Early the next morning, Imai Munehisa walked into Okayama Castle under the leadership of Kuroda Kanbei, he didn't come alone, he was followed by an entourage, a good-looking retinue. Kuroda Kanbei didn't seem to see her. When they walked into Okayama Castle, they were searched, and a delicate dagger was found from the arms of the attendants, and nothing else, when they came to the side hall, there was no one in the side hall, and after Kuroda Kanbei led the two of them in, he just said a faint word of waiting and left.

Imai Munehisa and his entourage had to sit casually in the side hall and wait for the arrival of their master's house, the wind blowing in from outside the house mixed with the smell of the waves and the sound of the waves. After a long time, about an hour later, the master's house finally came.

Zhengheng appeared in the side hall with his guards, and at a glance he saw the entourage dressed as a man, judging from his temperament, he really didn't look like an entourage, he glanced at Imai Munehisa, sat in the first place, and the two saluted first.

Zhengheng took out the little dragon Jingguang and said: "Imai Sojiu, I like this famous knife you offered, I like it very much, I have received your heart, what do you want, I also know that Naya can be opened on my family's territory, you can contact Tanba Miyahara Masashige for specific matters, and he will inform me." ”

Imai Sojiu sincerely thanked him with trepidation, he knew that he was summoned today, but in fact he was incidental, and what he really needed to see was his entourage, but today with the approval of Zhengheng, Naya will be opened smoothly in Date territory.

Imai Munehisa retired, his entourage did not move a step, he did not urge her to leave, he didn't look at her, he just retreated silently, and followed Kuroda to the other room to wait for the end of the meeting between the two. Then he departed again as a master servant.

The servant appeared in the hall with a teapot in hand, poured a cup of tea for each of them, and then retreated. The corners of Zhengheng's mouth showed a slight smile, picked up the tea on the desk, and said, "Red lady, I will replace wine with tea." A glass to you, dry first for respect. ”

The red lady didn't move.

After Zhengheng was surprised, he didn't care, he drank the tea by himself, pinched the teacup, and said: "The ministers of Kyoto were the first to taste tea out of the tea ceremony, and it was spread by the merchants, and it was divided into nobles, elegant scholars, Buddhist ways, and secular ways? The aristocratic tea ceremony originated from the 'taste of tea', which was intended to boast of wealth; The Tea Ceremony is born from the 'Rhyme of Tea'. Aimed at art appreciation; Buddhism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony originated from the 'virtue of tea', aiming to participate in Zen and enlightenment; The secular tea ceremony is born from the 'taste of tea' and aims to enjoy life. In my opinion, when you are hungry to eat, when you are thirsty, you need to drink, how can there be so much truth to talk about? ”

The red lady tasted from Zhengheng's words that Zhengheng believes in practical realism, but she did not ridicule Zhengheng, saying that Zhengheng is not an elegant person. She raised her head to look at Zhengheng and said, "Get acquainted again." My name is Red Lady. ”

Zheng Heng's eyes were solemn, and he said solemnly: "I know, the only thing I want to know now is Mao Haifeng, that is, whether Wang Ao in your mouth will retaliate in the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian because of Wang Zhi's beheading, causing the Ming Court to directly start a war with him." ”

Zheng Heng suddenly found that his vision seemed to be broad on a macro level, but on the specific details. Compared with his retainers, he is even more narrow-minded, and he also knows the affairs of the Ming Dynasty and does not know the other, you must know that under the butterfly effect, Mao Haifeng's strength is more than several times stronger than in history.

The script at the beginning was similar to history, after Wang Zhi was arrested. Mao Haifeng killed the hostage Xia Zheng, but he was not able to escape, and was surrounded by the Ming army in Cen Gang, at this time most of his men had fled, and there were less than a thousand people left, and the defeat was imminent.

The difference began to change in the summer of the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, that is, the first year of Yonglu, when the Japanese state was in full swing, a fleet of more than 200 ships appeared near Cen Harbor, and it was not the reinforcements of the Ming army, but Mao Haifeng, who was passively beaten, finally looked forward to reinforcements.

Mao Haifeng, who got a new force, led the army to counterattack the Ming army, never thought that he would really win, Yu Dayou was defeated and took Maicheng, more than 5,000 people were killed and wounded, more than 3,000 people were missing, and in the end, there were less than 1,000 people left who ran back with Yu Dayou, which can be said to be extremely miserable.

