Chapter 1016: Yin Yin Zhengmao

"Lu Song is the Annam of the Yongle period when the seas were opened. If Lu Song perishes, the opening of the seas will cease."

"After I die, Lu Song will become a focus of the game. You must hold onto this land. If you hold onto it, the Great Ming's opening of the seas must continue." Yin Yin Zhengmao wrapped himself in a blanket, looked at the full sky of stars, and said to Yin Yin Zongxin.

The Yongle expedition to Annam, in the end, Annam was abandoned. There were many games behind this, but the most important one was the thick profit of maritime trade.

As long as Lu Song is still under the control of the court, the general direction of opening the seas cannot be changed.

Under this general direction of opening the seas, there are countless small directions, and Lu Song itself is the anchor of this general direction of opening the seas. As long as this main trunk of Lu Song is still there, no matter what, the court cannot ban the seas again.

As for the Pan-Pacific Commercial Alliance, Lu Song copper mines, plantation raw materials, Han towns, etc., they are all branches.

"This child knows." Yin Yin Zongxin nodded forcefully and said.

The Great Ming has Governor's Mansions in Changqi, Ryukyu, Lu Song, Jiugang, Elder Jinchi, Jifu, etc., and another Brother Jinshan Country. Among them, Ryukyu has completed Wang Hua and belongs to the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture.

Changqi is the bridgehead for the Great Ming to attack Japan and is a war zone. Jiugang, Elder Jinchi, and Jifu Governor's Mansions, because of the time of development, distance, etc., are not fully developed. Brother Jinshan Country doesn't need to be mentioned. The symbolic significance of the clan paying for the opening of the seas is greater than the actual significance.

Only Lu Song, because it was developed earliest, is very close to the Great Ming, and the resistance will of the barbarians is weak, has the highest progress of Wang Hua.

Holding onto Lu Song means holding onto the Great Ming's basic national policy of opening the seas.

"This is the Great Ming's last chance." Yin Yin Zhengmao muttered to himself. Can it be done? Yin Yin Zhengmao couldn't manage it. People are not in control of themselves while alive, let alone after death.

If you look at the map of Nanyang, you will thoroughly understand why Yin Yin Zhengmao said this. The Yongle opening of the seas took the near-sea route of Annam, and the Emperor Wanli opening of the seas took the ocean route of Lu Song. These are the two legs of the Great Ming's opening of the seas.

Now one leg can still walk a bit. If this leg of Lu Song is broken like Annam in those years, the Great Ming will never have the opportunity to open the seas again.

Yin Yin Zhengmao's spirit was a bit trance-like. He saw a meteor suddenly streak across the sky, as big as a peck, getting brighter and brighter, heading toward the southeast, not knowing where it fell. His gaze finally fell on the patches of coconut trees moving with the wind, and he slowly closed his eyes.

"Father?" Yin Yin Zongxin's face changed drastically. He shouted urgently twice, but Yin Yin Zhengmao on the lounge chair never woke up again.

On December 22nd of the 20th year of Emperor Wanli, Yin Yin Zhengmao passed away at the Lu Song Governor's Mansion at the age of eighty.

Yin Yin Zongxin did not disobey his father's order. When the funeral was held on the seventh day, he cremated his father's remains, carefully collected them into an ash box, and prepared to go to the capital the following year to be buried in the West Mountain Mausoleum.

"Heir! The barbarians are in rebellion!" A maritime defense inspector ran to the mourning hall in a hurry and said loudly: "Urgent report from the Cebu Islands. The obituary of the National Surname Lord has just arrived in Cebu, and the thirty-six mountain masters are moving with the wind, rebelling in Nanyang."

"Father, forgive this child for being unfilial, for not being able to keep vigil before the spirit." Yin Yin Zongxin kowtowed three times before the spirit tablet, stood up, and said loudly: "Fubo Camp, Yicheng Bo Camp, follow me to conquer!"

"This general obeys the order!" Assistant Regional Commanders Xu Zhen and Wang Hu stepped out and said loudly.

"Xiaoyong Camp, Fenyong Camp, guard Manila well, guard the Han towns well. Those who respond to the rebellion will be killed without mercy, and their relatives will be implicated!" Yin Yin Zongxin picked up his long saber and issued another order.

