Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 722
After Gao Qi sent someone to deliver the letter, Li Jing said with a smile: "Da Ming's foreign military strategy is basically like this. I estimate that in about three years, these goals can be solved."

Gao Qi said with a smile: "If there is no accident, it will definitely be resolved within three years."

Li Jingjing nodded, and suddenly withdrew his smile and said, "Finally, it's time to deal with the Wa Kingdom. You may wonder why I didn't list the Wa Kingdom as a strategic target."

Gao Qi said: "Yeah, brother is also strange. The commander-in-chief started to deploy in the Wa country a few years ago, why didn't the Wa country be listed as a strategic target?"

Li Jing sneered: "The reason why I didn't list the Wa country as a strategic target is because I never planned to bring the Wa country into the territory of Ming Dynasty. The people of Wa country are not worthy of being the subjects of Ming Dynasty, they are only worthy of being slaves!"

Everyone couldn't help but tremble when they heard the words.

Among these people, except for Huang Daozhou who has followed Li Jing for a short time, the rest of them all started to follow Li Jing when Li Jing was laying the groundwork in Pingyang Mansion. As for Gao Qi, Li Jing started to follow Li Jing when he was a bandit in Jinniuling. Li Jing.It can be said that everyone knows Li Jing very well.

Everyone knows that although Li Jing doesn't like people of other races other than Ming Dynasty, as a mature political leader, Li Jing is still very measured in his actions, when to use force, when to negotiate peace, and when to rule by force Li Jing has always been very precise about when to implement benevolent government.And no matter how ruthless Li Jing's methods were at the beginning, he won people's hearts with benevolent policies in the end.

Even though Li Jing massacred the Spaniards who slaughtered tens of thousands of Ming maritime merchants in Luzon, and slaughtered the Spaniards in Manila and the Luzonians who helped him, he finally agreed to do business with the Spaniards. Luzon people implement a policy of educational assimilation.

After all, Li Jing wanted to make Luzon a part of Ming Dynasty, and it was impossible to kill all Luzon people.Since it is not possible to kill all of them, it is ultimately necessary to rely on benevolent government to make Luzon people fully agree with Daming.

However, when dealing with the Wa Kingdom, Li Jing completely changed his previous attitude towards governance. Judging by Li Jing's expression, he hated the Wa Kingdom to the extreme. Everyone present has never seen Li Jing hate any country or nation so much.

Li Jing hated the Wa country so much, and considering Li Jing's ruthless killings, everyone present need not think about it and knew that once Li Jing ordered to attack the Wa country, the Wa country would surely bleed into rivers.

Seeing the awe-inspiring expressions of everyone, Li Jing sneered and said, "Are you all wondering why my attitude towards the Wa country is completely different from that of other countries?"

Huang Daozhou pondered for a while and continued: "To be honest, my lord, I am really a little puzzled. Although the Japanese invaded Daming during the Jiajing period and invaded North Korea during the Wanli period, compared with the Mongols and Jurchens , Wa country's behavior is too inferior. Even compared with the Spaniards in Luzon, Wa country's behavior is far inferior.

Your Excellency is tolerant towards the Mongols and Jurchens, and can let go of the blame for the Spaniards, agreeing to do business with them, why is he so attitude towards the Wa Kingdom? "

Li Jing shook his head and said, "That's because you don't understand the Wa nation, nor do you understand their purpose of invading North Korea."

After glancing at everyone, Li Jing continued: "What do the Japanese say? This is a typical nation that bullies the weak and fears the hard. When we are strong, they will crawl in front of us like dogs and beg for mercy. But when our national strength is weak At that time, they will immediately change their bodies, show their fangs, and rush towards us.

This national inferiority of the Japanese people has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years. It was like this in the past, and it will be like this in the future. This kind of habit can never be changed by the Japanese.

As for the invasion and occupation of North Korea by the Wa Kingdom during the Wanli period, do you think that the Wa Kingdom was only for the occupation of North Korea? "

Shaking his head, Li Jing continued: "No, the Japanese invaded and occupied North Korea because they wanted to use North Korea as a springboard to invade Daming."

Seeing everyone's puzzled faces, Li Jing smiled and said, "It's strange, isn't it? Wa Kingdom has been a vassal state of Ming Dynasty for so many years, how could it come up with such a crazy idea?

In fact, the reason is very simple. We know that during the Jiajing period, there were Japanese pirates along the coast of Daming.It's okay for such a battle to happen once in a while, but the Japanese pirates have been making trouble along the coast of Daming for decades, and Daming has always had nothing to do with them.If you don't pinch such a soft persimmon, who will you pinch?

Fortunately, we still have General Qi Jiguang in Daming. General Qi Jiguang spent several years of hard work and finally expelled the Japanese pirates from Daming.

But General Qi Jiguang was able to protect Daming for a while, but he couldn't protect Daming I. After General Qi Jiguang passed away, the Japanese nation once again made the idea of ​​Daming.

However, the Wa Kingdom also realized that relying on a small group of Japanese pirates to harass it would not be successful. To invade and occupy Daming, a forward base must be established around Daming, and this base is North Korea.So Wa sent troops and occupied North Korea.

