Chapter 38 Shortcut to Compilation
Su Ze looked at Xiong Wu thoughtfully, but did not answer his question.
Seeing Su Ze's expressionless face, Xiong Wu said slightly disappointedly,
"My dear husband, what else do you want to ask?"
Su Ze shook his head and said, "Originally, I was only guessing at 70% to 80%, but now I am 100% sure. You have no good intentions if you stay in Changning Guard."
Su Ze continued: "From today on, you will stay in the penalty hall behind the temple. I will ask my old grandpa to find someone to watch you."
Xiong Wu raised his broken arm Said: "What bad thing can I do like this?"
Su Ze shook his head and said: "I don't believe you."
Xiong Wu said no more, stood up obediently and said: "One more message to my young husband, Zhu Qi gathered everyone here Overseas, on Meiyue Island, a salt farm was set up on the island and they made a living by selling salt. There are about thirty Japanese pirates in their group. They used to be salt workers from kitchen households. It should be easy for my young husband to destroy them." Su
Ze He escorted Xiong Wu back to his family temple, and told his old man about Xiong Wu.
The old man immediately sent a young clansman to imprison Xiong Wu in the punishment hall of the ancestral hall.
The punishment hall is the place where the ancestral hall punishes those who violate the clan rules. This is a single cell.
After locking up Xiong Wu, Su Ze told the old man about what he encountered in the ghost market. The old man stroked his beard and said: "The old man from Meiyue Island knows this. This island is not far from the shore
. There is no fresh water on the island, so most of the Japanese pirates look down on this island. I didn’t expect that Zhu Qi actually occupied this island. It’s a pity that Zhu Qi didn’t prepare for the Japanese and registered the general secretary, so he could be suppressed. No military merit."
Su Ze asked doubtfully: "Didn't the imperial court issue a decree that there would be rewards for killing Japanese pirates?"
The old man said: "The ones who are rewarded are the Japanese pirates who have been registered by the Japanese pirate chief, at least for gathering a crowd. A large Japanese pirate with five hundred men and three or more warships will be rewarded only if he defeats such a large Japanese pirate." "Can we beat it
?"
"Of course we can't beat it. Our Changning Guards are a hundred households, and we can't beat them as regular soldiers. With a hundred people and only one warship left, how can we defeat these big Japanese pirates?"
Su Ze was speechless for a while, then asked:
"Then the government doesn't care about Japanese pirates like Zhu Qi?"
"Zhu Qi is like this. There are so many Japanese pirates on the sea, how can they be wiped out completely? The government will not send troops to destroy them."
Su Ze was speechless again. When he was a salt worker, he was squeezed to death by the guarding eunuch, but he was free and easy as a Japanese pirate. , it’s no wonder that Japanese rebellions in the southeast are rising one after another, and they can’t be wiped out completely.
Su Ze asked: "What if we capture Zhu Qi and other Japanese pirates and send them to the county government office? Is there any reward?" The
old man shook his head and said:
"The location of Meiyue Island is between the two counties. There are some problems when it comes to liquidating the harvest. Trouble."
"Why is this?"
the old man said: "Since Admiral Zhu's case, counting the harvest has to be left to the local prefectures."
Su Ze's history at Level 4 came into play, and he had studied it before traveling through time. The history of the Ming Dynasty clearly emerged in his mind, and he quickly remembered a major case in Fujian and Zhejiang during the Jiajing period.
"Admiral Zhu? But Zhu Zichun, the former admiral of Fujian and Zhejiang, Admiral Zhu?"
The old man glanced at Su Ze in surprise, nodded and said,
"It's Mr. Zhu."
Zhu Wan, whose courtesy name was Zichun, was born during the Jiajing period. A famous minister, he once served as an admiral in charge of the coastal defense and military affairs of Zhejiang and Fujian, and also patrolled Zhejiang. He was a well-known minister who led the anti-Japanese war a few years ago. In the 27th year of Jiajing's reign, Zhu Wan defeated 7,000 Japanese pirates on Shuangyu Island. However, he was soon impeached by the imperial censor, who said that he had committed a crime while taking credit for his crime.
