When Bao Chengxian gave Hauge an idea, Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, learned of their plan through the Class A eavesdropping seeds on Hauge and Turg.
Seeing Hauge's ecstatic reaction, Emperor Chongzhen had to admit that the traitor Bao Chengxian still had some brains. If he really wanted to do what he said, he might have been tricked by him.
To be honest, when Hauge agreed to Bao Chengxian's plan and immediately started to implement it, Emperor Chongzhen was a little worried. Can Sun Chuanting see through Jianlu's conspiracy?
At this time, he also had a headache.
If he is on the front line, in a situation like this, even if his opponent is a hundred times smarter and no matter how perfect his strategy is, he will still be able to learn about it in advance and turn the enemy's winning strategy into the trigger for a major defeat.
But now he is not on the front line. Although you can send someone to deliver the message immediately. But the route for Fei Ge to pass the message has not yet been completed. The cultivation of homing pigeons takes time. From the capital to Tianjin Port and then to Lushun, we can only quickly deliver it to Busan, and then take a boat to deliver the news to the Japanese country. This takes a lot of time.
Although there are distance and time constraints for the remnants of the Jianlu to attack Shimonoseki and Tokuyama from Nagoya, in the end, the remnants of the Jianlu should still be faster.
"Now it seems that we can only see whether Sun Chuanting or Zheng Zhilong can see through Jianlu's plan!" Emperor Chongzhen thought with a little worry.
This incident also served as a reminder to Emperor Chongzhen: in the future, when the Ming Dynasty will conquer the world, it is impossible for him to divide himself into many clones to fight wars in every place. After all, he still has to rely on various generals to conquer the world on his behalf. The victory or defeat of the war still depends on various generals.
One thing that is better is that if the defeat of an important war that may damage the vitality of the Ming Dynasty, there is no doubt that Emperor Chongzhen will personally take action.
Like the Japanese side, in this war, even if the Jianqi were defeated once and the Ming army lost a battle, it would not shake the foundation of the Ming army's conquest of Japan. But despite this, Emperor Chongzhen still hoped that the Ming army soldiers would not die if they could not kill people, and if they could not defeat the battle, they would not lose the battle!
The message was sent, but it was unknown whether it could be delivered to Sun Chuanting in time.
So, let’s wait and see! Emperor Chongzhen thought so in his heart.
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Sun Chuanting, who was far away in Japan, did not have the golden finger of Emperor Chongzhen. Of course, it was impossible to know the situation of Jianlu in advance. Even if the army is sent out all night, it will only be within a radius of about a hundred miles near the camp.
Moreover, he was the head coach of the war against Japan, so he had many things to worry about. Shimonoseki and Tokuyama made a tour, and then turned back to Kyushu Island.
On this day, after Sun Chuanting took care of the affairs on North Korea, Tsushima Island and Kyushu Island, he was thinking about the two camps on Honshu, so he took a boat to Shimonoseki first.
Zheng Zhilong happened to be in Xiaguan. Hearing that Sun Chuanting had arrived, he quickly came over to greet him.
Therefore, Sun Chuanting, accompanied by Zheng Zhilong, inspected the progress of the project to rebuild Xiaguan.
Standing on a section of the city that has been restored, the sea breeze blew the nearby flags.
Sun Chuanting glanced at the construction site in front of him, nodded approvingly and said, "Well done, the speed is much faster than I expected."
"Haha, thanks to you!" Zheng Zhilong heard this and said with a smile, "Recently, there have been many Japanese people coming to join us. With more labor, the speed will naturally be faster!"
Sun Chuanting nodded after hearing this, then turned to Zheng Zhilong and asked, "Is there enough food?"
"It's okay. These Japanese people are fed as much as they want and are very obedient." As soon as Zheng Zhilong said this, he saw some movement. After taking a closer look, he pointed with his hand and said, "Sir, please look, there is a man over there. The Japanese fainted, probably due to loss of strength."
After hearing this, Sun Chuanting looked along his fingers and saw a Japanese fainted on the ground in the distance. The Japanese around seemed to be unperturbed and no one paid attention to him. However, there were thousands of Ming army officers and soldiers supervising the work. , dragged him to a shady place.
Sun Chuanting kept looking, and he found that there were many people sitting against the wall in that shady place, as if they were drinking gruel.
Seeing that Sun Chuanting noticed, Zheng Zhilong continued: "There are a lot more Japanese people. Many of them are young and strong and have big appetites. The food is indeed tight. If they can eat more, the construction speed will be faster." It can be much faster.”
For Sun Chuanting, it would be best if this place was repaired as soon as possible. So he thought for a moment and then said: "Go back to Tsushima Island with my order and get more food."
The Ming army's food and supplies are now piled on Tsushima Island. The reason why it was not shipped to Japan was because neither the city on Kyushu nor Honshu had been completed.
