From the time perspective, it took nearly a month for the Zheng family to spread the news from Japan to the capital. If the Ming Dynasty sent troops to Jiuzhou Island, it would take at least fifty to seventy days. What I can't figure out now is whether the coalition forces can persist in seeing the arrival of the Sun, Moon, Dragon Banner.

The army's expedition is not as simple as imagined.

From selecting the commander to gathering troops, mobilizing food and supplies, preparing ships, formulating combat strategies after landing, etc., this series of procedures takes a lot of time to prepare. Now the monsoon heading towards Japan is still heading for the wind. Although the sea storm period has passed, the speed of ship navigation will be greatly slowed down. With various factors, it is expected that the arrival time of Japan may be extended a lot.

After a short discussion, Zhu Youjian and Sun Chuanting and others decided to send 10,000 people from the Beihai Fleet to fight in Japan. Li Dingguo, who was the deputy general, was the chief general of the army, and Zhu Cixuan, the prince who was in charge of politics in the Ministry of War, went on an expedition as a military supervisor.

Except for the garrisons in the northwest and northeastern regions who would station in the local area in the era of military farming and settling homes, other dispatched troops in the Ming Dynasty implemented a rotation system, which was rotated every five years.

For example, the troops stationed in Manila will, by the beginning of the fifth year, the Ministry of War will send half of the number of troops in the Ming Dynasty. While replacing the same number of officers and soldiers, they will spend a year familiar with the local climate and environment, and then rotate the other half at the end of the year. This can fully ensure that the army will not be unfamiliar with the local customs and people due to rotation, resulting in unnecessary chaos.

Li Dingguo, who had been promoted to deputy general, was replaced from Manila last year and had almost rested after nearly a year of renovation. In order to make this famous general in history continue to shine, Zhu Youjian decided to let him lead the team to the expedition.

Li Dingguo, who is in his early thirties, married and had children in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen. He had three sons and one daughter. His eldest son, Li Puxing, who had just turned eight, showed a unique demeanor since childhood. During his studies in school, whenever his husband asked questions, he would always "make amazing words" and was praised by several gentlemen as "a great man who will become a great man in the future."

Zhu Youjian, who was particularly concerned about this historical celebrity, was also very pleased after hearing the news.

The famous general has successors, which is enough to appease Li Dingguo's soul who died young and hatefully in his original history.

Zhu Cilang first observed the politics of the Ministry of Personnel for one year in the 22nd year of Chongzhen, and this year happened to be in the Ministry of War. This time, the Ming Dynasty's official army conquered Japan, which was an excellent opportunity for him to understand military affairs.

Only when you know what you learn from paper will you feel shallowly, and you will know that this matter needs to be practiced.

As the future successor of the Ming Dynasty, it is very terrible to not know about soldiers or soldiers. Although we can understand some common sense when we observe politics in the Ministry of War, we still lack much less than going to the army to get close contact with generals and soldiers and personally experiencing the cruelty of the battle formation, and knowing the difficulty of soldiers.

Crown Princess Wang Zhilan gave birth to a baby girl in October last year. Now she is nearly one year old. Zhu Youjian has been upgraded to grandpa, which makes him, who is just about 40 years old, feel a little amused and crying.

Because Zhou Hou gave birth to a girl when the Crown Princess' first child, he kept muttering in Zhu Youjian's ears, asking to arrange to take a few more concubines for Zhu Cixuan so that he could better spread the branches and leaves. Due to the preciousness of the bloodline of the Tian family, Zhu Youjian also mentioned this to Zhu Cixuan, but was rejected by Zhu Cixuan.

Because the Crown Princess Wang Zhilan is the first stranger to Zhu Cilang meet when he first left the palace, and the two have some childhood sweethearts, the relationship between them is extremely deep. They often work together in the palace on weekdays, almost no different from ordinary couples.

Because of this, Zhu Cilang was very interested in taking concubines and found various excuses to reject her parents' urging her.

In the end, I really couldn't stand my mother's nagging, so I took the Crown Princess as an appropriate reason if she had a second child or a baby girl, and she would take the concubine as a proper reason, temporarily stopping Zhou Hou's daily urging.

Zhu Cixuan's behavior is quite genetically inherited from the ancestors of the Zhu family.

As the most noble person in the world, there are indeed a few unique people among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, such as Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhi, Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, who only favors Concubine Wan, the old woman. The above are all practitioners of atypical monogamy and are very dedicated to their queens or concubines. Compared with the licentious lifestyles of emperors in previous dynasties, they can be regarded as role models for men in the world.

Fortunately, the Crown Princess became pregnant again after the beginning of spring this year, and it has been five months now. According to the palace servants who know how to walk in the palace, judging from the way the Crown Princess walks and the degree of pregnancy, the one she is pregnant this time must be a baby boy.

Although it is difficult to identify the gender of the fetus from these tracks alone in this era when there is no B-ultrasound, some ancient ways of inheritance are still quite accurate. At least both the prince and the wife believe in the judgment of the palace servants. As long as a prince is born, the prince's harem will not have to add new people, and it will save a lot of unnecessary open and secret struggles.

On the third day after Zhu Youjian made the decision, the prince bid farewell to his beloved wife and took several eunuchs with him and Cheng Jian and other personal guards. With the escort of a thousand elite cavalrymen in Yongwei Camp, he rushed out of the capital by officials of the Ministry of War, and headed south along the official road, heading straight to Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong, the base of the Beihai Fleet.

A few days later, large trucks filled with various food and supplies drove out of the capital and drove along the road that Zhu Cixuan walked towards the same destination.

Zhu Cixuan led people to Dengzhou Prefecture in order to get on board Shanghai in advance to get familiar with and adapt to the sea conditions. After all, he has not sailed on a long boat. If he did not have a period of adaptation and wandered on the sea for a long time, it is very likely to cause various discomforts.

Sun Chuanting and others have been on the battlefield for a long time, so they did not dissuade Zhu Youjian from sending the prince to supervise the army. They were not worried about the prince's safety.

In their eyes, the young prince needs more experience. With the strong combat power of the Ming Dynasty's official army, it will be planned to face the army of any country. Besides, the prince does not need to charge in person. With a thousand elite cavalry guards, no matter how great your ability is, it will not be close to you.

The emperor's meaning is very clear. To make the prince establish his prestige in the army, military merits are the most convincing. As long as the Ming Dynasty's official army returns with great victory, it will be the record of destroying the country. As the next successor to the throne, there is already one of the two items of civil and military merits in hand, and the rest of civil and political merits is relatively easier to operate.
Chapter completed!