Mingshi

Chapter 1005

"Your Majesty! The Xu family swears that they will never participate in maritime trade again." Xu Jie shouted hoarsely.

"What do you say?" Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Xin.

"Your Majesty, please make a decree to prohibit the Xu family from participating in maritime trade for generations, and to praise the contributions made by the five great families to Daming. Well, you can give them the title of patriotic businessman."

"Patriotic businessman?"

"It's a businessman who loves Daming and His Majesty."

"Yes!" Emperor Jiajing thought for a while, nodded and said, "Continue!"

"The third point is to solve the pirates, which is the fundamental problem."

Emperor Jiajing's eyes lit up: "How to solve it?"

"This requires contact with the pirates. If they are not strong, Master Hu will need to dispatch a navy to destroy them. If they are strong, our navy will not be able to destroy them. In order not to affect the shipping department's maritime trade, we can only fight with them talk."

"You mean Zhaoan?" Emperor Jiajing frowned slightly.

"Yes!" Luo Xin nodded.

"Back then, I, Da Ming, wiped out the four major pirates. Could it be that I, Da Ming, can't get rid of such a group of pirates now?"

"Your Majesty, I, Da Ming, wiped out the four major pirates because they went ashore. None of the four major pirates were killed in the sea. It can be imagined that my Daming navy is really not strong. Those pirates are not stupid. The experience of the destruction of the four major pirates is vivid in my mind, I think they will not go ashore, they will only rob in the sea, and I am afraid that there is almost nothing I can do about it."

Emperor Jiajing frowned and began to think, but his health was already very bad. After listening for so long, he was already exhausted. At this time, he used his head to think again, and the more he thought about it, the more irritable he felt.Taking a deep breath, I stopped thinking about it, and just wanted to quickly throw this trouble out, and said:
"Luo Xin, I will appoint you as an imperial envoy, go to the southeast, and handle this matter with full authority."

"The minister obeys the order!"

"Liu Shouyou."

"The minister is here."

"You go with me as the deputy imperial envoy."

"The minister obeys the order!"

"High arch."

"Purpose!"

Shuntian Fu Yin was still waiting outside Yuxi Palace, waiting for Emperor Jiajing to summon him, thinking about what to say when he saw Emperor Jiajing.During the Jiajing period, it was not easy to meet Emperor Jiajing.Because Emperor Jiajing hardly went to court and practiced Taoism all day long.Therefore, Yin Shuntian had the opportunity to meet Emperor Jiajing today, how could he not be excited?
Footsteps came from Yuxi Palace, Shuntian Fu Yin hastily arranged his official robes, and looked at the gate of Yuxi Palace solemnly and respectfully.

Sure enough, the first one to come out was Gao Gong, Shuntian Fuyin was overjoyed, just as he was about to step forward, he saw another person walking out behind Gao Gong, he naturally knew this person, the one who entered just now Luo Xin arrived in Yuxi Palace, followed by Liu Shouyou, and Xu Jie walked at the end with his head drooping.

"This is... it's over? I don't have anything to do?" Shuntian Fuyin was full of disappointment, but he still took two steps forward to salute Gao Gong with hope:
"Old Gaoge..."

"You follow Lord Luo and the others." Gao Gong said softly.

Shuntian Fu Yin looked at Luo Xin.

Ok!

Luo Xin held a bunch of imperial edicts in his arms, not ten, but eight.Luo Xin held a bundle of imperial edicts, looked at Shun Tian Fu Yin and said with a smile:

"Master Tang, let's go to Shuntian Mansion."

"Go...what to do?" Shuntian Mansion Yin thought to himself, Shuntian Mansion is his territory, what are they going to do there?
Luo Xin pointed to the stack of papers in Liu Shouyou's hand and said, "We will take over those who come from the southeast to sue."

"Oh... good!"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Gao Gong belatedly, and when he saw Gao Gong nodded, he turned his head and said:
"Lord Luo, Lord Liu, please!"

"Master Tang, please!"

Luo Xin and Liu Shouyou came to Shuntian Mansion, and met those merchant families who were plundered by the two young masters of the Xu family. There was one person from each family, a total of fifteen people.

Luo Xin gently told these people that His Majesty had already made a decree for this case, and then he read out the decree, and the family members of the merchants wept with joy and shouted long live.

"Lord Liu!" Luo Xin looked at Liu Shouyou and said, "You arrange Jin Yiwei to send these people to the best inn in the capital to stay, and all expenses will be recorded, and the Xu family will take care of them when the time comes."

"Understood!" Liu Shouyou said with a smile.

Luo Xin then said to the family members of the merchants: "You guys have a good rest tonight, we will leave for the southeast tomorrow."

The next day.

Luo Xin led Lu Daqing, fifty servants and one hundred brocade guards led by Liu Shouyou to join them and headed southeast.They did not walk very fast, for there were fifteen people who could not ride horses, and could only ride in a carriage.

this day.

Outside Hangzhou.

A group of officials were waiting outside, Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing, and even Hu Zongxian who was in Suzhou came.Because they all knew that Luo Xin, the imperial envoy sent by Emperor Jiajing this time, was to command the entire southeast, not just the Hangzhou government, and not just the Shibo department.

Xu Shixing stood aside with a gloomy face and led the team members of the Shibo Department. He was very depressed. It can be said that his appointment to the Shibo Department this time was a complete failure.The reason for the failure was not local businessmen, let alone Japanese pirates, but Xu Jie, the chief assistant of the current cabinet, who was once followed and respected by him.He didn't even bother to talk to Zhang Juzheng. If Zhang Juzheng hadn't put pressure on him, how could he have agreed to the Xu family's participation in the maritime trade?

Without Xu's participation in the sea trade, how could the current situation be so bad?
He remembered that before leaving the capital, he had visited Luo Xin, and Luo Xin had urged him to stick to the rules and go to the Xu Mansion.It's still that I'm not firm enough, on this point, I'm not as good as Luo Xin!

Xu Shixing couldn't help sighing.

Zhang Juzheng originally wanted to have a few words with Xu Shixing, everyone knew the enmity between Luo Xin and Xu Jie, so if he came to Southeast this time, he might not be polite to the Xu family and the Xu party.And he, Zhang Ju, was Xu Jie's disciple, and Xu Shixing was also a member of the Xu party. At this time, the two of them should join hands.But seeing Xu Shixing's appearance of refusing people thousands of miles away, Zhang Juzheng could only sigh in his heart, and said to himself:

"It seems that the teacher's analysis is good. Xu Shixing really wants to leave the Xu Party. However, he probably didn't defect to Gao Gong or Luo Xin, otherwise he wouldn't have given me face and let the Xu Mansion participate in the sea trade. "

Thinking of this, Zhang Juzheng sighed again in his heart, if only Xu Shixing could be tougher and not give himself face.

Hu Zongxian stood there surrounded by front and back, although he kept a smile on his face, he was also uneasy.He was really afraid of Luo Xin's methods.I don't know if Luo Xin will make trouble for him when he comes to Southeast this time.

At this time, in the Xu residence, it was also gloomy. Xu Luqing had already received Xu Jie's letter, and understood the consequences facing the Xu family.At this point they can only wait for Luo Xin's visit.

The smoke and dust billowed, and Hu Zongxian, Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing and others all lifted their spirits.

"coming!"

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(End of this chapter)