Chapter 785 Yuan Chonghuan’s plan

The weather is getting colder and colder.

The white snow also covered the city of Beijing.

As soon as Yang Jie went out, he was breathing in heat.

Yang Jingwei wants to go to the platform. Although the war is no longer necessary to pay attention to it every day, necessary attention is still needed, and it is still necessary to understand the necessary trends. Fortunately, the platform is very close to the Ganqing Palace, so Yang Jingwei does not need to go very far as he goes to Wenhua Palace.

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platform.

Yuan Chonghuan is busy.

Simple gifts.

"It's so cold today!" Yang Jing complained. Although it was a complaint, in fact, Yang Jing did not have any disgust towards cold weather. Yang Jing is a person who is afraid of heat and not cold.

"Report to Your Majesty, this is a rare heavy snow. It is said that auspicious snow indicates a good harvest, and there will be a good harvest next year..." Yuan Chonghuan immediately complimented.

"Haha, is that right? It's not so unreliable to rely on the gods to make a living. People always have to find a way out for themselves!" Yang Jingai said casually.

"..." Yuan Chonghuan was speechless and ashamed. God was unreliable. What are you, Emperor? These words were originally very harsh, but Yuan Chonghuan is gradually getting used to them. Of course, those who should be ashamed must be ashamed.

"...How are the frontline soldiers doing in such a cold day?" Yang Jingang asked.

"Report to Your Majesty, you are all ready. The soldiers on the front line were given cotton coats, cotton pants, quilts, gloves, hats, shoes. Ordinary soldiers were given wool sweaters, while the officials were cashmere sweaters. No matter how big or small the new army was, they were cashmere sweaters, but the quality was somewhat different..." Yuan Chonghuan replied immediately.

Yang Jing did spare no effort in warm-keeping measures. The warm-keeping effect of ordinary cotton coats and cotton pants is indeed not as good as that of wool sweaters, let alone cashmere sweaters. In the past two years, Tian Hongyu got a cashmere sweater from Mongolia. It is basically the amount of cashmere you get and it is made into a cashmere sweater immediately, let alone wool. It is considered to be a piece of money to create the current warmth effect. Of course, the effect is very high.

Of course, there must be differences in what is sent. Ordinary soldiers are cotton coats and wool sweaters. The officers are better, and they are cashmere sweaters. New troops are different. Ordinary soldiers are all cashmere mixed with wool. Regardless of size, they are all cashmere. They wear warm clothes, eat well, have good weapons, are well-trained, and are brave in fighting. This is the basic appearance of the officers and soldiers outside the pass. There are wise kings on the top, civil and military officials who are good at planning and commanding, and soldiers who dare to fight to the death. It can be said that there is nothing worth noting outside the pass.

"It's good... I can't wear warm clothes or eat enough, so don't expect to fight. These are all basic requirements!" Yang Jing sighed.

"Report to Your Majesty, it is true that the morale of the officials and soldiers outside the pass are high and their combat power is strong. It is almost inevitable to wipe out the Eastern Captains..." Yuan Chonghuan said.

"Well, I hope this is the case..." Yang Jing said. The issue of food and clothing is something that Yang Jing has always attached great importance to. He has figured out a solution early. Now that he can have such an effect, Yang Jing was a little satisfied. As a person who came here in later generations, Yang Jing naturally could not imagine and "agree" with the concept of the people of the Ming Dynasty. In Yang Jing's concept, to ensure the minimum food and clothing of a soldier and the minimum survival, we can talk about other issues such as loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. The issue of food and clothing cannot be guaranteed. The others are castles in the air. Yang Jing is not like many people in the Ming Dynasty. He hopes that people who cannot eat or wear warm clothes can defend themselves and this country. This logic is really unreasonable.

Yang Jie himself looked at the sand table next to the sand table. Today, the sand table has marked the forces in Uszang, the Western Regions, Mobei and other places, which can be regarded as a relatively accurate combat sand table. The labeling of various forces on it is of great help to the command and staff to judge the military situation. Behind the production of this sand table, a lot of manpower and material resources were consumed, and it was piled up with money.