Zhengheng, who learned all this from the mouths of the two guards, was surprised, you must know that although Yu Dayou suffered heavy casualties in history, he still won in the end, and it is not clear whether Mao Haifeng died or not, but it is impossible to say that he never appeared in history again.

Now that he had heard this terrible news, it really shocked Zhengheng, who had just passed the history exam, and this was the reason for today's meeting, and he wanted to hear from the professionals about the possible next move of the Ming court, so that he could make his own judgment.

The red lady looked at Zhengheng with a little puzzlement, she didn't understand why a widow would be so concerned about the affairs of the Ming Kingdom, when she just said tea, it was still light, but when she talked about the Ming Kingdom, she put on a serious expression, and it didn't mean that there was no place to use it.

The red lady overturned the excuse prepared yesterday, since a widow is more concerned about the affairs of the Ming country than the Ming people, then there is a lot of room for turnaround, she pondered for a while, and said: "If Mao Haifeng dies in Cen Gang, then the Ming court will not pay attention to coastal defense, at most urge some people to go to the top." However, Mao Haifeng did not die, not only did he not die, but there were thousands of more fresh troops around him, almost all of them wiped out tens of thousands of officials and thieves, and there were few soldiers available in the two Zhejiang regions. ”

Zhengheng heard the word "official thief" and thought about it.

Mencius said that the king regards his ministers as his siblings, and the ministers regard the king as his heart; The monarch regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the monarch as a countryman; The king regards his ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard him as an enemy. Here you can also act as an official, and the people regard the people as mustard, and the people regard the officials as enemies.

The red lady sighed secretly in her heart, if Mao Haifeng died in Cen Gang, she would not use Gangshan City to humiliate herself, even if she could not obtain the ruling power of the Wang Zhi Wokou group in the end, she could retreat and find a place where no one was to marry and have children to be a good wife and mother.

The red lady sighed secretly, she looked at Zhengheng listening, and continued: "Seventy or eighty percent of the taxes of the Ming Kingdom come from Jiangnan, and the main tax source of Jiangnan is the two Zhejiang, once the two Zhejiang are eroded, the Ming Kingdom will be paralyzed, and the Ming court will have to fight. ”

Zhengheng never thought about the Hachiman boat ban he set up to suppress Murakami Buji. Now it has evolved into a big war that is about to break out, and the influence is unexpected, but he doesn't know how to deal with this big war.

After the red lady finished speaking, Zhengheng couldn't help but ask, "How is the victory?" After asking, he was surprised to laugh, he would ask such a stupid question, a small widow actually wanted to shake the Ming Dynasty. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 160,000 army couldn't do it, and Mao Haifeng couldn't do it either.

The red lady said the opposite, saying: "Although Mao Haifeng said that he fought under the banner of the Ming Kingdom, he was a native of the Ming Kingdom, and most of his subordinates were Ming people, and they were people who fled overseas in desperation, that is to say, the war between him and the Ming Dynasty was not a war between the Ming Kingdom and the Ming Kingdom, but a war between the Ming people, and it was a civil strife. If Mao Haifeng is a smart person. He will no longer play the banner of the Wa Kingdom now, but will hold up the banner of the rebel army, shave the hair of the Han and wear Hanfu, and then shout the slogan of 'Welcome the Sea King, the Sea King will not pay for food when he comes', so that he can trick many poor ghosts into participating in the rebel army. It's hard to say what the final result will be. ”

Zhengheng was stunned when he heard the red lady say, "Welcome the king of the sea, the king of the sea is here and don't pay for food". He never thought that the Red Lady would make such an inference, with the strength of the Ming Dynasty. With the strength of the Ming army, how could it be a defeat against Mao Haifeng?

The red lady turned a blind eye to Zhengheng's puzzled gaze, she had already entered the role, and continued to say to herself: "What if the Ming Court fails? The national strength of the Ming Kingdom is very strong, with a territory of thousands of miles and a population of more than 100 million. However, because the territory is too vast, the soldiers in the two Zhejiang regions have suffered heavy losses, which can be said to be the point where there are no soldiers available, and the Central Plains region is eroded, and it is necessary to transfer generals who dare to fight from the border areas to quell the chaos. It will take at least two or three months to prepare, if Mao Haifeng is not stupid, he will definitely expand his army rapidly in these two or three months. Once Jiangnan is severely damaged, the taxes of the Ming court continue to deplete, and the northern Tatars move south again, the central government's control over the local areas will inevitably weaken rapidly, which will lead to a series of crises. If Mao Haifeng can defeat the first batch of rebellion army transferred by the Ming Court again, then he can be given three or four months of development time, and then the situation will be even more crisis, and the lives will be ruined, who can say the victory or defeat? ”

