"The emperor is clever, in this way, it will not take ten years for the Ming Dynasty to completely assimilate North Korea." Li Yan smiled and admired.

Zhu Ciji also smiled, the current world has not yet developed to the point when nationalism is prevalent, as long as the civilization is more advanced and can make people feel happier than before, it is not difficult to assimilate a nation.

Sure enough, as Zhu Ci expected, as soon as the holy decree was sent to North Korea and the various policies of the Ming Dynasty were introduced, after the Korean people compared, they suddenly found that the people of the Ming Dynasty lived too happily, at least much happier than they were under the rule of the Lee Dynasty in North Korea.

Moreover, because North Korea has always been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and all dynasties have been influenced by Han culture, the high-level people are proud of learning Han culture, so the Korean people actually have no resistance to learning Han culture at all, but because of all kinds of good temptations, they have set off a movement to learn Chinese characters.

Judging from the enthusiasm of the North Koreans, it may be much shorter than Zhu Ci Cheng envisioned, and in five or six years, North Korea will be completely assimilated by the Ming Dynasty.

With the completion of the disposition of the Korean and Japanese prisoners, the promulgation of a series of policies to assimilate Korea, the steady progress in Korea, and the gradual stabilization of Korea, it was time for the Ming to set his eyes on Annam.

The strategy of attacking Annam had already been set together with the strategy of attacking Korea, and in Guangxi, the Ming army and supplies had already been prepared.

At the beginning, Zhu Cicheng decided to attack North Korea first and then attack Annam, but it was only because the Ming Dynasty destroyed the country and expanded its territory for the first time, in order not to have any difficult changes to deal with, so he did not choose to fight on two fronts at the same time.

The early dynasty of the Jinluan Palace.

"Your Majesty, Annan is stubborn, he took advantage of the civil strife in my Ming Dynasty to rob and occupy several counties in Guangxi, and he has not taken the initiative to return it so far, the king of Annan does not respect the state, and the crime deserves death, and the second army stationed in Yongzhou, Guangxi asks the emperor to order to attack Annan immediately!" Li Yan came out of the queue and said.

As soon as Li Yan said this, Huang Daozhou and Liu Zong's faces immediately twitched, and they wanted to object.

This has just finished attacking North Korea, and it has not even slowed down for ten days, so it is going to attack Annam again!

To say that Liu Zongzhou was originally also a candidate for the main battle, quite decisive and iron-blooded, Zhu Cicheng had high hopes for him, but he disappointed Zhu Cicheng in the end, Liu Zongzhou's main battle and iron blood were only for the invasion of foreign enemies such as the Liukou Civil Strife and the Manchu Dynasty, and he did not agree with Zhu Ci's repeated wars of extermination.

Liu Zongzhou, like many old ministers, adheres to the idea of the Ming Dynasty and a civilized state, and is more inclined to educate and give grace to foreign countries, so that they can appreciate the Ming Dynasty, rather than destroying the country at every turn. In his heart, there is also the insistence that the belligerent will perish, and he does not agree to start a war with a foreign country casually.

Although they wanted to oppose it, the battle for Annam had already been decided, and the army and supplies were ready, and they were not good at opposing it now, so in the end, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou both chose to acquiesce.

"Aiqing is right, the king of Annan is stubborn, and he deserves death, I agree to the request of the second army, and I can attack Annan!" Zhu Ci nodded and said.

I have to say that for Annan, Zhu Cicheng is very much despised by Annan, Annan has a population of less than three million, the national strength is weak, but it is not as ambitious as North Korea, taking advantage of the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng broke through the city of Beijing, Chongzhen hanged himself, and when the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not established, he took advantage of the fire to rob and sent troops to capture several county towns in Guangxi, and he has been occupying it so far.

Although Zhu Cihe, out of some considerations, did not issue an order to force the king of Annan to hand over those counties, he only told the hundred officials that he hoped that the king of Annan would be able to understand the current affairs by himself.

Although Zhu Ciji only said such things to the hundred officials, but for such a long time, coupled with the opposition of some officials to attack Annan, they must have secretly informed the king of Annan, so Zhu Ciji was confident that the king of Annan must know what he said.

However, the king of Annam is too ignorant of current affairs, and he has not taken any action so far, and he really does not shed tears when he sees the coffin, and he holds on to it until the last moment, as if those counties are the territory of Annam. The Ming Dynasty has re-ruled the world, and I don't know how to leave such a good excuse for Zhu Cihe, Zhu Ci can't destroy the Annan Kingdom and is sorry for the King of Annan.

