It seems that the momentum is almost ready, the Jiangnan errand is just the last point, and it's done!
When Lu Bing was leaving, he went to visit Miss Meng. Miss Meng's younger brother was quick and studious, and had just been admitted as a scholar.
Lu Bing went to give some gifts, ate a bowl of wontons with chicken sauce, and hurried back to Jiangnan.
Lu Bing and Zhu Liu, Dong Hai, Liu Biao, Sun Quan, Shitou, Yang Sen, and Wang Zhi secretly met in Taibailou in She County.
In a blink of an eye, it has been almost six years since Lu Bing went to the south of the Yangtze River to meet Wang Zhi.
Now Lu Bing is nearly 30 years old. As a second-ranking member, he also has a short beard on his lower jaw, making him more mature and stable.
Zhu Liu is now the governor of Fusi Town in Nanzhen. Liu Biao and Sun Quan have also been promoted to Jinyiwei 100 households. Dong Hai, Shitou, and Yang Sen are all Jinyiwei thousand household officials.
And Wang Zhi has grown from the 16-year-old to a 24-year-old, with the sheathless Japanese sword hanging around his waist.
Now I go to the private room of Taibai Tower to sit down, and there are still the wine and dishes in front of me, "Ham stewed turtle", "Broiled civet", "Pickled fresh mandarin fish", "Huangshan stewed pigeon", "Ginger mother duck", and "Pearl". "Shark fin", "Hehe Yaozi", "Yuyuan Steamed Deer Titus"... and the warm Huizhou Jiajiu... Everyone can't help but feel a little bit emotional.
In a blink of an eye, six years have passed...
In Jiangnan nowadays, the figure of Japanese pirates is rare. However, the yearning for wealth at sea is about to explode among the people all over the Yangtze River. Now, it is a good time for the last army to take action!
In recent years, Lu Bing has not summoned Wang Zhi. Today, Wang Zhi saw Lu Bing and knew that it was finally time for him to take action.
Today's Wang Zhi is already well-known in Huizhou, but compared with Zhu Liu, Dong Hai, Liu Biao, and Sun Quan's reputation in Jiangnan, he is still far behind!
Lu Bing smiled and said to Wang Zhi: "Are you ready?"
"Ready! Master Lu, please order!" Wang Zhi said loudly.
"Okay, I'll let you be a Japanese pirate!" Lu Bing finally said his final plan.
Wang Zhi was shocked. A few years ago, Lu Bing did say that he should be a Japanese pirate. At that time, he thought it was just a test. He didn't expect it to be true
"What? If you don't want to go, I won't force you." Lu Bing said seriously.
"It's okay! I'm just a little scared." Wang Zhi made a stiff joke.
"Brother... This is indeed a great sacrifice for you, but it can preserve the peace of the southeast waters of Daming for 20 or even 30 years!" Lu Bing patted him on the shoulder and said, "In these 20 years, we will Thousands of people avoid becoming you because of you!"
"Master Lu, please tell me!" Wang Zhi said decisively.
"Okay!" Lu Bing laughed and said, "In fact, I didn't want you to be a Japanese pirate, but a pirate."
Lu Bing told Wang Zhi of his plan five to ten. Everyone was listening, and they couldn't help taking a breath.
They thought that Lu Bing's plot was not small, but they didn't expect it to be such a big one!
It is a little beyond imagination.
If this plan is successful... the whole world will change!
The party ended in a hurry, and Lu Bing, Zhu Liu, Dong Hai, Liu Biao, Sun Quan, Yang Sen, and Shitou left first.
Wang Zhi sat blankly for a long time to digest the plan Lu Bing said.
After a long while, Wang Zhi let out a long breath.
He got up and called Ye Zi, Ye Zongman's brother and sister, and Xu Weixue in.
Wang Zhidao: "In recent years, everyone's lives have become better and better. Do you know why?"
Ye Zi smiled and said, "Because Brother Wang is so good."
Ye Zongman smiled and said, "My girl, I will soon become yours."
The two joked, watching Wang Zhi's serious expression and put away his smile.
