"Dongdongdongdongdong~" Zhou Chong walked forward in person, then gently knocked on Zheng Jing's study door.

"What's the matter?" Zheng Jing's familiar voice came from it.

Zhou Chong heard this and looked at Li Zheng and Zhang Kuang beside him. He took a long breath and said, "Brother Minglun, Zhou Chong is here to visit!"

Hearing Zhou Chong's voice, Zheng Jing inside was silent for a moment, then the sound of footsteps sounded, and then the door was opened, revealing Zheng Jing with a cold face inside. He saw the other party ticking to Li Zheng and Zhang Kuang first.

He nodded as saying hello, and then said to Zhou Chong: "Mr. Zhou is not preparing for the wedding at home, why do you have time to come to Zheng here?"

Hearing that Zheng Jing’s name changed and he didn’t even mean to invite himself in, Zhou Chong couldn’t help but smile bitterly: “Brother Minglun, I know you have some opinions on what I’m doing in Shuangyu.

But as a friend, I think I need to come to you to explain. The alchemist and the shriek are also very supportive. I wonder if Brother Minglun wants to hear it?"

"Brother Minglun, like you, I also have an opinion on Wenda's approach. However, we have been with Wenda for many years and have a very good understanding of each other's temperament, so I believe Wenda must have his own difficulties!"

Zhang Kuang also spoke.

"This..." When Zheng Jing heard this, the cold expression on his face couldn't help but loosen a little. He stood in front of the door and thought for a while, and finally turned to Zhou Chong and said, "Okay, since Mr. Zhou wants to explain,

Then let’s listen carefully, see if you have any reason to massacre hundreds of people as soon as you arrived at Shuangyu Port, and you even now have the title of “Young Master of the Family”?”

Seeing that Zheng Jing was finally willing to listen to his explanation, Zhou Chong and Li Zheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After entering Zheng Jing's study, they each found a chair to sit down, and then Zheng Jing, Zhang Kuang and Li Zhengsan

They all focused their attention on Zhou Chong.

Zhou Chong sat there thinking for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Everyone, I guess you have all heard about me in Shuangyu Port, and Brother Minglun and Brother Fang Shi were not very satisfied with some of my actions.

Now I want to ask you two to tell me. Where is the most dissatisfied with me?"

Hearing Zhou Chong's question, Zheng Jing stood up first and said, "I have discussed it with Brother Fang before, nothing else is fine. It's just that Mr. Zhou, you have only been to Shuangyu Port for a few days and slaughtered two.

The Chamber of Commerce, that's hundreds of lives, and you even cut off the heads of several people with your own hands. Although they were extremely guilty of trafficking people, they just had to kill the main evil. Why do you kill all the two Chamber of Commerce?

Mr. Zhou, don’t you think you are too cruel? Have you forgotten all the ways of saints’ benevolence and righteousness?”

When Zheng Jing said it at the end, his emotions became very excited. He always valued Zhou Chong very much. He believed that among his own people, Zhou Chong was the one who was most likely to be out of the way, but as the saying goes, the greater the hope.

The greater the disappointment, the more Zhou Chong's actions now disappointed him, and he even felt heartbroken.

However, after hearing Zheng Jing's accusations, Zhou Chong smiled slightly and said, "Brother Minglun, it seems that you also admit that those who were killed by me are guilty. But you think that I am too cruel to do things, which is contrary to the benevolence and righteousness of the saint.

The way, I just want to ask back, if I talk about benevolence and righteousness with those Japanese and Koreans, will they also talk about benevolence and righteousness with me?"

"This..." Hearing Zhou Chong's retort, Zheng Jing and Zhang Kuang both changed their faces, but in the end, Zhang Kuang insisted on defending himself, "Wenda. You are a scholar, how can you be with those Japanese?

The Koreans are confused. They are all vulgar people, so they naturally don’t know what kind of benevolence and righteousness is. But it is precisely because of this that you should use benevolence and righteousness to influence others, so that we can reveal the spirit of our Chinese to conquer others with virtue.

Not to fight violence with violence like you!”

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, what Zhang Kuang said was simply nonsense, but in the eyes of scholars of the Ming Dynasty, it was very natural. This is because after so many years of distorted development, Confucianism has long formed an external saint.

The core of the inner king is that they can impose cruel punishments on the people in the country, but they are very generous to the foreign tribes and show their benevolence and righteousness everywhere. However, they do not know that their benevolence and righteousness are simply weak in the eyes of the foreign tribes.

However, Zhou Chong was not so stupid that he argued with Zhang Kuang and Zheng Jing about the right or wrong of "benevolence and righteousness", because he knew that with the little things in his belly, he could not tell these two scholars from the Ming Dynasty, so he thought

I thought to myself and said, "Brother Fang, I really don't agree with your understanding of benevolence and righteousness. But let's put this issue aside for now. Let's discuss the matter. Let me explain to you the deep reason why I used the cruel method of massacre!"

