"Knock knock~" Zhou Zhong stepped forward in person, and then gently knocked on the door of Zheng Jing's study.

"What's the matter?" Zheng Jing's familiar voice came from inside.

Hearing this, Zhou Chong looked at Li Zheng and Zhang Jing beside him, and immediately took a long breath and said, "Brother Minglun, Zhou Chong is visiting!" ”

Hearing Zhou Chong's voice, Zheng Jing inside was also silent for a moment, and then the sound of footsteps sounded, and then the door was opened, revealing Zheng Jing with a cold face inside, only to see that the other party nodded to Li Zheng and Zhang Jing first to say hello, and then said to Zhou Chong: "Zhou Gongzi is not at home to prepare for the wedding, how can he have time to come to Zheng here?" ”

Hearing that Zheng Jing's name for himself had changed, and he didn't even mean to invite himself in, Zhou Chong couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Brother Minglun, I know that you have some opinions about what I did in Shuangyu, but as a friend, I feel that I need to come to you to explain, this point is also very supportive of Fang Shi and Berao, I wonder if Brother Minglun wants to hear it?" ”

"Brother Minglun, like you, I also have opinions on Wenda's methods, but we have been friends with Wenda for many years and know each other's temperament very well, so I believe that Wenda must have his own difficulties!" At this time, Zhang Jing also spoke.

"This ......" When Zheng Jing heard this, the cold expression on his face couldn't help but loosen a little, I saw him standing in front of the door and thinking for a moment, and finally turned to Zhou Zhong and said, "Okay, since Zhou Gongzi wants to explain, then let's listen to it, see what reason you have for slaughtering hundreds of people in a row just after arriving at Shuangyu Port, and even now you already have the title of 'Destroying the Door Prince'?" ”

Seeing that Zheng Jing was finally willing to listen to his explanation, Zhou Zhong and Li Zheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and they entered Zheng Jing's study at the moment. They each found a chair and sat down. Then Zheng Jing, Zhang Kuang, and Li Zhengsan all focused their eyes on Zhou Chong.

I saw Zhou Zhong sitting there thinking for a moment. Then he suddenly raised his head and said: "Everyone, I think you have all heard about my affairs in Shuangyu Port, and Brother Minglun and Brother Fang Shi are not very satisfied with some of my practices, now I want to ask the two of you to say, what is the most dissatisfied with me?" ”

Hearing Zhou Chong's question, Zheng Jing first stood up and said, "I have also discussed it with Brother Fang Shi before, and the rest is nothing, but Zhou Gongzi, you have only been in Shuangyu Port for a few days. slaughtered two chambers of commerce, that is hundreds of lives, and even you cut off a few people's heads with your own hands, although they are extremely evil in human trafficking, but as long as the first evil is killed, why do you want to kill all the top and bottom of the two chambers of commerce, don't you think you are too cruel Zhou Gongzi? Have you forgotten all the ways of the saints? ”

When Zheng Jing talked about the most reluctant, his emotions also became very excited, he has always attached great importance to Zhou Zhong, thinking that he is among his own group. Zhou Zhong is the one who is most likely to be thrown into the ground, but as the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Now what Zhou Zhong did made him extremely disappointed, and even felt a sense of heartache.

However, after Zhou Zhong listened to Zheng Jing's accusation, he smiled slightly and said: "Brother Minglun, it seems that you also admit that those who were killed by me are guilty, but you think that I am too cruel and violates the way of benevolence and righteousness of the saints, but I want to ask rhetorically, if I talk about benevolence and righteousness with those Japanese and Koreans, will they also talk to me about benevolence and righteousness?" ”

"This ......" Hearing Zhou Chong's rhetorical question, Zheng Jing and Zhang Kuang's faces changed, but Zhang Kuang still defended himself, "Wenda, you are a scholar, how can you be confused with those Japanese and Koreans, they are all vulgar people, naturally I don't know what benevolence and righteousness are, but it is precisely because of this that you should use benevolence and righteousness to influence you, so as to show our Chinese style of subduing people with virtue, rather than countering violence with violence like you!" ”

Maybe in the eyes of later generations, these words of Zhang Kuang are simply bullshit, but in the eyes of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, it is a very natural thing, this is because Confucianism has been distorted and developed for so many years, and has already formed the core of the outer saint and the inner king, they can carry out cruel punishments on the people in the country, but they are very generous to the foreign races, showing their benevolence and righteousness everywhere, but they do not know that their benevolence and righteousness are fundamentally weak in the eyes of the foreigners.

However, Zhou Chong was not stupid enough to argue with Zhang Kuang and Zheng Jing about the rights and wrongs of this "benevolence and righteousness", because he knew that with the little thing in his stomach, he couldn't say anything about these two Ming scholars, so he thought about it and said: "Brother Fang Shi, regarding your understanding of benevolence and righteousness, the younger brother really doesn't dare to agree, but put this issue aside, let's talk about the matter, and I will explain to you the deep reason why I used such cruel means of slaughter!" ”

"Hmph, what other reason can there be for the massacre, I think you are justifying yourself!" At this time, Zheng Jing suddenly said with an angry face, he heard that Zhou Chong was unwilling to discuss the issue of benevolence and righteousness, thinking that Zhou Chong couldn't talk about them, so he changed the topic.

"Brother Minglun, Wenda has always been very measured, although the massacre was cruel, he must have his own reasons, so what's the matter if we listen to Wenda?" At this time, Li Zheng finally opened his mouth to help Zhou Chong speak, and Zheng Jing heard and glanced at him, and finally sat down to continue listening to Zhou Chong's explanation.

At this time, I saw Zhou Chongchang take a breath, and then he explained: "Actually, the reason why I just arrived in Shuangyu Port and attacked the Japanese and North Koreans is that they provoked me, and they also participated in human trafficking, of course, the two chambers of commerce together have four or five hundred people, it is impossible for everyone to participate in human trafficking, but the reason why I slaughtered everyone regardless of it is for the second reason, that is, to deter!" ”

"Shock? Who to seduce? Zhang Kuang, Zheng Jing, and Li Zheng said almost at the same time, although they had heard some about Shuangyu Port, but after all, they were scholars, and all their energy was focused on their studies, and they didn't know much about the overseas situation at all.

Seeing that even Zheng Jing and the three of them looked confused at this time, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, and explained again at the moment: "You brothers and gentlemen probably haven't been to Shuangyu Port, let alone know the situation there, I can tell you now that there are more than 1,000 Japanese and Koreans there, for example, taking the Japanese people as an example, the largest of them is called the Ashikaga Chamber of Commerce, which is known as one of the four major chambers of commerce in Shuangyu Port, and there are five or six hundred people in the Chamber of Commerce, plus other large and small Japanese Chamber of Commerce, The number of Japanese people in the entire Shuangyu Port has reached 16,700! ”

Zhou Zhong paused here when he said this, and then said: "And now the Japanese are in turmoil and war, and the daimyo from all over the country are fighting each other, so that more and more people in their country take the risk of going to sea to participate in smuggling, so the number of Japanese people in Shuangyu Port has been growing, and these Japanese people who dare to go to sea are all extremely vicious outlaws, don't look at their few people, but they are rampant and domineering in Shuangyu Port, and they have repeatedly robbed the fleets of other chambers of commerce at sea, and hundreds of people die at the hands of Japanese people every year, if this continues, I'm afraid that the entire Shuangyu Port will fall into the hands of the Japanese! ”

"I see, the reason why Wenda killed and slaughtered the two foreign chambers of commerce in one go is to deter those foreign Japanese and Koreans, so that they don't dare to do anything wrong!" At this time, Li Zheng was the first to react, and at the same time said with a look of approval. Zheng Jing and Zhang Jing didn't expect that the situation in Shuangyu Port was already so grim, if it was really like what Zhou Zhong said, then what he did was understandable, after all, Shuangyu Port was on the side of the Ming Dynasty, how could those Japanese people be kings and hegemons?

Zhou Chong saw that Zheng Jing and Zhang Jing's faces finally became softened at this time, which made him happy in his heart, it seemed that his explanation had finally had an effect, and he explained again: "Brother Minglun, you are all my bosom friends, today I will give you my thoughts, in fact, after taking over the Chamber of Commerce left by my father, I have seen many problems in the smuggling industry, and I also have many ideas." ”

Zhou Zhong paused again when he said this, and then said: "In my opinion, with the relaxation of the imperial court's ban on the sea, the development of smuggling is getting faster and faster, which has attracted more and more people to join in, most of them are our Ming people, in addition to the Japanese people, Koreans, Nanyang people, and even the Francois people, whether it is these foreign or Han people, as long as they dare to participate in smuggling, many of them are some lawless people, and now that smuggling is prosperous, they can also make profits from it, so there is little harassment along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, But if one day the imperial court tightens the sea ban and these people can no longer profit from smuggling, then guess what will happen next? ”

When Zhou Zhong said this, his face also became very serious, what he said was all true, and the reason why the Japanese rebellion in the Jiajing period was formed was because the imperial court strengthened the sea ban, and at the same time destroyed the smuggling base such as Shuangyu Port, which made a large number of smugglers no longer able to engage in smuggling, so under the pressure of anger and survival, they began to loot the coastal court of the Ming Dynasty, although it was known as the Japanese rebellion, but the real Japanese only accounted for a small part, most of them were the smuggling merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Jing and the three of them were shocked when they heard Zhou Chong's rhetorical question, they were all shocked all over, they were all excellent talents of the Ming Dynasty, although some of their views were very pedantic, but it was not that they were stupid, so after hearing Zhou Chong's analysis and assumptions, Zheng Jing and the three of them all thought of the serious consequences that Zhou Zhong said.

"If this is really the case, I am afraid that it will be a repeat of the Japanese Rebellion of the year, but this will no longer be a simple Japanese Bandit, with those smugglers who are familiar with the Ming coastal area to participate, I am afraid that it will be more difficult for the imperial court to exterminate them!" Zheng Jing, who had been thinking about it for a long time, suddenly muttered to himself at this time, and his face was a little pale. (To be continued......)