"Father, the boss is trying to trick me! I was able to break into Kyoto last spring. At that time, Matsudaira Mitsunaga had just moved from Echizen to Yamashiro, and there was no time to set up defenses. Tokugawa Yorifou had just taken over Osaka's 600,000 Ishi, there was no time to recruit so many retainers, let alone deploy the defenses of Osaka Castle and Wakayama Castle. But he just asked me to attack Ishimi Country first, and then attack Kitakyushu, which delayed a whole year... "
On September 20, the twenty-seventh year of the Chongzhen reign of the Ming Dynasty, on Nantai Island in Xiyuan, the Imperial City of Beijing, Zhu Cijiong, Prince Ning of the Ming Dynasty, was reporting his brother Zhu Cixiang's treachery to Emperor Chongzhen!
Contrary to Zhu Cixiang's expectations, his good brother did not spend the winter in Kyoto because of the tense domestic war in Japan. Instead, after the situation in Kyoto was somewhat settled, he asked his wife Xingzi to take charge of Nijo Castle, while he went north to Wakasa Country with his secrets. He boarded a Dutch merchant ship hired by him at the port outside Obama City, sailed all the way westward, arrived at Tianjin Gate, and then came to Beijing without stopping.
The day after King Ning arrived in Beijing, he was summoned to Xiyuan by Emperor Chongzhen. On Nantai Island in Taiye Pond in Xiyuan, he complained to his father Zhu You that Zhu Cixang, the nephew of the emperor, had cheated him.
But Emperor Chongzhen looked at his son with a smile on his face, as if he had known for a long time that you were going to be tricked... In the last life, you, the third prince, were tricked by the traitor into the Luliang Mountains. The emperor's man has been settled!
"Father, the boss also asked the Salt Industry Company, Yiguan Company, Baijia Salt Company, Shen Family Sha Ship Company, Li Family Ship Company, and Liu Jiaxiang Company to sell silver and arbitrage gold in Japan, and the gold and silver price ratio was as low as 1:5. One to fifteen, causing the collapse of Osaka Ryotai Bank, and then backhand, in the name of rescuing Osaka Ryotai Bank, he took about 50% of the shares of major Osaka Ryotai Houses... The boss lent it to me and Xingzi The money actually comes from Japan, it’s really hateful!”
It turns out that the third prince Zhu has seen through Zhu Cixiang's true face a long time ago... The third prince is not Emperor Xingzi. He was deceived by Zhu Cihong and still regarded him as a good person.
Chongzhen nodded and looked at his son. Seeing that he did not continue, he smiled and asked, "Is that all?"
Zhu Cijiong was stunned, "Father, have you heard anything else?"
Zhu Youjian asked with a smile: "Japan does not produce gunpowder. The Japanese still do not know how to make nitrate from urine, so they cannot produce gunpowder... Haven't you discovered the gunpowder supply for the Tokugawa Shogunate Army?" Is it enough?"
"What?" Zhu Cijiong was startled, "This, this... wasn't the gunpowder for the Tokugawa Army supplied by the Spaniards?"
"Haha," Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "The Governor's Palace of New Spain is preparing to go to war with our Governor's Palace of the New World. It doesn't have enough gunpowder itself, how can it be exported to Japan?
Also, doesn’t the Tokugawa shogunate know that you are Prince Ning of Ming Dynasty? Why can the New World fleet sent by the boss still add water and food at Mito Port in Japan?
Also, have you forgotten that the adoptive father of the boss’s favorite concubine, Tsukihime, is Tokugawa Iemitsu? "
"He, how could he do this!" Zhu Cijiong was furious, "Is he still my brother? How could he deceive me like this?"
Zhu Youjian said with a smile: "I understand the boss's thoughts... What he wants in his heart is to divide Japan into two parts, with the east and west side by side, so that he can profit from it."
After hearing this, Zhu Cijiong suddenly looked at Chongzhen with a complicated expression, "Father, you don't have the same plan, right?"
Chongzhen glared at his son: "Lao San, how can you think like this? You are my son, can I cheat my son like this?"
"What your father is teaching you is that the child is talking nonsense..." Zhu Cijiong said, but thought in his heart: You have deceived the boss for hundreds of millions!
Chongzhen glanced at Zhu Cijiong and said with a smile: "Third brother, you are different from the boss... The boss is the best person in the world at making money. It's not a big deal for me to spend one billion on him. But your situation It’s different, you are not the Emperor of Japan yet!”
