Chapter 306: Those Who Commit Crimes Against the Ming Dynasty Must Be Punished, All the Way to the East

The rising sun is rising in the east, and countless rays of golden sunshine are spread over the entire Shenzhi Island.

"Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

"Long live the Emperor!"

"When the city is alive, people are still there, but when the city is gone, people are going to perish!"

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Four thousand soldiers gathered in the grand competition field, showing strict military discipline, and were shouting loud slogans in order.

Although Huo Hai and others are far away from their homeland, they are increasingly proud of their country and even more proud of having a wise and powerful emperor.

As for this Daming City, it is a sacred and inviolable place.

Now this city is coveted by the North Korean garrison on Jeju Island. The North Korean garrison on Jeju Island wants to ruin the good life of their four thousand soldiers, which makes the returning soldiers very angry.

At this moment, a little old man wearing North Korean official uniform was escorted onto the high platform, looking very embarrassed.

"I made excuses to stir up trouble earlier. I already know that this old guy is not a good guy!"

"If I stay here, I will definitely finish squeezing out this old guy on the spot!"

"It's a good thing you're not here. If you had messed up, how could you let everyone see the result in person today?"

…

Huo Guangming and other soldiers saw Jeju Shepherd Li Zhunbin being escorted up, and combined with Li Zhunbin's earlier actions of deliberately provoking trouble, they seemed to blame him without any goodwill.

Li Zhunbin was pushed hard and staggered a few steps before falling to the ground.

He was born into a noble family in North Korea, and now he holds the important position of Jeju Pastor. He can be said to be an upper-class figure in North Korea. As a result, he is now a prisoner, and his life is experiencing ups and downs.

Since taking office, he has always wanted to do something great, otherwise he would not want to eliminate the forces such as Mu Meng on the island.

Unfortunately, Mu Meng was not solved yet. The Ming Dynasty even reached out and opened a port to build a new city on the east side of Shenzhi Island.

That's why, after receiving the support of Li Kepei, when he saw that the strength of Daming City was suddenly empty, he wanted to take the opportunity to capture this Daming City.

Who would have thought that not only did he underestimate the strength of the Ming Dynasty army who liked to gamble with whoring, but he also overestimated the combat power of his Jeju garrison. The five thousand troops he led were vulnerable to a thousand defenders who took the initiative to fight.

"Li Mu Shou, we meet again!" Xu Shiying greeted with a smile when he saw the culprit being brought up.

Although he did not suffer any losses this time, Li Zhunbin's behavior not only touched his bottom line, but also violated the dignity of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zhunbin couldn't help but tremble all over, and hurriedly emphasized: "I am a minister of North Korea, you... you can't deal with me!"

"Your North Korea was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Earlier, you North Korea did not agree to send troops to help the Ming Dynasty regain Jianzhou. Now you actually want to seize the city of the Ming Dynasty. I will kill you today, you are unfaithful and unjust." Fake vassal!" Xu Shiying pointed at Li Zhunbin's nose and shouted angrily.

"kill!"

"kill!"

"Anyone who offends our Ming Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away!"

…

Huo Hai and other four thousand soldiers showed the bloody nature of Chinese men, and now Li Zhunbin's behavior has also touched what they want to guard, and they are also condemning it.

Xu Shiying was very satisfied with the cohesion of the current army. At least this army had a strong sense of mission to defend the dignity of the Ming Dynasty. He turned to look at Li Zhunbin: "Li Mu Shou, have you heard the voices of the soldiers? Offend me. The Ming Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away it is. Don’t do such stupid things again in your next life!”

"Mr. Governor, I...I am willing to be your dog. Please forgive me this time. I will obey your orders from now on!" Li Zhunbin felt the fear of death and immediately crawled over and said, wagging his tail and begging for mercy.

Xu Shiying kicked Li Junbin away and said with great confidence: "If someone else were to be the Jeju Shepherd, they would be obedient, and maybe the Jeju Shepherd will no longer be needed in the future!"

"No! Mr. Governor, I was wrong, I was wrong!" Li Zhunbin had already put aside his pretense of being a celebrity and immediately continued to plead with tears in his eyes.

Now that things have happened, he really regrets it.

The Ming Dynasty was obviously so powerful. North Korea was just a small vassal state, but they actually wanted to conquer the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention myself as a small Jeju pastor, even Li Kepei, the leftist political advisor, was nothing more than a clown in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zhunbin looked at the sword that had been raised high, knowing that regret had no effect at all. He silently hoped that he would not do stupid things like being an enemy of the Ming Dynasty in the next life.

puff!

As the executioner waved the sword in his hand, Jeju Shepherd Lee Joon-bin's eyes shed tears of regret, and his head rolled down from the high platform to the ground.

"Anyone who offends our Ming Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away he is!" The four thousand soldiers shouted in unison with high spirits as they looked at the beheaded Jeju Shepherd. Now they had the determination to dominate the entire East China Sea.

