At this time, the strategic core of the Ming Dynasty was Operation Sunset, the Steam Revolution and military reform, and in the face of the clown of the Li family, Zhu Youxiao chose to remain silent for a while, neither appeasing nor counterattacking. This appeasement attitude made the Li clan even more unscrupulous, taking advantage of the opportunity of Shang Zhouzuo, Yuan Chonghuan and other generals to change their locations, and invaded Fenghua and Jianchang again by land, and the troops were directed at the Yunnan Provincial Capital and Muwang Mansion in Anzhou.

Seeing that the Ming Dynasty did not seem to care about the southern Yunnan region, the Nguyen Thi in central Vietnam secretly bribed the Portuguese to help them build warships and firearms, and aggressively recruited the Japanese and pirates scattered on the islands of the South China Sea. Under the leadership of Li Kuiqi, He Bin, Guo Huaiyi and others, they continued to rob the merchant ships of various countries in the South China Sea, trying to control the Strait of Malacca and monopolize the trade of the Ming Dynasty.

The news of the blocked shipping route soon spread to the Forbidden City, and most of the people chose to remain silent, except for a few unenlightened officials who pointed the finger at the reform of the military region. After watching the performance of this group of nerds, Zhu Youxiao's heart already had 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping. He knew that he could not let the Lê and Nguyen clans of South Vietnam go on like this, although the external enemy was hateful, the internal thief was even more hateful.

There is a record in the fourth volume of Hu Zongxian's "Compilation of the Catalogue of the Sea" that "today's pirates are all entrusted to Japanese slaves, but in fact, Chinese pirates account for the majority of them", which means that most of the troubles of the Japanese pirates in those years were actually pretended to be by Han people in the mainland. As for the reasons for this phenomenon, Zhu Youxiao is reluctant to think too much.

He can appease Zheng Zhilong, Yan Siqi, Yang Tiansheng, Li Dan and other pirates, because the main purpose of these people is to smuggle goods from the interior for international trade, and promote the development of coastal handicrafts in disguise, and their main competitors are the Netherlands, Portugal and other Hongmaoyi, from the perspective of national righteousness, they are meritorious.

The difference is that Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang, He Bin, Guo Huaiyi, Yang Liu, Yang Qi and others are completely for their own selfishness, or take refuge in Westerners, or attach themselves to the small countries of South Vietnam, constantly luring wolves into the house and waving butcher knives at their compatriots, such people should be chopped alive in life and sent to the eighteenth layer of hell after death.

After the officials finished spraying the war zone reform proposed by the little emperor, they saw that the one sitting on the dragon chair was expressionless, and retreated to the back to avoid the coming storm. Zhu Youxiao looked around, not in a hurry to express his position, and asked him left and right:

"A few days ago, I flipped through the palace archives and carefully read Hu Zongxian's "Preparation of Sea Charts", and found an interesting story during the reign of Sejong. It is said that after dozens of Japanese invaders landed in Zhejiang, they continued to burn, kill and loot, and ran as far as Anhui and then moved to the outside of Nanjing. ”

The problem of the Japanese invaders has been around for a long time, and it was most rampant during the Jiajing period, when the southeast coast was almost devastated, and many people spontaneously joined the battle against the Japanese invaders. Later, Zhu Youxiao prepared to carry out the sunset operation across the sea, and before he began to mobilize, all the people were soldiers, especially the hot-blooded men in Zhejiang and Fujian.

At this time, Hong Chengchou had just returned to Beijing from the Old Port Xuanwei Division to report on his work, and unfortunately the little emperor asked about what happened in the Eastern Theater he was responsible for, so he had to reply hard:

"The saint is not overjoyed, and he really admires the ministers. In the process of implementing the sunset plan, the minister also followed the example of the saint to consult a large number of anti-Japanese war examples, and carefully read the works of Governor Hu, Qi Shaobao, and General Yu. During the Jiajing period, the Japanese invaders were rampant on the southeast coast, and the more fierce in the battle were the samurai and ronin of the Japanese country, who were instilled with the spirit of bushido since childhood, brave and ruthless, greedy and murderous, and took war as their profession, which led to the repeated losses of our army in the early days of the anti-Japanese war. ”

Hong Chengchou blindly flattered and overemphasized the combat ability of the Japanese invaders, which made Zhu Youxiao very unhappy. In the face of this great traitor and traitor in history, Zhu Youxiao had the heart to marry Bumu Butai (Da Yuer) of the Horqin Department to him, hoping to stimulate the small universe in his body. Now seeing that he is as delicate as a kaleidoscope, he asked with a slight sorrow:

