Zhu Houzhao and Zeng Xilai couldn't help but be taken aback when they saw such a spectacular explosion scene at the dock.

After receiving a secret letter from Murong Chong and learning that a group of ninjas from Dongying were going to come to Nanjing City to fish in troubled waters and let them set up defenses in advance, Zhu Houzhao secretly ordered Qiao Yu, the secretary of the military department, to strengthen the defense of the Nanzhili area.

And he himself came to the dock to meet this childhood friend. In Zhu Houzhao's opinion, although Murong Chong is a eunuch, he is very worthy of trust, because he does not have much ambition, and he is very different from those who are bent on glory and wealth.

He will not deliberately curry favor, but when he needs it most, he will firmly support him, he will send him to carry out the mission, no matter how powerful the other party is, how difficult to defeat, he will not hesitate to go, even if he is seriously injured, or even his life hangs by a thread.

Of the ten Deadpools, this is the only Deadpool who appeared by his side before he ascended the throne, and although he is ranked second, his martial arts are the best of the ten.

This is not the emperor's speculation, but an evaluation from the Tantric archives, which may also be related to Murong Chong's martial arts.

Murong Chong's cultivation is a very peculiar martial art, once this martial art is used to meditate, he will not eat or drink for three days, enter a state of suspended animation, and then the divine soul enters the realm of emptiness to comprehend the Tao around him.

This martial art has been passed down for a long time, and it is a Taoist Xuantong technique called "Dao Wuwei", which strives to be able to completely forget oneself, become one with the surroundings, and then attack.

This technique is too erratic, and when fighting with opponents, oneself is often not limited by space, even if it is a dark room where you can't see your fingers. or deep water that is difficult to breathe, Murong Chong can adapt to it. Thus causing huge psychological pressure on the opponent, so as to defeat the opponent.

distance from the place of the explosion. At least a mile away, it looked very blurry, Zhu Houzhao stood on the shore, looking at the sea with concern, but he didn't have much worry or even sadness, because he believed that the person would be able to return safely.

Zeng Xilai was by his side, hiding the aura of his whole body, protecting this important son of heaven, fortunately so far. The Jianghu people who are hidden among those coolies have not yet discovered them, otherwise he will be caught in a bloody battle.

The reason why this group of people came to this wharf was also because they heard the news that the Japanese were coming to Nanjing, but these people were not as bent on eliminating these invaders as Zhu Houzhao, but thinking about how to reach an agreement with them and fight side by side.

Because of interests, because of status, because of these desires of beauty. It inspires the darkest greed in the human heart, and as long as they can achieve the ultimate victory, they don't care how despicable the process is.

Even if you are in cahoots with foreigners, even if you are stepping on the corpses of your compatriots and climbing up. These traitors who lack principles will also do so without hesitation.

Seeing the crowd getting excited, Zhu Houzhao was very disappointed. Under his rule, the people of the Ming Dynasty were so unprincipled. Betraying the country for glory. These shameless people are certainly innocent, but he is the supreme ruler. It also bears an unshirkable responsibility.

If he was really as wise and martial as Tang Zong and Song Zu, these things would rarely happen. But he couldn't do it, because the emperor who defended himself could not be as bold as the emperor who fought the world, and killed all traitors and thieves at every turn.

What the emperor wants to do is to appease the people, not to make drastic reforms, which only applies to the early days of the founding of the country, because after a hundred years, a dynasty will form a set of inherent mechanisms, even if this set of mechanisms has many defects, but it is the cogwheel of the normal operation of the whole country, if you choose to reform, if you don't do it well, it will damage one of the links, thus ruining the operation of the entire state machine.

Zhu Houzhao, who is not a faint monarch, naturally saw such a problem, but he couldn't change it, because there were too many obstacles in front of him, not only the civil official group, but also the eunuch group, even the harem, and even his relatives.

There are Mongolian Tatars and Warats in the north, the Japanese people in the east, the Liangguang natives who often rebel in the south, and the west is not very peaceful, and many bandits are entrenched in the west, which makes the court very headache.

Zhu Houzhao wants to solve all these problems, and he wants to use the power of the Jianghu people to complete this purge. The waves wash away the sand, and those that are washed away are destined to be worthless sand, and what remains is real gold.

The ambitious Zhu Houzhao found that in the process of implementing his idea, he encountered unprecedented obstacles, and the cronies he sent to go undercover in the rivers and lakes all sent back the news that the heads of the major sects refused to cooperate with the imperial court.

And the news that more secret agents came back was that the bandit leaders not only refused the court's recruitment, but even advocated uniting against the court.

In the face of these thorny problems, Zhu Houzhao believed that the outside must first settle the inside, because the strong fortress began to disintegrate from the inside, if the unity of the empire could not be realized, how could the people with evil intentions resist the invasion of foreign enemies?

Under the leadership of Zhu Houzhao, a large number of strategists began to make plans and use all their resources to disintegrate the alliance of the main sects and even bandits on the rivers and lakes, and prevent them from becoming bigger and stronger. After a long period of efforts, this policy has worked very well, but although the imperial court has the intelligence of spies, it is still difficult to eliminate those bandits.

The reason is also very simple, because the gangs have also planted fine works in the imperial army and even the court, or many court officials have been secretly bribed and secretly betrayed intelligence.

So every time the imperial court sent troops to recruit, it would return in vain, which was the crux of the problem. Zhu Houzhao hated these scum who disregarded the interests of the society, put the people in fire and water, and only wanted their own glory and wealth, but even if he knew that some officials in the imperial court were corrupt and bribed, he could not thoroughly investigate and deal with them.

Because today's first assistant Yang Tinghe is the one who accepts bribes, if it is investigated, how many honest people are still in the imperial court, and they are all dismissed and investigated, then who should be entrusted with the affairs of the imperial court, and how can the entire empire operate normally?

Thinking of these problems, Zhu Houzhao felt a headache, and the reason why he behaved absurdly and uninhibited was also because he wanted to relieve the bitterness in his heart.

On the sea, Murong Chong threw out a few kunai, killed several pursuing ninjas, and was still swimming desperately.

Zhu Houzhao could already see his head rise to the surface, and he was about to ask Zeng Xi beside him to stop the pursuing widows, when the change happened in front of his eyes.

I saw that those martial arts people who were hiding in the coolies suddenly took out the short swords and daggers hidden on their bodies, jumped into the sea together, and rushed towards Murong.

And some of those people actually used kunai, and they shouted something in the Toei dialect. Zhu Houzhao finally understood that there were many Japanese people among these people, and they had already colluded with those incorruptible and shameless traitors.

In this regard, Zhu Houzhao made a decision, these people must not leave this dock alive, otherwise it will be a disaster for the people of Limin. (To be continued.) )