"This general obeys the order." Assistant Regional Commanders Qian Sanyi and Zhou Yantai stepped out and bowed to receive the order.

Yin Yin Zongxin had indeed disappointed Yin Yin Zhengmao. Yin Yin Zhengmao had always wanted to cultivate Yin Yin Zongxin into a scholar-official. After all, Yin Yin Zhengmao was of the Qilin Yin clan and was a cultural aristocrat. Yin Yin Zongxin had been fighting abroad for these years, and although he didn't let go of his books, he eventually became the look of a martial man.

"Husband." Princess Hu Yingjia hung a python-patterned cloak on her husband's shoulders and said in a low voice.

Yin Yin Zongxin turned around, grabbed his wife's hand, and said solemnly: "Madam, after Father became seriously ill, these barbarians became restless. Once the obituary came out, their rebellious hearts could no longer be suppressed. I must go. If I don't go, people's hearts will be unstable, and I fear there will be great chaos."

"If I don't return from this trip, you take the third son and rush to the hinterland to ask for reinforcements. Father-in-law will not forgive them."

Yin Yin Zongxin was a Prince Consort. In informal occasions, he called the Emperor Father or Father-in-law, and in formal occasions, he called him Your Majesty or Holy One. Although Yin Yin Zongxin was a martial man, he followed the ritual system and never disobeyed.

"Come back safely, I will wait for you." Princess Hu Yingjia hugged her husband, hugged him for a while, then let go and said: "Go quickly."

A real man should stand tall. Princess Hu Yingjia had no intention of stopping him. If her husband really died in the war, she wouldn't leave either. The death of one Prince Consort was not enough, so add one Princess, and this weight would be enough.

Her father's fury would be enough to boil the entire Nanyang.

Yin Yin Zongxin set off. He stepped onto the Qilin, hull number 017, the 17th fast sailing ship of the Great Ming, and also the flagship of the Lu Song Governor's Mansion. This ship was a reward from His Majesty to the Duke of Si Shui, Yin Yin Zhengmao.

His Majesty the Emperor did not owe Lu Song anything. On the contrary, His Majesty was never stingy with any meritorious minister who opened up territory.

This was also the reason why Yin Yin Zongxin didn't want to be a scholar-official. The storms in the court were naturally blocked by His Majesty. He only needed to kill the barbarians, and Lu Song would be the Great Ming's. If the barbarians were all dead, no one would accuse him of cruelty, and there would only be one sentence in the history books: The Yin clan guarded Lu Song, and there was great governance.

Great governance is great governance. As for how it came about, there is no need to be so clear.

Besides the Qilin, there were two other fast sailing ships, hull numbers 022 and 027, which also followed the army to conquer. These two ships also belonged to the Lu Song Navy.

The Lu Song Navy had five camps: Pingbo, Fubo, Yicheng Bo, Anbo, and Ningbo; there were also five infantry camps: Xiaoyong, Fenyong, Yiyong, Hanyong, and Fang Zhongyong.

The ten camps totaled thirty thousand soldiers, stationed in various Han towns and copper towns in Lu Song to ensure the stability of Lu Song.

The fleet began to set sail. Before heading to Cebu Island, a trimaran hydrofoil sailing ship appeared in the distance. The maritime defense inspector sent news that the Great Ming Nanyang Navy reinforcements, totaling six thousand people, had arrived at Miyangang to provide support for Yin Yin Zongxin's conquest.

This was Yin Yin Zongxin's confidence. Behind him was the entire Great Ming!

Three days later, the Fubo and Yicheng Bo camps appeared in the Cebu Islands. Yin Yin Zongxin stood on the bow of the deck, looking at the sea, and said with a strange expression: "How bold! Small ships defeating big ships? The English are talking nonsense, and these barbarians actually believe it."

Apparently, regarding Yin Yin Zongxin's punitive expedition, the Cebu barbarians chose to face it head-on!

They intended to use the so-called wolf pack tactics to defeat the Lu Song Navy.

The English said they used small ships to defeat big ships and won against the Spanish Armada, but the fact was that the violent Atlantic storm won against the invincible Felipe.

When Yu Yu Dayou founded the navy and the naval academy in Jin Zeyuan, Songjiang, he said more than once: Naval warfare is nothing more than big ships defeating small ships, big guns defeating small guns; more ships defeating fewer ships, more guns defeating fewer guns.

