan, which allowed him to completely control this place.

Now he can be said to be famous in Changle, and he has a high prestige in the hearts of the people.

And Zhen Yong also deployed all shipbuilding resources according to what Zhen Wu said, and successfully supervised the construction of a shipyard, and now there are more than a hundred ships built.

In fact, he generally knew that Zhu Di was going to organize a fleet to sail to the west, and it was not difficult to guess that Changle would be the starting point of the large fleet.

Therefore, Zhen Yong is clear about the future development prospects of Changle.

In Zhen Wu's words, this place is bound to become a place where merchants gather, and it will not even take a few years. Because of the gathering of merchants and the development of shipping, other industries will inevitably blossom, and the final Changle will surely show a prosperous scene.

Zhen Yong has been looking forward to this scene.

He has been stationed in Changle for a long time, so he can't help feeling a little bit about it. Naturally, he hopes that this place will become better and better, and the people here will become richer and richer, so he will never allow anyone to destroy the harmony and stability of this place.

At night, the sea breeze swayed the high-hanging lanterns from side to side, making the light from the lanterns erratic.

The sound of pattering footsteps resounded in the courtyard and spread far, far away.

It seemed a bit grim.

When Zhen Yong came to the concierge, he simply nodded his head as he was greeted by A Jian and his group of guards, and then strode over the guards and walked towards the concierge.

The gatehouse was a bit dark, but under the flickering lights, the situation inside could still be seen clearly. Four or five people intertwined and were speechless, but these people all had anxious faces and blood stains on their bodies.

When the first person saw Zhen Yong coming in, he immediately led his people to kneel down on one knee to pay homage.

"I met Ning Anbo."

Zhen Yong sniffed the bloody smell on their clothes, his eyes narrowed slightly, he didn't speak, just looked at that person quietly.

Jin Yiwei came to this land, and Jin Yiwei obviously had a life-and-death struggle.

what's the situation.

Zhen Yong naturally began to think in his mind.

Seeing that Zhen Yong didn't speak, the leader of Jinyiwei said anxiously: "The lowly Jinyiwei Qianhu Meiji, formerly a hundred households under the Marquis of Jinxiang, once met Uncle at Jinxianghou's house, I wonder if Uncle still remembers the humble position?"

acquaintance?

Zhen Yong carefully looked at the appearance of that person, and had some vague impressions, as if he had seen it before, but he really couldn't remember the specifics.

Seeing this, Mei Ji became even more anxious. He reminded: "Back then when my uncle's sister was pregnant, General Wang had a banquet at home for his colleagues in the army. I was lucky enough to go to the banquet. I am not familiar with you, so I toasted my uncle three glasses of wine, by the way, I was the youngest person present at that time, and I was ridiculed by my colleagues, uncle, please think about it carefully."

With Mei Ji's reminder, Zhen Yong suddenly realized.

"I remembered, there is such a thing." As he spoke, Zhen Yong's grip on the knife was slightly loosened. He looked at the blood on Mei Ji's body and frowned, "What's going on with you? How did you join Jinyiwei?"

"How to enter Jinyiwei is a long story. Time is pressing now. Let me explain in detail to my uncle after I have a job. I have something important to ask my uncle right now." Mei Ji said anxiously without hiding her face, while looking at To Zhen Yong's guard.

Seeing this, Zhen Yong's expression became serious, and he waved at the guards, telling them to retreat for the time being.

Ah Jian and the others are worried about Zhen Yong.

Zhen Yong said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, anyone who dares to use the names of my brother and Jin Xianghou to come to me will definitely not harm me."

After hearing this, the guards withdrew.

In fact, Zhen Yong is not arrogant, he just knows that since Mei Ji can become Wang Tong's guest, then he must be someone Wang Tong can trust, and Wang Tong is his brother-in-law, he will naturally trust him a little bit, not to mention Zhen Yong is not Even if Mei Ji wanted to harm him, he still had to weigh it. Besides, Zhen Yong just asked the guards to leave the gatehouse.

Afterwards, Zhen Yong turned his head to look at Mei Ji and said, "If you have any questions, please speak up."

Mei Ji nodded and said: "The humble official wants to borrow my uncle's troops."

"Borrowing soldiers and horses?" Zhen Yong frowned deeply, and then said in a deep voice, "What are you going to do?"

"Save people." Mei Ji said.

"Save who?"

"Chen Tianping!"

"Who is Chen Tianping?"

Mei Ji took a deep breath, and then said in a low tone: "Uncle, please take a step to talk."

Said, Mei Ji signaled Zhen Yong to walk aside, and then Mei Ji whispered in Zhen Yong's ear: "Chen Tianping, the royal family of Annan!"

Zhen Yong was shocked immediately.

Although he came to Fujian, he paid much attention to the major events that happened in the court. Last year, Annan's envoys met with him and said that Chen's descendants were extinct, and that a nephew surnamed Hu was granted the throne by Zhu Di as his nephew.

If a descendant of the Chen family suddenly appears now, then Annan has committed the crime of deceiving the emperor!

