The sun at the end of the day hung in the air, and the light reflected on the glazed tiles of the Heart Cultivation Hall was particularly dazzling.

There was silence in the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Liu Wenbin, Chen Ruiwen and Niu Jizong sat on their chairs and said nothing.

The thick book was unfolded on the imperial eucalyptus, and Zhu Wucheng, who was sitting on the dragon chair, raised his head and thought silently, thought for a moment and then looked down, and after reading the last line, his face suddenly became solemn.

After a moment of silence, Zhu Wucheng spoke: "What does the military department think about this matter?"

Chen Ruiwen thought for a moment, then pondered and said, "Back to Your Majesty, if it is really as Jia Jue said, the Koreans are not capable of providing food and grass for the army at all, and this matter needs to be carefully considered."

Liu Wenbin continued: "Your Majesty, because there is going to be a war in southern Xinjiang, all the grain from Huguang and Jiangxi will be sent to Yunnan, Guizhou and other places in the first half of the first year of Yong'an. If a large army is sent into Korea at this time, it can only transfer grain from Nanzhili and Zhejiang, but it is ..... There is only ballast grain left in the official warehouses in these two places, and they can't be easily moved."

Zhu Wucheng's brows couldn't help but furrow.

Niu Jizong spoke: "Baoling Hou sent a military report from Hulan to urge grain and grass, and according to the plan, several settlements in Hangai Mountain have also begun to start, and the imperial court will also allocate the grain and rice that should be given."

After a pause, "This year's imperial court's expenditure on grain and rice is much larger than last year's."

Zhu Wucheng knew that the military and the cabinet had their own little abacus, but he also knew that this was the truth, thinking of this, his eyes slowly moved to Chen Ruiwen and asked, "Old man, what do you think?"

Chen Ruiwen said directly: "Wait."

Zhu Wucheng was silent: "When will it be?"

Chen Ruiwen smiled and said, "Wait until the king of the Joseon county comes to Shenjing to meet His Majesty in person."

Zhu Wucheng was startled, then quickly calmed down, and then closed the seal and said, "Since this is the case, I will not receive the Korean envoy."

Liu Wenbin: "Yes."

Zhu Wucheng stretched out his hand and picked up a note, and while unfolding it, he said: "Tomorrow will be March, and in a few days it will be Qingming. I plan to go to the Shahe Palace on the third day of the third month of March, and the list of accompanying officials will be notified to the yamen everywhere tomorrow."

After a pause, "I hope to come back from Tianshou Mountain and hear good news about Eucalyptus Greed."

The three of them looked at each other, got up together, and replied, "Your Ministers obey."

Zhu Wucheng nodded with satisfaction: "Let's get busy."

"Yes."

When the three of them walked away, Zhu Wucheng spoke again: "Why does Jia Yu Village have to go to Tianshou Mountain to accompany the sacrifice?"

Dong Shan didn't dare to say more, and lowered his head and stepped aside.

While Emperor Yong'an was meditating, Jia Jue walked out of the imperial city under the prying eyes and discussions of some officials, and came to the military headquarters under the escort of a team of personal soldiers.

From a distance, Jia Jue had already seen that Li Jiqing, the right attendant of the military department and the marquis of Jinxiang, was standing on the edge of the gate of the military department.

Jia Jue walked over quietly.

Seeing Jia Jue, Li Jiqing hurriedly greeted him, "What's the matter, there's no fault finding fault!"

Jia Jue was stunned by his question: "No, who dares to come to my stubble."

Li Jiqing also knew that he had asked Meng Lang, although the person in front of him would not kill people because of an impeachment, but if he was really annoyed, the consequences would be unbearable for all civil officials, what would be the fate of the official who impeached Lin Ruhai, the governor of Yingtian? Not only did someone lose their lives, but those who were dismissed even had a bad reputation, after all, everyone's butts were not clean.

Thinking of this, Li Jiqing smiled bitterly: "It's good if you don't have it. I'm really worried about your in-laws, if he holds on to you, things will not be easy to handle, you can't beat or scold, the most important thing is that you can't find fault with people, you can't find fault with people, you say it's not angry!"

Jia Jue smiled: "If he dares to come to find fault, I will let my nephew practice martial arts, ride a horse and carry a sword in the future, become a general, and cut off this old boy's mantle."

