"Bang!" You Tianjue fired a gun at the Japanese pirates who came to negotiate.
Then, he shouted: "Ming Dynasty does not make deals with beasts!"
The Japanese pirate turned his horse and fled.
You Tianjue is a little-known person. There were a lot of hereditary governors like him in the Ming army.
But You Tianjue is an out-and-out big shot in southern Fujian. Because he can fight! He can be called an expert in killing Japanese in southern Fujian.
Although You Tianjue is only twenty years old, he has guarded Yongning for four years. Under his command, Yongning Wei Paoze killed at least 3,000 Japanese pirates.
On the sea surface of southern Fujian, both real and fake Japanese people all know this saying: "Ding, Ding, Ding, don't offend Yongning."
Japanese pirates are not Japanese officers and soldiers. To them, robbery is like business. You cannot do a business that is losing money.
Attacking Yongning is obviously not a good business.
As a result, they transported more than a hundred women from the Yawata ship.
The women were dressed as Han Chinese, all disheveled, and had ropes tied to their hands.
Judging from the situation, she should be a Han woman kidnapped and humiliated by Japanese pirates.
The Japanese pirates came to Yongning City again and shouted: "These more than a hundred women are all your Han sisters."
"Master Dongji said that he is willing to exchange these more than a hundred women for the Sea God Pearl. I will give you two moments to think about it. If you don't exchange, the women will all die!"
The Japanese pirates' new bargaining chip caused a dispute on the city wall.
Li Guangdao: "The Sea God Pearl is a gift from the Emperor. How can it be exchanged for more than a hundred humble women?"
"Absolutely not."
Chang Feng said: "I personally guarded the emperor in the East Palace for more than eight months. I know that the emperor is a kind king. If the emperor were here, he would definitely change."
"No matter how precious the Poseidon Bead is, it's just a bead. But on the opposite side is a hundred human lives."
"The Emperor will definitely choose to save the people and give up the jewelry!"
Fatty Xu said: "Master Chang is right. Saving people is important."
Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling always regarded Chang Feng's words as imperial edicts. The two of them hurriedly agreed: "Yes, yes, yes! Everything my brother Chang said is right!"
"Yes, yes! Li Guang, you have to listen to my brother Chang."
The four imperial envoys agreed to the exchange. A deputy envoy disagreed with the exchange.
The choice seems to have fallen into the hands of the envoy Yang Tinghe.
Yang Tinghe said meaningfully: "The people are the most valuable, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important."
Unexpectedly, Li Guang sneered: "Fuck the people."
Yang Tinghe said seriously: "These are the words of the Lesser Sage. Eunuch Li, please don't speak rudely and insult the Lesser Sage."
Li Guang glanced at Yang Tinghe: "You really don't have any knowledge in your stomach, right?"
"Isn't that what Mencius said? Let me ask you, why did Master Hong Wu move Mencius' tablet out of the Confucius Temple?"
Yang Tinghe was speechless.
Li Guangdao: "You dare not say it. I will say it for you! Mencius was from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was also a Zhou Dynasty."
"The people of the Zhou Dynasty were divided into two categories. One was the countrymen, and the other was the barbarians."
"The Chinese lived in the city walls, had status, owned land, and were literate. To put it bluntly, the Chinese in the Zhou Dynasty were the gentry today."
"Savages lived in the countryside, were illiterate and had no status. To put it bluntly, the savages of Zhou Dynasty were just poor people."
"At the time of Mencius, only the countrymen were counted as citizens. The poor people were not counted as citizens at all!"
"You used Mencius's words to fool Ben Bingbi? Are you bullying Ben Bingbi for not studying enough? The original meaning of Mencius's words is that the gentry is the most valuable!"
"Liu Bowen, those civil servants from eastern Zhejiang who were gentry, used Mencius's words to suppress Lord Hongwu all day long to protect the interests of the gentry. Can Lord Hongwu not let Mencius get out of the Confucius Temple?"
"According to what you said, people are valuable. Those women outside are not considered people at all! Let alone noble!"
