Xinshun 1730

Chapter 414 Finding the Way

The news from the capital came back very quickly.

The order of the Privy Council is simple, permission.

However, considering the coordination of the army and the navy, the chief general after the landing operation is Li Yan in name, and the general staff is Wu Fangrui, who was the chief of staff when he followed Liu Yu to conquer Junggar.It is required to attack Xiaobin City first to see the situation. If it can be conquered within three days, the follow-up is feasible; if it cannot be conquered, just capture Xiaobin.

In contrast to the simple order of the Privy Council, there is a letter from the emperor to Li Yan.The emperor has no family affairs, and a letter cannot be just a simple family letter.

The letter was very long, and Li Yan read it with delight and relished it.

In addition to condolences to his son's life in Weihai, he also praised Li Yan for making such a decision.

The letter also reflected on the history of Dashun's founding of the country, and only said that in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the 36th Battalion attacked Huaiqing, and Huaiqing had King Zheng of the former Ming Dynasty, so no one dared to bear the crime of "falling into the feudal lord".Therefore, from then on, the rebel army could lead the former Ming army by the nose.

Today's Ishijian Yinshan and the Japanese king who presides over Luoyang are all based on the routine of "attacking the vassal king and mobilizing the enemy" when the country was founded.

The emperor praised Li Yan for reading some art of war in the past few days, and was very pleased.

He also said that back then the enemy was strong and we were weak, or we had no intention of inserting willows; now that we are strong and the enemy is weak, we still use this strategy, the best strategy.

It seems that they are all praising Li Yan, but in fact the emperor and the Privy Council also have something to say.

If this thing can be done, it seems to be a real feat.

Although the saying says that a good fighter has no great merit, the real credit lies in intelligence, shipbuilding, logistics preparation and training of the navy, but ordinary people can't see it. On the contrary, if they can capture the Japanese king city, this credit can be published in future novels of.

Therefore, it is best for Li Yan to get this great achievement.

The situation on the front line is changing rapidly. Both the Privy Council and the Emperor believe that the advantage is great, so they hope that they will not rush forward after landing to avoid accidents.

So the first is the history of the founding of the country by "the grandfather of Sijue overcame thorns and thorns", and then the crime of "falling into the vassal king".

In this way, if Li Yan can be bolder and follow the landing, Wu Fangrui, the chief of staff, will be more cautious.

If there is no Li Yan, this group of officers are eager to make contributions, and they may dare to do it with a [-]% certainty, or even a [-]% to [-]% certainty.

Now that Li Yan is following, this group of officers don't say their hands are tied, but they also have to worry about Li Yan's accident, so they may have to be [-]% or even [-]% sure before they dare to do it.

The emperor thought about it in his heart, Wu Fangrui was brought up by Liu Yu, and Liu Yu's war seemed to the emperor to be a little adventurous and risky to ordinary people.

The staff at this time was definitely different from the previous ones, but the emperor couldn't help but think of Ma Di who was the most suitable to be a staff officer in history, but was a mess as a general.

Although he personally summoned him and answered the questions fluently, the emperor still felt a little... mainly because he was worried that he had been with Liu Yu for too long, his style of play was too aggressive and he might not really have Liu Yu's ability, and he was so easy to lead the army and eager to prove that he dared to do more. , so throw Li Yan over, which can suppress the gambling mentality of those officers.

It can not only allow Li Yan to take the opportunity to gain prestige in the navy, but also suppress the aggressive mentality in the army, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Seeing this, Li Yan also understood.

I must be going to the front line this time. The emperor doesn't want others to get this earth-shattering credit, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with.

Looking back, the letter praised Li Yan, told Li Yan cryptically that he should go to the front line to win the morale of the army, and then mentioned something incidentally.

It is said that the generals of the navy can absolutely obey the orders of the court, which shows that Ying Suobo is strict in governing the army and is really a well-controlled army.The generals have the imperial court in their hearts, and they can be commended.

And the navy was able to make corresponding changes on the front line according to the situation, and reported to the Privy Council first. It can be seen that Li Yan understood what "the general is out, and the emperor's order is not accepted", and the scale of this was well grasped.

The emperor was far away in the capital, but he also knew that this kind of strategy might have been thought up by Li Yan, but the detailed battle plan he handed over was definitely not Li Yan's.

So this is to hope that Li Yan can establish prestige in the navy as quickly as possible.

After reading the letter, Li Yan felt full of energy all over his body, like a puppy whose head was petted by its owner.

The plan has been decided, and Weihai will soon get busy.

Except for leaving the cumbersome battleship and two cruisers to ensure the safety of the Gyeonggi sea, the rest of the ships will go to the front line of Busan in the near future, including Li Yan himself.

Ship repair craftsmen, lost wood, ropes, sails, etc., all have to be delivered together after the port fortress in Busan has been roughly repaired.

It's just that the emperor thought that the navy was just "making decisions on the fly", but in fact it was the navy that was pushing the court to make a decision. It was just because Liu Yu in the Privy Council who built the navy with one hand and could see through the navy's mind at a glance, made the decision. It's just a matter of covering up the past.

In fact, the order of the Privy Council has not yet reached Weihai, and the navy outside has already begun to spontaneously prepare for the big event of status.

The three warships to be transferred to Hokkaido are undergoing final repairs in Busan. All the sailors are on board, and the ammunition is fully replenished. As long as the order of the Privy Council arrives, they can set sail within 5 minutes.

Du Feng, who was stationed in Fushan City, Hokkaido, also began his preparations to harass the Northeast of Japan and mobilize troops long before the order of the Privy Council arrived in Weihai.