Li Jiqing was stunned, and said in his heart, "What a fucking ruthless ....."

Seeing that he was stunned, Jia Jue hurriedly smiled and waved his hand: "Just kidding, don't take it seriously."

Li Jiqing came back to his senses: "Hmm." Then, he smiled awkwardly, "I have to say, I was really stunned by your words." As he spoke, he looked around, "Do you need me to spread this word?"

Hearing this, Jia Jue: "You, you. Tell me, what the hell are you looking for me?"

Li Jiqing was so shrewd that he smiled, "Understood. As for looking for you....." he said, leaning into Jia Jue's ear and whispering a few words.

Jia Jue's face changed immediately: "Is there such a thing?!"

"Hey!" One of the military guards suddenly let out a stop sound.

Jia Jue turned his head to look, and Li Jiqing also followed the prestige, and both of them were stunned.

Kim Ji-so, the chief envoy of the DPRK, was blocked from a distance by the military guards.

Li Jiqing looked at Jia Jue and asked in a low voice, "Can you see him?"

Jia Jue nodded.

Lee Gil-kyung waved his hand at the military guard, who stepped out of the way, and Kim Ji-so walked over.

"The lower officials meet the ministry and meet Li Shilang." Kim Ji-so walked to the bottom of the stairs and bowed deeply.

Jia Jue didn't look at him, and walked to the side by himself.

Li Jiqing first looked at Jia Jue, Jia Jue had already turned around, and he looked at Jin Zhixiu again: "Is there something wrong with Lord Jin?"

Jin Zhixiu glanced at Jia Jue deeply, and then replied: "In the past few days, the lower officials have walked around the capital, although they have suffered natural disasters, but the common people have food, and those corrupt officials have also been punished. When they arrived in North Korea, the royal family and the big families ruled the world together, and they disregarded the people's livelihood and regarded the people as slaves. They regard North Korea as their private property, the royal family is greedy, the family is greedy, and they are bent on scraping all the wealth of the people in the world, and they pity the people of North Korea who are suffering even more, how many have died of harsh government, and how many have died of hunger and cold!"

Speaking of this, Kim Zhixiu's throat choked.

Hearing him say this, Jia Jue turned around and looked at him, and glanced at Li Jiqing again.

Li Jiqing coughed lightly: "What does the Golden Envoy want to say?"

Kim Zhixiu swallowed a mouthful of tears: "Since the 39th year of God's blessing, North Korea has been plagued by a drought, followed by a large-scale flood in the past two years, especially in the winter of last year, when the people who died of hunger and cold poured into Wangjing! The royal family and family officials turned a blind eye, and in order to maintain a luxurious life, they forcibly assessed and collected miscellaneous taxes regardless of the life and death of the people.

Wang Jing is still like this, and the whole of North Korea still doesn't know how miserable it is! Since the Western Han Dynasty, Korea has been the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty, but later Emperor Taizu Gao was merciful and could not bear to let the Korean people fall into misery again, so he admitted the control of Korea after the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty. Now the North Korean people are living in dire straits, and life is better than death! I implore His Majesty the Great Emperor to send heavenly soldiers to rebuild the world and re-integrate Korea as a county! Let the suffering people of Korea return to the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty!"

Speaking of this, Kim Ji-so was already in tears and swallowed.

Jia Jue and Li Jiqing met their eyes, and each showed a look of relief.

At this moment, Kim Zhixiu fell to his knees, kowtowed heavily, and then took out a piece of silk cloth from his bosom and said loudly: "This is a note written in the blood of one hundred and eleven officials and servants of the Korean Mission, and I implore His Majesty the Emperor to re-incorporate Korea as a county!"

After a pause, "His Majesty the Great Emperor will not allow it for a day, and we will write a blood letter every day, and we will die without regrets!" Please pass it on to His Majesty the Emperor!" With that, he lifted the piece of silk cloth above the top.

Jia Jue spoke: "Korea is the name of the country set by Emperor Taizu Gao, and the Li family is also a royal family recognized by the Ming Dynasty. You're lying to confuse the people..... Without evidence, what do you let other vassal states think of the Ming Dynasty? Your Majesty should be far-sighted and consider the overall situation...... Therefore, don't say that."

