"Your Majesty, the minister dares to ask, where did Your Majesty's news come from, is it reliable?" A minister raised doubts about the reliability of the emperor's information, and these inferences were based on this information.

Speaking of sources, Yang Reform is the least afraid, this history book can be said, the most distinctive feature of the Ming Dynasty is the rule of spies, this Jinyiwei, East Factory, West Factory, Inner Factory, there are many names, just pull one, it is the source, do these ministers dare to check the background of Jinyiwei? Yang Reform is ready to let go of his courage to fool the ministers. This is the asymmetry of information.

"Sources? Hehe, this, my Jinyiwei, Dongchang, is not a vegetarian, although in recent years, he has been lazy, but as long as he is serious about everything, he can always detect some clues. I asked people to consult some records about the Wa Kingdom, and came up with a lot of useful things, this ...... It's a matter of internal guards. "Yang Reform pushed the source of this news to the secret service agencies of Jinyiwei and Neichang, in fact, this is purely to scare people, saying that Ben is now too busy to take care of himself, and there is a lot of internal strife, where there is energy to cause trouble in the Ming Dynasty. However, it is absolutely impossible for this group of elites of the Ming Dynasty to know the news over there, in their opinion, the place of the Wa Kingdom is an uncivilized barbaric area, who will care about it? This is also the confidence of Yang Reform to fool the ministers. It's bullying them for not knowing the inside story. The asymmetry of information, this is where the advantage of the traverser lies.

As soon as the ministers heard the emperor talk about Jinyiwei and the inner factory, their hearts tightened, and they remembered that the emperor was still holding a murderous knife in his hand, and they all looked at Cao Huachun, Cao Huachun was also shocked, the emperor still has intelligence sources other than himself, otherwise, he has no news about this matter! It seems that the emperor has to be careful in doing things, the emperor has a lot of ears and eyes, and when he saw the eyes of all the ministers looking at him, he hurriedly lowered his head and pretended not to see it.

In the Wenhua Palace, no one was silent for a long time, and Yang Reform was also sitting there, waiting for the ministers to say anything, ready to persuade the ministers in the court, otherwise, this matter is endless, and it is not a matter, Yang Reform is also sure that he can persuade the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, at least, to persuade some of them, and this is enough.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that we should send an envoy to visit the Wa Kingdom, so as to determine whether the Wa Kingdom is targeting our dynasty and whether it is ready to attack our dynasty, otherwise, it is not a way to just rely on the random speculation of our monarchs and ministers here!" A minister was ready to send someone out.

"This Qing family, would you rather believe that the Japanese will not come to attack our dynasty, and would rather believe that the Japanese people are kind, rather than believe in me? An envoy sent to the Wa Kingdom? What can be seen in this? What can be heard? The Japanese were not stupid enough to put their swords in front of the messenger for the messenger to review. For this matter, I will naturally send a reconnaissance agency, so I won't bother you. "Yang Gai hated these Ming Dynasty scholars more and more, and they fought by themselves if they had nothing to do, and their own words had already been said for this part, and they still didn't want to build their own warships.

"The minister should die, damn, it's definitely not that I don't believe in Your Majesty, it's just that the minister thinks that before there is definite news, it is still not appropriate for our dynasty to use swords and build warships, and it is not too late to make conclusions after the news confirms this." The minister reiterated the bureaucracy's point that in any case, it was not possible to build warships. Everything else is a lot of talk.

With a "snap", a cup was smashed to the ground by Yang Reform, and Yang Reform said angrily: "In a word, you can't build a ship anyway?" Do you want to wait for me to be taken captive, and wait for my capital to be besieged, and then you will be happy? Are you just dying? You want to be the slave of the country, I don't want to, you want to be a prisoner of that order, I don't want to, you want to wait for death, I don't want to, come on! Fork it out for me, and let this guy who is bent on being a slave of the country cool down and sober up. Yang Reform's anger exploded, and he died of depression. Isn't this just the selfishness in the hearts of civil officials? It's not good to talk about it yourself, Yang Reform really wants to kill a few.

The guards in the main hall quickly dragged the guy out, and after the minister shouted for a while, the conversation continued.

Yang Gai's anger was vented for a while, and he got better and began to continue his foolish plan. This still has to be persuaded by the ministers, but I really can't convince you, you can only change people, for this matter of going to sea, Yang Reform must go down no matter what. The most important thing is that Yang Reform is very confident in his own things.