Wang Zhi said solemnly: "Da Ming's laws are too strict for the people. A little action will touch the law, and the imperial examination is only open to those sour scholars. I am stuck here and feel more and more depressed. We are here. The current good life is given by Master Lu, but we didn’t earn it ourselves. Why don’t we go overseas and get stuck on this little “pinch of soil”, what can we do?”
"This..." Ye Zongman hesitated.
Wang Zhi continued: "The business we have done in the past few years is not all legal. One day it will be exposed. At that time, we will not be able to run. What we earn now will eventually belong to the government. It is not as early as we were. I sold my belongings and went to sea to make some big money!"
"Now that the sea ban is so strict, let's go!" Xu Weixue was a little moved, but still worried.
"Actually, the sea ban is only very strict for entering, but not so strict for going out." Ye Zongman considered the pros and cons, and was a little moved.
"I will go wherever Brother Wang goes." Ye Zi said without hesitation.
"Since you are all going, then I can only follow." Xu Wei learned.
"Okay! But it won't work if there are only four of us. We have to find two more helpers." Wang Zhi said: "We sold the warehouse and went to Guangdong to build a big ship. The leaves stay in Taibai Tower..."
"I want to go with you too!" Ye Zi rushed.
"When we stand still, we will naturally come to pick you up. If we are untenable and you are in Taibailou, we can still come back and have a meal." Wang Zhi persuaded patiently.
Ye Ye made sense when he heard it, so he had to agree.
Xu Weixue and Ye Zongman went to find two people who had a good relationship on weekdays and had good skills, named Xie He and Fang Tingzhu.
Before leaving, Wang Zhi got in touch with one of the two important figures mentioned by Lu Bing through his previous relationship in the arena.
Nowadays, there are two groups of Ming pirates who are the most famous. One is Li Guangtou from Fujian and Zhejiang, and the other is Xu Dong from Shexian County, Huizhou.
Xu Dong’s pirate group initially cooperated with Portugal, and later a Japanese private business joined the group, which was very powerful.
Lu Bing asked Wang Zhi to contact Xu Dong and join Xu Dong.
After several years of entanglement by Zhu Liu, Dong Hai, Liu Biao, and Sun Quan, the maritime merchants of Ming Dynasty dare not go to sea, and the pirates dare not come in. The gap caused by the sea pirates urgently needs cargo ships to go to sea.
Xu Dong heard that a fellow villager wanted to join in, and he also heard that he was famous in the rivers and lakes, so he was naturally very welcome, and promised to shelter Wang Zhi's ship at sea.
Wang Zhi and others called a few restless guys in Shexian County. After selling the warehouse, they went to the coast of Guangdong together.
Seeing that the matter was done, Lu Bing took Zhu Liu, Shitou, Yang Sen, Dong Hai, Liu Biao, and Sun Quan back to the capital.
Back in the capital, it was nineteen years since Jiajing, Lu Bing went to Jiajing Emperor to hand in an errand, and the Jiajing Emperor once again promoted Lu Bing as the governor's co-knowledge, from the first grade, still in charge of Jinyiwei.
Lu Bing, thirty years old, became a first-class member, in charge of Jinyiwei, and became a real power minister.
Lu Bing and others left Jiangnan, and the coastal defenses in Jiangnan were suddenly changed under the impact of the undercurrents of the people, business, and officialdom. Thanks to the actions of many interested people, smuggling is in a state of blowout.
At this time, Wang Zhi and others were driving a big ship, and they were the first to sail out of the sea. They were loaded with sulphur and silk, which were strictly forbidden to go to the sea by the Ming Dynasty, and arrived in Japan, Siam and other countries to engage in trade and make huge profits.
Within two years, Wang Zhi became famous among the pirates under Xu Dong's command. In addition to Wang Zhi's defense of justice and money, many people were willing to make friends with him.
In just five or six years, Wang Zhi became a famous sea merchant in the South China Sea. With the support of Lu Bing, Wang Zhi obtained muskets and artillery that were better than bows and arrows on the sea. After battle, he established his position on the sea.
Because Wang Zhi is also known as Wufeng, he has since been called the "Wufeng Ship Owner".
Wang Zhi sent people to recruit troops, and Xu Weixue called Xu Hai, his nephew who was a monk in Hangzhou temple, and the two of them pulled out another fleet under Wang Zhi's command.
But Ye Zongman was not reconciled, and also pulled up a fleet.
