The strife in the court began to end.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's better to be appeased, I think Your Majesty has used troops against Mongolia in recent years, and also has to use troops against Ryukyu, and also to prevent the Eastern Captives from entering the customs, and also to provide disaster relief, this force, military salary, and silver money are all bottomless pit of consumption, and then use troops on the Zheng family's sea and land, not to mention the cost, just these several sides of the battle, this ...... Alas...... Your Majesty, do what you can! ”

Yang Gengai felt that this minister was still kind, at least he knew that he would have to fight a lot of battles in the past two years, and persuaded himself to take it easy, but Yang Gengai didn't tell him that he was still preparing to go to war with Li Zicheng and his ilk, and was also preparing to start a war in Korea, and even, he was going to fight a war with the Westerners, and if this minister knew, he would probably be scared to death. Yang Gengai calculated that he found that the war in the past two years was really not ordinary. There will be wars almost everywhere, flowers everywhere! It seems that this military expenditure still needs to be prepared more, and this ammunition and weapons must be stepped up! This emperor, when will he be able to do it to the end!

"What Aiqing said is reasonable, this use of soldiers everywhere and fighting on all sides is indeed a taboo for soldiers, and it is difficult for me! I don't want to use soldiers! State affairs are difficult, difficult! Yang Reform said in his heart, this matter at the end of the Ming Dynasty is really two words - "difficult".

The emperor's lamentation of the difficulty of state affairs made most of the ministers deeply sympathize, the peasant rebellion caused by the famine in various places has begun to take shape, and the discussion of the Zheng family is an example, thinking that the use of troops in many aspects is a foregone conclusion, and also sighs that the world is really changing! It's really not easy for the emperor! It's no wonder that the emperor is desperately searching for money, this is preparing for the military in the future! Many ministers had a lot of understanding in their hearts, and felt that the emperor was still very wise, or a little far-sighted, and knew what to do and what to prepare.

Above the court, there was an inexplicable silence.

The emperor was thinking about how many places he wanted to use troops, how many people he wanted to train, how many weapons he wanted to build, and other things to prepare for war, while the ministers were thinking about the emperor's words and how difficult it was for the Ming Dynasty to be in the emperor's words.

Yang Gengai thought about it for a while, he didn't have a clue, he came back to his senses from deep thought, and saw that all the courtiers didn't speak, the atmosphere was cold for a long time, and said: "Don't be embarrassed, Aiqing!" If you have any opinions, just say them. Whether it's suppressing or caressing, in short, this matter must also be decided! Otherwise, if you keep dragging it like this, you will have no idea whether you will be suppressed or appeased in the locality, and it will not work. ”

Yang Reform's mind must be appeased, but when the emperor can't easily express his position, he can't let the opponents directly aim their firepower at themselves, so that he is very passive, which has to arouse the discussion of the ministers, and then guide himself a little, slightly biased to a certain side, this center of gravity, all of a sudden, will go to the place where he wants to appear, this is the art of being an emperor.

As soon as the emperor spoke, the ministers began to talk again.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it should be suppressed and used, while preparing to exterminate, while preparing to appease, in this way, it will not cause the Zheng family to be too big, asking for a price all over the sky, and threatening the court with heavy troops, if it is really inappropriate, and then exterminate, it will not be caught off guard." This time, there was a centrist.

Yang Gengai nodded, this person's mind coincided with himself, he really wanted to appease Zheng Zhilong, but he didn't want to see Zheng Zhilong ask for a sky-high price, change from a pirate to a customs of the Ming Dynasty, in that way, he would have nothing to do, and he was still ready to eat meat.

"What this Qing family said is reasonable, you can't not be prepared to exterminate because you want to be appeased, and you can't close the door to exterminate because you want to exterminate, I mean that on the one hand, you should be ready to exterminate, on the other hand, you must continue to talk to the Zheng family, don't block the way to appease, everyone will continue to discuss." On the battlefield, what should be fought, on the table, and what should be discussed, this kind of thing is known to many people in the 21 st century.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this strategy is clever, and it should be so, not only to prevent him from blackmailing the court with heavy troops and demanding endlessly, but also to prevent him from continuing to endanger the place and bring disaster to the sea. It is necessary to have two hands to prepare, once the recruitment fails, immediately enter the suppression, one failure, come twice, two failures, come three times, anyway, the Zheng family does not follow the will of the imperial court, it will not end well, the imperial court only shows its attitude so sternly, this Zheng family will feel the pressure, will be afraid of the imperial court, otherwise, this Zheng family in the local area, become a giant lord, by no means the blessing of the Ming Dynasty. "This minister came out to agree with the emperor's intentions, prepared with both hands, and said something like my territory, I am in charge, and if I don't follow my will, I will die to the end. The words of this minister made Yang Reform feel that this scholar doctor of the Ming Dynasty also had a tenacious side.

