The old enemy who had been fighting for many years suddenly surrendered, how could it not make Hu Zongxian excited or even crazy! The great cause of anti-Japanese war finally showed a bright future. As long as the old ship owner Wang Zhi was solved, the Japanese pirates who had suffered for decades in the southeast would disappear and the world would be restored to peace!

Qianqiu's achievements, in one fell swoop, Hu Zongxian suddenly felt that he was twenty years younger and was about to fly.

Compared to Hu Zongxian, Tang Yi was not so carefree. It was not surprising that Wang Zhi would surrender, but he gave up on resisting so quickly, which really caught people off guard.

"Brother Merlin, don't you think things are a bit strange? Wang Zhi's tens of thousands of Japanese pirates have not been damaged, and his ships are over 1,000. There are still huge forces in Japan. No matter what, you can't see the situation of going to the end of your life. Could it be a fraud?"

Hu Zongxian waved his hand and said confidently: "Have you thought I have been eating a simple meal in the past few years? Wang Zhi has long been under my control!"

There is a strong confidence in the words, and there is even a little arrogant. Don’t think that you can do it alone in the world! What’s so great about dealing with Xu Hai? I am the world’s number one marquis who commands hundreds of thousands of troops.

Hu Zongxian was full of pride and told Tang Yi about his way to deal with Wang Zhi...

Wang Zhi is from Huizhou, and so is Hu Zongxian, so he knows Wang Zhi. After all, although Wang Zhi holds tens of thousands of troops and is strong, he still cannot get rid of the character of a merchant.

What is the character of a businessman? It is to be petty, to make too many plans, too few decisions, indecisiveness, and no determination to achieve great things!

Since Hu Zongxian took over the Southeast, he has trained a large army, built fortresses along the coast, guarded them strictly, and promoted them widely to the people, saying that the Japanese pirates were red eyebrows and green eyes, and like little ghosts from hell, and they eat people without spitting bones.

After several years of hard work, the people in the southeast no longer had a good impression of the Japanese pirates. As the seven major maritime merchants became the past, the Japanese pirates lost their inner support and could no longer be as elusive as before. Every time they plundered, they could only fight head-on. The people in the southeast also shared the same hatred for the enemy. In addition, the newly trained local tyrants and a large number of elite tourists, even if the Japanese pirates succeeded, they would suffer heavy losses.

Especially the Ming army also attacked various islands from time to time, which made the Japanese pirates unhappy.

During the 37th year of Jiajing, Wang Zhi calculated by his fingers. Not only did his soldiers not increase, but they also had a tendency to decrease.

Not only that, after the government conquered Xu Hai and Xin Wulang, these two people turned around and became the vanguards against Wang Zhi. They didn't even have to send troops to fight. As long as they put their banners there, a small number of Japanese pirates would voluntarily surrender. Most of these Japanese pirates were from sea merchants and were influenced by the maritime ban policy, so they had to go into the sea to become pirates. Now that the sea is fully opened, with Xu Hai Xing Wulang as an example, why are they still doing Japanese pirates?

To be honest, one day I died in battle and couldn't even go back to the ancestral tomb.

In a year, one-third of the power that originally relied on Wang Zhi left.

As a shrewd businessman, Wang Zhi felt an unprecedented crisis. If he wanted to fight in the future, he had to use his confidant elite to fight.

Compared with the powerful official army, there is no chance of winning at all.

If it were an ordinary grassroots, I would probably think that the scars were as big as a bowl of money on my head, so I would fight to the death!

Wang Zhi would not think so. With Xu Hai as a lesson for the past, it is not bad to make him surrender.

In fact, Hu Zongxian had already grasped Wang Zhi's mentality. He sent a few Wang Zhi's family members over the previous episode, but one of them did not give it to him, that was Wang Zhi's old mother.

The old lady is in her seventies or eighties and is in great health. She has always been regarded as a guest of honor by Hu Zongxian. Not only is she taken good care of her, she also gave many military information reports to the old lady.

It was amazing. Today, the Japanese pirates killed 500 people and robbed tens of thousands of taels of silver tomorrow. This kind of news is almost every day. How could the old lady stand it? She wrote a letter to her son with tears in her eyes, asking Wang Zhi not to commit sins anymore, God will punish him!

Others don’t listen to their words, but Wang Zhi is a filial son. When he saw my mother’s handwritten letter, he knelt on the ground and cried bitterly in the direction of the Ming Dynasty, thumping his head, and fainted several times.

Hu Zongxian was not satisfied with this point, so he sent an envoy to Japan to deliver letters to those powerful vassal daimyos who supported Wang Zhi.

Tell them that Wang Zhi was a rebellion of the Ming Dynasty. If anyone supports Wang Zhi, the Ming Dynasty would not let him go. On the contrary, if he could actively isolate Wang Zhi, the upper country would allow him to trade freely!

The wars in Japan were frequent and supplies were in short supply, but a lot of them were gold and silver. When they heard this news, they naturally cheered. They cooperated with Wang Zhi because the Ming Dynasty implemented a maritime ban and they could not get supplies. Now that the Ming Dynasty has opened up the maritime trade, why bother with Wang Zhi again!

Daming from Japan sent envoys to contact Hu Zongxian, and Hu Zongxian also learned from Tang Yi and sent these letters to Wang Zhi.

This trick is really too vicious to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot.

Between Wang Zhi and Japan, fish help the water, and water helps the fish. Now that Hu Zongxian has opened the gate and released the water, the tens of thousands of fish under Wang Zhi will soon be exposed to the sunlight, waiting to be dried into fish.

