Xinshun 1730

Chapter 411
Zhao Baiquan smiled, and thought to himself, those of you who haven't read many scriptures, dare to criticize the past and present?

But this white horse is a horse, which makes sense.

He knows that his own level is not enough to become the three immortals. It has been a long time since the Confucianism of the Celestial Dynasty has been broken and the new has not been established.

Although the restoration of the previous war did not affect the operation of the Celestial Dynasty, it was not a long-term solution after all.

Zhao Baiquan couldn't see the huge crisis that the Celestial Dynasty was in, but the group of people in the navy had been hanging out with Liu Yu for almost ten years, and under the influence of their ears and eyes, they actually felt that there was a huge crisis in front of the Celestial Dynasty.

It's not China's crisis, it's China's crisis.

This crisis is whether the new culture can lead the countries of the Celestial Dynasty to adapt to the new era.

At this moment, whether it is Japan or North Korea, it can still be said that a blind man feels an elephant.After all, the natural evolution of the Celestial Dynasty is unique, from the enfeoffment system to the great unification, from the clan to the imperial examination, all have been experienced once.

But now, a new era is quietly approaching, can the culture and system of the Celestial Dynasty continue to lead?

Once in the new era, it is found that the old methods will not work, and Japan, Korea, and Vietnam will not be able to learn from the history of the Chinese Dynasty for thousands of years, and the Chinese Dynasty will collapse accordingly.

The Celestial Dynasty is a cultural concept. When the culture and system are not enough to lead, the Celestial Dynasty will collapse.

The officers remembered what Liu Yu said: Just like the situation of slaves and slaves in North Korea, if Catholicism hits, it will inevitably sweep.At least the Catholic Church still says that everyone is brothers and sisters, which is too deceptive to the lower classes.

The courtesy is not inferior to the common people, and at the bottom, you can't compete.

Faced with the situation of Japan and North Korea, it seems that a part of Chinese history is intercepted, and there is only one way to continue to maintain the cultural advantages of China.

Inside Dashun, Confucianism was reformed, and a system adapted to the new era was created by the magic reform.

Externally, Dashun used war, dumping and other means to disintegrate the old social system of Japan and North Korea, so that their "foundation" can fully adapt to the new Confucianism building after Dashun's internal demonic reform.

This is too difficult, and the cultural level of the navy is really not enough.

In fact, Liu Yu is not optimistic that Confucianism can be transformed into a system suitable for the new era.

But if you give him a hundred guts, he can only reform the old system, but he never dares to set up another banner and start a hundred schools again.

With such a great difficulty, the navy can only remember one sentence: use war, dumping and other means to disintegrate their old social system and change their foundation.

To make it easier, just remember the words "war" and "dumping".

Turning means into an end is exactly the thinking of a qualified military officer of this era.The means of politics is war, and the purpose of the army is war. If the army uses politics as its end and war as its means, it will be very dangerous.

In the eyes of the navy, what they have to do is very simple, but what the Confucian scholars have to do is difficult.

The real difficulty is to build a new building on this foundation that is already different from that before the Song Dynasty.

So the officers laughed and asked scholars like Zhao Baiquan to "make a statement".

It's just that Zhao Baiquan knew his own level, and he knew it well, and said, "It's so difficult to make a statement. Personal ability has its own upper limit. It's the Donglai Mansion envoy of North Korea who said that, which has some truth."

"The Son of Heaven sent envoys to hire the princes to collect the "Wind" of his country. I am afraid that what the North Korean country looks like is quite different from what those tribute envoys described. We can take this opportunity to take a closer look."

With experience in Ryukyu, Zhao Baiquan also witnessed and experienced Liu Yu’s big purge in Ryukyu, so he knew that those Ryukyu people who wrote Chinese poems dozens of times better than Liu Yu were actually better than Liu Yu. It is recognized that people who only value tyranny are not like people from the Celestial Dynasty.

This is probably the case with North Korea too. Although they talked eloquently, Ryukyu Japan exclaimed that "the eastern country is polite".

But in fact, North Korea, which is known as a small China, is far from the inner appearance of Dashun.

There is no caste system in Dashun after all, and the elites have long since died.

At this time, Zhao Baiquan's evaluation of North Korea was "glorious skin and barbarian bones", and his evaluation of Liu Yu and this group of navy was "brilliant bones but heresy skin".

