The next day, Yang Tong held the first formal court meeting since the Southern Expedition in the main hall of the palace.

"Qi Shengshang, this time my Great Sui defeated the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, annihilating nearly 200,000 enemies, Liu Heimin and Wang Xiaohu have lost their foothold, and the world's anti-thieves will go to the second; The battle of the Southern Expedition has been going on for half a year now! The minister suggested that the meritorious soldiers in this battle be rewarded to boost the morale of the whole army. In the main hall, the servant of Shangshu shot Wei Yunqi and asked for his life.

"Wei Servant shoots this very true!" Yang Tong thought for a while and said, "The left and right servants and Li Shangshu of the military department are all fighting outside; Wei Fushu is in charge of the daily affairs of Shangshu Province and draws up a list of meritorious soldiers, which must be fair and just, and no one must be left behind. ”

"Whoa!"

"Holy!" The military department was founded not long ago, Shangshu Pei Renji hoped that the military department would catch up as soon as possible, catch up with the other nine departments, and after the management was perfected, he and his subordinates formulated a plan to become famous, "Although Henan, Xingyang and other thirteen have been recovered, there are many fleeing soldiers in each county who have fled into the mountains and forests, and they have become one with bandits and bandits, and they are embarrassed, scourge the township, and try to destroy the local order...... The minister thought that the court should annihilate it with the power of thunder and return the people to health. ”

"Bandits should not be taken lightly, they must not be given a chance to sit on the throne, and those who were originally converted may be dealt with lightly and properly settled; Those who are obsessed will be killed. Yang Tong looked at Pei Renji and asked: "The military department has not been established for a long time, but the framework has always existed, I want to ask Pei Shangshu, can the military department put down the bandits and rogues before the year, so as to ensure that next year's spring ploughing will not be disturbed?" ”

"It's the middle of July now, and there are still more than five months left before the coming year, and the military department can successfully complete the task!"

Speaking of this, Pei Renji continued: "Although the bandits are not as large as the army, their combat method is to grab the survival materials and flee to the mountains and forests, which is more difficult to deal with than the upright army. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the minister decided to divide the thirteen counties into four war zones, with special personnel in charge and clear responsibilities. ”

"The fact that the martial arts department is held by a general like Pei Shangshu is the most correct decision I have made." Yang Tong was amazed, "Does the military department have any other requirements?" Although Pei Shangshu said, I agreed. ”

Pei Renji's spirit was lifted, Yang Tong's attitude was undoubtedly what he needed, "Now the enemy is dark and I am clear, as long as the county soldiers move, it will be detected by the bandit spies; When the county soldiers left, they came to attack the towns and villages, and the county soldiers were extremely passive, more than enough to defend, and not enough to enterprising...... The minister implored the Holy Authority to allocate 20,000 troops and put them into the four theaters of war to serve as a mobile force to enter the mountains to suppress bandits; The county soldiers continued to guard the local people, and at the same time, they could also take turns fighting with the mobile forces. ”

"It is reasonable, after the court meeting, Pei Shangshu can draw troops from the nearby counties of Bingzhou and Jizhou! Well, starting from the Bohai Sea, the whole county was dispatched and assigned to the four major theaters. Yang Tong said with a smile.

"Thank you!"

After Pei Renji finished thanking him, he hesitated and said: "Bohai County borders Dou Jiande in Beihai, and the task is extremely heavy, will this cause the Bohai Sea to be empty!" ”

"It's okay, I have other plans." Yang Tong smiled, the Wheel Sect is so rampant in the Bohai Sea, and even to the point that the people of Yanshan County believe in religion, and the county soldiers, as the top priority, must be the place where the Wheel Sect focuses on penetration, since the Bohai County Soldiers are no longer reliable and untrustworthy, they simply come to the bottom of the kettle to draw salaries, as long as these people are scattered all over the place, they can be divided and annihilated one by one, and there will be no local turmoil at all. The county soldiers re-sent to Bohai will be the most reliable and determined army for the main battle, and when the 'county soldiers' are in place one by one, then they can let go of their hands and feet to deal with this so-called Wheel Sect.

"Holy! The thirteen groups of people in Henan suffered from more than ten years of war, and their lives were extremely miserable, and the minister suggested appropriate tax reductions and exemptions to make the people support. Yang Shidao then stood up and asked for his life.

"Zhun Song, these thirteen counties will be exempted from land tax for two years."

"Whoa!"

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Subsequently, the officials of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry and other ministries, the chief officials of Taichang, Weiwei, Guangluxun, Taifu, Taifu, Sinong, and Dali all talked about the progress of the first half of the year and the next step.

