I am the king of the dead

Li Binyan sits at the top of the center, Wei Guogong sits on the left on behalf of the generals, Tao Jin, Chen Yu, Ma Yun, Ren Li, and Tang Xing sit on the left, and on the right are Li Xian, Wang Xie, Lin Cong and other civil servants.

And there are three people sitting under the hall, they are the general merchants of Liangzhe, Lianghuai and Liangjiang, representing Huai merchants, Zhejiang merchants and Huizhou merchants.

The reason why Li Binyan sat in the main seat was because Li Binyan had a Yongle sword. In terms of rank, Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong should sit in the first place.

Li Binyan's Yongle Sword was given to him by His Majesty after he went to Shandong to be the governor. So far, His Majesty has not taken back his Yongle Sword, and asked him to always carry it.

"President Fei Shang." Li Bin said that although he was usually straightforward, he was sitting in the main seat at this time, and he was also full of evil spirits.

After all, Li Binyan was also the one who had captured spies and killed Japanese pirates.

Fei Yiying immediately stood up, bowed his head and said, "Yes."

Li Binyan said calmly: "Your Majesty has issued an edict, and here I would like to tell you three things."

"First, His Majesty Zhoushan Japanese pirates will be killed, and Daming will also be killed. This is inevitable, but all pirates who have a criminal record will be punished as Japanese pirates."

"Secondly, Daming needs the government to rush to buy the sea-going ships, medicine stones, and some of the armaments this time. It is absolutely impossible to use inferior products as good ones. Your Majesty will never forgive them."

"Thirdly, you tell those sea people in Zhoushan that if they have no criminal record, there is no need to panic. Da Ming will treat these sea people the same as the people of Daming in the future."

Li Binyan's three requirements, in the final analysis, are the logic of suspending the people and punishing crimes, punishing evil, appeasing the suffering people, and punishing guilty meat eaters.

But this time Li Binyan's words focused on warning the merchants that if they dared to make this war fortune, the Emperor Ming would never forgive him.

It also talked about some changes in the policy direction of Ming Dynasty, such as overseas abandoned people, are they the people of Ming Dynasty?

Li Binyan also confessed that they should be treated equally.

Fei Yiying sighed, he would not do this, and he would warn others not to do so.

But there are some things, how can he, a business owner, manage it?

His Majesty has proved many times how sharp His Majesty's knives are, but some people still have some crooked thoughts when they see His Majesty has returned to Beijing.

The Yongle sword cut down the emperor!

Li Binyan continued: "If someone dares to go against the thief, he will not be spared lightly."

This is also a warning. There are four in total, and the core is only four words. Don't make mistakes.

Fei Yiying took the three business executives with him, saluted and left the Futai Yamen of Songjiang Mansion.

The three of them parted ways without speaking in silence.

Fei Yiying also stabilized the prices of materials needed for the construction of the Songjiang Shipbuilding Department, and in the eyes of the other two business owners, it was undoubtedly a contribution.

So if there is anything to say, the two bosses will not talk to Fei Yiying.

Fei Yiying raised his head and glanced at the bright sun, and shook his head again and again.

There are always so many idiots in this world.

Li Binyan said very confidently: "Your Majesty and the imperial court have expectations for our naval battle against Japan in Zhoushan, and they have very high expectations."

"If we can win quickly and completely, then His Majesty's southward counter-insurgency will be successfully completed."

The Zhoushan naval battle can be said to be the last battle of the Ming emperor going south to suppress the rebellion.

It is also a new beginning and a new beginning of Ming Dynasty, which is of great significance.

Li Binyan said with a solemn expression: "According to His Majesty's highest instruction to be lenient in anticipating the enemy, let me first share a few thoughts of my own."

"First, we must guard against civil uprisings."

Xu Chengzong frowned and said: "What kind of civil uprising are you guarding against? The pirates in Zhoushan are here, and our Ming fishermen will be robbed by them when they go fishing. What kind of civil uprising are you guarding against?"