"Don't worry, your Majesty, it must be no problem to destroy the Eastern Captains. With the current situation of the Eastern Captains fighting one after another, they have not collapsed. They are already considered to be very powerful. If there is no enemy chief, the Eastern Captains will collapse in an instant..." Yuan Chonghuan continued to introduce.

"Well..." Yang Jie replied, his eyes still on the sand table. On the sand table, the forces of the Ming Dynasty outside the pass have advanced a large area, especially the Northeast and Liaohe Plain, which have basically been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The Songhua River and Heilongjiang River basins are not the control area of ​​the Ming Dynasty. This year, I only controlled a few points there and planned to advance forward after grain output and materials can be supplied, but there is no need to hurry. From Heilongjiang, Songhua River, and down the river, there is no pressure. The Northeast is already the meat in the mouth and there is no possibility of putting it back in the pot.

However, in Outer Mongolia, there are still two major forces entrenched, Donglu and Lin Danhan. These two families have narrow enemies. At first, they were mortal enemies who fought to death, but later they wanted to keep warm back to back, and now they have killed blood and are considered to be a pair of enemies who will never stop.

Yang Jing clearly supported Lin Danhan. In fact, all three families knew that the Ming Dynasty wanted to clean up everyone on the grassland, but due to the situation, the other two families had to kill each other. The grassland was only so big, and they could only raise so many people, and they could only survive. Either you die or I died.

The strength of Uszang and Yang Jing’s current strength is not enough to build. We can only focus on that one, but we are not without any preparation. Lu Xiangsheng’s strong army can be used to block the connection between the Western Regions and the grasslands when necessary.

Yang Jingwei was fascinated by it.

"Your Majesty, I have an idea. I don't know if I should tell you..." Yang Jing was fascinated by the sand table, but he heard Yuan Chonghuan say this.

"Oh, what's your thoughts? The Qing family might as well say it..." Yang Jing asked. Yang Jing looked at Yuan Chonghuan's expression, and it seemed that it was not right. Yuan Chonghuan has always been full of confidence, and he is all people walking with their heads raised. How could he speak so "humble"? Yang Jing had a sudden blow in his heart. Yuan Chonghuan wouldn't use any big fools to fool himself.

"Report to Your Majesty, they are all ideas that are not familiar to you... Please give me advice..." Yuan Chonghuan continued to whisper.

"Oh, hehe, then let's talk about it... If it works, I should adopt it..." Yang Jingwei said.

"...Your Majesty..." Yuan Chonghuan said, presenting the things he had prepared long ago.

Wang Chengen took it and submitted it to the emperor.

When Yang Jie opened it, he was quite surprised! It turned out that the somewhat immature idea that Yuan Chonghuan mentioned was actually a plan related to going to sea to fight Japan, going south to fight against Zhi, and Nanyang...

Yang Jie looked through the plan a little, then looked at Yuan Chonghuan in surprise. He already understood the reason why this "plan" was released.

This was probably affected by the salary increase plan that Bi Ziyan had in the past few days, and he delegated the right to raise money to the Ministry of Revenue. This move has had a lot of impact on the government and the opposition. Many people, especially those at the level of the Ministry of Ministers, have been even more affected. They are all Ministry of Ministers, but others have the right to raise money by themselves, but they have the rights that ordinary people do not have, but can get greater power from the emperor. If this is not affected, it is impossible.

It may be that it is related to the war outside the pass. The war outside the pass was actually led by Sun Chengzong. Although Yuan Chonghuan is the Minister of War, he actually cannot intervene much in this war. At most, he will preside over the work of the Ministry of War and the General Staff for the emperor. This is almost the same as "idle fu". Yuan Chonghuan was originally a person who was unwilling to be lonely, and he was originally a Lengzi with all kinds of crazy ideas. It would be almost impossible to ask him to "idle fu" and remain unmoved. He naturally had to find a way to toss, but his position and situation were not many things that could make him toss. He could not get involved in the war outside the pass. He had to control the entire operation of Sun Chengzong, a supervisor who was older than him, so there was nothing left to do.

