The arrival of the Empress marked the final integrity of the new regime, and everything was settled.

Many changes have taken place in Jinling City.

Concubine Xu was officially sealed by the Golden Book, named the queen, and issued an edict to the world.

One family, two countries, two princesses, Zhongshan Wangfu rose again and became the first family of heroes in the Ming Dynasty.

But the current Xu family is only the first family in the symbolic sense, and in terms of status and prestige, no one can match, "but in the court" there is no strong influence at the beginning. This is not only because the current emperor is a very strong emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang is also a strong emperor, but that does not affect the formation of many courtier factions.

The only reason is that the Xu family lacks a strong leader. Xu Huizu, whether it is the ability to govern the army or the means of the court, is a veteran who has been polished for many years, he is the heir of the Xu family, he was trained by General Xu Da since he was a child, and he is the leader of the Xu family, but he has now been ordered to think about it behind closed doors and "do nothing."

Xu Zengshou may be a candidate who can barely be his successor, with Xu Zengshou's prestige and qualifications, he can be convinced by the Xu forces and used for him" But he died young. Xu Yingxu's ability in all aspects is very average, and he has always been a local official, so he does not have this prestige. And Xu Jingchang is still young, although the uncle is gone, the person is still alive, and the second uncle is also there, as the younger generation of the Xu family, "He still has a long way to go."

In terms of military generals, because the Xu family of Zhongshan King and the Li family of Cao Guogong have faded out of the military circles one after another, and Qiu Fu, Zhu Neng and other Jingnan military ministers have just taken the throne, the generals also need a process of testing, contact, understanding, and running-in for them, and it will take a long time to form a new faction, and the formation of factions in the army is much more complicated than that in the DPRK.

The queen mother has recently frequently held banquets to entertain the families of the heroes of Jingnan and the former ministers of Jianwen, she knows that although her husband has sat on the throne, but he has not been able to do it well in this huge empire, and the emperor is high, "his decrees and decisions need to be implemented by the ministers of civil and military affairs, and the ladies of the decree" have a very great influence on these ministers of civil and military affairs, and taking the route of the lady will help her husband win people's hearts.

Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui "now have to participate in various banquets, and the old ministers of the Beiping Department go to their familiar princes to express their friendship, and the old ministers of Jianwen use this kind of salute to express their loyalty to the Yongle Emperor." The three princes sometimes have to go to the banquet together" Sometimes they have to go to the banquet separately, due to personality and physical reasons, the eldest son of the emperor who is not very familiar to everyone, Zhu Gaochi, does not have many opportunities to show up.

However, although he did not show up much, the emperor's eldest son Zhu Gaochi still left a deep impression on everyone. A young man in his twenties, who is obsessed with obesity to such an extent, and whether it is his father or his brother, they are all burly and strong, and they are such an outlier who has the courage of ten thousand people is indeed unforgettable at first sight.

However, although he is too fat, he is by no means a stupid person, in the limited number of banquets, Zhu Gaochi's demeanor and conversation, left a deep impression on the officials of the Jinling Department, this is a gentle and elegant prince, or a prince with a good temperament, won the great favor of the ministers, some people have praised Zhu Gaochi, saying that he is the same as the original Yiwen prince Zhu Biao, temperament, character, and morality are very similar.

However, due to physical reasons, Zhu Gaochi did not show his head much, so that the second son of the emperor, Zhu Gaochu, was extremely active. Maybe he wants to share the responsibility for his eldest brother, after all, Zhu Di ascended the throne as the emperor, in order to reduce the resistance to governance, he carried out a bloody purge of the stubborn Jianwen loyal ministers, "After the queen mother arrived in Beijing, in order to save her husband's image", she is trying to create a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere.

Today, it is rare for the three princes to appear together again, because the person who invited the guests today is Yang Xu, the Duke of Fuguo. There may be many people who don't know why the originally unknown Yang Xu ranked sixth on the list of heroes of the Jingjing, but the three princes are insiders, and they know very well how much Yang Xu has contributed to his father's country, "and they themselves have relied on Yang Xu's help at least twice to save their lives."

