Although he sits idle in the door every day, Huang Xiaoshi, a local bug, is now more like a spider. Don't look like he is sitting quietly in the center of the web, but he is actually very aware of any disturbance.
Everyone knows that Master Huang likes to listen to the news. Besides, it is a man's nature to brag.
Whether it was while eating and chatting every day, or when a caravan came to Luoyang to pick up the wind and wash away the dust for them, Huang Xiaoshi was constantly hearing news from the outside world.
As more and more caravans traveled out of Luoyang, Huang Xiaoshi could travel thousands of miles without leaving home.
The caravan from the northwest brought news that the northwest had calmed down.
With the conclusion of the Northwest War last year, most of the refugees who had escaped have returned to their hometowns. Under the organization of the Anmin officials, they have begun to prepare for spring plowing. The trade routes further west can also be traveled, and the ministries and the imperial court in the Western Regions have begun to prepare for spring plowing.
There is a tacit understanding that we are separated by the desert. If you don't mess with me, I won't pass.
The war in the south has also calmed down. The tribal rebellion that everyone thought was about to turn into a prairie fire suddenly ended. Boss Gong is still in Yunling, and I heard that he and his two new wives have given birth to two children.
It turns out that Mrs. Gong Wang served her parents-in-law at home in a rural area in central Sichuan. In terms of women's ethics, even outsiders could not fault her. Although she lost a status, everyone did not really regard Mrs. Gong as a woman.
The concubine sees that the parents-in-law of the Gong family recognize Mrs. Gong Wang as their eldest daughter-in-law. How can those two barbarian women become big ones?
However, now Granny Gong also wants to see what her two grandsons look like. Even though they are thousands of miles away, she can't even meet them once.
People coming back from the other direction said that the waterway from Shandong to the east has been blocked.
In fact, not only from Shandong to the east, but also to the northeast of Ningbo, no one can enter the sea.
The government has repeatedly issued notices, saying that anyone who sees a boat will be regarded as a water bandit. As for other news, there is no information at all.
However, everyone sat together and chatted together, saying that there was no news at all, but it showed that the blockade was extremely successful. The army that expedition to the Japanese island was probably already launched on the Japanese island, but we didn't know the outcome.
The world was about to fall apart, but it was suppressed again.
Huang Xiaoshi now admires the insane emperor. This kind of running on the verge of death through extreme operations is not his previous style.
It's just that he is just trying to die in the game. The worst he can do is restart the game after death, while this emperor is pulling the world to play with him.
Huang Xiaoshi didn't admire the emperor's manipulation of the bull, but admired how big he played.
However, we have to admit that although this kind of extreme operation is extremely risky, once it succeeds, the benefits are also huge.
In a word, this is gambling on the fate of the country.
Every battle is a big gamble.
At present, it seems that the emperor's luck is extremely good, and his card skills are also amazing. In the first two big bets, before his opponent even played his cards, he immediately cleared the table with all his strength.
Based on Huang Xiaoshi's speculation, the original expedition to the Nomadic Tribe in the north and the Jiaozhi Tribe in the Southern Town could not be completed in three to five years.
These two wars would continue to bleed the imperial court, and ended in a quick victory with a complete victory for the imperial court.
The emperor now freed up his hands and began to attack the Japanese country.
From this move, Huang Xiaoshi could conclude that this insane emperor was either a [player] or a true genius, because he immediately saw the biggest problem and crisis of the dynasty.
The prosperity, decline and even collapse of a dynasty are all inseparable from finance.
Finance is the most important system for a dynasty. Without finance, all institutions are like building towers on sand and will collapse at any time.
As for this dynasty, there is a huge problem. Huang Xiaoshi has been keenly aware of this problem, but others do not think there is anything wrong. However, once this problem gradually becomes larger, it will lead to the collapse of the government's finances.
The problem is a lack of silver.
It's not a lack of money, it's a lack of silver. These are two concepts.
When the bandits from Heifeng Village robbed Shennong Baicaomen's caravan and demanded ransom, Huang Xiaoshi was extremely shocked and thought for a while that this was a conspiracy against Shennong Baicaomen.
At that time, Huang Xiaoshi was really responsible. After all, he was limited by his strength and did not dare to offend anyone.
If Huang Xiaoshi had really raised three thousand taels of silver at that time, he would have honestly paid the "protection fee".
It wasn't because he couldn't raise any money that he took the courage to run hundreds of miles at night to fuck his grandma.
Does Shennong Baicaomen have no money?
No, they are rich, but they can't pay for it.
This is an extremely fatal thing.
Because of the lack of a banking system, people choose to hide their money privately. Compared with things like copper coins that are easy to rust, silver is not only small in size, but also does not rust when buried in the ground.
