Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was still happy about the peace in the north, he suddenly received urgent military information from the southeast coast.
Seeing the scared look on the little eunuch's face, Zhu Yuanzhang felt an ominous premonition in his heart.
He stood up, took the military intelligence report from the young eunuch's hand, and read it nervously.
"Snapped!"
After just reading it briefly, Zhu Yuanzhang was already gnashing his teeth angrily, slamming the report in his hand on the table, and roared:
"Japanese pirates deserve to die!"
Zhu Biao was startled by Zhu Yuanzhang and hurriedly asked:
"Father, what happened in the southeast?"
"The day before yesterday, the Japanese pirates penetrated 20 miles into Taizhou and massacred more than a thousand people from the Ming Dynasty. All the old and young in the village were killed, leaving no one alive!"
Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth with hatred and recounted the contents of the report word for word.
Zhu Biao's eyes suddenly widened, his face full of disbelief.
Although Japanese pirates are ferocious, since Zhu Yuanzhang issued a sea ban and moved the people along the coast of the Ming Dynasty more than ten miles inland, there has never been a large-scale invasion by Japanese pirates.
But now the Japanese pirates dared to penetrate more than 20 miles into the Ming Dynasty and massacred a village before Shi Shiran left. This has never happened before and is simply appalling.
If this matter was reported to the court, it would definitely be a big earthquake.
Zhu Biao quickly took the report from Zhu Yuanzhang and read it carefully.
After reading the report, Zhu Biao's face became very ugly, his eyes were red, and he looked extremely angry.
"Father, these Japanese pirates are so rampant, we must not let them go this time!"
"We should avenge the people of Ming Dynasty!"
"Revenge? How to take revenge?"
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was also very angry, he was more helpless.
If it were on land, with Zhu Yuanzhang's 200,000 cavalry in the capital camp, even if they were sent to the underworld, Zhu Yuanzhang would crush these people's bones into ashes and break them into thousands of pieces.
But now these people come by boat and leave in one strike, leaving no trace at all.
Although his royal guards were all over the Ming Dynasty, they had no involvement in overseas affairs, which left Zhu Yuanzhang to do nothing.
This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang issued a sea ban.
Shipbuilding is such a waste of money. The money spent on repairing warships and training the navy is several times that of the army.
And now both sides of the river, north and south of the river, have all been taken into Zhu Yuanzhang's arms, and there is no need for naval forces at all.
These naval forces did not bring any benefits to Zhu Yuanzhang at all. On the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang had to invest a large amount of money every year to maintain these naval forces.
This is why Zhu Yuanzhang abandoned the navy.
In addition, after Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, the remnants of Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen fled overseas, colluded with the Japanese, and became Japanese pirates that harmed the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty.
If Zhu Yuanzhang did not issue a sea ban, the people on the seaside would be harmed by these Japanese pirates, or they would be directly recruited into their gangs.
By then the Japanese pirates will become more powerful, and the Ming Dynasty will have more difficulty in controlling these Japanese pirates without a navy.
Now that Zhu Yuanzhang had tolerated everything, these Japanese pirates still dared to provoke him, which made him furious.
But no matter how furious he was, Zhu Yuanzhang was still helpless against the vast sea.
With no way to vent his anger, Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned red.
Zhu Biao suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said to Zhu Yuanzhang:
"Father, Li Jin has been training in Shanghu County for half a year now."
"We can let him send troops to destroy the Japanese pirates for our Ming Dynasty and avenge the people who died unjustly in the Ming Dynasty!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up, but then he shook his head and sighed, saying:
"Shanghu County Navy has only been practicing for half a year, and the time is still too short."
"You must know that whether it is our Beijing camp or the original Yiwu soldiers, these people are all landlubbers."
"If you want to train some soldiers who don't know how to swim into elite sailors, it will take less than a year. It will never be possible."
Zhu Biao's face also darkened. After all, he had visited the training situation at Li Jinshui Army Base last time.
At that time, most of the soldiers were still training on water skills.
It has only been less than three months. No matter how hard they train, it will definitely take some time for these people to become elite navy soldiers.
The naval force is the most cautious branch. After all, on the vast sea, if anything goes wrong, it is really difficult to escape.
There is no land around, just endless sea, and there is no place to escape if you want to.
As bandits who roam the sea all year round, Japanese pirates are naturally familiar with water properties.
If Li Jin were to rush into and out of the army rashly, Li Jin's hard work over the past six months would probably be in vain.
If it is really a big defeat then, then on the sea, other than dying in battle, the only thing left is surrender.
This is not what Zhu Yuanzhang wants to see.
Li Jin is now the only navy in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang's hope of annihilating the Japanese pirates all depends on Li Jin. He does not want to take such a risk.
Zhu Biao thought of the tragic situation in the memorial and asked with an ugly face:
"Then what should we do now?"
Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment, sighed, and said:
"The only solution for now is to allow the people to continue to move inward."
"In order to avoid greater casualties, we can only allow the people to move fifty miles inland. Only in this way can we stop the intrusion of Japanese pirates."
"If the Japanese pirates dare to come from such a distance, then we can send a large army to intercept their retreat and prevent them from returning."
Zhu Biao nodded, feeling that his father was right, and that was all he could do now.
But it is a hardship for the people. There are more than 100,000 households along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. The collective inward migration of these hundreds of thousands of people will definitely have a very big impact.
At least the fertile land that was originally cultivated with so much hard work will be reduced to nothing.
While Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yuanzhang were still discussing how to solve the Japanese pirate problem, emergency military reports suddenly came from Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and Hangzhou, Jiangnan Province.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao looked at each other, knowing that this time things might be a hundred times more serious than they expected.
