Fang Jifan and Zhu Houzhao retired first.

They waited for a long time outside the noon gate, and then saw our military department Shangshu Ma Wen ascend out.

Ma Wensheng locked his eyebrows, the military department is really eventful, the front foot is Western, and the back foot is suppressing the Japanese bandits.

Haven't the Japanese been suppressing them all along? For so many years, he has been preparing for the guards, and he is intermittently suppressing thieves.

Although the effect is a little worse, but today, for some reason, His Majesty is angry, and it is a stinking scolding.

Ma Wensheng is a gentleman of the Hongzhi Dynasty, and he is usually polite when he sees him, but he doesn't know what he has touched today.

His Majesty ordered the Ministry of War to prepare its own guards to dispatch elites and prepare to suppress thieves, and it seems that they want to make a big move.

From Fujian to Nanzhili and Zhejiang, including the first line of Shandong, the imperial court has set up a total of 15 guards, and the theoretical number of personnel is a total of 50,000 people, of course, Ma Wensheng himself calculates that the actual number is only 30,000, and the other 20,000 is just the number on the books.

But in any case, at the moment, His Majesty is urging, and it is obvious that he wants to exterminate the Japanese as much as possible, and it is difficult to ...... It's really hard!

There is no ship to enter the deep sea, so they can only guard in the near sea.

Fortunately, there are elite soldiers and strong generals here in the Ministry of War, and in order to go to the Western Ocean, seven or eight sea ships have been built, but these are mostly auxiliary horse ships, and the ships are not big.

But when he walked out of the noon gate with his front foot, he saw Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan standing here, and the two of them were still looking at him very tacitly.

Waiting for me?

Why is there some emptiness in my heart?

"The minister has seen His Royal Highness the Prince!" Marven stepped forward and saluted.

Zhu Houzhao looked at Ma Wensheng with a smile.

Fang Jifan said at this time: "I've seen Ma Gong." ”

Ma Wensheng looked at Zhu Houzhao, and then at Fang Jifan, they were all laughing, laughing very happily.

Ma Wensheng's heart sank to the bottom: "I don't know if Your Highness is here, what do you think?" ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "Father ordered you to kill the widows? ”

"Exactly." Ma Wensheng said embarrassedly: "I'm really ashamed, old minister......"

"It's just a coincidence, we're also exterminating the widows."

In Ma Wensheng's heart, it was like being run by 10,000 grass and mud horses.

It's familiar, I ...... It seems that the military department and the people of Xishan have also gone to the West together.

This...... Is it a wrongdoer?

Looking at Ma Wensheng, whose face was extremely ugly, Zhu Houzhao said unceremoniously: "It's really a narrow road." ”

"Where." Ma Wensheng hurriedly said: "Your Highness's words are wrong, they are all for Your Majesty's service. ”

"That's good." Zhu Houzhao seemed to be waiting for this sentence, and said, "Then you borrow a few boats for the palace." ”

"What?"

Everything else is easy to say, as soon as he heard the boat, Ma Wensheng's face pulled down: "There is no boat, where did the boat come from?" ”

Fang Jifan said with an innocent look: "I still said no, there are seven or eight ships parked there in Ningbo City, all of which are newly built horse boats and ships with thousands of materials. ”

Ma Wensheng chuckled in his heart, and suddenly made a straight face: "Nonsense, this is the ship of the imperial court, not the ship of this official, this official is the book of the Ministry of War, and this ship will go to the West in the future." ”

"Borrow five ships and pay them back in three years." Zhu Houzhao didn't bother to compare with him blindly, and stretched out his hand.

Ma Wensheng was shocked: "Your Majesty has to be played, not to mention the ...... of the guards."

"Father is too stingy." Zhu Hou is good at not taboo the way; "Let's just say, whether these five ships will be given or not."

"It's really not a minister's ship, it's not a minister who can call the shots." Ma Wensheng said with a bitter face.

"Just borrowing." Fang Jifan helped on the side: "If you don't borrow it, forget it, but Ma Gong, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is small-minded, you know if you want to come, he will repay it, and his character is relatively poor." ”

“……”

Ma Wensheng and Zhu Houzhao both looked at each other.

Although Zhu Houzhao knew that this was a strategy, he always felt ......... when he listened to it

"Your Majesty." Ma Wensheng gritted his teeth.

Fang Jifan said: "Why not three?" ”

Ma Wensheng said solemnly: "I am the minister of the imperial court, the sea ship is owned by the Ministry of War, but in fact it is owned by the imperial court, if Your Majesty has a will, no matter how much you want, the Ministry of War will also give it to you, Your Highness and Xinjian Uncle will not be strong." ”

Zhu Houzhao really wanted to ask his father, but his father was stingy, and he asked before he retired, but Emperor Hongzhi meant that he would train the soldiers first, and then he would talk about it.

This kind of thing, the most feared thing is the time.

Zhu Houzhao was not a patient person, and seeing that Ma Wensheng had been arguing with him for so long, he pulled down his face: "Don't give it, right?" ”

Fang Jifan also raised his eyebrows, pulled Zhu Houzhao's sleeve and said, "Then don't talk to him, Your Highness, go back and take the account book and write this account." ”

The two tugged to leave.

Ma Wensheng wants to vomit blood!

What does this mean? What's the account, what's wrong with the old man?

The old man is serving the court and is selfless.

Hey, why don't you make it clear?

Listen to me.

Seeing that the people were leaving, Ma Wensheng couldn't help it: "Your Highness." ”

"What?"

