On the eve of Zhen Feng, Saga Yorigen, and Omi Tsuno bidding farewell and leaving Haizhou, the news that Beiyan appointed the eldest prince Yeji Baishi as the commander to lead troops to aid Goryeo also reached Haizhou through the intelligence network.
"Ye Ji Baishi is the eldest son of Ye Ji'er. Ye Ji'er has been ill for many years, but he delayed in appointing Ye Ji Baishi as his successor. It is said that Ye Ji Luorong and Ye Ji Duody were the obstructionists, making Ye Ji Baishi's rival.
"Luo Rong, the two captives in Duodi are resentful," Gao Zongting heard the letter and went to Lin Fu to tell him. At this time of the military meeting, he first briefly explained the basic situation to everyone participating in the military meeting, and said, "It has not been defeated.
, still full of vigor, he did not stay with Ye Jier, but went to Goryeo to lead the army. He probably wanted to use his military exploits to surpass the two kings Luo Rong and Duodi, and pave the way for him to become the crown prince of Yanlu..."
Lin Fu stroked his forehead and remained silent.
He has developed the habit of not speaking at the beginning of military discussions, for fear that if he speaks first, others will be intimidated by his authority and then follow his words, which will prevent him from hearing other opinions.
Following Lin Fu in Haizhou, the Military Staff and the Privy Council also included Gao Zongting, Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Zhou Pu and others.
Zhou Pu was not sensitive to strategic matters and knew how to speak cautiously. He sat there with his head down and looked at the shallow carvings on the floor tiles under the chair.
In addition to Liu Miaozhen, Ning Zechen, Ma Lantou, Li Liang, Ge Cunxin, Yang Shi, Luo Yicheng, Li Wei, Chen Zhi and other major generals and officials in the Xu Si theater, there were also Chen Enze, Zhou Guangdong and the newly formed Lu Qi03
The main generals of the town army attended the military meeting; Lin Fu also specially invited Zhen Feng, Saga Yorigen, Omi Tsuno and others to discuss how to deal with the new situation of Yanlu sending troops to aid Goryeo.
"When Ye Ji Baishi enters Goryeo, he will definitely underestimate the enemy and advance rashly. Please ask the Duke to secretly send elite troops to blunt their edge..." The matter was personal and personal, and Zhen Feng did not care about avoiding suspicion. He immediately asked Lin Fu to adjust the previous deployment and directly dispatch elite troops.
, entered Goryeo to participate in the war.
"Let the birds come out in Haizhou," Chen Zhen said with his hands on the long desk, "Erbeard will take time to form a new town division, and it will not be put into actual combat until after autumn; most of our divisions are directly transferred from the old divisions
If you bring the elite soldiers to the battlefield, you can start fighting directly. My lord, let me lead my troops to Goryeo!"
Chen Zhi also saw clearly that Yanhu's defense in Shandong was complete, and Xu Si would not launch a large-scale northern attack without adequate preparation. If he really wanted to stay in Haizhou, it might be Denghai's turn to fight.
Even in two or three years, how could it be as exciting as being transferred to Korea to participate in it?
Many generals also believed that Ye Jibaishi would be eager to win after going to Goryeo. This was also a good opportunity that Huaidong and the Zhen family could seize in Goryeo.
Saga Yorigen also followed up and expressed his position, saying: "If Lord Chongguo has an errand, the Saga clan will bear the unshirkable responsibility..." The implication is that as long as Lin Fu is determined to start a battle in Goryeo at this time, he will not hesitate to suspend the attack on the Hojo clan.
As a provocation, he first mobilized elite troops to Goryeo to participate in the battle.
"Zongting," Lin Fu looked at Gao Zongting, "What do you think?"
"It is certain that Ye Ji Baishi is eager to win, but he is also a veteran general of Yanlu. He joined the army with his father and brother when he was young. He has been in the army for sixteen years. He is also experienced in running the army," Gao Zongting said, "especially now.
, the situation in Goryeo is not conducive to us. Even if there is a fighter opportunity, we may not be able to capture it. From now on, I should use softness to overcome strength and wait for emergency..."
At present, on the line south of Hanyang County in Goryeo, Goryeo Prime Minister Zuo Jing's headquarters holds the initiative on the battlefield. Ye Jibaishi leads the Yanhu reinforcements into Goryeo. Even if they are eager to win, there is a basis for eagerness to win; in comparison,
The Haiyang Zhen clan only has 60,000 troops and horses, and is at a huge disadvantage in terms of military strength. Even if Chen Zhi's Denghai Town Division is transferred to Haidong, there is no way to immediately change the balance of forces between the two sides——
If we really want to immediately change the previously planned military deployment and transfer Chen Zhi's troops to Haidong, it will appear that this side is impatient and aggressive.
