I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 189 Hongyi people also understand Japanese?
Time passed by, and soon it was time to hold a cabinet meeting.

The Forbidden City, the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

In the early morning, Jiajing put on his gown under the service of his personal eunuch. Just as he was sitting by the desk, studying the secret book of formation, an eunuch came to report.

"Report to Your Majesty, Eunuch Lu is asking to see you."

"Oh, so early? Let him in."

Jiajing was a little surprised by this, and then ordered.

"Slave, see Your Majesty!"

I saw Lu Fang hurried to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and said respectfully.

"Lu Fang, you look so hasty, do you have anything to report to me?"

Jiajing had a full view of the eager look on Lu Fang's face, raised his eyebrows, and asked.

"Your Majesty, here is the confession of Wang Zhi, the leader of the Japanese pirates. Due to the busy work before, this servant forgot about it! Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

After Lu Fang finished speaking, she knelt down on the ground and raised the confession in her hand above her head.

Jiajing was not in a hurry to take the confession, but instead asked Lu Fang.

"Lu Fang, have you read the content?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this servant has not read it yet."

Seeing Jiajing's questioning, Lu Fang responded respectfully.

"If I remember correctly, Wang Zhi followed the 300 million taels of silver seized by Hu Zongxian to the capital, right?"

Jiajing nodded, then took the statement from Lu Fang, and asked.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, that's exactly the case. The 300 million taels of silver have already been transferred to the treasury!"

Hearing what Jiajing said, Lu Fang couldn't help feeling in her heart, Your Majesty really has a good memory!

"Well, let me see, what did this Wang Zhi explain?"

After Jiajing finished speaking, he immediately put the secret book in his hand aside, and opened Wang Zhi's confession.

After a long time, after Jiajing read the content, he threw it aside at will.

"The content of this is quite interesting. This Wang Zhi has been entrenched in the Kyushu area of ​​Japan for a long time. In order to gain support, while giving up his territory to those Hongyi people, he actually converted to paganism!"

"Dayou Zonglin, wait for me! After the construction of my navy is completed, I will use you first."

Jiajing secretly made up his mind, then raised his head from the desk.

The Otomo Zonglin he was thinking of just now is a daimyo in Kyushu, Japan. He admired Wang Zhi very much and provided him with a lot of help.

"Your Majesty, are the Hongyi people you mentioned just now those people with blue eyes, white skin, and brown or red hair?"

Seeing Jiajing raised his head from the desk, Lu Fang couldn't hold back his inner curiosity, and asked immediately.

"Oh, Lu Fang, have you seen these Hongyi people?"

When Jiajing heard this, he couldn't help showing curiosity on his face.

"Your Majesty, there are such a group of Hongyi people living in the Haojing area under Guangdong rule! Yang Jinshui, the godson of the previous servant, often dealt with these Hongyi people."

Seeing Jiajing's question, Lu Fang replied subconsciously, and after he finished speaking, she suddenly realized that she had mentioned Yang Jinshui's name in front of His Majesty, and immediately knelt down in panic and pleaded guilty to Jiajing.

"Your Majesty, this servant deserves to die! Your Majesty should punish me for saying something wrong for a while."

"It's okay, I didn't mean to blame you, the incident with Yang Jinshui is over, let's continue."

Jiajing glanced at Lu Fang who was kneeling on the ground, and said softly.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this servant obeys!"

Seeing that Jiajing did not intend to pursue the matter, Lu Fang breathed a sigh of relief, then got up from the ground and continued.

"Those Hongyi people are quite safe now! Although they were not so obedient at first, since the local government sent people to negotiate a few times, those Hongyi people dare not do it again."

After Jiajing patiently listened to Lu Fang's narration, he was very sure in his heart that these Hongyi people living in the Haojing area were the Portuguese of later generations!And Haojing has a unique name in later generations, Macau.

"These Portuguese people dare to stay here and stay here. Let's see if I will send a navy to send you to heaven together in the future!"

After listening to Lu Fang's description, Jiajing immediately gritted his teeth with a gloomy face.

