When Liu Haojia saw Zhang Jia coming in, he quickly put down his pen and stood up and said, "What kind of wind brought Zhang Banban here?"
Zhang Jia stamped his feet and said, "What kind of wind could it be? Of course it's a strong wind! Don't you know what happened in the morning this morning?"
Liu Haojia smiled and said, "Zhang Banban, you can tell by the look on my face that I haven't been out for two days. Of course I don't know what happened this morning!"
Zhang Jia heard this and thought to himself, could this matter really be Liu Runlin's own initiative? But thinking about it, he didn't believe it, so he simply told what happened in detail.
After listening to this, Liu Haojia hammered his palms and said, "This matter is my fault! I just gave the memorial to my father and asked him to tell the emperor, but because I was busy, I forgot to explain clearly and asked my father to go directly to the palace to ask for an audience!"
Zhang Jia felt much relieved after hearing this. He felt that Liu Haojia was not deliberately irritating Emperor Wanli, so he lowered his tone and said, "Then you should clean up quickly and follow our family into the palace! Look at the way you look now, be careful of the indecency before the emperor." !」
Liu Haojia touched the stubble on his face and said, "That's right, that's right, we need to clean it up! Why don't Zhang Banban go back and report it to Lord Long Live first, and tell me I'll be there soon!"
Zhang Jia also felt that it was important to comfort Emperor Wanli first, so he agreed and turned around to leave. After Zhang Jia left, Liu Haojia regained his calm and composed expression. He said "hum" before ordering people to get water to wash up and change clothes.
In fact, the whole thing was caused by Liu Haojia! After all, he was angry after being beaten by Emperor Wanli, so he took this opportunity to disgust him! Although there is no substantial gain, at least I can vent my anger!
By the time Liu Haojia packed up and rushed to the palace, Emperor Wanli had listened to his report and had lost a lot of his anger. However, when he saw Liu Haojia, he still said with a straight face: "What on earth is going on with Marquis Gu Ning?" ? How come you get such a strange memorial?"
Liu Haojia hurriedly explained: "Long live Lord, this is my fault! I wrote a memorial for my father to hand over to Long live Lord, but did not explain clearly that it should be sent directly to the palace. Long live Lord, you also know that my father is not a meticulous person. People, so something went wrong all of a sudden!"
Emperor Wanli heard Liu Haojia's personal explanation, which completely dispelled the doubts in his heart, but he was still very unhappy and said with a straight face: "What exactly do you think about attacking Japan? I'll tell you first, I I don’t have this money in my inner treasury!”
Liu Haojia heard this and smiled and said: "Long live my Lord, I have been busy calculating the personnel, food, wages and equipment for sending troops these days, so I didn't have to explain clearly. This is my fault! Long live my Lord! In fact, I came up with this idea. This is just for the sake of the inner treasury of Lord Long Live, and I plan to get some money to lighten the burden on the inner treasury, otherwise the annual rations for such a large navy would be extremely heavy!"
When Emperor Wanli and Zhang Jia heard this, they both stared at Liu Haojia as if they were a madman. Then Emperor Wanli slapped the table and said, "Are you crazy? I only heard that fighting wastes the country's money. How can I hear that?" Can you still make money by fighting?"
After Emperor Wanli finished speaking, he nodded in agreement. And Liu Hao Jia'e said: "Long live my Lord, who told you that you can't make money from war?"
Emperor Wanli said angrily: "Who needs to say that there are not enough records of these things in history books? How many countries lost all their national power because of the final battle, and then fell into despair, or even died in the end! Don't you read books?"
Liu Haojia said seriously: "Long live Lord, some things are not recorded in detail in the history books! And even if it is true, it is because their method of fighting is wrong! If they fight according to my method, regardless of whether they make money or not, it will definitely You won’t lose money!”
Emperor Wanli also wanted to understand at this time. He said suspiciously: "You are not planning to plunder, are you? And the civil servants are in a poor place. What can you get by plundering?"
Liu Haojia heard the words and said righteously: "Long live my Lord, my army of the Ming Dynasty is the Huanghuang Celestial Master, how can I do such things as plundering!"
Emperor Wanli said: "Then you plan to follow the example of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, asking the other country to cede territory and pay compensation? But even if you let the Japanese cede territory, what's the use of the Ming Dynasty asking for an enclave?"
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Hao Jia said: "Certaining territory is only one of the alternative purposes, and it is not the focus. The focus is to attack the city! This time I went to the civil servants to recruit a group of maritime merchants, and the navy was responsible for fighting. As for other matters, those maritime merchants naturally Go ahead, all you have to do to be our navy is sit back and share the spoils!"
Emperor Wanli and Zhang Jia both opened their mouths in surprise when they heard this. After a while, Emperor Wanli blushed and said coyly: "Isn't this not good? Isn't it a matter of fact? Wouldn't that be disrespectful to the dignity of our heavenly kingdom?"
Liu Haojia said with a smile: "We, the Ming Navy, went to the Japanese country to punish them for sending Japanese pirates to harass the sea. Naturally, they will not mess around! As for the volunteers who voluntarily followed the Ming Dynasty fleet, we will not restrain them, and we have no such obligation! As for them If you voluntarily offer a batch of loot, we can’t help but accept it!”
Emperor Wanli was obviously moved when he heard these words. He rubbed his chin with his hand and considered the pros and cons. Zhang Jia quietly gave him a thumbs up and shook his head slightly. I mean, you can say such shameless things, and they sound pretty nice!
In fact, the reason why Liu Haojia provoked the navy to attack the Japanese country was not just because of this little property. Of course, property is definitely one of the reasons. But most importantly, he wants to turn the Navy into an offensive team!
Although the Royal Navy has been established for some time, it still regards the navy as a defensive fleet from top to bottom. The focus is still on patrolling the sea and expelling pirates. But from the day the navy was born, it was destined to be offensive. How to make everyone in the navy understand this? Interest is the best bait!
When they go out to fight, the soldiers have military honors to gain and spoils of war to be distributed, so they are naturally motivated! If we can expand the land and allocate hundreds of acres of land, I'm afraid the navy will be more motivated to fight! If Emperor Wanli could be persuaded to open up some titles, I'm afraid the entire navy would go crazy and attack any land they could get!
For Wei, land is not very rare to him, but the reputation of opening up new territories and the solid money flowing into the inner treasury will give him enough temptation to let him completely let go of the navy!
Moreover, once the navy has tasted the sweet fruits of victory, it will be even more difficult for them to put away their bloodthirsty fangs! When the time comes, they will look for food on their own to fill their hungry stomachs!