What Gao Zongting meant was that even if there was a fighter plane that could capture it, it should be slow and not make the same mistake as the enemy.
"Then our established plan will not be changed," Lin Fu finalized the matter without giving more people a chance to speak, and said, "Ye Ji Baishi will march southward with determination when Baishi enters Goryeo. Haiyang Army
On the other hand, more precautions must be taken. If there are any adjustments to defense, or if more supplies need to be added, can we discuss it with Ma Yigong, Enze and Guangdong?"
Lin Fu also formally entrusted the specific affairs of Haidong to the Haedong Camping Army, the Jeju Governor's Office and the Blackwater Shipping Company to handle respectively.
Lin Fu's words were the final word. Although the generals felt it was a pity, they also felt that it was a bit hasty to immediately mobilize elite combat forces to attack Goryeo, and it may not be a good thing. Chen Zhi just curled his lips, fearing that Lin Fu would suddenly dismiss him as a general.
It left him completely without a fight to fight.
After the military meeting, Lin Fu held a farewell banquet for Zhen Feng, Saga Laigen, Omi Tsuno and others. After the banquet, he summoned Chi Zhou, the former governor of Dongzhou, to the camp alone for discussion.
This time, a secret agreement was signed with the Zhen family, the Saga family, and the Omi family. The Zhen family, the Saga family, and the Omi family will all formally recognize the annexation of Matsuura, Hirado, the Goto Islands, and the entire Jeju Island to the Governor of Jeju after returning to Haidong.
Mansion, but if Lin Fu wants Jeju Governor's Mansion to forever become the overseas territory of the new empire in Haidong, he still needs the Chi family to further take root in Jeju.
Although Lin Fu worked hard to weaken the power of the clan in the Central Plains and eliminate the dependence of the lower class households on the clan, Jeju is an overseas enclave and has established a strong vassal. If the clan is suppressed blindly, it will weaken the cohesion of Jeju and be detrimental to Jeju.
Completely separated from Fusang and Goryeo.
Therefore, it was necessary for Lin Fu to support three or five Han aristocratic families in Jeju in order to unite the Han people in Jeju. When the time was more mature, he would grant vassal status to Jeju again.
After several days in Haizhou, Lin Fu had not yet summoned Chi Zhou alone. Chi Zhou was also worried, wondering whether his involvement in the sea as a bandit in his early years would affect his Chi family's future in the new empire.
Chi Zhou's family was poor in his early years, and he became a bandit as a scholar. Over the years, he recruited a group of troops to travel across Southeast Asia. Later, he became enemies with the Wang family and the Annan Kingdom, a powerful family in Guangnan. He could not survive alone in Southeast Asia. In his middle age, he wanted to find a place to stay
, just came to the Five Islands to settle down.
After Chi Zhou arrived at the Goto Islands, he gave up his plundering business and took in refugees, fishermen, traders and other businesses to consolidate his power. For more than ten years, he became a pawn of the Kyushu feudal clans to balance the pirate power, but he was never called the Fuso clan.
The vassal state agreed, but it was just trying to survive in the cracks between pirates and the Fuso vassal forces.
Lin's move to set up overseas colonists was still difficult for the world to accept before Jianghuai and other social customs were relatively enlightened. However, perhaps because Chi Zhou spent most of his life wandering on the sea, he was particularly sympathetic to Huaidong's strategy of overseas colonists.
Over the years, I have watched Huaidong grow step by step and form the prototype of a new empire step by step. Chi Zhou has also experienced from being forced to cooperate in the early days, to recognizing Huaidong's manipulation of Dongzhou affairs, to trying his best to integrate into Huaidong.
a process,
Chi Zhou asked the guards to lead him into the Ming Hall. He saw that there was also Sun Shangwang, the director of the Nanyang Shipyard and the counselor of the political affairs.
"I am a humble minister, Chi Zhou, and I bow to my lord..." Chi Zhou bowed his knees in front of the hall and saluted uprightly.