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At the end of the court meeting, Yang Tong summoned Wei Yunqi, Yang Shidao, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Liu Zhenghui, Kong Yingda, Jiang Xingben, Ling Jing, and Pei Renji in the side hall.

"Collect a land, govern a place, stabilize a place is a habit that we pursue, although there are small streams of gangsters in these thirteen counties of Henan, but it is not a climate, I believe that the military department can hand in a perfect answer sheet a year ago, the next focus is to develop people's livelihood, encourage production, to put it bluntly, is to let the people have food, clothing, housing, convenient travel, in the face of injustice, the government can timely uphold justice, punish lawbreakers, do this step, the people should consider the education of children. And only by satisfying these most basic needs of the people can we truly recover these places. Yang Tong's gaze swept over the faces of the ministers one by one, and he confessed by name: "Wei Servus, Yang Shangshu, Fang Shangshu, Wei Shangshu, Liu Shangshu, Kong Shangshu, Jiang Shangshu, Ling Shangshu!" The affairs you are responsible for are closely related to the people's livelihood, and the mission of the Ministry of War in these thirteen counties is now successfully completed, and it is up to you next, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the responsibility is as heavy as a mountain. ”

"Minister, I will live up to the trust of the saint." The nine replied solemnly.

"Zhu Qing does things, I can rest assured." Yang Tong smiled, and then turned the topic to the incident reported by Ma Zhou, "I thought we were stable enough, but Bohai County, something big still happened......

Then he told Ma Zhou about the Wheel Sect, the Wheel King, and the collusion with the Wa Kingdom.

After listening to Yang Dong's statement, the faces of the nine people changed greatly, and they finally understood the reason why Yang Tong asked Pei Renji to evacuate the county soldiers of Bohai County at the court meeting, just because the county soldiers of Bohai County were no longer credible and unavailable.

Ling Jing, who had been in charge of the Black Ice Platform and intelligence collection, was angry and ashamed in his heart, his face turned purple, and he got up and pleaded guilty: "This is the dereliction of duty of the minister, please punish the saint." ”

"Ling Shangshu sit down!" Yang Tong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Although you have always been in charge of intelligence, it is all an external matter, and the matter of Bohai has nothing to do with you." ”

"Thank you!" Ling Jing felt more and more guilty in his heart.

"Heretical sects are good at using doctrines to demagogue, and most of the people are illiterate and do not understand the great truths, and when they see their neighbors believing in them, they will blindly follow them, and if they can't quickly cut off the root causes, sooner or later the Wheel Wheel Cult will spread throughout the county with the momentum of a prairie fire," Wei Zheng's face was like frost, and his beard was all open: "Holy Lord, the Wheel Turning Cult colludes with foreign thieves and has sinister intentions, which is very similar to Zhang Jiao's Taiping Sect, and it cannot be tolerated." ”

"Of course appeasement cannot be tolerated!" Yang Tong thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "It's just that for such a big thing, the person behind it will definitely not show up easily... If you act rashly, you will only startle the snake and cause this person to hide even deeper, I mean to let people investigate secretly first, and then catch them all in one place, so as not to resurgence in the future. ”

"Holy Lord, can you let the Black Ice Terrace enter?"

"The transfer of the Bohai County soldiers will definitely make the cult nervous and vigilant and sincerely afraid for a period of time, and the entry investigation of the Black Ice Terrace will not find anything, and even reveal its whereabouts! Moreover, the task of Xiangyang is extremely heavy, and the black ice platform is not suitable for mobilization! That's how I see it......"

Yang Tong looked at everyone and said his decision that he had thought about for a night, "If the Wheel Sect wants to rebel, it needs soldiers and weapons, and only some of the county soldiers infiltrated by them do not have the strength to rebel, and once the county soldiers are drawn to the thirteen counties of Henan, the armed forces of the Wheel Cult will be abolished, so they will find ways to replenish their troops, and the new county soldiers will undoubtedly become the first choice; What I mean is to send absolutely reliable soldiers to serve as soldiers of Bohai County, and explain the Wheel Cult clearly in advance, so that some soldiers can accept the wooing, and at the same time arrange for some people to make meritorious contributions by attracting their colleagues to join, so as to

Slowly break into the core of the Wheel Cult ......"

The nine of them pondered silently for a moment, and all agreed.

Wei Yunqi said: "The Holy Lord's method is quite safe, but it can't wait for the rabbit...... The minister thinks that a small group of elite spies can be sent into the country, not to mention that they can find out the true identity of the Wheel King, but at least they can get the doctrine of the Wheel Turning Cult, the power mechanism of the cult, the level of members, and the issue of the subordination of members from the people! ”

"Wei Fushu said very well, I will choose the right people to enter the country."

