Chapter 398: Lost the East Corner, Receive the Sangyu

Sun Chengzong looked at the emperor with a worried look on his face. He knew what the emperor wanted to do, but he never understood what the emperor did. Out of trust in the emperor, Sun Chengzong did not ask too much, but he still looked worried on his face.

Looking at Sun Chengzong looking at him with a worried look, Yang Jie stopped smiling.

Looking at the glorious Forbidden City on the Golden Wall, he sighed: "It's been October!" Time is getting more and more urgent, and the end of the year is coming. There are quite a lot of things to prepare, and there is not much time left for yourself.

I need to unite a huge interest group within one or two months, and when I face the big businessmen who control the economic lifeline of the Ming Dynasty and the interest groups behind them, I will become a magical tool for setting up roads through mountains and building bridges through water. The degree of this kind of hardship has exceeded the disaster relief in Shaanxi and far exceeds the confrontation with wild boar skins. This matter is a major event that concerns my life and death. Those empire vampires who have always controlled the Ming Dynasty's economy but are unwilling to pay taxes, if not removed, even if Yang Jing opened up many golden fingers, even if he could make money, even if he was wise and powerful, he would sooner or later drag them down. "There is no god-like opponent, only pig-like teammates" is the best footnote to these people by history. Those creatures who only have the word "blood sucking" in their eyes and minds will not give the Ming Dynasty a chance to survive, and will not let it go.

Anyone who can suck blood from the hunched body of the Ming Dynasty, who is already hunched and thin, will not overturn them. Everything Yang Jing did now is just a dream of waking up in a mirror and a vain at any time. Even if the protagonist is a time traveler and has countless golden fingers, how much money will be made, but for a great empire with a population of over 100 million, that little money can be described as pitiful, just like the richest man in the 21st century. Although his worth is tens of billions, it is nothing to say about a country with a cost of trillions. Yang Jing does not want to continue with this heavy burden. The title of "Sales Emperor" is too heavy. He will have nightmares every night, worried that when he wakes up the next day, he will not have enough money to support this national machine, worry that he will embark on the old path of history, and worry that he will hang himself on the coal mountain.

Looking at the glorious Forbidden City of the Golden Wall and the center of power of this empire, Yang Jingwei was filled with emotion. In the past, he only felt that being an emperor was so powerful and powerful. In fact, when he became an emperor, he realized that the rule of this world was actually a thing called a bureaucratic group, and there was something called a civil servant. The emperor was just a little bird locked in a brilliant cage of the bureaucratic group, which was used to look good and watch. The emperor, the little bird locked in this brilliant cage of the Golden Wall, could never fly out of the cage to see the outside world. The constraints of the rules and regulations were like an invisible bird cage, which made this little bird never fly out of the brilliant cage of the Golden Wall.

Thinking of his current situation, Yang Jing complained again. He had only heard of using canary to describe women. Now, using canary to describe himself as an emperor is actually more appropriate. When he thought of himself as the canary, he was the canary to be locked in a cage, Yang Jing smiled bitterly and withdrew his gaze that looked into the distance.

"An emperor who cannot get out of the golden cage is not a real emperor!" Yang Jingrui said with insight.

"What is Your Majesty talking about?" Sun Chengzong didn't understand the emperor's explanation very well. He saw that the emperor looked at the distance thoughtfully and seemed to be talking to himself, so he asked.

"Hahaha, nothing, I'm talking about how to understand the word 'home'." Yang Jing smiled bitterly, and then spoke to his right-hand man with a smile.

"House? Your Majesty, the house means residence, and also the writer's meaning... Your Majesty, why did you ask about this word?" Sun Chengzong was puzzled, why did the emperor suddenly ask about this word?

"Haha, nothing, why do I think that adding the character "male" to the character "after" is the best portrayal of me!" Yang Jingai said self-deprecatingly.

"Otaku?..." Sun Chengzong recited it in confusion.

