I am the king of the dead

The last time Zhu Qiyu saw Yuan Bin was the last time.

In the fourth year of Jingtai, after Zhu Qiyu returned to Beijing, he never saw Yuan Bin again.

Four years passed in a hurry. After all, the sea was no better than the land. Yuan Bin was indeed much tanned and thinner.

Yuan Bin stood up suddenly, and shouted loudly: "Don't work hard, and be loyal to His Majesty!"

"Sit down." Zhu Qiyu signaled Yuan Bin to sit down and talk.

The more Zhu Qiyu looked at Yuan Bin, the more satisfied he became, and he said with a smile: "Yuan Bin, it's not you, our county Ryukyu, how can it be so easy?"

"As soon as this Ryukyu was settled down, you went to the Wa country again and traveled thousands of miles. It wasn't you who were operating in the Wa country. Let's Ming Ming's silver, let alone 200 million taels a year, even 100 million taels is enough."

Zhu Qiyu's new policy started with the new currency policy and the Mansion Law. Without this silver, the great emperor would be a poor woman. The Ming Dynasty needed silver very much. This Winter Preface was caused by the lack of enough currency.

Yuan Bin and others have made great contributions, and of course Zhu Qiyu has never treated them badly for those who are loyal to Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Bin said loudly: "The minister is...that is...all respect for His Majesty's might!"

"We are mighty or not, we know it ourselves, okay, okay, I'm not good at flirting, so I don't want to shoot in the future." Zhu Qiyu said cheerfully.

Yuan Bin is not a complicated person, let alone An Lushan, even if Yuan Bin is An Lushan, what can he do in Japan?

Yuan Bin bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I have brought some special products of the Japanese country to Your Majesty, and several eunuchs are checking them."

"Oh? What is it?" Zhu Qiyu asked with great interest.

Isn't the special product of the Japanese country silver, sulfur, gold and Japanese maidservants?

What else is rare?

"Here we come." Yuan Bin gave a sloppy look, of course there was no reason to say this in advance.

A plate came in from the small yellow gate, covered with a red silk cloth, Xing'an pulled the red silk cloth open, and a gold seal appeared in front of Zhu Qiyu.

"What is this?" Zhu Qiyu asked looking at the golden snake button seal that was no bigger than two knuckles of his index finger.

Yuan Bincai said with a smile: "The seal of the king of Han Weinu is the seal and ribbon given to the king of Wa by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty in the second year of Jianwu Zhongyuan. I found it in the Silver Pavilion Temple. I took it back and presented it to Your Majesty."

"It turned out to be this thing." Zhu Qiyu picked up the gold seal and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Commander Yuan has a heart, this thing is very good."

The seal and ribbon bestowed by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty can be regarded as the beginning of Wa Kingdom becoming a vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the golden evidence is as strong as a mountain!

This snake button seal is not very big, but it is meaningful, almost equivalent to Ming Dynasty's claim to the Wa Kingdom.

Yuan Bin opened the second and third pieces of red silk cloth and said: "The second piece is called Bachi Qiong Gouyu, and the third piece is called Tiancongyun Sword, which I brought from the Imperial Palace of the Japanese Emperor."

"Is there anything to say about this jade and a sword?" Zhu Qiyu asked curiously.

Yuan Bin scratched his head and said: "My minister heard in the Wa Kingdom that the emperor of the Wa Kingdom had a ceremony when he succeeded to the throne. What is the sword seal and other succession ceremonies, it is this sword and this Gouyu."

"The texture is nothing unusual. When I went to get it, the Emperor was still crying, with a look of collapse. It seemed to be a good thing, so I brought it back."

"It is said that there should be a mirror, but I did not find it. The emperor said that it was lost long ago. I will look for it when I go back and bring it back to Your Majesty."

Zhu Qiyu took the Gouyu and looked at it, then picked up the sword and looked at it carefully and said: "It's really not a good product, take it back to the internal money, and just find a corner to place it."

Zhu Qiyu didn't know these things, and in fact Yuan Bin didn't know what he took. According to the inheritance of the Wa Kingdom, these two things are the legal basis of the Wa Kingdom.

It is roughly equivalent to a red apple, which is the red copper ball on the scepter in the hand of the bronze statue of Justinian, which represents the Roman imperial power outside the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople.

