Anyone the emperor's grandson wanted to see would naturally come as soon as he was summoned.
Within a quarter of an hour, Wang Jinghong, a member of the Golden Gate Guards Qianhu, who had followed Shangguan to Beijing to report on his duties, was recruited to the palace.
The Miyagi City was huge and majestic. Wang Jinghong, who was dressed in casual clothes and had no time to change into his official uniform, cautiously moved forward with his head lowered under the guidance of the eunuchs.
Just now, he was drinking with his colleagues. When he heard that the Emperor Taisun had summoned him, the eyes of his colleagues turned red with envy. Wang Jinghong was in a state of shock, and he could not figure out how a small and insignificant person like him could be summoned by His Highness the Emperor Taisun.
Along the way, the majestic atmosphere of the palace made the man who was licking blood on the sea knife's head feel more and more uneasy. However, when he thought about what his superior officer said when he patted his shoulder before coming, he couldn't help gritting his teeth and holding on.
The anxiety and fear in my heart were forced to suppress.
"His Highness has summoned you. You are representing us as a man from Fujian. You must not show cowardice and lose the face of a man from Fujian!"
Following the eunuch palace man, I walked for an unknown amount of time and passed through many passages before stopping in front of the Jingren Hall in the East Palace.
The guard on duty wearing golden armor, after careful interrogation, led the eunuch to report.
After Xumi, a sharp voice came from inside, "His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun has spoken, and King Jinghong of the Thousand Households of Jinmen Guards in Fujian has come to see you!"
Wang Jinghong raised his head, looked at the majestic hall, swallowed, and strode in.
In the palace, Zhu Yunxi was sitting on the throne, smiling and chatting with Xu Huizu and Li Jinglong. From the corner of his eye, he saw a short man walking in with his chest puffed out.
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"Your Majesty, King Jinghong of the Thousand Households of the Golden Gate Guard, please see His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun!"
The sound was loud and the empty temple was buzzing.
Zhu Yunxi carefully looked at Wang Jinghong, who was kneeling at the door of the palace. He was not tall, but he had a well-proportioned figure, and it was obvious that he was strong. It seemed that because he had been at sea all year round, his skin was a little dark. It was not that black, but
It is ruddy black.
The other party was not wearing official uniform, but a simple and neat short dress, which looked very neat.
"Come forward!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "You are not tall, but your voice is quite loud!"
Wang Jinghong lowered his head and stepped forward, grinning and saying, "The wind is strong on the sea, so brothers can't listen without a loud voice!"
In one sentence, he showed his boldness and directness, which immediately made Zhu Yunxi feel good about him.
"Bring him a stool and let him sit down and talk!"
When Wang Jinghong saw His Royal Highness the Grandson's gentle attitude, his anxiety disappeared and he sat down on the stool. However, as soon as he sat down, he felt two dagger-like eyes beside him.
He knew one of the owners of the gaze, the military commander Wei Guogong, who was the Shangguan in charge of their Fujian Guards. So, he grinned honestly.
Xu Huizu couldn't wait to go up and lift Wang Jinghong up. In front of His Highness Taisun, he and Li Jinglong only dared to sit with their buttocks leaning against the stool. Wang Jinghong was better, he just sat on his butt and wished that the stool would be broken. There was no courtesy at all for a monarch and his ministers.
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"Gugang looked at your resume, and you are only twenty-two years old this year!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "In five years of joining the army, from a common man to a thousand households in the Ming Dynasty's guardhouse, I have beheaded Japanese pirates and pirates.
Seventy, he is a character! Why did you join the army in the first place?"
"I was originally a boatman, and I helped my uncle fish in the boat since I was a child." Wang Jinghong's eyes were bright and his words were sonorous and powerful. "I didn't want to join the army. I just wanted to save more money and build a fishing boat of my own. But who would have thought that the fate of Tian
The pirates who killed Chen’s uncle and cousin were all killed by the pirates, and I jumped into the sea to escape with my life!”
As he spoke, Wang Jinghong gritted his teeth, "After I went back, the more I thought about it, the more I held my breath. My uncle was killed. If I don't avenge this revenge, am I still a man? As soon as I figured it out with my clan, I took several of my brothers to surrender.
military."
Piracy is rampant in coastal areas. In addition to Japanese pirates, there are also many Han pirates. People who rely on the mountains and the sea to make a living at sea are mostly tough people. Even the kind-hearted people can't be prepared.
There will also be some moneyless transactions behind the scenes.
Zhu Yunxi continued to ask, "Were the ones who killed your uncle a Japanese pirate?"
Wang Jinghong shook his head and said, "No, those who killed my uncle were Fang Guozhen's old men!"
"Didn't Fang Guozhen surrender a long time ago? Why are the old troops making trouble again?" Zhu Yunxi turned his head and looked at Xu Huizu and asked.
Before the Ming Dynasty unified the world, Fang Guozhen was a separatist force entrenched in eastern Zhejiang, nicknamed Hai Jing. He started as a pirate, and most of his men were sea bandits and desperadoes. Later, he was besieged by Tang and Liao Yongzhong and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Huizu handed over his hand and said, "Your Highness, although Fang Guozhen surrendered, his remaining troops are unruly and disobedient to the king. They gather people on the islands to cause chaos and often harass the place!"
"Since it was harassing the place, why didn't we suppress it earlier!" Zhu Yunxi looked unhappy, "I remember that Fang Guozhen died in the seventh year of Hongwu. How many years has it been?"
Xu Huizu was speechless and lowered his head to apologize.
"Go back to Your Highness!" Wang Jinghong suddenly said, "It's not that we haven't suppressed the pirates. They have killed many pirates in recent years. But their leaders and backbones are still here. They killed one wave after another, and they continued to kill! They were all hiding on the island, on the big ship.
