The Ming Dynasty started with caution

Yan Chengjin thought this was a good idea. He sent Liu Jin to poison the Japanese pirates and then bring back the eight large ships.

Even if the Japanese pirates killed Liu Jin, he would not have to be sent to the Western Regions.

Zhu Houzhao was really cruel. Liu Jin was beaten with fifty sticks yesterday, and he was sent to fight against the Japanese today.

Now he can only ride a fast horse to go to Songjiang Prefecture.

Sitting on horseback for several days is unbearable for a normal person, let alone being beaten with a stick in the court.

Compared with him, Yan Chengjin decided to be more ruthless to Liu Jin, otherwise, Liu Jin would think he was a good person.

"Eunuch Liu, please leave the palace. I just need to go to the palace." Yan Chengjin said.

After coming out of the Meridian Gate, he sat in a sedan chair to the palace. Liu Jin limped behind the sedan chair with a bag on his back.

"You are living well outside the palace, why are you running back to the palace?" Yan Chengjin's voice rang across the sedan chair.

Liu Jin chuckled: "I think your Highness is a man who can accomplish great things, and I want to follow your Highness."

He is a eunuch with great ambitions. When Zhu Houzhao becomes emperor, I will be the eunuch in charge of the Silijian.

What are the few cents earned in the Western Regions?

The Silijian is in charge of the palace treasury. The silver in the Jiazi treasury alone is enough for the palace to spend for fifty years.

At this time, Wang Shouren was packing his luggage and preparing to go to Songjiang Prefecture.

Wang Hua stood in front of the mansion with a worried look on his face. His Majesty's imperial edict had been issued. If he went to the palace to ask His Majesty to withdraw the edict, there would still be room for redemption.

It's just... this wicked son insisted on going.

He almost jumped up in anger.

Wang Tianxu didn't know that his grandson would face Japanese pirates with a fleet when he went to Songjiang Prefecture this time.

"Yun'er, it's just a fight with some pirates. Come back after the fight. Don't wander around Jiangnan."

He knew his grandson's habit. He couldn't walk when he saw a temple or a Taoist temple. He had to go in and sit there. Once he sat there, he forgot the time.

He was really worried about someone who even forgot about the bridal chamber.

"Do you remember what your grandfather said?"

Wang Shouren pondered for a moment, nodded, and looked at his father again, but Wang Hua turned his head away.

He turned around and found a tattered sedan chair parked at the corner of the street, with four sedan bearers guarding on both sides. The color of the sedan chair had changed, but the feeling had not changed.

This was Brother Gao's sedan chair.

"Brother Gao, do you have any clues about the eight large ships?"

Yan Chengjin said seriously: "I came here to tell you that I am 80% sure that the ships are still on the small island under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture.

I am testing you. How will you deal with this situation without soldiers?"

Wang Shouren thought for a while and said: "Recruit the barbarians in Zhejiang and use the mandarin duck formation to resist the Japanese pirates."

Yan Chengjin shook his head and said seriously: "The ronin among the Japanese pirates are good at using swords and swords. One person can fight ten people. They are not ordinary soldiers. I am afraid it will not be easy to deal with them."

When Qi Jiguang dealt with the Japanese pirates, in addition to the mandarin duck formation, there were also extremely powerful firearms, the tiger squatting cannon.

It is not possible to win a comprehensive victory simply by using the mandarin duck formation.

The firearms that Yan Chengjin can give to Wang Shouren cannot be used by the Red Barbarian General. All the ships were sunk and the eight large ships were destroyed.

"I heard that you like to meditate in the temple?"

Wang Shouren looked strange. Haven't you always known about this hobby?

Just as Yan Chengjin was about to continue, Wang Hua came over quickly and said unhappily: "You come to my son again. I declare that from today on, you two are not allowed to meet again!"

"..." Wang Shouren.

Yan Chengjin felt a little uncomfortable and said: "Sir Wang, this official and Bo'an have important matters to discuss."

"What is there to be discussed in public? Wang Shouren! Why are you blinking at your father? Do you have any objections to my father scolding him?" Wang Hua was a little angry.

"Son dare not." Wang Shouren bowed slightly and said: "Dad, look behind."

Wang Tianxu walked over slowly with a bamboo stick.

Wang Hua quickly said: "I will invite you to my house for tea in the future!" Then he left angrily.

Where were we just talking?

Yan Chengjin was a little unresponsive.

"This is your highness's Liu Banban, who just came back from France. Your highness said that he can fight ten people alone." Yan Chengjin said.

Liu Jin took Wang Shouren's package and said with a flattering smile: "Sir Wang, let me come."

Yan Chengjin sat on the sedan chair and said: "This official gives you a good word, brother Bo'an, take care."

Why did Brother Gao ask me about my habit of going to temples? He has always known about this habit, which is strange.

Wang Shouren felt that it must be a hint from Brother Gao.

