Zhu Pingan sent off the demoness Ruonan who asked questions endlessly, and just returned to the Jingnan County Office, he received a copy of the report from the Taizhou Prefectural Government. A small section of the report recorded Wang Zhi’s request to open the harbour for business. Three days ago, Wang Zhi submitted a letter to the court, requesting the opening of the port of the city, today the court replied, not only did not agree to Wang Zhi’s request to open the port of the city, but also reprimanded Wang Zhi in a stern voice, so that he washed his hands of the pirates who burned, killed and plundered in order to give thanks for his crimes…….
Jiajing Great Japanese Trouble Begins!
As soon as Zhu Pingan saw this account, he immediately realised this and quickly ordered to closely monitor all the coasts of Jingnan, especially the coasts suitable for logging in, to guard against the Japanese invading Jingnan. At the same time, ordered to notify the people everywhere to hold fast to the wall and retreat into the county town, sentry fort, and deep mountains nearby to avoid the Japanese invasion, assigned those who had the experience of fighting against the Japanese to the county town wall and each sentry fort to defend against the Japanese, and assisted in the defence of the county town and sentry fort by the young and strong people nearby…….
After the anti-Japanese and anti-disaster incidents, Zhu Pingan’s prestige was as high as the sky in Jingnan, and no ordinary people questioned Zhu Pingan’s words, and all acted according to his orders. For a while, the whole Jingnan was mobilised, and the people loaded their food and belongings into carts, drove their pigs, cows, sheep and horses, and entered the county towns and sentry forts to escape from the Japanese invaders with their elders and children.
After the people retreated into the county towns and anti-Japanese sentry forts, the gates of the towns and forts were closed. Not only that, but the gates were also piled up with layers of weights to prevent the Japanese from breaking through the gates.
The feast of golden juice, which was a great achievement in the last fight against the Japanese, was also arranged in advance for the Japanese invaders. On the city wall and inside the sentry fort, a big iron pot, full of gold juice, = ready to give the Japanese a catty feast …….
If we use the words of the present time to describe it, it would be that Jingnan entered a first-class state of defence against the Japanese.
On the first day, people were highly nervous and were always on edge, especially those on guard at the coast, who were even more nervous; they did not even dare to blink their eyelids, lest the Japanese pirates would appear in their sight the next second. However, on this day, Jingnan was calm and quiet, not to mention the shadow of the Japanese invaders, the whole sea was very quiet, there was no big wind, no big waves, even the evening tide was much milder, highlighting the harmlessness of human and animals.
On the second day, Jingnan was also calm, and the Japanese invaders did not attack.
On the third day, Jingnan also calm, until sunset did not see a trace of the shadow of the Japanese, there are some people who fled to Jingnan during the flood felt that the county honourable some fuss, began to complain one after another, quite a few words.
“The flood has only passed, we have only settled down for a short time, we have only lived in a new home, planted vegetable seedlings, raised two pigs, this day ah only have hope, the County Governor a ‘Japanese invaders are coming’ and then let us abandon our homes and land up …….It’s already the third day, and there’s no sign of the Japanese invaders, don’t you think the magistrate is torturing us?”
There is a fleeing over to move into the Jingnan people dragging the family, pulling two pigs close to hide into the Jingnan county town, looking at the mess of the temporary residence, really can not help but complained with the people.
“It’s not so bad. Not to mention, our heart is almost scared out of its wits by the county honourable sentence ‘Japanese invaders are coming’. Big brother, you are also a refugee from abroad, right? To say the least, this flood is terrible, but it’s no more terrible than the Japanese invaders. When the Japanese invaders crossed the border, they raped, killed, pillaged, and committed all kinds of evils, and they were heartless to the extreme. Alas, our village experienced a Japanese invasion ten years ago, and it was so tragic that I still have nightmares about it, to tell you the truth. When my father said that the Japanese were coming, I was scared out of my wits, and I haven’t come back yet. Let me tell you, I haven’t eaten a bite of rice in the past three days. However, you look at this where there is no shadow of the Japanese invaders ah, I am afraid that these days are in vain …….”
This person is also a person who fled to Jingnan during the flood, the Han’s words in the party immediately caused his resonance, after the Han finished complaining, he also couldn’t help but join the ranks of complaining.
“What are you guys talking about, do you guys have a conscience when you say that, it’s all been eaten by dogs. If it wasn’t for County Zun, your family would have starved to death long ago, and you still want to have a house to live in? You’d still want a house to live in, a wife and children to live in! You’d still want to have land to grow and pigs to feed! If I were three or five years younger, you’d all have to eat my crutches.”
A white-bearded old man, who had also fled from abroad, heard their words and couldn’t help but walk up to them on his crutches, blowing his moustache and glaring at them as he pouted them out.
“Old man, this is one size fits all. We are also not a generation of enmity and revenge, wolf heart and dog lungs, the county honourable saved us, we are grateful to the county honourable from the bottom of our hearts, our homes are still offering the county honourable’s long-life plaque, every morning and evening an incense burning, never forgetting it. However, no one is a saint and no one can be faultless, county honourable is also a human being, county honourable also made a mistake ah. It is out of our gratitude to County Honour that we cannot bear to see County Honour make mistakes.”
The hanyou was spoken to by the old man, his face instantly turned red as if it was engorged with blood, and hurriedly defended himself.
“That’s right, tigers still have a time to nap. What’s wrong with our County Honour taking a nap? How normal is this. We point out the problems because we want our Prefect to do better. If we all open our eyes and pretend to be blind, that’s what’s hurting your county honours. Why are you so agitated, Master?!”
Another person followed suit and defended.
“Cough cough cough ……You are ungrateful, you are shameless, you are white eyed wolves ……”
They do not explain just, this explanation is the old man will be angry coughing not one, cane forcefully knocked to the ground, stretching out a hand full of wrinkles, pointing at the two men’s noses and cursing.
“Come on, the old man you’re going off the deep end, we can’t afford to mess with it but also can’t afford to avoid it?!”
The Han waved his hand and turned away, no longer ignoring the white-bearded old man.
“That’s it.”
The other man also followed and turned around.
“Hehe, you field boys ah. You’re really self-righteous. Let me tell you, our County Zun is never wrong. Every time he’s wrong, it’s people like you who think they’re right. The last time we succeeded in fighting the Japanese, it was all because our county governor had the foresight to judge the gates where the Japanese attacked in advance and took precautions, which made it possible for us in Jingnan to successfully defend ourselves against the Japanese. If County Zun said that the Japanese are coming, then the Japanese must be coming soon.”
A local overheard their conversation and couldn’t help but heave a sarcastic laugh.
“Just blow it off, you’re really good at adding fuel to the fire, is the county zun that divine?!”The two men said unconvincingly.
“I don’t know about small things. But this kind of big thing, we really haven’t seen County Honour miss it.”
The locals nodded in a serious manner.
“Heh ……”
The two didn’t say anything else, but they also said everything, because everything was in heh.
