The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 424: Mr. Ye’s unwanted opportunity to return home, his understanding of the Tang people, and Wang Baobao’s decisive battle!
"I support your choice!"

"But you have to use the result of coming back alive to let me know that I support your choice and there is nothing wrong with it!"

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Ye Qing looked through the monocular and looked at the handsome ship where Wang Baobao was located in the center of the sea in Ojiu Bay, with one side facing them and the other side facing so many enemy ships, and he thought to himself.

At the same time, his mind also replayed the time when he and Wang Baobao were discussing tactics alone.

Back in time, when Ye Qing was explaining to Wang Baobao the usage of ships and ship-borne weapons,
It was a night when only the full moon was in the sky and the sea was pitch black.

In the cabin of the handsome ship, under the candlelight, Ye Qing and Wang Baobao sat across the table from each other, and on the table were all the sketches that Ye Qing had drawn on the spot in order to explain clearly.

"yawn!"

Because Ye Qing had only one way to leave his life to Zhu Yuanzhang, he paid great attention to his health, fearing that he would die of illness here instead of being given death by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Year-round health care habits made him unable to stay up late to survive Wang Baobao at such a young age in this life.

In fact, when it comes to staying up late, it can be said that Ye Qing is unmatched by any famous general in the world.

After all, they have been doing the business of climbing on the ice, sleeping in the snow, and camping at night all year round!
As for Zhu Yuanzhang who "gets up earlier than a chicken and goes to bed later than a dog", he dare not compare!

Therefore, when Wang Baobao was already full of energy, Ye Qing was already yawning.

"I told you, Marshal Wang, that we should all rest separately!"

"A dog's life is at stake. Staying up late will damage your liver. It's better if we don't stay up late."

As soon as Ye Qing finished speaking, he stood up and stretched before preparing to return to his rest cabin.

But just when Ye Qing opened the sliding door of the cabin, he was stopped by Wang Baobao in a very serious tone.

Wang Baobao's tone when he told Ye Qing to 'wait a minute' was definitely not a commanding tone, but it was so serious that Ye Qing, who was already drowsy, temporarily suppressed his drowsiness.

Because he was also a senior military general and knew what it meant when a military general became serious.

Especially when the relationship is so good that they usually only joke around.

Ye Qing's intuition told him that Wang Baobao had something important to say to him!

Because of this, Ye Qing stopped being lazy and returned to his seat to sit upright with a serious look on his face.

"Do you need me to order two cups of strong tea?"

Ye Qing looked at Wang Baobao and asked seriously.

Wang Baobao just smiled and shook his head: "No, it won't take up much of my time."

As soon as he finished speaking, he opened the sliding window on the side.

The two of them looked at the full moon outside the window and felt that the moon in the night sky over the sea was really very bright.

Originally!
There is a human society on land, and there are more or less fireworks, especially in cities, so that the full moon in the sky is not so bright.

But above the sea, apart from the lights on the boat, there was only the shining full moon.

"A bright moon is born at sea, and the world is here."

"Lovers complain about the distant night, but they miss each other at night."

"Extinguish the candle and be filled with pity and light. Put on your clothes and feel the dew."

"I can't bear to give it away, but I still have a good night's sleep!"

This time, it was no longer Ye Qing who expressed his emotions with the poems of his ancestors at this appropriate moment.

But Wang Baobao, who was dressed in Ming Dynasty Hanfu and with a Han style hair bun, looked at the full moon outside the window and recited emotionally "Watching the Moon and Huaiyuan" by Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Jiuling.

Ye Qing looked at this scene and immediately understood Wang Baobao's state of mind at this moment.

Translated into vernacular, this poem means, "A bright moon rises over the vast sea. At this time, you and I are looking at each other at the end of the world." '

'The relatives in my hometown resent the long moonlit night and stay up all night just to miss their relatives. '

"I put out the candles just to love the moonlight in the room. I put on my clothes and wandered around, feeling the coolness of the night dew." '

'I can't give you the beautiful moonlight, I only hope to meet you in dreamland! '

This is a poem that directly expresses the longing for relatives far away and the hometown that cannot be returned.

And Ye Qing's evaluation of this poem was also very high.

In his opinion, the language of this poem is natural and pure without revealing traces, the affection is lingering without being sentimental, the artistic conception is quiet, the conception is clever, the scenes are blended, delicate and touching, and it is deeply touching.

It was precisely because of Ye Qing's interpretation of this poem that he could understand the 'outsider' reciting this poem at this moment!
Yes,

The Wang Baobao at this moment is not the Han minister Wang Baobao, but the Qi King of the former Yuan Dynasty who could not go back, Kuangoku Timur!

He now misses his relatives whom he will never see again, and also misses Qiang Yuan, whom he has never seen at all, and who only exists in the dictations of his elders and in the classics of Yuan history.

In his mind right now, he was thinking of the 'Kublai Khan Era' that he had never seen with his own eyes, but was firmly certain to exist, and indeed did exist.