Kim Zhixiu was stunned at first, then immediately became excited again, crawled two steps on his knees, and then raised his voice: "We have evidence of Lee's great disrespect! The third grandson of the Emperor of the Emperor of the Republic of China secretly compiled the so-called written language, in a vain attempt to replace the Chinese characters, and to cut off the relationship between the Korean nation and the Chinese nation in the Central Plains, so as to achieve his conspiracy to completely control Korea."

Li Jiqing was the first to show a look of surprise

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Jia Jue was also stunned.

Kim Zhixiu continued: "Li Yi has always been reluctant in his heart, but he was forced by the strong strength of the Ming Dynasty and had to obey on the surface. The third grandson of Li Yi even slandered and smeared His Majesty the Great Emperor because of the tribute, which was widely circulated in the Korean family. It was even during the Wara Rebellion that he had the delusion of attacking Liaodong and invading the territory of the Ming Dynasty!"

Li Jiqing was excited, and asked anxiously, "Is there any evidence?!"

"This matter is known to the Korean family!" Kim Zhixiu nodded vigorously.

Jia Jue's eyes glanced at Li Jiqing and motioned for him to accept it.

Li Jiqing walked up to him, put away the piece of silk cloth, walked back to Jia Jue, and unfolded it.

The piece of silk cloth was densely covered with Chinese characters and stained with blood.

Jia Jue took two steps back to the side, and then said to Jin Zhixiu: "You go back and compile the evidence of Li Yi's crime into a book, especially how to plan the invasion of the Ming Dynasty, and it is best to write out the so-called text silently."

Kim Ji-so: "Yes." He got up and bowed out.

Kim Zhixiu's mood was unusually good, and he seemed to be much lighter than he was when he walked, and he disappeared on the post road after a while.

"Good man!"

Li Jiqing sighed, and then said, "Now that the emperor has face, he is waiting for the king of Joseon."

Jia Jue: "I won't take this credit from you."

Li Jiqing nodded.

"Let's talk about water-soluble."

Li Jiqing looked around for a moment before he spoke: "It's also a coincidence, I saved the life of that man's father in my early years, so I will hand out some news from time to time. This time, he was ordered by Shui Rong to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to recruit sailors, and he hired old sailors with experience at sea. After signing the contract, he will be given a settling-in allowance of 100 taels, and a monthly salary of 10 taels."

Jia Jue was stunned, no wonder Shui Rong dared to make a move on the emperor, it turned out that he had thought of a way out and went to sea, which was indeed a good choice, but unfortunately, his plan was about to fail, and the attack on the Nanyang Islands was also in the plan of the Ministry of War, but it was only postponed in time.

Shui Rong is an ambitious person, he is definitely not willing to rule only some natives, and he will definitely find a way to migrate the Han people from the Ming Dynasty to Nanyang, and he may not be able to establish a country.

It seems that the plan to attack the South Seas will have to be postponed a little longer, and the water will be developed first, and then the imperial army will arrive..... Another good man!

Suddenly, another question came to mind, he must have a sea ship when he goes to sea, preferably a Dafu boat, this thing is a forbidden thing, except for a few Fujian sailors..... At this time, Jia Jue suddenly remembered the sea ship that was being built in Jinling Shipyard, and counted the days when he was ready to go into the water for sea trials.

Li Jiqing spoke: "Ministry?"

Jia Jue came back to his senses: "Hmm." Then, he smiled awkwardly: "Master Hou's words reminded me of those disappeared grains, which were thought to have been transported to the south by water dissolution."

Li Jiqing: "Yes!"

Jia Jue: "It seems that there is a problem in Tianjin, and it is not small!" After speaking, I thought of a possibility, that is, these grains were not transported to the south by sea and land, but were transported back to the capital in a circle in Tianjin, and then transported back to the counties in the name of disaster relief grain.

Maybe I think too much, after all, the grain in the south from the warehouse to the dock, and then carried into the sea ship by the young man, not to mention how many pairs of eyes are staring, even when arriving in Tianjin, it can only be put into the warehouse after the personal verification of the household officials, and if one of the steps is wrong, it will attract a great disaster, and the risk is too great.

Li Jiqing hesitated for a moment and said, "Who does the Ministry of War plan to send to lead the troops into Korea to fight?"

Jia Jue smiled: "What, you want to fight for the right to lead the troops?"

Li Jiqing did not hesitate, but replied very calmly: "What the ministry said is good, I want to fight for the right to lead the troops. The entry of large armies into the court is mostly siege battles, and I am good at this."