Zhu Cijiong smiled and said: "Xingzi can give up the throne to the child at any time."
"No!" Chongzhen waved his hand, "Before you and Xingzi unified Japan and destroyed the Eastern Dynasty, you can't be the emperor! The rightful name of Japan's Western Dynasty now belongs to Xingzi...not you Yes! If you want to become emperor, you have to capture Edo and destroy the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Tokugawa Emperor. And the elimination of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Tokugawa Shogunate must be completed as soon as possible and cannot be delayed for too long.
Otherwise, if something goes wrong with Xingzi, the situation for you and your son will become very difficult! "
Zhu Cijiong's brows furrowed. He knew that Chongzhen's judgment was very correct! Because the civil servants and generals he and Xingzi relied on were mainly northern warriors and lords of the Eastern Dynasty, rather than Zhu Cijiong's ministers of King Ning. Although Zhu Cijiong received 18,000 military households from Chongzhen, these military households were just refugees who formed an army. , and cannot be compared with those Japanese samurai who were both civil and military.
Although Zhu Cijiong used the strong men among them to train 2,000 iron cavalry, these 2,000 iron cavalry still shined on the Japanese battlefield. But it is impossible for them to play a greater role. These 2,000 cavalry are all uneducated warriors, so they only have a banner of a few hundred dan...
The samurai in the north and the feudal lords in the east all regard Emperor Xingzi as their monarch, and Zhu Cijiong is just a regent Guanbai in their eyes...
Moreover, the imperial family of the Eastern Dynasty is more qualified to inherit Xingzi's position as emperor than the children of Zhu Cijiong and Xingzi (Xingzi's own title is not a problem, because she was re-established by the emperor), so Zhu Cijiong wants to become the emperor. , the Dong Dynasty bloodline must be cut off.
In this way, the son born to him and Xingzi would be the natural heir to the imperial family, and he could also inherit the throne as a "son-in-law and adopted son".
"But the boss..."
Zhu Youjian waved his hand and interrupted the third prince who looked depressed, "Third son, you don't have to worry... I will tell the boss and I will definitely let you get what you want. It's getting late now, you Go back home and rest first, and when the boss comes in a few days, I will let him fully support you!"
"My son, thank you very much, Father!"
While Zhu San thanked his father, he also felt that something was wrong... Isn't his father the lord of all nations in the world? Why can't we just discuss it with the boss?
Zhu Youjian waved to his son and told him to resign immediately and stop asking questions...because Emperor Chongzhen himself felt that the situation in recent years was a bit strange. Although in the past it was felt that there was not enough money to spend, the imperial government's finances had a surplus every year.
However, since the traitor raised 130 million in one year, the Ming court has been in deficit every year and has never had a surplus.
While he was trying to figure it out, the sound of the script rang again, and then the voice of Concubine Wu Liangha: "I respectfully send you my regards."
Imperial Concubine Wu Liangha is old. She is already in her fifties. Although years of exercise have kept her figure in good shape, no amount of makeup and powder can cover up the aging of her appearance.
Since the 20th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian has never turned over Wu Liangha's brand again, and Wu Liangha and Zhu Youjian are divided into many and small together - Wu Liangha and Zhu Cixuan's mother and son live in the grassland. In fact, Presided over the military and government affairs of the Great Mongolia.
Although the couple rarely see each other, their relationship is still good. After all, they have been a couple who have been together for more than 20 years, and Zhu Youjian has always regarded Wu Liangha as an important helper in his career...Zhu Youjian The world of China is actually composed of two parts: Mongolia and Ming Dynasty. Because the plate was too big and Zhu Youjian had no other skills, he could only use the method of "two masters and co-governance" to govern the country.
On the Ming side, Zhu Youjian and Zhu Cihong are now the father and son who rule together. Zhu Youjian is in charge of the Ming Dynasty's army in Beijing, and Zhu Cihong is in charge of the Ming Dynasty's treasury in Shanghai.
In the Great Mongolia, Zhu Youjian and Wu Liangha jointly ruled. Zhu Youjian controlled the Monan and Dongdao grasslands that were included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and also controlled the economic lifeline of the Great Mongolia. Wu Liangha is stationed in Mobei and Moxi, and controls the military power of the Great Mongolia!
Therefore, Wu Liangha's importance in Zhu Youjian's empire indeed exceeded that of Queen Zhou.