"Okay, the people who are in the way and unreasonable are gone, now, our monarchs and ministers will discuss this matter about the Wa Kingdom again, the following matter, please also take care of your surname, for the sake of my Ming Dynasty's thousands of people, this matter, I have warned first, do not disclose the content of today's conversation, otherwise, once I find out who leaked the secret, hum, I will not forgive."

The ministers shuddered again, when they came, they had already predicted the emperor's anger, and they had already prepared, but they didn't expect that the emperor's words were more powerful than anger. One by one, they listened carefully to what the emperor had to say.

"Ome, clean up all these irrelevant people." Yang issued a clean-up order.

Wang Chengen responded and began to clean up the people, and the irrelevant little eunuchs, palace maids, and guards who were too low-grade were all cleared away. The rest were these ministers, the emperor, and some higher-ranking guards.

"The following conversation, I hope you don't see any words, it's enough to keep it in your heart, until this matter is not successful, everyone doesn't know about it, understand?" Yang Reform first came to a mysterious request, and this time, the atmosphere of this conversation was made extremely mysterious, and the hearts of the ministers were also raised, and they were ready to see what tricks the emperor was going to play.

The ministers said one after another: "The ministers remember His Majesty's order, and they will definitely not leak half a word, let alone mention this matter." ”

"Is there any Aiqing who knows more about the Wa Kingdom?" Yang Gai decided to find a "partner", and the two of them played a "double reed", and acted in a scene for these important ministers.

However, no one dared to stand up and say that they knew more about the Wa Kingdom, they all looked at each other, and finally stopped their eyes on Sun Chengzong's body, Sun Chengzong was embarrassed, and came out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister should have solved the confusion for His Majesty, but unfortunately, the minister's understanding of the Wa Kingdom is really limited, if it is something that has been recorded in history, it may be able to say a thing or two, if you want to ask the minister how the Wa Kingdom is now, the minister can't say why...... "Sun Chengzong said very frankly that he didn't know much about the book.

When the ministers saw Sun Chengzong say this, they felt even more embarrassed, this courtier can't solve the king's doubts, and he really loses his responsibility as a courtier.

"Well, it's okay, since you don't know much about the Japanese Kingdom, then I will tell you about the situation I have recently collected about the Japanese Kingdom." Yang Gaixin said: I know that you can't tell the reason for this, if you know, then you won't be called the elite of the Ming Dynasty.

"I respectfully ask Your Majesty to teach me." Again, the ministers said.

"Do you know why the small Wa kingdom can afford to raise 300,000 soldiers to cross the sea to conquer our vassal country?" Yang Gengai took the lead in asking a heuristic question.

"Your Majesty, this, the minister doesn't understand, how can a small island country afford to raise so many soldiers? Being able to fight several times with our dynasty, resulting in tens of thousands of casualties among our dynasty's elites, the ambition of this Japanese country should not be underestimated. "One of the ministers was also curious that the Wa Kingdom could raise such a large number of soldiers.

"Well, this is the crux of the matter, if I want to guard against the invasion of the Japanese country, I must understand the details of the Japanese country, how can the small Japanese country afford hundreds of thousands of soldiers? Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever heard that the country of the Japanese is a country of gold and silver? "Yang began to guide these ministers to think according to their own way of thinking.

When the ministers heard this, they all looked at each other with strange expressions, and one of them came out and said: "Your Majesty, this kind of rumor has been heard occasionally, but it has not been confirmed, and it is estimated that it cannot be true." "Many of these ministers' families are engaged in this smuggling, and they know a little bit about the rumors on the sea, and when they see the emperor talking about this "unspoken rule", their faces are abnormal.

"I've heard of it, so it's fine, but do you know how much gold and silver this country can produce every year?" Yang reformed threw a heuristic "bomb".

"Back to Your Majesty, this, I really don't know! But think about that uncivilized and poor land, how much silver can be produced in a year? Over the course of a year, tens of thousands of taels, hundreds of thousands of taels are probably too much, even if you know it, what if you know? Could it be ......" the last thing the minister said was, "Is it still possible to snatch it?" Seeing that this was in the main hall of deliberations, he didn't say it, which was not good.

"Hundreds of thousands of taels? Whoop...... Aiqing's gas is inevitably too small, why don't you expand this number by more than ten times? In this way, it is about the same as the annual gold and silver production of the Wa Kingdom. Yang Reform's bomb "boomed", which shocked the group of ministers and stunned.

Yang Gengai looked at the group of stunned ministers below, opened their mouths wide one by one, and looked at themselves stupidly, knowing that he had successfully exploded his bomb.

