Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 492, whoever commits a strong man will be punished

The Japanese pirates robbed the King's Mall, and at the same time, the daimyos in various parts of the Wa country imposed heavy taxes on the Ming ships, and it was soon reported in detail by the Ming Morning Post.

Through the detailed report of Daming Morning Post, it described the cruelty of the Japanese pirates vividly and vividly, described the greed of the Japanese daimyo, and also mentioned the rampant Japanese pirates in the southeast coastal area by the way, and wrote about the tragic scene of the Japanese pirates' looting.

Such a report by the Ming Morning Post caused an uproar in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area.

In the past, the common people knew very little. The common people in the north basically didn’t know about the Japanese pirates in the southeast coast. In everyone’s mind, the Japanese country was a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, which was similar to North Korea, so they even had some doubts about the Japanese country. A certain favor.

Only the people in the southeast coastal areas, the areas heavily poisoned by Japanese pirates, know the cruelty of Japanese pirates, and know that these Japanese pirates are wolves in human skin.

Now that the Daming Morning Post has exposed this matter, everyone in the Beijing-Tianjin area immediately knows about it, and now the Daming Morning Post is not only discovering it in the Beijing-Tianjin area.

There are branches in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, but the news is not so fast, it will be delayed for a few days, but it has almost spread all over Ming Dynasty.

As soon as the Daming Morning Post reported it, it also attracted the attention of the entire Ming Dynasty, especially the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, the emerging capitalists in the northern region, and those big landlords, big gentlemen, and big families who invested in the fleet to the Golden Isle.

In a teahouse in the capital.

"Bang~"

One person angrily slapped the newspaper on the table, and then said: "The Wa country is a small country of Quer, and it dares to repeatedly offend my Da Mingwei. It is simply looking for death."

"The Japanese pirates plundered my merchant ships of Ming Dynasty, attacked and killed the people along the coast of my Ming Dynasty, and imposed heavy taxes on my merchant ships of Ming Dynasty. This is simply unreasonable."

Someone said angrily.

"Is the Wa country still paying tribute to my Ming Dynasty? I heard that they haven't paid tribute to my Ming Dynasty for many years~"

Someone else followed suit.

"The imperial court must dispatch an army to severely teach the Wa Kingdom. It is best for the Wa King to come to my Ming Dynasty to apologize~"

"What's the use of just making an apology? The key is to kill these Japanese pirates. Do you really think I'm easy to bully?"

"Last year, I wiped out the little prince's million-dollar army. It seems that this year I will take the Japanese pirates to let them know that I am not so easy to offend."

"Yes, support the development of the Wa country, let them know how powerful my Ming is, and protect the people of my Ming."

Up and down the entire teahouse, there are voices clamoring for development with the Wa Kingdom.

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 behavior of the Japanese country has seriously violated their interests. Going to war is the most active.

Tianjin.

"Okay~ I submitted an article to Daming Morning Post a long time ago. I wanted them to report on the Japanese pirates in the Japanese country. I haven't reported it to me. Now I finally report it and report the faces of these Japanese pirates clearly. .”

"We Daming see them as a vassal state, but they don't have the consciousness of a vassal state at all. They dare to impose heavy taxes on our Ming's merchant ships. Last time, one of my ships could have transferred more than 20 taels of silver, but after being levied , directly lost tens of thousands of taels of silver."

"When I came back, I met Japanese pirates again, and almost lost everything."

"We have paid the tax. You can't even restrain your own pirates. How can there be such a good thing in the world. You must use force against the pirates and teach them a lesson."

The boss of a commercial firm saw the Ming Morning Post, and immediately said happily to the people around him.

To these Japanese pirates, they have accumulated a lot of resentment, and they dare to impose heavy taxes. This Japanese country has turned upside down.

"The Japanese pirates must be cleaned up, and the Japanese country must be warned sternly, otherwise it will be very dangerous for our ships to go to the Golden Continent after the spring begins."

"Those companies going to Yuxi to open gold mines, your ships also have to pass through the country of Wa. The country of Wa is restless, and everyone's business and transactions will be affected."

"Now it depends on what the court has to say."

"I have been to the Japanese country several times. The character of the Japanese people is like a wolf. If you treat him well, he will only think you are a bully. To deal with the Japanese people, you can only use your fists to beat them hard. They are obedient. If they behave well, they will be as docile as dogs, otherwise they will grin at you."

"Our Da Ming has always been their suzerain country, and we have done our best to them, but this Japanese country is not good and rare, and repeatedly violates my Da Ming's prestige, so we should teach them a lesson and let them know how powerful I am."