My mother was eagerly looking forward to it, and the backyard was on fire again. Wang Zhi had almost no way to go except for surrender.

But the old ship owner was the old ship owner after all. He had been on the sea for twenty years and had never seen any conspiracies. Hu Zongxian was unreliable, and that boy Tang Yi was even more deceitful.

If you surrender to them, you will be afraid that you will not even have bones left.

Moreover, Wang Zhi also understood the rules of the Ming court. He had the final say in the capital, His Majesty the Emperor and the Cabinet. Without the emperor's consent, surrender would be a dead end.

It happened that at this time, I heard that an imperial envoy transporting Ganoderma lucidum was passing by. Wang Zhi and his godson Mao Haifeng discussed it and performed a show of catching Cao Cao.

He detained the imperial envoy first, and then released it, and bribed it with a large sum of money. He hoped that the imperial envoy could say something nice in front of the emperor, which would explain his painstaking efforts... Wait, why do you seem to have seen this routine?

That’s right, it’s “Water Margin”!

Song Jiang recruited the amnesty and took the way Su Taiwei Su Yuanjing, and Wang Zhi also wanted to follow the example.

But Wang Zhi forgot one thing that Su Yuanjing is simply a fictional character. This method only works in novels and is put in reality. Just like now, the eunuch dares not send letters to Jiajing, and he doesn't have the ability to do this!

Tang Yi only commented on Wang Zhi’s plan in one sentence: You should play pirates, politics is too far from you!

For the decision makers in the capital, face is always more important than actual interests. Wang Zhi called Wang Haishang and had seriously provoked the dignity of the empire. For him, from Jiajing to the six departments of the cabinet, his attitude was quite consistent, just one word: Kill!

Only those who were more sober Tang Yi and Hu Zongxian realized that Wang Zhi could not kill him. If he killed him, the Japanese pirates would lose control and the southeast would be in chaos.

But things are not coming, those masters will not believe it. Even if it really happens, they will only blame local officials for their disadvantages in doing things. In short, they will always be right.

It would be fine if Wang Zhi didn't rob the imperial envoy. If he did this, it would only increase the court's disgust towards him, and he was simply committing suicide.

Tang Yi doesn't care whether he dies or not, but the gates are tens of thousands of Japanese pirates. Once they are out of control, the world will be in chaos and the cause of opening up the sea in an all-round way will be affected.

Moreover, Tang Yi had a selfish intention. He did not want Wang Zhi to surrender so quickly. Only with the pressure of Japanese pirates would Jiajing delegate power to the Southeast. He could hide behind the banner of anti-Japanese war and cultivate his own power.

For example, transportation has already controlled the finance of the Southeast provinces. The members of the Yangming Society are increasing rapidly, while most local officials in the Southeast believe in learning.

In this way, these people will let go of the water during the boy exam, allowing the Yangming Society to pass the imperial examination to create a kind of impression that if you want to take the scholarship, you must believe in the established impression of Yangming Gong.

After taking control of the scholar, he took control of the juren, and further mastered the imperial examination.

As long as there is a period of accumulation, no one can match the power in Tang Yi's hands.

If Wang Zhi surrenders, the court accepts him and quells the Japanese womb, which will be detrimental to Tang Yi. If you don’t accept him, kill him. The world will be in chaos, but it will still be detrimental to Tang Yi!

He was thinking about it and couldn't find any reason to be happy.

"Brother Merlin, your brain won't be broken, right?"

Hu Zongxian was in the southeast, so he could naturally guess some of Tang Yi's thoughts, but he also had his own calculations, and it did not conflict with Tang Yi's interests. The two happened to cooperate happily.

"After this, I won't hide it from you anymore. No matter what, I will surrender Wang Zhi. As the governor of the Southeast, I must do this."

"Brother Molin, I'm afraid it's not that simple? I think Wang Zhi is the first to believe you!" Tang Yi said mercilessly.

"But he believes in the imperial edict!" Hu Zongxian said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty will not issue an order!" Tang Yi said flatly, Hu Zongxian said silently, but just smiled meaningfully, and Tang Yi suddenly became anxious.

"Brother Merlin, are you going to fake the imperial edict?"

Hu Zongxian did not deny it. Tang Yi stood up in shock, his pupils shrank into a ray of luster. He suddenly remembered Hu Zongxian's final outcome.

Isn't it when the Yan family fell and searched Yan Shifan's house, he found out the imperial edict drafted by Hu Zongxian and confirmed the crime of fake imperial edicts. No one could save him again!

The sword buried the injustice, and the loyal soul surrounds the white clouds!

How sad, a famous minister of a generation, the first commander of the anti-Japanese war, died, so when later generations mentioned fighting against the Japanese war, they only knew Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, but they didn’t know that there was Hu Zongxian!

Tang Yi suddenly felt a ball of flames in his chest swelling and burning, making him seem to be about to explode.

"Brother Merlin, I will never allow you to do such a thing as seeking death, never!"

Tang Yihong had his eyes naked and roared in a low voice. Hu Zongxian saw sincerity and concern in his expression, and his eyes turned red.

"Xingzhi, I'm not wrong. You are Hu's good brother for the rest of his life!" Hu Zongxian patted Tang Yi on the shoulder with his big hand, "Xingzhi, as the commander of the anti-Japanese war, I have no choice. If...what unexpected happens in the future..."

Hu Zongxian suddenly stopped talking and sighed, "Who can tell the truth about the future? I know that I am guilty of the spring and autumn! I am here to ask Xingzhi to help me perform a play, and I will take down Wang Zhi in one fell swoop!" (To be continued ~^~.)
Chapter completed!