Cao Guogong, the Crown Prince and Tutor, and Li Jinglong, the chief governor of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangxi to suppress bandits, rushed to Hangzhou. He arrived in Hangzhou not too late, three days earlier than Xia Xun expected.
When Cao Guogong arrived in Hangzhou, the important military and political officials from the Hangzhou government naturally came to visit. The commotion lasted for three days before it subsided. Li Jinglong saw everyone he didn't want to see in the past few days, but the only person he wanted to see never showed up, making him suspicious.
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"Keystone, we have drank the tea brewed by the Hupao Spring; we have offered the incense burned in Lingyin Temple; we have also sailed the boats in the West Lake; where are the others, Yang Xu?"
Could it be that you didn’t find any information and just ran away because you were worried about being reprimanded by your father-in-law?”
Tie Xuan didn't know that the two of them had other grievances. He couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "The Duke has been too worried. Yang Xu rushed to Hangzhou alone. Even if he didn't find out any news, it was normal. Even if he was reprimanded by the Duke, he still couldn't help but laugh.
Why just run away? As the saying goes, a monk who can run away cannot run away from the temple, so where can he run away?"
Li Jinglong thought to himself: "Grandma, I was hoping to get rid of him as a monk, and I would become the abbot of the temple. How did you know the twists and turns?"
Tie Xuan comforted him again: "Don't worry, Duke. The Duke has come to Hangzhou, and it has spread among the people. If Yang Xu found nothing, he should have come to see the Duke to plead guilty. Now that he is missing, maybe he has been found.
What news? It's at a critical juncture. It doesn't matter if the Duke waits a little longer. What's more, the plan to suppress the bandits cannot rely entirely on the news from General Yang Qi. All the prefectures along the coast are waiting for the Duke to come up with strategies to suppress the bandits.
Come on, the Duke should have made preparations in advance."
After Tie Xuan said this, Li Jinglong realized that he was the one in charge of going to Hangzhou to suppress pirates and arrest imperial criminals. Yang Xu was just a little shrimp. Whether he could find out any information was just for him.
It's just a matter of whether I can send a message. If the suppression of the bandits is in vain, I will not be able to send a message to the emperor. I became cautious and asked quickly: "Yes, there have been frequent exchanges between military and political officials of the Hangzhou government in the past two days, and my prince has been unable to escape."
, we have to work hard on this. I haven’t seen you accompanying me these two days, what are you busy with?”
Tie Xuan smiled happily and said: "This is for the Duke, the Duke has been busy dealing with the military and political officials of the Hangzhou government for the past two days. In his humble position, he paid private visits incognito. He walked around among the people, got a grasp of some situations, and wrote down some strategies in a targeted manner.
For the Duke’s reference.”
Li Jinglong was overjoyed: "Keystone is really talented and courageous in doing things. Please bring it to me quickly."
Tie Xuan said: "I am still not very thorough in some details. I wanted to think about it carefully before asking the Duke to take a look."
Li Jinglong said: "Spanking a child on a cloudy day is idle time. Bring it to me immediately."
Tie Xuan had no choice but to return to his office to get the half-finished strategy for suppressing bandits.
Tie Xuan has really been busy these days. He is a practical person. Although his main responsibility is to investigate the cases where some officers and soldiers of the guard station are liaising with pirates, he has also been thinking about the overall situation of suppressing bandits.
After arriving in Hangzhou, Li Jinglong was busy socializing, while Tie Xuan put on regular clothes, went among the people, and conducted some visits. He found that most of the largest groups of pirates along the coast were from Fujian and Zhejiang who relied on overseas trade to survive.
Chinese people. Therefore, almost every household along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang is involved in the smuggling trade, and then join the rivers and lakes to escape, and the soldiers disperse, and it gradually becomes a climate.
They were repeatedly banned. Precisely because of the secret support and cover of the coastal residents, Tie Xuan, after several days of full consideration, made some suggestions from the control of the number and scale of sea ships to the improvement of the Baojia system, as well as the management of large and small ports.
These suggestions are still being refined.
In fact, sea troubles in the early Ming Dynasty were not as serious as those in the later period. This was mainly due to Zhu Yuanzhang's sea ban policy and intensity. Zhu Yuanzhang banned the sea. On the one hand, he adopted the method of removing wages from the bottom of the cauldron and recruited a large number of former sergeants under Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen and endangered soldiers.
Shipowners, islanders, and fishermen on the sea enlisted as soldiers. On the one hand, they built cities along the coast, set up guard posts, built multiple oars and fast boats, and strengthened coastal defense forces to combat pirates.
From Huaihe and Zhejiang to Fujian and Guangzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang recruited more than 100,000 soldiers in total, and a large number of strong fishermen were recruited into the army. There was less strong local obstruction, and the implementation of the maritime ban policy was relatively smooth. The establishment of a large number of coastal defense facilities also prevented pirates.
A relatively large threat has arisen.
However, pirates and Japanese pirates became increasingly rampant, and later became out of control. This was also caused by Zhu Yuanzhang's maritime ban policy. Pirates have always existed, from ancient times to the present, and have never been eliminated, but the cause of such a huge disturbance was because of the maritime ban. Zhu Yuanzhang
The original reason for banning the sea was because many of the subordinates of Fang Guozhen, Zhang Shicheng and others who were losers in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains went to sea to become pirates. At the same time, they were also limited by his small-peasant mentality.