Jia Jue nodded, and asked again, "The old man means to transfer troops from Jizhou, Shanhaiguan and Liaodong, can you hold it?"

Li Jiqing had an idea, and hurriedly said, "Why don't you personally lead the troops into the court? This may be the last easy battle the military will fight."

Relaxed?

Jia Jue smiled, "Let's talk about it later."

At this moment, Jia Fu walked over quickly and handed over a letter.

Jia Jue took the letter and tore it up to look at it, was stunned for a moment, then grabbed the letter and said to Li Jiqing, "I still have something to do, go first." As he spoke, he remembered something again, "Tell Li Gui to prepare, and when the time comes."

Come with me to Tianshou Mountain."

Li Jiqing was overjoyed, took a step back, and sighed deeply: "Thank you for taking care of the dog."

............

"The minion has thought it through, and this matter is risky...... Sun Shaozu is a military general, and that woman is an ordinary peasant girl, with no power to restrain chickens, and without anyone's help, she can't deal with Sun Shaozu at all, so ....." Speaking of this, the housekeeper looked at Shui Rong, "Are you trying to find another way?"

Suzuso: "No! It's too late. This guy is a hungry ghost in the color, and he can't be regarded as an ordinary person. In this way, choose two spies from the training who are average, have good skills, and most importantly, have great strength, and arrange them together on the other side of the Sand River."

"This ....."

"Don't worry, this king still has a hand. Even if they missed, Sun Shaozu didn't dare to speak out, it was a felony for a woman to enter the barracks, let alone such a solemn state affair as the Qingming Festival."

After speaking, a smile appeared on the corner of Shui Rong's mouth, and he said continuously, "Good person, Jia Jue is really a good person!"

The butler hesitated for a moment before nodding heavily.

............

Inside the duty room of the military department.

"Foolish nephew, meet Uncle Shi!"

Jia Zheng looked through the music and said, "Why are you here?"

"Uncle Shi, this is to blame my nephew for not coming to greet him often!"

Jia Yucun took a bowl of tea and gently put it on the eucalyptus.

Jia Zheng finished reading the note, gently closed it, raised his head, and asked, "Something?"

Jia Yucun: "Yes. The foolish nephew just came from the Heart Cultivation Palace, and His Majesty said that I was not in the list of accompanying the priests, and it was the Hou Ye who helped me speak. Therefore, the foolish nephew comes to thank you!" As he spoke, he took a deep splendor again.

Jia Zheng: "Oh?"

Jia Yucun: "This is a pie-in-the-sky thing! This errand is easy and simple in the emperor's heart, and the most important thing is that as soon as this matter spreads, those rumors that are unfavorable to the foolish nephew will immediately be broken."

After a pause, "Master Hou is the best person I have ever met, this kindness is unforgettable, and the next life is .....

Jia Zheng raised his hand to stop him, and asked again, "Then what are you doing here with me?"

Jia Yucun blushed and replied, "I—I don't want to tell Uncle Shi the good news. This has always been a mess of the officials, and I am also too busy to go to the house to ask for peace, so I just want to come to my uncle to say goodbye first." After speaking, he had an idea, and hurriedly said: "Uncle Shi, I just heard a news from Wenyuan Pavilion, saying yes, saying that it was the Hou Ye who said that as long as the noble concubine Niangniang gave birth to the prince, he immediately wrote to ask him to be the prince!"

"What!"

Jia Zheng was taken aback and looked at Jia Yu Village with his eyes open.

Jia Yucun was silent for a while before he said, "Uncle Shi, don't worry, I think nine times out of ten, this matter was deliberately ordered by Master Hou. First, it is to test the reaction of the palace and the court, and secondly, it is also to calm the hearts of some people in the military."

Jia Zheng's eyes lit up.

Jia Yucun: "Now that there is a big war in southern Xinjiang, the North Korean side will definitely use troops. Hou Ye chose this good time. The palace and the cabinet will definitely deal with it silently, as long as they don't object, we have a seventy percent chance of winning!"

As soon as these words came out, Jia Zheng was overjoyed.

Jia Yucun: "The foolish nephew has thought about it. This is a major matter for our Jia family, and nothing else can help, the officials are willing

There will be no opposition."

"Good!" Jia Zheng was moved: "With your words, it is not in vain what I taught you."