Jinyi Night Walk

Cao Guogong, the crown prince Taifu, and Li Jinglong, the general governor of Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi for suppressing bandits, arrived in Hangzhou. He came not too late, three days earlier than Xia Xun estimated.

When Cao Guogong arrived in Hangzhou, the military and government officials from all walks of life in the Hangzhou government naturally came to visit. The commotion lasted for three days before it subsided. Li Jinglong saw all the people he didn't want to see these days, but the only person he wanted to see never showed up. He couldn't help feeling suspicious .

"Dingshi, we have also drank the tea brewed by the Hupao Spring; we have also made offerings to the incense burnt in Lingyin Temple; we have also rowed the boats in the West Lake; what about Yang Xu? Could it be that you didn't find out any news, and you were worried about being reprimanded by your country, so you simply ran away?"

Unexpectedly, Tie Xuan didn't know that the two of them had other grievances, so he couldn't help laughing when he heard the words: "The Duke is worried, and Yang Xu rushed to the Hangzhou mansion alone. Even if there is no news, it is normal. Why go away? As the saying goes, if a monk can run away, he can’t run away from the temple, so where can he go?”

Li Jinglong said in his heart: "Grandma, I just hope that if I run away as a monk, I will become the abbot of the temple. How do you know the twists and turns?"

Tie Xuan comforted again: "Don't worry, the Duke. The public has spread the news when the Duke came to Hangzhou. If Yang Xu found nothing, he should have come to see the Duke to plead guilty. Now that he is nowhere to be found, maybe he found it." What news, it is at a critical juncture, it is okay for the Duke to wait a little longer, not to mention, the plan to suppress the bandits cannot be completely relied on the news from Zongqi Yang, all the coastal provinces are waiting for the Duke to come up with a strategy Come on, the Duke should have made preparations earlier."

When Tie Xuan said this, Li Jinglong realized that he had come to Hangzhou to suppress pirates and apprehend criminals from the imperial court. It's just a question of whether or not the bandits can be suppressed. If the suppression of the bandits is in vain, I can't make a deal with the emperor, so I became cautious before I knew it, and asked quickly: "Yes, the military and government officials of the Hangzhou government have been in frequent exchanges these two days, and my country has been unable to get away. , I have to work hard. I haven't seen you accompanying me these two days, what are you busy with?"

Tie Xuan happily smiled and said: "Reporting to the Duke, the Duke has been busy dealing with the military and government officials of the Hangzhou government for the past two days, and the low-ranking officials have been paying private visits and walking around among the people. For the public's reference."

Li Jinglong was overjoyed: "Dingshi is really talented and brave to do things, come and see me quickly."

Tie Xuan said: "The humble job is not thorough in some details, I wanted to ask the Duke to look at it after deliberation."

Li Jinglong said: "Beating a child on a cloudy day, even when you're free, take it for me right away."

Tie Xuan had no choice but to return to his office to get the half-finished bandit suppression strategy.

Tie Xuan really hasn't been idle these days, he is a practical person, although his main duty is to investigate the affair of some of the officers and soldiers in the guard station collaborating with pirates, but he has been thinking about the overall situation of suppressing bandits.

After arriving in Hangzhou, Li Jinglong was busy with socializing, while Tie Xuan changed into regular clothes, went to the people, and made some visits. He found that most of the largest pirate forces along the coast were from the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, relying on overseas trade to survive. Chinese.Therefore, almost every household along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang is involved in the smuggling trade, and then some rivers and lakes gather for desperation and wandering soldiers, and it gradually becomes a trend.

They have been banned repeatedly because of the secret support and cover of coastal residents, so after several days of full consideration, Tie Xuan made proposals in terms of the number and scale of seagoing ships, the improvement of the Baojia system, and the management of large and small ports. These recommendations are still under development.

In fact, the sea troubles in the early Ming Dynasty were not so serious compared with those in the later period, which was mainly due to Zhu Yuanzhang's sea ban policy and strength.Zhu Yuanzhang banned the sea. On the one hand, he adopted the method of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot, recruiting a large number of sergeants under the former Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen, as well as boatmen, islanders, and fishermen along the sea to join the army. ships, strengthen coastal defenses against pirates.

From Huaihe, Zhejiang to Fujian and Guangxi, Zhu Yuanzhang conscripted more than [-] soldiers in total, and a large number of fishermen were recruited into the army. There was less strong obstruction at the local level, and the implementation of the sea ban policy was relatively smooth. There is a relatively large threat.

However, pirates and Japanese pirates became more and more rampant, and later became out of control, which was also caused by Zhu Yuanzhang's sea ban policy.Pirates have always existed, from ancient times to the present, and have never been cut off, but the reason for making such a big noise is because of the sea ban.The original reason why Zhu Yuanzhang banned the sea was because Fang Guozhen, Zhang Shicheng and others who were losers in the Central Plains struggled for hegemony back then, and many of their subordinates went out to sea for piracy, and it was also limited by his small-scale peasant thinking.