Yang Tinghe was stunned. What Li Guang said is actually the truth that everyone in the civil service knows, but no one wants to say it clearly.
During the 120 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, generations of civil servants worked hard all day long.
Under the guise of "people are the most valuable", the interests of the gentry are protected.
Chang Feng was surprised by this exquisite point of view. But he knew that with Li Guang's knowledge, he would never be able to come up with such a shocking point of view.
Chang Feng asked: "Eunuch Li, where did you hear these words?"
Li Guangdao: "This is what Eunuch Wang said when I was working under Eunuch Wang!"
Wang Zhi is a sensible person.
Chang Feng insisted on his opinion: "What the heck with Mencius and Confucius. Human lives matter. Compared with more than a hundred human lives, what does the Poseidon Pearl mean?"
"If the emperor were here, he would definitely change it!"
Chang Feng never expected that You Tianjue would side with Li Guang at the critical moment.
You Tianjue said: "Gentlemen, some of you know the emperor. Some of you know Meng Sheng."
"But none of you understand Japanese pirates!"
"Do you really think that if you give beads to the Japanese pirates, they will keep their promise and let those women go?"
"You don't know how shameless the Japanese pirates are! Talking about integrity with the Japanese pirates is like asking for the skin of a tiger!"
"When the time comes, even if the Sea God Pearl is gone, these women will still be taken back to Japan, where they will humiliate, torture and kill them!"
Chang Feng and others looked at each other.
You Tianjue added: "In the southeast, the Japanese pirates used kidnapped Han people to threaten the Ming army not once or twice."
"Today they brought more than a hundred women to force us to hand over the Sea God Pearl, and we gave it. Tomorrow they will kidnap hundreds or thousands of Han people here, and ask us to give up the city?"
"Making deals with beasts will only bring disaster to more people!"
"The general agrees with Eunuch Li's point of view. It must not be changed!"
You Tianjue's words were shocking.
Chang Feng has not considered this level, and neither has Yang Tinghe.
The imperial envoy made Yang Tinghe make a decision: "Okay. We will listen to Eunuch Li and You Zhenfu."
At this time, dozens of Japanese pirates acted as a demonstration and took more than a hundred poor women to the city walls.
The Japanese pirates shouted: "Have you not thought about it yet? If you don't give us the Sea God Pearl, we will chop off the heads of ten women for every incense stick!"
You Tianjue gritted his teeth and issued a military order: "Archers, shoot your arrows! Help those Han sisters... end the pain!"
The archers looked solemn, nocking arrows, pulling strings, and releasing arrows.
"Whoosh whoosh!" A dense rain of arrows covered the sky and rushed towards the women.
The Japanese pirate base camp opposite.
Seeing this scene, the leader of the Japanese pirates, Tokichihachiro, shouted hysterically: "Attack the ants, attack the city!"
Two thousand Japanese pirates launched an attack on Yongning City. They used muskets, bows and arrows to shoot at the city walls, taking turns to cover the advance.
You Tianjue shouted: "Brothers! It's time to kill the enemy and receive the reward! Kill!"
Chang Feng asked Fatty Xu to protect Li Guang and the Zhang brothers from the city wall.
Then he encouraged morale among the soldiers in royal robes: "Brothers, it's time to let the Japanese pirates have a taste of the power of our royal army!"
"Don't be a coward! Don't embarrass the emperor!"
Among the three hundred imperial guards, two hundred were armed with long swords.
The remaining one hundred people were ceremonial guards. What they hold in their hands are ceremonial weapons such as gourds, axes, and axes.
These ceremonial weapons have been passed down in the Ming Dynasty court for more than a hundred years. Today we will finally see blood on the battlefield.
"Boom, boom, boom!" "Whoosh, whoosh!" "Bang, bang, bang!"
Cannonballs, bows, arrows, and muskets were fired intensively at the Japanese pirates, avenging the more than a hundred women under the city.
The Japanese pirates carried the siege ladder and pushed the goalpost car, and rushed towards the Yongning Acropolis.
