The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 253 Expedition to Japan
Ma Sanyi was excited, and quickly replied: "Alive, that Yu Qian is still alive, that is..."

"What is it?"

"It's just that he was punished ten times by the imperial staff, dismissed from his post as head of the Ministry of War, and assigned to raise horses in the army."

"That's okay." Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

Yu Qian is the just-concluded Xin Chou Ke Jinshi, a talent Li Yu specially told to pay attention to.

This year's other Jinshi, even the number one scholar, are still learning how to be directors in Liubu. Yu Qian is especially valued by Li Yu, and has been awarded the post of chief officer of the Ministry of War. He started with a sixth rank, which can be regarded as a standout.

Although Li Yu has not summoned Yu Qian for the time being, all the officials in the court know that this is the talent that the grandson likes.

Maybe the old man forgave Yu Qian's capital crime because of his grandson's face?

But having said that, this product is a real head iron!
Xiao Yi was out of luck, a group of courtiers all pretended to be foolish, but he was the only one who tried his best to take advantage of the old man's anger and go up to the fire. He was young and successful, and he thought life was too smooth?
Li Yu frowned, feeling a little headache: "Then Yu Qian, was he assigned to that army?"

"Returning to Your Highness, it is the Three Thousand Battalion, which is in the Jiangbei Camp."

"Find a more reliable doctor and take my token to the Jiangbei camp to heal his injuries. Tell Yu Qian to let him stay in the camp temporarily. Besides raising horses, he will learn more about military affairs."

The edict issued by the old man, Li Yu is always not good, so he will transfer Yu Qian back now, let him suffer some setbacks in the army first, and then make plans after the old man leaves Beijing for the Northern Expedition.

Ma San received the order to retreat, and Li Yu sent someone to call the imperial physician to ask for pulse.

While Hu Shanxiang was uneasy, the white-haired imperial physician pondered for a long time, then suddenly stood up with a smile on his face.

"Congratulations to Your Highness the Grandson, Concubine Taisun is already in her arms, more than two months away!"

"Really?" Even though he had already known the result, Li Yu asked again to confirm.

"Chen, dare not lie."

"Good! Reward!"

The old imperial doctor happily carried a bag of Ming Dynasty banknotes into the Qing Palace, and all the people in the Qing Palace were rewarded with a three-month salary in the name of the grandson concubine, and the palace people in the grandson concubine's courtyard were even more generously rewarded.

However, Hu Shanxiang's mind is no longer here.

She hadn't conceived for eight years, and once she was pregnant, her mind was filled with great joy. It was Li Yu who ordered the maid who served her, carefully helped her back, and then gave birth to supplements according to the various prescriptions left by the old doctor.

It can be predicted that within half a year, the Qing Palace will revolve around Hu Shanxiang's stomach.

And Hu Shanxiang is pregnant, this is the opportunity Li Yu has been waiting for for a long time!

It's a good time to fool Emperor Yongle into peace of mind and become the Supreme Emperor!

Li Yu has completed two and a half of the five tasks that came to this world.

The acquisition of state power and the collection of sister flowers have been completed, and the rewards are still stored; the Oirats have been destroyed, and the Tatars are still alive, and the Northern Expedition has been successful.

Let the second uncle and the third uncle feel at ease as a vassal king. Although it is considered complete, it is not difficult.

Third Uncle Anxin helped run Jinyiwei in the capital, and the civil servants he offended over the years have gone, so he must have nothing to think about.

The second uncle is in Daning, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. The original garrison in Daning had moved northward five years ago. Today's Daning is only the three guards under the command of the King of Han. There are less than 1 troops and cold weapons. , can't turn over the waves.

According to the information from Ma Si in the East Factory recently, the second uncle seems to have resigned himself to his fate, and he is very peaceful, staying in the palace every day to drink and have fun, or go hunting in the grassland.

