The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1125

[1125. Chapter 1075 Shouning Hou’s report to the court]

After completing the global journey, he found a new route and brought back countless gold and silver. At the same time, he attacked the Japanese pirates. This time, the blow to the ‘Japanese pirates’ was painful to the bone.

The news coming from the Japanese country is that they continuously attacked more than 20 places. Every time they arrived, they stormed the city and fortified the village, killed tens of thousands of Japanese bandits, and directly destroyed the filthy Japanese thoroughfares. They were directly razed to the ground, and countless amounts of silver were found from them. Many of the silver actually had the original imprints of the Ming Dynasty treasures printed on them. These ingots were obviously plundered by Japanese pirates and were finally prevented from being circulated that week. .

Such a huge blow is the fundamental way to completely solve the Japanese pirate problem.

The patience of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty has been completely exhausted. Since this stubborn problem cannot be solved by attacking the pirates in the southeast, then the root cause must be cut directly.

In fact… it is not that the original emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not think of using this method, but… after all, the Japanese were facing each other across the sea. If they really wanted to cross the Japanese country eastward, the cost would be too high, but they might not be confident of victory.

Since it was impossible to cross the sea to attack, they had no choice but to swallow their anger and accept the tribute from the Japanese, hoping to urge the Japanese to attack again and again.

However, the Japanese only wanted to receive rewards from the Ming Dynasty in tribute, but they used various excuses for this.

This is a national humiliation, but today…the Zhang brothers have solved the problem with a fleet that has traveled around the world and a tired partial army.

Their fighting methods are very advanced, and their will to fight is very tenacious.

Judging from the reports of the Japanese envoys, although most of them were in ragged clothes, they fought bravely. No matter how stubborn the resistance was, they would never let go. They were good at seizing opportunities and directly breaking through the weaknesses of the “Japanese pirates”. They were good at using ships and firearms. With such a lone army, the entire thousands of miles of coastline of the Japanese country was in vain. Nowhere was it safe to attack wherever they pointed.

This is something that even many elite soldiers who have been trained for thousands of days cannot do.

Who would have thought that a group of skinny people could achieve such great results.

At this time, no one in the civil and military court spoke.

Everyone understands that what His Majesty said about his glorious achievements for future generations is no lie.

This time, it can be said that I feel proud and proud, and I will no longer be affected by the arrogance of those Japanese people.

The reason why the results of this battle are certain is because of the Japanese envoy. He came all the way under the orders of Ouchi Yoshihiro, the leader of the shogunate, and made countless guarantees. In addition to being willing to severely crack down on the Japanese pirates, within three months , carried out large-scale arrests of Japanese pirates; in addition, they also searched for stolen money, released them at any time, sent them back to the Ming Dynasty, and… rescued women captured by Japanese pirates. They must be treated preferentially, choose the opportunity, and give them gifts. Return home.

Emperor Hongzhi sat down and began to wait patiently.

Regarding these two great heroes, even though he knew that the two uncles had just set off and it would take some time to arrive at the Daming Palace, Emperor Hongzhi was still willing to wait.

Everyone was silent, and couldn’t help but sigh in their hearts. Even people like the Zhang family brothers could achieve such a miraculous feat. It’s really God’s blindness.

Among these people, Fang Jifan was included.

Fang Jifan murmured in his heart that he was not a hundred or a thousand times better than them. These two… scum…

In Zhu Houzhao’s heart, he had a different view of the two uncles.

I always looked down on them before, but I never thought that they actually have such courage and ability.

Zhu Houzhao admired these people the most. He couldn’t help but sigh: “Father, these two uncles are nothing more than Wei Qing and Huo Qubing of my Ming Dynasty.”

Although it was an exaggeration, it also expressed Zhu Houzhao’s admiration. .

Emperor Hongzhi was handling the case, but he heard Fang Jifan cough and looked over: “Jifan, are you feeling unwell?”

Fang Jifan said, “I just thought that the champion died earlier, of course… I didn’t mean anything else. …”

Emperor Hongzhi: “…”

Zhu Houzhao didn’t expect Fang Jifan to undermine him, so he shook his head and fell silent.

The officials couldn’t help but look at Fang Jifan, this guy… has a crow’s mouth.

But some people laughed at it.

Only Wang Shouren, Tang Yin, Liu Wenshan, and Jiang Chen had expressionless faces.

Is it funny? Is not funny.

My mentor could make a hundred such jokes a day.

What’s so surprising about this?

Emperor Hongzhi pressed his hands and said: “Seriously!”

Then the laughter fell.

……

It has been nearly eight years since they went to sea this time. The Zhang brothers have returned to the capital after a long absence. Looking at the scenery along the way, the capital has long been changed beyond recognition.

They were sitting in the carriage, and the scenery outside the glass window passed under their noses. Zhang Yanling was about to cry, wiping his eyes: “Brother, it is different. It is different from before. Where is my home? My home is gone. “

Zhang Heling couldn’t help but feel emotional and patted him on the shoulder: “Don’t be afraid, there is money.”

