The weather was hot, and the doors and windows of the Rouyi Hall were left open for ventilation. At this time, a cool wind poured in, and Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt a lot more comfortable; And just now he had been talking about the sea, and he vaguely felt that this cool breeze was like the sea breeze.

In a certain moment, somehow, a certain fragment of his memory was evoked.

(A long time ago, while wandering along the coast, he met a middle-aged friend who had been discharged from the army.) Once, the two of them talked late at night at the beach, talking too many things, most of them forgot about them, and they didn't say important things anyway. But some of that friend's words suddenly popped into his mind: women, the most concerned is herself, followed by her children, and then her man, to see if it is useful. ）

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt that that sentence seemed to make sense. But it's not just human nature to talk about who is nobler than whom.

When Zhu Gaoxu was distracted, Chen's voice sounded a little trance-like: "Chen Zhengyuan is still young, there is no one close to him, and the concubine is not at ease." Annan is very chaotic, and those civil and military officers in the country may not listen to a child, and Chen Zhengyuan now needs to be assisted by his concubines. ”

"Hmm......" Zhu Gaoxu responded.

Chen said: "The concubines don't want to leave, but they don't have children, and they will definitely keep their festivals and ambitions when they return to China." Just wait for the situation in Annan to be stable, if the saint does not dislike it, the concubine will enter Beijing to meet the saint again. ”

Zhu Gaoxu was noncommittal, he suddenly had a premonition that if he didn't force Chen, she might not come back. Even if there is the ethical and religious constraints of male superiority and inferiority of women, older and experienced women seem to be less willing to rely on men if they have some ability; After all, it is not necessarily reliable.

For example, Shen Xu's is also like this.

However, Zhu Gaochu was not angry, he went to find the queen Chen, also out of a political alliance. He also felt that Chen's thoughts were probably understandable.

He has long lost the obsession of dying or living, and he is inseparable, but the thought of separating soon, his emotions are still shrouded in a kind of sadness.

"It's fine." Zhu Gaoxu said, he turned his head to look at Chen, and showed a hint of a smile, "I am looking forward to the day when we meet again." ”

Chen suddenly gritted his teeth, his expression looked a little uncomfortable, and then he sighed faintly. She made trivial movements for a while, raised her head and whispered, "Can the concubine meet the saint again before she leaves?" As she spoke, a faint flush appeared on her cheeks.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

At the beginning of Yongle, when he led his army to conquer the country of Annan, he heard about a local custom. It is said that on the eve of getting married, or when they are separated from someone they are close to, they go to sleep with their friends for the night. There are many tribes (nationalities) in Annan, and I don't know which tribe's customs are it, anyway, many of them are not quite the same as the Ming Dynasty, such as intermarriage with the same surname.

Chen's hint just now, does it mean that Zhu Gaoxu is her friend? Zhu Gaoxu didn't ask much, and he really felt that there was no need to force her wishes.

Chan bowed her knees and bowed, and then she left through the temple gate to the north. But Zhu Gaoxu saw a shadow on the ground, and when she walked to the door, she seemed to stand for a while and looked back once.

Zhu Gaoxu ignored this

With a few small movements, he exhaled and sat there alone, beginning to ponder the maps spread out on the table......

According to the habit of the Ming court to deploy the campaign, it is generally from the Beijing division to appoint military generals with troops, and then send a part of the elite of the Beijing camp and the Weisho army mobilized near the battlefield to form an army and carry out the campaign in this way.

There are nearly 80,000 military households in the Dongguan area of Annan, and if we mobilize military households from Guangxi and Guangdong, we can gather enough soldiers; What needs to be considered now is to dispatch elite troops from the Beijing Division to the south and increase the combat effectiveness of the Ming army with well-equipped and well-trained soldiers of the Beijing battalion.

All units of the Beijing battalion have been equipped with a large number of artillery and firearms. After the advent of the Hanwang cannon, after several improvements, there are now three kinds of artillery with different sizes and calibers of "heaven, earth, and xuan"; In addition, the regular army was also equipped with siege mortar cannons, "Hongwu cannons", pig iron mines and other military weapons.

Mortar is the improved version of the Hongwu cannon of that year, during the civil war, the Han Dynasty army because of the lack of Shanxi government cast steel cannon technology, can only be changed to bronze, used to cast Hongwu cannon. Later, the Southern Bureau Iron Works discovered that the bronze cast cannon could make the caliber of the Hongwu cannon larger, so the Hongwu cannon evolved into a bronze cannon.

There are also a large number of "Chunhan" arquebuses in Beijing, which are divided into two models: light and heavy. Heavy guns are mainly used against armored targets, and they need a bracket to fire; The light gun has a small caliber and is relatively lightweight, and is used against the general rebels.

To mobilize the Beijing camp expedition, it is necessary to carry a large number of firearms and equipment, and it is best to take the waterway. After a large number of naval warships sailed, the sea capacity is now insufficient, and the risk is greater than that of inland rivers; Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu believes that taking inland rivers is a more feasible way.

The ships mainly composed of the Chaohu Naval Division (the largest regular naval army in the Ming Dynasty) could transport 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion, as well as a large number of guns and ammunition accompanying the army.