"Well, the otaku..." Yang Jingai said affirmatively with a smile.

"Oh..." Sun Chengzong stroked his beard with his hand, thinking.

Yang Jing said nothing.

Putting aside these complicated thoughts, Yang Jing turned to what he was going to do today.

"Master Sun, news comes from Zhenjiang Fort, saying that the Donglu had sealed the river with cannons instead of attacking the city with cannons. What does Master Sun think about this?" Yang Jing asked about the important matter today.

"Closing the river? The Donglu used cannons to seal the river?" Sun Chengzong was a little surprised. He originally expected that the Donglu would attack the city with cannons, but he did not expect that the Donglu would suddenly use cannons to seal the river, which was somewhat different from what was originally expected.

"Yes, Master Sun just received the report today. Let's talk about it after reading it..." Yang Jingai said, and Wang Chengen, who was beside him, quickly took out a report and handed it to Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong immediately frowned and looked.

"Your Majesty, there are also capable people in this Donglu!" After seeing it, Sun Chengzong thought about it and said.

"Yes, I think so too. The Donglu used cannons to block the river, which means that the Donglu was prepared for reinforcements from the lower reaches of the river. In other words, the Donglu might have guessed that Mao Wenlong would have reinforcements, or that I might have guessed that I would have reinforcements, so he used cannons to block the river, instead of siege the city..." Yang Jie said with a smile.

"It's true, but Your Majesty, I think the way to deal with it with great responses seems to have a lot of regulations, so there is no need to worry too much." Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said.

"Well, yes, the Donglu has no ships, so, for things on the water, it is a shortcoming. This is the strength of my Ming Dynasty. It is always impossible to be wrong with the strength of oneself and the weakness of the enemy. However, it depends on God's intention. Nine and Tenth months are the small flood season of the Big Insect River. Now it is October. In other words, the flood season is only one month, and it has to see that it does not rain in the world, and it has to suddenly attack when the water rises. Therefore, the time when the warships can appear on the battlefield is likely to be less than a month.

, and, probably only a few days... After this month, the warship may not be able to go up again, and the river water still has the possibility of freezing. So, I think, the Donglu might have thought of something, so it blocked the river surface. In other words, it is very likely that the Donglu had already had the strategy to deal with the sudden appearance of our Ming warship on the battlefield. Perhaps, Zhenjiang Fort will be a hard battle!" Yang Jie said that the situation in Zhenjiang Fort seems much more complicated than he imagined.

"Your Majesty makes sense. Should you remind the monk Da Yong to be happy and let them pay attention?" Sun Chengzong also said with concern.

"Well, yes, I guess, not only to remind them about the flood season, but also to remind them that it is very likely that the Donglu has already had a way to deal with sudden reinforcements downstream. Perhaps, even if the warships go up, the Donglu may not retreat..." Yang Jing thought about it and said with a hint of worry.

"...Your Majesty, according to the current situation, there are also capable people in the Donglu, so even if the fleet goes up, it may not be possible to let the Donglu retreat. October will pass in a blink of an eye. Then, once October passes, there will be no water in the river, and secondly, you have to be careful of the frozen river water. In this way, Zhenjiang Fort is indeed dangerous..." Sun Chengzong analyzed based on the latest information.

"Yes, I mean that. I was too optimistic before. I had to make the worst plan for anything! The current situation is that there are capable people in the Donglu, so now I can't consider the ideal situation anymore. Then, the Donglu besieged the city is really a long-term thing, so Mao Wenlong is indeed in danger!..." Yang Jie suddenly discovered that he really underestimated the wild boar skin and took things too simply. He thought that as soon as the warship appeared, the wild boar skin immediately urinated. Now it seems that his abacus had probably been expected, and his abacus would not be able to make a sound... It was really time to come. Mao Wenlong was really miserable.