Emperor Jiajing asked him to return to his place of origin for treatment. Zhu Wan, who had a strong personality, committed suicide by taking medicine. From then on, the coastal defense of Fujian and Zhejiang was in bad condition, and Japanese pirates of all sizes emerged in endlessly.
It is now the thirty-third year of Jiajing, and Zhu Wan died in the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing, only five years ago.
Su Ze has also studied this period of history. Zhu Wan's corruption was widely involved, including powerful celebrities in Fujian and Zhejiang, and even officials from Fujian and Zhejiang who were behind it.
There have been divergent opinions among historians on how many of the Japanese pirates along the southeast coast were real Japanese pirates and how many were local merchants and common people in the southeast coast.
However, one thing that is certain is that a large number of Japanese pirates are local maritime merchants in the southeast. They complete smuggling activities in the name of Japanese pirates and earn profits from maritime trade.
Zhu Wan's work in the forbidden sea in Fujian and Zhejiang offended the local wealthy families in Fujian and Zhejiang, and he has been continuously attacked since he took office.
After Zhu Wan committed suicide, the power gained was transferred from the military and administrative system of the military guard station to the civil and administrative system of the county government.
Calculating military merit is one of the most important tasks of the army. After the task of confirming the gains was handed over to the local government offices, the motivation of the local police stations to eliminate Japanese pirates was greatly reduced.
The reason is naturally very simple. You worked hard to kill a Japanese pirate, but in the end the local official said it was not a Japanese pirate. Not only did you have no military merit, but you might also be punished like Zhu Wan for "killing a good person and taking merit for yourself".
The old man said: "Zhu Qi killed the young eunuch of the Shibo Division to rebel. The identity of the Japanese pirates is confirmed, and the county government does not dare to reverse the case." "But there are more than thirty Japanese pirates in this group
. The difficulty lies in the number of people."
Su Ze quickly asked: "Why is this?"
The old man sighed and said: "The Dusi Yamen has assessments for all prefectures and counties. If there are more than 30 Japanese rebels in the local area, local officials will be assessed. If you pass the test and get demoted to one level, Meiyue Island is between the two counties, so there will be a lot of blame at that time."
Su Ze was completely speechless at this time. It's no wonder that the Japanese rebellion in the southeast continued for decades. The whole Ming Dynasty really It sucks.
The officers and soldiers did not dare to suppress the big pirates, but the officers and soldiers suppressed the small pirates and affected the performance of local officials, which is not considered credit.
The Kaizhong method has been corrupted, and no businessmen have come to the Changning Guards for decades. The guards can only rely on their own farming to support themselves.
Some guards even directly participated in smuggling activities, or even colluded with pirates to rob the countryside.
Su Ze is now sighing with emotion. It is simply a miracle that the Ming Dynasty could survive for ninety years before perishing!
"Then how to deal with these Japanese pirates?"
The old man sighed and said:
"If the court ignores those Japanese pirates who have committed extremely heinous crimes and killed many people, the scholars in the countryside will spend money to offer rewards, recruit local braves or ask the guards to send troops to destroy them." "
Zhu People like Qi who don't do much evil will be left alone. Maybe when they are recruited, they will fill the vacancies in a certain guard station and eat the royal food."
Su Ze was really eye-opening. It turned out that in In the Ming Dynasty, rebellion was still a circuitous path.
I don’t know how those who fought hard in the sea of questions in later generations would feel if they knew that there was such a way to enter the establishment in the Ming Dynasty.
However, accepting Zhao'an in the Ming Dynasty was also extremely risky. The Ming Dynasty was famous for its tendency to go back on its word, and countless rebel leaders were killed after Zhao'an.
In comparison, the Song Dynasty court was more humane. Accepting Zhao'an was a shortcut for ordinary people to become officials. It truly made officials and bandits one family.
(End of chapter)