Familiar relatives are far away, this is the benevolent see benevolence.

After saving the idea of ​​trying to copy North Korea's knowledge and system into a book, so that the court could know the bones of North Korea, he took advantage of the time he continued to stay in Busan to get busy.

Or visit the local clan, or ask the slaves who came to do things, or ask about the system, or ask about the fields.

at the same time.

A fast boat took Zhao Baiquan's memorial, steamed buns to Admiral Li Yan's military letter, and 8 taels of silver, and quickly sailed towards Weihai.

With little stagnation, the Clippers set sail from Weihai to Tianjin on the same day, and entered Beijing quickly.

Not long after, Busan received an order from the court.

First, he commended the navy for its combat operations, and praised Zhao Baiquan and the navy for their "knowledge of the general situation" about Ma Shou's persuasion. He also rewarded the navy with 8000 taels of silver, which can be taken directly from the 8 taels of silver.

The emperor also wrote an imperial decree, guaranteeing that Zong Yiru's private property would not be plundered, and asked the navy to quickly send it to the capital to make a pilgrimage to the emperor.

The Privy Council also issued new orders to the Navy.

The order from the Privy Council also first praised the Navy's actions in Tsushima, and believed that Tsushima should not be used as a camp, but only as an outpost, and it was right not to leave too many soldiers.

After praise, comes an order.

The Navy is required to send four more warships, and the four warships will form the second squadron.The construction of the Pusan ​​port and the simple fort must be completed as soon as possible.

The First Squadron continued to harass Kyushu Island, investigate the harassment, draw maps, imitate the Japanese pirates in the past, go ashore for a stroll, and run away by boat when the army comes.

After the Second Squadron arrived in Busan, it took a temporary rest. When the food storage in the Busan military camp was roughly completed, it captured Oki Island and investigated the deployment of the northern coast of Japan. The focus was on Kohama Castle in the Wakasa Kingdom.

Soon, the four warships of the Second Squadron arrived in Pusan ​​under the command of Chen Qinghai. After docking for supplies, the officers above the captain level of the two squadrons stayed on board and held a secret meeting within the navy.

Oki Island hangs alone overseas, not too far from Busan in the eyes of the navy.This broken island is a place of exile, and the stone height after the land inspection is only 5000, not even ten thousand stones.

Without the navy, this place is meaningless.If there is a navy, this place is quite important, directly threatening the central part of Japan.

The navy is well aware of the order of the Privy Council, using Oki Island as a transit, and the real target is Wakasa's Kohama.

Once captured, it will be less than two hundred miles away from Japan's "capital" Heian-kyo.

Obviously, the Privy Council hopes that "threats to the enemy must be saved", and will promote the idea of ​​​​dividing Japan into several corps so that they can be defeated individually.

The temple has reached this step, prompting Japan to divide its troops and occupy Kyushu Island. This is the safest plan.

But within the navy, there have always been some bold ideas.

As the chief admiral of the Second Squadron, Chen Qinghai took the initiative to bring up this bold idea within the Navy.

"In the past, Deng Ai sneaked into Yinping and went to Chengdu in one fell swoop, and he made a great achievement. If Wei Yan's troops leave Ziwu Valley, they will go straight to Chang'an."

"If Xiaobin can go down with a single drum, he will go straight to the city of King Wa with four or five thousand troops."

"If it succeeds, it will be an immortal achievement."

"If it doesn't work, it can also alarm the Wa country and force the mobilization of troops. The other places are empty. Outside of Zi Ruo narrow, you can attack everywhere, and cooperate with Du Feng in the north to completely turn the Wa country upside down."

"Even if the king of the Wa kingdom did not surrender like the queen master, but ran away quietly, he is not afraid. The capture of the Wa king's city is enough to shock."

"I think there is another theory for this investigation."

This idea has a certain consensus within the Navy.

The Battle of Tosa caused the officers of the navy to burst into confidence in land battles, thinking that 4000 men were enough to fight.

Strategic maneuvering and advances in sea navigation allowed them to be several times faster than the Japanese; tactical maneuvering, taking out the most elite marines and several Qingzhou army battalions from the army, coupled with some cavalry, then Also completely fearless.

The elite of 4000 people can run from Obama to Japan's Wangcheng in just a few days.

