It is only the middle of October, the offshore waters are not frozen, and there are no problems with the movement of ships.

And this season, when there are few typhoons and storms, is a good time to go on a long voyage.

If it were another month or so, the wooden ships would have to hide in the harbor for the winter.

Although the number of ships in the returning Grand Fleet is only about half of what it came, it still looks like it covers the sky from a distance, and it is very spectacular.

Standing on the bow of the fast-moving big warship, looking at the sea and sky in the distance, everyone was very emotional, and they couldn't wait to return as soon as possible and celebrate well.

With two hundred ships loaded with booty, the fleet could not move fast.

It took five days for the Grand Fleet to return to Port Arthur.

After Zhu Youxiao ordered to replenish some fresh water, vegetables and fruits, and said goodbye to Zhang Guangzhe and other generals of the North Sea Fleet, the fleet continued to set sail and sailed towards Qingdao Port.

Time passed in a flash, and before I knew it, another four days had passed, and the large fleet full of trophies finally sailed into the huge port of Qingdao under the leadership of several pilots.

In this Qingdao port, there are still 32 brand-new Leopard cruisers, lined up to greet them.

But in the past two months, the two major royal shipyards have built and launched 96 Leopard cruisers, and each Royal Navy fleet has been allocated 32 ships!

In this way, the three major royal navy fleets all have eighty-four Leopard cruisers, and their strength has almost doubled.

"See Your Majesty!" ……

As soon as he stepped off the ship, he saw Li Dingguo leading more than 100 generals of the army and navy of the Guards to greet him.

It is estimated that he has been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Zhu Youxiao walking off the flagship, everyone saluted and paid homage.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please get up! It's been a great time. ”

Zhu Youxiao helped everyone with his hands and told everyone to get up.

After the monarch and the ministers spoke for a while, Li Dingguo immediately asked people to settle the officers and men of the Royal Navy who had returned from the battle, as well as two hundred transport ships, and he and others accompanied Zhu Youxiao towards the big city lord's mansion next to Qingdao Port.

After Zhu Youxiao and the others finished washing and eating, it was already an hour later, and everyone came to the hall of the City Lord's Mansion to sit and listen to Li Dingguo's report.

After asking someone to serve fragrant tea, Li Dingguo told the story: Since His Majesty the Emperor led the combined fleet to Taiwan, the Wa Kingdom and other places, the Southern Ming Dynasty can be said to have rapidly intensified internal and external troubles.

The peasant rebel armies that fled from Henan to the areas on both sides of the Yangtze River revived, and vigorous peasant uprisings broke out in Hubei, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, and other regions.

The current Southern Ming Dynasty is already boiling and the sky is boiling, and the people are not living well.

The army of the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River that the Southern Ming court worked hard to build, and the remaining three towns lost most of them and suffered a great loss of vitality.

And the only intact Nanzhen Zuoliang Jade Department is now in violation of the Yang and Yin of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it does not listen to the Xuan!

This guy is even more brutal than a bandit, and the entire Xiangyang area, whether it is the official gentry or the ordinary people, was all blackmailed and scraped by him by sending troops!

If you don't agree with each other, but if you don't comply, it will be the end of the family!

He not only supported the army and respected himself, but also imprisoned more than a dozen eunuchs and officials sent by the Nanming court to supervise him, and completely controlled the 300,000 army in Nanzhen!

Today's Zuo Liangyu is more harmful than those rogues who burn, kill and loot everywhere!

"Your Majesty, this Zuo Liangyu is simply a big scourge in the skin of an official!"

Li Dingguo said angrily, "Your Majesty, this dog thing, a few days ago, actually went to fight Sichuan's idea!" ”

"As a result, I naturally didn't have to think about it, and I was hit head-on by the broken army of the Royal Guard led by Hong'er, and the gray soldiers who lost their troops slipped back to Xiangyang City." Ranwen.com

"This Zuo Liangyu is so bold? I don't know if I'm alive or dead! ”

Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly when he heard this, and he also said angrily.

"Your Majesty, not only this Zuo Liangyu, but also the Eight Heavenly Kings of those bandits, the harm is also huge!"

"Today's Jiangnan puppet dynasty, except for the four places of Liangguang, most of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jinling, the rest of the places are all plagued by bandits and Zuo Liangyu!"

"According to the personnel report of the Intelligence Bureau, more than half of the people in the Jiangnan Puppet Dynasty have either suffered military disasters or natural and man-made disasters, and they are almost unable to survive."

"What's even more infuriating is that those civil and military officials, big families, wealthy businessmen and wealthy people in the Southern Ming Dynasty are still collecting the people's fat and ointment everywhere regardless of it."

"If this continues, it won't take half a year, or at most three months, and those peasant rebels will skyrocket to as many as one million people, and at least there will be more than ten or two hundred thousand people!"

"There is no way, those ordinary people, if they don't rebel and join the rebel army, the only result is to be killed and starved to death!"

The more Li Dingguo talked, the more angry he became.

A good Jiangnan, after the establishment of the Jiangnan puppet dynasty, it will only take more than half a year for those civil and military officials, families, wealthy businessmen and rich people to collapse!

Li Dingguo doesn't care about their lives or deaths.

It's just that he was born poor, and he really felt very uncomfortable when he saw tens of millions of ordinary people suffering.

"Your Majesty, we can't let the Jiangnan puppet dynasty continue to do nonsense, we must launch a general attack on them within three months!"

Indeed, the current situation in Jiangnan has changed too much.

The Jiangnan puppet dynasty, which has completely lost the support of the people, will definitely not be able to continue to let them go free.

Otherwise, in a year or two at most, the population of ordinary people in all parts of Jiangnan will definitely drop by at least 30%!

The huge Jiangnan, with a population of 30%, is 20 or 30 million people!

This is simply shocking, so that Li Dingguo can no longer settle down.

These ordinary suffering people are the foundation of the Ming Empire!

Not to mention anything else, in this world, there are almost no countries with a population of twenty or thirty million, except for the Ming Empire!

Even if there is, it is only one or two countries.

Therefore, Li Dingguo, who is now very quick in thinking and extremely flexible in his mind, after knowing the current situation, clearly realized that he could no longer implement the original plan.

Within three months, the Ming Empire will definitely send troops on a large scale to unify the whole country!

Otherwise, the huge loss of the population of ordinary people will definitely make His Majesty the Emperor and himself and others feel painful and regretful!

With the current armament and military strength of the Ming Empire, Li Dingguo dared to pack a ticket, as long as he led the four legions of the Royal Guard to the south, and with the cooperation of a royal naval fleet, he sent troops to the south of the Yangtze River.

In less than three months, the Southern Ming puppet dynasty and those traitors and rebels will be wiped out in waves!

It's not that he's boasting, but he's having this confidence.

Today's Jiangnan puppet dynasty is full of beacons, the people are struggling to make a living, and the four towns in Jiangnan that were originally established at a huge cost have been crippled for most of them, what can they do to stop their Guards Group Army from moving south?

If there is a Royal Navy fleet, this time can be even shorter, it is estimated that it will take less than three months to wipe out the Jiangnan puppet dynasty in one fell swoop!

Then, the army continued to move south and west, conquering the so-called Great Liang State and several small countries on the southern coast in one fell swoop.

It is also very simple and easy to turn them into several direct territories of the Ming Empire.