Chapter 480: The Brave Are Fearless
The old enemy who has been fighting for many years is suddenly about to surrender, how can he not make Hu Zongxian excited, even crazy! As long as the old shipowner Wang Zhi is solved, the Japanese who have been plagued by the southeast for decades will disappear, and the world will be able to restore peace!
In one fell swoop, Hu Zongxian suddenly felt that he was twenty years younger, and his whole body was about to fly.
Compared with Hu Zongxian, Tang Yi is not so chic, Wang Zhihui surrendered to him is not surprised, but he gave up resistance so quickly, which is really unprepared.
"Brother Merlin, don't you think things are a little strange? Wang Zhi's tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers have not been damaged, there are more than 1,000 ships, and there are still huge forces in the Japanese country. ”
Hu Zongxian waved his hand and said confidently: "Okay, have you eaten rice for the past few years?" Wang Zhi has long been under my control! ”
In the words, there is a strong self-confidence, and even a little tsundere. Don't think you're the only one in the world! What's the big deal about dealing with Xu Hai? I am the first feudal territory in the world in charge of hundreds of thousands of troops.
Hu Zongxian was full of pride and told Tang Yi about his method of dealing with Wang Zhi......
Wang Zhi is a native of Huizhou, and so is Hu Zongxian, so he knows Wang Zhi, in the final analysis, although Wang Zhi has tens of thousands of troops and strong strength, he still can't get rid of the character of a businessman.
What is the character of a businessman, that is, calculating too much in everything, making too few decisions, being indecisive, and not having the determination to achieve great things!
Since Hu Zongxian took charge of the southeast, he has worked hard to train the army, built forts along the coast, strictly guarded against them, and widely publicized them to the people. He said that he had red eyebrows and green eyes, like a little ghost from hell, who eats people and doesn't spit out bones.
After several years of hard work, the people in the southeast no longer have a good impression of the Japanese Kou, and with the seven major maritime merchants becoming a thing of the past, the Japanese have no internal response. It is no longer possible to be as elusive as before, as if in a no-man's land. Every time the loot can only be hard-hitting, the people in the southeast have the same hatred for the enemy, plus the newly trained village bravery, and a large number of elite guest troops, even if the Japanese can succeed, they will also suffer heavy losses.
In particular, the Ming army also attacked various small islands from time to time, which made the Japanese invaders very annoying.
The entire thirty-seven years of Jiajing. Wang Zhi folded his fingers and calculated, the soldiers under his command not only did not increase, but also decreased.
Not only that, but after the government subdued Xu Hai and Xin Wulang, these two people turned around and became the vanguard of dealing with Wang Zhi. They didn't even have to send troops to fight, as long as they stood their banners there, a small group of would-be would-be would-be wouldn't surrender. Most of these pirates were from maritime merchants. Affected by the sea ban policy, he had to go to the sea to become a thief. Now that the sea is fully open, coupled with Xu Haixin Goro as an example, what are they still doing as widows?
To put it mildly, if you die in battle one day, you can't even go back to your ancestral grave.
In one year, the power that originally depended on Wang Zhi was gone.
As a savvy businessman. Wang Zhi felt an unprecedented crisis, and if he still wanted to fight in the future, he had to take out his henchmen to fight.
Compared with the powerful official army, there is no chance of victory at all.
If you change to ordinary recklessness, most of you will think that your head has lost a scar the size of a bowl. Lao Tzu will fight to break the net!
Wang Zhi wouldn't think so, with Xu Hai as a lesson from the past, it would be okay for him to surrender.
In fact, Hu Zongxian has long grasped Wang Zhi's mentality, he sent a few of Wang Zhi's family members over before, but there was one person who didn't send it, that is, Wang Zhi's old mother.
The old lady is seventy or eighty years old, and her health is very good, and she has always been regarded as a guest by Hu Zongxian, taking good care of her, and giving her a lot of military intelligence reports to the old lady to see.
This is a terrible look, today the widow killed 500 people, tomorrow robbed tens of thousands of taels of silver, almost every day is this kind of news, where can the old lady stand it, she wrote to her son with tears, let Wang Zhi stop doing evil, God will condemn the crime!
Others don't listen, but Wang Zhi is a dutiful son, seeing the old lady's handwritten letter, kneeling on the ground in the direction of Daming, howling and crying, slamming his head to the ground, and fainting several times.
Having come to this point, Hu Zongxian was not satisfied, and he sent envoys to Japan to deliver letters to the powerful feudal lords who supported Wang Zhi.
Tell them that Wang Zhi is a rebel of the Ming Dynasty, and if anyone supports Wang Zhi, the Ming Dynasty will not let him go, on the contrary, if he can take the initiative to isolate Wang Zhi, the Kingdom will allow him to trade freely!
Wars were frequent and materials were scarce, but a lot of gold and silver were the only ones that were gold and silver, and when they heard the news, they naturally cheered. They cooperated with Wang Zhi, but because the Ming Dynasty imposed a sea ban, they couldn't get supplies. Now that the Ming Dynasty has opened up the sea trade, why bother to go through Wang Zhi's hands again!
The daimyo of the Wa Kingdom sent envoys one after another to contact Hu Zongxian, and Hu Zongxian, following Tang Yi's example, also sent these letters to Wang Zhi's hands.
This trick is too vicious.
Now that Hu Zongxian has opened the gate to release the water, tens of thousands of fish under Wang Zhi will soon be exposed to the sun, waiting to be dried into dried fish.
The old lady looked forward to it, but the backyard was on fire again, and Wang Zhi had almost no way to go except to surrender.
