After basically agreeing to submit to the court, Zhang Chaozhong did not take a sea boat with Zheng Zhilong to the north. At this time, he was sailing towards Suzhou on the official boat on Taihu Lake.

Taihu Lake spans the river, Zhejiang, Wuxi in the north, Huzhou in the south, Yixing in the west, Suzhou in the east, and has extremely developed water systems and is surrounded by the most prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River. It is naturally favored by water thieves, and water thieves appear very frequently.

However, Zhang Chaozhong was riding an official ship. As long as the water thief was not blind, he would not take the initiative to find trouble with the official ship, so as not to rob the official ship and create a big-headed Buddha, and the imperial navy would be suppressed.

Zhang Chaozhong should have been happy about his hometown Suzhou, but when he remembered his parents who were killed by Tang Fugui and his sister who was unknown, he couldn't help but feel sad, without the pleasure of returning home in glory.

Moreover, after two years of court experience, especially after staying with Zhu Youjian for more than a month, Zhang Chaozhong had deeply realized that the tragedy of his old Zhang family was not just an isolated case, but an increasingly common situation in the whole world.

Today, there are ten lands in the fields, including vassal kings, royal families, nobles, bureaucrats, gentry and other carnivorous classes, and only ordinary people like the old Zhang family account for more than 10%, and they also have to pay heavy taxes.

Even so, the carnivorous class was still unsatisfied and believed that more than 10% of the land was distributed to mud legs. Therefore, their land annexation action did not stop, but became more and more intense.

After all, Zhang Chaozhong was a man who had read history and stayed in the center of the court. Of course, he understood that this kind of land annexation situation would not be stopped, so the rebellion and reincarnation that happened once in three hundred years in the Middle Earth Dynasty would have happened to the Ming Dynasty.

Since the carnivorous class cannot even satisfy the wish of the people to live, don’t expect the people to be safe and hungry. Rising up is the only choice for the people.

At that time, wars will spread everywhere and the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed by the Xin Dynasty. As the confidant eunuch of the former Ming emperor, Zhang Chaozhong can defect to the Xin Dynasty and continue to enjoy wealth and glory, but he will never be able to do so.

For Zhang Chaozhong, once the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, he had only one fate, that was, he would accompany Emperor Chongzhen to hang himself in the southeast branch, so that he could still leave a name for loyalty and righteousness in history.

But even the ants survived. Zhang Chaozhong suffered so much and finally climbed to the position of eunuchs of Silijian and had a bright future waiting for him. How could he sit and wait for death?

"The matter of avenging your parents and finding your sister can no longer be delayed. I need to complete these two important things as soon as possible, so that I can help Your Majesty wholeheartedly and repay Your Majesty for re-creation."

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After getting ashore, Zhang Chaozhong did not go to the Suzhou Prefecture post to rest, but came to a secret stronghold of the Jinyiwei. Here, Fang Rusong, a hundred households of the Jinyiwei who had escorted Zhang Chaozhong all the way south, had been waiting for a long time.

"Eunuch Zhang, the Tang family, whom you ordered to investigate, is now full of fame. The numerous crimes committed by the Tang family are enough to kill the entire Tang family, and the nine clans will not exist." Fang Rusong said with a smile.

Zhang Chaozhong was excited when he heard this and hurriedly asked: "What other crimes did the Tang family commit besides taking human lives?"

Fang Rusong said excitedly: "Although the Tang family looks like a rich man in the north of Suzhou City, the inside is not simple. If the Tang family can be verified, this case will be enough to become a major case that shocked the government and the public.

Over the years, the Tang family not only secretly sponsored the Taihu water pirates, but colluded with the water pirates to rob the merchant ships and passenger ships passing by Taihu Lake, causing trouble for hundreds of miles around Taihu Lake.

