After hearing this, Zhao Min was speechless: "You vixen, I finally remembered a kindness from you, but you still want it back."
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Zhao Min quickly devoured most of the roasted lamb leg and then drank the cup of tea in one gulp.
She patted her belly and said, "I'm so full."
Zhou Zhiruo glanced at her slightly bulging belly and said, "Look at how much you eat, it's as if you're already pregnant with a baby of three or four months old."
Zhao Min laughed: "You don't understand this. If I were really pregnant, I wouldn't dare to eat like this. It doesn't matter if I fill myself up, but I'm afraid of filling the baby in my belly."
After hearing this, Zhou Zhiruo gave Zhao Min another fierce look: "What do you mean? Are you saying that I can't get pregnant?"
Zhao Min was also speechless: "You come again, it's just a child. I have forgotten what my own children look like. If you like, I will give you one. Anyway, with my physique, I may be able to get pregnant after returning to Ming Dynasty."
Zhou Zhiruo glared at her fiercely: "Hmph, you act like you are so capable."
Seeing that the two of them seemed to be about to quarrel again, Zhang Wuji quickly tried to smooth things over.
"Okay Min'er, let's talk about serious matters first. Tokyo City has been taken."
"I have almost arranged some of the aftermath matters. Do you have any other plans?"
Zhao Min smiled and said, "What plans can I make? It's still the same as what I discussed with you before."
"I plan to keep Wang Bao here, at least let him stay here for a few years, and leave tens of thousands of soldiers behind."
"There are some things that the Han generals under your command cannot do, such as massacre and killing. But Wang Baobao may have been with me for a long time, so he must be much better than Yang Xiao and others in suppressing the Japanese."
"In a few days, when we return to Ming Dynasty, I will leave him 50,000 soldiers and horses. Without the two of us around, he will be more free and easy when doing things. Who knows, he might slaughter the whole of Japan again as soon as we leave."
Zhao Min said it lightly, but Zhou Zhiruo was speechless.
"Zhao Min, you have killed enough people. Look at the mass grave over there. They are still buried there."
"There is no resistance force in Japan now. Even if there is, it is just a small uprising of a few hundred people. It would be fine if you left Wang Baobao behind, but you also left so many soldiers. He will really massacre the Japanese again."
Zhao Min looked at Zhou Zhiruo and smiled: "You vixen, you have been with Zhang Wuji for the longest time, don't you understand his feelings?"
"You don't really think this was my idea?"
"There are some things that are difficult for Zhang Wuji to do, and it is not easy for him to let the generals under him do them. The contradiction lies in that this enemy wants this land, but does not really want the people on this land."
"The difficulty lies in that we can't really kill them all, but we still have to do some cleansing. And since it's not easy for us men to do this cleansing, I'll do it. Anyway, I'm not an emperor. I'm just a girl who was abused after the country was destroyed."
Zhou Zhiruo was also speechless. She knew that everything Zhao Min did was actually condoned by Zhang Wuji. She just didn't expect that the ultimate goal of her man in this expedition was to carry out a large-scale population purge.
Zhou Zhiruo was really worried that Zhang Wuji would leave a bad reputation in future history books, but fortunately, Zhao Min had already taken on this dirty job.
"Well, I'm too lazy to talk about these things with you. I just want to go back to Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, and then stand on the top of Beijing City to take a look at the scenery of my Ming Dynasty. I really don't want to stay in this damn place called Japan."
After hearing this, Zhao Min smiled and looked at Zhang Wuji; "My dear, your little Zhiruo has started to be in a bad mood, so I will be quick these days. But, are you really planning to bring these Japanese officials and nobles back to Ming Dynasty?"
Zhang Wuji nodded and said, "Take it back. It's just a waste of food."
"Otherwise, if I just chopped off Hirohito Hiroichi's head in the bustling Caishikou of Beijing, wouldn't it be too monotonous? People who know that we won a great victory in Japan might think that I just chopped off the head of a random Japanese."
"If we bring back another 1,800 people and behead them together, the scene will be more spectacular."
Watching Zhang Wuji and Zhao Min determine the future and life and death of countless Japanese people while chatting and laughing, she suddenly felt that this Mongolian woman and Zhang Wuji were actually very compatible. Now think about it, if the two of them could have been together earlier, perhaps unifying the world and establishing the Ming Dynasty would not have been so difficult.
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Five days later, early in the morning.
The problem in Japan has been solved. The remaining matters will be handled by Wang Baobao who stays here. After returning to the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Wuji will send hundreds of officials here. Those literati and scholars have certain management capabilities. After arriving in Japan, they will at least be county officials. After arriving here, those scholars will spread the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, spread Confucianism, and conduct imperial examinations. After thirty or forty years, when this generation of Japanese people have died out, the people on this land will become the subjects of the Ming Dynasty both mentally and physically.
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The army slowly moved westward. Originally, Gong Yu wanted to mobilize the Ming fleet to the vicinity of Tokyo City, but this proposal was rejected by Zhang Wuji.
Because he suddenly thought that it would be better to let the soldiers who were about to return home to clean up from east to west.
"This way, Wang Baobao will have some energy left."
The army headed westward, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and spread out over a wide area. Wherever they encountered people, no matter what the Japanese's attitude was, or whether they had the intention of rebelling, for the Ming Dynasty's generals and soldiers, it meant, "If I think you are dishonest, then you are dishonest," and the result of dishonesty was naturally death.
Along the way, Zhou Zhiruo originally thought that they would be able to return to Yamaguchi Prefecture quickly, but what she didn't expect was that it took more than two months.
During these two months, the Ming army soldiers continued to sweep and plunder, and the treasures and gold and silver they obtained would probably require a single fleet to transport them.
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