"Sir Wang, let's go, poison those Japanese pirates as soon as possible, and come back as soon as possible." Liu Jin said with a smile.

"???" Wang Shouren.

He rode on the big horse, and Liu Jin also rode on the black horse, and the two slowly ran away from the capital.

……

Kunning Palace,

Emperor Hongzhi was writing the holy words in the ancient teachings of the Ming Dynasty on rice paper, which could practice calligraphy and review the teachings of the ancestors.

Empress Zhang fed him a mouthful of glutinous rice balls, and frowned slightly: "I heard that your majesty punished Hou Zhao with a caning again yesterday?"

"He brought it upon himself, and my punishment is still light. Do you know that there is a kind of rice in France that is as big as a fist. Eating one grain can fill you up for a day, and how many people in the Ming Dynasty can be saved?

He sent people to the Western Regions, but they didn't bring it back for me!"

Emperor Hongzhi was a little angry.

Empress Zhang knew that her husband was worried about state affairs, and she finally had time to come to the harem, so she didn't mention her worries.

At this moment, Liu Wentai was walking quickly towards Kunning Palace.

Among all the civil and military officials in the court, the imperial physician was the only official who could enter and leave the harem without hindrance.

"Your Majesty, it's bad. All the poisons in the Imperial Hospital have been stolen!" Liu Wentai said in panic after entering the palace.

Emperor Hongzhi's face was tense: "Who is so bold to steal things from the palace?"

Liu Wentai hurriedly lowered his head and hesitated: "It's... it's the prince."

Why did Houzhao steal poison? The next moment, Emperor Hongzhi widened his eyes and spit out the glutinous rice balls in his mouth.

He noticed the strange expressions of Xiao Jing and Liu Wentai.

Emperor Hongzhi coughed dryly and blamed Empress Zhang: "Why don't you blow it before giving it to me? It's a little hot..."

The atmosphere in the hall was a little quiet and awkward.

After a while,

Zhu Houzhao was helped by several eunuchs and said aggrievedly: "Father, mother, I am injured and I can't pay my respects."

Emperor Hongzhi said gloomily: "Why did you steal poison!"

Seeing that he was discovered, Zhu Houzhao was so shocked that he knelt on the ground and didn't dare to say a word.

"Where did you go down?!" This is what Emperor Hongzhi wanted to know most.

Liu Wentai, Xiao Jing and others looked nervous. If the prince didn't explain clearly, they would not dare to eat the food in the palace.

A quarter of an hour later,

Zhu Houzhao didn't say a word no matter how he was questioned.

Emperor Hongzhi was so angry that he trembled all over: "You evil son! Why don't you hand over the poison quickly? Are you going to piss me off to death?"

"No... no more..." Zhu Houzhao whispered.

No more?

Emperor Hongzhi was so scared that he almost fainted. There were more than twenty kinds of poisons, big and small, weighing nearly two times. You couldn't finish them!

Liu Wentai was almost crying in anxiety. He knelt down to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Highness, don't scare me. Those poisons are extremely toxic. Where did you take them?"

Empress Zhang also realized the seriousness of the matter and advised: "Don't make trouble anymore. Tell your father quickly."

Zhu Houzhao gritted his teeth, blinked his eyes, and said: "I can't say it. If I say it, all my previous efforts will be wasted."

The dog Lao Gao said that there might be an insider of the Japanese pirates in the court.

Emperor Hongzhi wanted to beat him to death, but fortunately Empress Zhang and Xiao Jing and others stopped him.

After pacing in the palace for a long time, Emperor Hongzhi thought that the prince would discuss any action with Yan Chengjin.

Maybe this boy knew where the poisons were.

He hurriedly ordered: "Summon Yan Chengjin to the palace!"

Half an hour later, Yan Chengjin appeared in Kunning Palace.

Emperor Hongzhi asked with a worried look on his face: "The prince stole the poison from the Imperial Hospital, do you know?"

"I don't know." Yan Chengjin continued: "But I can probably guess where it went."

Zhu Houzhao warned fiercely: "Old Gao, if you betray me, you are not my brother."

"Come on, hang the prince up first, I will go over and beat him later."

Emperor Hongzhi ordered several eunuchs next to him.

There is such a scheduled operation?

It seems that His Majesty has played a trick, and Yan Chengjin is naturally not afraid of Zhu Houzhao.

This guy's determination is worth at most one hundred taels of silver.

"Your Highness must have given the poison he stole to Liu Jin."

Emperor Hongzhi asked in confusion, "What did you give it to Liu Jin for?"

"To poison the Japanese pirates, he has now gone to Songjiang Prefecture with Wang Shouren." Yan Chengjin said.

Emperor Hongzhi and Xiao Jing and others were surprised. He had just been beaten with fifty boards in the court, and he went to Songjiang Prefecture again?

What a ruthless man!

Liu Wentai wiped the sweat from his forehead and let out a sigh of relief: "It's good that he's not in the palace."