Yuan Chonghuan, who was unwilling to be lonely, would naturally turn his attention to other places. It would not be surprising that he could see the sea. Now there are wars at sea, so he could still get involved and bypass Sun Chengzong.

Yang Jing only thought a little and understood the reason why this "plan" was released. Sun Chengzong can be said to be a wall in front of him. He wanted to bypass Sun Chengzong and "trouble" him. On land, there was no hope, so it was understandable to turn his attention to the sea.

"Fighting Japan? The plan to go to Southeast Asia?... The courage and courage of the Qing family are quite good!" Yang Jing said with a smile. It has to be said that Yuan Chonghuan was definitely a "sleeping" person who dared to think and do. Although this quality was not very good, it was definitely a unique part in the Ming Dynasty. Yang Jing transferred Yuan Chonghuan to Beijing to be the Minister of War. In addition to "idle" him and not allowing him to interfere too much in the war outside the pass, he also wanted to use his "sleeping" spirit. Yuan Chonghuan was promoted too quickly.

, lacking the necessary experience, and the level is probably between a city garrison and a local governor. Yang Jing was really worried about putting him outside the pass. Maybe he would have done something earth-shaking when he was "silent" that day. Yang Jing didn't want to play a roller coaster. He transferred him to Beijing, which was to promote him to an official position and isolate his intervention in actual military command, which was also a training for him. Regarding the "plan" that Yuan Chonghuan made now, Yang Jing felt that this was both unexpected and expected.

"...Report to Your Majesty, this is just some of my superficial thoughts. Please give me some advice..." Yuan Chonghuan spoke with his head down.

"Haha, no matter what, the Qing family is willing to think about problems. This is what I admire most..." Yang Jingjie said. After that, Yang Jingjie began to consider what was mentioned in Yuan Chonghuan's plan.

Yuan Chonghuan looked at the emperor nervously.

Yang Jing walked straight to the front of another sand table, where the terrain of the East China Sea was the terrain.

"...Your family tell me, how to deal with Japan?" Yang Jingang asked.

"Report to Your Majesty, judging from the current situation, you have to rely on the fleet..." Yuan Chonghuan began to explain his understanding of Japan.

"Yes, let's continue..." Yang Jingwei said.

"...If you want to deal with Japan, you also need to know the details of Japan..." Yuan Chonghuan continued.

"Yes, know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated by a hundred battles..." Yang Jingwei said.

"...Yes, Your Majesty, according to the news sent back, Japan's strength seems to have dropped significantly since the war with our country in North Korea, and it is no longer able to cross the sea to attack our country like last time..." Yuan Chonghuan said.

"... Not bad..." Yang Jie said, and looked at Yuan Chonghuan as he said.

"...The Japanese country seems to have fallen into a situation where there are many vassals, and above the vassals, there is a shogunate, and above the shogunate, there is a falsely named lord of the Japanese country..." Yuan Chonghuan introduced.

"Yes, let's continue..." Yang Jingwei said.

"... Although the king of Japan is nominally the king of Japan, his actual power is in the shogunate..." Yuan Chonghuan paused when he arrived here. The following words might be a little disrespectful.

"Let's talk..." Yang Jingwei said.

"...Your Majesty, what I will say next may be a little disrespectful..." Yuan Chonghuan still gave the emperor a precaution in advance to avoid his own bad luck, although the emperor himself knew about this news.

"It's okay, just say..." Yang Jingying said that Yang Jingying had reminded Yuan Chonghuan before to let him pay attention to the sea. Now that Yuan Chonghuan can take real action and pay attention to the sea, Yang Jingying is naturally more pleased.

"... I thank Your Majesty,... Speaking of the shogunate of Japan, it is actually similar to Cao Cao of the Han Dynasty. It is considered to be "using the emperor to command the princes". The shogun is the actual powerful minister of Japan..." Yuan Chonghuan said nervously.

