Nanking.

"Since North Korea has betrayed the Ming Dynasty, why should I save the Ming Dynasty again!"

Zhang Guowei, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said.

The ministers agreed.

Obviously, they are not interested in sending troops to save any North Korea, the Ming Dynasty is too busy to take care of themselves, how can they care about Li Liang's life and death, before North Korea declared itself a vassal to Jiannu, it means that it has betrayed the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has no obligation to protect them.

It costs money to send troops.

"But Korea has always been loyal and obedient, but it was forced by Jiannu, and the imperial court had no time to rescue, so it had to bend to Jiannu in order to survive, and during this period, he also secretly helped our army many times, and Emperor Shenzong saved it from the hands of the Japanese Emperor, how could Your Majesty bear to abandon it? What's more, if Jiannu gets North Korea, it will get its naval army, and in the future, like the Japanese invaders in the past, they will attack and harass our Ming coast, and if they send troops to rescue at this time, so that the king of Korea can gain a foothold, it can put an end to future troubles. ”

Lu Daqi, the left attendant of the ministry, said.

What he said is not unreasonable, the strength of the Korean naval army is still not weak, and the most lacking thing under Dolgon is the naval army, once they get the Korean naval army, then they will definitely learn from the Japanese and plunder the Ming coast, so as to get more money and food.

This can be said to be without suspense.

Dolgon got nothing but people in Korea, he had to rob if he wanted to get money and food, and there was nothing to rob along the coast of Shandong, so what could he do if he didn't go south as pirates?

At that time, Daming had to be exhausted.

On the contrary, help North Korea and let Li Liang continue to gain a foothold in the south to contain Dolgon, the latter will definitely not be able to attack and harass in the south, and at this time, the North Korean naval army will follow Li Liang to withdraw to Luozhou, ready to continue to run away if necessary! The rescue of the Ming army also prevented them from surrendering to Dolgon, without whom Dolgon himself would certainly not be able to play pirates. In fact, these ministers understand that before the Japanese invaders, the Goryeo pirates have been harassing the coastal areas of the Southern Song Dynasty until the Mongols ruled, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo became the Ming vassal of North Korea, these Korean pirates did not breed anymore, but there is still no lack of Koreans in the Japanese invaders, and even to some extent they are the main force, at this time the extremely poor Dolgon got this base, if he did not organize a pirate group to go south to ransack the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it would be a fool.

But the key is still one sentence......

No money.

At present, the Ming Dynasty's finances are stretched thin, so how can there be money to form a group to save Li Liang.

"Yang Qing, what do you say?"

Chongzhen turned his head and asked Yang Qing on the side.

He urgently called back Yang Qing to be a staff officer, Chongzhen still trusts this guy's mind, and he will always surprise himself.

Yang Qing is actually a little entangled, he doesn't care about the problem of Dolgon's attack on the coast in the future, that is not very difficult to solve, Zheng Zhilong will teach them to be people, the Zheng family is the boss of the coast, Dolgon wants to play pirates and asked Zheng Zhilong? The Dutch have to look at his face, not to mention the broken ships of North Korea.

What he's worried about is that it's easy to shave his hair!

He didn't expect Dolgon to be so good at playing, and he actually shaved his hair in North Korea.

According to the information he obtained, Dolgon's approach was also the same as the practice of our Qing Dynasty in the original history, either shaving their hair and making it easy to obey, or they slaughtered the city, kept their heads without hair and hair, and they had slaughtered several of them, and they also chose to win over the gentry to cooperate with them, and then like the Green Battalion, they recruited the Korean army as minions, quickly completed the rule of the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and even began to attack Gongju, the target was obviously the whole of Korea.

Once Dolgon annexes Korea, it will be very dangerous for Li Zichengke.

O population of North Korea!

Even after the invasion of the Japanese and the first two invasions of the Qing army, the population of North Korea still far exceeded that of the Eight Banners, and even if the population of Korea dropped to one-sixth of the original during the invasion of the Japanese invaders, Seoul was still close to 40,000 households, and at this time, the millions of people in the entire North Korea were under no pressure.

If Dolgon had integrated these populations, it would have been the resurrection of Goguryeo.

Then Dolgon can also rely on his strength to integrate the Mongolian tribes, if this is allowed to continue, it will not take a few years to invade the south, it will not be the original historical Eight Banners and Green Battalion, but all kinds of captives in the entire north, and it is difficult to say whether Li Zicheng can withstand it at that time.

But save the words......

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks he is saved."

He said.

"Uncle Zhongyong, the status quo of the imperial court's food and salary is still insufficient, if you cross thousands of miles across the sea to aid the DPRK, how much will it cost to fight with Jiannu on land? Emperor Shenzong's war to aid the dynasty cost eight million taels, and the combat power of Jiannu even far exceeded that of the Japanese Kou, eight million taels is definitely not enough, where does Zhongyongbo want to get this money? ”

Zhang Guowei said.

"What if I say that not only do we not spend money, but we can get money?"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"Don't you know that North Korea is a poor place, and the Li family's income can only be self-sufficient every year, and even the military rations of Shenzong's aid to Korea have to be transported thousands of miles from Taicang to North Korea, and Uncle Zhong Yong still wants to get money from North Korea, I am afraid that he will be disappointed."

Zhang Guowei said.

