MTL - Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty-v2 Chapter 1765 King

  Chapter 1765 Sealing the King

  Zhu Houzhao became excited. With his hands behind his back, he listened to Xu Jing's words and said with great interest: "It's just...the Qing family has an idea?"

   "Yes." Xu Jing is categorical!

He glanced at Fang Jifan and said: "My teacher has taught students knowledge. Over the years, although students are dull, they know the truth that hard work can make up for one's weakness. Therefore... I made a plan. Although this plan is time-consuming and labor-intensive, as long as it succeeds, it will be easy." Completely destroy the world's navy."

  Destroy the navy of the world...

   What a big tone!

  Fang Jifan had a calm smile on his face, but he was an NMP in his heart.

   After so many years of not seeing each other, Xu Jing is more and more aware of bragging, which is not like himself.

  Zhu Houzhao squinted his eyes and asked a very practical question: "I allocated all the steam ironclad ships to you, and ordered you to be the commander of the navy. Are these enough?"

   "Not enough."

If you want to do something well, you can't be twitchy, so Xu Jing simply shook his head: "In this plan, if you only rely on ministers, it is far from being possible. Only the emperor can accomplish this in the world. There is a mentor."

  Zhu Houzhao looked at Xu Jing in surprise: "Your mentor, although he has many evil ideas, but when it comes to marching and fighting, he is..."

  Fang Jifan coughed desperately: "Ahem...Your Majesty...Be careful with your words."

Zhu Houzhao shook his head, and then said: "Okay, let's talk about serious business, that is to say, I want to order your mentor to be the commander of the navy, and you as the deputy commander? So...how long will it take to complete? "

  Xu Jingdao: "One year, or two years."

  Zhu Houzhao looked up: "What about your plan?"

  Xu Jingdao: "The plan, I dare not write it out, for fear of being discovered by others, these are all in my mind."

  Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "Then tell me."

Xu Jing shook his head again: "The wall has ears, and I'm afraid it will be leaked. Your Majesty... my Ming Dynasty is now like a dazzling pearl, dazzling, and now... I have long been feared by my neighbors. As far as I know, even the Spaniards who are thousands of miles away, I have also sent scouts to buy people in my Daming to inquire about the news. This is the palace, although the possibility of being inquired into the news is very small, but there is no reason to be careless when it comes to major matters. This strategy, once people find out , then all the painstaking efforts will be in vain.”

  Although he was rejected again and again, Zhu Houzhao agrees with this, he knows...

  In fact, Xu Jing's plan is somewhat taken for granted, why?

   Since it is necessary to lure the Spaniards to go to sea and the Armada to come out, it is necessary to choose a bait that is strong enough for the Spaniards. Once the bait is weak, it will not be able to catch big fish. But the problem is, why do people make bait?

   This is the most difficult point.

   Besides this, how did the Ming Fleet dispatch.

  How to fight.

  How to ensure the absolute confidentiality of the entire plan.

   This is all a problem.

   However, at the thought of annihilating the Spanish Armada, Zhu Houzhao felt his heart scratching.

  So he said: "You come... I will go to the secret room with you, come and listen to me."

  As an emperor, you can't act rashly as a courtier without knowing anything!

  Xu Jing hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.

   After waiting for half an hour, Zhu Houzhao and Xu Jing returned to Fengtian Temple!

Zhu Houzhao breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the Nuoda palace, thought for a moment, and then said: "This plan is somewhat interesting, but it is not impossible to complete it. I have thought about it, no matter how good the plan is, but if there is no one A truly capable commander is wrong, so..."

  Zhu Houzhao frowned, and called Liu Jin to fetch a toolbox.

   Then the screen backs away left and right.

In front of Fang Jifan and Xu Jing, he first took out a piece of uncut jade, then picked up the carving knife, and carefully carved out a seal with the carving knife, then took the cinnabar and spread out the white paper , On this white paper, wrote the characters of the mighty commander of the Navy, the Great Governor of the Four Seas, and then rubbed the blank printed surface with the words, and then took the carving knife, and began to carve stroke by stroke.

He worked very seriously, forgetting himself, holding the carving knife in his hand very steadily, and every stroke followed the grain of the jade, carefully blowing off the jade chips from time to time, and occasionally took a magnifying glass from the toolbox to look at it. Look, after making sure there are no problems, continue to sculpt.

  Xu Jing: "..."

   Well, he's kind of dumbfounded!

  Fang Jifan seemed to be used to it, with a calm expression on his face, chatting with Xu Jing casually to pass the time.

   "Xu Jing, I heard that your son is not young, but has he studied?"

   "Men...my son...all married."

   "Ah." Fang Jifan was taken aback, and said in surprise: "It's so fast, my teacher didn't know. "

   "Not only married a wife, but also gave birth to a son. The dog son is now on business in the navy, and he doesn't stay at home on weekdays."

  So Fang Jifan was surprised again: "So, you also gave birth to a grandson?"

  Xu Jing is over forty years old.

  In this era, it is quite normal to be a grandfather in your thirties.

  Fang Jifan can only feel that time flies, and in a blink of an eye, his disciples all have grandchildren. This is really a tragedy.

