Early in the morning, Liu Jun was preparing to change into civilian clothes and go to the vegetable market street after morning exercise. As a result, Wang Kun, the chief of ceremonies and the eunuch, came to give a performance, saying that today's premier's office was ready, and respectfully invited the emperor to come over.

Since Liu Jun became emperor, the early dynasty system has been basically abolished, and under normal circumstances, only the fifteenth day of the first lunar month will hold a large court meeting. The rest of the time, Liu Jun didn't bother to hold the early dynasty that was purely superficial. For Liu Jun, holding a small meeting for a big event and holding a meeting is just a notice.

The more important the matter, the more people there are, the more they can't come up with an idea, but there are many people with mixed opinions, different opinions, and endless disputes. He prefers to hold meetings with a dedicated person. The Military Aircraft Conference is devoted to military aircraft affairs, the Fiscal and Taxation Council is devoted to fiscal and taxation affairs, and the Judicial Council is devoted to judicial affairs.

For the most important military affairs, a meeting of the Prime Minister's Office was convened, and the chief officials of the Cabinet, the Secretary of Rites and Directors, the Secretary of General Affairs, the Privy Council, the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Yuan, and the Six Ministries were convened together to discuss together.

The meeting of the Prime Minister's Office has also become the most important meeting in the Han Dynasty, although on the surface, the Prime Minister's Office is only a temporary advisory body to the emperor, and the heads of various ministries participating in the meeting are all advisers to the emperor. But in fact, the meeting of the Prime Minister's Office has become the de facto highest decision-making body of the Han court.

Decisions made at the meeting of the Prime Minister's Office will be immediately submitted to the Cabinet for a vote, and then approved by the celebrant and supervisor, and then reviewed by the six departments and the Zhongshu Sheren, and then promulgated to the world.

Because the Prime Minister's Office was nominally only an advisory body to the emperor, the Prime Minister's Office was completely the emperor's decision, and it was through this ingenious arrangement that Liu Jun firmly held the imperial court in his hands.

There are also many unwritten rules in the Prime Minister's Office, such as a regular meeting once a week, which will be held on an ad hoc basis in case of trouble. If there is a major event, officials from the ministries and temples will be added to attend as observers, and an enlarged meeting of the Prime Minister's Office will be held.

Today is Sunday, and it is also the time of the week when the regular meeting of the Prime Minister's Office is held.

Liu Jun called a royal guard. Confess to him. "I can't go to the German hotel for the time being today, you help me run over there and tell the proprietress that I can't leave because of something."

After casually practicing the white wax pole and big gun, Liu Jun took the spear and went back to the house to change into a dragon robe and jade belt after bathing under the waiter of the palace maid.

Tidy up, Liu Jun refused to take the chariot, but walked directly to the yamen of the prime minister's office in front of the Qianqingdian Square.

This yamen is located outside the Qianqing Gate, very close to the upper study, not far from the Qianqing Palace, and is between the inside and outside of the Forbidden Palace. Originally, it was originally established at the end of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. The auxiliary government yamen of the minister.

Later, the Han Dynasty became Ming, but the prime minister's yamen was retained, but the cabinet chief assistant no longer led the prime minister's yamen, and this yamen completely became the personal advisory agency of the Han Emperor. But in fact, it has become the most important decision-making center of Dahan.

The pattern of the Han Dynasty follows that of the Ming Dynasty, but there are many reforms. The first assistant of the cabinet is still the first of the hundred officials, and the grade of the scholar has been improved from the fifth rank to the first grade, and the first of the hundred officials who are justifiably the first. But in fact, after constant adjustments by the emperor. Now the cabinet is in charge of the temples, but the courts, departments, and offices are independent.

The Metropolitan Prosecutor's House and the Privy Council, a supervisory body. A military order yamen is no longer subordinate to the cabinet. In addition, there are also the Celebrant and the General Administration, which are also not under the control of the cabinet. The Three Law Divisions and the Three Accounting Divisions also have strong independence.

Arguably. In the current Han Dynasty, power is divided into several large pieces.

The cabinet was more like the Shangshu province in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the authority of the first assistant was similar to that of the prime minister in the Song dynasty. Military power and financial power have been divided, and now the first assistant of the Han Dynasty not only has little control over military power and financial power, but even the judicial part is not controlled by them.

The major affairs of the imperial court, especially those involving military, judicial, and fiscal and taxation, must be decided by the emperor.

In this new pattern, the Prime Minister's Office is becoming more and more important.