It is about strong ships and sharp guns!

The naval battle started quickly, and gunpowder smoke filled the battlefield. The wolf pack tactics had some effect because the small ships were more flexible, causing the Great Ming Navy's artillery hit rate to be low. Several salvos only hit two small enemy ships, which gave the Cebu barbarians great courage.

But soon, these barbarians knew they were wrong.

Because at sea, big is good, more is beautiful. Big ships can sink small ships just by ramming them without any damage, and in boarding battles, small ships are naturally at a disadvantage.

High hitting low, beating a fool.

The barbarians couldn't climb the high ship sides of the Great Ming at all, while the Great Ming army kept attacking on the ships, eliminating the enemy's effective strength.

Most importantly, the initiative of the battlefield was firmly grasped in the hands of the big ships. All kinds of fire oil, gold juice, and lead bullets were poured down, and the barbarians had no means to respond. And most importantly, the big ships could jump to board whenever they wanted.

In the case where firearms and heavy artillery were not fully popularized and heavy artillery accuracy was not very high, in naval warfare, directly using artillery to sink enemy warships was a rare phenomenon, which led to warships actually being castles active at sea, rather than simple means of transportation.

Boarding is a siege battle in fortress defense, the last step to seize control of the warship and obtain final victory.

The initiative of boarding is grasped by the side with the big ships. The Lu Song Navy had a total of 28 warships, while the Cebu barbarians had a full 82 ships. From the perspective of quantity, the Lu Song Navy was at a disadvantage, but on the battlefield, the Lu Song Navy achieved a complete and overwhelming victory.

Even if the barbarians paid a huge price in casualties and finally managed to climb onto the deck of the big ship, they couldn't win. They had to face the Lu Song tooth soldiers' hook-and-sickle spears, long sabers, and flintlock guns.

The well-trained and well-equipped Lu Song tooth soldiers harvested the lives of the barbarians without mercy.

"Bang!" Yin Yin Zongxin jumped onto the enemy's flagship. This ship was one of the enemy's few big ships, a three-masted plank ship. This ship was big enough, but in front of the 33-zhang Qilin, it appeared exceptionally petite.

The thirty-six mountains of the Cebu Islands were the result of Yin Yin Zhengmao's benevolent governance in those years.

At the beginning, Yin Yin Zhengmao always thought about Wang Hua and soothing the far away, just like Wang Hua of the Lu Song barbarians. But maritime pirates were born, and attacks against Han people were constant. In the continuous conflicts, Yin Yin Zhengmao, under the witness of Lin Fucheng, changed from benevolence to brutality.

Li Li Yashi had sold a concept to the Emperor several times: in the process of pioneering, excessive unnecessary kindness is a high moral disadvantage.

Although Li Li Yashi said it countless times, some lessons really have to be learned by oneself before one can thoroughly understand. People teaching people really can't teach them.

"Yin Yin Zhengmao is already dead. You group of invaders from the Great Ming, get out of our homeland!" A very burly man roared sharply.

"Gibberish, what are you saying?" Yin Yin Zongxin frowned. He didn't understand the barbarian language very well. He patted the lock on the long saber at his waist. The long saber fell in response. He grabbed the hilt and pulled out the six-foot-five-inch long saber. Because the long saber was too long, there was this style of unlocking, dropping the scabbard, and dragging the saber to draw it.

The Qi family long saber, with a blade of five feet, but only sharpened for a palm's length at the front, the unsharpened part could be grabbed, the hilt was one foot five inches, weighing two jin and eight liang, it was a sharp weapon for naval warfare.

Yin Yin Zongxin grabbed the hilt. His posture of grabbing the saber was strange. His left hand grabbed the end of the hilt, and his right hand grabbed the head of the hilt. He half-squatted with his body slightly leaning forward. Martial arts, this thing, is really complicated to say, but if you practice it for a long time, it is actually just the center of gravity, force, feet, and shoulders, these four keys.

This starting posture completely took these four aspects into account. Only by standing on a horse stance for a long time can the lower plate be stable, which wins half the battle. Seeing the enemy's feet and shoulders wins the other half.

"Kill!"

With a thunderous roar, Yin Yin Zongxin led dozens of tooth soldiers and rushed toward the thieves on the deck. The thieves had no armor, while the Great Ming tooth soldiers were all armored.