  Fortunately, his psychological quality is relatively good, so Fang Jifan smiled and said: "As a teacher, I also have a grandson, and the grandson of my teacher is older than you."

  Besides, Liu Jin proudly puffed out her chest.

  Xu Jing: "..."

   The topic finally stopped, falling into a deathly silence.

  Zhu Houzhao was busy on the sidelines.

  His toolbox is readily available.

   is the jade seal, which is actually a semi-finished product.

  So if you want to control it, it will get twice the result with half the effort.

   It's just that he is careful, unhurried, and sculpts slowly.

   It took some time before he raised his head, looked at Fang Jifan and Xu Jing with a smile, and said, "It's all right."

  Fang Jifan and Xu Jing looked at Zhu Houzhao.

   But Zhu Houzhao first held up a seal: "I have an order now... Liu Jin, write it down, write it down."

  Liu Jin hurried to the side to look for pens and ink, and lay down on the ground to record.

Zhu Houzhao said: "I am both civil and military, proficient in military affairs, and familiar with maritime affairs. This talent who has never lived through the ages is now a plan for the ancestors. It is suitable for the world to spread military power and grace the world. I look at all the ministers and workers in the world. They are far inferior to me. Also. So, I have no choice but to do it myself, proclaiming myself the mighty general of the navy, the governor of the four seas, and now I grant myself the seal of the governor of the four seas, all right, all right, that's it, I'm here."

  Liu Jin wrote down a draft imperial decree in a very ordinary way.

  The expression on his face was very serious, as if he was used to it.

  Fang Jifan looked numb.

  Only Xu Jing seemed to have seen enough of the world, so he was dumbfounded.

Zhu Houzhao then frowned again, and said: "It seems a little inappropriate to feel like this. I don't have a self-proclaimed self. Although I am telling the truth, if mediocre people listen to it, they will still think I am shameless! This is not good, Liu Jin, you change it." Change it, change it again, say that it was Zhen Guogong and Xu Qing's family who wrote a letter, saying that I am a gentleman who is proficient in military affairs and maritime affairs. After writing it, let me have a look. Don't come out. Flaw."

  Liu Jin was still lying on the ground, biting the pen holder, tilting her buttocks, picked a new piece of paper, and edited it.

Zhu Houzhao said again: "I think about it. The policy of maritime policy has a great relationship. I am certainly very smart, but I have no skills at all. Well, well, write whatever you want. In short, Lao Fang is the deputy governor, Xu Jing is the water Commander of the division. Is it finished? Is it finished?"

   Liu Jin said helplessly: "Your Majesty, you read too fast."

Zhu Houzhao became angry, and said, "Dog, I didn't think you were slow, but you thought I was too fast, so be it, this matter is of great importance, Lao Fang, I am dispatching in the palace, and you are acting in the Zhenguo Mansion. Cheng, I will crown you king."

  Fang Jifan had a reluctant expression on his face.

  King King...

   Are you rare?

  Okay... Seems pretty rare.

  He was too busy to answer, and there was nothing important to say later, so he said goodbye to Xu Jing and left.

only…

  Not far from Fengtian Temple, Zhu Houzhao chased him out of breath, and said: "Wait, wait, your seal is not taken."

  …

  Plan...Fang Jifan already knew about it.

  He was shocked at first, then heartbroken, and finally managed to squeeze out a small smile. Sometimes he seemed to kill someone, but sometimes he looked at Xu Jing with loving eyes.

   Xu Jing has no expression on his face. From now on, everything must be arranged for this plan.

  Never allow yourself to fail.

   "Teacher, students these days, plan to go to Tianjin Wei first, to supervise the construction of the steam ironclad ship has been practiced, to clean up the Naval Academy and the navy, and to ask the teacher for other things."

  Fang Jifan sighed and said, "It's a hard life to be a teacher."

   With a long sigh, Fang Jifan took something from Xu Jing's hand.

   This thing is like a rubber ball, it looks very inconspicuous in the hand.

  Fang Jifan looked at it carefully, and cheered up: "Go, next, leave it to the teacher."

   Not long after, Wang Jinyuan was summoned.

  Fang Jifan threw the things in his hand to Wang Jinyuan.

  Wang Jinyuan picked it up in a hurry, squeezed it in his hand, looked at it carefully, and frowned slightly: "Master...this is..."

  Fang Jifan put on a serious face: "I like this thing very much, go and find out what it is. In short, this young master has taken this thing, and I want as much as I have."

  Wang Jinyuan looked at the thing in his hand strangely, but he still couldn't figure it out.

  However, the young master ordered him to do things with all his heart, so he hurriedly nodded in agreement, accepted the thing, and started to inquire around.

  But inquire left and right, but there is no one who knows this thing.

  Wang Jinyuan dare not neglect, he is in a hurry, this is a matter ordered by the young master himself, if it cannot be done, it will be worse.

   Soon, Wang Jinyuan was not the only one who inquired about this thing. All the merchants in Beijing who had been questioned by Wang Jinyuan began to think about it.

   What is this thing? Why did someone buy it? Could it be... what's wrong?

  …

   Ask for a monthly pass.

  (end of this chapter)