"My Emperor Shengming!"

The decision of the Ming Dynasty to attack Annan was decided, but the early dynasty was not over, and Zhu Ciji had another news to announce in the court.

It is still Li Yan who came out, and yesterday Zhu Ciji had already discussed it privately with Li Yan, and Li Yan said it.

Li Yan did not retreat, still standing in the center and bowed his hand to Zhu Ci, and continued: "Your Majesty, in the last war with Korea, the Japanese State actually sent 150,000 troops to make trouble, causing a lot of casualties to our Ming army. ”

As soon as Li Yan's words fell, without waiting for the other courtiers to react, Zhu Ci immediately nodded in agreement: "What Aiqing said is extremely true, since the year of Jiajing, the Japanese have repeatedly invaded our coast, the Japanese have been ferocious and perverted, and have caused indelible pain to the local people along the coast. I want everyone in the world to know that those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away! The country should be punished! ”

The dialogue between Zhu Cijiao and Li Yan undoubtedly shocked the courtiers such as Huang Daozhou and Liu Zongzhou, who had been committed to opposing the war of foreign annihilation.

I have to be shocked, just after destroying North Korea, I will immediately destroy Annan, and now Annan is not destroyed, and I am ready to destroy the Japanese country!

They can see that although the words were proposed by Li Yan, the emperor immediately agreed, obviously discussed in advance, and it must be the emperor's idea.

Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was also warlike back then, he only sent troops once in a few years, and he did not launch a war of annihilation without even resting, and the emperor was even more belligerent than Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!

How big is this!

"Your Majesty, kill a thousand enemies, lose eight hundred, and die if you are warlike! Ministers oppose the attack on the Japanese kingdom! Huang Daozhou stood up and objected.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are also opposed to attacking the Japanese Kingdom!" Liu Zongzhou also stood up against it.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are also against it!"

About thirty officials stood behind Huang Daozhou and Liu Zong.

And more officials chose to be silent and did not come out to express their position, which has to say that Li Yan's means of the first assistant are really excellent, although there is also the support and help of Zhu Cijiao, but he has been the first assistant for less than a year, and he has secretly persuaded so many people, and suddenly made the anti-war remarks of Huang Daozhou and Liu Zongzhou and others lose their advantage.

Huang Daozhou and Liu Zongzhou undoubtedly discovered this at this moment, when they opposed the attack on Korea and Annam, most of the officials stood behind them, but now only about 30 officials support them.

This discovery made Huang Daozhou and others tremble, and they faintly realized that the direction of the court had changed, and with the support of Li Yan and others, the court of the Ming Dynasty would become a place where the emperor would go his own way.

"Your Majesty, the minister disagrees with the words of Huang Ge Lao and Liu Ge Lao, and the minister agrees with the emperor's words, but anyone who offends me as a strong man will be punished even if he is far away! In this way, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty can be demonstrated, and the Wa Kingdom since the Jiajing year, repeatedly three times when I am the Ming Dynasty, it is really a crime that deserves death, and it must be destroyed! Li Yan said righteously.

"Your Majesty, the ministers agree with Li Shoufu's words, the Japanese State has offended my Ming Dynasty, and I should be punished!" About forty officials stood behind Li Yan.

In the entire court, there are only more than 30 officials left who do not stand up to express their positions, but as long as they do not support Huang Daozhou and others, Zhu Ciji will not care about their thoughts.

Zhu Ci was about to speak, but Liu Zongzhou took the first step to persuade him.

"Your Majesty, kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred! How many prosperous times in history have finally fallen because of belligerence. Liu Zongzhou persuaded hard, insisted on the remarks that belligerence must perish, and opposed the repeated sending of troops to destroy the country.

"Liu Aiqing is wrong, the so-called killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred self is the previous statement." Zhu Ci looked at Liu Zongzhou calmly, and asked lightly: "Does Aiqing know how many casualties the Ming Dynasty suffered when he attacked North Korea?" ”

"This" Liu Zongzhou's heart jumped, and he was speechless for a while.

