Anyone the emperor's grandson wanted to see would naturally come as soon as he was summoned.
Within a quarter of an hour, Wang Jinghong, a member of the Golden Gate Guards Qianhu, who had followed Shangguan to Beijing to report on his duties, was recruited to the palace.
The Miyagi City was huge and majestic. Wang Jinghong, who was dressed in casual clothes and had no time to change into his official uniform, cautiously moved forward with his head lowered under the guidance of the eunuchs.
Just now, he was drinking with his colleagues. When he heard that the Emperor Taisun had summoned him, the eyes of those colleagues turned red with envy. Wang Jinghong was in a state of shock, and he couldn't figure out how a small and insignificant person like him could be summoned by His Highness the Emperor Taisun.
Along the way, the majestic atmosphere of the Heavenly Family in the palace made the man who was licking blood on the sword's head on the sea feel more and more uneasy. However, when he thought about what his superior officer said as he patted his shoulder before coming, he couldn't help but grit his teeth.
Suppress the anxiety and fear in your heart.
When His Highness summons you, you are representing us as a man from Fujian. You must not show cowardice and lose the face of a man from Fujian!
Following the eunuch palace man, I walked for an unknown amount of time and passed through many passages before stopping in front of the Jingren Hall in the East Palace.
The guard on duty wearing golden armor, after careful interrogation, led the eunuch to report.
After Xumi, a sharp voice came from inside, saying that His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun had spoken, and King Jinghong of the Thousand Households of Jinmen Guards in Fujian Province came to see him!
Wang Jinghong raised his head, looked at the majestic hall, swallowed, and strode in.
In the hall, Zhu Yunxi was sitting on the throne, smiling and chatting with Xu Huizu and Li Jinglong. From the corner of his eye, he saw a short man walking in with his chest puffed out.
Your Majesty, King Jinghong of the Thousand Households of the Golden Gate, is here to see His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun!
The sound was loud and the empty hall was buzzing.
Zhu Yunxi carefully looked at Wang Jinghong, who was kneeling at the door of the palace. He was not tall, but he had a well-proportioned figure, and it was obvious that he was strong. It seemed that because he had been at sea all year round, his skin was a little dark. It was not that black, but
It is ruddy black.
The other party was not wearing official uniform, but a simple and neat short dress, which looked very neat.
Come forward! Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, you are not tall, but your voice is quite loud!
Wang Jinghong lowered his head and stepped forward, grinning and saying, "It's windy on the sea, so if you don't have a loud voice, your brothers won't be able to hear you!"
In one sentence, he showed his boldness and directness, which immediately made Zhu Yunxi feel good about him.
Bring him a stool and let him sit down and talk!
When Wang Jinghong saw His Royal Highness the Grandson's gentle attitude, the anxiety in his heart disappeared and he sat down on the stool. However, as soon as he sat down, he felt two dagger-like eyes next to him.
He knew one of the owners of his gaze, Wei Guogong, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army, who was the Shangguan in charge of their Fujian Guards. So, he grinned honestly.
Xu Huizu couldn't wait to go up and lift Wang Jinghong up. In front of His Highness Taisun, he and Li Jinglong only dared to sit with their buttocks leaning against the stool. Wang Jinghong was better, he just sat on his butt and wished that the stool would be broken. There was no courtesy at all for a monarch and his ministers.
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Gu Gang read your resume, you are only twenty-two years old this year! Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, after joining the army for five years, from a common man to a thousand households in the Ming Dynasty, he beheaded seventy or eighty Japanese pirates and pirates alone.
What a character! Why did you join the army in the first place?
I was originally a boatman, and I helped my uncle fish in the boat since he was a child. Wang Jinghong had bright eyes and sonorous words. He didn’t want to join the army, but just wanted to save more money and get a fishing boat of his own. But who would have encountered a god damn pirate?
, Chen’s uncle and cousin were killed by pirates, and Chen jumped into the sea to escape with his life!
As he spoke, Wang Jinghong gritted his teeth. After returning, the more he thought about it, the more he held his breath. My uncle was killed, and if I don't avenge this revenge, can I still be considered a man? As soon as I figured it out with my clan, I took several of my brothers to join the army.
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Piracy is rampant in coastal areas. In addition to Japanese pirates, there are also many Han pirates. People who rely on the mountains and the sea to make a living at sea are mostly tough people. Even the kind-hearted people can't be prepared.
There will also be some moneyless transactions behind the scenes.
Zhu Yunxi continued to ask, were the ones who killed your uncle a Japanese pirate?
Wang Jinghong shook his head and said, no, it was Fang Guozhen's old subordinates who killed his uncle!
Didn't Fang Guozhen surrender a long time ago? Why did the old tribe make trouble again? Zhu Yunxi turned his head, looked at Xu Huizu and asked.
Before the Ming Dynasty unified the world, Fang Guozhen was a separatist force entrenched in eastern Zhejiang, nicknamed Hai Jing. He started as a pirate, and most of his men were sea bandits and desperadoes. Later, he was besieged by Tang and Liao Yongzhong and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Huizu surrendered, Your Highness, although Fang Guozhen surrendered, his remaining troops were unruly and disobedient to the king. They gathered people on the islands to cause chaos and often harassed the place!
Since they were harassing the place, why didn't they eliminate them earlier? Zhu Yunxi looked unhappy, but he remembered that Fang Guozhen died in the seventh year of Hongwu. How many years had it been?
Xu Huizu was speechless and lowered his head to apologize.
Back to Your Highness! Wang Jinghong suddenly said, It’s not that we haven’t suppressed the pirates, they have killed many pirates in recent years. But their leaders and backbones are here, killing one wave after another, and they will continue to kill! They are all hiding on the island, and the big ship cannot sail at all.
