Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Grass Terrace Team

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On this day, Zhao Luan raised his account and convened his subordinates to discuss the plan to capture Yizhou, and Mao Geng was naturally among them.

Zhao Lu's subordinate team is by no means a luxurious lineup, but can only be called a patchwork grass platform team. For example, Zhao Lu himself is a military novice, and Mao Geng himself is also a military novice. All right! This is nothing, what makes people's jaws drop is that Han Yanxuan has also mixed into this team, and he is also the one with the highest official rank outside of Zhao Luan. Okay! What do Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan want to do?

In fact, Han Yanxuan just wants to make a contribution, Han Yanxuan, who was born in Enyin, is not from a professional class after all, if he does not make meritorious contributions, it will be difficult to be promoted. It was because of Enyin's entry into the office that he achieved his current official body from the fifth grade, this is the blessing of Han Qi, the ancestor of the Han family, and the second is the care of the Empress Dowager Wu, although it is also a practice for the Great Song Dynasty to confer officials with Enyin, but after all, this is an official position that relies on nepotism or goes through the back door, and there is nothing to boast about in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, but it is more or less discriminated against by the official from the professional class, which makes Han Yanxuan, a famous disciple, feel quite unhappy.

Han Yanxuan thinks that he is also a seven-foot man with great ambitions, and he is also a hawk who advocates the restoration of FΓΉ, this time the official family wants to conquer Yizhou, so he specially issued an edict to take care of the relatives of the lords and the country, Han Yanxuan thinks that the opportunity is rare, so he asked the Empress Dowager Wu to say to the official family, to vote under the command of Zhao Lu, vowing to make military achievements, as the way to advance. Zhao Yan has always had a good impression of Han Yanxuan, and at the same time feels that if Han Yanxuan helps Zhao Xuan, Zhao Lian will be able to get the aid of Empress Dowager Wu. In addition, Han Yanxuan is not only a national relative, but also a minister, and he can be regarded as a reliable person, so it is reassuring to let him participate in the search for secrets thousands of miles away. Therefore, by mistake, Han Yanxuan became a member of the team for the expedition to Taiwan. But when it comes to combat experience, Han Yanxuan can only be regarded as a novice.

Of course, there are no combat generals in the team, and the two generals selected by Zhao Tuan for Zhao Luan, one is Zheng Zhi, the Marquis of Duyu from the navy, and the other is Li Tongzuo, the newly promoted Marquis of Duyu, the former secretary of the palace. Among these two, only Li Tongzuo participated in the Longxing Northern Expedition in the early years.

In addition, Zhao Lian also recruited four martial arts into the team, one is Jiang Bokui, the second martial artist in the fourteenth year of Chunxi, and his brother is Jiang Bohu, the martial champion of the eighth year of Chunxi, and the remaining three martial artists, one is Jin Ding in the eleventh year of Chunxi, and the other two are Guo Xixian and Lin Mao in the same year as Jiang Bokui.

In short, Li Tongzuo is the only one who has fought here, and the others can only be regarded as people who talk on paper.

The fleet that went to investigate this time was led by Zheng Shi, and when he returned, he also brought Zhou Xiantao, the commander stationed in Pinghu.

A sand table was placed in the hall, and the shape of the entire island of Yizhou was made according to the sketches drawn by Mao Geng. However, next to Yizhou, the bunch of islands are impressively marked with the name of "Pinghu".

Mao Geng only figured out at this time that these islands were not called "Penghu Islands" at this time, and their current names were "Pinghu", and these islands had already been included in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

It turned out that since Wang Dayou knew Quanzhou in the seventh year of the main road (1171), he included the Penghu Islands under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou, and built 2oo houses as military camps in the Penghu Islands, and sent troops to garrison in Penghu. Going back further, the immigrants who migrated to Penghu in the Great Song Dynasty went to the Penghu Islands many years ago, and later it was because of pirates from Luzon Island who came to the island to loot that Wang Dayou sent troops to garrison the Penghu Islands. "Pinghu" and "Penghu" are not far apart in phonetics, and I don't know if it was a false rumor that finally became the "Penghu Islands" of later generations.

