Chapter 91: Situation and Decision-making
Jingshi, Jinchuan Gate.
"Wen Bi! Wait a minute! β
There was a hurried sound of horses' hooves, Zhang Fu turned around, and when he saw someone coming, he immediately jumped off his horse and shouted, "Yixiang, I thought you wouldn't come!" β
"How so?"
Shao Yun smiled and patted Zhang Fu's shoulder heavily: "We are not only relatives, but also brothers, brothers who are friends of life and death!" β
"Yes, we are brothers!"
Zhang Fu looked up at Shao Yun, his tears were a little moist.
In an instant, the mustard of the past seemed to have disappeared in the laughter of the two......
"Wen Bi, when you go to Annan, you must be cautious and careful, although Annan is my homeland of China, it has been hundreds of years since it was separated from Wanghua, and the people have long been no longer my Chinese ancestors, plus the miasma is everywhere, and the water and soil are not adaptable, which is not very beneficial to our army, and the troops in your hands are not much, you must be careful."
"Well, don't worry, I know it!"
Zhang Fu nodded and smiled: "With the strength of our army, although the progress is insufficient, the defense is more than enough, and after the construction of Anhai City, even if the Annan army attacks, I am not afraid, not to mention that Your Majesty will inevitably increase the army, and at that time, it will be no problem to step on the south of Ping'an!" β
"Well, it's great that you can think so!" Shao Yun smiled with relief.
β......β
"Yixiang, what are your plans for next?"
"Me?"
Shao Yun smiled bitterly: "In two days, I will escort Jin Se back to his hometown for burial, at least for more than a month, and then listen to His Majesty's arrangement!" β
"And," Shao Yun sighed, "Your Majesty is disgusted with me, Iβalasβ"
β......β
"I'm the one who dragged you down!"
Zhang Fu's expression was confused, and his words were full of apologies.
"Don't say that!"
Shao Yun shook his head, he turned to look at the clear Jinshui River, looked up at the mountains in the distance, and turned back and said, "Wen Bi, to be able to marry Jinse, this life is enough." β
"Now that she is gone, my wish has been fulfilled, and if Your Majesty is willing to use me, I will naturally bow down and die; If Your Majesty is disgusted, then I will be disarmed and returned to the field, and I will live this life! β
Hearing the desolation in Shao Yun's words, Zhang Fu felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, he took two steps, leaned on Shao Yun's side, and said in a low voice: "Yixiang, don't be discouraged. β
"Your Majesty is an immortal hero, and you have the ambition to open up the four yi, it is the time for my generation of martial artists to show their ambitions, as long as you don't forget your original intention and be loyal to Your Majesty, then after a while, Your Majesty will definitely use you."
"βBesides, am I not an example?"
"Hehe, Wen Bi,"
Shao Yun froze, turned his head and said casually: "Thank you!" I know what to expect! β
......
After chatting for more than half an hour, the two said goodbye in tears.
Zhang Fu rode on his horse and looked back at the towering city wall of the capital, with mixed feelings in his heart......
On the ground, Zhang Fu jumped off the horse, bowed three times and bowed nine times in the direction of the city wall, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the last general is gone!" β
After three sounds, Zhang Fu jumped on the horse and said sharply: "Let's go!" β
"Yes!"
A squad of cavalry kicked away.
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Ten years after entering Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen made a major adjustment to the military strategy, trying not to mobilize the army to go to the battle, so that the government and the opposition could take a breath.
Wu Anbo Zhang Fu was sent to Annan to serve as the ambassador of Annan and preside over the military affairs of Annan, but the army under his command was only about 40,000 people, except for the Second Guards Army, the rest were the troops drawn from Guangxi and Qiongzhou Island, including the Weisuo Army and some tribal armies. And Zhu Yunwen's order to him was "Stand firm, advance slowly, don't seek merit, but seek no fault!" β
Despite this, Zhang Fu still prepared two plans in his heart, after all, how the Annan people reacted was not under his control.
