After listening to Pomegranate's explanation, Sisi was no longer so nervous, but couldn't help sighing: "I hope it's just a coincidence." ”

"I hope it's not a coincidence, it's a blessing or a curse, and I can't avoid it." And I'm eager to try.

"Are you really afraid that the world will not be chaotic?" Sisi said angrily.

"Of course, the world is in chaos, and then the world is in chaos." Besides, he said proudly.

Sisi and Pomegranate both laughed, this guy probably didn't know how to write about fear, Sisi was so frightened that her heart trembled after hearing the news, she still drank a glass of wine, and her body was not soft before she came to communicate.

"Is this pirate family really so terrifying?" Besides, ask Sisi. He really wanted to know the secrets.

He has no contempt for pirates, when Denmark, Sweden, and Spain rose, they all took pirates as their main business, and the blood of pirates flowed in the Nordics, and the British Empire was completely a country established by pirates, and all people had the character of pirates.

Westerners worship pirates, it is estimated that the Chinese like Liangshan Bo good man complex, but the Chinese civilization started too early, whether it is the attributes of nomads or the blood of good men in rivers and lakes, it has been almost worn out in the long process of civilization.

In fact, there are not many records of the Ming Dynasty for the Japanese Kou, even if there is no specific record in the notebook books, it is estimated that these pirate families are really powerful, and no one dares to resort to these secret stories in writing.

Sisi told some things about these pirate families, in fact, she didn't know much, after all, she hadn't been involved in the family business for a few years, and she hadn't been involved in overseas trade, but she had heard the elders of the family talk about some coastal smuggling pirate families during casual chat.

Smuggling is basically done by the coastal clans, most of them are still royal orders, under the banner of imperial merchants, but they also have other businesses, there are about hundreds of pirate families, the largest is eight clans, and the pirate alliance is dominated by these eight clans.

The Zheng family in Fuzhou is one of the eight great pirate families, and it can be said that they have only one hand to cover the sky in the Fuzhou area, and even the government has to be subdued under their obscenity, and the authority of the imperial court in the Central Plains has completely changed to the seaside.

These families are not only pirates, even if they were originally specialized in pirates, they later found that although they made a lot of money by plundering at sea, they still couldn't make a stable and long-term money compared to smuggling, so the main business of these families was smuggling. The main source of income for pirates was those who engaged in overseas trade, and even the imperial court's trading institutions collected protection fees, which could only be safely transported at sea if they paid a full protection fee.

Merchants had no choice but to pay protection fees in full for safety. A ship full of cargo is worth too much, and an ocean-going vessel is worth a lot of money in itself, and if it is snatched up, a business can go bankrupt.

Paying protection fees to the Pirate Alliance is certainly a big profit, but it can be bought with a solid heart, and you can always earn more or less, at least there is no risk of bankruptcy; The most important thing is that the people on board can come back safely.

The Imperial Court could not swallow this breath, and the Cabinet carefully studied the feasibility of eliminating these pirate families on land, but many officials opposed this approach, saying that if they did anything to attack the pirates, they might force all these families to go to sea and occupy the island. For this reason, Emperor Taizu issued a ban: Pian Fan was not allowed to go to the sea.

Later generations have always misunderstood the purpose of Zhu Yuanzhang's ban, Zhu Yuanzhang only forbade private individuals to engage in overseas trade, he wanted to completely grasp this piece in the hands of the imperial court, but unfortunately it didn't work at all, since the major coastal families did not get the permission of the imperial court, they simply engaged in smuggling. At that time, the sea was almost entirely filled with pirate sails.

After the goods smuggled by the pirates were sold inland, many unscrupulous merchants in the inland deliberately engulfed them, and they got the goods but did not pay, thinking that these families were engaged in smuggling, and they did not dare to see the sunshine and could not fight a lawsuit.

It is true that the pirate family did not dare to fight a lawsuit, but it did not mean that they were helpless, in order to protect their own interests, they established a private army, and went ashore to collect debts from those merchants, this trend intensified, and finally became the origin of the Ming Dynasty.

Although since the Tang and Song dynasties, pirates have never been cut off, but pirates are actually rampant to go ashore to rob, siege the city, the Ming Dynasty only this kind of strange thing happened, the reason is that these pirates are not really the king of the island on the sea, the group of people who specialize in plundering at sea, but hundreds of large and small families along the coast of the fake pirates.

Although the U Kou is named after the U, the main personnel are still Chinese, just because some of the ronins of the U Kingdom were hired to fight, so they have the name of the U Kou.

At first, the imperial court did not know the inside story, but really thought that it was a state act of the U Kingdom, and sent an envoy with a holy decree to question the Japanese emperor, that is, the shogun of Japan at that time, and the shogun general defended in the name of the Japanese emperor that those had nothing to do with them, and that the ronin of the U country was only recruited by the Chinese, not an act of the Japanese government.

