It is really a novelty that the leisurely Inspector Yuan can take the initiative to stop himself from talking, but Mao Jue's face is down, and he even guessed what this old guy wants to say, it is nothing more than a loyal minister and a filial son, the family and the country, and he opens his mouth to despise himself as a selfish ghost.

However, Lao Yuan spoke, this face Mao Jue still gave it, and with a bitter face, he simply hugged his fists.

"What do you have to say?"

"General Mao, Yuan doesn't comment on what you did, but just reminds you, pay attention to the imperial court!"

"The Imperial Court?"

This really made Mao Jue a little confused, Dongjiang is different from any military town in the Ming Dynasty, here is a fugitive from Liaodong, displaced people, defeated soldiers, and even a lot of Hu people outside the Guan, in short, all of them are established by lawbreakers, the control of the imperial court here is unusually small, if other military towns, like Mao Jue sent troops to toss privately, they would have been taken by the Ministry of War, but Mao Jue fought Japan twice and expeditioned to Jiangnan once, and the imperial court knew nothing about this.

At most, he knew that he opened a border market privately and did business with Houjin, but in recent years, there have been many border towns that have traded with the Hu people in the north, and the imperial court can't control it.

In the matter of the Wa Kingdom, Mao Jue was planning to get rid of the imperial court and do it alone, and Yuan Chonghuan paid attention to the imperial court, which made him inexplicable.

"As a general, not only focus on military affairs, but also should be widely involved in the geography of mountains and rivers, customs, and historical origins. Win on the field. ”

"When I first served as the commander of Ningqian Dao, I had studied the battle of Renchen, and I won't talk about the strength and weakness of the Japanese soldiers, I believe that General Mao himself knows better than me in his heart, but one of their major characteristics, I'm afraid General Mao hasn't noticed it."

didn't sell it, Yuan Chonghuan said very solemnly.

"These widows are especially good at combining vertical and horizontal techniques!"

"The battle of Renchen, although the two sides are in constant war, but the envoys are constantly coming and going, before and after more than a dozen times, General Xiao Mao twice attacked and harassed the Japanese country, although I don't know what the battle situation is, but I'm afraid that the Japanese people will not sit and watch General Xiao Mao you are so vertical and horizontal, if my prediction is good, the Japanese envoy to Li North Korea, as well as the envoy to the Ming Dynasty, the envoy of mediation and collusion has been ready to go, if the Japanese people make trouble to the court, General Xiao Mao you have to eat and walk around!"

"Therefore, if you really decide to do this, you have to hurry up, pack up the canonization edict of the Toyotomi family, and first set this righteousness, imitate the Annan example, the imperial court has to take care of it, and when the time comes, you will have a name in hand, and it is also justifiable to send troops to the country!"

"That's it."

Seeing Inspector Yuan sneaking back to his room with the book on his back, Chiyo Ji made a grimace at himself and followed him in, Mao Jue really felt a little abrupt.

Indeed, the art of combining vertical and horizontal!

Since the Onin Rebellion, which great joint war is not a few dozen or so gangs, take the Battle of Sekigahara as an example, the strength of the Tokugawa family is only tens of thousands, and the rest are composed of the Fukushima family, the Kuroda family, the Hosokawa Kato family and other daimyos, to unite so many families, the experience of the Japanese people in diplomacy is really far greater than that of the Ming Dynasty.

If you can't beat it on the battlefield, the Tokugawa family went to Jingshi to complain, which is really not impossible.

It's just that Yuan Chonghuan's suggestions are both pros and cons, first of all, the cost of going to Beijing, in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to do something, you need silver to open the way, the greed of those civil officials, but the desire is difficult to settle, especially when the head of the court is Wen Tiren is greedy for power and not greedy for money, this does not mean that Mao Jue will save money, but it means that he will do something, Mao Jue has to find more precious treasures to make door bricks.

Moreover, once the name of the Toyotomi family was given to the imperial court, Mao Jue and Li were stiff, and it was much more difficult to replace them, and they could only be indirectly controlled through the method of proxy.

The pros and cons of this are full of brains, pinching his chin, Mao Jue walked out with great difficulty.

While he was pondering, Maori Sakura sneaked to Kaiden's side and asked in a whisper.

"Kai Palace, His Royal Highness Chiyohime was sent out in one piece, wasn't it just for the promise of marriage? Now that the Maori family has been cut by more than half, his strength has declined, and he Maori Yuanhui didn't have the courage to compete with Tokugawa Ieyasu back then, and now he can't count on it, why not let His Royal Highness Chiyoji marry General Mao, it's better than a verbally agreed father! Besides, the Lord worships General Mao as his father-in-law, so how should the world's great names view the Lord? ”

Maori Sakura is really a little puzzled, at the critical moment, why is the Kai Hall reluctant to put down the capital?

Who knew that at this moment, the faint old eyes of the Jiafei Hall were full of indifference, and said coldly.

"The marriage of the Toyotomi family, there is a Toyotomi family to worry about, and this lord is called, Sakurahime, you still don't want to call it, don't forget, you are now Mao Jue's retainer, not my Toyotomi family's retainer!"

"I ......"

Full of disbelief, Maori Sakura looked at the cold old face of Kai Hall in amazement, she had been holding on to the Toyotomi family for so many years, and in an instant, she was actually regarded as an outsider.

After being stunned for a few seconds, Mao Li Sakura retracted her expression, became expressionless, bowed slightly to the Kai Temple, and then held the knife, and hurriedly returned to Mao Jue's attendant team.

