Yang Gai was secretly proud in his heart, this was said that there were only a few hundred people stationed in the Ryukyus, so in this way, he could send some people over casually, and he would be able to deal with him very cleanly.

"All of you Aiqing have heard what the messenger said, let's discuss it." To be an emperor, you have to have the emperor's genealogy, you can't say everything yourself, the emperor's main duty is to be a referee. If the emperor has something to do according to his own will, it is best not to directly say how the emperor wants to be, this has to use a trust to give the emperor what he wants to do, so that the emperor squats on the throne to be a "referee", which is more "reasonable", at least in form. If you don't consult with the ministers, you have to do it yourself, and in this way, it is easy to be opposed by the ministers. Yang Reform has been the emperor for so long, and he has some experience with this emperor.

"Emperor Qi, it's time to teach this Japanese country a lesson, I can't imagine that the Japanese country is so disrespectful to our dynasty, it is really arrogant, if we don't defeat the arrogance of this Japanese people, presumably, there will be even more things to do in the future." This said that the damage I did to the scholars of the Ming Dynasty was still quite great, and this said that it was a book, and some people stood up and said that they would use force against it.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this Japanese kingdom is only entrenched in the Ryukyu country with four or five hundred people, and the imperial court can completely organize sailors, and in the past, one or two thousand people are enough." This one is even more iron-willed, shouting and beating over. said that the few people who beat the book were all relatively "young", standing in the back, and some of the bigwigs in front did not speak.

Yang Gai also felt that today's affairs in the court were very strange and very pleasing to his heart. Almost all of them are their own sweethearts.

Bi Ziyan is also ready to persuade the emperor again, there is no money, what can he use to fight? However, above this court, there are "outsiders" there, and they can't leak the details of the court, so they are staring, anxious, and it's hard to say, this face is still needed.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Your Majesty should first issue an edict reprimanding the Japanese State, so that the Japanese State will automatically withdraw from the Ryukyus, if the Japanese State does so, you can avoid using the sword soldiers, if you don't do it, Your Majesty will not be too late to find a way." Some clever ministers saw that it was not good to expose their own details and family ugliness in front of "outsiders", so they had no choice but to use this method of "turning in" to persuade the emperor to be more steady.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Lord XX said is reasonable, thinking that this Wa Kingdom has also been canonized by our dynasty, why doesn't Your Majesty send down an edict (chi) to order the Wa Kingdom to withdraw from the Ryukyus, so that this matter can be resolved without much effort......"

…… Then several ministers came out, all of them with this set of rhetoric. The envoy of the Ryukyu Kingdom looked anxious, there was no way, he was a sesame official, and there was no good way except to wait for someone else's "ruling". The emperor didn't let himself speak, and he didn't even have a chance to cry and play the sad card.

Yang Gengai laughed secretly when he heard "hehe", this group of guys who want to save face, there are outsiders present, and they are really a lot more gentle.

"How does my edict work? Hehe, my Ming Jiajing Dynasty, the Japanese continue to plunder and rob my coastal soldiers and civilians, this court has not issued an edict? My Wanli Dynasty expedition to Korea, resisting the Japanese and aiding Korea, countless casualties, countless expenses, the imperial court did not issue an edict? Here, an edict really works? ”

When Yang Gengai saw that this group of "hypocritical" guys avoided talking about money in front of outsiders, he knew that this group of people wanted to save face, so he stopped talking about money and talked about war instead.

"Ryukyu envoy, even if I send troops to drive away the Japanese people who occupy the Ryukyus, when my soldiers leave, won't these Japanese people come back again? Wouldn't this drive be in vain? "What Yang Reform thinks about is the garrison, this garrison, this overseas trade, can be regarded as the opening.

The Ryukyu envoy said, "Please also ask Your Majesty to uphold justice for the lower country." After thinking about it, he said, "I don't know Your Majesty?" ......" This person obviously didn't understand what Yang Reform said.

