Chen Zhiyang returned to Guanmen Strait, sprinkled with mines in a place without mines, and then left, gathered with Liu Jingming's large troops, and silently occupied like giant beasts just north of Guanmen Strait.

Matsuhira Nobuzu stood on a large stone, looking down at the sea high, putting every move of the Ming Dynasty in his telescope.

"What are they doing?" Matsuhira Nobuzuo watched Akito throw hard knots into the sea, and was still careful, unable to understand, and asked Miyake Shigeri.

Miyake Shigeri naturally didn't know the water mine and said directly: "I'll let someone test it."

Matsuhira Nobuka put down his telescope and said heavily in his heart: "Send a letter to the public to tell him about our current situation. The suggestion is... to discuss peace."

Miyake Shigeri's face changed suddenly and he was extremely surprised.

Matsuhira Nobutsu is a very proud person, and similarly, Tokugawa Iemitsu is even more so. Wanting Tokugawa Iemitsu to bow his head is tantamount to killing him!

But Matsuhira Nobuzu's expression was very calm, surprisingly calm.

Miyake Shigeri felt cold and said stiffly: "Yes."

Matsupita Nobusuke said the word "peace negotiation". Either they were desperate or the cost was too high, so they could not bow their heads.

He understood that it was the second type.

As long as the Ming army can easily block the Guanmen Strait, the Kyuko Island will be alone and slaughtered by others. However, Edo cannot sit idly by and watch, and must send heavy troops to the Kyuko Island again. In this way, it will be a cycle and never end!

Too scary!

Matsuhira Nobuzu looked at the sea with a blank expression. Soon a ship attempted to sneak across the two sides of the strait, which caused explosions and people were killed.

Miyayashi Shigeri's face looked solemn and said, "Dian, the Ming people hid firearms in the water, and they were still eyeing them on the sea. This closed strait is really closed to us..."

Matsuhira Nobuzu was silent and said nothing.

Miyake Shigeri immediately realized that even without these, Matsuhira Nobutsu had already realized the danger, so he asked him to send a letter to the shogunate, suggesting that it was peace talks.

As Matsuhira Nobuzu's silence was quiet, Kyukuni Island seemed to have calmed down.

On the Shimahara Peninsula, although Hiromasa Itankura was eager to eradicate the original castle, it could not take it down for a while and was still in a stalemate. The Shumen Strait was even quieter, and the sea water was quiet, and even sea birds did not appear.

The Ming Dynasty warships hovered on the sea, like ghosts, staring at Guanmen Strait from afar, silently.

The battle between Liantian just now seemed to be about to collapse, and the battle between heaven and earth became quiet in an instant.

Not long after, Edo was shocked violently, and daimyos from all over the country received a summons from the shogunate. This time, they were going to mobilize an army of up to 300,000! They shocked everyone, but this order turned over in one day, because the Ming army attacked the Edo in the north and had already occupied the Edo, and looked across the Qingjin Strait!

A team of missions from Edo went to sea, bypassed the Guanmen Strait, and after meeting Matsuhira Nobutsu in the Kazuofu family, he went directly to the Tsushima family.

Not long after staying in Tsuma Fan, the situation on Kyuko Island suddenly changed rapidly.

Hiromasa Itakura's army withdrew from the Shimahara Peninsula, and Matsuhira Nobuzu's army was also far away from the Guanmen Strait.

Then, the delegation left Tsushima Island, landed from North Korea, and then rushed to the capital of the Ming Dynasty by carriage.

Cao Bianjiao left before the end of the year, and time was fast. When this group of missions arrived in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it was the end of February of the third year of Jingzheng, that is, the end of February of the eighth year of Chongzhen in history.

The cabinet, the six ministries are already very useful, the reforms of various departments are constantly deepening, and power is constantly declining, as if the "New Deal" has made gratifying progress every day.

It was still very cold at the end of February, and there was still thick snow on the roof of the harem, but there was a hint of warmth.

Kunning Palace, under the eaves of the main hall.

Zhu Xu was stirring in the hot pot. Xiao Ciyi was almost two years old. She sat on the small stool beside him, her eyes glowing, and she stared at the meat in the pot with concentration.

