"It's clear, whew... It feels so good to be free! ”

In the morning, at the gate of Qixia Prison, Zhou Changfeng, who was full of lightheartedness, couldn't help but sigh.

"If you fight for the freedom of others, and you lose your own freedom, you will be happy." Xia Xiaoshi, who came to pick him up, complained.

Before, Zhou Chang was still in prison, and it would be too much to say this kind of thing during visits, but now that he has come out, he no longer has such serious concerns.

"I am very satisfied, and I will be punished according to reason and the law." Zhou Changfeng shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly: "What's more, the last few days are boring, and I have always felt as idle as a vacation." ”

"Hard mouth!" Xia Xiaoshi, who was wearing a light blue dress, flicked her sleeves and pouted: "If I meet such a student at school, I usually greet him with a ruler." ”

"Oh, then you can whip me with a ring ruler in the future." Zhou Changfeng looked unimpressed.

Xia Xiaoshi: ???

It's the first day of returning to normal life, and it's definitely a little bit of a celebration.

And with whom? Naturally, it's with his fiancée, anyway, he hasn't been back to the Land Corps for so long, and it's the same if it's one more day late.

Even though Qixia Mountain is a famous scenic spot, after all, it is in a remote area, and the two waited for a long time before taking the bus.

When he was in the car, looking at Xia Xiaoshi's side face beside him, Zhou Changfeng's thoughts were pulled away at once, and he immediately thought of marriage.

I didn't expect to be able to reduce my sentence and get out of prison early, but now it's different, let's just end the matter early!

The bus arrives at the terminal at Tongjimen, which is considered to be in the city, but how can the northern city be compared to the bustling southern city?

While waiting for the bus to transfer, Zhou Changfeng, who had organized his words, asked coldly: "I have thought about it, let's get married in the lunar month of this year or the first month of next year, and pick a good day when the time comes." ”

"Huh?" The surprise came too quickly and abruptly, Xia Xiaoshi was stunned for a few seconds, then blinked, and nodded a little shyly in agreement.

"Before and after the New Year, everyone is resting and relatively idle, otherwise if it is in normal times, you will have to ask for leave if you want to attend the wedding."

"Well, that makes sense."

About half an hour later, the bus stopped steadily on Taiping Road in Nancheng District.

Since ancient times, the streets and alleys on both sides of the Qinhuai River have been extremely prosperous, and this is still the case today, and Nancheng District is the largest financial and commercial area in the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The main striking thing here is the several skyscrapers, and you only need to look up slightly to see a skyscraper under construction and a completed one.

They are the product of the world's skyscraper trend in the last decade, and the two that have been built are 303m and 320m high, respectively, and the one under construction was originally planned to reach an unprecedented 400m, but was reduced to 385m due to technical limitations.

Today, the world's number one throne is 381m of the Empire State Building in New York, and today's new boss is ambitious and hopes to win this crown.

The name of this skyscraper under construction is also simple and straightforward, it is called "Daming Building", which is 80% invested by Yang Ming Group, and the remaining 20% is Xinjian Bo with his three-inch tongue from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

Yang Ming Group is one of the largest industrial companies in Daming today, with distinctive characteristics - focusing on people's livelihood matters.

Its main business is light industry, import and export trade, scientific and technological research, textiles, paper, food, home appliances, hardware, etc.; Heavy industry is currently limited to cement, fertilizers, and pesticides.

The predecessor of this group was the "Xinjian Ash Factory" a few decades ago, the ash factory was a cement factory, which was established by the previous generation of Xinjian Bo, and then snowballed and became bigger and bigger, involving more and more manufacturing industries, and then changed its name to "Yang Ming Group".

This is typical bureaucratic capital, or... National capital.

These two are not strictly economic concepts, but rather business models that rely on power and nepotism.

One neutral and one dejorative, when a business group can also represent and safeguard the interests of its own citizens, it can be called national capital; Otherwise, it is bureaucratic capital.

As the saying goes, it's a woman's nature to love shopping, and Xia Xiaoshi is completely in line with this.

What made Zhou Changfeng even more frightened was that she could still have a lot of energy left after shopping for most of the day, as if she automatically got a -90% physical consumption buff when shopping.

In a large department store with three floors, Xia Xiaoshi, who is tired of it, is full of interest in each store, and considers the appearance and cost performance of various furniture while shopping.

"This gramophone looks so good, tsk... Twenty-nine round. Hey, the main thing is that the record has to cost another money. ”

"Miss, if you buy more records, you will cut the price, ten copies will be cut by one percent, and twenty copies will be cut by one and a half."

Standing at the door of the store, Zhou Changfeng glanced at an ebony vertical phonograph engraved with cloud and thunder patterns and phoenix bird patterns, the upper part was a gramophone, and the lower part was a cabinet for storing records.

Yo, it's quite a petty bourgeoisie.

He couldn't help but tease, "Exquisite life, you are quite good at living." ”

When Xia Xiaoshi heard this, she asked, "Does Mr. feel that it is expensive?" ”

"No, I'm just saying it casually."

"My father taught me since I was a child that what kind of identity is what kind of life you live, and my duty is at ease, and it is not appropriate to pretend to be poor and complain about hardship and slap a swollen face and become fat."

Circumference: "......"

She asked solemnly: "My salary is not a lot, doesn't my husband agree?" ”

Under Xia Xiaoshi's ried-back, Zhou Changfeng was really powerless to refute, so he had to laugh at it.

Hey, I asked for a sharp-toothed wife, I'm afraid this married life will not be good......

He paced outside the shop to the corner of the floor.

Because this mall is built in the middle of the fork in the road, its plan shape is approximately like an isosceles triangle, and the place where the circumference wind walks is at the sharp corner.

The windows are tall and offer a great view of the busy streets.

He looked up and down, left and right, and said to himself, "It's a good place... It's a pity. ”

"If it's a good place, what's the pity?" Xia Xiaoshi's voice suddenly came from behind her.

Zhou Changfeng let out an "oh", pointed down casually, and replied: "The view here is very good, if a heavy machine gun is placed on each of the three floors of the restaurant here and diagonally opposite, the entire street can be effectively blocked." ”

？？？

Outrageous, this guy has never been puzzled in the past, is this time a deliberate joke?

Xia Xiaoshi, who didn't know why, subconsciously asked: "What's the pity?" ”

"Because this building is a brick and concrete structure, not a frame structure, it should not be used as a solid support point."

"Why? Isn't it all reinforced concrete? ”

"The exterior wall of the brick-concrete structure should also bear the load, if it is destroyed, the integrity will fail, and half of the side may collapse after a few shells in actual combat." Zhou Changfeng turned around and raised his hand to a longitudinal beam above, "But the frame structure only uses beams and columns to bear the load, and the outer wall only plays the role of enclosure, so it's okay to tear it all down." ”

Xia Xiaoshi didn't know how to do it—I didn't understand, but I felt it made sense.

"Great, sir, how do you even know this?"

Seeing her star-eyed expression, Zhou Changfeng coughed dryly: "It's not worth mentioning, it's just the basic cultivation of a qualified officer." ”

"Well, let's go to the horn, this is the capital, and no one can get in."

"It's not the same thing."

Although they were released from prison early in the morning, because it took too long to get from Qixia Mountain to Nancheng District, it was noon before the two of them walked around.

While the two of them were wandering aimlessly on the streets looking for their favorite restaurants, ministers and high-ranking generals from all over the capital and even from other places were entering the Wenhua Hall one after another.

After a brief pause in the break, they were led to the largest chamber, Room 1.

The large square table, which was two meters wide and long enough to fit ten chairs facing each other, was now neatly lined with teacups and sealed papers in front of each of them.

Under the arrangement of the attendants, all the bigwigs sat down one after another.

Looking at the document in front of him that was sealed with kraft paper printed with the word "Top Secret" in red, someone turned his head sideways and asked, "Can I dismantle it now?" ”

"Please."

In the sound of "hissing" one after another, the documents were opened one by one, and the inquiring eyes quickly browsed the words on them.

At this time, Lin Xi and a thin middle-aged man who looked radiant walked in one after another across the threshold.

Seeing this, more than a dozen people in the conference hall all looked over in unison.

Someone happily said: "I haven't seen Wei Guogong for two months since the middle of the year, and I've been in good health recently?" ”

Li Guangyuan, the finance minister, said with a smile: "Isn't his face clear?" The old man sent a lot of boxes of old ginseng just for decades, which was naturally very good. ”

As the current leader of the Dadu Governor's Office, Wu Weihuan, the Duke of Weiguo, also serves as the commander of the garrison command envoy, but the latter is actually only in name.

Hearing this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Okay, you Li Mingyin, how can those old ginseng you sent eat and make up for it?" ”

What is lacking to make up, and making up for it is going to happen, especially ginseng.

At the beginning of this year, because of the sudden acute pancreatitis, Wu Weihuan walked around in front of the ghost gate, but fortunately he was finally snatched back, and he has been recuperating for half a year.

With the arrival of two key figures, the meeting began.

After going through the documents in their hands, everyone present quickly understood the purpose - oh roar? Is the emperor really fighting the idea of the Wa Kingdom?

Lin Xi glanced around, and slowly introduced, "You all saw it, right?" This plan can be traced back to the sixth year of Zhichang and has been revised five times since then. ”

Foreign Minister Yu Shenhua said with some surprise: "You have been making up your mind so early? ”

"In fact, there was a strategy for conquest two hundred years ago." Lin Xi smiled and replied as a matter of course: "Basic preparations are necessary, this is just one of the more than a hundred war plans, it is also a strategy for the Japanese country, and there are several plans in order to deal with different situations. ”

The Ming army was also very standardized for the numbering of the war plan - "A" indicated that it was an offensive plan; "Forty-seven" is a number with no real meaning; "No. 1" refers to one of these circumstances; As the name suggests, "change five" is the first revision.

Number 1 indicates a war situation that takes place without foreign intervention, in addition to the number 2 that considers British intervention, the number 3 that considers the intervention of the United States, and so on.

"The matter of conquering the Japanese kingdom has been mentioned every three or five years, and the emperor is interested this time?" Someone laughed with interest.

"Nature has nothing to do with preference, it's just the right time." Prime Minister Zou Zhuoyun, who had not said a word from the beginning to the present, took a sip of the teacup and said lightly: "Let's talk about it first." ”

The meeting hall was so quiet that only the sound of breathing and the movement of teacups colliding with the lids of cups were silent, and more than a dozen ministers and senior generals were all in the midst of brainstorming.

Suddenly, a lieutenant general was the first to break the silence.

"The first wave sent four army divisions and two air detachments to Shikoku Island, and the second wave to the western Yamaguchi area of Honshu Island with three divisions and two air detachments...... IMHO, this is suspected of adding fuel one by one, too stupid, and lacking the sharpness of one move to defeat the enemy. ”

"It's an exaggeration, I can only say that this plan is relatively safe." Another lieutenant general retorted: "One move to defeat the enemy's space hole." Although the Wa Kingdom is now independent of each domain, and the Wa King's jurisdiction is limited, and there is no one to order all parties, but after defeating a few feudal towns, the other feudal towns will obediently look down on the wind? It's not realistic. ”

"Militarily, I don't think there's anything worth worrying about, it's a small place, and it's also a feudal town, so there's no difficulty at all." Yu Shenhua muttered: "The point is still in the reaction of Britain and the United States. ”

"The situation in Europe is also not optimistic, and the British will only intervene if they are mad, and it is obvious that they will only protest verbally."

"I agree. So, it may be the United States that needs to be more worried. ”

"The United States also has no possibility of interference, take 10,000 steps back, have a calculation or not, and when they finish by the way, the sun and moon flags have already been planted all over the Dongying Islands."

The generals all have similar opinions, and they naturally do not want to miss the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Seeing that they were in agreement, Li Guangyuan said: "What we need to consider more about this is the import and export trade, and if the conquest of the Japanese countries is too tough, Britain and the Netherlands are likely to take countermeasures economically, and the United States is less likely to take countermeasures." ”

"This view is too pessimistic and inappropriate." Lin Xi shook his head slightly, "The British politicians are also shrewd, and in this matter, we can try to ventilate in advance to temporarily maintain and protect their existing interests in the Japanese country." Talking about the conditions, don't chill. ”

"What do you think of Sangkook?" Yu Shenhua looked at Zou Zhuoyun, who was in the upper seat.

The latter, with a calm expression, replied:

"For Britain, the United States, and the Netherlands, the resource-rich Nanyang Islands have enough value to defend, one to grab resources, and the other to serve as a frontier position."

"As for the Wa Kingdom, which is far away in the world, it is barren and has few resources to speak of. Today, it is a pity to abandon the tasteless, if the Ming can allow them to withdraw with dignity, I think the British will definitely consider it seriously. ”

"This is one weight, and the other is that it can be said to be beneficial and harmless as a delaying tactic, and the cost is small, and now that the situation is becoming more and more anxious, the British will inevitably sign a contract to ensure that they complement each other. Well, I've talked to Your Majesty about it, and he thinks it's worth a try in about two years. ”

After a brief silence, there was a chorus of approval in the chamber.

Li Guangyuan, who was thoughtful, bowed his head and said: "In this case, it's better to be early, the negotiation is very time-consuming, so we shouldn't procrastinate." ”

(End of chapter)