Chapter 133: Where is the spirit of bushido?
After writing about Japan's multi-silver mountain and arguing that there was a ninety percent possibility of Japan's large-scale attack on Ming, Wei Gonggong was still a little uneasy after thinking about it, after all, this was not the same as killing Taiwan with a knife, but an expedition to a regime that crossed the sea and had hundreds of thousands of troops.
This battle of annihilation of the country cannot be completed by the power of the father-in-law alone, nor can it be completed by the joint efforts of the three provinces, and it needs the unconditional support of the central government.
This central government is certainly not the six ministries and three legal departments of the cabinet in Beijing, but the inner court with the emperor as the core.
As long as the emperor speaks, the father-in-law can coerce and lure the Zhejiang Party into this vast journey under the banner of the emperor. But even so, my father-in-law also knew that he couldn't become fat by eating one bite, and he knew that the war against Japan still had to be fought a protracted war, and he couldn't think that he would be able to finish it in three or five years. Therefore, in the future, it is still necessary to set up some goodwill regimes and cultivate some pro-Ming people.
In short, the destruction of the sun was not only a tough military battle, but also a political battle.
The father-in-law himself has to be mentally prepared.
Immediately afterwards, my father-in-law wrote a letter addressed to Long Huamin, president of the Society of Jesus in Macau.
In the letter, the father-in-law, in his capacity as a purple bishop, ordered the Jesuit priests in China to immediately publicize to the dignitaries and nobles they were familiar with about the atrocities of the Japanese shogunate's perverse persecution of Catholics, and at the same time to publicize the fact that the Japanese shogunate would soon organize a large army to enter the Ming Dynasty.
Not rumors, facts.
He also secretly ordered the "Huangming Daily" of the Special Administrative Region to arrange a page for the newspaper as soon as it was able to officially print the newspaper, and to publish all kinds of reports on the brutality of the people of the Emperor Ming by the Japanese invaders, and to publicize the news of Japan's imminent large-scale invasion of Ming in the form of an extraneous number.
This is the preparation of public opinion before the war.
In the next few days, the Combined Fleet did not implement the plan to land on Taiwan because of a typhoon. The typhoon turned from Guangdong to Fujian and Taiwan, and under the influence of the typhoon, all the members of the Combined Fleet retreated to the center and left, not to mention a single boat on the sea, not even a single bird.
The typhoon had strong winds, and when the typhoon passed, four Fujian warships parked at the pier capsized, which shows the strength of the wind.
Huang Chengxuan, the governor of Fujian, was the chief official of the prefecture, and he had to fulfill the responsibility of the Lord of Futai after such a strong typhoon passed, so he hurried back to Fuzhou to listen to the reports of the wind disasters in various places.
These are the norms.
However, what everyone didn't expect was that after discovering that the disaster was serious, Father-in-law Wei resolutely threw himself into the rescue and disaster relief without looking back.
On the 16th, Gonggong Wei issued instructions through the base camp, ordering the combined fleet and the officers and men of the imperial army to immediately participate in the rescue and disaster relief work to ensure that the people would not starve or suffer from the disaster.
The father-in-law issued three instructions, one is to rescue the officers and soldiers; the second is to help local communities stabilize the disaster victims; The third is to use the existing materials to help the victims rebuild as much as possible.
At the same time, the father-in-law personally donated 3,000 taels for the reconstruction of the houses of the affected people.
According to a text sent back to the SAR by a military reporter from the "Huangming Daily," when the heavy rainfall was discovered in the area of the Central Left Institute, Gonggong Wei felt a heavy responsibility and that the real test was coming. For this reason, despite the desperate dissuasion of his subordinates, he insisted on going to nearby villages and towns to inspect the river system and instruct the people to do a good job of clearing obstacles, so as to avoid flooding caused by excessive rainfall brought by typhoons.
On the 18th, when Gonggong Wei inspected the area of Huangshan Temple in Tong'an County, he found that the grass in this section of the river was so serious that the flood could not flow out.
That night, the rain was pouring in, and at this time, Gonggong Wei was still leading people to inspect, and Hou Anzhi, the admiral of the Fujian Navy, persuaded Gonggong to avoid the rain quickly. But my father-in-law said that the rain is an order, and now is a critical juncture, and we can't relax for a moment. Otherwise, once a major disaster occurs, I will be sorry for the emperor and Your Majesty!