"Hmph, to destroy Korea, the Ming Dynasty sent a total of 120,000 troops, including 60,000 regular troops and 60,000 garrison troops. From the Yalu River all the way south to Pyongyang, more than 200,000 North Korean troops were defeated, and Seoul was attacked, 580,000 Korean troops and 150,000 Japanese soldiers were defeated, and a total of nearly one million enemy troops were wiped out, while our Ming army only suffered more than 3,000 casualties! Zhu Ci said faintly.

Among the more than 3,000 casualties, some of them were injured by their own falls while marching, and some of the casualties of the garrison to suppress the city mob, but that's it, the casualty ratio is also 300 times the difference!

This is not an unusual thing, this is the gap between the modern army and the cold weapon army.

In recent years, small Western European countries such as Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands in Europe, with a population of only two or three million, have repeatedly occupied colonies dozens of times their land area, relying on nothing more than some arquebuses and flintlock pistols, as well as a small number of heavy and backward cannons, the weapons of the Ming Dynasty are more advanced than the weapons of any country in the world at present, and the army of advanced firearms crushes the cold weapons of the surrounding countries. Da Ming can obtain a large territory at most by paying some material and money losses and small casualties, and if Zhu Ci does not expand with such a good opportunity, then he is a fool.

Liu Zong was speechless on Monday, the destruction of North Korea, the real dead soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were less than 1,000, and the so-called killing of 1,000 enemies and self-loss of 800 is definitely not established.

At this moment, Liu Zongzhou was at a loss, could the so-called belligerent death still be fulfilled in Daming? Could it be that since then, he has allowed the emperor to launch a war to destroy the country at every turn?

"Your Majesty, it is unkind to destroy the country after all, it hurts the peace of the heavens!" This is what Huang Daozhou said, as a Confucian Confucian, Huang Daozhou is more stubborn than Liu Zongzhou.

"Is it hurtful? This kind of thing can be said by you, when the Mongolian and Manchu people broke through the barriers and killed our people every year, did it hurt the peace of the heavens? Annan took advantage of the fact that the city of Beijing was broken by the Liukou, and when the emperor was in trouble, he took advantage of the fire to rob and occupy several of my county seats, killing many of my people, this does not hurt the peace of heaven? When the Japanese invaded the coast, did all kinds of atrocities not hurt the peace? Between countries, between nations, the strong have always been respected, and no one will hurt the heavens because of something, and they will not pounce on you when you are weak and take a bite. Past dynasties, there are too many such things, I will not list them one by one, the expansion of the territory was the merit of the ancestors, since the Xuanyuan Emperor and the Qin Emperor Han Wu, there are few more for China to open up the territory and expand the territory, and now the Ming Dynasty is the time to open up the territory again, Annan to destroy, the same as the Wa Kingdom to destroy! ”

Expand your territory! It turned out that the emperor was fighting this idea, no wonder he had to constantly launch a war to destroy the country, from this point of view, I am afraid that not only Korea, Annam, and the Japanese country, but also the emperor will inevitably swing his sword to more states!

Huang Daozhou and Liu Zongzhou felt that they had finally comprehended the emperor's thoughts at the moment, and they were inseparable from the words "opening up the territory".

The two were at a loss for a moment, they have been governing the country with benevolence and righteousness for decades, and they really can't accept Zhu Ci's words of destroying other countries and expanding their territory, just like Qian Qianyi at the beginning, they can't deny the belief they have insisted on for decades for a while.

At this moment, Huang Daozhou couldn't help but be a little disheartened, and had the same idea as Qian Qianyi at the beginning, and resigned and returned to his hometown.

"Your Majesty, Minister" Huang Daozhou was about to say his resignation to the old man, but was interrupted by Zhu Ci waving his hand.

"It's okay, it's right and wrong, there are comments from later generations, just do your part! Don't have to think too much! Zhu Ci saw Huang Daozhou's thoughts, although he also looked down on Huang Daozhou's old stubbornness, but I have to say that Huang Daozhou does have some talents, besides, he doesn't want all the court to really become a voice, and some different voices are still needed.

"Retreat!" Zhu Ci staggered to his feet and left the court, not giving Huang Daozhou a chance to say his resignation.

In any case, after the destruction of Annam, the strategy of attacking the Japanese state was also decided, and with Li Yan's presiding and supervision, a large number of military supplies will also be continuously transported to Korea, and it is expected that when Annam is destroyed, the materials for attacking the Japanese state will also be prepared.

The machine of the Ming Dynasty to expand the territory has been started, and it cannot be stopped for a while!