Brocade legend

Chapter 348

"Yes... I'm even more afraid that the black hand behind this... is the one in the palace." Liu Biao and Zhou Bin had the same idea: "My lord is blinded by the emperor's brotherhood, I'm afraid I can't think of this level."

Yang Lin thought for a while and said, "I don't think so. I'm afraid my lord is well aware that when all the birds are exhausted, what my lord means is that I want to be an official... I must have felt something. However, my lord thinks it won't be so soon, after all Now there is still the great enemy of the White Lotus Sect."

Zhou Bin nodded and said, "That's right, at least until the White Lotus Sect is destroyed, my lord should be fine."

Liu Biao remained silent. He had deeper worries in his heart.

Liu Biao didn't even know that the White Lotus Sect had been hiding in Nujiang for 20 years.

Although the information was verified to be true, Liu Biao still couldn't let go of it. He always felt that as long as he was linked to the White Lotus Sect, there must be a deeper conspiracy.

Lu Bing brought so many people there, which Liu Biao strongly advocated.

They all thought of what the other party didn't think of, but unfortunately, no one could think of it. Looking at the past, they are all enemies...

Yang Lin Xiushu told Lu Bing about Wang Zhi's arrest and the plan they discussed, and stated his interests.

Lu Bing wrote back, asking Yang Lin and Zhu Liu to discuss the matter in the court according to their plan, delaying time, and waiting for him to return to Beijing.At the same time, they immediately sent competent personnel to Zhejiang, trying to get close to Wang Zhi, ready to rescue him at any time.

Wang Zhi was arrested, which shocked the government and the public. Immediately, a minister proposed that Wang Zhi be executed to deter the gang of thieves and to make an example.

Immediately, some ministers objected, thinking that Wang Zhi's voluntary surrender was a god-sent opportunity. If Wang Zhi could be recovered, the Wanli sea area and overseas islands would all become Ming's territory.

The process of the two sides wrangling gradually expanded the topic to the old controversy of banning the sea and opening the sea.

Since the Song Dynasty, the maritime trade of the Chinese has been at the forefront of the world, and the pace is impressive.It brings huge commercial profits to the society and makes navigation technology lead the world for a long time.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu implemented the ban on the sea that "no piece of board should go into the sea". At that time, it was because after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all enemies were not eliminated.There are still many factors of instability in coastal areas.

The hostile forces mainly come from three aspects: [-]. Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and the rest.Both Zhang and Fang were local powers that rose at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and they were close to the sea, and most of their subordinates were coastal people.After Zhang and Fang were defeated by Taizu, the rest fled to sea and continued to be enemies of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, there are historical records that in the early Ming Dynasty, "people in the coastal area were not allowed to go to sea privately, because Fang Guozhen's remaining party mostly went to sea to plunder."

These remnants of the rebel forces were still numerous during the Yongle period, and failed to encircle and suppress them many times in the early Ming Dynasty, so they simply closed themselves off and did not give them a chance to provoke.

Then there is the problem of Japanese pirates.

After the failure of the two expeditions to Japan in the Yuan Dynasty, official contacts were cut off.In order to obtain materials from China, the Japanese kept looting along the coast of China in the Yuan Dynasty.

When the Hu Weiyong case happened, the Emperor Taizu suspected that the Japanese had helped Hu Weiyong in plotting rebellion.

In the 17th year of Yongle, Liu Rong, the general soldier, won the victory in suppressing the Japanese in Liaodong. The Japanese plague was greatly reduced, but it has not been eradicated.

Then there are the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.

The Yuan Dynasty was not only a great empire on land, but also had considerable influence on the sea.After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, some survivors fled to sea and continued to oppose the Ming Dynasty, such as the remnants of Chen Youding who "swear to die for the Yuan".

These hostile forces at sea cannot be easily wiped out, so they can only passively defend and implement sea bans.

All in all, the maritime embargo in the early Ming Dynasty had complex political and economic reasons, and it was an important choice made under the circumstances at that time, among which the consideration of coastal defense security was the main and direct reason.

However, with the progress of the times, the Ming Dynasty needed more and more maritime trade, so the dispute between opening the sea and banning the sea also followed.

For more than a hundred years in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court also used various reasons to maintain the sea ban from time to time.

Only in terms of the sea ban policy, there are two factions in the imperial court, the strict ban and the relaxation of ban, while there are many large groups of resistance among the people.The people living by the sea rely on the sea, and the sea has cut off their food and clothing, so they will inevitably rebel.

Up to now, although pirates and Japanese pirates are rampant, Shuangyu Island in Ningbo has become a world trade center. Silver from distant countries such as Thailand and the West and Japan has been continuously transported here in exchange for Chinese silk, porcelain and tea.

Now that Wang Zhi has been arrested, some people are naturally cheering. A big pirate like Wang Zhi is hated by some people in the mainland, but there are also those who praise Wang Zhi.

On the southeast seashore, Wang Zhi "has a great prestige, and people work together. They may give fresh food, rice wine, or children."

Even the famous general Zhu Wan once said: "The three-foot boy also regards pirates as his parents, and regards the military as his enemies for generations."

This shows that the coastal people do not regard the Wangzhi Group as "Japanese pirates" or "pirates".

Yang Lin and others took advantage of this to disrupt the court's attitude towards Wang Zhi.

At that time, many ministers proposed that "if the city is popular, bandits will turn into merchants, and if the city is banned, merchants will turn into bandits."

Some people even took out the "Chi Hai Tu Bian" edited by Hu Zongxian, and used it to talk about things, which ignited the fanatical hopes of some ministers in the DPRK and China to build a maritime power.They believe that if the imperial court can take advantage of Wang Zhi and declare the legalization of overseas trade, not only will the pirates not be suppressed, but China will open up the Maritime Silk Road.

At this time, it was revealed that Wang Zhi gave the imperial court's "Self-Ming Shu" and said: "Thieves are looking for profit in the sea, selling goods in Zhejiang and Fu, sharing benefits with others, defending the border for the country, and never seducing party thieves to invade. This world is well known to all gods and men. Husband, He Fan, has no family property, and the minister is really unwilling."

In this way, Wang Zhi's life and death became a dispute between opening the sea and banning the sea, and the public opinion between the DPRK and China fell into a stalemate and a tug-of-war.

But Yang Lin and others who were manipulating behind the scenes breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, and only waited for Zhu Liu to return to Beijing to discuss the next move.

Even if Wang Zhi cannot be rescued, it will be delayed until Lu Bing returns to Beijing.

……

At this time, Lu Bing had already arrived in Yunnan.

Lu Bing looked at the lush forest and the [-] mountains, and couldn't help smiling bitterly: "It really is a good place to hide!"

Zhang Ju smiled and said, "The spies have been released, and Sun Quan and Huang Lian'er have personally brought people in. There should be news soon."

Lu Bing sighed and said, "When will we find this..."

Thinking that Wang Zhi is still being imprisoned now, and that Jingzhong doesn't know what's going on, Lu Bing is really worried.

Zhang Ju said in relief: "Don't worry, with the two brothers Yang Lin and Zhu Liu here, nothing will happen to Brother Wang, maybe they have rescued Wang Zhi by now."

(End of this chapter)