Tokugawa Ieyasu is worthy of being the old fox and the final victor of Japan's Sengoku period, and although his strength on the surface is on par with the Toyotomi clan, he spent a lot of energy to build a heavy artillery force that the Toyotomi clan did not build.

There is a Hongyi cannon, there is a Franco, and there are old artillery pieces that Daqin gradually phased out, and there are all kinds of them, about seventy of them.

He even purchased war horses through various channels and created a formed horse team.

This is the trump card of the Tokugawa clan's pressure box.

Although the Toyotomi clan is also aware of the role of artillery, the Toyotomi clan is not satisfactory, and it seems to be a gap in the economic basis.

The Tokugawa clan actively participated in the maritime trade, although Xiao Ruxun was attacked openly and secretly, but still did not give up, and tried to do business with the South Seas countries, before the European power was uprooted by Xiao Ruxun, they actively cooperated with the Spaniards and the Portuguese.

After Xiao Ruxun completely annihilated the Spaniards in Luzon and completely turned the South Seas into China's inland sea, the Tokugawa clan's fleet turned to cooperate with other countries in the South Seas and actively purchased all kinds of firearms and artillery.

The Toyotomi clan had a much smaller fleet than the Tokugawa clan, and although the Toyotomi clan also had a fleet, perhaps because of its weak economy, it was more immersed in agriculture than in liaising with the outside world and using commerce to develop itself.

The two sides adopted different ways to develop themselves, and their respective development results were also different, Xiao Ruxun asked Liu Huangshang to take the staff to do a rigorous deduction, and came to the conclusion that it would take about 60,000 soldiers and horses to completely defeat the Tokugawa clan and the Toyotomi clan.

Of course, if before that, he could provoke a war of hatred between the Tokugawa clan and the Toyotomi clan, and consume the war potential of both sides, Daqin could also reap the benefits of the fisherman.

The premise is that they will not take the initiative to send troops to jointly recapture Iwami Silver Mountain, if that happens, Great Qin will face the blows of both forces at the same time.

They did have a deep hatred, but Great Qin was also their enemy on both sides.

The best way to unite divisive forces is not with charismatic leaders, but with common enemies.

If they secretly connect together, with the frequent battles in the southwest of Great Qin as the fuse, and the way of distributing the benefits of Iwami Yinshan, it is very likely that they will form a coalition army and jointly send troops to attack Wu Weizhong's troops in Iwami Yinshan.

Wu Weizhong's department had 10,000 southern soldiers and 10,000 Qin troops, a total of 20,000 troops, and the combat effectiveness was not too strong, and in the face of the army of more than 200,000 people that might be mobilized by both of them, the victory rate was not large, and unless they were the first to withdraw to the sea, it would be difficult to escape the outcome of excessive casualties or even annihilation.

So Liu Huangshang and others made a suggestion -

If His Majesty wants to use troops against the Japanese and completely clean up the Japanese state, he needs to provoke contradictions and wars between the two sides before they jointly mobilize troops, forcing them to fight.

"Just give me a solid plan of action, not these vague speculations."

Xiao Ruxun said at a meeting of the General Staff.

Liu Huangshang nodded and said: "Your Majesty's meaning, the minister knows, the way Your Majesty wants, the minister also thought of it, it is Yangmou, even if the Japanese people know that this is Yangmou, they have to get into it, because they have no choice." ”

Xiao Ruxun asked, "What way?" ”

Liu Huangshang grinned: "Great Qin intends to withdraw the army and return the Iwami Silver Mountain." ”

Xiao Ruxun was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"Hahahaha! Good! What a move! No matter how clever he is, he can't jump out! Liu Butang, you immediately draw up a reliable plan for me, show me the possible results of these plans, and report to me together. ”

Liu Huangshang immediately received the order.

"Yes!"

After Liu Huangshang left, Xiao Ruxun spent a day discussing with the Ministry of War to determine the reward plan for the soldiers and the reward plan for the officers and generals, and then handed over the matter to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Finance to deal with the arrangements.