Zhu Xu glanced at him, handed him the meat he was rinsed in his hand, and said, "Eat it."

"Thank you, Father." The little guy was still a little vague. As he said that, he couldn't help but stretch out his hands to grab it. He glanced at Zhang Yun, then quickly picked up the spoon, sliced ​​it from the bowl into his mouth, and swallowed it voraciously.

Zhu Xu looked at him with a smile on his face, but compared his children in his heart.

The eldest daughter, Xiao Shuxian, is a naughty little guy. She is naughty in the study where she teaches in the harem, which makes her very troubled. She is often educated by Zhang Yun and Li Jieyu, but she just can't be honest.

The same is true for her twin younger brother, the eldest son, Xiao Ciye. Xiao Ciye is quite dull. Even if Zhu Xu asks questions, he is slow and will not keep silent from time to time. In the palace, he just raises his little face and looks cute, but he is quite smart in studying and can recite some three-character classics or Tang poems.

The second prince Zhu Cixuan was born to Hai Lanzhu. I don’t know if it is because of Hai Lanzhu’s Mongolian bloodline. This little guy is a bit martial. Although he is less than two years old, he is excited when he sees the guards all day long. He also likes some wooden swords and swords. He is one of Xiao Yongning’s hardcore troublemakers.

The third son is Zhu Ciyi in front of him. The little guy was born to Bumu Butai and was raised by Zhang Yun. The little guy seemed quieter than his second brother, but he was also a member of the troublemaker, which gave Zhang Yun a headache a lot.

Zhang Yun is more than four months pregnant, Hai Lanzhu is similar, Li Jieyu already has two children, and Ci Yi really has no place to let him go, so he can only take him with him. Fortunately, the little guy is still in a bit of trouble and has not caused a lot of trouble.

"Have you felt uncomfortable recently?" Zhu Xu picked up a piece of tofu for Zhang Yun and said with concern.

Four months old, her lower abdomen had already bulged. She touched it gently and said with a smile: "The Imperial Doctor just came to see you yesterday, everything is fine."

Zhu Xu looked at Xiao Ciyi and nodded secretly. Zhu Xu was still relatively lucky. It was a miracle that all the children survived. At this time, the family gave birth to seven or eight children, but in the end they could only save two or three.

"Well, pay attention to some meals. Go to the back garden for more walks. I will come to chat with you when I have time. If I am bored alone, I can also go out to the palace to visit relatives. I am not that pedantic person, so go with confidence." Zhu Xu said.

Zhu Xu's concern was beyond words, Zhang Yun's face was full of happiness, his pretty face was slightly red, and he whispered: "Yes, I understand."

Zhu Xu nodded, turned around and saw Xiao Ciyi looking at him, and quickly simmered him another piece of meat. This little guy especially likes to eat meat.

"Thank you, Father." The little guy said vaguely, and started eating with a spoon.

After Zhu Xu accompanied Zhang Yun and others to have dinner, he got up and left Kunning Palace and went straight to the cabinet.

Cao Huachun walked beside and said, "Emperor, the cabinet will review many drafts today, including commercial tax rules, special plans such as salt and iron, as well as the memorial on the reform of land mu from Jiangsu, and the phase report on the progress of the 'military reform' of the Grand Marshal's Office..."

Now there are more and more things. Zhu Xu nodded slightly and said, "I won't attend these things, let Liu Shimin go and listen."

"Yes." Cao Huachun followed Zhu Xu and said as he walked: "The two kings of North Korea asked for an order to come to Beijing to meet him. They were all for the purpose of establishing a legitimate matter. Shang Lian of Ryukyu wrote a letter, hoping that the emperor would bring his daughter into the palace, and hope that the court could help Ryukyu build some large merchant ships and open more routes..."

Zhu Xu frowned and said nothing.

