The Southern Ming was busy with the small country and the widows, while the Northern Ming was busy with the angry sea competition.

This year, Hangzhou does not know whether to be lucky or unlucky, everything has anything to do with it, finally in winter, the north is white and snowy, and the south of the Yangtze River is also cold and shivering, in previous years, everyone hid at home and sang the song of the cat in winter, but this year, it is still unable to stop.

In fact, there are many wars launched by the Chinese people, such as the beggar army of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Dashun army in front of them, but there are people who launch it, and it is a war of fighting foreign devils with the muzzle of the gun, this is the first time, the first time, the war of capitalist foreign expansion of the Ming Dynasty is simply of cross-era significance!

In order to support the war, Mao Jue also gave the green light to Zheng Ce, Yin Shu came to a clearance sale in the shipyards of Tieshan, Lutun Island, Lushun Dandong and other places, all of which were eighty percent off, and they were all equipped with heavy cannons, and the sophistication was close to the Imperial Royal Navy, which was not even thought of before, and many shipowners in Jiangnan took the opportunity to change their guns.

During the Xiaoice River period, it also snowed in Hangzhou, but the light snow here could not fall, only a layer of annoying wetness on people, but shouting the trumpet in the mouth, the body was steaming, and after a while, the snow water turned into sweat and steamed out, and the hot sweat even formed a cloud in Hangzhou Bay.

Standing on the newly built cement lighthouse in the port, wearing a fox fur hat surrounded by a fox fur hat on his head and this fluffy coat, Mao Jue looked like Guo Jing and Yang Kang in the 98th edition of the Legend of the Condor Heroes, looking at the sea of ships under him.

There were three first-class battleships, seventy-eight second-class sailboats, and one hundred and fifty or sixty third-class gunboats.

What's more, it didn't cost the court a penny!

What did Britain rise on? Pirate! Francis the first person in Britain to travel around the world. Drake was a pirate-turned, the first seafarer of the East India Company, James. Lancaster was also a pirate, and Victorian Britain received 12 million pounds of pirates through piracy, considering that even now, Britain's gross national income is only 43 million pounds.

Looking at these big sharks that are about to go to sea, Mao Jue seems to see the next Caribbean, the next Blackbeard, the next pirate prince Black Sam, and the next Jack. Captain Sparrow, forehead .....

Forget it, don't want that tease, anyway, Mao Jue is ambitious and is ready to issue a privateer license, and turn the crossroads of the world of Malacca into a pirate paradise first.

However, compared to his ambition, even Song Xiance, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who has always supported him, is a little sad at this time.

"General, you've really had a big game! The Jingshi are all boiling, Lord Fan, Shen Ge Lao, and Sun Ge Lao can't help but write and ask the minister to bring it to you. ”

"These are pirates! You gave them all the equipment of the Daming Water Division, and the minister also felt that you were too inconsiderate this time, and once there was a recurrence in the future, it would be a repeat of the rebellion in the Jiajing period! No! The Woko don't have cannons yet, and if these guys turn around, they'll be much more terrible than the Wokos! ”

"And I heard that you are also going to give them the right to establish a government overseas! Isn't this a source of rebellion? ”

Why was Zheng He's trip to the West stopped? It's not a labor fee, but a check and balance of power! Tens of thousands of fleets are floating on the sea, like a country, the imperial court is powerless to check and balance, even Zheng He, a eunuch who has no eggs, is so suspicious of the scholars, not to mention that Mao Jue actually gave the power directly to a group of pirates, while speaking, Song Xiance also showed a palpitating expression.

However, when it came to this, Mao Jue didn't care about asking rhetorically.

"Why did they rebel?"

"These guys are in business, Lao Tzu ships to them, these bastards rob, Lao Tzu helps them sell their stolen goods, and even these guys build a country overseas, Lao Tzu also welcomes them with both hands, and they have to beat gongs and drums to be knighted, relying on Da Ming on their backs, they are giants, if they dare to betray Da Ming, he doesn't even have a place to spend money and enjoy themselves, why should they rebel?"

"Actually, what you are uncomfortable with is not that there is any rebellion and safety, but that a group of thieves are better than you all and have climbed on the head of the official!"

"General, ......"

"You shouldn't tell the difference, even if you are unhappy, but Lao Tzu still has to continue to do this, Lao Song, let me ask you, since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, how many years have I not really expanded my territory in China? Even if Lao Tzu walked thousands of kilometers to the north, it still did not exceed the territory of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and now we have more than 50 million registered population in the Northern Ming Dynasty, plus more than 130 million in the south of the Yangtze River, and some cities and towns in the south of the Yangtze River have been crowded into a place where the poor have no place to stand. ”

"Lao Tzu is driving out Li Zicheng who doesn't know how much, and spending some effort to let the people expand their living space, Lao Tzu is far-sighted, and you are all blind."