"Your Majesty, although the warships may not necessarily allow the Donglu to retreat, it is not completely useless. Your Majesty can take advantage of the opportunity of the river rising and the warships going up to the Zhenjiang Fort to increase the defense ability of Zhenjiang Fort. Since the Donglu wants to surround Zhenjiang Fort, it depends on whether there is such a good tooth..." Sun Chengzong thought about it and gave advice to the emperor.

"Well, it makes sense. Master Sun's reminder made me suddenly enlightened. I was worried that the warships would not play a final role. So, since they could not play this role, let's open up a large-scale reinforcement to Zhenjiang Fort. In addition to the last twenty cannons, and then reinforce the twenty cannons in Zhenjiang Fort, so that the number of cannons in Zhenjiang Fort reached fifty. I don't believe it. Isn't Donglu afraid of such many cannons? If you send another 80,000 grenades, I don't believe it. If you can't kill them, the soldiers will depend on how many people can be installed in Zhenjiang Fort?

Then, I will hold on until at least the food for next April and May. At that time, the warships can go up again. I don’t believe that Donglu dares to siege the city at that time... By the way, I will send 10,000 sets of new cotton coats to Zhenjiang Fort in advance, so that the soldiers will not be frozen in Zhenjiang Fort. In addition, I will deliver 10,000 blankets and 10,000 sets of quilt covers. I don’t believe it anymore. I can eat enough, wear warm clothes, have enough weapons, and have such strong firepower. Donglu still has the confidence to attack..." Yang Jing did not believe in evil, and immediately sent a lot of supplies to use these things to crush the wild boar skin to death.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, there are too many of these things... Your Majesty, if you go up the warship, you can only stay for a few days. Such a huge amount of materials must be transported by ship, and you are afraid something will happen!" Sun Chengzong immediately reminded.

"Send as much as you can. Whether these supplies can be delivered is my business, my heart, my sincerity. Whether these supplies can be delivered depends on the two boys, and the ability of the people in Dongjiang Town..." Yang Jing said firmly.

"Your Majesty, I'm worried too much..." Seeing that the emperor was so persistent, Sun Chengzong no longer advised him. Indeed, it was the emperor's business that could be given to Mao Wenlong. Whether he could be given to him was not the emperor's business. Even if Mao Wenlong did not defend Zhenjiang Fort in the future, it would be no wonder that the emperor was. The people of Dongjiang Town were completely brought to the emperor's side.

As I was talking, I had already arrived at the platform.

Yang Jie took a glass of water handed over by Wang Chengen, took a sip, and moistened his throat. He was already dry when he spoke to Sun Chengzong just now.

"...By the way, Master Sun, since the Donglu has made up his mind to stay in Zhenjiang Fort, then I have to add some materials to the Donglu. He is fighting on the Eastern Front, and I will fight on the Western Front, and I will clean up all the Mongolian tribes that are ready to surrender to the Tartars. I want to see if the Tartars feels sad or not... Hehe, without the joining of these tribes, the Donglu's strength is limited..." Yang Jinge drank a cup of tea in one breath, not quenching his thirst, and continued to ask Wang Chengen for water to drink, and said to Sun Chengzong with great enthusiasm.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were already on the platform. When they saw the emperor talking about things related to Dongjiang Town, they immediately opened their ears and sounded that the huge amount of support the emperor just mentioned made Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming feel excited and filled their eyes with tears. It was not easy for them in Dongjiang Town! From nothing to something, they were all made up for blood and tears. The supplies and food and wages of the court have never been decently supplemented. Those literati either made trouble here or found trouble there, and sucked blood in Dongjiang Town in a different way. They were so generous and generous, and gave so much support to Zhenjiang Castle at one time. People's hearts were full of flesh, so who was good to whom, it was naturally clear at a glance.

"Your Majesty said Mangui?" Sun Chengzong asked.

