Liu Yu's behavior was originally weird, and Tan Zhen had already heard of it.

Thinking about Liu Yu's words carefully, it really makes sense, and the plan is profound. If "Heaven" really has the intention to abolish the canal and change it to shipping, this kind of performance will definitely be appreciated by the emperor.

Thinking about it again, Tan Zhen felt as if he understood what Liu Yu meant.

Obviously, Liu Yu supports shipping, but perhaps because he is afraid of being attacked for "out of selfish interests", so he can't mention it?

Or perhaps, Liu Yu's words on the shipping matter are too heavy, and the time has not yet come, so he can't startle the snake?

Therefore, it is better to propose it yourself, and prepare early for the future.

"What Ying Sabo thinks is that if you change it rashly, it is indeed difficult to get all the benefits of shipping. But it is better for the Governor of the River to raise the matter, and the Eagle Uncle told me to go up, as if to roast me on the fire. ”

Liu Yu smiled and said, "Lord Tan, this is not right. Are you not on fire now? ”

Tan Zhen was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said in his heart, he had already said about shipping in the court, and he had already stood in line.

But after thinking about it again, he couldn't help but ask: "Even if Ying Sabo didn't speak in the court, everyone knows that Ying Sabo is sent by sea." Even if you protect yourself, it's too late, right? ”

"Hahaha, Master Tan, I haven't learned to protect myself yet. It's just that I haven't figured out what to say yet. When you figure out how to say it, you will naturally say it. ”

Tan Zhen finally understood, it's not that he didn't understand how to say it, it was obvious that he had already figured out how to say it, but the timing was wrong.

That being the case, anyway, it's all for the sake of the world's society, and there's no harm in this performance, so you might as well go on it yourself.

What should be tested has already been tested, Tan Zhen estimates that no matter what he asks, Liu Yu will not say it.

didn't wait for Liu Yu to send off the guest, he took the initiative to say goodbye, and always wondered in his heart when this "time" was?

The time is unpredictable, Tan Zhen is difficult to think, but he still obeyed Liu Yu's idea and went back to write this matter into a twist.

A few days later, in the court meeting, the emperor really praised it with an ambiguous attitude, but did not say anything about shipping, only said that everything is pre-planned, and if it is not prepared, it will be wasted.

But in the case of sea freight, that's the end of it.

The labor government was urged to organize a group of people to thoroughly investigate the hydrology of the lower reaches of the Huanghuai River in accordance with the meaning of the Jiangsu Jiedu envoy.

The maritime faction felt that there was still hope, and the matter was not completely severed.

The Canal faction also felt that the emperor was a face for the shipping faction, and it was over here.

Both sides are also thinking in the direction that is beneficial to them, and it can only be said that the time is really unpredictable.

Until Liu Yu returned to Weihai, the year-end court meeting was almost always busy arguing, and he also learned to rest and recuperate in the court.

It can be said that at this year's court meeting, nothing was done, all of them were renegotiated with the mud and the emperor's ambiguous attitude.

minting and scrapping two, renegotiate; Scrap shipping, renegotiate; Try to send a handover, and then discuss; Spread into the mu, and then discuss; Yong tenant trial in the province, re-discussion; The gentry take the grain, and then discuss it......

The only thing that may have something to do with Liu Yu is that Bai Yunhang, the governor of Wendeng Prefecture, has meritorious governance, and he has entered Beijing as a household government.

Before the end of the imperial meeting cycle and Liu Yu was about to return to Weihai, the emperor once again summoned Liu Yu and others who knew about the war against Japan into the palace.

Li Gan looked at these capable ministers that he thought were able, and he was extremely excited when he talked about the war against Japan.

Many things he has done before are many things that have been better than him in thousands of years of history books.

Whether it is the Mongolian Plateau or the Western Regions, there are strong men in front and prosperous Tang Dynasty in the back.

And what to do now, after going through the history books, may have been tried by the Mongols. Not only Japan, but also Java, the Mongols tried, but they all failed.

If he can do this, Li Gan feels that he is also the best among the emperors of all dynasties, at least unprecedented.

As for Mongolia, Li Gan felt that he could also touch porcelain a little when the time came. For example, the Mongols fought with the Rakshasas, and they fought themselves; The Mongols fought with the Poles, captured Polish prisoners of war themselves, and now train lancers in the army......

If you can serve Japan and occupy Nanyang, when you compare yourself to the Han Wu Tang Sect, you don't have to be so weak-minded, and you always feel that you will be ridiculed if you say it.

Of course, it doesn't stop there.

If you can serve Japan and go to the South Seas, there will be no threat at sea, and you can take advantage of the fact that you still have a few years to live, and solve a major crux of the imperial court, the Caoyun Canal.

Once Japan and Nanyang bring enough internal income to themselves and their prestige is high, they may even continue to implement the inertia of a whip law of the previous dynasty before they die, until the completion of various pilot reforms in Wendeng Prefecture and the implementation of the whole country.

At that time, he will leave a name in history and leave a stable country to future generations, even if the descendants of future generations are incompetent, he can also give Dashun a few lifetimes.

Before, he was just imitating the Han and Tang Dynasties, learning what he thought of as Ming Jun before—of course, not Ming Jun like Song Renzong—and now, when it was finally time to go one step further than those Ming Jun, how could he not be excited?

In the first two expeditions to Rakshasa and Pingxi, he personally drove the expedition, and the two victories brought him great prestige and smoothly implemented the military reform.

And this time, if he can win again, he can carry on his power and complete some internal changes that he thinks will last a few more years.

