For the upcoming Sakhalin War, Emperor Zhu's heart was very conflicted.

Now the Qing State is his enemy, and the Qing State fought the Battle of Sakhalin Island in order to obtain furs in exchange for Spanish foreign guns and cannons!

The Qing State got more foreign guns and cannons, which of course increased the difficulty of the Southern Ming and Northern Expeditions in the future and dominated the world.

Of course, Zhu Cihong is going to the Northern Expedition!

He was not willing to be a partial king, but the previous two Northern Expeditions were not very successful, and Zhu Cihong also realized that it was not so easy to defeat the Manchus.

Of course, now the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is much higher than before Zhu Cihong took power, and the combat ability of the elite model army should have surpassed that of the Eight Banners!

However, there is no good solution to the problem of poor sports warfare ability encountered in the last Northern Expedition - the poor sports combat ability is not because the model army is too slow, but because the light cavalry is too much worse than the opponent, so that it is impossible to obtain the position of the main force of the Qing army in the movement in time.

Therefore, it is easy to fall into the dilemma of concentrating troops and not being able to fight, and dispersing troops is easy to defeat weak troops.

In addition, the food supply of the Ming Dynasty has always been tight, and if it is not resolved to solve it, it will be difficult to support a larger and longer-lasting Northern Expedition.

In the past, Yuan Chonghuan's five-year Pingliao Haikou was bragging in Zhu Cihong's eyes, and it was even more whimsical in the eyes of Emperor Zhu to let the current Ming army complete the great cause of sweeping the Central Plains within a few months!

Moreover, the military advisors and soldiers of the Generalissimo's Mansion want to break their heads, and they don't know how to sweep the Central Plains in a few months or even a year......

The plan they made for Zhu Cihong was to train and equip enough troops - the field model army should reach 250,000 to 300,000! In this way, it will be possible to form 3 powerful field corps and launch an attack from three directions: Liaodong, Shandong, and Henan!

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also has to prepare rations for at least 3 years for 250,000 to 300,000 field troops, as well as twice the number of civilian soldiers and second-line garrisons - the war may not last that long, but the preparations must be there!

In addition, Daming must also complete the Huang, Huai, and Yun governance projects! In particular, the embankments and sluices in the flood storage area of Hongze Lake must be firmly repaired.

In this way, the Qing army jumped over the wall in a hurry, dug up the Yellow River dam in the territory of Guide, and ensured the safety of the Huainan grain-producing area when the Yellow River was diverted to irrigate the Huai - the battle of Duanping into Luo in the Southern Song Dynasty in history was because the Mongols dug the Yellow River dam and diverted the Yellow River to irrigate the Huai, causing the flooding of the two Huai, so that the military grain could not be transferred and failed miserably.

Although Dolgon did not order the Yellow River dam to be excavated during the last Northern Expedition, no one can guarantee whether he will do so next time.

After all, the decisive stage of the last Northern Expedition was in winter, and the Yellow River was frozen into ice......

Therefore, Emperor Zhu planned to use the five years of the armistice of the Ming and Qing dynasties to complete the Huang, Huai, and Yun control projects to ensure the absolute safety of Huainan! At the same time, large areas of grain-producing land were obtained in Liaodong and Tuntian, Shandong, and Southeast Asia, so as to accumulate sufficient grain reserves.

So far, the governance of Huang, Huai, Yun, Tuntian, Liaodong, Shandong and Southeast Asia have been carried out very smoothly!

Especially on the land that originally occupied the city, millions of acres of land that had been reclaimed have been contracted - the difficulty of reclamation is much easier than that of new reclamation! Therefore, the value of the two or three million acres of abandoned land that the Ming Dynasty fished in Zhancheng is very high...... This is a good field that crops three times a year. If we use ploughing cattle and iron farming tools, and then manage them well, it will not be a problem for these two or three million mu of land to produce eight or nine million stones of rice a year.

If you count the output of the land under the jurisdiction of the Jinou Yingtian Division, after the expiration of the five-year armistice period of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming Dynasty will be able to get more than 10 million stone of white rice from Nanyang every year!

The Huang, Huai and Yun control projects will also "produce" (by reducing flood losses) millions of stone white rice every year.

