Morning.

The atmosphere in front of the court was not quite right, Yang Tinghe and Jiang Mian and the others came very late, and when they arrived at the unstable foothold, Peng Ze, the secretary of the military department, hurriedly leaned towards Yang Tinghe and informed Yang Tinghe of the emergency report on the southeast coast.

「…… The two envoys of the Japanese state, due to disputes over the tribute, burned, killed and plundered in Ningbo and the surrounding areas, and the commander of Wei made Yuan Ban and Liu Si of the hundred households taken captive, and Hu Yuan of the hundred households led troops to resist the Japanese and was unfortunately killed......

The battle for tribute broke out.

Now it is only the initial stage, and while the Japanese are killing each other, they are also plundering the Daming city.

It is the local military and civilians who suffer.

Yang Tinghe's face was ugly when he heard the news.

Previously, the emperor increased the budget on the southeast coastal defense affairs, especially mentioning that there were two groups of envoys from the Japanese state to pay tribute to Ningbo City, and at that time he also mentioned that it might cause disputes, just like calculating what happened today, those who don't know will think that someone instigated the Japanese people to do this.

But in fact......

The emperor is in the capital, how can there be instigation?

That's a bit of an unpredictable prophet.

Jiang Mian leaned over and asked with a serious face, "Are the local people so vulnerable?" How many men are there?"

"This ......"

Peng Ze was not easy to answer.

Because the local report in Ningbo is also very chaotic, because the situation of the Japanese people is not clear, most of the battles took place at night, and the Japanese people relied on the cover of night to complete the burning, killing and looting, and now they have withdrawn from Ningbo City.

The number of Japanese people is not much, afraid of the Ming army counterattack, so the action is quite secretive, but the individual combat ability of the Japanese people is much stronger than the guards on the southeast coast, which leads to its invincibility around Ningbo, of course, this is also related to the relaxation of the southeast coastal defense of the Ming Dynasty.

The southeast coast guard of the Ming Dynasty has not experienced a war for more than a century, and the soldiers are mainly responsible for cultivating the land on weekdays, which is very different from the samurai who make coups every day and draw swords at every turn, but in the same way, the army of the Ming Dynasty is numerous, as long as it is organized, it can launch a counterattack at any time, so that the Japanese people can drink a pot.

In order to reduce the responsibility in this incident, the local government naturally desperately reported the number of Japanese people, but the actual situation is how many people can be loaded by a few tributary ships?

This creates inconsistencies in the message.

Fei Hong said: "I'm afraid that Your Majesty will attack us with this matter today, so it's better to deal with it as soon as possible." 、

Needless to say, who did not know that Zhu Si would be very angry?

This is the emperor's warning in advance, such a situation, and the reduction of the budget for southeast coastal defense was proposed by Sun Jiao, and approved by Yang Tinghe, at that time Zhu Si also specially consulted Yang Tinghe's opinion, and Yang Tinghe thought at the time that there would be no accident in the southeast, so he ......

Can anyone really predict such a thing?

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In the court.

The plague of the Japanese in Ningbo became the first topic of discussion.

Because it was an emergency war report, many follow-up situations did not come, and I don't even know whether the Japanese have run away or continue to cause trouble, or whether they have been arrested.

I only know that now the local government is organizing the guards to pursue and hunt and kill, and it seems that the harvest is not very large, after all, there is a two-day break in the news before and after, and even if there is a delay, it also shows that at least two days after the incident, the Japanese have not been corrected.

When Zhu Si heard the report, his tone was calm: "I have long said that the Japanese know small etiquette but have no great righteousness, fear of power but not virtue, and beasts. The flow of my Celestial Empire into the Wa Kingdom will change hands on several times the profits, and they will definitely fight for the right to trade, but this time the disaster will be extended to the territory of my Ming Dynasty, which is really hateful."

None of the ministers present knew what to say.

Remind the emperor to send troops to encircle and suppress?

Does this need to be reminded?

If the emperor does not give an order, how can the local government and the guard office sit idly by?

Don't talk about encirclement and suppression, just talk about how to prevent trouble before it happens? It's already happened, so it's a fart!

When the emperor said it earlier, no one took it seriously, but now that it has really happened, there is nonsense again

What is it for?

Coupled with this matter, Yang Tinghe once stood up to take care of everything, and whoever came out to speak was tantamount to slapping Yang Tinghe in the face, so no matter whether he had an opinion in his heart, he chose to remain silent.

Zhu Si suddenly looked at Sun Jiao: "In Zhejiang, the local guards of the Pingwei and the preparation of the Japanese, and the thousands of households, can there be enough grain and grass?"

Sun Jiao was asked.

Sun Jiao didn't expect that things would develop to this point one day, and if he knew this, he would not have made his own arguments against the emperor's increase in the use of southeast coastal defense.

Now Sun Jiao is almost tied to the same boat as Yang Tinghe.

Sun Jiao was filled with remorse in his heart, and reluctantly said, "It's probably quite sufficient."

"Then quell the rebellion of the Japanese as soon as possible, I have already greeted Nanjing before, but with little effect, no matter how the local bandit situation evolves, it will not affect the stability of the Jiangnan tax area, and the other is that the guards need to increase the number of men and horses to intercept it, and we cannot let the Japanese invaders escape from the sea smoothly after the looting! If they dare to commit crimes in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, let them have no return!"

Zhu Si let out cruel words.

Run to the Ming realm to spread the wild, and still want to run after looting? Even if things can't be avoided, at least they can't be allowed to evacuate smoothly, capture people, and kill them to make an example!

