My father Yong Le Emperor, you let me keep a low profile

Chapter 70: True and False Japanese Pirates!

"It's going to be dark soon, why haven't you come yet?"

Shandong, Weihaiwei, the wharf.

Today there is a lot of people here, officers and soldiers guard the pier, and no one is allowed to approach.

On the pier, an official looked at the sky and saw that the sun had reached dusk, so he stamped his feet anxiously.

"Hehe, this is an itchy head, are you in a hurry to take it off?"

The crowd on the pier split into two teams.

One pile is civil servants, and the other pile is generals.

When the civil servant was in a hurry, a military officer on the opposite side sneered.

"you…"

The civil servant, who was looking at the sea, got angry when he heard the words, and pointed at the general and was about to yell at him.

"Why, I'm not convinced, I look down on you nerds, you know how to talk about it all day long...you have the ability to fight!"

The civil servant got angry, and the military commander became even more enthusiastic. He rolled up his sleeve and pointed at the civil servant's nose, just to make a sarcasm.

"You are... rude... disgraceful..."

The civil servant's face turned blue and red after being satirized by him.

But looking at the provocative eyes of the opponent, and the other generals behind the opponent who were eager to try, he thought about his combat strength, snorted coldly, and flung his sleeves back to the side.

The leaders of the two parties are already used to this kind of quarrel.

Instead of being influenced by his subordinates, they sat together, drank tea, and watched the sea quietly.

Ever since the news about punching the Kong family spread in Shandong, the two parties had clashed more than once in order to shirk their responsibilities.

The civil officials said that the generals did not guard the sea line well and let the Japanese pirates in, which caused such a disaster.

The military generals retorted that the Japanese pirates' theory was completely nonsense, and the murderers who killed the Kong family were definitely insiders.

The civil officials said that they were Japanese pirates, completely shirking their responsibilities and reducing their punishment, and at the same time dragging Shandong generals and generals into the water together.

The two parties quarreled endlessly for this, and even almost fought several times.

Those in the middle and lower classes were arguing, but those in the upper class were very calm, and didn't even say anything harsh.

Middle and low officials are not clear about some issues, but they know it very well.

The officials in Shandong as a whole have completely taken the blame for others. Whether it is Japanese pirates or other murderers, they can't escape.

As for the fate, it all depends on the consideration of the boss above.

So no matter how they shirk their responsibilities, whatever the big bosses think is what they are.

What they have to do now is not to quarrel and shirk responsibility, but to wait for the above-mentioned characterization, and do their best to complete the arrangement of the big boss above, and try to minimize their guilt.

Two days ago, an order came from the court.

His Royal Highness the King of Yue has set off with the Pingwa army, and the imperial court requires the entire Shandong officials to cooperate.

The yamen of the capital of the Japanese army in Shandong, and the yamen of the capital of Shandong, are strictly guarded in various places, and the bandits and Japanese pirates are not allowed to take advantage of it.

Commanders and generals of more than a thousand households assembled in Weihaiwei and waited for orders.

On the side of the civil officials, only the left and right chief envoys and Jin Yiwei Qianhu were asked to go.

As a result, these civil servants couldn't sit still, so they all ran here.

"woo woo woo woo…"

Seeing that the last ray of sunlight was about to fall into the earth, there was a sudden burst of horn battles from the depths of the sea.

"coming!"

The commander of the Shandong Beiwa Army opened his eyes suddenly and looked in the direction of the sound of the horn.

Glancing at the sun that was about to fall to the ground, he raised his hand to the generals who were already lined up behind him, "Light the fire and guide the direction!"

Soon, several huge bonfires rose on the shore, and a dozen small boats rowed out of the port, ready to guide the ships into the dock.

Half an hour later, under the distressed mood of the officials, a huge warship docked at the temporary dock.

"Minister, commander of the capital of Shandong Beiwa, minister, commander of the capital of Shandong, lead all the soldiers of Shandong to welcome His Royal Highness the King of Yue!"

When Zhu Gaoyu got out of the boat with a calm expression and landed on the shore, the generals, led by the two chiefs, quickly knelt down on one knee and bowed respectfully.

In fact, at their level, they don't need to perform such a big ceremony when they see the feudal lord, but who will let their fate be in the hands of others?

To be honest, maybe he was punished, and he would be lessened.

Zhu Gaoyu didn't look at the generals who were kneeling together, but looked to the other side, the civil servants who just bowed their hands in salute.