"Hehe, you don't understand this? It's very simple for me to send troops to drive away the Japanese people, I can't think of a few hundred people, I can send some people over casually, it's as easy as crushing insects, but I can't bear to drive them away, and the Japanese people will go again! Your Ryukyu people are small and thin, and your troops are not enough to resist the attack of the Japanese people, so what I mean is that it is easy for me to go forward and drive away the Japanese people, but I am not allowed to wait for the Japanese people to turn around and seek to seize the Ryukyus. So, I have to think of a perfect way! Otherwise, it will not be beneficial to the Ryukyus just to drive away the Japanese people, Ryukyu envoy, what do you say? Yang Gai smiled and didn't talk about the fact that his family had no surplus food, but talked about how easy it was to drive out the Japanese people, but the Japanese people waited for the Ming Dynasty army to go away and went back, so what should the Ryukyu country do? The king was taken captive by the Japanese kingdom again? Wouldn't that be even more humiliating?

When the messenger heard this, he immediately sweated in a hurry, why didn't he think of such a consequence? The emperor is right, the Ming Dynasty is far away from the ocean, even if it is for the sake of the subject country, for the sake of pity, go to help the Ryukyu Kingdom once or twice, but it can't stand the fact that the Hou Wa Kingdom will be harassed again, is it really as the emperor said, the lord of the country was taken away again?

The Ryukyu envoy hurriedly said: "I would like to ask Your Majesty to have mercy on you, to relieve our country from being in dire straits, not to let our country suffer such a catastrophe, not to make our lord suffer such humiliation, all rely on the blessing of the Heavenly Empire, all rely on Your Majesty's support......" This messenger sent a lot of sycophants without money. Not to mention, the ministers in this hall, seeing that this envoy said pitifully, their own country was taken away by other countries on their own initiative, it was really miserable, and they also had a little sympathy. But I don't want to be beautiful in front of my people, and I will be exposed in the back.

"Ryukyu envoy, it's not that I refuse to send troops over, there has to be a perfect way to do it! Otherwise, it will be half the effort and thankless, wouldn't it backfire? "Yang Reform is bent on garrisoning.

The envoy was in a hurry and said, "Your Majesty, why don't you send a boat master to inspect the Ryukyus?" In this way, the Japanese country will not dare to harm our country, and I ask Your Majesty for mercy. ”

As soon as the words of this envoy came out, not only Yang Reform, but also all the ministers looked sideways, thinking in their hearts, this guy was whimsical, and he thought it was the founding of the country, and the Ming Dynasty still has the strength to send ships to inspect everywhere? What an astronomical amount of money this boatman had! This guy is really whimsical.

Yang Reform is also weird, patrolling the Ryukyus, how did this guy come up with it?

“…… Touring the Ryukyus? Yang Reform didn't care about whether this "outsider" was an "outsider" or not, so he asked directly.

Seeing that the emperor was a bit "white", a minister felt that he had lost face, hesitated for a long time, but still came out, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, when I was in Taizu and became an ancestor, I would send boat divisions to inspect the sea frontier every year, with thousands of warships and a grand scale, but this was all one or two hundred years ago. As for the inspection of the Ryukyus, the minister couldn't think of it, as if there was no record of this. "This minister is not ambiguous, and the events of the past few hundred years can also be explained. This material must be reviewed.

Yang reform: "Ah! "For a moment, Taizu, when I became an ancestor, there were thousands of warships. This, it seems to be too powerful, isn't it? With so many warships, it seems that the United States of later generations is nothing more than that! It seems that if he wants to be the overlord of the Seven Seas, as long as he recovers to the level of Taizu and Chengzu, there will be basically no problem. Yang Gengai's heart itched, and he couldn't wait to have countless warships at once, and he couldn't wait to send troops to Ryukyu immediately and start his own road to the hegemony of the Seven Seas.

