Beiyang new warlord

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Typical of Yuan Chonghuan's strategy, now that he is in charge of Toyotomi's family, the first thing he wants to do is to make himself invincible. He also wants to trim a Great Wall in Wa country, starting from the Wakasa seaside in the west, reaching the edge of Mount Ibuki in the east, and connecting with Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Fusang. , Divided the country into two.

However, Mao Jue did not object to this city-building plan. First, because of the war, there were almost hundreds of thousands of refugees on the 420 million shi territory of the Toyotomi family. Relief is essential if these people are to be converted into productive forces next year. Instead of letting them eat and drink for free, it is better to mobilize and do something.

Secondly, the cement orders placed to Dongjiang also indirectly stimulated Dongjiang's economy, mine development, shipbuilding, transportation and smelting industries, which can be regarded as stimulating exports.

This year's military operations have been completely suspended. Regardless of whether the Eastern and Western countries are licking their wounds, the Dongjiang Army, which has been on the expedition for more than half a year, is also anchored at the good port of Wakasa, preparing to return to Dongjiang.

Along the edge of the Loquat Lake, a troop of cavalry walked slowly forward. The horses were tall and shoulder-high, obviously not Japanese cavalry. The two horses in the front had two thick and heavy barrel binoculars mounted on their backs. looking forward.

Unlike Toyotomi Hideyoshi who built Osaka Castle in more than ten years, Dongjiang pays attention to efficiency. The foundation of the three-meter-wide Great Wall of Wa Kingdom has been laid in half a month. Wa country is rich in volcanoes. Dongjiang only needs to put limestone It is completely different from the traditional casting method of the Japanese country. The produced steel bars are inserted into the foundation, and there are countless cement pools. The Japanese people are constantly stirring the sand and gravel with a shovel, and then pouring water. On the root of the city, the reinforced concrete Great Wall of Japan grows little by little, centimeter by centimeter.

He is really born to build a crazy city. In this project, Yuan Chonghuan seems to have regained the high spirits of Pingliao in the past five years. He looked at it with high spirits and introduced it to Mao Jue.

"It is estimated that the wall is five meters high and three meters thick. An archery tower will be added every 50 meters for the purpose of stationing troops. The Kuroda family has [-] soldiers and horses, the Shimadzu family has [-] soldiers, and the Naoshima family has [-] soldiers. There are [-] soldiers from the feudal clan, [-] soldiers from the upper clan of the Mao family, plus [-] soldiers from the clan of the Changzong family and the Asai family. The first regiment of the Toyotomi family is currently training with [-] soldiers and [-] iron cannons. A thousand cannons of the Dongjiang tiger are enough to guard against the Great Wall."

"At that time, the general's cavalry will send troops from Lake Biwa every spring to prevent the cultivation of the Kanto, and in the autumn, the city will be used to defend against the plunder of the Eastern Kingdom. Within three years, the Tokugawa Shogunate will not fight. When the time comes, the army will be flooded here, and the Japanese will conquer the world. Easy to get!"

This tactic was also Yuan Chonghuan's plan to pacify Liaodong back then. When he was introduced to the excitement, he was delighted, but Mao Jue couldn't get excited when he heard it. He always looked solemnly at the Great Wall under construction in front of him, and remained silent. .

After a long time, he suddenly interrupted Yuan Chonghuan again, and asked a question inexplicably.

"Mr. Yuan, what should we do if the Wa country turns against Daming again in the future?"

"General Mao, you rule the Wa Kingdom, how can the Wa Kingdom turn against Daming?"

He was also full of astonishment, and immediately put on a little guard, Yuan Chonghuan asked back in astonishment.

Mao Jue has been contradicting this concern for a long time. Even now, he is the one who dominates the Wa Kingdom and the West Kingdom. On the one hand, he really needs the manpower and material resources of Fusang to support him against rising from the white mountains and black waters, and conquering Mongolia. Now his strength is not even inferior. At the beginning of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, there was Huang Taiji Qing who destroyed the Jin Kingdom before the Northern Song Dynasty. On the other hand, he was also afraid that if he supported the Wa Kingdom, what would happen to these little devils in the future?