Xu Chengzong didn't want to understand at all, what's the logic of this matter, it's not his fault, as Wei Guogong, he didn't go to the court, so he didn't have much idea about the affairs of the court.

If he knew that in the ten years of orthodoxy, that insignificant civil uprising burned down more than 120 ships of the Ming Dynasty going south to the West, and if he knew that Guo Yan, the Tong Zhi of Fuzhou Prefecture, was now in Sizhou Prefecture, Guizhou, he would not be so confused.

After all, he is the honorable Duke Wei, so he doesn't pay much attention to these trivial matters.

Li Xian said with a snort: "What a civil uprising, they don't have the courage to rebel now, but they still have the courage to make a fortune under the guise of the civil uprising, and it's very big!"

This is a sentence from His Majesty, and Li Xian borrowed it here.

There are not many people in the civil uprising, and there are as many pirates as there are Lay's potato chips.

Wei Guogong is not a playboy who spends his days drinking and drinking all day long. His position as Wei Guogong is earned by brothers and sisters. Before he became Wei Guogong, he was also the second son for decades.

As soon as Li Xian said, Xu Chengzong understood immediately, his face became a little angry, and he said angrily: "Things that don't know how to live or die!"

Li Binyan continued: "There are [-] Beijing troops stationed in the Mizhou Shipping Department, and [-] Jing troops are stationed after the Yuegang City Shipping Department. No matter what kind of civil uprising, it is difficult to break through the two City Shipping Departments."

"We're not a shipyard after all."

Li Bin's words are inside and out, naturally he is talking about the orthodox four years, the Zhenjiang shipyard in Fujian was burned down by fire, and 120 ships sailing southward, including twelve lucky boats, were burned.

His Majesty also clearly explained this matter in the edict.

When Li Binyan said this, his heart ached. He himself was also in charge of the construction of the Shipbuilding Department in Mizhou, and he also had a shipyard in Mizhou, which was responsible for shipbuilding.

So far, neither Mizhou nor Yuegang has the ability to manufacture lucky boats, but the civil uprising burned down twelve lucky boats at once!

At that time, the construction of the 120 ships going south to the Western Ocean used the manpower and material resources of the eight prefectures, and Jiao Hong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was sent to supervise them.

It took nearly two years to build it.

Is there a question of more money and less money?

It was because of the large-scale mobilization of manpower and material resources that there was no gain, and it was because the shipwrights no longer trusted the Ming court.

Because in the civil uprising, it was the ships that were burned, and the craftsmen who built the ships were killed, but what was really destroyed was the Ming Dynasty's attempt to go south to the West.

In that fire, what was lost was Daming's sea power!

Li Binyan continued: "Second, we must ensure the flexible scheduling of our grain and grass turnover, and ensure that during the Zhoushan naval battle, our grain and grass will not be burned by fire dragons, turnover will not be ineffective, and we will not allow insufficient armaments." .”

"Your Majesty doesn't trust that group of merchants at all. If the goods purchased by the government cannot be delivered to our warehouse in a timely and orderly manner, or even shoddy goods or shortages, we must respond in time."

His Majesty doesn't believe in the fact that merchants are being targeted, even small merchants know about it.

Tang Xing said dismissively, "I'm looking for death."

Li Binyan continued: "Thirdly, we must guard against Japanese pirates' support. Although there are no Japanese pirates in Zhoushan, it is inevitable for them to communicate with Japanese pirates. We must guard against their possible support and prevent problems before they happen."

Since the change of Tumu Fortress, Da Ming has absorbed the lessons of the war during the Zhengtong years, and everything has become lenient in anticipating the enemy, becoming anticipating the enemy first.

These are good habits, war should be like this, use your best to win.

Chen Yu nodded with certainty and said, "We must guard against the real Japanese pirates rushing to help them. Although they can't stop shells and lead, this is their only possible support."