Zhen Yong is still thinking in amazement, Mei Ji has already explained the ins and outs of the matter at this moment: "Humble job is currently working in Yunnan, but two months ago, the Laotian consolation envoy suddenly reported to the Chief Envoy of Yunnan, saying He got help from Chen Tianping, a son of the Chen family in Annan. Chen Tianping begged us to send people to escort him, and went to Nanjing to sue Annan Li Jiyao and his son for plotting to usurp the country. Thinking that they were chased by the troops sent by Annan when they were escorting them. After losing a lot of people, they had no choice but to flee to the east. Finally, they sailed to Fujian by luck. Come here, after a fight tonight, Chen Tianping and I have been accidentally separated, and now Chen Tianping's life or death is uncertain."

Speaking of this, Mei Ji said anxiously: "This matter is very important, it is about my face, and I hope uncle will help me a little bit. Now in Changle, only uncle has the ability to find Chen Tianping in the shortest time, and I hope you can find Chen Tianping in the shortest time. Uncle hurry up, because if time drags on for a long time, I'm afraid that something will happen to Chen Tianping, after all, he only has one or two loyal veterans and seven or eight people under his command at the moment, so he won't be of much use."

Zhen Yong's eyes flashed from time to time.

There is too much information in Mei Ji's words, Zhen Yong needs to think through it quickly, and then make a charter.

Among the countries on the Nanyang Peninsula, many countries have set up consolation envoys of the Ming Dynasty, and the consolation envoys are served by the kings of these countries. This is the same as the policy of the Ming Dynasty towards Mobei and Liaodong. In name, they obey the orders of the Ming Dynasty , In fact, in the final analysis, they are all independent small forces, belonging to the vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of this, I have to talk about an old problem of the Chinese people. In fact, places like Myanmar and Laos were brought into the territory of the Yuan Dynasty, but the people of the Yuan Dynasty did not know how to manage them. It is almost considered a colony, and when Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, the slogan shouted "expel the Tartars and restore China", but when he saw the huge legacy left by the Yuan Dynasty, he still recognized the status of the Yuan Dynasty and declared to the outside world that he inherited the legal system of the Yuan Dynasty , Openly intervening in the affairs of the Nanyang Peninsula.

This is the same as the unequal treaties signed by the Qing Dynasty. We don’t want to admit it. We try to get rid of the relationship and push it to the Qing Dynasty. But when facing the territory laid down by the Qing Dynasty, I’m sorry, this place should be all our.

In a word, if you don’t want to recognize it, you can go to the Qing Dynasty to settle accounts. If you want to recognize it, then the Qing Dynasty is also our ancestor.

The truth and honesty are vividly interpreted.

And a little dazed.

As long as we have owned it, no matter how many years we have owned it, it is our thing in our hearts, and then we are always thinking about getting it back, or we always feel sorry for our ancestors.

Saving things is rooted in the hearts of every Chinese.

Back to the topic.

Daming has always paid more attention to the management of the relations among the countries in the South Seas. Now that this situation has happened, it is absolutely impossible for the Ming Dynasty to sit idly by, unless it wants to give up its authority among the countries in the South Seas. Let alone Zhu Di can't accept this, every military People on the other side can't accept it.

After figuring this out.

Zhen Yong immediately made a decision.

He asked, "Is there a decree?"

"Yes." After Mei Ji finished speaking, she quickly took out the order from him and handed it to Zhen Yong.

After Zhen Yong finished reading, he nodded at Mei Ji and said without any hesitation: "Don't worry, within a day's work, as long as Chen Tianping is in Changle, I will definitely find it for you."

After finishing speaking, Zhen Yong strode towards the outside, just as he walked outside, Zhen Yong's voice came out firmly in the howling wind.

"Zhen Wen, take my order and send it to every thousand households, and let them all gather for me to stand by. Zhen Jian, send someone to convey the order to each village and town, and let all of them strictly check whether there are any foreigners in their villages. , and report to me as soon as you find something.”

Two should be heard, many people immediately became busy.

Zhen Yong returned to the porter's room and said to Mei Ji, "Wait for me to put on the armor, and follow me to the Qianhu Station to lead the search." After speaking, Zhen Yong strode towards the back house.

Moved by Zhen Yong, Mei Ji hugged her fists heavily.

He is very fortunate at this moment, fortunate that he is from the right army, and also fortunate that Zhen Yong is stationed in Changle.

……

Annan Xidu Tsinghua City.

Li Jiyak was furious at a group of people, and he yelled at a general below: "Is there something wrong with your brain? You can just hunt and kill them in Laos and our Annan territory. Why do you want people to go to Daming territory? Are you Didn't it dislike Daming's good temper, for fear that it wouldn't get angry?!"

The general said frankly: "I'm telling the Supreme Emperor, that person claims to be a descendant of the Chen family. If he is allowed to go to Daming, he will still cause trouble. How can we not kill them all?"

"Confused, confused."

Zhen Wu's old acquaintance, the former Annan envoy Du Xing said, beating his chest and stamping his feet.