The Tang family also has a lot to do with the Japanese pirates in Fujian and Zhejiang. They are one of the largest nesters entrenched in Suzhou. They specialize in selling stolen pirates and sharing stolen stolen pirates, and even provide information for the Japanese pirates to help the Japanese pirates rob the sea ships along the southeast coast."

When Zhang Chaozhong heard this, he could no longer sit still. He had already expected the Tang family's rude law, but he did not expect that the Tang family would be so arrogant.

Colluding with the Taihu pirates to cause trouble in Jiangnan is already a serious crime for the whole family to be executed; the Tang family has even gone to the next level to collude with the Japanese pirates, which is a serious crime of treason!

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates were always a major threat to harass the coast of the Ming Dynasty. From the year of Hongwu to the year of Chongzhen, Japanese pirates had a problem throughout the entire Ming Dynasty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, due to the strong national strength and the emperor attached importance to naval and maritime construction, Japanese pirates failed to cause great trouble.

But after Renzong ascended the throne, he believed in the slander of civil officials and ordered the ban on the sea. The invincible navy that had once voyaged to the West gradually disappeared, and the Ming Dynasty lost its military advantage in the ocean.

With the political corruption in the Ming Dynasty and the navy relaxed, the Japanese pirates became increasingly arrogant. They plundered, killed people and set fire to the southeast coastal areas, and forced the annihilation of women, doing all kinds of evil.

The evil deeds of the Japanese pirates brought great pain to the people in the southeast coastal areas. Since the Jiajing Dynasty, the Japanese pirates have become increasingly rampant. They not only caused disasters to the coastal areas, but also went deep into the inland areas. Suzhou, Huizhou, Hangzhou and other places were also attacked by Japanese pirates.

However, the retribution of the Japanese pirates finally came. In the late Jiajing period, two brave and warlike generals appeared in the Ming Dynasty, one was Qi Jiguang and the other was Yu Dayou. After two famous anti-Japanese generals went on a series of conquests and suppression, the Japanese pirates who had suffered from the Ming Dynasty for many years were almost wiped out.

However, with the death of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou one after another, although the real Japanese who were born as Japanese samurai had already withered, the fake Japanese who were called Japanese pirates, who were actually Chinese pirates, took on the banner of Japanese pirates and continued to cause trouble to the southeast.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's attack on Japanese pirates was always the same, and colluding with Japanese pirates was an unforgivable death penalty.

Zhang Chaozhong stood up with a "thump" and asked anxiously: "Is the evidence conclusive in the Tang family colluding with Japanese pirates?"

Fang Rusong said: "Our Jinyiwei just caught the clues of the Tang family selling stolen goods for the Japanese pirates, and the evidence has not been obtained. However, Tang Baoren, who was in charge of the matter of selling stolen goods and sharing stolen goods, has been targeted by us. He has maintained an outdoor room in a manor outside Suzhou. As long as we break the manor and catch Tang Baoren, we will not worry about not being able to catch the evidence."

"God helps me." Zhang Chaozhong's eyes lit up and he asked again: "How is the defense of Tang Baoren Manor? How many people are there?"

Fang Rusong said: "Dad, I sent someone to accompany a disciple of the Tang Family Manor to find flowers and ask for clichés. I learned that there were hundreds of servants in the manor, including swords, guns, bows and arrows, and even more than ten people were wearing armor."

Zhang Chaozhong frowned tightly, "The other party is not weak. It seems that our family has to borrow people from Zheng Zhilong!"

The Zheng family also has a great influence in Jiangnan. Now Zheng Zhilong has been recruited and has been able to borrow some soldiers from the Zheng family with the face of Zhang Chaozhong to foster the Zheng family.

Fang Rusong said in confusion: "Our Jinyiwei also has a military force in Suzhou, why don't you use it?"

Zhang Chaozhong scolded: "Childish! Stupid! We have never contacted the Suzhou Jinyiwei, who can guarantee that they have no collusion with each other? If the news is leaked, we will not only fail to catch Tang Baoren, but we will be worried about our lives!"
Chapter completed!