Chapter 9 The Human Heart

Qianqing Palace.

"Your Majesty, General Zhang has sent another battle report!"

"Oh?" Zhu Yunwen put down the pen in his hand, took it and flipped it over: "Hehe, Yuanjiang, Awaji, where is this?" Is there a map? ”

"Back to Your Majesty," Liu Jing smiled a little embarrassedly: "Recently, it seems that General Zhang and General Tong have fought to the east, and Weichen has gone to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War to ask, and no one knows these places, but a schematic map is attached to the battle report." ”

"Oh," Zhu Yunwen took out a piece of paper and found that it was a hand-drawn map, looking at it for a while, Zhu Yunwen shook his head, a little too miserable, except for Kyushu and Shikoku are a little similar, the coastline of Honshu Island is completely straight, and the inland part is completely blank.

However, Zhu Yunwen had nothing to do except smile bitterly, because he didn't know anything about the geography of the Wa Kingdom.

In addition, in this era, even officials who had been sent by the Ministry of Rites to the Wa Kingdom had only two routes to choose from: one was to take Korea and cross the Tsushima Strait by boat to the northern part of Kyushu; The other one starts from SD Raishu and drifts eastward with the wind, so as long as you don't deviate too much, you can reach your destination - southern Kyushu.

But farther away, the Ming people rarely set foot in, and the Japanese people did not let the Ming people go deeper, so most people's understanding of the Japanese country, is just Kyushu, the former Hongwu Emperor sent people to the Japanese country, after landing on Kyushu Island, he actually canonized the Southern Dynasty Prince Lianghuai as the "RB King", let it exterminate the Japanese Kou, at that time the Ming people did not know that Lianghuai was only a corner of Kyushu, and his father Emperor Kameyama abdicated the time has entered the countdown.

Of course, the Ming court also knew these things, because Ashikaga Yoshimitsu who had exterminated the Southern Dynasty took the initiative to envoy the Ming Kingdom to explain the situation, and Emperor Hongwu suddenly realized that in the following dynasties, the title of "RB King" fell on the heads of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Ashikaga Yoshinori in turn. The title is conferred too casually, and the person who accepts it is naturally not precious, so the relationship between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Court has always been like a separation, just imagine, the ronins who can't eat here in our place can run to you and grab a vote, you can't do anything about them, let me help fight it, and I want to respect you, if it's not beneficial, who wants to do it?

Of course, this is also an important reason why the Japanese dared to participate in the murder of Emperor Hongwu, the assassination of Emperor Jianwen, and the intervention in the Korean War, so now the Ming army is acting as a pirate, and Zhu Yunwen is overjoyed.

For a long time, Zhu Yunwen always felt that his navy was strong but powerful, but he was too timid, and the small ships of the Japanese Kingdom dared to cross the ocean, while the big ships of the Ming Dynasty could only go around the coastal sea, and Ryukyu was already the depths of the ocean in the eyes of the Ming people, which made it look like a joke for future generations?

However, Tong Hailong, who has experience in long-distance sailing, really impressed Zhu Yunwen, the navy, it is better to go out!

Recently, the officials of the Navy Governor's Office and the Military Aircraft Department are also at a loss, they don't know whether what Zhang Rong and others said is true or false, and they don't know how long Xiangdong is a head, but since His Majesty has issued an order to commend them, they have no choice but to support them, and weapons, grain and grass continue to be sent over without their lives.

The military thinks that the bandit behavior of Tong Hailong and others is nothing, but the civilian officials do not understand it that way.

Some civil officials and literati, kill well, let these Japanese also taste the pain of being plundered, the Ming Navy is good, it is like this, tooth for tooth, eye for eye, most of these officials come from FJ, ZJ, SD and Liaodong and other places, their hometowns are more or less swept by the Japanese Street, so when the news reaches these places, the local people celebrate with crowns, and the rich put on a feast to celebrate the victory of the navy; These officials naturally feel the same way and want to leave a good name in their hometown.

But officials in mainland China such as SC, JX, Huguang, HN and other places are different, they feel that Tong Hailong has done too much, and some people even wrote a letter suggesting that Tong Hailong be severely punished, and their reason is also very simple, that is, "If a dog bites a person, a person can't bite a dog!" They think that the Ming Dynasty is the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and it is appropriate to exterminate the Japanese invaders, but the people of the Japanese Kingdom are innocent, how can they rob them? We are a righteous army, a mighty army, and a large army is dispatched, shouldn't the people "eat pot pulp to welcome the king"? Wouldn't it hurt the peace of the heavens and the earth to do this?

