Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 12 Small fights on the chessboard
"Have you checked everything out?"

It was still the slightly crude bamboo house, Zhu Zhanhe asked as he looked at his guard who looked dusty.

This is not Zhu Ling, but another of his guards.

"I've checked everything out, and all the results are here." Zhu Ping lowered his head, and presented the results of his investigation in the past few days to Zhu Zhanhe.

"Well, you go to rest first." Zhu Zhanhe nodded, took the things in Zhu Ping's hands, but did not look at them.

He needed this thing very much before, but now he is not in such a hurry.

Was Lu Hong's death really Zhu Zhanhe's willful act?
Zhou Xin felt so, Lu Xiude felt so, and all the officials in Hangzhou who received the news felt so.

This is exactly the effect Zhu Zhanhe wanted to achieve.

Similarly, that is to say, Zhu Zhanhe did it on purpose, not on a whim.

It's not quite right to say that, because the matter of Lu Hong was indeed on his whim, but it happened to coincide with one of his thoughts.

That is deterrence.

The information that Zhu Ping sent was black information about officials from Yangzhou, Jiaxing, and Songjiang. Zhu Zhanhe originally wanted to use this to deter these local officials and prevent them from stabbing him.

You know, the current Jiangnan is not the Jiangnan of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, Jiangnan was an undeveloped and wild land. Although the current Jiangnan is not a complete land of fish and rice, it is not far behind. It is one of the important granaries of the Ming Dynasty.

This year, this large granary was first looted by Japanese pirates and then conscripted. There is a lot of room for operation, and Zhu Zhanhe has been taking precautions against this early on.

However, officials are not the main target of his prevention, but they are the most important joint here.

If the joint is broken, it will naturally be impossible to move, and Zhu Zhanhe's goal will be achieved.

I want to ask, what is there in this world that needs to be guarded against more than corrupt officials?Or should it be said that they can be on the same level as corrupt officials in terms of harm?

There may be many, but the most familiar point is that there is only one group: businessmen.

In the feudal era, there were not many merchants who could be remembered by history, because the social status of merchants in the feudal era was quite low, which basically prevented them from being recorded in the annals of history.

There are generally only three types of officials that can be recorded in the annals of history: profiteers who are harmful to a certain extent, righteous businessmen who are righteous for the country and the people, and...

A traitor who has fornicated foreign enemies!

And what Zhu Zhanhe really wants to guard against is the last type of people. Officials are the umbrellas and partners of these traitors who wear the skin of businessmen.

Zhu Zhanhe originally wanted to use the black materials in his hands to strangle these people's necks, but the appearance of Lu Hong made him change his mind.

Compared with using black materials, sometimes blood may scare these people more.

At the same time, Yingtian Mansion, Imperial Palace, Qianqing Palace.

You can explain that the Jinyiwei in the middle and late dynasties was not good, but the ability of the Jinyiwei in the Yongle period was still quite good, and it was a very sharp knife in the hands of the ruler.

Within three days, Zhu Zhanhe's overall plan was thoroughly investigated by Jin Yiwei. Although there were some reasons why Zhu Zhanhe never wanted to hide it, in the end it was Jin Yiwei's outstanding ability.

"Is this what you found out through your investigation?" Zhu Di flipped through the report presented by Jin Yiwei, and asked Ji Gang who was kneeling below in surprise.

Ji Gang, the third generation commander of Jin Yiwei.

"Return to Your Majesty, according to the results of Jin Yiwei's investigation, this is the case."

It is only seven years since Yongle, and Ji Gang is not as arrogant and domineering as he was later. In front of Zhu Di, he can only report truthfully with trepidation, not daring to lie.

"Good boy..." Hearing Ji Gang's affirmative answer, Zhu Di couldn't help admiring.

To be honest, at the beginning, he just wanted to take advantage of this grandson, hoping to save his face, and also save the face of the Zhu family's royal family.

But now it seems that his grandson is far better than he imagined, and he is far more thoughtful than he imagined.

Why did Jin Yiwei investigate Zhu Zhanhe, the heir of the Han Dynasty?As Jin Yiwei who directly obeyed the emperor's orders, Zhu Di's order was beyond doubt, but the most important thing was that Zhu Di was worried.

A nine-year-old child, although he has received a good education from the royal family, is still only nine years old, and he has not yet started to touch the most important things.

For example, the way of balance, such as the confrontation between people's hearts.

But what he didn't expect was that there were many places where he was clearly prepared to stand up and clean up the mess, but Zhu Zhanhe had considered them all.

For example, in this situation, those corrupt officials who will definitely not be able to resist.

For example, profiteers who work together with corrupt officials.

For another example, those Japanese pirates who were fornicated by businessmen.

After a long time, Zhu Di sighed with emotion: "Just clean up what needs to be cleaned up, and it's useless to keep it any longer."

"My minister understands!" Ji Gang shuddered, and lowered his head to accept Zhu Di's order.

You must know that Zhu Di's simple sentence means that many people will pay their lives for this, and the first to bear the brunt is the southeast sea merchant who has illicit Japanese pirates.

That's right, when it comes to traitors in the Ming Dynasty, there must be two merchant groups that cannot escape.

One is the well-known Shanxi merchants. Although they were not responsible for the entry of the Qing Dynasty, they accounted for at least half of the "credit" for this.

The second is those people that Zhu Di told Ji Gang. This merchant group is called Dongnan Haishang.

The Ming and Ming dynasties were harassed by Japanese pirates. This is due to the fact that the Ming Dynasty was restricted by the grasslands, and Annan and the Seven Guards of Kansai had no time to deal with them. But what is even more inseparable is that the Southeast Asian merchants reported to the Japanese pirates.

Once the Japanese pirates come, the people along the coast will suffer heavy losses, and the grain hoarded by the merchants can be sold at a high price to make a profit.

In Zhu Di's original prediction, Zhu Zhanhe, a nine-year-old child, was just impulsive. The immature child's layout must be full of loopholes, and he can order the net to be closed at that time.

At that time, no matter whether it is the southeast sea merchants colluding with the Japanese pirates or the corrupt officials who are in collusion with the southeast sea merchants, they will be wiped out in one go.

But now, because Zhu Zhanhe's consideration is very perfect, Zhu Di's plan has come to nothing.

Under such circumstances, there must be many fish that slip through the net, but Zhu Di is not angry or disappointed, but full of joy.

Because in his opinion, an outstanding talent is far more important than harvesting a few corrupt officials, profiteers and wealthy businessmen.

It's just that at this time Zhu Zhanhe didn't know that the old man's plan went bankrupt because of his careful plan.

Now Zhu Zhanhe is very annoyed, irritated to the extreme.

The reasons for his irritability were brought about by his identity on the one hand, and brought about by his careful plan on the other hand.

In contrast, the latter accounted for a larger proportion.

(End of this chapter)