People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 480 Do you want to test the effectiveness of Ming Dynasty’s muskets and artillery?
Soon the Ming army gathered all of these troops.

In fact, Xia Yuanji didn’t think these things had much value. He had already thought about how to better handle this matter.

This incident was indeed a good opportunity for him.

Even an opportunity that he could fully exploit.

And his opportunity was quite shocking.

Early the next morning, he had collected all the dozen pieces of evidence he had collected. Then he asked people to escort the dozen or so living assassins to the palace of Annan.

Many guards along the way felt that this matter would not be resolved so easily.

Some even said: "These traitors actually dared to challenge the dignity of our Ming Dynasty. If we catch them this time, we will kill them all."

"This time we must not only kill these assassins, but also the officials who arranged them behind the scenes. We must let them know the majesty of our Ming Dynasty."

"Yes, yes, we must kill them all."

"It is not enough to appease our anger unless we kill them."

"A bunch of shameless traitors actually dared to do such a thing. We cannot let them off easily."

"Yes, yes, we must kill them all."

"Fortunately, our master was very wise. He replaced all the staff on the day we moved into the inn. Otherwise, we would have suffered a loss this time."

"Otherwise, how can we say that our adults are foresighted?"

In fact, Xia Yuanji did not have any foresight. He just knew that when it came to matters of interest, there would always be people who would take risks.

Especially since the stakes this time are so huge, these people can do anything.

Even in an environment like the Ming Dynasty, some individuals still did some appalling things in order to obstruct reform, so he became a good doctor through long experience.

Xia Yuanji didn't take the discussions behind him seriously at all.

He also didn't think it was necessary to cause something bloody.

The king had actually received the news a long time ago.

When he heard that someone actually dared to assassinate the Governor of the Ming Dynasty in the inn, he was so scared that he almost fainted.

Now the Kingdom of Annan and the Ming Dynasty are cooperating. The Ming Dynasty has offered so many favorable conditions that the Kingdom of Annan can finally hold their heads high.

Even the common people can make a lot of money, and he, as the king, feels proud of it. The people now respect him very much and think that he has made a very correct decision.

And now this bunch of traitors, without even having a debate in the court, dared to send assassins to kill the Governor of the Ming Dynasty, and they haven't succeeded yet. How shameful!

Seeing that Xia Yuanji and others had escorted the assassin to the palace, he was extremely anxious.

If this matter is not handled properly, it will be the beginning of the deterioration of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is so powerful, wouldn't it be easy for it to deal with a small Annan?

In this case, Annan is bound to be destroyed.

He knew too well how big the gap was between Annan and the Ming Dynasty.

Even dealing with the Ming Dynasty's navy was very difficult, not to mention that they still had tens of millions of ground forces that had not been deployed. What should they do?

But even if he was extremely anxious, he could not change the fact that Xia Yuanji was walking towards him.

The eunuch next to him advised him: "Your Majesty, please calm down. Please calm down."

The king was furious: "How can I stay calm? How can you ask me to stay calm? We have just agreed with the Ming Dynasty on how to build canals and roads in our country, but these idiots did this at this time.

If the Ming Dynasty withdraws these aids and wants to use military force against us, we will be in the wrong. How can we explain this to them?

How do I tell others?
Our officials are dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty's current aid policy towards Annan, so they sent assassins to kill your governor.

It’s because the Governor-General saw through their conspiracy.

It’s because the Governor-General does not agree to let them monopolize the grain market in Annan.

Just because the governor of the Ming Dynasty proposed that the common people should benefit, these big capitalists and landlords in the country wanted to assassinate the governor.

Tell me, can such rhetoric be used against the people of the Ming Dynasty, against the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, or against the army of the Ming Dynasty?
It would be embarrassing to say such things even to ordinary people like us.

If any of our common people spits, they can drown us.

Even our common people have to say that they have never seen such a shameless person! ! "

After hearing what the king said, the eunuchs also felt guilty.

Yes, the Ming Dynasty is now completely standing on the side of the people of Annan when discussing this matter.

