My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 299 The Way to Solve the Japanese Pirates

In the Mansion of the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies, Zhu Zhanhe stared at the map in front of him, lost in thought.

This is a military defense map, which shows the deployment of Daming's coastal naval power. This is a military secret of the Ming Dynasty. Even if Zhu Zhanhe wanted to see it, he could only come to the Five Army Commander's Mansion, and he could not bring the map back.

Since Zhu Di rejected their proposal to go to sea again on the grounds of the Japanese pirates, Zhu Zhanhe focused on the Japanese pirates. These Japanese pirates were like a group of blood-sucking insects, sucking the flesh and blood of the people along the coast of Daming.

That's why Zhu Zhanhe came to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. First, he looked through the records about the Japanese pirates, and second, he learned about Daming's deployment of troops along the coast, to see if he could come up with a way to explain the Japanese pirates.
"So many guards have been set up along the coast to form a solid line of defense, but they can only defend. It's simply too passive!"

Zhu Zhanhe looked at the guards one after another on the coastline of Daming, and couldn't help sighing softly.

Facing the elusive Japanese pirates, Da Ming has no good way. The vast and endless sea allows the Japanese pirates to hide at any time. It is impossible for Da Ming to search the entire ocean, so it is difficult to form an effective attack on the Japanese pirates.

Of course, Daming did not fail to work hard. For example, in the records of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, he once cooperated with Jin Yiwei to make people pretend to be Japanese pirates and mix in with them, hoping to find the old nest of Japanese pirates.

This strategy can be said to be a success, or it can be said to have failed. It is said that it succeeded because Jin Yiwei did find the Japanese pirates' lair, and Daming also sent sailors to destroy the Japanese pirates' lair in one fell swoop.

But the Japanese pirates have more than one lair, and even the Japanese pirates’ lairs are not fixed. They can move at any time according to the situation. Sometimes if the Ming army pursues them too closely, they will flee to Nanyang to temporarily avoid the limelight.

It is also impossible for Daming's sailors to float on the sea for a long time, there will always be a time to go back, so when the limelight passes, the Japanese pirates will come back again and continue to harass Daming's coast.

Even if the Japanese pirates along the coast are wiped out at a certain time, it will not take long for new Japanese pirates to drift from the Japanese country, and a new Japanese pirate gang will soon be formed.

It can be said that the Japanese pirates are like weeds, and they are inexhaustible. Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, he sent Tang He to deal with the Japanese pirates, and Tang He ordered people to build guards along the coast, enforced sea bans, and even sent people along the coast. Moved, intending to defend instead of attack.

This method has indeed achieved certain results. The Japanese pirates could not rob enough property to feed too many people, so the number of Japanese pirates began to decrease for a while, and the harassment of the coast was much smaller.

But as far as Zhu Zhanhe knows, Tang He’s methods soon became ineffective. For example, the coastal guards were all elite soldiers from the founding of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, but as time went by, the guards became more and more unbearable. use.

Later, Qi Jiguang fought against the Japanese, because the guards could not do it, so he recruited troops from other places and formed the Qi family army.

As for the ban on the sea, it cut off the livelihood of the coastal people. As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, if the coastal people are not allowed to go to the sea, what do they eat?
Therefore, from the beginning of the implementation of the sea ban, there have been people who secretly went to sea, and even those who were forcibly relocated to the inland, secretly ran back to the seaside to live, which also made the Japanese pirates once again the target of robbery.

Therefore, although the number of Japanese pirates dropped a bit at the beginning, it rose back later, and according to the statistics of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, Japanese pirates have become active again in recent years. many.

"Zhanhe, you have been watching here for a long time, have you figured out a way to deal with the pirates?"

At this moment, Zhu Yong who was accompanying Zhu Zhanhe finally couldn't help interrupting his thinking and asked.

Zhu Yong worked in the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, and thanks to his help to bring Zhu Zhanhe in, otherwise he would not have seen such a confidential map.

"The Japanese pirates are really troublesome, just like a group of mosquitoes. Even though I have great power, I just can't beat them!"

At this moment, Zhu Zhanhe shook his head in distress.

"It's right if you can't figure it out. Whether it's Emperor Taizu or His Majesty today, they are all talented people. Even they can't think of a way to deal with Japanese pirates. It's normal if you can't think of it!"

At this time Zhu Yong patted Zhu Zhanhe's shoulder and comforted him.

"That's what I said, but because of these little Japanese pirates, I, Daming, let me seal off the entire coast, and even forbid private ships from entering the sea. It's simply too hateful!"

Zhu Zhanhe clenched his fists and said unwillingly.

"The Japanese pirates are hateful. Sometimes I can't wait to lead my troops directly to the Japanese country and kill all the Japanese people, lest they go south and mess up my Daming coast!"

Mentioning the hatefulness of Japanese pirates, Zhu Yong also said murderously at this time.

"Wait, what did you just say?"

When Zhu Zhanhe heard Zhu Yong's words, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he grabbed Zhu Yong's arm excitedly and asked.

Seeing Zhu Zhanhe's excited look, Zhu Yong was also taken aback and said: "I just said that the Japanese pirates will not be allowed to wreak havoc along the coast of Daming."

"It's not this one, it's the last one!"

Zhu Zhanhe said excitedly again.

Zhu Yong thought about it after hearing the words, and then tentatively asked: "Kill all the Japanese?"

"That's right, that's it!"

Zhu Zhanhe walked around excitedly, just now he was still having a headache about the Japanese pirates, but he didn't expect Zhu Yong's words to remind him all of a sudden.

In fact, this is also Zhu Yuanzhang's fault. At the beginning, he agreed to the sea ban, which made Ming implement a defensive strategy against Japanese pirates. This also affected Zhu Zhanhe's thinking. He always thought about how to defend along the coast of Daming, but forgot that he could also take the initiative to attack.

"Zhanhe, I just said it casually, you don't really want to kill all the Japanese, do you? Although the Wa country is not big compared with our Ming Dynasty, it is not small, and it is also a country that will not be conquered by Emperor Taizu, Your Majesty. I'm afraid I won't easily use troops against the Japanese country."

Zhu Yong hastily persuaded.

"Don't worry, I don't really want to kill all the Japanese, but as long as the source of the Japanese pirates is eliminated, everything will naturally be solved!"

Zhu Zhanhe laughed.

Compared with the people of this era, he has an advantage, that is, he knows the origin of the Japanese pirates clearly, maybe even better than the Japanese pirates themselves, because there are many research materials about the Japanese pirates in later generations.

After thinking about the above, Zhu Zhanhe also felt refreshed. He already had a rough idea in his mind. If it can be implemented, then the Japanese pirate problem that affects the fate of the Ming Dynasty can be completely eradicated!
At the same time, Zhang Fu's shipping fleet also arrived at Tianjin Port again, but this time in addition to food supplies, there were many more captured Japanese pirates on board.

(End of this chapter)