People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 513: Being generous to others is a sign of human evil!
No matter who they are, once they hear that their country has no future, their expression will not be very good, even though these people have always been the parasites of this country, and have been smuggling the products of their country to pirates at high prices, thus making a fortune.

Of course, they also know that their actions have led to the weakness of the country, but they now sincerely feel that people still need a country, otherwise they will be like a duckweed outside, floating around without a trace.

The most important thing is that without roots, whether it is a person or a tree, they will die soon.

And now these people feel this despair.

These people have always treated the people in their own country as piglets. In their words, they would kill and eat them when the year comes.

Because when the things produced by the common people reach a certain amount, they will be collected by them, and then smuggled and sold at a very high price, making a fortune.

They have never thought that they should be polite to the common people, but now they suddenly realize that it is precisely because of their impoliteness that a very serious consequence has been caused, that is, the people really do not take them seriously at all.

The people today would rather become good citizens of the Ming Dynasty than return to the rule of this group of people.

Perhaps this is the real retribution. When the people are easy to talk to, they treat them as animals, but when the people are difficult to talk to, they think the people are too heartless.

Anyway, good or bad words are all their own.

"If we had known this would be the outcome, we should have fought back!"

"What can you use to resist? Are you going to use your 100-plus pound flesh as a weapon for others?"

This is very heartbreaking.

After all, now is not the time to tell lies. If they really had the courage at the beginning, Majapahit might not have been able to invade. They could have fought desperately with those people of Majapahit. In this way, even if the king did not have those 30,000 people, he could still defeat Majapahit.

It's a pity that they didn't have the courage to do so at the beginning, so they withdrew when they had to pay a price. It was because of this that the king had no one to use and the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the opportunity.

"If all of us hadn't been cowards, we wouldn't have to wait here to be punished. We should be living a good life now."

"Isn't it? I miss the days when we were smuggling more and more now."

"Although we had to risk our lives during that period, at least we were able to get a good harvest. Now..."

He said with a very mocking laugh, "And now I have nothing and still have to be controlled by others."

Everyone felt bad after hearing this. If they had known it would be like this, they should have resisted.

Instead of being unable to do anything like now.

"We are lucky to still be alive now. You know, the entire family of the Queen Mother was killed. I heard that not even a dog was spared."

When talking about the Queen Mother's family, everyone has a shadow in their heart. Who could have known that such a powerful family could be destroyed just like that, and this is in their own country's territory.

A family that has dominated the entire political circle of Srivijaya for more than a hundred years is gone just like that. If you say this, everyone will think it is a fantasy.

As we were talking, we saw people celebrating on the street outside.

They stuck their heads out and discovered a shocking reality: it turned out that the people were actually celebrating the fact that the Queen Mother's family had been uprooted.

I originally thought that the people would not hear this news.

"It seems that the attitude of the common people towards our families is questionable."

"That's right. We, the clan, thought that the common people would stand with us. Now it seems that we thought too much. They would rather stand with the Ming Dynasty than with us."

“What a failure!”

These people sighed and felt heavy-hearted as they watched the people below celebrating happily.

Of course they admitted that there was nothing wrong with the common people celebrating like this. Although the Queen Mother's family seemed to be active only in politics, the extent of their evil deeds was no less than that of other families.

Especially the Empress Dowager's nephew, that is to say, the son of the current head of the Empress Dowager's family, is notoriously arrogant and domineering, and has none of the so-called upbringing of a big family in his behavior.

This man's behavior is even worse than that of an ordinary warlord. Any pretty woman on the street can't escape.

That’s not all, all women have to be careful.

When it comes to this, you can tell the character of this family.

But there is no way because their family has such strength to protect them and no one can shake their position.

It is also because of this that their family has an extremely bad reputation among the people.

Now that they heard that they had been wiped out by the Ming Dynasty's Embroidered Uniform Guards, the people in the capital were overjoyed, and every family was happy.

Xia Yuanji and Lan Yu also traveled in casual clothes this time. Looking at the lively scene on the street, they looked at each other.

"I never thought that after we eliminated a competitor, it would have such an effect." Lan Yu sighed.

Wang Bi and the others followed behind and felt that the strange things happening in Sanfuqi were a bit magical.

Anyway, it seems that there is something wrong with the people and rulers of this land.

Although many smugglers seem to be exploiting local people, in fact, the local people themselves have many problems.

The biggest problem of the people here is that they are uneducated and unwilling to cooperate.

The royal court of Srivijaya once proposed to do business with the pirates, because only by maintaining good cooperation with the pirates could the pirates be prevented from invading Srivijaya and the safety of the people along the coast be guaranteed.

However, when this news spread across the country, it caused fierce opposition from local people. It was not that the people did not want to earn this money, but they felt that this money was very dirty. They felt that cooperating with pirates was a crime against the people of other countries.

It has to be admitted that many people have a sense of justice, but they soon discovered that because they refused to cooperate with the pirates, many people along the coast were killed innocently, and they even dared not go out to sea to fish all year round.

The people along the coast all spontaneously stood up and said that they were willing to cooperate with the pirates, because there was one thing that pirates were very rule-abiding about, which was that they would not take a penny from the countries and regions they protected, and would even occasionally provide aid to the local people.

It can be said that this is a means for pirates to win people's hearts, but it is very useful for coastal people. The biggest benefit is that they don't have to suffer attacks. However, facing the coastal people's pleas, the inland people are very principled and do not agree.