…………

It is worthy of Inspector Yuan, Mao Jue said it in a few words, and after returning to White Horse City, he called Adriana over, and the two of them locked up in the study and did not see the guests for a whole afternoon, and in the evening, Mao Jue went to the hot spring valley first, and then took Mao Wenlong and ran to the Dongjiang Academy located in the back mountain, and tossed Shen Guangzuo out.

Jiang is still old and spicy in the end, and with these two old-timers analyzing the pros and cons, Mao Jue finally made up his mind.

This time back, the remnants of the Kumano sailor of the Toyotomi family were brought back by Mao Jue more than 100, some of them were sent to Shangshou Village to wait for their little master Toyotomi Kunimatsumaru, and the other part of Mao Jue selected more than 20 people from them to form the Toyotomi Mission, not to mention, this is really called a relative's house, the old master Shen Guangzuo left his classroom behind, and specially found an empty classroom to train these envoys etiquette and precautions.

If you go to Beijing, you should worship which yamen, how to submit the credentials to Honglu Temple, if the Ming Emperor summons, how to visit, the Ming Dynasty is a state of etiquette, if you don't do it well, things will be easy to mess up, but on the contrary, if everything is in line with etiquette, respectful and respectful, you can definitely win the elbows of the court to turn out, and the ministers of the subject country are closer than their sons.

Of course, this is only the bright side, and there are a lot of people who play yin.

In the secret room, several large boxes were opened, and the golden light reflecting the candle flame immediately dazzled people's eyes, and Mao Jue was also distressed and dripping blood.

This is the gold he extorted from the shogunate with all his might! Among them, 10,000 taels have been given to the Kuroda family as a gift, and the remaining 40,000 taels are all here, and it is estimated that the affairs of the Japanese country will be done, and these are all spent, and they may be a little insufficient.

It's just that when he walked out of the door, he suddenly became entangled again, gold is there, who can he send to Jingshi to help him do this?

Do the math, under his command, there are a lot of muscular sticks in the war, and with the addition of Fan Wenju to govern the place, the operation of the Dongjiang Academy is not lacking now, but there is really no diplomatic talent who is skillful and good at combining vertical and horizontal, this is to Beijing to do things, there are many doors, and the money is not spent, and things can't be done.

But Wen Bo fell ill at the beginning of this year, and he was almost in his prime, and it took a lot of effort to run the Beijing division again, and Mao Jue was really afraid that he would not be able to come back.

But who will you send?

However, this matter is not the most entangled, when I returned home, I stayed in the study for a long time, and I didn't eat dinner, until I was about to go to bed, Mao Jue reluctantly rang the bell and called the servants who were waiting outside.

"Madame, please!"

"Sir, please, which lady please?"

After the last incident, everyone in the house knew who was the first lady, and Mao Jue's order made the subordinates ask in astonishment.

But this sentence almost didn't make Mao Jue vomit blood, and roared angrily.

"There is a lady in the house, who do you say you invite?"

I was almost scared to pee, bowed and turned around and ran, fortunately, he still has an IQ, and after a while, holding the corner of his skirt, Chen Jiao is style stepped into the study.

"Master, you want to see the concubine."

"Yes!"

With a straight face, he didn't raise his head, Mao Jue lowered his head and worked hard to write, not knowing what to read, so he gave him a casual gesture and then disappeared.

However, Chen Jiao did not urge to stand in front of the desk with her hands tied, waited quietly, saw that the light was too dim, and reached out to cut the burnt wick for Mao Jue.

After being tense for about three minutes, Mao Jue couldn't hold back at first, took out a letter from the desk, lowered his head and handed it to Chen Jiao.

"This letter, send it to Master Chen, just, just say, you sent ......"

Mao Jue was indeed a little embarrassed, so she gave Chen Jiao a face, but she had to use her when she turned around. can be opened for the Toyotomi family, but it is the time when the mouthpiece of the imperial history is most needed, and now the Mao family can make a contribution to the side of the Beijing division, as if it is an imperial history.

However, the last time he and Chen Zanzhong had a quarrel, it was not as simple as stiffness, even if the old guy was threatened by the old things, but he could not contribute to his work, he Mao Jue could only stare at him in vain.

At this time, I had to play the family card and pass it through Chen Jiao's hands.

Besides, the granddaughter's letter to her grandfather does not arouse suspicion.

"The concubine knows."

"You, understood?"

"The concubine understands, does the master have anything else to command?"

A little unexpectedly, he raised his head and stared at him, watching Chen Jiao take the letter in his hand, and replied calmly, which made him can't help but pause, and then Mao Jue quickly shook his head.

"Nope."

"The concubine retired."

Holding the letter, Chen Jiao went out of the door indifferently, but when she looked back, she looked at Mao Jue and seemed to be a little stunned looking at her back, and a smile hooked up slightly at the corner of her mouth.

"So what's the polite thing about?"

I don't know who to say politely, after sending her away, Mao Jue knocked on his head heavily, which can be regarded as a temporary knock out of his head, stood up from the desk, he ran to the bookshelf and pressed it again, and with a buzz, the bookshelf slowly opened like the mechanism in the movie.

Opening the iron cabinet inside, he took out a box of mirrors.

Rare is expensive, now Mao Jue has a lot of bulk commodities on hand for export, and the Western mirror is more expensive than his, and he can't sell the Beiyang mirror on the bad street, and now if you want to say that this rare treasure bribes Wen Tiren, the Beiyang mirror is a good opening brick.

However, just as Mao Jue was picking up the mirror, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside.

"General! Xianzhou is coming!"

Looking at Mao Jue's hurried expression, Mao Jue reached out and put down the mirror again.

(End of chapter)