The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 109 The Secret of Mencius and Civil Officials (Part [-])
"Boom!" You Tianjue fired a gun at the Japanese pirates who came to negotiate.

Afterwards, he shouted: "Da Ming doesn't make deals with animals!"

The Japanese pirate turned his horse's head and fled.

You Tianjue is a little-known little man.For hereditary governors like him, the Ming army caught a lot of them.

But You Tianjue is an out-and-out big shot in southern Fujian.Because he can fight!It can be called a small expert in killing Japanese in southern Fujian.

Although You Tianjue is only twenty years old, he has guarded Yongning for four years.Under his command, Yongning Wei Paoze killed at least 3000 Japanese pirates.

In the seas of southern Fujian, no matter the real Japanese or the fake Japanese, everyone knows this sentence: "Ding, Ding, don't offend Yongning."

The Japanese pirates are not the official army of the Japanese country.To them, robbery is like doing business.Business at a loss cannot be done.

Storming Yongning is obviously not a good business.

Ever since, they transported more than 100 women from the Hachiman ship.

Those women were dressed in the Han family, all of them were disheveled, and their hands were tied with ropes.

Judging from the situation, it should be a woman from the Han family who was kidnapped and humiliated by Japanese pirates.

The Japanese pirates came to the city of Yongning again and shouted: "These more than 100 women are all sisters of your Han family."

"Master Dongji said. He is willing to exchange these more than 100 women for the Sea God Orb. I will give you two moments to think about it. If you don't change it, the women will all die!"

The new bargaining chip of the Japanese pirates caused a dispute on the city wall.

Li Guangdao: "The Sea God Pearl is a gift from the emperor. How can it be exchanged for more than 100 lowly women?"

"Absolutely cannot be changed."

Chang Feng said: "I have personally guarded the emperor in the East Palace for more than eight months. I know that the emperor is a benevolent king. If the emperor is here, he will definitely change."

"No matter how precious the Sea God Bead is, it's just a bead. On the other side is a hundred lives."

"The emperor will definitely choose to save the people and abandon the jewels!"

Fatty Xu said: "Master Chang is right. Saving people is the most important thing."

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling have always regarded Chang Feng's words as imperial edicts.The two hurriedly echoed: "That's right! My brother Chang is right!"

"Yes yes yes! Li Guang, you have to listen to my elder brother Chang."

The four imperial envoys agreed to exchange.A lieutenant disagreed with the exchange.

The right to choose seems to have fallen into the hands of Zhengshi Yang Tinghe.

Yang Tinghe said meaningfully: "The people are the most important, the community is second, and the king is the least."

Unexpectedly, Li Guang sneered: "Fucking the people are the most precious."

Yang Tinghe said sternly: "This is the words of Yasheng. Eunuch Li, don't insult Yasheng by speaking rudely."

Li Guang glanced at Yang Tinghe: "It's true that Bingbi has no knowledge in his stomach, right?"

"Isn't that what Mencius said? I asked you, why did Lord Hongwu move the tablet of Mencius out of the Confucian Temple?"

Yang Tinghe was speechless.

Li Guangdao: "You don't dare to say it. I will say it for you! Mencius was from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty is also a Zhou Dynasty."

"There are two types of people during the Zhou Dynasty. One type is Chinese, and the other type is savage."

"The people of the country live in the city, have status, own land, and be literate. To put it bluntly, the people of the Zhou Dynasty are today's gentry."

"Savages live in the countryside, illiterate, and have no status. To put it bluntly, the savages of Zhou Dynasty are poor people."

"At the time of Mencius, only people from the country were counted as people. Poor people were not counted as people at all!"

"Are you fooling Ben Bingbi with Mencius' words? Bullying Ben Bingbi for not reading enough? The original meaning of Mencius' words is that gentry are the most important!"

"Liu Bowen, those gentry-born civil servants in eastern Zhejiang, used Mencius' words to suppress Hongwu Lord all day long, and defended the interests of the gentry. Can Hongwu Lord not let Mencius get out of the Confucian Temple?"

