Chapter 30: Planting the Seeds of Power

The so-called Western leaf cards are actually playing cards. However, there are only some rules that are slightly different from those of later generations, and when Zhu Houzhao was a good teacher and told Ye Guan how to play, Ye Guan listened to it. Then the three of them began to fight.

As the saying goes: there are no enemies at the wine table, and there are no fathers and sons in the card field. "Zhu Houzhao's interest is very great, but unfortunately his luck is a little worse, how far worse? is just like the words of a poet in the Song Dynasty described: I live at the head of the Yangtze River, and you live at the end of the Yangtze River. Thinking about you every day and not seeing you, drinking the water of the Yangtze River together......

However, after seven or eight rounds, the pastries and high-grade tea leaves in the entire East Palace were wiped out by Ye Guan. In fact, Ye Guan didn't want to win so much, but somehow, his luck was surprisingly good, and Zhu Houzhao's luck was surprisingly poor, and he couldn't win no matter how he played.

Seeing that the sweat on Zhu Houzhao's head was getting more and more, Ye Guan's face became more and more pale. Liu Jin's face showed concern for Zhu Houzhao, but there was an invisible look of schadenfreude on his face.

Will he smash the cup, and then countless knife and axe hands will rush in with a loud shout and kill, and turn him into meat sauce in the blink of an eye, just because he won the dim sum of His Royal Highness the Prince? You must know that whether it is the emperor or the emperor's son, his temper is not ordinary. When Emperor Jing of Han was the crown prince, he lost a game of chess with the prince of Wu, and quarreled in a few words, and finally the young Emperor Jing of Han smashed his cousin to death on a chessboard, the prince of Wu, so that Liu Bi, the king of Wu, had a problem with Emperor Jing of Han in his heart, and laid the groundwork for the rebellion of the seven kings of Wu and Chu.

He is not Zhu Houzhao's cousin yet, Ye Zipai really can't kill people, but Zhu Houzhao's eyes can kill! Will he be crushed to death by a thousand guards, or be impeached to death by a thousand old eunuchs?

Thinking of this, Ye Guan suddenly shouted: "Oh, it's too bad, the prism dedicated to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was almost crushed by me." ”

Zhu Houzhao, who was about to lose his temper, saw Ye Guan's strange appearance, and then quickly forgot the idea of letting people teach Ye Guan a good lesson, and then Ye Guan's words asked: "What is the prism, what is crushed."

"Your Highness, look, this is the prism." Ye Guan took out the prism that had been prepared a long time ago and handed it to Zhu Houzhao.

Ye Guan told the use of the prism, Zhu Houzhao really didn't care about Ye Guan winning his dim sum, and happily took the prism to look left and right, whenever he saw some novel colors, he was excited.

"Ye Guan, where did this good thing come from?"

"Oh, these are those Franc machine man gadgets, they don't just have these gadgets there, there are also powerful Franc cannons, I heard that they are faster than Zheng He's treasure ship in the form of a warship. Oh, by the way, there is also a queen in a small country similar to the Wa Kingdom next to the Franc Machine, who reigned for fifty years and developed the country called England into the most powerful country in Europa. Even her sailor is invincible in the world, occupying countless lands, and proclaiming herself the empress, just like Nawu Zetian. (ps: Elizabeth I actually ascended the throne later than Zhengde, novelist said, joke) "Ye Guan finally led the topic to the colony. The conservatism of the Ming Dynasty has been in the bones since Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang helped his children and grandchildren to set all the systems to the standard, and they are not allowed to change at will, with the change of the times, which has led to the gradual stiffening of the entire imperial system.

Most of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty had eccentric personalities, such as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, who were murderous, but Zhu Gaochi was too merciful. Zhu Qizhen has the ambition of an ancestor but does not have enough knowledge, and is played with by the eunuch in the palm of his hand. Zhu Houzhao doesn't like to be an emperor, but he likes to be a general. Jiajing has a stubborn temper and a ruthless personality, and Wanli likes to count silver in the deep palace and control the government remotely. Zhu Youxiao likes to be a carpenter, and Zhu Youzhen has great ambitions, but he likes to keep changing his first assistant, and his suspicion is very heavy. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty seem to be very extreme, but in Ye Guan's view, this still makes the Ming Dynasty break through the starting point of the thinking of the Celestial Empire. If there is **, then it will be easy to do.

Since Zhu Houzhao likes to be a general, then Ye Guan told him about the war on the European continent, letting him know that there are more powerful countries than the Ming Dynasty, so that Zhu Houzhao will be able to do things after he has the heart of comparison.

"Oh? Thousands of miles away, Xiyi actually has such a thrilling thing! If only I had those pirate captains, rob the gold mountains and hide them, and make everyone crazy about my riches! Using those annoying pirates and criminals to fight a hostile country can be regarded as a combination of Tian Ji horse racing and fishing in troubled waters and watching fires from the other side. It sounds as interesting as the battle of wits between Wei Shu and Wu in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that Liu Jin got over last time! When Zhu Houzhao heard Ye Guan say that the pirates secretly supported by various countries to fight against the forces of the enemy country and loot a large amount of gold and silver treasures, his eyes were shining with golden light. It's not that he likes gold and silver treasures, but he especially likes the intrigues and big scenes of war between those countries.

