Chen Hui was tricked, and the furious Chang Mao immediately got up and asked someone to drag Chen Hui out of the cell again. But as Zhu Su feared, when he killed those dead soldiers again in front of Chen Hui, Chen Hui just laughed like a madman, but showed no sign of wavering or entanglement.
"Zhu Su, don't even think about it! Don't even think about it!" she shouted loudly.
It was a mess...
"That woman is so cold-blooded. I'm afraid she no longer has any compassion in her heart." Zhu Su shook his head.
Cold-bloodedness, to a certain extent, is also a kind of strength.
He felt extremely troubled.
"...That bird woman, I'm afraid she's gone crazy." Chang Mao, covered in blood, panting slightly, turned back to look at Chen Hui's cell behind him. Killing several people in a row like this, even though he has always been a rough and powerful man, he can't help but panic psychologically.
He really didn't expect that the woman could bear it...
It’s not without gain. This vicious woman would rather all the soldiers who were loyal to her die in vain, in order to maintain the mystery of the Zhang family's so-called army. It can be seen that that army is indeed real.
Moreover, the scale may not be small...
"Let me go." Zhu Xi gritted his teeth. "At this time, no one cares about whether he will be punished or not. Getting the words out of that crazy woman's mouth is the main business!"
"It's really not possible, this is the only way." Zhu Su also nodded. "In addition, people should also be sent out to catch those fish that have escaped the city, and fast horses must be sent to warn the Taicang guards in the east so that they can prepare to rush for help."
"There are more than ten thousand soldiers of the Suzhou Guard stationed in Suzhou City. There should be no need for the Taicang Guard." Zhu Di said. "Ten thousand people are stationed in this city. Even if tens of thousands of troops come to attack, they can still defend it for a month with the help of the city wall."
"Besides, there is really a big army coming. Let me kill him with seven in and seven out!" Zhu Laosi was obviously eager to try.
"The enemy is in darkness and we are in the dark. What I'm worried about is that they still have internal agents in the city..." Zhu Su touched his chin. Fourth brother is right. To attack a big city like Suzhou, even if there is internal support, at least an army of more than 10,000 people is needed.
How could this group of remnants lurking in the shadows bring out such a large army?
He scratched his hair irritably. I just feel helpless.
"Your Highness." Zhu Su was annoyed when, at the corner ahead, a Wu Wangwei came over at some unknown time.
"Your Highness, Mr. Yao is looking for you! I have something important to discuss with you."
"Monk Yao?" Zhu Su's eyes lit up and he suddenly patted his head.
Why did you forget that there is this think tank?
"Where is Monk Yao? Take me to find him quickly!" Zhu Su quickly walked a few steps, and only after taking a few steps did he realize what he was doing.
"By the way, what does he need to see me for?"
"Your Highness." The guard quickly handed over his hand. "It's the Shen family."
"The Shen Hai from the Shen family was caught by Mr. Yao."
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"What? Did Ma Fengsun come to see you before he started the incident?"
In Shen Garden, everyone in the Shen family knelt on the ground in fear. Shen Wang's son, Shen Hai, knelt in front, shaking like chaff. Facing Zhu Su's questioning, he trembled all over and couldn't say a word for a long time.
Seeing that he was so frightened that he was stunned, Yao Guangxiao had no choice but to stand up again. "Your Highness, according to what this son and the young monk just said, this is exactly the case."
"Ma Fengsun, who is pretending to be a salt merchant, knows that Shen Hai has also been confiscated of his stored grain by you, and he always complains about you when he is outside."
"He then secretly approached Shen Hai, intending to let Shen Hai wait for an opportunity to cause trouble in Shen Garden. It would be best if he could assassinate you."
As soon as these words came out, Shen Hai's father Shen Wang said "Ah" and fainted in the hall. Zhu Su only glanced at him and had no time to pay attention to this "partner" who was usually quite close to each other. He continued: "So, monk, you saw something strange about the Shen family, so you deliberately stayed here in Shen Garden tonight. You’ve caught the Shen family’s tricks. Right?”
"The Shen family is so brave!" Zhu Ming said sternly.
"Assassinate the prince? I will let you wait for the nine tribes to disappear in this bright light today!"
The Shen family members immediately started shouting that they were wronged. They were frightened by Zhu Ping's python robe. Many people couldn't stand Zhu Ping's pressure and fainted. Some people even stood up and cursed Shen Hai, causing the scene to become chaotic.