Among the capable ministers, the youngest Liu Yu covered up a lot of light on the rest, but the emperor was not worried.

He felt that Liu Yu was a loyal minister, although he was the kind of loyal minister who was the second most important to the monarch, but he was very confident that every road he took was beneficial to the community, so Liu Yu would always go on the same road.

Moreover, after the two wars, Liu Yu's military power could be taken away.

If in the future, if Annan is restored and Burma is invaded, this person will not be needed under the national situation and the navy will be established, and this person can be used for internal reform.

At this time, when talking about what Liu Yu was going to do this year, he asked: "Uncle Ying thinks that he will go to Ryukyu in May, but is there any problem?" ”

"That's what I thought, since at least the envoys from Rakshasas, Sweden, and France will arrive this year, so that they can know what the Celestial Empire is."

"The Celestial Empire, the Celestial Empire, there is power and grace. The world within the Celestial Empire also happens to let Westerners know where the whole world is not the king's land. ”

"If I go to the Ryukyus in May, and if I can return in July and August, it will be the arrival of the envoys of the Western countries. The king of the Ryukyus could not come, but he could order his son to come to the court to apologize for his crimes, so that Westerners could look at him. ”

"In September and October, when the wind is good, the Japanese people can be defeated. A quick victory, just in time for the return of the ships of the Western countries on New Year's Day next year, it is good to send back the news. Since then, the vassals of the Celestial Empire, and the Western countries are not allowed to deal with each other privately, and must be dealt with by the Celestial Empire. ”

This also involves a strategic deterrence, if the conquest is successful, in the negotiations of the high-level envoys of the Rakshasa delegation, it will definitely be able to win greater interests in the northwest.

The emperor was looking forward to the fact that after the war against Japan, after the signing of the boundary demarcation treaty, something big would happen in Europe.

For example, the king of Austria mentioned by Liu Yu all day long, if France goes to war with the Netherlands, he can go to the South Seas in one go and squeeze out the Netherlands.

In this way, the benefits are all shared, and the relationship with the Rakshasa can be eased immediately, so that the northern frontier is completely stable.

It's just that even fewer people know about the plan here, and it's hard to talk about it at this time.

I have already talked about the Ryukyus before, which is similar to Zhou Tianzi asking Chu if he does not pay tribute, so find a reason.

There are Ryukyu students in the Kunikojian, and there are also Ryukyu students studying medicine here in the Gyeongseoktai Hospital, and there are some things that the Celestial Empire does not mention, and the Ryukyus themselves do not mention it. But if the Celestial Empire mentions it, just find a student from the Ryukyus and ask, is Satsuma bullying you?

This was originally an emperor's new clothes, and many people knew about it, but they all pretended to be deaf. As long as the emperor pretended to hear it from some people and took the initiative to ask, the courtiers naturally understood what this meant, and some people would figure out the intention of scaring and reprimanding the Japanese state for being rude.

At that time, the division will be famous, and even the sentence "I am a barbarian" will be saved, so as not to be "innocent" again.

Liu Yu calculated that May is indeed a good time, except that there may be a typhoon on the way to Ryukyu.

As soon as it came to May, it was the summer harvest, and this year was a good year or a disaster year, and I knew in my heart; Second, when troops are used in September and October, the autumn grain from Liaodong can be directly requisitioned and transferred, and it is also very convenient to ship it to Japan, and then ask for a batch from Korea.

As for the emperor's vision of showing off his muscles to Western countries, Liu Yu felt that there was no problem.

The cruisers in Weihai showed off their muscles enough in Asia, and Britain, the Netherlands, and France might think that this navy was not worth mentioning, but Dashun did not go to Europe, and no matter how many capital ships they had, they could not come to Asia, which was enough for Europeans to accept that East Asia was the purpose of the tributary system.

"Your Majesty, I think May is the right time. It's just that if the minister is the chief envoy, the deputy envoy...... It is better for the deputy envoy to choose a person who knows the classics, but is not the one who only knows the literary talents. ”

"Of course, it is necessary to rebuke, but the Ryukyu Kingdom is not guilty, and it needs to be grasped."

"The Celestial Empire has both grace and might."

"When the Taizu of this dynasty, in the second year of Yongchang, the puppet Ming sent an envoy to Ryukyu. It has always been a rule that if the envoy arrives, he will eat and take a card, extort and ask for bribes, and the Ryukyu Kingdom pledged to be Miyako and Yaeyama, and asked Satsuma to borrow 9,000 taels of silver for the bribes of the false messengers. The lesson of this incident, the canonization of tributary vassals in the future, needs to be rectified, so as not to be centrifuged. ”

"Further forward, in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli in the former Ming Dynasty, the Japanese entered the Ryukyu, and the Ryukyu envoys begged the Celestial Empire, but the Celestial Empire ignored it, and since then, the Ryukyu also knew that the Celestial Empire could not control the Ryukyu and could not control the Japanese country, and the Japanese people oppressed, and the Ryukyu people could only swallow their anger."

"Yes, the Celestial Empire must have a navy, and it must not be abolished in the future. Otherwise, the Celestial Empire will lose all face, and the Celestial Empire will be unable to help when the vassals are unable to protect themselves, and they can only pay tribute and disobey. ”

"It is bounded by the size of the king's land and the whole world, and you can see guns and cannons on land and warships on sea."

"This time the minister is going to Ryukyu, and he only asks for three things. The deputy envoy shall be honest and honest, and the ship shall be made by warship. The Japanese Satsuma were stationed in the Ryukyus to monitor and ask His Majesty to grant the ministers the right to make decisions on the spot. ”