I disagree with these big landowners and tycoons monopolizing the grain market.

I disagree with these big landlords making money from both ends, on the one hand they make money from the common people, on the other hand they make money from the Ming Dynasty, so I exposed the conspiracy of these big landlords and tycoons.

Just because their conspiracy was discovered, they wanted to assassinate the Governor of the Ming Dynasty. Their intention was very obvious.

Isn’t it just because of the deterioration of relations between Annan and Ming Dynasty?

His Majesty the King is now sweating profusely. If the Ming Dynasty really wants to invade Annan because of this incident, he can only escape to some other place to hide.

I don't have the face to go to war with others.

The Ming Dynasty gave us so many good policies, but we didn’t cherish them.

When the king thought of this, he felt like the sky was falling.

These guys are really short-sighted to such an extent, and it is rare to see them so stupid.

But no matter how hard he tried to hide, he couldn't escape. A warrior rushed in from outside and reported: "Your Majesty, the Governor-General of the Ming Dynasty wants to see you."

He didn't dare to say no, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "Hurry up and invite me!"

Not long after, Xia Yuanji led his guards and a dozen assassins to the Dezheng Hall.

At this time, the king was sitting behind the dragon desk in the Dezheng Hall, trembling with fear, as if he was not receiving a foreign envoy, but an angel who came to scold him.

When Xia Yuanji saw the king's expression, he knew that this matter had nothing to do with the king, so he felt relieved.

Soon all the civil and military officials were summoned.

When the civil and military officials saw the assassins kneeling in the hall, they were stunned for a moment, but several officials had cold sweat on their foreheads, their faces turned pale, and they even had black spots in front of their eyes.

Because those were the people they sent out, but they didn't expect to be captured alive.

The fact that Xia Yuanji was standing here had already proved that this plan had failed, and it was a complete failure. He had also been caught by someone, so he was finished and dead.

Even if the Ming Dynasty didn't care, the king would have to drag them out and chop off their heads to appease the Ming Dynasty's anger. The king was too embarrassed to sit behind the dragon desk at this time, but stood up all the time. When he saw the dozen assassins and the civil and military officials who had arrived, the king apologized first.

"Governor, we are so sorry for what we have done. We are guilty, we are guilty!"

As he said this, the king actually got down from the dragon desk and bowed deeply to Xia Yuanji.

An official who didn't understand what was going on was stunned and stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, what happened? What's wrong with these people?"

After all, those assassins were beaten black and blue, and they all looked covered with wounds.

But they could also see that these assassins were not from the Ming Dynasty, but from their country of Annan.

Because the people of Annan are much shorter, thinner, and darker than those of the Ming Dynasty, their races can be distinguished at a glance.

Although some people have guessed what happened, they dare not believe it.

The king shouted, "These assassins dared to kill the Governor last night. They deserve to die!"

When some officials heard this, they suddenly felt as if a huge thunder had struck their heads and their faces turned pale.

These people all support cooperation with the Ming Dynasty.

Especially now that the Ming Dynasty has directly announced that it will assist them in the construction of canals, agricultural tools, roads, etc., to help their food production in Annan.

This is not only helping the Kingdom of Annan, but also indirectly helping the Ming Dynasty.

If Annan's grain production increases, more grain can be sold, and the Ming Dynasty can also benefit.

This is good for both countries, especially for the people of the two countries.

The Kingdom of Annan has fertile land, but due to backward technology and road construction, they have no way to produce more food.

The Ming Dynasty even sent professional agricultural experts to help them increase grain production. What a great favor.

This is a favor that has not been received in thousands of years.

Before the end of the Tang Dynasty, Annan was a territory of the Central Plains dynasty. However, most of those dynasties regarded Annan as a place of exploitation and did not put much effort into developing Annan.

Only the Ming Dynasty, even though Annan had been separated from the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years, people still thought of you as having the same origin and race, and even thought of you as once belonging to the Central Plains Dynasty and gave you so many preferential policies. This is such a rare thing, and we should be grateful.

