My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 153 New Goal
After the musketeers prepared the projector, everyone was curious and puzzled. Didn’t they say they would present evidence? Could that piece of white cloth be the evidence?

"Your Highness, is this the evidence you are talking about?"

Zhao Jin couldn't help but say, "A mere piece of white cloth cannot prove that I colluded with the Japanese pirates. Your Highness, you are a member of the royal family, do you want to use a piece of white cloth to convict me?
Even if you force me to be convicted, how can you convince the public, and how can you stop the people from talking nonsense?"

Zhu Di looked at Zhao Jin with disgust. You are still stubborn even when you are about to die. I will open your eyes soon!

Mao Xiang came over and held Zhao Jin down, "Master Zhao, don't worry. I'll show you a wonder you've never seen in your life!"

Zhao Jin was stunned and didn't understand what Mao Xiang meant.

After connecting the mobile phone and the projector, Zhu Di calmly opened the video. Just when everyone at the scene was curious about what the prince was doing, suddenly, they saw a colorful light shooting out from a strange white box!
The beam of light hit the white cloth, and everyone's eyes widened immediately. They dared not breathe, and were stunned by the magical scene before them.

They saw that there were actually moving figures on the white cloth!
Sun Ying and Zhao Jin were even more in disbelief, because they saw their own figures on the white cloth!
Not only their own, but there are also Japanese pirates hiding in the Zhou family compound!

How is this going?

Faced with the inexplicable scene before him, Sun Ying was completely dumbfounded. Zhao Jin was unable to think. The scene before him was far beyond his imagination.

What was reproduced on the white cloth was the scene of the two of them conspiring with the Japanese pirates a few nights ago!
Sun Ying's eyes were filled with fear and his whole body was soaked in cold sweat. No one knew what happened that night, so why did it appear in that scene at this moment?
He was unable to use his own logic to explain what was happening before his eyes; his brain had completely lost the ability to think.

Zhao Jin was trembling all over, his face distorted with fear. The scene before him was like a horrible monster. The scenes on the white cloth mercilessly dug out the dirty secrets in the deepest part of his heart and displayed them in front of everyone.

The common people also stared with their eyes wide open. Unlike Sun Ying and Zhao Jin, they were more curious and angry!
"How come the person in the painting is moving?"

“Is this a fairy technique?”

"Everyone, look quickly. Aren't those people in the painting Sun Tongzhi and Mr. Zhao?"

"Who are those people? Are they Japanese pirates?"

"It's the Japanese pirates!"

"Why is Mr. Zhao, the co-governor of Sun, together with the Japanese pirates?"

At this moment, Zhao Jin in the picture spoke.

"You guys did a great job this time, and you did a great job on the Zhou family's business. Here's your reward!"

Then, everyone saw Zhao Jin throwing a bag of silver and money to the Japanese pirates.

Now everyone understood that the Japanese invasion that occurred a few days ago was caused by the collusion between Zhao Jin and Sun Ying and the Japanese pirates!
Unexpectedly, the annihilation of the entire Zhou family was something Zhao Jin had planned for a long time.

The Japanese pirates attacked, burned, killed and looted. Almost every household had casualties. These days, every household was preparing for funerals. The culprits behind all this were actually the officials and gentry of Shaoxing Prefecture!

The people's eyes turned red, and they looked at Sun Ying and Zhao Jin with anger. If it weren't for the soldiers of the Musket Battalion, they would have rushed up to them at this moment, eaten their flesh, drank their blood, and bit them to death with their teeth!
The scenes appearing on the white cloth became more and more infuriating, until the people saw the conspiracy between Sun Ying, Zhao Jin and the Japanese pirates, and they could no longer hold back their anger.

"You traitor, give me back my son's life!"

"Damn it! My daughter was raped by those Japanese pirates before she even got married. Sun Ying, Zhao Jin, you two bastards! I'm going to kill you, kill you!" At this moment, a team of soldiers from the Musket Battalion captured the Japanese pirates who were hiding in the Zhou family compound.

When they saw the Japanese pirates, the people could no longer suppress their anger. They ran forward and punched the pirates hard!
The soldiers did not stop the people and let them vent their anger as long as they were not beaten to death. After all, they still had to dig out information about their accomplices from their mouths.

"Sun Tongzhi, Mr. Zhao, how about this evidence? It's not an exaggeration to describe it as ironclad, right?"

Mao Xiang laughed contemptuously. At this moment, he felt very happy. Catching traitors and eliminating traitors to the country, this is what the Jinyiwei should do!

Sun Ying and Zhao Jin looked ashen, with only fear in their hearts. They could only lower their heads and wait for their final fate.

Zhu Di's tense heart finally settled down at this time. The case of Japanese invasion in Shaoxing Prefecture was finally settled.

Zhao Jin and Sun Ying were imprisoned and tried overnight. Under Mao Xiang's superb interrogation skills, the two soon could not bear it anymore and confessed everything they knew.

Among them were the remnants of Zhang Shicheng in various places, as well as the gentry in various places who colluded with the Japanese pirates.

At the same time, Mao Xiang also found out the traitor in Shaoxing Jinyiwei. It just so happened that he carried out a major purge of Shaoxing Jinyiwei, and then drew people from the hundred households of Yingtian Prefecture to fill the vacancies.

Although the captured Japanese pirates were tough, they could not resist Mao Xiang's interrogation, and soon they found out the hiding places of the remaining Japanese pirates.

When all the evidence and intelligence were prepared and presented to Zhu Yuanzhang, he became unusually furious. Everyone in the court was terrified and no one could withstand his anger.

Zhao Jin and Sun Ying were sentenced to extermination of their three clans, Zhang Wenzhong was beheaded and displayed to the public, and his family members were exiled thousands of miles away. In the entire Jiangnan region, all officials who were involved with Zhang Shicheng or colluded with the Japanese pirates were arrested and some were beheaded or exiled.

The people in the south of the Yangtze River applauded this. Wherever the court went, they would use a projector to play images of officials and gentry colluding with the Japanese pirates. The people had suffered from the Japanese pirates for a long time, so they naturally supported the court's move.

Officials from the Jiangnan faction did not dare to speak lightly, for fear of being accused of being the remnants of Zhang Shicheng and colluding with the Japanese pirates.

Soon, generals such as Xu Da and Li Wenzhong led the musket battalion, sniper battalion and officers and soldiers from local garrisons to launch a thorough sweep of the Japanese pirates along the coast.

The Japanese pirates were divided into many forces, mostly composed of ronin and pirates from Japan, and even pirates and smugglers from the Ming Dynasty.

They were armed with muskets and samurai swords, but they were no match for the Ming army. In the face of the powerful firepower, they were all shot into sieves.

Seeing that they were no match for the Ming army, the Japanese pirates fled back to the sea, but they were horrified to find that even at sea, they could not escape the Ming army's pursuit!

Their sampan sails could not outrun the steamboat. The huge smoke-belching monster was like a tireless beast. No matter how hard they rowed, even if they were exhausted to the point of vomiting blood, they could not get rid of it.

After more than a month of fighting, the Japanese pirates from Jiaozhou to Quanzhou were basically wiped out, and the remaining ones hid in places like Ryukyu, no longer daring to covet any thoughts of the Ming Dynasty's territory.

After eliminating the Japanese pirates, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet rested for a moment. One day, the Honglu Temple reported that a Japanese envoy was visiting and hoped to meet the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

After receiving the news, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled for the first time in a long time. The plan he had been planning for a long time finally had the opportunity to be implemented!

(End of this chapter)