Armored fighting against unarmored can be fought until the physical strength is exhausted.

Yin Yin Zhengmao did indeed make the mistake of kindness, but he didn't let the barbarians obtain armor, firearms, blunt weapons, strong crossbows, and other items. Even if the barbarians luckily obtained one or two sets of armor, they would slowly rot due to poor maintenance.

Knowledge is very expensive, and maintaining weapons and equipment is also part of knowledge.

The thief chief held no more than a three-foot-long waist saber. Seeing Yin Yin Zongxin coming with armor and weight, he still wanted to use his movement to dodge. The armor totaled fifty jin, which was indeed inconvenient to move. The thief chief's thinking was completely correct.

But the thief chief underestimated Yin Yin Zongxin's strength and couldn't dodge Yin Yin Zongxin's sweep.

Yin Yin Zongxin's speed was a bit too fast. The six-foot-long long saber had a really wide attack range. With just one sweep, a two-palm-long wound was cut on the thief chief's waist and abdomen. Blood sprayed out, and his physical strength began to drain rapidly, his reaction becoming sluggish.

Yin Yin Zongxin didn't forgive him. He stepped forward, Ding-character return kill, the saber light flashed, and the thief chief's neck was cut in half. The head hung on his shoulder. This time the blood didn't splash very high. After three breaths, the thief chief's burly body fell straight down.

"Kill!" Yin Yin Zongxin roared again and headed toward the next thief.

Only three hours later, the Lu Song tooth soldiers won a complete victory. They captured two three-masted plank ships and twelve two-masted sea ships, not counting the remaining small ships. They killed 1,700 enemies and captured 2,000. By the end, the thieves had lost all morale and began to collapse.

One three-masted plank ship and four two-masted sea ships fled, and the tooth soldiers had already pursued them.

The thirty-six mountain barbarian thieves finally discovered that Yin Yin Zongxin was even more ruthless than his father Yin Yin Zhengmao, and his ideas were even more tricky.

Yin Yin Zhengmao was a scholar-official. Although he practiced martial arts, he rarely killed in person, while Yin Yin Zongxin didn't read books very well, but his martial arts were very high.

Yin Yin Zhengmao had already designed the system. Yin Yin Zongxin only needed to kill. Killing is very simple. If a person is killed, they will die.

The Lu Song Navy didn't lose a single ship. Excellent damage control and watertight bulkhead design allowed this battle to have only three ships damaged, which could continue to fight after repairs. The Lu Song tooth soldiers had 27 injured and 11 killed in action.

"The hook-and-sickle spears invented by General Qi and General Yu are still powerful." After checking all the gains, Yin Yin Zongxin once again expressed his heartfelt admiration for Qi Qi Jiguang and Yu Yu Dayou.

Yu Dragon Qi Tiger, the name is well-deserved.

In actual combat, Qi Qi Jiguang and Yu Yu Dayou invented a sharp weapon for big ships to bully small ships: the hook-and-sickle spear. This hook-and-sickle spear is launched by a bed crossbow. The front of the hook-and-sickle spear has three iron hooks. As long as it hits the ship, it can firmly drag the small ship.

As long as it is hooked, the flexibility of the small ship will disappear, and it can only be at the mercy of the big ship.

Besides this heavy hook-and-sickle spear that needs to be launched by a bed crossbow, there is also a hook-and-sickle spear with a head weighing four liang and a pole seven feet long. This hook-and-sickle spear is heavy at the head and light at the feet. Waving it doesn't need any rules at all. It is just for big ships to bully small ships. As long as you hook the enemy during boarding, you can drag people into the sea.

Even the Qilin with more than 100 guns, the head count of the artillery is not as good as these two hook-and-sickle spears. Mainly because the other party's ship is too small. The efficiency of hooking and then killing is higher. If it is a battle of the same level, the power of artillery will be revealed.

Yin Yin Zongxin wrote the battle report in detail. In this battle, the power that the thirty-six mountains had painstakingly accumulated was beaten to pieces by Yin Yin Zongxin with one punch. He could safely go to the Great Ming capital to ask for an edict to inherit the Si Shui Marquis Mansion.

He left behind the Fubo Camp to continue clearing the thirty-six mountains and eliminate the enemy's effective strength to the greatest extent.