Because the voice was not loud, Lu Fang did not hear what Jiajing was saying clearly.

"Your Majesty, what were you talking about just now?"

Seeing this, Lu Fang couldn't help but worry.

"It's okay, it's just some irrelevant words."

Jiajing waved his hand, and then dismissed the matter perfunctorily.

"Oh, all right."

Lu Fang didn't doubt him, and soon felt relieved.

"Lu Fang, go and tell the local government, no, send Jinyiwei over there! We must keep a close watch on this group of Hongyi people, and try to get information from them as much as possible."

After Jiajing finished speaking, he got up and poured himself a cup of hot tea, and ordered.

"Your Majesty, I don't quite understand, this group of Hongyi people have always been very obedient. They will do whatever the local government tells them to do, and they dare not complain at all!"

"And these Hongyi people also contribute to the local government's annual corvee. For this reason, many Hongyi people died of exhaustion!"

"Could it be that these Hongyi people harbor evil intentions?"

Seeing that Lu Fang was curious about the reason, Jiajing was in trouble for a while.

It is impossible for him to tell Lu Fang that this group of Hongyi people are the Portuguese colonists who will invade Macau in the future!

Occasionally, Jiajing caught a glimpse of Wang Zhi's confession, which he had thrown aside, and had an idea in his mind.

"Wang Zhi, the leader of the Japanese pirates, confessed in his confession that this group of Hongyi people living in the Haojing area once sold his cannons and secretly supported him."

"Your Majesty means that these Hongyi people are familiar with Japanese!"

After hearing Jiajing's words, Lu Fang's face was full of horror, and she couldn't help opening her mouth.

"Well, yes, these Hongyi people are familiar with Japanese!"

"Not only that, Wang Zhi, the leader of the Japanese pirates, also took their money, and this group of Hongyi people came from the West, which is a proper foreign force! Therefore, I have reason to suspect that the Japanese pirates who were rampant in the coastal areas before are also related to this group of people. The Hongyi people are related!"

"Maybe, everything behind this is their trick."

Jiajing nodded his head, which seemed to agree with Lu Fang's statement, and then added.

"This group of Hongyi people are really treacherous! How dare they use such tricks to paralyze the court!"

"On the surface, they are willing to work hard, but in fact they secretly traded with Japanese pirates with sinister intentions! Your Majesty, please give an order to let the imperial army go and destroy them."

After Lu Fang got a positive answer from Jiajing, she had a deeper understanding of the insidiousness and cunning of these Hongyi people.

"Okay, let's talk about this later! It's almost time for the cabinet meeting, let's go."

Jiajing stood up and said to Lu Fang.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this servant obeys."

After Lu Fang finished speaking, she followed behind Jiajing step by step.

……

Along the way, Lu Fang looked restless. He was still immersed in Jiajing's previous words, and felt deeply guilty for his shallow knowledge.

"Does Your Majesty think that I'm too stupid to even see the tricks played by those Hongyi people?"

"I was still in front of His Majesty just now, speaking for those Hongyi people, will I offend His Majesty?"

"People who are not of my race must have a different heart! Lu Fang, Lu Fang, why don't you even understand this truth?"

And Jiajing seemed to see what Lu Fang was thinking, and comforted him softly: "Lu Fang, I don't mean to blame you! It's just that we must keep our eyes open in the future, and we must not be fooled by these methods."

Hearing Jiajing's consolation, Lu Fang's heart was wrapped in warmth, then she lowered her head and said silently: "Lu Fang, you must serve Your Majesty well, don't disappoint His Majesty's expectations!"

……

"His Majesty is here!"

Accompanied by a high-pitched voice, Jiajing followed Lu Fang and entered the cabinet.

"My ministers and others meet your majesty, long live my emperor, long live!"

Seeing Jiajing coming in, Yan Song and others quickly knelt down on the ground and saluted respectfully.

After Jiajing sat down in his own seat, he nodded and said softly.

"Well, get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After Yan Song and the others finished speaking, they immediately got up from the ground, and then sat down in their respective positions.

(End of this chapter)