Chapter 441: Occupy Xiaoliuqiu
After reaching a preliminary consensus, the remaining issues only need to be implemented by his subordinates, and the talks between the two sides are quite satisfactory, and Zhang San returned to Ryukyu after going around the sea off Quanzhou.
In February, Zhang San transferred 20 ships from the Fourth Fleet and two battalions from the Army to the home expeditionary force.
This time, the target is Xiaoliuqiu, which was not always wanted here, and now the route to the Japanese country is not popular, and the Japanese country has no spending power, so everyone has no feeling about Zhang San's occupation here.
Only Zhang San knew that he was preparing for a protracted war with the Great Song Dynasty, that is, to use Xiaoliuqiu as a springboard to attack the Wa Kingdom, which in addition to a large number of slaves, also had the famous Iwami Silver Mountain.
There is a lot of uncertainty about the war, maybe the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers were not as cowardly as they imagined, they persevered, and the war that Zhang San thought could end in one year The Great Song Dynasty persisted for three or five years.
Maybe the wisdom of the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty exploded, and a new weapon was developed in advance to restrain Zhang Sanhai's boats, and maybe there were generals or craftsmen under Zhang San who couldn't stand the temptation of the imperial court officials and made a wish, and took Zhang San's warship technology to rebel.
Maybe one of his ships fell into the enemy's trick to lure the enemy deep and was captured by the Great Song Dynasty, and then the Great Song Dynasty quickly imitated a large number of warships to fight a war of attrition with himself, and maybe someone under his command defected in the war.
So Zhang San has always been prepared for the worst, if the battle is really fought for a few years, what will he do to persevere? So in addition to increasing the mining of copper ore, Zhang San thought of this windfall, and saw the silver mountain.
A silver mountain was mined for hundreds of years, and Zhang San believed that the wealth in it was enough to support Zhang San to complete the war against the Song Dynasty, and it is said that Japan has always relied on Iwami Silver Mountain to occupy more or less of the world's silver production.
Therefore, Zhang San planned that if next year's war against the Song Dynasty fell into a tug-of-war, then Zhang San's newly recruited army would all be engaged in the war against the Japanese state, and strive to grab Iwami Silver Mountain to maintain his own war needs.
Xu Guanzhong's deduction opinion was that if the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty could not quickly recognize the situation, he suggested that Zhang San occupy Yangzhou and cut off the canal, as long as he insisted for half a year, the Great Song Dynasty would inevitably succumb.
However, the cost is indeed huge, and exposing the landing ability of the Ryukyus will inevitably cause a counterattack by the Great Song monarchs, and at that time, the Great Song may put Zhang San in the same strategic position as the Western Xia, or even worse.
After all, occupying a big city in a strategic place and just attacking a fishing village along the coast are completely two levels of enemies, so Zhang San doesn't want to fight with the Great Song Dynasty unless it is absolutely necessary.
That will destroy all his plans, and when the time comes, it will really turn into a life-and-death war, which may really give the enemy a chance, Zhang San needs time to prepare, and prepare a way to deal with the cavalry.
After entering March, Zhang San began to inspect various places, and frequently arranged work, not dealing with unimportant matters, and finally this series of actions aroused the vigilance of the military divisions, and finally one morning, the four major military divisions came together.
Then there was a sermon that a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall, and then there was Zhang San's request for the fate of a country, and the core idea was not to allow Zhang San to go into danger and not let Zhang San leave the Ryukyus.
Zhang San was very helpless about their vigilance, but Zhang San had to go back to Tokyo, and now there was no showdown with the Great Song Dynasty, many things in Tokyo could not be given up if Zhang San wanted to, and Zhang San's plan to promote Huashigang needed Zhang San to promote it personally.
That's right, Lu Zhishen plucked the willow tree just by the way, Zhang San's real purpose this time was Huashigang, since Zhao Ji ordered the construction of the Shenxiao Palace last year, the Jiangnan area began to look for flowers and stones to enter the official's house.
But this is not as good as the madness of the later construction of Genyue. Since the last time Zhao Ji proposed to build the Shenxiao Palace, Zhang San had greeted the intelligence agencies in Jiangnan and looked for flowers and stones.
After the Wen Huanzhang incident last year, Zhang San stepped up the collection of flowers and stones, most of which were ready, and now the only one that is missing a core goods is finally found.
This is a huge Taihu Lake stone, nine meters high, five meters long, three meters wide, not only the shape is peculiar, but also tall and majestic, there are nine pine trees growing in nine hollows, the intention is very auspicious.
Nine is extremely numerous, symbolizing imperial power, and pine and cypress symbolizing longevity, so this stone was very satisfied with Zhang San once selected, if it wasn't for Zhao Ji, Zhang San even wanted to transport him to Ryukyu for settlement.
In order to transport this piece of Taihu stone, Zhang San also took a lot of effort, in order to keep the nine pine trees on the stone alive, Zhang San had to adopt an upright posture to transport the stone.
For this reason, Zhang San made a cargo ship of 5,000 stones, which was specially used to transport this stone, and Zhang San gathered some strange flowers and stones, and made ten ships as a gang, planning to transport them to Bianliang and present them to the emperor.
When Zhao Ji first ascended the throne, he had no heirs, and later a Taoist priest told him that after raising the northeast corner of the capital, he would have a son.
Therefore, Zhao Ji was happy, and the Taoist priest should also be the master of the capital longevity view for his merits, which also made Zhao Ji have the idea of raising the northeast corner, which is also one of the reasons why Zhao Ji built Genyue.
Zhang San naturally would not miss this opportunity, Zhang San planned to find a way to imply that the Taoist priest let Zhao Ji start the construction of Genyue in advance after returning to Tokyo, the reason was to increase the luck of the Great Song Dynasty.
When the time comes, just have Gongsun Sheng flickering, didn't Gongsun Sheng say that the Taiyuan earthquake shook the dragon vein of the Great Song Dynasty or something, then he encouraged Zhao Ji to suppress the dragon vein, and Zhao Ji must be more confident if he has such a great reason at that time.
After Zhang San said this, several strategists looked at Zhang San in a daze, and this kind of routine? After Gongsun Sheng calculated, his frowning brows relaxed.
Zhang San looked at him, he said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the mountains piled up here will not only not increase the national fortune of the Great Song Dynasty, but will deplete the dragon qi of Bianliang and accelerate the demise of the Great Song Dynasty. ”
Zhang San said with a smile: "Whether this matter is successful or not, the main reason is that this offering of flowers and stones can make Zhao Ji happy, and when the time comes, the officials will be added to the knighthood, and the world will follow suit, so Zhu Mian and other villains will definitely take the opportunity to do evil, and the people will not be able to make a living." ”
Seeing that Zhang San had such an important task here, it was difficult for a few people to object, but a few people still looked reluctant, Zhang San smiled and said: "Don't worry, there is no place in this world that can leave me, and only the old man Zhou Tong in the capital can fight." ”
Zhang San sighed and said: "It's a pity that the old man Zhou Tong's career is dead, and he has already returned to his hometown to retire after the year." "Even if there are people in the capital who are similar in strength to Old Man Zhou, if I want to leave, he can't stay.