Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 154 154 Wang Buli’s ideas are always too radical

Wang Buli and Zhu Di looked at each other, with a surprisingly tacit understanding, and did not refute Li Jinglong.

Zhu Di grew up with his cousin, so he knew how much he weighed!

Even Zhu Di did not say that he would become the general of the Northern Army.

He has this dream, and he is obediently practicing with his hundreds of palace guards. He has not yet gone to the fiefdom to expand his recruitment.

At present, only Lan Yu, who has repeatedly made military exploits, says this and no one dares to laugh at her.

The rest of my younger life didn't even have this idea.

Wang Buli learned from historical knowledge that Li Jinglong was not a general at all.

He is just the son of the famous general Li Wenzhong.

Thanks to the stagnant policy formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang.

If I am the emperor, then my son will also become the emperor.

You are a general, and your son will also be a general in the future.

Why can't your son be generalissimo?

Because the Grand Marshal also has his own son!

Your status has been planned by Lao Zhu the moment you were born.

Princes, generals and prime ministers have the talent!

Li Jinglong's smug look gradually disappeared.

Because he found that neither of them had any trouble with him.

"Why, you two bastards don't believe in our military accomplishments?"

Zhu Di glanced at Wang Buli, hoping that his always damaging mouth would hit Li Jinglong hard and make Li Jinglong wake up.

But he found that Wang Buli was also looking at him, and his eyes signaled him to do this.

"Damn it, this guy is so treacherous."

Zhu Di cursed secretly, but he was not the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to be such a villain, and Li Jinglong would not be sent by him in the future.

Zhu Di then said with a smile:

"I still want to kill all the Japanese pirates who dare to land in our Ming Dynasty.

These small-scale Japanese disturbances are just a good time to practice and test your formations. "

Wang Buli also nodded: "Yes, how can anyone become a general when they come up?

Even my father-in-law slowly grew up from being a big-headed soldier on the front line of battle. "

The two people's tactful words successfully diverted Li Jinglong's thinking, and he nodded and said:

"I have great admiration for Your Majesty."

Wang Buli thought to himself, isn’t this nonsense?

After seeing this topic exposed, Zhu Di said:

"I will continue to send people to find out the specific information about the Japanese pirates. When the time comes, we will ambush you. You, a classic, can't refuse, right?"

"Well, I strongly agree with killing the Japanese. If I have the chance, I will definitely defeat the Japanese. If you have any confirmed news, call me and prepare a pair of armor for me."

"Ok?"

Neither Zhu Di nor Li Jinglong understood Wang Buli's words.

The Japanese country was a poor place with a narrow land. It was not worthwhile for the Ming Dynasty to spend a lot of military expenditures to conquer it.

"Why?" Li Jinglong took the lead and said:

"If you change the target of your campaign in that remote and remote area of ​​Japan, I'd really admire you."

"Yes, the Mongols' two expeditions to Japan were stopped because of storms. We will also encounter the same thing if we go to sea rashly."

Zhu Di still agreed with Li Jinglong's judgment on the Japanese state.

"It's just that the timing was wrong. The Mongols are not good at navigation. They are a people on horseback.

Otherwise, how did the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty and the monk Jianzhen come and go during the Tang Dynasty? "

Wang Buli feels that current navigation technology is more developed, especially the Song Dynasty's foreign trade was more prosperous.

Naturally, the two semi-illiterates would not refute it by pointing out that Monk Jianzhen traveled eastward six times before succeeding. Instead, they felt that what Wang Buli said made sense.

Zhu Di's understanding of Japan came from Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang's understanding of Japan was not comprehensive.

He felt that Japan was a unified country, and he wanted to turn Japan into a vassal state to pay tribute, and then control the behavior of Japanese pirates at the national level.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not realize that the king of Japan was a puppet, and that the shogunate actually controlled the real power. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang only recognized the Japanese who came to the court as the "King of Japan", and did not recognize the other forces.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to Japan, it was just to announce the matter, and there was no so-called investigation at all. Most of his knowledge of Japan was obtained from the information left by Emperor Yuan Shun after Xu Da and others conquered Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty. Come.

The envoys of the "Japanese King" of the Dajue family came to the Ming Dynasty and wrote letters, but they would not tell Zhu Yuanzhang the true situation in Japan.

