Shen Hao picked up the tea rather indifferently and said with a smile: "Believe, then what's not to believe?" It's no surprise that the freaks of the Royal Academy are tossing up anything. ”

Seeing Shen Hao like this, Li Chengyan suddenly lost interest and said with a smile: "Yes, I don't bother to talk to you about these things." Let's get down to business. ”

Shen Hao straightened up and said, "What do you want to do?" ”

After pondering for a long time, Li Chengyan spoke: "I plan to meet Masahito and Tokugawa Iemitsu first, and test their reactions first." ”

Shen Hao nodded and said, "If you want to meet them, it's very easy, don't care if you let them come to Kyushu Island or you go to Kyoto by yourself, it's only a few days." ”

Li Chengyan said: "It's better for me to go to Kyoto, after all, I still have to do business with them, and I always toss our big financiers back and forth, which is really a little unreasonable." ”

After finishing speaking, Li Chengyan remembered his two students again, and simply said to Shen Hao again: "By the way, you have to send me a few people." ”

Shen Hao, who had once again regained his lazy appearance, sneered: "It is said that the bolder a person is, the younger he is, originally I was a little unimpressed with this sentence, but now it seems to be true." ”

Stretching out his hand and pointing out the window of the carriage, Shen Hao continued: "Look out the window, look at these people you brought, can't they guarantee your safety?" Do you want the Governor's Mansion to send someone again?

You think too much, brother, this is Kyushu Island, to the north is the Wa Kingdom, don't care whether it is Kyushu Island or the Wa Kingdom, your dress as a Ming official is enough to ensure your safety, even if it is those Japanese daimyo who are dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty in their hearts, they don't have the courage to attack you. ”

Li Chengyan smiled: "You are thinking too much." It's not my own problem, it's my two students.

I plan to let them take a walk among the people of the Japanese country, one is to see the customs of the Japanese country, and the other is to see what the difference between the Japanese country and my Ming Dynasty is.

As you know, just by what is said in books and in class, they can only have an impression, but it is not as intuitive as seeing it yourself. ”

Shen Hao looked Li Chengyan up and down, and said with a smile: "What, are you planning to find two heirs to the mantle?" ”

Li Chengyan twisted a strand of hair behind him, and said with a wry smile: "Look, our brothers are not young, can they serve Your Majesty for a few more years?" Even if the heart and energy can keep up, the body will not allow it.

I'm not like you, you made a lot of moves in the capital back then, and the Legalist lineage was revived because of you, even if you have no heirs in the future, the Legalist apprentices will respect you Shenzi.

I can't do it, the Zongheng family can't compare to the Legalists, and I can't compare to you, and now there are still too few students in Jingcheng University who are willing to enter the Zongheng lineage.

Now, if you don't pick some good heirs and pass on the knowledge of the Zongheng family, what's the use of being respected as plums in the future? I always have no face to see the sages.

Di Mu and Mo Yanbai, the two children, are excellent in terms of talent and attitude, and if they pass on this knowledge to the two of them, it will not be buried. ”

Shen Hao straightened his body, straightened his clothes again, and said: "You have chosen an extremely difficult path, but it is rare that you still persevered and passed on the knowledge of the sages." Based on this alone, I am much worse, and now I replace wine with tea, please! ”

Li Chengyan also drank the tea in the cup before he smiled and said, "Let's continue what we said just now, you send me some people to protect my two students." ”

Shen Hao nodded and said, "I sent a hundred households under the governor's palace to follow them, and I can assure you that no matter what they do in the Wa Kingdom and what kind of situation they encounter, as long as there is one person left in the hundred households, they can return to Daming safely!" ”

Li Chengyan smiled and waved his hand and said, "Don't make the atmosphere so solemn, I seem to be talking about a will." ”

After laughing a few times, Li Chengyan continued: "In addition, there are other things I want to ask you to help me a little more." ”

Shen Hao nodded and motioned for Li Chengyan to continue.