When Yin Yin Zongxin led the army back to Manila, Manila was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers everywhere. On one hand, the victory news had already been passed back, and on the other hand, it was the New Year, and everywhere was full of joy.

Princess Hu Yingjia, Zhu Xuanchang, wore a cloak and stood in the Guanchao Pavilion, holding a telescope, constantly looking at the sea. When she saw the dragon flag, seven-star flag, and Yin clan tooth flag of the Qilin, joy appeared on her face. She ran down the building and ran toward the pier.

Yin Yin Zongxin had just landed when Princess Hu Yingjia threw herself into Yin Yin Zongxin's arms like a milk swallow returning to the forest.

"Alright, alright, let go. There are so many people here." Yin Yin Zongxin hugged his wife and said in a low voice.

"I won't." Princess Hu Yingjia shook her head forcefully. She didn't care about that. She was a Princess. In the entire Lu Song, except for her husband, who could manage her, who dared to manage her?

Zhu Xuanchang said in a low voice: "You don't know how worried I was about you."

Yin Yin Zongxin smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay. I often go on expeditions in Chijun Mountain. These thieves are not stronger than Chijun Shangang or Yuanxu Islands."

Zhu Xuanchang arched forcefully and said again: "It's different. The thirty-six mountains have big ships, and the Chijun Shangang pirates don't have big ships."

Zhu Xuanchang didn't understand the specific differences between fast sailing ships, five-masted ocean-crossing ships, and three-masted plank ships, just as men didn't understand the needlework of Su embroidery.

She only knew that the thirty-six mountains had big ships and were not easy to fight. If they were easy to fight, then why didn't Yin Yin Zhengmao eliminate the thirty-six mountains while he was alive, and leave the hidden danger to explode until now?

Obviously, the Yin Yin Zhengmao that Zhu Xuanchang saw only saw the good side—virtuous, charitable, and of high character. The Princess didn't see the bad side.

Zhu Xuanchang obviously underestimated the sinister intentions of a scholar-official. Everything Yin Yin Zhengmao did had a purpose, and the malice was very great.

Yin Yin Zhengmao left the thirty-six mountains until now for two purposes. The first was naturally to establish prestige for Yin Yin Zongxin; the second was to bait the fish.

Let all the barbarians who were dissatisfied with the Lu Song Governor's Mansion gather in the thirty-six mountains, and then wipe them out in one fell swoop, and then deliberately indulge similar pirate forces to continue baiting and gathering fish, and then wipe them out in one fell swoop. This cycle repeated until all the hard bones were screened out and killed.

This was a filter for the Governor's Mansion. Yin Yin Zhengmao didn't say it, and Yin Yin Zongxin would understand it.

Princess Hu Yingjia didn't need to understand these evils at all. She could just be her Princess and enjoy her husband's love, because her father was the Great Ming Emperor.

During the Yongle period, Huang Fu governed Annam, and Annam could not form an effective resistance force. Once Huang Fu, this scholar-official who was bad to the point of pus, left, the situation in Annam was immediately out of the control of the Great Ming court, and finally the Le Dynasty of Annam was established.

Scholar-officials are very good at calculating, not just Yin Yin Zhengmao.

"His Majesty gave me a bigger ship!" Yin Yin Zongxin said happily: "Let go, there is still work to do after the triumphant return."

"I won't." Zhu Xuanchang arched again. Her husband was her heaven. On weekdays, she had to hold the airs of a Princess. Today, her husband returned triumphantly, and she wanted to be a little woman.

"Ah!" Zhu Xuanchang suddenly exclaimed, because she had already left the ground and was held in Yin Yin Zongxin's arms.

The family members welcoming the navy's triumphant return and the Han people in the Han towns of Lu Song saw the Prince Consort, who was about to take office as Governor, holding the Princess up, and immediately began to boo, and the booing sound was wave after wave.

Zhu Xuanchang's face was flushed red. She buried herself in her husband's arms, not daring to look or listen. Her performance today was a bit too bold.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Yin Yin Zongxin arranged all the affairs of the Governor's Mansion and set sail on the Qilin.

