In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, because of the strong national strength in the early Ming Dynasty, and in order to demonstrate the prestige of the Celestial Empire, the envoys of small countries who came to pay tribute, or merchants from other countries, could often make huge profits in the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, many Dongying Islanders often pretended to be their own tributary envoys and came to the Ming Dynasty to cheat money and goods.

At this time, many Dongying people who came to the Ming Dynasty to pretend to be tributary envoys did not have the jurisdiction of the Japanese government, and after the tribute was over, these barbarian thieves who were not strong enough to swallow elephants stayed in the coastal areas of China to rob.

This is the original Ming Dynasty.

In order to prevent the attack and harassment of the Japanese invaders, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was furious and promulgated a policy of banning the sea from traveling with merchants from other countries along the coast.

The "Great Ming Law" promulgated in the thirtieth year of Hongwu was very strict on overseas business, which stipulated that all people who carried iron goods, copper coins, satin, silk cotton and other prohibited items to the sea without permission were punished together with foreign barbarian traders according to the law, and it was forbidden for private individuals to build large ships with more than two masts to go to sea.

The "rebellion and rebellion" of collusion with foreign clans is even more severe, the Ming law: all "rebellion and rebellion", all the first and second followers will be executed at Ling Chi, the grandfather, father, son, grandson, uncle, brother, nephew, cousin of the clan, the grandfather, father-in-law, son-in-law, son-in-law, and domestic slaves of the relatives with different surnames who live together will be beheaded

In order not to be punished by the nine clans, pirates and smugglers, they must do everything possible to hide their origins.

In the Ming generation, rebels often used nicknames to disguise their real names, such as the well-known peasant uprising during the Chongzhen period, and the leaders of the uprising used nicknames: Purple Eight Kings, Non-Dipping Mud, Sweeping King, etc., including the famous "King Chuang".

On the southeast coast, Chinese can directly disguise themselves as Dongying people.

As for the magistrates, the rebellion of the people in their own jurisdiction greatly dragged down their political achievements, so they were also willing to report them all as "widows".

The Jiajing period lasted for 40 years from the Longqing and Wanli periods, which was the most harmful period for the Ming Dynasty.

In this stage, the Chinese coastal civilians who were "forced by greed and cold" from among the thieves were really the main body of the Japanese pirates, and one of the causes of hunger, cold and poverty was the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy of "not allowing people to go to the sea".

As the saying goes, it is better to rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and rely on the sea to eat the sea.

The population of China's southeastern coastal area has increased rapidly, but the land has not increased, and the contradiction between man and land is prominent.

Since the Song Dynasty, the local residents have always regarded the sea trade as a source of food and clothing, and it can be said that the sea has fed at least one million coastal residents by maritime merchants, sailors, shipbuilding, repair, transportation, and various services.

In Fujian at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying called: "The sea, the land of the Fujian people." ”

The Ming Dynasty's maritime ban ruthlessly deprived the local residents of their "fields", and the local people's jobs were also smashed.

In Chaozhou, Guangdong, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Fujian and other regions, it has always been a port for trade to go to sea, and there is a saying that since ancient times, "Chaozhang takes the ship for profit", and if trade is not allowed, it is equivalent to cutting off their livelihood.

For the bewildered coastal dwellers, there are two avenues in front of them: either starve or take the risk of smuggling by sea.

Because of their native country, the "Wako" had unbelievable support in the southeastern coastal region.

During the war, a seemingly absurd scene occurred repeatedly: the Japanese invaders took advantage of everything at the right time and place, like a fish in water.

The officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, who represented the army of justice, were not popular and were struggling.

Many coastal civilians even directly supported the Japanese invaders, and the Ming people who participated in the War of Resistance against the Japanese recorded that "the shops in Hangzhou City were pirates, but they coveted their profits, let them pile up goods, and escorted them." Copper coins were used for fire milling, lead bullets, nitrate for gunpowder, and iron knives and guns...... The big ship escorted, Guan Jin did not check or ask, and sent the thief clearly. ”

"The people in the vicinity are sending fresh goods, or giving wine and rice, or offering their children, in an endless stream, and the officials of the border guards have those who offer red and jade belts...... (with) Wufeng (that is, Wang Zhi) has always had a friendship, and when they meet, they bow and kowtow, are willing to be their servants, deliver goods for them, call and go, be proud, coerce up and down, obey and disobey, and distinguish between good and evil. "

The root of the problem is actually rotten in the Ming Dynasty itself, just as half of the country was closed in the Qing Dynasty in the same night, and the closure means backwardness, and backwardness will be beaten.

It is no wonder that it is impossible to prevent and punish it, and the Japanese are a tumor that consumes the Ming Dynasty, and it has been accompanied by the decline of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the total number of people only accounts for one-tenth of the actual number of "Japanese robbers", the ferocity and viciousness of these Dongying barbarians are far from being comparable to the "Japanese robbers" who are forced to disguise by coastal residents.

The activities of the Ming Dynasty can be roughly divided into two periods, with the Jiajing Dynasty as the boundary.