They naturally wanted to protect the interests of the Dajue family, and deliberately concealed and exaggerated their influence and sphere of influence.

To prevent Zhu Yuanzhang from supporting other forces after learning the truth.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang came to his own judgment about Japan based on this withheld and distorted information.

That is, there are a small number of disobedient people in Japan, but he believes that the Japanese king can handle it well, and then unify Japan and control the Japanese rebellion.

It is a pity that the line of Japanese kings was simply unable to accomplish what Zhu Yuanzhang imagined.

On the contrary, they still want to use Zhu Yuanzhang's support and protection to them to maintain their remaining power.

Moreover, the shogunate of the Northern Dynasties was unwilling to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, nor was it willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty.

These people don't care whether Ming Dynasty is the overlord of East Asia, nor do they care whether the King of Japan is orthodox.

They just want to protect their own interests, continue to plunder and sell to gain wealth, and live the chic life they want.

Therefore, this group of people was the main military force in the Japanese rebellion in the early Ming Dynasty.

Sun Tzu said that he knew himself and his enemy, but Lao Zhu's information about the Japanese state was not true, and his judgment was naturally distorted.

"But all the money that Japan had was poor came to our Ming Dynasty to plunder it. If we go there, we won't be able to get anything back."

"Yeah, it's a poor place, and it's of no use. The people are short and ugly, and they can't even apply rouge.

I have seen portraits of Japanese women. Their teeth are black and their faces are white. They are not normal people. I can’t even stop talking. "

Li Jinglong shook his head, feeling that Japanese women were very ugly.

But this kind of custom is all about the dress of noble ladies, and ordinary Japanese women cannot afford to dress up.

Wang Buli knew that even Zhu Yuanzhang knew little about the Japanese country, let alone others.

These people didn't know as much about the Japanese country as those who were defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang and went to sea to become pirates.

In addition, before the Ming Dynasty, China basically did not face threats from the sea. Whether it was internal strife or external expansion, it all took the land route.

It can be said that the previous dynasties had no concept of coastal defense at all.

The furthest the Maritime Silk Road goes is probably at the Red Sea.

Envoys from other countries mostly came to the Central Plains from the Western Regions via the Hexi Corridor. However, in the Ming Dynasty, shipbuilding technology developed and large-scale maritime trade expanded.

There are not only Japanese ships on China's coastline, but also ships from Portugal, thus creating a maritime threat.

Wang Buli would not rashly say that there are gold and silver mines hidden in Japan, which can solve the Ming Dynasty's shortage of gold and silver.

"You all don't understand what I mean. Since the Mongols dare to rob our people, we will fight back to their hometown to rob their cattle and sheep as revenge."

Wang Buli looked at Zhu Di and said: "Nowadays, people from a small Japanese country dare to come to our Ming Dynasty to kill people and snatch women back.

If we don't retaliate against them severely, wouldn't it mean that after the Ming Dynasty's military weakens slightly, they will dare to come? "

Li Jinglong was the first to be unhappy. How could the Ming Dynasty decline if it was so powerful?

Zhu Di understood that not all military forces could continue to be tyrannical.

Wang Buli just looked at Zhu Di and asked:

"The Anhui Liao brothers and Yu Tonghai have taken refuge with the emperor and have experienced many wars over the years. The navy is now under the jurisdiction of the governor.

After the Japanese pirates problem arose, they started patrolling to deter them, and the patrols never stopped, and the size of the naval force continued to increase. How can you avoid them and fight against Japanese pirates? "

Wang Buli had no hope for Li Jinglong's brain. He knew that Zhu Di understood what he meant.

"My Ming Dynasty has such a long coastline. If there are naval patrols, the Japanese pirates will not come to cause trouble. That is simply impossible."

Zhu Di is very confident about this place:

"The Japanese pirates are not fools. They waited for my Ming Dynasty navy to patrol before launching a surprise attack. Recently, I have been studying the Japanese pirates' tactics a lot."

"So we should not wait for the Japanese pirates to come and defend passively. There is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. Once the border defense is relaxed for a long time, and these Japanese pirates suddenly come to kill, wouldn't it be a missed mission?"

