People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 251
"Your Majesty, something has happened..."

Hongwu two years, spring.

The joy that Lao Zhu had maintained since the fifteenth year was accompanied by a piece of news to the palace, and it disappeared.

"Your Majesty, the envoy we sent to Japan has been killed!"

Royal study.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news, his face changed drastically.

The pen in his hand for reviewing the memorial was broken by his force.

"What did you say?
Tell me again! "

The eunuch who came back from Zhongshu Province knelt on the ground and shivered.

"Your servant also learned about it from the adults of the Zhongshu Province. Now the two prime ministers on the left and right, all the ministers are ready to enter the palace and have an audience with the emperor!

The slave will come first and report to His Majesty! "

"Let Li Shanchang and the others come here quickly! Also, call Liu Ji to me..."

The air in the imperial study seemed to freeze.

Even the prince Zhu Biao did not dare to persuade the emperor for a while.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he waited for the eunuch to go out.

The broken pen in his hand was immediately thrown on the ground by him.

Zhu Biao was silent, and his eyes were also full of murderous intent.

As the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty and the future heir apparent of the empire, he was also enraged by this news.

"This Japan, I haven't troubled him yet, it dared to kill my envoy!"

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and paced back and forth in the imperial study.

Zhu Biao advised:

"Father, please be safe and don't be impatient!"

"Why do you tell me not to be impatient? A joke, a big joke!
Since ancient times, my Huaxia has been the suzerain of the small distant country over there. Those barbarians who licked the previous dynasty dare to kill my Ming envoy? "

Zhu Yuanzhang felt quite angry from embarrassment.

Lao Zhu had a good impression of Japan. Since the Tang Dynasty, this country has been a vassal state of the Huaxia Dynasty, and the most loyal ministers.

And after the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, the relationship between this country and the Yuan Dynasty was also bad.

In addition to the world map in Lao Zhu's study room, this country has the silver resource that Lao Zhu lacks the most.

So after the world was settled down this year, the emperor immediately sent envoys to Japan,

He wanted the king of the country to pay tribute to the court again.

If it works well, Zhu Yuanzhang also wants to talk to the Japanese king about mining silver.

However, reality hit him hard.

When the two countries are at war, it is not enough to kill envoys, let alone normal envoy exchanges.

Li Shanchang, Yang Xian and other officials from the Central Secretariat and the six ministries rushed to the palace one after another.

Upon receiving the news from the palace, Liu Bowen also came to the palace ahead of time, but someone came uninvited, which was unexpected by others. The person who came was Zhang Yi, another Yushi Zhongcheng from Yushitai.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zhang Yi, but didn't say much.

He cut straight to the point:
"About the killing of our envoy by Japan, do you know?"

All the senior officials present nodded. The news had originally passed through the Ministry of Education before it reached the emperor.

Li Shanchang and Yang Xian naturally knew.

And the two Yushi Zhongcheng of Yushitai also understood the ins and outs of the matter on the way.

"Your Majesty, the ministers and others know that the Japanese are rampant and really lack lessons!"

Their king is incapable of discipline, and Japanese pirates ravage our shores!

Now that the king kills our envoys, it can be seen that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked!
The minister suggested that a lesson should be taught to the King of Japan! "

Yang Xian could feel the anger in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, and he took the lead in following Lao Zhu's words.

His proposal hit Zhu Yuanzhang's deepest thoughts.

When Zhang Yi mentioned the sea ban to him last year, Lao Zhu accepted Zhang Yi's statement that the pressure on the northern front was too great.

Even with the great victory in Shanxi last year, the threat of the Mongols still exists.

But he reckoned that if the troops were transferred from the south, they might be able to teach those little Japanese a lesson.

"Very good, let Zhu Liangzu come back..."

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, Liu Bowen stood up:
"Your Majesty, you can't..."

Before Lao Zhu made a decision, Liu Bowen stood up and opposed it.

Yang Xian looked at Liu Ji with displeasure.

"Liu Ji, what do you have to say?"

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was angry, Liu Bowen interrupted his thoughts of venting, with displeasure written all over his face.

Liu Ji lowered his head and said:

"I feel that it is not the best policy to attack Japan!"

"Could it be that you want me to endure it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's anger has already hovered over Liu Ji's head. As long as he doesn't deal with it well, he will probably vent it.

Liu Ji's expression remained unchanged, and he said:

"If your Majesty just wants to vent his anger and want to be a monarch like Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, I will naturally not persuade His Majesty, but only let His Majesty be happy with revenge!
But His Majesty said that in the heart of the minister, he is a hero who knows how to advance and retreat, and knows how to forbear, that's why the minister said so!
It is indeed treasonous for Japan to kill our envoys, but there is a reason for this!
After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were two bloody battles between Japan and the Yuan Dynasty!
The Mongols set off for the second time, but they all fell into the sand when they encountered a storm.

