Zhu Zhanji recently encountered another troublesome thing, that is, outside the Navy Headquarters, every day, a large number of envoys and students from Dongying gathered to cry and beg.

Although there are a large number of Japanese traitors in this era, most people still care about the motherland no matter what.

Under the organized arrangement of the envoys, these Dongying students took turns to go into battle and reported to the naval headquarters every day, rain or shine.

They didn't make trouble and didn't obstruct the traffic on Chang'an Avenue, but they were dressed in mourning clothes and cried when they saw Zhu Zhanji's horse team coming.

Seeing them is like seeing a bunch of dead stars.

Zhu Zhanji can't beat or scold yet. Yingtianfu now has hundreds of envoys and students from small countries, and even some nobles from small countries come to Yingtianfu and never leave.

If Da Ming used violent means against these people in Dongying, then this matter would damage Da Ming's reputation too much.

If he can't be provoked, he can only hide.

Since coming to this era, he has never been so aggrieved. This kind of grievance also made his anger more and more intense, and he was ready to go to Dongying, and he wanted to vent it on their people.

He didn't want to occupy the country of Dongying, except for some gold, silver, and sulfur, the country simply didn't have any more resources.

In this era, fertile land is the real resource!

The people of Dongying have gold and silver, but the key reason why people live in poverty is that they have no good land.

Without fertile land, there will be no grain, without fertile land, there will be no cotton and linen, people will not even be satisfied with basic living security, people will have no food to eat, no clothes to wear, and no amount of gold and silver will only cause a primary financial crisis, that is, currency depreciation.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji is only ready to occupy the gold-rich Zuodo Island, Hokkaido, and the Iwami Silver Mountain, and the rest of the places are still left to the autonomy of those Dongying people.

As long as their grain and cotton and linen are controlled, there is no fear that these Dongying people will be disobedient.

In the same way, Zhu Zhanji of the DPRK has no interest in it, and the large population and small number of fields to occupy these places only outweigh the losses.

Now the Ming Dynasty spends two million silver on military spending in Jiaozhi every year, but can only receive a tax burden of 70,000 silver.

If it weren't for Zhu Di's insistence on expansion, Zhu Zhanji would also know the importance of Jiaozhi's grain production and as a bridgehead to control the Nanyang region, and I am afraid that he would really give up Jiaozhi as he did in the original history.

Before the Xiaoice Age approached, the importance of grain producing land in the south was far greater than the discovery of more gold and silver mines in Daming.

As long as the Ming Dynasty controls the complete island chain from Ryukyu, to Jeju Island, to Tsushima Island, Zuodo Island, Hokkaido, as well as Sakhalin Island and the Aleutian Islands, Dongying, which has only three large islands, will never turn over.

Moreover, economic control is far less worry-free than military appropriation, and it is more profitable.

The army on this expedition was less than 50,000 more than the previous year, but with the addition of the 10,000 troops left behind on Jeju Island and the 30,000 troops on Tsushima Island, the total strength exceeded 150,000.

Among them, there are 110,000 in the navy alone, and for this quota for the expedition, except for the Fourth Group Army stationed in Guangdong, the other three major naval bases have only broken their heads.

They are not only for the sake of grabbing credit, but also because this kind of actual combat can effectively temper the soldiers' ability to coordinate and combat and enhance their combat effectiveness.

This time, however, all three fleets adopted the method of veterans leading new recruits, with less than 30,000 soldiers who had participated in two operations a year ago, and the other 40,000 were recruits who had never fought in actual combat.

In addition, there are more than 30,000 soldiers who are good at mountain warfare from the Southern Guard, and according to the division of later generations, they should belong to the army.

The remaining more than 10,000 people included 600 of Zhu Zhanji's young army, 5,000 of Yu Linwei, as well as various Langzhong and cooks, as well as the timekeepers of Si Tianjian and the mapping personnel of the military department.

In addition, the General Administration Department and Honglu Temple also sent a large number of interpreters and guides, plus the 40,000 personnel stationed on the two islands, the number of fighters who will be dispatched this time is 150,000.

The deployment of so many people and horses is a relatively complicated system work, and Zhu Zhanji is in charge of the overall situation for the first time, and he is very busy.

However, he is more nominal as a manager, and he is busy. In fact, with him or not, the generals and military departments under the various preparations were implemented in an orderly manner.

But compared to the movement of personnel on land, the navy is still much simpler.

The army on land was dispatched, walking dozens of miles every day, and the travel arrangements of the personnel and setting up camp tested the ability of the commander.

Moreover, the army's combat is changeable, and it also tests the ability of a general, while the navy has more of the upper hand, and the probability of winning with equipment is greater.