But the last task, Mr. Huyou abdicates, that is really too difficult!
This is Emperor Yongle who was born as a rebel!Very suspicious!He didn't even trust his son, and the only thing he believed was Li Yu, the grandson.

But because of this, how can Li Yu bear to do it?Mastering half of the military affairs, plus the prince's father, is enough to bring the old man down from the throne, but doing that is no different from a beast!

Not to mention whether the crown prince is willing to join forces with others, if he does that, the filial piety that the Zhu family has managed to maintain will be ruined, and the reputation of the Tian family will be completely ruined.

Didn't you see Li Tangzhi's lesson?The Xuanwu Gate made a good start, and since then, the inheritance of the throne has mostly been accompanied by swords and swords.

Li Yu's plan is to try to see if he can be fooled into taking the initiative to give way when the Zhu family has the fourth generation and the old man is happy.

Although the hope is very slim, it's just a test, if it doesn't work, forget it, give up this task.

In the evening, Li Yu entered the palace.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Di was having dinner, while the already gray-haired Governor of Dongchang, Little Snot, waited on him carefully.

For the first time, Hu Shangyi sat in front of the emperor with a brush in her hand. Zhu Di wrote it down on the paper while talking.

Li Yu entered the palace gate without saying hello. While the old man was talking, he asked the eunuch to fetch a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and sat down to eat.

"...Deer antler, ginseng, etc., choose the best ones as you use them, and send them to the Qing Palace. The concubine is pregnant, so she doesn't have to get up to see the ceremony, can you write it down?"

"Yes, what His Majesty said has been recorded one by one, and I will order it immediately when I go back."

Hu Shangyi stood up respectfully to answer.

"I'm at ease with your work. Concubine Taisun is related to you. You can temporarily entrust the affairs of the palace to the deputy agency. You will go to the Qing Palace to take care of Concubine Grandson yourself. You must ensure that Concubine Grandson gives birth safely. .”

"Thank you Your Majesty for the gift."

Zhu Di waved his hand, and Hu Shangyi withdrew.

After listening to Li Yu's words, the affectionate old man rewarded the concubine grandson, and asked Hu Shangyi to come and take care of her personally. The old man already knew about the concubine grandson's pregnancy before he told him.

Li Yu looked at the factory supervisor's little snot, and suddenly knew in his heart that it must be the secret of this guy!

Jin Yiwei and Dongchang were determined not to place spies in the prince's and grandson's mansion. It is estimated that the imperial hospital leaked the secret and let Dongchang know.

"Monkey boy, neither big nor small, you don't have any manners at all, grandpa really spoiled you!" After Hu Shangyi stepped back, Zhu Di smiled and cursed at the grandson who went to eat directly after entering the door, but he didn't take it to heart. Instead, he ordered to add a few more dishes that the grandson loved.

"This doesn't mean that grandson is close to grandpa." Li Yu replied with a smile, and deliberately glanced at the little nose: "Grandpa's news is very well-informed, and grandson came to announce the good news. Grandpa knew before he said anything."

The little snot puffed and knelt down: "His Royal Highness, this servant has been wronged!"

Others don't know the grandson's power, how could Xiaonai control Dongchang?In today's world, it is obvious that His Majesty is the biggest and the most effective in speaking, but if you want to be more serious, what your Majesty says is not as good as what the Crown Prince says, but what the Prince says is not as good as the Grandson!

"Get up, get up." Zhu Di frowned impatiently and complained, "Why are you scaring him? Dongchang doesn't have the guts to plant spies in the Qing Palace, and grandpa will never allow such a thing. It's Dongchang I came from the Tai Hospital to inquire about it."

Sitting detectives are the detectives of the East Factory distributed in various yamen to monitor the words and deeds of officials.

"The grandson has no thoughts, but it's just unintentional words. The little snotty father-in-law is an old man next to grandpa. He has been with him for many years and has worked hard. Don't take offense." Li Yu never admitted it.

"Slaves dare not, dare not."

"There are so many ghosts! Forget it, the little snot has gray hair all over his head, and he is getting more and more powerless. Let your Ma Si help out more. Ma Si was also taught by Zheng He, and he is a person who can be entrusted. This Dongchang, Sooner or later, I have to hand it over to you." Zhu Di agreed angrily, and then ordered: "Don't talk about it, let Hu Shangyi live in your house. Grandpa is worried about the child in the granddaughter-in-law's womb. With her here, those ghost tricks will be used. Don't go to grandson's wife. Grandpa is old, and he can look forward to his great-grandson with great difficulty, so nothing can happen."

"Yes, the grandson understands that Hu Shangyi brought up the concubine grandson single-handedly, which is better than a foster mother. With her around, the grandson is also at ease. The grandson thanks grandpa for his concern."

The grandpa and grandson finished their dinner slowly, during which Li Yu was thinking about how to speak, maybe the old man saw his thoughtfulness, and after the meal, Zhu Di pulled Li Yu to the desk on the other side of the screen.

"Seeing how absent-minded you are, you're not just here to announce the good news to grandpa, are you?" Zhu Di stared at the complete picture of Kunyu Daming hanging on the screen, glanced at the north of Daming on the map, and asked suspiciously: "You wouldn't Did you also come to persuade Grandpa to give up moving the capital? Or, you also want to say, suspend the Northern Expedition?"

"Grandson is not this...huh? Also? Who is here?" Li Yu answered half of the answer, suddenly startled.

"Hmph! It's not your father!" Zhu Di snorted through his nasal cavity: "Before you came, your father just left! He also advised me to postpone moving the capital, and also advised me to postpone the Northern Expedition. I think he is impatient as the prince. If you have some skills, you want to take the position in advance! Hmph, don’t think that I can’t understand the thoughts of you father and son, I’m not old, he wants to kick the nest, he has to wait a few years, and I’ll talk about it after I finish what I want to do !"

"Uh, grandpa is serious, grandson doesn't have such thoughts." Li Yu denied it, but he was happy in his heart. There was something in the old man's words. Could it be that he had the idea of ​​abdicating for the rest of his life?

Of course, this [-]% may be fooling myself!
"Whether you have this thought or not, you know it in your heart, and I don't care, anyway, it will be yours sooner or later." Zhu Di glanced at Li Yu with business, and then changed the subject: "You said, you will not come to be your father You're a lobbyist, right? Then you better stop talking, so as not to make me unhappy."

"Grandpa misunderstood, moving the capital and the Northern Expedition, grandson absolutely agrees with grandpa!"

For the Northern Expedition or something, the old man was left to play on the grassland.As for moving the capital——

It has been 18 years since we moved the capital. Although the grasslands are exhausted now, and all the troops stationed on the Nine Frontiers have moved northward to the new grassland city, the military role of moving the capital has basically disappeared, but the old man can’t stand the humidity in the south, so let him move the capital. It's a big deal to wait until I ascend the throne before moving back!

Whether it is Nanjing or Beijing, Li Yu doesn't care, as long as the country is strong, the water and land transportation is convenient, and the scenery of the south and the north is fine.

The crown prince grew up in Nanjing since he was a child, he didn't like the dryness and coldness in the north, and most of his power base was in the south of the Yangtze River, so he naturally opposed moving the capital.

"Grandpa, don't blame me. My father's health is not very good. He lives in the north for a long time and is afraid of serious illness. This is probably the reason why he doesn't want to move the capital."

The prince has high blood pressure and diabetes, and now there is no greenhouse effect. In winter, the temperature in Shuntian Mansion is mostly minus [-] degrees. When you come out of the warm room, the cold and heat can easily induce cardiovascular disease.

"Hmph, it's hard for him." Zhu Di snorted coldly. The prince's body had always displeased him, and he didn't want to talk about it, so he asked again: "Then you are for Yu Qian? It's just a new scholar. You value it so much? If you openly contradict me in the court, if it's not for your face, hum!"

"Yu Qian is a piece of jade in the rough, but he is a bit young and aggressive, and he doesn't know how to be flexible. Grandpa is right to punish him. Let him suffer some setbacks, and with a little polishing, he will definitely become a pillar of my Ming Dynasty. Grandson first thank grandpa for him. Grace to kill."

"You have always had a good eye, so it's lucky that Yu Qian got your fancy." Zhu Di sighed, walked to a chair and sat down, but suddenly remembered something.

"For the conquest of the Wa Kingdom, Zheng He led the fleet to stop in the Ryukyu Kingdom. How are the preparations going?"

In the summer of the 17th year of Yongle, Zheng He led a huge fleet back from his fifth voyage to the West.During this voyage to the West, the farthest reached Mugudushu, which is Somalia, not only brought back a few giraffes called unicorns, but also bought a lot of "Sunshine Rainbow Little White Horses", that is, Kunlun slaves.

However, after returning to China, the feat of sailing to the West was temporarily stopped by Li Yu, and Zheng He was given a combat mission instead.

Lead the fleet to conquer the country of Wa!The key point is to win Iwami Yinshan!
Li Yu wanted to reform the currency system of the Ming Dynasty and completely revitalize the banknotes of the Ming Dynasty. He needed a large amount of silver as a reserve fund, so he naturally focused on the silver mines of the Japanese country.

For this battle, Li Yu even transferred back the British public Zhang Fu who was sitting in Jiaozhi, and appointed him as the general officer of the crusade against Japan, leading [-] soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to fight across the sea.

Zhang Fu had successfully implemented the scorched-earth policy in Cochin, and now Cochin was completely empty. After Chen Jikuo was captured, those local rebels gradually lost their place to live and basically disappeared.Today's Jiaozhi has freed up a lot of fertile land, and the Ming Dynasty is slowly immigrating.

With the experience of vacating land, Zhang Fu must be able to do quite well in Japan.

Of course, no matter how well the Shenji Camp can fight, 1 people are not enough to occupy the Wa Kingdom, but Li Yu also thoughtfully prepared a servant army for the expedition to the Wa Kingdom.

North Korea, Ryukyu!
Compared with the scabies that Daming was often harassed by Japanese pirates, these two are the feuds of the Japanese kingdom!
North Korea has always regarded itself as the son of the Ming Dynasty, and the Central Dynasty has called for it. The new king of North Korea, Li Chen, who has just accepted the abdication and ascended the throne for two years, is also known as King Sejong in the eyes of later generations. He agreed to send troops to assist without hesitation.

North Korea conscripted troops from all over the country and dispatched [-] troops. The three kings of Ryukyu also agreed to lease the port and gathered [-] troops. In addition, the huge fleet of Daming and the [-] Shenji Battalion under the command of the British Duke Zhang Fu are now anchored in the Ryukyu Kingdom. At the port, wait for the southeast monsoon to rise in June, then pull out the anchor and set off.

"British Public Office, everything is going according to plan, just wait for the southeast monsoon." Li Yu flattered: "Almost when grandpa went north to Arutai, the emperor's expeditionary army also set foot on the territory of Japan."

"I don't know what kind of evil you have, so you have to concentrate on conquering the Japanese country." Zhu Di smiled helplessly: "In recent years, the Japanese pirates have settled down a lot, but if you are willing to fight, then go ahead. The Japanese country has always been arrogant, and it is good to teach a lesson. What not Kingdom of Conquest, that is not to bind Da Ming's hands and feet. No conquest, but I, Da Ming, don't need it, you have to keep this in mind."

"Yes, grandson wrote it down." Li Yu smiled slightly, the old man misunderstood a bit, and what he wanted to bring to Wa Kingdom was not just a lesson.

Zhang Fu's troops are nothing more than a vanguard army. After occupying Yinshan and gaining a firm foothold, the Ming Dynasty will see real benefits, and the second uncle should go to the Wa Kingdom to become a feudal vassal!
(End of this chapter)