Xing'an's heart in his throat fell back into his stomach.

Yuan Bin is a young man who beat a cow to death with one punch. If this happens violently, he can beat His Majesty with one punch.

His Majesty can also order that when Yuan Bin kneels down, it is more dangerous to capture and kill Yuan Bin and separate one side.

But neither His Majesty nor Yuan Bin seemed to realize that this was the emperor meeting the princes. Since ancient times, the emperor has been meeting the princes, isn't it always swords drawn?

But His Majesty and Yuan Bin were defenseless against each other, laughing heartily while talking.

Trust this thing, sometimes it is inexplicable, but also extremely firm.

"Why do you think of taking these three things?" Zhu Qiyu and Yuan Bin chatted.

Yuan Bin said cheerfully, "Isn't this Li Bing?"

"I wanted to come back, so I asked him what gift he was bringing. He designated the seal of the King of the Han Dynasty, and said that His Majesty would be happy to bring it back. So I went to Ginkakuji Temple, and Ashikaga Yoshimasa handed it over."

"I don't know if there are any good things in the shrine of the country of Wa, so Li Bing said: Go get them and see what you get. The more painful the emperor Nao Shizi of the country of Wa is, he can take whatever. If he cries to the point of harakiri, it must be nice one."

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Hey, this Li Bing is indeed a scholar, but a poison."

Yuan Bin also said relaxedly: "Isn't it? After hearing this, Ji Duo and Yue Qian both looked disgusted, and they moved a few steps away from Li Bing. They are indeed vicious."

"I just took these two things. The emperor of Lao Shizi didn't care about other things in the shrine. When he touched these two things, he began to mourn. I didn't see the emperor cutting seppuku. I was still thinking about making mistakes for him. .”

"Is he also worthy of being called emperor?"

Yuan Bin really hates that there is an emperor in the Wa country, mainly in the small country of Cuoer, how dare he be called the emperor?

Secondly, the emperor is the root cause of Japan's love of subjugation and supremacy. If he becomes the king of Japan, he must want the emperor to be decent. If he refuses to be decent, Yuan Bin will naturally help him to be decent.

Then throw all the emperor's heirs into the temple, and cut off their children and grandchildren, which is what they have been doing anyway.

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "What's the use of killing the Emperor Laoshizi? He didn't care about the matter, but instead caused the people of the Wa Kingdom to wail everywhere. It's not worth it."

Yuan Bin thought for a while, and said quite seriously: "Your Majesty, I still think that if the emperor is not dead, this Japanese country will not get better. Chaos is chaos, but it will be chaos for a while. Only chaos can lead to great order. This is what I think."

Zhu Qiyu took a little seriously and said: "You are in the country of Wa, and you can deal with it as you please, but we are not in the country of Wa, so we don't know the specific situation and talk nonsense, but it will delay your work there."

"I don't care."

Chapter 733 Pillar of the country?national thief

Zhu Qiyu's basic attitude towards the Wa Kingdom is that he doesn't care. The only thing he cares about about the Wa Kingdom is Baiyin. Of course, there is now an extra Japanese maidservant.

I don't care about the country of Wa because the country of Wa is a long and narrow island without any depth at all. Once a war starts, the country of Wa has no way to retreat.

As long as the Central Plains dynasty is in a healthy state, there will be no opportunity for the Wa country to take advantage of, and there will be danger of destroying the country at any time.

"As far as the current situation of the Wa Kingdom is concerned, Yuan Bin, what do you think should be done?" Zhu Qiyu served Xing'an tea and talked about the Wa Kingdom.

Yuan Bin thought for a while and said: "The current treatment of the Wa Kingdom, I think it mainly depends on the target. If we seek great rule, there will be great chaos."

"First raise your sword and go to Luo, kill Ashikaga Yoshimasa and the emperor in the Jingu, the world will be in chaos, and then you can have a great order."

"Their shogun is their actual ruler, and the emperor is their totem. Only by eradicating the totem can all old accounts be settled."

Obviously, Yuan Bin has thought about this problem many times. In Yuan Bin's view, the Wa Kingdom needs to be cleaned from top to bottom.

Clearing up old accounts is a university question, and not everyone can do it. Only when there is chaos, can there be great order.