"The fact that Hondu only analyzed the situation of the Japanese was not enough to convince everyone, even if these warriors had excellent fighting qualities, they were only a group of unorganized bandits. A few dozen people can run rampant in the territory of the Ming Dynasty for several months, traveling thousands of miles, and the army of hundreds of thousands of guards along the way is helpless. According to what I have seen, there is no doubt about the courage of the Ming warriors, and the problem lies in the imperial court's troop transfer system. ”

Revising the troop transfer system was a very crucial part of the current theater reorganization, and Zhu Youxiao had already discussed many times with several important ministers of the Military Aircraft Department, and hinted that Sun Chengzong should explain the stakes on a suitable occasion. Now he saw that the emperor was madly scolding Hong Chengchou, the new governor of the Eastern Theater, and hurriedly stepped forward to relieve the siege and said:

"The saint is wise, and although it is an example of dozens of Japanese robbers running rampant for thousands of miles, it has exposed the flaws of our dynasty's military household system. At the beginning, the original intention of Emperor Taizu Gao to create this system was to solve the problem of food and salary, and the soldiers were organized in various guards, and the plough was used as a weapon in peacetime and the sword as a weapon in wartime.

Due to the long period of war on the southeast coast and in the interior, some hereditary military attachés could not ride horses, and they could not even make out the military flag of the order. The promotion no longer examines the quality and ability of soldiers, but only about relationships and money, bribery is a common practice at all levels, and layers of exploitation and deduction have led to a large number of young and middle-aged people fleeing, leaving only some old, young, sick and disabled people to fill up the number in the guards. Even so, many local governors not only did not consider solving this problem, but instead took the opportunity to conceal the number and sit on empty salaries, resulting in a serious decline in the combat effectiveness of the army.

In addition, the system of transferring troops mentioned by the saint also needed to be revised, because there were overlaps and gaps in the joints of the various garrisons, and after the Japanese landed, they made full use of this point to deal with the officers and soldiers, and only then did dozens of Japanese soldiers run rampant for thousands of miles.

Of course, Hong Dudu's analysis is also very reasonable, although the Japanese are a group of rabble, they are good at hand-to-hand combat, and they did create a lot of trouble for the officers and soldiers in the early days of the battle. However, the appearance of the Qi family army and the Yu family army revealed the true form of the Japanese Kou, and many battles were zero casualties. ”

Zhu Youxiao saw that Sun Chengzong intended to speak for Hong Chengchou, and he was not very embarrassed to refute his face, and said with a smile:

"There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, Sun Aiqing has extraordinary knowledge, and I feel that I have benefited a lot. Now that we have discovered the shortcomings in our military and political affairs, we should immediately start to make adjustments, and don't wait for the South Vietnamese monkeys to occupy Anzhou before they come to complain to me. ”

At this time, Yu Yan, the governor of Yunnan, and Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Guangxi, gathered 50,000 wolf soldiers and prepared to encircle and suppress the Li clan entrenched in Fenghua Mansion and Jianchang Mansion, while Zhu Kuiyuan, Huang Degong, and Sun Chuanting led 50,000 royal troops to stand by in Guangzhou. In addition, Shang Zhouzuo, Jiang Dejing, and Shen Yourong's three sons (Shen Shouyue, Shen Shouchong, and Shen Shou Yao) also commanded the South China Sea Fleet to reach Cam Ranh Bay in the Champa state, and constantly cleared the Nguyen pirate group.

Clear-sighted people knew that this was an all-out war, and the soldiers were gearing up to establish new military achievements, but there was always a debate in the court about Zhu Youxiao's idea of setting up a political envoy from South Vietnam. They believe that Zhu Di, the ancestor of Chengzu, had twice set foot in South Vietnam, and finally had to withdraw from this wild land and recognize the status of a vassal state of South Vietnam, which shows that it is not suitable to live there for a long time.

Facing everyone's doubts, Zhu Youxiao was unmoved. The times are different, the mission is different, from the moment he ordered people to hang the chart of all nations in the Imperial Palace, the Ming Dynasty was ready for external expansion. He has endured in southern Yunnan for three years, and it is time to show his sword. Mencius said that "the time of heaven is not as good as the place, and the location is not as good as the people", which is just a scholar's opinion, and the time of heaven is the most important thing for the conqueror, because the proper use of troops can rob the land and wealth, and the way to govern the country can subdue the hearts of the people in the world, but the time of heaven cannot be predicted.

In the context of the Age of Discovery, all countries in the world have set off a wave of mercantilism, in order to compete for raw material origin and dumping market, this will inevitably lead to a scuffle, similar to the Spring and Autumn period of the great power hegemony. The Spring and Autumn Period was a righteous war, a survival in troubled times, and a good word, which is why Zhu Youxiao did not hesitate to demolish the Forbidden City to implement the New Deal and the Steam Revolution. Now that the army of the Ming Dynasty has fully entered the age of firearms, cheap goods are piled up on freighters, and the time has appeared, and heroes should take advantage of the trend.