"Your Majesty."

Seeing Zhu Youxiao's question, Xiao Guizi sat down and said solemnly: "There are three pieces of information that are the most important now, one of which is from Jiangnan, which is very unfavorable to us in the future. ”

"The Jiangnan rebels have spent a lot of money to reorganize the four towns in Jiangnan and the rest of the officers and soldiers, and divide them into four towns, southeast, northwest and northwest."

"Each military town has 5,000 horse soldiers, 5,000 firearms soldiers, and the remaining 290,000 people, all of whom are all kinds of swords, guns, shields, and the like."

"Among them, the soldiers and horses of Beizhen, who is sitting in Yangzhou, are commanded by Liu Zeqing, who fled from Shandong to Huai'an Mansion before."

"The soldiers and horses of Xizhen sitting in Luoyang are commanded by the original Liaodong general Huang Degong."

"Sitting in Xiangyang City, Nanzhen, Commander Zuo Liangyu, who fled from Liaodong two days ago when we captured Shanhaiguan."

"The rest of Dongzhen is located in Fujian, and is commanded by Zheng Zhilong, a general who came out of nowhere, and he is also the governor of the puppet dynasty."

"The above is the distribution of the current 1.2 million army of Jiangnan rebels."

He paused, ready to continue.

"I'll go!"

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao was suddenly shocked, and secretly complained, "Nima's!" Is this historical inertia so great? ”

In the original history, among these four people, except for Huang Degong, who is a normal general, the remaining three, which one can be called a big scourge.

Among them, Huang Degong will not talk about it, but Liu Zeqing and Zuo Liangyu can be called the gravediggers of the Ming Empire in history.

And Zheng Zhilong, who roared in the Ming Sea in history, actually ran out now, which made Zhu Youxiao feel extremely frightened.

That is a real pirate, Zheng Zhilong is very familiar with the firearms of countries around the world, and he values them the most.

If it continues for two or three years, Zhu Youxiao will inevitably encounter the army of the Southern Ming Puppet Dynasty armed with a large number of firearms, whether it is the navy or the army, especially Zheng Zhilong's department.

Such a bizarre situation can happen, and if it is not for the inertia of this historical time and space to fight back against him, Zhu Youxiao will never believe it.

After all, these people all have a certain amount of talent, and they are all young now, and according to the normal development of the situation, it is absolutely impossible to take charge of an army alone, and it is still the size of an army of 300,000 per person.

It's all a regular army, not the rabble of history!

Those wealthy families and wealthy merchants of the Jiangnan puppet dynasty, since they have spent so much effort and desperately formed an army of 1.2 million, they must arm them at any cost in order to start the official Northern Expedition.

"Alas! Those people of the Jiangnan puppet dynasty are in trouble. ”

Zhu Youxiao sighed in this.

He clearly knew that those Jiangnan families and wealthy businessmen, in order to rebel and establish a new dynasty, plus now wantonly formed and armed the four-way army, the sum of the silver taels spent was at least tens of millions of taels.

And for these people, a loss-making business will never be done.

So, where will we make up for the money and food that has been spent?

Naturally, the wool comes out of the sheep.

The wool that can be cut by them is, of course, the ordinary people in Jiangnan.

Tax increases, smoking, and servitude...... Wait, it is estimated that it has now fallen on the heads of those Jiangnan people.

Zhu Youxiao doesn't have to think about it, in the current territory of the Jiangnan puppet dynasty, since the four-way army of the Jiangnan puppet dynasty has been formed, all kinds of sheep shearing methods must have begun to be implemented.

In the current Jiangnan puppet dynasty, the people are definitely boiling against Yingtian, and there are endless complaints.

"It's not far from the time when there are beacons everywhere."

He thought of this, and sighed softly in his heart.

Obviously, this is one of the goals I want to achieve, but in my heart, there is an indescribable pain.

"Your Majesty, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Zheng Zhilong, who has just served as the governor of the Fujian Navy."

"After his matchmaking, the Jiangnan puppet dynasty is ready to dismantle a huge amount of money and use it to buy muskets and Hongyi cannons with those Westerners!"