The ministers of the court, depending on the authority, do not look at the grade, but see whether they have entered the prime minister's office.

Now those who are eligible to enter the prime minister's office in the court have added a title of 'prime minister participating in politics' after their official positions. With this title of prime minister, he is a real cardinal of the imperial court.

Up to now, in fact, none of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty understand that this prime minister's office has actually become the political hall of the Tang Dynasty, and this prime minister's political title is actually equivalent to the Pingzhang of the Tongzhong Book in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Sui system was followed, and the central government established a system of three provinces and six ministries, with three provinces, namely Menxia, Zhongshu and Shangshu, and the decision-making, deliberation and administrative powers were divided. However, due to the separation of powers among the three provinces, many drawbacks often arise, especially the Zhongshu Province, which has the power to issue orders, and the subordinate provinces, which control the examination and approval of government decrees, from time to time due to differences in political views, pull each other and prevaricate.

Therefore, in the end, the imperial court co-located the governors of the three provinces (Zhongshu Ling, Shizhong, Shangshu and Shangshu), and their offices were called Zhengshitang, which was first set up in Menxia Province and later moved to Zhongshu Province. Subsequently, he was appointed by the emperor to enter the political hall to discuss matters, and the official added the names of "participating in the governor's affairs", "participating in the politics of the Yu dynasty", and "three products under the door of the same book" as the prime minister.

Now the court structure of the Han Dynasty is specious as that of the Ming Dynasty, the power of the various ministries is more dispersed, and the emperor has a tighter grasp of power, so there is now a new prime minister Yamen.

This prime minister's yamen was the political hall of the Tang Dynasty. However, these ministers who added the prime minister to participate in politics did not have the authority of the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.

The authority of the emperor of the Han Dynasty far exceeded that of the emperors of the Tang and Song dynasties.

When Liu Jun entered the prime minister's yamen, all the prime ministers had already arrived to participate in politics.

Nowadays, there are not many officials in the court who have the title of prime minister, they are the first assistant and the second assistant of the cabinet, the admiral eunuch and the palm seal eunuch of the celebrant eunuch, as well as the five Shangshu, the general political envoy, the left and right imperial history, the left and right privy envoys, the secretary of finance, the secretary of taxation and the secretary of civil affairs, the secretary of auditing, and the secretary of Dali Temple.

There were a lot of people, a full nineteen.

All of them have the same title of prime minister, regardless of whether they are high or low.

In fact, this already has the prototype of the cabinet in later generations, but the first assistant is not the head of the cabinet, and the Han Emperor Liu Jun is the real decision-maker of the prime minister's office, and the rest of the prime ministers participate in politics, just his advisers.

This meeting of the prime minister is equivalent to a standing committee. If the affairs under discussion involve the following specific departments, sometimes Liu Jun will also summon the officials of the ministry to attend, and sometimes hundreds of officials from several ministries will attend the meeting together, and the scale is very large, and it is completely an enlarged meeting.

When the prime ministers saw the emperor coming, they saluted and paid homage.

The Prime Minister's Yamen meeting was much more relaxed than the court meeting. The court will attach great importance to etiquette and have many rules. The meeting of the Prime Minister's Office is only called by the emperor's ministers in the sense of the word. Therefore, here the ministers have their own seats, and each person has a table in front of him, all kinds of study utensils, and even a charcoal stove at his feet, and a hand stove on the table.

Each of them was accompanied by several subordinate officials in the back.

Liu Jun sat down, starting from Yuan Jixian, the first assistant, and the prime ministers participated in politics in turn to make work briefings, and the nineteen people who participated in politics were all heads or deputy governors of the most important departments of the imperial court.

Everyone knows that the emperor does not like to have too long briefings. Therefore, the briefings are as concise as possible. It took three to five minutes for each person to finish what needed to be said.

After a briefing, Liu Jun looked at his pocket watch, and the time was within an hour.

"Your Majesty, after the Tokugawa family of the Edo Shogunate of Japan met with our envoys, they still refused to withdraw their troops from the Ryukyus, nor did they abide by the previous agreement to relax the restrictions on the export of silver and copper." Fu Shan, the left privy envoy of the Privy Council, proposed to send troops to Japan, "not sending troops to teach them a lesson." They are afraid that they don't know the height of the sky, and they don't know what the power of thunder is! ”

The Ryukyu royal family, the Shang family, has been wiped out by the Satsuma Domain of Japan, and the Ryukyus have been invaded by force.

