Zhu Houxi knew that the relationship between Duan Qingfeng and Lu Bing was not ordinary, and he knew that Duan Qingfeng was no less than Lu Bing's master, so he also had special respect for Duan Qingfeng, and gave Duan Qingfeng a token that he could walk around the palace at will, and ordered that he could enter the palace by horse. Duan Qingfeng naturally didn't swell so much, taking the emperor's words seriously and riding into the palace on horseback, this was just a reward that couldn't be real, Duan Qingfeng knew this very well.

It's just that this token is necessary, otherwise it's like now, it's already night, the palace gate is closed, even if there is a rebellion outside, you can't enter and leave at will, and Duan Qingfeng can walk into the deep palace with the token.

Zhu Houxi was not surprised when he saw Duan Qingfeng, this is not the first time he has come to report late at night, maybe a military newspaper will be sent urgently tomorrow, he knew the news a long time earlier, and he could think of countermeasures.

What surprised Zhu Houyu was that Duan Qingfeng's face was a little pale, after all, he was not very familiar, Zhu Houyu cared for two words, and Duan Qingfeng also replied a few words, and it was inconvenient to ask after he was fine. According to the old calendar, Zhu Houxi asked the eunuchs who were waiting on the left and right to retreat, and let the guards outside the palace stay away, and opened the note handed by Duan Qingfeng.

Suddenly, Zhu Houxi's face turned a little pale, he looked at Duan Qingfeng, looked at Duan Qingfeng in disbelief and asked, "This news is true." ”

Duan Qingfeng nodded.

Zhu Houxi sighed, put the note in front of the candlestick, and started a fire, and the firelight illuminated the words on the note, on which was written a line of words: The Japanese have landed, and the coastal provinces are in a hurry.

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Zhu Houxi didn't know what was going on. Duan Qingfeng didn't know, and even Lu Bing, the chief planner of this war, didn't know anything.

All this is the consequence of Shen Yew's unauthorized actions, or rather the result. Because the word consequence is mostly used in bad things, and it has many derogatory meanings, such as the consequence of not studying well is not being able to pass the imperial examination, and the consequence of failing the imperial examination is to be a cloth cloth and grass people, etc.

But the word result is more neutral, and it seems more premeditated, obviously such a situation deserves to use the word result, because Shen Yew was premeditated. Shen Yeshan led the Ming fleet on a detour. Stopping from outside Wachi and Ryukyu Island, the soldiers continued eastward in two routes, and the other part was to shrink the encirclement. Drive all the pirates towards the land of Daming.

Originally, the Daming Navy Division was divided into two parts, one part was ambushed outside Huating County, and the other part was to go to sea to drive away, and it was difficult for the fleet to completely search for the enemy in terms of the number of ships and firepower. But it is enough to make a small encirclement.

After two frictional firefights. Naturally, the Japanese were defeated, and according to Shen Yew's idea, they headed towards the Daming coast. Without the drive and inducement, the Japanese will naturally not obediently fall into the designed trap, so only a small number of Japanese invaders landed in Huating County and were quickly sunk, and the trap leaked from then on. The others are distributed and landed, like locusts, densely climbing the entire southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty.

When the fleet that had gone out to sea saw that it had driven all the pirates ashore, it turned around and headed east. As for what he did, no one knows.

The entire sea division with strong soldiers, strong horses, strong ships and sharp guns has completely become Shen Yew's private army, and it is firmly in the hands of Shen Yew. It is said that ordinary troops go out on the expedition. Except for people like Lu Bing, who are extremely trusted, most of them have prison guards. The prison army is only responsible for supervising the generals and reporting the situation, and some of the prison troops with the emperor's order also have the right to behead and imprison the generals. The military authority and command power are held by the chief soldier of this unit. In the past, the soldiers were very reluctant to the prison army, and there was no shortage of traitors and villains in history who were appointed as the prison army, and there were often some contradictions.

However, because of Shen Yew's special status and the emperor's edict, it led to the retreat of the general army and the transfer of army command. The whole army, from the inside to the outside, was all run by Shen Yew. The general soldier is also happy to be like this, Shen Yew is doing well, he can rest assured, in addition, he is a lot more leisurely, and if the war is unfavorable, it will not involve him, but he can blame Shen Yew for acting without authorization to fight for power.

But by the time the chief soldier and several high-level generals felt that something was wrong, it was already too late. The soldiers have been successfully brainwashed by Shen Yew, and their orders are no longer useful, and they have become a waste in the army, dispensable, and are considered to be wastes who come out to mix up merit and seniority. was even regarded as the supervising army, and Shen Yew and the people of the Shen family became the commander-in-chief, in short, the positions of the two sides were completely reversed, and the generals became the antagonists of the soldiers.

The prison army is not terrible, once it is high, eating and drinking, and when it comes out, it doesn't matter what it is, and it is pampered to call five and six, and if you win, you will have merit together, and if you defeat, you will have no fault. Once such an image is established, it is equivalent to standing on the opposite side of ordinary soldiers, and class contradictions have existed since ancient times, and how can the two sides not be in conflict.

What's more, the generals of the original sailor division are rough people, and it is common to beat and scold soldiers and soldiers' blood, if it weren't for the fact that the layers of pressure give people a sense of obedience and increase the strict military discipline of the Ming Dynasty, if it weren't for the tiger talisman of the imperial court that still has a deterrent effect, and before they go to sea, the soldiers will have to tear this group of generals apart.

In this way, Shen Yew completely controlled this expeditionary fleet, but where did they sail and what was their real purpose?