On the Japanese side, Zhu Yunwen also made corresponding adjustments.
The order given to Chu Zhi, the capital of Haidong, was to "stabilize the rear and develop production," and the order to be given to Haiyunlong, the capital of Haidong, was to "stabilize the front and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight."
The reason for this decision was that after Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Emperor Wakuni fled to the Kanto region, the balance in the Kanto region was immediately upset.
The Muromachi shogunate itself was a lame shogunate, with a very limited number of troops and only a hundred estates in its direct domains, far inferior to those daimyo who owned mines.
So in order to suppress the power of the daimyo, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu thought of strengthening the power of the shogunate through Ming trade.
In another time and space, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu monopolized trade with the Ming Dynasty, exporting swords, folding fans, sulfur, folding screens, lacquerware, and other items to the Ming Kingdom in the form of exploration trade, and then under the Ming Kingdom's "Ten Times Generous" policy, he purchased raw silk, cloth, medicinal materials, copper coins and other scarce goods from the Ming Kingdom, and then the shogunate sold these items to local daimyos, gradually increasing its own strength.
In the process, the local daimyo actually became the shogunate's production base and consumer market, so that the shogunate, which lacked gold and silver, used middlemen to accumulate wealth between the Ming Kingdom and the local daimyos; The local daimyo who were rich in gold and silver could only be exploited by the shogunate, but they had no choice but to send gold and silver to the shogunate to enhance its strength.
This trade method naturally caused dissatisfaction among the local daimyos, so Ashikaga Yoshinori, the son of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, was instigated by his retainers to greatly reduce trade with the Ming Dynasty with the high hat of "the country of the rising sun, never surrendered to other countries", which made the already weak shogunate even weaker, so that in the later "Onin War", the Muromachi shogunate completely declined.
After leaving Kyoto, the disadvantages of the shogunate were completely exposed, and Yoshimitsu, who did not have a direct domain, naturally clashed with the Kanto Daimyo, and according to the analysis of the Military Intelligence Agency, the Kanto region would enter the "Warring States Period", and the possibility of counterattacking the Ming Dynasty was very small.
Therefore, Zhu Yunwen ordered Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, to migrate to the Wa Kingdom, build Anping City on the original site of Heianjing, and build the Liao Wangfu in the city.
After the New Year, Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, had been ordered to rush to Haidong, accompanied by three guards specially equipped for him.
In addition, the king of Taiwan, Zhu Yunxi, who was rampaging in the Michinoku Kingdom in the Kanto region, ordered him to return to Whale Prefecture and not to expand southward, and Zhu Yunxi chose the direction of expansion for him to be the north, that is, the indigenous people of Sakhalin......
As for the north, after the westward migration of the Baonu in the land, the grasslands of Mobei were empty, and Zhu Yunwen decided to seize the opportunity to appease the Mongol tribes, divide the large tribes, merge the small tribes, designate pastures, and prohibit cross-border and mutual annexation.
This matter will be handed over to Ping'an, Geng Xuan, and Tie Xuan to be responsible.
The most troublesome is in the northwest, in order to find out the movements of the Chagatai Khanate, Zhu Yunwen ordered Fang Bin to send an envoy to the Chagatai Khanate, demanding that it hand over the land to protect the slaves, and at the same time stop sheltering and annexing the Warat tribe, otherwise it will be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, according to Zhu Yunwen's intentions, he didn't want to start a war with the Chagatai Khanate for the time being, and hoped that after controlling Mobei, he would decide to make peace.
To control Mobei, the most effective means is the railway, and the construction of the railway requires a lot of wealth, resources, manpower, and a lot of time.
For the candidate for the chief general of the Northwest Army, Zhu Yunwen finally chose Xu Huizu, and the supervising envoy was Song Sheng.
With the resignation of the staff secretary and the supervision secretary, the military aircraft department also needs to make major adjustments......