They firmly believed that such a loophole should not be opened, otherwise more pirates would come to attack Sanfuqi.

Under this fierce tearing, a large number of coastal people moved back to the land.

Then the people on land found that in order to accommodate these people, the government actually required a redivision of the land, and part of the land needed to be given to the people who moved back.

This immediately affected the interests of many mainland residents, who solemnly stated that how could they be allowed to deal with it since they did not live on the coast and pirate invasions were none of their business.

When the government asked you why you agreed to do business with the pirates, you swore that you could not do so and that you must stick to your principles. Now this principle has not only angered the pirates, but also caused harm to innocent people living on the coast. Shouldn't they be given some compensation so that they can at least survive?

However, faced with such questioning, the people in the mainland also had something to say. At that time, we didn't know that the pirates were so brutal, and we had never seen what pirates looked like. We thought the imperial court could resist the pirates, and we had great confidence in the imperial court. This cannot be blamed on us, we are just ordinary people and we know nothing.

But no matter what we say, the court cannot ask us to give up our land.

In a word, it is okay to be generous to others, but if it infringes upon my interests, then it is not okay. It is a matter of principle.

Maybe the people there are all like this. When their own interests are not affected, they have principles, but once their own interests are affected, all principles can be broken.

So the character of the people here can be seen from this.

And one thing that is very incredible is that the people here are actually very tough. Although they are all island people and not very tall, they are very tough and will fight with others at any time.

The incredible thing is that the fierceness of this group of people is only limited to internal fighting. They can fight with their own people until they are bloody, but when they encounter outside troops or people, these people immediately become cowardly.

This is the character of this nation.

This made Xia Yuanji and the others feel strange.

Because Lan Yu just told him this today.

"To be honest, we all found it strange when we heard it at the time. This is what Wang Asan told us, and then we actually tried it, and it was true." Lan Yu was beaming with joy when he said this, as if it was a very happy thing.

"At that time, we found two people. One of them was a local citizen who deliberately picked a fight. Once they started a fight, the two locals started fighting. But when we replaced them with people from the Ming Dynasty, they immediately gave in. No matter how we touched them, they didn't fight back."

Hearing Lan Yu say this made Xia Yuanji very interested, "Is there such a thing?"

Lan Yu laughed loudly: "It really happened. The people here are very afraid of trouble. They don't want to provoke outsiders. They try to speak softly in front of outsiders, for fear that outsiders will beat them on the spot.

When it comes to local people, they dare to confront them in a very righteous manner.

That’s really strange.”

After hearing Lan Yu's words, Xia Yuanji had to start thinking about his own rule over this magical land.

If this nation has such a character, then it is entirely possible to let the people of the Ming Dynasty come to govern Sanfuqi.

Because the local people bully the weak and fear the strong.

But the development of this character made Xia Yuanji very puzzled. What kind of person is polite to outsiders but rude and unreasonable to locals?

Isn’t this rebellion against Tiangang?
Is it really as others say that you only dare to lose your temper in front of the people closest to you, because only the people closest to you will tolerate you?
I guess that's the reason.

Xia Yuanji comforted himself in this way.

"Ever since we eliminated the Queen Mother's family, a lot of changes have taken place in the capital. Many families have begun to recall their children who had been sent out. However, some are a bit stubborn and think that we haven't yet obtained all the evidence against them." Lan Yu began to report his work seriously.

When Xia Yuanji saw him take out a stack of papers to report his work, he knew how unmanly it was to let Lan Yu, a rough man, do the writing work.

Xia Yuanji teased, "Marshal, let me come and see for myself. How long will you read it?"

Lan Yu blushed. Although he was in the big tent, he didn't know many words.

"It seems that I will have to transfer a lot of scholars from the country." He had finished reading the report while speaking.

In a word, because the Empress Dowager's family was wiped out, many families began to pay attention to the power of the Ming Dynasty. They saw the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards those uncooperative families, so they fully absorbed the lesson and began to understand that there would be no good outcome if they confronted the Ming Dynasty head-on, so they began to choose to cooperate.

Of course, this is definitely a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, but I don't know if these people are sincere and don't want to be trying to build a plank road in the open while secretly marching through Chencang.

In order to prevent these people from doing such things, Xia Yuanji ordered: "I'm still worried. You have to have the Jinyiwei keep a close eye on these families to see if they have brought back all the family members they released. If they haven't brought them back within a month, they should be secretly dealt with outside. Such people cannot be left outside."

Such people are like a time bomb if they stay outside.

Now Lan Yu can see that Xia Yuanji is not a good man, and is even more ruthless than these generals. He will attack without hesitation and will not show any mercy.

The key point is that it seems that Xia Yuanji has transformed in recent years, because I heard before that Xia Yuanji was just a scholar, and was just a small official in the Ministry of Revenue, but after the baptism of reform, he immediately became so ruthless.

This shows that people must go through great events in order to grow up, otherwise they will definitely know everything.

After Xia Yuanji came here, he found that both the people and officials here were worthless, so he had to let them know that the laws of the Ming Dynasty were applicable here.

In times of chaos, severe punishments are needed. This place needs strong laws to make these people more honest.

After figuring this out, Xia Yuanji can now feel more at ease.

"Let's go somewhere else and have a look!" Xia Yuanji said and was about to go.

At this moment, the Jinyiwei commander behind him suddenly pulled Xia Yuanji's sleeve and said, "Commander-in-chief, Marshal, I think I see an acquaintance!!"

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(End of this chapter)