"Ladies and gentlemen," Liu Jun sat there for a day's meeting, the whole person was a little groggy, for several days, every day was to get up early and go to bed late, the new division of the 39 provinces of the Wujing 12 Military Region brought about a complete personnel change, and it happened to change the year-end inventory, audit and official assessment.

He just wanted to end this meeting a long time ago, and even a little wanted to escape from this palace and go to the outside world to breathe in the fresh air.

"That's all for today's meeting." Liu Jun interrupted the prime ministers, who were still full of interest, and the ministers who were still in attendance, "It's not early, let's end today's meeting early, everyone go back early, think about the current situation at home, come up with a few useful suggestions, and come back to present, remember to have something to say, if there are no good suggestions, don't make up the numbers." Okay, everyone is tired during this time, so let's go back early. ”

Liu Jun got up impatiently, and before leaving, he summoned the chief of the Internal Affairs Office and asked him to give each of the ministers a few jars of imperial wine. Then he left everyone behind and left directly.

At today's meeting, only a few major policy directions for next year were set. However, in terms of personnel, Liu Jun only announced the appointment of some of the feudal officials.

Liu Jun didn't want to pinch and hide, it really involved a comprehensive adjustment of the locality, and he had to be cautious. Every appointment had to be deliberate, and he couldn't even consult with the ministers.

The ministers were not very helpful in such important matters, and sometimes they disturbed his train of thought.

"Your Majesty, are we going to be in a bit of a hurry?" Wang Kun, who followed Liu Jun's side, whispered that as the chief eunuch of ceremonies, the chief eunuch of the palace eunuchs, and the head of the three eunuchs in the palace, he existed as the emperor's confidential secretary. This makes him no longer an ordinary chamberlain. And it is also justifiable to enter the core of the central power of the Han Dynasty.

In particular, the title of prime minister participating in politics made him one of the top ministers of the Han Dynasty.

In his current position, he naturally can't just rely on some simple eating, drinking, and having fun to please him. He knew very well the character of the young emperor, and if he really did that, then he would immediately lose his current position, and if he didn't turn around, he would be placed in retirement. His current status, what the emperor needs is for him to be an important minister of the court, not a courtier.

Liu Jun smiled and didn't stop.

Coming out of the prime minister's yamen, he walked quickly to the Qianqing Palace. Wang Kun was not the first person to mention to the emperor that he was in a hurry. In fact, such statements have recently been repeated in the recitals of many ministers.

There are even some young Kedao officials, who directly criticize the emperor's current ruling in the style of Qin Huang and Han Wu, and some people even say that Liu Jun is following the path of Sui II. Some people directly said that Liu Jun was reckless, and some people said that he was so happy.

For these folds, after Liu Jun read them, he specially asked the waiter to put them on a bookshelf for preservation. It's not a blacklist, it's just that I think these people are quite honest and outspoken, but for what they say. Liu Jun disagreed.

Saying that it is a great achievement, it can be called a point, and it seems that it is not useless to say that it is a reckless force. Even the claim that he was in a hurry has a basis.

However, Liu Jun believes that he is neither Qin Shi Huang, nor Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, nor Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.

Whether it is Emperor Qin, Han Wu or Emperor Yang of Sui, they are all far-sighted emperors.

Qin Shi Huang's unification of the world. The car is on the same track, the book is the same, the weights and measures are unified, and the Great Wall is built. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chased the Xiongnu in the north, and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty opened canals in the east. Attack Tuyuhun in the north and conquer Goguryeo in the east.

All they did was for the reunification of China.

However, their reform strategy does have weaknesses, Qin and Sui are the second to die, when Emperor Wu of Han inherited the throne was after the rule of Han Wenjing, Emperor Wu of Han reigned for decades, but the Han Dynasty almost lost the country, and the population of the world was halved. When Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty succeeded to the throne, it was also after the opening of the emperor's prosperous era, and after the Great Sui re-unified the world, he could have great martial arts, and after the prosperous and prosperous era, it was prosperous and declining, and it was rapidly defeated.

The Chinese officials of the DPRK, especially those who spoke according to Confucianism, hated war, reform, and even expansion, and they were afraid of war, of change, of expansion.

Confucianism, which has been propagated for thousands of years, has slowly become a little complacent.