"Uh-huh...... you may not know or imagine that this country will produce so much gold and silver every year, right? Thinking about my dynasty, the annual income is only about three million taels, this Japanese country, just by digging gold and silver from the mountains, you can catch up with the annual income of my dynasty, how can you call me not anxious? How can you not prepare? More than 2 million taels of silver per year, which is not much different from the annual military salary of our dynasty, if you don't want to find a way, this trouble of the Japanese country, is close at hand! ”

Yang Reform's words were like jet fighters, flying over the heads of this group of Ming elites. The feeling for this group of elites is that the scorching air is burning, and the scenes of war are very close.

“…… Impossible, impossible, Your Majesty, I don't know where this news came from, it is absolutely impossible to ......," a minister asked in a silent voice, ignoring etiquette.

"Impossible, hehe, big companion, show you something." Yang Reform prepared a lot of things for today's flickering.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Chengen himself went to the back and brought out a plate, which was covered with yellow silk, and Wang Chengen walked up to the ministers and uncovered the cloth on the plate.

"Wow......"

"Oh......"

"Oh......"

Not only did the ministers gasp, but even the high-ranking guards on the side also looked greedy. even exclaimed.

In Wang Chengen's plate, there was a plate of golden and heavy gold coins. Seeing so large and so many gold coins at once, many people showed their original form of greed without preparation.

"Ladies and gentlemen, look at what this gold coin comes from." Yang Gengai saw that he and many people showed a greedy demeanor, and he was disdainful in his heart.

The ministers all picked up a gold coin from the plate that Wang Chengen was serving and looked at it. This gold coin is too big, some people's palms are long, some people's palms are wide, and the ministers hold them in their hands, and the entire Wenhua Hall is immediately full of golden light, dazzling.

The ministers looked at it for a long time before they became humane: "Your Majesty, this thing is not like what I cast in the Central Plains!" Look at this thing, it has been cast for some time, it is not like it has been cast in recent years, dare to ask Your Majesty, could it be that it was cast by the Japanese country? "This minister still saw some fame from this gold coin, saying that it is a gold coin, but it is better to say that it is a gold palm, which is too exaggerated.

"Hehe, yes, this Qing family has good eyesight, and can see that this is made by the Japanese people, indeed, this thing is called 'Tianzheng Great Judgment', which is the gold coin minted by the Japanese people, and the time of birth, I'm afraid there are decades. How can you see anything from this? In order to collect "criminal evidence" that he was "rich", Yang Reform said. It took a lot of effort to search for a lot of information about the wealth of the book, and specially found these gold coins to come over, in order to fool the ministers and make the ministers believe that they were very rich, and they would send troops and must build a big warship.

A minister weighed the "gold coin" in his hand for a long time, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister uses his hands to test this thing, I'm afraid there are three or two, such a heavy gold, cast into a gold coin, this, it's really ......" The minister shook his head, three or two pieces of gold minted into a gold coin, what does it mean? It shows that the person who casts gold has money, and there is a lot of gold, so he should show it.

"Really?" Yang Reform hurriedly asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, really, alas...... There's so much gold! The minister said it unwillingly.

"Lots of gold? Indeed, the information I collected said that this Wa people, it is recorded that decades ago, there was a time when a leader of the Wa Kingdom rewarded 6,000 gold coins with a surname, not counting silver coins, and the Qing family said that he was rich, and it was not an exaggeration ......to say that he was rich. This Japanese man is indeed too rich, and he is indeed digging for gold. [If you are interested, you can search for 'Tianzheng Daju' for yourself.] A palm-sized gold coin. 】

The ministers below are all stupid, and they will reward 6,000 of these gold coins at a time, this kind of handwriting, even the emperor in front of him will be dwarfed.

"The Wa Kingdom is not only more gold, this silver is more, it is said that the amount of silver, several times the gold, it is said, are dug out of the gold and silver mountains, it is said, the current silver production of the Wa Kingdom, the specific amount, I am not very clear, but intermittently summarized, it may be around two million, this is still the technology of the Wa Kingdom to mine the silver mountain, resulting in this insufficient production, if the output is enough, presumably, it is not a problem to turn over! It is said that the silver mountain of this Wa country has been mined for hundreds of years, and this gold mountain, silver mountain, is really a mountain...... "Yang Reform didn't care about how much silver there was in this Wa country, how much money was there, completely ignoring the ministers below who looked stupid, and the annual silver production could be worth the income of the Ming Dynasty, this ...... It's too strong, and it's too much of a surprise to the ministers. This kind of news must not be clear to the people at the time, even if it is said himself, it is not necessarily clear, but the traverser is different. These are very clear.

The ministers of the underground are stupid and obsessed with money. Even the guards on one side were Harrizi's backwards. Completely stunned by the level of affluence of the book.

