"Isn't this... a bit risky?"
Yinzhi was a little hesitant.
The last time the Qing attacked the Dzungar tribe, it mobilized nearly 200,000 troops. Now he wants to attack the Japanese island with only 3,000 people. No matter how he heard it, it seemed unreal.
"What's the meaning?"
Yinreng didn't quite understand.
"I mean, isn't it a bit risky to attack a country with only 3,000 people?"
"I'm not asking you to exterminate the pirates. I'm just asking you to plunder them, steal their money and food, and give them a warning!"
"Besides, do you think the Japanese pirates were as well-armed as the Qing soldiers? At most, they looted some guns and cannons from passing merchant ships. They definitely didn't have the technology to manufacture cannons themselves!"
Yinreng felt that Yinzhi was just worrying about nothing.
"Listen to me. Take three thousand men and go straight to the island. Kill anyone you see and rob any gold, silver, treasure, and food you find. But do it within your means. Once the boats are full, return. Or find a small island nearby to base yourself and rob again!"
This time the Japanese devils really touched Yinreng's bottom line. As long as the pirates disguised as Japanese devils didn't rob him, he wouldn't be so angry.
After thinking for a moment, Yinzhi gritted his teeth and said
"become!"
He took this risk with Yinreng, and the Japanese pirates made him very disgusted.
After Yinzhi agreed, he stood up and was about to go out. Yinreng thought of the rats hiding in the military camp and reminded him,
"There's a spy in the barracks. Tell your men not to be alone after they reach the island!"
"Um!"
Looking at Yinzhi's back as he walked away, Yinreng suppressed his anger and began to write a secret memorial to Kangxi.
The next morning, the army set out.
Yinreng did not take the risk, although he also wanted to kill a few Japanese devils to vent his anger, but the industrial system was just in its infancy. If he was gone, the Japanese devils might destroy the country, but the industry would also be reduced to its original state.
Even the people he brought with him will be buried with him.
Yinreng did not dare to take the risk.
On the fifth day after Yinzhi led his troops to war, Kangxi's imperial edict arrived, accompanied by Yinxiang and Yinzhen.
Yinreng glanced at the imperial edict, then glanced at his two younger brothers with young faces, feeling helpless.
The good news was that Kangxi also agreed with him and Yinzhi to attack the Japanese island and teach the Japanese devils a lesson they would never forget. Of course, it was also possible that he was forced to agree because he knew that Yinzhi had already led his troops to set off.
But I agreed to it after all.
The bad news was that Kangxi asked him and Yinzhi to teach the two children how to fight.
One is seventeen, the other is fifteen...
How can you fight a war if your hair hasn’t even grown out yet?
But Kangxi had already sent the people here, and he couldn't send them back, so Yinreng placed Fourteenth Prince into the 500 Eight Banners Army and let him train with them.
And he threw Yinxiang into the Han army.
Now, apart from the craftsmen and a few of their guards, there are only 2,500 soldiers in the military camp, and 1,500 of them are left in Weihaiwei for training and building houses.
The rest of the people are at the military factory.
The workers who burned coal and lime were recruited from nearby villages.
Yinreng knew that lime was extremely harmful to people's lungs. Even if he had trained the workers who burned the furnace and carried the lime in advance, they might not have strictly followed the instructions.
So Yinreng's method was to recruit men from each village one by one, and the men in each village could only work in the lime kiln for half a year.
After half a year, they will be assigned to work in a brick kiln and a tile kiln for another half a year each. After that, they will no longer be hired.
In this age without computers.
Yinreng could only use this stupid method to reduce the risk.
The farmers who work in the kiln factories are all poor people. Once they contract pneumoconiosis, they are almost certain to die.
After Thirteen and Fourteen arrived, they were initially surprised by the half-work, half-soldier operation model in the military camp, but after a few days, Fourteen felt that he could not stand it anymore.
Not tired, but bored.
With his status, he naturally didn't have to work, but everyone else went to work, and there was no point for him to stay alone in the tent. Even shooting and practicing boxing were boring.
Thirteenth actually also felt that he was not very adaptable, but he was more patient than Fourteenth and did not go directly to Yinreng to complain like Fourteenth did.
That evening, Yinreng was busy instructing the soldiers to pour the floor slabs. The weather was getting hotter, so after lunch, Yinreng stopped them from working. After lunch break, they started working around four in the afternoon.
I was busy until the sun went down in the evening, and then I went to have dinner.
It was at this time that Fourteenth Prince found Yinreng.
"Second brother, can you please stop my soldiers from working?"
Yinreng was wearing a short shirt and didn't even bother to glance at him when he heard this.
"If you don't want to work, go back to Beijing. I don't want to keep idle people here."
"But they are soldiers. How can they do such hard work every day that has no effect on the war?"
Hearing this, Yinreng looked away from the floor and frowned at Fourteen.
"I'll say it again, if you can do it, do it, if you can't, get out!"
Fourteen's face instantly turned red with anger. How could Second Brother be so arrogant and unreasonable?!
He just threw his sleeves and left.
I made up my mind to write a letter back to complain.
Seeing this, Yinreng rolled his eyes and continued to command the soldiers to work.
He's just a little brat who has never suffered. Only when he gets beaten up will he learn his lesson.
Yinreng now had no shortage of younger brothers to work for him, so he had no intention of pampering Fourteenth.
Yinreng could accept that Fourteenth Prince didn't want to do it himself, as he was just a minor after all. But when he planned to take the 580 Banners Army with him and quit, Yinreng could not tolerate it.
He is not Fourteen's father, so there must be a limit to his tolerance.
In the letter, Fourteenth Emperor wrote many words about Yinreng's autocracy and tyranny. After sending it back and waiting for a few days, he received a reply from Kangxi.
But what he couldn't believe was that Kangxi had no intention of helping him at all. Instead, he scolded him harshly.
He was accused of being disrespectful to his elder brother, not respecting military rules, and being unable to endure any hardship.
This was like a bucket of cold water, which brought the Fourteenth's spirit, which had been somewhat inflated since he entered the court, back to its original state.
In fact, he had long known that his position in Kangxi's heart could not be compared with Yinreng's, but when he entered the court at the beginning of the year, Yinreng had left Beijing.
Kangxi had no place to vent his fatherly love, so he took Fourteenth as a place of support.
Everyone in and outside the court acted according to Kangxi's wishes. In the past six months, Fourteenth Prince was flattered wherever he went, and Kangxi gave him whatever he wanted. He flattered him so much that he didn't know how high the sky was and how deep the earth was.
This time, the cold water made Fourteen face the reality completely.
Fourteen hid in the tent and cried bitterly, and never went to Yinreng again to embarrass himself.
In early July, news of victory came from the navy.
The army will return to Weihaiwei soon.
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