Yao Guangxiao did not refuse to meet with the person sent by Zhu Di.

Because he knew that instead of not meeting, it would be better to be direct.

Soon, the visitor appeared in the big tent.

"General Zhang, it's you who came here in person." Yao Guangxiao was a little surprised to see the person coming.

Zhang Yu is the most important general under the command of Prince Yan, which shows how important this meeting is.

"Meet Master Daoyan."

After Zhang Yu came in, he clasped his hands together and saluted Yao Guangxiao.

Then his eyes turned to Wei Guang.

"Who is this?"

The meaning is self-evident, which is to let Yao Guangxiao let him out.

Before Yao Guangxiao could speak, Wei Guang introduced himself directly: "I am Wei Guang, the commander of the Goryeo Army of the Qunying Chamber of Commerce under the command of the Crown Prince."

After hearing this, Zhang Yu's smiling face turned a little ugly.

He finally understood why Prince Yan had told him when he came that he had to act according to circumstances.

It turned out that the Prince of Yan had already expected that there must be people from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince around Master Daoyan.

In this case, it will be difficult to say anything.

"Please sit down. Prince Yan is here on behalf of the Ming Dynasty to discuss matters with me." Yao Guangxiao asked first.

This also avoided the conflict between the two people in advance.

It is obvious that Wei Guang is now very wary of Zhang Yu's attitude. If Zhang Yu gets angry, things will be difficult to deal with.

Zhang Yu was relatively restrained and immediately understood what Master Daoyan meant.

That is to say, Zhang Yu’s current actions do not represent the Prince of Yan, but the entire Ming Dynasty.

In this way, there is possibility of cooperation in many things.

Zhang Yu looked at Wei Guang's expression and knew very well in his heart that it would be difficult to mention the King of Yan in front of Master Daoyan during this trip.

So he nodded and said, "Now that our Ming army has occupied some areas, Duke Song will follow the order of His Majesty and occupy the territory first after landing, and then take it step by step."

"At present, our army is divided into four groups, with the King of Yan, the King of Jin, and the King of Qi as the vanguards, and we will set out in three groups."

"According to the order of the general, since the Prince of Yan is closer to Goryeo, the matter of contacting the magician will be handed over to the Prince of Yan."

Zhang Yu made a long story short and briefly introduced the current situation in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Feng Sheng did want to send someone here, but he was directly driven away by King Yan.

The Prince of Yan was also very clear that it was just such a small matter and Duke of Song Feng Sheng would not take it too seriously.

Zhang Yu received a hint from King Yan and naturally just used the tiger skin as a coat.

After listening to this, Yao Guangxiao temporarily understood the current situation.

After hesitating for a moment, he said, "I am relatively unfamiliar with the military field. I will trouble General Zhang and General Wei to coordinate the next specific matters."

Zhang Yu was stunned.

Wei Guang next to him grinned.

Master Daoyan’s meaning is already quite clear, which is equivalent to stating his current position.

Zhang Yu had no choice but to accept the current situation.

Yao Guangxiao clasped his hands together, bowed, and then gave the big tent to the two of them and left.

It’s not that he couldn’t listen, but he left the matter that Zhang Yu came to negotiate to Wei Guang.

After the matter is discussed, he will come back to talk to Wei Guang in detail.

"General Zhang, please." Wei Guang laughed, pointed at the chair and said to Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu saw this and realized that there was no other way, so he could only clasp his fists and say, "General Wei, please."

Outside the big tent, Yao Guangxiao frowned and looked into the distance.

That is the direction of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in Yao Guangxiao's heart, the choice was already very direct. He naturally wanted to safeguard the interests of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

But this does not mean that we should completely sever our relationship with the King of Yan.

After all, in this strange land, everyone has the same identity, Han people.

There should be more cooperation rather than mutual hostility.

This is why even Wei Guang would choose to discuss it in detail with Zhang Yu.

A few days later,

Zhang Yu also returned to where King Yan was.

The first moment he returned, Zhu Di summoned him.

"Tell me how Master Daoyan responded to you."

Zhu Di asked first.

He has been thinking about Daoyan for a long time.