Zhu Gaoyu opened his mouth slowly when the civil servants were staring at him a little nervously. "Didn't you get the order?"

"Return to Your Highness, the ministers have already received it, but the other colleagues heard that Your Highness is coming, and they wanted to come and see you out of admiration."

Although he hated these little brothers so much, Zuo Buzheng still stood up and found a reason that even he himself didn't believe.

"Hehe, admire me!"

Zhu Gaoyu was amused by this reason.

Is this excuse any more speechless?

Still admire him.

If there was no such thing as the Kong family, these officials might not even remember whether he was in the court or not.

"Forget it, if you admire, just admire. It just so happens that they are all here. Let's deal with the matter together."

Seeing that the Zuo Buzheng still wanted to explain, Zhu Gaoyu waved his hand, and strode towards the tables and chairs set up in the distance.

"Your Highness, it's windy at night, so why don't you go to the city to rest before preparing the banquet in the city?"

Seeing Zhu Gaoyu walking towards the seat where they were resting just now, the right chief envoy hurriedly stepped forward to invite Zhu Gaoyu to enter the city.

"Are you hungry?"

Zhu Gaoyu stopped suddenly, and saw the right chief envoy with a smile on his face.

Zhu Gaoyu's sudden coldness startled the right chief envoy, and he stammered his answer.

"Chen...Chen...not hungry..."

Zhu Gaoyu nodded in satisfaction, "That's good, it happens that my soldiers are hungry." Pointing to the middle and low-level civil servants who followed, "Now take them to cook for my soldiers."

"What, let's cook!"

You Buzheng Shi looked a little dazed.

Zhu Gaoyu raised his eyebrows, "Don't you want to? If you don't want to, then let's start beheading directly."

As he said that, Zhu Gaoyu was about to reach out his hand into his bosom, intending to come up with the old man's will.

The left chief envoy's eyelids twitched, and he kicked the right chief envoy's ass.

"The soldiers fought so hard for the country, what's wrong with asking you to cook a meal? Don't hurry up."

The right chief envoy who was about to kneel down to lead him to death immediately came to his senses, and quickly shouted to Zhu Gaoyu: "Your Highness, I am willing to cook, I will go now..."

As he said that, as if afraid of Zhu Gaoyu's repentance, he held the official hat on his head, turned around and ran to the shore, calling out to the middle and low-level civil servants to follow up with work.

"Hahaha……"

There was a burst of laughter among the generals.

This laughter made the eyelids of both commanders twitch wildly.

Sure enough, they guessed right.

Hearing the laughter, Zhu Gaoyu strode to the front of the generals' formation, and looked coldly at the laughing generals.

The laughter gradually stopped, and soon all the generals lowered their heads.

"Is it funny? Do you want me to give you an hour to make you laugh?"

"Although they are civil servants, they are also your colleagues."

"As colleagues, it doesn't matter if you don't help each other, but you actually stand aside and laugh."

"Is this what an official of the Ming Dynasty should do? Is this what a general who is worshiped by the people of the Ming Dynasty should do?"

"Damn it."

The laughing generals quickly knelt down on one knee to plead guilty.

"What are you still doing here, why don't you hurry up and help the adults chop firewood."

"The last general takes orders!"

The generals quickly responded and got up to chop firewood for the civil servants.

Zhu Gaoyu glanced at the commander of Shandong Beiwadu, then turned and went to the seat.

Seeing this, the two commanders looked at each other and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

They have already seen that the imperial court intends to let them die.

Otherwise, His Highness King Yue would not have punished them like this.

If the imperial court intends to punish them severely, it is estimated that the king of Yue will order them as soon as he gets off the ship, and the accompanying Jin Yiwei will detain them.

After thinking about this, the two looked again, and they were also looking at their Zuo Chief Envoy and the Inspector.

The four nodded, drove away the others behind them, and followed Zhu Gaoyu to their seats.

"Your Highness, please have some tea!"

Just as Zhu Gaoyu sat down, the official rank was the lowest among the four, and he poured a cup of tea.

Zhu Gaoyu didn't even look at the teacup, and said to the four of them, "Your Majesty has entrusted me with full authority over the affairs of the Kong family."

"On the report, there is so much ominousness, you guys will tell the cause and effect of the matter again."

Having been affirmed again, the four people's hanging hearts were finally relieved.

