When the time enters April, the scenery inside and outside Beijing is more and more vivid. Peach and willow green, green grass, whether it is to see the beautiful scenery from afar, or to touch the beauty of spring more intimately, it is a thing that makes people intoxicated.

Because of this, after entering April, whether it is a dignitary or a peddler in the capital, he will always take some days to walk around the city to take in this beautiful spring light.

The seventh day of the first month is another good weather, the blue sky is cloudless, only a round of red sun hangs high on it, shining on all things, in addition to the warm spring breeze blowing slightly, it naturally attracts many people to walk or walk, or take a car out of the city to step into spring.

Located outside the Desheng Gate in the north of the city, a new peach forest has recently opened, which naturally attracts a lot of people to admire. There are also a lot of people who have passed by today, while enjoying the beautiful scenery of red and green, on the other hand, there are also people who make a few rhyming poems in accordance with the situation, but it is also a happy and prosperous scene.

Among these leisurely people enjoying the scenery, there was a carriage and two horses in a hurry, as if they were in a hurry to go north. Because the young man who rode the horse over there was extraordinary, and he was wearing a silk shirt, he naturally attracted the attention of many people:

"They don't look like merchants, and they should have nothing to do with military affairs, so what are they going to do in such a hurry?"

"Brother, you are a little wrong in what you said. Who said that this lord has nothing to do with the military? ”

"Oh? Do you really know this princess...... Adults? ”

"This person's name has been quite loud among the officials and people in the capital recently, and I have seen him in front of the yamen of the military department before I went down......"

"You mean, he's the ...... Outside the land staff? ”

"It's this Lord Lu."

"But why is he in a hurry to go north today, is it really as he said in his article, what chaos is going to happen in the north?"

"I don't know about this......"

The two young men dressed as scholars had already recognized Lu Jin's identity in a few words of conversation, but then they fell into deep worry, for fear that the Tartars in the north would make some more trouble.

And the two who went north with the carriage were naturally Lu Zhen and Lin Lie. However, unlike these two who thought that Lu Jinbei went north for official business, he went north this time completely for personal matters - he went to pick up Chu Yunrong and other women who finally arrived from Datong.

Three days ago, someone sent him a letter, telling him the specific date when the daughters arrived in the Beitongzhou area, so he took leave with his top boss Ji Langzhong yesterday and went out of the city early in the morning to greet him. He just didn't expect that now he has a great reputation among the government and the opposition, and he walks around without official uniforms, and he is actually seen through his identity at a glance.

The reason for this is that Lu Jin's name has been really loud recently, attracting the attention of the government and the opposition.

Of course, this is not because of his performance at the court meeting a month ago, and because of the resignation and departure of a second-rank high-ranking official, but because ten days ago, he sent to the palace through the General Administration Department a note on the opinions of side affairs!

Since he was in the Ministry of War, and the imperial court asked them to speak and show their views on their official positions, Lu Zhen immediately started to write after getting the news from Yu Qian.

In fact, as early as the experience of going south and north in the past few years, Lu Zhen already had some ideas in his heart, hoping to let the current Ming court and the Manchu monarchs understand the various problems hidden under this prosperous era. It's just that I don't have the right opportunity to really put it into action. And this time, since the imperial court has this request, Lu Zhen is not polite, and immediately spent five or six days to write a book full of 10,000 words - "Minister Lu Jin's Recital on the World's Affairs"! Just this name is enough to make many people look sideways, which is really a big breath.

Generally speaking, even if there is something to be played by a courtier, he will say it in a somewhat low-key manner, and at the same time try to choose the name in detail, so that the emperor can understand his own opinion at a glance. But he is good, but he does the opposite, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it is completely a manifestation of ignorance of the sky.

You, a petty official who is only in his twenties and has only served in the local government for a few years, dare to speak up about the affairs of the world? Aren't you afraid of the wind flashing your tongue?

Therefore, when this recital was sent to the General Administration Department, it was quickly circulated, and it was regarded as a joke by many people who had not read the content of it, and they all said that Lu Zhen was not self-sufficient, or because he occasionally made small contributions, and got carried away.

But the Son of Heaven, after reading this recital, fell into deep thought. Because Lu Zhen really didn't say much, in this brilliant and thousand-word recital, he expressed his views and future judgments on the north, southeast, and southwest borders, and also included methods to solve those problems.

Although there are also knowledgeable and talented courtiers in the court, everyone is always accustomed to adding a lot of empty words and clichés to the music, and the substance only accounts for a small part. But Lu Jin's performance is almost all dry goods, and many of them are unexpected.