These two items alone can greatly alleviate the food shortage in the southeast market, and it is also enough for the Juntun Division to save millions of stone of rice to supply the Northern Expedition.

In addition, the reclaimed land in Shandong and Liaodong can also provide a large number of dried sweet potatoes, potato flour and soybeans for feeding livestock.

With these things, hundreds of thousands of Northern Expeditionary troops are not afraid of starvation!

The Great Qing Kingdom should be dead...... But Qing Guo seems to be trying to survive, and now he has come up with a way to "save the country with fur".

"No way," Wu Xiang began to express his opinion again, "Your Majesty, the battle of Kuwu Island will be won, and Japan will be defeated...... We had a fight with the Japanese in Korea as early as the Wanli period, judging from the situation at that time, although the Japanese soldiers were brave, but their strength was not complete, if they met the Manchurian soldiers in the early years, they might be able to win with bravery and muskets. But now the Manchurian soldiers are also improving, not only importing muskets from Spain, but also getting the 3-pounder guns of the English, as well as a large number of cavalry and horses, brave and not under the Japanese.

These Japanese soldiers have guns and artillery, and they have no cavalry, how can they beat the Manchurian soldiers? Defeat! Defeat! ”

It seems like that's what happened! Isn't the Japanese samurai army now relying on muskets and long guns? It is similar to the current model army of the Ming army, and the individual bravery may be superior, but the organizational training must be worse, and I have never heard that the Japanese will play the Morris phalanx.

Moreover, the model army of the Ming army still has a little elite cavalry available, and it is also equipped with a sufficient number of 3-pounder guns. The Japanese had neither large-scale cavalry nor 3-pounder guns.

What to take to fight with the Qing imperialist colonizers who carried muskets on their backs, pulled cannons, and rode war horses?

Wu Xiang shook his head: "We can't make any effort in this matter, and we can't make any effort, just be neutral from the outside." ”

What the? Outside neutrality? Sounds familiar!

Zhu Cihong looked at Zheng Zhilong again, Zheng Zhilong is a "Japanese school", he should know that the Japanese samurai are very powerful, right? Think about what tricks are there for the Japanese devils, right?

"There's no way," Zheng Zhilong actually agreed with Wu Xiang, "It's profitable for the Dongyu to go to Kuwu Island for furs, and the Spaniards provide guns, ships, and sailors...... What are the Japanese for? It was impossible to grow rice on Khuwu Island, so it was impossible to give it to the feudal clans as a place of knowledge. As for mink, although it can also be sold for money, the Tokugawa shogunate is not short of money, so there is no need to fight for a few mink skins and toyo.

Moreover, the Japanese sailors were very weak, and they had a very bad relationship with Spain, once the Spanish war was on the side of the Easterners...... You only need to send one warship, oh, not one, just send a few experienced sailors to act as the bow, command the Korean sailors and Manchurian artillery to drive the Wanshi Daitori ship we produce, and use our 6-pounder guns to wipe out all the sailors of the Japanese shogunate! ”

This is the Great Qing Pacific Fleet vs. the Japanese Edo Combined Fleet? It's not going to start a war in the First Year of the First Sino-Japanese War, right?

Zhu Cihong had a feeling of crying and laughing.

But Zheng Zhilong is right, Japan has been closed to the country for so many years, and the older generation of sailors are dying and old, and they can't go out to sea.

And even in Japan's Warring States period, those Japanese pirate daimyo were no match for the Spanish Navy!

In addition, the Wanshi Big Bird Boat ordered by the Ming Military Department is indeed a very good dual-purpose ship. It was not possible against the Western Galen warships with soft sails, but it was indeed suitable for the Pacific Fleet of the Qing Dynasty.

"Since Japan is bound to lose," Zhu Cihong thought for a moment, "let's be neutral...... Wait until Japan is defeated, and then see if there is anything to be used. ”

After saying one more big thing, there are still 16 left!

Emperor Zhu looked down at a stack of notebooks on the long table, picked up the top one, opened it and saw that it was the Jin Ou Yingtian Si presented by the Ministry of War. But the Yingtian envoy didn't have a fleet and couldn't reach Siam, so he kicked the ball to the military department.

Zhu Cihong took a breath and thought: It seems that it is time to deploy a detachment in Jinoujiao!