"One more thing to do!" Kong Yingda said slowly.

Yang Tong bowed his head and said, "Kong Shangshu, please speak." ”

Kong Yingda said: "I am a great Sui sea tolerant of all rivers, treat the surrounding alien races with a supreme mind, and have always persuaded people with virtue. ”

Does this descendant of Confucius have to engage in a different race, and talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality?

"......" everyone's faces darkened, but they didn't interrupt him, which is the most basic quality.

I only heard Kong Yingda continue: "However, if it is not my race, its heart will be different, and the Japanese slave is the best example, if you don't kill chickens and monkeys, there will be other races and other countries to follow suit in the future, this case must not be opened...... The minister thought that he must be severely punished, and there must be no mercy. ”

Everyone's expressions were a little gloomy, and Yang Tong asked with a smile: "Then in the opinion of Kong Shangshu, what should it be?" "The easiest way is to kill!" Following Yang Tong for a long time, this son of the Confucian saint was quickly influenced, he darkened his face, and said quite calmly: "Not only kill all the Japanese slaves who entered the Bohai Sea, but also send a navy around the island where the Japanese are located." ”

Pei Renji frowned and said, "What are you doing around?" Demonstrations? ”

"Of course not!" Kong Yingda shook his head and continued: "Generally speaking, edible food on the islands is quite scarce, and marine fish is one of their staple foods, I mean divide the navy into two groups, go around the island to find fishing boats, and sink one of them when they see one, so that the Japanese slaves cannot get food from the sea; Moreover, the land suitable for cultivation on the islands is generally located on the surrounding coasts, and once the navy encounters farmland, it quickly goes ashore and ravages its crops, destroying its farmland, leaving them with no harvest. At the same time, it is also possible to fight into coastal villages to obtain supplies. If the Japanese slaves lose their ships, they are like going to prison, and if they lose the most basic survival capital, food, they will starve to death sooner or later! ”

"As for my Great Sui Navy, it is idle anyway, rather than letting them become more and more relaxed, it is better to rush to raise the army, which can not only achieve the purpose of training troops, but also consume the vitality of the Japanese slaves, and can also be self-sufficient and reduce the burden on the court."

Hearing this, everyone's hearts were cold.

Lao Kong's move is really ruthless. destroying fishing boats, fields, and cutting off food rations; The internal attack on villages and towns, as soon as they touched and left, made the Japanese slaves unable to defend themselves and made them panic all day long. If this continues, even if the Great Sui does not attack on a large scale, they themselves will not be able to support it.

Facing a group of strange eyes, Kong Yingda smiled embarrassedly: "I don't know much about the art of war, I only thought of it when I heard Pei Shangshu talk about the fighting style of bandits and rogues, I feel that this style of fighting is quite a headache, and I think it should have a good effect on dealing with an island country like a Japanese slave!" If it's not right, when I don't say it. In short, my attitude towards the Japanese slaves is to kill, and it is best to kill them completely, but it is really not good, let them perish on the island. ”

Yang Shidao couldn't help but ask: "Kong Shangshu has seen the Japanese people?" ”

Kong Yingda replied: "When I used to study in the Qingxu area, I did see a lot, all of them were as short as dwarfs!" Those five short bodies can't do heavy work, and if they are caught as slaves, they have to waste food..."

Yang Tong praised it in his heart.

This old Kong is really fierce enough, and in his heart, he doesn't even have the qualifications to be a slave.

In fact, what Yang Tong wanted to do most was not to let the navy fight guerrillas, but to directly lead the army to the Unu Islands, and directly destroy these incomplete orcs to destroy him.

It's just that war has always been a continuation of politics, especially wars between countries, which are related to the vital interests of all the people in the world, so the battlefield cannot be opened casually, and wars cannot be fought indiscriminately. Otherwise, it's like Xiang Yu...... The overlord of Western Chu rose to Jiangdong, invincible and invincible, and destroyed Qin in one fell swoop. When it comes to military level, combat capability, and personal achievements, even Han Xin must avoid its edge. But Xiang Yu's defeat was that he was too belligerent, and in his life, he fought too many meaningless, unnecessary, and worthless battles, and overdrew his national and people's strength, causing Western Chu to become weaker and weaker. And although Liu Bang was defeated in a hundred battles, he was defeated, and he was also defeated with value and meaning, so that he became stronger and stronger, forcing Xiang Yu to engage in peace negotiations with him, and finally defeated in Wujiang.