"Your Highness, there is a letter from Commander Ji, he has persuaded the fourth generation of generals Ashikaga Yoshimori's younger brother Ashikaga Yoshitsugu and Ashikaga Mochi's uncle Ashikaga Mitsutaka to unite and decide to raise troops to rebel."

"Oh, that's good news, before the army arrived, Dongying himself was already in chaos."

Taking the thick stack of letters handed over by Li Liang, he opened his mouth and asked, "Where is the messenger?" Let him come into the palace to meet me. ”

The entrance to the Navy Headquarters was occupied by Dongying people, and Zhu Zhanji was handling official business at the Donghuamen Information Department these days. No matter how bold those Dongying people are, they don't dare to block the gate of the palace, which will only provoke contradictions, otherwise killing them will be in vain.

opened Ji Gang's letter, which was not so much a letter as a summary of Ji Gang's work in Dongying.

In the past few months since the army left Toei, there have been successive incidents of Sho Kyung's burning of Nagasaki, the burning of Osaka Prefecture, and the obstruction of Kim Chun's negotiations on his way to Toei.

Today's Dongying is ready to fight against the Ming army.

Due to the failure of the two eastern crusades of the Yuan Dynasty, Dongying, who has natural sea risks, is still very confident in self-preservation.

Since ancient times, Dongying has never been conquered by any foreign race, and they have full confidence in themselves.

On the one hand, he sent a large team of people everywhere to learn about Toei's protection system, and on the other hand, he actively persuaded Ashikaga Yoshiji, who held irreconcilable contradictions with the current four generations of shogun Ashikaga Yoshishi, to prepare to give Ashikaga Yoshinori a blossom inside and outside.

Ashikaga Yoshinori is the concubine of the third generation shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. Since Ashikaga Yoshimitsu did not give birth to a son with Yoshiko Hino and Yasuko Hino, he made Ashikaga Yoshitsu as his heir and asked Yasuko Hino to adopt him as an adopted son.

But in the same year that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu became a monk and passed on the throne to the nine-year-old Ashikaga Yoshinori, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu was born.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was very fond of Yoshimitsu, so the relationship between Yoshinori and Yoshimitsu was not good. Due to his preference, in the sixth year of Yongle, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu introduced his beloved son Ashikaga Yoshitsu to Emperor Gokomatsu before he died, trying to get Yoshitsuro to gain the emperor's support.

At this time, Ashikaga Yoshimochi was taken out of the mansion by Yoshimitsu and was in charge of the security affairs of Kyoto. However, after the death of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the 22-year-old Ashikaga Yoshinori took real power, and the power of the 14-year-old Yoshitsugu and his uncle Ashikaga Mitsutaka was suppressed.

Ashikaga Yoshinori knew that Kitayama was the old nest of the Ashikaga family, and his mother-in-law, Yasuko Hino, was powerful, so he moved the capital.

Politically, Ashikaga Yoshishi, with the assistance of the shogunate Shogunate Shogun Yoshihiro Yoshibo and others, changed Yoshimitsu's open-door policy, restored the political characteristics of the "samurai regime", and became more conservative.

He resigned from Emperor Komatsu to give Ashikaga Yoshimitsu the title of "Emperor Taijo", and stopped trading with the Ming Dynasty. He also proclaimed himself the courtyard of Emperor Komatsu.

At the same time, he also made his younger brother Hozun a monk at the Imperial Family's temple, Ninnaji Temple, in order to increase the influence of the shogunate in the imperial court.

This temple is equivalent to a jongmyo and cannot be ordained by non-royal personnel. It was also the second case of a non-member of the imperial family to become a monk at Ninna-ji Temple, following the Kujo Taoist sect of the Kamakura period.

In the process of the deification of the kingship of Dongying, ordination is a very important process, and any general, including the so-called emperor, must become a monk.

From Emperor Uta in the Heian period to Emperor Lingyuan in the Edo period, there were dozens of generations of so-called emperors, all of whom had to choose to become a monk after a period of time in power and let their descendants inherit the throne.

Of course, these powers are still in their hands.

Ashikaga Yoshinori did this in order to amplify his power more strongly.

Because of his tough relationship with the Ming Dynasty, Ashikaga Yoshinori had to win over the hardliners in the country, and these hardliners were also the largest source of Japanese invaders.

Now the Ming Dynasty wants to take action against these families, that is, to directly weaken the power of Ashikaga Yoshimori. In the situation of internal and external troubles, Ashikaga Yoshiji had no choice but to continue to be tough with the Ming Dynasty, encircle these daimyos, and maintain his own power.

In the letter, Ji Gang analyzed in detail the main reasons why Dongying is so tough today, and also clearly analyzed the complex relationship between the major forces in Dongying.

Of course, more importantly, the spies he sent out got the general layout of the forces of Dongying's defense, which also let the Ming side know where there are more troops and where there are fewer troops.

