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Chapter 40: The literati are still ruthless

Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin looked at the sky with a gloomy face.

He could not imagine how miserable the lives of the people would be if the country's reparations were flowing like water but those in power were still squandering money.

Moreover, facing foreign invasion, the imperial court was so cowardly and incompetent, and just kept trying to seek compromise and make concessions. How humiliating it must have been for the people.

Just thinking about that scene made his eyes sore.

"I am amazed that the emperor and officials of the Qing Dynasty are so useless." Li Shimin let out a long breath, his tone full of disdain and ridicule.

"Maybe it's because I shaved my head and was exposed to too much cold wind, which caused my brain stem to shrink."

As soon as Wei Zheng said this, everyone present cheered.

Sure enough, the big sprayer has high attack power.

Li Shimin was also amused by this, and then he seemed to think of something and looked at Zhangsun Wuji: "Fuji, the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty have arrived, right?"

"They've arrived, but I guess they're planning their escape now."

"Run? Ha!" Li Shimin snorted coldly, his disdain evident in his words.

In Chang'an, let alone a person, they can find even an ant if they want to.

"I'm going to kill them all!" Yuchi Jingde said as he strode out of the hall.

Wait!" Wei Zheng called Yuchi Jingde.

Then he looked at Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty, this is inappropriate. Even when two armies are fighting, they don't kill envoys, let alone kill them all."

"I don't care about that. It doesn't matter whether they are here or not. It's not okay for their descendants to bully our descendants!" Yuchi Jingde said angrily with his eyes wide open.

"I haven't finished yet, why are you in such a hurry?"

Wei Zheng glanced at Yuchi Jingde unhappily and continued, "Our Tang Dynasty is a country of etiquette and we cannot let anyone talk about it. We should find a group of 'robbers' to kidnap them and extract information from them. It would be best if we could make them guides for our Tang army. This way we can ensure that we eradicate the problem and leave no future troubles!"

Yuchi Jingde: "..."

I thought that the old man Wei Zheng was blaming him for being too radical, but it turned out that he disliked him for being too conservative.

Oh, I see. This should be what Tianmu said, "If I hear the truth in the morning, I can die in the evening."

It turns out that I should have studied hard when I was a child.

Changsun Wuji on the side echoed: "Xuancheng's words make sense. If we want to truly destroy their country and exterminate their race, we must have someone who is familiar with the local conditions to lead them."

"However, our Tang soldiers are not good at naval warfare. If we want to conquer Japan, we need to build a navy capable of crossing the ocean, but this takes time. I suggest that Your Majesty write a letter and send someone to Japan to appease the king of Japan and lower his vigilance."

"When the time is right and everything is ready, we will launch an attack and wipe out Japan in one fell swoop!"

"Our Tang Dynasty is the teacher of kings. We cannot be an unknown teacher. What's the reason?" Wei Zheng asked.

"Xuancheng, you have already thought of it, why bother asking me again." Changsun Wuji looked at Wei Zheng with a smile.

Wei Zheng stroked his beard and laughed: "How about using the excuse that the Japanese sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to steal our Tang Dynasty treasures and hurt our Tang people?"

"Very good, very good."

Seeing how the two men had made clear arrangements for Japan in just a few words, Yuchi Jingde suddenly felt that those envoys to the Tang Dynasty were a bit pitiful.

If you fall into the hands of these two old silver coins, you will be unlucky for the rest of your life.

Damn it, the intellectuals are so cruel.

……

tomorrow.

Zhu Yuanzhang witnessed scenes that made his blood boil, looking at the territory that was being ceded, the hundreds of millions of dollars in reparations, and the scenes of foreigners and Japanese showing off their power in China.

His face turned livid, he clenched his fists, and his chest heaved violently.

"The Ming Dynasty is occupied by these rubbish? What a shame! They were defeated by a small country like Japan. How can such a dynasty claim to be legitimate?"