Xiao Guizi was a little anxious, and his tone was a little heavier, "Xiao Xuanzi and I have already increased our manpower arrangements in Fujian, and we have already found out a big news." ”

"According to reliable sources from all sides, the first big deal between the Southern Ming puppet dynasty and the foreigners will be carried out in Yuegang, Fujian, three months later."

"The scale of firearms in this transaction is not small, it is enough to arm 20,000 firearms troops with Hongyi cannons and arquebuses."

"Originally, they wanted to carry out the latest Westerner gun deal, but they gave up because there were many problems with those guns, and now they are very unstable."

Xiao Guizi glanced at Zhu Youxiao a little nervously, and continued, "Then Zheng Zhilong didn't know how to persuade the court of the Jiangnan puppet dynasty to prepare to establish a Fujian naval division with a scale of 100,000 people. ”

"Not to mention that they plan to build their own ships, they are also going to buy two large warships from those Westerners."

That's the point of this report!

"Humph!"

Zhu Youxiao was furious when he heard this, Huo Ran got up, and said fiercely, "Want to trade firearms with Westerners? They are traitors, they think so beautifully! ”

"The current Lushun shipyard has basically been built to the end, and it will be officially put into use soon, and it will be able to start building twenty-four Leopard cruisers at one time."

"At most, two months later, a total of two batches of Leopard cruisers, forty-eight of them were launched! It is completely capable of forming a battle cluster for both the East Sea Fleet and the North Sea Fleet! ”

"When the time comes, I will go to Yuegang, Fujian, and meet those Westerners and Zheng Zhilong for a while!"

He was really angry with these wealthy families and wealthy businessmen of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Want to collude with foreigners? Use foreigners' firearms and warships against yourself?

I just want to say something, you guys are thinking too much!

Two months later, he not only had to clean up the carried away Zheng Zhilong, but also to fear those Western countries that came across the ocean! It hurts!

Beat them to death!

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao's mind turned around with all kinds of thoughts.

He has decided to start the era of ocean hegemony of the Ming Empire in advance!

After the current battle against Huang Taiji, things on land have basically stabilized.

The army units of the Ming Empire, according to the established model, just expand slowly, don't be too anxious, lest you take too big a step and it will be easy to get an egg.

In the next year or two, he is ready to focus on the development of the Ming Empire and focus on the hegemony of the ocean.

In the next three years, at least the first goal must be achieved: to sweep the Pacific Ocean, occupy this vast ocean area, and by the way, create a Ming Empire Navy that can crisscross the seas!

All the territory in the Pacific Ocean belongs to Lao Tzu!

If anyone wants to rob you, I will beat you all over the head, and beat you to the point where you are holding your head!

Defy?

Lao Tzu will beat you until you are obedient.

Those wealthy families of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the puppet dynasty will not think about going to sea in the future, and there is no need to do the dream of trading with foreigners.

This time, I accepted all the money used to trade with foreigners unceremoniously.

Of course, there are also those "guests" from Western countries who have come from afar, and I would also like to express my welcome and friendliness.

Well, they confiscated all their ships, munitions, and other materials.

It is an extremely reasonable arrangement to arrest those people from Western countries and let them honestly go to the mines to mine.

Anyway, these Westerners, all of them are tall and big, and it is quite suitable to be miners.

As for the wealthy families and wealthy businessmen of the Southern Ming Puppet Dynasty, let them still stay obediently, just eat and wait for death.

When the time is ripe and your people's hearts are lost, Lao Tzu will go over and slowly reap the fruits of victory.

Occupying the Pacific Ocean and blocking the Southern Ming Puppet Dynasty and the so-called Western Liang Dynasty is one of the key directions of the Ming Empire in the future.

At present, the vast majority of the Pacific Ocean is ownerless, and it is easy to occupy.

As for the territories that have been occupied by Western countries, it is better to obediently give them to me.

This vast Pacific Ocean, in the next three years, Lao Tzu wanted.