"Alright, let's talk about something else...... When this matter has a result, come back to me!"

Zhu Si was a little impatient.

Or because the emperor's proposition was not adopted by the courtiers, and finally caused today's disaster, the emperor was angry and didn't want to talk nonsense with you.

If anyone has to mention it, it is equivalent to hitting the muzzle of the gun yourself, and if you have the guts, you can try to hit one!

Yang Tinghe's cabinet, and Qiao Yu and other six Shangshu are all pretending to be dumb, who dares to poke this hornet's nest at this time?

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Regarding the troubles of the Japanese invaders, the court deliberations did not come up with results.

But the pressure on the side of the military department is very great, because now the heavy task of eradicating the thieves is all in the military department, and the northern military department is a little far away from the place of the incident, and the dispatch of troops is obviously beyond the reach of the whip, and the Nanjing military department was originally a roaring Shangshu Wang Shouren is now returning to his hometown to guard the system, and now the southern military department Shangshu is the old minister Tao Yan who was born in Caoyun, and he expects Tao Yan to dispatch troops and horses to quell the troubles?

Peng Ze, the secretary of the military department, has a big head.

I feel that there are moths gnawing at the pillars of Daming, but as the specific person in charge, I don't even know how to get rid of insects, and let the silverfish act recklessly.

At the end of the court discussion, Peng Ze ignored the face of his military department Shangshu, and ran to Yang Tinghe to ask for advice.

Yang Tinghe saw Peng Ze's appearance, and his heart became angry.

Aren't you Peng Ze very capable? Previously, in the northwest, it was said that you could be on a par with Wang Qiong, and that Wang Qiong was jealous of your ability to suppress you!

But now the affairs in the northwest can't count on you, and if something happens in the southeast, you are still helpless, so are you still on a par with Wang Qiong?

Wang Qiong can recommend Wang Shouren casually, and he can be praised by the times, what about you? His subordinates are all wine bags and rice bags like Chen Jiuchou, how can he entrust you with such a heavy responsibility?

Yang Tinghe said: "The Ministry of War ordered all provinces in Zhejiang to strictly guard against it, prevent the Japanese from invading our state capital, and concentrate troops and horses to exterminate the thieves, so I still need to remind you?"

Peng Ze thought to himself, who wouldn't say this?

I don't know if you directly order the place and let the place exterminate it? But the question is, what happened? Who should coordinate the localities? Who will coordinate? Is it to listen to Nanjing, or to listen to the command of the embassy in Zhejiang? Is it locally coordinated by the local prefects, or by patrolling the imperial history? Should the Inspection Division send troops? If the Nanjing garrison came forward to coordinate, would it be listened to or not?

Peng Ze said: "Send troops nearby, this point can be arranged, but now the situation of the Japanese is unknown, and the movement is not clear, if they directly withdraw to the sea and sail to the sea, should they send ships from the Nanjing garrison to intercept them?" My Great Ming Sailor is short of warships."

Yang Tinghe was slightly stunned after hearing this.

Next to him, Liu Chun asked, "Isn't the Ming Dynasty always in the southeast a tradition of being prepared? There are guards and guards in various places, but why are they even on the battlefield...... are lacking?"

Peng Ze smiled bitterly: "

I have not experienced a water war for decades, so I said that a few years ago, King Ning rebelled, and Nanjing could not dispatch enough ships to prepare for war, and it still relied on Nanchang to prepare its own civilian ships, if it was necessary to fight a water war at that time, I was afraid that it would ......."

One sentence explains why in the battle to pacify King Ning, Wang Shouren did not go head-to-head with King Ning's soldiers and horses, but chose to go around the rear.

Because King Ning's main force is on the waterway, and there are thousands of ships on the battlefield, if he fights a water battle directly, Wang Shouren has no chance of winning.

Therefore, Wang Shouren took the land route, first went to besiege Nanchang, and then came to besiege the city to send reinforcements, which put down the rebellion of King Ning early.

At that time, if you really expected the local people in Nanjing to fight against King Ning's rebellion with a naval army, it was difficult to predict who would win or lose.

Of course, the combat effectiveness of King Ning's rebels was indeed weak, and it was not its forte to conquer the city, and it was impossible to defeat Anqing, which was also the main reason for the rapid failure of the later rebellion.

Jiang Mian said, "Huh? I seem to remember that His Majesty mentioned it...... Shipbuilding?"

Because Jiang Mian said this suddenly, several people who walked out together fell into deep thought for a while.

It seems that there are such rumors, but did the emperor bring it up at the court meeting? But if the emperor didn't mention it, where did he hear that the Ming Dynasty was building ships?

At this time, Sun Jiao quickly followed with a dark face, and asked as he walked, "Everyone, but do you want to prepare a warship?" The old man heard that when Tang Bohu was supervising the mine kiln in Xishan, he allocated a lot of money, grain and materials to Tianjin Sanwei to prepare for the construction of a shipyard...... veto."

"But when I heard about the shipbuilding in Tianjin, I haven't stopped, if it goes well...... It's time to have some ships ready to fight, right?"

As soon as Sun Jiao's words came out, several people present couldn't help shouting "it" in their hearts.

The emperor was so prescient?

I thought I just moved my mouth, but I even had actual action?

The pressure on the southeast coastal defense only started last year, saying that it was to build a ship, and the imperial court had not yet approved it, so the emperor took precautions and sent people to build ships first?

If the court does not allocate silver, the emperor will pay out of his own pocket?

Although it is said that the warship or something may not be produced now, but this awareness of prevention is really not comparable to the ordinary straw bale emperor.

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