As Zuo Buzhengshi who knows the matter best, he told the things he knew again.

"By the way, Your Highness."

"After the ministers reported to the court, Kong Keyuan's young master fled back alone."

"He told us that those who captured them were indeed Japanese pirates."

"And the reason why these Japanese pirates were not discovered by the imperial court and came in so easily is that we Ming people led them the way."

The inspector at the side quickly added: "The land of Shandong has gone through several wars, and it is normal that there are no people in some areas."

"If it is brought by someone familiar with the road, it is really difficult for us to detect it."

Zhu Gaoyu pretended to be deep in thought, and asked Zuo Zhengshi: "Where is that young master of the Confucius family?"

The Zuo Buzheng envoy and the inspector envoy looked embarrassed for a moment, and then they promised: "Dead."

"Dead?" Zhu Gaoyu raised his voice all of a sudden, stretched out his hand to hate him, and nodded hard on the two of them.

"My empress managed to persuade father and emperor to keep you alive, but why did you seek death by yourself?"

"Your Highness."

After hearing this, the four of them realized that it was no wonder that such a serious incident happened, and the Shandong officials were still alive, because the empress protected them.

"I am ashamed to treat the queen empress."

The two kowtowed to the palace a few times with mournful faces, before explaining eagerly: "He was bitten by a snake before the people from Jin Yiwei found him."

"If you just found out that you can save a life, but he ran so far on the mountain road, the snake venom has spread all over his body, and he died after saying a few words to us. I can't save him even if I try to save him."

Zhu Gaoyu was speechless.

He also wanted to keep a witness certificate, and sign for Nan Kong's family by the way.

This is God's destruction of your family, and you can't keep any of them.

It seems that even Kong Laoer can't stand it anymore. After what these descendants have done, they don't even have protection.

"Oh, that's a pity!"

Zhu Gaoyu sighed, and waved to the two, "Forget it, it's not your fault, I believe the court can understand."

The two were so moved that they almost cried.

The dog's life was saved again.

After the two got up, Zhu Gaoyu said solemnly to the four of them: "But the death penalty can be avoided, and the living penalty cannot be escaped."

"What happened to the Kong family is ultimately the result of your dereliction of duty. Find a few criminals who have been corrupt and accept bribes on weekdays."

Choosing to let go of Shandong officials is what the old man meant.

After Jing Nan, Shandong has already been cleaned up, and those who can stay are those who have been approved by the old man.

The old man is really reluctant to clean up so many capable officials for a pile of stinky shit.

If they choose to forgive, these officials will definitely be grateful to Dade and work hard for the court.

Although Zhu Gaoyu thinks that dogs can't change eating shit, but now he is not in charge after all, and he can't change how the old man wants to arrange it.

Moreover, Shandong is also related. If a group of unfamiliar officials come up at this time for the logistics supply of the Japanese conquest, not only will it not be helpful, but it may even be a disservice.

The old man thought for a long time, and finally decided to take it lightly.

The four of them understood the meaning of the words, the imperial court was planning to find some unkind officials to settle the matter.

The other officials have all remembered it once, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to get promoted in the future. There is no guarantee that there will be suitable people, and they will be dismissed at any time.

But so what.

Compared to saving one's life, this is already the best result.

"The minister waits to thank the emperor for his kindness!"

The four hurriedly kowtowed to Jinling to thank them.

After the four of them got up, Zhu Gaoyu said to Zuo Buzheng: "Next, Weihaiwei will be used as a temporary base for the fleet. You must ensure the smooth flow of food and logistics. If there is any trouble caused by the White Lotus Sect, which hinders the logistics, you still can't keep your head."

"Your Highness, please rest assured!" Zuo Buzheng immediately stretched out his hand to assure, "There will be no problems with the logistics of the army. If someone dares to make trouble, I will come to see you."

In the land of Shandong, the White Lotus Sect was the hardest-hit area. From the establishment of the Ming Dynasty to the present, the land of Shandong has had troubles several times.

Zhu Gaoyu looked again at the commander of the Beiwa Capital in Shandong: "I want the situation of all the Japanese pirates in Shandong and the location of their lairs."

The Commander of Shandong Beiwa Capital, which had been prepared a long time ago, quickly took out the playbook from his arms and handed it over.

"This is the result of Chen's investigation over the years, and all the Japanese pirates caused by it are recorded on it."

Zhu Gaoyu took it over and looked it over, frowning slightly.

