When the sea thunder bursts, the Ming Empire, which has no distinction between north and south, is not peaceful, Luo Yu set off for half a month, Mao Jue also had to say goodbye to Hangzhou, which was peaceful in singing and dancing, and the luggage on his back also rushed south to the battlefield.

To tell the truth, at this time the Ming Dynasty was not ready for war, although the terrain in the south of the Yangtze River is flat, but there are many rivers, a winter of rush repair, but only more than 200 kilometers to repair, only to connect Shaoxing and Hangzhou, according to this progress, along the coast to reach Fuzhou, it takes at least two years, this is still a simple railway, and the kind of super engineering in later generations is very different.

However, he really didn't do it first!

With the assistance of the Dutch, I don't know how many muskets and artillery were taken, the waist of the Longwu regime stiffened again, and it actually launched a second attack on Fuzhou.

I really don't know what in the dictionary of these scholars and scholars is that Jielie is equated with death! More than 400 years ago, those physicists in the late Southern Song Dynasty, and now these Jiangnan scholars and ancestors are like this.

At that time, the Mongols were unfamiliar and unaccustomed to the paddy fields and river networks in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Mongol Khan Mengge was killed under the Diaoyu City, and Kublai Khan once sent an envoy to the Southern Song Dynasty to negotiate peace.

However, this dawn of peace was actually assassinated by a group of hot-blooded scholars of the main battle faction! It was rare for the Mongols to be good at talking, and they sent it again, but again, they were picked up by these scholars, and just when they were celebrating their heroic feats with great interest, the tragic war between the Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty also began incomprehensibly.

Then, the Mongols conquered the Southern Song Dynasty and slaughtered an unknown number of cities, and those Confucian scholars who were full of Cheng Zhu Lixue actually turned into Confucian households in the Great Yuan Dynasty.

This time, it was a group of hot-blooded scholars waving their flags and shouting the Northern Expedition, He Tengjiao was also a scholar, without the historical Zheng family pirates as the military backbone, a group of southern escapees, Donglin Yu called out, he was also hot-blooded, only a few months after the last battle of Fuzhou, he once again mentioned the "100,000 army" to surround Fuzhou.

And after the fiasco brought about by the last "attack" on Fuzhou City, this time He Tengjiao also learned well, besieged but did not attack, just placed the Hongyi cannon supported by the Dutch outside the city, and used the cannon to bombard the city every day, and if someone came out, he used a musket array to fire to block.

Not to mention, this is really suppressed on the death hole of Fuzhou, pirates are pirates after all, let him be brave and ruthless, let them form a dignified formation, face to face and the enemy army to anal each other, not to mention that Zheng Zhilong can't do it, even if his old man does it, Mao Jue will not rest assured, he is enough to cover the sky in Fujian, and then he has an elite army of pirates who are good at fighting, rebellion?

As a result, the Guangzhou army successfully died like a mosquito in the extension of Fuzhou Dagang, and in the "beautiful" command of He Tengjiao, it finally succeeded in angering the Ming Dynasty and the opposition!

Fuzhou is one of the top seven international ports in the Ming Dynasty, and there are big traders who have interests in investing here, and the big families don't know how many, even Zhu? The corpse can't bear the pressure, and other newspapers have reported the war in Fuzhou and the economic losses caused by it, but the "Imperial Capital Daily" doesn't say a word, so the newspaper she managed to run is no longer authoritative.

The current Ming Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty that was bullied by others, the successive brilliant victories to the outside world, the expansion of tens of thousands of miles, but also brought real rolling dividends, the people's patriotism and self-esteem are also extraordinarily erupted, in the "Imperial Capital Daily" also followed the front page headlines for many days to publish the Longwu Dynasty's artillery siege of Fuzhou City, the public opinion of the whole country has been completely ignited.

In the shouts of the people, even the emperor could only submit, no matter how much Mao Jue's plan to build the railway was carried out, the war against the Longwu Dynasty was also ignited.

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Guangzhou Bay.

It was almost a replica of the war in Manila Bay, where hundreds of tall and heavy battleships with sails crowded in, their thick barrels sticking out of their gun compartments, and the same guns falling ferociously into the sea.

In the harbor, He Tengjiao finally organized a naval division composed of the vast ships and blue boats that were blown into pieces of wood, not to mention, a detachment of second-class battleships also went upriver along the Huangpu River, and bombarded with the artillery of the Longwu Dynasty on Yuexiu Mountain, light smoke was filled, dust was flying, and the towering ancient trees that had grown for I don't know how many years were screaming and falling down under the artillery fire.

In the destruction of the Longwu Dynasty, the Ministry of War originally assessed that at least one corps of 80,000 troops needed to be dispatched, but due to the problem of preparation, to attack the city of Guangzhou, Mao Jue only transferred two corps of the Beijing Division accompanying him from Hangzhou. But now it seems that two corps is enough.

After several rounds of shelling, the new generation of descendants of the Liaodong Military Academy, Zhao Jie and Liu Heng, the commanders of the general corps, waved the command knife forward, and the soldiers formed a neat ranks, holding the flintlock pistol obliquely forward, and strode towards the ancient city of Panyu City, Guangzhou, which was cast by Zhao Tuo, the martial emperor of South Vietnam.

However, just as the bloody siege battle was in full swing, at this juncture, Manila was attacked by the Western Combined Fleet, and this bad news suddenly reached the command headquarters, Mao Jue's ears.

The emperor's line is located in the paradise of men in later generations, on the coast of Dongguan, but in this era, it is just a small fishing village, and the flagship black pearl has been given to the prince, and now Mao Jue's flagship has been replaced with a more magnificent one, but the combat function has been reduced a lot.