The Ryukyu envoy said, "Your Majesty, there is a record of this inspection of the Ryukyus, and there are records in the lower kingdoms. It was in the sixth year of Hongwu and the seventh year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, and both times there were records of the sailors of the Celestial Dynasty inspecting the Ryukyus, Your Majesty, this is a record. "It seems that this envoy has put in a lot of effort, and this kind of thing that has been invited for hundreds of years can also be brought out to talk about things.

is well-read and strong, and the ministers are even more impressed by this messenger.

Yang Gengai thinks that this envoy is really cute, with the patrol of the Ryukyus, can there be less foothold for this navy? After thinking about it, he said, "Is the military department still available?" ”

"The minister is here!" A minister stepped forward.

"I ask you, how much do you need to send troops to expel the Japanese people who occupy the Ryukyu Kingdom?" Yang reformed rapidly, and there will be outsiders, these ministers pretended to be Sven, and decided to send troops to the Ryukyu Kingdom, given the matter.

When the ministers saw that the emperor and the envoy of the Ryukyus were "pulling the altar" and pulling it well, they suddenly turned their heads and asked about the dispatch of troops, and they were even more anxious, ready to persuade the emperor, but the main owner of this matter was in the main hall, and it was not good to directly say that it was not worth sending troops to Ryukyu, how could this face be put down? This is really a slap in the face in front of outsiders. They all opened their mouths, but they couldn't speak. This is really a dumb person eating coptis, and it is hard to speak!

The military department Shangshu also opened his mouth, dumb for a while, and looked at the Ryukyu envoy with a hopeful face, and finally said hatefully: "Back to Your Majesty, I think that the Japanese people who occupy Ryukyu are only four or five hundred, if I send troops to the Ryukyu Dynasty, and the Ryukyu Kingdom assists, the minister thinks, one or two thousand people, and more than a dozen sea ships and warships are enough." After saying that, the secretary of the military department shut up. I hate it in my heart, but I can't do anything about it, I can't slap myself in the face in public! You can say whatever you want when your family is nobody, and when outsiders are there, how can you say that you have no money to send troops and no money to canonize? Isn't this chilling to the nation?

The ministers all lowered their heads, and this matter was inexplicably changed from sending canonized envoys to sending troops to Ryukyu.

Yang Reform was bored in his heart and laughed, these ministers! It's still too important to take face. If it is a person who is not very cheeky, this will immediately tell the fact that the imperial treasury is empty, and he can't afford to send troops and canonization, but unfortunately, this group of people is too face-saving.

"Where is the book of the household?" Yang Gai couldn't hold back a smile and asked the head of the household again.

"The minister is here." Tobe Shangshu hurriedly stood up, but with a sad face, he knew that he was very annoyed at a glance.

"One or two thousand, more than a dozen warships, how much is the cost of the army?"

Hubu Shangshu gritted his teeth for a long time, and finally calculated the data, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that if you don't build a new ship and gather the elite, if it takes a year, the opening fee, weapons, silver, chewing, gunpowder, maintenance, pension, burning, and silver reward will cost about 100,000 taels." "This Lord Shangshu of the household department is really gritting his teeth, this household department is only a hundred thousand taels of silver in total, and this Ryukyu country spends 100,000 taels at once, this is really unreasonable, but the dignified Celestial Empire is only a hundred thousand taels of silver, who believes it? If others knew, would they still have the face of the heavenly kingdom? It's really a shame to be thrown to grandma's house. I hate itchy, but I can't do anything about it.

The ministers are even more inexplicable. It's too fast, this money has increased from tens of thousands of taels to one or two hundred thousand taels, and the treasury silver of the lower household department has completely bottomed out, and I should have known that I should have simply promised His Majesty to canonize the matter, and there will be no such thing as sending troops, now it's okay, not only to send canonized envoys, but also to send troops, and completely spend the silver accumulated in the treasury. Fortunately, the Japanese people who occupied the Ryukyus were a few hundred people, and the scale was not large, and the cost of sending one or two thousand people was "reluctantly" acceptable, so they knocked out their teeth and swallowed them in their stomachs. The distress in my heart is also known to myself.

(To be continued)