Just when Ye Qing was guessing like this, Wang Baobao let out a long sigh.

"Brother Ye,"

"I still remember that when I was in Yanmen, I tried my best to win you over. No matter how many times you wrote and rejected me, I still tried my best to win you over."

"Do you know why?"

Ye Qing smiled lightly and said: "Because you think you can fight and I can cure, if we work together, we will definitely make this world better. You know that there must be a strong Yuan, but you have never seen it with your own eyes, and you don't know how to do it." Easily declined."

"The one that Dayuan can use is Kublai Khan, the founding emperor of Dayuan!"

"Although to me, he is not one of my own, but I can also affirm some of his political achievements."

"He reused Han ministers, promoted Han culture, and even set up agencies such as the 'Agricultural Encouragement Department' to promote agriculture. He used the performance of agricultural advisors as the main criterion for evaluating officials, and had people compile the "Agriculture and Mulberry Collection" "It was promulgated nationwide in the 23rd year of Zhiyuan!"

"But even he couldn't stop the implementation of the four-class system. This is the fundamental reason why the Yuan Dynasty was like a flash in the pan."

"After all, a human's lifespan is only a few decades. After his death, even the 'Agriculture Advising Department' will be gone."

"Ethnic conflicts have intensified, and class conflicts have intensified. The Mongolian and Yuan aristocrats even ignored their ancestors' instructions and converted large areas of farmland to grazing."

“The area around Hongze Lake was originally a land of plenty, but it was so degraded that nothing but grass remained.”

Wang Baobao looked at Ye Qing who had such a thorough understanding of the Yuan Dynasty and smiled happily again.

Because he was sure that his final choice to surrender to the Ming Dynasty because of Ye Qing was the right one.

Wang Baobao looked at Ye Qing and said with a smile: "I once went to the Border Trade Street in Yanmen County in disguise. In that small area, I saw the real Han Meng family."

"You did what even the emperor and I couldn't do."

"If we had done it at that time, so much of the land we conquered would have become a living place for our Han and Mongolian descendants."

"But now, it's just a quick glance."

Having said this, Wang Baobao couldn't help crying again.

Then, he looked at Ye Qing again, his eyes full of hope.

"After we started the war, I saw the Mongolian soldiers stationed in your Yanmen County fighting us very bravely."

"At that moment, I was so angry that I even cursed them secretly for not knowing who they were."

"But when I thought about it later, I was very happy!"

"Because you, Ye Qing, did it and did what I wanted to do."

As he spoke, he just dipped his fingers into the tea and quickly drew a rough map on the table. That was the map when the Tang Dynasty had the largest territory.

Then, he wrote a Chinese character Tang in the center of the map.

Then, he continued: "What is a Tang person?"

"In my opinion, Tang people are not just Han people. They recognize the culture of the Tang Dynasty and love the Tang Dynasty as their own country from the bottom of their hearts. When this country is attacked by enemies, they are willing to treat it as their own home. , A person who lives by his side is a qualified Tang person.”

"This is true for the people of Tang Dynasty, and it is also true for China!"

"You did it, Brother Ye did it!"

"You let the Meng Yuan people living in Yanmen County regard Ming Dynasty as their own country from the bottom of their hearts. When this country is attacked by the enemy, they really treat it as their own home and protect it with their lives!"

"Even though this so-called enemy was their comrade not long ago!" "It shows how talented you, Ye Qing, are in dealing with ethnic issues?"

"Because Ming Dynasty has you, I see hope, so I surrender to Ming Dynasty because of you!"

"I only hope that in my lifetime, I can once again lay down the territory that was once the great Yuan Dynasty when it was strong, and you can stabilize the territory again, so that this territory can be left to our descendants and to the qualified descendants of China!"

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Ye Qing was really touched by Wang Baobao's series of thoughtful and sincere words.

He just raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and then reminded: "Don't say that, I, Ye Qing, are insignificant. Even without me, the Ming Dynasty's sun will still rise every day."

"I just want to say that you are no longer an outsider."

"Having said so much, it's time to get down to business. How do you want to end things with Qian Yuan in your heart?"

Having said this, Ye Qing personally poured a cup of hot tea for Wang Baobao.

After Wang Baobao took a sip of tea, he sighed again and said: "Before I met you, I had been working hard to return to the powerful Dayuan."

"But the Dayuan where I am is a broken ship with leaks everywhere."

"Even if I were covered in nails, there would be nothing I could do to save myself."

"What I want to do now is to do something that even Emperor Shizu (Kublai Khan) couldn't do."

"In this way, it can be regarded as a final explanation to him (Kublai Khan)."

"I think his regret is that his two expeditions to Japan ended in failure!"

Having said this, Wang Baobao's eyes suddenly lit up.

The way his eyes flickered was like a wolf king about to have a bloody battle on the grassland.

Immediately afterwards, he said decisively: "Then I will defeat the Japanese navy with the minimum sacrifice now, and obtain the maximum results!"

