Chapter 29 Jiajing's tendency

The next day, after Jiajing took a nap, the cabinet team came to ask for a meeting.

Jiajing's daily routine is also very busy. He is busy with health preservation and studying the way of immortality. In short, he only leaves one or two hours a day to inquire about national affairs, that is, the period after his nap.

After the cabinet members arrived, Jiajing asked routinely: "Is there anything wrong today?"

Yan Song immediately stepped out to salute and said, "There is one thing that is important. We dare not dedicate ourselves, so we can only ask Your Majesty to rule."

Jiajing asked, "What's the matter?"

Yan Song immediately handed Zhou Mengchen's memorial to Huang Jin, Huang Jin took it and then gave it to Jiajing respectfully.

Jiajing opened it and said to himself: "This is a matter."

Although Jiajing didn't have much time to deal with government affairs on a daily basis, he spent a lot of time watching the information of the Jinyiwei and secretly reported from various places in private. After all, he was also worried that he would be under the siege of the cabinet.

Even the efficiency of secret press is higher than that of the cabinet, and there are not so many processes.

Jiajing naturally read Zhou Mengchen's secret memorial.

He was moved at the first time. It was for money.

Jiajing was afraid of being poor. The financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty was a holistic one. The court had no money, and it was not enough to have money inside. The ministers outside would quarrel and ask for money, which made Jiajing uneasy.

Jiajing simply calculated the gold-silver ratio in Japan and knew what a great fortune it was.

He naturally tends to send troops.

However, as the emperor, Jiajing could not express his meaning so bluntly. Instead, he asked: "What do you think Zhou Mengchen's victory or defeat?"

Yan Song asked about the string sound and knew the meaning of elegance, and immediately said, "Mr. Zhou is the number one general in our dynasty. How can Japan's small country fight against the power of the Great Mingtian?"

Jiajing asked again: "How much military use can the court support it?"

Yan Song said, "Your Majesty, I'm ignorant. I'm afraid I'll ask Shangshu Fang for this matter."

Jiajing said, "Then call Fang Dun over."

When Yan Song heard this sentence, he had already judged Jiajing's inner tendencies. Everyone knew that Fang Dun and Zhou Mengchen were very close to each other. If Fang Du came over, he would not not speak for Zhou Mengchen.

Sure enough, after a moment, Fang Du came over and read Zhou Mengchen's memorial. He felt a little worried.

Fang Dun remembered the consequences of the Yuan Dynasty's two attacks on Japan, and was also worried that Zhou Mengchen's plan to conquer Japan would have problems. But he would not destroy Zhou Mengchen's platform at this time and said, "Report to Your Majesty, I don't know how much this battle costs, but I know that since the Japanese pirates rose, the deaths and injuries of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Zhejiang, Fujian, and many times, the county towns were lost, and the property losses were more than tens of millions. Therefore, this battle should not depend on the consumption, but also on whether the sea waves can be calmed down in the future. If possible, then no matter how much money is spent, it will be necessary. If not, there is no need."

Jiajing praised: "This is the old man's conspiracy to plan the country."

Yan Song immediately said, "Your Majesty said very well. The old minister also figured it out. But the old minister also had some ideas."

Jiajing said, "What are your thoughts?"

Yan Song said: "What Zhou Wuchang thought was to eliminate Japanese pirates, not to defeat Japan. These two cannot be compared. In addition, Japan was decided by Taizu and the country was not fought for for the fifteenth country. I think it should be polite first and then the army."

"Our country has sent envoys to Japan many times to control Japanese pirates, but Japan ignored them. Today, Zhou Mengchen was ordered to inspect the sea. After arriving in Japan, he would first be courtesy and then military. If Japan could know the mistakes, he would correct them and be willing to control Japanese pirates, we would naturally not do much for ourselves. This would also give an explanation to the people of the world. If it is still stubborn, the Celestial Empire would also be punished by the descendants. We can achieve both."

After hearing this, Jiajing nodded and said in his heart: "Yan Song is still so appropriate to do things."

Although Zhou Mengchen had sufficient reasons, and Jiajing also knew that just verbal warnings would not make the Japanese stop. However, Yan Song added this patch, which was also very useful. It was more about internal rather than external.

No matter what, Japan is a country that does not conquer, and the Celestial Empire should be upright and upright. First polite and then troops.