Therefore, the hatred between the Central Plains and Japan has lasted for a hundred years, and His Majesty won the world, and it is too late to make up for the hearts of the two places!

And even though the other party killed our envoy, the people who came back from the front reported that at least Lord Yang and Lord Wu's lives are not in danger for the time being!

There may not be room for maneuver in this matter!This is one of them!

Second, even if His Majesty wants to go on an expedition to Japan, not to mention that the pressure on the northern border of the Ming Dynasty has not yet been relieved!
That is, we are going to attack Japan, do we have a navy?

We can't even deal with the Japanese pirates just relying on those navy troops in Fujian. How can we fight to Japan?
Our Daming has a little wealth, but not much!

Even if you want to take revenge, you should take it slowly!
The Mongols in the north are my worry, Ming!
Your Majesty a hero, why don't you know how to choose? "

Liu Ji poured a basin of cold water, and Zhu Yuanzhang felt depressed.

He really wanted to get angry, but as Liu Ji said, he was a hero after all.

If you send troops to attack Japan in your will, then Ming's stretched military budget will be even more tense.

Not to mention that part of his Daming navy has actually been transferred by him to become Ping An and Mu Ying's sea team.

Even if you want to fight, you can't fight.

Lao Zhu took a deep breath and swallowed it back abruptly.

"Your Majesty, do you really want to endure it? I remember last year, Your Majesty ordered the formation of the Xuanwu Army. Could it be that the Xuanwu Army cannot be used?"

Seeing that Liu Ji had actually persuaded the emperor, Yang Xian couldn't help being furious.

He tried to make Zhu Yuanzhang change his mind again, but Zhu Yuanzhang ignored him.

"Then Liu Ji, what do you think should be done?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Wait!"

Bowen Liu said:

"Since Yang Zai and Wu Wenhua were not killed, the other party will keep them, and there must be a chance to come back!
We'd better wait until they bring news back to Japan, and then formulate the next strategy! "

"Li Shanchang, what do you want to say?"

Li Shanchang, who had been silent all this time, waited for the emperor to ask, and then he said in a low voice:
"I also think we should wait, but we can make two-handed preparations!

Since His Majesty formed the Xuanwu Army, it proves that His Majesty also has his own ideas about sea troubles!

The minister thinks that we can appropriately increase our investment in the Xuanwu Army...

First let them fight pirates around and practice soldiers!
If we conquer Japan in the future, our Ming Dynasty will not be unprepared! "

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, what Li Shanchang thought was actually what he had been trying to figure out.

Since Japan can't be defeated for the time being, that's the only way to go.

A cavity of anger turned into forbearance in the end. Even though Lao Zhu accepted this fact, he felt very uncomfortable.

He didn't want to discuss this matter any further.

So he turned around and asked Zhang Yi:

"Zhang Yi, you keep looking for me, but what's the matter?"

Zhang Yi waited for everyone to finish discussing state affairs before kneeling down:
"Your Majesty, I have come to ask you to resign..."

When he came out suddenly, everyone was shocked.

Zhang Yi did a good job, why did he resign?

Zhu Yuanzhang also meant this, and he asked:
"What's the matter with you, I've been thinking about using you recently, and you're going to pick me up?"

Faced with the emperor's questioning, Zhang Yi was speechless for a long time, and then reluctantly said:

"The reason for my resignation is because my mother is seriously ill and I am worried, so I beg your majesty to let me go home!"

Old Zhu is not happy:

"Your mother is seriously ill, I can understand your filial piety, but as a subject, you have to bear the burden of the court!

If everyone in the family is sick, they all have to resign from me, will this world still exist? "

If someone else resigned, Zhu Yuanzhang would probably agree.

Zhang Yi and Zhu Yuanzhang are also considered important people.

He is not only a royal doctor, but also a person who understands the art of war.

Zhang Yi himself contributed a lot to the pacification of Fujian last year.

Just because of some of these things, Lao Zhu originally wanted him to go to Fujian, but stayed.

The reason why he stayed in the capital was also related to Zhang Yi.

Sure enough, Zhang Yi heard the words and prayed again:
"Your Majesty, last year the little Daoist from Longhushan told me that my mother had died this year, and Sanyi didn't believe it. It wasn't until I received a letter from my family this year that I realized that what the Taoist said was true!

My mother's illness, I'm afraid she won't survive this catastrophe!
Although I am Your Majesty's subject, but my parents are in good health, I don't want to see my mother for the last time, please Your Majesty! "

Zhang Yiyi said that everyone present couldn't help but think of the incident last year.

The little real person in Longhushan was well known because of his emergence at this time.

Zhang Yi predicted Zhang Yi's death, and also predicted that his mother would die!

These prophecies, which were listened to as a joke at the beginning, now appeared before my eyes again.