"Your Highness, it's a pity that it's our officers and soldiers!" Ye Guan changed the tone of his words and turned to the topic of the Ming Dynasty officials and troops.

"What happened to our officers and soldiers? Didn't those imperial court newspapers say that the officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty were invincible in the world, and the Tartars looked at the wind and descended, and they tied their hands when they saw the dragon flag? A few days ago, the report of the nine sides also said that the Ningxia border army beheaded more than 1,000 people, and the father and emperor also issued a decree to praise them? Our sailors may not be as good as others, but the officers and soldiers of the guard station are invincible in the world! Zhu Houzhao was even more proud when he talked about his army.

"Your Highness, can I tell me about what I saw in Huating County to fight against the Japanese invaders?"

"You say, you say. I don't believe that our so-called officers and soldiers can't defeat a few ronins of the Japanese country. Zhu Houzhao said unconvinced.

"At the beginning of September of the sixteenth year of Hongzhi, Weichen was in Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, and the Japanese were informed by my Ming traitor's traitor that the city wall of Huating County had collapsed half because of heavy rain for several days, so they came to Huating City along the path...... "Ye Guan said what he said to Emperor Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao, he thought that he could not impress Hongzhi, so he started with his son, in fact, Emperor Hongzhi is just a habit that has been cultivated for a long time, and his joy and anger are invisible.

Zhu Houzhao heard Ye Guan talk slowly, and his cheeks turned red. He has always longed for the life of Jin Ge Iron Horse, and likes the spirit of "why don't men take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures", and often fantasizes about personally commanding soldiers and horses to fight against the enemy. In the palace, he also often organized military exercises for sergeants, and military affairs were Zhu Houzhao's interest, and this interest has always accompanied him to the throne and his death. Therefore, the courtiers gave him a nickname with the word "Wu", in fact, there is nothing wrong with "Wu", who does not love martial arts in the country of the Age of Discovery? Wu sometimes brings not the lament of "the rise and fall of the people", but the whetstone of the nation's strength, since there is this opportunity today, Ye Guan has to shift Zhu Houzhao's vision from such small things as quelling the rebellion against King Ning and killing a few Tartars to fight for overseas territories. If you don't have a broad vision, you will give him the nickname of "Wencheng Wude", and it will be useless to the Chinese nation.

Ye Guan's tone was still low: "...... It was a hard battle, including me, everyone didn't expect that hundreds of Japanese would, of which there were only a few dozen real Japanese would, and the rest were all willing or coerced fake Japanese wouldn't be able to protect it, and there were two or three hundred soldiers and hundreds of young adults, who were actually beaten to the point that the city was about to fall, and the minister didn't know how such an official army was invincible in the world, this is just a small Japanese robber, Your Highness, can you imagine the authenticity of those war reports? Tartars are so easy to kill, why can the army of the nine sides only be called "nine sides"? "And not nine claws? The edge is the defense, and the claw is the attack. You can know from the name that our Ming Dynasty's border army is a newspaper, hehe! Ye Guan can only hehe for those border army generals who kill good people and make meritorious contributions.

Zhu Houzhao's expression also slowly changed with Ye Guan's narration.

When Ye Guan said that there were Ming people in the Japanese Kou, Zhu Houzhao couldn't wait to jump up and bite those traitors to death. However, when Ye Guan said that those fake widows were all corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, the people were displaced, and the life of the coastal people was cut off, he bit his lip with a white face and did not say a word. When he heard Yu Wen scolding those traitors, Zhu Houzhao waved his fist proudly.

When he said that hundreds of officers and soldiers could not win the battle against those who only had more than a dozen people, Zhu Houzhao's eyes widened in disbelief. When he heard that Huating County decided to die and martyr the country for his innocence, for the court, and for the innocence of the king, Zhu Houzhao's eyes turned red.

After Ye Guan finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin, who was waiting on the side, did not say a word, and there was no joy of victory at all.

"Your Highness, why do you think a defensive battle is fought like this?" Ye Guan asked with red eyes.

"I, this, it must be those officers and soldiers who don't practice the army like Lone all the time on weekdays, so they will collapse for thousands of miles, and I want my father to arrest those people of Jinshanwei!" Zhu Houzhao gritted his teeth and said.

"No, Your Highness, this is back to the issue of the historical cycle law when Wei Chen and His Majesty first met. The problem of erosion in the guard is like a weak human body, so the wind often enters the body. But it doesn't mean that if the wind evil is cured, the person will be fine. The problem lies in the person itself, if the person's vitality is insufficient, there will be other diseases in the body. Therefore, strengthening the body is the foundation of the first. ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't seem to understand it, but Liu Jin pondered carefully on the side: After His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascends the throne, our family will get a good position, and we will inevitably recruit this Ye Guan as one of the candidates for the reform of the military system and official governance.