The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

All the people cheered enthusiastically.

Jiajing is in the crowd, enjoying the glory, and his heart is surging.

(Jiajing: Yan Aiqing is right. The common people in Suzhou have suffered a lot from the Japanese pirates, and they are in dire straits. I came here this time just to reward the famous generals who fought against the Japanese. They regard me as a great savior. This is easy to pretend, but the effect it is good!)

If Jiajing knew that the one-hearted, mountainous and tsunami cheers were actually the result of Yan Song asking Shang Weiwei to gather tens of thousands of people with loud voices and rehearse for a month, I wonder if he would be so angry that he vomited blood.

In fact, apart from this superficial point, most of the people in Suzhou still harbor resentment towards the emperor and Daming.Most of the people cheering on the shore were deliberately called by Monk Yan Song.

However, Jiajing, who felt the worship of the people of Suzhou and satisfied his pretentious vanity, immediately cheered up and pretended to hold an imperial meeting to discuss countermeasures against the Japanese.

The so-called cannibalism is short-sighted and short-handed, since pretending to be coercive in front of others satisfies vanity, and also has the obligation to eliminate disasters for others.Although Jiajing is lazy (ajba), greedy for money, and lustful, he still has this awareness.

"Yan Aiqing, why is the plague of Japanese pirates in the southeast so intense?"

After closing the door, Jiajing resumed his usual lazy demeanor, frowned and asked.

Yan Song's heart skipped a beat.

He knew that Jiajing would ask such a question, and he even thought that this was an excellent opportunity to promote his theory of sea power!

As a human being, Yan Song II had already grasped Jiajing's thoughts clearly.

Jiajing thinks that he is extremely intelligent and that he is an emperor through the ages, but unfortunately in Yan Song's eyes, he is just a monkey. No matter how fierce a monkey is, it will still be played by a monkey trickster who has mastered its weaknesses and likes and dislikes.It's a pity that monkeys still think they are smart.

If he hadn't figured out Jiajing's temper, how could Yan Song dare to write such a rebellious book on sea power?

Xia Yan Xia Guixi, the chief assistant Xia Yan and Xia Guixi who was beheaded and abandoned by Jiajing when he was said to "recover" (resume the capture of the Hetao area), is a bloody lesson. It's better to obediently be a treacherous official Yan Song who works hand in hand with the emperor.

Just waiting for you Jiajing to ask this.

"Reporting to the Emperor," Yan Song said seriously: "There are thousands of reasons for the Japanese pirates' invasion, but there is only one root cause, that is, my Great Ming banned the sea, abolished my martial arts, and lost the power of the sea!"

Jiajing frowned.

As soon as the topic mentioned the Forbidden Sea, it was sensitive and heavy for Jiajing, and even for any emperor after Ren and Xuan of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, the Ming banned the sea and abolished martial arts. It wasn't all because the emperor didn't have the foresight to see the benefits of opening the sea.However, Ming did not understand how to control the ocean, and continued to gain benefits from ocean exploration and overseas colonization, so that this kind of overseas colonial movement, which carried the hope of the next 500 years of national destiny, did not continue.But opening the sea is the general trend. After Jiajing, Longqing finally opened the sea again. It is called Longqing Kaihai in history, which played an important role in easing conflicts and extending Guozuo in the late Ming Dynasty.

This is Yan Song's forte.As the second generation, Yan Song is too aware of the great influence of sea power and ocean colonization on the fate of China.

Jiajing wondered: "What is the relationship between the Japanese pirates and the Forbidden Sea? If it weren't for the Forbidden Sea, the Japanese pirates might be even more rampant."

Chapter 240 Teaching Jiajing [3]

Japanese pirates are rampant, so the sea should be banned.

This is a typical popular view in the Ming Dynasty, which links the disaster of the Japanese pirates with Kaihai.In the eyes of many emperors and officials of the Ming Dynasty, the ocean represents the fear of the unknown and instability, and the Japanese pirates are the product of the ocean.Banning the sea is equivalent to closing the door and closing the house. At least it can isolate the Japanese pirates. If the sea is opened, wouldn't it be easier to attract thieves?

Yan Song smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, the scourge of the Japanese pirates originated from the outside, but it is rooted in the inside. Invading Japanese pirates, three are divided into Dongying real Japanese, and seven are divided into Chinese fake Japanese."

