The identity of the direct son - Xu I's prosperous world

It is very common for pirates and pirates to plunder a place and capture people on land as hostages and captives. Most of the captured people are ordinary men and women. Difficult, usually doing some chores, beating, scolding, killing, and cutting. Naturally, if there is a big war, they are often used as death squads. Some people who are slightly stronger can either escape or become pirates directly. However, women have become camp prostitutes, tools for venting their desires and giving birth to children.

Ji Heng understands this very well.

So after reading the letter saying that dozens of his people had been taken away, his brain became congested and he almost couldn't sit still.

Fortunately, he has always been restrained and calm. Although Taishan collapsed before him without changing his face, he could hardly bear it now.

The number of times Ji Heng has returned to his hometown and ancestral home is really limited, and he can count on one hand, and the people he knows are naturally even more limited. However, the bond of the clan is not judged by the number of times he has returned to his hometown.

Liu Bing, the magistrate of Suzhou, is sitting on Ji Heng's hands. Liu Bing has made great contributions in defending the city this time, and Ji Heng has praised him a lot when he came to inspect. Although his face is respectful and calm, he is actually happy in his heart. He is waiting for his promotion opportunity.

Ji Heng is a young man, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and a man of high literati. Officials from Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are not convinced by him. No matter how respectful and flattering they are on the surface, they will despise him in their hearts, especially when they see his face Peach blossoms, after the eyes are full of autumn water, the contempt in the heart is even heavier.

In the beginning, Liu Bing also despised Ji Heng in his heart.

However, when Ji Heng came to the southeast, he didn't appear to be frivolous at all. On the contrary, he was gentle and martial, with a firm and resolute character, which made people admire him.

Liu Bing is not a pedantic person, and gradually he began to admire him sincerely, admiring in his heart that a hero from ancient times was born as a boy.

Suzhou belongs to Jiangsu, but because it is not far from Yuhang, it is directly managed by Wang Bingzhi. Although Wang Bingzhi is only the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the governor of the two rivers has no courage, and the Japanese pirates don’t care about the provincial boundaries. Where is where, if the Japanese pirates fled from Fujian and Zhejiang to Jiangsu, Anhui and other places, the governor of Liangjiang would be in charge. This would be a mistake, so in order to facilitate the pursuit, the emperor gave Wang Bingzhi the right to use troops across provinces.

So this Suzhou also became the place under Ji Heng's management.

Seeing that Ji Heng's expression changed after reading the letter, Liu Bing asked, "Master Futai, what happened?"

Ji Heng glanced at the letter again, and handed the letter paper directly to Liu Bing. Liu Bing glanced at the letter, and in order to express his grief and indignation, he immediately stood up and cursed at the pirate, " This group of Japanese thieves invaded my place and plundered my people, if they don't kill them all, it will not be enough to calm the people."

He said, looked at Ji Heng again, frowned and said, "If I remember correctly, Master Futai's ancestral home is Xinghua, and the people who were robbed by Japanese pirates were members of Lord Futai's clan. I'm afraid that the Japanese pirates entered the sea. If you escape too far, let the navy pursue it, and you won't be unable to catch up."

In that letter, Mr. Wang only wrote that the Japanese pirates plundered Xinghua and took away hundreds of people, including dozens of Ji's clan. Because they took the people as hostages, the officers and soldiers were restrained and had to let them go into the sea.

When Liu Bing saw the letter, it didn't say in the letter that the dozens of members of Ji's clan were members of Ji Heng's clan, but Liu Bing is such a good person, if ordinary people were really taken hostage, Wang Bingzhi would simply ignore them and pursue them directly. In Wang Bingzhi's eyes, hostages are nothing. Those who can be rescued will be rescued, and those who cannot be rescued will be ignored.

Of course there are reasons for this.

The Japanese pirates are very cruel. During the time of Miyagi, they always arrested a large number of civilians as vanguards and knocked on the city gate. If these people did not move forward, they would be killed. If they went forward and knocked on the city gate, they might still be alive. Therefore, these The captured people had to be the vanguard death squads of the Japanese pirates. At first, the defenders in the city sympathized with the people and opened the city gates to let these people enter the city. However, the people were mixed with pirates. When Japanese pirates entered the city, they plundered wantonly, murdered and set fire to them. Thousands of people were killed and injured in the city, and countless houses were burned down.

After this, Wang Bingzhi directly ordered that all civilians be arrested. If they were members of the Japanese pirate death squad, they would be regarded as Japanese pirates.

This kind of approach made the Japanese pirates restrained, because they could not knock on the gate of the city even if they captured the people as death squads, and some of these people were bloody, knowing that they would die if they went forward, and they would die if they went back, so why bother to kill their compatriots forward? It's better to stand back and fight the Japanese pirates to the death.

