Not long after Emperor Chongzhen reprimanded his three sons, Zhang Zhiji also hurried to Assam.

Originally, because he sneaked out and threw a bunch of messes to Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Zhiji, Emperor Chongzhen, who felt a little guilty, swept away all the guilt when he saw Zhang Shize behind Zhang Zhiji.

If you are tired, you have a conscience!

Squinting his eyes and glancing at Zhang Zhiji, Emperor Chongzhen spoke: "How are the preparations for the expedition to England?" ”

Zhang Zhiji bowed and said: "Your Majesty, considering the terrain of England, the military government finally transferred a part of the North Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, and the South China Sea Fleet to form an expeditionary mixed fleet.

In addition, in order to ensure that the battle was completed, the military government specially allocated 10 first-class combat readiness guards to fight the battle, and 20 second-class reserve guards came to garrison them. ”

Zhang Zhiji still has some words left unfinished.

Judging from the situation of himself and Lu Xiangsheng together, since Emperor Chongzhen secretly ran from the capital to the Mughals, this lord's heart to go to England to do things must be extremely firm, and it is estimated that there is no way to stop it.

Since there is no way to stop this master, it is better to let this master go on an expedition with the army and go to England in a bright and bright way, so that all the situation is on the bright side, and it is in a controllable state.

It is precisely because of this that in order to ensure the safety of this lord, or to prevent the barbarians of the entire Europa from going crazy together, the cabinet and the household department finally had to agree to the proposal of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and in addition to the three fleets, the troops of thirty guards were transferred.

Based on the establishment of 5,600 men in a fully equipped guard station, the strength of the 30 guard posts is 200,000 men—and these are all combat strengths, not including the relevant auxiliary personnel and the manpower used along the way.

If all the manpower is counted, the number of people used this time will even reach a million, which is far beyond the original plan.

In the original plan, the military government would only use the East China Sea Fleet plus 10 first-class combat readiness guard posts, and it would not involve the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet at all, because the more people involved, the more military expenses would need to be spent.

Military spending looks like only two words, but the things involved are by no means as simple as two words, whether it is personnel or weapons and equipment, to the supply and transportation of logistics materials, it can be summed up in two words, silver!

Zhang Zhiji doesn't care much about military spending, including the entire military, and the whole military doesn't care much about military spending, anyway, what Daming's treasury has is silver, and a large amount of silver can be used for military allocation every year.

The only one who cares about military spending is Wu Laojiao, the head of the household department.

Compared with Guo Yunhou, Wu Ganlai seems to be no different, or it can be said that it is exactly the same pick, and if he can save a penny of silver, Wu Ganlai will definitely not approve the two pennies to come out.

If it weren't for Emperor Chongzhen sneaking out again this time, causing the entire court and the military government to be worried, Wu Ganlai would definitely not approve the additional military expenses requested by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Emperor Chongzhen obviously also knew what Zhang Zhiji said, because when he originally formulated the battle plan for England, Emperor Chongzhen also knew the size of the army that he originally intended to use, but now there are so many more, it must be that the cabinet and the military government reluctantly agreed to his plan to go to England.

Emperor Chongzhen sometimes feels that he is sick - it is actually nothing to stay in the Ming Dynasty well, as an emperor, he always runs out like this, which is really a little unusual.

But sometimes you can't just look at it from one point of view.

From the perspective of an imperial emperor, Emperor Chongzhen should naturally not run out to wave, let alone think about driving the imperial expedition when there is nothing to do, because there are more than one or two emperors in history who have escaped from the expedition, and no one dares to guarantee that he can always win undefeated.

But standing on a firm position of Wumao Xiaohongfan and a firm position of nationalists, Emperor Chongzhen could not persuade himself to stay in the Ming Dynasty.

Burning London, I can't experience such an exciting thing myself, and my own experience is imperfect and flawed.

In fact, if it were not for the fear that the whole of Europe would now unite and integrate, Emperor Chongzhen would have preferred to be able to continue the burning of Paris after the burning of London.

In the original history, the Old Summer Palace was burned by Britain and France, and the eternal pain of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Emperor Chongzhen could not forget it anyway.

