A sudden typhoon hit the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and Ningbo Port was greatly affected. Even the entire port was sealed, and any ships were strictly prohibited from going out. Li Jie and others were also scared and sweated. Fortunately, they returned to the port a few days in advance. Otherwise, when they encountered this typhoon when they cleared out the Japanese pirates, they would probably have been wiped out.

Listening to the whistling wind outside the window, Li Jie missed the weather forecasts of later generations very much. When the typhoon in later generations first formed, the weather forecasts of both the Internet and the TV will start to remind everyone to pay attention to the weather early. But now, only when the typhoon is covered with a look, you will know that the typhoon has arrived.

"As such a big storm, I don't know how it is going on at home?" Zou Pusheng, who was sitting opposite Li Jie, said with a sad face. They live on the island and are more affected by the storm. After each storm, the villages they live in need to be overhauled.

"Ningbo is still a bit far from Penghu. The wind here is strong, and maybe Penghu is only involved." Li Jie also comforted him at this time. In fact, he lived in the inland life in his previous life. Although he had watched the scenes of typhoons raging on the Internet or on TV, he did not know much about the scope of the impact of the typhoon.

"I hope so!" Zou Pusheng nodded in a low voice, but he immediately raised his head and looked at Li Jie and said, "Deputy Envoy Li, what you said last time also made me feel enlightened. But I thought hard for many days, but I still didn't expect any good way out. Please ask Deputy Envoy Li to give me some advice!"

When Zou Pusheng said it at the end, he stood up and saluted Li Jie. He was all a person who could be Li Jie's grandfather, but for the future of his descendants, he was willing to ask a teenager like Li Jie for advice.

Li Jie also hurriedly stood up and returned the greeting, and then asked the other party to sit down again. Then he pondered for a moment and said, "Master Zou, you don't want to go back to the inland. If you stay on the coast of Ming Dynasty, the government will suppress you and the people will despise you. As the sea ban becomes more and more stringent, your living environment will become worse and worse, so the only way is to take the initiative to go out!"

"Go out? How to go out?" Zou Pusheng was stunned when he heard Li Jie's words.

"Master Zou, you must have had contact with the outside world on the beach. You should know that even if you are overseas, there are many places suitable for living, and the climatic conditions in some places are not even worse than those in the Ming Dynasty." Li Jie explained with a smile again.

"Of course I know these, but the better the conditions, the earlier people will live in. Even if we want to move, we cannot compete for territory with the locals, right?" Zou Pusheng said with a embarrassed expression.

"Why can't you rob? Those Japanese pirates are samurai who can't survive in Japan. Finally, they took a boat to the coast of our Ming Dynasty. They robbed whatever they lack. They can do this, why can't you do this?" Li Jie's voice became cold at the end.

"After all the time, Deputy Envoy Li, don't you still let us be Japanese pirates?" Zou Pusheng was a little confused when he heard this.

"No, no! I am not asking you to be Japanese pirates, but I am asking you to help the court and completely solve Japanese pirates!"

Li Jie said, turning around and taking a map, then spread it on the table. Zou Pusheng also looked at the map curiously, but found that it was a map of the coast, but the terrain was a little unfamiliar, and it seemed that it was not the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Jie reached out and pointed to an island like a bug in the picture and said, "Master Zou, do you know where this is?"

"This... I don't know!" Zou Pusheng shook his head. It was the first time he saw this coastal map.

"This is Japan, and the land next to it is actually Goryeo!" Li Jie pointed to the map and introduced.

"Is this the Japanese?" Zou Pusheng also showed a surprised expression when he heard this. Although he knew that the Japanese pirates were from Japan and that the Japanese were northeast of the Ming Dynasty, he had never been there, let alone seen the Japanese chart.

At this time, Li Jie pointed to a small island between Japan and Goryeo and introduced again: "Master Zou, please see, this island is called Tsubasa Island, and it is also the real birthplace of Japanese pirates. Japanese pirates are desperate. Warriors usually go to Tsubasa Island first, and then ride on a small boat to the coast of the Ming Dynasty. The Jinyiwei has also interrogated this point very clearly!"