"Well, I know this, let's continue..." Yang Jing encouraged. Yang Jing didn't care much about this a bit offensive word. After all, Yang Jing was a person from the 21st century. He didn't know how many times he played games about Japan in his early years. He had a deep impression of the shogunate, general, daimyo, etc., and he was a little familiar with it, but he didn't have much disgust.

"... Thank you Your Majesty!..." Yuan Chonghuan said gratefully. The emperor didn't mind his Cao Cao's talk about it. He could explain the relationship between Japan. He felt that it would be difficult for him to understand such a pure introduction, let alone the emperor. In fact, he didn't know that the emperor's understanding of Japan was definitely no longer inferior to him. Just relying on the knowledge he gained from playing games back then, he could fully exaggerate his understanding of Japan.

"... The shogunate 'used the emperor to command the princes' to set up 'old Zhong', decided on strategies, governed government affairs, and was responsible for controlling the Japanese court, similar to the ministry of our dynasty, and then had 'New Year'..." Yuan Chonghuan began to introduce his Japanese information. These information were collected in the past or two years. Yuan Chonghuan himself only learned about it after strengthening his studies in this area. In the past, basically no one cared about these things in a country far away from abroad.

"...and the lords of various vassals set up 'family elders'..."

Yuan Chonghuan began to explain the general situation of Japan that he understood.

"Who is the current shogunate general?" Yang Jing did not interrupt. In fact, Yang Jing had already known this, but did not interrupt it. He just wanted to give Yuan Chonghuan face. After hearing this, Yang Jing felt that it was almost done, so he asked.

"Report to Your Majesty, according to our dynasty, it should be called Tokugawa Igami, who was born in the 32nd year of Wanli in our dynasty..." Yuan Chonghuan introduced.

"Oh, okay, I know, continue..." Yang Jinge said.

"...Yes, Your Majesty,... the one who invaded Ryukyu was the one who did the Shogun General's Satsuma family. Now, our dynasty has driven the Satsuma family and drove the Japanese forces back to Japan..." Yuan Chonghuan introduced, and then pointed on the sand table, introducing the geographical location of the Satsuma family and the geographical location of the Ryukyu.

"…Well…” Yang Jing nodded.

"...Your Majesty, Japan is now seriously injured due to the defeat in the war with our country in Korea a few years ago. Now, it does not have much ability to attack our country anymore. The movements of the Japanese shogunate seem to be somewhat similar to our country's retreat and sea ban..." Yuan Chonghuan said here, paused for a moment, and looked down slightly.

"Well, it's really good. Japan seems to be closing the country, and then say..." Yang Jing said indifferently. These words are actually a bit ironic. The Ming Dynasty once closed the country for a long time. What does it mean? Now, from the perspective of Japan after the defeat, it feels particularly different.

"...Yes, Your Majesty,... The friction between our dynasty and the Satsuma clan has attracted the attention of the Japanese shogunate... And the maritime trade in Japan is Zheng Zhilong dominating..." Yuan Chonghuan said again, and when he said this, he paused again, lowered his head and looked at the emperor's trouser legs.

"The Qing family means that Japan is closed to the country and I dominate the trade of Japan. Our country has a conflict with the Japanese shogunate. I am afraid that the trade in the future will be affected, right?" Yang Jie said it so hard that he said it himself.

"...Report to Your Majesty, I roughly mean this..., I have to deal with this matter in advance. Once the Japanese shogunate wants to be disrespectful to our dynasty, our dynasty should respond in time to avoid losing his power..." Yuan Chonghuan replied in a low voice. This is indeed a fact. Zheng Zhilong dominates the Japanese trade and has now become the emperor's dominance. The use of force against the Satsuma vassal will inevitably affect the decision-making of the shogunate. Once the shogunate decides to completely close the country, the emperor who has lost the Japanese trade will definitely fight with the Japanese. There is no need to speculate that from the emperor's remarks and preparations, Japan must fight, which is a matter of time. Yuan Chonghuan naturally knows these things. Now he has seized the opportunity to mention this matter to the emperor.