Zhou Xiantao was stationed in Pinghu, and of course he knew something about Yizhou, which was only forty kilometers away. According to Zhou Xiantao, the natives of Yizhou and the Song people on the Penghu Islands have long had mutual exchanges, but the Song people who have been to Yizhou Island before all think that Yizhou Island belongs to one country, and they do not understand each other's languages.

Even if the Song people have been to Yizhou Island, they can't figure out the depth of it, how do they know that Yizhou Island is actually still a tribal separation, and it is an ordinary indigenous person who doesn't even have words! The Song people only regarded people as people, and like the Great Song Dynasty, it was a great country. The result was Mao Geng's words in the court, which revealed Yizhou's hole cards. This time, Zheng Zhi sent a number of spies after some investigation, has roughly found out the reality of the aborigines of Yizhou, the overall judgment, the aborigines there are indeed uncivilized, their dwellings and weapons and tools are very primitive, although those natives are extremely reluctant to outsiders to go deep, but with their strength, it is not enough to stop the Great Song Dynasty.

At this point, Mao Geng sighed in his heart, there is the Song generation, the Chinese people are really honest and honest, probably because the indigenous people of Taiwan do not look down on the Penghu Islands, and disdain to go to the Penghu Islands to live, so that the Song people dare to go to the Penghu Islands to live, and once they arrive on the island of Taiwan, as long as the natives show a little fierceness, the Song people do not have the courage to live in Taiwan. It's a pity, it's a pity! There was a Song generation, and the Great Song Dynasty only had a share of other people's territory, and never occupied other people's territory. Even Yizhou, which was close in front of him, never wanted to occupy it, and the enterprising spirit of the Great Song Dynasty was really insignificant. If it weren't for the fact that he had made a gambling agreement with the officials, the officials would have felt that they would have taken advantage of it, and perhaps the plan to attack Taiwan would have to be weighed left and right before it could be promoted.

When Mao Geng sighed, Zheng Zhi was boasting about Haikou at this time, and he claimed that he only needed 5,000 soldiers to subdue Yizhou.

At this time, Han Yanxuan spoke:

"Yu Guogong, the lower officials think that my Great Song Dynasty is called the Heavenly Dynasty, and I am famous as a teacher in the way of a saint. The lower officials thought that this expedition to Yizhou was because the official family remembered the hardships of their generations and did not know civilized etiquette, so I raised the heavenly soldiers to enter Yizhou, which was to educate the barbarians of their generation and naturalize them into the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, the lower officials thought that although there was a conquest here, in the final analysis, it was to uphold the way of the sage's 'benevolence and righteousness', and to save the people from fire and water, so that he could be called a teacher of justice. This is a little bad opinion of the lower officials, does the national public think so? ”

When Mao Geng heard this, he was stunned for a while, and said in his heart that the move of using force everywhere under the banner of spreading "universal values" was a common thing for later American emperors, but he didn't expect the surname Han to think of it at this time! It's really not easy! Just called him this, which shows that he is "traitorous". But having said that, in today's era, only the Great Song Dynasty represents advanced culture and advanced productive forces, and the Great Song Dynasty is the most qualified to lead the uncivilized indigenous people to advanced civilization, so Han Yanxuan's words are not unreasonable.

When Zhao Lian heard this, his subordinate, who wanted to call him uncle in private, said it in a high-sounding manner, and it made a lot of sense when he thought about it carefully, so he smiled and said:

"Lord Han's words are exactly what I want, Mencius said, 'punish his crimes, hang his people, if the rain falls, the people are happy', this lord waved his master to Yizhou, it is the crime of hanging the people, and it is still necessary to 'hang the people'. According to this text, it can be reported to the official family to publish it in the world, so as to show the official's love for the people. ”

Wow cough cough! This gentleman immediately found the corresponding sage quotations as annotations, and immediately presented his imperial grandfather with a very big high hat, this kind of ability, and indeed has the potential of a politician, Mao Geng couldn't help but look at Zhao Lugao on the line.