This seems absurd, but there are still three points of truth in the careful taste, history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered 160,000 troops to formally invade Korea in April 1592, King Kejing Hancheng in May, Pyongyang on June 15, the king of Korea asked for help from the Ming court, the Ming court sent 3,000 reinforcements into the court, and the local chickens and dogs that were beaten, and at the end of December of that year, the army of more than 43,000 people led by the chief military officer Li Rusong crossed the Yalu River into Korea. The interval is as long as seven or eight months.

Mao Haifeng was able to use thousands of people to resist the famous generals of the Ming Dynasty, Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang and others for half a year, and after getting reinforcements, he counterattacked and defeated the latter, almost annihilating more than 10,000 Ming troops.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked North Korea, and the Ming court was able to indulge him for seven or eight months, but if Mao Haifeng ravaged Jiangnan, where would the Ming court give him seven or eight months, if he really let Mao Haifeng develop steadily for seven or eight months, I am afraid that Jiangnan will be beaten into a pot of porridge by him.

Can the course of history change? Zhengheng knew that he could change, because all the history of the Wa Kingdom that he could know had changed, and the history of the Wa Kingdom had been stirred up by him, and the Ming Dynasty, which he had been trying his best to want the historical process to go down according to a specific situation, also changed because of his little wings.

Originally, Zhengheng had always wanted to see that the Ming Dynasty would no longer go down the road to destruction, and even he thought that he would spend a few years looking for high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn to transplant them to the Ming Dynasty, and then pass them back to the Ming Dynasty, so as to continue the national glory of the Ming Dynasty.

Obviously, a fork in the road he least wants to see has appeared in the march of history, and he doesn't know whether this fork in the road can save the Han dynasty or destroy the Han dynasty for the development of the Ming Dynasty, and now no one knows, and the two people present are powerless.

The result of the turmoil is the chaos in the world, and there are two results of the chaos in the world, one is the change of dynasty, and the other is the great rule after the chaos. Zhengheng doesn't know what the result is, but he clearly knows that the price of every chaos to the great rule is heavy.

Zheng Heng didn't want to see such a reincarnation appear, but he was powerless to stop the possibility of it, even if it was only a one percent, and he asked the second stupid question: "How to stop him?" "He really doesn't want to see the Ming Kingdom fall into chaos.

The red lady was slightly stunned, she once again felt puzzled by Zhengheng, the Japanese man's interest in the Ming Kingdom was far greater than that of the Ming Kingdom, yes, doubts, you must know that not every Ming person will protect his country**.

saw the stunned eyes of the red lady.

Zheng Heng suddenly regained his composure, and he took a deep breath, knowing that he had just lost his temper. It has been almost twenty-five or six years since he came to this world, and as long as his soul does not resist, in a sense, the environment can completely assimilate him and become a complete widow. But his soul has always resisted this change, telling him that he is a Han man, a Han man from hundreds of years later. The war of assimilation and being assimilated is everywhere, and as time goes by, the environment changes, and he feels more and more pain.

When the red lady looked at Zheng Heng again, Zheng Heng seemed to have become another person, her expression was resolute, with a hint of coldness and gloom in her eyes, she felt as if she had lost a very good opportunity, an opportunity to stop Mao Haifeng with her.

Zhengheng seemed to have figured everything out, and he said, "I'm tired, you go down!" Ignoring the red lady and walking to the door when she lifted the knife, the red lady was stunned again, she just wanted to stop it, and the guard who followed Zhengheng raised the knife and scolded: "Get out of the way!" ”

If the red lady wants to step forward again, I'm afraid his guards will really pull out their knives and cut off her head. The red lady had to retreat to her seat, with a wry smile on her face, shaking her head slightly, she knew what kind of opportunity she had just lost, and such an opportunity would never be again.

Walking out of the house, blowing the sea breeze blowing over there, Zheng Heng took a deep breath, then spit it out, and muttered: "With my own strength, how can I not let this Han family repeat the mistakes of the past?" With my mere widow, even if I have the heart, I can't do anything? Wow, ridiculous, pathetic?! A tear fell from the corner of his eye. (To be continued.) )