From the beginning of traveling to this era, Li Tianyang was full of deep awe for the Jurchen barbarians, and no matter what layout and planning he made, he always aimed at it.

Therefore, Li Tianyang has always been obedient to the Ming Dynasty over the years, in order to be able to protect himself; The secrecy of the deployment of his own army, the abandonment of many seemingly great opportunities, and the fact that he does not want to expose himself in advance, so that he can appear in the public eye before he is satisfied with his strength.

Among the various plans that Li Tianyang has been planning, the first consideration is the Qing Jurchen barbarians who are far away and do not have a border with Hongmen, and cannot pose a threat to themselves in the short term.

Perhaps, this is the constraints and limitations brought about by waiting for Li Tianyang from the later generations, with prophetic foresight, but it also made him persist so much over the years, and waited until what he thought was a good time.

“……”

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, and they didn't react for a while, everyone was still digesting such a news given by Li Tianyang.

"This is the recent situation of Hongmen that I asked the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Finance and other departments to sort out just now, and everyone has taken a look at it, and they also have some bottom in their hearts."

"Usually, although I often make a decision, but that's because everyone thinks my choice is right and has no objection, but today's choice, for my Hongmen, is a matter of life and death, and I have also considered a mature plan for more than ten years, so I don't allow any rebuttal, so what everyone can do is to help me improve the plan and plan!"

Li Tianyang's domineering and prestige accumulated over the decades were undoubtedly revealed at this moment, which made many old people who had the heart to persuade them shut up, and at the same time inspired more active and enterprising young members.

"As of the seventh day of the seventh month of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, the Hongtang military headquarters had 112,577 soldiers, including the Ryukyu Navy Xiao Xiurong and the Dongjiang Town Shang Kexi ......"

"The number of infantry in the military headquarters is 74,300, the artillery unit has 12,500 men, the cavalry is 22,500, and the engineering arms are thousands."

"Under the influence of the soldiers of the Lake tribe of the Bengang Alliance taking the lead in merging into the Hongtang army, the Hongtang military department can still recruit more than 50,000 qualified soldiers in the next year............"

"According to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the population base of Dayuan Island in Hongmen has exceeded 2.8 million people, and the population of Dayuan Island will expand at a rate of more than 10% in the future......"

"The Ministry of Finance has so far surplus more than 8.5 million taels of silver, and the grain reserves have exceeded 2 million stones, and more than 500,000 stones of grain will be put into the warehouse in the upcoming autumn harvest............

Since the age of fifteen set foot on Dayuan Island, unconsciously Li Tianyang They have been living and developing on Dayuan Island for 30 years, and now Li Tianyangye is already a forty-five-year-old middle-aged man, and the statistical roster issued to every member present is the wealth accumulated by Hongmen through wind and rain in the past 30 years, and it is also the fruit of their efforts over the years, so that every member of the meeting shows the pride of being a member of Hongmen when they carefully watch these statistics.

"I wonder if these statistics can make everyone feel more confident?"

After Li Tianyang was silent for a long time, he spoke again, and asked his colleagues around him with pride.

Everyone looked different, but on the whole, they were still excited and proud, and there were relatively few people who had other ideas, because of Li Tianyang's previous decision, knowing that his opposition at this time would not have other effects, it was naturally good to keep his mouth shut, and it may not be impossible to wait until he was in private to make suggestions to Li Tianyang.

"Of course, I don't have the momentum I had when I was younger, although this decision seems a bit ridiculous and thrilling now, but I also hope to minimize the risk, so that the belongings we worked so hard to get will not be buried in vain."

"So, my detailed plan is as follows."

"It's the tenth day of the seventh month, and there are at least two or three months left before the first snow and ice in the north arrives, and I plan to send a Hongtang infantry first......

In order to dispel everyone's doubts, Li Tianyang slowly said the details of the plan that he had been studying all these years, and did not mind letting the members of Hongtang, who knew the soldiers below, put forward what they thought were flaws, or what they didn't understand, and Li Tianyang himself answered and explained them one by one.

The morning meeting was obviously not enough to show Li Tianyang's plan for many years, and around Li Tianyang's detailed plan, the representatives and members of various departments of Hongmen followed Li Tianyang and stayed in the council hall for nearly three days.