Wang Buli laughed twice: "Therefore, in my opinion, in order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from being baptized by Japanese pirates, we took the initiative to destroy this group of bandits." Although Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong mainly fought against the Mongols, in recent years He also took the initiative to write to Zhu Yuanzhang to set up seven guard posts in Zhejiang to prepare for the Japanese.

Wang Buli nodded with satisfaction. Although Zhu Di was semi-literate, he was a person who was willing to devote energy and time to military research.

Although Li Jinglong claimed to be well-read in military literature, he had almost no actual practice, and he was not very thoughtful in this regard.

Everyone is willing to praise him, because his father and grandfather are both Cao Guogong.

Nowadays, Xin Guogong Tang He has not been ordered to plan coastal defense. In any case, it must be Lao Zhu's policy ten years later.

Such as land-based infantry and water-equipped warships, which are passive defenses in the offshore and land directions.

In the later period, Lao Zhu listed Japan as a country not to be conquered, but the coastal defense system of the Ming Dynasty was not established and perfected until Xuande. From Orthodoxy to Jiajing, the coastal defense system was stagnant and derelict. From the end of Jiajing to Wanli, it was reform and development, and after Wanli it was weakened.

Although Zhu Di was very encouraged by Wang Buli's words, the current situation of Ming Dynasty was that it was simply unable to send troops to Japan.

It's okay to let the navy patrol along the coastline, but if they go out across the sea, they have no such experience.

Not as experienced as those Japanese pirates.

"Now that you understand the Japanese pirates' combat rules, I believe we can chop off the heads of those Japanese pirates next time we go on an expedition.

At that time, we will parade around the capital to show off our power, hang their corpses on small islands along the coast, and warn these dogs that as long as they dare to come to the Ming Dynasty to cause trouble, they will die. "

Li Jinglong glanced at Wang Buli.

As expected, he had the experience of killing more than a hundred people in prison, and his words were ruthless.

The style of Li Jinglong, a kid from a wealthy family, actually had no experience with murder, and he didn't even go to the execution ground to observe it.

Zhu Di also felt that Wang Buli's thinking was too radical, even more radical than him, a prince.

Because the entire Ming Dynasty, from top to bottom, had a relatively moderate and conservative policy towards Japanese pirates.

"Isn't it a little cruel to promote my great power like this?"

Zhu Di has no objection to killing, but he still doesn't want the method of killing to be too cruel.

He has never experienced war personally, and his heart has not been hardened yet.

Wang Buli changed the topic again: "By the way, how is the four or five-year-old daughter you bought doing lately?"

Li Jinglong then waved his fan:

"I placed her in Ye Qinhuai and gave her to Thirteenth Niang to manage. I didn't know what was going on at first, but later I realized the evil intentions of this bitch."

Wang Buli raised his eyebrows and said nothing more.

The man who was his biological father pushed his daughter into the fire pit and became his tool.

Now that this has happened, no one else is to blame.

What's more, he had no choice but to have any more biological children, so Lao Zhu had him castrated.

Zhu Di also heard about this matter, and he didn't bother to care.

Zhu Di had absolutely no room for objection to the policies set by Lao Zhu, and he would not be assigned to handle any government affairs.

"I thought of another good idea." Wang Buli said to Zhu Di:

"The government usually catches smuggling ships and kills them all.

In my opinion, it is better to ask them to atone for their sins and provide information on the sea, so as to save us from being deceived by those Japanese dogs. "

"What do you mean?"

Although Zhu Di knew that King Huai Liang of Japan had killed five envoys from the Ming Dynasty and placed two chief envoys under house arrest, Zhu Yuanzhang sent envoys again the next year, and the King of Japan sent people back to return the plundered population.

However, Japanese pirates still appear in China.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't understand that five years after Hongwu, the Japanese King Huai Liang had been forced to retire, and the others came to the Ming Dynasty under the guise of his name.

"First, let's turn the maritime merchants into Ming Dynasty's overseas eyes, lest they collude with the Japanese pirates and help the tigers." Wang Buli straightened his back and stretched his neck:

“We’ll wait until the right opportunity to see how they perform.

Compared with a stable life, they are not willing to wander overseas all the time. "

Nowadays, the Chinese are not yet large-scale in establishing influence abroad.

