Zhu Houzhao summoned Tang Kekuan and Lu Bo, naturally for the sake of this extermination, although it is unknown whether Tang Kekuan and Lu Bo will have opinions because Qi Jiguang is in charge, but Zhu Houzhao thinks that it is necessary for him to do some ideological work for these two people.

Although Zhu Houzhao is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the first person at the top of power, he has never ignored the people at the lower levels of his power, and he will maintain respect for these people, and naturally he will not be willing to risk losing the war for the sake of the so-called face and not give more explanations to Tang Kekuan and Lu Bo, two veterans.

Zhu Houzhao was undoubtedly right in doing so.

Tang Kekuan and Lu Bo, as veterans of Yu Dayou's generation, were actually dissatisfied with the younger Qi Jiguang becoming the commander of the war to exterminate the Japanese, but they were summoned by the Emperor Taishang and even explained by the Emperor Taishang himself, which made the dissatisfaction of the two disappear at once, and even took the initiative to promise to cooperate with Qi Jiguang.

After summoning Tang Kekuan and Lu Bo, Zhu Houzhao no longer worried about the specific matters of this war to exterminate the Japanese.

As an old man, he is now trying to ease himself as much as possible.

Of course, that doesn't mean he won't be unconcerned about the war anymore.

Zhu Houzhao still cares a lot about this war of extermination.

After all, compared to the Ming Anti-Japanese War in the Wanli period in history.

In this time and space, Da Ming is the one who takes the initiative to attack.

Before the war officially began, the General Political Department of the Ministry of War and the Privy Council began to carry out propaganda among the military and the people, publicizing why the Ming Dynasty wanted to exterminate the Japanese and the significance of the extermination.

With the influence of new ideas, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the center in charge of military and political power began to take the initiative to report the significance of some major decisions to the people of the world.

This is a transformation of the Ming Dynasty in the new era.

In the past, the emperor and the imperial court made decisions in the form of decrees in a father-to-son manner.

And now, the relationship has reversed, and the emperor and the court report to the people of the world on the affairs of major decisions.

It seems that it is no longer the Ming Emperor and the imperial court who rule the Ming people, but the Ming Emperor and the imperial court serve the Ming people, or are employed by the whole world to govern the country.

The emperor and many high-ranking officials of the imperial court have changed their minds and have this idea.

However, many of the people are still living in a stage where they do not trust officials and are afraid of relying on them.

Of course, there are also quite a few officials, especially middle- and lower-level officials, who are still at a stage where the people cannot make them known.

But the people of the Ming Dynasty in this era are actually happy, they have not experienced a hundred years of shame, have not experienced three hundred years of servile rule, and do not know what is called worshipping foreign flattery, and even the word "foreign" in life does not mean "more advanced and more rare and precious", but represents backwardness and rudeness.

The hatred for the Wa State was not so great, so although the imperial court publicized the reason for exterminating the Wa, they did not have any great feelings, after all, in this era, many people have not even experienced the great Wa rebellion, do not know the cruelty of war, and do not understand why the war is waged.

"I wish to be a light child in Chang'an, born in Kaiyuan Tianbao. Cockfighting goes through a lifetime, the rise and fall of heaven and earth do not know", is undoubtedly the best portrayal of the people of the Ming Dynasty in this era, for the upcoming war to exterminate the Japanese, their greatest interest is how many Japanese girls can be bought at that time.

The people of Daming in this era are truly happy in their hearts, there is not much hatred to remember, they are not so extreme, and they even seem a little simple.

Qi Jiguang didn't think there was much of a problem with the extermination of the Ming Empire this time, after all, the current military strength of the Ming Empire was not of the same order of magnitude as any country in the world.

First of all, the transportation of the army is already very different from other countries, except for the Ming Dynasty's own military and civilians, no one can imagine what it is like to transport the army by train, but this is already a commonplace thing in the Ming Dynasty.

Because of this, the troops trained outside the Saiwai can be transported to Jiangnan within ten years, and the time for transporting troops has been saved several times.

Moreover, transporting troops by train did not worry about exhausting the army from long journeys, and tens of thousands of troops could rest and march on the train.

There are two big rivers in the Ming Dynasty, one is the Yellow River, one is the Yangtze River, before there is no railway bridge built by trains and reinforced concrete, the army has to cross the river to find a boat to occupy the ferry, requisition the people, now it is not troublesome, there is a direct railway bridge can pass through tens of thousands of troops all day and night.

Not only the army, but also the logistical baggage can be quickly assembled to the destination by rail transport.

And generals can also manage their officers and soldiers more conveniently, after all, the officers and soldiers are in the car.

Of course, this is backed by the strong transportation and technological strength of the entire empire, as well as the management ability, and the railway department has now become one of the most important departments of the cabinet.