At that time, Wa believed that Ming's national strength was so weak that it was impossible to send troops to North Korea, but they did not expect that Daming would actually send troops, and with only [-] troops, they defeated Wa's hundreds of thousands of troops.

The consequence of this battle was that the Japanese shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of illness, and then Tokugawa Ieyasu became the new shogun by virtue of his military strength, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was busy unifying the Wa country and had no energy to consider matters of Ming Dynasty.

Although the national power of Ming Dynasty became weaker and weaker, the political situation of Wa Kingdom was also turbulent, so for decades, Wa Kingdom had no idea of ​​attacking Ming Dynasty. "

Everyone nodded silently.

Li Jing smiled and said: "Do you think that under the circumstances at that time, Daming was able to defeat the Japanese army with an army of [-] and hundreds of thousands of troops, and a country like the Wa country doesn't need to care at all?
You are wrong. Although the Wa people are bullying and afraid of the hard, and have despicable conduct, there is one great thing about this nation, that is, they are very eager to learn. As long as other countries have a skill, the Wa people will try their best to learn this skill.

Wa country has been learning Chinese culture since the Tang Dynasty. Over hundreds of years, people of Wa country have learned many good things from China. Wa country’s firearm technology was learned from our Daming, and after learning it, the skills of using firearms were improved. . "

Sighing lightly, Li Jing continued: "Compared to the Japanese people's eagerness to learn, our Ming Dynasty is indeed inferior."

Everyone was silent when they heard the words.

After a moment of silence, Li Jing continued: "And the Wa people are very tolerant. When the enemy is strong, they can endure it for decades or even hundreds of years. It is difficult for such a nation to be assimilated."

Everyone nodded silently.

Li Jing continued: "For such a country and nation, the easiest way is to eradicate him completely. But if all the Japanese people are eradicated, wouldn't it become a deserted island?
After becoming a deserted island, anyone can occupy it. This place is so close to Daming, if it is occupied by other countries, it will become a hidden danger for Daming in the long run.

If we don't want Wa country to become a desert island, then we have to move the population there.

But the country of Wa is not a good place, there are earthquakes every three days.After the common people migrated to the country of Wa, they found that there was an earthquake in the country of Wa, either here or there. I am afraid that it will not be long before all the people who migrated will come back.And I couldn't avoid being poked in the back of the spine. "

Everyone laughed lightly when they heard the words.

After everyone laughed for a while, Li Jing continued: "Obviously, it is not a good way to slaughter all the Japanese people. So what should we do?"

Picking up the teacup, Li Jing took a sip, and then continued: "There is only one way, and that is to make the people of the Wa Kingdom never stand up again! Aren't they able to bear it? Let's let them endure it forever."

Looking at Yang Liufeng, Li Jing suddenly smiled and said: "Besides, although the men of the Japanese country are not very good, the women of the Japanese country are quite good. Be careful, don't you always want to ask for another concubine? If you want Ask a Japanese woman to be a concubine, then I definitely have no objection."

Everyone couldn't help laughing out loud when they heard this.

Yang Liufeng shook his head and smiled, "Marshal, don't make fun of me."

Li Jing waved his hand and said: "I'm not making fun of you, it's true, the women of the Japanese country know how to serve men very well, and they will never compete with your wives and concubines. You have worked very hard these years. After taking over the household department, you must be better than before. Busier, but those concubines of yours are really a little..."

Shaking his head lightly, Li Jing sighed, "Forget it, I don't want to mention your family affairs."

Yang Liufeng sighed lightly when he heard the words: "Commander, you worry about state affairs all day long, and you also worry about my family affairs. The students are not up to date, and the wives and concubines are competing for favor. The tired commander is bothering you."

Li Jing sighed softly: "If you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world? Be careful, I don't want to ask about your housework, but I really don't want you to worry about housework after working hard every day."

"Yes! The students must handle the housework well." Yang Liufeng said hastily.

Li Jing shook his head: "Shen Xing, if you can handle the relationship between wives and concubines well, then you don't have to wait until today. Forget it, I'll let you find a Japanese woman to be your concubine later."

Seeing Yang Liufeng's awkward expression, Gao Qi hurriedly took over the topic: "Commander, when are you going to use troops against the Japanese country?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "The Japanese people supported by Xiaowu now number in the tens of thousands, and our burden is getting heavier and heavier. I don't think we can delay any longer, and there is no need to delay any longer."

"Marshal, the only troops we can use now are Zhuzi's garrison and Shandong Zhouhu's troops." Gao Qi hurriedly said.

Li Jingjing nodded: "Just use Zhou Huhu's troops. This battle was originally reserved for him. In addition, I want to transfer Sun Boya (Sun Chuanting) back. Sun Boya will be the commander of this battle. Zhou Huhu and Xiaowu will be Sun Boya Deputy, what do you think?"

"Sun Boya is definitely fine, but after Sun Boya is transferred, what about the war in the south?" Gao Qi pondered.

"It's okay, Li Guozhu's fleet will stay in the south, and Zheng Sen's fleet will be transferred to help, so that the southern fleet will be enough." Li Jing said.

Gao Qi nodded: "I'll pass on the Commander's order right away."

(End of this chapter)