"Yes, that's right, what I mean is this. Although Zhenjiang Fort was surrounded by the Eastern Captains, on the Western Front, I want to fight around the Mongolians, so that Mangui can speed up and clean up the tribes with problems as soon as possible... and draw more Imperial Army troops to join the war. Now the tribes that surrender to the Eastern Captains have lost their masters' support. It is a good time to beat the dogs. Tell Mangui that the time is rare, don't hesitate and take all your strength..." Yang Jie took another sip of tea and said excitedly. Although his troops in Zhenjiang Fort were a little "weak" and were surrounded by people, on the Western Front, he could fight around the forces of the wild boar skin. In this way, he was not too disadvantageous. After all, he could afford to lose money. Without the supplement of the Mongolian right wing, he could only fight one less and one less. Yang Jie was not afraid of it.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming listened to the conversation between the emperor and Sun Chengzong, and secretly liked it. The circles of tears that had just been wiped out became smiling.

"Report to Your Majesty, when your Majesty talks about this, I have something to report..." When Sun Chengzong saw the emperor mention Man Gui, he immediately remembered something.

"Oh, what's wrong? Could it be that something happened to Mangui?" Yang Jiefang asked, "This is a critical moment, don't lose the chain!"

"Your Majesty, this is the case. Man Gui reported that it was some garrisons and forts in the border, and they also wanted to follow them out of the customs and fight against the Mongolians..." Sun Chengzong said with a smile this time.

"What? The border army is going to go out of the pass to attack the Mongols? Did I hear it correctly?" Yang Jing suspected that he had heard it wrong. Isn't the border army of the Ming Dynasty so bad that it is gone? Why do you have the courage to go out of the pass to attack the Mongols and ask for a fight? The sun really hits the west.

"That's right, Your Majesty, Man Gui said this in the report..." Sun Chengzong smiled and continued, "...In fact, Your Majesty is simple, and his wealth is touching!...Hahaha..." Sun Chengzong laughed out loud.

"What's the solution?" Yang Jieling stood up and asked. The army here dared to come out of seclusion. The sun really came out of the west. If the army had the courage to come out of seclusion, it would be much easier to deal with the Mongols.

"...Your Majesty, the wealth is touching. Mangui captured a lot of Mongolian livestock, property, and women outside the pass, and sent them to the garrisons inside the pass, and the fort was kept by the border troops. Hehe, Your Majesty also knows that Mangui would not fight by himself in war, but he always fought against the Mongolians. Therefore, when the border troops did not have to fight by themselves, they would have gained such a rich harvest. How could they not be moved? So, the crowd was excited and they all shouted to go out of the pass to fight the Mongolians. Haha, Your Majesty, this is a good thing!" Sun Chengzong really said with a smile.

"Ah!..." Yang Jing was stunned. He could still do this! He never regarded the border army as an army, and he had always expected them to do a good job of defense. He knew that they still had the courage to get out of seclusion. Is this... the world changed too fast? Or could he understand it?

"...Money is touching, wealth is touching! That's right, right!...hehe..." Yang Jing recalled what Sun Chengzong said and immediately understood that these border troops were famously poor, afraid of being poor, and there was no property, and there was no woman. Seeing Mangui and others, they could get a large amount of livestock and women, and they could still sit there. I am afraid that in their opinion, as long as they walked on the grassland, women, wives, animals, property, everything, and there was no risk, because wars were all fought by the Imperial Army, it would be strange if they didn't break their heads.

"Hahaha..., hahaha..." Yang Jie suddenly burst into laughter. No one expected that Man Gui's future release of spoils would mobilize the enthusiasm of the border army. This was something he could not predict in advance. You must know that even if the border army of the Ming Dynasty was useless, it would have hundreds of thousands of troops. Even if one out of a hundred, it would have been a lot of elite soldiers. In other words, if the troops of the Mongols can be removed countless times in an instant. What's more, the border army will gain, have confidence, and combat effectiveness, and its momentum will increase greatly. In any case, it is also a thing worth being happy and laughing about.
Chapter completed!