The preparations required for a big war are endless and cumbersome, which is why Li Tianyang recruited back the heads of the foreign defense intelligence agencies who were scattered abroad, and it is also the reason why he laid a good foundation with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, Bengang Alliance and other vassal agencies in advance.

"Very good, next I announce that my Hongmen set foot on Dayuan Island to enter the first battle inland, and this military operation is codenamed 'Longmen', I hope everyone will be in the same boat and participate in the grand event!!"

"Obey the orders of the master!!"

"Now I appoint Minister Wu Jie as the commander-in-chief of this military operation, and Gan Dabiao as the director of the Logistics Department............"

All kinds of appointments have been brewing in Li Tianyang's chest for a long time, and now they have been realized one by one, but they also make Li Tianyang, who has been quiet for a long time, have an indescribable sense of joy.

When the meeting finally dispersed, it was already after twelve o'clock in the evening, but in the end, when all the appointments were over and all the members went down to prepare, the old brothers led by Wu Jie, Gan Dabiao, Wu Chao and others quietly stayed and were ready to talk to Li Tianyang.

When Li Tianyang suddenly said his decision before, his brothers and companions who had been with him almost since childhood were all shocked and had some negative thoughts, if it weren't for Li Tianyang's high morale, it would not be easy to save his face, so they endured it until after the meeting was dismissed, and they found Li Tianyang.

"Tianyang, are you really going to do a big job?"

Gan Dabiao has been on the front line of civil affairs for many years, and gradually climbed to the position of Minister of Finance, in charge of all the financial resources of Hongmen, but he does not want to make the booming Hongmen treasury empty because of a big war.

And to be honest, Gan Dabiao's courage has not been very great since he was a child, and now although he is in his forties, he is still such a cautious and conservative character.

"Now as you said, it is the golden age of the Age of Discovery, if we want to make money, we have doorways and opportunities, with the strong Hongtang fleet to escort us, I believe that the next year will definitely make more money than now."

"That's right, God, we're all people of this age, like I have several grandchildren around me, can't we live this life in peace? Why bother to go to the troubled waters of the north!! ”

It's not just Gan Dabiao who has such thoughts, but some of the rest of Li Tianyang's friends, such as Yang Zhi and others, all have this idea.

"Old Wu, do you think so too?"

Li Tianyang did not directly answer everyone's questions, but turned his gaze to Wu Jie himself on the side, among the people present, when it came to the degree of enthusiasm for the war, I am afraid that no one can compare to Wu Jie, an old partner, if even he opposes his opinion, I am afraid that none of this group of old brothers will support him.

"To tell you the truth, I thought that I might become the target of the enemy in the future, but why didn't I think that the ambition of raising you would be so great, and the confidence would be so high, and as soon as you came up, you directly found the most powerful Jurchen barbarian."

Wu Jie had a wry smile on his face, as a member of the military department, if even they didn't have a bit of fighting spirit and were content with the status quo, then Li Tianyang himself would probably not only be disappointed, but also have to review whether something was wrong with him.

However, even Wu Jie himself has this strong spirit of entering, but now that he is in a high position, he is gradually accustomed to being responsible for the 100,000 soldiers under his command, and Wu Jie does not agree with Li Tianyang's plan very much at this time.

"Otherwise, let's change to an easy-to-deal target first! I think that the likes of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong of the Dashun Dynasty are a good target. ”

"Give me half a year, and I promise to be able to seize all the territories of Dashun and Daxi and hand them over to you!!"

Wu Jie's choice is certainly correct, compared to Li Tianyang's choice, the night is more operational, but for Li Tianyang, he is still a little disappointed.

"Do you know why I always like to stay in the barracks for more than a year, taking a group of little dolls in the barracks to reminisce about the past years?"