“Oh.” Zhang Yanling wiped his tears and thought for a while: “I always feel that it is not good for us to do this. “Although Fang Jifan is a bitch, he is Xiu Rong’s husband after all. We harmed him like this…”

“Beast!” Zhang Heling scolded him: “Why don’t we let him carry such a big crime?” He has a brain disease, do you have a brain disease?”

Zhang Yanling shuddered and suddenly felt… it made sense.

So…he nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: “Yes, brother is right.”

To the Daming Palace.

The two got off the car and walked into the palace.

Seeing this majestic palace, Zhang Heling couldn’t help but said: “This is too extravagant. How much money does it cost? Your Majesty is really not a man in charge. He was the one who asked for a little money from him and went to heaven to pay it back.” Unexpectedly, he secretly built such a large new palace, so extravagant and magnificent, he changed.”

The little eunuch who led the way shuddered.

In this world, apart from Fang Jifan, these two uncles are probably the only ones who dare to slander the emperor.

The young eunuch said: “This was built by Fang Jifan and given to His Majesty.”

“What?” After hearing this, Zhang Yanling couldn’t help but said: “He is so generous and such a big hand…” Admiration suddenly appeared in his eyes. color.

Zhang Heling slapped him on the head and said sadly: “It’s our money, the money dug out from coal mining in the Xishan Mountains.”

Zhang Yanling suddenly became angry.

The two finally arrived at the Fengtian Palace. After hearing that the Zhang brothers were coming, the monarchs and ministers in the palace, who had been waiting for a long time, all cheered up.

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling entered the palace. Looking from a distance, many people had looks of shock on their faces.

Although these two people wore black gauze hats and imperial robes, they were as skinny as bones. Not only did their faces have dark skin, but the teeth in their mouths were yellow and black. There were no specks of flesh on their faces, just like the bark of an elm tree. The skin color sticks to the bones, the cheekbones are prominent, but the cheeks are deeply sunken.

A living… just a skinned skeleton.

The two of them bowed down and their eyes turned red. After finally seeing their brother-in-law… they were filled with emotions.

“Your Majesty…I have met your Majesty.”

Emperor Hongzhi didn’t have many close relatives. Although he had brothers, they had moved to the vassal area and could not meet each other. Above them were the Empress Dowager and Empress Zhang. Below them, they were no more than his own children and grandchildren. There are Fang Jifan and Zhu Xiurong.

Emperor Hongzhi loved these two brothers, and he valued them very much in the past. Even though these two were ridiculous, even in the court, they became like rats on the street, and everyone shouted at them to beat them, but Emperor Hongzhi still protected them, in order to teach them how to behave. Principle, he usually has a lot of things to do every day, there are many government affairs that need to be dealt with, he even reviews memorials during the day, summons ministers, and leaves the two brothers in the palace at night to talk to them about principles all night.

At this time, seeing the two people coming back and describing the destruction in this way, Emperor Hongzhi walked down the golden palace. He was overjoyed at first. It can be seen that when the two people bowed at his feet, he couldn’t help but get angry: “Take me.” Come with the whip, these two beasts, do you know that your sister kept you awake all night long because she was so worried? You are so brave…”

The eunuchs were so scared that you looked at me and I looked at you.

The two brothers were also frightened. Zhang Heling hugged Emperor Hongzhi’s thigh and said, “Your Majesty, please spare us. We will never dare to do it again next time.”

Zhang Yanling couldn’t say anything, so he began to twitch. He howled at the top of his lungs: “Ahhhh… ahhh…”

“…”

The palace was very quiet.

Everyone remained silent.

Sure enough, they are Shouning Hou and Jianchang Bo.

This is what they were like ten years ago.

Now… I thought they had seen the world and had completely changed. Who would have expected… it is still such a familiar formula and such a familiar taste.

Emperor Hongzhi felt a little stinging in his heart when he heard their wailing, so he had to say: “Remember, if you dare to do this again, I will never spare you!”

Zhang Heling thought to himself, if His Majesty knew, he would also rob dozens of Ming vassal states. Again, you wouldn’t say such things.

My brother-in-law has always been a face-saving person.

Zhang Heling cried and said: “It’s not our fault…this is all Fang Jifan…”

What…

what does it have to do with Fang Jifan?

Emperor Hongzhi was stunned.

All civil and military officials in the court looked at Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan was a little confused.

I eat your rice, can you blame me for this?

Without waiting for Fang Jifan to speak.

However, Zhang Heling continued to cry and said: “Your Majesty… Your Majesty… I feel wronged in my heart. I… have something to report.”

After hearing this, Zhang Yanling hurriedly helped: “Yes, yes, the two of you… are unjust. Your Majesty, please make the decision. “

Originally… the next step was to show off the achievements of the two, but who would have expected… the plot is a little different.

Emperor Hongzhi stared at the two of them: “What’s the matter? It’s okay to say it.”

Zhang Heling glanced at Emperor Hongzhi’s eyes secretly, and then said cautiously: “I went to sea this time without my intention. I was deceived.”

Zhang Yanling After thinking for a while: “Yes, I was deceived!”

Emperor Hongzhi looked surprised, who… dared to deceive you two?

Zhang Heling said: “The one who deceived the minister is Fang Jifan!”

“Yes, it’s him, Fang Jifan! I also recognize him when he turns to ashes.” Zhang Yanling said.

(End of chapter)