Because of several incidents where the captives defected and fought back against the Japanese pirates, the Japanese pirates did not dare to arrest the captives as pioneers, so that ordinary people had some protection.

There were previous reasons, but this time Mr. Wang was still holding back the hostage, which showed that the hostage was indeed not an ordinary hostage.

Since the surname of that family is Ji, they should be members of Ji Heng's clan.

Ji Heng's ancestral home is Xinghua, and the Ji family has been established here for more than 200 years, with a large population. They do not live in Xinghua County, but in Jijia Village outside the county. You can imagine.

The problem Ji Heng is facing now is how to deal with this matter.

To have an explanation to the clan, these clansmen must be rescued, but if they use the army privately because of this, it will naturally be infamy.

Ji Heng took a deep breath, and said to Liu Bing, "What is the specific situation, I have to discuss it with Mr. Wang in detail."

Ji Heng didn't delay either, and immediately set off for Xinghua.

Bian Wu and the others followed Ji Heng, and they also knew about Xinghua, so Bian Wu comforted Ji Heng, "The Japanese pirates have always used captives as slaves, so they would not kill them directly. They should be able to be rescued later. This time The great victory in Yuhang, and the killing of hundreds of pirates at Caijingba, which established the prestige of the imperial court, is a great achievement."

Ji Heng glanced at him. Although Bian Wu is a dead man, his mouth is broken, and he always says things that make people laugh and cry. Now that his clansman has been arrested, he still has the heart to do meritorious service. matter.

He really didn't know how Bian Wu was given to him by the emperor's fancy.

But Ji Heng saw that Bian Wu was chattering, but he just wanted to feel more at ease, so he replied, "I know. Since the person has been arrested, he can either be rescued or not, it's just these two things. It’s not too worrying.”

Ji Heng rode a fast horse to Yangzhou, which was faster than water.

When he arrived in Yangzhou, because Yangzhou was also harassed by Japanese pirates, but Yangzhou insisted on guarding the city, the Japanese pirates just looted outside the city and then continued to flee north. There was no loss in Yangzhou.

It's just that Ji Heng's Taohuazhuang was outside the city, but it was ransacked by Japanese pirates. However, there were only a few servants guarding the Zhuangzi in Taohuazhuang. The servants escaped in time and nothing happened. Ji Heng didn't care about the property.

Ji Heng stayed in Yangzhou for one night before continuing north to Xinghua.

But he didn't go to Jijia Village, and met Wang Bingzhi's department on the way.

On Mr. Wang's ship, Wang Bingzhi was exhausted after more than ten days of fighting, Ji Heng was not much better, his eyes were bloodshot, he went up to meet Wang Bingzhi, and asked about the situation of the pursuit of the Japanese pirates.

Mr. Wang sat in the chair and talked about the situation of chasing the Japanese pirates all the way, and then talked about the Japanese pirates looting Xinghua. The Japanese pirates burned, killed and looted all the way. At the time of Xinghua, there were already remnant soldiers, but there were still nearly a thousand of them, and some people were captured on the road as slaves. He wanted to knock down Xinghua County. Master Wang had already issued an order to the state capitals of Jiangsu to let the officers and soldiers from all over the country do it. Prepared for the enemy, responded to each other, and rang the coast guard. Unexpectedly, when the order arrived in Yangzhou, the direction to Gaoyou was not taken seriously. The Japanese pirates fled from Yangzhou to Gaoyou very quickly. Because Wang Bingzhi and Zhao Zhili's officers and soldiers were in a hurry to pursue them, the Japanese pirates rushed directly into Jijia Village. Because Jijia Village didn't get the news in time to hide from the pirates' alarm, it confronted the Japanese pirates. Organized a resistance, but the men in Jijia Village were no match for the vicious Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates killed dozens of young men, then captured women, children, and old people as hostages, and fled eastward. Unexpectedly, there were sea ships to support them , into the sea.

Ji Heng understood the problems in Mr. Wang's description.

Although Wang Bingzhi has the right to use troops across provinces, he has no real control over the Liangjiang area. Some officials here do not listen to his orders at all, especially as they go north.

After hearing this, Ji Heng's face sank like water, and his eyes were even more unfathomable, but he was not angry. It took him a long time to breathe out, and said, "Since the matter has come to this point, there is no need to be sad, we can only see how to solve it."

He said directly, "This time the Japanese pirates and pirates colluded, more than [-] people went ashore, and the weapons were excellent, and the military was used meticulously. Going straight to their dens is the fundamental. Otherwise, they will always sit on the shore and wait for their intruders, passively defending, and the people will suffer from it. Resisting the Japanese pirates in the open sea, killing them all, and making people dare not be bandits is the only way The solution to sea troubles."