Zhu Gaoxu lifted the pen and began to draw lines along the Yangtze River. The fleet could follow the Dajiang River from Beijing, enter the Xiang River and the Li River, and arrive at Guilin Mansion, the political envoy of Guangxi. Then land and water go hand in hand, along the Luoqing River to Liuzhou Mansion. After the military and civilians mobilized from the Guangdong Guard Station in Guangxi met with the Beijing camp in Liuzhou, they escorted firearms and ordnance by land; Pass through Lang Mountain, which was occupied by the Ming army, and enter the hinterland of Annam.

Liu Sheng proposed the idea of taking the sea route to attack Thanh Hoa, and Zhu Gaoxu also wanted to try it.

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a while, remembering that the sailors of Liangguang and Fujian had the ability to sail in the near sea, and in the first battle of Annan, the imperial court mobilized the officers and soldiers of the navy on the southeast coast. If the Southeast Naval Division sails offshore, it enters the mouth of the Jingtai River in the Beibu Gulf (near Haiphong City); will be able to meet with Zhang Fuliu and other troops who came by land.

As long as the Southeast Naval Division received Liu Sheng's surprise army, it moved south along the coast and arrived at the mouth of the Ma River near Thanh Hoa; The strategic intent is then realized.

Considering the insufficient capacity of the local naval division in the southeast, after Hou Xian returned from the Chaoxian State and the remaining sea ships in Longjiang Port, the Navy could also go south to reinforce the Annan Campaign.

Zhu Gaoxu preliminarily judged that the ships could transport about 35,000 men of the Beijing Battalion Army Division and a large number of firearms. Because of the Weisho army of Dongguan and Liangguang, the strength of the Ming army in the entire Annan campaign could reach more than 100,000 people.

After sitting next to the large table for a long time, Zhu Gaoxu felt that the air was also hot, and his clothes became wet from sweat. Tired, he got up from his chair.

There were eunuchs and palace maids on duty in the main hall, but they didn't dare to say anything. Zhu Gaoxu was still at ease

On the main hall, he paced slowly.

The chaotic situation on all sides of the Ming Dynasty and the idea of slow progress made him not feel very good. After he had a slightly boring feeling, he quickly became firm again, and said in his heart: We must stay up to the stage of obtaining huge benefits.

Otherwise, everything will be lost! With the existing system and thinking, if everything has not changed, there will be no enough benefits; Then no matter how much the court does, it will be in vain, and people will definitely die. The abolition of "Zheng He's voyage to the West" should be an inevitable result.

Because the agrarian empire was self-sufficient, external material imports were not necessary; Under the system of conscription and servitude, no matter what kind of major projects, they were simply stripping and squeezing the people, making it more difficult for the imperial court to govern. "Good and great joy" is harmful and unhelpful. Only by trying to tie the operation of the entire country and the profit group to the chariot of the torrent of history, and maintain expansion and progress, can we prevent the world from accumulating evils and sinking and degenerating in a closed circle.

This is Zhu Gaoxu's assumption, but who knows how far it can go?

At this moment, the eunuch Wang Gui hurriedly walked outside the door of the main hall, glanced inside, he walked in, bowed down and said: "Emperor, the envoy has just received Hou Xian's recital, and Hou Xian's fleet has arrived in Liujiagang. They will arrive at Longjiang Port five days later and enter the palace to report to the emperor. ”

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand to take the piece and opened it.

Wang Gui had a joyful expression on his face, probably because the risk of sailing was relatively large, and being able to come back smoothly was a thing worth celebrating...... Although Hou Xian and others did not accomplish anything of value during this trip.

"I know, ask Yousi to arrange people, and go to Longjiang Port to meet them when the time comes." Zhu Gaoxu said.

Wang Gui clenched his fists and said, "The slave and maid receive the order." ”

Zhu Gaoxu beckoned again: "Wait." He pondered for a moment, then said quietly, "As soon as they arrive in Jingshi, you go and ask Yao Fang to come to the palace and see me in the Rouyi Palace." ”

Wang Gui responded.

Last year, Yao Fang acted recklessly and was kicked out of Jinyiwei. However, this time it made Zhu Gaoxu's impression of him change. After all, he is an official in Jinyiwei and has been a spy for many years, Yao Fang has not yet gone to his country, so he found a way to inquire about a lot of news, which is also a skill. Zhu Gaoxu wanted to talk to Yao Fang in person and inquire in more detail.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu turned around and walked back to the table, immediately picked up the brush, and wrote a warrant to Hu Hui.

ordered Hu Hu to ask the officials of the Hanlin Academy to write a holy decree to Li Fangyuan according to the emperor's wishes; Then ask the pedestrian department to arrange a messenger to go to Seoul. The content of the decree was that the shogunate of the country was rude and ignored the demands of the Ming court to ban the Japanese invaders, and the imperial court decided to send troops to recruit the Japanese invaders on Tsushima Island; Li Yuanfang was ordered to prepare the soldiers' food and straw, but he could not act rashly, and should maintain contact with the imperial court and join forces to fight.

The institutions involved in diplomacy in the imperial court include the Department of Etiquette, the Honglu Temple, the Pedestrian Division, and the City Ship Promotion Division, but Zhu Gaoxu was most familiar with Hu Hui, so he directly ordered Hu Hu to handle this matter with full authority.

Zhu Gaoxu's move was just to stabilize Li Fangyuan first, so that when the battle of Annan was almost over, he would launch a campaign to conquer Tsushima; In order to avoid the Ming army fighting on two fronts and increasing the burden of the imperial court in the same period. ()

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