After Zhu Kun removed the commanders of Zhejiang and Fujian, the maritime tycoons smelled danger, but they were not very worried about their safety.

After all, they are deep-rooted official eunuchs in Zhejiang and Fujian, even if Zhu Kun has great power, it is impossible to suddenly do something to them, at this time the gentry class is privileged, even if the governor wants to punish their crimes, they must have real evidence, and they have no direct connection with pirates and pirates, they are all colluded with pirates and pirates through intermediaries, and it is impossible for Zhu Kun to find out any substantive evidence.

They all knew that Zhu Kun was very likely to do something to their maritime merchants.

However, they are not too worried about this, because the capital guards in Zhejiang and Fujian are inextricably linked with them, and if Zhu Kun wants to do something, he basically can't escape their eyes, and if he can't beat them, he will let the maritime merchants under his hands hide, even if he mobilizes more people, what can he do with them.

Just after the New Year's Festival, he ordered Lu Bo and Liu Xian to organize more than 100 warships and more than 5,000 guards to assemble in the waters near Taizhou and Fuzhou respectively, preparing to encircle and suppress pirates and pirates.

At this moment, it really frightened the maritime giants, more than 100 warships, more than 5,000 guards, just come to a share, none of them can bear it, they hurriedly ordered their subordinates to hide and avoid the limelight first.

However, what is strange is that Zhu Kun next ordered Liu Xian's troops, who were assembled in the waters near Taizhou Mansion, to move to the south, and Lu Bo's troops who were assembled in the waters near Fuzhou Mansion to move to the north.

The four major maritime tycoons were all stunned when they received the news, because Lu Bo and Liu Xian were obviously in the wrong direction.

The maritime merchants under their command do not do business on the sea, they do it wherever they go, and the maritime merchants under their command have a fixed place for trading.

The maritime merchants in the waters of Zhejiang basically do business with the Dongying people on Shuangyu Island in Ningbo Prefecture north of Taizhou, while the maritime merchants in the waters of Fujian basically do business with the Dongying people and Nanyang traders in Zoumaxi in Zhangzhou Prefecture south of Quanzhou.

If Liu Xian wants to encircle and suppress the maritime merchants in the waters of Zhejiang, he should go north and go to Shuangyu Island.

If Lu Bo wants to encircle and suppress the maritime merchants in the Fujian waters, he should go south and go to Maxi.

It's good that they came in the opposite direction, and they all went in the wrong direction, could it be that the information obtained by Zhu Kun was wrong?

Of course, there was no problem with the information Zhu Kun obtained, and he did this only to prevent the guards in Zhejiang and Fujian from ventilating the news.

Sure enough, Liu Xian and Lu Bo led their men to go in opposite directions, and after "going in the wrong direction", the information that the maritime giants could obtain became less and less, and they only knew that Liu Xian and Lu Bo roughly led their troops to the sea area at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian, and then there was no news.

In this case, it is very likely that Zhu Kun is afraid that the people and horses along the way will not be safe, so he wants to gather two people and horses to encircle and suppress a certain place, as for which place Zhu Kun is like to encircle and suppress, the maritime giants can't figure it out, they can only wait for the inner guard to send them information.

However, they waited for several days without receiving any information, but the merchants in Dongying and Nanyang were a little anxious, and frequently sent requests to them through intermediaries, asking them to arrange for their maritime merchants to trade goods as soon as possible.

After the New Year's Festival, it was already busy, because the maritime merchants under their hands had to celebrate the New Year, and as soon as the New Year was rested, there would be problems with the supply of goods in Dongying and Nanyang, and everyone was waiting for them to supply, but they ordered their maritime merchants to hide and avoid the limelight, how can this work!

There was no way, they could only order their subordinate maritime merchants to come out quickly, and first send the goods squeezed during the New Year Festival to others, anyway, Liu Xian and Lu Bo have their people in the team, no matter where these two sailors go, they can receive the news, and then order their subordinate maritime merchants to hide.

At least, that's what they thought.

As everyone knows, Zhu Kun gave them a big move.

To put it simply, he ordered Liu Xian to lead the Zhejiang sailors to Zhangzhou Zoumaxi to encircle and suppress the Fujian pirates, and ordered Lu Bo to lead the Fujian sailors to Ningbo Shuangyu Island to encircle and suppress the Zhejiang pirates.

In this way, the guards of Zhejiang and Fujian have come to the sea areas that they are not familiar with, even if they want to report the news, they don't know where to go, let alone who to go to!

Zhu Kun's move was really powerful, and the maritime giants were defenseless at all, and as a result, the pirates and widows who traded in Zoumaxi and Shuangyu Island were caught by Lu Bo and Liu Xian.

At this time, the power of the four giants of maritime merchants on the sea almost suffered a devastating blow, and more than half of the ninety-six maritime merchants were arrested, even Xu Dong, the general under Wang Zhi, the leader of the Dongying Japanese Bandits who came to trade, were arrested, and several Portuguese traders from Nanyang were also arrested.

Immediately afterwards, the Nanzhili Tunwei stationed in Zhejiang and Fujian suddenly attacked and arrested all the maritime merchants and their men who were staying on the shore.

Zhu Kun was also ruthless, and after arresting these maritime merchants, he ordered everyone, including his subordinates, to be pulled out and cut down, and all the captured pirate ships were scuttled on the spot, blocking the channel near Zoumaxi and Shuangyu Island, so as to prevent pirates and pirates from gathering again.

Subsequently, he reported to the imperial court, and all the pirates on the southeast coast were wiped out, leaving only the pirates to be eliminated.

This time, the entire court was once again sensational.

In the great victory of Zoumaxi, Liu Xian led the Zhejiang Navy Division to exterminate the pirate strongholds, and captured more than 40 pirate leaders, thousands of other pirates, and destroyed more than 50 pirate ships.

In the great victory of Shuangyu Island, Lu Bo led the Fujian Navy Division to the coking coal pirate stronghold, and captured more than 50 pirate leaders, thousands of other pirates, and destroyed more than 60 pirate ships.

This "woe" to the pirates on the southeast coast for many years was actually wiped out by Zhu Kun in one fell swoop!

Jiajing was naturally happy when he received the report, because the southern and northern captives had been bothering him for more than ten years, and it can be said that since he succeeded to the throne, the north and south have not stopped, making him simply unable to sleep.

Now it's okay, the pirates who colluded with the Southern Japanese have been wiped out by Zhu Kun, and I believe that it is only a matter of time before the Japanese are cleaned up, and with Yang Cong and Qiu Luan in the Northwest Frontier, the Tartars are not arrogant, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before the Tartars are eliminated.

There is hope that these two headaches will be solved, how can he not be happy.

However, the government and the opposition did not rejoice because of this, Xia Yan wanted to rejoice, but he couldn't jump up alone, as for the others, Yang Ming was more happy, but not so happy that he wanted to jump up, and many people in Yan Song's party were secretly gritting their teeth.

Yang Cong was also not happy when he received the news, because he knew very well the energy of the maritime giants, and Zhu Kun was looking for death like this!

It's a pity that it was too late when he received the news, otherwise, he would definitely find a way to advise Zhu Kun not to do so desperately.

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