Although this is not Edo, it is indeed a must-see in Japan.If it is lost here, even if the king of Japan runs away, the contract can be signed directly.

At that time, the main force of the army has been squatting in Weihai for a year without doing anything.Three or two thousand troops cooperate with the navy, and then the battle is over.

As soon as Chen Qinghai's bold idea was proposed, the officer next to him immediately understood, nodded and said: "There is another saying, that is, you should not startle the enemy by making a fool of yourself, but make a big noise."

"The Privy Council ordered us to investigate Xiao Bin. There is no need for such a big fanfare. The fanfare needs to be big, but it should be here..."

On a simple map of Japan, click on the location of Iwami country.

"When Izumo, Ishimi."

"The Changzhou Fan is a strong fan, and it needs to protect the Xiaguan Strait. The troops assembled there dare not move lightly. The troops of the Changzhou Fan dare not move. It is necessary to mobilize troops from farther to come to support and assemble. .”

"Du Feng must be able to conquer Eizo, so the northeastern part of the Wa Kingdom must be garrisoned strictly. If this is the case, the central part of the Wa Kingdom, especially near the royal city, will be empty."

"Erzeshijian is directly under the shogunate's jurisdiction. It produces gold and silver and is the pillar of the shogunate. If Shijian is occupied, although our army will not be able to stay permanently, he still has the ability to destroy the mine. He will not dare to let it go."

"Since the general plan of the Privy Council is to mobilize the troops of the Japanese country, then we only need to complete the mobilization."

"Consider Xiaohama's situation in a low-key way. Once we pretend to attack Izumo and Ishimi and force Wa to mobilize troops to guard, we will be successful."

"With the advantage of transporting troops by sea, use Yinqi Island as a transit, and go straight to Kohama Castle. If you can go down with one drum, you can rush to the Wa King City, forcing the king to flee, and the Wa Kingdom is shaken and has to surrender."

"From Busan to Xiaobin, but from Songjiang to Busan, there is Yinqi Island where you can stop and transfer. It's not difficult."

"Such a distance is enough to deliver 4000 people at one time."

What the officer said was Chen Qinghai's thoughts, and also the thoughts of most officers in the navy.

They are eager to prove themselves, rather than "spending money in vain to support them, and taking credit for their good medical treatment and non-cure disease" as the court said.

Even if the DPRK and China believe that a navy should be built, there have always been disputes over how much to spend on the navy.

The navy wants to prove that the money spent by the court is worthwhile, so it has to make an earth-shattering contribution.

It is also necessary to strive for more money and build more ships for the future navy.

Fighting Edo... Although the navy is full of self-confidence, they still know it because of the distance and the strength of the troops.Can't beat it.

Apart from Edo, the greatest contribution that can be made is this.

After the officers finished speaking, they looked at the buns together.

Mantou was noncommittal, but said: "Even if we want to do it, we must get permission from the Privy Council."

"That's natural. It's just like the saying of Ying Sabo: the ass determines the head. Now he lives in the capital and knows the military affairs of the Privy Council. Naturally, he seeks stability in everything. But when he attacked Rakshasa and threw himself into Ili, he didn't seek stability. .”

One officer made a non-malicious joke, and the others laughed, and Mantou also laughed and said, "Whether this can be done depends on the cooperation of the Wa Kingdom. So intelligence is extremely important. Anyway, the Privy Council gave us the plan to capture Yinqi Island." The time will be when the Busan Camp is basically completed and 3000 to [-] soldiers from the army will be stationed first. If you want to make things happen, you still need to make sufficient preparations. If this can be done, I will support it.”

"also……"

Mantou thought about Liu Yu's teachings, and said solemnly: "Besides, if this can be done, it will also help change the views of the court and China on war."

"Navy, sea power, initiative, and rapid maneuvering. In this battle, we must show the superiority of the navy to the DPRK and China as much as possible."

"Only if we retreat, the imperial court will not disband the navy, but must continue to build ships, so as to prevent what we did in Japan from being repeated by Westerners in the Celestial Dynasty; if we advance, the imperial court will be firm in its determination to go south, and we will know the journey of thousands of miles. Although it seems far away, it is actually far less difficult than thousands of miles in the Gobi and five hundred miles in the mountains and forests in the southwest."

"Everyone, whether or not the Celestial Dynasty will go south and open up borders in the future will all depend on this battle."

(End of this chapter)