Cao Huachun waited for a moment and said, "The envoy of Tokugawa Igami, Japan, has been in Beijing for three days. I have seen it once on the Foreign Affairs Bureau, but the General Office has different opinions. He believes that the Foreign Affairs Bureau exceeds its authority and that the General Office should be the leader of this matter. After all, their army is still floating on the sea. The Foreign Affairs Bureau believes that this is a foreign-related incident and is their scope of power. The General Office is in charge of military affairs, and when it comes to foreign affairs, it is purely power expansion..."

"Is this what Gong Yonggu said?"

Zhu Xu paused and said with a slightly moving expression.

Gong Yonggu is a royal relative and is now in charge of the Foreign Affairs Bureau.

"It was the words from the Foreign Affairs Bureau." Cao Huachun said concisely, and then stopped talking.

Zhu Xu held his hands behind his back, his eyes flashed slightly, and gradually a mysterious smile appeared on his face. He looked at the coach's mansion not far away, and then looked at the cabinet on the left.

This matter is interesting.

The interesting thing is not that the Marshal's Office and the Foreign Affairs Bureau are both interested in the incident in Japan, but that the struggle behind it.

Although Gong Yonggu is Zhu Xu's brother-in-law and a royal relative, he has no weight yet to challenge Sun Chengzong. The Foreign Affairs Bureau is under the cabinet, so it is mostly Bi Ziyan who supports this matter.

Bi Ziyan has always been dissatisfied with the power and power of the Grand Marshal's Office. He mentioned it more than once in front of Zhu Xu, but was silently passed by Zhu Xu, and he did not mention it any more later.

However, this time, the Grand Marshal's Office fought for power with the Foreign Affairs Bureau, and Bi Ziyan obviously would not agree. Using the Foreign Affairs Bureau as a pawn, he was testing Sun Chengzong and the possible trends of the Grand Marshal's Office.

Zhu Xu smiled and sighed again, saying, "These two are my loyal ministers, and their palms and backs are all flesh. Cao Huachun, what should I do?"

"I don't understand." Cao Huachun said in a low voice behind Zhu Xu.

Zhu Xu turned his head to look at him, smiled and pointed at him with his fingers. Cao Huachun didn't understand, it was obvious that he understood too much, so he didn't dare to say more.

Zhu Xu slowly walked towards the cabinet and said slowly, "In theory, this matter should be the Foreign Affairs Bureau, the cabinet ruled. However, since ancient times, all dynasties have emphasized culture and over military force and suppressed military force. The victory that the soldiers on the battlefield desperately earned was gone in front of civil officials. The Tang and Song dynasties learned profound lessons, especially the Tanyuan Alliance, which is simply absurd! My Ming Dynasty wants to avoid it and not allow this situation to happen... You say, I handed this matter to Master Sun, will Master Bi have some ideas?"

Zhu Xu's actions have planned for the next thirty or fifty years, or even one hundred years. Many of them are too advanced, which has challenged the thoughts of these adults again and again. It is already quite difficult and good to be able to hold on to the present.

Although Bi Ziyan has an open-minded side, he also has a bottom line for some things. For example, the power of the Grand Marshal's Office cannot be further expanded, but must be compressed and controlled. The Grand Marshal's Office cannot threaten the country or cause chaos in the world!

This right to negotiate foreign affairs has always been an important power of the court. If it is taken away by the Grand Marshal's Office, there is no need to worry about Sun Chengzong. If there is a warlike madman, what's wrong?

Cao Huachun didn't dare to say much. Bi Ziyan was afraid that he would not compromise easily on this matter. When it comes to the court, Cao Huachun has always been cautious and does not participate in it at all.

This is why he was able to remain firmly in charge of the seal eunuch and the chief supervisor of the palace.

At the same time, things in Japan cannot be delayed for a long time, and the fleet cannot be floating on the sea. Now the strategic purpose is basically achieved and further planning is needed.

Zhu Xu didn't expect Cao Huachun to answer, and took a few more steps, saying, "By the way, Japanese envoy, who will decide this time?"

"Aoyama Tadatsuke was the righteous envoy, but when he built the Houfu, Matsuhira Nobutsu also followed him. They were all retainers of Tokugawa Iemitsu. It is difficult to judge who will decide." Cao Huachun said.
Chapter completed!