As Emperor Jiajing’s intention was very clear, other officials were not people who did not know what to do, and when Emperor Jiajing asked He Ao, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, and others for their opinions, they all said that they would send troops to fight against the Japanese, but only with different strategies.
“A mere 57 Japanese invaders dared to sit in red clothes and yellow umbrellas and watch the city of Yingtian, which is the second most important thing?How can they be punished if they are not punished?Order that Yingtian and the neighbouring prefectures should be instructed to kill these Japanese without fail, and not a single one of them will be left out of the net!”
Jiajing Emperor asked several people, on the spot gave an order, people eight hundred miles expedited to convey Yingtian and other places.
After Yingtian’s Japanese situation is dealt with, Jiajing Emperor waved his sleeve again and said to Yan Song, “Shangyu’s Japanese invasion is not by chance, nor is it an isolated case, since this period of time, I believe that Qing and other people also know that the Japanese in the Jiangnan area have been rising and falling, and there has been a tendency to become more and more intense. The importance of the land of jiangnan, self-evident, for the jiangnan Japanese has been urgent, secretary and so on down to call the six ministers, the right and left ministers of an hour later in no Yi hall court discussion.”
“obey the decree.”
Yan song and others kneeling to receive the decree to retire.
Jiajing emperor sent word to court discussion, Yan Song and others dare not slack, the first time to send people to call the six ministers and the right and left ministers to come to the court discussion.
Soon, the six ministers as well as the right and left ministers and so on are all here, and after a tea time, Jiajing emperor also driving to no Yi Hall.
“I Royal pole world thirty one, respect for heaven and earth and repair themselves, sleep from morning to night, do not dare to slacken, but the natural and man-made disasters, the northern captives have not stopped, the southern Japan and the ups and downs, I am deeply ashamed of the world’s people, this is all my fault.”
Jiajing emperor with a gold robe, sitting high above the imperial throne, sweeping the eyes of a crowd of court ministers, sincere slowly spoke.
Hear Jiajing emperor said “all my fault”, a crowd of court ministers all panicked kneel down and kowtowed, have to ask for forgiveness, said, “Your Majesty forgive me, everything is the fault of the ministers and so on. Your Majesty, the world, exhaustive efforts, so that I have such a prosperous Ming Dynasty, the northern captives South Japan are incompetent, tired of your Majesty, tired of the trouble, the harm of the people suffer.”
Do not kneel down to ask for forgiveness can not ah, history has proved that every time Jiajing emperor said “all my fault” when, in fact, Jiajing emperor heart is the sin in others.
For example, there was a year of heavy snowfall, especially heavy snow, history has not been big, hundreds of thousands of people affected, millions of acres of wheat seedlings were frozen to death. Jiajing emperor summoned court officials to discuss the disaster relief, said “all my fault” words, the court discussion of a Chintian Supervisor officials follow the words of the Jiajing emperor, proposed the Jiajing emperor under a sinful imperial edict, praying for heaven’s forgiveness ……Then, this straight Chintian Supervisor officials were alive cane to death.
There are many examples of this, the most recent is the period of the Gengxu Rebellion, Jiajing Emperor had also said “all my fault”, and then Ding Rukui, Minister of War, was executed ……
Therefore, hear Jiajing emperor this “all my fault”, court ministers are cold sweat, lest become a criminal in the heart of Jiajing emperor.
“No need to argue, all up, this matter can be discussed later. Today, called the Secretary and so on, is about jiangnan Japanese disease matter. All of you love secretary, jiangnan Japan is already urgent, secretary and so on discuss a statement out, don’t make me disappointed.”
Jiajing emperor waved his hand noncommittally, signalled the crowd to get up, and made the crowd around the jiangnan Japanese disease to start the court discussion.
This time Yan Song consciously, no use of Jiajing emperor name, on the initiative of the first time to start speaking.
Yan Song is a person fine, just in the palace he did not take the initiative to speak, was named by Jiajing emperor was forced to speak, and the content of the speech is not recognised by Jiajing emperor, his heart is well aware of, this time it is deliberately well prepared, the purpose is to restore the loss of points in the palace, to restore in the heart of the image of the Jiajing emperor.