For example, regarding the situation of rebellion in the southwest, Lu Zhen proposed that this was a mistake made by Taizu when he was in his time. At that time, the county of Jianzhou, which was set up to appease local and foreign peoples, would only alienate the Miao Zhuang and other tribes there from the imperial court, so that they would rebel endlessly for a hundred years.

In order to solve this problem, the key lies not in sending troops to quell the chaos, but in civil administration and moral governance. It is time to send a group of well-educated people to appease the hearts of the people there with benevolent government. At the same time, the government schools were widely opened, and people of all ethnic groups there were absorbed into the schools as much as possible, and the concepts of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness in Confucianism were used to change their backward and barbaric living conditions.

Although this is a protracted matter, as long as we persist in the end, we will definitely be able to reverse the current chaos in the southwest.

In fact, Lu Jin's strategy is just picking up people's teeth. A few decades later, Wang Shouren, a generation of spiritual masters, relied on this way of learning, coupled with his own unique personality charm, to conquer all the wilderness people in the Longchang area of Guizhou and let them return to Wanghua.

Since Wang Yangming was able to use this trick to conquer the foreign tribes in Guizhou, Lu Zhen believed that today's imperial court could also use the same means to solve the problems of the southwest. As long as the people there accept the Han culture, especially the Confucian concepts of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame, the rebellion like last year may be completely eliminated.

The chaos in the southwest, although not a big problem, has always plagued the Manchu monarchs and ministers. Every year, the imperial court will allocate a large amount of money to appease the Tusi patriarchs, hoping to make them settle down. But after a few years, these guys will start to be restless for various reasons, or kill officials, or attack states and counties, and then the imperial court will have to send troops and horses to quell the chaos, which is really not very disturbing.

Now Lu Zhen put forward a new insight at the beginning of the song, which really made Zhu Qizhen's eyes shine. It's just that after all, this matter is related to the entire national policy, although he is a little moved, he can only consult with the courtiers before making a decision.

In fact, Lu Zhen never thought that his brand-new idea could really be accepted by the Son of Heaven. Even the issue of the southwest border matter is only because the military department has talked about it the most recently, which has made him think about this aspect, and it can only be regarded as a temporary hot spot. The point he really wants to express is in the last two points-

“…… Minister Lu Zhen said that although the southeast has been peaceful for a long time, there are still troubles, and His Majesty must not fail to investigate...... However, the sluggish military preparation of the southeastern provinces is also a hidden worry for my Ming Dynasty...... In other days, if the Japanese invade the border and the guards are difficult to serve, the income of the imperial court will be greatly reduced......"

In response to the problem of the southeast, Lu Zhen not only mentioned the problem of the Japanese invaders, which has always existed, but has always been ignored by the world.

Although over the years, the Japanese have also repeatedly killed and plundered from the sea, but it is obviously not yet a climate, and it does not really pose a threat to the southeastern provinces. However, Lu Zhen clearly pointed out that if it is not prevented, it will inevitably cause a catastrophe, and the most critical of which is the sharp reduction of the strength of the Ming garrison in the southeast.

Lu Jin, who had had a confrontation with the Japanese invaders, could clearly feel that the officers and soldiers of the Jiangnan Guard Station had the intention of fighting at this time. Perhaps they can still repel the invading enemy by virtue of their outnumbered numbers, but in the future, when the Japanese really unite into a single force, it will be a nightmare for the entire southeast coast.

As for this problem, Lu Jin's proposal is also a method - train soldiers and horses diligently and prepare early.

In fact, what Lu Zhen wants to propose is to open the sea, because of the trouble, in the final analysis, it is because the sea route is not passable, and only by opening the sea and trade can the problem be solved from the root. But he knows better that the forbidden sea is the ancestral precept of the Ming Dynasty, and unless he holds the power or finds a suitable opportunity, he can't mention it.

However, the Son of Heaven and other high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China were very unimpressed with his admonition, thinking that it was just his alarmism. There are nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers in the southeast, so can they still be attacked and disturbed by the Japanese bandits?

The only thing worth worrying about is the last few words he ordered. If there is really chaos in the southeast, the tax revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty will be cut by half. However, in the eyes of today's confident monarchs, the probability of this outcome is too low.

And some of the views on the northern border affairs mentioned by Lu Zhen at the end are the key to really attracting people's attention and making him famous again.

In Lu Jin's view, the real battlefield against the Mongolian people is not in attack or defense, but in a business word. As long as you can think of ways to make all the grassland tribes inseparable from all kinds of rare things and daily necessities in the Central Plains, you can surrender without a fight.

At the same time, he also "presciently" mentioned the idea that Varat was about to completely replace the Tatars.

And this was confirmed by a side newspaper that arrived in a hurry soon after this recital spread in the DPRK and China......