The king and his minister sat in the pavilion, and the waiters were standing outside the pavilion. Chen Hong led a group of people to catch the deer, but he didn't know if he could succeed.

"In the 34th year of Jiajing, I was captured by Japanese pirates in Huizhou Prefecture and went thousands of miles to Nandu. Later, the first emperor summoned me to the capital to inquire about this matter."

Emperor Longqing quietly adjusted his sitting position, clenched his right hand slightly into a fist, waiting for Qian Yuan's next words.

"More than a hundred Japanese pirates landed from Jiaxing Prefecture, broke through Beixin Pass, advanced south, attacked westward into Huizhou Prefecture, and then went north to plunder Ningguo Prefecture, with the only purpose of Hu Ruzhen."

"Hu Ruzhen followed the example of Jiangxi's Rat Tail Book and compiled the rich businessmen who were prospered by the sea trade in the two Zhejiang provinces separately and compiled the rules... All the rich businessmen were maritime merchants and all had contacts with Japanese pirates."

"More than a hundred Japanese pirates first attacked Jixi Longchuan, and then crossed the Yangtze River to threaten the southern capital."

"May be forced to be filial to the point of being filial, or attack Nanjing and forced the court to sue the court."

Emperor Longqing's straight back immediately relaxed, and he recalled repeatedly in his heart, making sure that the young officials in front of him did not hide even a single trace of concealment.

This was ignored by Qian Yuan... After deciding to ask Qian Yuan in the southeast, Emperor Longqing once asked Huang Jin carefully about the words of the sacred place many times.

Huang Jin, who could go back to his hometown to retire without having to guard the tomb, naturally revealed the whole story.

"I rarely heard of the incident back then, but rumors in the capital were that Zhan Cai strongly recommended Hu Ruzhen to become the governor of Zhejiang." Emperor Longqing said with a smile, thinking that Master Gao had mentioned that this was the beginning of the incompatibility between Li Shiyan and Suiyuan.

Qian Yuan said indifferently: "I don't like Jixi, but I know his talent... On that day, I met the late emperor and said that I would not do what the enemy wanted you to do. Two days later, the late emperor appointed Hu Ruzhen as the governor of Zhejiang and led several provinces to fight against the Japanese."

Emperor Longqing thought about this sentence for a while and nodded, laughing: "Hu Ruzhen introduced several provinces, carried out the rat tail book law, and intercepted the Lianghuai salt tax. The capital was ridiculed by the Governor of Jinshan, and the Nanjing Censor's Censor impeached him for embezzling military pay. Is there any practical matter?"

Qian Yuan was silent a lot today. After a moment, he smiled miserably, "In order to firmly hold the position of governor of Zhejiang, Hu Ruzhen will give Yan Donglou a heavy gift every three months."

Yan Shifan's greed was heard all over the world, which was expected by Emperor Longqing. He asked: "Hu Ruzhen himself?"

"I went south in early May of the 35th year of Jiajing, and returned to Beijing after the Jiaxing War. Then I went south again in early December. I saw and heard with my own eyes, so I dare not deceive the emperor." Qian Yuan said frankly: "Hu Ruzhen bribed Wang Zhi several times with great gifts."

Emperor Longqing was a little surprised at Qian Yuan's frankness and couldn't help but say silence: "There is a clerk who impeached Hu Ruzhen and bribed Wang Zhi..."

"It's really a forced one." Qian Yuan smiled bitterly: "Xu Hai's subordinate repeatedly attacked the Southeast. The new army has not yet been trained, and the troops in the guards are useless. Hu Ruzhen was afraid that Wang Zhi and Xu Hai would join forces... At that time, Wang Zhi was stationed in the Kingdom of Japan, with tens of thousands of soldiers and nearly 100,000 people. Once he joined forces with Xu Hai, there would be something that could not be said in the Southeast."

"So Hu Ruzhen searched for the villagers, asked him to cross the ocean and bribe Wang Zhi, and promised to open a sea ban on trade... In the following years, Wang Zhi not only did not invade the southeast coast, but even started a war with Xu Hai for more than 10 years, and both sides suffered a lot of damage."

"Hu Ruzhen then freed up his hands to train the new army. Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, Qi Jimei, Lu Bin, Liu Xian, Hou Jigao, and Zhang Yuanxun formed an army one after another, and then he had the confidence."

"Hu Ruzhen does have some strategy." Emperor Longqing nodded and praised, "Far from afar, attacked nearby, defeated each one, and used this to unify the six kingdoms."

