Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 369

"The minister agrees to let King Duan go to Ryukyu to become a feudal vassal."

At this time, the cabinet minister Ye Xianggao stood up and said to Emperor Wanli.

"The minister also agrees to let King Duan go to Ryukyu to become a vassal."

After Ye Xianggao took the lead, some civil and military officials also expressed their support.

Compared with directly including Ryukyu in the territory of Ming Dynasty, many people are more supportive of allowing the prince of Ming Dynasty to go to Ryukyu to become a vassal.

At this point, even Li Tingji and his group who opposed it at the beginning chose to remain silent.

"Since all the lovers think that King Duan is suitable to go to Ryukyu, then let King Duan go." Emperor Wanli yawned and said, "Since this matter has come to fruition, let's disperse the court."

"Long live, I have a play."

However, at this time, a loud voice sounded in the hall.

Everyone looked and found that it was a speech officer about 40 years old.

Hearing the words of the speaker, Emperor Wanli's face was a little displeased.

"What's the matter with you?" Emperor Wanli asked the speaker.

"Long live, I impeach Zhou Qingfeng with the intention of treason." The middle-aged speaker said loudly to Emperor Wanli.

Hearing this, there was an uproar in the hall again.

"What did you say?" Emperor Wanli asked with some uncertainty.

"I impeach Zhou Qingfeng for his treasonous intentions." The middle-aged official said loudly: "According to my investigation, Zhou Qingfeng secretly formed an army of tens of thousands of people. This army has strict military discipline and each person is equipped with excellent personnel. If he doesn’t have the heart of treason, why would he form an army?”

"Bullshit."

Hearing this, Zhou Qingfeng stood up, and he explained to everyone: "They are just security personnel trained for the bank, in order to prevent daring robbers from robbing the bank vault."

"Impossible, you are obviously training the army. Does the security of the bank still need to train the army? You trained 5000 people before, and now you train 1. Does it mean that the bank's treasury needs more than 5000 people to protect it?" Is it safe? I see that you are clearly rebellious." The middle-aged speaker retorted Zhou Qingfeng's words.

"It's a joke, it's a big joke, my lord, you keep saying that I, Zhou Qingfeng, have the intention of treason, so let me ask you, what do I do if I am an eunuch with no children and no daughters? Do you want to be my son?" Zhou Qingfeng asked loudly.

Hearing Zhou Qingfeng's words, some civil and military officials in the court couldn't help laughing.

In fact, the matter of impeachment by this official is too outrageous. Zhou Qingfeng is an eunuch and has no relatives. They all believe that a sow climbs a tree, but if it is said that a eunuch will rebel, no one will believe it.

"Okay, this matter is over, let's retreat." On the dragon chair, Emperor Wanli waved impatiently and said.

Without waiting for everyone to respond, he stood up and left from the side hall.

After Emperor Wanli left, the middle-aged civil servant who had just impeached Zhang Qingfeng snorted coldly, and strode away directly from the court hall.

"Made is like a mad dog." Zhang Qingfeng muttered.

He finally experienced on the spot what it was like to be criticized by the speaker.

The speech officials in the late Ming Dynasty were like a group of mad dogs. As long as they could make themselves famous and gain benefits, they would dare to attack anyone, whether it was a court minister or the Ming emperor.

If your emperor dares to slap them for this, great, they will become famous soon, and then there will be countless officials swarming to you to slap them.

In later generations, many people explained that civil officials did not do things (empty talk harmed the country), and officials did not let people do things (whoever did things impeached), was the chief culprit for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Now it seems that there is some truth in what he said.

In fact, Emperor Wanli asked Zhang Qingfeng to train the 1 horses that Zhang Qingfeng trained for his son Wu King Zhu Changxun.

In the future, King Wu Zhu Changxun will take over the island, and this army will follow him to protect the safety of King Wu.

The reason why these people are named as bank security is mainly to prevent criticism from civil and military officials in the court.

Zhang Qingfeng was not stupid, and he did not dare to train the army without Emperor Wanli's knowledge.

Therefore, the impeachment of this official is destined to only make Emperor Wanli angry with him, and not implicate Zhang Qingfeng.

Emperor Wanli agreed to let his son Zhu Changhao go to Ryukyu to become a vassal, and the Ryukyu Kingdom will continue to exist as a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

Soon, the Daming Daily reported the matter, and immediately, the common people talked about it.

Many people expressed support for King Duan's vassalization of Ryukyu. Only some people who were determined to bring Ryukyu into the territory of Ming Dynasty were still a little unwilling.

In fact, it can be said that Zhang Qingfeng had planned for a long time for King Duan to become a vassal of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

At least he started planning and layout a year ago.

Of course, King Duan became the king of Ryukyu, which was only the first step in the plan.

In the next few years, there will be continuous natural disasters in Ming Dynasty, and he will make many Ming people in the disaster-stricken areas immigrate to Ryukyu.

At the same time, he will also ask people to help King Duan train the army in Ryukyu, and arm him with the always powerful firearms army.

When all the preparations are ready, he will let people encourage King Duan to launch a war against Japan on the pretext of the killing of King Shang Ning of the Ryukyu Kingdom, until Japan is completely defeated and controlled, and Japan will become a part of China from then on.

Zhang Qingfeng estimated that it would take a lot of manpower and material resources to accomplish these goals.

First of all, there are enough Ming people who immigrated to Ryukyu, so that the situation in Ryukyu can be stabilized.

And there must be at least 50 people from Daming who immigrated there.

With so many people from the Ming Dynasty moving to Minliuqiu, Zhang Qingfeng must have sufficient shipping capacity.

In order to have sufficient shipping capacity, Zhang Qingfeng had to speed up shipbuilding.

Moreover, to attack Japan, which has a population of more than 1000 million, there must be at least an army of 10,000+ equipped with advanced firearms and rigorously trained.

To complete this series of plans, Zhang Qingfeng estimated that he would have to spend at least tens of millions of taels of silver.

The Ming court would not give out this silver, nor would the Wanli Emperor, and Zhang Qingfeng did not dare to give Zhu Changhao money from the Wanli Emperor.

So this can only wait for Duan Wang Zhu Changhao to take over Ryukyu, and then Zhang Qingfeng finds ways to find some ways to make money for him.

However, in the early stage, Zhang Qingfeng can use the excuse of expanding maritime trade to expand his maritime power, and then he can give Zhu Changhao enough help.

Just after King Duan was designated as the king of Ryukyu, Zhang Qingfeng wrote to Emperor Wanli, saying that he could first allocate tens of thousands of soldiers and horses trained for Wu Wang Zhu Changxun to Zhu Changhao, so that there would be no changes in Zhu Changhao's vassal of Ryukyu.

Emperor Wanli agreed with Zhang Qingfeng's opinion, and appointed Zhang Qingfeng to be in charge of the preparations before King Duan became a vassal.

After Duan Wang Zhu Changhao was designated as the king of Ryukyu, the news of Duan Wang Zhu Changhao was immediately lost.

A few days later, after Zhang Qingfeng was appointed to be in charge of Duan Wang's vassal affairs, Duan Wang came to meet Zhang Qingfeng.

"His Royal Highness Duan Wang, I am the one who asked you to feud Ryukyu. You won't blame me, will you?" Zhang Qingfeng said to Zhu Changhao.

PS: Today I went up the mountain to cut trees during the day, and I became a dog. There are only two shifts.

(End of this chapter)