Grand Duke Luo listened to Emperor Zhu's words, his face was full of admiration, but his heart was like a mirror - it must be that the little lady of the Tokugawa family was too short to be in harmony with the mind of Lord Banzai......

Zhu Cihong then instructed: "If the Tokugawa family is really sincere, they should give that princess a Tang Muyi." ”

Tang Muyi?

Zheng Zhilong and Grand Duke Luo were stunned.

Emperor Zhu is the richest in the Ming Dynasty, and he still lacks these three melons and two dates?

Grand Duke Luo asked, "I don't know where Your Majesty wants?" ”

"Nagasaki!" Zhu Cihong said, "I want Nagasaki!" ”

"Nagasaki?" Grand Duke Luo was taken aback, he knew what kind of place Nagasaki was!

That's the gateway to Japan!

"It's impossible to ......" Zheng Zhilong shook his head again and again, "The Tokugawa shogunate won't give it!" ”

Zhu Cihong glanced at Zheng Zhilong and said with a smile: "I will give it!" Of course the Tokugawa family will give it...... When they are cleaned up by the armies of the Shimazu and Maori families, they will give it! ”

"Your Majesty, the Tokugawa family's army is not that weak." Zheng Zhilong reminded, "Over the years, the Tokugawa family has imported a lot of artillery and horses from us, and they can already make muskets, so their military strength has been greatly enhanced. ”

What the? Zhu Cihong was a little flustered, and the Tokugawa family bought cannons and horses from the Ming Dynasty? Who sold it to them? It can't be the Zheng family, right? Your family really dares to take out anything!

"It's useless," Zhu Cihong didn't bother with Zheng Zhilong too much, but continued to talk about the Japanese Civil War, "Zheng Jiangong's recital says that about two or three thousand Spaniards swam to Kagoshima Port...... After these people join the Saskatchewan army, the combat effectiveness of the fallen army will be greatly increased. ”

"But they are all navy," Zheng Zhilong said, "what can the navy do when it comes ashore?" ”

Zhu Cihong waved his hand: "The distinction between the navy and the army in Europe is not very clear, and some people cultivate both sea and land. And there must have been quite a few skilled artillerymen and craftsmen in the Spanish fleet, and perhaps specialized marines...... After they join, the power of the Shimazu family will definitely increase greatly.

In addition, I also plan to let Zheng Jiangong and Li Yuanyin give up Sakurajima. Concentrate forces to defend the Goto Islands, Tanegashima, and Nagasaki Town, and recover the Ryukyu Kingdom. ”

The Ming army had previously seized Sakurajima, but it was only to prevent the Spanish fleet from using Kagoshima Bay as a base for privateering and fighting.

Now the Spanish fleet has suffered a crushing defeat, losing more than two-thirds of its ships, and the rest is no longer a threat.

Therefore, there was no need for the Ming army to occupy Sakurajima, which was not a good place for the army to stay for a long time. Because of the complex topography of Sakurajima, it is too close to the Satsuma Peninsula and the Osumi Peninsula, and it is easy to be infiltrated by Japanese samurai.

If it weren't for the purpose of deterring Kagoshima Castle and containing the forces of the Shimazu family, it would be useless to garrison Sakurajima.

Zhu Cihong said: "Let the Japanese fight by themselves first, and when the Tokugawa shogunate suffers a loss, they will naturally agree to my request...... Now, it's time for us to go to the Americas and take a little more territory!

Tanegashima has arrived, and there are many fertile fields on this island, with a stone height of more than 10,000. A lot of grain has been levied this autumn, and if there are 5,000 stones, it should be able to support 1,000-1,500 people to move to the New World. So we don't need to get more from Japan for the time being. ”

The move to the New World was a gradual process, and the first batch of only 30 families went to test the waters.

According to the plan, the second group of people who crossed the ocean to the New World will be more, 1,000-1,500 people. With the lessons learned by the first settlers, their exploration of the New World would have been easier.

After this group of immigrants has gained a foothold, the number of immigrants in the third batch should be three or four thousand!

However, at this rate, immigration to North America is still too slow - three or four thousand a year, only thirty or forty thousand in ten years!

Therefore, in order to transport migrants to grab land as quickly as possible, the Navy Department issued a design contract for a special Pacific migrant transport ship to the four major shipyards in Daming after the departure of the Henan last year...... It is required to be cheap and good, to be able to adapt to the wind and waves of the North Pacific, but also to be able to run as fast as possible, and to use as few sailors as possible in order to reduce costs.