On the ninth day, he arrived at Miyangang. On the tenth day, he arrived at Xinglong Manor on Jilong Island. On the twelfth day, Yin Yin Zongxin arrived at Tamsui Town. On the fourteenth day, he arrived at Naha Port, Shuri Prefecture, Ryukyu. After resting for three days, he set off again. On the second day of the second lunar month, Yin Yin Zongxin arrived at Penglai Port, Shandong. On the fourth day of the second lunar month, Yin Yin Zongxin arrived at Tianjin Tanggugang, Tianjin Prefecture.

It took twenty years for Tianjin to go from a guard to a prefecture. In October of the 20th year of Emperor Wanli, the population of Tianjin City had exceeded one million. Tianjin Prefecture became Tianjin Prefecture, and they began to build the Tianjin Prefecture City.

Tianjin Prefecture City was the maritime gateway to the Great Ming capital, and the ports of Lushun and Penglai were the gates.

Yin Yin Zongxin looked at the imperial procession at the port and couldn't believe it. A dragon flag was fluttering in the wind, thousands of flags were waving, and the iron armor of the Embroidered Uniform Guards was shining under the morning glow. His Majesty's dragon flag was parked under the Guanchao Pavilion at Tianjin Tanggugang.

His Majesty actually came in person.

The Qilin docked slowly at Tianjin Tanggugang under the guidance of the barge. His Majesty, wearing a dragon robe, also walked out of the Guanchao Pavilion. Zhang Zhang Juzheng, who was enjoying his twilight years, was behind His Majesty. Everyone walked step by step to the pier.

Yin Yin Zongxin and Princess Hu Yingjia hurriedly stepped forward to pay their respects, performed the great ceremony of five kowtows and three bows, and had an audience. The Emperor only said "rise," and didn't say much, his eyes fixed on the ship bridge of the Qilin.

The Embroidered Uniform Guards began to board the ship with solemn expressions. The sound of horns and drums slowly quieted down.

The Embroidered Uniform Guards entered the cabin. Zhao Zhao Mengyu held Yin Yin Zhengmao's coffin, and other Embroidered Uniform Guards held the coffins of the heroes. All the coffins were of the same regulation, only one foot square. The wooden coffins only contained ashes, and the copper plates on them were inscribed with their lives.

Zhu Zhu Yijun stood by the pier with an extremely solemn expression. He took the dragon flag from Zhu Zhu Changzhi's hand, covered Yin Yin Zhengmao's coffin, placed his hand on the coffin, and said in a low voice: "National Surname Lord, you have worked hard. You are home, you are home."

Zhu Zhu Yijun prided himself on being a scholar-official of Sun Hongyi, also prided himself on being an iron-hearted political machine, and also prided himself on being an actor with good acting skills, but at this moment, he still had red eye sockets, a thousand thoughts, and was full of hot tears.

Yin Yin Zhengmao died in a foreign land, and only his ashes returned to his roots.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng understood His Majesty very well. His Majesty seemed heartless, but in fact, he was true to his feelings. Heartlessness was just a protective color to maintain imperial prestige.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng also advised His Majesty that deep feelings do not last long, and life, old age, sickness, and death are human nature. His Majesty was young, and he would experience such scenes countless times.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng also knew that His Majesty was full of hot tears, not as a means to buy people's hearts, but from the bottom of his heart, sorrow coming from within.

His Majesty never did things just for utilitarianism.

Zhu Zhu Changzhi had a solemn expression and covered the coffins of the remaining eleven people with dragon flags.

Once, Zhu Zhu Changzhi asked his father, what are these people striving for? Long-distance sailing is dangerous, and barbarian natives are dangerous. Knowing that it is dangerous, they still want to go, and after death, they can't even leave their bodies behind, only a handful of ashes.

His father told him: A real man should be like this.

Zhu Zhu Yijun took Yin Yin Zhengmao's coffin from Zhao Zhao Mengyu, returned to the Great Imperial Carriage, placed it beside him, signaled Feng Bao to depart for the capital, and Yin Yin Zhengmao and the heroes would stop at the North Camp, and be buried in the Shrine of Heroes seven days later.

The Great Grand Minister of Rites, Shen Li, strongly supported His Majesty's lowering of his status to Tianjin Prefecture to welcome Yin Yin Zhengmao back to the Great Ming, but Shen Li did not approve of His Majesty carrying the coffin. This was not in accordance with ritual law.

When the late Emperor left, His Majesty did not carry the coffin. This courtesy of carrying the coffin was a bit too high.

