"It seems that the Japanese are frightened." Ru Taisu, who was invited to have breakfast with Zhu Su for the rare occasion today, stroked his beard and laughed. "That's how it should be! Even a mere barbarian dares to stroke the beard of my Ming Dynasty tiger!"
"I just hope that this Japanese man can learn some etiquette and justice, change his mind from now on, and no longer be in trouble..."
"It's not that simple. If this can solve the problem, then why do we need the Ming army?" Zhu Di, who was also dining, put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands. He turned to Zhu Su and said, "Lao Wu, the Japanese are all cheap. If you humiliate him like this, I'm afraid that if he gets a chance to turn around, he will come back with a thousandfold revenge."
"If you try to make this Japanese admire me, the Ming Dynasty, and then ask him to convince the Japanese king to control the Japanese pirates... I don't think this method will work."
He looked at Zhu Su with a serious face. "Lao Wu, fourth brother, teach you to be a good boy."
"The surrounding barbarians are all wolves coveting my Ming Dynasty land. It is useless to think about 'conquering people with virtue'. Only by beating them up and subduing them can we truly achieve success." 'Conquer the world'."
"I heard that there are Japanese invaders in other places... If you want to control the Japanese, you might as well listen to the fourth brother. Let's go directly south along the sea! See the Japanese to control the Japanese, and wipe out all the Japanese at once!"
"Go all the way to Fujian! The Japanese pirates they suppressed were so frightened that they turned into soft-footed shrimps when they heard our brothers' names! In this way, we might be able to bring peace to our Ming Dynasty for a few years. What do you think? "
Zhu Di looked expectant.
"……not so good."
"Leading the army to suppress Japanese invaders, where can I get the food and military expenses? Although I go on patrol in the name of my eldest brother, I can't use my eldest brother's name to ask for money and food!"
Zhu Su rolled his eyes at Zhu Laosi, picked up a towel and wiped the stains on his lips. Isn’t this a nice thing to say before, but it’s true colors were revealed halfway through. To put it bluntly, Zhu Laosi just didn't want to respond to the old man Tianjian, and he had never had the pleasure of fighting before, so he just wanted to find a fight.
"Money and food... are really troublesome. If only we could find someone to help us get money and food, we could just focus on fighting the war." Zhu Di was dejected after being rejected.
Zhu Su was speechless. Now he can somewhat understand how his eldest nephew Zhu Gaoxu will feel in the future. It was really troublesome for him to have such a war-loving general Zhengbei.
"Your Highness, the poor monk also has a question." Zhu Di was lost at the side, and Yao Guangxiao thought about it for a while, and finally decided to ask Zhu Su a question. "Your Highness humiliates the Japanese like this, but you don't know what the deeper meaning is?"
"If you really just want to quell the Japanese, as His Highness King Yan said, even the poor monk will think that this method will not be effective."
"Is there something profound about it?"
"Of course I want to pacify the Japanese." Zhu Su smiled. Speaking of the Japanese, there was a deep hatred in his eyes: "Monk, although you are knowledgeable about the past and present, you don't know much about the Japanese."
"That generation of Japanese people are always afraid of power and not virtuous. If you treat him with courtesy, he will look down on you. But if you humiliate him and trample him under your feet, he will respect you even more."
"Is there such a bitch in the world?" Zhu Di looked in disbelief.
"That's not true." This is the truth that later generations have obtained through historical testing, and it is an accurate summary of their national character. Although the era is slightly different, the core things will not change. "Actually, if we defeat them, their country will be more obedient to our Ming Dynasty... But now I, the Ming Dynasty, can't take action, so I have to use this method to pave the way for the Ming Dynasty in the future."
"Foreshadowing?" Everyone looked confused.
Yao Guangxiao was thoughtful, and he remembered what Zhu Su said to him in the past: "If you can help my Han family, slay all the evil-doing dragons in the wilderness, and create an eternal great cause that has never been done before or since. In this way, we will not disobey the ancestors of Tianxin. I can still leave a good name for eternity..."
"Could it be that your highness wants to swallow up the Japanese country?" Yao Guangxiao suddenly realized.
"Of course." Zhu Su did not deny it. "Instead of boiling water to stop it, it's better to draw fuel from the bottom of the cauldron. Monk, don't you think that if you want to completely wipe out the Japanese pirates, directly making the Japanese country a vassal of the Ming Dynasty is the fundamental solution?"
"But... Lao Wu, you have too much appetite!" Zhu Di also looked shocked. "You want to annex the Japanese country? That kind of barbaric land..."
Even Zhu Di, who was not very good at coordinating money and food, knew that the Japanese country was isolated overseas. If he wanted to conquer it, he would have to waste people and money...
"It's not that I want to swallow it, but that I, Da Ming, want to swallow it..." Zhu Su winked at Zhu Di. Zhu Di understood instantly: "You mean dad..."
"Barbarian lands are not all barren mountains and rivers as we imagined. Just talk about the Japanese country, it is a good place." Zhu Su said. Thinking of that small land, it turned out to be a major disaster for China in later generations, almost causing China to sink again... Zhu Su felt it was necessary, and encouraged Lao Zhu to take advantage of the right time, place, and people to serve future generations forever. Jing eliminated this scourge.
"I understand, poor monk." When the emperor was mentioned, Yao Guangxiao did not dare to ask any more questions. It's just that this matter has been engraved in my mind. He bowed to Zhu Su and said: "In that case, the Japanese are already ashamed of themselves and are deeply ashamed of their status as Japanese. So what does Your Highness want to do next?"
"Now that the first step has been completed, it's time to show off your muscles." Zhu Su's mouth curved, "You have to let him know how powerful our Ming Dynasty is, so that he will never forget my Ming Dynasty."
"From now on, concentrate on becoming my Ming Dynasty's dog..."
At this time, Zhu Laowu looked as cunning as possible.
"By the way, where has the second brother been recently?" Zhu Su asked Zhu Di as he suddenly thought of something.
"Where else can we go?" Zhu Di spread his hands. "Let's go look for those rangers. I don't know why, but since my second brother visited Zhang Dingbian that day, he became brothers with the rangers under Zhang Dingbian and became very familiar with them."
"Zhang Dingbian and the rangers left today, and my second brother went to see them off."
"...Zhang Dingbian is leaving?" Zhu Su suddenly realized that in the blink of an eye, the three-day period agreed with Zhang Dingbian had arrived. He received a hundred military sticks but was still in a hurry to leave. It seemed that Zhang Dingbian did not want to give himself too many opportunities to be kind. Maybe he doesn't want Chen Hui to continue to be tied up in the busy city and humiliated?
I think Zhang Dingbian will take Chen Hui north to Goryeo. After handing Chen Hui over to Chen Li in Goryeo, he will stay in northern Xinjiang to fight against the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.
From then on, on the battlefield of Yuan and Ming Dynasties in northern Xinjiang, an anti-Yuan hero will appear...
Bah, bah...what are you thinking about? Zhu Su shook his head and forced himself to focus on how to scare the Japanese named Fujiwara next.
With the addition of Zhang Dingbian in northern Xinjiang, the balance of stalemate on the battlefields of Yuan and Ming Dynasties should have changed slightly compared with the history... If we can legitimately dispatch garrison troops to take over the power of the Japanese country, then we will create a more powerful country than in history. The Ming Dynasty should be more within reach, right?
(End of chapter)
