Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 168 Dreams and wishful thinking

Ashikaga Yoshichi was quite intentional, because at least he found an envoy who could speak Chinese, so that there would be no problems in communication.

However, sometimes this might not be a good thing.

"Wait for a while!" Zhu Zhanhe felt something was wrong after listening to a few words, so he stopped the envoy's statement.

And at this moment, a strange smile appeared on Zhu Zhanhe's face.

It's half a smile, but it's also a bit dumbfounding.

"Your shogun's intention is to let us retreat, but also to let us declare to the outside world that we are no match for the regular army of your shogunate, and retreat after defeat."

"Is that what you mean? Or is there something wrong with my understanding?"

"His Royal Highness, our Ashikaga General really wants you to do this, but we will also give you compensation, His Royal Highness."

The envoy of the shogunate lowered his head, his body trembling uncontrollably, but he could only bite the bullet and continue.

"Before that, you may wish to take a look at the compensation list issued by our Ashikaga general. Our general is very sincere."

"Oh? What's the sincerity?" Zhu Zhanhe didn't know what to say for a moment.

He really let Ashikaga Yoshichi give him a lot of fun.

"Let us declare to the outside world that we returned in defeat, and then confuse us with some so-called compensation. What compensation can be worth the impact of our Ming army's so-called defeat?"

"His Royal Highness!" The envoy was obviously in a hurry, because if the peace talks were not successful, then he would most likely send it.

"Our general is really sincere, and what happened before that the rogues invaded the Daming sea area really has nothing to do with our general. It was organized by some vagrants spontaneously, and our shogun's younger brother."

"You may not know, the younger brother of our shogun..."

"Stop!" Zhu Zhanhe directly stretched out his hand to stop.

"I'm not interested in your internal affairs. Now it's a war, and it's still a national war. Is your honorable shogun planning to fool me like this?"

As he spoke, Zhu Zhanhe carried the compensation list with a half-smile.

"This is the compensation you gave? To send a beggar?"

"Let me ask you a question. Ishijian's Yinshan can produce a million taels of silver a year, and we don't need our own people to be miners. This means that we only need to be stationed here. Others There are no expenses."

"Let me give you another step. Considering that our Ming army can only be stationed in Shijian for 20 years, how much silver is this?"

"But how much compensation will your so-called shogun give us? And let us lose a bad reputation for defeat?"

"His Royal Highness!" The emissary was shaking like chaff, but he still tried to calm himself down.

"Our shogun is really sincere. The content on this list is just compensation for the withdrawal of your army this time. In the future, we will pay three times the previous amount of tribute every year..."

"Get out!" Zhu Zhanhe unceremoniously threw the compensation list at the messenger's face.

"I didn't mention it, how dare you mention it to me?"

"Is your tribute in previous years a tribute? Every year, you exchange some rags for rewards from our Ming Dynasty. We don't hold you accountable, but you should have done what you deserve?"

"Three times? What's the use of three times!?"

"Even if it's three times, if you take out the rewards that we Daming gave you, how many grandchildren did you give us in a year?"

"His...His Royal Highness..." Zhu Zhanhe's lack of oil and salt made the envoy a little bit at a loss.

"This... your army hasn't been home for more than a year, and there are... uh... some casualties..."

"At this time... retreating is good for both of us..."

"and……"

"And what?" Zhu Zhanhe looked at the envoy with a half-smile, and he found it quite interesting at this moment.

"And our shogun promises!" The envoy gritted his teeth and tried to calm himself down.

"The so-called defeat is only in name, and we will ensure that this news will not spread to any place other than our country!"

"Come on!" Zhu Zhanhe sneered.

"Don't spread it? Don't be funny!"

"Perhaps after this battle, you will not dare to stroke Daming's beard for a long time, but who in your country of Wa doesn't know?"

"If you don't invade Ming Dynasty, will you not invade North Korea? What about the Ryukyu Kingdom?"

"Isn't the reason why your shogun added this request to the peace talks because he wanted to stabilize his position and avoid being pushed down by his younger brother after the war?"

"The extent to which this news will be spread by then, others don't know, do you know? Do you think I know?"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Zhanhe raised his legs and looked at the messenger with contempt.

"From the content of the peace talks to the so-called compensation list, I haven't seen any sincerity from your shogun. If you want to send me away just like this, then I ask you to send a message to your shogun. "

"Having a dream is a good thing, but there is still a difference between a dream and wishful thinking!"