Although Li Tianyang was disappointed, he was also prepared in his heart, so he was not surprised, at this time he changed the topic and suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

Without waiting for Wu Jie and them to answer, Li Tianyang gave an answer as if talking to himself: "I don't know when, I suddenly found that as we get older, we have gradually lost our enterprising spirit, and we have lost the momentum and imagination of our youth, as well as the motivation to turn this imagination into reality." ”

"Maybe you'll contradict me, saying how is that possible? Over the years, we have not only opened up the Luzon route, driven away the Great Buddha and the Dutch people, but also rushed out of the so-called Asia of the Westerners, to Africa in the far west, and the Americas in the east. ”

"But let's ask ourselves, can these so-called aggressive actions really cover up our original intention of changing the way of the world that has faded?"

Li Tianyang was heartbroken, and at the same time he was self-examining, he never thought that he was a so-called hero, a demon, a son of fortune, etc., he knew very well that his current achievements were based on his combination of the characteristics of the two eras of the later life and this life, and finally created him today.

When he was young, he was accustomed to thinking twice, and later when he was young and middle-aged, he was gradually forgotten and left behind, and finally when he woke up, because of his subtlety, he eventually created countless blood, and what touched him the most was that the people under the end of the previous few years made a claim to carry out a Resident Evil, and hundreds of thousands of people died because of themselves.

Although Li Tianyang does not feel that he is a good person such as the Holy Mother, he has always been a flat-headed ordinary person, and at the beginning of this era, he also lived in an ordinary mountain village.

Especially as a son of the Huaxia clan, whether in this life or in the next generation, he is proud to be a member of the Huaxia, and naturally hopes to be able to make his miraculous crossing bring different changes to Huaxia such as many disasters and disasters, so that it can change the dark period of hundreds of years in the future, and stand on top of the world again.

Of course, under the influence of these various thinking, Li Tianyang was finally created today, and his ambitions gradually expanded, and his plans gradually broadened, which also made his vision gradually expand and rise.

Even if he is not a genius, as long as his intelligence is still qualified, and after hard work, he will have some achievements sooner or later, not to mention that by Li Tianyang's side, there is such a group of like-minded partners to help him, and it is natural for him to succeed.

"It seems that we have gained a lot from the east and west, but you should know very well that we have been accustomed to reducing the risk to the lowest level in recent years, and we are used to being stable, which is naturally invincible in the early stage of our development and growth of Hongmen, but if we want to continue to develop, a small Dayuan Island, and even some surrounding islands and reefs are no longer enough to meet our development, if you want to improve, then you must accumulate more heritage, get more population and land."

"So, where will there be a nearby land of China that better meets our requirements? Don't forget, we once said that we want to bring some changes to this world, so that people from poor backgrounds like us can be reborn. ”

"What Brother Jie said is not unreasonable, but whether the goals of the Dashun and Daxi peasant rebel armies he just proposed are suitable or not, everyone should actually know in their hearts."

"Dashun has strong enemies in the north and south, at this time, they are like the fat meat that is sandwiched between two pieces of buns, and the pressure is extremely high, not to mention that they themselves started with destruction, and all the surrounding foundations have been destroyed by it, even if we occupy its land and population, not only can not strengthen our strength, but it will be an extremely heavy burden and weaken our heritage."

"Compared with these targets that are weaker and the geographical conditions are not superior, the reason why I chose the most powerful Daqing as the target, in addition to the reasons mentioned in the discussion earlier, is actually because I am full of confidence in our team, if even the army as strong as the Jurchen barbarians of the Qing Dynasty can be defeated and given heavy losses, then doesn't it mean that it is also time and ability for my Dayuan Island Hongmen to fight with the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty for this world??"

This is the first time that Li Tianyang has exposed the goal or ambition that has been buried in his heart for many years in front of a group of partners, which immediately shocked everyone again, but he has to say that it is extremely exciting, after all, everyone has been trying to figure out Li Tianyang's intentions in the future of Hongmen, and now that the world is finally revealed, everyone is not disappointed, and the principle Li Tianyang's mind has really reached the point of competing for hegemony in the world.

The reckless words of becoming a king or losing a coward are nothing to Hongmen's companions who have always been influenced by Li Tianyang, but as long as you think about it, one day they will all stand together on the Jinluan Palace, overlooking the whole world, but what a magnificent picture.

And all this, under the strong strength of Hongmen, as well as the internal and external troubles of the Huaxia Continent, does not seem to be impossible.

(End of chapter)