Chapter 687 The Garrison Demands Silver
Zhao Yulin smiled, put down his tea bowl and said to him calmly: There are so many ministers around us, I believe he can listen to all sides and make wise decisions, and will not make mistakes in state affairs.
Hua Yue went home and told his wife in a depressed mood about how he had handled the urgent affairs of Goryeo today. The woman blamed him instead, thinking that as an outsider, she should not know about such important state affairs.
The woman dismissed his attendants and had tea with him, telling him that the third young master was not in a hurry to use troops to attack the Japanese pirates in Goryeo. It was probably not only because the army in Liaoyang had not been fully trained and was not ready.
The Shenwei Army is invincible. If we really want to fight the Japanese pirates, what preparations do we need? Just send out the troops.
Hua Yue looked at his wife in surprise, feeling as if he had been awakened by a word.
Yes, if the Shenwei Army really wanted to send troops to help Goryeo fight the Japanese pirates, they only needed to give an order, assemble the troops and set off. Why didn't the Third Young Master give the order and let the commander of Liaoyang make the decision himself?
The woman said: The foreign envoys from Goryeo are in the city. They said they wanted to submit to us and become our vassal, but they only said one sentence and did not make any further statements. When the Mongolian army retreated, they were so anxious to send troops to Liaoyang to seize our territory. Have you forgotten all this?
Hua Yue nodded and said: The Third Young Master must be unhappy that the Goryeo Kingdom does not keep its word and actually has a rebellious heart, but wants us to provide manpower and money to help them fight.
The woman smiled and said: My husband is really smart, you have found the reason now. Therefore, the third young master will use the fight between Goryeo and the Japanese pirates as an example to deplete the national strength of the two countries and teach the surrounding vassal states a lesson.
My dear husband, just wait and see. The Third Young Master will not order the troops to go out until Korea is completely exhausted.
Hua Yue's brows completely relaxed. This was indeed the truth.
As the saying goes, when friends come, we have good wine. When dealing with friends and enemies, we must first distinguish what kind of people they are.
At this time, someone from the Privy Council came to report: Deputy King and Privy Councilor Miao Gui and Navy Chief Marshal Zhou had returned, and King Zhao was invited to the Privy Council to discuss matters.
Madam Huayue immediately helped him tidy up his clothes and rushed to Jinguan City.
From a distance he saw Miao Gui and Zhou Ping standing at the gate to greet him, and said with a hint of reproach: "You two gentlemen have traveled a long way, just sit down and rest, why be so polite?"
Zhou Ping smiled and called out, "Mr. Hua, please come in. We cannot lose our manners."
Zhao Yulin inside also laughed and said: Come in quickly, we have serious business to discuss.
After Miao Gui gave a detailed report on the border patrol in Liaoyang and the Japanese pirates' invasion of Goryeo, Zhou Ping happily reported that the southern expedition fleet had returned to Keelung Port for rest and recuperation after leaving a part of the garrison.
The Southern Expedition Fleet completely wiped out the Zhenla navy stationed in Mayi Kingdom. The surrounding small countries all wanted to be our vassal states and vied to ask us to station troops there. Mayi Kingdom even requested us to station an additional 20,000 troops.
Zhao Yulin was drinking tea. When he heard this, he spat out all the tea in his mouth. Several people laughed at the same time.
He asked Zhou Ping: The rules of our garrison have not been made clear. Do we have to charge money?
Zhou Ping made it clear in his report that after we announced the garrison rules, King Ma Yi also thought it was reasonable. They proposed to station more troops because they saw that our garrison needed food and drink, and they had to spend a huge amount of money on shopping in their market.
Zhao Yulin was stunned. He didn't expect there was such a business. He found that he was not as smart as the young king Ma Yi.
He believed that the population of the island countries in the South China Sea was not large, so he asked Zhou Ping to make the decision on his own about the appropriate number of troops to be stationed there. The most important thing was to obtain the most suitable seaport and as much land as possible to be cost-effective. He said: We are not rich either.
Zhou Ping nodded vigorously and reported to him happily: There are many large uninhabited islands around the South China Sea. A small team of soldiers can defend an island with a radius of dozens of miles. However, there are too few marines. After the troops are deployed, they will be dispersed and the logistics supply will not be able to keep up. We can only occupy the large ones with fertile land and suitable for ports.
That’s right, everyone nodded with a smile on their faces and drank tea.
This is the New Song Kingdom expanding its territory to the south.
Hua Yue was delighted and praised it as a great kindness. He thought that General Manager Zhou could mobilize another group of marines to march south and seize more islands.
Zhao Yulin nodded, thinking that this matter had to be done slowly. He picked up the baton and pointed to the large South China Sea islands on the map and said that the area was wide enough, but earthquakes and tsunamis were also very frequent, so these had to be taken into comprehensive consideration.
After careful investigation, the Southern Expedition Fleet chose important islands to settle down, and also mobilized those people in the country who dared to go to sea to migrate there to settle down, produce and live.
Hua Yue nodded repeatedly and said: That’s right, without the people of our New Song, it would not be called the territory of our New Song. There must be people living in it.
He believed that in the future those criminals whose facts were clear and whose crimes were of a serious nature could be exiled or sent to these remote places to serve their sentences. This would not only reduce the pressure on domestic prisons, but also increase the manpower for pioneering and guarding the border.
Zhou Ping and Miao Gui looked at them with excitement.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said that these islands are still small. If we go further south and follow the monsoon to the southern hemisphere, there will be bigger ones. There is a large continent there that is uninhabited. If the navy discovers it in the future, it will be a great contribution to our new Song Dynasty.
