When everyone thought that the army was going back to Daming and landing from Tianjinwei, Lu Bing made an unexpected decision that completely disrupted the rhythm of the triumphant return - to attack Japan.

No one expected Lu Bing to make this decision, but the military order was like a mountain, since Lu Bing ordered his subordinates to obey, now they finally understood what Lu Bing was doing all the time laughing and silent, and at the same time, some people understood the secret below the deck.

Yu Dayou waved the long sword in his hand and said excitedly: "It's so exciting, go directly to the hometown of the Japanese Kou, and raise my Ming national prestige, happy, happy!" ”

Qi Jingtong indifferently held the teacup and said, "Drinking tea at sea has a different taste." ”

"Brother Qi must not be excited, you have been fighting against the Japanese for so many years, and you have been working as a preparation for the Japanese in the past few years, and now you are finally going to compete with the Japanese in their country, and see that I am waiting for the thieves to sweep away the bandits, don't you feel enthusiastic?" Yu Dayou said.

Tang Kekuan smiled and said: "Brother Shixian has long passed the age of excitement, and only a few of us at this age will be enthusiastic, but speaking of which, this is really a major event that can praise thousands of generations, you think that now we are in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the south, there are constant bandits." In fact, many of them are our Ming people, and most of them are idle lepers and ruffians, who have borrowed the reputation of the Japanese Bandits, and if they destroy the Japanese people, they will also borrow a hair. In this way, those Diao people will have no reason to make chaos, and the country will be peaceful and prosperous. ”

"No, no, no, the reason why the people are against is mostly because the officials force the people to rebel, and only when the contradictions between the people are completely resolved, no one is against them. If all the people are rich. Sensei said that they rebelled, and it was really the Japanese who came. Our people will have to drive them out of the city of their own accord. So the cause of all this is not only the Japanese who have taken the lead and disrupted the situation. It is by no means clear that the word Diao Min can explain clearly, the class contradictions have been around for a long time, and it is difficult to explain them in a long way, so let's discuss them in detail in the future. Li Du shook his head and said, everyone was frolicking, and they all laughed and sarcastically ridiculed Li Du as a sour talent.

Wei He stared at Qi Jingtong and suddenly said, "Brother Shixian, when did you know the Dao?" ”

"What do you know?" Qi Jingtong took a sip of tea and asked.

"When did Lord Lu tell you that you were going to Japan?" Wei He asked with a smile.

Qi Jingtong pointed at Wei He and said: "Sure enough, it was Jinyiwei who came out, this intelligence was caught, okay, okay, it's all my own people, I just said it." In fact, I knew the Tao from the beginning, but I was afraid that you would be young and impetuous, so I didn't tell you. Wenfu also means the same thing, so the two of us will tell you after the official expedition, one is that I am afraid that you will be happy and sad and cause other things, and I am also afraid that if there are other things at that time, you will not be able to go, so that you will be disappointed and sad again after the great joy. Actually, you should have found out a long time ago. These Tianwenfu have been ordering people to prepare grain and grass, and you don't want to think about it, if you just go from Ryukyu to Daming, you don't dare to say too much. Our grain and grass are enough to last five or six round-trips, so why bother to replenish it. ”

"Lu Wenfu, this guy is so unrighteous that he even hid it from us."

"That's it. When he became the chief officer, he didn't breathe with the brothers, and he had to let this kid drink at night. ”

"Yes. Penalty for drinking. ”

The brothers were noisy, and Qi Jingtong smiled: "I said little brothers." Although there is nothing going on now, and the sea conditions are calm, I think you should go back to your own ship to command? ”

Everyone shouted that Qi Jingtong was boring, but he still obeyed orders, and the military orders fell like a mountain, so they each took a boat back to their own command ship. Qi Jingtong looked at the calm sea, turned his head sideways and asked Wei He, "Li Xiang has nothing to do over there." ”

"In the past few days, I haven't done anything other than to comfort the wounded among my old subordinates, and I haven't complained much, I have seen things quite thoroughly, and I haven't said anything other than what I said when I attacked Yonaguni Island that day." Wei He said that Wei He is more suitable for espionage than military talent, and he has always been responsible for this aspect in an orderly manner.