Then, Xiao Ruxun ordered Han Sheng, the secretary of the military department, to be the reward messenger, and ordered Han Zheng to lead the reward to Banzhou, and after assigning the task, he would bring back the captured loot, and this matter was fully handed over to Han Zheng to be responsible, and he took a night to celebrate the birthday of the emperor.

The fourth day of February is the birthday of the emperor, this year, the emperor is fifty-eight years old, in the past many years, because the father and son are not together, so the birthday is quite difficult, now the family can be together forever, and it is also a happy event to celebrate each other's birthdays.

Xiao Wenkui's birthday is even more so, Xiao Ruxun called the eldest brother, second brother and third brother to celebrate Xiao Wenkui's birthday early, and called the children and girls in the family to come into the palace to have fun with Xiao Wenkui, Xiao Wenkui was overjoyed.

A lot of things happened last year, and the Xiao family was shocked, and finally ushered in a good life, living a good life without worrying about life safety and living standards, and they have lived quite easily for a year.

Especially the descendants of the Xiao family, all of them are also growing up well, no one is sick, no one is weak, and all of them are healthy children.

Xiao Ruxun was very happy, and did not use the identity of the emperor to organize this birthday banquet, but invited them to come to the palace to participate in the birthday banquet of the emperor as the fourth uncle of the children.

In order to celebrate the birthday of the Emperor, Xiao Ruxun once again allowed the imperial dining room to make luxurious food, and spent a little more money to give Xiao Wenkui a happy birthday, so that his old man could celebrate his birthday happily.

Xiao Wenkui didn't want to cause trouble to Xiao Ruxun, and took the initiative to close the inner palace without making noise or making noise, and read and write every day, so that Xiao Ruxun could go all out to deal with state affairs and not trouble his children, which is a tradition of the Chinese elderly, which is really gratifying and distressing.

Xiao Ruxun can only try to give Xiao Wenkui the best life within his ability, in order to express his filial piety and apologies for not being able to serve by his side.

"This time, our Great Qin fought a big victory again, and cleaned up Yang Yinglong's rebellion, back then, when my father was still a general in the former Ming Jing camp, I had also heard how arrogant Yang Yinglong was, the former Ming Dynasty failed to completely eradicate it, and now my son will eradicate it, hahahaha, I'm really happy!"

Xiao Wenkui's eyes narrowed with a smile: "It is really the greatest blessing in life for a father to have such an excellent son!" ”

Xiao Wenkui couldn't stop praising his proudest and proudest youngest son, drinking and eating happily, Xiao Ruxun also used his court band to play Western musical instruments for Xiao Wenkui, which opened Xiao Wenkui's eyes.

After that, Xiao Wenkui also had to test the knowledge of his grandchildren in the middle school, and the third generation of the Xiao family stepped forward to be tested one by one, and they were really knowledgeable.

At the end of the happy birthday banquet, Xiao Ruxun went to the toilet outside to relieve himself, and planned to go back to continue the celebration, but halfway through, the great eunuch Li Sheng suddenly came to report, saying that Zhou Yao asked to see him.

Xiao Ruxun felt strange, so he asked Zhou Yao to come over, and soon, Zhou Yao came to Xiao Ruxun.

"What's the matter? Are you going to come to me tonight? ”

"Your Majesty, the ...... And they clamored that if you didn't go to see him, he would go on a hunger strike. ”

Xiao Ruxun's expression quickly turned cold.

Pursing his lips, Xiao Ruxun spoke: "You go and tell him simply, if he wants me to see him, he will give me honest food and drink, if he wants to commit suicide and self-harm and persecute me, he will not see me until he dies!" ”

Zhou Yao immediately knelt down to receive the order, and then quickly left the happy palace.

Xiao Ruxun took a deep breath to calm her restless heart.

Li Sheng didn't dare to take a breath on the side.