But the old shipowner is the old shipowner after all, he has been at sea for twenty years, and he has not seen any intrigues and tricks. Hu Zongxian is unreliable, and Tang Yi's kid is even more deceitful.
Surrender to them, fearing that there will not be even a bone left.
And Wang Zhi also knows the rules of the Ming court to some extent, it is the capital that has the final say, it is His Majesty the Emperor and the cabinet, without the consent of the emperor, surrendering is also a dead end.
Coincidentally, at this time, I heard that there was a Qincha ship transporting Ganoderma lucidum passing by, and Wang Zhi discussed it with his godson Mao Haifeng, and acted in a play to catch and release Cao.
first detained the Qin Cha, and then released it, bribing him heavily, hoping that the Qin Cha could say something good in front of the emperor to show his hard work...... Wait, how do you seem to have seen this routine somewhere?
That's right, it's "Water Margin"!
Song Jiang Zhao'an followed the path of Su Taiwei Su Yuanjing, and Wang Zhi also wanted to follow suit.
It's just that Wang Zhi forgot one thing, Su Yuanjing is a fictional character at all, this method can only work in fiction, put it in reality, just like now, the eunuch didn't dare to send the letter to Jiajing, and he didn't have the ability!
Regarding Wang Zhi's strategy, Tang Yi only had one sentence to comment: You still play pirates, politics is too far away from you!
For the decision-makers in the capital, face is always more important than actual interests, Wang directly called Wang Haihai, has seriously provoked the dignity of the empire, for him, up to Jiajing, down to the six cabinet departments, the attitude is quite consistent, is one word: kill!
Only Tang Yi and Hu Zongxian, who were more sober, understood that Wang Zhi could not be killed, and if he was killed, he would lose control, and the southeast would be in chaos.
It's just that if it doesn't happen, those big masters won't believe it, and even if it really happens, they will only blame the local officials for doing things badly, and in short, they will always be right.
It's good that Wang Zhi didn't go to rob Qincha, but if he did so, it would only increase the court's bad feelings towards him, and he was simply dying.
Tang Yi doesn't care if he dies or not, but the pass is those tens of thousands of widows, once there is no one to control it, the world will be in chaos, and the great cause of opening the sea in an all-round way will be impacted.
And Tang Yi also has a selfish intention, he doesn't want Wang Zhi to surrender so soon, with the pressure of the Japanese invaders, Jiajing will give power to the southeast, he can hide behind the banner of anti-Japanese and cultivate his own forces.
For example, the transportation industry has already controlled the finance of the southeastern provinces, and the members of the Yangming Society are increasing rapidly, and the majority of the southeastern magistrates believe in Xinxue.
In this way, in the children's examination, these people will release water, so that the people of the Yang Ming Society can pass the imperial examination, creating a kind of established impression that if you want to take the test to show talent, you must believe in the established impression of Yang Ming Gong.
If you control Xiucai, you will control the lifting of people, and you will further master the examination.
As long as it is accumulated over a period of time, the power in Tang Yi's hands is unmatched.
If Wang Zhi surrenders, the court accepts him, and the trouble subsides, which is not good for Tang Yi, if he does not accept him, he will be killed, and the world will be in chaos, which is still not good for Tang Yi!
He thought about it, and couldn't find a reason to be happy.
"Brother Merlin, your brain won't be broken, will you?"
Hu Zongxian was in the southeast, so he could naturally guess some of Tang Yi's thoughts, but he also had his own calculations, and his interests did not conflict with Tang Yi, and the two of them happened to cooperate happily.
"Okay, I won't hide it from you, no matter what, I have to recruit Wang Zhi to surrender, as the governor of the southeast, I must do this."
"Brother Merlin, I'm afraid it's not that simple, right? I don't believe you when I think Wang Zhi is the first one! Tang Yi said mercilessly.
"But he believed in the Holy Decree!" Hu Zongxian said in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty will not make a will!" Tang Yi said categorically, Hu Zongxian was silent, just smiled meaningfully, and Tang Yi suddenly became uneasy.
"Brother Merlin, you don't mean to make a false decree, do you?"
Hu Zongxian didn't deny it, Tang Yi stood up in shock, his pupils shrank into a gleam, and he suddenly remembered Hu Zongxian's final fate.
Isn't it that the Yan family fell, and when Yan Shifan's house was raided, he turned out the holy decree drafted by Hu Zongxian, and the crime of fake holy decree was confirmed, and no one could save him anymore!
The sword buries the injustice, and the loyal soul surrounds the white clouds!
How sad, a generation of famous ministers, the first commander of the anti-Japanese war, died here, so that when later generations mentioned the anti-Japanese war, they only knew Qi Jiguang, only Yu Dayou, and Hu Zongxian!
Tang Yi suddenly felt that a flame in his chest was expanding and burning, making him feel as if he was about to explode.
"Brother Merlin, I will never allow you to do this kind of death-seeking thing, never!"
Tang Yihong's eyes were red and he roared in a low voice, Hu Zongxian saw sincerity and concern in his expression, and his eyes were also red.
"Okay, I'm not wrong, you are a good brother of Hu for life!" Hu Zongxian patted Tang Yi's shoulder with his big hand, "Okay, as the commander of the anti-Japanese army, I have no choice, if it is...... What will happen in the future......"
Hu Zongxian suddenly stopped talking and sighed: "Who can say for sure what will happen in the future!" Knowing my sins, I am only in the spring and autumn! I'm here to ask Xingzhi to help me play a play, and I won Wang Zhi for me in one fell swoop! (To be continued.) )
PS: Hu Zongxian's tragedy is really impressive, and sometimes I think that Chongzhen is missing a Hu Zongxian in his hands!