"Medium!" Li Guo nodded heavily, "If you go out of Qishan to attack the Central Plains, you have to work hard, but you can't learn from Zhuge Liang to cut down six times without success!" King Jin, are you sure? ”

Li Dingguo, the king of the Jin Dynasty, had now returned to Kunming from Ava, and the "Northern Expeditionary Army" stationed in Burma and Siam was placed under the command of Li Laiheng.

Hearing Li Guo's words, Li Dingguo, who was tanned and thin by the scorching sun in the south, couldn't help frowning, where could he compare to Zhuge Liang? How beautiful was Zhuge Liang's southern expedition to capture Meng Shu? It's like I seem to be trapped in Myanmar and Siam, the start is good, and the territory I have laid is bigger than the original Sichuan and Yunnan in Dashun. However, after hitting the city of Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam, the invincible Northern Expeditionary Army of Dashun seemed to have lost its sharpness, not only under the fortified city for a long time, but also the plague broke out in the army, and there were many dead people, and finally finally the city of Ayutthaya was finally defeated, but the troops had lost their combat effectiveness.

And after the Ming reinforcements arrived at the Golden Citadel south of the city of Ayutthaya, uprisings against Dashun rule broke out all over Siam. Even the Lanna vassal state, which had been attached to Burma and later to Dashun, took the opportunity to rise up, expelled the governor sent by Li Dingguo, and installed a Lanna prince who had fled back to Chiang Mai from Ava as king.

Faced with this unfavorable situation, Li Dingguo had no choice but to temporarily withdraw his troops from Siam and abandon the city of Ayutthaya, which had been fought so hard.

However, he did not return to Ava empty-handed, but ransacked the city of Ayutthaya and moved all the savings of the Ayutthaya dynasty back to Burma. Moreover, the industrialists and merchants in the city and the peasants near the city, a total of 120,000 people, were captured back to Burma and settled around the city of Shalian, the mouth of the sea in Burma.

And Daniel Zhang, who helped King Nalei recover the capital, did not attack Burma in a big way. Because the Ayutthaya Dynasty of Siam was already in a period of decline when it reached the generation of King Nalei, its control over local forces was not as good as before, otherwise it would not have been beaten by Dashun's 30,000 horses and almost lost the country. Now, although the capital has been recovered with the help of the Ming Dynasty, because the city of Ayutthaya was sacked by the Dashun army, there is not much population left, so that the prestige of the dynasty has plummeted, and it is no longer able to control the place.

Therefore, Daniel Zhang and the king of Nalei had no choice but to focus on Siam and try to restore the unity of the Siam kingdom first......

In addition, the Dutch, Portuguese, British and other Western powers that have firmly grasped the Indian Ocean do not want the Ming to attack Burma from the direction of Siam - once Burma is controlled by the Ming, then the port of Salem will become a bridgehead for the Ming navy to enter the Indian Ocean!

The Indian Ocean is already "very crowded", and no one wants to squeeze into the behemoth of the Ming Empire again. Therefore, the Westerners in the Indian Ocean welcomed the powerful Dashun Empire into Burma, and naturally gave military and technical assistance, so that this foreign power that was strong enough to resist the Ming Dynasty could gain a firm foothold in Burma.

At the same time, the Mughal dynasty in India had entered the era of Aurangzeb. The Mughal emperor of "Zhihua" knew the strength of the Ming Dynasty and also did not want the Ming Dynasty to enter the Indian Ocean, so he also gave Dashun a lot of help.

Therefore, although the situation that Li Laiheng took over in Myanmar is not too good, it can be maintained, and it can be slowly developed, which can be regarded as a well-off situation.

However, Li Dingguo was still a little frustrated, because he knew that there was not much room for Dashun to expand south. To the west of Burma, there is only a small Arakan that can be annexed, and further west is either the sea or the miasma-covered mountains, which are not traversed by a large army at all.

To the east, it was blocked by the Ming-Siamese coalition army, and it seemed that it would be difficult to make any further progress.

In this case, for the survival of the Dashun Empire, and for the future of the 250,000 old battalion soldiers and their descendants who followed Dashun, the Northern Expedition was imperative.