"Your Majesty is wise." Qian Yuan casually praised, "Hu Ruzhen, who is willing to make achievements and the ability to make achievements. He raises money, food, builds arms, trains new troops, and has the courage to defeat the Japanese in the southeast, which is actually the first contribution."

"Governor Jinshan is really nonsense. I have had a lot of contacts with the Governor's Office in the southeast. I know that Hu Ruzhen's daily life is not luxurious, and even the Governor's Office has many shortages, so I have demolished the east wall to repair the west wall..."

"Zheng Ruozeng, an aide to the Governor's Office of Zhejiang, is in the capital, and Your Majesty can inquire about it in person."

Emperor Longqing asked: "The army of hundreds of thousands of troops in the frontier now has only two million taels of silver per year, while Hu Ruzhen is in the southeast and has only one hundred thousand soldiers, but he consumes more than two million taels of military salary every year."

"The frontiers are all soldiers of the guards and have been fighting for many years. Although they have lost to Altan in recent years, they can still go into battle." Qian Yuan shook his head and said, "The soldiers of the guards in the southeast are ineffective. Most of the soldiers who can go into battle are trained new troops, such as the Yiwu soldiers under the command of Qi Jiguang, the deputy general of Zhejiang, who was then the commander of the soldiers of Zhejiang, had ten taels of silver every year..."

"One hundred thousand soldiers are only one million taels of silver!"

"But cut off a Japanese pirate's head and give him a reward of thirty taels of silver."

Emperor Longqing was speechless. He chopped his head and immediately gave him three years of military pay. No wonder he spent so much money!

You should know that although the nominal military pay for the frontier exceeds 2 million taels of silver every year, at least 20% are calculated based on grain, rice, weapons, and wheat beans... and the southeast is filled with snowflakes, which makes Emperor Longqing feel a little distressed.

"And like a wolf-toothed silhouette, the long spears are re-made, and bird guns and tiger squatting cannons are even more expensive." Qian Yuan explained one by one with great thoughts, "It is really not expensive to build such a strong army from scratch to build a 2 million taels of silver a year."

Emperor Longqing was still unhappy and cursed, "A head level thirty taels of silver, he is Hu Ruzhen and Qi Jiguang are generous!"

"Well, this is my fault."

"Hmm? Could it be that Zhan Cai set the rules?"

"This is not." Qian Yuan smiled bitterly: "In the 33rd year of Jiajing, the great victory of Chongde, the Japanese pirates were about to break the city, and the officers and soldiers were unable to resist. I summoned the village to attack the thieves and ordered a head-level thirty taels of silver... and finally defeated the Japanese pirates."

"So that's it, it's still Zhan Cai's pearls and jade first!" Emperor Longqing cursed with a smile: "Where did you get so much money?"

"The city is about to be destroyed, how can the big Chongde family not pay the money?"

In fact, Qian Yuan threatened those guys to pay for money by washing the city. Later, someone sued him in Nanjing. Zhao Zhenji had a very bad first impression of Qian Yuan because of this.

Emperor Longqing weighed in his heart that Hu Zongxian was a member of the Yan Party. He did bribe Yan Donglou and was promoted, but he also defeated the Japanese in the southeast and made contributions to the country. How to deal with it is a problem.

What's more, many censors from the two capitals bit Hu Zongxian and refused to let go... It's unreasonable not to give an explanation.

"Wang Wufeng bribed Hu Ruzhen?"

"How is that possible!" Qian Yuan chuckled: "Who impeached this with this can only say that this person either doesn't understand anything or has a bad brain."

"Um?"

Qian Yuan quickly explained: "Shangyu's victory, Xu Hai was defeated in a crushing defeat. Wang Zhi offered Xu Hai's head to take this as a courtesy to treat the matter of comforting him. Hu Ruzhen actually didn't want to..."

"Don't?"

"The victory in Shangyu was first Qi Jimei, Yang Wen and Qian's guards defeated the enemy's spirit, and Qi Jiguang swept Xu Hai. In the end, Yu Dayou and Wu Weixi cut off the retreat of the Japanese pirates and made every effort. The only one was Hu Zongxian's confidant Zhejiang Western Governor Liu Xian was defeated twice, and the soldiers and generals were defeated... Hu Ruzhen was very embarrassed."

Qian Yuan said indifferently: "So, Hu Zongxian wanted to make meritorious service with Wang Zhi's head, but I took a fancy to Wang Zhi's fleet and wanted to set up a city to trade. At that time, I had a gap with Hu Ruzhen."

"That was the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing?"
Chapter completed!