Cao Guogong, the crown prince and the prince, and Li Jinglong, the chief governor of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangzhou, arrived in Hangzhou, and he was not too late, three days earlier than Xia Xun's estimated time.
When Cao Guogong arrived in Hangzhou, important military and political officials from all walks of life in Hangzhou naturally wanted to come to visit, and the chaos stopped for three days before it stopped, and Li Jinglong saw all the people he didn't want to see in the past few days, but the only person he wanted to see never appeared, and he couldn't help but be suspicious.
"Keystone, we have also drunk the tea made by Hupao Spring; The incense burned in Lingyin Temple, we have also offered; The boats in the West Lake, we have also rowed; Yang Xu didn't find any news about the others, and he was worried that he would be reprimanded by his father-in-law, so he simply ran away."
Tie Xuan didn't know that the two of them had other grievances, and he couldn't help laughing when he heard the words: "Guogong is too worried, Yang Xu rushed to Hangzhou Mansion alone, even if he didn't find any news, it was an ordinary thing, even if he was reprimanded by Guogong, how could he go as the saying goes, if a monk can't run away from the temple, where can he go?"
Li Jinglong said in his heart: "Grandma, I was hoping to run away from him, a monk, and Lao Tzu to be the host of the temple, where do you know the twists and turns." ” Tie Xuan comforted again: "Don't worry, Guogong is coming to Hangzhou, the people have spread, if Yang Xu found nothing, he should have come to see Guogong to ask for guilt, and now that others are nowhere to be found, maybe he found out some news, it is at a critical juncture, it doesn't hurt to wait a little longer, not to mention, the big plan to suppress bandits, you can't completely rely on the news from Yang Zongqi, all the coastal provinces and roads are waiting for Guogong to come up with a strategy to suppress bandits, and Guogong should have made preparations early." ” Tie Xuan said this, Li Jinglong only saved this time to come to Hangzhou to clean up the pirates and arrest the imperial court criminals, he is the person in charge, then Yang Xu is just a small shrimp, whether he can find out any news, just whether he can make a difference, if this bandit is in vain, he will not be able to deal with the emperor, but he also became cautious, and hurriedly asked: "Yes, these two Hangzhou government military and political officials have frequent exchanges, and their own government has been unable to get out, so we have to work hard."
I haven't seen you for the past two days, what are you up to?"
Tie Xuan smiled happily: "Yu Guogong, Guogong is busy dealing with the military and political dignitaries of Hangzhou Prefecture, and the lowly post is a private visit, walking around the people, grasping some situations, and writing down some strategies for Guogong's reference." ” Li Jinglong was overjoyed: "Keystone is really talented and brave in doing things, so quickly take it for me to see." ” Tie Xuan said: "The humble position is still not thorough in some details, and I wanted to ask the prince to look at it after scrutinizing it." ” Li Jinglong said: "Hitting a child on a cloudy day, if you are idle, you will be idle, so you will take it for me to see immediately." ” Tie Hyun had no choice but to return to his office to get the half-finished strategy of suppressing the bandits.
Tie Xuan has really not been idle these days, he is a practical person, although his main duty is to investigate the affairs of the officers and soldiers of the guard station who have fornicated with the bandits, but he has also been thinking about the overall situation of the entire suppression of bandits.
After arriving in Hangzhou, Li Jinglong was busy with entertainment, while Tie Xuan changed into regular clothes, went into the people, and made a visit, and he found that the vast majority of the largest pirate forces along the coast were Chinese who survived on overseas trade along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang.
Therefore, almost every household in the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang is involved in the smuggling trade, and then some rivers and lakes are killed, and the guerrillas are scattered, which gradually becomes the climate.
They have been banned repeatedly, and it is precisely because of the covert support and cover of coastal residents that Tie Xuan, after a few days of full consideration, put forward some suggestions from the control of the number and scale of sea vessels, the improvement of the armor protection system, and the management of large and small ports, which are still being improved.
In fact, the sea disaster in the early Ming Dynasty was not very serious compared with the later period, which was mainly due to Zhu Yuanzhang's sea ban policy and strength.
Zhu Yuanzhang forbade the sea, on the one hand, he adopted the method of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and recruited a large number of sergeants under the former Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen, as well as boat owners, islanders, and fishermen from the coastal sea, to enlist as soldiers, and on the other hand, to build coastal cities, set up guard posts, and build many fast boats, so as to strengthen the coastal defense force to crack down on pirates.
From Huaizhejiang to Fujian and Guangzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang conscripted more than 100,000 soldiers, and a large number of fishermen and strong men were enlisted in the army.
However, pirates and pirates were rampant, and they became out of control later, which also stemmed from Zhu Yuanzhang's maritime ban policy.
Pirates have always existed, from ancient times to the present, and have never been stopped, but it is because of the sea ban that they have made such a big noise.
The original reason why Zhu Yuanzhang forbade the sea was because of the losers in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains, many subordinates such as Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng went to sea as pirates, and they were also limited by his small-scale peasant thinking.
