Since the end of the Battle of Sekigahara and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan has entered the so-called "world quiet" period, and more than 30 years have passed since the Warring States period, when the princes were at war, and the Hizen domain was brazenly annexed by the Hizen domain, which was completely a slap in the face of Tokugawa Iemitsu.

With the rebel army organized by the Christians on one side and the Hirado Domain suddenly rising on the other, the chaos in Japan has become a reality.

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"Xiuquan did a good job, the water in Japan has finally been muddied by you." Wang Yue said to Gu Xiuquan.

Gu Xiuquan said with a smile: "The commander is too prestigious, if it weren't for your guidance, he wouldn't have been able to do this step at all." ”

Indeed, from developing the supernumerary personnel of Hirado to contacting Amakusa Shiro in advance, and then funding the rebel army, Wang Yue acted as if he was an unpredictable prophet, which made Gu Xiuquan admire.

Since Ruan Dacheng took office as the prefect of Suzhou, the urban management fee collection work in Suzhou has been on the right track.

The number of chengguan has been expanded to 30,000, and after half a year of operation, the Jiangnan area has collected more than 13 million taels of commercial taxes. In the secret words of Jiangnan literati, it can be regarded as knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow, scraping the ground.

The quelling of the riots in Suzhou has shocked some people, so the resistance to the urban management work in other areas of the south of the Yangtze River has been reduced, and the opposition has turned from bright to dark.

With so much money collected, there must also be a place to go, so other new policies in the Jiangnan area are also being promoted. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and the highway construction in the Jiangnan area has been in full swing. The second is education, that is, the construction of 200 primary schools in Suzhou Prefecture and Shanghai County, and the content and teaching materials taught are synchronized with the starting point city.

After two years of development, the starting point city has a certain number of teachers, and the teachers of these primary schools are all supported from the starting point city.

The primary school lasts for five years, with free tuition, books, and a Chinese meal. However, the content of the imperial examinations such as the Four Books and the Five Classics is not taught, so these primary schools are aimed at the poor, especially the original hungry people in the Shanghai area.

According to Wang Yue's concept, the Jiangnan region will organize teachers to carry out literacy eradication in the future, first of all, the original hungry people, and the construction of middle schools will follow, and then the junior colleges.

On April 5, 1638, Wang Yue returned to Tianjin, and while listening to a report on the situation in Japan, he also had an important task of making strategic arrangements for Lushun.

Li Zixiong, chief of staff of the Tiance Army, also rushed to Tianjin to give a briefing: "In order to land in Lushun, our General Staff Department plans to dispatch a Tiance Corps, a Marine Battalion, and two regiments of security troops, with a total strength of about 5,000 troops, and another 50,000 laborers who have emigrated from Shandong for infrastructure construction. After many reconnaissances by naval drones, there is no Qing army's sailor in the mouth of Lushun, and the north city of Lushun was destroyed by the Qing army in the sixth year of Chongzhen and was not rebuilt, and only the south city is currently retained, with a garrison of about 4,000 people, and it is about 3,000 meters away from the port. ”

The most important thing in cross-sea operations is logistical support, and now the Tiance Navy has a large fleet of mobile cargo ships, which has reached 80 ships and a total tonnage of about 100,000 tons.

In addition, four more passenger and cargo ro-ro ships were added, two more supply ships were added, and one more dock landing ship was added.

Li Zixuan, who was present, shouted and said, "Commander, this task will be handed over to our third regiment." ”

Wang Yue thought for a while, nodded and said, "It's okay, then Zixuan is the commander-in-chief, and Zhang Jicheng of the first regiment is stationed in Tianjin." ”

He pointed to the large map and said: "After occupying Lushun and clearing the enemy's army, our army quickly advanced north to take Jinzhou City and blockade the Jinzhou Isthmus. ”

Sixty kilometers northeast of Lushun is the famous Jinzhou Isthmus, with Jinzhou Bay to the west and Dalian Bay to the east, and the narrowest point is only five kilometers wide. This was once a strategic point repeatedly contested by the Dongjiang Army and the Later Jin Army, and blocking it was equivalent to blocking the road to Lushun.

Li Zixuan said loudly: "Yes! ”

The layout of Lushun was a strategy that had been formulated long ago, and it was interrupted because of the conflict between Wang Yue and the imperial court.

Now it is on the agenda again because the Military Investigation Bureau has recently obtained the latest movements of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Originally, in January of the eleventh year of Ming Chongzhen (1638 AD), Huang Taiji began to recruit troops nationwide in order to restore the strength of the Qing army as soon as possible, according to the Manchurian example, the Han army was expanded to eight banners, and the Mongolian eight banners were also expanded, each flag set up Niulu Zhangjing 28 people, Gushan Ezhen one person, Meler Zhangjing two, Jiala Zhangjing eight people, but the interior is still divided into two flags of yellow and yellow, two flags of white and white, two flags of red and red, and two flags of blue and blue.

In addition, the Eight Banners were also expanded, and Huang Taiji issued an edict requiring the Manchurian people, all those who were in charge of the banners were under 70 years old and more than 13 years old, and all of them were levied, and those who violated the law were fined horses and camels, and those who did not go to the place of rendezvous were also fined horses. It can be said that all the people are soldiers!

A total of 310,000 troops were added to the conscription, of which 120,000 were added to the Han Army, bringing the total number to 200,000. The number of people in the Eight Banners of Mongolia increased by 90,000 to a total of 150,000, and the number of people in the Eight Banners of Manchu increased by 100,000 to a total of 160,000.

At this point, the total strength of the Qing army reached an astonishing 510,000 people, which was more than 1.5 times the total strength of the Qing army during the Jiashen National Disaster in history, and accounted for one-sixth of the total population in the area controlled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty today.

The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners belong to the nomadic people, and they will fight when they get on the horse, but due to the loss of a large number of elites in the previous wars with the Tiance Army, this conscription is full of many elderly soldiers and baby soldiers, and the combat effectiveness has dropped significantly.

The combat effectiveness of the Han Army Banner also decreased as they needed more time to train.

If the Manchu Qing Dynasty is given a certain amount of time, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army will have a lot of room to rise, and the pressure in the direction of Shanhaiguan will not be small.

The Ming court's movements towards the Manchus have always been black-eyed, but they were infiltrated into a sieve by the Manchus. Wang Yue could not let the Manchus let it go, so he had the Lushun strategy to realize Wang Yue's plan to encroach on Liaodong and finally destroy the Manchus.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty's poor soldiers ransomed their forces, which made Wang Yue very curious: "Huang Taiji has increased so many troops, is it just a matter of time?" And where do their weapons come from? ”

The Qing army's actions of entering the customs to loot and loot North Korea were all slapped back by the Tiance army, and it is said that Huang Taiji should be very poor.

Gu Xiuquan explained: "According to the information obtained by our Military Investigation Bureau, Huang Taiji's ability to recruit troops on a large scale has a lot to do with the Jin merchants. From last year to this year, the major Jin merchants purchased 5 million catties (2,500 tons) of iron products from our starting city, and most of these iron artifacts flowed to Liaodong. Not only that, but these Jin merchants are also very active within the boundaries of our starting point city, waiting for an opportunity to snoop on our secrets. ”

"Jin Shang! Jin Shang! I'll clean you up when I get back. Wang Yue's gaze turned cold.