"General....... what you said is true!"

After Sun Chuanting, Song Xiance was the second to be defeated from under Mao Jue's mouth, but this guy was not as upright and gentleman as Sun Chuanting, and after being choked for a few seconds, his big head showed a sly smile again: "But what you said about moving the ministers, there are still thousands of civil and military forces in the Manchu Dynasty!" Everyone is waiting to persuade Your Highness with a fold, and even the enlightened little emperor is a little ready to move, and secretly said to a few Hanlin that the regent is really messing around. ”

"How to clean up the situation, Lord Regent, you have to make up your own mind!"

Not to mention, when he thought of the dense courtiers with their heads on the ground and their buttocks facing the sky, kowtowing there, Mao Jue's scalp was really numb, and he sent Song Xiance away, and looked at Adriana with a round waist, he asked sadly: "Where are Le'er and Chiyohime?" This king is in dire need! ”

However, looking at this Mao Jue's anxious appearance, Adriana was obviously mistaken, and couldn't help but roll her eyes, and snorted sourly: "The concubine has only been pregnant for a few days, and she can't hold it back?" ”

"stinky man!"

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There is a strange phenomenon in later generations, the eldest and the second are fighting, and the third is unlucky, just like Jia Duobao and Wang Laoji fighting, and it is cold, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are fighting, very Coke is yellow, at the end of September, the Spaniards in Luzon Manila lost their minds, slaughtered more than 20,000 local Chinese, and also seized several cargo ships of the East India Company, killed more than 30 shopkeepers, and the shareholders' meeting that was already angry raised five million taels of military salaries, and formed a united army of more than 60,000 people. The first target was not Luzon, but Taiwan.

The Dutch in the city of Geranza in Tainan were the first to be unlucky.

The reason is also very simple, even if it is a naval battle, it also needs supplies, Mao Jue's ceded Hainan Qiongzhou is still further south of Taiwan, where it is still notoriously barren, a place where prisoners are exiled, and Hainan Province in later generations is not known for its economy, if it is used as a springboard to attack Luzon Manila and take the Zhenghe line of the Indochina Peninsula, the battle line will have to be doubled.

But if you take back the outer island chain of Taiwan's treasure islands, you can't go far to the south, and you can go out.

And it's not just the Dutch, in Keelung, Taipei, the Spaniards have also built a trading post.

However, compared with the overwhelming East India Company fleet, how could the Spaniards, who were only four or five hundred strongholds in Keelung, dare to resist, and when they heard the news, they directly sailed out to sea and fled, and on 16 November, the East India Company fleet from Hangzhou occupied Taipei, and immediately divided the troops into two routes, one to take over the place, and occupy the main road, and on December 18, the waterway army blocked the Dutch Taiwan Governor's Mansion from Luermen Bay.

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"Aren't you Chinese the most honest? The Dutch East India Company has been friendly and trading with the Dongjiang River for so many years, and the Dutch merchants have brought a lot of wealth to the regent, but in the end, you have attacked us, and you are even more treacherous than the natives of the Pacific! ”

Standing on the flagship of the East India Company's fleet, the Yunlong, the Dutch Governor Vanderbilt's envoy, Sir Nan Shiting, had an old face flushed like a red-haired monkey, and his tone changed from the standard Nanjing official dialect to a translation accent, jumping up and down and roaring.

In this operation, Zheng Zhilong, the vice president of the company, was nominally the commander, but in fact, Mao Jue was really worried about these scattered South China Sea pirates, and deliberately "eliminated" a detachment from the imperial navy, and Yuan Dabao, who had to retire because of his leg disability, became Zheng Zhilong's military adviser, and two regiments of land and one regiment of sailors joined the war.

Sitting on the top gold chair under the sail, Zheng Zhilong is a dignified boss, holding his attitude without saying a word, listening to the roar of the red monkey, blindfolded with one eye, teasing Mao Jue on his shoulder I don't know why, I have to give it to my big parrot before going on the expedition, Yuan Dabao hummed impatiently.

"Treachery? You Dutch and Spaniards wear a pair of pants! This time, the Spaniards slaughtered our Daming Chinese in Manila, and the survivors saw with their own eyes that your Dutch warships participated in it, and it was you who had the audacity to make a move against my Daming! ”

"In this way, for the sake of the friendship between Daming and the Netherlands for many years, you let the opening and closing the mouth, let the officers and soldiers enter the city to search, and after catching the murderer identified by the survivors, our army will immediately retreat, how about it?"

"Entering the city to arrest people ???"

Listening to Yuan Dabao's suggestion, Nan Shiting really hesitated......

(End of chapter)