"Yes, it is necessary to use force against the Japanese country, let them know how to be afraid and how powerful~"

"All of us have mobilized our respective forces together. We have already spoken to the imperial court and petitioned the emperor. We must use force against the Japanese country to protect the interests of our Ming Dynasty."

Tianjin is the place where emerging capitalists are most concentrated, and it is also the place where emerging ocean trade is most concentrated. There are thousands of large and small ocean trading houses in Tianjin.

The heavy taxes imposed by the Ming Dynasty in the Wa Kingdom are definitely a serious violation of their interests, so these people are clamoring to use force against the Wa Kingdom. The Son of Heaven asked for war against Wa.

Imperial College in Beijing.

The scholars of Guozijian wear swords around their waists again, and the decorations of Confucian scholars during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods have also become popular now. Through the influence of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post, these young scholars are slowly being led astray.

Not only is he shouting in his mouth, but he also has a sword in his waist, which is less of a scholar's frailty and more masculine.

Last year, the Great Ming defeated the Little Prince of the Grassland and wiped out all of the Little Prince's army of millions. This incident also boosted the confidence of the common people of the Ming Dynasty.

For the young people of Ming Dynasty, that is even more so.

Since ancient times, at home and abroad, the great victories achieved by a country or a nation can greatly enhance the self-confidence of a nation.

Similarly, for young people, the militant mood will become high.

"Bang~"

"It's unreasonable. My Ming Dynasty is the suzerain state, and the Wa Kingdom is a vassal state. The Wa Kingdom actually imposes heavy taxes on our Ming's merchant ships, and repeatedly violates our Ming Dynasty and kills our Daming people."

Seeing the latest Ming Morning Post, the scholars of the Guozijian exploded, and everyone was extremely angry.

"It is necessary to use force against the Japanese country, and let them know that those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away~"

Some scholars shouted such slogans.

"Yes, those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away~"

Then it immediately became the only voice in the entire Guozijian. A large number of scholars kept shouting slogans, and then waved their swords, as if they wanted to use the sword in their hands to kill a few Japanese pirates from a long distance.

The scholars seemed very angry. Some talented people wrote poems expressing anger one after another. Some scholars gathered together and clamored to go to Donghua Gate to petition, asking the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to send troops to teach the Wa Kingdom and defend the Wei Kingdom of the Great Ming Dynasty. .

Some scholars even clamored to let go of their noble status as scholars and join the army, but they were soon persuaded by their parents, teachers, classmates and so on.

above the hall.

The desk of Emperor Hongzhi was full of memorabilia written by officials at all levels in the court. The contents of these memorandums were all the same, that is, to ask the court to use force against the Japanese country, to wipe out the Japanese pirates, to teach the Japanese country, to protect the interests of the people of Ming Dynasty, and to protect the road to Japan. Golden Continent route.

At the same time, as the news spread, memorials like this were like snowflakes, and soon almost filled Emperor Hongzhi's Qianqing Palace.

Whether it is a civil servant or military general, or a censor, Hanlin, or a local important official, a feudal official, etc., everyone's opinions on this matter are surprisingly unanimous.

That is, it is necessary to use force against the country of Japan, and the Japanese pirates of the country of Japan must be wiped out, and the country of Japan must be taught a lesson so that the country of Japan will not levy commercial taxes on the Ming merchant ships.

"Xiao Jing, these memorials all demand the use of force against Japan?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the memorials of Lao Gao piled up on the desk, with a smile on his face. He originally thought that the civil servants would strongly oppose the use of force against the Japanese country. Now it seems that not only did everyone not object, but they all expressed Support, many civil servants are even more excited than military generals, and even more belligerent.

The memorandum described the cruelty of the Japanese pirates with eloquence, and told the misery of the people of Ming Dynasty, who worked hard across the ocean to do business in the country of Japan, and transported good things to the people of the country of Japan, but the other party even imposed heavy taxes. It is simply unbearable to impose heavy taxes on the ships of the suzerain country, and there are Japanese pirates robbing the ships, and force must be used against the Japanese country.

There is no way, 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 officials invested in the fleet to the Golden Isle this time, which almost put their lives on it. If something happened to them, 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.

"Returning to Your Majesty, Dongchang and Jinyiwei found out that the ministers in the court basically invested in those ocean-going commercial firms, and invested in the fleets of large and small ships heading to the Golden Isle."

Xiao Jing thought for a while and replied, his words also pointed to the most critical and core point, interests determine the ass, and the ass determines the head.

"That's it~"

Emperor Hongzhi laughed immediately.

　La la, I'm going to the pirates to bully men and women~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)