Mr. Wang nodded and said, "Exactly. However, nowadays, there is not enough navy and warships. On the contrary, the Japanese pirate ships have strong guns and are very familiar with the sea. We can't take advantage of naval battles, but land battles." , but more victories than defeats.”

Ji Heng said, "I also understand this truth. However, it is imperative to resist the pirates in the open sea. The navy is training, the warships are being built, and the artillery and firecrackers are all being built. I don't believe that these pirates can't be solved. The pirates For me, the people of Dayong, but colluding with the Japanese pirates and harming the people of our own country, this kind of thing is intolerable."

When Ji Heng said it, his tone was very flat, but because it was too flat, there was always a feeling of coldness in his bones. Mr. Wang took another look at Ji Heng, knowing that Ji Heng was really angry this time.

Ji Heng was really angry this time. The pirates and Japanese pirates colluded to go ashore to plunder. The second was that Liangjiang officials refused to carry out Master Wang’s orders because of their own selfish interests, so they did not report to the maritime police and let the Japanese pirates run rampant in Jiangsu. , and one more thing, with Ji Heng's mind that can understand the nine bends and eighteen turns, naturally he can understand it.

That's why Xinghua County was able to defend in time, but no one in Jijia Village alone reported the arrival of the Japanese pirates. This is not in line with common sense.

From Xinghua County to Jijia Village, Ji Heng walked through it, riding a fast horse for half an hour at most. If the Xinghua County government acted, even if they didn't know that the Japanese pirates were coming at first, when the Japanese pirates arrived at the city, they would It is definitely enough time to send people to report to the surrounding villages and towns that the Japanese pirates are coming.

But Jijia Village didn't know anything, so they were slaughtered and dozens of people were taken away.

Ji Heng had to think that this was done on purpose.

Ji Heng talked with Master Wang about preparing for the sea patrol for nearly two hours, and then bid farewell to Master Wang. At this point, he still has to go back to the clan.

In the face of such a catastrophe of extermination, Ji Heng can still be so calm, Mr. Wang thinks that Ji Heng is so calm that it is a bit scary.

When he said he was going to Xinghua, Mr. Wang agreed and sent someone to take him there.

Ji Heng declined Mr. Wang's kindness, and asked Mr. Wang to write a memorial to the emperor for the war, and he left.

Beijing.

When he learned that pirates and pirates invaded Jiangnan, the emperor was accompanying his son in the west room of Qinzheng Hall.

Because Yang Qi'er was able to stand up by climbing on things, he didn't want to climb at all. He tried hard to learn to walk.

The west room of Qinzheng Hall is often used to receive ministers or let close ministers wait for the emperor's summons here, and now it has become Yang Qier's play place.

The emperor reviewed the memorials and received the ministers in the east room of the Qinzheng Hall, while he was babbling or crawling around, eating, drinking and sleeping in the west room.

He babbles and learns to speak, and most of the time he enjoys himself. For example, when the nurse Rong Shi or the female officer Du Ruo teach him to speak seriously, he shuts his mouth and ignores him, and waits for him to sit on the ground and let him crawl. When he was on the mattress, he started to babble without knowing what he was talking about, and sometimes he even yelled suddenly, which startled the maids in the room.

The emperor was also sitting on the mattress, reading a book in his hand, which was sent to Beijing along with Ji Heng's memorial, and it was a book Ji Heng gave him.

It is an overseas travel journal, which tells about the situation in more than a dozen overseas countries. Because it is written in a narrative way, it is very interesting. However, the emperor felt that this may not be true, but it is still possible to read.

While the emperor was reading a book, he let his son hold him up and stood up. Yang Qier didn't care if his father was teasing him, but she just lay down on his thigh first, and then grabbed his sleeve, and she slowly stood up Immediately afterwards, he grabbed his arm, then his collar, and began to move his feet slowly.

The emperor deliberately stretched out his hand for his son to catch, but Yang Qier didn't grab his hand, and liked to grab his ears, but Yang Qier was not that tall, so he couldn't catch his ears, so he opened a pair of big black eyes that were very similar to Ji Heng, Staring at the white jade dangling from his hat, the emperor ignored him and continued to read, so Yang Qi'er grabbed the dangling chong'er and almost tore off the hat from the emperor's head.

The emperor had no choice but to put down the book, opened his son's fingers, hugged him to his chest, smiled and breathed on his little neck, and said, "Little rascal, scratch and scratch again."

Yang Qi'er chuckled, stretched out his hand to pat the emperor's face, the emperor was glad that he hadn't grown a beard, otherwise his son might have ripped off his beard.

Yang Qi'er laughed and made noise in the emperor's arms, and the emperor tickled him. The two were having fun, and Liu Sheng said from outside the bead curtain at the door, "Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from the southeast."