Looking at his son kneeling on the ground, listening to his impassioned words, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had a rare confusion on his face.

In Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's view, since the new emperor ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty subdued the vassal king, opened up the northeast, and then swallowed Korea in one bite, and sent a naval expedition to the Wa Kingdom, and its marines were even more like no one's land.

However, what his son said just now completely subverted his point of view, but after thinking about it carefully, what his son said seemed to be not unreasonable.

The annexation of Korea to the territory was a thousand-year-old feat that would have been inscribed on the annals of Chinese history by virtue of this, and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu would not have been surprised if he had become proud of it. In addition, laying steel on the ground to have fun is indeed too child's play, is it to boast of the wealth and strength of the Ming Kingdom? In Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's view, this is much more exaggerated than the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty's dry land boats and silk wrapped in trees!

Emperor Ming has already made history, but can he break the tradition of the Wa Kingdom and become the new emperor? If, if you repel the invasion of the Ming Kingdom, it should be okay, right?

Yoshimitsu slowly clenched his fists, and the heart in his chest was beating with excitement, and he felt a heat in his body, as if the position of the emperor was beckoning to him.

"Father, father, what's wrong with you?"

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu shook his head and found that his son was looking at him with surprised eyes, and he couldn't help but blush, but fortunately, the surrounding light was dim, and Ashikaga Yoshinori didn't notice this, just wondered why his father suddenly started to be stunned.

"Oh," Ashikaga Yoshimitsu came back to his senses and said with a smile: "My father just thought of something, by the way, now that the Ming Navy is besieged on all sides, how did you get their information?" ”

"This," Ashikaga Yoshimori breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed his head lightly with his hand, and said, "It's news from the messenger of the Ming Kingdom." ”

"Ming envoy? Fang Bin, the soldier of the Ming Kingdom? ”

"No, no," Ashikaga Yoshinori shook his head, a little smug in his eyes, "It's the deputy envoy Quanzhuo." ”

"All right?" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu thought for a moment and said, "Is it that North Korean?" ”

"Well, he is now the political envoy of the Ming Dynasty!"

"......" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu pondered for a while and said, "He is the reincarnation of Korea?" ”

"This," Yizhi shook his head: "It's not good to say, but he has a grudge against Emperor Ming, that's for sure." ”

"Why?"

"If you come to our country as an envoy, you have to risk your life!"

"So," Ashikaga Yoshimitsu smiled, "So, you scared him?" ”

"Yes, I separated the main envoy Fang Bin and the deputy envoy Quan Zhun, and then threatened them separately, Fang Bin did not give in, but the whole criterion is to pour beans from the bamboo tube, and all the tricks are made."

"What the son said earlier is what he said, and," seeing the doubt in his father's eyes, Ashikaga Yoshinori continued: "The son later made amends to Fang Bin, saying that it was a joke, and then gave him five thousand taels of gold, and set up a banquet for him to suppress the shock. ”

At the banquet, Erchen knocked on the side, wanting to verify Quan Zhun's words, this Fang Bin's tone was still relatively strict, and he didn't say much, but it partially confirmed Quan Zhun's statement, the Ming Emperor did spread steel on the ground for play; In addition, after the SD rebellion and the pacification of Korea, the Ming Emperor wanted to borrow money from the Shang Jia and recruit the troops of the vassal kings to conquer our country, but was stopped by the Household Department Shoshu and the Military Department Shoshu, which shows the lack of his treasury. ”

"And why did you start the conquest of our country this year? According to Fang Bin, it was because of the availability of potatoes with a yield of 20 stone per mu, cold-tolerant sweet potatoes and other crops that the food crisis in the Ming Kingdom was alleviated, so it was necessary to ......"

"Twenty stones? How can it be? ”

Hearing his son's words, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu couldn't help but sneer, and then his heart settled down a lot. If what his son said is all true, then Mingguo is likely to be a foreign powerhouse and a middle cadre.

