Chapter 30 Reports from Informed Sources

"It's a pity that the old man didn't die!" Tang Xiaofei smacked his lips regretfully. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The shouting in the back was already chaotic, and a large number of officers and soldiers surrounded it in such a fight, but after pointing and pointing on the shore for a while, some people actually chased after Zhu Houzhao and their boat.

It's a pity that the horse is not as fast as the boat, and it is gradually thrown away.

Zhu Houzhao and others drove the broken ship in front, and Shang Er followed closely behind the boat.

Halfway through, Shang Er got off his boat and got on Zhu Houzhao's boat, and when he saw Zhu Houzhao, he knelt down.

"The minister, the brocade, the guard, the hundred households, the second one, see the emperor!"

Zhu Houzhao is strange, how can anyone know him when he has changed his face so much, do you people have paparazzi or what?

Without waiting for Zhu Houzhao to ask, Shang Er explained with great insight: "The subordinate Shang Er is a subordinate of Admiral Zhang, and since the Admiral took charge of the Jinyi Guard, he has shown the emperor's portrait of you to all the Jinyi Guard's subordinates, and ordered to protect you no matter what!" ”

Zhu Houzhao stopped, and his words were angry and funny. It's rare for this Zhang Cheng to have this kind of heart, but this kind of practice is too irresponsible for the safety of his master, right?

"This Zhang Cheng!"

"The emperor can rest assured, our Jinyi guards have been the emperor's personal guards for generations, and there will definitely be no betrayal!" Shang Er is also an uncertain prophet.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at him in surprise and said with a smile: "It's very good, I can't see that your five big and three thick minds are so delicate." ”

Shang Er grinned: "It's not a problem, why do you send your subordinates to go undercover in Huizhou Daxueping, it's because we are all-rounders!" ”

Shang Er's expression was very smug when he said this, obviously wanting to show his expertise in front of the Führer.

Zhu Houzhao patted Shang Er's shoulder very encouragingly, he admired this brave and resourceful Jinyi Wei Baihu very much.

Sure enough, this brocade guard gave Zhu Houzhao another surprise.

"Your Majesty, you must have come to Jiangnan for the queen's private visit this time, right?"

"Oh, yes, you have all the news?"

"Of course, we have always passed on a message to each other in five days.

Your Majesty, your subordinates have been mixed in Daxueping for three years, and they have finally become the middle level of Daxueping, and it was the subordinates who were sent out to follow the queen a few days ago! ”

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he knew that this Zhang Cheng was serious in his work, and he would definitely not make any achievements after coming to Jiangnan.

Unexpectedly, not only did he find Yu Mingxiao, but he even gathered a group of subordinates so quickly, which is extremely rare.

You must know that in the history of the Ming Dynasty, although there was no shortage of admirals of Jinyiwei who wanted to kneel and salute when they saw the Dongchang factory duke, such a thing had never happened to directly let a eunuch go to admiral Jinyiwei.

"You're doing a good job, young man!" Zhu Houzhao said in an old-fashioned manner.

Shang Er was naturally happy, and then he said, "Your Majesty, there is one more thing. ”

"You say."

"Your Majesty, in fact, the ministers have not rescued the queen mother now."

Zhu Houzhao was confused, since he found his whereabouts and didn't take them back, what were he waiting for?

Shang Er wanted to speak and stopped, but still said: "Back to the emperor, there are other circumstances here, in fact, the queen mother is now in the hands of Pei Lanhong, a huge rich man in Jiangnan, because the involvement is too wide, so the Admiral did not dare to act rashly." ”

It's strange, when did the Ming Dynasty still have people who didn't dare to move? Jin Yiwei represents the purest imperial power, does anyone really dare to blatantly confront the imperial power?

"The emperor doesn't know that the power of the provinces south of the Yangtze River is complicated, and since the Hongzhi Dynasty, due to the policy of recuperation, the gentry of the southern provinces have not only had an inextricable relationship with the Beijing officials, but also had sneaky transactions with the barbarians.

The joints are deeply ingrained, and although there are things, there is no way to grasp any handles......"

Shang Er came to the situation he had learned during his years of being an undercover agent in the south, which made Zhu Houzhao take a breath of cold air.

Several southern provinces have been eroded to this point! It has reached the point where the bigwigs in the capital are helpless, which is really appalling!

Huizhou Daxueping Mo family, although the family is inland, but the tentacles of influence are all over the provinces south of the Yangtze River, not to mention, and even have a very vague connection with overseas.

When Shang Er said this, Zhu Houzhao already had a plan in his heart. Originally, I thought that the reason why the cabinet was reluctant to open the sea ban was that the Japanese were rampant, but now it seems that they can't control the dark forces here at all.

The Hongzhi Dynasty ruled the world with benevolence and filial piety, so the power of the special agencies such as Dongchang and Jinyiwei was greatly weakened.

Then these powerful gangsters took advantage of the opportunity to enter the situation, sending silver at both ends of the house, and on the other hand, they worked hard to get silver from shipping and taxation, and they did everything seamlessly.

Take Mo Fenglei as an example, although he is in charge of some of the Mo family's forces, he is still far from being the full representative of the Mo family's forces. The real strength of the Mo family has long been transferred overseas, and they are very careful to collude with the Japanese and Xiyi, and the army is fully armed, and they are not afraid of the coastal border defense of the Ming Dynasty at all.

The coastline of the Ming Dynasty was too long, and those troops in the south could not defend it at all, and Shang Er had personally participated in many Mojia smuggling many times, leading the fleet to the Philippines and other places as later generations.

Zhu Houzhao's heart fluctuated, and in later generations, he had been thinking about why the Ming Dynasty did not have a sensational pirate group in the world, and was taken advantage of by some small European countries in the Age of Discovery.

It turned out that in addition to the Ming Dynasty's policy of banning the sea, no matter how cheerful the pirates fought overseas, it was impossible to enter the eyes of later officials who wrote history books.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is a huge country with Confucianism and Taoism as the orthodoxy, and it pays attention to the agriculture and industry, so many officials and Confucian generals are enough to make them dizzy, where is there any effort to record some pirate biographies that are just sea wanderers.

Shoji continued.

It turned out that the place where Yu Mingxiao was now was within the sphere of influence of another group of people.

After Zhu Houzhao heard about this force, his whole person became more energetic. The leader of this force has become the emperor of the soil overseas, although the power in the inland is not as good as the Mo family, but the Mo family does not dare to jump in front of them at all.

"What's this person's last name?" Zhu Houzhao listened to it with a relaxed heart, and then he was depressed and wanted to vomit blood.

"I don't know the name, but everyone who knows bows down and calls the old shipowner!" Shang Er replied with a solemn face.

As a later generation, it is natural to be relaxed and happy to hear that his own pirates are arrogant in the South China Sea, but as an emperor, he is simply a saint when he hears that his people under his rule are so tax evasion and tax evasion and forced themselves to live a chic life, and he is not so angry that he is half dead.

It's not as good as a pirate, and his wife is still in the hands of pirates, Made, I can't live this day!