Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2166 General Baikui (sixty) has full power over Japan
The main hall of Wenhua Palace soon left only two monarchs and ministers and several eunuchs.Zhu Yijun stood up, waved to Chen Ju who was beside him, and said, "Let's all withdraw, wait outside the hall."

"Yes, my lord." Chen Ju bowed and took three steps back, beckoned to several eunuchs, and quickly exited the hall.

Zhu Yijun waved to Gao Wushi and said, "The main hall is inconvenient, let's go to the side hall."

Gao Wushi knew that if Zhu Yijun wanted to stay in the Wenhua Palace, he would definitely choose to speak in the Piandian, because the Piandian was where they "studied together" in the early years. Talking there is easy to touch the scene, and both parties will subconsciously take into account each other's feelings. The effect of communication optimal.

Thinking of this, Gao Wushi suddenly realized something: It seems that the emperor is going to discuss some "private matters" with him today, and it may be related to power.

While thinking about it, the two monarchs and ministers have come to the side hall, with Zhu Yijun in front and Gao Yu in the back.Zhu Yijun habitually went to sit down in front of the desk where he was studying, and Gao Yushi naturally sat in his old place.Zhu Yijun took the main seat, and Gao Wu was at his side to the south.

It seems that once here, Zhu Yijun was very relaxed, so he spoke directly: "Rixin, Jin Yiwei came to report yesterday and said something about North Korea. I find one of them quite strange, but you must know The inside story, so I leave it to you to inquire."

Gao Wushi has been busy dealing with disasters across the country recently, so he really didn't pay much attention to the situation in North Korea, but after hearing what the emperor said, he had no choice but to answer: "My majesty, please."

"The transfer of Jurchen to North Korea was your proposal. Among them, Gyeongsang-do was divided into two parts, and Yehe brothers divided the control. This is your direct arrangement. It stands to reason that Yehe brothers are still related to you by marriage, so they should be the most cautious governor. That's right. However, Jin Yiwei said yesterday that Gyeongsang-do has no distinction between the north and the south, and they have been practicing soldiers and horses recently, hoarding military equipment, food and grass, and seem to have unruly intentions... What do you say about this?"

Gao Wushi was startled for a moment, and then suddenly said: "Oh, so this is the matter, this minister really knows the inside story."

"Oh?" Zhu Yijun narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at him with a half-smile: "It's a good thing you didn't let other people hear your words, otherwise, you'd be wearing the hat of 'the ministers connive at the side generals, concealing military information and not reporting it'" , but it will be on your head."

Gao Yushi didn't seem to care, instead he chuckled, shook his head and said: "The emperor must be one of those who don't know about soldiers, how can he not know about the situation of the troops stationed in various places in North Korea, and even the hidden secrets of the various forces' intrigues?

Thinking about the Yehe brothers, they can only gather about [-] soldiers and horses with their combined efforts. The surrounding area is surrounded by various Jurchen ministries in Jeolla, Chungcheong, and Gangwon. The relationship between these people is unspeakably harmonious.Even if Ye He really had other intentions, these Jurchens must bear the brunt of it, and they should be the first to be anxious.

What's more, my imperial court's heavenly soldiers are stationed in Seoul and Pyongyang, and they are overwhelming the Jurchen tribes in the south. Unless the Yehe brothers think that their lives are long, how dare they make any changes?Since it's not an attempt to misbehave, why should I add a snake to the top? "

The truth is naturally this truth, otherwise why would Zhu Yijun be so relaxed?However, Zhu Yijun still has to ask: "Then, why are they preparing for war this time? Could it be that the Jurchen ministries have just completed the transfer of towns, and conflicts are about to break out with each other? Since North Korea wants to build a province, they can't tolerate it like this." In the Liaodong habitat, they generally act on their own."

Zhu Yijun's "birth land" here refers to the land outside the Liaodong side wall.Those places are also Ming lands in name, but in fact the imperial court does not really govern them, and there are not many Han people there.On the contrary, what is inside the Liaodong side wall is "shudi".

"That's not true." Gao Wushi sighed, and said: "This matter has to start with the inconvenience of the imperial court to go to the Wa Kingdom."

"Waguo? Well, tell me, what's going on." Although Zhu Yijun said so, it seemed that he was not very surprised, and even seemed to have expected it.

"I have already mentioned the benefits of conquering the Wa country, so I won't repeat them. But the court has more important things to do right now, and the Emperor Taizu's "Nation of No Conquest" is indeed quite serious for the government and the public." It has an influence, so the previous series has decided not to send large troops to conquer the country of Wa.