"Hmph, what other reason can there be for the massacre? I think you are just arguing for yourself!" Zheng Jing suddenly said with anger. He heard that Zhou Chong was unwilling to discuss the issue of benevolence and righteousness again, thinking that Zhou Chong could not say anything to them.

, therefore, the topic is changed.

"Brother Minglun, Wenda has always been very sensible in his work. Although the massacre is cruel, he must have his own reasons. What's the point when we hear Wenda say it?" At this time, Li Zheng finally spoke to Zhou Chong and said,

When Zheng Jing heard him look at him, he finally sat down and continued to listen to Zhou Chong's explanation.

At this time, Zhou Chong took a long breath, and then explained: "Actually, the first reason why I attacked Japanese and Koreans when I arrived at Shuangyu Port was that they provoked me and were involved in human trafficking.

Of course, there are four or five hundred people in the two chambers of commerce together, so it is impossible for everyone to participate in human trafficking. But there is a second reason why I massacred everyone without hesitation, that is to shock!"

"Shock? Who is shocking?" Zhang Kuang, Zheng Jing and Li Zheng spoke almost at the same time. Although they had heard about Shuangyu Port, they were scholars after all, and they were all their energy on their studies and overseas.

The situation is simply a matter of little understanding. This is because their family lives on the coast, so they know the situation overseas. If those inland scholars were studying in the country, no one would care about anything outside China.

Seeing that even Zheng Jing and the other two looked confused at this time, Zhou Chong couldn't help but smile bitterly and explained again: "My brothers probably have never been to Shuangyu Port, and I don't know what the situation is there. I can tell now.

You, there are more than a thousand Japanese and Koreans there now. For example, taking the Japanese as an example, the largest chamber of commerce among them is called Ashikaga Chamber of Commerce, which is known as one of the four major chambers of commerce in Shuangyu Port. There are five or six hundred chambers of commerce.

People, plus other Japanese chambers of commerce of all sizes, have reached 1,670 Japanese in Shuangyu Port!”

Zhou Chong paused at this point, and then said: "And now there are chaos in Japan and wars in various places. Daqiu is fighting each other, which has led to more and more people in their country taking risks to go out to sea to participate in smuggling, so the number of Japanese people in Shuangyu Port has been

Growth, and these Japanese who dared to go out to sea were all vicious and desperate people. Although they were few, they were domineering in Shuangyu Port, and they repeatedly plundered the fleets of other chambers of commerce at sea, and they went to the sea every year.

Hundreds of people died at the hands of the Japanese. If this continues, the entire Shuangyu Port will probably become the hands of the Japanese!"

"So that's it. Wenda, the reason why you killed two foreign chambers of commerce in one go is to shock the foreign Japanese and Koreans, so that they will not dare to do anything wrong again!" At this time, Li Zheng was the first to react, and at the same time,

He said with a consent. Zheng Jing and Zhang Kuang did not expect that the situation in Shuangyu Port was already so serious. If it was really like Zhou Chong said, then what he did was understandable. After all, Shuangyu Port was in

How could those Japanese rulers be the king of the Ming Dynasty?

Zhou Chong saw that Zheng Jing and Zhang Kuang's faces finally calmed down, which made him happy. It seemed that his explanation had finally worked. He explained harder again: "Brother Minglun

You are all my close friends. Today I will tell you my ideas. In fact, after taking over the chamber of commerce left by my father, I saw many problems in the smuggling industry and also had many ideas."

Zhou Chong paused again when he said this, and then said: "In my opinion, as the court relaxed the ban on sea, the development of smuggling became faster and faster, which attracted more and more people to join in.

Most of them are from the Ming people, and there are also Japanese people, Koreans, Nanyang people, and even Folang Ji people. Whether it is these foreigners or Han people, as long as they dare to participate in smuggling, many of them are lawless people. Now

Smuggling is prosperous, and they can also make profits from it, so they rarely harass the coast of the Ming Dynasty. But if the imperial court strengthens the maritime ban on one day and these people can no longer make profits from smuggling, then what will happen next?"

When Zhou Chong said this, his face became very serious. All what he said was true. Later, the Japanese turmoil during the Jiajing period was because the imperial court strengthened the maritime ban and also destroyed smuggling bases like Shuangyu Port.

This made a large number of smuggling merchants no longer able to engage in smuggling. So under the pressure of anger and survival, they began to loot the coastal court of the Ming Dynasty. Although it was known as the Japanese riot, the real Japanese pirates only accounted for a small part.

Some of them are smuggling merchants from the Ming Dynasty in the past.

Zheng Jing and the other two were shocked when they heard Zhou Chong's last question. They were all outstanding talents in the Ming Dynasty. Although some of their views were very pedantic, they were not stupid. Therefore, after hearing Zhou Chong's analysis and assumptions,

Zheng Jing and the other two thought of the serious consequences that Zhou Chong mentioned.

"If this is true, the Japanese pirate rebellion will probably repeat the year, but this will no longer be a simple Japanese pirate. With those smuggling merchants familiar with the coast of the Ming Dynasty, it will be even more difficult for the imperial court to wipe out them!"
Chapter completed!