Daoyan's help to him, especially when he was in Peiping, was almost all-round.

A good warrior may not have great achievements.

So when Zhu Ying transferred Yao Guangxiao away from Zhu Di, Zhu Di felt like he had broken his arm, and many things became less convenient.

Now finally, on this land of Japan, the two of them got in touch again.

Zhang Yu heard the question from the Prince of Yan and replied with some shame: "Your Majesty, I am incompetent. I only talked to Master Daoyan for two or three sentences when I went to Gaoli."

Zhu Di frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

Zhu Di had great trust in Zhang Yu, and in terms of strategy, Zhang Yu was a truly independent talent.

That's why Zhu Di sent Zhang Yu to discuss the alliance with Daoyan in detail.

Zhang Yu replied, "Your Highness, beside Master Daoyan, there is a general named Wei Guang, who claims to be the commander of the army in Goryeo from the Taisun Chamber of Commerce."

"As soon as I went over and announced my identity, he became very cautious towards me, so that I didn't even have the chance to meet with Master Daoyan alone."

"Then Master Daoyan asked me to discuss the details of the alliance with Wei Guang."

"Then I stayed there for a day but didn't find any opportunity. Wei Guang stayed with Master Daoyan all the time."

After listening to this, Zhu Di fell silent.

In fact, in Zhu Di's heart, he was very clear about Daoyan's character. He was a person who only wanted to realize his ambitions.

From other perspectives, Daoyan can be said to have achieved what he wanted at present.

If Daoyan really wanted to convey a message to him, Zhu Di believed that there were other ways.

"Oh, my Lord, before I left, Master Daoyan asked me to bring you a message."

Just when Zhu Di couldn't help feeling a little sad, Zhang Yu spoke.

Zhu Di asked hurriedly: "What are you talking about?"

Zhang Yu replied: "Master Daoyan said that he would like to thank the prince for taking care of Qingshou Temple."

Zhu Di paused for a moment, and suddenly it became clear.

"Haha, I knew Daoyan would never let me down."

To outsiders, Qingshou Temple is just a simple Buddhist temple, but in fact it is very important to Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao.

Many secret activities were carried out in Qingshou Temple.

For example, the contact with Li Jinglong and the transportation of high-quality war horses.

Naturally, it was not easy for Zhu Di to show up in this regard, and even the personal guards in the palace were not allowed to show up.

This is not to say that Zhu Di had any trust in his personal guards.

But there are some things that Zhu Di cannot participate in at all.

Although the Jinyiwei did not monitor the princes in various places very closely, the transportation of war horses would definitely attract the attention of some interested people.

The Ming Dynasty itself was short of horses, so the care of war horses was extremely important.

It is easy to trace the cause back to Zhu Di through this line.

When the news gets to my father, I'll be in big trouble.

However, Yao Guangxiao's temple did not have these troubles. Even if the monks were found out, Zhu Di could not be blamed.

In this process, Zhu Di could completely rely on his own power to rescue the monks.

The actions of monks are also more convenient in many aspects.

The army that Zhu Di could nominally control in Peking was no more than 30,000 men, which was also a restriction that Zhu Yuanzhang imposed on the vassal kings.

However, in reality, the entire Peking, whether civil officials or military generals, were won over by Zhu Di.

Those who cannot be won over will naturally be eliminated.

It would be too easy to just give him a name of a corrupt official.

Moreover, such behavior will gain the attention of my father, the emperor in the capital, which is really killing two birds with one stone.

Most of the civil officials and military generals were not very wary of monks.

That is why Zhu Di was able to turn the entire Peking into an iron barrel.

So when Zhu Di heard Zhang Yu convey Daoyan's words and talked about the matter of Qingshou Temple, he already understood in his heart that this was Daoyan secretly sending him a signal.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Di said, "How did you and Wei Guang decide on the alliance with Goryeo?"

After Daoyan's statement was confirmed, Zhu Di naturally felt much more relieved and began to ask about related matters.

Zhang Yu replied: "At present, the Japanese army is constantly concentrating backwards, as if they want to accumulate troops, find our weakness, and then win with one strike."