The most famous deed of Tsushima Island in later generations was that Japan and Russia once had a naval battle here, and finally Russia was defeated, allowing Japan to reach out to North Korea and China.

However, before this, Tsushima Island was an absolute nest of thieves. The infamous Japanese pirates came from here. North Korea sent troops to attack Tsushima Island many times in order to solve the problem of Japanese pirates. After all, the Japanese pirates not only harassed the coast of the Ming Dynasty, but also looted the coast of North Korea, and even repeatedly invaded North Korea's inland, causing the Korean Peninsula to be deeply harmed by Japanese pirates!

Zou Pusheng looked at the small Tsuma Island on the map but fell into deep thought. After a while, he looked up at Li Jie and asked, "Director Li, tell me this. Do you want us to go to Japan, or to be precise, to live in Tsuma Island?"

"Yes, although there are Japanese pirates on Tsuma Island, there are quite a few subordinates under Taoist Zou. With the support of the court, it is not difficult to let you conquer Tsuma Island." Li Jie said again with a smile, as if it was a matter of course to take Zou Pusheng to Tsuma Island.

"I have two questions. First, why do we go to Tsuma Island? After all, although the Liuqiu Island we live in is bad now, the Tsuma Island is probably not stronger than the Liuqiu Island, and it may even be worse than the Liuqiu Island. Second, why should the court help us?" Zou Pusheng also stood up straight at this time and said, feeling that Li Jie's proposal was very unreliable.

Li Jie had long expected Zou Pusheng to ask this question, so he smiled confidently and said, "Tsukema Island is just a springboard. The way I really want to point you is actually Kyushu Island to the east. It has a mild climate, fertile land, and many minerals. The most important thing is that compared to Liuqiu Island, the land on Jiuzhou Island has been reclaimed. As long as you can conquer it, you can cultivate and live directly, which is much better than Liuqiu Island!"

When he said this, Li Jie paused before answering the second question: "As for why the imperial court wanted to help you, of course, it was to completely solve the problem of the Japanese pirates. Although we have eliminated these Japanese pirates, as long as the Japanese pirates are still there, the Japanese pirates will be endless. If you occupy Tsushima Island and Kyushu Island, it is equivalent to blocking the Japanese pirates' way southward, and the Japanese pirates will naturally be solved."

Regarding Li Jie's explanation, Zou Pusheng shook his head again and said, "Director Li, you respect us so much. Although I have tens of thousands of subordinates, most of them are old and weak women. There are only a few thousand people who can fight. This Kyushu Island is vast and there are definitely not a few Japanese people on the island. With just ours, we can only conquer the small Tsushima Island, let alone Kyushu Island."

When Zou Pusheng said it at the end, he almost wanted to stand up and leave because in his opinion, Li Jie's proposal was simply to let them die. Although he was worried about the future of his descendants, he did not want to send his subordinates to the battlefield to commit suicide immediately.

Of course, Li Jie also saw Zou Pusheng's idea, but he still smiled confidently, then took out a document from his arms and handed it to the other party and said, "Master Zou, don't belittle yourself. The troops you can use are not just a few thousand people. In fact, there is still a force that can be transferred by you, but it depends on whether you want it?"

Zou Pusheng took the document curiously. When he opened it and saw the content on it, he suddenly stood on the spot. The expression on his face became very complicated, with humiliation and regrets, but more of it was full of anger!

After a while, Zou Pusheng restrained the anger in his heart, and then took a long breath and said, "Brother Zhang, do he know this?"

"He doesn't know that I got this information through the Jinyiwei!" Li Jie also sighed and replied.

"Let's go see Brother Zhang!" Zou Pusheng immediately put the document in his arms, then picked up the straw raincoat next to him and put it on. The content on the document was too heavy, and he had to find someone to share it with him.