Zhu Qiyu was silent for a while and asked: "Then what if we don't seek great justice?"

Yuan Bin immediately replied: "It's also very simple. The most important thing is to control Namba-kyo and the Seto Inland Sea. The Seto Inland Sea is a long and narrow sea area between the main island and Shikoku Island. Within a hundred miles, within the inland sea, there are about 520 five islands, and the shipping is extremely developed."

"To put it bluntly, whoever controls the Seto Inland Sea controls the Wa Kingdom."

"Currently, the Shibo Division is built in it, forming a near-substantial control over the Seto Inland Sea."

"Secondly, there are Tsushima Island and Jeju Island. Controlling these two islands can prevent Japanese pirates from advancing westward. In addition, the most important Ryukyu can prevent Japanese pirates from going south. Ming Dynasty will no longer have to worry about Japanese pirates."

"Keep it firmly locked on a barren island."

"Your Majesty, if you regard the surrounding area of ​​Wa Kingdom as a lock, then the lock core is Ryukyu. Even if there are no Jeju Island and Tsushima Island, as long as Ryukyu is in my hands, Ming Dynasty, you can sit back and relax."

Zhu Qiyu said to Xing'an: "Bring the Kanyu map."

Xing'an dispatched a huge map from the small yellow gate, and this map was the country of Wa. The level of detail of this map was far superior to that of the ghosts in the country of Japan.

The people of Daming know the appearance of the country of Wa better than the people of the country of Wa.

"The Ryukyu of Wan Guo Hailiang." Yuan Bin picked up the long pear wood pole, slid it lightly and said: "Your Majesty, please see, if the Wa Kingdom occupies Ryukyu, you can harass our Daming sea area from Ryukyu."

"From Ryukyu, you can go to Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo City Shipping Department, and Songjiang Prefecture Shipping Department. This is also the most serious pirate infestation along the coast of Daming."

"Once the Wa country has plans for our Jilong Island, it can go south to Penghu, cut off the connection between Daming and Jilong Island, and then plan for Jilong Island."

"Finally lock our Daming waters, Japanese pirates can go boating and boating at any time to harass any point along the long coastline of our Daming, and our Daming lacks the skills to control the Japanese, which may cause serious trouble."

"For me, Da Ming, Jilong Island is the lock cylinder of Da Ming's sea frontier. Once it is locked, it is nonsense for Da Ming to go to sea."

Yuan Bin's prediction was correct. During the Jiajing period, due to the harsh sea ban policy, the Ming Dynasty further shrunk in the sea. The more Japanese pirates were banned, the more they suppressed the more chaotic situation. It was not until Qi Jiguang appeared that it was relieved.

Yuan Bin pointed his long pole at Tsushima Island and most of southern Korea and said: "If the Japanese country fails to plot against me in the southeast of Ming Dynasty, it will try to find a way to capture Korea or southern Korea from Tsushima Island."

"The worst thing is to plan for the autonomy of southern Korea to attack our Ming territory."

What the island nation hopes to have most is depth. What they want from the bottom of their hearts is to land and expand their land. The Japanese pirates' coveting of the Central Plains can even be traced back to the Han Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu also held the long pole and said: "Commander Yuan, if our Daming is defeated in Korea, and the navy is defeated by the Japanese country again, what should we do?"

Yuan Bin always knew that His Majesty would be lenient to the enemy, but he never expected that His Majesty would lenient the Wa Kingdom to such an extent.

"How is it possible to lose?" Yuan Bin asked puzzled.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while and said: "I embezzled the grain and salary of the Beijing camp to repair the garden, and Yu Shaobao took the grain and salary of the navy division as family wealth."

"Eh..." Yuan Bin froze in place in astonishment, he couldn't hold back at all, he was puzzled for a long time and said: "I am stupid, I can't think of how to lose to the Japanese kingdom."

"If they lose, with the nature of the Japanese, I am afraid that their appetite will grow bigger and bigger. They will definitely not be satisfied with the chicken coop and North Korea. They will continue to move westward until they fail completely."

"The teacher of the king can be said to be victorious, and the Japanese pirates are bandits, with a seven-point animal nature and deep-rooted."

"The ancient march was based on benevolence, and ruled by righteousness. The king's division has conquered but not fought. Wang Tong was unrighteous, so he was defeated in Jiaozhi."

