"Looks like you're still in awe. Ye Guan raised his head and asked me to talk to you for a while, it was boring to keep my head down. "Emperor Hongzhi, who was sitting on the throne, had a very gentle temper today, and looked at Ye Guan standing in the main hall with a smile.

"It's you, you're ...... The minister is guilty, and the minister is disgraced in front of the king. As soon as Ye Guan looked up, he saw that Emperor Hongzhi, who was sitting on the dragon chair and wearing a dragon costume and a winged crown, was actually a middle-aged scribe who came out with the little boy last night, and his heart suddenly cooled. The one who talked to him yesterday was Emperor Hongzhi, so the boy who was only thirteen or fourteen years old must be the later Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao, and the person who made a joke was actually Zhu Houzhao! He won't destroy my nine clans, will he?

"Don't blame those who don't know, Ye Guan, I have seen the report written by Mu Bin and the Ministry of War and Dongchang, you did a good job in Huating County last time, you can explain the situation of the day with me in detail. The excerpt is not as true as your personal experience. Emperor Hongzhi looked at Ye Guan gently, looking like he was listening.

"Back to Your Majesty, the situation of the day is like this...... Ye Guan said the situation of the day, including the confluence of the real and false Japanese to attack the coast, the fake Japanese slaughtered the people, the real Japanese wielded a knife and hacked to death the baby that was still in swaddling clothes, the attitude of the county magistrate Yu Wenzhong and a cadre of civil officials and the combat effectiveness of the garrison soldiers and the later when the city was about to be broken, Yu County Commander decided to die for martyrdom, and let the county master lead the people to come first to wash away the slander of the fake widow that there were no good officials in the Ming Dynasty. It wasn't until the last moment of the city that the officers and soldiers of Jin Shanwei were late and defeated the Japanese in front and back, although Ye Guan spoke very carefully, but he didn't dare to talk about those civil and military officials who exaggerated their military exploits after the war and shared the credit privately. Because this is the practice of officialdom, he doesn't dare to talk nonsense.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the minister is done." Ye Guan spoke with a dry mouth, and when he looked up, he saw that Emperor Hongzhi seemed to be asleep with his eyes closed, so he whispered to the emperor.

Ye Guan himself spoke impassionedly, but when he saw that Emperor Hongzhi didn't care much, he suddenly felt a little sad, could it be that in the eyes of these high-ranking figures, the lives of those low-level people are not as good as ants?

"Well, I hear you. Ye Guan, since you are fighting on the front line, what do you think of the officers and soldiers of my Ming Dynasty? ”

"Your Majesty, the guard system was originally a good system for officers and soldiers to support themselves, just like Cao Cao's tuntian, farming in peacetime can protect their own lives, and in wartime it automatically becomes a local army, and there is no need for the people to bring their own dry food and weapons to participate in the royal division, which reduces the burden on the people. But Your Majesty, no matter how good the Buddhist scriptures are, they can't stand the crooked mouth monk from reciting them. The generals of the guard regarded the soldiers as their own slaves, and those officers did not have a hundred and ten acres of land, so they did not need tenants to cultivate the fields, but relied on the majority of the soldiers under their own command. When the soldiers went to plough the fields every day, and hardly participated in training, when the Japanese came, what was the difference between the officers and soldiers of the guard and the farmers with hoes? Besides, it is also common for Wei to eat empty salaries, and Jin Shanwei is close at hand, but he has not been able to arrive for a long time, and the reason for this is not clear to Weichen. "Ye Guan is a very grudgeful person, it is the general soldier Fu who loves to share his merits, and almost killed the lives of tens of thousands of people in Huating County, this time since the emperor asked, he had to fix him. If he wants to know that being a soldier, in addition to grabbing credit, he is also responsible for mistakes.

"What about those Franco-machine people yesterday, their country's army can really expand its territory and expand a small country that is not as big as Fujian to a new continent and has five or six envoys? So how many troops do they have? And how many people are there? How can they afford a continuous war without dragging down the people and the court?" Emperor Hongzhi sat on the dragon chair. Hearing Ye Guan say this, he sighed slightly, and then changed the topic.

After Emperor Hongzhi returned to the palace yesterday, he always wanted to recall the words of those Xiyi people, and when he went to the court in the morning, he heard that the Ming army had lost several battles in the Western Regions. And along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, it seems that the Japanese are also going to celebrate the New Year in the past few days, and there are more and more cases of raiding and causing trouble, and there is even a situation where the Japanese have captured and plundered 100 women and children and the official army has been defeated. So just now after Ye Guan talked about the ferocity of the Japanese Kou, Emperor Hongzhi unconsciously closed his eyes and asked the little eunuch beside him to help him massage his temples to relieve the depression in his heart. Why do the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty always suffer defeats, but the Xiyi people can expand their territory. Although Emperor Hongzhi was a king, he also wanted the Ming Dynasty to flourish in his hands, so he thought about asking Ye Guan, who was in contact with them, maybe this kid could say a few ways.

"Your Majesty, their army is not a benevolent army, and those armies are very similar to the pirates and bandits we recruited from An. However, those bandits we recruited will either harm the surrounding people or be exterminated. However, their pirates were driven out to loot gold and silver treasures and contribute them to the king in exchange for nobility, so more and more people opened up territory for the king. If they have money and can get rid of the identity of criminals, then they are not desperate to serve the country. You don't need to spend a penny and you can still flow in a large amount of silver, so you can't drag down their court, a bit like the situation when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Huo to attack the Xiongnu in the north, directly robbing the Huns' cattle and horses as supplies, and then using the Huns' supplies to fight the Huns. ”

Ye Guan didn't dare to talk too much, in this era when Confucianism was used as a coat, ** nakedly said primitive accumulation and iron-blooded trade, not to mention that they couldn't understand it, it was estimated that not only the emperor couldn't stand it, but even those old pedants who thought they were loyal and righteous and full of benevolence and morality couldn't stand it, so they could only use the example of Huo Quai's wolf Juxu Mountain as a teaching material to Emperor Hongzhi, but this was also an itch in the boots, and Emperor Hongzhi listened to it vaguely.

"Your Majesty, it's time for lunch with the Empress." When Emperor Hongzhi was about to ask clearly, the eunuch next to him stepped forward to inform Emperor Hongzhi of the time, and Hongzhi could only nod unsatisfactorily.

"Ye Guan, seeing that you are not very old, you will be a companion with the crown prince in the future. Last time, you said that my emperor lacked friends, but he chased me in the palace for a few days and asked if he could let you enter the palace as his friend. Don't let me and the crown prince do their goodwill, or I won't be able to spare you. "When Emperor Hongzhi talked about his son, he was particularly happy and loving, since his son wanted this Ye Guan to be his companion, then he recruited him into the palace to be the emperor's companion.

"The minister obeys the order, and the minister retires." Ye Guan bowed and slowly retreated with small steps, and there was a little eunuch outside the hall who led him to see His Royal Highness the crown prince.

"Ahem, someone. The people who sent the Beizhen Fusi Jinyiwei together with the people from the East Factory went to investigate the situation of Jin Shanwei's delay in the fighter plane, if what Ye Guan said was true, I would take Jin Shanwei and all the others to Zhao Prison for strict interrogation, whether they lived or died. Also, let the Jinyiwei figure carefully investigate Ye Guan's life experience, and people who don't know can be my emperor's companion. Emperor Hongzhi saw Ye Guan leave the Huagai Palace, coughed, and then said to the old eunuch who had been following him.

"The slave obeys." The old eunuch bowed down and escorted Emperor Hongzhi to Kunning Palace.