Cannon Fodder Is King

Arc 3.21

In the twenty-four years of Guangde, the Japanese invasion of the southeast coastal area became more and more raging.

At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the Wa Kingdom, separated by only one sea from the Dayang Dynasty, entered the period of division of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Just last year, the Northern Dynasties unified the Japanese country. The southern dynasty warriors, frustrated politicians and ronin lost their support, so they lived on the sea, occupied the islands, and from time to time invaded the coastal areas of Dayang to carry out armed smuggling, looting and burning of piracy, so they were called Japanese pirates.

Internal and external troubles, people’s livelihood, and the treasury lacked money. In addition, Emperor Guangde was not in good health during this period. Just paving the way for Meng Zezhi had exhausted most of his energy, and there was really no time to take care of other things, so he was more subjectively inclined. The proposal of Gan Zhengfu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, imposes a sea ban.

Meng Zezhi persuaded: "Father, you must never give in. Blindly retreat will only promote the power of the bandits. Now the Japanese bandits are just a small group of forces, and they dare to commit more than ten looting incidents within a month, and wait for them to develop. When you grow up, don't you dare to attack cities and land in a blink of an eye."

Seeing Meng Zezhi standing up, Lu Zhenxiang, Shangshu from the Ministry of Industry, followed up and said: "Long live, what His Royal Highness King Ning said is that once these Japanese pirates become forces and endanger the coastal transportation, the consequences will be unimaginable. Not to mention the implementation of the sea ban. What should tens of thousands of fishermen do?"

Seeing Meng Ze knowing that he was digging a hole for himself, the Eighth Prince was happy to fuel the flames, he immediately said: "My son thought that Lord Lu's words were extremely correct, and his father, the emperor, has worked hard for more than ten years, and finally defeated Dart completely in Guangde twenty years. Yao, a shame before it, promotes my imperial power. Now just because the navy is unfavorable, the imperial court avoids and fears the battle. If it spreads out, how should the people of the world view my court?

How did Emperor Guangde not understand these truths? In his opinion, the root of Yang Dynasty lies in agriculture, and the output of agriculture is enough to feed the Dynasty. The most important thing is that it took five full years to fight Tatar, but the Japanese pirates were at sea, watching the wind, and they were more mobile. How long would it take to get rid of them? Guangde thought I dare not think about it.

It was Meng Zezhi who was the main player. For a while, Emperor Guangde couldn't guess what he was thinking. After covering his mouth and coughing heavily, he could only prevaricate: "This matter is of great importance. Later Discuss again, let me think about it again."

In the next dynasty, Emperor Guangde recruited Meng Zezhi to the Palace of the Qing Dynasty.

Meng Zezhi opened the door: "Father, my son wants to train with this group of Japanese pirates."

"What?" Emperor Guangde's words were blocked by Meng Zezhi's words.

To say that it is useless, Meng Zezhi directly took Guangde Emperor to the firearms bureau of Xishan.

There was only one exit, and in a valley surrounded by cliffs, dozens of muskets were released. After a loud bang, a row of sixty meters (one meter is 3.3 meters) away was dressed in cotton armor. (A kind of armor inlaid with iron sheets on a thick cotton or silk cloth and fixed with copper nails) The wooden man fell at the sound.

When the soldiers took the wooden men over and took a look, they saw that the cotton armor on the wooden men's body was covered with dense bullet holes. After opening the cotton armor, the projectiles had completely submerged into the wooden men's body.