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Chapter 531 Cochin Inheritance Announces Political Envoy Secretary
Just looking at the reactions of the princes, Li Huan knew the doubts in their hearts, but since Li Huan proposed to recruit 20 troops in front of them, he was naturally well prepared.

After all, Li Huan was not an idiot, he just wanted to recruit 20 soldiers, not to mention the cabinet, even the emperor had to have a good reason, otherwise, few people would really support it.

Li Huan looked at the people and said: "Since the last time Dayan Khan was defeated and fled to the north, after several years of recuperation, the forces under Dayan Khan's forces have recovered seven or eighty-eight, according to the spies sent by Jin Yiwei to the grassland. According to the news sent by Dayan Khan, the power of Dayan Khan’s forces has even increased a bit compared to before, and there is a faint intention of going south to invade our Ming Dynasty.”

Hearing what Li Huan said, the expressions of Zhang Lun and others changed immediately.

It can be said that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Meng Yuan in the north has been the confidant of the Ming Dynasty. In order to expel Meng Yuan, the emperors of all dynasties in the Ming Dynasty have tried their best to regard the Meng Yuan in the north as the number one enemy of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the previous generations of emperors who founded the country were able to suppress the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan in the north, but with the passage of time and the peace of the Central Plains, the suppression of the Mongolian Yuan in the north disappeared quietly, and even at the time of Yingzong, it broke out, which can be called the Great Ming Dynasty. The national humiliation of civil engineering.

Since then, Ming's army has rarely stepped out of the front line of the Great Wall. From the beginning to take the initiative to attack, it is now mainly defensive. It can be said that it is easy to attack and defend.

Over the years, the remnants of the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties in the north have frequently invaded the nine border areas of the Ming Dynasty. That is to say, the Tatars were hit hard in the First World War, and the Dayan Khan's troops were completely hurt. This has kept the safety of the Ming Dynasty in the north for several years.

It can be said that the past few years are definitely the quiet and peaceful years on the northern border of the Ming Dynasty. The northern Mongolian Yuan forces dare not go south at all, but everyone knows that once the northern Mongolian Yuan forces regain their vitality, they will definitely break out with Daming again. conflict.

It's just that, except for a very few people in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, almost all the officials subconsciously forgot the threat of Meng Yuan.

Even the few princes present were like most officials, but now that Li Huan once again mentioned the crisis of the Tatars going south, their complexions naturally changed drastically.

Seeing that Zhu Fu was looking at Li Huan, he said, "Dayan Khan's troops have really regained their vitality. Do you mean to go south to invade our Ming border?"

To be honest, Zhu Fu still couldn't believe it. After all, when Dayan Khan went south with the cooperation of Li Huan and Wang Yangming, the loss was extremely heavy. There are more than ten thousand.

With such a big loss, it can be said that Dayan Khan was almost disabled. Under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible to recover so quickly.

Zhang Lun and Xu Guangzuo looked at Li Huan with doubts in their eyes.

Li Huan sighed softly and said: "Dayan Khan's troops did suffer heavy losses, but he is still the nominal co-lord of the grassland. In addition to his own heavy losses, he also suffered a big loss from my Ming Dynasty, so his eyes are off. On top of other Mongolian tribes on the prairie, relying on their righteous name and their own strength, they annexed several major tribes on the prairie in a few years, and restored Dayan by such means. Khan's strength."

Zhang Lun, Zhu Fu and others showed a bit of surprise on their faces. They could understand what Li Huan said. After all, on the grassland, the strong are respected. Tribes, large and small.

A considerable part of these tribes did not actually belong to Dayan Khan, that is to say, the power that Dayan Khan could use to invade the Ming Dynasty in the south was actually only a part of the power of the entire grassland.

Now Dayan Khan regains his blood by annexing other tribes, and he can indeed recover his vitality in just a few years and his strength has improved.

Seeing the expressions and reactions of several people, Li Huan said: "Dayan Khan is definitely not the kind of person who will give up after suffering a loss. According to Jin Yiwei's news, in the past two years, Dayan Khan has been preparing for war. Let them be prepared, I am afraid that another unprecedented tragic war will break out in the north."

A bright light flashed in Li Huan's eyes and he said: "In this case, Ming Dynasty must make preparations early, otherwise once the Tatars go south, with the number of soldiers and horses we have now, Ming Dynasty may not be able to take care of the overall situation. "

Zhu Fu nodded in agreement and said: "It is true that preparations must be made early. With Dayan Khan's temperament, once he goes south, I am afraid that it will be a situation where more than 20 troops go south. At that time, my Ming Dynasty will have to dispatch at least [-] troops to be able to go south." Let’s face it, based on this calculation, I really don’t have enough soldiers and horses in Ming Dynasty.”