They just blindly talk about the warlike will die, but they don't know that forgetting the war will be dangerous, more than 200 years before the Ming Dynasty, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, repeatedly invaded by foreign enemies, even a small Japan dared to swallow the heart of the Ming Dynasty, and the small country of Donghu in the southwest also dared to repeatedly invade the territory and seize the territory, not to mention the Mongols in the northern steppes and the Jurchens who rose in the Kwantung region later.

Beijing, the capital, was also approached by Hu soldiers several times.

Even if you don't make peace with your relatives, don't cede your land, and don't pay compensation, you can't change the fact that the Ming Dynasty was beaten by various foreign tribes in turn, and even the Tusi tribe rebelled one after another. It is a fact that the territory of the Ming Dynasty is getting smaller and smaller, and more and more Tusi rebels and stands on their own.

The later predicament of the Ming Dynasty, in Liu Jun's view, was completely a defect in the system established by the founding emperor. Zhu Hongwu's so-called self-raising of a million troops without spending a grain of grain on the people seems to sound good, but in fact, the imperial court used a large area of land as a military cantonment, and classified countless people as military households to exempt from taxes, but the result was that the tax revenue of the population in these fields was wasted, but on the contrary, it did not raise usable soldiers.

The preferential treatment of the Ming clan and the preferential treatment of the gentry eventually raised the largest parasite group in the Ming Dynasty.

The military household system of the guard, the military tun system and the hereditary military attache system and the military system of civil and military uniformity are even more self-abolished martial arts, but the favored empire does not have an army that can fight, let alone the so-called country of non-conquest, so that the Central Plains lost the opportunity to open up when it was the strongest.

The systems of the Han Empire were all born out of the Ming Dynasty system but were completely different, and many officials found it difficult to accept, could not adapt, and even panicked.

"Many Han people have lost their blood and do not know how to forge ahead." Liu Jun sighed and said, "Heaven will take it, and you will be blamed for it." "Because of his appearance, today's big man turned a corner and walked on another fork in the road. This is a great road, and China does not have to take any more detours.

Now is the best era, without experiencing the devastating Ming and Qing dynasties, the Han people have retained their vitality and become stronger in the new dynasty, now at this time, the Han has an incomparable advantage over the surrounding area, if you do not take the opportunity to forge ahead in this period. Wait for others to react, and then it will be difficult.

Moreover, the time when each dynasty can really maintain a strong aggressive force is only a few decades. If you miss this stage, your enterprising ability will be greatly inferior.

"The merit is in the contemporary, and the benefit is in the future. If the history books are going to add a belligerent infamy to me in the future, I am not afraid. Everything I do is something that will benefit the future. ”

If you know it's right, do it, and don't be afraid of what people say.

Although next year there may be three wars to be fought at the same time. Even four wars, but Liu Jun is not blindly arrogant. The war of the imperial court against the Jurchens and the Mongols in Moxi will mainly be the strategy of destroying and destroying the tiger and devouring the wolf, so these two wars will not weaken the strength of the Han Dynasty, on the contrary, it will only weaken the strength of the Manchu and Mongolian tribes, so that the Han can better control the Great Wall.

And the battle of Japan. It would be a war of plunder, and the Great Han had a cross-era superiority over the Japanese. The Dutch, Spanish, British, and other European countries have crossed the sea and oceans precisely by virtue of these advancements. Plunder colonies from those backward places, and use the blood and tears of those colonial peoples, with their wealth and population, to lay the cornerstone for their rise.

There is not the slightest warmth in this. It is extremely cruel, and the Han wants to stand up in such a forest of the jungle of the jungle. You can't be too kind.

The Han Dynasty will never have any country that will not be conquered, let alone a vicious neighbor like Japan, which has repeatedly invaded China, has the opportunity to annex and destroy it, and Liu Jun will never be soft.

"The imperial court's plans for road construction, immigration, reclamation, and education are indeed a little urgent, but ten years is too long, and it is a matter of time. We want to attack Japan, precisely because we want to take labor from Japan to mine and build roads, and we are in a hurry to carry out education in order to integrate all the tribes and ethnic groups in the world into one great Chinese nation and become one China. ”

Wang Kun understood some words, but he couldn't understand some words. Liu Jun didn't try to make him understand, but there were too many people questioning him recently, he didn't care on the surface, but in fact, he was also holding back a fire in his heart, and today he borrowed his question to say it together.