However, for the sake of prudence, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu asked Quan Zhun to come secretly, and asked carefully, what Quan Zhun said was basically the same as what his son said, and finally Ashikaga Yoshimitsu ordered Quan Zhun to draw a charge, and then offered five thousand taels of gold, and Quan Zhun went back with a thousand thanks.

After Jun Zhun left, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu pondered for a long time, and then pulled the people back, leaving only his son Ashikaga Yoshinori.

"Yoshichi, sit down!"

"Thank you, father!"

"Yoshimori," Ashikaga Yoshimitsu looked at his son with a solemn expression, and said in a deep voice, "Have you always been dissatisfied with your father?" ”

Under the gaze of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ashikaga Yoshimori's forehead gradually beaded with sweat, and his face was red and white, I don't know how long it took, Ashikaga Yoshitsu got up and knelt on the ground: "Father, the son is not dissatisfied with his father, but the son does not agree with his father to be a vassal to the Ming Kingdom!" ”

"Why?"

"My son thinks that since ancient times, my country has never been a minister to the outside world, even if it was a prosperous Tang Dynasty in the past, my country is also treated as an equal, why should my father call a minister to the Ming Kingdom, they are an incompetent country that even our ronin samurai can't deal with, what qualifications do you have to let me wait for a minister?"

"These words were said by Spo, right?" Looking at his indignant son, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sighed and said softly.

"Yes, but my son agrees too!"

"Hmm," Yoshimitsu nodded, satisfied with his son's honesty, "Then do you know the real reason why you are a vassal to Ming Kingdom for your father?" ”

"It's to replace the emperor!" Ashikaga Yoshinori replied without hesitation.

"Hehe," Ashikaga Yoshimitsu shook his head and smiled, "Even you know, it seems that Emperor Komatsu also knows!" ”

"This," Ashikaga Yoshimari hesitated, bowed his head and said, "Whether the emperor knows it or not, the son doesn't know, and the son has never talked to the emperor about this!" ”

"So, do you know the real reason why the father wants to replace the emperor?"

"The real reason?" Ashikaga Yoshinori raised his head in surprise, he didn't understand what his father meant, what real reason was needed to replace the emperor.

"Alas, Yoshimori, come here," Yoshimitsu sighed, pointing to the stool and letting Yoshinori sit down.

"At the age of ten years old, his father succeeded to the general of Seiyi, assisted by Hosokawa Yoriyuki, and finally defeated the Southern Dynasty and pacified the RB, and his father's power has surpassed that of the former Kamakura Shogunate founder Minamoto Yoritomo, and it can be said that he is the uncrowned emperor."

"But the father is not satisfied, do you know why?"

"Son, I don't know!" Ashikaga Yoshitomo looked at his father, he really didn't understand.

"Over the years, I have read a lot of history books for my father, including those from China and those from our RB, and I gradually understood a truth."

"Although we call ourselves RB, in the eyes of people like the Ming Kingdom, Korea, and even the Ryukyus, we are still the Wa Kingdom, and this is because we are too backward."

"We RB have been learning from Huaxia, but we have never been able to reach the kind of emperor centralization in Huaxia. Even during the period of the Taika Revolution, the imperial power of the emperor was still insignificant compared to that of the Chinese emperor. ”

"Today's RB, there are at least thirty feudal countries, they are all hereditary, they have their own soldiers, they have food, if our shogunate is strong, they will obey orders, if we have problems, they will rise up and replace us."

"The Kamakura Shogunate, which was established by Minamoto Yoritomo, was actually a samurai regime, controlling RB by controlling the army and the appointment of officials throughout the country, but he did not enter Kyoto, and the emperor still had some power, which was his mistake and a reason for the rapid decline of the Kamakura Shogunate."

"My Ashikaga family insisted on entering Kyoto, because it caused a split, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties appeared, but after decades of war, the Muromachi Shogunate, which was my father, was not only a samurai regime, but also controlled the government of the court, so to speak, RB, has all been under my father's control!"

"But that's not enough!"

"Even if you become the emperor for your father, it's not enough!"

