Chapter 196

"Jiang Bin!"

"Your subject is here!"

"I hereby appoint you Grand General of the Pacification Expedition to lead the elite troops of the Four Outer Garrisons south to Jiangnan!"

"Any vessel daring to set sail shall be sunk on the spot and punished severely without mercy!"

"Dayong!"

Gu Dayong, standing behind Jiajing, shuddered, his facial muscles twitching along with his body.

He hurried to Jiajing's presence, bowed deeply, and said,

"Your servant is here."

"I order the Western Depot to head south to the southeast immediately to investigate the people's collusion with the Japanese!"

"I do not care who their accomplices are or whose families they belong to; investigate them all strictly, punish them severely, and show no leniency!"

Gu Dayong immediately bowed his head and said,

"Your servant receives the decree!"

Liu Daxia looked at "Zhu Houzhao" with a completely bewildered expression.

I simply will not let you open the seas.

You want to directly ban maritime trade?!

"Your Majesty, no, your subject feels there is no need for such a massive mobilization, is there?"

Jiajing looked at Liu Daxia with a puzzled expression and asked,

"Does Lord Liu perhaps believe no one in the southeast is colluding with the Japanese?"

"Then how did this Memorial to the throne come to be?!"

"Fabricated out of thin air?"

Liu Daxia hurriedly said,

"Your Majesty, what if this person simply found it in local chronicles?"

"Records from the Two Song dynasties still exist in books; if one wishes to investigate whether anyone went to sea, sending a Censor on a southern tour would suffice!"

Jiajing shook his head and sighed,

"Impossible!"

"This is the ancestral system! It is the ancestral system established by the Great Emperor Taizu!"

"Can sending just one Censor possibly deal with the Great Emperor Taizu? Does Lord Liu truly have no respect for the Great Emperor Taizu?"

"This is the Great Ming's ancestral system!"

"Does Lord Liu intend to sit idly by while malicious commoners trample upon our Great Ming's ancestral system?!"

Liu Daxia watched as the corner of Jiajing's mouth twitched slightly.

For a moment, he could not utter a single word.

No.

How did this become us violating the ancestral system?!

Seeing the attitude of the court officials, Gu Dayong and Jiang Bin immediately understood the situation.

What someone going to sea.

It is clearly these court officials colluding with the great families of the southeast to prevent the court from touching their cake!

You do not call me a treacherous villain, do you?

Then I will send people to the southeast to see who the real treacherous villain is!

Meanwhile, Zhu Youjian's eyes in the chat group grew even brighter.

"Great Grandfather, your son understands now; your son finally understands why Emperor Shizong, even with the Mongols besieging the capital, still placed the court's elite forces in the southeast!"

During the Jiajing reign, even though the southern Japanese and northern Mongols caused such great turmoil, Jiajing still gritted his teeth and placed the center of gravity for the nation's military forces in the southeast.

Why?

If you do not let me eat this cake of maritime transport.

Then none of us shall eat!

We will just flip the table over for you!"

126, Jiajing: My money!!!

In the Fengtian Hall, a deathly silence prevailed.

It could be seen that Jiajing Value relatively highly his own batch of elixirs.

Back during the Jiajing reign, Jiajing did not personally say a single word about these matters.

He simply tapped the bronze chime a few times in the meditation hall and settled the matter.

Holding court today was unprecedented and already gave Zhu Yuanzhang enough face.

And only at this moment did Zhu Yuanzhang finally understand all of Jiajing's arrangements.

Old Zhu inside the chat group could not help but laugh.

"So this young man was waiting for this."

"The several provinces of the southeast have been turned by this young man into a small Three Kingdoms."

Zhu Qi looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in confusion and asked,

"Great Grandfather, what does this all mean?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Jiajing in the Fengtian Hall with great interest and clicked his tongue, saying,

"If you were the great families of the southeast and the court sent heavy troops to ban maritime trade, what would you do?"

Zhu Qi whispered

"Your son will obediently follow the court's arrangements."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's weathered face naturally darkened.

"Now you know to follow the court's arrangements?"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.

"Following the court's arrangements is best; that way, if they wish to go overseas for trade in the future, they must obey the court, and the matter of opening the seas can be carried out smoothly."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with some surprise and doubt, asking.

"Great-Grandfather, if the great families of the southeast refuse to follow the arrangements, will the suffering in the southeast not be in imminent danger?"

Hearing this, Zhu Di suddenly came to his senses.

Looking at Zhu Youjian in the chat group, he smiled.

"Yes, they rebel, and then what?"

"What is the best method for them to rebel? Colluding with the imperial clan! Who is the imperial clan member closest to the southeast?"

With Zhu Di's words spoken.

The Emperor in the chat group suddenly came to his senses.

Who else could it be!

During the Ming dynasty, the Jiang-Zhe region was a place of heavy taxation, therefore no feudal kings were established there.

Fujian Province, due to its many mountains, therefore had no feudal kings enfeoffed.

The feudal king closest to the southeast was naturally Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao!

Moreover, coincidentally, this Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao harbored rebellious intentions.

Even in history, he truly did plot rebellion!

Zhu Yuanzhang in the chat group also shook his head and sighed.

"Not only that, if I am not mistaken, the descendants of the Seventeenth Elder likely rose up in arms around this year, correct?"

Zhu Youjian nodded repeatedly, saying.

"Reporting to Imperial Grandfather, Ning Wang rose up in arms in the fourteenth year of Zhengde; not even a year has passed since then!"

The smile on Zhu Yuanzhang's face gradually grew.

"With tens of thousands of elite soldiers added to the southeast, this young man will have to weigh things carefully even when he rebels."

Only Zhu Qi asked with concern.

"But Great-Grandfather, if Ning Wang disregards past grievances and still allies with the great families of the southeast?"

Hearing this, Old Zhu's eyes gradually narrowed, and he sneered.

"No need for 'if'; I can guarantee that this scoundrel Ning Wang is definitely thinking of disregarding past grievances to ally with the great families of the southeast."