After Zhu Wan replaced the commanders from Zhejiang and Fujian, all the maritime merchants smelled the danger, but they were not worried about their safety.

After all, they are deeply rooted in officials in Zhejiang and Fujian. Even if Zhu Wan has great power, he will never attack them suddenly. At this time, the gentry class is privileged. Even if the governor wants to punish them, they must have real evidence. They have no direct connection with pirates and Japanese pirates. They are all hooking up with pirates and Japanese pirates through intermediaries. Zhu Wan can't find any substantial evidence at all.

They all knew that Zhu Wan was likely to attack their maritime businessmen.

However, they were not worried about this, because the Ministry of the Ministry of the Zhejiang and Fujian provinces have close contact with them. Zhu Wan wanted to do something but could not escape their eyes. If she could not defeat her, she would let the maritime merchants hide. Even if she mobilized many people, what would she do to them?

Zhu Wan really took action. Just after the New Year, he ordered Lu Tong and Liu Xian to organize more than 100 warships and more than 5,000 guards to gather in the waters near Taizhou Prefecture and Fuzhou Prefecture, preparing to encircle and suppress pirates and Japanese pirates.

This really scared the wealthy maritime merchants. More than a hundred warships and more than 5,000 treasury guards came, and no one could withstand it. They quickly ordered their maritime merchants to hide and avoid the limelight first.

However, what is strange is that Zhu Wan later ordered Liu Xian’s troops gathered in the waters near Taizhou Prefecture to move south, while Lu Tong’s troops gathered in the waters near Fuzhou Prefecture to move north. What does this mean?

All the four major maritime merchants were confused when they received the news, because Lu Tong and Liu Xian were obviously incorrect in the direction.

Their maritime merchants do business, but they do whatever they go. The maritime merchants under their maritime merchants have fixed trading places.

The maritime merchants in Zhejiang basically do business with Japanese people on Shuangyu Island in Ningbo Prefecture north of Taizhou, and the maritime merchants in Fujian basically do business with Japanese people and Nanyang vendors in Zoumaxi, Zhangzhou Prefecture south of Quanzhou.

If Liu Xian wants to encircle and suppress the maritime merchants in Zhejiang's waters, he should go north and go to Shuangyu Island.

If Lu Tong wanted to encircle and suppress the maritime merchants in Fujian's waters, he should go south and go to Zoumaxi.

They were so far away from each other and went in the wrong direction. Could it be that Zhu Wan obtained the information incorrectly?

Of course, there was no problem with the information Zhu Wan obtained. He did this just to prevent the vents and garrisons from venting information in Zhejiang and Fujian.

Sure enough, Liu Xian and Lu Tong led their subordinates to go in a completely different way. After "going in the wrong direction", the information that the wealthy maritime merchants could obtain was less and less. They only knew that Liu Xian and Lu Tong were roughly leading their troops to the waters at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian, and then there was no news.

In this situation, it is very likely that Zhu Wan was afraid that the whole group would not be safe, so she wanted to gather two people to encircle and suppress a certain place. As for which place Zhu Wan was encircled and suppressed, the maritime merchants couldn't figure out, so they could only wait for the insiders in the garrison to transmit information to them.

However, they waited for several days but didn't wait for any information. However, vendors from Japan and Nanyang were a little anxious and frequently asked them to ask them to arrange for their maritime merchants to trade goods as soon as possible.

After the New Year, it was already quite busy because their maritime merchants had to celebrate the New Year. After the New Year was closed, there would be problems with the supply of goods in Japan and Nanyang. Everyone was waiting for their supply, but they ordered their maritime merchants to hide and avoid the limelight. How could this be done!

There was no choice but to order their men to come out quickly and deliver the goods squeezed during the New Year holiday to others. Anyway, Liu Xian and Lu Tong had their people in the team. No matter where the navy went, they could receive the news. Then they would order their men to go to avoid it.

At least, that's what they think.

Little did he know that Zhu Wan brought them a great move.

Simply put, it was to order Liu Xian to lead the Zhejiang Navy to Zoumaxi, Zhangzhou to encircle and suppress Fujian pirates, and Lu Tong to lead the Fujian Navy to Ningbo Shuangyu Island to encircle and suppress Zhejiang pirates.

As a result, the Tunwei in Zhejiang and Fujian came to sea areas that they were not familiar with. Even if they wanted to inform them, they didn’t know where to go, and they didn’t know who to go!

Zhu Wan's move was indeed powerful, and the wealthy maritime merchants were not prepared at all. As a result, the pirates and Japanese pirates who traded in Zoumaxi and Shuangyu Island were caught by Lu Tong and Liu Xian.

At this moment, the four major maritime merchants suffered almost devastating attacks on the sea. Most of the ninety-six maritime merchants were caught. Even Xu Dong, the general under the leader of the Japanese Japanese pirates who came to trade, was arrested, and several Portuguese vendors from Southeast Asia were arrested.

Immediately afterwards, Nanzhili Tunwei, stationed in Zhejiang and Fujian, suddenly launched an attack and captured all the maritime merchants and their subordinates who were on the shore.

Zhu Wan was also cruel. After arresting these maritime merchants, he ordered that everyone, together with his subordinates, would be pulled out and chopped out. All the captured pirate ships were sunk on the spot, blocking the waterways near Zuoma Creek and Shuangyu Island to prevent pirates and Japanese pirates from gathering again.

Then, he reported to the court that all the pirates along the southeast coast were all captured in one place, and only the Japanese pirates were left to be cleared.

This time, the whole court caused a sensation again.

During the Zoumaxi victory, Liu Xian led the Zhejiang Navy to wipe out the pirate strongholds, and captured more than 40 pirate leaders at the same level, thousands of other pirates, and destroyed more than 50 pirate ships.

During the great victory in Shuangyu Island, Lu Tong led the Fujian Navy's coking coal pirate stronghold, and captured more than 50 pirate leaders at the same level, thousands of other pirates, and destroyed more than 60 pirate ships.

This pirate who had been "inflicted" on the southeast coast for many years was wiped out by Zhu Wan!

When Jiajing received the report, he was naturally very happy. The southern Japanese and northern enemy had bothered him for more than ten years. It can be said that since he ascended the throne, the north and the south, he had never stopped, which made him unable to sleep or eat.

Now, the pirates colluded with the Southern Japanese have been wiped out by Zhu Wan. I believe it is only a matter of time before the Japanese pirates are dealt with. With Yang Cong and Qiu Luan in the northwest frontier, the Tartars can no longer be arrogant, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before the Tartars can be eliminated.

These two headache-inducing problems have hope of solving them, so how could he be unhappy?

However, the government and the country did not have a jubilation because of this. Xia Yan wanted to be happy, but he couldn't jump around alone. As for the others, the Yangming lineage was quite happy, but not so happy that it was about to jump up. Many people in Yan Song's party were secretly gritting their teeth.

Yang Cong was also not happy when he received the news because he knew very well the energy of the wealthy maritime merchants. Zhu Wan was seeking death like this!

Unfortunately, it was too late when he received the news, otherwise he would have found a way to advise Zhu Wan not to do so terrible.
Chapter completed!