But I didn't expect that some people would dare to assassinate the governor of the Ming Dynasty. How shameless and truly despicable.

These officials stood up and reprimanded loudly.

"Your Majesty, what kind of bastard dares to do such a thing?"

In fact, they know exactly who is doing this.

When they say such things, they are pointing their fingers at the architects of the conspiracy, and then they are making indirect accusations.

"Yeah, who are these bastards who dare to be so shameless?"

He said he didn't know, but in fact when he spoke loudly, his finger was pointing towards that group of people.

The group of people stood by with their heads down. The sight of these assassins was shocking enough, and they didn't even dare to look up, for fear that His Majesty the King would shout at them.

Come on! Drag them out and chop off their heads, so that the Ming envoys can see how we treat these evil thieves.

Now hearing their colleagues pointing fingers at them and cursing at them, one can imagine how much anger and resentment they feel in their hearts.

Some military officers even stood up and said, "Some civil officials are shameless and greedy. On the one hand, they say that the Ming Dynasty is a threat, but on the other hand, they hope that our Annan Kingdom will fight with the Ming Dynasty so that they can profit from it.

What on earth are these people thinking? They say they are working for the country and the people, but in fact they wish An Nengnan would be caught up in endless war.

Your Majesty, even though we are military generals, we hope to win meritorious service in battles, but a war without cause will only bring great suffering to the common people, and it will never be possible for us to live in peace like we do now.

Your Majesty, people like this should be caught, their heads chopped off, and hung on the city walls to warn everyone in the world that today's peace was created by the blood of military commanders, and that no one should be allowed to destroy this peace in any form. "

After the generals finished speaking, the king kept looking at Xia Yuanji.

They hope that Xia Yuanji can understand them and actually do not want the current peace to be destroyed.

He even hoped that Xia Yuanji could see that even in the court, most civil and military officials hoped that the status quo between Ming Dynasty and Annan could be maintained, rather than war or conspiracy.

At least tell Xia Yuanji that most Annan officials do not want to be hostile to the Ming Dynasty. This is a way to show their position.

When Xia Yuanji saw the king and most of the civil and military officials present, he understood the current situation of Annan.

This is exactly the state he wants.

What he wanted was to stand on the moral high ground and reprimand these civil and military officials of Annan.

We must use this incident to expand the scale and ensure that An Nengguo will always be in a moral position in future dealings with the Ming Dynasty.

The diplomatic relations between countries seem to be harmonious, but in fact there are calculations behind them.

The Ming Dynasty will not give you so many benefits for no reason. If you violate the principles, you will definitely be punished.

So Xia Yuanji asked, "Your Majesty, since the Ming Dynasty sent its navy to Annan, has it ever looked down on you in the slightest?"

The king quickly shook his head, "Never before!"

Xia Yuanji continued, "After my Ming Dynasty wiped out the pirates, did I ever ask you for credit?"

The king also shook his head: "Never before!"

Xia Yuanji added: "Then our Great Ming Navy has set up a trade distribution center here to help Annan expand its commerce. Has it benefited your people?"

The king immediately said, "Such kindness is higher than the sky and deeper than the earth."

Xia Yuanji then said loudly and angrily: "Since both the Ming Dynasty Navy and the Ming Dynasty court have done their utmost to Annan, why are our Ming Dynasty envoys in Annan repeatedly excluded by you?

Even though Ben was just passing through Annan and staying there temporarily, he was assassinated by dozens of assassins from your Annan country?

If Pondu had not been alert, you would not see Pondu standing here now, but a corpse would be carried in front of you.

I really don't understand what you guys are thinking?

Do you think that the power of our Ming Dynasty's muskets and artillery is too weak?

Or do you still think that the Ming Dynasty is too good to you?
So where is the bottom line of your provocation to the Ming Dynasty?"

Xia Yuanji said in a resounding voice.

These words made His Majesty the King feel extremely dangerous. He immediately bowed down and said, "Sir, please stop talking. Annan knows it is wrong!"

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(End of this chapter)