Qi Jingtong sneered and commented: "A dog that can bark doesn't bite, Li Xiang is a good helper and a good general if he is trained, and if he is not trained well, he will lure the wolf into the room, in short, be careful in the future, I will tell Wenfu when I go back, you can't spy on intelligence with subjective colors, and some things are not suitable to say." ”

"Yes." Wei He nodded in agreement.

More than ten days later, Lu Bing and others arrived at the south side of Japan, which was already very fast for the current navigation skills, indicating that Lu Bing did not delay his journey day and night, because Lu Bingsheng was afraid that if he was late, he would change, and he was worried that Zhu Houxi would stop him after knowing his decision to attack Japan. After all, attacking overseas has violated the ancestral teachings of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Taizu Gao, and all of this was done to rescue Shen Yew, and now that Shen Yew has been rescued, it is already a disobedience to the holy will to fight Dongying, so it is necessary to cut through the chaos quickly, and play a general who will not be subject to military orders abroad.

At the same time, Lu Bing also wants to end this war as soon as possible, go back to his wife and children to warm the kangtou, and now a wife and two concubines are happy, who would want to go out to fight for years in such a beautiful thing. It's just that Lu Bing has a dream in his heart, that is, to raise the prestige of China, the shame of invading China, although the invasion of China happened hundreds of years later, but Lu Bing, as a person who has crossed over, has this natural hatred and hatred for Japan.

Lu Bing did not directly order the attack, and now the war is a nobody, and the Japanese Ming Dynasty adopts a policy of bondage and tribute, which means to recognize the legitimacy of those Japanese daimyo or temples and generals, so as to encircle the power of foreign people. It's a bit similar to the meaning of a vassal state, except that Japan, a vassal state, never regarded itself as a vassal state, and after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Japanese never regarded China as a heavenly kingdom from the bottom of their hearts. The Ming Dynasty's policy of restraint was originally intended to eliminate bilateral provocations, but as a result, the Japanese continued to fight and did not improve anything in the slightest. As for the tribute, the Ming enjoyed the "pleasure" of all nations coming to court, while the Japanese treated the tribute as a business.

Every year, go to the Ming Dynasty to go to the sparse, kowtow, get some local products for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to bring over, you can get real money and silver silk satin, this kind of cost-effective business they think it is a fool not to do it. For the force of the Ming Dynasty. Hehehehehe, they are dismissive. In addition, they love the officials of the Ming Dynasty very much. Because once there was a conflict with the people of the Ming Dynasty on the way to the tribute, those "excellent" officials would always indiscriminately face the vassal people, thinking that friends from afar must be treated politely, and wronged themselves to fulfill others, it seems that this is the "Heavenly Empire" of the state of etiquette.

Lu Bing naturally understands this reality, and also knows that this is the disposition of the Chinese people, no matter what dynasty is the same, if you do not agree to refute this generous "gift", there will be countless official experts and scholars, and idle experts and folk experts come out to say some great truths. What peaceful coexistence and common development, endure humiliation and bear heavy wages and taste courage, in short, the principles that can be used are used. But why have we waited for decades and waited for decades, but those great truths have not yet been realized, and it is always ourselves who are hurt?

No, there was news in China that two groups of Japanese envoys who had come to pay tribute had a big fight in Ningbo because of the competition for tribute qualifications. There were many casualties among the people of Ningbo, and the two groups pursued each other between Ningbo and Shaoxing, a distance of 215 miles. At this point, if it is according to Lu Bing's idea, then a large army should be sent to encircle and suppress it. arrested all the troublemakers and dealt with them in accordance with the law, and the result was indeed so, arresting the thief leader Song Suqing. However, those southern forces who conspired with the thieves from the inside and outside, and the officials who swallowed their anger for their own interests and ignored the people, did not receive any punishment.

The eunuch Ryan was also safe. But according to Lu Bing, this Ryan is the culprit who caused the whole incident. It is a well-deserved primary responsible person. What's even more infuriating is that such a big thing happened, Ryan not only honestly reflected on his mistakes, but also raised the thief leader Song Suqing, saying that most of their dead should be released, and they were almost released after the worst, thanks to the impeachment of Yushi Xionglan and others, so he didn't do anything more ridiculous. After Lu Bing's news, he was angry and threw off five or six cups on the spot and claimed that he would make Ryan look good when he went back.