This made the general anxious, he waited angrily for Du Xing said: "It's you, an old bastard, who is soliciting truth in front of the Supreme Emperor, and now there is a child of the Chen family who can't do it without killing him, even if he escapes to Daming. No matter what, we still have to kill them all, if this matter offends Daming, it’s a big deal to make an apology.”

Du Xing said angrily: "If you only kill the children of the Chen family, that's all right, but you also kill the people of Daming, there are still some arguments in our territory, but in the territory of Daming, if you kill the people of Daming, do you think that you will only make amends at that time? , can this be resolved?"

"If it can't be solved, let's fight if it's a big deal. Anyway, let the Chen family's child sue the Emperor Daming, and there will be a fight. Speaking of which, I want to ask you, do you think you let the Chen's child go? The matter can be settled? If Daming supports the Chen family, after sending troops to fight, will you stop the enemy or I will stop the enemy? Standing and talking all day long without back pain, how can you think of good things? She is Xinna's concubine Serving you beautifully? Make you so brainless."

"You..." Du Sheng was speechless for a while after being scolded.

After hearing the quarrel between the two, Li Jisha also calmed down at the moment.

In fact, what the general said is very reasonable. Since this incident happened, we can only try our best to kill people to silence them, even if they offend Daming during the killing, they will not hesitate to do so, because it is better than the children of the Chen family suing the Emperor Daming.

Seeing Li Jishang's expression, Du Sheng panicked, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, don't listen to his words of misleading the country. This child of the Chen family suddenly appeared. It is difficult to tell whether it is true or not, even if it is true, It’s not likely that Daming would attack us for him, not to mention that we don’t necessarily have to send people deep into Daming’s territory if we want to get rid of this son of the Chen family. There are other ways, why choose the most stupid way. "

"Oh? What can you do?" Li Jisha asked.

He has been a little bit burnt out about this matter recently, and he is looking forward to a way to get the best of both worlds every day. Now that he heard Du Xing's words, he couldn't help showing some anticipation in his expression.

But even if he thought about it, he couldn't think of any way to have the best of both worlds.

After all, in this matter, there is only one question of whether to kill or not to kill.

The general couldn't help snorting at this moment: "Why, if we don't send people to kill, is it possible that people from Daming will kill?"

But contrary to the expectations of the general and Li Jishou, Du Xing nodded seriously at this moment.

He said, "That's right, just let Daming's people kill it!"

Both Li Jiyao were taken aback.

Then Li Jisuo asked hesitantly: "The people of Daming are protecting that Chen family boy, so why would they take the initiative to kill that Chen family boy? Do you take it for granted?"

"No."

Du Xing enjoyed the expressions of Li Jishou and the two of them a little bit, and he put on the air of a good minister of the country and said: "To be honest with the Supreme Emperor, I have an acquaintance in Daming, and this acquaintance is extremely powerful. As long as he nods, the children of the Chen family will not see you at all." To Emperor Ming."

"Who?"

"Zhao Guogong Zhen Wu."

Du Xing said: "The last time I went to Daming as an envoy, I established a good friendship with Zhao Guogong. This time, as long as I go with a lot of money, I will let Zhao Guogong take care of this matter for us. In this way, the children of the Chen family will not be able to see Daming at all. Emperor, even if we take ten thousand steps back, if Emperor Daming sees the children of the Chen family, with Duke Zhao present, he will be able to deal with us, and with Duke Zhao's status in Daming, as long as he is willing to speak, Daming may not be able to use his sword lightly."

"Is this possible?" Li Jishu asked.

Du Xing firmly said: "It must be possible, the Supreme Emperor, don't forget, the last time a minister was sent to Daming, Daming refused to confer the title for a long time, but Zhao Guogong said a few words on his behalf, and the canonization was issued within a few days, which is enough It can be seen that Zhao Guogong has a great position in the heart of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, so now our top priority is not to expand the incident, and besides, I request to send an envoy to Daming again, and I will resolve this crisis safely within the territory of Daming."

The general still couldn't believe it.

Du Sheng glanced at it, and when he saw it, he said disdainfully: "You are a reckless man who only knows how to fight and kill, how do you know the importance of the relationship I manage in Daming, and you don't know that this relationship can be worth hundreds of thousands of soldiers."

Li Jishou quite agrees with these words, sometimes a relationship, especially a relationship in Daming, is really better than hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Seeing Li Jishang thinking deeply, Du Xing said, "However, there is one thing that needs to be reported to the Supreme Emperor."

"What?" Li Jisha asked.

Du Xing thought about Zhen Wu asking for two boxes of treasures from him last time, and said, "Then Zhao Guogong is quite greedy for money, I'm afraid we want..."

Li Jishou smiled indifferently and said, "It's not terrible to be greedy for money. It's just some money. We can still get it out. As long as the matter can be resolved safely, I'm willing to give up no matter how many treasures there are."

"Then there's no problem." Du Sheng affirmed.

At the same time, Du Sheng also laughed in his heart. It is really exciting to go to the most prosperous place in the world for another public-funded trip. Moreover, this time Zhao Guogong saw the treasure he gave, maybe he will hold a banquet for him or two. , presumably the banquet at Duke Zhao's mansion must be extraordinary.

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(End of this chapter)