It is not the style of the Celestial Empire. Now, according to Yan Song, Zhou Mengchen is patrolling Japan, not attacking Japan. However, he discovered Japan's treacherous plots and dealt with them decisively.

The force of such opposition will be minimized.

Moreover, the patrol of the sun also represents the arrogance of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, the Japanese did not recognize the relationship between the Ming Dynasty's sect leader for a long time. Only a few shogunsmen recognized this. However, the Ming Dynasty was a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of whether Japan recognized it or not.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen went to Japan to inspect the vassal states on behalf of the emperor, rather than visiting foreign countries.

This is also what makes Jiajing satisfied with Yan Song. Only when Jiajing wants to do it, Yan Song can find a reasonable way to reduce resistance and implement it. He never sings opposite to Jiajing.

Jiajing said, "Okay, let's do it according to the Prime Minister's wishes."

This imperial edict on that day will be revealed to the world.

A few days later, it came to Zhou Mengchen's hands.

Zhou Mengchen finally breathed a sigh of relief. With this imperial edict, his behavior was completely legal.

But he was also worried whether he could make a lot of money from Japan to satisfy Jiajing's appetite. It seemed that Kyushu did not have any gold and silver minerals. I especially remember Ishimi Yinshan on Honshu Island.

However, this is all a story.

Zhou Mengchen will find a way out. The first thing he has to do is to plan the battle for the Japanese. The first thing is to gather troops and transfer the troops in Ganzhou.

Zhou Mengchen decided to lead 50,000 troops in addition to the navy, including six battalions of Fujian, four battalions of Zhejiang, and three thousand guards of Zhou Mengchen himself. However, these 3,000 people changed from cavalry to infantry, after all, horses were not lucky.

Letting horses cross the river is a relatively difficult problem, let alone letting war horses cross the ocean. Fortunately, the Datong cavalry is not an army that does not know how to fight without war horses.

These troops must be withdrawn from western Fujian one after another.

Zhou Mengchen also met Tang Shunzhi who came back from here.

At this moment, Zhou Mengchen's attitude towards Tang Shunzhi was completely different. If you were to send Tang Shunzhi before, you would send a civil servant who did not interfere with Qi Jiguang's command. But now, Zhou Mengchen looked at Tang Shunzhi and did have the talent of a literary commander.

Such talents are rare among the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Mengchen naturally attached great importance to it.

He welcomed the second door and stood under the dripping eaves to receive Tang Shunzhi.

After the two saluted, they sat down and Zhou Mengchen asked, "What is the situation in western Fujian?"

Tang Shunzhi said, "Let's keep the tide for the time being, but it will be reversed within a few years."

Zhou Mengchen was shocked when he heard this. Although he didn't ask casually, he also felt that Tang Shunzhi had just come from there and stopped fighting, so he should have told some good news. He never expected that Tang Shunzhi would say such words.

Zhou Mengchen immediately asked, "Where do you start?"

Tang Shunzhi sighed and said, "I don't want to face this fact. But I have read local chronicles and court information. From the founding of the country to the present, there has been an uprising in two years in western Fujian, southern Jiangxi, and eastern Guangdong. I have conducted on-site investigations and found that the mountains here are undulating, and the internal and external transportation is inconvenient. Although merchants can only run internally and it is difficult to communicate internally and externally, and food. In two years, the people are apologizing for two years. If this number is pulled to ten years, the output will be negative within ten years. People's livelihood is difficult, and there is a discrimination against the mountain people outside the mountain, clans are rampant, and the countryside is arbitrary. If there is any dissatisfaction, they will hold up the flag high."

"This time, I'm just trying to stop the boiling, but within three to five years, there will be another uprising, and it may not be as big as this one."

Zhou Mengchen was silent for a while when he heard this.

Planting grain every year is not enough to make ends meet. As long as the war is made, a little space will be made to give them a little bit of development. Now, these gaps caused by the military will soon be filled by the people. Then, internal and external problems, overall economic problems will gather together, and then fire will be ignited again. The Ming Dynasty's general rebellion against the people was just to kill the main evil, and the threat was very lenient. It was equivalent to a considerable number of people with experience in rebellion gathered in the local area.

It is inevitable that the resurgence of the ashes will be.
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