Father can be an enemy to the country

Lao Liu marries three concubines at the same time. What should be done with the ceremony? How should the bridal chamber be set up? Should the three bridal chambers be together or separately? They all need to be carefully considered and reset before they can prepare and practice separately.

However, with Queen Ma in charge, everything will be taken care of, and there is no need for Lao Liu to worry about it. When the time comes, he can just be a puppet and follow the instructions.

After meeting his mother-in-law and his concubine, he and his eldest brother went to Wuying Palace to meet the old thief.

Coming out of Kunning Palace, the prince looked at Lao Liu with sympathy: "In the future, your family will be divided into three kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. You don't want to become Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty."

"No, not really." Lao Liu wiped his sweat with his sleeve and said, "Which brother doesn't have a bunch of concubines?"

"But there is only one main concubine." The prince sighed and said: "Forget it, maybe I worry too much. With your ability, can you still deal with several young ladies?"

"What I'm thinking about right now is how to deal with the old man." Lao Liu said with a bitter smile.

"Why don't you go to see your father first? You're going to have a steak." The prince smiled and said, "Don't talk back. A good man will not suffer the consequences of his eyes."

"I want to see my father first. I may not be able to come out even after dark. It will make my mother and the others wait too long." Zhu Zhen sighed and said, "Don't worry, I have grown up and will not talk back to my father."

"That's good." Zhu Biao nodded doubtfully.

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Sure enough, as soon as the two of them entered Wuying Palace, they saw Boss Zhu with a donkey face and didn't even look at Lao Liu.

"Father." The two had no choice but to salute first.

"Come in if you understand?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

"You can also go straight into the palace, there is no need to go to the palace." The prince reminded Boss Zhu.

"Expired." Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.

"When did it expire?" the prince asked.

"Just now." Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes, clapped the memorial in his hand, and glared at his well-behaved giant son. "The brat doesn't have your father in his heart. He went out to report every day and was half-hearted. When he finally came back, he didn't come to see your father first, but ran to the back to see his wife. Is that ridiculous?"

"Dad." Lao Liu called out to Chong Tian Qu: "I'm telling you that the memorial should be written concisely. Don't waste your time by talking nonsense."

"You are too concise, aren't you?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "It only takes four words if you have nothing to do, and no more than two sentences if you have something to do. What can you explain clearly? It's so bad that we have to read Fu Youde's memorial!"

"My son, I just know that Marquis Yingchuan is very... oh no, very detailed. That's why I saved my father some time." Lao Liu said with a smile: "You are getting old and you have to read so many memorials every day. Don’t you feel sorry for me, son?”

"..." The prince almost laughed out loud. He tightened his lips and secretly gave Lao Liu a thumbs up.

But Boss Zhu just fell for it, and his face became much rounder and he said: "After all, it's so late in the day, but I still don't need to read your words? Besides, you will know when you become a father. Worry..."

"Yes, I know I was wrong." Zhu Zhen quickly admitted his mistake and said, "I will do it next time."

"Humph, I'll trust you once." Zhu Yuanzhang then smiled and said: "Quickly tell me how I went to Yunnan... no, start from going to Japan. It's just that you are too lazy to write. You can't be too lazy to talk about it, right? "

"That's not the case." Zhu Zhen smiled bitterly. He knew that it would be like this every time he came back. He had to report all his experiences outside, no matter how big or small.

So he first reported his experience in conquering Japan, but because it had been a long time, he could not remember many details as clearly as Boss Zhu... When Wang Bi and his team returned to Beijing before, Boss Zhu had already inquired carefully. As a result, he helped Lao Liu recall his trip to Japan...

Of course, some questions still need to be answered by Lao Liu.

"What do you mean, are you not going to continue to use troops against the Northern Dynasty?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Yes, at least there is no such plan in a short time." Zhu Zhen nodded and said: "Japan, especially the main island, is narrow and densely populated, and its folk customs are fierce and cunning. The cost of conquering it directly will be too high, and the effect may not be as good as it is now. Kyushu, it is better to divide and rule.”

"Because the Northern Dynasty was powerful, and the puppet general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was young and powerful. If we hadn't taken action, there would have been no suspense about the Southern Dynasty being unified by the Northern Dynasty. The Southern Dynasty needed our protection, so it was willing to establish the Kyushu Chief Envoy and the Kyushu Commandery. Envoy and provide food and wages for our garrison."

"In this way, we can occupy Kyushu at a lower cost and keep Japan divided for a long time. Twenty years later, the Japanese in Kyushu will consider themselves the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties will be divided forever. And lose Japan, which has lost Kyushu Island, is like a wolf that has lost its fangs and a vulture that has lost its wings, and can no longer threaten the Ming Dynasty."

"Well, that's a good idea." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "Actually, we are not interested in Japanese land, but the Japanese pirates are helpless and provoke us again and again, so we have to get rid of this scourge for our descendants. But …”

After a pause, Boss Zhu smiled a little and said, "Is it true that Japan is full of gold and silver?"

"Yes." Zhu Zhen nodded and said: "The main reason is that it is shallowly buried, easy to excavate, and easy to mine. If the Ming Dynasty's silver refining technology is used, it will be easy to produce tens of millions of taels of silver every year."

"Then you still want to keep the Northern Dynasty to celebrate the New Year? Fight it down!" Boss Zhu suddenly raised his voice and waved his hand fiercely: "If the army is not enough, we will send it to you. We can send Xu Da there!"

"Dad, let's calm down first." The prince quickly reminded in a low voice: "I know you are short of money, but you can't act so eager, it is inappropriate."

"If you have any decency or indecency in front of your own son, say whatever you want!" Boss Zhu said nonchalantly: "We have saved all our money over the years, and we just went to Yunnan. This is not over yet, and we don't know what will happen next. How much money does it take to fill this black hole?"

"So we need money, lots and lots of money!" He patted Lao Liu's thigh hard and said, "Do you understand, Bao?"

"I understand, I understand." Boss Zhu's hand was so strong that the legs of an elephant like Lao Liu were swollen from being patted. He held his father's hand tightly to prevent the old thief from patting him any more.

"But it is precisely because of this that I do not recommend using troops directly against the Northern Dynasty. Their island also has a population of less than 10 million, and it is mountainous and densely forested. If we want to completely conquer it, we must use hundreds of thousands of troops. And These troops will continue to be stationed in Japan after the war, and the cost is too great."

"Those gold and silver mines are also in deep mountains and old forests. If we do it ourselves, we will still need a lot of manpower for mining, production, transportation, and security. This is too uneconomical - how can we let them mine it themselves?"

"For Northern Korea, we should adopt the strategy of banning its ships from going to sea, destroying its handicraft industry, and imprisoning it on Honshu Island. At the same time, supplemented by cultural and religious paralysis, we should ideologically castrate it. Let it become our product dumping Land, and cheap gold and silver production areas, this is the most cost-effective.”

"Our money and troops can be invested in more cost-effective places - according to the Hai Zheng Yamen's investigation, there are still many hot lands rich in gold and silver, vast and sparsely populated in the world, waiting for us to occupy them!"