If the Great Sui wanted to raise a large army to conquer, it must first have warships and transport ships that could withstand the waves, as well as relatively detailed navigation charts and safe and reliable navigation tools, and secondly, it needed a strong naval army and strong transportation capacity. And even if the Great Sui can successfully cross the sea and destroy the Japanese slaves in one fell swoop, they will not be able to get too much benefit from the poor Japanese slaves, although the Japanese slaves are rich in gold and silver, but this thing is flooded into the Great Sui market in large quantities, and it is not a good thing; So to a certain extent, the Japanese slaves did not have much strategic value, and they could not gain much if they won, and they would even lose money;

If, like Emperor Wen's conquest of Goguryeo, he encountered strong winds and waves, and the mighty fleet could not touch the corners of the four islands and buried the bottom of the sea, and the Great Sui suddenly lost such a large fleet, which would shake the national capital at least and lose the elite at worst, and the enemies outside the territory would enter the country, and internal rebellions would break out. The emperor who has a complete country can't play so willfully, let alone Yang Tong, who has many enemies yet.

Due to his personal relationship, Yang Tong has a hatred for the Japanese slaves, three rivers and four seas, but the Great Sui has not yet been unified, and it is impossible to rashly fight a battle that is extremely risky and does not have much reward. When the world is unified and all kinds of conditions are ripe, it is not too late to go on an expedition across the sea.

Judging from the information obtained from Silla and Baekje, the current life of the Japanese slaves is not easy, after Goguryeo was defeated by the Great Sui, the three countries on the peninsula had a period of peace for two or three years, during this period, the main enemies of Silla and Baekje changed from Goguryeo to the Japanese slaves who expanded to the peninsula, and under the desperate counterattack of the two countries, the expansion of the Japanese slaves was frustrated, and they fell into a dilemma of making ends meet and retreating in the southern part of the peninsula.

At home, after the unification of the country, the Japanese royal family continued to occupy the territories of the nobles, expanded their own cantonments, and imposed the military burden of invading Korea on the nobles, and the contradictions between the royal family and the nobles continued to intensify, and the war against the peninsula brought disasters to the Japanese slave people, causing the people to revolt.

In general, the society of Japanese slaves is transforming from a slave society to a feudal society, and this kind of social change will kill many people, and it also needs a large population and various advanced systems to support... The Japanese slaves did not have the foundation of the orthodox system, and if they wanted to complete the cross-era transformation, they must learn from the advanced countries to complete the reform, and the Sui envoys who went to Sui to study before came with this mission, but the Japanese Emperor was arrogant, and Yang Guang was angry and no longer accepted the Japanese students, resulting in the Japanese slaves losing the source of learning.

Although Yang Tong has no way to exterminate the Japanese slaves now, if he uses the navy to isolate the Japanese slaves in the sea according to Kong Yingda's law, it will not only cause the Japanese slaves to suffer huge losses in terms of economy, but also cut off their channels for obtaining advanced systems, experience in governing the country, and laws governing the country; It will put the Japanese slaves in a dilemma and a tragic situation of long-term chaos, so as to lay the foundation for the future eradication of the Japanese slaves. Thinking about the bad side, even if the navy encounters a big storm and ends up annihilated, it has no effect on the Great Sui, to put it mildly, even if the Great Sui Navy dies, it will not set off a little storm in the country, because in the civil war, the navy has always been an outsider, which leads many courtiers to think that the navy is unnecessary. Anyway, being idle is also idle', it can be seen that the navy's embarrassing position in the Great Sui, if it weren't for Yang Tong's arbitrary actions, the situation of the Great Sui Navy might not only be embarrassing, but directly cut clean.

"Kong Shangshu is reasonable! I have the spirit of embracing all rivers in the Great Sui, and I also have the intention to promote the Great Sui civilization to the surrounding ethnic groups, but after the dissatisfaction of Silla and Baekje, this Japanese slave actually harbored evil intentions to invade the Great Sui and interfered in the internal affairs of the Great Sui, which is really hateful and hateful! It's just that the world has not yet been unified, and the risk of cross-sea operations is too great, so it is not possible to launch a large-scale war of annihilation for the time being, but even now, this despicable country cannot be allowed to live happily. I decided to follow the law of Confucius and first let the Second Fleet of the Navy attack the Japanese slave fishing boats, merchant ships, farmland, and coastal villages and towns, so that their contact with the outside world will be completely cut off, and they will be mad and desperate in hunger. ”

"Holy Wisdom!"

Yang Tong's recognition made Kong Yingda, who had never spoken in the military, feel a sense of accomplishment and retired satisfied.

"Ling Shangshu, in the name of me, issue a combat order to the Changshan Islands, and order the Second Fleet of our Great Sui Navy to attack, and be sure to teach the Japanese slaves a bloody lesson!"