In Zhu Cihong's view, the matter of immigrating to North America to grab land is actually a dispute over colonial costs. Whoever has the lowest cost will grab the most share.

However, the cheap and high-quality Pacific migrant ship alone cannot guarantee that it will send people to North America at a low cost, because the Ming Dynasty is too far away from North America, and there must be a springboard for Japan.

The distance from Japan to North America is 2,000-5,000 miles closer than if you don't stop in Japan directly from China, which means that the ship can carry 10-20 days less supplies, so that it can carry many more passengers, and the per capita cost is naturally low.

Don't underestimate the 10-20 days of supplies, people have to drink 2000 ml of water a day, which is almost 4 catties, 10 days have to drink 40 catties, 20 days is 80 catties, plus other consumption, the weight of 20 days of supplies can catch up with an adult man.

"Your Majesty," Zheng Zhilong asked, "you want Nagasaki to add rice and wine to the ships going east to America?" ”

"Of course not!" Zhu Cihong shook his head, "The best port for adding rice grain and wine should be in the Sendai Domain. ”

"That Nagasaki is ......"

Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "I want to recruit a samurai army in Nagasaki!" ”

In addition to needing supplies in Japan on the way to North America, Japan can also provide Emperor Zhu's Celestial Empire with another necessity - cannon fodder, high-quality and inexpensive cannon fodder!

"Samurai army?" Zheng Zhilong was still confused, "Aren't our Ming Heavenly Soldiers better than those Japanese samurai with small radish legs?" ”

Zhu Cihong sighed and said, "It depends on where it is used!" Grasslands, snowy regions, Bashu, Yunnan-Guizhou, Guanwai, and even North America don't need them. But what about the land of the South Seas with miasma? How many deaths have been reported by the Jinou Army, Jing Navy, and Dongning Army in recent years? The competition for North America is to transport people, the competition for the Yellow Sect and Mongolia is for the nomadic cavalry, the competition for the outside of the pass is for the elite soldiers, and the competition for the South Seas...... It's a comparison of whose soldiers' lives are worthless!

Those so-called samurai in Japan, except for a few wealthy families, most of them are called scholars, but in fact, they are called Hanako, who are quite good at cutting people, and their lives are not worth anything. If I pay twenty or thirty stones, recruit ronins to serve in the Nanyang army in Nagasaki, and then reward land in Nanyang according to the merits of the ronins, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of towns and prodigal people can have it, right? The annual income is only one or two million, and if you want to recruit troops from Middle Earth, ten million is not enough!

And I can't bear to let my soldiers, in the wilderness, die of the plague miasma. ”

In those years, there was no quinine or artemisinin, and it was better to send the troops to the Nanyang Familiar Land, which had been cleared and developed, and the space for miasma to breed was a little smaller, and it was not easy for plague to occur. But if the troops were sent to the underdeveloped wilderness, it would not be surprising that half of them would die of illness!

If the fight for North America is to burn money, then the fight for South China is to burn people's lives!

Zhu Cihong said: "There is nothing to die for the Japanese countryman...... These people were originally a hidden danger to Japan, and it would not hurt the Tokugawa shogunate to die more! ”

"Lao Chen understands!" A slight smile appeared on the corner of Zheng Zhilong's mouth.

The Son of Heaven is really eloquent, and now he is not only staring at North America, but also looking at the South Seas......

Grand Duke Luo also said: "The minister also knows what to do!" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, raised his hand slightly, and motioned for the two to retire. He and Zheng Zhilong and Luo Dagong were talking while eating, and now that the face-to-face teaching machine is over, and the meal is almost finished, he can start the emperor's work in the afternoon.

"Huang Xiaobao, where are you going in the afternoon?" After Zhu Cihong saw Zheng Jiangong and Grand Duke Luo leave, he asked Huang Xiaobao, the chief eunuch who served him.

"Hooray, Miss Mary has asked you to her new home." Huang Xiaobao said.

"Her new home?" Zhu Cihong asked, "Where is the arrangement?" ”

"In Tangquan," Huang Xiaobao said, "it's very close to the Queen's Tangquan Palace...... The slave maid let people repair the Yongdao, and they can go directly from the Tangquan Palace, which is very secret and will not be discovered. ”