The waning sun is like blood, like the neck after being lorded over, the burst of blood stains half the sky, the dusky crows skimming over the withered branches, startling an old dog foraging for food, baring its hideous canine teeth, raspy throat growling, and retreating into the shadows with its tail tucked between its legs ……
Draped in a blood-stained evening sun, Zhu Pingan returned to the Linhuai Marquis Mansion at the last minute before curfew.
The Linhuai Marquis Mansion was festooned with lights and colors tonight.
Back to Jingxiang Garden, Zhu Pingan realized that the original Linhuai Marquis won the court award, today from Yingtianfu back to the capital, but also brought a lot of southern specialties, Zhu Pingan and Li Shu also share a part of the specialties, there is the south of the rhombus, crab, Yingtian brocade and so on.
After having dinner in Jingxiang Garden, Zhu Pingan and Li Shu brought their return gifts to the East Courtyard to visit Marquis Linhuai and his wife.
“Fifth girl, you are really too, just come, what else do you bring. Your eldest uncle came back from Yingtian this time, and brought back a lot of knick-knacks, Rui Ge’er and Niu Niu love them, and Sixth Girl just loved them too. Autumn bamboo, autumn chrysanthemum, you go to the storehouse and pick some of the knickknacks that master brought back, pick the new and fun ones, pick some of each over …….”
Marquis Linhuai’s wife pulled Li Shu to the master bedroom to talk, while Zhu Pingan went to the study with Marquis Linhuai to talk to each other.
“I just entered the capital today and heard about Yang Jisheng’s impeachment of Pavilion Master Yan. An ant trying to shake a big tree, ridiculously insouciant, I think Yang Jisheng has lost his head. I also heard about today’s trial, this is an unusual matter, I think it is inevitable to implicate some people. ZiHou, I know you and Yang Jisheng with XuGeLao door, before inevitably some walk, but, at this time you can must pay attention to, and Yang Jisheng must draw a line, don’t want to suffer from unintentional disaster. You have today is not easy, don’t be confused.”
After simple pleasantries, Marquis Linhuai went straight to the point, cautioned Zhu Pingan and Yang Jisheng to draw a clear line, don’t be implicated.
Of course, in fact, Marquis Linhuai was more worried about Marquis Linhuai House being implicated.
“Ping’an province.”
Upon hearing this, Zhu Pingan’s eyes rolled down, his face rippled as he nodded his head, typical of his heart and mouth.
Dao is different, don’t want to say, don’t want to fight, why don’t you answer with your mouth and save more words.
This is what Zhu Pingan thinks.
Linhuai Marquis saw Zhu Pingan nodded and answered, very satisfied, stroked his beard, originally thought it would take some effort.
“Xian nephew, I have been an official for many years, and I also have some insights. This is an official, more kowtow less talk, do not ask for credit, but no fault, so that the official luck. Must know, no more than auspicious, more blind more defeat; no more than things, more things more suffering …….”
Disease of the heart to go, Linhuai Hou and the identity of elders, half is showing off with Zhu Pingan said some of his summarized experience as an official, the main idea is to be wise, good at seizing the opportunity, don’t do the arm twisting the thigh thing and so on.
Zhu Pingan face a benefited look, the heart is 10,000 dare not agree, according to the Marquis of LinHuai said that for the official, is not a typical corpse, do nothing, with the family and the world what benefit? So for the official, on the negative country, under the guilt of the people, although no merit and no fault, but guilty! Such an official, it would be better to be like the theater “Seven Sesame Officials” sung as “when the official does not do for the people, it is better to go home to sell sweet potatoes” it.
“Uncle, I don’t know how is the situation in the southeast?”Zhu Pingan really can’t listen to it, it digresses and asks.
“Xian nephew is asking about the Southeast Japanese trouble, right?”Marquis Linhuai drank a mouthful of tea, leisurely said “this southeast coast ah, although the Japanese pirates occasionally attack the mainland constantly, but according to my opinion, this Japanese trouble is about to calm down.”