"It's right..." Yang Jing evaluated. Yang Jing's attitude towards Japan is no longer a secret in the court. Whether it is coveting Japan's gold and silver mountains, maritime trade, or the hatred towards Japan before traveling through time, Yang Jing never denies or avoids the fight against Japan.

"...But, everything is important to be a famous teacher and justified. If you want to fight Japan, what kind of excuse should you think?" Yang Jing asked. Yang Jing did not avoid his attitude towards Japan. Before he could say a few words, he was going to fight.

Yuan Chonghuan was sweating in his heart. He said a few words. The emperor was even more active than him. Isn’t it necessary to discuss the court or the ministry and the officials to discuss it? He directly sent troops to start a fight? Indeed, the emperor’s attitude towards Japan was so firm.

"Report to Your Majesty, I think that persecuting and occupying our vassal Ryukyu Kingdom is a major crime. Your Majesty conquered him in the manner of a sect leader, which is justified..." Yuan Chonghuan said.

"Well, it makes sense,... are there any other remarks?" Yang Jingwei said.

"...Report to Your Majesty, in the past few years, our country and Japan suffered numerous losses in the war in Korea, resulting in the decline of our country's elite and great loss of strength. The details were known to the East Captain, which indirectly led to the rise of the East Captain, and indirectly caused the damage to the millions of people in our country. Now, tens of millions of dollars have been spent to suppress the rebellion. All of this can be said to be caused by the Japanese invasion of the North. I think this should be punished and severely punished the Japanese..." Yuan Chonghuan said sternly with some anger.

"Well, it's not bad..." Yang Jing continued to nod, thinking that Yuan Chonghuan could still be trained. This set of rhetoric was just a copy of his own words.

"Then the Qing family thought, how should we punish Japan?" Yang Jing asked again. Regarding the bold Yuan Chonghuan, Yang Jing felt that he was very smart. With this person, he didn't have to instigate anyone else. This guy would definitely jump out and do what he wanted to do.

"Report to your Majesty, we should scold the king of the Japanese king and the shogunate generals of the Japanese king, and ask them to apologize, apologize, and compensate for the losses..." Yuan Chonghuan said without thinking.

"Well, it makes sense..., but what is Japan worth talking about? Can we afford our North Korean losses?" Yang Jing smiled secretly. The so-called apology and apologies were inevitable, so naturally there was no need to say much. As for compensation..., Yuan Chonghuan must also know that he had a fancy to Japan's Yinshan, which was public in the North Koreans.

"...Report to Your Majesty, it is said that Japan produces a lot of gold and silver... If it is..." Yuan Chonghuan said a little embarrassedly. To be honest, he is still not used to being so naked. However, he is even more restless. He thinks that he is "doing nothing" all day long, which is even more uncomfortable than killing him. Instigating the emperor to fight, finding a place to show his skills, and making trouble for himself, you must first follow the emperor's frame. If the emperor cannot be satisfied, the emperor will definitely not fight for his restless thoughts. If he motivates the emperor, everything will be easy. Therefore, we should try our best to motivate the emperor...

"Oh, I know this, but it's not easy to make Japan surrender! Those gold and silver mines are probably not likely to be able to afford the losses of our dynasty!" Yang Jing said. This is the truth. For Yang Jing, who has successfully promoted paper money, money is no longer the most important thing. The successful issuance of paper money means that Yang Jing's credit system has been established, and the attractiveness of gold and silver to Yang Jing has been reduced by a level, unlike when Yang Jing was worried about thousands of taels of silver. At that time, the attractiveness of silver to Yang Jing was so great. Now, Yang Jing may not be able to respect the amount of silver produced every year. Of course, it's better to take it back as a reserve silver.

"...This, Your Majesty..." Yuan Chonghuan was ashamed. Wasn't the emperor very interested in the gold and silver mines in Japan? Why doesn't it seem that he is not so interested now? Is this no longer attractive to the emperor?

"...Your Majesty, you may force the Japanese shogunate to deduct compensation from our dynasty from the taxes, and pay some compensation every year. Even if it is a little small, it will always be paid off in a hundred years..." Yuan Chonghuan thought of an idea, although this one was not very good.
To be continued...