Chapter 893: Argument on Reason
Perhaps because of the proximity to the Daming coast, the buildings on the chicken coop port are no different from those ports and wharves in the coastal areas of the Daming Dynasty, and at first glance it is thought to be an ordinary port along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, which also shows from the side that the people living on the island are mainly the people of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, Xiaoliuqiu Island is too far away from the four Japanese islands, and the Ming Dynasty hated the Japanese Invaders, so the Japanese people did not dare to live on the Little Ryukyu Island except for the Japanese Invaders.
The guards had already cleaned up a magnificent mansion on the port and gave it to Li Yuntian as a place to stay, and it was obvious that the port was safer than in the town.
The mansion is a three-in, three-out layout, and it is already a rare residence in the port and town, and it can be seen that the people who live in it are either rich or noble.
In the living room of the front yard, there is a painting written with the words "Purple Qi Comes from the East", which is not signed, and it seems to be from the hand of the owner of this house.
"Whose house is this?" When he came to the living room, Li Yuntian looked at the words and asked Zhao Siguo who was following behind him quietly.
"Lord Yu, this is Lord Aoki's mansion." Hearing this, Zhao Siguo hurriedly bowed to Li Yuntian and replied in a deep voice, "Master Qingmu Mingxin is the largest maritime merchant on Xiaoliuqiu Island, and his business is very large. ”
"Aoki Akishin." Li Yuntian's brows furrowed slightly when he heard this, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.
According to the information in his hands, Aoki Mingxin is the most powerful leader of the coastal pirates, not only robbing houses but also running smuggling business, the smuggling business on the Ming Sea is said to have been monopolized by him, it is not easy to do this, it can be described as black and white, is a tricky person with hands and eyes.
Although no one knows the origin of Aoki Mingxin, Li Yuntian knows very well that this guy must be a Ming clan, otherwise it will be difficult to write such a good hand, if he is from Japan, he will be able to easily get a good job with a daimyo with this calligraphy ability.
Therefore, Aoki Akishin is nothing more than a pseudonym, a means used to prevent Daming from finding out his true identity and implicating the people in the family.
"Tell me to go down and find out if this Aoki Mingxin has been captured by us or surrendered to us?" Afterwards, Li Yuntian turned around and ordered a military attache with a stern expression, Aoki Mingxin was the person he wanted to catch the most in recovering Xiaoliuqiu Island this time, so he must not be allowed to become a fish that slipped through the net.
Aoki Mingxin was able to have such a large influence in the Japanese Kou, and it was very likely that his maritime smuggling business came from his maritime smuggling business, and he had a close relationship with the local government along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, so if he could take it down, then he would be able to eliminate the maritime smuggling network of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, deal a heavy blow to those smugglers, and maintain the local economic order.
"Lord Aoki, Lord Aoki Akishin rarely lives here, I heard that he usually lives at home on the island of Kyushu in Japan." Without waiting for the military attache to receive the order, Zhao Siguo on the side opened his mouth and explained to Li Yuntian, "Master Aoki Mingxin came here once two months ago, stayed here for a few days and left. ”
"Cheap him." Li Yuntian frowned slightly when he heard this, it seems that this Aoki Mingxin is self-aware, and he knows that Xiaoliuqiu Island, which is a stone's throw away from Daming, is not safe, so he ran to Kyushu Island in Japan and hid.
"Lord Yu, we found several people in the town." This is, a military attache walked quickly from outside the door, bowed his hand to Li Yuntian and said in a deep voice.
"Bring it on!" Li Yuntian had long expected that it would be absolutely difficult for all the people in the town to escape in a panic for a while, so he sat down in the first seat in front of the living room and commanded in a deep voice.
Hearing this, the military attache bowed to Li Yuntian, and then waved his hand at the courtyard, and several men and women in the courtyard who looked frightened and wore Ming costumes were brought in.
"The lord spares his life, we are not the Japanese but the people who fled from the Ming Dynasty, and we have not done anything that hurts the heavens and reason." As soon as they entered the door, the men and women knelt down, kowtowed to Li Yuntian with a frightened expression, and begged for mercy again and again, and a middle-aged man in the lead spoke a pure Jiangnan dialect.
"Haven't you done anything harmful?" Li Yuntian sneered when he heard this, and waited coldly for the middle-aged man to say, "If you didn't provide food, clothing, shelter and transportation for those wouldn't have entrenched themselves here and harassed my Daming coastal prefecture and county, you seem innocent but are actually their accomplices!" ”
"Big lord spare your life!" The middle-aged man's face suddenly changed when he heard this, and he and a few people behind him hurriedly kowtowed to Li Yuntian, "Master, the villain just wants to live, and he doesn't want to hurt anyone, please be aware of it." ”
"You are indeed alive, but those people in the coastal counties of Daming have suffered!" Li Yuntian waited for the middle-aged man expressionlessly, and said with a sneer.
"My lord, the people's daughter admits that the people's daughter and others are guilty, but the biggest sin lies in the local corrupt officials and local tyrants who are tyrannical, cunning and plundering, and oppressing the good, if it weren't for this, we wouldn't have left our hometown and came to this wild little Ryukyu Island!" Hearing this, a girl kneeling behind the middle-aged man couldn't help but raise her head, gritted her teeth and said to Li Yuntian.
