Chapter 48: The Imperial Expedition

After the 61st day, Wu Kai's Ming Dynasty was officially put into business. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the entire enthronement ceremony is very simple, it has a sense of immediacy of the grass stage team, but as long as you have watched the machine gun strafing, grenadier performance and other programs at the military parade, no one will feel that the foundation of this grass platform team is unstable - the chairman and his old man's sentence 'power comes out of the barrel of a gun' is the truest portrayal of this era.

But it is not a long-term solution to govern the country by the barrel of a gun, especially when receiving the worship of the ministers, Wu Kai roughly stepped down, and he couldn't find a few authentic Wenchen, and he felt even more unreliable in his heart - after all, he did not have pure Baitou Mountain blood, and the politics of the first army was not suitable for the basic national policy of the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, Wu Kai has been in business in the Great Song Dynasty for a few years, and he has accumulated a group of business talents, and he can barely understand the tax or something, otherwise it will be a problem for this grass platform team to maintain.

In view of this, Wu Kai's first order after ascending the throne was to establish the Central University, and then select a group of shrewd and capable officers from among the active military officers to train them to become qualified local officials.

Judging from the current teaching force, the possibility of cultivating any talents who have helped the people is a little lower, but it is still possible to concentrate on cultivating a group of low-level officials who are quite competent.

Preparations for this had already begun before the enthronement ceremony, so after Wu Kai issued his will, in just six or seven days, the Central University was all ready, just waiting for the opening ceremony to be held, and the teaching and teaching would officially begin.

It's just that the number of students in this first batch is nearly half less than Wu Kai initially expected.

He originally planned to recruit 500 people in the first batch, but there were not many qualified low-level officers, and some of them were in important positions, and it was inconvenient for them to leave their posts to study immediately - so a total of more than 260 people were selected, and later Wu Kai had to select more than 30 'loyal and patriotic' people from the Japanese leading party, which barely made up the number of 300.

At this stage, the school teaches subjects such as criminal law, basic management, applied arithmetic, and the art of war, and then can choose to minor in agriculture, criminal investigation, history, shipping, architectural design and other subjects according to personal preferences.

Of course, the ideological education of loyalty and patriotism is also indispensable - as for Confucianism, poetry, and songs, they were selectively ignored by Wu Kai.

If this is left in the Great Song Dynasty, it is estimated that it will arouse the enthusiasm of the crowd again, but Wu Kai has no civil servants around him, but there are many Japanese nobles who are obsessed with Confucian culture, but now their opinions are insignificant.

In short, Wu Kai was busy throughout June and July, and at the same time, he was constantly making mistakes and constantly correcting - not to mention dealing with government affairs, even the temporary compilation of textbooks was changed while speaking, and sometimes he couldn't tell the right from wrong, so he simply deleted the whole article!

Fortunately, the people who go to school are a group of rough men, and it is compulsory teaching before promotion, and they are not so serious about 'learning' or anything, otherwise with this chaotic teaching process, the students are afraid that they will not do it a long time ago.

By the end of July, a group of Goryeo officials who had completed the 'labor reform' were added to the grassroots level, which allowed the newly established Ming Dynasty to gradually stabilize its position - although these Goryeo people did not have many talents who had been in charge of the country, but after all, they had many years of experience in governing the country, and they were familiar with handling general affairs.

In contrast, Japan's side is a little unsatisfactory, because the whole country adopts a feudal system, and even the finance, taxation and military at the village and town level are operated independently, so those Japanese 'ministers and scholars' have basically not done anything serious, just dress up as peacocks all day long, and then play nonsense everywhere!

Originally, Wu Kai also hesitated to get a few highly educated Koreans to fill the faculty of Chung-Ang University, but in the end, he gave up this idea due to the 'purity of the team'.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty stumbled through the initial '100 days of embarrassment', and was planning to stabilize its foothold and continue to forge ahead, but it ushered in a greater test - in early September, the Jurchens once again raised troops to the south!

According to the current form, the new Ming 'empire' is actually not suitable for sending troops to interfere, most of the Han army needs to defend Japan, and the imperial army is deployed on the border of Goryeo, so there are not many soldiers and horses for a while, even if they can take advantage of the snipe and clam to compete for fishermen and profits, they are not able to expand vigorously.

At that time, eighty percent will be in a dilemma: if they withdraw after the battle, the fruits of victory will fall into the hands of others; If it is stationed near Bianliang for a long time, there is a danger of running out of ammunition and food!

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty adopted the policy of watching the fire from the other side, and took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to collect the Han people, and after a few years, the strength was enough, and then it was the best policy to swallow the Song and Jin countries.

But......

This is not a good idea at all!

When Wu Kai heard that Song Huizong was going to hand himself over to the Jin Army and give Yinshu his life, he made up his mind that one day he would let that guy understand what a sad decision this was!

Now if Zhao Ji and his son are allowed to fall into the hands of Jin Guo, how can he pretend to be forced at that time? !

Besides, Wu Kai had also promised Yue Fei that after gaining a foothold overseas, he would lead the army to rescue hundreds of Li people and save them from being slaughtered by the Jurchens - now it's not good to break his word and get fat, right?

So after convening the courtiers for some discussion, Wu Kaili overrode the public opinion [in fact, there were few resolute opponents], and decided to transfer 10,000 Han troops and 20,000 imperial troops from Japan, and then 5,000 Han troops, 10,000 imperial allies, and 20,000 Goryeo servant troops from Goryeo, a total of 65,000 people, first landed in Shandong, and then rushed to Bianliang under the banner of the Song army.

Because nearly half of the backbone of the Han army are from the official army, and there are still a lot of standard equipment of the Song army in the treasury, taking advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to march, as long as you are careful along the way, you should be able to do it - even if someone really sees the problem, they dare not take the initiative to provoke this army of tens of thousands of people.

The formulation of the whole plan did not encounter any resistance, but when Wu Kai proposed that the hussar general Wu Song and his uncle Han Tao assist the prince in supervising the country, and he took Lin Dengwan, Yue Fei and others to drive the expedition in person, it was almost unanimously opposed by the government and the opposition.

After arguing for half a month, Wu Kai had to once again try to dispel public opinion-or arbitrarily decide on the matter of the royal conquest.

Everyone was helpless, so they had to squeeze out 5,000 Han troops, 20,000 imperial troops, and 20,000 servant troops from between their teeth, and gave Wu Kai enough 100,000 troops.