It’s impossible to drive in. Sometimes when the officers and soldiers are dispatched, they hear the wind and hide!”
"The rogues on the sea are both bandits and civilians!" Zhu Yunxi pondered, "They are entrenched on offshore islands, how can they communicate with the mainland?"
Wang Jinghong said, "Your Highness, it's not the mainland. I don't know what to say. They have nothing to do with the mainland, but they have connections with Luzon, Srivijaya and other places thousands of miles away."
We in the Ming Dynasty were in a hurry to suppress them, so they ran over there and waited for the storm to pass before coming back."
Then he paused again, "But they mostly rob merchant ships at sea, but they rarely come ashore!"
Luzon and Srivijaya were the Philippines, Malaysia and other places in later generations. Although it is a veritable wilderness now, many Chinese immigrants have been there since the Song Dynasty, and they gradually formed a force there.
By the end of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and more people went to sea. The largest number were from Guangdong and Fujian. After going to sea, they settled in Srivijaya and Luzon. Later, when the Ming Dynasty unified the country, pirate groups on the southeast coast, such as Fang Guozhen
The old troops and others also moved their base there.
The Chinese in this era were not easy to get along with, and the people of Fujian and Canton were famously united. Zhu Yunxi read in the archives of Honglu Temple that the Chinese lived in groups and often clashed with local kings and attacked each other.
Cutting down, and the victory is more than the defeat.
Since they are Chinese immigrants, this matter will be easy to handle. Let Honglu Temple canonize a few Chinese leaders there and recognize their status. With a few cuts with a soft knife, there will be no more trouble. When the navy is established in the future
, it is legally justified to put these areas into the Ming Dynasty’s sphere of influence.
"Talk about the Japanese pirates!" Zhu Yunxi said again.
"Japanese pirates are harder to fight than pirates!" Wang Jinghong gritted his teeth when mentioning Japanese pirates. "Although pirates killed my relatives, there is a saying that Japanese pirates are more cruel than pirates and will kill anyone they see! Moreover, Japanese pirates have better swords and guns than pirates, and have more bows and crossbows.
The offense is also more organized!"
"Whenever I fight with the officers and soldiers, I just flinch and run away. If the officers and soldiers pursue me fiercely, they will ambush me. If I don't chase them, they will run away!"
Having said that, Wang Jinghong hesitated.
"I asked you to come here just to let you speak. Although your official position is not high, you are a front-line officer at sea. You can say whatever you want, and you are not afraid if you are wrong!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
"I'm not afraid of saying something wrong. I won't say anything wrong about pirates and Japanese pirates!" Wang Jinghong smiled honestly, "Japanese pirates, the difficulty is that I don't know when they will come and where they will land. It takes a thousand days to be a thief.
, there is no way to guard against thieves for a thousand days. When they come, we will gather again and chase them again, and the day lily will be cold. Speaking of which, we still have too few warships, and we can't block them every time!"
That makes sense. With passive defense and no navy, the enemy can take advantage of the situation at any time. But then again, even if the navy cruises around the sea all day long, there may not be no fish that slip through the net.
Bandits are always more flexible than the officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers have to ask for orders, assemble, and set off. After a set of procedures, the Japanese pirates can almost rob.
"What do you think?" Zhu Yunxi asked with a smile.
Wang Jinghong was not ambiguous and said directly, "Actually, Japanese pirates, like pirates, also have their nests. I heard that the Japanese country is not far from our Ming Dynasty. They must be entrenched on the islands. Fighting is the same as killing people.
, we must strike first to gain the upper hand.”
"Instead of defending on the shore and waiting for him to come, it is better to find out the truth and gather the army to directly sweep their islands to avoid future troubles!"
Zhu Yunxi looked at Wang Jinghong with approval, "It's rare for you, a member of a thousand households, to have such knowledge!" After saying that, he asked again, "Isn't your thousand households a worldly job?"
Shizhi is a hereditary family.
"My...my credit is not enough!"
Although the Ming Dynasty had just been founded, the positions of the imperial guards were all in the same place. From the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army to the commanders of the Davids, everyone was staring at them. Except for the noble sons and daughters, ordinary generals
are not eligible to obtain it.
"Xu Huizu!" Zhu Yunxi said.
"I'm here!"
Zhu Yunxi pointed at Wang Jinghong and said, "The commander-in-chief of the fifth army will send him a reward of one thousand households with a worldly position!"
"I understand!" Xu Huizu said.
But at this time, Wang Jinghong seemed to be in a daze, sitting blankly with his mind blank.
After casually meeting the emperor's grandson, he got a long-awaited but unattainable worldly position? This is simply pie in the sky?
"Don't thank me yet!" Xu Huizu scolded.
"My lord, thank you for your kindness!" Wang Jinghong reacted and kowtowed.
"I have given you the worldly position. There is no need to rush back to Fujian. I will be transferred to two levels and serve in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion in the capital. I will look for you at any time!" Zhu Yunxi said.
"Your Majesty, I obey the order!" Wang Jinghong agreed at first, and then said urgently, "Your Highness, if I don't return to Fujian, what about my relatives who are in the army, my wife and children...?"
"Insolent!" Xu Huizu was furious.
"It doesn't matter!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "If you don't come back for now, it doesn't mean you won't come back forever!" He said to Xu Huizu, "Let the Fujian Wei and local officials write down the situation of the pirates and Japanese pirates in detail, and then
You can compile a list of the officers and soldiers who have seen Zhenzhang from the coastal guards and Japanese pirates over the years, and show them to me!"