"Especially after they came to Beijing to pay tribute and were punished by the Ming Emperor, they must be dissatisfied and sail carefully for ten thousand years."

These three precautions are the content of the pre-war meeting held in accordance with the instructions of the Ming Emperor to be lenient in anticipating the enemy.

Li Binyan flipped through the inscription of his edict, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty's edict said that we should minimize the casualties of our Ming army. More and more, and they will only fight less and less."

"Don't think about victory, but think about defeat first. This is His Majesty's fighting style. Either you don't fight, as long as you fight, you can't lose."

It is said that His Majesty is cruel and cruel, but Li Binyan did not realize that His Majesty was cruel to his own people at all.

There must be punishment for defeat, but His Majesty allowed staged defeats in the first naval battle against the Ming Dynasty, but strategic defeats were absolutely not allowed.

After all, Ming Dynasty has not conducted a decent naval battle for more than 40 years.

Li Xian turned out a book wrapped in a bamboo tube and said, "I have some information here, you can read it."

"The largest branch is the Quanzhou Pu family. Their ancestors were big cannibals and spice merchants from Tianfang. At the turn of the Song and Song Dynasties, the Pu family became the most wealthy person in Guangdong and Guangxi because of the spice business."

"Yue Fei's grandson, Yue Ke, once visited the Pu family's residence and saw that the ponds in their house were all made of gold."

"Later, Mrs. Pu went south from Guangzhou. During the Southern Song Dynasty, he became the richest person in Quanzhou. In Quanzhou, there are still Tianfeng Haiyun Tower and Yibi Wanqing Pavilion, where you can watch the ships go out to sea."

Ping Jiangbo Chen Yu followed Ningyang Marquis Chen Mao to fight, and he had naturally been to Quanzhou, so he nodded in affirmation.

Li Xian continued: "When the Southern Song Dynasty was in turmoil, Pu Shougeng was appointed as the envoy of Quanzhou City because of his meritorious service in pacifying the pirates in Quanzhou. But in fact, most of the pirates who attacked Quanzhou were Pu Shougeng's private soldiers."

"The biggest pirate leader is Pursue."

"The Yuan army broke through Lin'an City, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Wen Tianxiang took the two emperors at the end of the Song Dynasty to travel to Guangzhou and Fujian and other places, and awarded Pu Shougeng the Fujian and Guangdong recruiting envoy, who was also in charge of the city.

When Li Xian said these words, everyone in the Yamen of the Bureau of Songjiang City fell into the deepest silence.

Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu, and Zhang Shijie traveled back and forth with the last hope of the Song Dynasty.

In Wupoling, Wen Tianxiang was captured, Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with Zhao Bing, the last emperor of the Song Dynasty, and died in Yashan, and Zhang Shijie died at the foot of Pingzhang Mountain.

Tens of thousands of Song Zhonggu who resisted last jumped into the sea together on the cliff.

This is an unbearable history.

The courtier of the leader in the court is Wen'anhou Yuqian, and the one he admires most is Wen Tianxiang.

The emperor of Ming Dynasty was captured, if not for Yu Shaobao and His Majesty to turn the tide, the consequences would be disastrous!

"Pu Shougeng surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty." Li Xian said concisely.

The surrender of Tian Zhenzi, the magistrate of Quanzhou, Xia Jing, the general of the left-wing army under his direct command, and Pu Shougeng, the envoy of Fujian and Guangzhou, marked that the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty no longer had the slightest ability to resist.

Li Binyan looked at the information in his hand, and was filled with indignation. His complexion changed a few times, and he said in a vibrating voice: "The Song Dynasty is not treating him badly! He is not a minister!"

Li Xian continued: "Pu Shougeng, in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, served as the governor of Fujian, the envoy of soldiers and horses, and the envoy of Quanzhou City. Later, he became an official in Zhongshu Zuocheng of Fujian Province and Pingzhang of Quanzhou Province."

"Since then, the Pu family has been prominent in the Yuan Dynasty."