"Now it seems that the certainty of Qishan is much better than attacking Siam again." Li Dingguo said, "The minister met many Westerners and maritime merchants in Ava, and asked them about the time it would take for the Ming Dynasty to reinforce Siam...... If the sea breeze follows, the army will set off from Shanghai and arrive at the Golden Fort in dozens of days. Moreover, Siam is rich in rice, and the expeditionary army does not need to carry grain and grass, and can eat in Siam.

Moreover, our army sent troops from Yunnan to the city of Ayutthaya by land for more than 4,000 miles, and there were many mountains and dense forests along the way, and they were all miasma. Before the army arrived at the battlefield, I am afraid that a third of them have already fallen ill!

The battle in Qishan means that both the enemy and us are subject to logistics and transshipment...... The Ming Dynasty has a long way to go, while our dynasty is trapped in road dangers.

The minister thought that the strategy of entering Shaanxi from Sichuan was nothing more than to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and make a surprise attack, or to fight and plow, and to land in front of the enemy. In the past, Zhuge Liuliu came out without success, because he didn't dare to use strange, and he never tuntian. Now I am out of Qishan, when the strange first, Tuntian as the foundation. ”

"How to be curious?" Li Guo asked.

"Qi is the first, when the selection of thousands of dead soldiers, the end of the south and attack Guanzhong, so that the Ming army was terrified, and led the Shaanxi army to help. Tuntian is the foundation, but the soldiers carry farm tools to grow grain out of Qishan, take Qinzhou, Longxi land, build fortresses, Tuntian Valley, think it lasts. ”

"To last?" Li Guo frowned, "Our army has always succeeded by wandering, while the Ming army is good at building and defending cities. Now that our army wants to build forts and tuntian, isn't it because of my shortcomings and the strength of those who attack them? ”

"What the emperor is talking about is the Ming army in the past!" Li Dingguo shook his head and said, "Today's Ming army is not only good at building fortifications and defending cities, but also good at field battles. ”

Li Guo nodded and remained silent.

If the Ming army can't fight in the field, how can the Ming Dynasty come to the current Zhongxing situation?

Li Dingguo said: "Today, China's advantage lies in the government military system, and the government soldiers do not need to pay military salaries, nor do they need to spend money to raise them, and they use 100,000 soldiers without paying a salary." If you can plough and fight again, you can win in Longtian, and you can win for a long time.

Because the recruitment of the Ming army costs money, with a soldier in Longshang, just the military salary expenses will require dozens of taels of silver a year. If the food supply in Guanzhong is not good, it will have to be mobilized from Huguang, and then the cost of transporting grain for thousands of miles will be added. If you use one soldier, it will cost you a hundred taels of silver. 100,000 troops are fighting in Longshang, and the annual consumption of silver will be tens of millions!

At the same time, Guan Long was eroded in military affairs, and the annual tax revenue lost by the Ming Dynasty was probably millions.

And the battle in the northeast cost tens of thousands, and the war with the Spaniards at sea was also expensive...... With such a reckless army, how could the Ming Dynasty not be defeated? ”

"Yes, yes!"

Song Xiance, the commander of the army, nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "The king of Jin is reasonable, the minister recently edited the history of the country, and found that the prosperity of my Dashun is actually in echoing with the Dongyu, and bleeding the Ming Dynasty back and forth. Although Lao Banzai had no contact with Manchuria, it actually had the effect of dragging down the Ming Dynasty together. The defeat of our dynasty and the eastern captives was that the Ming Dynasty attacked each other before it was destroyed, giving the Ming Dynasty time to reorganize in the south of the Yangtze River. Fortunately, the so-called Zhongxing King of the Ming Dynasty did not know how to rest with the people, and blindly used his troops to the other side of the Pacific Ocean. With such a use of military money, it is only a matter of time before they are defeated.

It seems that this destiny is on the emperor after all! ”

Li Guo nodded: "That's true, since ancient times, there has been no undefeated ...... That's it, the amount of land coupons will also be issued, and there will be no more, 30 million mu will be issued first, and the land in Shaanxi and Gansu will be divided first. ”

He is still relatively conservative, unlike Zhu Cihong, who is 50 million mu at the beginning, and also uses land vouchers as a tool for the development of rural capitalism.

Li Guo said: "However, the land coupons cannot be traded, each one must be registered, only inheritance, not transferable!" ”