He came out of the palace, the first time on the matter of the court, people quickly whip back to the Yan House to inform his son Yan Shifan, so that his son quickly proposed a statement out, for him to speak at the court.
In recent years, as yan song age, he is in the cabinet chief minister position, many things are relying on his son yan shifan’s counselling.
At that time, Yan Shifan is taking advantage of the wine in the women’s pile of hard ploughing it, received the instructions of the old man, had to interrupt the ploughing, with a hot towel twisted forehead to sober up, put pen to paper to write a “imperial Japanese ten difficult three policy”.
Yan Song in the court before the start of the Yan Shifan received the “imperial Japanese ten difficult three policy”, after reading nodded again and again, the heart suddenly have the bottom, so in the Jiajing emperor voice behind, he stepped forward, the first to speak.
Back to Your Majesty. I think that there are ten difficulties in imperialising the Japanese in Jiangnan.”Yan Song made a bow to Jiajing Emperor and opened his mouth with a clear mind.
“Oh, what are the ten difficulties?”Jiajing Emperor asked with interest.
Back to the emperor, this is difficult: the Japanese invaders from the sea, come and go erratic, difficult to measure and know, so it is difficult to defend; the second difficult for: the coastline is long and winding, it is difficult to defend; the third difficult for: the land and water are intertwined, suddenly in and suddenly out, difficult to fight; the fourth difficult for: the Japanese invaders are treacherous and multi-termed, no ethics, no one nature, it is difficult to know their plans; the fifth difficult for: the Japanese invaders are based on the overseas deserted islands for a long time, long time to operate, the base of the firm for a long time, it is difficult to prepare for the sixth difficult for:The six difficulties are: the residents are fragile, there are many ungrateful sons and daughters along the coast to cooperate with the Japanese invaders, it is difficult to make; the seven difficulties are: the coastal land of Jiangnan is much lagging, it is difficult to build a city, and if it is difficult to build a city, then it is difficult to defend against the Japanese invaders without any dangers. The eight difficulties were: the limited strength of the host and the guest troops. It is difficult to maintain it for a long time; these nine difficulties are: the lack of food and grass, which is difficult to raise, coupled with natural disasters such as drought, locusts, and insects, which make it even more difficult to raise food and grass; and these ten difficulties are: there are many generals who are arrogant and cowardly, who are difficult to trust, and who are ineffective in defending against the Japanese.”
Yan Song arched his hand and reported one by one.
Jiajing Emperor nodded at the words, looked at Yan Song approvingly, and was more satisfied with Yan Song’s summary of the ten difficulties of the imperial Japanese.
“Both this ten difficulties, what policy does the Secretary have?”Jiajing emperor asked again.
“I’m not very good at military affairs, but on the Jiangnan Japanese, also have more research, for this ten difficulties, there are three policy to defend the Japanese, throw a brick to attract jade.”Yan Song slowly opened his mouth.
Jiajing Emperor nodded slightly, signalling Yan Song to continue on.
“The three policies of this Japanese defence are: first, build more warships, occupy the key points, and when they come, they will strike, and when they go, they will pound them. Second, set sandboat 500 iterative whistle in suzhou sea port, choose soldiers more than 10,000 people guarding in songjiang protect pond, Japanese landing that is cover attack in which. Third, set Su, Song lightweight warships five, six hundred ships in Huangpu, Wusong, Taihu Lake, etc., so that the Japanese step do not dare to go deeper, the boat does not dare to cross. At the same time, add training guards and horses, can consider levying wolf soldiers, soil soldiers, Zhang soldiers as a supplement, and stay Huai, Zhejiang surplus salt silver 100,000 taels or borrow South Gan army pay 80,000, 90,000 taels for food, reward needs.”Yan Song slowly opened his mouth.
Jiajing Emperor nodded his head while listening, obviously Yan Song’s ten difficult three policies have all entered his eyes, making him more satisfied.