In addition, for Emperor Chongzhen, there are not many things in the whole world that can make his heart move, whether it is gold and silver treasures, beautiful women, or even land.

Gold, silver and jewelry, whether it is the treasury of the Ming Dynasty or Emperor Chongzhen's own royal family, there has never been a lack of this kind of thing.

Belle? In Emperor Chongzhen's harem, there are beauties, which one is not selected by Wanxuan? Now Empress Zhou and the others are still thinking about getting a few new concubines for Emperor Chongzhen to serve in the palace, and Emperor Chongzhen will still be interested in beauties?

If you eat too much abalone and sea cucumber, you will get tired!

Even the land thing, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care too much - there is still a lot of land idle on Xinming Island, there is also a lot of land idle on the side of Nuergandusi and Yanran, Duogansi Xuanwei Division and Wusizang Xuanwei Division, plus the Mughal side that was beaten later, a large amount of land is idle.

What Daming lacks now is not land, but the people!

In this case, the only thing that could interest Emperor Chongzhen was naturally the foreign conquest.

However, the reality is very skinny - even such a thing as a foreign conquest is not too challenging for Emperor Chongzhen.

And the horse crossed the Tianshan Mountain quickly, and swept the library page with a longbow, these two items were not challenging for Emperor Chongzhen at all.

Tien Shan? As long as you are willing, you can pull hundreds of thousands of people to build a palace at any time, as for whether to call it the Heavenly Palace or the Winter Palace and the Autumn Palace to echo the summer palace on the other side of the fishing sea, it all depends on your mood.

As for Sakhalin, there is nothing to say, the current Sakhalin Island definitely does not have any foreign name, but is the fief of Zhu Cixiao, the king of Liao, on which in addition to the people of the Ming Dynasty, there is also a naval base of the North Sea Fleet.

The ironship went straight down to Sydney Bay and broke through the North Sea night with one shot, which is even more funny.

The name Sydney Bay is destined to not appear in the history books, because Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, will never agree to call it Sydney - Luoyang is not good? Doesn't it sound good to open? Chang'an is not good?

For Zhu Yujian, as long as his capital is not called Jinling or Beiping, what is the remaining name is not according to his mood? Even if it can't be repeated with Daming's country, it can also pull a large number of literati to think of a good name, so what the hell is Sydney?

Dancing steel knives in the city of Tokyo, the knives are stained with the blood of Japanese slaves, and this has nothing to do with the current self.

How good is the Wa country? The entire Wa Kingdom has now even come up with the trick of backdoor listing, and is still counting on them to give the Ming an excuse to attack the Wa?

Don't even think about it!

There are so many things that can interest Emperor Chongzhen in the whole world, but there is no chance, how can Emperor Chongzhen not feel the loneliness of the master?

Now that he finally has the opportunity to burn London in person, Emperor Chongzhen will think of getting involved no matter what, even if he drags Zhu Yujian and others into the water together.

As for what many people are worried about, whether Emperor Chongzhen will encounter danger north of the Suez Canal, there is really no need.

The main warships of the three fleets together amounted to more than 300 treasure ships alone, and with the blessing ships for supply, the total number of ships would reach an astonishing more than 1,000, and the amount of ammunition carried was enough to sink the whole of England.

As for the Ottoman Empire, there is even less to worry about.

Even the Ottoman Empire before the decay was only good at land warfare, and even the navy did not have a regular naval warship formation, expecting them to be able to confront the Ming Empire at sea?

Even if those people in the Ottoman House of Elders were kicked in the head by a donkey, they suddenly went crazy, and they didn't care about the great interests in the trade with the Ming Dynasty, in fact, they were useless.

Because the only thing that the Ottoman Empire could pose a threat to Emperor Chongzhen was the two banks of the Suez Canal, and the armies on both sides posed a threat to Emperor Chongzhen's fleet.

However, if this situation really occurs, then Emperor Chongzhen is also unsafe in Daming - none of the three major fleets can guarantee the safety of Emperor Chongzhen, is there still a safe place in this world?