Zhou Ping nodded with joy and reported to them: Merchants who went south to trade said that there was a large island called Juedao in the southernmost part, and the Kunlun people called it the Women's Country. In the Women's Country, men and women are different in shape and do not weave or wear clothes.
Zhao Yulin saw that guy seemed to be very yearning. Did he just want to see what he looked like without clothes?
Damn it, that’s all you can do.
He drew the outline of Oceania at the bottom of the map and told Zhou Ping that Juedao was not just an island, it was very big, and it would be called Oceania from now on. Even though no one lives there now, there is a lot of iron ore there, and we can't use it , so we must find it and keep it for me.
Hua Yue said happily: "Good, very good. Right now we need a lot of steel to build the railway, and we are short of iron. If the navy can find a large iron mine, it will solve the current urgent need."
Zhao Yulin secretly laughed at Hua Yue. It was probably unnecessary and not cost-effective to go to Oceania to open an iron mine and then transport the iron ore back. That was to be left for his grandchildren's grandchildren.
He told Miao Gui: The main task of the navy at present is to prepare for the war with Liaoyang's Shenwei Army. The Japanese pirates are becoming more and more rampant, and we must hurry up to prepare. If we want to fight, we must completely break the backbone of this scabby dog.
The three of them nodded continuously.
Miao Gui said: The South China Sea fleet will leave a part to watch over Zhenla, and concentrate its main forces to deal with the island nation of Japan.
Zhao Yulin nodded and told Zhou Ping to have a good rest for a few days and wait for the Minister of War Yang Xingyun to come back to discuss it in detail.
When he returned home, he saw Wu Jing and Zhu Fugui waiting for him with strange expressions, and Ma Ling'er was shaking her head at him.
Zhao Yulin asked in confusion what was going on?
Wu Jing angrily said that Fugui was drinking with a group of brothers, and someone said that Fugui's mother was a bad person, she was unfaithful to her husband, she killed his father, and she was secretly executed.
Dad must be aware of this matter. Fugui and I have come to him to find out the truth.
Zhao Yulin knew that Fugui's mother's case had been leaked and could no longer be covered up.
He hesitated for a moment and said: Let's all go to the secret room.
Zhao Yulin helped Wu Jing up and walked forward, saying carefully that she was about to become a mother, and must be calm and careful in the future.
Everyone entered the secret room, and Zhao Yulin told Zhu Fugui: Grandpa Lu knows everything about his mother, and if he wants to know the truth in detail, he should go to Grandpa Lu and ask.
What he wants to talk about here is the story between him and his rich father.
After taking a sip of tea, Zhao Yulin slowly began to talk, telling the whole story of how he traveled to the Southern Song Dynasty and how he saved his rich father.
The three people were petrified after hearing this and just stared at him blankly.
Ma Ling'er shook her head vigorously and said: No wonder, she also knew that the third brother of the Zhao family was a weak nerd. After being knocked unconscious, his personality suddenly changed. He became both literary and martial and very good at fighting. It turns out that he is not the same person.
Zhao Yulin shook his head and told him to stop praising him, and told him that he was still the same person, just with different things in his head.
He pointed at Chen Li's 800 million rifle, tactical vest, military uniform and military cap in the secret room and said: These were all brought by Fugui's father. Don't look at them as old, they are all magical tools that are 800 years ahead of the current ones. Master Chen Xian can't replicate them even if he turns his hair white.
Zhu Fugui shook his head vigorously in surprise.
Wu Jing stared at him with his eyes about to pop out and asked: Our father is fine, why did Fugui's father lose his legs?
Ma Ling'er said: She knew this. Jingjing's father's soul flew over and attached to the body of the third young master of the Zhao family. Fugui's father was a strange man who descended through a blue beam of light. When he was rescued and brought back to Cuiping Mountain, his legs were cold. The imperial physician said that everything below his thighs was frozen into popsicles, and he had to be amputated. It was Yuqi's mother who watched over the imperial physician and did it. Everyone watched over Fugui's father for two days and two nights before he woke up.
Zhao Yulin told Zhu Fugui that his father fell into a glacier and froze his legs when he was fighting the Indians on the snowy mountain on the Tubo Road. So his father left a will to all the soldiers, asking them to defeat the Indians and avenge him.
However, Zhao Yulin said so much, but he still didn't explain clearly what happened to his mother? Fugui looked at his father-in-law with doubts.
Zhao Yulin said: His father is paraplegic, and his mother must have had a hard time taking care of him. She could have done anything. You should ask Master Lu for the specific details.
However, there is one thing that must be remembered. His father hoped that the New Song Dynasty would revive the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties but died young. Fugui must shoulder this responsibility and watch the New Song Dynasty grow stronger day by day.
Seeing that he couldn't find the answer from him, Zhu Fugui was about to get up and leave.
Zhao Yulin knew that he was anxious to find Lu Youpeng to question him, so he did not stop him. He asked Ma Ling'er to go with him and reminded Wu Jing to be careful, saying that she couldn't walk in a hurry when she was already pregnant.
Zhu Fugui immediately went over to support Wu Jing, and the three of them quickly went out and headed towards Shunfengsi.
As soon as he sat down in the study, Miao Gui hurried in to give him a self-examination.
It turned out that this guy didn't control his mouth and accidentally leaked the matter of how Fugui Niang was dealt with while chatting with his wife, and his eldest son happened to hear it.