Therefore, as soon as the invitation of the Auxiliary Duke arrived, they immediately pushed down all the banquets that had conflicts and attended on time. There are too many people at the banquet today, and the guests are three princes, so Xia Xun did not open a family banquet" but chartered the entire Juxian Building, where the imperial relatives, meritorious heroes, and Chinese martial arts gathered here, and several were captains of the horses, including Mei Yin.

Mei Yin and Xia Xun just made a tentative fight and then died down, outsiders are not aware of the struggle between them at all, even if they are aware, even if the two have fought to the death in private" Everyone knows, this kind of banquet, will still invite each other, or talk about Xiao Yan Yan "Like friends for many years, this is officialdom, a completely different battlefield.

However, there are still people who do not adapt to the rules of officialdom. Qiu Fu and Zhu Neng have returned to Beijing, and they also received an invitation from Xia Xun, "Zhu Neng is here, Xu Jingchang is here, Qiu Fu is not here." There are a total of three princes in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, Xu Jingchang is undoubtedly on Xia Xun's side, don't look at him as a person from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but in front of Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu, the two veterans of the Beiping Department who have fought a hundred battles, he is not qualified to sit on an equal footing with them at all.

And Xu Jingchang is cool Xiao is his father, emotion is more important than reason, he doesn't care, he is too lazy to talk about the old qualifications of the two Benya, he can talk to Xia Xun, and Xia Xun once risked his life to save his father, although it was unsuccessful, he has to accept this love. Just because of this, "he is much closer to Xia Xun." Besides, through his little aunt, he also knows how many times Xia Xun has saved his life for the current emperor's family" This character is trusted by the emperor no less than Qiu Fu and Zhu Nengwei, he can't do it, and it is impossible for him to smash it on himself.

And Zhu Neng went to the banquet, not for Xia Xun's face, after Zhu Neng returned to Beijing, he already knew that Xia Xun whipped the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to death Zheng Xiaobu and belittled Xie Guangsheng. Although the ins and outs of the matter are understood, Xia Xun's unsparing means make him feel very uncomfortable, among the close ministers around King Yan in the past, Zhang Yu, who had the best friendship with Xia Xun, he and Qiu Fu are a little bit worse Now that this kind of thing has happened, the love of the incense in the past has faded.

However, it was the three princes who went to the banquet today, and he and Zhang Yu were the left and right guards of the Yan Palace. The three princes went to the banquet, and he couldn't help but come. This is also Zhu Neng's way of being old, even if there is a contradiction with Xia Xun, there is no need for him to be so obvious, officialdom is not a battlefield after all, to eliminate a person, there is no need to be tense, not to mention, his displeasure" just made him disgusted with Xia Xun, but he would not regard Xia Xun as an opponent because of this.

Qiu Fu, on the other hand, obviously has a temper like fire, and he doesn't rub sand in his eyes at all. Whether Zheng Xiaobu dies or not is none of his business, "Xie Guangsheng is not going to Lanzhou, and it is none of his business to eat and drink", when he went to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, he hurriedly ordered a mao, and went to the local government to receive and reorganize the army, and now he can't remember what the surname Xie and the surname Zheng look like.

But since he has become the head of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, "whoever moves him just doesn't give him face, doesn't give him face" He didn't bother to save face for the other party, compared to Zhu Neng's old age" Qiu Fu chose to go-for-tat, he just wanted to tell Yang Xu clearly: You offended me!

It's a pity that Yang Xu invited too many people today, not to mention that there is one less Qiu Fu, "even if there are ten Qiu Fu missing", no one will notice him, not to mention "Today's focus is on the three princes."

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The five armies have all abandoned the house," Qiu Fuzheng convened several governors of the government to discuss the matter.

Governor Chen Xuan also received Xia Xun's invitation, but unfortunately before he went out, he was intercepted by the people sent by Qiu Fu, and he had no choice but to send a family member to "rush to Xia Xun to explain the situation" and then rush back with the captain of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to participate in the discussion. He was specially brought here today because Chen Xuan was the governor of the navy, and he had personally gone to the coast to defend against the Japanese invaders, and Qiu Fu summoned people to discuss the matter this time in order to deal with the Japanese invaders.

