Prince Yun's Mansion, conference hall.
It's still the same place as before, but not all the people are the same.
The military has not changed much. Ding Hongguang and Guan Ning are still the eldest and second eldest.
However, after the civil service's anti-corruption reshuffle some time ago, many people have disappeared.
The former county magistrate became the county magistrate, the former county captain became the county magistrate, and the county captain became the newcomer Chen You.
Everyone took their seats.
It used to be Jiang He, but now it was Zhu Tuo, the Prime Minister of Daixian County, who presided over the meeting.
Boom!
Two dull hammering sounds sounded, and the scene fell silent.
A board was erected behind Zhao Jun's position. The board was covered with black cloth. Although everyone was curious, they did not dare to say anything.
Zhao Jun stood up and waved his hand. Wang Huaien behind him immediately pulled down the black cloth, and everything behind the black cloth appeared in front of everyone.
A large blackboard with a huge map pinned on a huge piece of rice paper.
Among them, the Japanese side was specially enlarged.
Zhao Jun stood up, picked up the prepared teaching stick, pointed it in the direction of Japan and said to everyone:
"This place is the Kingdom of Japan. It is located south of the southeast of the Song Dynasty. It usually takes half a month to sail by boat. If there is a favorable wind, it can be reached in ten days."
Having said this, Zhao Jun put down the teaching stick in his hand and said loudly to everyone:
"As we all know, in the southeastern part of the Song Dynasty, Japanese pirates invaded our borders many times and came ashore to burn, kill, and loot. These Japanese pirates all came from here.
Their country, Japan! "
Zhao Jun paused, picked up the pointer, pointed at Shi Jian's place and said: "But these are not the purpose of calling you here today, and I don't have time to give you popular science. What I want to tell you today is that in this place!"
Zhao Jun pointed hard at the place of Ishijian Kingdom with the teaching stick in his hand and said: "This is Ishijian, the poorest country in Japan, with a population of less than a thousand people. It is a place that no other country around is willing to take over, for fear of being taken over by them. burdened by poverty.
However, in such a place, there is a world-famous treasure - a silver mine! "
It is no longer an ordinary silver mine. It can now produce a huge silver mine of 6 million taels per year!
It can be mined for at least a hundred years!
Zhao Jun was decisive.
And his words immediately caused everyone in the venue to exclaim. Everyone looked at the small place on the map with ardent eyes, and their eyes seemed to light up!
Zhao Jun is very satisfied with everyone's performance. Only with greed as motivation can everyone work hard for the same goal.
Zhao Jun pointed the teaching stick in his hand in the direction of Nagasaki and said:
"That's right! Just as you thought, I am also coveting this silver mine, so I decided to send troops to grab it!
How could a mere Japanese pirate be qualified to possess such a God-given treasure?
They only deserve to be miners!
Now! "
Zhao Jun put down the teaching stick in his hand, put his hands on the table in front of him, leaned forward, scanned the people in the hall with a pair of aggressive eyes, and asked in a deep voice:
"Who is in favor of attacking Japan and seizing the Iwami Silver Mine? Who is against it?"
The hall was silent for a while.
Then suddenly there was a burst of uniform shouts.
"Agree! Agree! Agree!"
Zhao Jun smiled with satisfaction, stretched his hands toward the sky, then clenched his fists fiercely and shouted loudly:
"Since ancient times, the treasures of heaven and earth have been inhabited by the virtuous. Today, I, Yunzhou, are raising volunteers to cross the ocean to avenge the people along the coast of the Song Dynasty for their invasion by Japanese pirates!"
The master of kings! The teacher of justice! "
Well, the justice of sending troops is now clear!
All the officials became even more excited.
There were shouts of shouts one after another:
"Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!"
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At the subsequent meeting, everyone began to discuss the marching route for the conquest of Japan.
First of all, it is definitely not possible to go from within the pass. Not to mention whether the large-scale entry of the Yunzhou Army into the pass will cause panic among some people in the court and cause trouble later. Even walking this distance from the pass will put too much logistical pressure on the army. .
After discussion, everyone immediately chose the sea route. The army entered Shendu. On the one hand, it could just shock Shendu, and it could also allow Shendu to provide some food and cannon fodder.
That's right, cannon fodder. This time is almost equivalent to a national war. If you want to go to Ishimi, you must go to Nagasaki. If you go to Nagasaki, you will block the door of the Japanese country. The Japanese country will definitely fight hard.
In this kind of war, no matter how advanced the weapons are, there will inevitably be casualties. In order to reduce the casualties, Zhao Jun decided to recruit a group of cannon fodder troops from the Shendu people to consume the Japanese country.
Anyway, this is your own country, and the boss wants to attack people. How can you, a little brother, do it without sending troops?
Were you not beaten hard enough?
In addition, in addition to cannon fodder like Shendu, auxiliary troops with certain combat capabilities are also necessary. It just so happens that the Tatars are having a harder time because they cannot attack the Song Dynasty due to surrender. Although they have opened a mutual trade, it is not free. given.
They have to exchange cattle, sheep and horses. If the weather is bad, many cattle and wool will die, and those who deserve to starve will also starve.
For this expedition, a group of coercive troops were recruited from the grassland. On the one hand, they weakened the young strength on the grassland, and on the other hand, they recruited some with combat effectiveness to help fight together.
After everyone's discussion, it was finally decided that for this expedition to Japan, the Yunzhou Army would send 100,000 troops as the main force, and another 100,000 auxiliary troops would be recruited from the Tatar grasslands. In addition to the 300,000 auxiliary troops already present in Shendu territory, .
A total of 500,000 troops marched out.
The vanguard army will first set off from Pingbo Port and attack the Japanese port of Nagasaki.
After landing in Nagasaki, Nagasaki directly captured the entire Rikoku Island in the north of Japan, and then used Rokukoku as the forward base of the army to garrison and defend.
After the large armies arrived one after another, they all headed south to attack the mountain country of Kyushu, the main island of Japan, and then destroyed Hiro and Shimane countries and completely took Iwami Ginzan into their arms.
The plan has been made, but setting off the army is not as simple as "going out".
An army of 500,000 people will go on an expedition to Japan. Among other things, weapons and equipment must be prepared, as well as military rations. This is still an astronomical figure.
A war involving hundreds of thousands of people, but still so far away from home, would undoubtedly cost more.
But Zhao Jun doesn't care, because Yunzhou County can take it!
Weapons and equipment, although Yunzhou has been iron-clad recently, are relative and are needed for civilian development.
The army can still get the iron it needs to make weapons.
Not to mention food, since they took over the three counties of Nanli, Woye, and Youer, the food in the hands of Zhao Jun's forces has been increasing day by day.
Even if the subordinates and people try their best to eat, they can't finish it.
Now the time has come to July, and the autumn harvest will start again in a few months.
If we can’t finish the food, we can’t finish it at all.
What Yunzhou County is short of now is not food or iron, but reserves such as gold and silver, and even more manpower.
And these are all needed to attack the Japanese country!
Steal the gold and silver from the Japanese country and bring them back as reserves, steal the women from the Japanese country and bring them back as miners, and steal the men from the Japanese country and bring them back as miners! Even the land of the Japanese country can be snatched back to grow food!
In Zhao Jun's eyes, this Japanese country is full of treasures!
The first was the issue of food and the army entering Shendu. After the meeting that day, Yunzhou County immediately sent a letter to Shendu, which was addressed to King Shendu.
After Wang Cezhi received the letter, he immediately got up and went to Shendu Palace.
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(End of chapter)