"What my father really wants to do is to be like the emperor of Huaxia, with golden mouths and jade teeth, and make the law follow!"

Listening to his father's sonorous and crazy voice, Ashikaga Yoshinori was stunned!

"Hehe, did it scare you?"

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu smiled: "Why do you want to do this for your father, the reason is very simple, our RB is actually like the Spring and Autumn Period of China and the Warring States Period, the emperor is like Zhou Tianzi, and being a father is equivalent to the overlords of Duke Huan of Qi and Duke Wen of Jin, although they are prosperous for a while, but if China is not unified, and there is no emperor like Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng, they cannot be called the Heavenly Empire!" ”

"The forces of the RB must be united, and only in this way can the fate of being swallowed up by others be avoided."

"To be a vassal to the Ming Kingdom for the father, is to paralyze the Ming Kingdom, and at the same time to use the trade with the Ming Kingdom to enhance the strength of the shogunate, and then level the daimyo in various places, and finally let the Emperor Zen settle in me, this is the ultimate goal of the father, do you understand?"

"Otherwise, in the face of foreign enemies, I'm afraid that my RB doesn't even have the strength to protect itself, and now RB is fortunate to have me, if it was the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties twenty years ago, RB would be vulnerable!"

After saying that, Yoshimitsu seemed to be exhausted as well, and he gasped for air, then picked up the teacup and drank it down.

I don't know how long it took, but I heard Ashikaga Yoshimochi say timidly: "Father, son, understand, just, is this possible?" ”

"We samurai, can we really be emperors?"

"What's not to do? Could it be that the emperor is more honorable than the emperor of China? Doesn't the emperor of China change every few years? Didn't Huaxia's book say: 'Princes and generals, rather have a kind?' ’”

As he spoke, Yoshimitsu stood up and shook his fist fiercely.

Knowing his father's ideals, Ashikaga Yoshinori was difficult to accept for a while, he felt that his throat was dry, and his whole body trembled so badly that he had to hold his head with both hands, but he still couldn't control the tremors on his body, he was really frightened!

......

Two days later, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu rejected the Ming Dynasty's credentials, but instead of beheading the Ming envoys, he sent them out of the country.

After that, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu ordered a general mobilization of the whole country, and the coastal walls were cleared as much as possible to prevent the Ming army from landing, and at the same time sent the general Ashikaga Yoshimori to lead an army of 50,000 to reinforce Kyushu, and Spoyoshi would accompany him.

Yoshimitsu himself stayed in Kyoto, dispatched troops, and prepared reinforcements at any time.

......

"Lord Fang, I'm scared to death!"

"Hehe, my lord, there is nothing to be afraid of, if the Japanese people dare to touch me and wait for a hair, Your Majesty will make the Japanese pay a price of ten million times, just like," Fang Bin glanced at Quan Zhun: "It's like the four states of the Korean rebellion......"

"That's, that's!" Jeon Joon nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, let's go back, the Marquis of Licheng will be at war soon!"

Fang Bin waved the Holy Decree Box in his hand and ordered the fleet to return to Yinqi Island, and he wanted to return to Jingshi as soon as possible and report to the emperor.

......

"What kind of medicine does Emperor Ming sell in the gourd? It's no wonder that such harsh conditions can be accepted by the Wa Kingdom! ”

Looking at Fang Bin's back, Quan Zhun muttered secretly in his heart, and then he looked back at the Wa Kingdom, and the content of the holy decree appeared in his heart:

1. Emperor Komatsu shall not be called emperor, but shall be renamed "King RB".

Second, the minister of the Imperial Minister, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, is suspected of assassination, and he must go to Beijing to apologize before April of the ninth year of Jianwen, otherwise there will be no forgiveness for killing.

3. Cedion of Kyushu and Shikoku Islands, because this is the birthplace of the Japanese Invaders, and it is necessary to clear the source.

Fourth, cede Iwami Province, including Iwami Ginzan.

5. War reparations, 10 million taels of silver, can be paid in installments.