"Hehe, yes, this Qing family is right, then let's talk about it, what bottom line should the court give the Zheng family, if it exceeds this bottom line, the court will be exterminated, accept the bottom line of the court, and recruit peace on the spot." Yang Gengai found that the minister in the court was very good at changing the direction of the wind, and he only showed his meaning a little, and the minister immediately followed his own words. This is completely different from the feeling of being an emperor before, before, it felt like swimming in oil, there were sticky things blocking you all around, it seemed that nothing stopped you, but you couldn't swim at all, but now it is different, your own feeling, as if you are in the water with a little water, you can go where you want to go, swim very easily.

The ministers saw that the general meaning of the emperor had come down, and they began to think of ideas according to the emperor's words, and their views on the emperor were by no means the same as before, and they were no longer the kind of old courtiers who I was your brother and your old man.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that because he should recruit peace on the spot, the Zheng family must accept the dispatch and arrangement of the imperial court, and the Zheng family can give a place to inspect and inspect, and his subordinates will be scattered to various guards and serve as guards, if they do not accept the dispatch of the imperial court and do not accept the arrangements of the imperial court, the imperial court will definitely send a large army to exterminate them, and they will not die, so that he can understand the consequences of rebellion." The bottom line given by this minister is quite low, basically he didn't take the Zheng family seriously, gave a patrol, and the troops were scattered to the guard, not to mention that the Zheng family is now in a state of victory in the battle with the Ming Dynasty, even if it is defeated, I am afraid that it will not accept such harsh conditions. Even if Zheng Zhilong himself wants to agree, his brothers may not necessarily agree to go to the guard to be a soldier, so it is better to rebel directly.

Even Yang Reform, a little white, felt that this was not very reliable, and it was impossible to recruit peace under this condition. It's better to exterminate it directly.

Sure enough, someone immediately came out to object, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he can accept the Zheng family's request and make the Zheng family a sea inspector, or a military attache of a sea general, anyway, no matter how powerful this sea is, it will always have to settle on land, so he is not afraid that he will not obey the control of the court, and his subordinates will still restrain him, as long as he guarantees the peace of the sea and the peace of the place, this is even a blessing for the Ming Dynasty, which can calm down a lot of things for the imperial court, and there is no need for the imperial court to spend money to support so many people." , there is no need to waste money and troops to exterminate the Zheng family, which is a good thing to kill many birds with one stone. ”

Yang Gengai really wanted to kick this guy, and directly agreed to Zheng Zhilong's request, why did he want to "intercept" history? Isn't it just to prevent the Zheng family from becoming bigger? Isn't it for the annual tariff of several million taels? Alas, it seems that this makes the ministers discuss, which is really unreliable! It's still self-dictatory. The IQ of this courtier is really different!

The underground ministers don't care whether the emperor is distracted or not, anyway, after you finished speaking, seeing that the emperor didn't speak, I continued to say, anyway, I have to grab a chance to speak and show my face in front of the emperor.

Yang Gaiai thought about what bottom line he wanted to give the Zheng family. It's too high, it's definitely not good, I suffer a loss, it's low, this Zheng Zhilong is unwilling to accept Zhao'an, then there is only one way to fight, and now his big battle ships don't even have drawings, and the sailors are still a group of landlubbers, what to fight?

After thinking about it for a long time, there was no very balanced condition, the Zheng family would definitely agree, thinking about it, I felt that it was better to ask my master, Sun Chengzong got it, this Sun Chengzong is usually in the court, and he doesn't talk much, unless the emperor asks. Yang Gengai felt that he had to ask today.

"Master Sun, in your opinion, where should the bottom line be for this Zheng family's appeasement?"

When the ministers saw that the emperor asked Sun Chengzong, they all turned their eyes to Sun Chengzong to see what Sun Chengzong said.