Wang Tong was in Jiaozhi, watching Liu Sheng fall into a deadly battle without saving him, he only wanted to make peace with Li Li but refused to fight, and finally negotiated peace with Li Li privately, and Daming lost Jiaozhi.

Li Li was able to grow in Jiaozhi because Emperor Renzong transferred Huang Fu from Jiaozhi, and Ming's rule in Jiaozhi became very lacking in virtue, which eventually led to Daming losing Jiaozhi and Haiyang.

When Wang Tong was an official in the Nanya Dynasty, he also proposed to dig the Yellow River to prevent the step of the Ming Wangshi from going south. Finally, Zhu Qiyu sent him to the Xieyuyuan, where he was punished by the Ming Dynasty.

Based on Yuan Bin's understanding of the Japanese pirates, one can imagine how the Japanese pirates would burn, kill, loot and do all kinds of crimes after victory.

The final result is still defeat.

Yuan Bin swiped in the territory of Daming, and then clicked on the main island of the Wa Kingdom and said: "Even if the Wa Kingdom is strong and occupies half of our Daming, there is no possibility of victory, but as long as the army is forced to the Wa Kingdom's main island, the Wa Kingdom can only Surrender, it has no depth."

Zhu Qiyu looked at the Kanyu map in front of him, seriously considered Yuan Bin's words, and said quite seriously: "So, you can't lose the Ryukyu, and you can't lose the chicken coop."

Ryukyu is the sea ridge of all nations and the keyhole of the Wa Kingdom, while the keyhole of Jilong Island is Penghu.

To rule these two places, Da Ming needs to maintain an extremely large navy, in order to ensure that the keyholes of these two portals are firmly controlled by Da Ming.

Zhu Qiyu put down the long pole in his hand and said: "The people who were greedy for ink, caused the navy to overthrow, and then gave Penghu, Jilong, Ryukyu, and North Korea to the Japanese pirates, may they be called loyal ministers and good ministers, and the pillars of the country?"

Yuan Bin shivered, and said with a sneer, "He is the great thief of the country."

"Should I be sent to Xie Jieyuan?" Zhu Qiyu asked again.

Yuan Bin bowed his head and said: "Sending him to the Xie Jieyuan with a thousand cuts to pieces is considered cheap. How can such a person be a loyal minister and good prime minister?"

Yuan Bin couldn't figure it out, North Korea, Ryukyu, Jilong, and Penghu were all given to Japanese pirates, and if they were not scolded bloody, they could still be the pillars of the country?

Country thief ears.

"Yu Shaobao." Yuan Bin came back to his senses, saw Yu Qian, and hurriedly greeted him.

"See Your Majesty, is Your Majesty blessed?" Yu Qian bowed his head in salute.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Zhen'an, Pingshen, when did you come?"

Yu Qian stood up straight and said, "Just when Your Majesty said that His Majesty embezzled the grain and pay of the Beijing camp to repair the garden, and the servants took the grain and pay of the navy as family wealth."

Zhu Qiyu laughed, and Yu Qian also laughed.

Yu Qian said suspiciously: "As the saying goes, under a full nest, there will be eggs. If you are greedy for a huge amount of ink, you are greedy for 1000 million taels of silver to go home. That's just a wedding dress for Japanese pirates. Why bother?"

Yu Qian is an extremely clean and honest court minister, and his two-sleeved style is his allusion.

People like him can't understand the thoughts of giant beetles in these countries.

It stands to reason that the wealth of corrupt officials comes from their power and the land under their feet. If they lose their power, they are nothing.

If you want to earn more, shouldn't you make the land under your feet stronger and stronger?Isn't that earning more?It can also be hereditary!

Win-win.

But often the result is not good. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong himself built the Genyue Palace, and Cai Jing sold officials to sell the nobles. The entire Northern Song Dynasty was defeated by this pair of monarchs and ministers.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "If they can figure it out, they won't be corrupt officials."

Zhu Qiyu looked at the Ryukyu and Penghu places on the Kanyu map, which are also the two places of the four major overseas cities of the Ming Dynasty.

He shook his head, stopped talking about this topic, but said with a smile: "Xing'an, go and invite Ningyang Marquis Chen Mao to come over, I want to play chess."