Ye Qing looked deeply at the 'Wolf King' from the grassland and said, "Tell me about your tactics."

"fear!"

Wang Baobao said firmly.

Ye Qing asked with great interest: "How do you want to use fear to fight this battle?"

"I have to ask clearly. I want to know that you lead half of my income in the past three years!"

Wang Baobao just smiled confidently and said: "You are talented and can build such a good ship and such a good weapon. This is your advantage."

"But these navy composed of soldiers from the Southern Army are less than three years old and have not even seen actual combat."

"Does a pig butcher who has never killed a pig dare to kill a pig as soon as he comes here?"

"Even if you slash the fake pig a thousand times, you still wouldn't dare to kill the real pig!"

Ye Qing didn't speak, just smiled and nodded to express his agreement with his point of view.

Yes,

The strength of the Ningbo Navy is its advanced warships and weapons, but its weakness is that it has no actual combat experience.

No matter how you train, as long as there is no actual combat, it will not become a success.

On the contrary, although the Japanese navy's equipment was backward, they had been working as Japanese pirates part-time for a long time, which gave them considerable practical experience.

Thinking of this, Ye Qing nodded again and said: "Continue."

Wang Baobao immediately said: "I will lead the handsome ship to attack alone and show these children."

"When these children saw that their warships could move forward and retreat freely among hundreds of enemy ships."

"This is to eliminate the fear of our children who have never been in actual combat!"

"But at the same time, it can deepen the enemy's fear of us!"

"Then I will stand between the two armies and show them to these children with the attitude of 'one man is in charge'."

"I want them to know that this foreign marshal from the grassland can also fight with all his strength for the Ming Dynasty. I want them to think that I am reliable."

"Standing to the end, our people will be moved by it, their blood will be boiling because of it, and they will fight fearlessly like the soldiers of Yanmen Pass."

"The other party will also become angry because of this and surround me without rules."

"When that time comes, you surround them and annihilate them in one fell swoop!"

Ye Qing said seriously: "Is this what you said, the smallest sacrifice in exchange for the greatest result?"

Wang Baobao smiled and nodded: "Isn't this too young?"

"Even if I'm unlucky, it's just a loss of one of my ships and a loss of one of my men in battle!"

"Isn't it worth the sacrifice of one of my ships in exchange for hundreds of enemy ships?"

"Isn't it worth the sacrifice of one of my generals in exchange for the rapid growth of the Ming Dynasty's navy of 10,000 people?"

Wang Baobao looked at Ye Qing's extremely serious expression and pretended to be relaxed: "Of course, if we are lucky, our ship will not sink, and the crew on our ship will be killed as few as possible, and I will not die in the battle, right?"

"It's just that our luck depends on your timing of counter-siege!"

"If we control it well, our ship can appear beside us before our ship is destroyed and everyone is killed!"

At this point, Wang Baobao said no more.

He just looked at himself eagerly, with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

He expected Ye Qing to give him the answer he wanted.

Ye Qing felt a headache when he saw this scene.

It has to be said that Wang Baobao's tactic of using 'fear' is really a tactic that achieves multiple goals with one stone.

But profits are often directly proportional to risks. Such huge results must be accompanied by huge risks.

And this huge risk is that Boss Zhu of the Ming Dynasty is very likely to lose this 'wonderful man in the world'.

If Wang Baobao died because of this battle, he, Zhu Yuanzhang, would definitely hate the instigator of all this, 'Ye Qing'!
In this way, Ye Qing's hope of returning home would increase!
However, this was the last opportunity Ye Qing wanted to take advantage of to return home!
Not only does he not want to take advantage of it, he will do his best to prevent this opportunity!

In Wang Baobao's eyes, Ye Qing was just tapping his fingers on the table. He knew that Ye Qing was having a fierce ideological struggle.

Yes,

Ye Qing was in a difficult position.

It has to be said that mastering such an opportunity is a huge challenge even for an experienced 'veteran' like him.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, and a slight mistake can result in a tragic outcome.

But it is true that as Wang Baobao said, his tactic has many benefits.

After a while, Ye Qing slapped the table and said, "Okay, let's do it."

"I will control your life and death, and I will do my best to grasp the opportunity to attack!"

After Wang Baobao got the answer he wanted, he left the cabin alone.

But as soon as he walked out of the cabin, he turned his back to Ye Qing and said, "If you feel sorry for me after I die in battle, take good care of my daughter."

"Let her live happily for the rest of her life."

"Also, if I die in battle, you and Xu Da will lead the generals to fight in that huge territory."

"When the time comes, bring the map to my grave and show it to me. I will be very happy."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Baobao walked away gracefully.

Ye Qing looked at the figure who left gracefully and smiled bitterly in his heart: "If you die in battle, how can your daughter be happy?"

"So, you'd better not die in battle!"

On the deck of the adjutant ship,
Ye Qing recalled this point, and when he looked at the handsome ship in front of him, he couldn't help but frown slightly.

Because from now on, he can't make any more mistakes!
(End of this chapter)