Li Xian continued: "Of course, it was soon the same as all dynasties could not tolerate traitors. Later, the Yuan court defeated Quanzhou and killed more than [-] members of the Pu family for the crime of murdering rebels in the Song Dynasty."

"Since then, Mrs. Pu has fled to Zhoushan."

The general fate of the second minister and thief: Most of them can be prominent for a while, but when the court situation is stable, they will be immediately beaten into the biography of the second minister, and they will never be able to stand up again.

This has been the case almost throughout the dynasties.

Li Xian continued: "Emperor Taizu Gao ordered the Dingding to rule the world: the descendants of Pu Shougeng and Sun Shengfu (Pu Shougeng's confidantes) in Quanzhou are banned from official careers, and their ancestors will be punished for the crime of leading the Yuan to the Song Dynasty, so they will be exiled!"

Zhu Yuanzhang forbade the Pu family and the Sun family in Quanzhou from being an official, and wanted to punish their ancestors for their crimes that caused the Yuan Dynasty to overthrow the Song Dynasty.

Since then, in the fourth year of 270 of the Ming Dynasty, none of the children of the Pu family and the Sun family in Quanzhou have entered official positions.

Therefore, among Zhu Qiyu's many punishments, there are punishments of not being an official for three generations and five generations, but no one has ever commented on it.

This is the ancestral system in Ming Dynasty.

"The Pu family of Quanzhou is now entrenched in Zhoushan. This is the largest branch of Zhoushan pirates." Li Xian took a deep breath and said.

Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the prominent Yuan Dynasty, Quanzhou Pushi, who was dormant in Daming, but still controls spices, is just one of the Zhoushan pirates.

Chapter 4 What is beyond the sea?

The main reason for Pu's decline was because of a war that was seldom talked about.

This war completely caused Pu's to go north from Quanzhou again, to Hezhoushan Islands, to continue to maintain his ancestral business.

"Yisi Baxi war." Li Xian mentioned a war in Quanzhou in Fujian in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties.

Yisi Baxi War Rebellion, the correct translation of Yisi Baxi Army should be Persian militia rebellion.

The maritime trade in the Southern Song Dynasty was extremely developed, bringing merchants from all over the world, and they gathered in Quanzhou Port, the largest port in the world at that time.

The ancestor of the Pu family came from the Southern Song Dynasty at that time.

Quanzhou was the number one port in the world at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty until the Persian militia war.

When Quanzhou Port was at its peak, the city was more than 20 miles away, and more than [-] people lived in it, and nearly [-]% of them were foreign nationals.

They came from Tianfang, Persia, Europa Christians, Jews, etc. These people all had a unified name in the Yuan Dynasty, called Semuren.

The rule of the Yuan Dynasty was very broad. They defined the Mongols as the first class, the Semu people as the second class, the northern Han people as the third class, and the southern Han people as the fourth class.

The Mongols used Semu people to collect taxes, and most of the taxpayers were Semu people.

At that time, Quanzhou Port used more than one hundred languages.

The Persian militia was the most populous and powerful force in Quanzhou at that time, and their generals Saifuddin and Amiridin gradually won the control of Kequanzhou city.

In order to regain the ruling power of Quanzhou, the largest port, the Yuan Dynasty started a nine-year battle with the Semu people.

During these nine years, the number one port in the world was riddled with holes. Pu Shi had to leave Quanzhou Port for the Zhoushan Islands.

Li Xian put down the first piece of information in his hand, took out the second one, and said with emotion: "Jiangnan gentry and wealthy merchants all say that I am strict with Ming Dynasty, and they all miss their great Yuan."

"Because of Kuan Zong, the rich and luxurious families, and families of literati, are constantly rising in the hands of Yuan Zhi Kuan Zong."

"The Yang family in Ganpu originated in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the governor of Lizhou, the commander of the Xuanfeng Army in front of the palace, and the deputy governor of the Privy Council, Yang Fa, descended to the Yuan Dynasty."