Li Chengyan continued: "I went to see Masahito and Tokugawa Iemitsu, and it was not easy to contact the remaining Japanese daimyo on the surface, but I have to ask you to help me contact me secretly." ”

Shen Hao said curiously: "Didn't you just say that you want Masahito and Tokugawa Iemitsu to end the chaos of the Japanese Kingdom as soon as possible?" How now? ”

Li Chengyan said: "Fast, but it's not for them to end the chaos smoothly, that's not in my Ming's interests."

You must also know what Daming needs now.

If the chaos in the Wa Kingdom ends too soon, those overseers will be fine, and who will sell the obsolete arms and weapons?

The European barbarians are now about to beat people's brains into dog brains, and although they consume a large amount of munitions, they all belong to the relatively advanced generation, and there is no place to deal with the old ones now. ”

Shen Hao said in disbelief: "You sold the latest arms to European barbarians?" ”

Li Chengyan squirted out a sip of tea: "How is it possible!" Who would dare to be a European barbarian in large quantities with the latest arms? A small amount is sold to them to experiment with the performance of weapons and new tactics.

The old arms I am referring to are the equipment of the previous generation, and the equipment that is even more backward than the equipment you are using on Kyushu Island now, understand? ”

Shen Hao nodded right at this time, and said indifferently: "Then it doesn't matter, anyway, those Japanese daimyo have already bought a lot of arms from Kyushu Island, and it's nothing to sell some of them." ”

Li Chengyan nodded, and then changed the topic, and talked with Shen Hao about the time when he was studying in the capital and walking and studying in the ministries and cabinets.

……

When Li Chengyan and Shen Hao were reminiscing about the green years, Masahito and Tokugawa Iemitsu were also sitting opposite each other, drinking the green tea sent by the Liao Palace.

After a long silence, Tokugawa Iemitsu spoke: "The attitude of Xingzi's side ......"

Zhengren's face couldn't help but be a little ugly: "There is no way now, I can only bet once, just bet that Xingzi's heart is still towards us, and bet that Xingzi's heart still has the He clan!" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu shook his head and said, "What if you lose the bet?" ”

Zhengren gritted his teeth and said: "If you lose the bet, you can completely unify Japan, even if you donate land to the Liao Wangfu in the future, you can also fight for another benefit for Japan."

Now I'm worried that the Ming Dynasty won't let us unify Japan so easily, but I'm afraid that there will be more twists and turns in the middle. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded and said, "Do you know what Daming needs most now?" What Daming needs most now are laborers, those who don't need to be paid, and they don't feel distressed when they are tired.

Since there is a lack of labor, it means that they lack overseers, otherwise how can they manage those laborers? Daming has never let Daming people serve as laborers themselves, and it is estimated that the status quo will not change in the future.

Now that we unify Japan, there will be a large number of samurai who will lose their masters, and then become ronins, and finally enter the Ming Dynasty to become overseers.

In order to achieve this goal, I guess that the Daming will secretly support the daimyo with arms and supplies. But what does it matter? ”

Masahito said with a gloomy face: "It's okay? This means that our samurai will die even more, and a large number of ashigaru may die on the battlefield before even seeing the shadow of the enemy. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu shook his head and said, "Then there will be more samurai who will become ronin, which is already a doomed result." As for the arms that Da Ming secretly supported them, believe me, they will not exceed the arms that Da Ming sold us, and the price will be higher than ours. ”

After being relatively speechless for a long time, Tokugawa Iemitsu continued: "All of this has actually been doomed since the time of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

The Ming Dynasty is a dynasty that holds grudges, from the beginning of the kings to the current kings, they have always held grudges, as can be seen from their countless attacks on the grassland.

If it weren't for the weakening of the Ming Dynasty's national power at that time, I was afraid that in the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japan would no longer exist. The current Ming Emperor prefers war to other emperors in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible for him to let Japan go.

All of this has something to do with those bastards in North Korea attaching the Ming Dynasty.

If they were not attached, then Korea would have been a buffer zone between the Ming and Japan, and now that we have lost this buffer, it has become Japan facing the Ming directly, and their emperor will not be able to resist it anyway. ”

Zhengren couldn't help but sigh: "Ten thousand generations!" The Japanese emperor system of the eternal line finally ended in my hands! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu sneered and retorted: "You should call yourself this king, not me, once this word spreads, this is a big crime of killing your head!"

