Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 206 Chapter [-] The Weird Japanese Prime Minister
After spending a whole day with Emperor Jiajing in the Baiyun Temple, Wang Daoqiu and Emperor Jiajing had breakfast in the Baiyun Temple and then went back.

Because he stayed up all night last night, Emperor Jiajing was also very humane and gave Wang Daoqiu a day off so that he could have a good rest at home. There was no need to go to Xiyuan on duty today.

Dragging his tired body, Wang Daoqiu returned home.At this time, his father, Wang Zhaowen, had gone to the Yamen office in the morning.To be honest, Wang Daoqiu was speechless about his father's diligence.

The rooster crowed three times a day, and he had to get out of the warm blanket to get dressed in the cold weather, and then braved the severe winter cold of Sijiu City to go to the Yamen to work.The sanitation workers of later generations in Beijing know how much suffering this has to offer.

I'm afraid you won't be able to find one of those officials who are living for future generations who can bear this crime.But he, Wang Zhaowen, was extremely happy every day and envied Wang Daoqiu for being able to go to the morning court every day.If he could go to morning, he wouldn't mind moving up the time he wakes up by two hours every day.

Wang Daoqiu really couldn't imitate Wang Zhaowen's drive to "serve the people" and could only look up to him.

Thinking of all this mess, Wang Daoqiu entered the courtyard with the nod and bow of concierge Fan Er.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw Mrs. Qiu and her little Y-headed Sanniang sweeping the yard.

As soon as he saw the cute little Sanniang, Wang Daoqiu couldn't help but go over and hold the little Sanniang in his arms.Seeing that Wang Daoqiu was caring about his mistress regardless of his identity, Sister Qiu didn't stop her. She just smiled and asked, "Master, don't you have to be on duty today? Why are you back now?"

"Hi! Sister Qiu, don't mention it. The emperor was fasting in Baiyun Temple last night. I was pulled by the emperor to meditate behind him. I didn't dare to move. I even had to cover my mouth and whisper when I coughed. Hi, I'm done. I've been punished all night! No, the emperor was merciful and gave me a day off to come back and have a good sleep. By the way, Sister Qiu, why do I feel that Sanniang's cotton-padded clothes are a bit thin?"

"It's okay, sir. This girl will get a little cold when she is cleaning the yard with me. At other times, she either stays in the kitchen to light the fire, or goes to the master's room to play with his wife and Miss Cui'er. She can't be cold, it's just Poor her two brothers, they were dragged to work by their stupid father to make money at such a young age. They are freezing outside in this cold weather and have nothing to eat. Now they are looking forward to rain and snow every day, so they You don’t have to go out to work, you can come to the master’s place to have some meat.”

It turned out that Li Ergou had dragged his two sons to work. No wonder he hadn't seen those two little brats for a long time.Thinking of this and seeing that Qiu's sister-in-law was heartbroken for their two sons, Wang Daoqiu said: "Qiu's sister-in-law, Xiangning has the final say in my family's affairs now. If you think it's too hard for the two children to do plastering work, you can ask Xiangning. Do you need a servant in the mansion? Or do you need a servant for my in-law’s business in the city and Tongzhou?"

"Hey, sir, you are kind-hearted. When I get back to my house, I will ask my wife if we can let those two idiots come into the house and have a good meal. Don't worry, sir. Those two idiots have been following their father for more than half a year. Now, now If we can let them live in the house and have good food, they will definitely work hard and won't be as naughty as before."

"Okay, you can talk to Xiangning about this. In addition, Sanniang is wearing cotton padded clothes. You can change her into something thicker. It's best to wear a red-faced one, so she looks happy."

"Hey, listen to the master, listen to the master."

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After talking to Qiu Sao, Wang Daoqiu returned the mistress to Qiu Sao and went back to the house to catch up on his sleep.

Time flies, and a few months pass by. When the time comes to the third month of the lunar calendar and April of the Gregorian calendar in the 27th year of Jiajing, the flower-growing land ends the severe cold and the earth turns green.Wang Daoqiu left the capital Beijing and came to Weihaiwei, Dengzhou.

Standing on the top of Liugong Island, facing the vast sea in front of him, Wang Daoqiu had mixed feelings.In the original time and space, during the Jiawu Year of the Qing Dynasty, a group of scum and social garbage of the Chinese nation turned this place into a flower-growing nation, which is an eternal shame.Let every Chinese people remember this place, Liugong Island in Weihai.