Qiu Fu will be sixty years old soon, more than twenty years older than Zhu Neng, and of course Xia Xun's hairy boy is even more unlikely to be in his eyes, which is why he especially can't forgive Xia Xun for offending: it's too disrespectful to the old man. He didn't pay attention to Xia Xun's banquet, "But what the emperor said, he always remembered it." After he and Zhu Neng returned to Beijing, the emperor summoned them separately and specifically mentioned the idea of building a naval division and fighting against the Japanese invaders. Today, he brought Chen Xuan, the governor who knew the situation of the sailors and the Japanese invaders, to plan a counterattack against the Japanese invaders.

Qiu Fu sat on the throne and said to Chen Xuan: "The emperor summoned him the day before yesterday and mentioned the rampant coastal pirates. "The land of projectiles, a few rogues, how can it be so difficult to deal with?" Hmph, I think it's all the trouble caused by Jianwen being in power, and reinforcing literature and suppressing martial arts! Tell Pontus what you know, and I intend to deal a blow to the Japanese who have invaded my borders, so as to eliminate the troubles and relieve the worries of the saints.

Chen Xuan said: "The Governor of the Great Du, the force of the Japanese is far inferior to my Daming Naval Division, but we have to deal with them and help them, and it is not easy to annihilate" It is not easy to defend. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The Metropolitan Governor, when the Auxiliary State Gong was ordered to recruit the Shi Shuangyu pirates, the lower official also mentioned this matter to the Auxiliary State Prince" The Auxiliary State Duke also deeply agreed with the difficulties mentioned by the lower officials. I'm guarding the coastal areas", Qiu Fu pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "Yang Xu, hum, Yang Xu doesn't know soldiers at all!" A hairy boy, what do you know! The old man has been fighting horses all his life, and he has experienced a hundred battles "Whether it is the Northern Yuan Dynasty elite cavalry or the imperial court army that is several times his own, the old man has been defeated, and a few Dongying barbarians, what is it?" ”

Seeing that he was so arrogant, he hurriedly reminded: "Dadu Governor, this naval battle and land war are two different things, when the Yuan people entered the Central Plains, it was the peak of martial arts, and the iron cavalry was invincible all over the world, but the two crossings of the Eastern Expedition were all defeated, let", he was halfway through his words, and saw Qiu Fu's cold gaze "I couldn't help but swallow the second half of the words back."

Qiu Fu said lightly: "If you want to grow others' ambition and destroy your own prestige, don't say it." It is true that the public of the country has never fought in the water war, and the Japanese have indeed never dealt with it. But isn't "fighting a war" like that, what is the difference between water and land warfare? Just talk about the coastal situation! ”

Chen Xuan said: "Yes, according to the understanding of the lower officials, most of these cowards are the defeated soldiers of the Japanese Civil War, the frustrated samurai, the bankrupt merchants, and the peasants who have lost their land, and they have no livelihood, so they gang up to invade our frontiers." Xia Guan said that they were not the frontal enemies of our sailors, because their ships were very bad, and their largest ships could only accommodate 300 people, the smaller ones were more than 100 people, and the smaller ones were only a few dozen people.

Most of the ships are made of large wooden joints in a square, and the joints do not use iron nails, only iron sheets, and do not use hemp tendons and tung oil to fill the joints, but use grass to plug the leaks, which is labor-intensive and material-intensive, and is not very strong. Moreover, their sails and rudders are very rudimentary, and they can only sail with the wind, not the wind, "when there is a strong wind or no wind, they can only lower the sail and make the oars, so most of the Japanese invaders take advantage of the spring and autumn floods to invade me......,......

Qiu Fu said impatiently: "Ships are used to carry people, needless to say, what weapons they have, "Accustomed to how to fight, you can tell me!" ”

Chen Xuan's heart was half cold when he heard this, Governor Qiu Dadu is completely a layman in water warfare! In naval warfare, the most important thing is the ship, and the ships of the Japanese have not yet understood the details, and their own warships have not yet understood what tactics are used by the other side. But when the Metropolitan Governor asked, Chen Xuan had no choice but to change the subject, and said: "The Japanese Kou bow is hard and sharp, close to people, its sex is ferocious, and its martial arts are also very good" Compared with our coastal officers and soldiers, it is superior. Some of them only had bayonets and hooks, "but the better samurai used three swords." ”

"Three knives?"

