The emperor dropped the bombshell news that he was going to fight the Dongyi. Suddenly the court was in an uproar. Everyone was advising the emperor not to go to war, saying it would be a waste of money and manpower. Besides, the Dongyi had been very well behaved in recent years, so why bother if they didn't interfere with each other?
The civil officials were the ones who shouted the loudest, but the military officials were not so bad. Whether to fight or not was up to the emperor. The border had been peaceful in recent years and they had not fought a war for a long time.
The emperor did not interrupt them. He waited until they were tired of persuading him and then threw Wang Yu out to explain why he wanted to defeat the Dongyi.
Wang Yu knew that this day would come, and it finally came. Wang Yu asked someone to bring the world map he had made. Since the opening of trade, the farthest it had reached was Europe, Africa, etc., and it had not yet reached America.
Many people cannot understand this map. Although they know that there are other countries farther away from Dali, they have no practical concept. Now they will see Wang Yu pointing to each place and asking them to identify it. Finally, he points to a small place on the map and tells them that this is Dongyi.
He told them that this island held an important strategic position in the world for Dali, and relied on Wang Yu's half-truths and half-falsehoods to bluff them. After all, they had a vague concept of the world, and knew nothing about things on other continents. Of course, Wang Yu didn't know what the situation was like in the American continent at that time. He was very good at it.
Some people also questioned the map, believing it was made up by Wang Yu.
Wang Yu pointed out that the late emperor had already arranged people to explore the area, and signaled to Mr. Lan that he was also the person the emperor had brought forward to persuade him, and he couldn't be the only one speaking. After receiving Wang Yu's gaze, Mr. Lan also agreed with what Wang Yu said, and the others shut up.
Then he told them, not to mention the distant past, but the recent past. In the first two years after the founding of the country, they had suffered so much harassment from them, and they had killed so many people of Dali. Although they are now peaceful, it does not mean that they will always be peaceful. It is best to conquer them.
Although some people still didn't quite believe what Wang Yu said, after arguing for so long, they knew that the emperor had made up his mind, and the military officers still agreed with what Wang Yu said.
The one who was most reluctant was probably the Minister of Revenue. After all, the war required the Ministry of Revenue to pay for it. But the matter had already been decided and there was no way not to pay. However, he was thinking about something else and frowned.
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