Previously, the imperial court sent an envoy to Edo, Japan, to meet with the shogun of the Tokugawa family. As a result, they refused to withdraw their troops at all, let alone hand over Ryukyu to the Han.

Now that the Han Dynasty is sweeping the Eight Wildernesses and subduing the United States, a small Japan actually dares to refuse ****. This made the commanders and chiefs of staff of the Privy Council very unhappy.

The Privy Council now has two major departments, one is the headquarters of the five armed forces, and there are commanders of the five armed forces in the center, front and back, left and right. They are the commanders of the five major theaters of the Han Dynasty, and they directly command the governors, governors, and admirals of the major military regions of the Han Dynasty, and they also command the five strategic reserve forces stationed in the five capitals.

Another powerful department of the Privy Council is the General Staff. The General Staff Office has chiefs of staff of all arms and five theaters, and these staff offices form a joint meeting, which is specifically responsible for the formulation of the strategy of the Han Dynasty.

The General Staff Office is responsible for studying the strategy, the Fifth Service Command is responsible for commanding, the military regions below are responsible for commanding troops, and the military towns are directly operating in accordance with the strategy of the General Staff Office and the orders of the Headquarters.

The power of the military department is relatively weak, and the military department has commanders of various arms and various logistics and equipment departments, which are specifically responsible for military administration, rewards, promotions, and punishments of officers, logistics equipment, and so on. In fact, their power is not small, but they do not have the power to transfer troops, which is much inferior to the Privy Council in a special department such as the army.

The Privy Council did not care at all about promotions, logistics, equipment, and salaries, they only worked out strategies and commanded the transfer of troops, so the reaction of the Japanese immediately annoyed them, and the General Staff Office had quickly drawn up a plan to send troops. The headquarters of the Fifth Service is ready to issue orders for the transfer of troops to all military regions at any time.

However, the division of powers and responsibilities of the Han army is very clear, and each has its own responsibilities and must not cross the line. The Privy Council is in charge of how to fight, the Ministry of War is in charge of providing logistics and equipment, the military regions below are in charge of the army, and the towns and divisions below are the direct combat units leading the troops.

However, whether to fight or not, when to fight, and who to send to command the troops, these rights are not the right of either the Privy Council or the Ministry of War.

These involve the most core military powers, which belong to the emperor alone.

Whether to fight or not, when to fight, the emperor alone has the final say, and even who is ultimately selected to lead the army, only the emperor has the final decision-making power, and everyone else only has the right to advise.

Now, the Privy Council Staff Office has drawn up a plan to send troops, but in the end it is up to Liu Jun to make a decision.

Liu Jun took over the plan from Fu Shan's hand, although the plan of the General Staff Office was made improvised, it was still very detailed, and there were even three plans for one main and two deputies.

The plan of the General Staff Office was to focus on the capture of the Ryukyu Islands, with the East China Sea Fleet as the main focus. This was supplemented by raids on the coast of Japan, and the Royal Task Force was tasked with this task.

In short, the Ryukyus were directly seized by force, while the Japanese main island was mainly attacked and harassed along the coast, which eventually forced the Japanese to recognize the Ryukyus as belonging to the Han Dynasty and relax the restrictions on the export of silver and copper. They even planned to force the Japanese to liberalize some more terms of trade, and even cede a few more islands to the Han concessions.

Generally, the monsoon was used to sail from China to Japan in May and June, and then sail back to China from Japan in March and April, which was a common practice in the Tang and Song dynasties to trade with Japanese merchant ships.

However, with the development of shipbuilding and the advancement of navigation technology, it is no longer necessary to rely entirely on the monsoon. Even if it's a headwind, it's still possible. Therefore, if the Great Han wants to send troops to Japan, he can do so at any time.

Even because the Han now has ports in Hirado, Tsushima and other places, this makes it more convenient for the Han to launch an attack on Japan.

The Great Han did not need to fight a cross-sea expedition at all, but a battle right on his doorstep.

The last time he fought against Japan, Liu Jun easily hit Edo and Tokyo. Japan's military equipment and tactics are still in the Korean War, their warships are only at the level of the Japanese period, and their firearms are only at the level of the Ming Dynasty's shotguns. For the cannon is even more backward.

And the Han Dynasty is now even better than the original Ming Dynasty, especially the navy, which already has a very large-scale new navy.

Maybe it's time for the navy to go out, and it's better to take the actual combat training of the Japanese. Otherwise, if you don't go through battle, how can you train a real elite.

