Zhao Xin and Li Cheng met each other, naturally there were countless things to say, for which Li Cheng had already prepared a banquet, and then the two chatted while eating, and after chatting about their own private affairs, the topic of the two involuntarily turned to the affairs of the Japanese Kingdom this time, so I saw Li Cheng open his mouth and asked: "Brother Xin, although this march into the Japanese Kingdom is a joint action of our Navy and the Imperial City Division, but it is mainly your Imperial City Division, until now I don't know what the plan for this invasion of the Japanese Kingdom is?" ”

"Hehe, Brother Cheng, you are too polite, the main contribution of this operation is your navy, as for the plan of the operation, although it seems complicated, in fact, to put it simply, the imperial court has taken a fancy to the geographical location of the Japanese country and wants to build a few ports there, but this will definitely cause opposition from the Japanese country, and the imperial court is not willing to spend too much money to occupy the entire Japanese country, so our task this time is to occupy a stronghold in the Japanese country first, and then our Imperial City Division will use the stronghold as the center to operate in the Japanese country and provoke civil strife in the Japanese country. So as to ensure that they have no time to take care of our actions in the Wa Kingdom. Zhao Xin briefly introduced the plan of the imperial court, and then toasted Li Cheng with a glass of wine.

At that moment, I saw Li Cheng drink all the wine in the cup, and then he said with a smile: "I see, the imperial court is really careful in its calculations, and it is not even willing to give this money, but we are just occupying one place, although we can provoke the Japanese domestic strife, but we also need to invest a lot of money every year, and in the future, if the Japanese counterattack, maybe it will bring more trouble, so in my opinion, it is better to invest a lot of manpower and material resources at one time, and directly destroy the Japanese country, so that it can also never be troubled!" ”

"Brother Cheng, your worries are also reasonable, but the imperial court also has its own difficulties, some time ago we just destroyed the Jin Kingdom, although there was no big war. But it also needs a lot of troops to be stationed in the local stability situation, in addition to the Western Regions, Nanyang and other places, all need a large number of troops to garrison, plus Australia in the south of the South Ocean has also been discovered, and the imperial court is preparing to organize manpower and material resources to establish a stronghold in Australia, so that it comes. The financial resources of the imperial court are also a little tight, so everything must be carefully calculated, but there is no need to worry about the counterattack of the Japanese state, because I will personally sit in the Japanese state and provoke the internal strife of the Japanese state, thereby weakening their strength, and when their power is reduced to the lowest, the court should also slow down, and it is not too late to destroy them then. Zhao Xin explained helplessly at this time.

In fact, what Zhao Xin said is not all true. The real reason is that the capture of the Wa State is mainly to open up the eastern route, but this is just Zhao Yan's words, and it has not been discussed by the ministers of the court at all, and some people still have objections to this, so it is not realistic to want the imperial court to allocate more funds, even if it is supported by Zhao Xu, so after Zhao Xu and Zhao Xin discussed, they decided to occupy a port in the Wa State first. To open up an eastern route, at least let the imperial court see the benefits brought by the eastern route. When the time comes, there is no need for them to say more, and the ministers in the court will definitely take the initiative to demand the destruction of the Wa Kingdom.

"This is also true, the speed of expansion of the imperial court in recent years has been too fast, not to mention anything else, just the Australian continent discovered in the South Seas, the area alone is almost as fast as half of the Great Song Dynasty. And I heard that the resources in Australia are also very rich, but unfortunately it also requires a huge amount of investment to mine them, but even if our Great Song Dynasty is rich, it is impossible to come up with so many manpower and material resources at once, so we can only invest a little every year. It is estimated that in a few hundred years, it will be impossible to completely occupy Australia. Although Li Cheng was a genius general, he was not particularly familiar with politics, so he also agreed with Zhao Xin's words.

After chatting about business, Zhao Xin and Li Cheng toasted to each other again, and finally both of them were drunk, until noon the next day, Zhao Xin covered his head and got up, in contrast, Li Cheng got up early, and at this time he had already led the fleet to practice at sea, he was able to become the most outstanding young general in the navy, and the rigor of the Han army was not comparable to ordinary people.

In the next few days, Li Cheng took Zhao Xin to familiarize himself with the naval fleet under his command, and Zhao Xin also helped Li Cheng make some preparations, because Li Cheng didn't know the imperial court's plan before, so the fleet was not prepared accordingly, but this is not a big problem, the Imperial City Division is not only an intelligence department, but the energy they can use is also very large, so the preparation of the fleet was quickly completed.

On a sunny morning, the fleet led by Cho Shin and Li Cheng finally set sail from the Tengju Military Port, and they first went east to the waters of Goryeo, then through the Korean Strait into the waters of the Wa Kingdom, and through the strait between the Japanese Kyushu Island and the Honshu Island, and finally came to the southern area of the east coast of the Honshu Island, where there is a huge bay, which is the Tokyo Bay of the later generations, but now it is called Edo Bay, because the bay is surrounded by the fiefdom of the Edo clan, a wealthy family of the Wa Kingdom, and the historical Edo Castle has not yet begun to be built. But the name of Edowan has already been decided.

Compared to the Tokyo Bay in later generations, the current Edo Bay is still an undeveloped virgin land, except for some fishermen from the Japanese country fishing here, there are no other activities in the bay, and the Edo clan who rule here mainly lives inland, that is, in the northwest corner of Tokyo City, where there are houses built by the Edo clan, which is actually a gathering place for clans, and there is still a considerable distance from the bay.

Although the Edo clan belongs to the wealthy clan of the Wa Kingdom, but in fact the strength is very weak, they belong to the branch of the Chichibu clan, and the Chichibu clan is a branch of the Kawagoe clan in Musashi Province, and the Kawagoe clan is a branch of the Hatakeyama clan, which belongs to a branch of the Taira clan, as can be seen from the above, the Edo clan is actually just a small wealthy clan in a place, and there is no big power at all, especially now that the Taira clan has been destroyed by the Genji clan, the Hao clan to which the Ping clan belongs is also greatly reduced, but the Edo clan has not been affected much, Because they didn't have much strength in the first place, they just ruled a few small fishing villages around Edo Bay, and they couldn't find even a decent set of armor in the entire clan.

It is precisely because of this that after Zhao Xin's fleet arrived at Edo Bay, they did not have any scruples at all, and landed directly on the coast southeast of the Edo clan's residence, and then sent an army to take over the Edo clan's residence, and drove the surrounding Japanese people to start building a simple port to facilitate the unloading of the ship's supplies. At the same time, however, their landing in Edo Bay was quickly reported to Heiankyo, the political center of the Wa Kingdom. (To be continued.) )