Liu Jun sighed, "Actually, whether it is fighting Japan or Donghu, it will not have much impact on the imperial court." On the contrary, war stimulates the economy, which is a war economy, which requires warships, artillery, muskets, swords, clothing, vehicles, and so on. The shipbuilding industry, firearms factories, clothing factories, etc. can get a large number of orders. This is a virtuous circle, which can drive the development of countless industries, and there will be countless job opportunities in the process, and the imperial court will also get a lot of taxes, and the country can also get a lot of technology accumulation, etc. ”

This economic model of war should be built on the basis of having a strong army, and the Han Dynasty has a huge standing army, advanced technology, and such conditions.

"Feed the war with war." Wang Kun thought for a while and said a word, which he felt was somewhat similar. The rise of the Jurchens in the Ming Dynasty didn't rely on this mode of war expansion, but the Jurchens seemed to rely on robbery. Strengthen yourself through the plundering after victory in war.

And the war economy that the emperor said is more advanced. It is also necessary to win, and only after victory can the spoils of war be able to pay the cost of war, and only then can those military industries get the money for ordnance and equipment, and they can have the money to pay for the cost of raw materials upstream and the wages of their own workers.

This is a tight industrial chain, and if one chain is broken, it will be a disaster. At that time, it will turn from a war economy and war wealth into a war disaster.

And the most important chain is to win the battle, and the second is to get enough spoils from the war.

Can't the Great Han Victory?

Can't the Great Han recover its costs from the war?

Wang Kun thought about the battles that the army led by the emperor had been fighting all along, whether it was in the pre-Ming Dynasty or in the Han Dynasty, they didn't seem to have lost money.

"It seems that you understand, yes, can't we win against Japan and can't win against Togu? No, I don't think so. We have a large number of standing troops, with advanced firearms, the most adequate training, and a complete logistics supply system, this is not the Ming Dynasty's guards, nor the Sui and Tang dynasties' government soldiers. ”

"Speaking of which, our Han army is similar to the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty, both are standing armies, but we are much stronger than them, aren't we? We have a powerful fleet and fierce artillery, and even a fierce cavalry. Why can't such an army win? ”

"This is actually like doing business, what we hold in our hands, but excellent business opportunities, stable and reliable profits, why don't we dare to go on?"

Wang Kun laughed, "The Great Han Army established by His Majesty is invincible, and there is not a single defeat." Both the Manchus and the Mongols were defeated by the Han army, and the Japanese and Donghu were naturally not opponents. ”

Liu Jun laughed, "This is a profitable deal, and we have no reason to miss it." ”

"Japan has a population of more than 20 million, and many of our admirals have proposed that the imperial court compete with European colonists for the islands. But with such a piece of fat in front of us, why should we rush to seek the near and far? ”

"If we take Japan, if more than 20 million people become laborers, then the road network of the imperial court will be able to extend in all directions, connecting every province, and even after we destroy Donghu in the future, we will be able to directly connect from the Jingshi Road to Yunnan, to Dali, to Ava, and to Yangon Haikou."

"As long as Japan and Donghu can be swallowed, the Han Dynasty will be able to take off quickly, and within twenty years, push the southwestern border of the empire all the way to the southern sea, and even within fifty years, conquer the entire Nanyang Islands."

Wang Kun felt a little enthusiastic when he heard it, although he was just a castrated eunuch, but he admitted that he was indeed enthusiastic at this moment.

He was deeply impressed by the emperor's ambition, this is a true hero.

Liu Jun turned around and smiled when he saw Wang Kun's reddened and excited face.

It's easy to say, but it's certainly not easy to realize, let alone 50 years, if the national policy remains unchanged, after several generations of unremitting efforts, maybe in a hundred years, China can annex the Indochina Peninsula and Japan and Korea, as for the Nanyang Islands, it is a vast ocean, with countless archipelagos, and the conquest of one island after another requires not only force, but also time.

In a hundred years, there have been too many changes, and no one can guarantee that the national policy of the Han Dynasty will remain unchanged in a hundred years, and there will be no internal changes. However, he hoped that he would be able to pass on this pioneering and enterprising spirit, and as long as the people of the country have such a pioneering spirit, it is the most important thing.

"Okay, I'm going to leave the palace, you go and inform the guards on duty and the factory guards."

"Do you want to leave Beijing, do you notify the Praetorian Guard, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, the Police Department, and the Suncheon Mansion?"

"I don't have to move the people, I'll just walk around Beijing and travel in micro-services." Liu Jun confessed. (To be continued.) )