Because the memory is too painful, when Wang Daoqiu was in Dengzhou last year to choose the home port for the second ocean-going navy after Zheng He, he chose Weihaiwei Liugong Island.For no other reason than to make this place of shame for the Chinese-growing nation in the original time and space turn into the glorious beginning of the flower-growing nation in the current time and space.

Standing on the top of Liugong Island, blowing the cold sea breeze.Not long after, Wang Yong, the head of Wang Daoqiu's four guards, ran over and clasped his fists, saying: "Master, Admiral of the Dengzhou Navy, Ouyang Junqing wants to see you."

"Well, let him come over!" Upon hearing that Ouyang Junqing, the naval admiral of Dengzhou, was coming, Wang Daoqiu hurriedly asked Wang Yong to bring him over.

Ouyang Junqing was also Wang Daoqiu's confidant in the military. He was promoted by Wang Daoqiu during his review of the Dengzhou Navy last year.This man is a hereditary family member of the Dengzhou Guards Navy, and generations of his family have been eating from this sea. When he was seven or eight years old, he followed his family elders to make a living in this sea.

Later, he inherited his father's position and served in the Dengzhou Navy with a small banner title, where he served for 15 years.When Wang Daoqiu met him last year, he was already the chief flag officer on a large ship.Just because Wang Daoqiu chatted with him very well at that time; just because Ouyang Junqing said at that time that he had gone to Japan and Korea to do business more than fifty times while patrolling at sea; just because Ouyang Junqing was in front of Wang Daoqiu at that time, Showed off a stammering Japanese language.

So Wang Daoqiu, who was worried that he had no close followers in the Dengzhou Navy at that time, promoted Ouyang Junqing, the then 33-year-old flag officer of the Dengzhou Navy, to the rank of admiral of the Dengzhou Navy.For this reason, more than a dozen middle- and senior-level officers of the Dengzhou Navy who were dissatisfied were executed in public.This is a warning to everyone in the Dengzhou navy. If you dare to go against me, Wang Daoqiu, I, Wang Daoqiu, will send you a dog.

In this way, Wang Daoqiu used iron and blood methods to help Ouyang Junqing establish absolute authority in the Dengzhou Navy.Later, Wang Daoqiu dredged up the Ministry of War and approved a large number of officer appointments and dismissals reported by Ouyang Junqing, and completely handed over the military power of the Dengzhou Navy to Ouyang Junqing.It can be said that Ouyang Junqing, like Ma Fang, Qi Jiguang, and Li Guodong, are generals that Wang Daoqiu should focus on supporting in the army.

Under the leadership of Wang Yong, Ouyang Junqing, a big man from Shandong who had been blowing the sea breeze for a long time and blushed like Guan Yunchang, quickly came to Wang Daoqiu.

As soon as he saw Wang Daoqiu, Ouyang Junqing immediately knelt down, bowed and said "favor" to his bole.

Ouyang Junqing's correct attitude made Wang Daoqiu very satisfied.So he lifted Ouyang Junqing up from the ground with both hands, and Wang Daoqiu asked politely: "How is it? Is everything going well in the past half year or so?"

"Ryan is taking care of me. Everything is going well in the Navy. There are now more than 9000 people in the Navy, including [-] boatmen, [-] marines, and more than [-] port guards. Most of these people were newly recruited last year. , It turns out that most of the people in the Dengzhou Navy were dismissed by the general."

"Well, you can't keep those old veterans, even if they have unique skills. They will bring bad morale to the entire army. Military discipline is the most important thing in training. As for the instinct to kill the enemy, you can practice it on the battlefield."

I heard that Ouyang Junqing had eliminated most of the old Dengzhou Navy. Wang Daoqiu supported this.After all, what bothers Wang Daoqiu the most is those people who think they can pull off a lot of tricks if they have some skills.