However, according to the officials sent by the ministers to inquire, the country of Wa has a population of more than ten million, and its land area is slightly larger than that of Southern Zhili, and it is not what people call a "small country".Looking at its defeat of North Korea in one fell swoop a few years ago, it can be seen that the country's strength is not weak.Although it has been defeated by our Celestial Dynasty now, if you sit back and watch it lick its wounds, I fear that it will bring disaster to China again in a few years.Therefore, the minister thought that something must be done to ensure that he would not regenerate his rebellious heart. "

Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked: "Then what are you going to do? It's inconvenient for the imperial army to go out, so you plan to let Ye He go to conquer the Japanese country? You just said that Ye Heman can't count [-] soldiers. , I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do about it, right?”

"Yehe alone is naturally not enough." Gao Yushi said: "If you want to conquer the Japanese country, you must first eliminate the difficulties of cross-sea expedition..."

Zhu Yijun suddenly smiled and interrupted: "Cross-sea expeditions are never easy, I know that, but for Jinghua today, it doesn't seem too difficult, right? Why, a land as large as Southern Xinjiang and Luzon It’s not enough to toss about Jinghua, and even the country of Wa has been listed as one of the targets?”

Gao Wushi's heart thumped suddenly, and he immediately became alert.Although the emperor said this with a smile on his face, the meaning inside and outside the words is not too "peaceful"... Could it be that he thinks that Jinghua's hands are too long, or that mine are too long?
But the problem is, even if Jinghua did not directly send troops to take down Japan, the original Japanese trade was almost completely controlled by the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, and it has always been the sphere of influence of the "Pan Jinghua Department"!I haven't seen the emperor have any opinions on this before, so why does he seem to be dissatisfied now?

"If the emperor wants to ask this question, then the minister can only answer: as far as Yu Jinghua is concerned, the country of Wa can be conquered but does not need to be conquered." Gao Wushi pondered for a moment and replied seriously.

"Oh?" Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked, "Why?"

Gao Wushi stretched out a finger, and said: "The enemy can be defeated. The Japanese sent troops to North Korea, and lost their soldiers and generals twice, resulting in a great loss of national strength. The various parts of the Japanese country paid more tribute during the conquest period, but after the war, they got nothing. As a result, domestic conflicts intensified.

Now, the rebel Toyotomi Hideyoshi is dead, and his subordinates are divided into two factions, one is the Arbitrary faction and the other is the Pursuing faction.The emperor can understand that the local vassals and the central courtiers are divided into factions..."

"So the Toyotomi family wants to cut down the vassal?" Zhu Yijun subconsciously asked.

This is obviously a question that can only be asked by thinking that is too "sinicized", because the center of Japan-no matter whether it is the emperor's era or the shogunate era, has not completed the real centralization like China. There is no basis for public opinion, and there is no high-level institutional support.

Gao Wushi gave a brief introduction to the emperor, and then said: "So cutting down the vassal is very difficult in the Wa Kingdom, unless the Toyotomi Center decides that a certain vassal has violated its system and refuses to obey discipline, then it can be punished, and only after the victory can it be cut down. The vassal state is removed or the title is reduced.

However, the current problem of the Wa Kingdom is that the five elders cannot fully represent the Fengchen court, but the five elders have the highest power to assist the government-however, the so-called five elders are actually the five largest vassals. "

"Oh, then I know. These few people are the largest feudal towns themselves, so even if there are various internal conflicts among them, they will not be willing to shake the foundation of the enfeoffment system. And since they have mastered the Fengchen court, they are bound to harm public welfare and private interests. , Grab the food from Fengchen’s family and put it into your own bowl. In this way, the conflict with Na Wufu will definitely continue to deepen... So sooner or later, they will definitely fight."

"Your Majesty, that's exactly the case." Gao Wushi was very pleased that the emperor had already understood what stood behind the power, so as long as he analyzed the current situation in Japan to him, he would be able to draw conclusions immediately. Sooner or later there will be a battle between the two factions.This classmate of mine 30 years ago is already a mature emperor.

"You said that for Jinghua, 'Keep cutting is the enemy', that is to say, there is such a contradiction among them, and sooner or later there will be a war, so Jinghua can take the opportunity to cut it?" Zhu Yijun thought about it: "Then, what does it mean 'not to cut'? "

"It's not up to me." Gao Wushi said: "Jinghua has been operating the Japanese trade for [-] years, and it has become a monopoly. Even if Westerners come across the sea, if they are not allowed by Jinghua, they will not be able to enter the Japanese trade. Therefore, The benefits of the Wa Kingdom seem to be in Toyotomi, but in fact they are in Jinghua——Since this is the case, why does Jinghua have to use weapons to conquer the Wa Kingdom?"

Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment, then murmured: "You mean, we can treat Japan the same way we treat Tumot, and if its trade is in my hands, it will surely make it submit over time?"

"That could be the case." Gao Wushi nodded and replied.

"Obviously, that's why you didn't make that choice in the end? What's the reason?" Zhu Yijun asked.