"Whoa!"

"Ling Shangshu and go slowly!" Fang Xuanling, who had been silently meditating, suddenly spoke up and stopped Ling Jing.

Yang Tong smiled and asked, "What is Xuan Ling's opinion?" ”

"Holy!" Fang Xuanling got up and said: "Although Silla and Baekje made it impossible for the Japanese slaves to enter an inch, they were also powerless to drive them into the sea. Silla and Baekje repeatedly asked our Great Sui Navy to help them eradicate the Japanese slaves. In other words, the mobilization of our Great Sui Navy and the cross-sea expedition to the Japanese slaves were entirely due to the request of our allies. Silla and Baekje were supposed to bear the military expenses, food, and post-war pensions. And if there are casualties in our army, who should pay the alimony for the soldiers' families? Naturally, it is Silla and Baekje...... If we send troops, we will cause the loss of weapons, armor, arrows, and ships, and we should not bear the cost. ”

The eyes of the crowd lit up.

"Xuan Ling said too much, it makes sense, I also think that Da Sui has to contribute people and money, which is really unfair! If there is such a good talker in the world, I am willing to obey him as the leader of the alliance and ask him to help the Great Sui to quell all kinds of rebels. Yang Tong said this seriously, and suddenly smiled weirdly: "Xuan Ling, your good friend Jindeman is here again!" Her fleet has reached the Qinghe area! Now, Pei Shangshu is in charge of the military department and is busy with military affairs; There is no one in the Ministry of Rites for the time being, you ......"

Fang Xuanling heard that there was a stirring, and quickly shook his head like a rattle: "The minister has been distended and dry these days, and he has drunk cans of intestinal cleansing potions...... Hey, this is coming, Holy Lord, the minister retreated first......"

Before he finished speaking, Fang Xuanling ran away with a cigarette covering his stomach.

Yang Tong laughed and hesitated, "Zuo Servant has already taken over the Qingzhou War, and Du Keming is also a waste of talent over there, so let him enter Beijing to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and preside over the daily affairs of the Ministry of Rites." ”

"Whoa!" Ling Jing, who was in charge of intelligence and information transmission, responded and asked, "Is the Second Fleet of the Navy ......?"

Yang Tong thought for a moment and said: "The navy is different from the army, and the pre-war preparation is by no means a day's work, involving all aspects, and no detail can be missed; Let the Second Fleet make all the preparations before the battle on Changshan Island first! Wait for my order, and immediately set sail to the east to conquer the Japanese slaves. ”

"Holy Lord, the Navy's Second Fleet Commander Coming Hong and Zhou Shaozu have no combat experience, do you want to let the Navy Governor Zhang Zhenzhou go over to command!" Wei Yunqi said.

"The next southern battlefield needs the help of the Navy's First Fleet, and Zhang Zhenzhou is familiar with Jiangnan, so his role here is even greater; Moreover, the navy can't always rely on one or two people, it needs to give young people the opportunity to train, only in this way can more mainstays be produced, this time the task is not heavy, I think Lai Hong and Zhou Shaozu can easily handle it. On the contrary, in terms of landing operations and destroying Japanese villages and towns, a person who is good at land warfare is needed to command. Do you have any recommendations? ”

The Great Sui Heavy General is scattered around, he can't move, and he has no experience in leading the army alone, whether it is Shi Jin, Gao Yan, Yu Zhan, or Xue Wanbei and Zhou Shaofan, who are favored by Yang Tong, they are not qualified for the position of the chief general of the landing operation.

"Holy Lord, didn't Tan Guogong catch one not long ago? Why go far? Wei Zheng said suddenly.

"Li Daozong?" Yang Tong's eyes lit up, when Luo Shixin arrested Li Daozong back that day, Li Daozong, this kid, was willing to die and unyielding to face Yang Tong, his cousin-in-law; According to the usual practice, he was naturally taken into custody by Yang Tong and was ready to sell it to Li Yuan at a high price, but no one has come to talk about redemption so far, it is estimated that Li Daozong's status in the pseudo-Tang Dynasty is not high, and he has been forgotten by Li Yuan; Now that I think about it, with Li Daozong's ability and qualifications, he is suitable for this position.

"Li Daozong is indeed talented, but if you want to convince him to be loyal to the Great Sui, I'm afraid it will be difficult." Liu Zhenghui said.

"That depends on what we say." Yang Tong laughed: "I will meet this kid for a while, and I don't believe that he is not moved." ”

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On the first day of June, 10,000 words are served! I wish you all a happy holiday season and never worry!

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