Jiang Yuan grimaced and handed the emperor's secret letter to Han Minghun and Huang Qi for inspection.

Huang Qi looked like an old god was there, and he didn't panic at all. Anyway, I'm here to mix qualifications, anyway, I'm the emperor's hardcore descendant, and if I win the battle, I must have a share of the credit; If the battle is lost, no sin can be cured of me.

Jiang Yuan understood Huang Qi's mentality, but there was no way. Huang Qi, as a supervisor, sat quietly and watched success or failure. Compared with the nonsense of Ma Qi, the eunuch guarding the town of Annan, it is already very good.

Therefore, Jiang Yuan could only discuss countermeasures with Han Minghun .

Han Minghun analyzed for Jiang Yuan: "Shenwu Hou was transferred back from the Japanese battlefield and went to Guangning with the 30,000 troops of Nuer Gandusi. This was specially dispatched by the Holy Lord to garrison Quang Ninh to prevent a sneak attack by the Tatar troops, and we must not move this army again.

The Ming army that An Guogong brought to Sakai Port, Ise and other places was already short of soldiers, and it was categorically impossible to transfer.

The three consignments of soldiers and young laborers that we have delivered to Kaga have arrived. These people could have been transferred back to Busan, but once they came and went, they were assembled and shipped, and they couldn't come back at all in two months.

Part of the main force of the naval division was to blockade the coastal areas of Sakai Port and Ise, and part of it was necessary to transport supplies from Minami Naoli, Shandong, and Fujian to the Sakai Port Ming Army.

The only countermeasure that the lower officials can think of now is to conduct an emergency recruitment of troops to North Korea. ”

Jiang Yuan was a little puzzled when he heard this: "Emergency recruitment? After a major war in Korea, the army has been completely lost, and the last of the strong have been sent to Kaga.

How many people can we recruit in a hurry? ”

Han Minghun replied: "It's definitely too late to go back to Seoul to recruit troops, so let's recruit 20,000 troops in Gyeongsang Province and Jeolla Province." In addition, the DPRK naval division has more than 1,000 large and small ships and nearly 20,000 naval officers. ”

Jiang Yuan shook his head: "There are more than 200,000 people in Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces, and they have just been warned, how can we recruit 20,000 new troops in a hurry?"

The North Korean naval division has few small ships and cannons, and the naval army lacks actual combat, how can it withstand the main force of the Japanese naval division? ”

Han Minghun smiled and said: "Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men." If the whole family of the young and strong conscripts were allowed to be exempted from taxes and forced labor for ten years, and the money was heavily rewarded, the people of the two prefectures would naturally apply enthusiastically.

As for the Korean naval division, although it is weak, the Japanese naval division has also not been in actual combat, and it is not necessarily much stronger than the Korean naval division.

In addition, Busan Bay is surrounded by mountains, and the islands are dense, and the terrain of the Japanese army is unfamiliar, so we can set up ambushes and guerrilla attacks.

In the first place, how the Japanese army ambushed us on Tsushima Island, we returned it to Busan as it was. ”

Jiang Yuan was speechless for a while, the emperor set a precedent of exempting from taxes and servitude, and now everyone has learned. Open and close the mouth to start in three years, and lay the foundation in five years. What's more, when he arrived at Han Minghun here, he was exempted from ten years of tax and servitude.

After two years of war, the imperial court was almost unable to bear this huge war consumption.

Thanks to the emperor's strong extermination of Buddha, he got rid of Sakyamuni's oppression of the Ming Dynasty, and brought a huge amount of extra income to the imperial court, otherwise it would have been dragged down.

With such a big pot, of course Jiang Yuan didn't dare to carry it alone, so he could only ask Huang Qi's opinion.

Only by pulling Huang Qi into the water, if something goes wrong in the future, can he pass the test with the emperor. After all, the decision is made by everyone together, and it is reasonable to die together. And with the emperor's extremely protective character, he must protect his henchmen to the death.

To Jiang Yuan's surprise, at the critical moment, Huang Qi was not ambiguous at all, nodded directly in agreement, and urged Jiang Yuan and Han Minghun to quickly reorganize their armaments for battle.

Thus, an emergency preparation began.

At the same time, Jiang Yuan sent a secret envoy to inform Yue Zheng of the military situation on Jeju Island.

Early in the morning of February 28.

In Qingyun Pavilion, after dealing with today's government affairs, Zhu Wenfang began to discuss the exam questions with Huang Pu and He Yi.

The so-called discussion is that Zhu Wenfang listened there, and Huang Pu and He Yi said there.

Zhu Wenfang couldn't understand the other topics at all, and he couldn't interject.

Zhu Qiyu is particularly unworthy of his father, while Zhu Wenfang is just the opposite, in addition to being better looking than Zhu Qiyu, there are many similarities in personality and preferences, this is the second generation of absurd emperors.

The topics involved in Confucius, Mengcheng and Zhu made Zhu Wenfang drowsy. waited until He Yi talked about the topic of strategy, Zhu Wenfang sat up straight and listened carefully.

He Yi said with a smile: "Because there is a high probability that the strategy questions will be won by the candidates, the saint has already said that this year's strategy questions will be changed from three to six."

Among them, there are four explicit questions and two raw questions.

Explicit questions, such as the first question, test the motivation and significance of the Shengshang's strategy against Korea and Japan.

Most candidates can think of this question, and this question is only a test of whether they pay attention to current affairs, whether they have an overall view, and whether they have strategic wisdom.

We select talents, not nerds, not pedantic and conservative, self-contained people.

As for the raw questions, they are relatively obscure, and most people can't guess them, and this is the question that tests the real strength. ”

Zhu Wenfang became interested when he heard this: "What kind of rare topic did Master come up with?" ”

He Yi replied: "For example, candidates are invited to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the Ming Salt Administration and the Great Song Dynasty Salt Administration, and discuss how to carry out the salt administration reform, so as to not only protect the people's livelihood, but also greatly increase the income of the imperial court."

Since his accession to the throne, he has been fighting wars and has never publicly expressed his willingness to reform the salt administration.

Generally, people like the two would not guess that they would try to discuss the reform of the salt administration.

Moreover, the salt administration reform is very complicated, even if a very few candidates guess the question, even if he goes to ask the teacher, it is difficult to say why. ”

Zhu Wenfang nodded and smiled: "This topic is strange and difficult, our Ming Dynasty's salt administration collects so many taels of silver every year, which is far worse than the Song Dynasty."

How to catch up with the salt income of the Song Dynasty through reform, I am afraid that my father himself has not yet made a calculation. ”

He Yi and Huang Pu laughed twice and didn't answer. From the perspective of the two, the emperor really didn't succeed in his heart.

After taking a sip of tea to relieve the embarrassment, He Yi proposed again: "The second rare question, why don't you come out with the prince, after all, you are the real examiner of this session." ”

Zhu Wenfang pondered carefully for a long time, and then said with a smile: "If you don't come up with such a question, may I ask the candidates, while the imperial court has opened the sea ban and carried out ocean trade, is it necessary to vigorously operate the Western Regions and reopen the Silk Road?"

If necessary, how should the imperial court pass through the Western Regions, and how should it compete with the Timurid Empire and the Ottoman Empire for dominance of the Silk Road?

What do the two masters think? ”

Huang Pu nodded: "This topic is okay, and ordinary people can't think of it." In recent years, the attention of the government and the opposition has been focused on conquering Korea and Japan in the northeast, and Annam, Burma, and Siam in the south.

After solving these problems, the imperial court will still focus its efforts on dealing with the Tatar and Warat ministries. Then there is a ban on opening the sea and going to the Western Ocean.

In addition to the fact that the Holy Lord has been quietly arranging, ordinary people really can't pay attention to the Western Regions. ”

(End of chapter)