"But the Japanese army's combat power is just like that. Compared with our Ming army, there is a world of difference."

"Even when the Goryeo army attacked them, it didn't seem to take much effort."

"So I discussed with Wei Guang that we should unite first to completely wipe out the remnants between us and the Goryeo army, help each other, and look for an opportunity to defeat the Japanese army."

After Zhang Yu gave a brief speech, he began to talk about some details about the military layout.

At the same time, two maps were also taken out. These were drawn by Zhu Di and Master Daoyan after their respective surveys.

Now that the two maps are put together, the scope becomes clearer.

After listening to Zhang Yu's story, Zhu Di nodded and agreed to the current strategy.

In general, the most urgent thing for both the Ming army and the Goryeo army is to obtain food.

As for food, it’s actually pretty good.

Because the biggest difference between Japan and the tribes on the grassland is that it also belongs to an agricultural civilization.

In other words, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Japan, the next thing they are going to face is collecting grain.

It is now May, and Japan's rice planting will be next month.

After the Ming army landed in Japan, they also attached great importance to arable land.

Wherever the army marched, they tried their best to avoid farmland.

Feng Sheng was very clear that farmland was extremely important to the current Ming army, and it was even related to some future actions against Japan.

On the Japanese side, the stored grain in the warehouses has been hidden.

But they will not do things like destroying farmland.

This was the third time in Japan's long history that it was attacked by foreign forces.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian knights had no intention of protecting the farmlands. They would just ride their horses and trample on them.

However, the Mongolian knights would not deliberately destroy it. After all, at that time, they regarded Japan as their own territory.

The war was lost too quickly, so there was no time to do these things.

This was true in both world wars.

As a result, Japan would never deliberately destroy farmland, because in their view, the Ming army would be destroyed by the "divine wind" just like the Mongols in the past.

But they overlooked one problem, that is, although the Mongols ruled the Central Plains during that period, their essential character did not change.

In the minds of most Mongols, even Kublai Khan, they were still a country on horseback and had no mentality of an agricultural civilization at all.

But the current Ming Dynasty is completely different.

First of all, in terms of strategy, we should first maintain a stalemate, take the familiar path, and slowly fight with Japan. The first thing is to seek stability, rather than being like the Mongols did before.

We must take down Japan in one fell swoop.

The most crucial thing is that the Ming army that came this time, unlike the Mongolian army, most of them were garrison soldiers.

In other words, almost all the soldiers in the Ming army are not unfamiliar with farming. On the contrary, they are more familiar with it than the people of Japan.

If they put down their swords and guns, these Ming troops could turn into the best farmers at any time, and harvesting and sowing would be no problem at all.

The main crop in Japan is also rice.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty when there were two harvests a year, there is only one harvest a year.

That is, the seeds are sown in late May and harvested around October to November.

In other words, the sowing season is coming soon.

The Ming Dynasty's official army has been eager to try.

Feng Sheng knew very well in his mind that conquering Japan, especially thoroughly civilizing Japan, was a long-term undertaking.

It doesn't mean that it can be completely accomplished in just one or two years.

Now the Ming army, together with the Goryeo army, can be said to have gained one-third of the territory of Kyushu Island.

Once the sowing is completed, it will be time to send out the army and completely occupy Kyushu Island.

…

It is said that it takes only one day to return to Jiangling from a thousand miles away.

Zhu Ying led his army by boat from Dantu County, sailed downstream, and arrived in Suzhou in just one and a half days.

For the current Ming Dynasty, apart from the capital Nanjing, the most prosperous areas are Suzhou, Hangzhou and the south of the Yangtze River.

This place was once Zhang Shicheng's territory, but it was not affected too much by the war.

Even though it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang imposed heavy taxes here, many articles seem to describe it as a scene of unbearable suffering.

However, when you actually arrive here, what comes into view is not the suffering of the people, but only a prosperous scene.

For most of the aristocratic families, landlords and gentry.

Even if Your Majesty collects high taxes, it is just passed on to the people below.

The income is just a little less and it won’t affect your normal life.

In addition, since commerce was not restricted, there were still a large number of wealthy young men who spent huge amounts of money lavishly.