Therefore, in this era, it is extremely common to bury money in private, which is why the joke "There is no three hundred taels of silver here" can spread among the people.
In an emergency, Shennong Baicaomen had money but couldn't get it out. Huang Xiaoshi could just kill the group of people who asked for the money and end the problem.
But as for the imperial court, if it suddenly needs money and the imperial court cannot provide the money, can the emperor directly kill the people who want the money?
Of course, if he really could kill someone, the emperor would do it more swiftly than anyone else, but there was really no way he could owe a lot of money, such as military pay.
This brings us back to the previous topic. The entire Central Plains is extremely short of gold and silver.
Where is the gold and silver?
Japanese island.
The Japanese country is a mountain of gold and silver.
A minister who was envoy to Japan wrote in a memorial: "Japan has no goods, only gold and silver (original text)."
Japan has a lot of gold and silver, so can we just sell it in exchange for it?
Nope either.
Because the Japanese country was in the middle of a civil war, the princes (daimyo) on the island were beaten to the point of losing their minds.
Silk, tea and ceramics, which are most convenient for shipping by sea, cannot be sold at all due to their purchasing power.
Those princes would rather eat salt and rice every day than expand their armaments.
What is the first thing we need to expand our armaments?
iron!
Iron is extremely inconvenient to transport by sea.
Besides, iron itself is not a high-value commodity. Who is willing to do it after taking such a big risk to earn such hard-earned money?
It would be better to put on Japanese clothes, cover your face, and rob people along the coastline.
Therefore, Japan has gold and silver, and China has goods, but complementary trade has never been possible.
This emperor's thinking is obviously different from the other emperors. Since I can steal it, why should I change it?
Of course, it would be very troublesome to fight against the Japanese state. The Japanese state is not a big place, but it is not a small one.
What made the emperor laugh so hard was that he was racking his brains all day long on how to attack the Japanese, and as a result, the Japanese people came out in large numbers to attack Goryeo.
Then the Japanese island is empty.
Why the emperor didn't accept the Korean people's request for help last year was that two wars were not over yet, but that was not what the emperor cared about.
It was because the Japanese controlled the coastline of Goryeo and they did not really penetrate deep into Goryeo.
By this year, as the Japanese took control of Goryeo, they penetrated deeper and deeper into Goryeo.
At this time, the emperor used the war in Goryeo to make excuses.
If we don’t fight now, when will we wait?
Of course, the emperor does not want to be reckless, he is the kind of person who is bold and careful.
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After the Japanese army landed in Japan, the first thing they did was not to attack the city and seize territory, but to summon the Japanese daimyo to counterattack the shogunate.
The emperor of Japan was just a mascot. Originally, the power of Japan was in the hands of the general (the first military general).
Later, the general's power declined and he could not suppress the princes (daimyo) below, and even the general himself was assassinated.
The newly succeeded shogun enjoyed the treatment of an emperor: he lost his real power and became a mascot.
In the end, it was Guan Bai (the first civil servant) who wiped out all the princes (daimyo) and established the shogunate to control the Japanese country.
At the moment, Guan Bai is facing the biggest problem, which is how to deal with the excess military power in his hands after the world is at peace.
The best way is of course to issue a piece of paper and have tens of millions of soldiers discharge their armor and return to their fields.
But Guan Bai couldn't do it.
Because at this time, the world has just been unified on the surface, and there are too many people who are nostalgic for the Lord. Once these people are put back, they will be gathered again immediately, and eventually there will be a situation where the princes are divided and fighting with each other.
Therefore, Guan Bai had to find a way to use up these "surplus" military forces.
Therefore, Goryeo became the perfect target.
Attacking Goryeo failed, great.
Anyway, it is used to consume military power. Once everyone is dead, everyone will go home and live in peace.
If we succeed in attacking Goryeo, that's even better.
These people stay in Korea and don't come back.
No matter how you look at it, for Guan Bai, attacking Goryeo was a good deal that would ensure a profit without losing any money.
But what he never expected was that the King of Goryeo would send people to the Central Plains court to ask for reinforcements.
Last year, the Central Plains Dynasty sent an official to Goryeo to mediate, just to ask for a ceasefire. Even the Goryeo people agreed, but those guys who were dazzled by the easy victory did not agree.
Not only did they not agree to a ceasefire, they also fought hundreds of miles into the hinterland of Goryeo, occupying almost all of Goryeo.
This is clearly a slap in the face of the Central Plains emperor.
As expected, the Emperor of the Central Plains became angry and sent an army from the Central Plains to attack him.
Guan Bai is also suffering now and cannot express his pain.
Nominally speaking, he is a civilian official and does not have military command authority.
In fact, after the army that attacked Goryeo was released, Guan Bai completely lost control of that army.
