Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 358 Xin'er, I'm jealous

Japan was originally called the Japanese country.

It is recorded in the New Book of Tang Dynasty that in the first year of Xianheng, an envoy was sent to congratulate Korea. Later, after learning the sound of Xia, he hated the Japanese name and changed his name to Japan. The messenger said to himself that he was famous because of what he had done recently. '

That is to say, in the first year of Xianheng of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, there was talk of Japan, and it was also the country title conferred by China. Zhang Shoujie of the Tang Dynasty recorded that "Empress Wu changed the country of Japan to the country of Japan." .

But Zhu Ming didn't expect that among these Japanese pirates, some of them could actually understand Chinese.

And judging by the tone of the other party, they are warriors and they have dignity. If they surrender, they cannot be killed.

Zhu Chu laughed angrily and winked at Wang Fu.

Wang Fu understood this and silently took out his sword.

Zhu Zhen immediately glared at him and said, "Come on, tie up these warriors."

"Wait a minute," Tang Xin shouted and glared at Zhu Ming: "Zhu Shiba, if you dare to spare them, I will never spare you."

She gripped the whips hard, her eyes full of disappointment.

Zhu Ming shook his head, as if he didn't take her threat seriously?

Tang Xin gritted his teeth and looked at Zhu Xi, with mixed feelings in his heart, as if something was quickly dissipating.

But she said nothing more and lowered her head.

Li Cunzhao, the guard of Qianhu of Changguo Guard on the side, came over and comforted softly: "Xin'er, don't be too sad. Men always have their own plans. By the way, you called him Zhu Shiba? Who is he?"

Tang Xin didn't say anything, guess who Zhu Shiba is?

Zhu Zhen frowned, a murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

With his current physical condition, his five senses have naturally been strengthened. Now he just feels that his hearing is too good and he shouldn't hear these words.

Is that what you called Xin'er too?

"Li Gui, tie them up for me," Zhu Zhen shouted.

Li Guixin said, why are you angry with me? It's not me who yelled, how dare I.

Next, Li Gui led dozens of guards brothers, took some ropes from nearby people's homes, and began to tie up the surrendered Japanese pirates one by one.

"Sir, we can't let them go."

Suddenly, when the people saw that the war was over and the Japanese pirates had been defeated, they came out one after another.

Many people knelt on the ground one after another, and many even cried and shouted: "Our family members were killed, our houses were burned, and our money was taken away. They deserve to die."

"Damn Japanese pirates. They came once last year, and they came again this year. Are they just for us to bully?"

"They deserve to die. Please execute them."

The people cried and complained.

All he wanted was Zhu Zhen to order the Japanese pirates to be killed.

"Folks, can we satisfy our hatred by just killing them?" Zhu Ming raised his head, looked at the people around him, especially Tang Xin, and said slowly: "I will not only deal with them, but also deal with them ruthlessly. Li Gui, put them in the sea with wooden stakes, and then make some small holes in them, not too big, but don't let them die."

Without waiting for Li Gui to ask his intention, Zhu Zhen took the initiative and said: "Seawater is salty, and sea salt is evaporated from seawater. I want you to make countless cuts on them, and then soak them in the sea, which is equivalent to spreading salt on the wounds. And not only In this way, there are countless plankton and small animals on the seaside, and they like to eat rotten meat. I will boil them alive."

Wouldn't it be too cheap to kill them?

To rub salt into the wound? It's all light.

The open wounds and blood can attract shallow water creatures on the seaside, as well as small fish and shrimps.

When the time comes, let these small fish and shrimps slowly decompose these beasts.

"No, Ming Dynasty people, you don't respect martial ethics, we all surrendered, you can't do this to us," the Japanese pirate who knew some Chinese struggled to resist.

But at this time, they were already tied tightly, and how could they resist.

Zhu Chu even asked Li Gui to tie their mouths with ropes so that they could not speak a word, but they would not block their mouths and noses to prevent them from suffocating to death.

Zhu Zhen wanted them to be tortured to death.

After hearing Zhu Zhen's explanation, the people cheered and even took the initiative to help. Some even pulled out pillars from nearby collapsed houses as tools to tie up Japanese pirates.

"Don't let these dead people go," Zhu Zhen pointed at the corpses of the Japanese pirates killed by Wang Fu with machine guns, and said, "Use wooden sticks to string them up from the buttocks, and then pierce them on the planks of their boats. Come on, send them home. Let the people of Japan see what will happen if they offend our Ming Dynasty. Anyone who offends our Ming Dynasty or harms our people will be punished no matter how far away they are."

Although Zhu Zhen is not yet ready to go on an expedition to the Japanese islands, sooner or later he will definitely land on the islands. They are a bad nation and should be killed.

Now it's just about asking for some interest, don't worry.

The people looked at each other in shock. Just when Zhu Zhen thought that his handling method was too extreme, the people cheered like thunder, and even knelt down again and shouted long live.

"Don't call me Long Live. I am the King of Dian, Zhu Chu. Now His Majesty's eighteenth son, just call me Qian Live." Zhu Chu deliberately announced his identity, and then looked at Li Cunzhao with a playful look.

The people chanted a thousand years ago.

Zhu Ming waved his hand and asked them to deal with the Japanese pirates.

And he took Xu Miaojin and walked straight towards Tang Xin.

Arriving in front of Tang Xin, Zhu Zhen glanced at Li Cunzhao and said, "Who are you?"

Li Cunzhao quickly saluted: "Seeing that His Highness is a thousand years old, the last general is Chang Guo Guard, Qian Hu Li Cunzhao."

"Oh? Are you the guard here?" Zhu Zhen snorted coldly.

The guard has a guard commander, and the commander of Qianhu Station below the guard station is called garrison, and Baihu Station is the commander-in-chief.

The lowest level of armament is the Baihusuo.

Therefore, Li Cunzhao is the supreme commander here.

Zhu Chu looked around and asked: "Where are your troops? Where are your soldiers? Are you still Qianhusuo?"

Li Cunzhao raised his head, blinked, and knelt down suddenly: "Beginning is guilty. Beginning was not strict in governing, so that the soldiers were afraid of the Japanese pirates' armed forces, so they broke up and fled."

"You are the army of our Ming Dynasty. Your duty and mission is to protect the people. Otherwise, what is the purpose of the military pay paid to you by the people? You can run faster than the people, who will protect the people?" Zhu Ming raised his voice loudly. shouted.

Li Cunzhao just lowered his head and did not dare to defend himself.

Tang Xin couldn't stand it anymore, raised his head and said, "Why are you yelling at him? Chang Guowei is not so much a military, it is better to say that it is a common people in the fields. They are just common people farming on weekdays. I am the Ningbo Mansion Camp." The garrison that dad originally built. According to His Majesty's decree, there should be no one on this island. He did not retreat because he wanted to protect the people who insisted on staying on the island."

"Oh? Is it my father's fault?" Zhu Zhen stared at Tang Xin with disbelief on his face.

You actually did not hesitate to offend Emperor Hongwu for the sake of an outsider?

Li Cunzhao blinked, as if he noticed something, and quickly raised his head and said, "Your Highness, please don't misunderstand me. My father was originally from the old department of Duke Xin, so he took up a humble position as Changguo Guard, and got the title of Qianhu Station. A son inherits his father's legacy. Moreover, Duke Xin Guo trained troops here during the 20 years of Hongwu, and a month later he went to Taizhou and other places to lay bridge roads. Your Highness, Your Highness, Xin'er and I. No, Miss Tang and I are just young We met each other when we were young, so please don’t misunderstand me.”

"Pfft," Xu Miaojin couldn't help laughing, and teased, "It smells so jealous."

Tang Xin blinked, her pretty face turned red, and her beautiful eyes turned red: "You. I was only nine years old seven years ago. Li Cunzhao is two years older than me, and we only played together when we were young. What are you thinking about? ?”

It is now the 27th year of Hongwu. Tang He has been training here in Hongwu for the past 20 years, and Tang Xin is about the same age as Xu Miaojin. How old was she back then?

Zhu Ming was also a little embarrassed and snorted: "I'm not thinking about anything. Li Cunzhao, please get up first and tell me what's going on? Do Japanese pirates often come to attack here? If so, why? Don’t you have a large number of troops deployed locally?”

There was no need for Li Cunzhao to explain. Tang Xin sighed, no longer being shy, and explained to Zhu Xi.

It turns out that Japanese pirates are not likely to attack all year round. They usually attack in March, April, May, or September and October every year. At this time, the northeast wind blows more and the wind direction is stable, which is conducive to Japanese pirate navigation.

And because the terrain of eastern Zhejiang protrudes into the sea, especially this small island, it is even more vulnerable to Japanese pirates.

Moreover, the entire territory of Ningbo Prefecture is not small. After the Japanese pirates land on the island, they may not necessarily attack Ningbo City. Cixi County and Yuyao County are also places that have been robbed and maimed by Japanese pirates many times.

In addition, Japanese pirates are everywhere. From Dengzhou Prefecture in Shandong Province to Huai'an Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture, and even Taizhou Prefecture, Wenzhou Prefecture and other places, all coastal cities have experienced being invaded by Japanese pirates.

Among them, Goryeo suffered even more.

However, because the relationship between Goryeo and the Ming Dynasty deteriorated due to the issue of Tieling Guards, Goryeo turned to the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and even wanted to send troops to compete with the Ming Dynasty to capture Liaodong.

As a result, Li Chenggui and others who led the army were directly forced to abdicate.

And this Li Chenggui was even more ruthless, and he was later the so-called Taizu of Joseon.

Talk to him later. In short, Ming Dynasty can no longer take care of Goryeo, and even suffers from it himself.

Originally, with the Ming Dynasty's national power, mere Japanese pirates were nothing, and even the entire Japanese country was insignificant. It had never been difficult to eliminate them.

This is the truth.

It's just that what Ming Dynasty has to consider is not the Japanese country, but it has always been afraid of the recovery of Beiyuan and is eyeing it.

Throughout his life, Zhu Yuanzhang had been targeting the military of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. As for the Japanese country, he had never taken it seriously.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not willing to close the country and block the sea. Instead, he sent envoys to the Japanese country several times. However, there was also a war there. The two emperors of the north and the south were fighting fiercely. He was waiting for them to decide a winner and then settle the issue of who was in charge of the Japanese country. , and then waited for them to pay tribute.

Yes, in the Ming Dynasty, Japan paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty. The famous Ningbo Tribute Battle was caused by two Japanese tribute teams fighting over who paid tribute.

But this was also a stain on the Ming Dynasty. Two Japanese pirates had a fight in front of my door, and then took away a lot of my family's property.

It's just embarrassing.

Because they were still fighting among themselves on the Japanese island, they had no choice but to evolve into the current situation.

You say we should fight, but you always feel that it is not necessary. If you don't fight, they will always come in small groups of Japanese pirates, and they only dare to rob small villages and small counties, because they really dare not approach big cities.

Just like that fly, it's annoying.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's idea, as long as the people from the small villages on the seaside are gathered into the big cities and a strong wall is built to clear the country, within three years, the Japanese pirates will see that there is nothing to rob, and they will be fine.

But the common people also need a way to survive, and they have no choice but to go to the seaside to make a living. This has always led to the unresolved problem of Japanese pirates.

Li Cunzhao also had no choice here. They were said to be Chang Guowei, but in fact they were all militiamen, and they were usually ordinary people farming.

Tang He came to train his troops, and the result was: "Ninghai Linshan Guards, on the coast, are building fifty-nine cities. They recruit more than four men from Shaoxing and other prefectures, and use one man as a garrison. Anyone who gets five soldiers More than 8,750 people'.

This includes Ningbo Prefecture and Shaoxing Prefecture, with more than 58,750 troops.

It is conceivable that Li Cunzhao is also full of ambition but not strong enough.

Zhu Xi fell into deep thought.

The Japanese pirate problem is a small one, but it is a real headache.

For example, this time, how many were the total number of Japanese pirates? More than a thousand people.

Is it much? Not much really.

But for small counties and villages, it is fatal.

If Zhu Chu hadn't happened to come here, I'm afraid Dinghai County would have been massacred.

Even in the small village before, just a dozen Japanese pirates could burn the entire village to the ground.

We can't really station all tens of thousands of troops on this small island, right? What to eat and drink?

What if someone diverts to Songjiang Prefecture?

"The fundamental reason is that this nation is too bad and should not continue." Zhu Zhen turned and looked outside the city, looking at the sea level in the distance, with a dangerous look in his eyes.

Tang Xin was shocked, looked at Zhu Ming, and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Zhu Xi smiled and shook his head, now is not the time.

When the time comes, he will give the island country a small shock.

While the people were venting their anger to deal with the Japanese pirates, Zhu Zhen silently exhaled the system. He rummaged through the alarm system, suspecting that the alarm system had not responded before.

But after a quick look, I realized that the alarm system had warned me, but because the Japanese pirates traveled by sea and land, there was no news about the alarm system until after the Japanese pirates landed on the island.

By that time, Zhu and the others had already met the people who had escaped first, and already knew the news about the Japanese pirates.

(Actually, the author forgot.)

It was not until evening that the work of cleaning up the battlefield was over.

Not only were the more than 100 surrendered Japanese pirates tied up and put into the sea water according to Zhu Zhen's instructions, and fixed firmly with wooden stakes, they were also scratched numerous times by the common people.

The sour feeling of rubbing salt on the wound is so refreshing that you don’t even have to think about it. Plus, being soaked in sea water all the time, it is impossible to heal. There is also the possibility of being eaten by sea creatures at night. Just thinking about it is irritating.

Those Japanese pirates couldn't even cry at this time, their mouths were tightly strangled by ropes, and they wanted to bite their tongues to commit suicide.

For them at this time, life is more torture than death.

Even the dead Japanese pirates were not buried in peace, how beautiful they were.

The dead Japanese pirates were made into human sticks and stuck on the board of the ship, and then they were released along the sea current.

According to Zhu Zhen, this is called releasing lives.

It’s just released for living people to see.

That night, the county town was full of joy and laughter. This time the Japanese pirates attacked, only a small number of people were hurt, but most people survived.

There is no way, the common people's sorrows and joys cannot be sympathized with. Most people are just rejoicing and cannot understand the feelings of the hurt people.

Those who were harmed volunteered to go outside the city to guard the culprits who were placed in the sea. They had to watch and not let these Japanese pirates die easily. They had to suffer enough torture, and they had to be tortured alive. Only by dying will their hatred be relieved.

Those who escaped during the day also returned at night, apparently having heard the news.

The magistrate of Dinghai County also had to report what happened today to the prefect, who would then report it to the court. As for how to reward Zhu Chu, that was His Majesty's problem. The prefect was not qualified to reward a noble vassal king.

That night, as the great benefactor of the entire county, Zhu and his party were naturally entertained hospitably.

There is nothing else on the beach, except for seafood. There are all kinds of fish and seafood that can be caught, and the people in the county are pretty good at craftsmanship.

Unconsciously, it was late at night. In the courtyard of a clean and tidy farmhouse, Tang Xin did not rest. Instead, he sat there with his eyes closed, blowing in the warm and pleasant sea breeze.

"Didn't you practice tonight?" Zhu Zhen came over, and he hadn't rested yet.

Originally, he didn't need to rest much, but in the past month or two, he didn't have the opportunity to practice double cultivation with Xu Miaojin, but he had regained enough energy.

Tang Xin opened her eyes, looked at Zhu Xi, and said with a smile: "Both you and Miao Jin want to get rid of me so that we can practice together, right?"

In the dark night, her pretty face was already red. She just thought Zhu Zhen couldn't see it, so she had the courage to make such a joke.

But she didn't know that although Zhu Chu's eyesight was not as good as night and day, he could still see her smile clearly.

Tang Xin is not the kind of flamboyant beauty, but the type of Xiaojiabiyu, but that doesn't mean she isn't beautiful, it's just not that stunning.

But she is more attractive, and the more she looks at her, the more beautiful she becomes. On the contrary, she has the appearance of coming from behind and surpassing Xu Miaojin's appearance.

Zhu Ming's heart moved, he stepped forward, took Tang Xin's little hand on the table involuntarily, and kneaded it gently.

Those soft and boneless little hands are like a piece of beautiful jade, which makes people unable to put it down.

"You're going to die," Tang Xin whispered. He was startled and quickly broke away.

Zhu Ming said quietly: "Xin'er, I heard Li Cunzhao call you that before, and I was very concerned about it."

People are emotional creatures. After getting along with each other for such a long time, and getting along day and night, plus consciously taking the initiative to get closer, Zhu Zhen admitted that he was indeed jealous during the day.

Tang Xin pursed her lips, snorted and said: "Who abandoned me like a worn-out shoe before? Xu Miaojin also said that you once disliked her too much. I still like your rebelliousness at the beginning, otherwise Can you regain your original aloofness?"

Zhu Ming said angrily and funny: "We disliked each other at that time. Aren't you jealous?"

"Why am I jealous?" Tang Xin felt confused.

Zhu Ming looked at her deeply and smiled: "Okay, you are jealous."

After saying that, Zhu Xi turned around and walked into Xu Miaojin's room.

After a moment, an exclamation came from the room: "No, Xin'er is still here. No. No."

Tang Xin's face turned red: "Bah, shameless."

(End of this chapter)