"Among the five elders, Tokugawa Ieyasu is the strongest and the most clever. If the minister does not interfere, although there will definitely be a war between the Arbitrary faction and the Pursuing faction, in the end this battle will end in Tokugawa's victory , and . . . it is likely to be a short and one-sided war, which is not good."

"Why is this bad?" Zhu Yijun didn't want to understand.

Gao Wushi said: "Tokugawa Ieyasu is an old fox. If he unifies the Wa country, he will inevitably strengthen the centralization of power, remove the party that opposes him, and finally firmly control the real power of the Wa country. No other town can challenge his Tokugawa family. So As a result, the Wa Kingdom is more stable than that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and once it is stable, it will greatly affect Jinghua's trade monopoly..."

"And why?" It seems that although Zhu Yijun has a good understanding of the operation of power, he hasn't given much thought to the relationship between power and trade.

Gao Wushi thought for a while, and said: "May I make a hypothesis: I want to buy fans today, and there are ten merchants selling fans in the market, so I can ask each of them for their prices, and then lower the prices separately, and finally sell the fans with the lowest price." The price to buy this fan?
Let's make a change: these ten merchants selling fans are all from the same owner, and this owner has set a minimum selling price.No matter how eloquent and eloquent I am, the ten merchants insist that they cannot change the owner's decision, so can I still get the fan at the lowest price? "

"Oh... I understand." Zhu Yijun immediately reacted, nodded and said: "If Tokugawa Ieyasu successfully unifies the Wa country, and if he is in power and no one dares to resist, then Jinghua's business will be difficult. Prices could rise significantly, making it unprofitable."

"Your majesty is wise, so minister Daming may not need to send troops to the Wa country. He just needs to deal with the Wa country in the same way as Tumot, and he will be able to control his life and death in a long time. However, Jinghua—or the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, is actually doing this. matter of people.

From the perspective of the Maritime Trade Alliance, Tokugawa Ieyasu must not be able to easily unify the Wa Kingdom in order to complete the emperor's errand.Even if it has to be completed in name, the strength of the local feudal towns must be maintained, so that there are many people in each feudal town who do not listen to their orders.Only in this way, Japan's trade will be controlled by our Ming Dynasty, and the interests of Japan's country will continue to flow into our Ming Dynasty. "

Zhu Yijun took a deep breath, and felt that Gao Wushi's words were very reasonable.Because of Emperor Taizu's "Nation of No Conquest", there are too many people in the world who can't make a turn, but they are determined not to violate the ancestral system.

However, if according to the idea of ​​high pragmatism, the Wa Kingdom is turned into another Tumed, they will be inseparable from the trade imports from my Ming Dynasty in a few years. Attached to North Korea.In this way, wouldn't the possible threat of the Wa Kingdom be completely eliminated in the future?What a clever plan, it is indeed my Rixin!

Zhu Yijun's eyes lit up, but he didn't notice that Gao Wu had cleverly played with concept transfer in the passage just now.Originally, his highly pragmatic intervention in Japan was only his personal business—at most, it was his Jinghua business.

However, after one transfer, it became the matter of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance.What is the Sea Trade Alliance?It is the alliance of interests of the nobles of the Jingnan family, which is the basic foundation of the imperial power, so the emperor will not object, and even listen to it as if he had heard it, and he does not think there is any threat at all.

Then, Gao Yushi shifted the concept for the second time, saying that the interests of trade with Japan are controlled by the Sea Trade Alliance as "the interests of the Japanese country continue to flow into our Ming Dynasty." " change.

If this is wrong, it is true. After all, the profits from the trade with Japan are indeed "flowing into the Ming Dynasty" into the pockets of the Maritime Trade Alliance. The emperor will not be sensitive to the difference-after all, he is the emperor. In his mind, as long as he entered Daming, it would be fine, not to mention the noble forces of the Jingnan clan behind the Maritime Trade Alliance were still his important power base.

"That is to say, you plan to intervene to a limited extent in the war that is about to break out in the Wa Kingdom, so you let the Ye He brothers secretly gather strength?" Zhu Yijun returned to the previous topic.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Gao Wushi can admit it bluntly this time.

"Is Yehe's family enough?" Zhu Yijun asked again.

"Of course it's not enough, I have to spend some effort myself."

"Okay, then I will trouble you. As long as I, Ming, can maintain the profits of the sea trade with the Japanese country afterwards, you can handle the affairs of the Japanese country yourself, and I will not ask too much."

This is the first time Zhu Yijun called "Zhen" in this conversation, that is to say, this sentence is the final decision.

"I obey the order." Gao Wushi got up and saluted, and formally took over the "errand", and added another question by the way: "If the emperor needs to canonize some people in the end..."

Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "I'll hand it over to you if I say it. As long as you think it should be canonized, I will give them canonization."
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