On the one hand, he felt that the Ming Dynasty was self-sufficient and did not need to exchange supplies with other countries. On the other hand, he wanted to use economic means to force the barbarians from all directions who needed to trade with China to surrender to China and recognize China's suzerainty, so he decided to
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, a tribute trade system has been established. Only if you surrender and pay tribute will I allow you to trade, and there are strict restrictions on the time, place, quantity, and variety of transactions. This will have a serious impact on the objective
economic interests of coastal people.
As the saying goes, those who rely on the mountains eat the mountains, and those who rely on the mountains drink water. Especially after the tributary trade system of the Tang Dynasty went bankrupt, it was changed to free trade. After that, the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty also continued this policy. Therefore, over the past five or six hundred years, maritime trade has become the most important thing for the residents of the southeastern coast.
An important way to survive. Now that the population is growing, the population pressure on the coasts of Fujian and Zhejiang is very significant. Trade is a fundamental need for livelihood. The maritime ban is equivalent to eliminating their way of survival, which lays a huge hidden danger.
Our propaganda in later generations often exaggerates the role of a certain aspect or generalizes out of political needs. We propaganda said that the people of the Southern Song Dynasty longed for the imperial court to regain the large area of land north of the Yellow River, but the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty stayed in a corner and did not want to make progress.
, but in fact it was the imperial court that wanted to send troops to regain the lost territory, but the people were unwilling to send troops and carried out passive resistance, because the people in the Southern Song Dynasty were very rich and lived a pretty good life, and they were unwilling to pay for the huge military expenses to regain the lost territory.
They are unwilling to pay more taxes to subsidize the poor areas in the north after regaining the lost territory.
In the same way, the people along the coast also have complex feelings towards pirates, and they do not hate them as much as we understand. On the one hand, pirates are mixed, some of them are indeed extremely cruel, burning, killing and looting, but many of them are smuggling.
They are gangs whose main purpose is to provide survival and development opportunities for millions of people along the coast. How can the people along the coast, the gentry, and even the bureaucrats hate them?
Li Jinglong was not like the legendary embroidered pillow. He was still very good at military training. After Tie Xuan got his bandit suppression strategy, Li Jinglong was overjoyed. Inspired by it, he added a few more to reorganize the army and strengthen it.
A total of eight items including military discipline, serious coastal defense, and actual combat drills were compiled and used as his Eight Strategies for Jinghai. He asked Tie Xuan to take them back and organize them, preparing to vigorously implement them along the coast.
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Another afternoon, Li Jinglong was on his way.
Li Jinglong was lying on the leisure chair under the wisteria trellis. Two pretty and smart little girls squatted beside him and gently beat his thighs with a pair of pink fists.
"When will the singing and dancing of the West Lake and the Qingshan Tower outside the mountains stop? The warm wind makes the tourists drunk, and they think Hangzhou is Bianzhou..."
Li Jinglong yawned out of boredom and asked, "Baoqin, why do you think tourists regard Hangzhou as Bianzhou?"
A little girl blinked and said, "Master, back home, it's probably... it's probably because the summer in Bianzhou is as hot as that in Hangzhou."
Li Jinglong laughed, rubbed his big bare feet in the little girl's arms, and praised: "It makes sense, it makes so much sense. My Lord wants to come, and it's the same reason, hahahaha..."
The girl holding the piano covered the skirt of Songjiangbu's robe, covering her budding breasts, her face turned red, and she just smiled sweetly.
At this time, a guard came in hurriedly, stood still at a distance, clasped his fists and bowed, saying: "My lord, someone wants to see you."
Li Jinglong said lazily: "I said I fell asleep and disappeared."
The guard hesitated and said: "He said that his name is Yang Xu, and he was sent by the Duke to go to Hangzhou on official business. He said that as long as the villain gives his name, the Duke will definitely meet him. The villain has checked his badge.
, he is indeed a member of the Jinyi Guards."
"Yang Xu?"
Li Jinglong became energetic and sat up: "Hey! He's finally here. This kid didn't run away. Come on, call him in."
Li Jinglong put on his high-toothed wooden clogs and a Taoist robe, and entered the living room swaying like a living god.
Xia Xun hurriedly walked into the living room. When he saw Li Jinglong, he immediately clasped his fists in salute and said, "Yang Xu, the flag general of the Imperial Guard, has met Cao Guogong."
"Eh? Why are you dressed like this?"
Li Jinglong was pretentious and was about to give him a blow when he suddenly saw him wearing a pair of half-new short brown clothes, a bamboo hat on his head, a pair of white-topped black-topped cloth shoes with a thousand-layer sole, and a pair of black tops on his shoulders.
This bag looked like a small vendor, and I couldn't help but laugh a little.
Xia Xun looked at his own attire and said with a smile: "My lord, didn't you order me to go to Hangzhou to investigate the whereabouts of the imperial convict Ling Potian and the bandits in the East China Sea? Your attire is also for the convenience of investigating the case.
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When Xia Xun said this, Li Jinglong suddenly realized his purpose. He quickly put away his smile, put on a face like a hozen, and said in a deep voice: "Yang Xu, I have ordered you to come to Hangzhou to investigate carefully first."
, where have you been these days? My father-in-law has arrived in Hangzhou, but there is still no news about you. Is the information I want you to investigate already available? "
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