However, this was certainly not the explanation that the Central Plains Emperor wanted to hear.
Then we can only organize an army first to block this wave of soldiers, and then talk about other things.
What Guan Bai didn't expect was that the famous names he suppressed would have the support of heavenly soldiers and generals, and they would all set up flags to attack him.
Baga!
When I kowtow, my buttocks stick out higher than the other, and I end up turning my face faster than anyone else.
What Guan Bai didn't expect the most was that the famous names he had destroyed would actually set up flags.
At present, the only person who can appoint a daimyo, besides himself, is the emperor.
Guan Bai never expected that the emperor he had raised for decades would dare to stab him with a knife. He went to the palace angrily and pulled out the knife in front of the saint.
Yosi, your son is twelve years old and can ascend the throne.
At this time, the emperor gingerly took out a large pile of documents and handed them to Guan Bai.
Guan Bai looked at these documents stamped with the imperial seal of the Central Plains, and saw familiar names one after another: Kuhe, Hojo, Anekokoji, Isshiki, Miyoshi, Hatano...
Guan Bai, who was nicknamed "Monkey" when he was young, was finally afraid.
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The Kurotsuka Toshi family finally obtained a ship large enough to sail back to Japan.
Since the Central Plains court has implemented a sea-purification strategy for several years, the current situation is that small boats are easy to find, but large boats are simply treasures.
Even the Japanese pirate groups don't have many large ships that can return to the Japanese islands.
Usually, when Japanese pirates rob coastal areas, they only need small boats, and they use large boats when they want to return to Japanese islands.
Although it only takes a few days to reach Wajima by following the Kuroshio, the weather in the area around Wajima is really unpredictable. It can change at any time, and there will be huge waves as high as a mountain at any time.
Going to the Japanese island itself has a hint of gambling on one's life. If there is no sturdy ship, it is not gambling on one's life, but one is risking one's life.
The large ships in the hands of the Japanese pirate group were all burned down in a single raid by the Haisha Gang.
What's even more troublesome is that after that battle, the Japanese pirate group was immediately leaderless.
Many fake Japanese saw that they could no longer play anymore, so they found an opportunity to stab the real Japanese next to them, threw the body into the sea, then shaved off all their hair and changed into a new set of clothes.
Now he is a good citizen again.
The life of Zhenwa is rather sad. Now they have been abandoned by several forces, and even if they want to find someone to work for, they can't find anyone to take them.
Fortunately, the owner finally came back.
The process of Kurotsuka Toshiya's reorganization of the remnants of his old army was smoother than he imagined.
However, Kurotsuka Toshiya didn't spend too much time on those little minions. He was actually looking for a boat.
Big ship, this is the most important thing!
After finally finding a large ship, Kurotsuka Toshiie immediately took the most loyal and brave subordinates he selected to sail back to Japan to find his brother, King Kurotsuka.
In the arms of the Kurotsuka family, there is a sacred object that the Kurotsuka family has dreamed of and worked hard to finally get: [Daimyo Appointment Letter].
During the Warring States Period, there was no need for appointment by the shogunate, as long as someone could control the power of several counties or countries, he was a daimyo.
But the Warring States Period has ended, and the shogunate has regained control of Wajima. Daimyos can only be created through inheritance or appointment.
In terms of strength, the Kurozuka family is already worthy of becoming a "Warring States Daimyo", but this is the shogunate era.
No common people can become daimyo anymore, and the era of common people is over.
However, with this [Daimyo Appointment Letter], the Kurotsuka family can become the real daimyo.
The Kurotsuka Toshies were in awe and fear of Lu Shaolin. It was not that Lu Shaolin could pick him out from the Sea Shark Gang and arrange a new identity for him, nor that Lu Shaolin arranged for him a dozen Japanese followers and a ship.
boat.
His fear of Lu Shaolin came from this [Daming Appointment Letter] stamped with the jade seal of the current Emperor of the Central Plains.
The appointment of a daimyo was a matter for Emperor Wajima, but Emperor Nakahara could send a "letter of recommendation" to Emperor Wajima, which was to ask the emperor to appoint someone as a daimyo in the name of Emperor Nakahara.
After seeing the "Recommendation", would the Emperor dare not to obey it?
The name of this "Recommendation Letter" is blank, anyone can fill in the name.
Who exactly is Lu Shaolin and how could he obtain such a blank "Recommendation Letter"? The Kurotsuka Toshies have no way of knowing.
"My energy is beyond your imagination."
Kurotsuka Toshiie trembled all over. In his eyes, the great name that he could never dream of in his life was so insignificant.
Toshiyoshi Kurotsuka remembered again the insult the man with the fan had given his second brother, and the slap his second brother had given him.
Ah, as expected, I really didn’t understand anything at that time.