Sun Chengzong saw the emperor asking, thought for a while, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that His Majesty's strategy of suppressing and using it is right, on the one hand, it is necessary to make enough preparations for the court to continue to suppress, so that the Zheng family knows that the court is not afraid of things, and second, it is also necessary to give enough confidence to the Zheng family, so that the Zheng family knows that the court has the intention to appease, so that it can avoid the continued expansion of a war in the southeast, which is a good thing. Sun Chengzong pushed this condition of appeasing Zheng Zhilong back to the emperor, as if the emperor had already planned.

Yang Reform was speechless, his heart was a mess, what good ideas were there? Now that Sun Chengzong is saying this, for the sake of face and to show his wisdom and martial arts, he has to make a decision, this Sun Chengzong is really ...... Yang Reform is speechless, this double reed, it seems that it has to be rehearsed in advance, otherwise, it is very easy to smash it!

Since Sun Chengzong forced himself to behave wisely, Yang Gai had to brace himself and think about how to deal with the Zheng family. After thinking about it for a while, he said nonsense: "Well, I do have a bottom line in my heart, I think that I should send someone to contact the Zheng family and tell him that I definitely have a sincere intention to appease him, as long as he listens to my words and listens to my arrangement, I will never let him down, let him come to the capital first, I will meet him, talk about it, and after that, I will return to my hometown, and my descendants will be indispensable for wealth and wealth, and I will definitely not treat anyone who works for me, and I will never treat him badly, so he can inquire about my reputation; Tell him again, I am not a person who is afraid of things, I am going to allocate one or two million taels of silver to build a warship this year, and re-select a sailor, if he wants to compare with me more money and more people, I will accompany him at any time......"

The emperor spoke in the tone of this "ruffian" and "countryman", which made the ministers embarrassed, the emperor meant to be in the hall, but unfortunately the level of this choice of words and sentences is really too bad. They all lowered their heads, held back their laughter, and stopped talking. The image of a heroic and holy emperor was shattered in the hearts of the ministers in an instant.

Before Yang Reform finished speaking, he wanted to suck his mouth, this talking, it was too unstandard, and he unabashedly put himself as an "otaku", the psychological state of the little people, there is also the majesty of the emperor who commands hundreds of millions of people, it is obvious that a gangster boss talks to another gangster boss, looking at the appearance of the ministers on the ground, he knows that he has exposed his prototype. Alas...... It's really sad. Yang Gai's face felt very hot...... Sun Chengzong felt that the emperor must have his own plans, but he expected it, the emperor did have his own plans, but he didn't expect that what he said was so "level", and there was a black line in his head at the moment. I knew that the emperor should not have been allowed to perform wise and martial arts, and I thought that since the emperor talked about the Zheng family's problem, he must have prepared and planned in his heart, and he knew that the emperor knew about the pirate Zheng family's trouble, that is, he had just heard Wang Chengen say it between the previous dynasty.

This matter made the monarch and minister very embarrassed, and Yang Reform quickly made a conclusion on this matter, asked the relevant departments to handle it according to their own wishes, and hurriedly let the matter pass.

…… Next, someone came out to report that several cabinets had submitted their resignations, and the emperor should make a decision as soon as possible, either to retain them, or to elect some new cabinet ministers to assist the emperor in handling state affairs.

Yang Gengai's heart is still a mess, there is still the heart to deal with the affairs of this cabinet, what he thinks is that this batch of cabinets is really not powerful, when there is meat to eat, he wants to enter the cabinet in every possible way, and when it is time to gnaw bones, he will do everything possible to shrink his body, without a little responsibility, not a material for doing things! He waved his hand at the moment and said, "I will think about this matter, and I will talk about it later, and I will not mention it for the time being." "Yang Reform has no list of members of the new cabinet yet, so it is naturally impossible for this group of cabinets to resign, and a new group of cabinets must be elected! Yang Gai felt that this annoyance was one after another. I have a black eye for the people of the Ming Dynasty, I can't know a few, maybe I think it's okay, and I can't build the conditions for entering the cabinet, and now I can think of the people who can enter the cabinet, and I may look down on it. That's a real nuisance! Yang Gengai scratched his head helplessly, with a headache.

The next few things were all trivial matters, and Yang Reform didn't care about it, and followed the courtiers' wishes, which can be regarded as having dealt with state affairs.

It's not easy to get out of the dynasty, Yang Reform feels that he is really hard! Alas...... It's not easy to be an emperor!