What was recorded above seemed to be different from what he thought.

In his mind, the so-called Japanese pirates should mostly be composed of Han Chinese, with only a small number of Japanese pirates.

However, according to the report from the commander of the Beiwa Capital in Shandong Province, most of the Japanese pirates are real Japanese pirates, and Ariake is also a traitor who leads them.

"Your Highness, is there something wrong with the minister's report?"

Noticing Zhu Gaoyu's expression, the Commander of Shandong Beiwa Metropolis felt his heart skip a beat.

Zhu Gaoyu put the notebook on the table next to him, frowned and asked, "I heard that many Japanese pirates were faked by our Ming people, why didn't you have any records on it?"

Zhu Gaoyu's words stunned the Commander of Shandong Beiwa Capital.

He asked suspiciously: "Yes, those are scum who betray the country and seek glory, leading the way for those Japanese pirates."

However, just after he finished speaking, he seemed to understand something, as if he had misunderstood the meaning of His Highness's words.

"Your Highness, do you want to say that there are some Han Chinese who robbed Japanese pirates?"

Zhu Gaoyu nodded.

The commander of Shandong Beiwa Capital secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

He thought he had missed something, His Royal Highness didn't understand the situation.

"Your Highness, you don't know something."

"There are indeed some Han Chinese pirates who made troubles in the name of Japanese pirates."

"However, we are not fools. We still know the real Japanese pirates and fake Japanese pirates."

"There is no room for mistakes in war. The fighting abilities of real Japanese pirates and fake Japanese pirates are different, so in order to prevent the judgment of the higher authorities from being wrong."

"These Ming people pretending to be Japanese pirates are called pirates."

"Only the real Japanese pirates, we will name the Japanese pirates."

"Furthermore, the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies also has very strict requirements on this. Those who catch a cold and lead the army will be beheaded."

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoyu frowned, thought for a moment, and seemed to understand some of the problems.

Maybe the Japanese pirates in the early Ming Dynasty, they were real Japanese pirates.

Starting from Jiajing, as the court's control over the surrounding area began to decline, the generals also named all the pirates who pretended to be Japanese pirates as Japanese pirates in order to receive credit.

After all, the heads of Japanese pirates are much more valuable than those of pirates.

And those pirates who have been crowned with the reputation of Japanese pirates also enjoy it in order to strengthen their reputation.

It is precisely because of this that the Japanese pirates were only a small mess during the Yongle and Hongwu periods, but they became more and more powerful as they went forward.

Moreover, most of the Japanese pirates at this time were wandering in the Korean waters, and only occasionally came to Daming's side.

Daming's navy is the number one in the world, but it's not just blown out. With 3800 warships, Daming is almost the sum of the fleets of all countries in the world, and there are many more.

The Japanese pirates are not fools, with their broken ships and a few broken knives, they are looking for death when they encounter a powerful Ming warship.

So if it wasn't for absolute intelligence, or if they were starving to death because they couldn't get anything in North Korea, or if they were those real lunatics, they would definitely not come to Daming.

Even in order to prevent Da Ming from going straight to their lair, most of their camps are in the North Korean area.

In addition to North Korea being easy to bully, the most important thing is the Daming Navy, which generally does not go there.

Zhu Gaoyu estimated that it might be because of these reasons.

It makes people of later generations mistakenly believe that most of the Japanese pirates are their own people, and those real Japanese pirates are only a small part, or they are the hands of the Ming people.

After figuring out the details of the Japanese pirates and the distribution of power, Zhu Gaoyu took his book and went to the fleet.

He was only responsible for conveying the old man's consciousness, and by the way led the matter in name.

For the detailed handling of the matter of the Kong family, the imperial court will send imperial envoys, and Zhu Gaoyu's main goal is to deal with the Japanese pirates.

The fleet stayed in Weihaiwei for one night. Early the next morning, Zhu Gaoyu left a small team to guard the pier, and took the rest of the boats to North Korea.

Zhu Gaoyu planned to wipe out those Japanese pirates first, and find some leading parties by the way.

It would be even better if a group of them could be included. It would be interesting to watch dogs eat dogs.

Even he was thinking about what to name this dog-legged army, so as to show its national characteristics.

ps: In the previous chapter, some words were deleted because I entered the small black room. I read it, and it didn’t affect the reading, but the essence is gone, because it is locked and can’t be changed.

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