Qi Jiguang also got on the train at Nanyuan Railway Station at this time, accompanied by Tang Kekuan, Hu Zongxian, and Zhao Wenhua, Zhao Wenhua is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and this time through Xu Jie's relationship is responsible for going to the Japanese State to organize the construction of the project, and Lu Bo is a naval general, so he has taken the train south in advance, preparing to transport the army of Daming to cross the sea and destroy the Japanese.

Prior to this, Pan Sheng, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, had been ordered to send an envoy to Ryukyu and asked Ryukyu to provide a military base for the Ming Dynasty as a transit point for the Ming army.

Naturally, Ryukyu did not dare to resist the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, so they agreed, and cut Okinawa into a military base of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time took the initiative to borrow millions of silver dollars from the banking institutions of the Ming Dynasty to renovate the corresponding infrastructure of the military base.

After all, the purpose of the Ming Dynasty to establish a military base in Ryukyu was to help protect the national security of the Ryukyus, so the construction of the Ming military base in the Ryukyus was naturally the money of the Ryukyu State.

At this time, the Ryukyu Kingdom was not poor, and the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan and even Southeast Asia had to be transferred to him, so the Ryukyus, as a transit station, still made a lot of money from this, so it was not a problem to borrow millions of silver dollars.

It stands to reason that the Ming Dynasty can also destroy the Ryukyus in one fell swoop, but the cost of destroying the Ryukyus is not proportional to the benefits obtained, so the Ming still did not choose to destroy the Ryukyus before this, but now the Ming Dynasty has established a military base in the Ryukyus, which naturally lays a good foundation for the destruction of the Ryukyus at a lower cost in the future.

Now the Ming Dynasty still has to focus on the destruction of the Wa, after all, the territory of the Wa State is larger, the population is also large, and the significance of destroying the Wa State is greater.

Of course, for this war of extermination, the Ming Dynasty did not intend to let Ryukyu stay out of the matter and remain neutral, Qi Jiguang followed the instructions of the imperial court, and had already ruled Ryukyu before going south, and also sent troops to assist the Ming army to participate in the war of exterminating the Japanese, although the apparent reason was to jointly punish the behavior of the Japanese and the Japanese country, in fact, to force the Ryukyus and the Japanese to become enemies.

Qi Jiguang, the general of the extermination of the Japanese army, was sitting in a carriage of the military train at this time, and sitting in front of him were Tang Kekuan, Hu Zongxian, Zhao Wenhua and other civil and military officials.

Although he had not yet boarded the ship to go to the Ryukyus, Qi Jiguang had already convened several meetings of these officials in a row to fully understand the preparations for the entire war of extermination.

As the supreme military commander of more than 100,000 officers and soldiers, although Qi Jiguang knew that the Japanese State was not the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, he still did not dare to be careless in the specific command of the war, after all, war command is also an art, as an outstanding general commander, he naturally wants to make the war command more perfect and exciting, and he will naturally be able to be more brilliant when he is left in history in the future.

But what Qi Jiguang didn't expect was that when he opened a meeting about where more than 100,000 officers and soldiers planned to camp and build a military base after landing in the Japanese Kingdom, Zhao Wenhua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, demanded:

"Qi Shuai, Zhao thinks that you should tell someone why you chose to use Versatile as the landing point and abandon the five islands, in addition, Zhao doesn't know whether Vice Marshal Tang knows your military plan, and what opinions do you have on it, whether it is different, whether you have discussed it with Vice Marshal Tang, and whether you plan to discuss it with Vice Marshal Lu after going to Okinawa."

Hu Zongxian frowned first, and thought: "It's bad, it seems that Yuanfu didn't just give me an account of the matter of provoking and destroying the relationship between the Japanese generals, and now Zhao Wenhua has come up to act on behalf of him, with a gun and a stick, and he has made it clear that he came with a purpose!" Qi Jiguang is young and a military general, and this time he led the army alone, and he didn't know if he could deal with it. ”

Although Hu Zongxian was curious about how Qi Jiguang would deal with this matter, he also wanted to mediate the conflict according to Zhu Houzhao's holy will, so he smiled first:

"Da Sikong is too worried, Qi Shuai is fighting with the Emperor Taishang, and he has obtained the true inheritance of the Emperor, how can there be a mistake, naturally he must have discussed it with Vice Marshal Tang, we are only doing a good job in the rear and assisting the army, this kind of war, there is no need for a layman to command an insider."

Hu Zongxian said this with two meanings: you Zhao Wenhua don't just think about currying favor with Xu Yuanfu, you have to see who is behind Qi Jiguang, and the other is to tell you Zhao Wenhua not to overstep his authority, since you are only responsible for the construction of the base, you are honestly responsible for the construction of the base, and how to fight the generals is a problem for the generals.

"Hu Jingluo's words are funny, the generals have only led the army for fifty or sixty years, and Wenchen has been in charge of the army for hundreds of years, why can't you ask about this military matter now, if you want to talk about this war, the military generals are not as good as Wenchen, Wang Yue and Wang Shouren are both people with great military achievements, and you generals dare to say that they are strong?"