"No, certainly not from North Korea."

Yang Qing said with a happy smile.

Immediately after that, he asked Lao Wang for a map he drew hand-drawn from memory, and he drew a lot of such maps, anyway, the Ming Dynasty didn't have a scale, it was nothing more than a general outline, at least he could barely draw many places in East and Southeast Asia, such as the four islands of the Japanese Kingdom, the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyus, Taiwan, and Sakhalin Island in the north.

This is already classified level.

Ordinary people are not qualified to watch it at all.

"Here, a small island, nearly 100 miles away from the coast of the Japanese country, almost as far away from North Korea as from Taicang to North Korea, along our northbound Kuroshio route to North Korea does not dock, Kuroshio can directly push the ship there, there is about the size of Chongming Island, as for the population and military strength, I don't know. The only thing I know is that the people of the Japanese country mine more than 500,000 taels of gold here a year, and there are also millions of taels of silver. ”

He said, pointing to Sado Island.

His leapfrog thinking stunned Chongzhen and the ministers, and of course, the gold and silver production of Sado Island also stunned them.

An island out of the Ming Dynasty a year of income!

"It can't be a rumor, right?"

Shi Kefa said.

"Absolutely not, the gold of the Wa Kingdom is cheap, one tael of gold in the Ming Dynasty can be exchanged for at least ten taels of silver, and in the Wa Kingdom, the same tael of gold can be exchanged for a maximum of five taels of silver.

And its currency is mainly gold coins, and the people of Taixi even call the Wa Kingdom a gold country.

If it weren't for the fact that it has a big gold mountain, why would it be here?

And it's not just the gold and silver mountains of Sado Island, here, Iwami of the Wado Kingdom also has the largest silver mountain in the country, and the annual silver production is also equivalent to my Ming year's income, of course, this is the Wado country itself, for the time being, we don't have the ability to land, but it is completely feasible to land and seize Sado Island. As long as a base is established in Busan, North Korea, where sailors are trained to prepare for the expedition, and at the same time help Yi Ju gain a foothold in the south of Korea, and after completing the preparations, landing with 5,000 elites will be enough to seize Sado Island. Then they stationed naval divisions on Sado Island and Pusan, and controlled the sea with warships, and the Japanese counterattack was based on the sea, and even if the sea could not be stopped, the land fortification was enough to hold the city for several months.

It took no more than ten days to get there by Kuroshio from Busan, and a large army could be sent for reinforcements at any time.

As long as this island is in the hands of my Ming Dynasty, what is the cost of aiding Korea?

It's nothing more than a year's worth of production. ”

Yang Qing said.

He didn't believe that these guys could resist the temptation.

However, his plan itself was not unfeasible, at this time, the naval army of the Wa Kingdom had long since lost the strength to play a decisive battle at sea with the Ming Dynasty, and the Tokugawa shogunate only had the salt-saturated naval army that protected the Seto Inland Sea and protected the wealth of Osaka. Even the Tokugawa shogunate had begun to close off the country, and only the Tsushima clan was responsible for trade with Korea in the Sea of Japan, and the other daimyo were not even allowed to trade with foreign countries, and these daimyo also did not have any naval armies, so that as long as the Ming army had the port of Busan, then took Oki Island, and seized a stronghold on the Noto Peninsula, they could jump all the way to Sado Island.

Then build a fortress on this line.

Busan, Oki Island, Noto Peninsula, Sado Island, four fortresses are enough.

The four fortresses are connected by naval warships, and one of the biggest natural advantages is the Tsushima Warm Current, a tributary of the Kuroshio Current, which can send warships from the Tsushima Strait all the way to Sado Island, although there are no such good conditions for the return trip, but the return trip is not important, the important thing is that the fleet that sails from Busan can rely on the Tsushima Warm Current to reinforce these four fortresses as quickly as possible.

All that's left is gold mining.

And it's not just the gold mine, there is also the Tsuruko Silver Mountain, and the Sado Gold Mountain was originally an associated mine of the latter.

The highest record of Sado Gold Mountain's annual output of 40 tons has exceeded the annual income of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Of course, this plan will take a long time.

There is no hope at all in ten years, and the Ming must also invest a lot of money to maintain the war, and the Wa State will never tolerate the Sado Island Jinshan falling into the hands of others, which is the most important financial pillar of the Tokugawa shogunate, they will fight back frantically, and the Ming will have a protracted war, and the war will even extend to Korea, extending to the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but ......

So what's the matter with Yang Qing?

All he wanted was the Ming army to aid the DPRK, and the Ming Dynasty took the steps of colonization.

What's the big deal about war? This kind of war at sea will bring the Daming Naval Division back to the era of the former East Asian hegemon, and then the military and technological progress stimulated by the war, the excellent soldiers trained will face the European colonists who have begun to expand northward with a new attitude, as for whether the ministers of the DPRK and China will do ......

They are indeed Confucian believers.

But......

Confucian believers can't carry gold!

"Uncle Zhongyong, you can't be exaggerating, right? A gold mine produces a year's income in the Ming Dynasty, which is too incredible, right? ”

Gu Xichou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said.

"Your Majesty, please summon the prince of Nan'anbo."

Yang Qing said to Chongzhen.

"Spread the decree, summon the son of Nan Anbo!"

Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen.