Chapter 105: Nine Fishermen
A sudden typhoon hit the coast of Daming, Ningbo Port was also greatly affected, and even the entire port was closed, strictly prohibiting any ships from going out, and Li Jie and others were also scared in a cold sweat, fortunately they returned to the port a few days in advance, otherwise in the clean-up of the Japanese Kou encountered this typhoon, I am afraid that the entire Ningbo Navy will be wiped out.
Listening to the whirring wind outside the window, Li Jie also misses the weather forecast of later generations, when the typhoon of later generations is just formed, whether it is the weather forecast of the Internet or TV, it will start to remind everyone to pay attention to the weather early, but now it is good, only when the typhoon is pasted on your face, you will know that the original typhoon has come.
"With such a big storm, I don't know what's going on at home?" Zou Pusheng, who was sitting opposite Li Jie, said with a sad face at this time, they lived on the island, and they were more affected by the storm, and every time after the storm, the village they lived in had to be overhauled.
"Ningbo is still some distance from Penghu, and the wind is strong here, maybe Penghu is just involved in it." Li Jie also opened his mouth at this time to comfort that in fact, he lived in the inland in his previous life, and although he had seen the scene of the typhoon raging on the Internet or TV, he did not know much about the scope of the typhoon's impact.
"I hope so!" Zou Pusheng also nodded quietly, but he immediately raised his head and looked at Li Jie and said, "Deputy Envoy Li, what you said last time also made the old decay like an enlightenment, but I thought hard for many days, but I still didn't think of any good way out, and asked Deputy Envoy Li to give me some guidance for the old decay!" ”
When Zou Pusheng said the end, he also stood up and saluted Li Jie, he is a person who can be Li Jie's grandfather, but for the future of his descendants, he is willing to ask Li Jie, a teenager, for advice.
Li Jie also hurriedly stood up and returned the salute, and then asked the other party to sit down again, then pondered for a moment and said: "Daoist Zou, if you don't want to go back to the interior, and stay in the coastal area of Daming, the government will suppress you, the people will dislike you, and as the sea ban becomes stricter and stricter, your living environment will become worse and worse, so the only way is to take the initiative to go out!" ”
"Going out? How to get out? Zou Pusheng was also stunned when he heard Li Jie's words.
"Zou Daochang, the seaside where you live, you must have been in contact with the outside world, and you should know that even overseas, there are many places suitable for living, and the climatic conditions in some places are not even worse than Daming." Li Jie explained with a smile again.
"Of course I know this, but the better the conditions, the sooner it will be inhabited, even if we want to move to the past, it is impossible for us to compete with the locals for land, right?" Zou Pusheng said with an embarrassed expression.
"Why can't you rob it, those Japanese robbers are samurai who can't get along in the Japanese country, and finally come to our Daming coast by boat, and grab whatever you lack, they can do this, why can't you do this?" Li Jie's voice also cooled down at the end.
"Speaking of which, Deputy Envoy Li, don't you still let us be widows?" Zou Pusheng was a little confused when he heard this.
"No, no! I'm not asking you to be a wolf, but I'm asking you to help the court and solve the problem once and for all! ”
Li Jie said and turned around and took a map, and then spread it out on the table, Zou Pusheng also looked at the map curiously, but found that this was a coastal map, but the terrain was a little unfamiliar, and it didn't seem to be the coastal of the Ming Dynasty?
I saw Li Jie stretch out his hand and point to an insect-like island on the map and said, "Daoist Zou, do you know where this is?" ”
"This ...... Ignorance! Zou Pusheng shook his head, this coastal map was the first time he had seen it.
"This is the Wa Kingdom, and the land next to it is actually Goryeo!" Li Jie pointed to the map and introduced.
"This is the Wa Kingdom?" Zou Pusheng also showed a surprised expression when he heard this, although he knew that the Japanese were from the Japanese country, and he also knew that the Japanese country was in the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, but he had never been there, let alone seen the sea charts of the Japanese country.
At this time, Li Jie pointed to a small island between the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo and introduced it again: "Zou Daochang, please see, this island is called Tsushima Island, and it is also the real birthplace of the Wakos. ”
Tsushima Island is most famous for its naval battles between Japan and Russia, which ended with Russia's defeat, allowing Japan to extend its hand to Korea and northeastern China.
However, before that, Tsushima Island was an out-and-out den of thieves, the notorious Japanese invaders came from here, North Korea has repeatedly sent troops to attack Tsushima Island, in order to solve the problem of Japanese pirates, after all, the Japanese not only harassed the Ming coast, but also plundered the coastal areas of North Korea, and even invaded the interior of North Korea many times, so that the Korean Peninsula was deeply affected by the Japanese invaders!
Zou Pusheng looked at the small Tsushima Island on the map but fell into deep thought, and after a long while, he looked up at Li Jie and asked, "Vice Envoy Li, you told me this, do you want us to go to the Wa Kingdom, to be exact, this Tsushima Island to live?" ”
"Yes, although there are Japanese pirates on Tsushima Island, there are not a few subordinates under Zou Daochang, and with the support of the imperial court, it is not difficult for you to conquer Tsushima Island." Li Jie said again with a smile, it seems that it is a matter of course for Zou Pusheng to take people to Tsushima Island.
"I have two questions, first, why do we want to go to Tsushima, after all, although the Liuqiu Island where we live now is bad, but the Tsushima side is probably not better than Liuqiu Island, and maybe even worse than Liuqiu Island. Second, why should the imperial court help us? Zou Pusheng also stood up straight at this time and said, he felt that Li Jie's proposal was very unreliable.
Li Jie had long expected Zou Pusheng to ask this, so he saw him smile confidently and said: "Tsushima Island is just a springboard, the clear road I really want to show you is actually Kyushu Island to the east of it, where the climate is mild, the land is fertile, and there are many minerals, the most important thing is that compared to Liuqiu Island, the land of Kyushu Island has been reclaimed, as long as you can fight down, you can directly cultivate and live, far stronger than Liuqiu Island!" ”
When he said this, Li Jie paused for a moment before answering the second question: "As for why the imperial court wants to help you, of course, it is to completely solve the problem of the Japanese invaders, although this group of Japanese invaders has been eliminated now, as long as the Japanese country is still there, the Japanese will be endless, if you occupy Tsushima Island and Kyushu Island, it is equivalent to blocking the road to the south of the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese will naturally be solved." ”
Regarding Li Jie's explanation, Zou Pusheng shook his head again and said: "Vice Envoy Li, you look up to us too much, although there are tens of thousands of people under my command, but most of them are old and weak women, and there are only a few thousand people who can really fight. ”
When Zou Pusheng said the end, he almost wanted to stand up and leave, because in his opinion, Li Jie's proposal was simply to send them to death, although he was worried about the future of future generations, but he did not want to send his subordinates to the battlefield to commit suicide immediately.
Of course, Li Jie also saw Zou Pusheng's thoughts, but he still smiled very confidently, and then took out a document from his arms and handed it to the other party: "Daoist Zou don't be arrogant, the troops you can use are not just a few thousand people, in fact, there is still a force that can listen to your mobilization, but it depends on whether you are willing or not?" ”
Zou Pusheng took the document curiously, and when he opened it and saw the content on it, the whole person suddenly froze on the spot, and the look on his face became very complicated, there was humiliation, regret, but more was monstrous anger!
After a long while, Zou Pusheng restrained the anger in his heart, and then took a long breath and said, "Brother Zhang, does he know this?" ”
"He doesn't know, I only got this information through Jinyiwei!" Li Jie also replied with a sigh.
"Let's go see Brother Zhang!" Zou Pusheng immediately put the paperwork in his arms, and then picked up the coat next to him and put it on, the content of the paperwork was too heavy, and he had to find someone to share it with.
Li Jie also understood Zou Pusheng's mood, immediately put on a robe, braved the wind and rain to go out, the two soon came to Zhang Dingbian's residence, when entering the room, but saw Zhang Dingbian dressed in short clothes, his head was also steaming hot, it is estimated that he was practicing martial arts just now, this is also his old habit, as long as he has free time, he will practice martial arts, it is said that he encountered a tiger when practicing martial arts, and was beaten to death by him with a stick, although it is a bit exaggerated, but Zhang Dingbian's martial arts are definitely not comparable to ordinary people.
"Brother Zhang, look at this!" Zou Pusheng handed over the documents to Zhang Dingbian with a heavy expression.
Zhang Dingbian was also wondering, I don't know why Li Jie and Zou Pusheng braved the wind and rain to find him, after taking the paperwork at the moment, he just looked at it a few times, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely hideous, his right hand was suddenly raised, and then slammed it on the table.
only heard a loud sound of "呯~", and a solid wooden table was slapped in half by Zhang Dingbian, and the small sawdust flew one after another, hitting Li Jie's face with some pain.
"Li Jie, this is how you Ming treat the people?" After Zhang Dingbian slapped the table, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Li Jie's collar and asked loudly, his eyes also turned red, like a beast that chooses people to eat.
"Brother Zhang is angry, with Deputy Envoy Li's age, this matter must have nothing to do with him!" Zou Pusheng was also startled when he saw Zhang Dingbian's reaction, and immediately stepped forward to persuade him, for fear that he would hurt Li Jie, after all, this information was still given to him by Li Jie.
Zhang Dingbian was just angry just now, but he suddenly calmed down, and immediately let go of Li Jie's collar, and then said with tears in his eyes: "We have all been defeated, why is Zhu Yuanzhang still so stingy and so embarrassed by these old brothers?" ”
is the so-called "men don't flick when they have tears", not to mention a decisive veteran like Zhang Dingbian, but when he saw the content of the document, he couldn't help but shed tears, because this document touched the sore spot in his heart.
Li Jie didn't know how to comfort the other party at this time, what was recorded in this document was actually about the situation of the "nine fishermen", the so-called nine fishermen, in fact, refers to Chen Youliang's old department after the defeat, mainly living in the middle and upper reaches of the Xin'an River and Qiantang River.
It's just that after Chen Youliang's defeat, Zhu Yuanzhang hated Zhu Youliang and was afraid that his old troops would rebel, so he ordered the local government to strictly guard these old departments, not only forbidding them to go ashore, but also prohibiting them from participating in the imperial examination, not allowing them to wear long shirts and shoes, let alone intermarrying with people on the shore.
It can be said that the fishermen surnamed Jiu are the inland Tan people, even worse than the Tan people, because the Tan people are at least free, but they have to be monitored by the government at all times.
These Chen Youliang's old departments were still very tough at the beginning, but people always have to live, they live on boats, and can only rely on fishing and transportation to make a living, but these incomes are meager, and they can't support their families at all, so after a long time, some people began to degenerate, many women began to sell their bodies, and even the men in the family rocked the boat, and the women picked up guests on the boat, so that the reputation of the fishermen surnamed Jiu became even more stinky.
Zou Pusheng went to sea after the defeat, and Zhang Dingbian became a monk and did not ask about the world, both of them knew for the first time that those old brothers had fallen to such a miserable state.
Thinking of this, Zhang Dingbian also wanted to directly raise the anti-flag and kill Jinling to cut off Zhu Yuanzhang's head, but unfortunately the cold facts told him that with the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, their rebellion now is simply self-defeating.
Li Jie looked at the grieving and angry Zhang Dingbian, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, Zhang Dingbian and Zou Pusheng should have no problem here, but the next thing is to persuade Lao Zhu to agree to mobilize these old departments of Chen Youliang, with Lao Zhu's stubborn temper, it is not easy to persuade him, but Li Jie has a killer feature, as long as he uses this killer feature, Lao Zhu will definitely agree!