Seeing the arguments of these officials, Zhu Yunwen was furious, and immediately issued an order to reprimand these officials, denouncing them as "corrupt Confucians", and then ordered the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, and the Hanlin Yuan to sort out the tragedies of the raids and harassment of the localities by the Japanese in all dynasties, and to issue a report to the Di Bao, and ordered the major newspapers such as the "Kyoto Daily", "Daming Daily", "ZJ Evening News" and other newspapers to reprint the entire article, and ordered the General Information Administration to intensify propaganda efforts to achieve the goal of "the Japanese are nothing but humanoid beasts, and everyone will be punished."

For the emperor's thunderous anger, the hundred officials did not understand, but the autocratic dynasty has the benefits of the autocratic dynasty, and the direction of the Ming Dynasty changed in an instant, of course, there are a few diehards who insist on not changing their words, such as Fang Xiaoru and others, for them, Zhu Yunwen thought about them, did not clean them up, but just ordered the major newspapers to prohibit the publication of their articles.

In the tide of propagating the ugly acts of the Japanese invaders, Korean literati have sprung up and occupied a prominent position in the tide. The reason is very simple: the Japanese invaders have attacked North Korea more frequently and caused greater harm.

In terms of distance, from Kyushu to North Korea, as long as you are brave and lucky, you can reach it by rowing a small boat, and the poorest and most vicious Japanese even dare to go to Korea to rob in a boat of only eight people; In terms of national strength, the DPRK's national strength is also far from that of China, and its resistance capability is even worse.

In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty in China, that is, from the tenth year to the twenty-sixth year of Zhizheng (1350 to 1366), the Japanese invaded Goryeo almost every year, causing heavy losses, and even forced the Goryeo government to abandon the Cao Yun and switch to land transportation.

Later, when the Ming Dynasty was established, Emperor Hongwu asked the Wa State to fight against the Wakos, which received an enthusiastic response from the Goryeo Dynasty, but the attack of the Wa Kou did not gradually subside until the Northern Dynasty of the Wa Kingdom was completely victorious and the Southern Dynasty surrendered.

However, after the victory, the Muromachi shogunate also dealt a severe and loose blow to the Japanese invaders, using them as a bargaining chip for trade with the Ming Dynasty and Korea. If you don't allow it, then I'm sorry, you can fight it. This situation of mutual play continued until the Tokugawa shogunate closed off the country, and gradually subsided.

Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty launched a propaganda offensive against the Japanese state, the officials and people of the newly established Korean political envoy department also participated for various reasons, and this participation was immediately rewarded, and the imperial court recruited three officials with outstanding performance into the Hanlin Academy as editors, and at the same time showed the former Korean military generals who had made meritorious contributions to the Japanese war, and the emperor made people build an archway outside his mansion, and personally wrote the inscription: "Anti-Japanese heroes" to commend their merits; As for others, such as Cui Ying and others, they also set up monuments in their hometowns to demonstrate their anti-Japanese achievements......

Of course, this enthusiasm of the DPRK is promoted by someone, that is, Zhang Zhen, the political envoy of the Ming Dynasty.

When the domestic controversy reached North Korea, Zhang Zhen immediately realized that this was a golden opportunity to divert the attention of the North Korean people.

Therefore, he immediately summoned officials and scholars from all over the country, and ordered them to dig deep and dig up the tragic events of the past attacks of the Japanese invaders, and provoke the people's hatred of the Japanese invaders.

Of course, Zhang Zhen did not forget to praise the great, bright and correct Emperor Jianwen today, in his compilation, the Ming Dynasty came to Korea, not only at the request of Li Chenggui, but also for the well-being of the Korean people, in order to forever ban the plague of the Japanese. Now that the Ming fleet is besieging the Wa Kingdom, it will soon invade the Wa Kingdom itself, and the destruction of the Wa Kou is just around the corner.

Finally, Zhang Zhen also called on the Korean people to join the army and ascend to the Japanese kingdom to avenge their families and ancestors......

Of course, Zhang Zhen is not just talking, he also set targets for officials in various places, and if they can't be completed, they will all be removed from their posts and investigated.

According to Zhang Zhen, this kind of official, who cannot redress the grievances of the people, is a waste of food to live.

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In order to accomplish Zhang's task, North Korean officials brainstormed and made a lot of achievements.

For example, Shang Wentong, the governor of Quanzhou, gathered prostitutes and storytellers from all over the city, ordered them to preach everywhere, and calculated the remuneration according to the number of people on the scene; Cho Gyu, the Gyeongju Governor, arranged for all the students of the academy to go to the city and the market to give speeches, calling on everyone to do their best to fight against the Japanese; The prefect of Kaesong, Jung Young-hak, organized the people who had been harmed by the Japanese to come forward and speak out, arousing the people's hatred for the Japanese invaders......

History has proved that Zhang Zhen's hard work was not in vain.

After the pacification of the Japanese state, the Korean people and officials were proud to belong to the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty was stronger and wealthier, and could better protect them......