Old Zhu is so angry, it turned out to be the trick of that little bastard at Qingxinguan.

He didn't want to let Zhang Yi go, so he naturally wouldn't accept Zhang Yi's opinion:
"That nonsense little Taoist priest, I'll catch him and spank him later!
As a scholar, the sage of Confucius said, respect ghosts and gods and keep them at a distance, how can you listen to the wind as rain?

I don't agree with this matter, if you are worried about your mother, I can find a famous doctor for you!

This matter will be discussed later! "

Seeing that the emperor did not allow him to resign, Zhang Yi's eyes became dazed.

Seeing him like this, other people either gloated or sympathized with him.

Yang Xian belonged to the happy one, he said:

"Master Zhang, don't listen to that kid's nonsense, he also said that the truth will be brought to justice by the emperor, he is a little Taoist priest who deceives people with his lies, if you believe him, you are a fool!

The truth is, Lingtang Jiren has his own appearance, and nothing will happen!

On the contrary, Truth thinks that the emperor is right, that kid really deserves to be beaten!
Looking back, the truth can make the Criminal Department..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he found a pair of eyes staring at him. Yang Xian turned his head and found that it was the emperor.

He broke out in a cold sweat immediately, knowing that he had said something wrong, so he shut up quickly.

Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen are also persuading Zhang Yi.

"If Mr. Zhang is worried, you can ask a child to go back and take care of him..."

Seeing Yang Xian's distraught appearance, Lao Zhu felt restless.

He was already disturbed by the killing of the envoy by Japan, and he met Zhang Yi again.

He waved his hand and said:
"If you have nothing to do, leave it to me, and I will think about it..."

Knowing the emperor's thoughts, Zhang Yi could only bow down and thank him.

A group of people walked side by side and walked out of each other.

On the side of Li Shanchang and Yang Xian, Zhang Yi and Liu Bowen belong to the Eastern Zhejiang School, so they naturally walk together.

Seeing that Liu Bowen was still comforting Zhang Yi, Yang Xian couldn't help but sarcastically:
"This Zhang Yi is also an idiot, and he actually believed the Taoist priest's evil words to confuse the crowd. This is probably because he was an official with the Mongols and learned the Mongols' tradition of superstitious belief in ghosts and gods!
In fact, in my opinion, His Majesty shouldn't use the two of them, after all, the background of these two people is not right..."

Li Shanchang didn't answer, but watched with a smile.

The relationship between Yang Xian and him is very delicate, and they are still decent in the face of Zhongshu Sheng.

In private, he knew that this person had played tricks on him a lot.

Not a heart-to-heart person, Li Shanchang, an old fox, naturally wouldn't follow Yang Xian:
"Your Majesty has no doubts about employing people!

Although both Liu Ji and Zhang Yi were former officials, but now they are His Majesty's courtiers, so there is no need to hold on to them!

What's more, being an official doesn't ask about one's background, just like Master Yang's background in a school, but it doesn't prevent him from being a prime minister now! "

Yang Xian's smile suddenly froze on his face, compared to Liu Bowen and Zhang Yi, he had the stain of being an official in the previous dynasty.

Isn't his past as an intelligence agency a stain in Li Shanchang's mind?
Especially in the process of working with Li Wenzhong, although he also helped the emperor, in the eyes of the Huaixi people, Yang Xian was also a villain who told the truth.

Yang Xian sneered, not daring to answer!
A group of people walked out of the palace gate like this.

They should have been separated, but there was one person who attracted the attention of the two prime ministers.

"Cunhou, why are you here?"

Zhang Yi, who has been in a state of despair, was the last one to find his son Zhang Cunhou waiting for him at the gate of the palace.

When he called out, Zhang Cunhou burst into tears.

He knelt down on the ground and cried loudly:

"Father, there's news from home again, grandma... grandma... is gone..."

This life is gone, making Zhang Yi's eyes dim and he fell backwards.

Liu Bowen had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and finally helped his old friend.

"father!"

"Master Zhang!"

Because Zhang Yi was in a coma at the gate of the palace, a little chaos was caused immediately.

Liu Bowen shouted to Zhang Cunhou:

"Aren't you helping your father to find a doctor?"

Only then did Zhang Cunhou and his servants react, and hurriedly let Zhang Yi get into the car.

The chariots and horses disappeared at the gate of the palace.

Only two people were left before they had time to react.

A gust of wind blew by, and Li Shanchang and Yang Xian were in a mess.

Li Shanchang: ...

Yang Xian: ...

The two were silent for a while, Li Shanchang took a deep look at Yang Xian, turned and left.

As soon as he left, Yang Xian's legs went limp and he collapsed on the ground.

Fortunately, he had quick eyesight and quick hands, and supported the palace wall to keep himself from falling down.

Is Zhang Yi really fucking dead?

There was no trace of blood on Yang Xian's face.

(End of this chapter)