"Yes" a long knife, chopping is very fierce, and with a small knife, for miscellaneous use, in addition to wearing a sharp blade, divided into two kinds of "about a foot long called the hand knife, more than a foot long called the sharp knife" for close combat. ”

Qiu Fu frowned and said, "The ships will scatter as soon as they touch, and the weapons are not very distinctive, how can they be allowed to plague so far?" ”

Chen Xuan said indiscriminately: "Because, their boat can't escape, and the sea is vast, and it is difficult to catch up." They usually go ashore to fight, taking our Xidong coast as an example, among the many sea guards, only Taicang and Guanhai have all the ships, and the other guards are all sergeants of the land battle, so they can only defend on the shore. But the coast is long, and there is no defense, and once they land, it will be a close combat.

The Japanese often use 30 or 50 people as a group, "each group is one or two miles apart, and the fish runs through it" to form a long snake formation that stretches for dozens of miles, not attacking big cities and Dazhuo, but picking on villages, towns and small counties without city walls to plunder, and it is not easy to surround and annihilate "even if our forces are superior, it is impossible to quickly concentrate on the place where they land, once they land and enter the village and town, the kind of place of street fighting" It is difficult to give full play to our advantages.

Occasionally, there is a large army of ours nearby, which poses a real threat to them, and they can also coerce the local people, using the old and weak women and children as meat shields, so that we can be caught in a dilemma, so that we can fight our way out of the siege, and then play hide and seek again. Moreover, they have some local traitors who can lead the way for them, so they are more familiar with the terrain of the countryside than our officers and soldiers of the guards......

If the coastal provinces make concerted efforts, make unified arrangements and plans, fortify everywhere on land, mobilize troops to encircle and suppress, and at the same time build more large ships to encircle and intercept them at sea, and do not allow them to stay in a place where they will stay, it will still be possible to inflict a heavy setback on the Japanese invaders. However, Xia Guan thought that it was still difficult to reach their fundamental ...... with such hard work", Chen Xuan smiled bitterly: "Xia Guan thought that "at sea, it is impossible to destroy them, and now it can't, and in the future, if you build more sea ships, you can sail thousands of miles, but it is also impossible." And on land, it is impossible for us to garrison troops everywhere along the coast, the coastal terrain is complex, the villages are simple, and we can't build forts and villages to accommodate the people like some places in the northwest, and come to a strong wall to clear the wilderness, and a hundred of them come out, even if only one of them returns alive with the plundered property, they can attract another 1,000 people to join the ranks of the pirates, and they can't kill like weeds! ”

Qiu Fu sneered: "Come one to kill one, come two to kill a pair, how many people can they have?" ”

Qiu Fu joined the army since he was a child, and he was a martial artist who did not study, "but Chen Xuan was a Confucian general" Hearing this, he didn't feel angry in his heart, so he replied lightly: "Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goryeo three times, so that the country was destroyed, not because of the defeat at the hands of Goryeo, but because the war was protracted" The people's cultivation was out of time, and the army was raised year after year, and the conscription was endless, so that the eighteenth road anti-king destroyed the Great Sui. Metropolitan Governor, Chen Xuan is a martial artist, not afraid of war, "The Japanese are poor and called Huazi, and they are not afraid of tossing, but we are tens of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty, and we can't afford to toss!" Qiu Fu said angrily: "In your words, "Aren't we helpless to deal with them?" Chen Xuan was silent for a moment, and said: "The last time the Fuguo Gong Ge'an Shuangyu pirates were pirates, he discussed with his subordinates about the ...... of the Wako in the East China Sea", he glanced at Qiu Fu, and saw that Qiu Fu did not object", so he said: "The Fuguo Gong thinks that if the Japanese want to completely annihilate them, they must build a powerful fleet" to deter them by force, and use the needs of the Japanese to seek trade with our Celestial Empire, and use both soft and hard measures to force them to cooperate with the action, so that the Japanese have no place to stand. In this way, even if there is a remnant, it will not become a great disaster.

However, Fu Guogong also said that it is better to block than to sparse, even if this means can only eliminate the temporary trouble, "over time, the Japanese will inevitably rise again" because of the benefits. Not to mention, there are fierce thieves in the South China Sea now, and the armed ships are even more powerful than our sailors, they are not Japanese people, but the remnants of our country, but they are also the party that "intrudes on our coastal residents, burns, kills and loots, and does all kinds of evil."