The early period was from the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the Zhengde period.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Eastern Ying Kingdom entered the period of division between the North and the South, and the Japanese archipelago was full of gunsmoke, and the remnants of the defeated soldiers, pirates, merchants, bankrupt peasants, and disaster victims in the civil war fled into the sea, taking advantage of the opportunity of the early Ming Dynasty to use troops and have no time to take care of each other, and repeatedly gathered people to invade the coastal states and counties of the Ming Dynasty.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, the coastal defense had not yet caused a major disaster.

After the battle of Wanghaipot in June of the 17th year of Yongle (1419), Liu Jiang, the general soldier of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, led his division to annihilate thousands of Japanese who came to invade the Japanese state.

After orthodoxy, due to the gradual emptiness of the coastal defense in the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese invaded and repeatedly succeeded, resulting in the recurrence of the Japanese troubles.

During this period, most of the Japanese members were natives of Dongying, and in addition to the naked invasion, they also used the "exploration trade" that existed between China and Japan to transport goods and weapons.

On the way, when they encountered the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they pretended to be Dongying to pay tribute to the court, and then took advantage of their unpreparedness to kill and plunder.

Generally speaking, before Jiajing, the invasion of the Japanese was limited to a few areas, and the time was short, and it had not yet become a serious scourge in the southeastern region of the Ming Dynasty.

But in the Wanli period, Shenzong Zhu Yijun was in the government of the court, the eunuch dictatorship and military affairs were abolished, and the coastal defense was lax.

The activities of the Japanese in the coastal areas are becoming more frequent and more intense.......

Xiao Yao said goodbye to Feng Lone Star, Gongliang Zheng and others, came down from Jiuyang Mountain, and rushed all the way to Lunan alone, preparing to go to the Furnace Fort to see the excitement.

It's just that I came all the way east, and when I entered the realm of Shandong, I saw that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were constantly coming and going on the main road, and there were many displaced people who had no food.

Xiao Yao almost scattered all the silver he was carrying, but it was only a drop in the bucket.

When I arrived at a town in front of me, I found out that not long ago, there were Dongying Japanese criminals.

Xiao Yao had actually heard of these Dongying Japanese Invaders before, but he did not expect that the disaster of the Japanese Invaders was close to Si, and this Shandong area was close to the imperial court capital Shuntianfu, and it was not immune to the disaster.

The shopkeeper who was asked by Xiao Yao kindly reminded: "Objectively, I look at your dress, you don't look like our locals, if there is nothing important, it's better not to stay here longer." ”

Xiao Yaoqi said: "Haven't the Japanese who committed the border have been beaten away, will they come back?" ”

The shopkeeper sighed with a sad face: "Objectively, you only know one and don't know the other, although this Japanese robber has been beaten away by General Qi's troops now, but this group of barbarian thieves from the Dongying Japanese Kingdom will die every day, and this coastal area will not be peaceful for a day." ”

"When General Qi was in Shandong, they naturally didn't dare to loot anymore, but General Qi couldn't stay with us all the time, once the Qi family army left. ”

"That group of Dongying Wokou who killed a thousand knives will continue to come back to plague us people, and it is not once or twice that the imperial court has sent troops to our place to quell the Wokou, but it is just a symptom but not a root cause, not to mention..."

Xiao Yao suddenly stopped in the middle of his words, and hurriedly asked, "What's more, what's ......?"

The shopkeeper looked left and right and whispered: "What's more, I heard that there are traitors in the imperial court who framed General Qi, and General Qi will be transferred to Guangdong by the imperial court in a few days. ”

When Xiao Yao saw the look of the shopkeeper, he knew that this barbarian and Japanese robber had caused a deep scourge to the coastal residents, but he was just a martial artist. At most, I was foolish enough to see how many Dongying ronin people could commit crimes on the border, but they were unable to save these thousands of coastal people.

When I got out of this town, I continued to rush in the direction of Lunan Furnace Fort, and I happened to meet the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty all the way on the way.

I saw that the armor of these soldiers was bright and full of spirit, and everyone had a long knife stuck in their waists, and a scarlet battle flag with the word "Qi", showing their indescribable majesty and majesty in the wind.

Although Xiao Yao has been wandering the rivers and lakes for a long time and is used to seeing many heroes and heroes, the aura of these hundred warriors is different from that of ordinary warriors.

This group of dozens of Qi family soldiers is strictly disciplined, and hundreds of Japanese are guarded, and the team is long but not chaotic.

When the people on the road saw this army, they were all happy from the bottom of their hearts, some applauded loudly, some spat and threw stones at the Japanese who were captured, and some took out food and water to give to the soldiers of the Qi family's army.

However, this Qi family army is obviously well-trained and has very strict military discipline, and no matter how warm and welcoming the people around them are, they will not accept the things sent by these people.

On the contrary, when the generals who took the lead saw the people who were in distress and displaced, they would also give some money for relief.

When Xiao Yao and a group of dart masters from the Sanshan Dart Bureau went to the Qihuangmen of Huanglong Mountain to escort the darts, they passed through Shaanxi and successively met the winged tiger Duan Sanshan, as well as the tiger brothers and sisters.

Duan Sanshan, the winged tiger, was forced to be a bandit by the government, and the parents of the two brothers and sisters were killed by soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

Xiao Yao heard a lot of corrupt officials, soldiers and bandits bullies in the Ming Dynasty from them.

I didn't have the slightest good impression of the Ming Dynasty court officials.

But at this time, when I saw the Qi family army in front of me, I couldn't help but have a new understanding.