Chapter 444 Wang Zhi is coming
In the 39th year of Jiajing, the Japanese invasion of Zhejiang has come to an end.
After several years of hard fighting and hard planning, Hu Zongxian not only conquered Wang Zhi and others, but also reused Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and others, allowing them to play a major role in the anti-Japanese war in recent years. Shine.
Originally, the imperial court's opinion regarding Wang Zhi's treatment was to kill him as an example to others, so as to frighten the rest of the world.
But Zhu Zaijing suppressed the matter.
Zhu Zaijing knew very well why some people in the court were so anxious to kill Wang Zhi. It was not because they were really jealous and took Wang Zhi's crimes seriously, but because Wang Zhi had been entrenched in Shuangyu Port off the coast of Ningbo for many years. Controlled the greatest interests of maritime smuggling.
For many people in the imperial court, these interests were also their personal interests behind them, so they hated Wang Zhi to the core and wished to execute Wang Zhi immediately to vent their hatred.
But how could Zhu Zaijing let Wang Zhi die like this?
Let’s not talk about whether Wang Zhi is considered a talent. First of all, if he dies, with his current influence on the Ming Dynasty sea, once he dies, the outer sea of the Ming Dynasty will be in chaos.
Although the imperial court has always looked down upon the interests at sea, that is because some people deliberately concealed it and did not truthfully report the actual interests at sea to the court.
Therefore, after Emperor Jingtai, although Baozong also wanted to go to the West again, he was dissuaded by the officials and finally gave up. The Ming Dynasty gradually focused all its attention on the interior and never went to the sea again. One glance.
Now that Wang Zhi, a native of Anhui, has suddenly come to Shuangyu Port and become famous for smuggling, he has also poached most of the smuggling profits that were originally controlled by the Zhejiang and Fujian families. This will definitely arouse resentment. of.
Now these people think that Emperor Jiajing and Zhu Zaijing are still easy to trick emperors like Jingtai, Baozong, and Zhengde. They think that by mastering the channels for transmitting information, they can reverse right and wrong and take advantage of the interests of the sea. Said it was nothingness, and said the enemies on the sea were weeds that could not be killed.
You still want to fool Emperor Jiajing and Zhu Zaijing into continuing to implement the maritime ban. Are you obviously treating Emperor Jiajing and Zhu Zaijing as two fools?
If Zhu Zaijing had not had his current status, nor had he had the experience before time travel, he might have been deceived by these idiots.
But Zhu Zaijing clearly understood that there were not only huge benefits in the sea, but also more exciting overseas technology that was very different from Ming Dynasty.
Then Zhu Zaijing definitely couldn't let Wang Zhi die like this.
So, Zhu Zaijing's official reply to Hu Zongxian was to personally escort Wang Zhi, who had been deceived by him and trapped by Wang Bengu, to Beijing.
Because Zhu Zaijing was also worried that if he was escorted by others, Wang Zhi might die inexplicably on the road.
Hu Zongxian looked at the capital that had been absent for several years, and his heart was filled with emotion.
When he left Prince Yu's Mansion, he swore in front of Prince Yu that he would not return to the capital until the Japanese pirates were eliminated.
Now the Japanese pirates have only disappeared on the ground in Zhejiang, but they are still rampant in Fujian in the south.
So when Hu Zongxian received Zhu Zaijing's order to personally escort Wang Zhi back, he really felt that his efforts in the past few years had not lived up to the oath he had made in front of King Yu.
Xu Wei also came to Beijing for the first time. As a high-spirited young man, he thought he could become famous through the imperial examination, passed the provincial examination, and then went to the capital to take part in the joint examination smoothly, and finally ranked first on the gold list.
But fate just liked to play tricks on him. After Xu Wei passed the scholar examination at the age of twenty, he took the provincial examination eight times in a row. Until he was forty-one, he still failed to break through the shackles of a scholar and become a scholar. .
So now Xu Wei can only act as a behind-the-scenes master and make suggestions to realize the dream that the imperial examination did not help him realize back then. "Budang, is this the capital?"
Xu Wei looked at the spacious road, accompanied by green plants, and the pedestrians and carriages on the left and right sides walking and speeding without interfering with each other, Pedestrians are on the sidewalk beside the green plants, and horse-drawn carriages are on the express lane in the middle of the green plants.
Xu Wei was really shocked by the scene in front of him. He had never thought that the road order in the capital could be so shocking.
Hu Zongxian opened the curtain on the carriage and looked at these unfamiliar street scenes. Hu Zongxian sighed with emotion: "I haven't been back to Beijing for several years. I didn't expect that the prince would manage the outer city of the capital into what it is now. Such an unexpected grand occasion! With this capital as evidence, who dares not to believe that the Ming Dynasty will see another prosperous era?”
Xu Wei asked in surprise: "Is this all the achievement of Prince Yu?"
Hu Zongxian nodded slightly, "Yes, when I was appointed as the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, the prince had already asked His Majesty to continue the construction of the outer city of the capital. At that time, everyone did not believe that Prince Yu would create any trouble in this special zone, and some even wanted to watch the prince's excitement."
"As a result, the management system of the Capital Special Zone was not established. As soon as I came out, it all started like a dream. In the end, I had to learn from the management experience of the Jingshi Special Administrative Region and set up the Jingshi Patrol Division to be responsible for the security of the inner city of the Jingshi."
"Later in Hangzhou and Ningbo. I followed this example and set up Hangzhou patrol police and Ningbo patrol police to manage public security in the city. This not only improved the security level of Hangzhou and Ningbo by several levels, but also greatly reduced my management costs and gave me more energy. Deal with these cunning and cruel Japanese pirates."
"So, my achievements in Zhejiang are all due to the trust of the prince, otherwise I would not be able to do this."
Hu Zongxian has now completely regarded himself as Prince Yu. When others call Zhu Zaijing, they will add Zhu Zaijing's title and call him Prince Yu, while Hu Zongxian directly calls him Prince.
From the difference in this word, we can actually see the distance between people.
After saying these words with emotion, Xu Wei asked Hu Zongxian again with concern.
"Bu Tang, is Wang Zhi really going to be sent to the imperial prison? This seems to be against the rules of the court. He should be sent to the prison of the Ministry of punishment."
Hu Zongxian glanced at Xu Wei and said calmly He said: "Wang Zhi is not an ordinary imperial prisoner. To be honest, he has been on the sea for so many years, controlled so many pirates, and had contacts with so many small overseas countries. He can barely be regarded as a prince. Like this How can a person be easily sent to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment for questioning? ”
"So, it is appropriate to send him to prison. Otherwise, why should I personally escort him to the capital? Don't we have anyone who can escort the imperial prisoner?"
Xu Wei finished listening. Hu Zongxian nodded in agreement. He did not want Wang Zhi to be handed over directly to the officials of the Ministry of Justice. Although these people also hated evil and were upright.
But the situation at sea in Zhejiang is too complicated. If they really convicted Wang Zhi of the death penalty all at once and had Wang Zhi executed by Ming Zhengdian, then there would still be some power of order. Did the child collapse?
When the time comes, God knows whether these unfettered smuggling pirates will become another group of bandits that disturb the tranquility of the southeastern part of the Ming Dynasty!
So, Wang Zhi really can’t be killed so easily, he must make good use of him. Otherwise, all the achievements in the anti-Japanese war in recent years may be lost because of Wang Zhi's death, and then a few more years will be wasted.
And how many years of life can be wasted like this?
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