"His Royal Highness!" The envoy seemed to have completely lost his sense of proportion, kneeling in a panic and moving forward a few steps.

"If you have the conditions, you can still talk, we are very sincere..."

Hey~
The sudden change of the situation took everyone by surprise. The Japanese envoy completed the transformation from kneeling down and begging for mercy to violent killing in less than a breath.

However, he failed to break through Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping's guards.

"It's really interesting..." Zhu Zhanhe spat very disdainfully.

"A samurai must be disguised as a civil servant like an envoy. Do you really think that I am blind and can't see it?"

"Zhu Ling! Send someone to send me to Danbo! Let them take a good look!"

"Yes!"

Zhu Ling took the order immediately, and his actions were also very brutal. He directly picked up the dagger dropped by the envoy, thrust it into the envoy's chest, and dragged him outside.

As the curtain of the tent opened, the soldiers surrounding the tent fled away in a panic.

However, there were too many people, and because of curiosity, many people still saw the dagger stuck in the chest of the Japanese envoy.

"What is that?" Tan Zhong was the first to ask with sharp eyes and quick reactions.

"Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping don't seem to have such a dagger? Could it be that our Highness did it?"

"Isn't it right? Our Highness doesn't seem to have the habit of carrying weapons with him. I remember that His Royal Highness would not even be willing to carry a saber if it wasn't for the command of the battle formation?"

"I also remember..." Li Bin's eyes narrowed, and there was a dangerous light shining in the gap between the eyelids.

"His Royal Highness said that this saber is too heavy, he doesn't like it very much..."

Hundreds of people surrounded it, there was no shortage of sharp-eyed people, and the news naturally spread quickly, and with 10 people in the Ming army, there were always a few quick-witted people.

Before even half an hour had passed, the Japanese envoys failed to reach peace talks, and the news of their intention to assassinate Zhu Zhanhe spread like wildfire, and quickly spread throughout the entire army.

The morale of the Ming army was already like a rainbow, and with the addition of a Beijing Temple of an unprecedented scale just built, it can be said that every soldier of the Ming army has a murderous look on him.

Now that this news is received again, the Ming army camp will be blown up immediately.

Feeling the noisy atmosphere created by the soldiers outside the camp, Zhu Zhanhe raised the corners of his mouth.

Assassination, I don't know if it was an impulsive move by the envoy who knew that the peace talks would fail, or if this was an order given to him by Ashikaga Yoshichi.

But in any case, this is not a wise choice.

Not to mention the Ming army that killed hundreds of thousands of enemies in the country of Japan, even if it was the most ordinary army, after learning that the top general had been assassinated, the crowd would be excited, and the morale would not be raised by more than one level.

What's more, are these Ming troops currently on Wa Island comparable to ordinary troops?

-

Yingtian Mansion, Chang'an Avenue.

A mansion usually has different effects because of the different plaques at the door, and this mansion in front of us is it.

Jiefu.

Today's Jiefu is a bit different from usual, because Xie Jin is in charge of compiling and compiling the Yongle Canon, so he is quite busy, and he can be counted as the busiest group of people in Daming.

Today, Xie Jin not only did not go out, but also gathered a lot of people at home.

Huang Huai, Hu Yan, Jin Youzi, and Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Yang Pu, who were called the cabinet three Yang by later generations, were all there.

Except for Hu Guang who resigned and returned to his hometown, all the scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion in Yongle Dynasty have arrived.

"Everyone express your opinion." As the host, Xie Jin sat down after pouring tea for everyone in turn, and was the first to speak.

"The momentum of the King of Han's lineage is growing day by day, and now it has brought back grain with an yield several times that of rice and wheat per mu. Not to mention it is in full swing, but it is already comparable to the momentum of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and even faintly surpasses it."

"The lineage of the King of Han, the King of Han himself is close to the generals and stays away from our civil servants. The son of the King of Han is also a warlike and bloodthirsty person. If the lineage of the King of Han ascends to the throne, what will be the result for our civil servants? I don't need to think about it. Let’s repeat it.”

"Now, it's time for the son of the King of Han to go east to the country of Wa. I got news a few days ago that the son of the king of Han is building a new capital at Shindao Lake in the country of Wa. The number of people has reached a terrifying 30 people, and it is very likely that it will be even more."