During the Jiajing period, the imperial court carried out a large-scale operation to sweep the island, the then imperial governor Hu Zongxian of the coastal provinces of the official army, the mighty, to deal with the general only a few hundred, thousands of people can be said to be anti-aircraft artillery to fight mosquitoes, in the end it took many years, exhausted the treasury, only to annihilate a few pirates, most of the pirates went to the sea, the official army can only stand on the shore and look away, helpless.

Since then, the court has made a secret agreement with these coastal families that as long as the pirate families do not go ashore to plunder, the court will turn a blind eye and acquiesce in their smuggling.

This agreement was not reached because of the incompetence of the imperial court, but because too many of the imperial court officials were bribed by these pirate families, and these smuggling transactions also had their shares. Naturally, they were happy to sit on the ground and share the spoils.

"This is really the name of a pair of medicines—Daming Pills." Besides, after listening to it, I summed it up.

Sisi and Pomegranate understood the meaning of his words after a while, but they both smiled.

They don't think it's anything strange, sea trade is like that, land trade is the same, everywhere there are bandits, all of them occupy the mountains as kings, and wherever they go to the wilderness, there will be people looking out, carrying rusty kitchen knives and shouting: I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to live from now on, leave to buy road wealth.

Even so, the trade between the regions has never ceased and has been operating normally, but it is just that there are more trades in the share of the business, and more people eat.

The sky won't fall.

Besides, although he didn't care about the warning brought by Sisi, he still went to Zhou Dingcheng and told him about it.

Zhou Dingcheng didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll go to Daxiangguo Temple in a while, and tell the old abbot about this matter, they already have various emergency plans." ”

"Daxiangguoji? Are they our people too? "I really didn't expect it.

"Of course, Daxiangguo Temple has been secretly protecting you, I didn't tell you." Zhou Ding became enlightened.

Besides, he touched his chin, and slipped through a barrage in his heart: It seems that the forces behind him are not small, Wudang, Tianshi Sect, Suzhou Hanshan Temple, Nanjing Daxiangguo Temple, Murong Yanran of Emei Jinding, these are all top forces in China, even if these are just the tip of the iceberg, I don't know that there are more.

"You don't care about this, those southern barbarians really want to go to war, let's talk to you, those people above have been suppressed for decades, and they have long wanted to have the opportunity to go to war in an all-out way and practice their hands and feet. Not to mention those pirate mongrels, even the opposing forces in the court, we are not afraid. Zhou Dingcheng is full of confidence, and he is also gearing up and eager to try.

"I think I'm afraid that the world won't be chaotic, you're better than me." And deliberately look frightened.

If you start a war with the opposing forces in the court, if you don't pay attention, you may be condemned as a rebellion.

He didn't know the specific situation, but he knew a little bit, after Emperor Jianwen left, Emperor Yongle couldn't find any trace of him, and as a result, he had a restless sleep and food for the rest of his life. Emperor Yongle has always been worried, he doesn't know that one day Emperor Jianwen will make a comeback, and he has no advantage in terms of people's hearts.

Moreover, it is even believed that Yongle moved the capital to Beijing, not only to defend against the iron cavalry of Outer Mongolia, but to avoid the mausoleum of Ming Taizu. Jianwen is the heir to the throne chosen by Taizu, and his so-called Jingnan is actually a rebellion, but his rebellion was successful.

"You don't really have to worry, there are ready-made examples out there. That Nan family, they are smart, if they don't give face to the Zhongshan Wangfu and make a big move in the jurisdiction of the palace, they will not be left behind a long time ago. Zhou Dingcheng looked at him dumbfounded, thinking that he was scared stupid, and comforted.

"Destroy the door?" And this time I was really scared.

"What's so strange about this, if the Zheng family really dares to fight with real swords and guns, just wait to destroy the door. What kind of bullshit pirate alliance is just some rabble, they are not monolithic, and the profits of destroying the rest of the family are even greater, maybe they are secretly happy. Zhou Dingcheng's analysis is not unreasonable.

Besides, if you think about it, this is possible, as long as it is not against the entire Pirate Alliance, it is estimated that the Zheng family is the one who really makes a move.

I think so, but he still doesn't believe that the Zheng family will be desperate, there must be some reason for being so crazy, just because he scolded Zheng Boyong a few words and lost his face, the Zheng family will not die? This reason seems unreliable. If that's the case, it's not crazy, it's a completely psychotic family.

After Zhou Dingcheng finished speaking, he immediately set off and went straight to the Daxiangguo Temple, this matter may not be big, it may be big, and he does not dare to make his own decisions.

Moreover, he has never been to Daxiangguo Temple several times in Nanjing, and his impression of Nanjing Daxiangguo Temple is that Lu Zhishen has been a monk there, and Emperor Jianwen has taken refuge there, and it is also the real home of the monk Daoyan, who helped Zhu Di succeed in the Jingjing.

Daxiangguo Temple is destined to have a continuous fate with the Zhu Dynasty, and all along, the imperial court is also polite to them, and they will not find trouble in general, so the successive abbots of Daxiangguo Temple also have more than ordinary people's activity space.