Luck in the heavens starts from the Red Mansion

Any island in the South Seas with an area of ​​more than 100,000 square kilometers is actually the pre-selected target that Jia Huan wants to try to break through.

It's not for any other reason. Only when the island or land area is large enough can a sufficiently complete ground vein and magnetic field system be formed.

Jia Huan's favorite target is actually the largest ones in the Indonesian archipelago, as well as the Australian island.

At present, the exploration fleet sent by the Beggar Gang has probably found the Indonesian archipelago.

As for the farther and larger Australian island, Jia Huan is not too anxious.

What needs to be done now is to find Wang Zhi, the idiot.

Although this guy is the main promoter of the Japanese rebellion, his demands are different.

The demands of the big families on the southeast coast are still to monopolize foreign trade, and no matter which party participates, they will not agree.

The main reason for the massive Japanese rebellion is to monopolize profits.

Emperor Jiajing is not easy to serve!

In particular, this person has an extraordinary obsession with alchemy and cultivation.

Originally, although the emperors have different hobbies, they are all a burden to the court.

As long as he didn't do grand projects like Song Weizong, the emperor's private treasury could satisfy his hobbies.

Unfortunately, Emperor Jiajing's hobbies were somewhat similar to those of Song Weizong.

The amount of money consumed was not a small amount!

Even the means of making money by Yan Song, a powerful minister, felt a little overwhelmed.

Then, there was suddenly a lot of public opinion in the court and the people to open the sea.

Obviously, Yan Song was attracted by the amazing income from foreign trade!

Don't think that the chief minister of the cabinet is a fool. The archives of Zheng He's voyages to the West during the Yongle period were not lacking in the court, so he naturally knew many of the ways in it.

It's just that the big families on the southeast coast used to be very defensive. If it was not necessary, even the chief minister of the cabinet was unwilling to offend this interest group too much.

But now, isn't the court too short of silver?

Not only the court is short of silver, but also the interest groups represented by the court officials are short of silver.

Yan Song was from Gan Province, and was a very traditional scholar-official. His family had countless lands, but they had not been involved in foreign trade.

This was basically the case for several cabinet bosses!

That is, the family of Xu Jie and Xu Huating, the later prime ministers, was the closest to the sea, but it was also a very traditional gentry family.

In this case, who the hell still cares about the ideas of the southeastern coastal families?

Unfortunately, they underestimated the resistance determination of the southeastern coastal families and their ruthlessness in safeguarding their own interests.

It happened that this was the so-called "Warring States Period" in Japan, and a large number of bankrupt warriors had no way to survive, so they could only go out to sea and become vicious pirates and bandits.

The southeastern coastal families united with them, and together with many pirate forces headed by Wang Zhi, they set off the Japanese pirate rebellion, which was quite famous in history.

Jia Huan personally participated in the opening of the Japanese pirate rebellion, and naturally saw many ways.

Maybe at the beginning, the big families in the southeastern coastal areas just wanted to protect their own interests and force the Ming Dynasty to continue the policy of blocking the sea. Being able to restore the previous state was the greatest victory, and they did not have any other thoughts.

But the problem is that the performance of the guards in the southeastern coastal areas can no longer be described as garbage, but is completely a mess.

The Japanese pirates were invincible wherever they went, and they were almost defeated in battles without any chance of recovery.

Now, the top leaders of the big families in the southeastern coastal areas who manipulated the Japanese pirates' rebellion naturally had some different thoughts and wanted to gain more benefits.

The gold, silver and treasures obtained by the Japanese pirates through burning, killing and looting almost all flowed into the warehouses of the big families in the southeastern coastal areas.

Think about it, the Japanese pirates looted the core areas of the southern Ming Dynasty.

A town can provide tens of thousands of taels or even more gold, silver and treasures, as well as various materials.

If a county town or even a prefecture town can be captured, the gold and silver wealth that can be looted will probably be in the millions, which is not an exaggeration at all.

At the same time, through the hands of the Japanese pirates, possible competitors, hostile forces and even some officials who hold real power can be solved together.

It can be said that the southeastern coastal clans that manipulated the Japanese pirates' rebellion involuntarily began to reshuffle certain forces or people.

That is, the court did not make up its mind to reshuffle the core areas of the southeastern coast, otherwise it would not be so difficult to quell the Japanese rebellion.

Do you really think that the Jinyiwei and the Liushenmen Yamen are just eating dry rice?

The elite of the Nine Borders and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, which one is easy to deal with?

Even if it is just the guards and horses with some combat power in the north, if they can successfully reach the south, they will not be so arrogant to the Japanese pirates.

Unfortunately, too many forces do not want the elite troops in the north to go south, and the means against the southeastern coastal clans are not sharp and bloody enough, which is why the war to quell the Japanese rebellion lasted for so long.

Among them, the big pirate Wang Zhi, who was the main promoter of the Japanese rebellion, had different ideas.

The reason why this guy actively participated in it was not only because of his close relationship with the big families in the southeastern coast and his deep interest in it, but also because of his economic ambitions.

It can be said that Wang Zhi's reputation in the southeastern sea area is not as good as that of the later Zheng family in Nanping.

Even in terms of pure military force and manpower scale, it is only slightly worse than the Zheng family at its peak.

He and his men controlled the majority of the smuggling trade in the southeastern coastal waters.

In terms of silver and money, Wang Zhi is not inferior to any big family in the southeastern coast, and may even be richer, at least in terms of liquidity.

Because there is no huge family, Wang Zhi pays more attention to the trade income at sea.

His idea is very simple, and he even hopes that the Ming Dynasty can open the sea, so that his business, which has been hidden in the dark, can become normal.

As a famous pirate, he directly supports tens of thousands of brothers, and the number of people who eat with him may exceed 100,000. The amount of silver and materials required is naturally extremely astonishing.

So, he hopes that he can earn more and more silver!

If he suddenly stops, it will be very dangerous. You can't count on the loyalty of the pirates, right?

The problem is that the Ming Dynasty has always maintained a policy of blocking the sea. The offshore trade on the southeast coast is basically controlled by the big families on the southeast coast, and the scale is really limited.

Even if Wang Zhi and his pirates can directly take a commission, there is a limit to their income.

Therefore, this guy actively presided over the Japanese rebellion, and his purpose was to urge the Ming Dynasty to open the sea as soon as possible.

It can only be said that anything weird can happen due to interests!

Jia Huan had always wanted to meet this guy and talk about how to increase foreign trade with the Ming Dynasty. He had many ideas in his mind.

Wang Zhi's approach was undoubtedly the lowest.

In normal history, this guy's fate was the same as Song Jiang's. He was manipulated by the Ming Dynasty officials and died a pity.