Peng Zhuze dispatched 200,000 elite troops in the southwestern provinces, and slowly gathered to Siming Mansion in Guangxi with no less than 4,000 students from Jinling, Chengdu, and Changsha.

There was a light rain in the sky, although the rain was not strong, but it was raining for half a month, and the road was muddy and difficult to walk.

The cold raindrops fell on the face, and the damp was extremely uncomfortable, and 200,000 people lined up in a long queue and trudged through the mountains.

The earth soldiers and wolf soldiers brought by Peng Zhuze were much more calm in comparison, they were very accustomed to such weather and terrain, and walked in front to open the way.

At this time, it has been half a month since the troops were dispatched, and they have not yet reached the ground in Guangxi, and the terrain in the southwest is rugged and difficult to navigate, the roads are different, the traffic is blocked, and it is especially difficult to transport firearms.

On the sea, the garrisons of the Fuzhou and Manraka divisions had begun to attack the southern part of Siam, which was the name given to them by the Han Chinese, and later became known as Thailand.

Fifty years earlier, the Portuguese and the Dutch had arrived in Siam and forced Siam into a treaty of commerce. Now he instigated them to attack Annam and drove the Li Dynasty to Daming for refuge.

In the Forbidden City of Jinling, several important ministers of the imperial court gathered in the Nuanfang Pavilion, Chen Mingyu, Ma Shiying, and Jiang Jianxun sat on both sides, Hou Xuanyan looked at the map hanging on the wall, moved the sign from Huguang to Guangxi, and sighed: "The road in the southwest is too closed, and it is very expensive to build the road, and it is very expensive to build the road, and it is convenient to march from the sea next time." ”

Several officials were worried, His Majesty has been conducting frequent foreign wars recently, and although the treasury is full, the grain and grass are already stretched. The fact that millions of men were out on the battlefield would inevitably affect farming, and the rise of commerce made the fields less and less youthful.

In the past, Huguang and other large grain-producing provinces, half of this year's taxes were replaced by silver, but now His Majesty has sent troops to Nanyang, and there are no less than 200,000 soldiers in armor, and it is foreseeable that this war will consume a lot of grain.

Chen Mingyu glanced at Ma Shiying and Jiang Jianxun, the two of them hurriedly avoided their heads, Chen Mingyu was angry for a while, since Zhang Huangyan went to Mobei to lead troops to fight, the big and small exhortations of the DPRK and the central government were pushed to his head, and the two slippery heads beside him didn't care at all.

His Majesty has a bad temper, and he is about to scold people at every turn, and Chen Mingyu is also a little stunned. After all, with their status, it is very embarrassing for the emperor to point his nose and scold some rural slang sayings.

Chen Mingyu also knew that the two slippery heads beside him had calculated that he would definitely say it, gritted his teeth and stood up, and said, "Your Majesty, if you recover Annan, you don't need to send 200,000 troops. There is only one Annam, who had previously served as the chief minister of Cochin, and it was easy to recover this place. These 200,000 people were sent out, but it was 200,000 mouths, and the imperial court had transported all the stored grain to Liaodong and Mobei over the years, where there were nearly a million people waiting to eat, and the grain in the treasury was probably not enough.

According to the minister's view, the top priority of the imperial court should be to persuade the mulberry to learn, now the business is prosperous, and the people who farm are getting fewer and fewer, especially in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, in many places there is even a strange scene of planting mulberry leaves to feed silkworms on hundreds of tilts of land.

Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and if it continues like this, the ministers are afraid that the country will not be a country, and I hope that Your Majesty will think twice. ”

Hou Xuanyan frowned, pondered for a moment, then turned around and said: "It's okay, there is a lot of rice produced in small countries in Nanyang, and when we take these small countries, they will be our granary." I still know a lot about granaries like this, and I don't have to worry about running out of food. Moreover, this time the dispatch of 200,000 troops is by no means as simple as taking Annan to rebuild Jiaozhi, the Nanyang states are under the threat and enslavement of the Baipifan people, and life is worse than death, and they are waiting for my heavenly soldiers to rescue them in their dreams.

The people of these small countries want to throw themselves into my arms and seek refuge in the same urgency as the nestlings looking for their mothers, how can I sit idly by. ”

Hou Xuan's earnestness in his speech, the officials below endured hardship, Rao is a group of officials who have been trained in officialdom for a long time, and they have to be convinced by the brazenness of the saint, since ancient times, the invasion of other countries can be said to be so high-sounding, and the saint may really be the first person today.

Chen Ming met the failure of the persuasion, sighed, and sat down silently. He knows Hou Xuanyan's temper, and some things are easy to persuade back, but once he decides on some things, no one can persuade him. The bigger the matter, the greater his determination, and the 200,000 people fighting in Nanyang are already a sure thing. The next thing they have to worry about is how to dispatch to ensure that these 200,000 mouths are filled.

Ma Shiying said: "Your Majesty, Japan has recently signed a contract with us to jointly cancel tariffs between the two countries, so that our businessmen can make a fortune. A large amount of gold and silver from their country flowed into my Ming Dynasty, and the same silver could buy a lot more than before. I think it would be better to buy grain from Japan, firstly, to ease their outflow of gold and silver, and secondly, to help them get on the right track as soon as possible, so that the Japanese people can cultivate their fields with peace of mind. ”

Hou Xuanyan listened to it and praised: "Lao Ma's idea is good, Tokugawa Iemitsu killed 80,000 samurai in Korea, and used the power of our sailors to kill all directions, Japan is a scorched earth, and it is time to recuperate, so we will help him and help me write a holy decree, so that Gong Zifang can set up a grain collection station in Japan and buy grain on a large scale." It can be transported to Liaodong nearby, stop the transportation of grain from the south to the north, and leave the grain in the south of the Yangtze River for use. ”

Ma Shi was proud, bent down and said, "The minister will draft it." ”

The honest man Chen Mingyu scolded secretly in his heart, you don't pay attention to say it earlier, let me come out to find it first, no wonder others say that you are a villain.

Chen Mingyu wronged him this time, and Ma Shiying didn't mean it, he thought of it in his heart after Hou Xuan's speech.

Xiao Lizi stepped forward with the four treasures of the study, grinded the paper, and soon a sprinkled holy decree was written. The eunuch took Hou Xuanyan to his side and asked him to take a look, Hou Xuanyan took a cursory look and said very clearly, immediately took the seal and covered it, and said happily: "Send someone to Japan, Gong Laosan raised troops from the bamboo forest to follow me, his mind is meticulous and changeable, he has always been at ease in doing things, and he will be able to complete this matter properly." ”

Japan and Korea, which are deeply influenced by Confucian culture, are basically the same as the Han Chinese. Shi Nong Industry and Commerce are also very open to them, and it is a matter of course in their eyes to encourage agriculture and mulberry, Hou Xuanyan expects that he will let them farm with peace of mind, and he will not be opposed, and most of them will be grateful to Dade. Thinking of this, he was even happier that if he wanted to strengthen the country, it was best to get rid of the small-scale peasant economy that had been around for thousands of years, which bred the pain of too much progress and lack of food in the early stage.

Fortunately, I still have these two little brothers...

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