On that day, the troops from the headquarters of the East China Sea Governor's Mansion were dispatched en masse.

After the Nanshan tribe and Mumeng learned the news, they also came to help clear out the remnants of the Jeju Island garrison who were trying to seize Daming City.

puff! puff! puff!

The four thousand garrison of the Ming Dynasty had the most advanced crossbows, and some soldiers even obtained Xuefeng swords. Facing the poorly equipped Jeju garrison, they launched an indiscriminate massacre.

"The Ming army is here to take revenge!"

"Run away, let's run away!"

"Li Zhunbin, you are following us into the pit of fire!"

…

The garrison in Jeju was simply unable to fight, or perhaps did not dare to fight at all. After being attacked by the Ming army in the first wave, they all chose to flee.

Since the other forces on the island all followed the lead of the Ming Dynasty, most of the soldiers chose to leave the island by boat, and only a small number of soldiers chose to hide or surrender.

The real control of Jeju Island is this Korean army. Now that this garrison has collapsed, it can almost be declared that Korea has lost control of the island.

Chen Shan led a team to the Jeju Mu Yamen and directly set fire to the ruling institution of Korea.

The officials of the two counties never dared to underestimate the Ming Dynasty, and even yearned for the Ming Dynasty, but they sent the "Return to Han" to Xu Shiying.

Although Xu Shiying, the governor of Donghai, was satisfied with the strength of this army, he did not dare to be too optimistic in his heart, and immediately reported everything to the emperor.

This time he was considered to have arbitrarily removed the rule of Korea on the island, but based on his understanding of the emperor, his response would not only not be punished, but would also be rewarded, and even verbally praised in the future.

Of course, everything is just my optimistic guess. Now I just hope that the emperor will be satisfied with what I have done as the governor of Donghai, and I will do my best to repay the emperor's kindness.

It is October, and the weather in Beijing is clear and refreshing.

The news that the Ming army has recovered Jianzhou has been reported, and millions of disaster victims in Henan have arrived in Jianzhou one after another. The empire seems to be developing in a positive direction.

There are more than two months left in the second year of Hongzhi, but the people in Beijing clearly feel that they are in a prosperous empire, even if their emperor is indeed a tyrant in the eyes of the literati.

It's just that the eyes of the masses are sharp, and a tyrant who started a war for millions of disaster victims has become more important in their hearts.

"The King of Korea is on his way to pay homage!"

"Mongol Manduhai ordered 30,000 cotton clothes from the Ming Dynasty!"

"The envoys of the Nanyang vassal kings have arrived in Beijing one after another, and some look like ghosts!"

...

Due to the Hongzhi Dynasty's policy of opening up to the outside world, and now there are more and more contacts with foreign countries, new things in Beijing seem to emerge in an endless stream.

However, the most popular thing recently is the execution ground. The criminals to be executed after the autumn have begun to line up in a long queue. Almost every day at noon, someone will be pushed to the guillotine.

The morning of October 14th was another grand execution day.

"Here it comes!"

"Hit him!"

...

The onlookers had already surrounded the execution ground. When they saw the prisoner's car escorting the prisoner, some people immediately threw the rotten vegetable leaves they had prepared.

The second year of Hongzhi can be said to be a year of bloodshed among the dignitaries and officials.

In addition to the dignitaries who were found out earlier for rectifying the finance, there were also river officials who caused Kaifeng City to be flooded and most of Henan Province to become a swamp. Almost all officials in this system were spared.

That's right, no matter whether it was the dignitaries who were high above or the insignificant officials, in fact, none of them were wronged.

However, the three people who attracted the most attention today were: Wang Xun, the son-in-law of the emperor, Ye Qi, the former left vice minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Zhou Nai, the governor of the grain transport and the governor of the river transport.

Royal relatives, old ministers and criminals are simply worthless this year, and today they will be executed three times in a row.

"What a pitfall!"

After Ye Qi was hit on the face by rotten vegetable leaves, he was taken to the execution platform. Thinking of his originally prosperous life, he couldn't help but say sadly.

His ancestor was the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. Although he has lost his glory now, he can still be regarded as a descendant of a famous family. He passed the imperial examination in the fifth year of Jingtai, and then got a good job as an imperial censor through his connections.

When their civil servant group wanted to get rid of the military general Shi Heng, he played the role of a pioneer. Although he was demoted to a local magistrate, he won the most important political resources.

Originally, he became the vice minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and it was a natural thing for him to become the minister of the Ministry of Revenue in the future, and this position was also strongly supported by the Huai Salt Merchants Group.

Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty welcomed a tyrant. Not only did his political proposition of changing the Kaizhong Law into the Zhese Law fail to be implemented, but he was also forced to resign and return to the countryside.

Facing such an unjust tyrant, he accumulated enough wealth and reputation, and returned to Huai'an to enjoy his wonderful retirement life.