Ha? The Japanese invasion is about to calm down?
When Zhu Pingan heard this, he really didn’t know what to say about Marquis Linhuai’s vision, but he also said that the Japanese invasion is about to calm down! According to the timeline, it won’t be long before the Japanese invade the southeastern coast in a big way, okay? Jiajing years of Japanese trouble, for the scourge of chaos for more than ten years, than the little kid invasion of China lasted longer. There are still more than ten years to go before it is pacified!
Marquis Linhuai saw Zhu Ping’an’s skeptical face, and couldn’t help but take the posture of an elder looking at his juniors, and teaching with foresight, “Zihou ah, you are not in the Southeast, you don’t know about the Southeast ah. Southeast Japan, to the thief Wang Zhi for the most. At the beginning of the year, Wang Zhi annexed the Fujian pirate leader Chen Si Pan, Zhoushan Lek Harbor, the power of the Southeast Japan’s most powerful pirates and seabandits. Wang straight this person, the heart to the recruitment, now the policy of relaxation of the sea ban, the southeast of the local officials acquiesced in the private affairs of the sea trade, the official use of Wang straight to recruit the heart of the implementation of the pirates against the pirates, so that Wang straight to kill Chen Si Pan and other attacks on the mainland of the pirates, Wang straight initiative to cooperate with the very hard, and in succession, pacified Chen Si Pan and other units of the pirates burned and pillaged, the Jiangnan bonobo greatly reduced. With this situation, or recruit Wang Zhi, or entice to kill Wang Zhi, then the southeastern Japan can be fixed in a day ah …….”
Once again, Zhu Pingan did not know what to say to Marquis Linhuai’s vision.
Although Wang Zhi had great expectations for the court, he was only one of the larger forces of the Japanese, and many other Japanese forces did not obey him, such as Xiao Xian, Deng Wenjun, Lin Bichuan, and Shen Men in Fujian, and He Yabai in Guangdong, etc. Even some of Wang Zhi’s subordinates such as Xu Hai did not share the same philosophy with Wang Zhi, and did not obey the management. In fact, Wang Zhi could not eliminate the pirates, but also could not restrain his own subordinates, recruiting him could not pacify the Japanese, and booby-trapping him would stimulate the Japanese even more.
Besides, Wang Zhi’s effort in rating other pirates was for the purpose of expanding his strength. And, Wang Zhi is not really heart to Zhaoan, its seeking is “tribute”, Wang Zhi want to Japan to set up a country, engage in independence and division, and then replace Japan’s tribute position, with the Ming trade, monopolizing the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty, late he played the “King of the Sea” and “Hui”.In his later years, he put up the banner of “King of Jinghai” and “King of Hui” to indicate that he had set up a country with the strength of the Japanese pirates. Wang Zhi was so ambitious and colluded with the Japanese, and his hands were stained with the blood of the people of the Ming Dynasty, how could the Ming Dynasty pacify him?
How can the Japanese be pacified quickly?
Historically, the raging outbreak of Japanese trouble and the large-scale invasion of the southeastern coast, which reached its peak, was triggered by the recruitment and entrapment of Wang Zhi.
“Since I entered Yingtian and supervised the operation of the river, I have expelled several stray Japanese pirates from the coast. At that time, there were several sails, the sails of several real Japanese, men branded face and body, not dressed in a group of jacket, banners end connected, without sewing, waist hanging Japanese sword ……”
For the next half an hour, Marquis Linhuai bragged about his accomplishments, and Zhu Pingan was embarrassed to hear it.
It was just expelling a few broken wooden ships by warships, not annihilating them, saying it as if he commanded a million troops to pacify the Japanese invaders?
However, being able to expel a few Japanese invaders is not bad, at the very least, it’s not like you’re a corpse and doing nothing.