However, it should also be, Mao Jue's age has also reached the time of replacing the sports version of the model with a business comfort model, and it is reasonable to give the more combat effectiveness of the sports version to the prince.

On the spacious Imperial Council room, the several important ministers who followed were all solemn, Mao Jue was even more like a toothache, staring at the map with his face on his back, and kept hissing and inhaling, those who were familiar with this stingy ghost emperor knew him, the more he was hurt, the more angry he became, and now this expression was absolutely hot.

Can it not be hot! The three islands of Luzon can bring four million taels of tax revenue to the empire every year, and the trade dividends of Luzon bring Mao Jue more than one million yuan a year.

However, what Cao Di said in the polemic was a blow! And then it goes down! Three and exhaustion! The military order is like a mountain! Now it is fighting with the Longwu Dynasty in Liangguang, and suddenly withdrawing troops and turning south, where is the majesty of the Ming army? What is especially important is what kind of uproar will it cause in national public opinion?

But in terms of income, Luzon is definitely more than Liangguang, and the Mu family in Yunnan is not an easy generation, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces are also dangerous and fierce, the Qing army conquered Yunnan and Guizhou in history, and fought for decades, and once there was a repetition, so that Li Dingguo counterattacked Huguang, if it were not for Sun Kewang, a short-sighted rat generation who rebelled against the Qing army because of jealousy, the trend of Jiangnan is still unknown! Even if the Longwu Dynasty is destroyed and the Yongli Dynasty is about to appear, it will still have to wait for the railway to be built, and during this period, the loss of Luzon trade will be astronomical.

For a while, Mao Jue was really a little too chooseable!

Not only for him, but also the important ministers of the empire present, even Sun Chuanting, Fan Wenju and others all had grim faces, repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, and how to launch propaganda to make public opinion tend to conform to the direction of the imperial court, for a long time, Mao Jue coughed lightly.

"Gentlemen......

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the attack on Manila by the Western Barbarian States is a good thing for my Ming Dynasty!"

This really caused an uproar, the overseas colonies were attacked, and the annual loss of millions of taels did not need to be so obvious! After a lot of discussions, Sun Chuanting, Fan Wenju and others all put their strange eyes on the courtiers in their eyes on weekdays, and sat on a double-layer stool and worked hard to raise Song Xiance.

This time, even Mao Jue stared at him with some astonishment, but this little man showed an unparalleled view of the overall situation at this time, sitting on a small stool, dangling a big head, Song Xiance asked confidently.

"Your Majesty, compared with the fall of Manila, these feudal ghosts are joining forces with the Longwu Dynasty to fight against our dynasty in Guangzhou Bay, or jointly attacking Britain on their homeland, and I am coming to the rescue of thousands of miles, which of these costs is greater?"

As soon as these words came out, Mao Jue's eyes couldn't help but light up.

The hegemony between the Ming Dynasty and the West, in the end, depends on who first destroys the outliers in their own camp, and then keeps the two or five boys in the opponent's camp.

Manila is lost, in the short term, the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade has suffered heavy losses, but it is only heavy, not fatal, but if these guys suddenly drive into Guangzhou Bay, on the one hand, it will consolidate the defense of the Longwu Dynasty, on the other hand, it may even cut off the sea passage of the Ming Dynasty to the Indochina Peninsula and India, more than 200 Western main warships, and the Longwu Dynasty to provide supplies, even if Mao Jue has a headache, the war drags on for two or three years, and the situation between the Mughal and the Indochina Peninsula will all change, which is the last thing the Ming Empire wants to see!

A little lighter, France and Spain jointly captured Britain, which is equivalent to another draw between the Ming Dynasty and the Western countries, and the two sides are standing on the same starting line. This place is right under Mao Jue's nose, and there is no need to recover Yungui in one fell swoop, conquer Liangguang, and then recapture the plain area owned by Jiangxi, and then recapture Luzon again.

However, Mao Jue didn't agree at the first time, but stretched his neck, looked towards the end of the entire joint meeting, and shouted at a five-grade petty official who was unfamiliar to all ministers, big and small.

"Where is Yin Shu of the Ship Supervision Department of the Ministry of Industry?"

"Humble duty!"

To be remembered by the emperor at such a large meeting, the Goryeo scholar who first took refuge in Mao Jue at the Xiongjin Shipyard stood up from his seat with a trembling voice and replied respectfully.

"How long will it take for the outnumbered steel behemoth?"

This name made even Zhao Xiancheng, the squire of the military department present, confused, it is estimated that the royal family has tested some new weapons privately, but this seems to have nothing to do with the battle situation in Manila, thousands of miles away! In the stunned expressions of a group of ministers, this Goryeo scholar bowed respectfully.

"Back to Your Majesty, it has reached the final stage, and if you have another ......, you will have about two or three months to test, and you can officially go to sea!"

"Good!"

The last little supervisor of the Ministry of Works became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and after receiving this answer, his face was filled with a layer of red light, and he finally stood up heavily.

"I've decided to give up on Manila first! The Imperial fleet continues to assemble on the southeast coast and wipe out the Longwu Dynasty in one fell swoop!"

"Obey the order!"

In the spacious rear building, the ministers who had been persuaded gave a neat answer, and at the same time, the Seventh Corps of the Beijing Division under the forward command fired a column of deafening artillery fire, and the ancient Yuexiu Mountain city wall collapsed under the heavy artillery bombardment, holding a flintlock pistol, facing the rain of bullets fired from the city, the troops from the north launched a new round of deafening charge!