On the one hand, he felt that the Ming Dynasty was self-sufficient, and there was no need to communicate with other countries at all, on the other hand, he wanted to use economic means to force the Quartet barbarians who needed to trade with China to submit to China and recognize China's suzerainty, so since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the establishment of a tributary trade system, you have to call the tribute, I allow you to trade, and the time, place, quantity, and variety of transactions are strictly restricted, which objectively seriously affects the economic interests of the coastal people.
As the saying goes, the mountain eats the mountain, and the mountain eats the water.
Especially after the tributary trade system of the Tang Dynasty went bankrupt, it was changed to free trade, and then the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty also continued this policy, so five or six hundred years down, maritime trade has become the most important way for the southeast coastal residents to survive, and now the population is growing, the population pressure on the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang is very significant, and the trade is related to the fundamental needs of livelihood, and the sea ban is equivalent to cutting off their way of life, which buries a big hidden danger.
The propaganda of our later generations is often motivated by political needs, one-sided exaggeration of the role of certain aspects, or partial generalization.
We advertise that the common people of the Southern Song Dynasty are looking forward to the imperial court recovering a large area of land north of the Yellow River, but the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty is in a corner of peace and does not want to forge ahead, but in fact, it is precisely the imperial court that wants to send troops to recover the lost land, but the common people are unwilling to send troops and carry out passive resistance, because the people of the Southern Song Dynasty are very rich and have a very good life, and they are not willing to pay for the huge military expenses for the reconquest of the lost land, and they are not willing to pay more taxes to subsidize the poor areas in the north after recovering the lost land.
By the same token, the coastal people also have mixed feelings about pirates, and they do not hate them as much as we understand them.
On the one hand, the pirate groups are of mixed quality, and some of them are indeed extremely vicious, burning, killing and plundering, but there are also many gangs whose main purpose is smuggling, and it is they who provide millions of people along the coast with opportunities for survival and development, and how can the people, gentry, and even bureaucrats on the coast hate them Li Jinglong is not like the legendary embroidered pillow, he is still very good at military training, after Tie Xuan took his strategy of suppressing bandits, Li Jinglong was overjoyed, inspired by it, he added a few articles to rectify the army, strengthen military discipline, serious coastal defense, and actual combat exercises, a total of eight, as his own Jinghai Eight Strategies, and asked Tie Xuan to take it back and sort it out, ready to vigorously carry it out along the coast.
It was another afternoon, and Li Jinglong was leaving.
Li Jinglong was lying on the leisure chair under the vine trellis, and two delicate little girls squatted next to him with a pair of small pink fists and gently pounded his thighs.
"Outside the mountain, the green mountain building outside the building, the West Lake singing and dancing when the warm breeze smokes the tourists drunk, and Hangzhou is Bianzhou" Li Jinglong yawned very boredly, and asked boredly: "Hug the qin, why do you say that tourists regard Hangzhou as Bianzhou?"
A little girl blinked and said, "Grandpa back to China, probably because the summer in Bianzhou is as hot as Hangzhou." ” Li Jinglong laughed hesitantly, rubbed his bare feet in the little girl's arms, and praised: "It makes sense, it makes sense, my country's father wants to come, it's also the truth, hahahaha" The girl who hugged the qin covered the placket of Songjiangbu's robe and covered the budding breasts, her face flushed, and she just smiled sweetly.
At this time, a guard hurriedly walked in, stood still from afar, clenched his fists and bowed: "Grandpa Guo, someone is asking to see." ” Li Jinglong said lazily: "Said I slept, but I didn't see it." ” The guard hesitated: "He said that his name is Yang Xu, and he was sent by Guogong to go to Hangzhou on a business trip first, saying that as long as the villain reports his name and surname, Guogong will definitely see him."
The villain has checked his waist card, and he is indeed a person in the brocade guard. ” "Yang Xu" Li Jinglong was in high spirits, and sat up suddenly: "Hey, he's finally here, this kid didn't run, hurry up, call him in." ” Li Jinglong put on his high-toothed clogs, wore a Taoist robe, and swayed into the living room like a living immortal.
Xia Xun hurriedly walked into the living room, and when he saw Li Jinglong, he immediately hugged his fists and saluted: "Yang Xu, the general banner of the lowly Jinyi Guard, has seen Cao Guogong." ” "Why are you dressed like this?"
Li Jinglong was about to give him a dismount, but suddenly saw that he was wearing a half-new short brown, a bamboo hat on his head, a pair of white-faced and black-faced cloth shoes with a thousand layers of soles under his feet, and a blanket on his shoulders, and he looked like a small trader, and he couldn't help laughing a little.
Xia Xun looked at his dress, and said with a smile: "Guogong, didn't you order the lowly Weifu to make a private visit and go to Hangzhou to investigate the whereabouts of the imperial court and the bandits in the East China Sea. ” Xia Xun said this, Li Jinglong suddenly saved his purpose again, hurriedly put away his smiling face, bluffed a face, and said in a deep voice: "Yang Xu, my country's duke ordered you to come to Hangzhou to investigate carefully, where have you been these days, my country's duke has arrived in Hangzhou, but I haven't heard from you for a long time."
I want information from you to check it, but I have it."
To be continued: