Legend of the Knight

Chapter 169 Political situation
Although he sits around the door every day, Huang Xiaoshi, a land bug, looks more like a spider now.Don't look like you are in the middle of the net, but in fact, you know all about trouble.

Everyone knows that Master Huang likes to listen to the news. Besides, it's a man's nature to like to brag.

Whether it was eating and chatting every day, or when a caravan came to Luoyang to clean up the dust for them, Huang Xiaoshi would hear news from the outside world continuously.

With more and more caravans traveling outside Luoyang, Huang Xiaoshi can travel thousands of miles without leaving home.

The caravan on the northwest side brought news that the northwest has calmed down.
With the conclusion of the Northwest War last year, most of the refugees who escaped before have returned to their hometowns, and under the organization of An Minguan, preparations for spring plowing have already begun.The commercial route to the west can also go. The various ministries of the Western Regions and the imperial court have a tacit agreement to separate across the desert. If you don't mess with me, I won't go there.

The fighting in the south has also calmed down. Everyone thought that the tribal rebellion that was about to become a prairie fire suddenly disappeared.Boss Gong is still in Yunling. I heard that he and his two new wives have given birth to two babies.

The original Gong Wang family served his parents-in-law at home in the rural areas of central Sichuan, and the Gong Wang family was above women's morals, and even outsiders couldn't fault half of them.Although there is one title missing, everyone didn't really regard Gong Wang as a concubine. The Gong family's in-laws recognized Gong Wang as their eldest daughter-in-law. How could those two barbarian women become big.

It's just that now Granny Gong also wants to see what the two grandchildren look like, even if they are so far away, they can't even meet each other.

People who came back from another direction said that from Shandong to the east, the waterway has been blocked.

In fact, not only is Shandong to the east, but now the northeast of Ningbo is not allowed to enter the sea.

The government has repeatedly issued notices, saying that anyone who sees a boat will be regarded as a water bandit. As for other news, there is no news at all.

However, everyone sat together and chatted, saying that there was no news at all, but it showed that the blockade was extremely successful.It is estimated that the army on the expedition to Wa Island has already opened on Wa Island, but it is not known how the outcome will be.

This world was about to fall apart, but it was pushed down alive again.

Huang Xiaoshi now admires the crazy emperor, this kind of running on the verge of death through extreme manipulation, isn't that his previous style.

It's just that he is just playing to his death in the game, if he dies, he will restart, and the emperor is pulling Tianxia to play with him.

Huang Xiaoshi didn't admire the emperor's handling of the bull, but admired how well he played.

However, it has to be admitted that although this extreme operation is extremely risky, once it succeeds, the benefits are also enormous.

In a word, this is betting on the luck of the country.

Every battle is a gamble.

From the looks of it now, the emperor's luck is extremely good, and his card skills are astonishing. In the first two big bets, the opponent hadn't even played a card yet, so he swept the table clean with a blast.

According to Huang Xiaoshi's speculation, the original Northern Expedition Nomadic Division and Nanzhen Jiaozhi Division could not be completed in three to five years.

These two wars would continue to bleed the court, and it turned out that the court ended with a quick victory.

Now the emperor, who had freed his hands, began to fight against the Japanese kingdom.

Just from this action, Huang Xiaoshi can conclude that this psychotic emperor is either a [player] or a real genius, because he immediately saw the biggest problem and crisis of the dynasty.

The prosperity, decline and even collapse of a dynasty are inseparable from finances.

For a dynasty, finance is the most important system. Without finance, all institutions are built on floating sand, and they will collapse as soon as they say it.

As for this court, there is a huge problem. Huang Xiaoshi has already discovered this problem keenly, but other people don't think there is anything wrong. However, once this problem gets bigger, it will lead to the collapse of the court's finances.

The problem is lack of silver.

It is not a lack of money, but a lack of silver. These are two concepts.

When the bandits in Heifengzhai robbed Shennong Baicaomen's caravan and demanded a ransom, Huang Xiaoshi was extremely shocked and thought it was a conspiracy against Shennong Baicaomen.

At that time, Huang Xiaoshi was really responsible. After all, he was limited by his strength, so he didn't dare to provoke anyone, and he was willing to push him.

If Huang Xiaoshi had raised 3000 taels of silver at that time, he would have honestly handed over the "protection fee".

It wasn't because he couldn't raise any money, that he turned evil and ran hundreds of miles at night to fuck his grandma.

Does Shennong Baicaomen have no money?

No, they are rich, but they can't come up with money.

This is an extremely fatal thing.

Because of the lack of a banking system, when ordinary people have money, they choose to hide it privately.Compared with copper coins, which are easy to rust, silver is not only small in size, but also does not rust when buried on the ground.

So in this era, it is really common to bury money privately, and this is the folk basis for the joke of "there is no silver 300 taels" to spread.

In an emergency, Shennong Baicaomen has money, but can't get it out, Huang Xiaoshi can just kill the wave of people who asked for the money, and it's over.

But as for the imperial court, if the imperial court suddenly needed money and the imperial court couldn’t come up with the money, could the emperor directly kill the people who asked for the money?

Of course, if he could kill, the emperor would be quicker than anyone else, but there is really no way to owe a lot of money, such as military pay.

This brings me back to the previous topic, the entire Central Plains is extremely short of gold and silver.

Where is there more gold and silver?
Wajima.

The country of Wa is the mountain of gold and silver.

A minister who had been sent to Japan wrote in his memorial: "There is no goods in Japan, only gold and silver (original text)".

Japan has a lot of gold and silver, so why don't you just sell things and exchange them?

Not at all.

Because the country of Wa happened to be in a civil war, the princes (daimyo) on the island fought so hard that their brains came out.

Silk, tea, and ceramics, which are most convenient to transport by sea, cannot be sold at all because of their purchasing power.

Those princes would rather eat salt and bibimbap by themselves every day, but also expand their armaments.

To expand armaments, what is the first thing?
iron!
And iron is extremely inconvenient to transport by sea.

Besides, iron itself is not considered a high-value commodity. Who would want to take such a big risk to earn such a hard-earned money?

It's better to wear Japanese clothes, cover your face, and rob along the coastline instead.

Therefore, the Wa country has gold and silver, and the Central Plains has goods, but it has not been able to form complementary trade.

The thinking of this emperor is obviously different from that of the others. Since I can grab it, why should I change it?

Of course, it is also very troublesome to fight against the Wa country. The Wa country is neither big nor small.

What made the emperor laugh to death was that he was racking his brains all day on how to attack the Japanese, but the Japanese people poured out of the country and went to fight Goryeo.

Isn't Wajima just empty?

Why did the emperor not answer the Korean people's request for help last year? There are two wars that have not yet ended. This is one aspect, but the emperor doesn't care about this.

It is because the Japanese control the coastline of Goryeo, they did not really go deep into Goryeo.

This year, as the Japanese took control of Goryeo, they went deeper and deeper into Goryeo.

At this time, the emperor took advantage of the Goryeo war, and even excuses were sent to his door.

If you don't fight at this time, when will you wait?
Of course, the emperor doesn't want to be reckless, he belongs to the kind of person who is bold and careful.

……

After the Japanese attacking army landed in the Wa country, the first thing they did was not to attack the city and seize the land, but to summon the names of the Wa country to counterattack the shogunate.

The emperor of the Wa country is just a mascot. Originally, the power of the Wa country was in the hands of the general (the first general).

Later, the general's power declined and he couldn't hold down the princes (daimyo) below, and even the general himself was assassinated.

The newly succeeded general enjoyed the emperor's treatment: lost real power and became a mascot.

In the end, the princes (daimyo) who were all over the land were wiped out, and the person who established the shogunate and controlled the Wa country was Guan Bai (the number one civil official).

At present, Guan Bai is facing the biggest problem, that is, how to deal with the excessive military power in his hands after the world is at peace.

The best way is naturally to send out a piece of paper, and tens of thousands of soldiers will be disarmed and returned to the fields.

But Guan Bai couldn't do it.

Because the world has just been unified on the surface at this time, there are too many people who are nostalgic for the old lord. Once these people are released, they will be called up again immediately, and finally there will be a situation where the princes separate and fight each other.

Therefore, Guan Bai had to find a way to consume the "surplus" military power in his hands.

Therefore, Goryeo became the perfect target.

The attack on Goryeo failed, good luck.

Anyway, it is used to consume military power, and everyone will go home to live in peace after all are dead.

It is even better to attack Korea and succeed.

These people stay in Korea, don't come back.

No matter how you look at it, for Guan Bai, attacking Goryeo is a good business that is sure to make a profit.

But what he never expected was that the King of Korea would send someone to the Central Plains court to ask for help.

Last year, the Central Plains Dynasty sent an official to Koryo to mediate, just asking for a truce.Even the Koreans agreed, but the group of guys who were dazzled by the easy victory didn't agree.

Not only did they not agree to a truce, they also fought hundreds of miles into the hinterland of Goryeo, almost occupying the entire territory of Goryeo.

This is clearly hitting the emperor of the Central Plains in the face.

Sure enough, the emperor of the Central Plains was angry, and he sent the Central Plains army to beat him.

Guan Bai is also suffering and can't tell.

In name, he is a civil servant and does not have military command.

In fact, after the army that attacked Goryeo was released, Guan Bai completely lost control of that army.

However, this is certainly not the explanation that the Emperor of the Central Plains wanted to hear.

Then we have to organize the army first, block this wave of soldiers, and then talk about other things.

What Guan Bai didn't expect was that those big names suppressed by him, with the support of heavenly soldiers and generals, set up flags to attack him.

idiot!

When kowtowing, the buttocks were raised higher than the other, and turned upside down faster than anyone else.

What Guan Bai didn't expect the most was that those daimyos who had been wiped out by him also set up banners.

The only person who can appoint a daimyo at the moment, besides himself, is the emperor.

Guan Bai never expected that the emperor he had raised for decades would dare to stab his own knife. He went to the hall angrily, and pulled out the knife in front of the saint.

Yoshi, your son is 12 years old and ready to take the throne.

At this time, the emperor tremblingly took out a lot of documents and handed them to Guan Bai.

Guan Bai looked at the documents bearing the imperial seal of the Central Plains emperor, one by one familiar names: Jiuhu, Hojo, Neekoji, Isshiki, Miyoshi, Hatano...

Guan Bai, nicknamed "Monkey" when he was young, is finally afraid.

……

Kurozuka Toshiie finally got a large ship that was big enough to sail back to Wajima.

Since the central plains court has implemented the strategy of purifying the sea for several years, the current situation is that small boats are easy to find, and large boats are simply treasures.

Even the Japanese bandits don't have many large ships that can return to Wajima.

Usually, Japanese pirates rob along the coast, they only need to use small boats, and only use large boats when they want to return to Wajima.

Although it will take only a few days to get to Wajima along the Kuroshio Current, the weather around Wajima is really unpredictable.

Going to Wa Island itself has a sense of gambling for life. If there is no sturdy boat, then it is not called gambling for life, but death.

The big boat in the hands of the Japanese pirates was burned in a surprise attack by the Sea Shark Gang.

What's more troublesome is that after that battle, the Japanese bandits were leaderless.

Seeing that they couldn't continue playing, many fake wolves found a chance to stab the real wolves next to them, threw their bodies into the sea, shaved off all their hair, and changed their clothes.

Now he is a good citizen again.

The life of Zhenwa is more difficult. Now they are abandoned by several forces, and they can't find anyone to find someone to work for.

Fortunately, the master finally came back.

Kurozuka Toshiie's process of taking over the remnants of the old army went smoother than he had imagined.

However, Kurozuka Toshiie didn't spend too much time on those little guys, he was actually looking for a boat.

Big ship, this is the most important thing!
When he finally found a large ship, Kurozuka Toshiie immediately took the most loyal and brave men he had chosen to sail back to Wajima to find his brother, King Kurozuka Luo.

In the arms of the Kurozuka Toshi family, there is a sacred object that the Kurozuka family dreamed of and finally got after working hard: [Daimyo Appointment Letter].

In the Warring States period, no appointment by the shogunate was required, as long as someone who could control the power of several counties to several countries was a daimyo.

But the Warring States period is over, and the shogunate regained control of Wajima, and the generation of daimyo can only be through inheritance or appointment.

In terms of strength, the Kurozuka family is already worthy of being a "Daimyo of the Warring States Period", but this is the era of the Shogunate.

No commoner can become a daimyo anymore, and the era of the commoner is over.

However, with this [Daimyo Appointment Letter], the Kurotsuka family can become a real daimyo.

The Kurozuka Toshi family felt awe and fear for Lu Shaolin, not because Lu Shaolin could single him out from the Sea Shark Gang and arrange a new identity for him, let alone that Lu Shaolin arranged for him a dozen or so Japanese followers and a ship. boat.

His fear of Lu Shaolin came from this [Daimyo Appointment Letter] stamped with the seal of the current Emperor of the Central Plains.

Appointing a daimyo is a matter for the Emperor Washima, but the Emperor of Central Plains can send a "Letter of Recommendation" to the Emperor of Washima, which is to ask the emperor to appoint someone as a daimyo in the name of the Emperor of Central Plains.

Seeing the "Recommendation Letter", would the Emperor dare not obey?
And the name of this "Recommendation Letter" is empty, and anyone's name can be filled in.

Who exactly is Lu Shaolin, and how he got such a blank "Recommendation Letter", the Kurozuka Toshi family has no way of knowing.

"My energy is beyond your imagination."

Kurozuka Toshiie trembled all over, Zeng Jin, in his own eyes, was the unattainable daimyo in his life, unexpectedly so insignificant.

Kurozuka Toshiie remembered the insult to the second brother by the fan holder and the slap in the face by the second brother.

Ah, sure enough, I really didn't understand anything at that time.

(End of this chapter)