The capital protector of the Yidao Metropolitan Protectorate is Geng Ji.

Geng Ji followed Ran Min in the southern and northern wars for more than ten years in his early years, and made many military exploits, and was once a personal soldier of the emperor Ran Min, and was deeply trusted by him, so he was assigned to the Wa Kingdom to serve as the capital protector of Yidao Metropolitan Protectorate.

On this day, Geng Ji was inspecting the city fortifications of Caozhi City, and the deputy general Li Wei came to see him. The two of them walked into a room and sat down across from each other.

Li Wei frowned and said: "Dadu Hu, the current situation in the Wa Kingdom is not good." Tokugawa Morinobu, the general of the expedition who originally guarded Hokkaido Island, rebelled, and he united with some of the chiefs of the Wa Kingdom and jointly wrote a letter requesting the Wa King to expel our Wei army from the country, but the Wa King stayed in the middle and did not know what his calculations were. ”

"Hmph, what else can it be? It's just a matter of trying to watch from the wall. Geng Ji scoffed.

"Daitogo, I heard that the Tokugawa Nobu army has moved south, and the tribal leaders of various parts of the Wa Kingdom, the eight tribes of Kanto Musashi, Sagami, Yasubo, Kamiso, Shimoso, Hitachi, Ueno, and Shimono, have rebelled. There are also many tribes on the island of Honshu who are ready to move, such as Katsuragi Chen, Taira Guntomi, Otomo Ren, Monobe Ren, these more powerful tribes in the Wa Kingdom seem to be harboring evil intentions! ”

"There's nothing surprising about that. The tribes are big, and the king has no real power at all. ”

"What are you going to do?"

Geng Ji patted the dust on his battle skirt and said lightly: "The soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it." The Japanese people are just a bunch of miscellaneous people, a group of local chickens and dogs, not worth mentioning! ”

"Please also be cautious. We only have 5,000 soldiers in Caozhi City, and although there are 50,000 servant troops, it is difficult to say whether these servant armies will defect when we really fight. The last general suggested that the Metropolitan Protector should immediately request reinforcements from the country! ”

Hearing this, Geng Ji nodded and said, "Okay." Although I look down on these widows, there are too many miscellaneous fish, and it is not easy to deal with, and it is necessary to report this kind of thing to the empire. ”

"In addition, the last general advised Dadu to defend the grass city and wait for reinforcements to arrive."

Geng Ji glanced at Li Wei and said, "Why stick to Caozhi City? I remember that His Majesty the Emperor once said, 'Offense is the best defense'! Although the rebels are numerous, they are not invincible. ”

Li Wei smiled bitterly: "Dadu Hu, although my Wei army is strong, the rebels are outnumbered after all." Even if Dadu Hu finally eliminated these rebels, the remaining remnants of the army were afraid that they would not be able to gain a foothold in the Yi Island Metropolitan Protectorate. ”

"Hmph, who said I only use Wei Jun's?"

"This ...... Most of the Protectors don't want to use a servant army, right? Li Wei was dumbfounded and said: "This must not be! Of course, there are 50,000 servant troops, and after our training, their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, but after all, they are Japanese people, and it is difficult to say whether they will defect once the war starts. And once the two armies are at war, the servant army turns against us, and the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Hearing this, Geng Ji sneered: "Then let's let these servant armies not defect!" ”

"Do you have any good ideas?"

"Naturally, there are ideas, but relatively speaking, they are bad ideas." Geng Ji shook his head and said, "Li Wei, let me ask you, what do bandits like to do the most?" What do you do most often? ”

"This ...... It's supposed to be a house robbery, right? ”

"That's right."

Seeing Geng Ji's incoherent appearance, Li Wei's eyes suddenly widened, and he said with a look of a ghost: "Dadu Hu, you don't plan to incite the servant army to raid homes and rob houses in the territory of the Japanese Kingdom, right?" ”

Geng Ji nodded and said, "Not bad." These servant troops, in the final analysis, can't support the wall with mud, they are simply a group of bandits! The reason why His Majesty recruited these servant troops is just to use them as cannon fodder and reduce unnecessary losses of the empire! ”

"But won't this make the Japanese hate the Empire? Allowing the servant army to burn, kill, and loot in the territory of the Japanese kingdom and doing all kinds of evil may cause public outrage. ”

"I didn't say you, Li Wei. If you look ahead and hesitate in everything, what great things can you achieve? ”

Li Wei sighed and said, "Dadu Hu, this thing is really ridiculous!" Your Majesty's original intention of setting up the six major protectorates of Anton, Anbei, Beiting, Western Regions, Yizhou, and Yidao on all sides of the empire should be clear to you, right? Your Majesty's original intention was to use these six major capital protectorates as a barrier to the empire to resist foreign invasions, so that I would be in the line of Wei Wanshi. ”

"Even Your Majesty has a deeper purpose, which is to turn Hu into Xia, promote national integration, and turn these Gentiles into Wei people! This should be the reason why His Majesty set up the Metropolitan Protectorate of Yidao, sent 5,000 soldiers, and sent the families of the soldiers to Caozhi Castle. I think Your Majesty should hope that Dadu Hu can follow Ban Chaoding in the Western Regions, and use his own ability to coordinate all parties to expand the influence of the empire in the Wa Kingdom and protect the territory and the people. ”

"But once you incite the servant army to make trouble, use burning, killing and looting as dividends, and stimulate these servant troops to serve you, this will definitely lose the hearts of the people of the entire Yidao Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Japanese will definitely hate Dadu and the empire. When the time comes, Your Majesty will condemn you, I'm afraid that you and I won't be able to bear it! ”

Li Wei persuaded so hard, but Geng Ji didn't listen to it at all.

Geng Ji raised his head and said loudly: "Li Wei, you are wrong about this. I am His Majesty's personal soldier, and I know His Majesty's mind better than you! The Japanese people are unruly, and it is not a simple matter to assimilate them and promote national integration! And, do you know what true national integration is? Do you know what the fundamental meaning of national integration is in Your Majesty's mind? ”

"This ......"

"Let me tell you, the so-called national integration is that the empire drives men of different races to work for the empire and open up territory for the empire. The so-called national integration is that the men of the empire let women of different races have children and reproduce the offspring of the empire! And this is national integration! ”

Geng Ji said such a rebellious but seemingly reasonable remark, which made Li Wei speechless.

Li Wei sighed faintly and said, "Dadu Hu, no matter what, the matter of inciting the servant army to raid the house is really ridiculous. The last general will not agree. ”

Geng Ji sneered and said, "Li Wei, you kid just read too many books, and you read your brain stupidly." What does the life and death of the Japanese have to do with us? We don't have enough money and food to drive these servant troops to fight for the Empire, so are we going to sacrifice the lives of our five thousand Wei troops? ”

"In troubled times, what is the most important thing for ordinary soldiers? It's nothing more than money, land and women, we can't give these things to the servant army, but the Japanese can! What's so bad about being generous to others? ”

"I tell you, as long as we do this, no matter how much the rebels incite the generals of the servant army to rebel, the soldiers below will not listen. Using the Japanese to fight the Japanese people, and razing them to defeat them, this is the method that our ancestors handed over to us, why should you be obsessed with those vulgar rites? ”

Seeing that Li Wei was still hesitant, Geng Ji waved his hand and said very simply: "That's it." If Your Majesty is to blame, I will bear all the blame alone! ”

Hearing this, Li Wei had no choice but to agree.