Volume 4 Chapter 45

Tu Dashan was dismissed from his post and investigated, and the situation of the southeast crackdown on the Japanese finally ushered in a fundamental turning point.

Tu Qiao and Tu Dashan, these two people have successively become members of the imperial court above the third grade, which is also the reason why the maritime tycoons are arrogant.

Now, Tu Qiao has already been dismissed and investigated, even if the foundation of the maritime tycoon in the court is destroyed, can the Japanese continue to run rampant?

This is easy to say, but it is not difficult to say.

Like Zhu Kun, completely cut off maritime trade in accordance with the laws of the imperial court, beheaded all maritime merchants, and sunk all sea ships, which seemed to be vigorous and resolute, but in fact it did not work.

Because that would be tantamount to cutting off the financial routes of all the local tyrants and squires and vested interest groups in the southeast, people will definitely unite and fight back wildly.

Therefore, Zhu Kun not only did not exterminate the Japanese invaders, but killed himself.

Like Zhao Wenhua, completely ignoring the laws of the imperial court, conniving and instructing pirates and pirates to go ashore and plunder, that naturally did not work.

He is not suppressing the Japanese, but cultivating the Japanese!

If we want to exterminate the Japanese pirates, we must eradicate the cancer of the maritime tycoons under the condition of ensuring the financial resources of most of the local tyrants and gentry and vested interest groups in the southeast.

For ordinary people, it is almost impossible to do these two things, so in history, the Jiajing Dynasty ravaged the Japanese for decades, but the imperial court has been suppressing it until Yan Song is finished, Longqing opens the sea, and the Japanese invaders slowly disappear.

To put it bluntly, Yan Song's death is actually the beginning of the eradication of the tumor of the maritime tycoon, and the opening of the sea in Longqing ensures the financial routes of most of the local tyrants and gentry and vested interest groups in the southeast.

What Yang Cong did can be said to be more thorough than in history.

Open the sea or something, it seems unlikely at this time, he simply united with Wang Zhi, formed his own fleet, replaced the maritime giants, and monopolized the maritime trade, so that most of the local tyrants and squires in the southeast and vested interest groups The financial route has not been cut off, but is getting wider and wider, and everyone will naturally not unite to fight with him.

As for the maritime giants, Yan Song is not finished yet, Yang Cong is going to call them finished!

After Tu Dashan was dismissed and investigated, Yang Cong immediately took the opportunity to besiege the Tu Mansion in Ningbo.

The reason why the maritime giants were able to control the maritime trade and even the entire southeast depended on their own relatives, of course, not by a few people from their own relatives, but by a large number of stewards and shopkeepers, and these people had more or less certain connections with pirates and pirates, and some of them even directly commanded the coastal capital guards, opening the door to pirates and pirates, so that pirates and pirates could wreak havoc on the shore.

After Yang Cong arrested them, he was severely tortured, and soon, all the military attachés of the guards, the local civil officials, and those who had collusion with pirates and pirates were all stabbed out.

Yang Cong immediately ordered Tang Kekuan to organize people to arrest all these people!

As a result, the southeastern provinces, especially Nanzhili and Zhejiang, suddenly appeared a rather strange scene, the elite army of the imperial court let the pirates and pirates who were ravaging the second capital of Suyang not go to clean up, but wantonly arrested "their own people".

What is the commander of the guard, thousands of households, what is the governor of the state, the county, the government, what is the inspection, inspection, and arrest fast, the elite of the Ming army is like having nothing to do when they are full, just picking up these people to round up!

This guy, there is chaos on the ground in the southeast, and there is even a situation where the commander of the guard post and Qianhu and other officials gather their subordinates to fight with the elite of the Ming army, and the impeachment of Yang Cong is like a snowflake flying to the capital.

Yan Song was pleasantly surprised when he saw these twists and turns, Yang Cong, this kid, was afraid that he had taken the wrong medicine, and he wanted to uproot the power of the maritime giants, this is not a good thing to do!

It just so happened that he was worried that he couldn't drive Yang Cong out of the southeast, and these twists and turns could be described as a relief in the snow.

Even if he ordered someone not to lose, he presented it all to Jiajing, and added oil and vinegar, and made a big fuss about the ticket, saying that Yang Cong seemed to be a rampant and domineering earth overlord, but anyone who dared to disagree with him was all implicated in prison for the crime of complication.

When Jiajing saw these twists and turns, he was dumbfounded, Yang Cong, this kid, which one is this singing?

Fortunately, someone soon came to solve his doubts, Gu Kexue always appeared in time, and presented the confessions of these officials who were the commanders of the guards, Qianhu, Zhizhou, Zhixian and other officials.

This time, Jiajing was a little dissatisfied with Yan Song again.

You said that you are the head of the cabinet, why are you so biased, Yang Congming is obviously investigating officials who have fornicated with the Japanese, but you blindly smear the black family because of personal grievances, and your mind is inevitably too narrow-minded.

The reason why Yang Cong did this disgusted Yan Song was only secondary, the main thing was that he still wanted to completely eradicate the soil where the pirates breeded.

After all, they are from the distant Dongying, they are not familiar with the southeast coast, if there is no one to cooperate and guide, how can they run rampant?

His crazy arrest of these officials who fornicated with the Japanese can not only cut off the eyes and ears of the Japanese bandits, but also warn those who are involved in the Japanese for various reasons, you have to be careful, don't have anything to do with the Japanese bandits, otherwise, these officials are role models!

As soon as he did this, the southeast was chaotic for a while, but the effect was quite significant, and with the arrest of these officials, the Japanese became blind men without eyes, flies without heads, scurrying around, and panicking all day long.

When there are people who cooperate, they are like fish in water on the southeast coast, and when no one cooperates, they are simply unable to move an inch on the southeast coast.

Here, after all, it is the Ming Dynasty, not Dongying, how big is the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many times bigger than Dongying, they are not familiar with the place, without the cooperation of the locals, they may even walk and get lost, and how can they loot unscrupulously here?

The next thing is the real purge, the so-called "know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles", Yang Cong has already known everything about the Japanese through the severe interrogation of Yuyao Xie's, Ningbo Tu's and those officials who fornicated with the Japanese Invaders.

This time, there are actually not many Japanese robbers who are ravaging the second mansion of Suyang, after all, the biggest Japanese leader Wang Zhi has already returned to the imperial court, and Chen Sipan, Lu Qi, Shen Jiu and other big Japanese leaders have also been exterminated by Yang Cong, and the Yuyao Xie clan and the Ningbo Tu clan can only recruit thousands of people.

These thousands of people, in front of the well-equipped elite of the Ming army, are not enough to see at all, so Yang Cong has no intention of gathering more people or recruiting guards, there are 20,000 elites under Tang Kekuan and Qi Jingtong.

With his order, the elite of 10,000 foot soldiers under Tang Kekuan suddenly gathered in Changzhou Mansion, and the elite sailors under Qi Jingtong also lined up on the river from Yingtianfu to Changzhou Mansion, preparing to launch the final encirclement and suppression of the Japanese Kou.