After Chi Zhou knelt down, Lin Fu said, "I have long wanted to ask the Privy Council to abolish the kneeling ceremony. In the future, Duke Chi will no longer have to follow the customary etiquette." He asked him to get up, sat across from Sun Shangwang, and said, "In the early years of Duke Chi,
Traveling across Nanyang, I am familiar with the local customs and customs of Nanyang. The Nanyang Shipping Company has just been established. From now on, it will be responsible for Nanyang commerce. I came to see Mr. Chi. I still want Chi Gong to give some advice on Nanyang commerce and recommend a few people to go there to solve Shang Wang’s urgent needs...
"
"Chi Zhou was still a young man who wandered around Nanyang blindly. He hasn't set foot on the waters of Nanyang for seventeen or eight years. He really didn't dare to talk nonsense in front of Lord Sun." Chi Zhou was cautious for fear of saying the wrong thing.
"Haha," Lin Fu smiled slightly and said to Sun Shangwang, "Chi Gong and Jiang Huai rarely move around, and they are very embarrassed in front of me, but they don't know that I am an easy person to get along with. It seems that Chi Gong will come more often in the future.
"Let's move around," he said to Chi Zhou again, "I also want you to know more about Nanyang affairs, and I hope you can recommend some members of your clan who are familiar with Nanyang affairs to join the Nanyang Shipping Club. Since the government came to power, new systems and new policies have been introduced frequently, so it is only
It’s just the beginning. In addition, a large number of capable manpower are needed in all aspects. The scientific examination may not be held again for ten or eight years. At the moment, we can only rely on each family to recommend some outstanding students to serve..."
The New Deal abolished a large number of privileges of the traditional gentry class, and reopening the scientific examination at this time will only call a large number of old Confucian officials to serve as officials, which is asking for trouble; Lin Fu therefore left the war unfinished and had no time to consider other reasons.
Close the scientific examination.
The scientific examination will be held after all. The form of the scientific examination is not bad, but the content of the scientific examination must be reformed and innovated.
The traditional idea of everything being based on the words of the sages and finding the basis and roots of everything in the Four Books and Five Classics must be abolished. What Lin Fu needs are bureaucrats with professional skills, not the false morals that specialize in promoting the words of the sages.
bureaucracy.
Even if officials are used as a inducement to force those scholars who want to be officials to contact and accept miscellaneous studies, it will take at least ten or eight years to prepare for miscellaneous subjects to become a prominent subject in scientific examinations. Lin Fu planned to come later.
After the miscellaneous studies can at least be generally accepted by scholars, then the scientific examinations can be held.
Chi Zhou felt uneasy, but Lin Fu told him frankly some of his ideas on the reform of the scientific examination system, the reform of the imperial newspaper and the post office, etc., hoping to attract Chi Zhou to the people of the new empire.
After talking for a long time, Chi Zhou gradually let go. When he was about to leave, he couldn't help but ask: "Ye Ji Baishi led his troops to aid Goryeo. Governor Zhen said that his eagerness to win can be used. Chi Zhou saw that his lord seemed to be moved.
, but Saga Yorigen said that he would send troops to help the battle, but the lord gave up the idea, and Chi Zhou was puzzled..."
"Haha," Lin Fu thought to himself that Chi Zhou was really good at looking at people. He was indeed quite tempted at first, intending to use Ye Ji Baishi's sudden advance to underestimate the enemy and organize a battle in Goryeo, but later gave up the idea and did not want to ask Chi Zhou to look at people.
He came up, smiled, and said, "Saga Yorigen is also a hero. He doesn't claim to send troops to help. I really have the intention to send troops to Goryeo to seize the opportunity to fight, but Saga Yorigen claims to send troops to help..." said
At this point, Lin Fu paused for a moment, and then continued, "Saga Yorigen has no good intentions. Think about it, if we win this battle, Saga Yorigen will have military exploits and gain victory; if we lose,
Now, will the Saga family follow the loss of troops and reduce the number of soldiers? I think the benefits that the Saga family can get from the defeat will not be small... Saga Yorigen is so enthusiastic, I just want to pour cold water on him
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"My lord is wise." Chi Zhou said sincerely.
Mobilize other elites to fight in Goryeo. If you win, let it go. Failure to win will greatly weaken your control over overseas. Thinking about it carefully, Chi Zhou also suspected that this was Saga Yorigen standing up and saying that he wanted to help in the war to promote Huaidong.
The main reason why military elites directly entered Goryeo.
What really impressed Chi Zhou was that Lin Fu was in a high position at this time and was only half a step away from abolishing his power and becoming independent, but he was still so cautious and did not step into no matter how small a trap others put him. This was precisely
Characteristics that other founding emperors did not have. I thought, maybe this way, Saga Yorimoto would not dare to hope to escape the control of the new empire, right?