This worry is not unreasonable. Today's Wa Kingdom is almost all shaped by the Tang Dynasty. As a result, Toyotomi Hideyoshi turned his attention to Daming as soon as the troubled times ended. The starting point of the Wanli Korean War was North Korea's refusal to lend Feng Minister Hideyoshi Faming.

In later generations, the Tokugawa shogunate and the Qing Dynasty were both victims of the aggression of Western colonists. It has to be admitted that the Japanese are much stronger than the Chinese in this respect. Under waves of Western invasions, the Qing Dynasty became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal system The abyss of the society, but Japan was actually awakened, and it grew into one of the great powers. Once again, the little devil hit China with greed.

Next, a series of tragic events are familiar.

If Mao Jue can successfully save Daming, then Daming, who became strong first, will naturally not be afraid of a small country like the earthworms in the east. How did Jue make it clear?In case he fails, the country of Wa, which is his backup base in the Dongjiang River, becomes stronger again, isn't it just looking for trouble for Daming?

After returning from the shore of Lake Biwa, and returning to the Maofu mansion in Kyoto, lying on the tatami mats and looking at the lotus in the yard, Mao Jue made a difficult choice all afternoon.

But in the end it was Mao Jue. Early the next morning, before dawn, the door of Adelaina's room was knocked open, and the bum was still rubbing her eyes in a daze, and was directly slammed by a pervert. She fell down on the couch, seeing Mao Jue's red eyes and excited expression, the girl was so ashamed that she almost found a crack in the floor.

"General, Lord General! It will be dawn soon! Besides, you are making such a big noise, concubine, can't you do it tonight?"

"No, I can't wait! It's now!"

"Huh? Oh"

While answering shyly, the foreign girl began to take off her clothes, and her pink shoulders and clavicles were slowly exposed from the nightgown. Jue was already pacing back and forth in the room excitedly, talking hastily at the same time.

"Immediately find the best cooks in Dongjiang, let them prepare the materials now, and then send invitations to Governor Yu, Eunuch Cao Xi, Chief Governor of Eagle Division, Uncle Ertiao, and Superintendent Jiutiao, hurry up and get dressed. ! What are you doing undressing?"

Seeing Mao Jue's stunned expression, his face was as blushing as a tomato, and then Adelaina flung her teeth and claws into a rage. First, a wooden pillow slammed over hard, and it hit Mao Jue's forehead with a bang. , and soon there were quilts, vases, clogs and cushions. Mao Jue covered his forehead and screamed, and a lot of things were buried for him in an instant.

After a fierce "hand-to-hand fight", the sun rose high. Under the surprised gazes of a group of servants in the mansion, Adelaina kicked open the Japanese-style sliding door knocked down by Mao Jue. Her fair face was flushed, and while she was fastening her belt, her little feet were flying like flying, and she ran out to do some business.

On the other side, it was the turn of General Mao with disheveled clothes, as if he had been molested, sitting sadly in the big quilt that wrapped the whole room, still carrying the scent and residual heat, and rubbing the big bump on his forehead sadly.

"Woman! Whoops"

Compared with Mao Jue's family banquet, Fusang's imperial banquet could have committed suicide by jumping out of a hut in shame. Even a few Japanese ministers, sitting in front of their single table, still couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

After all, the Order of Pity for Human Beings has been issued for more than 1000 years. The nobles have long been used to not eating any meat except fish, and Mao Jue did not break their rules. Come.

Jianzhen vegetarian duck, Changjiang vegetarian saury, Luohan [-] treasures, dry-cut vegetarian ham, honey sauce vegetarian abalone, ginkgo vegetarian chicken, and two vegetarian soups. Eight dishes have no meat at all.

Japan does not raise pigs and sheep, and rarely raises chickens and ducks. The Japanese cuisine of this era is almost the same as that of Korea on the tip of the tongue in later generations. Pickled radish and saury miso soup supported the world. The eyes of a Japanese minister looked straight at the dishes in front of him.

Even the well-informed Yu Dacheng had never seen such a special vegetable feast, his eyes were shining brightly, but among so many people, one person was always worried and terrified.