The Emperor said: The Grand Minister of Rites' opposition is invalid.

The Grand Minister of Rites was almost stunned, feeling a bit dizzy. Your Majesty, are you polite? Opposition is invalid, you have to give a reason! Such a rigid rejection makes the Ministry of Rites very difficult to handle!

The Emperor didn't give a reason, so the Ministry of Rites had to find a reason to explain it themselves, and they really found one, and the explanation was quite reasonable.

Yin Yin Zhengmao was a National Surname Lord. The National Surname Lord had the jade genealogy of the Imperial Clan Court. Yin Yin Zhengmao's surname was Zhu. Calling him National Surname Yin Zhengmao was something the Emperor, as the clan leader, had personally recognized. Then the Emperor personally carrying the coffin did not violate ritual law!

Shen Li and Gao Zhu Qiyu discussed it for a long time, and finally completed the explanation.

Zhu Zhu Yijun naturally knew that Yin Yin Zhengmao could have preserved his remains to return to the Great Ming instead of ashes, and he knew even more about how the pirates of the thirty-six mountains and Cebu Islands came about. These were calculations, and they were calculated against him, the Emperor.

Yin Yin Zhengmao's thoughts were nothing more than the two words "blood righteousness." Only with blood righteousness could there be imperial favor. He was indeed calculating against the Emperor, betting that the Emperor had a conscience.

Yin Yin Zhengmao naturally won the bet. He knew he would definitely win.

He had been Governor for nineteen years, and His Majesty could be said to have responded to every request, and even responded without request. Those three fast sailing ships were not begged for by Yin Yin Zhengmao, but were the Emperor's grace.

Zhu Zhu Yijun didn't care about these calculations, because Yin Yin Zhengmao was not just for himself, for his descendants, but also for the Great Ming's opening of the seas.

Yin Yin Zhengmao pioneered Lu Song, laying the most solid foundation for the Great Ming's opening of the seas and managing Nanyang. If Nanyang became the Great Ming's backyard in the future, then Yin Yin Zhengmao's achievements were fully worthy of such courtesy from the Emperor.

At the beginning, Yin Yin Zhengmao went to Lu Song just because he had finished fighting the Japanese pirates, and the three thousand guest soldiers under his command could not be settled. Disbanding them would mean three thousand desperate people, and they were the core figures of mountain bandits who killed without blinking, which was difficult to completely suppress.

In order to give these three thousand guest soldiers a place to go, Yin Yin Zhengmao recruited Lin Lin Afeng, launched a surprise attack on the Philippine Governor's Mansion, and established the Lu Song Governor's Mansion.

For others, Yin Yin Zhengmao might not be a hero. He killed like hemp, and countless barbarians died under his hands, but for the Great Ming, he was a hero.

Until he got on the train, the whistle of the iron horse pierced the peace, and Yin Yin Zongxin slowly came back to his senses. He grabbed his wife's hand and said with full doubt: "Madam, do you think, my father... is he really a clan member left outside?"

Yin Yin Zongxin didn't believe this rumor that had been circulating for nearly twenty years, but at this moment, he was somewhat suspicious.

"I think so." Princess Hu Yingjia pondered for a while and said very seriously.

Yin Yin Zongxin and Princess Hu Yingjia were both Great Ming people. After thinking about it, they could only give such a reason.

Although the concept of "the world is for the people" circulated among scholar-officials, it had not yet penetrated the hearts of the people. Most Great Ming people still had the "family world" of thousands of years, ruler-ruler, minister-minister, father-father, son-son. For the Emperor's such preferential treatment, Yin Yin Zongxin and Princess Hu Yingjia gave a rationalized explanation.

Their thoughts were not a special case, but the thoughts of most Great Ming people.

Zhu Zhu Yijun left the Crown Prince to stay in the Wu Ying Building and returned to the Tonghe Palace. The Emperor processed the memorials accumulated today.

"No, Lu Song wants eight thousand hooligans this year? Yin Yin Zhengmao really has good calculations!" Zhu Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in his hand and was quite surprised. Yin Yin Zhengmao actually ambushed him!

Zhu Zhu Yijun carefully calculated and shook his head, saying: "No, really no more! At most... give four thousand. These hooligans and idlers are also people, not fruits on a tree that ripen once a year."