Seeing that the emperor was depressed, Wang Chengen whispered: "Your Majesty, but do you want to walk around the palace?" Wang Chengen decided to let the emperor relax. The emperor is clearly in a bad mood right now.

"Well, it's okay, let's walk around the palace." Yang Gai felt that this was not bad, and he was carried by others and walked around the Palace Museum, who has such treatment for tourists in the 21st century?

The emperor's chariot wandered around the palace at will.

didn't go far, Yang Gengai found that Wang Chengen seemed to have been called, and then came back in a hurry, and continued to walk as if nothing had happened.

"Ome, what's the matter?" Yang Reform still asked, this is generally a more important thing to report, otherwise he would not tell Wang Chengen alone. Ordinary matters have to be reported to the emperor in the form of a recital.

When Wang Chengen saw that the emperor asked, he was not in a hurry, and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, it is Sun Yuanhua and all the Western missionaries that Your Majesty wants to summon have arrived, waiting for Your Majesty's summons. Wang Chengen saw that the emperor was not very happy, so he was ready to postpone the work of receiving the courtiers.

Sun Yuanhua? Western missionaries? Yang reform's thinking instantly remembered that it was a big deal for his own cannon casting and the guys who built Western ships to come! If you are ready to be the overlord of the seven seas, how can you miss them?

"Summon, summon at once." Yang Gai immediately said loudly.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Chengen immediately agreed.

The Temple of Nourishing the Heart.

East Warm Pavilion.

The first to be summoned by the emperor was Sun Yuanhua. This foreigner in the Ming Dynasty, is really not welcomed, the concept of the heavenly kingdom, deep into the minds of the Ming Dynasty people, but also into the hearts of these foreigners, in the Ming Dynasty, foreigners belong to the inferior existence, can enter the palace, is already a great gift, as for the emperor can not see, or see what the emperor said, Wang Chengen arranged, seeing this group of foreigners is really terrifying, afraid of startling the holy driver, so only let Sun Yuanhua, Xu Guangqi's apprentice, the only person who looks a little normal go in to see the emperor, as for the others, The emperor remembered to talk about it, but he didn't think about it, where did he come from like this, go back there, like this, it's really scary to watch.

"Minister, Sun Yuanhua, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live." Sun Yuanhua was cautious, very cautious to kowtow to the emperor, and his mood was also extremely excited, he was a small person, and he could be summoned by the emperor alone, what kind of honor is this? If this is not recommended by his teacher Xu Guangqi, it is impossible at all, and I am grateful to my teacher Xu Guangqi in my heart.

"Sun Aiqing, get up." Yang Gaiai looked at this forty or fifty-year-old "petty official", with a few beards, and his appearance was just very ordinary, that is, the historical "celebrity" Sun Yuanhua? Thinking of a high-ranking official like the governor in the future, he also has the ability, or rather, he has the opportunity, but unfortunately, he was killed. If you train it well, you may be able to take Xu Guangqi's class in the future.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen." Sun Yuanhua stood up respectfully again, bowed his head, and waited for the emperor's inquiry.

Yang Gai looked at it for a long time and asked, "Sun Aiqing, do you know why I summoned you?" ”

"Wechen doesn't know. Please also ask Your Majesty to show me. Sun Yuanhua knew that he could be summoned by the emperor thanks to his teacher Xu Guangqi, otherwise, a person would be qualified to be summoned by the emperor? This jinshi doesn't necessarily remember all the emperors, let alone raise people? Although I understand it in my heart, I can't say it clearly.

"I heard Master Xu say, you once learned how to make cannons from Westerners? Build a battleship? Interested in research? "Yang Reform doesn't plan to go around Guanzi, this Xu Guangqi is his own person, his student, Sun Yuanhua is also his own person, and his own people don't have to sell Guanzi and talk nonsense.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has indeed learned from Western missionaries how to cast cannons and build warships, and he does have some experience." Sun Yuanhua was not hypocritical, and answered directly, before coming, Xu Guangqi told him that if you have something to say to the emperor, don't be ambiguous.

"Well, very well, I'm going to build some big warships, re-select the navy, and cast cannons, are you up to the task?" Yang Reform is not nonsense, the purpose of summoning Sun Yuanhua is to build Western warships and Western cannons, this person recommended by Xu Guangqi, the basic trust is still there, otherwise, this kind of errand will not be able to be named by a person.

(To be continued)