"Yes... I'm even more afraid that the black hand behind this... is the one in the palace." Liu Biao and Zhou Bin had the same idea: "My lord is blinded by the emperor's brotherhood, I'm afraid I can't think of this level."
Yang Lin thought for a while and said: "I don't think so. I am afraid that the adults will know that the birds are hiding in their bows. The adults mean that they want to be official... They should have felt something. However, the adults don't think it will be so fast. After all, now There is also the great enemy of the Bailian Sect."
Zhou Bin nodded and said, "Yes, at least until the White Lotus Sect is destroyed, the adults should be fine."
Liu Biao was silent, and there was a deeper worry in his heart.
The Bailian Sect has been hidden in the Nu River for the past two decades, which Liu Biao did not know.
Although the news verified that this was indeed the case, Liu Biao still found it difficult to let go. He always felt that as long as it was linked to the White Lotus Sect, there must be a deeper conspiracy.
Liu Biao strongly advocated that Lu Bing brought so many people there.
They all thought of what the other party did not expect, but unfortunately, no one could think of it. Looking at the past, they are all enemies...
Yang Lin repaired the book and told Lu Bing about Wang Zhi's arrest and the plan they discussed, and made clear the interests.
Lu Bing replied and asked the principals Yang Lin and Zhu Liu to bring the matter to the court to discuss the matter according to their plan, delaying time, and waiting for their return to Beijing. At the same time, he immediately dispatched capable personnel to Zhejiang, with ideas close to Wang Zhi, ready to rescue him at any time.
Wang Zhi was arrested and shocked the ruling and the opposition, and a minister immediately proposed to put Wang Zhi to death, to deter the thieves, in order to follow suit.
Then some ministers immediately objected, thinking that Wang Zhi's initiative to submit himself was a god-given opportunity. If Wang Zhi could be regained, the ten thousand li sea area and overseas islands would become Daming's territory.
The process of arguing between the two sides slowly expanded the topic into the old controversy between forbidden sea and open sea.
Since the Song Dynasty, the Chinese sea trade has been at the forefront of the world, and the pace is eye-catching. It brings huge commercial profits to the society and makes navigation technology lead the world for a long time.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu imposed a ban on the sea, which was that "a piece of land could not go into the sea". At that time, it was because that after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he did not eliminate all enemies. There are still many unstable factors in the coastal areas.
The hostile forces mainly come from three aspects: 1. Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and the rest. Both Zhang and Fang were local powers that rose up at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and they were close to the sea. Most of their subordinates were coastal people. After Zhang and Fang were defeated by Taizu, Yu Bu fled to the sea and continued to be enemies of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, there is a historical record that in the early Ming Dynasty, "people from the coastal areas were not allowed to go out to sea privately. When Fang Guozhen and the other party went into the sea and plundered them".
These remaining rebel forces were still in large numbers during the Yongle period, and they failed to encircle and suppress many times in the early Ming Dynasty.
Then there is the issue of Japanese pirates.
After two failed attempts to conquer Japan in the Yuan Dynasty, official contacts were severed. In order to obtain Chinese supplies, the Japanese kept looting along the coast of China in the Yuan Dynasty.
When the Hu Weiyong case happened, Emperor Taizu suspected that the Japanese helped Hu Weiyong's rebellion.
In the seventeenth year of Yongle, General Liu Rong won the victory against Japanese Japanese in Liaodong, and the Japanese invasion was greatly reduced, but it has not been eradicated.
Then there are the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.
The Yuan Dynasty was not only a great empire on land, but also had considerable influence on the sea. After the death of Yuan, some survivors fled to the sea to continue to oppose the Ming Dynasty, such as the remaining part of Chen Youding, who "retributed to the death to the death".
These maritime hostile forces cannot be easily wiped out, so they can only defend passively and impose a maritime ban.
All in all, there were complicated political and economic reasons for the maritime ban in the early Ming Dynasty, and it was an important choice made under the circumstances at that time. Among them, the consideration of coastal defense safety was the main and direct cause.
However, with the progress of the times, Daming became more and more in need of maritime trade, so the dispute between open sea and forbidden sea also followed.
For more than 100 years in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has also used various reasons to maintain the sea ban at all times.
In terms of the maritime prohibition policy alone, there were two factions of prohibition and relaxation in the imperial court, and there were many large groups of resistance among the people. People living on the coast depend on the sea for their livelihood, and the sea has cut off their food and clothing, and they will inevitably resist.
Nowadays, although pirates and Japanese pirates are rampant, Ningbo Shuangyu Island has become a world trade center. Silver from distant countries such as Western Thailand and Japan has been shipped here in exchange for Chinese silk, porcelain and tea.
Now that Wang Zhi is arrested, some people are naturally encouraged. Wang Zhi, a big pirate like Wang Zhi, is hated by some inland people, but some people praise Wang Zhi.
On the southeastern seashore, Wang Zhi "has great prestige, and everyone rushes around together. Either feed the season, rice wine, or children."
Even Zhu Wan, a famous general, once said: "The three-footed boy also regards pirates as his parents, and military sects as enemies of generations."
This shows that the coastal people do not regard the Wangzhi Group as "Japanese pirates" or "pirates."
Yang Lin and others used this to disrupt the court's attitude towards Wang Zhi.
At that time, many ministers proposed that "the city will turn the invaders into merchants, and the ban will turn the merchants into invaders."
Some people even took out the "Navigation Chart Compilation" edited by Hu Zongxian to talk about things, and it ignited the fanatical hope of some ministers in the DPRK to build a maritime power. They believe that if the imperial court can use Wang Zhi and declare the legalization of overseas trade, not only will it prevent the pirates from being suppressed, but also China will open up the Maritime Silk Road.
At this time, it broke out that Wang Zhi gave the court’s "Self-Ming Shu", saying: "Steal officials look for profit and business, sell goods in Zhejiang and fortune, share the same benefits with others, defend the country, and never seduce party thief intrusion. This world is known to all gods and gods. Why is the husband of the family and no property, the ministers are really unwilling."
In this way, Wang Zhi's life and death became a dispute between open sea and forbidden sea, and public opinion in North Korea and China fell into a stalemate and a tug of war.
Yang Lin and the others, who were behind them, only breathed a sigh of relief at this time, only waiting for Zhu Liu to return to Beijing to discuss the next move.
Even if Wang Zhi cannot be rescued, he will have to be dragged to Lu Bing to return to Beijing.
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By this time, Lu Bing had already arrived in Yunnan.
Lu Bing looked at the lush forests and 100,000 mountains, and couldn't help but smile: "It really is a good place to hide!"
Zhang Ju smiled and said: "The spies have been released. Sun Quan and Huang Lian'er have also personally led people to go in. There should be news soon."
Lu Bing sighed and said, "When will I find out..."
Thinking that Wang Zhi is still being detained, and Jingzhong doesn't know what the trouble is, Lu Bing is really worried.
Zhang Ju said relievedly: "Don't worry, with Yang Lin and Zhu Liu, brothers Wang will definitely not be involved. Maybe they have rescued Wang Zhi by now."