Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 322 The Imperial Navy Plunders the Eastern Ocean and Shocks Jinmen (Fourth Update!)
In the early morning of the next day, more than a hundred warships of the Ming Navy turned around and went north to surround Hua Guer's thirty warships.

Zheng Chenggong volunteered to carry Li Kai's head, and drove [-] soft sailboats to Hua Gu'er to recruit Hua Gu'er.

Hua Gu'er knew that he was invincible, and seeing that Li Kui's tribe had been defeated, he surrendered without a fight.

Then, according to Jin Yiwei's information, the Ming Navy's Zheng Chenggong and Gu Sanmazi each led the front battalion and the middle battalion to continue northward to encircle and suppress the pirates Yahaizi and the eastern daimyo Shiro Asada.

The rest of the pirates fled after learning the news.

Accompanied by Cai Zheng, Liu Kongzhao, Chief of the Navy Department of the Ming Dynasty, went northward from Songjiang Mansion to inspect the route until Denglai.

In this way, the Qing court and Duoluo County King Abatay were told that the Ming Navy still existed and still controlled the North and South Sea Routes.

Gu Sanmazi chased the oriental daimyo Asada Shiro all the way to Nagato, Japan.

The oriental daimyo Asada Shiro fled to Sanyodo, Japan, and asked for help from the Tokugawa shogunate.

Gu Sanmazi's naval officers and soldiers are all equipped with advanced flintlock guns, and they have also received formal training. In addition, they have just won the victory of annihilating the pirates, and their morale is high.

And today's Japan is not the Japan of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, nor the Japan of the Meiji Restoration period, which makes Gu Sanmazi simply occupy Nagato of Japan with ease.

Moreover, Gu Sanmazi plundered Nagato unscrupulously in Japan.

And under the instigation of the accompanying staff, he sent a note to the Japanese shogunate in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty Coast Defense and the vice-minister of the Navy Department.

Gu Sanmazi demanded that the Japanese shogunate immediately hand over Asada Shiro and compensate the Ming Navy with [-] silver dollars for ransoming Nagato, otherwise the Ming Navy will occupy Nagato for a long time and send heavenly soldiers to attack.

In the end, Japan's Tokugawa shogunate was forced by domestic pressure and was deeply afraid of offending Daming, so it could only hand over Shiro Asada and hand over 8 taels of silver to Gu Sanmazi.

Gu Sanmazi returned to Songjiang Mansion with 8 taels of silver and the property plundered in Nagato, Japan. Except for part of it turned over to Liu Kongzhao and distributed to his colleagues and brothers, most of it was cashed in silver and opened in Shanghai County, Songjiang Mansion. own industry.

The censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate even impeached Gu Sanmazi for provoking disputes among neighboring countries without authorization.

But Zhu Youjian ignored this, but also sent Dongchang Ma Jixiang to Gu Sanmazi's mansion to reprimand why Gu Sanmazi got benefits and only thought of sincerity and not the current emperor.

Gu Sanmazi had no choice but to obediently hand over part of it to Zhu Youjian.

After hearing that His Majesty Zhu Youjian did not pursue the navy's illegal activities abroad and only wanted to share the benefits, the rest of the navy generals were gearing up to learn from Gu Sanmazi and go to Japan and other places to plunder and make a fortune. If you divide the profit, you will not be punished by the court.

And now the entire sea area north of Dongfan Island is dominated by the Ming Navy.

Especially now that the Great Ming Navy has begun to be officially recognized by the maritime tycoons after destroying the pirate forces that tried to destroy him, and the officers of the Ming Navy have also discovered that this is also a very lucrative career.

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Liu Kongzhao's provocation in Tianjin Wei deeply stimulated Abate, the king of Doro County.

Abate angrily threw a purple clay pot on the ground, and became furious for a while: "What are these pirates doing!"

"Your Majesty, please calm down. This servant has already found out clearly that the navy of Daming was originally supported by the Zheng family. Now that Zhu Youjian has given half of Daming's tariffs to the Zheng family, the Zheng family will naturally work for Daming. It's just pity for us. Businessman from the north!"

Fan Yongdou, the imperial merchant of the Qing Dynasty, sighed bitterly after speaking.

"According to what you said, I'm afraid that the entire sea route will still be in the hands of his Daming Navy in the future, and those who do business here have to continue to pay protection fees?"

After Abatai said something, he supported his forehead and shook it: "It's a pity, so much money was spent for nothing, and the bamboo basket was empty."

"Not only do we have to hand over, but this sincere Bo Liu Kongzhao has already announced to the world that the navy suffered huge losses due to the extermination of pirates the day before yesterday and Jingping sea route. Three per cent more!"

When Fan Yongdou said this, Abatai slapped the table angrily again: "Too much bullying, too much bullying! This king must have his own navy if he wants to submit a report to the court, and these Han people cannot be allowed to dominate the sea. !"

The nobles of the Ming Dynasty are never allowed to participate in politics, so most of them are good at doing business to make money. Liu Kongzhao, who is sincere, is no exception. He learned from Jin Yiwei that the pirates gathered in Songjiang Mansion to provoke the Ming Navy. After collecting the protection fee, he came up with such a poisonous plan.

Without Zhu Youjian's instructions, Liu Kongzhao directly increased the protection fee by three percent, which meant an extra income of hundreds of thousands of silver dollars every year.

However, the gentry merchants and noble merchants of the Qing Dynasty in the north spent a lot of money this time, not only failed to get rid of the Ming Navy, but also caused the protection fee to be heavier than before.

But the Qing court couldn't control the Ming Navy and the northern gentry naturally couldn't do anything to Liu Kongzhao.

On the contrary, Zhu Youjian received from Shi Kefa, the official supervisor of ceremonies, the imperial censor's official impeachment of Liu Kongzhao for exploiting the interests of merchants at sea and hindering the commercial development of Ming Dynasty.

This made Zhu Youjian couldn't help but sneered: "The gentry in the north stretched out their hands really long, and they all reached out to our Metropolitan Procuratorate, and sent an order to Wang Chengen, the admiral of Dongchang, to arrest this censor. Severe interrogation, who instructed him to do this?

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"Your Majesty, this must not be done. The censor has always had the right to participate in the impeachment. Even if the impeachment is wrong, it is just a scholar's opinion. Your Majesty, you can reprimand or be demoted to a foreign post. Why punish the crime? If you don’t block the way of speech, how can you expect the censor to dare to impeach the dignitaries and arrogant soldiers in the future?”

Seeing that Zhu Youjian wanted to impeach Liu Kongzhao's censor into prison for strict interrogation, Shi Kefa hurriedly persuaded him.

"How do you know the reason for this? It's fine if it's an ordinary impeachment, but you know whose fortune Liu Kongzhao is blocking now. It's the fortune of those traitors in the north who have defected to the Qing Dynasty. This censor is right now. When it comes to impeaching him, who do you think he is speaking for? If it is to invite a straight name to impeach a dignitary, I can accept it, but now this censor obviously has ulterior motives. I don’t want my Metropolitan Procuratorate to be a group of A traitor who speaks the words!"

Zhu Youjian's tone became severe when he spoke, and Shi Kefa couldn't say anything more.

(End of this chapter)