On the one hand, he felt that Ming was self-sufficient and did not need to communicate with other countries. On the other hand, he wanted to use economic means to force the barbarians from all over the world who needed to trade with China to submit to China and recognize China's suzerainty. From the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the tributary trading system was established. I only allow you to trade if you pay tribute. Moreover, the time, place, quantity, and variety of transactions are strictly restricted. This will seriously affect the Economic interests of coastal people.

As the saying goes, people who rely on mountains eat mountains, and those who rely on mountains drink water.Especially after the tribute trade system of the Tang Dynasty went bankrupt, it was changed to free trade. After that, the Song and Yuan dynasties also continued this policy. Therefore, after five or six hundred years, maritime trade has become the most important way to survive for the residents of the southeast coast. Now that the population is growing, The population pressure along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang is very significant, and the basic needs of trade are related to livelihood. The sea ban is tantamount to cutting off their livelihood, which has buried a big hidden danger.

The propaganda of our later generations often exaggerates the role of certain aspects one-sidedly or generalizes out of political needs.We publicized that the common people in the Southern Song Dynasty hoped day and night for the imperial court to regain the large area of ​​land north of the Yellow River, but the small imperial court in the Southern Song Dynasty was peaceful and unwilling to make progress. In fact, it was precisely the imperial court that wanted to send troops to regain the lost land, but the common people were unwilling to send troops and carried out passive resistance. Because the people in the Southern Song Dynasty were rich and lived a pretty good life, they were unwilling to pay for the huge military expenditures for recovering the lost land, and they were unwilling to pay more taxes after recovering the lost land to subsidize the poor areas in the north.For the same reason, the coastal people also have complicated feelings towards pirates, and they don't blindly hate them as we understand.On the one hand, there are good and bad pirate groups, and some of them are indeed extremely cruel, burning, killing and looting, but there are also many gangs whose main purpose is smuggling. It is they who provide the survival and development opportunities for millions of people along the coast. How could ordinary people, gentry, and even bureaucrats hate them?

Li Jinglong is not like the embroidered pillows in the legend. He is still very good at training soldiers. After Tie Xuan took his strategy of suppressing bandits, Li Jinglong was overjoyed. The content of military discipline, serious coastal defense, and actual combat drills was compiled into a total of eight, and they were regarded as his own Jinghai Eight Strategies. Tie Xuan asked Tie Xuan to take them back and sort them out, and prepared to implement them vigorously along the coast.

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It was another afternoon, and Li Jinglong was walking.

Li Jinglong was lying on the leisure chair under the vine trellis, and two delicate and clever little girls were squatting beside him, holding a pair of small pink fists and gently beating his thighs.

"When will the West Lake dance and dance stop? The warm wind makes the tourists drunk, and Hangzhou is called Bianzhou..."

Li Jinglong yawned very bored, and asked boredly: "Baoqin, why do you think tourists regard Hangzhou as Bianzhou?"

A little girl blinked and said, "Master Hui, it's probably... probably because the summer in Bianzhou is as hot as Hangzhou."

Li Jinglong chuckled, rubbed his big bare feet against the little girl's arms, and praised: "It makes sense, it makes sense, it's the same reason that my country's Duke wants to come, hahahaha..."

The girl holding the piano covered Songjiangbu's robe, covering her budding breasts, her face flushed, and she just smiled sweetly.

At this time, a guard hurried in, stood still at a distance, bowed his fists and said, "Master, someone wants to see you."

Li Jinglong said lazily: "I said I was asleep, no see."

The guard hesitated and said: "He said that his name is Yang Xu, and he was sent by the Duke of the State to go to Hangzhou on business first. He said that as long as the villain gives his name and surname, the Duke of Guo will definitely meet him. The villain has already checked his badge , is indeed a member of Jinyiwei."

"Yang Xu?"

Li Jinglong's spirit was lifted, and he sat up suddenly: "Hey! He's finally here, this kid didn't run away, hurry up, tell him to come in."

Li Jinglong put on high-tooth clogs, wore a Taoist robe, swayed like a living god, and entered the living room.

Xia Xun hurried into the living room, and when he saw Li Jinglong, he cupped his fists in salute: "Yang Xu, the general banner of the humble Jinyiwei, met Cao Guogong."

"Huh? Why are you dressed like this?"

Li Jinglong was about to give him a good start, but suddenly he was wearing a half-new short brown suit, a bamboo hat on his head, a pair of cloth shoes with a layered bottom, white and black sides, and a pair of cloth shoes on his shoulders. He was a baggy bag, looking like a small peddler, and couldn't help laughing.

Xia Xun looked at his attire, and said with a smile: "Duke, didn't you order the humble official to go to Hangzhou to investigate the whereabouts of Ling Potian and the pirates in the East China Sea? The humble official's attire is also for the convenience of investigation. "

When Xia Xun said this, Li Jinglong suddenly forgot his purpose again, hurriedly put away his smiling face, made a face like a monkey, and said in a deep voice: "Yang Xu, my father ordered you to come to Hangzhou to investigate carefully. , where have you been these days? My country has already arrived in Hangzhou, but I haven’t heard from you for a long time. I want you to investigate the information, but have you found it?”! ~!