As for the professional skills of those soldiers, if the soldiers practice more and practice more, there will always be a few smart ones who stand out.To put it bluntly, this is a process and a question of training fees.Paying a small price, no matter how you put it, is better than leaving the troops alone and ruining the morale of the army, right?
Wang Daoqiu's idea of ​​​​selection and training of troops was also recognized by Ouyang Junqing.So as soon as Wang Daoqiu finished speaking, Ouyang Junqing continued: "Yes, what Enxiang said is absolutely true, and the general also thinks so. So I only left some with the old navy to avoid being led astray. Come over with the young people who can still obey me. As for those soldiers, even if they are old leaders, I will drive them out of the barracks and let them fend for themselves. By the way, Mr. Eun, when will we leave for Japan? ah?"

"This is not enough. We have to wait for the silk, tea, porcelain, and cotton from Jiangnan, as well as the iron materials from Jeju Iron Works and the glass from Daomen. We also have to wait for the prince of the Japanese Kingdom to come and lead us, so that we can learn from the famous .”

"The Crown Prince of Japan? Enxiang, the Crown Prince of Japan, will he come to guide us?"

"Why not? You also said that you used to go to the Japanese country to earn money. Since you often went to the Japanese country, you should know that the Japanese country is now like our Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period. The princes from all sides are fighting for territory and conquering each other. It has been five or sixty years, and the Japanese king is nothing in the eyes of those princes. So now the Japanese king is begging us. He wants to use the power of our Ming Dynasty to help him regain the dignity of the king, so that the princes will not rely on what is due to him. Filial piety. And the crown prince of the Japanese king is even more so. If the Japanese king is just a stinky beggar who has eaten his last meal and doesn’t know where his next meal will be, then won’t he, the crown prince, be another stinky beggar in the future?"

"What Enxiang said is that the Wa country is really chaotic now, and there are Caotou kings everywhere. There is almost one prince in a county as big as ours. Moreover, those Japanese people are very hard-headed and do everything hard. As a result, now The whole country has been fighting for five or 60 years, and they are still full of county-level princes everywhere, who refuse to obey each other and fight every day. Enxiang, are we really going to support the Japanese king this time? But as far as the general knows, the Japanese king But without soldiers, he is just a wretch, living by begging from local princes."

Ouyang Junqing didn't understand when Wang Daoqiu said that my current Ming Dynasty's national policy towards Japan is to support the Japanese king.After all, the current Japanese king not only has no soldiers, but also no money.Just because he has no soldiers and no money, the Japanese king is now living in the Japanese country just like a poor and wealthy man in the countryside.Apart from other things, because of lack of money, the Japanese king now has all the maids around him, and the couple take care of the housework by themselves.Even for burial, local princes and nobles had to raise funds from the crowd.

With the Japanese king looking so unlucky, what's the point of supporting him?In Ouyang Junqing's opinion, supporting the Japanese king is not as good as supporting the local princes of a certain Japanese country. At least they have some foundation, right?

Ouyang Junqing's idea is right in Zhonghua.After all, although the people of Zhong Kingdom shout "loyal to the emperor" every day, in fact, for the people of Zhong Kingdom, they don't care at all who becomes the emperor.Just like the workers of later generations, they don't care whether the factory changes its boss or not.

But the Japanese people can't do it. They have a characteristic in their brains that people all over the world are amazed at, that is, as long as they can live on, they are used to being content with the status quo and refusing to change.

Specifically, let's take the Japanese kings as an example. When Wang Daoqiu came, there were already 126 generations of Japanese kings there.What’s even more funny is that during the more than 2000 years of the existence of the Japanese kings, in the Japanese country, few of the Japanese kings had real power. They were basically puppets in the hands of powerful ministers.

If this happened in the country of Zhong, the dynasty would have changed a long time ago, but the Japanese people are so stupid!After the powerful ministers came to power, they were at ease, and they would not think about deposing the Japanese king and becoming kings themselves. They had such a good mentality and were willing to just be a powerful minister.As for the Japanese king, as long as the powerful ministers keep eating and drinking him, which can make him get along in terms of face, he has a good attitude and is willing to be a puppet and will not try to take back his power.

This situation in Japan cannot happen in any other country.After all, a person has climbed to the top of Everest, how could he not stand on the highest point?But the politicians of Japan are so incredible.From generation to generation, powerful officials are willing to be powerful officials and are not greedy for the crown.Generations of Japanese kings just wanted to have food and drink. They were willing to be puppets. It didn't matter whether they had real power or not.This is the politician of the Japanese country. I want to ask you whether you accept it or not?
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