Lu Bing was not convinced, but he couldn't afford to provoke the crime of war between the two countries, not to mention that Emperor Taizu Gao Zhu Yuanzhang once said in "Zu Xun" that Japan is not a land to be conquered, that is to say, as long as Japan does not use the strength of the country to fight against the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty cannot do aggression and expansion. Therefore, Lu Bing could only hold back the anger in his heart, waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the opportunity for Japan to provoke an incident.

In desperation, Lu Bing avoided the important and found another way to lead the team, and began the journey in the name of the investigation of the country. This expedition terrified the scattered rulers of Japan, because Lu Bing was a review on both land and sea. Wherever the team went, the ships followed vertically, ready to respond with artillery fire, which was devastating to the coastal areas, so that the coastal daimyo and generals would no longer have the heart to resist, otherwise the overwhelming artillery fire would surely follow. And Lu Bing led nearly 7,000 soldiers to go ashore, and these people were already earth-shattering and powerful for the Japanese people.

Lu Bing had already thought about such a situation before he came to the land, so his secret below the deck was useful, in fact, this trick was thought of by Qi Jingtong. During the war in the Ryukyus, Qi Jingtong held nearly a thousand captives and imprisoned them at the bottom of the deck of several fortune ships. These people consumed a lot of food, which made Lu Bing feel a little distressed, for fear that if he didn't need these people, he would waste money and food in vain. But now it seems that Qi Jingtong is really scheming and calculating, and he is like a god.

Nearly 1,000 captives changed into Ming military uniforms and began to spread across the borders of Japan. Most of these people are thieves from Iriomote Island and Yonaguni Island, who have been committing crimes in this vast sea area for many years and are proficient in various languages of the nearby island countries. They regained their freedom and scattered themselves into the islands of Japan like fish into the sea.

It is conceivable that some people were taken over by the Japanese daimyos, and some were engaged in the business of robbers, Lu Bing issued a purge order, claiming that someone wearing a Ming military uniform pretended to be the Ming army, destroying the friendship between the Ming Dynasty and Japan, and even more shameful to the Ming Dynasty, and Japan was limited to escort these bandits to the Ming army within three days.

Japan was in chaos at that time, how could it have time to take care of such things, and even if it wanted to, it was powerless, and the cooperation between various localities was not effective, and the pursuit of thieves in other people's territory could only stop the pace, otherwise the two places would definitely fight because of sovereignty. Under such conditions, after three days, only 50 or 60 people were arrested, and Lu Bing feigned anger and once again ordered to assist the Japanese in clearing the crackdown.

Thus began a nominal four-month purge campaign, in which the Ming army quickly took over the military and political organs in various places, and all troops who encountered resistance were punished as fugitive thieves. For a time, many Japanese died because of this, but the people welcomed Lu Bing's army very much, and every time the Ming army entered the city, the people everywhere welcomed it. The reason is very simple, most of the people are peace-loving, Lu Bing took over the army and did not disturb the people, disarmed everyone except the Ming army, and the people stayed away from the scourge of war, and they were suddenly arrested as soldiers or killed by robbers, bandits and hostile forces.

Lu Bing's action actually did nothing, except for killing a lot of Japanese daimyo mercenaries who resisted, the main thing was to break the pattern of power and destroy the power of the power. This may not seem like much now, but soon the Japanese will discover the viciousness of the move.

Once Lu Bing leads the troops away, there will be a large vacuum left, and all the small forces and magnates of all parties will fight to the death for these places, but now the strength of each big name is almost the same, and the powerful ones are all killed by Lu Bing taking advantage of the chaos, or find a master to assassinate, and if it doesn't work, it will continue to cause friction and take the opportunity to weaken the opponent's strength.

The rest of these lords fought each other, and although they fought and broke the blood, the victory was inseparable, and it was just a waste of money and money. As a result, Japan fell into an even more chaotic situation, but Lu Bing's actions in just four months made Japan completely chaotic for decades. At the same time, because of the defeat of the emerging hegemon, it is difficult for Japan to reunify, which also hinders the country's proper development trajectory, and it has regressed nearly a decade compared with its due national strength. (To be continued......)