Moreover, it is not yet known whether the emperor's lineage will be completely ended, don't forget that we still have the prince of Liao. ”

Seeing that Tokugawa Iemitsu had turned the topic back to the beginning, Masahito couldn't help but sigh again: "Even Xingzi's attitude is so vague, do you think the prince of Liao will have his heart set on Japan?" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu said: "That's why I said that I can only rely on gambling!"

I also have a newborn daughter at home, who is exactly two years younger than the prince of Liao, and I will train from now on, and then let her marry the prince of Liao! ”

Zhengren was stunned and said: "The original Xingzi ...... Can you guarantee that your daughter will not become the current Xingzi in the future? ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded and said, "I can guarantee it." Xingzi's attitude can become so vague because we haven't nurtured her since childhood.

And this daughter of mine, I will contact the various ninja schools and ask them to send good hands to train them.

If she can't win the favor of the prince of Liao in the future, and there is no way to revive Japan, let her provoke the relationship between the Liao family and the Ming Emperor, let the Ming Dynasty completely mess up, and give Japan a chance! ”

After taking a deep breath, Masahito said, "You're crazy!" A woman to provoke the relationship between the Ming Emperor and the Liao Dynasty? Why is she? ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu sneered, "Do you know why the Japanese girl is popular in Daming? A woman's greatest capital is naturally her appearance and body, how can a man be lascivious? Do you think everyone is like the current Emperor of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Without waiting for Masahito to answer, Tokugawa Iemitsu continued: "You don't have to worry about her lack of good looks, and you don't have to worry about other problems.

In fact, when Kazuko was born, I had already sent someone to secretly prepare a hundred stand-ins for her, and they would receive the same education and enjoy the same treatment from an early age.

When the final plan is executed, choose the most beautiful one from Kazuko and these hundred stand-ins, even if you sacrifice Kazuko, everything is already in my plan! ”

Masahito couldn't help but deeply admire Tokugawa Iemitsu, this guy is worthy of being the next-generation heir designated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and his heart is so ruthless and resolute, it is estimated that the whole of Japan will not be able to pick out someone stronger than him.

After nodding, Masahito said, "Is there anything I can help you?" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu said, "This is the second thing I want to discuss with you.

I want to find some good Chinese teachers to teach them Chinese from an early age, and the so-called proficient Chinese students nowadays, the Da Ming official dialect they speak is fundamentally different from the real Da Ming official dialect, and it sounds very stiff.

If you can, I hope you can try to help me find a few reliable Chinese teachers, preferably Han Chinese. ”

The smile on Masahito's face was more ugly than crying: "The shogunate can't find such a person, do you think I will have a way to solve it?" ”

Although it had been expected for a long time, Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but be disappointed: "Yes, it's too difficult. It is impossible to kidnap a few Ming people, and spend money to buy it, but it is not even clear where it is spent. ”

Masahito said: "What if you look for the governor of Kyushu Island?" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu shook his head: "How do you tell him?" If it's just education and children, then it's naturally no problem to find the governor of Kyushu, even if it's just to hire a Chinese teacher in Kyushu Island.

However, with Kazuko having a total of one hundred and one children to teach, and all of them are two or three-year-old girls, what if they become suspicious? ”

The two sat opposite each other, and after a long silence, Tokugawa Iemitsu spoke: "If there is really no way, then find a way to disperse these girls, find some nobles who can really love us to adopt them, and then hire Chinese teachers separately." ”

Zhengren said: "There are a lot of problems in it. What about education on the ninja side? And you have to make sure that they don't have scars on their bodies, and those ninja sects also have a headache, right? ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu gritted his teeth and said, "If it really doesn't work, then find some more girls, and wait until sixteen years later to choose the most suitable one from among them!" ”

Masahito nodded and said, "That's the only way to do it." By the way, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty is almost on Kyushu Island, should we wait for him to come to Kyoto, or should we take the initiative to go to Kyushu Island to meet him? ”