Zhao Wenhua asked such a question, but he also stopped Qi Jiguang, after all, he in this time and space is not the same as in the original history, and it seems that no one is willing to agree with his military talent except for Zhu Houzhao for a while.

Regarding Zhao Wenhua's provocation, Qi Jiguang naturally shouted angrily, and slapped the table on the spot: "What do you mean by Da Sikong, do you think I am not worthy of being this commander?" Then why don't you play a trick and ask the emperor to replace Qi! ”

"How dare Zhao, you are a celebrity next to the Emperor, Zhao just thinks that this battle to exterminate the Japanese should not be taken lightly, Qi Shuai should ask for more advice and consult Deputy Marshal Tang", Zhao Wenhua said.

Tang Kekuan had already received Zhu Houzhao's instructions, and naturally knew that if he followed Zhao Wenhua to coax him blindly now, he would definitely not be able to eat and walk around in the future, so he did not cooperate with Zhao Wenhua, but took the initiative to get up and salute Qi Jiguang in front of Zhao Wenhua and said: "During the extermination of the Japanese Emperor, Tang Mou is the only handsome horse, even if the handsome man asks for Tang's head, Tang Mou will never say anything!" ”

Qi Jiguang saw that Tang Kekuan took the initiative to obey him, and his heart was naturally happy, and he hurriedly helped Tang Kekuan to the round table and sat down: "The old general's words are serious, Qi Mou is too powerful to be the emperor, His Majesty trusts, and he is in charge of the position of commander, which is originally panicked, but now fortunately, thanks to the assistance of the two old generals Tang and Lu, Qi can ask for advice at any time, so that he can take office with peace of mind, and it is enough to see the wisdom of the emperor!" This time, the extermination of the Japanese is all thanks to Tang, General Lu Lao, all of you here and the soldiers and civilians in front! ”

Zhao Wenhua saw that his provocation did not work, and Tang Kekuan made his statement clear, which made him angry for a while, and he couldn't help but see Hu Zongxian with a smile on his face, so he only snorted coldly and said in a low voice: "Hu Jingluo, didn't you get Yuanfu to inquire before leaving Beijing?" ”

"Naturally, I've seen it," Hu Zongxian replied.

"Then why is Zhao someone busy with the world's affairs today, and Hu Jingluo has no mind at all about this? I even laughed at it! Zhao Wenhua asked.

"It's really funny that Da Sikong said this, how did Hu not do his best to the king's affairs, and now Hu sees that the main and deputy marshals are working together in harmony, and he is happy that my Daming can have such an officialdom atmosphere, why can't he laugh at it? Don't Da Sikong think this is a good thing? ”

Hu Zongxian asked rhetorically.

Zhao Wenhua couldn't answer Hu Zongxian's question, but he was even more depressed in his heart, he wanted to ask Hu Zongxian again if he regarded himself as a member of the civilian clique, but he didn't dare to ask, after all, he also knew that on the bright side, he couldn't ask Hu Zongxian's ass to sit on the side of Wenchen.

……

Zhu Houzhao chatted with Zhu Zailei on this day, and accidentally heard Zhu Zailei mention Zhao Wenhua, he couldn't help but have some curiosity, and asked: "Isn't Zhao Wenhua just getting close to Yan Song, why is Yan Song now that he is an ancient, can he still participate in important affairs?" ”

"Yuan Fu highly recommended it, this is also Xu Jie, who is virtuous and does not avoid relatives, and the officialdom also praises him for this trip."

Zhu Zailei replied.

"Sure enough, no matter how the times change, the people who will drill the camp will still drill the camp, you personally issued a decree to transfer Zhao Wenhua back, this leading soldiers to fight is not an official, an old fritter in the officialdom like him is not suitable to stay in the barracks, it will not be bad, I am old now, and I was too lazy to ask about these little things, but if there is a mistake in the matter of exterminating the Japanese this time, I will never stop!"

Zhu Houzhao cut a potted branch directly short, and said to Zhu Zailei with some solemnity.

"Listening to Xu Yuanfu, this Zhao Wenhua still has some ability, my son doesn't understand, my father will conclude that he is just a drill camper", Zhu Zailei couldn't help asking.

"How many grains of rice have you eaten, how many grains of rice have I eaten, I have crossed more bridges than you have walked, can you compare with me, people in this world, although it is impossible for me to know what everyone thinks in their hearts, but in the imperial court, what many officials have in mind, I still know!"

Zhu Houzhao said a little nonsense, and Zhu Zailei was not easy to refute: "In this case, with the intention of my father, it is more appropriate to let someone take over Zhao Wenhua's position." ”

"Choose the weakness of the personality, the bad thing about the Wenchen is often not that they are stupid, but that the bad is pretentious, no one in the eyes, pretentious, as long as there is a stomach, there is no difference between hiding the foolish and clumsy, this kind of military war, they Wenchen is the rear service, there is no need for any other talent, just send experienced followers."

Zhu Houzhao said.