When Zheng Zhilong heard that Sun Chuanting agreed, he felt happy and quickly agreed.
Later, he hesitated, and then said to Sun Chuanting: "Sir, can you allocate more food? The same is true over Deshan. There are a lot of Japanese people, and food is a little tight."
"Oh?" Sun Chuanting was a little surprised when he heard this, then turned to Zheng Zhilong and asked, "Are there a lot of Japanese people over there?"
"Yeah!" Zheng Zhilong nodded and replied, "Same as here, basically after two days some Japanese will come to vote."
Having said this, he smiled again, flattered Sun Chuanting and said, "It must be that your reputation for kindness spreads far and wide. After hearing about it, the Japanese came to join us one after another!"
After hearing this, a faint smile appeared on Sun Chuanting's expressionless face, but it quickly disappeared.
For civil servants, reputation is very important, and it is also what true Confucians care about. It is better to have a name of kindness, that is, to love people like children, than to be called a ruthless butcher.
In the past, Sun Chuanting's heart was much harder than others. But at that time, there was nothing that could be done. If you are soft-hearted, you will never be able to bring peace to Qin where thieves are everywhere.
At this time, Sun Chuanting quickly recovered his expressionless face, thought about it carefully, frowned and asked Zheng Zhilong: "Did these Japanese people suddenly increase in number?"
"No!" Upon hearing this, Zheng Zhilong knew what Sun Chuanting was suspecting, so he quickly turned serious and reported seriously, "General, I have paid attention to the situation of the Japanese in Xiaguan and Deshan. At least so far, there has been no sudden incident. Increased circumstances.”
At this point, seeing that Sun Chuanting's expression did not change at all, he added: "The Japanese who come to vote have special people to check their identities. There is nothing special about them."
After hearing this, Sun Chuanting did not give up his doubts, and immediately asked: "Have you carefully verified the youth and strength of those Japanese people?"
Seeing his questioning, Zheng Zhilong answered more seriously: "The general has specifically told us to pay attention to the young adults among the Japanese. The general has also verified that very few of those young adults are alone. They are all with their families." of."
Hearing this, Sun Chuanting finally nodded. With a young and strong family, it is unlikely that he will become an enemy's spy.
With this thought in mind, he stopped asking further about the matter.
In fact, the remnants of the rebels were wreaking havoc from south to north. In other words, there are basically no other famous names in the south. It can be said that they are all the sphere of influence of the remnants of the Jianlu.
The main stronghold of the remnants of Jianlu is Kyoto, which is quite far away from here. What's more, the remnants of the Japanese invaders are also advancing northward and are fighting the Japanese daimyo in the north, even if they have heard that they have landed on Honshu Island. But as long as they know that they have no intention of marching north, they probably won't return to the army to cause trouble for them. That is because the longevity star hangs himself because he thinks their lives are long. You should be lucky if you don't send troops to fight them!
In this way, Sun Chuanting finished his inspection of Xiaguan and continued to inspect Deshan according to his previous itinerary. Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong naturally accompanied him.
When they arrived at Deshan, they found that the progress of building the city was faster than expected. This made Sun Chuanting frown. The current speed is so fast after he estimated that there were more Japanese people.
So, he turned to Zheng Zhilong and said, "Check, how many more Japanese have been added?"
After Zheng Zhilong heard this, he immediately agreed and left immediately.
Not long after, he came back with a booklet and reported to Sun Chuanting: "Sir, the number of Japanese people has increased a lot during this time, but they are all brought by their families, and many of them are from the same village. of."
Logically speaking, there should be no problem.
However, Sun Chuanting continued to ask: "What is the ratio of young to strong?"
Upon hearing this, Zheng Zhilong looked down at the booklet, then raised his head and replied, "Absolutely, nothing unusual."
After finishing speaking, he presented his hands to Sun Chuanting for personal review.
Sun Chuanting obviously didn't find it troublesome. After taking the booklet, he read it carefully.
This made Zheng Zhilong feel slightly unhappy, but at the same time, he also got to know the character of his immediate boss, and he began to think about how to get along better in the future.
When Sun Chuanting was cleaning up the farmland, he had to read a lot of account books and the like. Therefore, after casually flipping through a few pages, I suddenly became serious and even sat down to read more attentively. Not only look at the total number of people, but also look at the detailed daily records.
Seeing his posture, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but feel a "thump" in his heart. Is there any problem?
In the first few days, he also checked and found that everything was normal, so there should be no problem!
Although he was thinking this, Zheng Zhilong still felt a little scared when he saw Sun Chuanting's serious and focused look. So, he told himself in his heart, it's impossible. How could the remnants of the Jianlu people come up with the idea? It's a big deal that they weren't scared away!
Finally, when he saw Sun Chuanting flipping through the entire book, he quickly asked: "Sir, what's the problem?"
After hearing this, Sun Chuanting turned to look at him, shook his head and said, "No problem!"