"Then Ma Fengsun said this to him, and this idiot just followed it so stupidly?" Zhu Su pinched his nose and looked at the man with disgust who dared to yell at him before, but now he was frightened into a pool of unknown The liquid and the stinking smell of Shenhai. "Ma Fengsun is not his real father. Why does he listen to that guy so much?"
"Of course Chen Hai will not be so obedient." Seeing the joy and sorrow below, Yao Guangxiao clasped his hands together. "It was Ma Fengsun who prepared a way out for him."
"Ma Fengsun told him that he has a way out on the sea. No matter whether it is success or failure, as long as he sinks into the sea and drills into the sea, there is nothing we can do to him."
"If it goes through, the Shen family can monopolize the glass business and prosper from now on."
"If the incident fails, the only ones involved will be the direct branch of the Shen family. He sank into the sea, but he was a side branch. Whether the main branch is dead or alive, he has nothing to do with him drifting at sea anyway."
"He can find a place overseas and start over again..."
"Ha, that's a good plan." Zhu Su sneered. It turned out that he planned to sneak across the country and escape. From ancient times to the present, these criminals have always made ordinary plans.
"What kind of doorway on the sea did Ma Fengsun talk about?" Zhu Di beside him asked smoothly.
"Amitabha, Your Majesty the Fourth Highness, we are Japanese pirates." Yao Guang said filial piety.
"...What is it?" Zhu Su felt something flash in his mind and couldn't help but be startled.
"Your Highness, they are Japanese pirates." Yao Guangxiao replied calmly.
"Japanese pirates!"
Zhu Su only felt that his mind suddenly opened up, and a certain door that had been tightly closed was suddenly opened at this time.
"Lao Wu, what do you want to say..." Seeing Zhu Su's appearance, Zhu Di also realized something.
"The so-called 'big army' those remnants are referring to are Japanese pirates?"
"It must be so!" Zhu Su said firmly.
Ever since Lao Zhu established the Ming Dynasty a few years ago, the Japanese pirate rebellion in the south has never ceased since the Ming Dynasty.
Ming history records indicate that during the Hongwu period, "Japanese pirates appeared on the islands and invaded and plundered Suzhou and Chongming several times, killing and injuring residents and taking property. All coastal areas were affected."
In the second year of Hongwu, "Japanese invaded Huai'an"; in the third year of Hongwu, "Japanese invaded Shandong, turned to plunder the people near the sea in Wen, Taiwan, and Mingzhou, and then invaded coastal counties in Fujian."; In the next year, the Japanese invaded the coastal counties of Ming Dynasty. They were plundered by Japanese invaders.
Even in the seventh year of Hongwu's reign, Japanese monks came to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute to horses and other artifacts, but the Ming Dynasty ignored them. Instead, Lao Zhu issued a letter of credence accusing the Japanese emperor of "internally destroying good people and externally plundering innocent people" and ordered him to They tried to rectify the Japanese rebellion, but there was no response.
But to be more serious, in fact, the so-called Japanese pirates are not all "Japanese" from Japan. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Japanese rebellion was not as violent as it is now. So why was it that in the early Ming Dynasty, when Lao Zhu was rectifying people's livelihood and setting up health stations, the Japanese rebellion intensified along the coast and spread to almost the entire southeast?
There is an answer in the history books: "Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and other remnants of the Japanese gang led the Japanese pirates to infest the sea, burning houses and looting goods and property. They traveled from Liaohai and Shandong in the north to Fujian, Zhejiang and East Guangdong in the south. In the coastal areas, no one was safe from them. "
Yes, the reason why the Japanese rebellion suddenly intensified in the early Ming Dynasty was actually because Lao Zhu completely defeated many armed forces headed by Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen.
This led to some powerful landowners who were still loyal to Zhang and Fang to flee overseas, live on islands, pretend to be Japanese pirates, and try to make a comeback.
This is tantamount to giving another "shot in the arm" to the already serious Southeast Japanese invasion.
In other words, the real power hidden behind these remnants of Zhang Chen, the so-called "army" they rely on, is not a natural disaster or a refugee at all.
It's the "Japanese pirates" who are drifting overseas, eyeing the Ming Dynasty, and always planning to take advantage of the opportunity!
(End of chapter)
