The Japanese pirates robbed the king's mall, and at the same time, the Japanese lords levied heavy taxes on the Ming Dynasty ships, which was soon reported in detail by the Ming Dynasty Morning Post.
Through the detailed report of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post, the cruelty of the Japanese pirates and the greed of the Japanese daimyo were described vividly and vividly. At the same time, the Japanese pirates who were rampant in the southeast coastal area were mentioned in passing, and the miserable scene of the Japanese pirates' looting was written.
Such a report in the Ming Dynasty Morning Post immediately caused an uproar in the entire Beijing and Tianjin areas.
In the past, ordinary people knew less about the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast. People in the north basically didn't know about the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast. In everyone's concept, the Japanese country was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, similar to Korea, so they even had some negative thoughts about the Japanese country.
A certain good feeling.
Only people in the southeastern coastal areas, which were severely poisoned by Japanese pirates, knew how cruel the Japanese pirates were and knew that these Japanese pirates were wolves in human skins.
Now that the Ming Dynasty Morning Post has exposed this matter, people in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area suddenly know about it, and now the Ming Dynasty Morning Post has discovered it not only in the Beijing-Tianjin area.
There are branches in two capitals and thirteen provinces, but the news is not that fast and will be delayed for a few days, but it has almost spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.
As soon as the report came out in the Ming Dynasty Morning Post, it attracted great attention from all over the Ming Dynasty, especially the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, the emerging capitalists in the northern region, as well as those big landowners, big gentlemen, big families, etc. who invested in the fleet to the Golden Island.
In a teahouse in Beijing.
"Bang~"
One man slammed the newspaper on the table angrily, and then said: "Japan is a small country, and if it dares to repeatedly offend our great power, it is simply asking for death."
"The Japanese pirates robbed our Ming Dynasty's merchant ships, attacked and killed our people along the Ming Dynasty's coast, and also levied heavy taxes on our Ming Dynasty's merchant ships. It is simply unreasonable."
Someone said angrily.
"Does the Japanese country still take the Ming Dynasty into their eyes? I heard that they have not paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty for several years~"
Someone else said after him.
"The imperial court must send out a large army to teach the Japanese a lesson. It would be best if the Japanese king comes to our Ming Dynasty to apologize in person~"
"What's the use of just apologizing? The key is to kill these Japanese pirates. Do you really think that I, the Ming Dynasty, are easy to bully?"
"Last year I completely killed the little prince's million-strong army. It seems that I will attack the Japanese pirates this year to let them know that my great power is not so easy to offend~"
"Yes, support the campaign against the Japanese country, let them know how powerful our Ming Dynasty is, and protect our people."
The entire teahouse was filled with voices clamoring for a start with the Japanese.
The people who can come to the tea house to drink tea are more or less people with some status and assets. Many of them are emerging capitalists or have invested in major sea trading companies. The actions of the Japanese state have seriously violated their interests. Naturally, they have no regard for the Japanese state.
Going to war is the most positive thing.
Tianjin.
"Okay~ I submitted an article to the Ming Dynasty Morning Post a long time ago. I wanted them to report on the Japanese pirates in the Japanese country. They have never reported it to me. Now they finally report it and clearly report the faces of these Japanese pirates.
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"Our Ming Dynasty treats them as a vassal state, but they have no consciousness of a vassal state and dare to impose heavy taxes on our Ming Dynasty's merchant ships. Last time, one of my ships could have transferred more than 200,000 taels of silver, but after being taxed
, directly missing tens of thousands of taels of silver."
"When I came back, I encountered Japanese pirates again and almost lost all my money."
"We have paid this tax, but you can't even restrain your own Japanese pirates. How can there be such a good thing in the world? You must use force against the Japanese pirates and teach them a lesson."
The boss of a business firm saw the Tomorrow Morning News and immediately said happily to the people around him.
They had accumulated a lot of resentment against these Japanese pirates, and they dared to impose heavy taxes, which turned the Japanese country upside down.
"The Japanese pirates must be eliminated, and the Japanese must be severely warned. Otherwise, it will be very dangerous for our ships to go to Golden Island after the spring begins."
"Those merchants going to Yuxi to open gold mines, your ships will also have to pass through the Japanese country. If the Japanese country is not peaceful, everyone's business and transactions will be affected."
"Now it depends on what the court says."
"I have been to the Japanese country several times. The character of the Japanese people is like that of wolves. If you are nice to them, they will only think you are easy to bully. The only way to deal with the Japanese people is to use your fists and beat them hard until they become obedient.
If you make them behave, they will be as docile as dogs, otherwise they will grin at you."
"We, the Ming Dynasty, have always been their suzerain state and have been extremely benevolent to them. However, this Japanese country does not treat them well and has repeatedly offended our Ming Dynasty. We should give them a lesson and let them know how powerful our Ming Dynasty is."