“…… Your Majesty, dare to ask Your Majesty if this news is reliable? You didn't lie to me waiting, did you? How can the Japanese people be so rich? I don't believe it. "A minister thinks this is impossible, a small island country, every year from the mountains to dig out the same amount of gold and silver as the Ming Dynasty in a year, this is too exaggerated.

Yang Reform is preparing to educate the Minister of Education. Unexpectedly, there was a minister on the side, shaking his head, couldn't help sighing, and said: "Lord XX, this should be true, according to xx records, during the period of Taizu in my dynasty, I went to the canonization envoy of the book, and it was recorded that I had seen a Golden Pavilion Temple in this book, it is said that this Golden Pavilion Temple has three layers, and it is wrapped in gold leaf inside and out. After the minister finished speaking, he also threw away the gold coin in his hand, and this time, the gold coin minted by the Wa Kingdom itself touched the minister too much.

"Ahh ……”

"Ugh! ……”

…… A group of ministers followed suit and took another breath. It seems that the strength of this country is far higher than imagined!

Yang Reform is very happy, there is still someone to help him speak!

"I didn't believe it was true before, but then I synthesized the news and saw these gold coins, I believe that this Japanese people do have money, otherwise, it is impossible to send hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses across the sea to expedition with a small island country. The last expedition to our vassal country, this time, after a few years of recuperation, it is estimated that the strength has been restored, and it may be ...... to go ashore at any place in my dynasty at any time, I am very worried about my southeastern provinces, thinking that a hundred years ago, this Japanese invader with dozens of people, a small boat, can run rampant in several provinces of our dynasty, killing and injuring countless soldiers and civilians, if the Japanese choose to land in the rich southeastern provinces of our dynasty, how can this be good! Every time I think of this, I feel like a needle! ...... "Yang Reform took this book as a target and tried his best to fool these ministers. vigorously depicted a scene of the Japanese army landing in the rich land in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, which made many of these elites from the southeast turn white.

"Your Majesty, the minister believes in Your Majesty, the minister believes that these Japanese people are indeed rich, and believes that they are always peeping at my Chinese orthodoxy. Your Majesty, it's time to prepare, otherwise, the trouble of the Japanese is not far off, and the trouble of the Japanese is bound to come back...... "A minister synthesized the emperor's "fooling" and came to an astonishing conclusion, what the emperor said was the truth, and the people of the Japanese country were already about to defeat their hometown. Still not ready? Waiting to die? couldn't care about the fight between Wenchen and the eunuch anymore, and began to care about the safety of his hometown.

At the beginning, the old minister who was ready to threaten Yang Reform to stop shipbuilding with his death also came out, wiped his tears tremblingly, and said, "Your Majesty! The minister is guilty, the minister is guilty! …… The minister should not be so rude to His Majesty, thinking about how much effort His Majesty has spent and how much heart he has spent for my Ming Dynasty, the old minister is still blaming His Majesty for having fun and not doing his job, it really shouldn't be, the old minister is wrong to blame Your Majesty, wrong to blame! Your Majesty...... Death penalty, capital sin! The minister asked His Majesty to punish the crime, this Japanese people, hateful, should be killed, Your Majesty, should take precautions as soon as possible, it is advisable to build more warships, and kill the Japanese country fiercely...... "This old minister, listening to the emperor said this, saw the real thing in front of him, and listened to the historical materials told by others, and according to the legends of the Japanese country that he had heard before, and the rumors at sea, he also came to the conclusion that the Japanese people were rich and rich, and they could be ready to land in the Ming Dynasty and prepare to go ashore, so he immediately turned his gun and asked the emperor to deal with the Japanese people. Speaking of the rise of this eunuch, I don't know when, the disaster of the Japanese people is just around the corner! This Japanese invader used to sweep through several provinces in the southeast and kill countless gentry, if the army came again, wouldn't it be ...... "Your Majesty, Your Majesty should hurry up and build big ships and warships, and hurry up to guard against the Japanese people......"

"Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that the strength of the coastal guards should be strengthened, the money that should be allocated should be allocated in full, and the new warships should be built! ……”

"Your Majesty, the ministers are in favor of immediately building large warships, strengthening our coastal garrison, and defending against the sneak attack of the Japanese people......"

The ministers changed their original intentions one after another, from desperately opposing shipbuilding at the beginning, to now eager to build countless warships to defend themselves at once.

The root cause of the change is that this robber may be coming. Your own net worth and surname are very important! The dispute between the civil servants and the eunuch can still be put aside.

(To be continued)