"According to what you said, the people are the most precious. Those women outside are not considered people at all! They can't even be called nobles!"

Yang Tinghe was dumbfounded.What Li Guang said is actually the truth that everyone in the civil service knows, but everyone is unwilling to speak out.

In the 120 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, generations of civil servants have been protecting the interests of the gentry under the guise of "the people are the most precious" all day long.

Chang Feng was amazed by this subtle point of view.But he knew that with Li Guang's knowledge, he would never be able to figure out such a shocking point of view.

Chang Feng asked: "Eunuch Li, where did you hear these words?"

Li Guangdao: "This is what Eunuch Wang said when I was working under Eunuch Wang!"

Wang Zhi is a sensible person.

Chang Feng insisted on his own opinion: "Who cares about Mencius and Confucius. Human life is at stake. Compared with more than 100 human lives, what is the Sea God Pearl?"

"If the emperor is here, he will definitely change!"

Chang Feng never expected that You Tianjue would actually side with Li Guang at the critical moment.

You Tianjue said: "Everyone, some of you know the Emperor, and some of you know Meng Sheng."

"But none of you know Japanese pirates!"

"Do you really think that if you give the Japanese pirates beads, they will keep their promise and let those women go?"

"You don't know how shameless Japanese pirates are! Talking about honesty with Japanese pirates is like seeking skin from a tiger!"

"At that time, let's not talk about the Sea God Orb. These women will still be brought back to the Wa country by them, abused and killed!"

Chang Feng and the others looked at each other.

You Tianjue said again: "In the southeast, Japanese pirates used captured Han people to blackmail the Ming army not once or twice."

"Today they used more than 100 women to threaten us to hand over the Sea God Orb, and we gave it. Tomorrow they will kidnap hundreds of thousands of Han people to come here, let us give up the city?"

"Dealing with animals will only make more people suffer!"

"The final general agrees with Eunuch Li's point of view. Absolutely cannot change!"

You Tianjue's words were deafening.

Chang Feng didn't think about this level, and neither did Yang Tinghe.

The imperial envoy made Yang Tinghe make a decision: "Okay. We will listen to Eunuch Li and You Zhenfu."

At this time, dozens of Japanese pirates took more than 100 poor women to the city as if they were demonstrating.

The Japanese pirate shouted: "Haven't thought about it yet? If you don't give us the Sea God Orb, we will cut off the heads of ten women for every stick of incense!"

You Tianjue gritted his teeth and issued a military order: "Archers, let the arrows go! Help those Han sisters end the pain!"

The archers looked dignified, nocking their arrows, pulling their strings, and releasing their arrows.

"Swish, swish!" A dense rain of arrows covered the sky and rushed towards the women.

Opposite the Japanese pirate base camp.

Seeing this scene, the pirate leader Tokichi Hachiro yelled hysterically: "Ants, attack the city!"

Two thousand Japanese pirates launched an attack on Yongning City.They used firecrackers, bows and arrows to shoot towards the city, alternately covering and advancing.

You Tianjue shouted: "Brothers! It's time to kill the enemy and claim the reward! Kill!"

Chang Feng asked Fatty Xu to protect Li Guang and the Zhang brothers from going down the city wall.

Then he boosted morale among the guards in Jinyi: "Brothers, it's time for the Japanese pirates to taste the power of our royal army!"

"Don't be a coward! Don't embarrass the emperor!"

Among the three hundred brocade guards, 200 hold long knives.

The remaining 100 people are guards of honor.What they hold in their hands are ceremonial weapons such as gourds, battle axes, and axes.

These ceremonial weapons have been handed down in the Ming court for more than 100 years.Today is finally going to see blood on the battlefield.

"Boom boom boom!" "Swoosh swish!" "Bang bang bang!"

Cannon balls, bows and arrows, and blunderbusses shot at the Japanese pirates intensively, avenging the more than 100 women in the city.

The Japanese pirates carried the siege ladder and pushed the doorpost cart, desperately rushing towards the Yongning Acropolis.

(End of this chapter)