The crowd present naturally scrambled to echo each other, and that martial artist Lin Mao even put eulogies such as "benevolence and love the people" on the official family. Mao Geng wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, so he had to shift his attention to the sand table.

But the more I looked, the more I felt that the word "Yizhou" on the sand table was not pleasing to the eye, and the word "Pinghu" was not used to it. Mao Geng's heart suddenly moved, and he said that everyone is such a, so why not take a ride and peddle your private work! Mao Geng then said loudly:

"Yu Guogong, the lower officials think that since this is to save the people from fire and water, it shows that the imperial court has regarded the people of the island as the people of the Great Song Dynasty, so if it is called 'Yizhou' again, it is very inappropriate, according to the opinion of the lower officials, it is imperative to change the name of this island. Please publicize it! ”

When the people in the audience heard it, they said yes, since this island will be owned by the Great Song Dynasty in the future, it is categorically inappropriate to call it "Yizhou" again.

Zhao Lian also thought so, so he said:

"In Mr. Mao's opinion, how should I change my name?"

Mao Geng actually waited for Zhao Luan's question, so he pretended to have a leisurely and fascinate expression, and pretended to say mysteriously:

"The teacher once said that in the past, the bearded guest went on an expedition and stayed on this island for a short time, and later the record left by the bearded guest called this island 'Taiwan', which is the 'Taiwan' in the background, the 'bay' of the bay, and as for the 'Pinghu', it is called the 'Penghu Islands'. The lower officials think that if they just follow the name of 'Taiwan' according to the Tang people, does the Guogong think it is okay? ”

Just now, Mao Geng just said "change the name", not "change the name", and the calculation was to use this later. The trick of Shizun and the bearded guest has become a trick that Mao Geng has tried and tested, although he has also missed, but now the story is getting more and more rounded, and Zhao Lu can't believe it.

Zhao Yan rolled his eyes and said with a smile:

"Since there is such a saying, it just shows that the Tang people once occupied this island, and the name of this island is called by the Tang people, and Ben Jue thinks it is very good. It is only necessary to report to the official family, and as long as the official family is approved, the name of 'Taiwan' will be officially used at that time. ”

Mao Geng sold his private work as he wished, and Zhao Lu was not without gains, the sentence "Tang people once occupied" is in line with the logic of the sentence "It has been my Chinese territory since ancient times", and it is even more righteous to rejuvenate the teacher.

As a result, after some discussion, Xingshi not only had incomparable justice, but also roughly formulated a plan to send troops.

In this expedition to Yizhou, the preliminary plan was to send 2,500 naval troops and 5,000 infantry of the forbidden army, and another 5,000 troops as auxiliaries. The navy was drawn from two naval forces, the Zhejiang Naval Army of the Imperial Palace's former Division and the Naval Army of the Coastal Establishment Envoy of Dinghai County, Qingyuan Prefecture, both of which were capable of naval warfare, and could immediately leave for Taiwan without any further sea-appropriate training.

In addition, logistics, immigration and indigenous policies are also assigned, and there are special personnel responsible for refining them.

After the meeting, Zhao Lu was full of ambition for a while, as if Taiwan had been fully grasped, and he showed a look of great ambition.

Mao Geng couldn't help but smile bitterly, a group of Xiaobai got together, and pieced together a plan to bully the natives, called "the teacher of benevolence and righteousness" and "saving the people from fire and water", at this moment Mao Geng's feeling is a bit similar to playing games on the computer, and it feels full of game ingredients. I just don't know if there are rules in the game that give extra points to "benevolence".