Go in. Sometimes the officers and soldiers just move out, and they hide when they hear the wind!
Rogues on the sea are both bandits and civilians! Zhu Yunxi thought deeply, they are entrenched on offshore islands, how can they communicate with the mainland?
Wang Jinghong said, Your Highness, this is not the mainland. I don’t know what to say. They have nothing to do with the mainland, but they have connections with Luzon, Sri Lanka and other places thousands of miles away. We
The Ming Dynasty was in a hurry to suppress the enemy, so they ran over there and waited for the storm to pass before coming back.
After saying that, he paused again, but they mostly rob merchant ships at sea, but they rarely go ashore!
Luzon and Srivijaya were the Philippines, Malaysia and other places in later generations. Although it is a veritable wilderness now, many Chinese immigrants have been there since the Song Dynasty, and they gradually formed a force there.
By the end of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and more people went to sea. The largest number of them were from Guangdong and Fujian. After going to sea, they settled in Srivijaya and Luzon. Later, when the Ming Dynasty unified the country, pirate groups on the southeast coast, such as Fang Guozhen
The old troops and others also moved their base there.
The Chinese in this era were not easy to get along with, and the people of Fujian and Canton were famously united. Zhu Yunxi read in the archives of Honglu Temple that the Chinese lived in groups and often clashed with local kings and attacked each other.
Cutting down, and the victory is more than the defeat.
Since they are Chinese immigrants, this matter will be easy to handle. Let Honglu Temple canonize a few Chinese leaders there and recognize their status. With a few cuts with a soft knife, there will be no more trouble. When the navy is established in the future
, it is legally justified to put these areas into the Ming Dynasty’s sphere of influence.
Talk about Japanese pirates! Zhu Yunxi said again.
Japanese pirates are harder to fight than pirates! Wang Jinghong gritted his teeth when he mentioned Japanese pirates. Although the pirates killed the minister's relatives, there is a saying that Japanese pirates are more cruel than pirates. They kill whoever they see! Moreover, Japanese pirates have better swords and guns than pirates, more archers and crossbows, and they can attack more easily.
There are rules!
Every time he fought with the officers and soldiers, he would just flinch and run away. If the officers and soldiers pursued them fiercely, they would be ambushed by them. If he didn't chase them, he would just run away!
Having said that, Wang Jinghong hesitated.
I asked you to come here just to let you speak. Although your official position is not high, you are a front-line officer at sea. You can say whatever you want, and you are not afraid if you are wrong! Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
I'm not afraid of saying something wrong. I won't say anything wrong about pirates and Japanese pirates! Wang Jinghong smiled honestly, "Japanese pirates, the difficulty is that I don't know when they will come and where they will land. There are thousands of thieves who have been thieves for thousands of days, but there are no thousand
The Japanese guard against thieves. When they come, we gather again and chase after them. The day lilies are already cold. Speaking of which, we still have too few warships and cannot stop them every time!
That makes sense. With passive defense and no navy, the enemy can take advantage of the situation at any time. But then again, even if the navy cruises around the sea all day long, there may not be no fish that slip through the net.
Bandits are always more flexible than the officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers have to ask for orders, assemble, and set off. After a set of procedures, the Japanese pirates can almost rob.
What do you think? Zhu Yunxi asked with a smile.
Wang Jinghong was not ambiguous and said directly, in fact, Japanese pirates, like pirates, also have their nests. I heard that the Japanese country is not far from our Ming Dynasty. They must be entrenched on the islands. Fighting is the same as killing people.
You have to strike first to gain the upper hand.
Instead of defending on the shore and waiting for him to come, it is better to find out the reality and gather an army to directly sweep their islands to avoid future troubles!
Zhu Yunxi looked at Wang Jinghong approvingly. It's rare for you, a member of a thousand households, to have such knowledge! After saying that, he asked again, "Isn't your thousand households a worldly job?"
Shizhi is a hereditary family.
My...my credit is not enough!
Although the Ming Dynasty had just been founded, the positions of the imperial guards were all in the same place. From the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army to the commanders of the Davids, everyone was staring at them. Except for the noble sons and daughters, ordinary generals
are not eligible to obtain it.
Xu Huizu! Zhu Yunxi spoke.
I'm here!
Zhu Yunxi pointed his finger at Wang Jinghong, and the commander-in-chief of the fifth army issued a document to reward him with a thousand households in the world!
I understand! Xu Huizu said.
But at this time, Wang Jinghong seemed to be confused, sitting blankly with his mind blank.
After casually meeting the emperor's grandson, he got a long-awaited but unattainable worldly position? This is simply pie in the sky?
No thanks! Xu Huizu scolded.
Sir, thank you for your kindness! Wang Jinghong reacted and kowtowed.
I have given you the worldly position. There is no need to rush back to Fujian. I will be transferred to two levels and serve in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion in the capital. I will look for you at any time! Zhu Yunxi said.
I obey the order! Wang Jinghong agreed at first, and then said urgently, Your Highness, if I don’t return to Fujian, what about my relatives in the army, my wife and children...?
What a shame! Xu Huizu was furious.
It doesn't matter! Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, just because you won't come back for now, it doesn't mean you won't come back forever! After saying that, he said to Xu Huizu, let the Fujian Wei and local officials write down the situation of pirates and Japanese pirates in detail, and then you can report the situation of the pirates and Japanese pirates along the coast in these years.
The guards and Japanese pirates have compiled a list of the soldiers who have seen Zhen Zhang and show it to Gu!