"I think this is an opportunity for us."

After Xie Jin finished speaking, he glanced at the other five people, hoping to get some at least verbal support.

However, to his disappointment, no one spoke first.

In fact, Xie Jin didn't know that if it wasn't for Zhu Zhanhe, he would already be in prison at this time.

Xie Jin's experience in Yongle Dynasty was not so smooth.

In the fifth year of Yongle, Xie Jin was demoted to the right counselor of the Chief Secretary of Guangxi for the crime of "unfair reading of the court examination papers".

In the sixth year of Yongle, Xie Jin was framed by Li Zhigang for "participating in the struggle between the princes", and then demoted to the right counselor of the Chief Secretary of Jiaozhi, and supervised the payment of Huazhou.

In the eighth year of Yongle in history, Xie Jin went to Beijing for a performance, just as the emperor was marching north, Xie Jin paid homage to the crown prince and returned.

Zhu Gaoxu, king of the Han Dynasty, seized this opportunity and gave a memorial to Xie Jin, saying that when the emperor went out, he would meet the prince in private and return straight away without the courtesy of a courtier.

Zhu Di was furious, and took Xie Jin into imperial prison, where he was tortured to the extreme.

But now, Zhu Gaoxu is very happy because his son got the old man's attention during the Northern Expedition, so he didn't do that in history, and Xie Jin was saved because of this, and even returned to the cabinet to regain control of the editor Yongle About the grand ceremony.

As the saying goes, good words are hard to persuade damned ghosts, some people just want to die, and no one can stop them.

However, Xie Jin's head is not clear, which doesn't mean that others don't either.

"I will not express my opinion on this matter." After a long silence, Jin Youzi was the first to stand up.

"I had a dispute with the Prince of Han during the Northern Expedition before, but Guangda happened to be more eye-catching than me, so Guangda was forced to resign and return to his hometown, and I was lucky to be saved."

"In this matter, it's not easy for me to speak up, let alone intervene, because about the Beizheng incident, people will think of me almost as long as it involves the son of the King of Han, just like the last time in front of His Royal Highness."

"So, in order not to be overly concerned, and for the sake of everyone, I will not participate."

"Please forgive me, Youzi will leave first."

After finishing speaking, Jin Youzi didn't give Xie Jin a chance to speak, and directly drank the tea, bowed his hands to everyone, and walked away.

"I'm the same as Youzi." If someone takes the lead, others will follow.

After Jin Youzi, Yang Rong also stood up.

"The last time His Majesty's royal conquest was made by Guangda, Youzi and I, all three of us had some quarrels with the Prince of Han. Among them, Guangda was the most conspicuous, followed by Youzi, and finally me."

"Perhaps, I am even more difficult than Youzi, because I had a dispute with the Prince of Han in front of His Majesty."

"In order not to cause trouble for everyone, I will not participate. Please forgive me."

After finishing speaking, Yang Rong also picked up his teacup and drank it down in one gulp, then turned around and left cleanly.

A total of six people were invited, and two ran away at the beginning, which made Xie Jin a little discouraged.

However, despite the influence, Xie Jin's mood has not changed much, because he has thought about this small gathering for a long time.

He didn't need to care about everything before, as long as the prince stabilized his position, he, a member of the cabinet, and took the lead in compiling the Yongle Canon would make him worry-free all his life.

But not now.

The impact of potatoes is too great. It is an exaggeration to say that this can be passed down as the rebirth of Shennong among the people.

This made Xie Jin nervous.

"Four, we are the only ones left." Xie Jin took a deep breath and looked at Huang Huai, Hu Yan, Yang Pu and Yang Shiqi.

"What is the situation? I have made it very clear just now. Everyone has some ability to get to where they are today. They can clearly see the possible impact of future changes on us."

"I think it might be difficult..." Huang Huai was the third to speak after Jin Youzi and Yang Rong.

However, when he spoke, what he brought was full of despair.

"I went to Xia Yuanji before to try to get his support, but everyone knows that Xia Yuanji doesn't care about this."

"Later, I tried to find Zhou Xin, who was originally appointed as the chief official of the Han Palace. Everyone knows that he is stern and impartial, and he handles everything impartially."

"But unexpectedly, he also rejected me."

"so……"

Huang Huai didn't continue, but he sighed deeply.

(End of this chapter)