Cao Xi!

To be honest, Cao Xi had already regarded the war of the Japanese kingdom as a hard job before he came here, and now it is undoubtedly a hard job. He had a dozen dreams and never imagined that the scale of this war would be so large. Even in the Central Plains, it can be called an epic battle, and what's more, Mao Jue actually won the battle!

Enfeoffing princes, plundering and negotiating, none of them should be done by a courtier. Now half of the Japanese country is in his hands, sitting on 10,000+ troops. Although the power of Dongjiang is not as good as Houjin, it is enough to make the court feel that the thorns are on the back. Mao Jue's "wolf ambition" is undoubtedly exposed!

But among the monitoring officials, Yu Dacheng is his father-in-law, and more than a dozen officials are mostly Deng Lai Dao's subordinates. They are like dogs. It is impossible for them to report on Mao Jue. Among so many people, it seems that he is the only one who is a foreigner!

In other words, only he, Cao Xi, is the one who needs to be silenced!

What's more, Cao Xi had a deep feud with Mao Jue before!

After finishing the third battle in Osaka, Eunuch Cao hid directly in Wakasa, looking forward to the stars and the moon every day, waiting for the army to withdraw. The sooner he fled back to the capital, the better, so that he could save his life. Immediately, Mao Jue's invitation came to his door again. To him, it was no less than black and white impermanence sending a post to come to drink tea.

Huddled behind those Japanese ministers, Cao Xi wished he could cover his face with a bowl, trying his best to pretend to be a harmless little white rabbit.

But what made him want to cry was that there was a big bump on his forehead. As soon as he entered the door, Mao Jue was the first to greet him excitedly.

"Eunuch Cao! Mao waited so hard for you!"

If the eunuch had integrity, he wouldn't be eunuched. Cao Xi kowtowed sadly as he knelt down on the ground.

"Miscellaneous people don't know anything!"

Chapter 299. Mao Jue's Idea

"Do not know what is this?"

Under the eyes of everyone, the eunuch lay on the ground like a rice cake. Even Mao Jue felt a little dumbfounded, but Cao Xijin was one of the protagonists. Enduring the disgust, Mao Jue helplessly pulled his sleeves and pulled the dead eunuch again. He was pulled up hard, and in front of those noble people in Kyoto, he introduced it with a smile on his face.

"Everyone, this is Cao Xi, Eunuch Cao, who is the celebrity attendant of His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Come, Eunuch Cao, please take a seat!"

"Don't dare, please, General Mao!"

He was a bit unsure about what kind of medicine Mao Jue sold in his gourd, so he put on an ugly smile and was dragged by Mao Jue. Cao Xi was also dragged to the seat next to Yu Dacheng, Mao Jue's father-in-law.

After the host and guest were seated, they raised their wine glasses. While those officials were drooling, Mao Jue also raised his wine glasses in a modest manner.

"Today's family banquet is not so restrained, you can just drink to your heart's content! Mao does it first, please!"

As he spoke, Mao Jue proudly drank the wine in the glass. In fact, he really doesn't hold a lot of alcohol. If the Dongjiang corn is burnt, he will be able to lie down with a glass. Fortunately, this is a bird. Japanese sake, so that he can also pretend to be aggressive.

Don't look at the public ministers handed down from the Heian era, the descendants of the Fujiwara family, but the Guanwu family, the doctor Qing Jiuhuaqing's family is also living a tight life, with limited income, and they don't drink casually. Mao Jue treats guests this time. It is difficult for ordinary doctors to eat meat, and they say compliments, but they also raise their glasses neatly, drink it with their heads up, and then pick up their chopsticks one after another.

Not to mention, Mao Jue's head was really caught by the door this time, and after three minutes of drinking, he lifted the glass again with pride.

"Everyone, I was originally in Dongjiang, and I heard that Fusang has always been known as the Little China. When I saw it today, it really lived up to its reputation. My Ming Dynasty, Tang Chang'an City, which has been destroyed by the dust, but here in Kyoto, I can still see it. The shadow of Chang'an City, the Tang style and Tang rhyme in the streets and alleys, really makes Mao feel deeply!"