Chapter 476: Shattered Illusions
The eunuch was startled by Zhu Gaoxi's appearance, at first he thought it was a madman who jumped out of nowhere, and he didn't react until he asked. The pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info lowered his eyebrows and said, "Oh, the second prince, you can quickly change your clothes and go with the miscellaneous family." The emperor just lost his temper with the three family heads, and he will send you to reply, there must be something urgent, but don't let the emperor wait in a hurry! ”
Zhu Gaoxi was slightly stunned, and without saying a word, he grabbed the door and entered, but he didn't run two steps and returned, he was already holding a handful of silver in his hand, and directly stuffed it into the eunuch's hand and said with a smile: "There is Gonggong Lao!" ”
Visually speaking, the silver was worth a hundred taels, and the eunuch smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth, and quickly put the silver in his arms and said with a smile: "The prince is polite at night!" ”
Zhu Gaoxi smiled and returned to the room again, and soon changed into neat clothes and followed the eunuch to the imperial study. Zhu Gaoxi inquired about the eunuch halfway, but the eunuch didn't know what the emperor meant, so Zhu Gaoxi didn't know what he was doing. Cautiously entered the imperial study, and saw the emperor sitting firmly behind the dragon case, as if he was thinking about something.
He hurriedly saluted and said, "Father, the emperor ......." ”
Zhu Di waved his hand at him and said, "No excuses, I came to you to ask, there are still ships available in the Moon Port in southern Fujian." ”
Obviously, Zhu Di has always known that this second son has someone who wears the same pants as him in southern Fujian. And now the most likely place for the entire Ming Dynasty to have ships is also in Yuegang, so he was called to ask.
Zhu Gaoxi didn't know what he meant, but he still said without hesitation: "Yuegang in southern Fujian has always been the port that my Ming Dynasty relies on the most, and there are countless merchant ships coming in and out every day. Therefore, the defense force should naturally not be less, and according to the establishment, there should be 400 warships and more than 100 treasure ships. ”
Zhu Di tightened his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "That's all?" ”
Zhu Gaoxi nodded and said: "This is the kind of establishment that is usually maintained, and the daily operation of this fleet requires a lot of expenses. That is, Yuegang has the ability to afford such a fleet, and there are far fewer other places than here. ”
Zhu Di was silent for a moment and said, "The Sun family, the Lin family, and the Fu family, these three families have already ordered them to return a fleet like before within half a year. You go and vacate the treasure shipyard and hand it over to them, and the supervision will be left to you, even if they go bankrupt, you have to make sure to build the ship, you know? ”
"Son's command! I will definitely not disappoint my father. Zhu Gaoxi secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it turned out that it was just for this matter, which made him worry all the way just now.
Zhu Gaoxi was about to say goodbye and retire, but someone outside the door suddenly informed the Watanabe family envoy of the island country and asked to see the emperor. Zhu Di was trying to let people deal with things casually, but after thinking deeply, he still called people over.
Now there are no less than 100 envoys from more than 100 countries in Nanjing, and Zhu Di will not meet these envoys until the official start of the capital relocation ceremony. Generally, it is the minister who is responsible for greeting them, and the minister is also responsible for delivering everything on their behalf. Nor do these messengers ask to see themselves in person unless there are special circumstances.
The person who came was an old man and a young woman, who were inspected outside the door before they were able to enter the imperial study, and the two bowed down to Zhu Di when they entered the room. The woman was the village of Watanabe, which disappeared on Ryukyu Island, but for some reason she suddenly appeared here.
After saluting Zhu Di, the old man introduced the identity of Watanabe Village to him, and said that it was the Watanabe patriarch who sent her to report something important to the Ming Emperor.
Zhu Di watched coldly, and only after the old man finished introducing him did he speak: "Then I don't know what the village princess has to tell me?" ”
Zhu Gaoxi, who had been standing quietly on the side, was obviously attracted by the beauty of Watanabe Village, and the woman who often ran on the sea was different from the Ming woman he usually saw. The faint wild beauty of Watanabe Village attracted Zhu Gaoxi's eyes, and at this moment, Zhu Gaoxi couldn't help but have a strong interest in it.
For Zhu Gaoxi's ill-intentioned gaze, Watanabe Village obviously disliked, but this is not the time to worry about these. This will come here to meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, she is here with a heavy responsibility.
Watanabe Village learned the etiquette of a Ming woman, and said after Zhu Di was slightly blessed: "The village is here by the order of the patriarch this time, can the emperor know why Tang Ming was able to win the army sent by the emperor?" ”
Hearing this, Zhu Di's face, which was still smiling just now, immediately darkened, and he warned coldly: "What does the village princess mean?" ”
Watanabe Village seemed to feel something in the face of Zhu Di's coercion, but she didn't care and said calmly: "That's because Tang Ming has someone behind him to help him, and it is the Luzon Kingdom and the Ancient Dynasty Kingdom." Both of these families sent a large army to help, and Tang Ming was able to win the battle by luck. ”
"That's true!" Zhu Di's face was a little colder.
No wonder how could Tang Ming's little strength be able to defeat an army more than 20 times his own, it turned out that there was also the participation of Luzon and the ancient dynasties behind this. Zhu Di suddenly came back to his senses at this time, but he also wondered why this Watanabe village knew so clearly, and what purpose did he come to tell him?
Seeing that Zhu Di was suspicious of her words, Watanabe Village knew that only by telling the truth could she gain his trust, so she told Zhu Di everything about it without reservation. Including their fleet, Tang Ming also told all the things they had destroyed.
It wasn't until the end that Watanabe Village made clear his intentions: "Therefore, our Watanabe family wants to implore the emperor to ally with us and jointly crusade against Tang Ming, Luzon and Gu Dynasty." ”
Zhu Di fell into deep thought, and after analyzing Watanabe's words one by one, he also sorted out the ins and outs of the matter. Obviously, this is the Watanabe family who wants to take revenge, but they are just a small island country, or a family on the island country, with their current identity or strength, they are completely unable to reach the level of being able to negotiate an alliance with Daming.
Besides, the Watanabe family also participated in the crusade against Sun Dayi, but they came to find them immediately after being betrayed by their allies. This kind of capricious person is not worthy of an alliance with the Ming Dynasty at all, not only that, but Zhu Di must first calculate with them the account of the Ming army being attacked.
"Hmph, you little Watanabe family dare to say that you want to ally with me, joke! However, you also attacked my Ming navy, and now you must give me a satisfactory answer, otherwise, I don't mind if you don't have one less family to envoy. Zhu Di snorted coldly, completely denying the illusion of Watanabe Village. (To be continued.) )