"What? Seventy percent of the Japanese pirates are members of my Ming Dynasty? It's unreasonable!" Jiajing burst into flames, furious.

He always thought that those Japanese pirates with shaved hair, colorful clothes, and Wah Liang Wa Liang bird language were genuine Japanese barbarians, but it was the first time that he knew that most of the Japanese pirates were from Daming, colluding internally and externally to harm Daming.

But this made Jiajing even more suspicious.

Since they are all from Daming, why do they harm Daming?

"The two big bosses of the Japanese pirates, Xu Zhi and Wang Hai, were both down-and-out men in the Ming Dynasty, exiled overseas. Wang Hai is a big merchant, and Xu Zhi is a down-and-out scholar."

Jiajing nodded with a gloomy face, and finally had a general understanding of the Japanese pirates.

Some people say that the Japanese pirates have been invading for so many years, and the emperor still doesn't know who the real murderer of the Japanese pirates is?

The answer is right.

Emperor Jiajing was busy with the great cause of cultivating immortals and did not go to court for more than 30 years.Not to mention the Japanese pirates far away in the southeast, even I Da, who invaded Beijing every year and caused the Ming Dynasty to make a fuss, the old man is too lazy to take care of it.

If Yan Song hadn't seized the opportunity to seduce Jiajing and pretend to be coercive, and offered Shanghai Quanlun, he would have rushed to Jiajing's lazy bones, even if he was in the grave, he wouldn't bother to ask a question.

Now, Jiajing can be regarded as having a little understanding of the opponent who harmed Daming - the Japanese pirates.

"Since most of the pirates are from the Ming Dynasty, why do they join the bandits?"

Yan Song replied: "The scourge of Japanese pirates is directly related to our dynasty's policy of banning the sea."

"My court allowed the Gongshi (opening the sea), and the Japanese pirates disappeared. When the Gongshi was closed, the Japanese pirates became rampant again."

"For example, at the time of Chengzu, he established a Kanko trade relationship with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the third-generation general of the Ashikaga Shogunate who unified Japan. The Ming Dynasty gave the Ashikaga Shogunate a trade certificate, that is, Kanko. The Japanese side came to China to pay tribute and trade with the Ashikaga Shogunate. Greatly reduced The Japanese pirates invaded the coastal areas of China, and the Ashikaga shogunate also actively suppressed the Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates were extinct.”

"But after Chengzu, the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, and the joint exploration and trade between the two sides was interrupted. Japan no longer suppressed Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates, which were slightly restrained during the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu period, spread again along the coast of China."

"During the period of Ashikaga Yoshikon, Sino-Japanese exploration and cooperation trade was resumed. Japanese pirates were suppressed again."

"After the mid-Jiajing period, the Sino-Japanese exploration and cooperation trade was completely cut off, and the invasion of Japanese pirates became more and more serious."

The fact that Yan Song is like iron made Jiajing fall into deep thought.

As long as the sea is opened, the Japanese pirates will be suppressed, and as long as the sea is banned, the Japanese pirates will be rampant.What the hell is this for?

"The reason is that the interests of China-Japan trade are too huge. The Japanese daimyos and rulers of all dynasties must not let go of this huge interest. Usually they are scrambling to be the first to ask for the right of tribute to the Ming Dynasty. Usually, a tribute, but In exchange for more than ten times the income of tribute in Shibosi, the more tribute, the greater the income."

Jiajing nodded.He knows this.

Daming has always regarded itself as the kingdom of heaven.The so-called tribute, in fact, is to make it clear that the face of the other party is at a disadvantage, and the inside is at an advantage.

Therefore, whether it is Japan, Ryukyu, and Luzon in the east, or the Mongolian tribes in the north, or the ethnic minorities in the west and southwest, or even Siam, Laos, and Burma on the Indochina Peninsula, as long as they are neighbors and younger brothers of Ming Dynasty, they will Competing to be the first to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and to be the younger brother and godson.It's not that they are cheap, it's because of the huge benefits.If these "little brothers" paid 100 million taels of tribute, then the rebate given by Daming at the Shibo Department would be worth 1000 million taels.The more you come, the more you get, no one cheats!

That's why Daming's tribute city power is loved by everyone, and flowers bloom when they see flowers. Countless countries around them are crying and clamoring to pay tribute to be a younger brother. If the big brother Da Ming doesn't allow it, the younger brother will meet with swordsmen.