Since then, Wang Zhi's reputation has been greatly shocked! Wang Zhi then embarked on a wicked conspiracy, gathered desperadoes, seduce Wanutaro, Jiro, Shisuke Shiro, etc., to build a huge ship, which can take 120 steps together, can accommodate two thousand people, and can go on horseback.
Wang Zhi became the leader of the largest armed maritime business group on the sea, and accepted the invitation of the Japanese warring states dame Matsuura Takanobu to engage in maritime trade based on Hirado Island in the Hizen country off Kyushu and Matsuura Tsu in the Satsuma country of Japan.
At that time, the Zhejiang-Fujian coastal defense was ruined during Lu Bing's ten years away, and ten battleships and sentry ships survived. Pirate merchants and Zhejiang and Fujian giants mostly colluded with Japanese pirates. They built brigs under the pretext of Jidu to carry prohibited goods, and the generals would not dare to question them.
In the 25th year of Jiajing, Admiral Zhu Wan supervised the military affairs of Zhejiang and Fujian coasts, governed Zhejiang, and defended against Japanese pirates.
After Zhu Wan took office, he adopted the suggestions of Gao and the local scholars and people to chase off the ferry boat, protect Jia, search for trespassers, rectify coastal defense, and strictly prohibit merchants from going to the sea.
In April 27th, Jiajing, he appointed Dusi Lu Kang to lead the Fuqing soldiers into the army from Haimen to conquer Shuangyu Port, a nest of Japanese pirates, capture the Japanese Jitian and the pirate Xu Dong alive, and build Shuangyu to block the Japanese pirates. All the captured Tongwa criminals were put to death.
Zhu Wan's actions violated the interests of the landlords and gentry of Fujian and Zhejiang, and because of conflicts with the host and guest, Fujianese Lin Maohe over the handling of Zhou Liang, the Japanese tribute envoy, the Fujianese bureaucratic hatred.
However, Wang Zhi took the opportunity to take Xu Dong's power into his pocket and became the largest power in the Daming waters.
In July of the 27th year of Jiajing, the staff of the officials collected Yushi, Fujianese Zhou Liang, and Ye Jingyan, who was a Fujianese, and changed Zhu Wan as an inspection tour to weaken his power.
Zhu Wan was indignant and dismissed the dispute in the spring of the following year, and presented the six things of "Ming State Affairs, Constitutional Formation, Outline of Discipline, Summarization, Elimination of Misfortune, and Reconfirmation".
In March of the following year, Zhu Wan captured ninety-six people including pirate Li Guangtou, and he also punish them. However, Yu Shi Chen Jiude banned him from killing, and the court removed Zhu Wan from office. Zhu Wan committed suicide in anger, and the government and the people sighed.
Zhu Wan died, and Lu Bing was also very emotional. The two also went to the southeast to rule the Japanese, but their endings were quite different. All of them made people sigh.
But Zhu Wan helped Wang Zhi a lot. Because the news came early, Wang Zhi avoided Zhu Wan's encirclement and suppression. When Zhu Wan died, only Wang Zhi and his family would dominate the entire Daming Sea.
Wang Zhi obtained a monopoly on the maritime trade between China and Japan, and all the new ships entering the sea had to fly the flag of "Five Peaks" before they dared to sail at sea.
The foreign trade policies of the Japanese princes provided Wang Zhi with good conditions for residence.
Wang Zhi is good at wooing and making friends, and has gained the trust of many Japanese. He settled in Hirado, Japan, hung up the banner of "King of Emblem", and used Hirado as a base to absorb pirate forces, not only recruiting domestic desperadoes, but also Taro, Jiro, Shisuke Shiro, etc., who colluded with Japan's Shinwa with huge sums of money, served as wings.
From then on, the Japanese pirates at sea were under the control of Wang Zhi of Daming, and they did not dare to go ashore and looting wantonly. However, if the maritime merchants of Daming wanted to make money at sea, they had to pass the two management cards of Daming Haiphong and Wang Zhi. Return to the hands of Daming.
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Since then, more than a decade ago, Lu Bing's horrifying situation under the Taibai Building in She County, Huizhou, was finally completed.
Volume Four "Anti-Japanese in the South China Sea"-End