Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 390 Surrendering to Japan and Exterminating the Three Clans

Located on Hirasaka Island in Kochi, Japan, it is the lair of Zheng Zhilong Pirate Group.

After its main force was completely defeated by the Ming Navy, Zheng Zhilong finally fled here, while the East China Sea Fleet had to turn back because its power was exhausted and its soldiers were exhausted.

What's more, at this time, the Japanese local military armed power group Satsuma, which was allied with Zheng Zhilong, had also ambushed in the waters near Hirasaka Island.

However, as far as Zheng Zhilong was concerned, even though he temporarily had a chance to breathe, he still had to admit the fact that he had completely failed since he had few boats and many people.

At least in the next few days, he could no longer muster a strong enough force to contend with the imperial court, and even now he could no longer suppress other sea forces.

Including the Japanese pirates who were originally living under his protection, they also began to look down on him at this time, and the Satsuma clan even asked him to hand over the Zheng family's property in Nanyang.

Moreover, there is also the Japanese general who conquered barbarians, the Tokugawa shogunate Tokugawa Ieyasu, who also hoped that Zheng Zhilong would lead his remnants to join the Japanese pirates, serve his own shogunate, and be driven by himself.

But for Zheng Zhilong, a big pirate who didn't even pay attention to the governor-level officials of the Ming Empire, he could not accept that he just became a retainer of a small country like this.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong rejected Tokugawa Ieyasu's kindness.

But what he didn't expect was that Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't have such a good temper as before. The islanders who have always bullied the weak and feared the tough used to be afraid of Zheng Zhilong because Zheng Zhilong was almost the strongest sea power in this area, but now Zheng Zhilong is already a bereaved dog. Therefore, as the actual ruler of Japan - Tokugawa Ieyasu naturally wanted to bite off another piece of meat from Zheng Zhilong.

Therefore, the Tokugawa shogunate directly dispatched [-] troops to Hirasaka Island. The excuse was naturally to exterminate the bandits and regain the territory taken by the pirates. Moreover, it also specially borrowed the name of Ming Dynasty, that is, to completely wipe out the traitors who betrayed the heavens. country bandits.

Zheng Zhilong was naturally very angry when he heard the news. Fortunately, the thin camel was bigger than the horse. At this time, Japan no longer had so many so-called generals as in the Wanli period. Even though Zheng Zhilong had no force, he still fought back. The [-]-strong army of the Tokugawa shogunate.

However, Zheng Zhilong didn't want to teach Tokugawa Ieyasu a lesson because of this.

Because, Zheng Zhilong knew that his main enemy was not these ignorant Japanese pirates, but the Ming court, Zhu Youxiao!
What he needs most now is to find a peaceful harbor to recuperate, and look forward to a comeback in the future. As long as the imperial court no longer sends troops to suppress him, he believes that he can still rise again.

For this reason, Zheng Zhilong decided to surrender to Japan and become a powerful foreign vassal of Japan, so that he could get some funding from the Japanese Tokugawa Shogunate and avoid unnecessary conflicts with other samurai groups.

Tokugawa Ieyasu finally had to agree with Zheng Zhilong's decision. Although Zheng Zhilong's share cannot be moved, it is a feat worthy of being recorded in the annals of history for Tokugawa Ieyasu to be able to subdue this kind of maritime power of the heavenly kingdom. .

He even reported it to the Emperor of Japan specifically because of this, and asked for a lot of rewards for this.

In this way, Zheng Zhilong became a foreign power in Japan.

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At this time, Zhu Youxiao didn't know that Zheng Zhilong had joined Japan and became the first big traitor to surrender to Japan. The assassination of Xiong Wencan made Zhu Youxiao deeply realize the strength and stubbornness of the forces behind the country that oppose Kaihai.

Moreover, not long after Xiong Wencan was assassinated, Zhu Youxiao got the news from Dongchang that the concubine of Shang Zhouzuo, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, suddenly died of poison because of stealing Shang Zhouzuo's almond soup. Based on this incident, he followed the vines and succeeded in destroying a gang whose purpose was to secretly kill court officials.

Most of this gang were members of the Cao Gang who used to rely on water transportation to survive in the canal area. However, due to the opening of the Liangjing Avenue and the prosperity of shipping brought about by the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Navy, the role of water transportation began to decline, and many members of the Cao Gang fell into the grass. Kou, or became a tool used by some reactionary forces behind the scenes.

After conducting strict interrogations on these gangs and conducting undercover investigations in various ways, Dongchang obtained the mastermind behind this series of secret assassinations, but what Zhu Youxiao did not expect was that not only some wealthy businessmen along the coast were involved, It also involved court officials and even relatives and members of the royal family.

This made Zhu Youxiao who knew the truth extremely angry. In order to prevent the huge profits brought by sea trade from being nationalized, these people did not hesitate to assassinate the officials of the coastal governor in succession in order to force no official to dare to serve Zhu You for the court. The school is the vanguard of reform.

In order to continue my reform career in Daming, and to give reassurance to the officials who are still willing to do practical things for me.

Zhu Youxiao did not choose to let go of these forces because of their strength and complexity. Since these people dared to brazenly assassinate the governor of a province and even deliberately murder the governors of two provinces, these reactionary forces should bear the burden of doing so. What are the consequences.

You Yude is also Li Jiantai, who is also the Imperial Academy's sacrificing wine, and Li Jiantai is a popular candidate for the next cabinet scholar. Although Zhu Youxiao has no good impression of this official who did not perform well in the Chongzhen Dynasty in the original history, it seems that this person finally surrendered. After becoming a slave, he fought against the Qing Dynasty together with Jiang Yang, so Zhu Youxiao didn't do anything to him.

But what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that this person was the mastermind in the case of murdering Xiong Wencan, Shang Zhouzuo and other governors.

And after getting the detailed information of Dongchang, Zhu Youxiao had to admit that the eradication of the eight Shanxi merchants did not mean the complete decline of Shanxi merchants in Daming, and some Shanxi merchants engaged in domestic sales and sea trade were not damaged much. On the contrary, after most of the Shanxi merchants engaged in border trade were eradicated, they also achieved greater development and became a new Shanxi merchant force.

And Li Jiantai's Li family is a representative of it. It is beneficial for the court to eradicate the eight major Shanxi merchants, so he did not stand up to oppose it, but now it involves the conflict between the family's interests and the court's interests, he still chooses to maintain For the former, because the king is gone, he can change his allegiance to another one, but once the family is gone, he will not be able to survive in this society.

Zhu Youxiao never thought that Li Jiantai would be lenient because he is now a high-ranking civil servant in Qingliu. After learning that Li Jiantai's family was involved in this matter, Zhu Youxiao directly issued the order to destroy the three clans.

"I have already said that anyone who disregards the will of the court and the interests of the country because of his own selfishness will directly annihilate the three clans and be punished as a crime of disaster for the country!"

After Zhu Youxiao said, hundreds of Tiqi from Dongchang rushed to Guozijian immediately, accompanied by a battalion of Imperial Guards stationed in the capital, and sent people to Li's hometown in Shanxi immediately, ordering Sun Chuanting to assist the court to wipe out Lee's.

(End of this chapter)