Every word Zhu Yuanzhang spoke seemed to seep out from between his teeth, revealing a chilling chill.

In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng and other remnants of his old army had repeatedly allied with Japanese pirates to invade the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty. After he sent troops to drive them back, in view of the cost of the crusade and the need for recuperation, he did not kill them all, and even listed Japan as a country that would not be conquered.

I thought it was such a small place and there was no need to worry about it, but now it seems that people have no intention of harming rats, but rats are harmful to people's hearts.

If that's the case, then there's no need for Japan to exist!

Use the national strength of the Ming Dynasty to destroy Japan!

……

tomorrow.

Yongle period.

Zhu Di and his four grandchildren were "watching TV" while eating breakfast.

They couldn't eat anymore just by looking at it. Zhu Zhanji, the youngest among them, even started to dry heave at one point.

After helping Zhu Zhanji calm down, Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxu and said, "Second brother, you always wanted to be an emperor, how about going to Japan to be an emperor? Listen to this title, it's more impressive than your father, the emperor."

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment. This was the first time his father had said such a thing to him. He hesitated for a moment, but still refused: "I won't go. That broken place is a remote and poor place. Our breakfast is comparable to their state banquet. If I go, I will only be asking for trouble."

"But there, you will be the emperor, a real emperor. It will be much more comfortable than being a vassal king. If you need anything, your father will send it to you." Zhu Di coaxed.

To be honest, Zhu Gaoxu was a little tempted, because the sky curtain revealed that in the original history, his elder brother and nephew became emperors in the end.

His fate is probably either to be killed for rebelling, or to be a vassal king for his entire life. Now he has the opportunity to become emperor. Although his territory is not large, he is still the emperor recognized by his father.

"hiss--"

Sensing that Zhu Gaoxu was wavering, Zhu Di continued to deceive him: "Think carefully, this is your only chance. If you refuse, I will let others fight the Japanese. You just follow me to Mobei and after the battle, you just go to the vassal state!"

Zhu Gaoxu hesitated for two full minutes, and finally slammed the table: "Let's do it, I'll do it!"

"But I don't just want to be the emperor of Japan, I also want to be the emperor of those damn Eagle and Fa countries!"

When Zhu Di heard about this good news, he suppressed his joy and said, "Okay! You go fight Japan and Zheng He will continue to sail to the West. When the war is over on your side, I believe he will have found out the location of the two countries, Ying and Fa. By then, no matter how much territory you conquer outside the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it will belong to you!"

Zhu Gaoxu smiled happily upon hearing this.

Zhu Gaochi watched as his second son was once again fooled by the old man and couldn't help but mourn for him for a while.

It looks like the second son will have to fight for the old man all his life.

……

Qing Dynasty.

The old Kangxi stood in front of the sky, tears in his eyes and his heart filled with unspeakable pain and anger.

The empire he had worked so hard to build was reduced to the point of ceding territory and paying indemnities, losing power and humiliating the country. Even the small Japanese pirate country dared to show off its power in front of his Qing Dynasty.

What a shame! He had spent his whole life in the military, working hard to govern the country, just so that his descendants could enjoy peace and prosperity, but he never expected that in the end it would end up like this!

"No wonder, no wonder people in later generations all looked down on the Qing Dynasty. Such a dynasty is indeed not worthy of praise."

Thinking about how the country he had worked so hard to govern was being ruined by later generations, he couldn't help but feel sad and burst into tears.

"Can the pillars of the country still stand tall? Do the ministers of the court still have loyal souls? Can the country and the people still be stable? Where is my world?"

Kangxi was filled with grief and anger, but he was powerless.

He knew that he was too old and no longer able to change anything, and could only pass this heavy responsibility to future generations.

Finally, he prayed to the sky, "I hope that the heavens will have mercy on us and give those unworthy descendants a glimmer of hope, so that they can repent, revive the glory of our Qing Dynasty, and restore our prosperous era!"

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