An even greater credit was the dozens of draftsmen sent out by Zhu Zhanji's young army.

In the name of investigating the tea mountains, they drew a large number of maps of Dongying. And these maps will play a huge role in future landing battles.

What Zhu Zhanji didn't expect was that the person sent back by Ji Gang to deliver the letter turned out to be Pang Ying, the pacification envoy.

He entered the small room and fell down on one knee. "Wechen Pang Ying has seen His Highness."

Zhu Zhanji's eyes swept around Li Liang's face before he said lightly: "Get up and come and talk to the lonely relatives about the situation in Dongying during this time." ”

Although Pang Ying is a cool official and has a bad heart, such people often have an advantage, that is, they all have strong pragmatic ability.

Under his report and the letter from Ji Gang, Zhu Zhanji can be regarded as having a relatively clear understanding of the current situation in Dongying.

At the end, he said gently: "I went out in late summer and early autumn last year, and this time I went a year younger." Go home and rest for a few days, and wait for the call on the day when the army goes out. Come on, reward Pang Zhen and make a hundred refining horizontal knives! ”

Liu Wan immediately took off a horizontal knife tied to his body and handed it to Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji took out the horizontal knife and looked at the blade, inserted the knife into the scabbard again, and handed the knife to Pang Ying. "You have merit in Dongying, and you have to keep it in your heart, if you are wronged, just come to Lone to make decisions for you."

Pang Ying's eyes were slightly moist, and she took the horizontal knife with both hands raised high, and bowed to the ground. "Your Highness is very loving, and the ministers are grateful. In the future, he should be optimistic about Dongying, a vicious dog, for His Royal Highness, and if he is wronged, he will kill him in the dark. ”

"Very good, Lone here will remember a merit for you, and on the day of the great victory, we will reward you together."

Sent Pang Ying away, Li Liang came over with a somewhat humble smile, and Zhu Zhanji slapped him over.

Li Liang didn't dare to make a sound, so he knelt down, his head pressed tightly on the ground, and his whole body trembled.

Zhu Zhanji stretched out his hand, and Liu Wan handed over a silk scarf. Zhu Zhanji wiped his hands with a silk scarf, and then said, "Tell me, why do you want to do this?" ”

If it was an ordinary soldier, it would naturally be impossible to have the opportunity to meet Zhu Zhanji. But Pang Ying is the envoy of Sipin, and the Han general who guards the city gate is also a person from Jinyiwei, so naturally he will not be prevented from meeting him.

Even if a pacification envoy from the fourth grade is notorious, it is nothing to the inner prison. Because the inner prison is only under the jurisdiction of the royal family, and only the royal family is qualified to punish.

Without thinking too much, Zhu Zhanji can know that Pang Ying came back because of whose difficulties he could not enter the palace.

Li Liang didn't dare to argue, nor did he dare to hide it, so he said pitifully: "Your Highness, the slave is wrong, you shouldn't be selfish......"

"Selfishness?" Zhu Zhanji threw the silk scarf on his head and said sharply: "Isn't it that you and Yang Zhangde have formed an alliance!" Yang Zhangde is now in a high position, his vision is limited, and it is understandable that he wants to stabilize his power. But you are by my side, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and the affairs inside and outside the Ming Dynasty are not hidden from you, don't you know that the situation in Dongying is related to the outcome of the battle, and Pang Ying is still blocked from the palace gate! Trying to block Lone's ears and eyes is a heart-wrenching move! ”

Li Liang was shocked, raised his head and shouted in a low voice: "The slave and maid don't dare, the slave and maid are loyal to His Highness and never have two hearts." Please forgive your highness......"

Zhu Zhanji's eyes swept around the room, and then he said, "You have all heard it for me." Lone wants Yang Zhangde to be a lone minister, and you are the same, if you want to be an eight-sided exquisite person, just get out of Lone's side. Come on, drag Li Liang down to replay the top ten boards, demote one class, and set an example! ”

Li Liang didn't expect this matter to be so serious, but he didn't dare to beg for mercy, for fear that he would be punished more heavily.

Although most of these people were Li Liang's subordinates, no one dared to show favoritism at this time, so they directly put Li Liang down, pulled out Li Liang's pants outside the window, and executed him.

Only then did Zhu Zhanji say to Sun Lin: "These days, you will work harder and serve by my side." ”

Sun Lin was still expressionless, and said: "To serve His Highness, it is also an honor to be tired and tired." ”

After arranging these trivial matters, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but sigh.

The human heart is the most difficult thing in the world to control!

Even if Li Liang is loyal, it is inevitable that they will have their own demands, and these demands will change with time and environment.

This point is not controlled by the subjective will of man.

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