Seeing Zhu Fu looking at Li Huan, he said, "I am willing to jointly write to Your Majesty with the Duke of Qin, requesting your Majesty's permission to recruit troops."

Zhang Lun and Xu Guangzuo on the side also nodded one after another, supporting Li Huan's move to recruit soldiers and expressing their willingness to jointly sign the letter.

A few days later, several important ministers of the cabinet came to the imperial study together. In the imperial study, Zhang Lun, Zhu Fu, Li Huan and other military dignitaries had already been waiting for a long time.

The Son of Heaven watched Wang Yangming and the others arrive, motioned them to sit down, and said, "My dear fellows, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, please play the memorial to recruit 20 soldiers. I don't know how the cabinet's discussions are going!"

Hearing the Son of Heaven's inquiry, Wang Yangming and the others looked at each other, and Wang Yangming took a deep breath, looked at the Son of Heaven and bowed and said, "Return to Your Majesty, after a few days of discussion, I feel that it is indeed very important for the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies to invite soldiers. It is necessary, in order to prevent the Tatars from going south, the imperial court must have enough soldiers and horses."

Hearing Wang Yangming's words, Zhang Lun and Zhu Fu, who had already prepared to argue with Wang Yangming and others, couldn't help showing a bit of surprise. Obviously, they didn't expect that the cabinet, which has always opposed the military's expansion, would hold on to it. supportive attitude.

But at the next moment, Wang Yangming said: "Just after the cabinet discussion, is it too much to raise 20 troops at a time? Although the imperial court said that it has sufficient finances, it is also an extremely astonishing expenditure to increase 20 troops at a time. The most important thing is that my Ming Dynasty is now in peace, and with the nine border towns and the Beijing camp, the offense may not be enough, but the defense is enough."

On the contrary, Li Huan's expression did not change at all when he heard Wang Yangming's words. Based on Li Huan's understanding of Wang Yangming, Wang Yangming definitely supported the expansion of the army, but Wang Yangming himself could not represent the cabinet or the entire civilian group, so he said he would do it. As the representative of the civil official group, Wang Yangming had to balance the interests of the civil official group, the Xungui group, and the emperor.

Li Huan said indifferently: "I don't know what the cabinet's opinion is?"

Wang Yangming looked at Li Huan and said, "The cabinet means that 20 is too much. The cabinet agrees to recruit troops to prepare for war, but the number must be limited to [-]."

Everyone can hear that this should be the bottom line acceptable to the cabinet.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the members of the cabinet, then at Li Huan, Zhang Lun and other dignitaries in the governor's mansion of the five armies, pondered for a while and said: "Everything you say makes sense. It is indeed true to raise 20 troops at a time. It's a bit too much, but my Ming Dynasty really needs to replenish its armaments. In my opinion, I will raise 20 troops in the first year, [-] in the second year, and another [-] in the third year. In three years, a total of [-] troops have been raised, what do you guys think?"

Several cabinet ministers couldn't help frowning when they heard the words, subconsciously wanted to object, but at this time Wang Yangming coughed lightly, stepped forward and bowed to the emperor, saying: "Your Majesty is wise, I think this strategy is feasible."

And Li Huan also stepped forward to bow to the emperor at the right time and said: "Your servants must abide by the sacred teachings!"

A group of nobles with a somewhat smug face also followed Li Huan and bowed down to the emperor.

Out of the imperial study room, on the way back to the cabinet, the faces of several cabinet ministers were heavy. Yang Yiqing, who had just been transferred to the capital from the local area, served as Minister of the Ministry of War, said to Wang Yangming, "Why does the chief minister agree with your majesty's will? You have to know three years ago. The expansion of 20 troops will definitely put a lot of pressure on Daming's finances. Besides, my Ming Dynasty will never need such a large army. Such a militaristic move will only fuel the arrogance of the military's nobles, and will not benefit the country. !"

Hearing the words, Wang Yangming just paused, looked at Yang Yiqing and said, "Does Yang Shangshu think that it is useless for the country to prepare the army?"

Yang Yiqing was taken aback for a moment, then reacted and shook his head and said: "Yang didn't mean that. My Ming Dynasty really needs to strengthen its armaments, but it must be limited to a certain range. It is not right to raise hundreds of thousands of troops like Qin Guogong. Instead of preparing the army, it is resorting to the use of military force.”

Sighing lightly, Wang Yangming looked at Yang Yiqing and said, "It hasn't been long since Yang Shangshu entered the imperial court to take over the military department from the local area, but he didn't know that there was another turmoil in the southwestern border."

Yang Yiqing was able to enter the eyes of the emperor, so he was naturally a capable official, not an idle person. Hearing what Wang Yangming said at this time, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he said almost instinctively: "Could it be that Annan invaded my Daming Yungui again?" place?"

Wang Yangming nodded slightly and said: "That's right, when Emperor Li's life was rare in North Korea, he kept invading the southwestern frontier of our Ming Dynasty. According to the report of the Jinyiwei, just last year, within a year, the Li family dispatched Soldiers and horses invaded the territory of our Ming Dynasty, massacred and plundered several counties."

"Damn it, the barbarian country dares to stroke my tiger's beard!"

Yang Yiqing is not the kind of weak scholar who has no power to restrain chickens. He is the governor of the three sides above the local government. It can be said that Yang Yiqing contributed a lot.

Such a person naturally looked down on such a barbaric and small country like Annan, so he was naturally very annoyed when he suddenly heard that Annan had repeatedly invaded the southwest.

Wang Yangming looked at Yang Yiqing and said: "It has been nearly a hundred years since Emperor Xuanzong deposed Jiaozhi Cheng and announced the political envoy. After several generations of emperors, the Li Dynasty has grown in strength in the southwest. However, Li Yi, the current lord of the Li Clan, faintly looks like the lord of Zhongxing, vigorously develops armaments, expands everywhere, and invades our border almost year after year."

Liu Yu stroked his beard and smiled lightly when he heard the words: "It's just a barbarian state, and it's enough to send envoys to the barbarian state to reprimand its master and ask him to send envoys to plead guilty to the court."

When Wang Yangming and Yang Yiqing heard the words, they just glanced at Liu Yu and didn't answer Liu Yu's words.

Yang Yiqing took a deep breath, looked at Wang Yangming and said, "Could it be that Qin Guogong has plans to use troops against Jiaozhi?"

Wang Yangming said slowly: "Even Wang doesn't know what Qin Guogong thinks, but even if he wants to use troops to the southwest, it must be done after the north is pacified."

Yang Yiqing showed deep thought on his face, and nodded slightly.

The general supervisor under the Imperial City House of Internal Affairs

Li Huan looked at the officials who would be in charge of the prison and the big shopkeepers of the Royal Trading Company, and asked, "How did you arrange the things you arranged?"

The few people present looked at each other when they heard the words, and saw one of the officials step forward, and said cautiously: "Mr. Hui, according to your instructions, the general supervisor has sent skilled craftsmen to assist the Royal Trading Company in several mines. Cement burning plants. However, the specific situation of these cement burning plants is not clear to the lower officials."

Li Huan's eyes naturally fell on the big shopkeepers of the royal trading firm present.

Being watched by Li Huan, several big shopkeepers who were in charge of building the cement firing chief hurriedly bowed to Li Huan and said: "Go back to the lord, the younger ones will follow the orders of the lord and gather the power of the firm." , purchased a total of dozens of mines, and built a total of eight cement firing plants, which have already been fired, and about 80 stones of finished products have been hoarded."

Hearing this, Li Huan couldn't help staring at the big shopkeeper who spoke, "How about the monthly output of the eight cement firing plants? If they run at full capacity, how much output can they reach?"

The big shopkeeper just thought about it for a while and said without hesitation: "Now the eight cement firing factories can burn about 30 stones of cement products in total every month. If the craftsmen become more skilled and then increase the number of people, the output will increase at that time." Several times, it is absolutely no problem to reach a monthly output of one million stones."

Li Huan nodded and said, "Very good, immediately transport Wanshi cement to Beijing."

Ninety-ninth Double Ninth Day in the tenth year of Zhengde

A group of people left the imperial city, the leader was none other than the emperor Zhu Houzhao in ordinary clothes, and accompanied by the emperor were Li Huan, several cabinet ministers, Zhang Lun and other dignitaries.

A group of more than a dozen people dare not say that they gathered all the core figures of Daming, at least they accounted for more than half of them, and all of them had the core right to speak in Daming. No.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao looked curiously at Li Huan who was riding beside him and said, "Li Qing, where are you taking me? What is your surprise?"

Not only the emperor, it can be said that all the people who accompanied him looked curious and puzzled. Li Huan's actions were too mysterious. Just yesterday, Li Huan personally invited the emperor to summon a group of people. Come here, saying that you want to give everyone a surprise.

It's just that no matter how they asked, Li Huan kept his mouth shut, so the whole group was extremely curious at the moment. After all, it must not be a trivial matter to make Li Huan so inspiring.

Hearing this, Li Huan glanced at the crowd and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Your Majesty will know when he arrives, but I can assure you that as long as His Majesty sees you, he will be very happy."

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing and said: "Okay, since that's the case, then I want to see what kind of surprise you, Li Qing, are so mysterious, you want to give me."

(End of this chapter)