On the fourteenth night of the first lunar month, thousands of Japanese raiders attacked thousands of households in Baoshan, killing more than 300 Ming troops, and looting was not counted.

Immediately crossed the river and attacked the Wusong River Qianhusuo, but fortunately the defenders resisted to the death, but the Japanese did not succeed, and turned deep into the interior, and on the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month, they killed Jiading County. The soldiers and civilians were preparing for the festival, and they were unprepared, and they were rushed into the city by the Japanese bandits, killing thousands of people, burning countless houses, robbing 18,000 stone of grain, and plundering more than 3,000 people.

The leader of the Japanese invaders sent men and horses to plunder everywhere to expand the results of the battle, and one of the Japanese invaders retreated less than five miles away from Taicang, and almost entered the city......

There were more and more news of all kinds, and Tang Yi finally figured out the situation, it turned out that when the Japanese invaded, some bandits and grass robbers disguised themselves and mixed into Taicang, taking advantage of the lantern festival to make trouble and fish in troubled waters.

When Tang Yi was still guessing the lantern riddles, the crowd was already chaotic, and many people shouted while setting fires, saying that the would-be robbers were coming. The crowd was chaotic, and Zhou Xun thought that the would-be robbers were really killed, so he hurriedly told Chen Menghe and protected the eldest master to leave. But he didn't know that as soon as he ran away, everyone had no backbone, the scholars rushed to flee for their lives, and the family came to rescue the master, colliding and trampling on each other, making a mess inside and out, out of control.

"Incompetent, rice bucket, as a parent official, in such a panic, how can he take on a big responsibility, Chen Ziyu should be killed!" Tang Shunzhi directly sentenced Chen Menghe to death.

Tang Yi didn't see it that way, Chen Menghe did not handle it properly, but this kind of large-scale gathering was prone to problems. After Chen Menghe evacuated, he quickly mobilized troops, closed the city gates, and strictly guarded them, without giving the Japanese a chance to attack. Overnight, the chaos was calmed down, and it was quite effective in terms of remediation.

"Sir, if Lord Chen should be killed, I thought that the officials of Nanzhili would be going to roll over!"

"So what!" Tang Shunzhi snorted coldly and reprimanded angrily: "Baoshan Thousand Households and Wusongjiang Thousand Households, as well as Zhu Zhiliang of Jiading Zhi County, lost the city and lost his land, shouldn't he be beheaded?" The rest such as the prefect, the governor, and the sailors along the river, are these people blind, the Japanese invaded on a large scale, they were unaware in advance, and the huge southeast made the Japanese invaders like no one, killing and looting at will, and the people suffered innocently, shouldn't someone come out to be responsible? ”

Tang Shunzhi's series of questions made Tang Yi speechless for a while, it is true that there are too many loopholes in the defense system of the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese are so troublesome, and there is no way to deal with it, it is long overdue to completely change blood.

It's just that no matter how much rice bucket it is, Tang Yi has a trace of doubt in his heart.

"Sir, with all due respect, I suspect there is collusion." According to Tang Yi's estimation, someone should cooperate with the Japanese Kou, otherwise they would not seize the Lantern Festival and start when the precautions are the most lax.

Tang Shunzhi saw farther than Tang Yi, he was worried that from now on, the plague would become more and more intense, and it would be out of control, he said with a cold face: "I have long known that most of the so-called Japanese robbers are the leaders of the Ming Dynasty maritime merchants, who have changed their faces and gone to the sea to become thieves. ”

When it comes to the city, we have to talk about the maritime ban policy with Ming characteristics.

Since the dynasties of the past dynasties, the Chinese kingdom has not been able to prohibit the sea, and it is also a maritime power, with prosperous trade, bringing a large amount of income and maintaining the prosperity and wealth of the Central Plains. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a bitter child, has an instinctive refusal to treat the sea and maritime trade. In addition, he lived in an era that coincided with the brutal war, and commercial activities were at their lowest point, and the harm of the forbidden sea was not great.

What's worse is that he wrote the forbidden sea into the law of the Ming Dynasty, and it became an unshakable ancestral system, although the emperors of the past dynasties were lenient and strict, but no one dared to open the sea openly.

In the second year of Jiajing, there was a famous tribute incident, simply put, two groups of Japanese envoys came to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, wanting to ask for the reward of the Celestial Empire, and each other said that the other party was fake, and as a result, the two unlucky children fought by themselves, and looted everywhere, killing the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

According to common sense, this kind of thing should be clearly distinguished from false, and then ask the Japanese Xingshi for the guilt, this is the bearing that the Celestial Empire should have. However, Xia Yan in the matter at that time, that is, Xia Shoufu, who was later framed to death by Yan Song, actually wrote a book, believing that the trouble began in the city, and the young Jiajing Emperor also absurdly adopted the suggestion, abolished the three city ships in Ningbo, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou, and began a strict maritime ban policy.

This kind of self-deception and self-deception will not stop the pirates at all, and the normal trade routes will be cut off, so smuggling. Coincidentally, the West opened the Age of Discovery, and a whole shipload of American silver was shipped to the East, wanting to exchange it for silk, tea, and porcelain, and transport it back to the West.

In the face of strong market demand, the maritime ban policy is like a confrontation with the laws of nature, and failure is doomed.

The maritime merchants hired thugs, formed fleets, and carried out smuggling frenzy, and as their strength grew larger, some of them were not satisfied with normal commerce, and began to loot and do business.

Even more coincidentally, Japan was in the Warring States period, and a large number of defeated samurai were exiled to the sea, and they were hired by maritime merchants to form the so-called Wako.

All kinds of coincidences came together, and the rebellion of the Japanese invaders became an inevitable result.

It's like a dike full of holes, in the face of the surging flood, everyone knows that it will not be able to hold on, but they didn't expect that it would start in Jiading, which is far away from the coast, and there is no information in advance, which is really weird. I talked with Tang Shunzhi for a long time, but I couldn't figure it out, so I could only continue to wait for more news.

Tang Shun was angry, the situation in the southeast was becoming more and more critical, as a responsible scholar, he couldn't stand it anymore, and it was not far from the time he came out of the mountain.

Tang Shunzhi left, Tang Yi became bored, he felt that the appearance of the widow must represent the beginning of a great era, Hu Zongxian, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Tan Lun...... A group of the most outstanding civil and military ministers in the history of the Ming Dynasty will emerge one after another, leading the coquettishness, and perhaps they will have the opportunity to become one of them.

Being able to fight with these celebrities, it makes my blood boil when I think about it, but these are still a little far away, Tang Yi cares more about that Wang girl, he has already inquired, the girl's name is Wang Yueying, only one year older than himself, as the saying goes, a female freshman, hugging a golden rooster, the age is just right.

It's just that Miss Wang went home with Wang Shimao that night, although everyone pays attention to the ladies, but Tang Yi is still a little disappointed, isn't he not attractive at all?

"Shen Lin, go and bring my painting of Wu Song Fighting Tiger."

Shen Lin agreed, and after a while, he held a stack of white paper and sent it to Tang Yi. Shen Lin was puzzled, other people's paintings were painted with brushes on rice paper. The young master's painting is on cardboard, drawn with charcoal, the lines are clear and sparse, and the human form is outlined with a few strokes, which is much clearer than ink painting.

"Shen Lin, what do you think of the young master's painting?"

"The young master's paintings are naturally good, but ordinary people may not be able to understand them."

"Little ghost, you have also learned to hold stinky feet." Tang Yi scolded with a smile: "People like the charm in paintings, what they want is taste, and the young master can't get on the table at all, but ah, these paintings also have fun to write." ”

Tang Yi unfolded all the pieces of paper, and the footers were numbered according to the thousand-character text, writing "Heaven and earth are yellow, the universe is desolate", and so on. In order, the pieces of paper are arranged. I saw Tang Yi put his finger on the top and flipped it gently.

Shen Lin didn't know why, but after looking at it twice, his mouth opened wide, oh my God, the painting on the piece of paper actually came to life, the sturdy Wu Erlang raised the whistle stick and smashed the tiger angrily, the whistle stick broke, and then waved his fist to hit it, pressing the tiger to the ground, the fist was like raindrops, falling on the tiger, as if he could feel the pain of the tiger. When Tang Yi finished turning the last page, the tiger was also killed.

"Young master, this, this god!" Shen Lin was stupid.

Tang Yi smiled, just a page-turning animation, in the future generations the bear children would have been thrown out of the clouds, and they would be able to bluff the naïve baby of the Ming Dynasty.

"Shen Lin, you give this to your cousin and ask him to bring it to Miss Wang, if you have time these days, I'll draw some more and give it to her, just to relieve boredom."

"Well, young master, you really have a heart, Miss Wang will definitely like it."

Shen Lin jumped up and went to find Wang Shimao.

It's just that Tang Yi doesn't have the kung fu to paint anymore, and the real trouble is coming......

The Japanese invaders not only attacked Jiading, but also opened the embankment of the Huangpu River, the river gushed out, 300,000 acres of farmland were flooded, one-third of which was lost, thousands of houses were destroyed, Jiading County, there were more than 100,000 people homeless, reduced to refugees, because Taicang was the closest, tens of thousands of refugees flocked to Taicang. The amount of food consumed by these people every day is astronomical, not to mention the impact on people's lives, and the law and order will deteriorate rapidly.

As a master, Tang Xiucai's work has increased several times at once, and he spit out his bitterness to his son while eating.

"Why are these heavenly wokes so lacking in morality! What are you doing with the destruction of the embankment! ”

Tang Yi's face was pale, and his eyes flashed with a fierce light like a beast, and he roared angrily: "I finally understand, it's not a wolf at all, but someone who wants to enclose the land!" I want to snatch the field from the hands of the common people! ”