"Yes, we must use force against the Japanese country to let them know how to be afraid and how powerful they are~"
"We all mobilized our own forces together, and have made suggestions to the imperial court and petitioned the emperor. We must use force against the Japanese country to protect our Ming Dynasty's interests."
Tianjin is the place with the highest concentration of emerging capitalists, and it is also the place with the highest concentration of emerging ocean-going trade. There are thousands of large and small ocean-going trading houses in Tianjin.
The heavy taxes imposed by the Ming Dynasty on the Japanese side have definitely seriously infringed on their interests, so these people are clamoring to use force against the Japanese country. At the same time, they are also mobilizing their own forces, contacting the people behind them, and preparing to attack the court and the people behind them.
Emperor Da Ming requested war against Japan.
Imperial College in Beijing.
The scholars of the Imperial Academy once again wore swords on their waists. The decorations of Confucian scholars during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have also become popular. Through the influence of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post, these young scholars are slowly being led astray.
Not only was he shouting something like this, but he also had a sword on his waist. He was less frail than a scholar, but more masculine.
Last year, the Ming Dynasty defeated the little prince of the grassland and killed all the little prince's millions of troops. This incident also greatly increased the self-confidence of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
For the young people of Ming Dynasty, that is even more true.
Since ancient times, at home and abroad, a country or a nation's great external victories can greatly enhance a nation's self-confidence.
Similarly, for young people, militant emotions will become high.
"Bang~"
"It's unreasonable. Our country, the Ming Dynasty, is the suzerain state, and the Japanese country is a vassal state. The Japanese country actually levied heavy taxes on the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and repeatedly violated our Ming Dynasty and killed our people."
When they saw the latest edition of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post, the scholars in the Imperial College exploded, and every one of them was extremely angry.
"We must use force against the Japanese country to let them know that anyone who offends our strong men will be punished no matter how far away they are~"
Some scholars shouted such slogans.
"Yes, anyone who offends my strong man will be punished no matter how far away~"
Then it immediately became the only voice in the entire Imperial College. A large number of scholars kept shouting slogans, and then waved the swords in their hands, as if they were going to kill several Japanese pirates from a long distance with the swords in their hands.
The scholars seemed very angry. Some were talented and wrote poems expressing their anger. Some scholars gathered together and clamored to go to Donghua Gate to petition, asking the Emperor of Heaven to send troops to teach Japan a lesson and defend the power of Heaven. .
Some scholars even clamored to give up their noble status as scholars and join the army, but they were soon persuaded by their parents, teachers, classmates and the like.
Above the court hall.
Emperor Hongzhi's desk was filled with memorials from officials at all levels in the court. The contents of these memorials were all the same, which was to ask the court to use force against the Japanese, to eradicate the Japanese pirates, to teach the Japanese a lesson, to protect the interests of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and to protect the path to the Ming Dynasty. Route to Golden Continent.
At the same time, as the news spread, memorials like this were like snowflakes, and soon the Qianqing Palace of Emperor Hongzhi was almost filled.
Whether they were civil servants or military generals, imperial censors, imperial officials, local dignitaries, feudal officials, etc., everyone had surprisingly unanimous opinions on this matter.
That is to say, we must use force against the Japanese country, we must wipe out the Japanese pirates from the Japanese country, and teach the Japanese country a lesson so that the Japanese country will not collect commercial taxes on the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty.
"Xiao Jing, do these memorials call for the use of force against the Japanese?"
Emperor Hongzhi looked at the memorials of Lao Gao piled on his desk, with a smile on his face. He originally thought that the use of force against Japan would be strongly opposed by the civil servants, but now it seems that not only did everyone not object, but everyone expressed their opposition. Support, many civil servants are even more excited and more militant than the generals and nobles.
The memorial describes the cruelty of the Japanese pirates with emotion and emotion, and tells the misery of the people of the Ming Dynasty. They worked hard to cross the ocean to do business in the Japanese country, and transported good things from the Ming Dynasty to the Japanese people, but the other country even levied heavy taxes. They actually levied heavy taxes on the ships of the suzerain country, and Japanese pirates plundered the ships. This was simply intolerable, and force must be used against the Japanese country.
There is no way. The military generals and nobles were the first to invest in ocean trade, and they were the first to eat the cake. These civil servants all invested later, and many of them even just joined the ranks.
In particular, many civil servants invested in the fleet heading to Golden Continent this time, which almost cost them their wealth and lives. If something happened, all their money would be wasted.
"Yes, Your Majesty~"
Xiao Jing nodded solemnly and said.
"What do you think of this?"
Emperor Hongzhi nodded slightly, thought for a while and said to Xiao Jing beside him.
"Back to Your Majesty, Dongchang and Jinyiwei found out that the ministers in the DPRK have basically invested in those ocean-going trading companies and invested in large and small fleets heading to the Golden Continent."
Xiao Jing thought for a while and replied, his words also pointed to the most critical and core point, interests determine the butt, and the butt determines the head.