Gathered the most maneuverable Marine Corps, before the arrival of the three warships supporting him, they first attacked some towns and towns in the north of the Sendai Domain, and then went straight to the Hirosaki Castle of the Hirosaki Domain.

Hirosaki Castle, which is less than [-] stone high, has no resistance at all. It fought a small fight with the soldiers of the Hirosaki Domain to tell the Japanese princes that the Dashun Army has strong field combat capabilities, so hurry up and come to the Strait Confrontation in the south and mobilization of troops.

On the battlefield outside the Hirosaki domain, the Marine Corps is cleaning the battlefield.

Under the layers of dead bodies, Taketomi Rujing, a samurai from the Hirosaki clan who was less than thirty years old, was pretending to be dead in the crowd.

At this time, he didn't call the slightly more famous name Rujing Gong, because the word "gong" was the name given by the feudal lord after he resolved the promotion of cold-resistant rice in Hirosaki and reformed financial policies.

This name should be familiar to Japanese elementary school students in the Meiji era. He wrote "Abacus Beginners", and when Japan popularized elementary school education 50 and [-] years later, it was the textbook he wrote in this era.

He is not a timid person, but in the battle just now, the Dashun Army's field artillery and flower bombs were too accurate, and the samurai from the Hirosaki Domain had no chance to fight back. In this almost desperate battlefield, Kenfu Rujing made a bold decision.

He was going to see Dashun with his own eyes, to see why Dashun had such an ability, and what made him so powerful that he could not be confronted.

This is not a temporary rebellion, but a doubt that has always existed in his heart.

A few years ago, the volcano on the Matsumae Peninsula erupted, covering the sky with smoke and dust, followed by a flood, famine and starvation everywhere.

At that time, Rujing Jianfu, who was still studying Zhu Zixue, had doubts about Zhu Zixue for the first time.

Before governing the people, cultivate yourself first.

But Rujing Jianfu looked at the hungry people all over the place, and wondered in his heart: "If we wait for body cultivation, what should we do for the hungry people now?"

Can the study of sages solve the problem of eating for the common people?Can it solve the problem that rice is difficult to grow in Hirosaki?
Later, when he visited the old farmer, he found that the old farmer used muddy water rich in volcanic ash to irrigate the land, and he seemed to realize something.

It is believed that the human body is like water, and after self-cultivation, it is like clear water.And clear water is only useful when people drink it.

However, if the muddy water is not for drinking, but for watering the land, muddy water is more useful than clean water.

That being the case, the study of sages should be based on "use", not just the Four Books and Five Classics.

The Four Books and Five Classics are useful for self-cultivation.

Harvest industry and commerce can benefit the people.

The study of sages lies in the word "use".

He thought he was "Wang Yangming enlightened the Tao", so he asked the master Zhu Zixue, but he was scolded; he also asked the master of ancient Confucianism, but he was also scolded.

Maybe the truth he realized is correct, but it is definitely not the truth of Confucianism. It is completely a young man who has read [-] books and five classics, but has not grasped the true thought of Confucianism.

Merit and benefit, if these two words are attached, it has nothing to do with Confucianism.

It’s like scriptures, different schools of thought can be explained, but Newton never dared to oppose the “Trinity” throughout his life, so that he quietly brought out his theological doubts about the Trinity many years after his death.

Rujing Jianfu's idea has completely become a paganism. Even the ancient Confucian school, which claims to use practical learning, denounces Rujing Jianfu in theory, and he is not a Confucian scholar at all.

So when Dashun's marines raided Hirosaki Castle, seeing the shells exploding accurately above their heads, as if they had used a demon technique, many people exclaimed that there was a ghost, but Rujing Jianfu knew that this... was just a... kind of knowledge.

He knew that the Tang State was a celestial dynasty, a true land of benevolence and righteousness, and a holy land of Confucianism.

He wanted to know how the Confucianism of the Celestial Dynasty resolved the contradiction between self-cultivation and utilitarianism.

It was not only to answer his own doubts, but also to find a way to save Japan. In his opinion, Zhu Zixue could not solve the problem of how to resist the cannons of the Tang Dynasty, nor could it solve the problem of the reduction of rice production here, nor could it solve the problem of the financial difficulties of the Hirosaki Clan.

Perhaps, the Dashun army would stab him to death; perhaps, he would not have the opportunity to see and see; or maybe even if he learned to sneak back, he would bear the reputation of being a betrayal and pretending to be dead.

But that doesn't matter, what matters is that he believes his thoughts are right.

"For those who are constant, they accumulate changes and become apparent; for those who change, they accumulate small things and become clear. Therefore, constants also change, and changes are also constant. Constant changes are not cloudy."

Times are always changing.

One should not rigidly "imitate the predecessors, Confucius and Mencius in behavior", but should take "the ideal of governing the world of Confucius and Mencius as the object of pursuit".

What Confucius and Mencius did at that time was to rule the world.

But times have changed. Even if Confucius and Mencius are revived, in this era, the ideal of governing the world will not change, but the behavior and methods must be different from before.

"You have passed away what Confucius and Mencius did, which is of no benefit to the country; you have passed away what Confucius and Mencius sought, and you will be a true scholar."

So he chose to play dead. Before he played dead, he used the blood of his dead companion to write a few Chinese characters on the torn white cloth.

He wants to solve his own doubts, and save Japan, which is already terminally ill, in the future, even if he bears some infamy.

When the marines in blue shirts came up to him with bayonets, Taketomi Rujing suddenly jumped up and unfolded the white cloth before the Dashun army fired.

"I hate not being a Chinese, I admire him, but the lock country can't come. Please surrender."

(End of this chapter)