Because Emperor Chongzhen, who was able to run to England to make waves, suddenly became excited.

After ordering someone to bring a stool to Zhang Zhiji and others, Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile: "How is England doing now?" Is there any latest news? ”

Wang Guoxing bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the news that has just come over to England has now been completely divided into two parts, the north and the south. ”

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly felt a little surprised.

Where is that? Is that England, known as the grandmother of Europe, the most powerful-stirring stick in the entire European continent and even in the whole world, broken in two?

Unconsciously bent his fingers and knocked on the table, Emperor Chongzhen said, "What about the specific situation?" Because what split into two parts? Which part is the enemy of my Ming Dynasty now? Or are both parts of the enemy of my Ming Dynasty? ”

Zhang Zhiji also pricked up his ears and listened.

Although it is said that the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces has been collecting intelligence and information on England and even the whole of Europe, in terms of intelligence, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces is indeed inferior to Jinyiwei, and even inferior to the East and West Factories.

There are some monsters beyond human beings in these three secret agencies, and their sources of information are messy, and some information may not be available even if the military intelligence agency has a headache.

Even if this incident is the same, the intelligence of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies only reported that England was divided into two parts, the north and the south, but the cause and effect of it are unknown.

It's not that he doesn't want to report the relevant information in detail, but he can't get the relevant information, which makes Zhang Zhiji also have a headache.

Wang Guoxing took out a piece of information from his sleeve, motioned for Wang Chengen to take it, and then bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the division of England actually has something to do with my Ming Dynasty.

Originally, it was Cromwell's ministry that occupied the south of England that occupied my Ming people, and Charles I, who occupied the north, had nothing to do with the matter at all.

After leading his troops to England, he bombarded almost all the ports of England, including those under the control of Charles I. ”

？？？

Emperor Chongzhen had a confused question mark on his face.

Cromwell and Charles I exchanged suspicions, Emperor Chongzhen knew that the intelligence of Jinyiwei and Dongchang had long shown this, and there was nothing unusual.

It was Cromwell's side who seized Little Ellis and the two Ming merchants, and it had nothing to do with Charles I's side, and Emperor Chongzhen also knew about it, including Liu Wenbing's trip to England with troops, and Emperor Chongzhen also knew about it.

But Emperor Chongzhen never imagined that Liu Wenbing would bombard all the ports of England - for Charles I, this is the real man sitting at home, and disaster will come from heaven.

Wang Guoxing continued: "After the ports under the control of Charles I were bombarded, they naturally tried to find out the relevant information, and later they also found out some information through Cromwell.

Upon learning of this, Charles I publicly accused Cromwell of being lax and called on all the people of England to oppose Cromwell's lawless rule.

Cromwell accused Charles I of being weak and incompetent, and did nothing in the face of the aggressive offensive of the Ming Dynasty, but blindly surrendered on his knees, which simply lost the national face of England, and all the friends of Europa were shocked, Charles I was no longer enough to be the king of England, and all the people of England should unite to send Charles I, the incompetent, weak, and scum of the king, to the guillotine. ”

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly became interested.

Friendship is surprised, this advanced theory has been proposed by Cromwell?

Regarding Cromwell's accusations against Charles I, and even having the courage to confront the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen did not feel much surprised.

After all, it is also an old power in Europe, and it is normal for a few people to have a few guts and fat stubble, and it is not normal for all of England to have soft bones!

Bent his finger and knocked on the table, Emperor Chongzhen said: "So, now Cromwell and Charles I belong to the rule of the river?" ”

Wang Guoxing said: "Yes, not only that, Charles I even sent an envoy to ask for a meeting with Liu Hou, proposing to send troops to attack Cromwell.

What made Wei Chen even more puzzled was that Cromwell also sent an envoy to see Liu Hou, asking to hire my Ming Suez Canal Detachment as mercenaries to help Qiu attack Charles I. ”

Two retarded!

After Emperor Chongzhen secretly cursed in his heart, he spoke: "What about Xinlehou?" How did Xinlehou decide? ”

When Wang Guoxing heard this, the expression on his face suddenly became a little subtle.

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