Building the Humble Administrator's Garden and marrying a beautiful girl every year can also be considered to comfort his wounded heart, but he did not expect a sudden disaster.

Because the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty rectified the financial system, he dug out the numerous crimes of his son Ye Rongtin, and was confiscated by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the confiscation of the house would at most lose part of the family wealth, but it came too suddenly, and all the kiln silver he had accumulated for so many years was confiscated.

It was because his large amount of embezzlement was confiscated that the matter could not be hidden, and he was even involved in the shocking case of the breach of the northern dike of Kaifeng City.

If his son had not induced the court to confiscate his house, he would probably still be living a fairy-like life now, right?

"Actually, I am also a victim!" Zhou Nai, the governor of the grain transport and river transport, muttered to himself as he looked at the people who smashed the vegetable leaves at him.

Unlike Ye Qi, who came from a famous family, he was a genuine poor student. However, after passing the imperial examination, he had already exhausted his family's wealth, and then failed in several joint examinations, which resulted in debts in the capital.

Originally, he was also an aspiring young man who wanted to serve the court, but the officialdom was far more turbid than he wanted, and he could only rely on money to open the way without a background.

Six years of county magistrate career made him completely disappointed with the court, and he had been carrying the debts in Beijing, so he had to choose to be a corrupt official in the end.

Thinking of this, he turned his head and looked at Wang Xun, the son-in-law of the emperor.

Perhaps his desire for power had something to do with his coming to this point, but the initial change was undoubtedly this kind of Beijing debt, and it was precisely to repay the Beijing debt that he chose to become a corrupt official.

Behead!

With the order of the supervising officer, the executioner immediately swung down the butcher knife in his hand.

There was only one exception. Zhou Nai, the governor of the grain transport and the governor of the river transport, had committed serious crimes, and the Hongzhi Dynasty advocated harsh laws, so Zhou Nai's sentence was slow slicing.

In addition to slow slicing, Zhou Nai's head would be protected and hung on the top of the newly built Jianzhou City.

"The Ming Dynasty should rise!"

The onlookers saw a few maggots being beheaded in front of them, and saw that the current emperor spared no effort to eliminate the court malpractices, but they knew that the Hongzhi Dynasty would become better and better.

Forbidden City, Fengtian Hall.

Officials above the fourth rank stood in the hall, while those outside were middle and lower-level officials. In the hall was the increasingly majestic current emperor, Hongzhi.

Zhu Youtang sat on the dragon throne. Now he could be said to be extremely powerful and looked down upon everything.

"The little king pays respects to His Majesty. Long live the emperor!" The first Zhou Wang Zhu Tongbiao, wearing royal clothes, came to the hall for the first time and knelt respectfully.

The first Zhou Wang Zhu Su was the fifth son of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. He was enfeoffed in Kaifeng in the 14th year of Hongwu. Since he was the younger brother of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, after Zhu Di seized the world, the salary of rice rose to 20,000 stones.

Since the Taizu period, the wealth of the Zhou royal family has been increasing day by day. But who would have thought that a sudden flood would cause the vassal of their Zhou Wang lineage to lose their fiefdom.

Although the current Zhou Wang Zhu Tongbiao has only been canonized for two years, he is already in his early 40s. He looks white, fat and timid.

As Zhu Youtang's reputation as a tyrant became more and more famous, more and more people were afraid of this emperor.

Zhu Youtang asked a few questions as usual, and then gave Guo Yong a look.

Guo Yong nodded first, then opened the imperial edict: "By the grace of heaven and the emperor, I decree: The land of the nine regions is in the residence of Bian, where wind and rain meet, and boats and cars reach everywhere. It is the sacred land of the ancient emperors and the land of the crown and canopy... The northern dike of Kaifeng City broke, and the inside of the ridge was turned into a dragon palace. There has never been a tragedy as tragic as our Bian... Now Kaifeng City has been flooded, so all the royal family members of Zhou moved to Jianzhou City,"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Although Zhou Wang Zhu Tongbiao was dissatisfied, he could only respond with a stiff upper lip.

Zhu Youtang placed Zhou Wang in Jianzhou for many reasons.

A royal palace was located in Jianzhou. Even if he died suddenly, the court in the future would not ignore it. In addition, the Zhou Wangfu is actually the richest vassal king. If all the Zhou Wang clan and vassal are settled in Jianzhou, it will undoubtedly boost the local economy.

Not to mention that I need to completely naturalize Jianzhou, and Jianzhou is my first step to the east, so I can't end it hastily, but I have to integrate the economy and politics into the system of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, if China wants to truly rise, it can't adopt a closed-door policy, and it can't stagnate, but continue to extend eastward.

The east of the Ming Dynasty can't stop at Jianzhou, nor can it be just the east of Asia, but it must find a way to become the east of the world.

"End of this volume"