"Your Majesty! The Xu family swears that they will never participate in the sea trade again." Xu Jie shouted at the top of his lungs.

"What do you say?" Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Xin.

"Your Majesty will give you a decree to prohibit the Xu family from participating in maritime trade for generations and praise the contributions made by the five major families to the Ming Dynasty. Well, you can give them the title of patriotic businessman."

"Patriotic businessman?"

"It is the merchant who loves the Ming Dynasty and His Majesty."

"But!" Emperor Jiajing thought for a while, nodded and said, "Continue!"

"The third point is to solve the problem of pirates."

Emperor Jiajing's eyes lit up: "How to solve it?"

"This is to have some contact with the pirates. If they are not strong, Lord Hu will need to dispatch a naval force to wipe it out. If they are very strong, our naval force cannot be wiped out. In order not to affect the maritime trade, we can only talk to them."

"What do you mean to recruit you?" Emperor Jiajing frowned slightly.

"Yes!" Luo Xin nodded.

"At that time, the four pirates were destroyed by my Ming Dynasty. Can't I destroy such a pirate now?"

"Your Majesty, the four pirates were destroyed by my Ming Dynasty because they went ashore. None of the four pirates were destroyed in the sea. You can imagine that my Ming Dynasty naval master was really not strong. Those pirates were not stupid, and the experience of the four pirates' destruction was vivid in my mind. I think they would not go ashore and would only rob in the sea. I am afraid that my Ming Dynasty would have almost no way to do this."

Emperor Jiajing frowned and thought, but he was already very poor. After listening to this for so long, he was already exhausted. At this time, he used his head to think, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt irritated in his heart. He took a deep breath, stopped thinking, and just wanted to throw out the trouble quickly, and said:

"Luo Xin, I have appointed you as an imperial envoy and go to the southeast to handle this matter with full authority."

"I obey the order!"

"Liu Shouyou."

"I'm here."

"You go with you and be the deputy imperial envoy."

"I obey the order!"

“Hao Gong.”

"Print an order!"

The prefect of Shuntian was still waiting outside Yuxi Palace, waiting for Emperor Jiajing to summon him, and was thinking about what to say when he saw Emperor Jiajing. During the Jiajing period, it was too difficult to meet Emperor Jiajing. Because Emperor Jiajing almost did not attend court and practiced Taoism all day long. Therefore, the prefect of Shuntian had the opportunity to meet Emperor Jiajing today, how could he not be excited?

The sound of footsteps came from Yuxi Palace. The prefect of Shuntian hurriedly sorted out his official robe and looked at the gate of Yuxi Palace seriously and respectfully.

Sure enough, the first person to come out was Gao Gong. The prefect of Shuntian was delighted. Just as he was about to step forward, he saw another person walking out behind Gao Gong. He naturally knew this person, Luo Xin, who had just entered Yuxi Palace, and then came out with Liu Shouyou. Xu Jie walked at the end with his head hanging down.

"Is this... it's over? I'm fine?" The prefect of Shuntian was filled with loss, but he still took two steps forward and said to Gao Gong with expectations:

"Hao Lao..."

"You follow Lord Luo and the others." Gao Gong said softly.

The prefect of Shuntian looked at Luo Xin.

OK!

Luo Xin was holding a bunch of imperial edicts in his arms, not ten, but eight. Luo Xin was holding a bundle of imperial edicts and looked at the prefect of Shuntian and smiled:

"Master Tang, let's go to Shuntian Prefecture."

"What are you going to do?" The prefect of Shuntian thought to himself, Shuntian's mansion is his own territory, what are they doing there?

Luo Xin pointed to the stack of paper in Liu Shouyou's hand and said, "We have taken over those who come to complain to the southeast."

"Oh... OK!"

After saying that, he looked at Gao Gong afterwards. When he saw Gao Gong nodding, he turned his head and said:

"Mr. Luo, Lord. Liu, please!"

"Mr. Tang, please!"

Luo Xin and Liu Shouyou came to Shuntian Mansion and met the merchant families who were robbed by the two young masters of the Xu family. One person came to each family, a total of fifteen people.

Luo Xin gently told these people that His Majesty had already made an order for this case, and then read the order. The merchants' families cried in joy and shouted long live.

"Mr. Liu!" Luo Xin looked at Liu Shouyou and said, "You arrange for the Jinyiwei to send these people to the best inn in the capital to stay in. All the expenses will be kept in charge of the Xu family at that time."

"I understand!" Liu Shouyou said with a smile.

Luo Xin said to the merchants' families again: "You have a good rest tonight, and we will set off for the southeast tomorrow."

The next day.

Luo Xin took Lu Daqing with his fifty servants and 100 Jinyiwei brought by Liu Shouyou and headed towards the southeast. They did not walk fast because there were fifteen people who could not ride horses, so they could only ride in carriages.

This day.

Outside Hangzhou City.

A group of officials were waiting outside, Zhang Juzheng and Xu Shixing came, and even Hu Zongxian in Suzhou came. Because they all knew that Luo Xin, the imperial envoy sent by Emperor Jiajing, was the commander of the entire Southeast, not only Hangzhou Prefecture, but also the Maritime Bureau.

Xu Shixing stood aside with a gloomy face and brought the members of the Maritime Service. He was very frustrated. It can be said that his job at the Maritime Service was a complete failure. The reason for the failure was not the local merchants, nor the Japanese pirates, but the prime minister of the cabinet of the dynasty. He was once the follower and respected Xu Jie. He was too lazy to pay attention to Zhang Juzheng. If Zhang Juzheng had not put pressure on him, how could he agree to the Xu family participate in the maritime trade?

How could the Xu family have not participated in the maritime trade?

He remembered that before leaving the capital, he had visited Luo Xin. Luo Xin repeatedly told him to stick to the rules and make him follow the rules. He was still not firm enough. At this point, he was not as good as Luo Xin!

Xu Shixing couldn't help but sigh.

Zhang Juzheng originally wanted to say something to Xu Shixing, and everyone knew the grudge between Luo Xin and Xu Jie. This time he came to the southeast, he would probably not be polite to the Xu family and Xu Party. And he, Zhang Juzheng, is Xu Jie's disciple, and Xu Shixing is also a member of the Xu Party. At this time, the two of them should join forces. But seeing Xu Shixing's appearance that was blocking people thousands of miles away, Zhang Juzheng had to sigh in his heart and said in his heart:

"It seems that the teacher's analysis is good. Xu Shixing really wants to break away from the Xu Party. However, he should not have defected to Gao Gong or Luo Xin, otherwise he would not have given me face at the beginning and let the Xu family participate in the maritime trade."

Thinking of this, Zhang Juzheng sighed again. It would be great that Xu Shixing could have been tougher and not give him face.

Hu Zongxian stood there with a hug from the front and back, although he kept a smile on his face, he was also uneasy. He was really afraid of Luo Xin's methods. I wonder if Luo Xin would cause trouble for him this time when he came to the southeast.

At this time, in the Xu Mansion, there was also a deep yin energy. Xu Luqing had already received Xu Jie's letter and understood the results facing the Xu family. At this time, they could only wait for Luo Xin to come.

The smoke and dust rolled, Hu Zongxian, Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shixing and others were all excited.

"Here you come!"

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