It was not until the last section of the embankment was inspected that the father-in-law returned to the temporarily established flood control headquarters of the Ming Imperial Army. At this time, his clothes were soaked, and the improvised headquarters was leaking rain everywhere, and his subordinates were about to transfer their father-in-law to a gentry's house in the town, but they found that the lovely and respectable father-in-law Wei was sitting there asleep!
....... The typhoon lasted for three days, but the heavy rain lasted for seven days. Since the rescue and disaster relief, Grandpa Wei has never eaten a hot meal.
Piling, bamboo hedges, soil filling...... My father-in-law was swept into the river by floods several times, and escaped death several times. His forehead was hit by a stake several times, and his hands were covered with blood from the wire, but even so, his father-in-law never said a word...
Ah, dear Grandpa Wei, you are the loveliest person in the world!
.........
For this report, my father-in-law is satisfied, especially the last sentence of the cutest person, which was added by my father-in-law himself.
"In the future, the report on us will be written in this way, and we must be highlighted, understand?"
The father-in-law smiled and handed a cut corbel bone to Dong Sanlang, a reporter from the "Huangming Daily" who was obviously a little short-sighted, and then patted his somewhat full stomach, and walked slowly to the courtyard prepared for him by Hou Anzhi, the commander of the Fujian Navy Division, with a full hiccups.
This courtyard is the best house in the middle and left, and there are eight maids in it, but the father-in-law doesn't look at them properly, and he is lucky to be brought back from North Korea by himself and Da and Er'er to frolic together.
Of course, the report of the "Huangming Daily" cannot be said to be false, and the father-in-law himself participated in the rescue and disaster relief, but he was an old man who participated in the command and did not actually participate.
However, this obviously can't offset the glorious image of my father-in-law who loves the people!
It was precisely because of his father-in-law's attention and personal command that the disaster near the Zhongzuo Institute was reduced to a minimum, and the number of people killed and injured due to the disaster was sixty percent less than in previous years.
After the typhoon, the father-in-law organization convened the second joint meeting of the combined fleet, at which the appointment of Hou Anzhi, the admiral of the Fujian naval division, as the deputy commander of the fleet, was announced.
Chief of Staff Shen Yourong made some practical adjustments in accordance with the regulations of the joint fleet drawn up by his father-in-law to ensure that the fleet's actual combat capability was improved, and these were all agreed by his father-in-law.
Fujian Governor Huang Chengxuan was in Fuzhou, and his father-in-law was the largest here, so his father-in-law was about to give the order to land in Taiwan.
Because they did not know the details of this group of Japanese pirates, and they had not made trouble for many years, coastal residents actually abandoned their homes and rushed to the provincial capital. The city gates of Fuzhou, which were also frightened, were closed during the day, and no one dared to come out to reconnoitre.
Huang Chengxuan, the governor of Fujian, who was having a headache about the disaster, was also at a loss for a while, thinking that the combined fleet was in the center of the left, so he hurriedly sent someone to inform him, hoping that the combined fleet could send troops to exterminate this group of Japanese bandits that appeared out of nowhere.
Gonggong Wei also felt strange, this has just been a typhoon, and the Japanese are immortals, so they can't kill Fujian against the wind?
Military intelligence is an order, and since the Japanese invaders have come, their father-in-law must be cleared, otherwise the name of this combined fleet will be too untrue.
Zheng Duo, the commander of the 1st Brigade, was ordered to lead his troops to Tung Chung Island to suppress the Kou. Zheng Duo asked his subordinate Song Cheng to disguise himself as a fisherman and infiltrate Tung Chung Island to reconnoitre, but he was spotted by the Japanese robbers on the island and forced Song Cheng to ask who he was.
Song Cheng was also bold, and he straightened his chest and reprimanded: "So that you can wait for the Japanese to know, I am Song Chengye, the chief flag of the First Brigade of the Guards Division of the Ming Imperial Army!" Wait for the quick surrender, my Ming Imperial Army's admiral eunuch Wei Gonggong has sent a combined fleet of 300 warships to kill, if you don't surrender, you will slaughter Guanger and others! ”
Song Cheng This is a single practice, and his confidant has no reason to fall into the hands of the Japanese Invaders, so it is better to die like a good man.
When the news reached Father-in-law Wei, his old man was also stunned for a long time.
Nani?
Where is the spirit of bushido!