"Well, I will find a chance to talk to my father about this matter."

"Hey, we can't hide it from your father and go do the Japanese pirates privately!"

Nowadays, the status gap between the fourth son and the prince Zhu Biao is huge. Wang Buli thinks that Zhu Biao is better off as a dog.

"Row."

Zhu Di stood up and said: "You guys are busy first. I will go to the palace to see my father once. After all, I finally got news about the Japanese pirates. I don't want to miss this good opportunity."

Wang Buli nodded and watched Zhu Di leave.

After he left, Li Jinglong said seriously:

"Wang Buli, how can you be so cruel? You can be an official, but you can't become a cruel official. Otherwise, even if you are His Majesty's son-in-law, it will be difficult to survive."

He has read many books and knows the fate of some cruel officials.

"Is killing those invading Japanese pirates also called a cruel official?" Wang Buli stood up and walked a few steps, then paused:

"If I kill them all, I won't have to worry about the reputation of being a cruel official."

Li Jinglong swallowed subconsciously. He always felt that Wang Buli had the same aura as his father, that is, he had a disregard for life, as if the dead were not a thing at all.

If Li Jinglong had been placed in Wang Buli's position for a period of time and had been used to seeing all kinds of dead bodies, he would not be so naive.

"I'll treat you to dinner another day. Let's go."

Li Jinglong always felt that the air in the hall was getting colder and colder. Could it be that the souls of the people killed by Wang Buli's order were lingering here.

"You run outside on a hot day, and you don't mind the heat?"

Faced with Wang Buli's request to stay, Li Jinglong waved his hands repeatedly: "I will go to your house to chat some other time. I am too lazy to come to the county government."

Wang Buli didn't know what Li Jinglong was thinking, so he sent someone to ask how the prison's hygiene was going.

Zhu Di has not been to the palace to pay his respects for a long time since he got married.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his son in front of him with many emotions.

I never thought that he would become the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and I don't know if he did a good job.

For now, this guy is doing well in fighting. He really doesn't look like a person who can just sit back and focus on government affairs.

In Lao Zhu's impression, Xiaosi has a very adventurous temperament, so he can sit here and handle government affairs like Biao'er, which is impossible even if he thinks about it.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang was very strange and hoped to see what the emperor Lao Si was doing in the fairyland in the future.

Zhu Di lowered his head, feeling that his father had been looking at him. Could it be that he disagreed with what he just said?

really.

Or our dog-headed military advisor is too ruthless in his actions, and even his own father has to consider it carefully.

What Wang Buli said about the outcome of dealing with the Japanese pirates and killing them to the Japanese country, Zhu Di all said it according to his own ideas.

After all, Wang Buli has not really become the consort yet, so it is better not to let his father know that he is too murderous.

However, Zhu Biao ended up asking the fourth child to get up and sit aside, so there was no need to be so formal.

She told him that after getting married, he should come to the palace more often. Otherwise, when he goes to Peking to join the feudal clan in two years, it will be extremely difficult to meet him again.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows slightly, stroked his beard and smiled:

"Fourth brother, you also know that the north is in serious decline now, and the food and clothing of the people around Peiping cannot be guaranteed.

They couldn't even recuperate internally, and the Yuan Tatars in Yunnan, Liaodong and other places were not eliminated, so they suddenly developed a navy and launched an expedition against Japan.

This move is really inappropriate. We have no money in the treasury and cannot fight everywhere. Facing the Japanese king who killed our envoy, we can only endure it for the time being. "

Zhu Di also understood that although the Ming Dynasty had been governed for nearly ten years, the people's lives were still difficult.

Daming can fight, but it also needs various logistical support.

Deep down in his heart, Zhu Yuanzhang was still afraid of Mongolia during its power. Two expeditions to Japan failed.

The Ming Dynasty's navy could not afford to suffer losses.

Otherwise, once this happens, will not only Japan, but also the small barbarian countries of Annam, Ryukyu, Chenla, Champa, Java, etc., take the initiative to pay tribute?

When Zhu Yuanzhang faced Lao Si's proposal, he didn't know whether it would change the future, but he still had to say something:

"Fourth, you must remember that even future generations cannot rely on China's wealth and strength, greed for temporary success, and raise armies for no reason."

(End of this chapter)