Thinking of this, Liu Jun has already passed the dispatch of troops to Japan in his heart.

"It's okay to fight. But if you don't fight an unprepared battle, even if your opponent is Japan, you have to go all out, and you have to have the heart of a lion and a rabbit. The Privy Council Staff made a detailed plan to come up. It is necessary to include the intended objectives of the operation and the planning process for capturing them, in addition to a detailed budget for the military expenditure. ”

When Fu Shan and the others heard the emperor say this, they understood that the emperor had agreed to send troops.

"Your Majesty, I think the target of this expedition is this. Not only should we take the Ryukyus, but we should also take Nagasaki in one fell swoop. The right privy envoy Liu Yongsheng also put forward an ambitious plan.

The Ryukyu royal family, the Shang clan, had been exterminated by the Japanese and were now taken by the Imperial Court. In the future, it will naturally be the territory of the Han Dynasty. By the way, Nagasaki Island south of Hirado was also taken. He even planned to let the Japanese simply recognize the Hirado and other concessions as the territory of the Han Dynasty when the time came.

Liu Jun smiled slightly.

"If I send troops, how can I be satisfied with a small Nagasaki. If we send troops, we must at least take the entire island of Kyushu as our goal. ”

Kyushu is the largest island of Japan, and it was formerly known as Chikuzen, Chikugo, Bunzen, Bungo, Hizen, Higo, Hyuga, Satsuma, and Osumi nine countries, so it was called Kyushu.

The whole of Kyushu has several feudal domains, which together are larger than the whole of Taiwan.

The emperor is the real appetite, and he directly takes such a large area of territory as his goal, which is more than 10% of Japan's land and has a population of more than 2 million.

Looking at the surprised prime ministers participating in politics, Liu Jun smiled, "If people don't have dreams, what's the difference between them and salted fish, since they want to fight, then they have to fight happily!" According to my request, let's draw up a detailed battle plan, the three planning divisions will make the military budget, and the military department will prepare logistics and equipment support. ”

At this time, Japan had a large population, and the entire island of Japan had a population of about 24 to 5 million. The island of Kyushu was home to several feudal domains, especially Hirado and Nagasaki, which were once maritime trading ports, and had a thriving business and a population of more than 2 million.

However, Liu Jun does not feel that his goal is too high, Japan is an island country, consisting of islands. Kyushu is a large island, and along with the surrounding islands, it is actually a relatively separate area. If the Han only intends to seize the Fei Qian or the entire Fei country, it will not necessarily be easy to fight.

On the other hand, if you use a powerful navy to directly cut off the connection between Kyushu and Shikoku and other islands, then Kyushu Island is an isolated island. At that time, the Han army would blockade and isolate it with warships, capture towns along the coast, build fortresses and forts, and advance step by step, and eventually conquer the isolated island.

Once the whole island is taken, with the Japanese warships and sailors, what will they use to fight with the Han Navy, and how can they recapture Kyushu Island from the Han army across the vast sea?

The Han only occupied the coastal areas on the periphery of Kyushu Island, even if they didn't care about the mountainous areas in the center of the island for the time being, they were fine, just like the Central Plains Dynasty in Hainan Island, the coastal areas surrounding the island continued to strengthen their control, and then the Li people were constantly compressed in the central mountainous area, and slowly, the Li people who were surrounded were naturally slowly assimilated.

With a population of more than 2 million, this is a lot of human resources.

Liu Jun remembered the way the Japanese dealt with the Ryukyus in history, massacring the Ryukyu people, and then moving the remaining Ryukyuan people to Japan in large numbers, and then moving the Japanese from Japan to the Ryukyu Island.

After controlling Kyushu, the Han can also draw gourds in the same way.

The obedient people on the island moved to northern Liaobei, southwest and other places, and let them reclaim the land and expand the border. For those who refuse to obey the Diao people, you can kill the chickens and monkeys, and then send them to the Central Plains to mine and repair roads, and there will never be a shortage of mining and road repair workers in the Han Dynasty.

Well, many places on Kyushu Island are still quite fertile, and then slowly migrate the Han people from the Central Plains, so that there will be a hundred years, and then Kyushu Island will be full of Han people.

While seizing Kyushu with all their strength this time, they can also raid and loot other parts of Japan, since the Japanese toast and don't want to eat and drink, then let them feel the military might of the Han Dynasty.

Japanese scumbags, it's time to feel the power of ****! (To be continued.) )