Li Yuntian was slightly stunned, and then looked at the girl in the coarse cloth shirt with great interest, feeling that this girl was quite bold, and dared to refute herself, and pointed the finger at the local government and the local wealthy families along the coast, which can be described as a word.
"Hailan, this is the Zhenguo Duke of Daming who quelled the Jiaozhi rebellion and defeated the Northern Yuan, and now he is the loyal king of the Ming Dynasty!" At this time, Zhao Siguo, who was standing aside, was anxious, and hurriedly said to the girl, "Don't apologize to the prince soon, the prince has pardoned the guilt of the people in the town." ”
"The people's daughter offended the prince, please punish the prince." The girl was stunned when she heard this, and then hurriedly touched her head to the ground, and sincerely apologized, she never thought that the young Ming army military attache who appeared in front of her turned out to be the famous Zhenguo Gong, and now he is already a loyal martial king.
Li Yuntianping's deeds, such as Jiaozhi, Dingliaodong, and Qing Lianghuai, have already spread all over Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island, so even the Japanese Kou also knew that the Ming Dynasty had produced a nobleman who was born as a Jinshi, Wen Taowu, and made great achievements, and it can be said that he has a great reputation among the people on the two islands.
The middle-aged man and the others learned that Li Yuntian had pardoned their guilt, and the look on their faces suddenly eased, but at the same time, their mood became more cramped, they all knew Li Yuntian's prestige, so they couldn't help but feel inexplicable awe.
"This is the emperor's grace, the emperor doesn't want to make a big deal when he first ascends to the throne, if you want to thank the emperor, thank the emperor." Li Yuntian said expressionlessly when he heard this, "In the future, you have to change your mind and don't do this kind of thing again." ”
"Xiaomin and others thank the emperor for his grace." The middle-aged man hurriedly kowtowed again, and replied loudly, "Lord Wang, Xiaomin and others will definitely do their duty in the future, and never do those foolish things again." ”
"Thank you, the emperor." Seeing this, several people kneeling behind him also kowtowed and thanked him.
"Lord Wang, please save the mother of the people's daughter, the people's daughter is willing to serve as a cow and a horse." After kowtowing, the girl named Hailan raised her head and pleaded with red eyes to Li Yuntian.
"Lord Wang, please save the villain's mother-in-law, the villain will repay him with a straw title." Zhao Siguo also knelt down at this time, kowtowed to Li Yuntian and said.
Hailan's surname is Zhang, his father Zhang Xing is a blacksmith in Jilonggang, and his mother Liu is unable to escape into the mountains with his family because he is sick and bedridden, so Zhang Hailan chose to stay with Liu, and the two had to hide in the firewood room at home, and blocked the surroundings tightly with firewood.
"Heal her mother well." After learning what happened, Li Yuntian ordered a military attache in the house in a deep voice, since the people on Xiaoliuqiu Island have been pardoned, then they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and of course he will not sit idly by.
"Lord, the villain's concubine is about to give birth, please let the villain go back to give birth with the concubine." When the middle-aged man heard this, he hurriedly prayed to Li Yuntian, if it weren't for the fact that his concubine was close to giving birth and couldn't move, then he would definitely flee to the mountains with his concubine.
Li Yuntian nodded to the previous military attache when he heard this, and the middle-aged man was immediately overjoyed when he saw this, kowtowed to Li Yuntian again, and then got up and walked out of the room backwards, and ran out of the courtyard as if flying.
"Lord Wang, the little one will go into the mountain and call the villagers back." Zhao Siguo glanced at the middle-aged man who disappeared at the gate of the courtyard, raised his head and asked Li Yuntian for his life, since the people in the town have been pardoned, there is no need to hide in the mountains anymore, now it is the season when mosquitoes are common in the mountains, and the feeling of nesting in the mountains is indeed not very pleasant.
"Now that the situation is not stable, it is not appropriate to go to appease." Li Yuntian knew that Zhao Siguo was earnest, and said after smiling slightly, "Go and see your mother-in-law, and someone will go to inform you when the time is right." ”
"Thank you, Lord for your grace." Zhao Siguo kowtowed to Li Yuntian a little embarrassed when he heard this, and then left quickly with Zhang Hailan, he and Zhang Hailan were actually just married, and it was a little too early to say that Liu was his mother-in-law.
Li Yuntian knew that the people who stayed in the town at this time must have some unavoidable difficulties, so he asked the remaining men and women to go back separately and not leave the place where they lived when the Ming army's sailors had not yet controlled the situation in Jilong Town.
"Lord Wang, we found a basement in the backyard, which contains a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry and other belongings." Not long after Zhao Siguo and the others left, when Li Yuntian was talking and laughing with Lei Ting and Liu Wenqing, Wu Ziyan walked in quickly and said in a deep voice.
"Oh?" Li Yuntian was a little surprised when he heard this, he thought that Aoki Mingxin would put all his belongings in his home on Kyushu Island, but he didn't expect that there would be the belongings stored by Aoki Mingxin in this mansion.
"Let's go, let's go!" But then Li Yuntian understood what was going on, and led Lei Ting and Liu Wenqing to the backyard with a smile, the so-called three holes of the cunning rabbit, a cunning person like Aoki Minxin would definitely not put all his belongings in one place, so as not to be caught in one place.