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Lu Bing slammed the table angrily, Shen Yeshan was too bold, it seemed that she knew that her intelligence network was powerful, so she should not have told anyone before going to sea, and she made a temporary decision after going to sea again. The soldiers serve the people of the Shen family, even if the generals are not necessarily good at the scene, so Lu Bing has no power to return to the sky, and Lu Bing is now in the northwest, which is really beyond the reach of the whip.

Lu Bing temporarily decided to abandon the Northwest, although the Northwest had already opened up the situation, and if he acted according to the plan, Lu Bing was profitable. The Hu people were somewhat resistant to the Han people, so even if the Ming Dynasty took the opportunity to capture the territory of the Hu people, it would be difficult to maintain long-term stability. But it is okay for the Hu people to manage the Hu people. Therefore, Lu Bing wanted to take advantage of the troubled times of the Yarkand War to raise a puppet government, and then slowly encroach on a large area of territory in the northwest.

However, if the Ming Dynasty is allowed to take over this puppet government, maybe it will be another official profit. If you oppress the people or something, the Han people may put up with it, but the Hu people don't eat this, and then there will be wars and officials to force the people to rebel. Therefore, Lu Bing decided to be the "Emperor Taishang" to support the establishment of a new regime, which also allowed him to have a certain amount of capital and strength no matter where he was in the future. With the power of a country as the background and capital, then Lu Bing is the real Ming hero.

But now it seems. This matter can only be delayed, but fortunately, after Yarkand was stirred up by himself, he became one with the other three kingdoms. If the northwest does not send more troops and horses, although it will be unprofitable, it will not harm the Ming Dynasty again. Therefore, Lu Bing took 3,000 elite cavalry of the Hu people who were collected from there with a lot of money. Towards the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, the horse whipped away. The Northwest was suspended. Full authority was handed over to Qi Jingtong, Xia Dade, Cai Longyu and others.

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Lu Bing confused the rebels in Gutian through the pressure of the army, and found a stand-in to walk in front of the team, announcing to the world, making others think that Lu Bing was in the southwest and Guangzhou. That's why Lu Bing wanted to hide his whereabouts and infiltrate the horse team, instead of using normal official channels to find Yarkand Khan Said. Of course, the four countries that were also confused were the Yarkand Khanate in the northwest, the Turfan Khanate, the Yili Khanate, and the Uzbek Khanate. and Annan and other countries on the border of the Ming Dynasty.

According to Lu Bing's understanding, An Nanguo was cautious, suspicious, and timid. And because of the suspicion of Bai Yu's words, it was not in the sequence of besieging Daming at first, but at this time, the border of Daming was raging, and it was difficult to put such a piece of big fat meat that might be eaten by the enemy on all sides and not be moved. Between countries, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith are all superficial phenomena, interests are the most important, to create benefits must have the people, if you want the people to have a large territory.

In fact, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is very wide, it can be said that it is vast, and many places are vast and sparsely populated, and it is not of much use to have more places, so this is also the reason why Ming Taizu set up an ancestral precept and was not allowed to take the initiative to attack the surrounding foreign countries. Of course, taking the belligerent tyrant as an example, the rise and fall of the country's society, the loss of labor and wealth, the people are in dire straits, and the state of etiquette is to convince people with reason, etc., are all the so-called reasons of Ming Taizu.

In some respects, there are some benefits to the ancestral teachings of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, that the country is developing towards prosperity and peaceful development, and this is true for both oneself and others. It's just that this policy was applied to the period when the national power was prosperous, and the problem gradually became apparent during the Hongji period. Because with the battles between the previous three dynasties and the Tartars, as well as a large number of infighting, the national strength began to be empty, and the country went downhill for a while. In the Hongzhi period, although all the situation was stabilized, it was called Hongzhi Zhongxing, but it was really difficult to compare with the early Ming Dynasty. Similarly, the majesty of the country in Fanbang cannot be said in the same day, and the prosperity of all countries in the coming dynasty is not even to be thought of. The Hu people in the frontier even began to burn and loot the name again, and said that they were fighting grass valleys.

During the Hongzhi period, Zhu Youzhu was in power, the wars in various places continued to intensify, and the border also began to appear in the border of the Japanese bandits, horse bandits and small units of Fanbang to take off the army and bandits, although they were all half-concealed actions, did not tear the skin and the confrontation between countries, but the people were deeply affected.

The Ming Dynasty has not been levied all the year round, and Siyi has forgotten the majesty and strength of the Ming Dynasty, and the failure of several wars is destined to make others look down on the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, even small countries like Annan, whose people are barren and people like firewood monkeys, dare to bite the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the nomads in the north who have always been higher in combat than the Han people.

Hongzhi Dynasty is destined to be an era when the surface is glamorous and the interior has been a mess, the eunuchs are rampant, the nine masters and the five masters and other feudal officials Long Weihu will not dare to reuse, the vassal kings are suspected of making trouble everywhere, and the Jinyi guards of the East Factory and the West Factory take turns persecuting the ministers. In addition, Yang Ting and Yang Yiqing and other capable ministers who ruled the world had funerals one after another, or were in poor health, in short, it was difficult to have long-term responsible people in the court, and there were no leaders among the ministers, so the internal fighting was constantly chaotic and disorganized.

As soon as you leave on the front foot, I will change the world on the back foot and overturn all your decrees, but this is often wrong, and it is also a fact that cannot be changed, narrow-mindedness is something that everyone may have, even if there is no heart and no lungs like Lu Bing, but especially civil officials. (To be continued......)