Li Jie also understood Zou Pusheng's mood, so he immediately put on a straw raincoat and went out in the wind and rain. The two of them quickly came to Zhang Dingbian's residence. When they entered the room, they saw Zhang Dingbian dressed in a short dress, and the steaming heat was also emitting steam on his head. It was probably his old habit just now. Whenever he had free time, he would practice martial arts. It is said that he encountered tigers during martial arts practice, but he was beaten to death by a stick. Although it was a bit exaggerated, Zhang Dingbian's martial arts were definitely not comparable to ordinary people.

"Brother Zhang, look at this!" Zou Pusheng handed the documents to Zhang Dingbian with a heavy expression.

Zhang Dingbian was also wondering why Li Jie and Zou Pusheng came to find him in the wind and rain. After taking the document, he took a few glances and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely ferocious. He suddenly raised his right hand and then slapped it hard on the table.

With a loud "bang~", a very solid solid wood table was actually slapped in half by Zhang Dingbian. The tiny wood chips flew over and hit Li Jie's face with a little pain.

"Li Jie, is this your Ming Dynasty's method to treat the people?" After slapped the table, Zhang Dingbian suddenly reached out and grabbed Li Jie's collar and asked loudly, his eyes also turned red, like a beast that chose people to eat.

"Brother Zhang calms down. With the age of Deputy Envoy Li, this matter must have nothing to do with him!" Zou Pusheng was shocked when he saw Zhang Dingbian's reaction, and immediately stepped forward to persuade him, fearing that he would hurt Li Jie. After all, this information was given to him by Li Jie.

Zhang Dingbian was just angry and calmed down suddenly. He immediately let go of Li Jie's collar, and then said with tears in his eyes: "We are all defeated, why is Zhu Yuanzhang so stingy that he is so embarrassed by these old brothers?"

As the saying goes, "A man will not cry easily when he has tears", let alone a veteran like Zhang Dingbian who is decisive in his killing. However, when he saw the contents of the document, he couldn't help but shed tears because the document touched the pain in his heart.

Li Jie didn't know how to comfort the other party at this time. The document actually recorded the situation of "nine fishermen". The so-called ninth fishermen actually refer to Chen Youliang's old subordinates after his defeat, who mainly lived in the Xin'an River and the middle and upper reaches of Qiantang River. Chen Youliang was very good at water wars at the time, and these old subordinates were also dominated by naval troops.

However, after Chen Youliang was defeated, Zhu Yuanzhang hated Zhu Youliang and was afraid that his old subordinates would rebel, so he ordered the local government to strictly supervise these old subordinates, not only forbidding them to go ashore, but also forbidding them to participate in the imperial examinations, not only wearing long gowns and shoes, not to mention intermarrying people on the shore.

It can be said that the fishermen of the nine surnames are the inland people, even worse than the inland people, because the inland people at least have freedom, but they have to be monitored by the government at all times.

These Chen Youliang's old subordinates were very tough at the beginning, but people always had to live. They lived on boats and could only make a living by fishing and transportation. However, their income was small and they could not support their families. So after a long time, some people began to fall into depravity. Many women began to sell their bodies, and even the men at home were rocking the boat, and women picked up customers on the boat. As a result, the reputation of the Jiu fishermen became even worse.

After Zou Pusheng was defeated, he went to sea, while Zhang Dingbian became a monk and did not care about the world. This was the first time that both of them knew that the old brothers of that year had fallen to such a miserable level.

Thinking of this, Zhang Dingbian wanted to raise the anti-flag directly and kill Jinling and chop off Zhu Yuanzhang's head. Unfortunately, the cold facts told him that with the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, they were seeking death.

Li Jie looked at Zhang Dingbian who was sad and angry, and he was relieved. There should be no problem with Zhang Dingbian and Zou Pusheng, but next time he had to convince Lao Zhu to agree to mobilize these old subordinates of Chen Youliang. With Lao Zhu's stubborn temper, it was not easy to convince him, but Li Jie had a killer move. As long as he used this killer move, Lao Zhu would definitely agree!
Chapter completed!