"One!" Ma Wensheng stretched out a finger.

Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan glanced at each other, and they both saw a glimmer of luster flashing in each other's eyes!

In fact, their goal is only one, it's good to have one, it's difficult to start everything, the so-called five ships are just asking for a sky-high price, landing to pay back the money, a routine.

Zhu Houzhao was happy: "Okay, one." ”

"If you borrowed it, you have to pay it back!" Ma Wensheng did not forget to instruct: "Your Highness must be true to your word." ”

"Okay, Hongu ......"

Fang Jifan said: "His Royal Highness the Prince's character, can you still believe it?" Even if you can't trust His Royal Highness the Prince, can't you still trust our successor? ”

"......" It's okay not to say this, but as soon as I say it, Ma Wensheng is even more bottomless, and he is flustered.

In fact, it is okay to borrow a boat, just report to Your Majesty.

But the problem is that all the ships of the Ministry of War have to go to the Western Ocean, and in order to go to the Western Ocean, the Ministry of War has to build ships, and it took a lot of effort to bargain with the Ministry of Household Affairs to get the money and grain! The household department is crazy there, screaming every day about the people's fat and people's ointment, and when they see the people in the military department, they want to smoke, and now the expenditure of the imperial court is stretched, at this time, where do you dare to be generous?

It's just such a ship, I don't know how many soldiers and civilians have scavenged it.

Ma Wensheng sighed in his heart, not to mention that now the Ministry of War is also going to suppress the Japanese Bandits, the ship is already very nervous, there are only seven ships, and you took one away, what can the Ministry of War do?

The goal has been achieved, Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan didn't care about Ma Wensheng's feelings, and left happily.

It's just that along the way, Zhu Houzhao actually has no confidence: "Give Tang Yin a boat, and he will be able to destroy the Japanese?" ”

"Don't be afraid, you can also bring Hu Kaishan, Hu Kaishan, this guy, I can't afford to raise it, the minister takes a bowl to eat, what do you say he takes? He took the basin, the kind of basin that the minister used to wash his face. It's too bad to stay in Beijing, so let him go with Xiao Tang and make the best use of it. ”

When Zhu Houzhao heard Hu Kaishan, he couldn't help but be a little unconvinced: "Wine bag and rice bag." ”

"But is it up to them?"

"Next, it's recruitment, and this soldier has also thought about it, so he will recruit three hundred people, one boat, barely enough ......"

"Only three hundred?" Zhu Houzhao raised his eyebrows and said, "Zhenguo Mansion is so shabby? ”

Fang Jifan was a little embarrassed, and said: "The soldiers are not expensive, even if there are many soldiers, do we have so many ships and horses?" It costs money to raise soldiers, Your Highness, your town, Your Majesty has allocated so much money and food, what is enough? ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't think much about it and said, "We can pay for our own money." ”

Fang Jifan looked at Zhu Houzhao with disdain: "You come and dig it." ”

"Hongu ...... There isn't much silver in the main palace. Zhu Houzhao looked ashamed.

Are you still blind without silver? Dog*, I want to cheat my Jifan's money too?

Fang Jifan said: "This soldier, the minister has thought about it, our soldiers are recruited from Yiwu County and Yongkang County. ”

"Why is it there, Zhejiang people, they ...... There is no northerner bravery. ”

Fang Jifan shook his head and said: "The northerners are not good at boats, and the south is full of waterways, people need boats to travel, almost every village and mile has ponds and lakes, they urinate in the rivers and lakes to swim, although the situation at sea is different from that on the rivers, but at least they all understand the nature of water." ”

"These two counties, with many mountains and a few acres of land, can't afford to support themselves. Therefore, most of the strong men in the county ignore the rules of the imperial court and open mines privately to make a living, and because these two counties have always been on the same page, they often fight on a large scale for the sake of mining disputes. ”

"Fighting in the sea, what is required is courage, the miners must have strength and strength, to have water nature, from the eighteenth generation of ancestors, every year there is small-scale combat experience, the ancestors of the eighteenth generation, word of mouth passed on countless combat experience, recruit them, do not worry about no elite soldiers. Besides, the northerners are tall, tall on the ship, it's useless, it takes up too much space, has Your Highness heard of it? Short man, smart. ”

"Really?" Zhu Houzhao was happy, holding his hand on the top of his head and gesturing with Fang Jifan, and said proudly: "This palace is shorter than you." ”

“……”

Fang Jifan said: "Seriously, we are talking about national affairs. ”

"Well, it's up to you."

This time, the Zhenguo Mansion has something to do.

The emperor himself made a promise, and the quasi-town government recruited sailors to set up a guard, and the annual allocation of money and food was also based on the standard of guards.

It's a little less, but it's the equivalent of food for 3,000 people.

Of course, if you want to train elite soldiers, it is not enough to rely on the money and food of the so-called 3,000 people, so you have to reduce the scale somewhat.

Recruit 300 people first.

Zhu Houzhao said proudly, "After practice, you can let Tang Yin go to sea to fight." ”

Fang Jifan said with a straight face: "Your Highness, no, if you want to completely exterminate the Japanese invaders, we still have a lot of things to do, has Your Highness ever thought about it?" Why...... The Japanese are raging, and they are repeatedly banned? ”

"......" Zhu Houzhao was silent.

Fang Jifan said: "Because of interests, as long as private people go to the sea, they will still be profitable, and they will never be banned and suppressed." ”