Fu Guogong said that "grace and power" only forced all parties to cooperate, "so that the pirates have no way out." If you want to really eliminate the disaster, you must also draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle, "If we can open the sea and trade and benefit the people", and being a pirate is always facing the danger of destruction, so between a million profits and no profits, "most pirates are still willing to put down their swords and guns and be obedient to the people, so that it is also beneficial to the country and the people." ”

Qiu Fu saw that he kept saying that Leng Xu "seemed to admire Yang Xu very much, and he was secretly angry in his heart."

Xu Jingchang's little bastard doesn't need to be mentioned, he only knows that he followed Yang Xu and shouted, "I lost the face of my grandfather and father; Zhu Neng's old slippery head, everyone rode on his head to and pee, and he actually had to give him face and rush to the banquet. Now this Chen Xuan "can't figure out whether he is from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies or Yang Xu."

Qiu Fu couldn't help but ask angrily: "Chen Dudu, are you a martial artist" or Wenchen? Yang Xu has never led a day of soldiers, does he know soldiers? Does he know military affairs? These ideas are nothing more than the rhetoric of the literati. If every time the enemy commits a border, there are such means to deal with it, then what do we need our generals to do? ”

Qiu Fu was just a simple warrior, "He only thinks about how to achieve victory, but does not think about what the war serves, so it is difficult to focus on solutions other than war." I reprimanded Chen Xuan, Qiu Fu said categorically: "Aren't the thieves on Shuangyu Island already recruited by the imperial court?" Dai Lu of the Imperial Court "has to do things for the court!"

We are in the East China Sea, now we have three guards, with the ability to go to sea to fight, the three guards into each other's horns, can attack and retreat can be defended, with those tattered warships owned by the Japanese people, there are almost no long-range weapons "once the sea encounters, can you still worry about not being able to annihilate them?" As for the land, the Governor will also make arrangements "unless they do not come," and I will tell them to come and not return!" ”

Qiu Fu slapped the handsome case, looked at Chen Xuan and said: "You say, the Japanese often take advantage of the spring and autumn floods to invade my coast, and in winter, they won't come, right?" ”

Chen Xuan said: "No, in winter, the Japanese people also have the strength to fight, but compared with the spring and autumn seasons, the Japanese people are much less. However, those who can still come to our coast in winter to disturb "are not ordinary rabble, their ships are relatively sophisticated, and the force of the pirates is also relatively good, so although the number of people is small in spring and autumn, it is not easy to deal with." Qiu Fu smiled coldly, raised his gray eyebrows, and said, "Okay!" The old man will try the knife with them first! ”

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Ming'er sat on the brocade pier, her elbows propped up on the table, her hands on her cheeks, her eyes were half-open and half-closed, and her eyes were "about to flow."

If you see the light in her eyes at this time, you will understand what it means to be like silk.

The queen is in the palace to entertain the second-grade and above officials, the dukes and countesses, and the princesses who live in the Ten Princes' Mansion, "Because they are all daughters' families, there are more varieties of this wine, most of which are fruit wines, such as wine, pear wine, jujube wine, coconut milk wine, and even Wujiapi wine, Pu Taozai, persimmon wine, etc.

Ming'er didn't know how to drink, but when she saw that others were drinking happily, and saw that the high-grade grape wine from Hara Fire was mellow and bright, and the color was attractive, she couldn't stand the instigation of those ladies and daughters, so she drank a cup of "As a result, she was ...... and drunk. Gently stroking his cheeks, his cheeks were feverish, and his head was dizzy.

Seeing her sister's cute appearance, the queen couldn't help but laugh, and hurriedly heard that someone helped her to rest in her palace "Ming'er was quite drunk, but somehow, when she got here, she didn't want to sleep, she held her chin" was confused for a while, and couldn't help but think of her plan, this is a good opportunity, my sister will come back in a while, I ...... Would you like her to help?

Thinking like this, her body suddenly became hotter, and the "little girl" thought that the man was "not ashamed!" Ming'er bit her lip, and two intoxicating red glows floated on her cheeks, which seemed to be even hotter!! ~！