In the lively hustle and bustle, no one found that at the entrance of the customs office building in Hangzhou Port, there were also two more luxuriously decorated carriages, pretending to be public and private to inspect the work, and the crowd stared at the sissy Prince Kong Dai and talked endlessly, but Mao Jue was carrying a telescope and obsessively looking at the ironclad battleship in the military port, where the water in the lock was shining, and it was supported by an iron frame.

That look was like peeking at a peerless beauty taking a bath.

It's all his treasures!

Recently, there have been a lot of major events in the Ming Dynasty, such as Wen Meng's entry into Sichuan, the reception of the Great Western Army left behind after Zhang Xianzhong's death, and Bashu returned to the hands of the Ming Dynasty after nearly ten years of exporting population.

For example, Jiangxi Governor Yuan Long helped the army defeat the Ganjiang River, and in the two directions of Huguang and Guangdong, except for some stubborn guys who were still hiding in the mountains to fight guerrilla attacks with Mao Jue, most of Jiangxi was also collected in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, such as today's general trend, except for the Yongli Dynasty established by King Gui Zhu Youlang and the king of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, Mao Jue has no rivals in the country.

However, the recovery of these two provinces could not catch up with the battle of Baohehai in Mao Jue's heart, and it could not catch up with the importance of breaking the combined fleet of the Western powers.

Dominating the world is very much like climbing a hillside, to the extent that Mao Jue is already destiny, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, sooner or later are his, there is no suspense, get it back one day sooner or later, it won't bring much benefit, it won't bring much joy.

But in the following centuries, the sea was the most important thing for all civilizations, wealth came from the sea, and danger also came from the sea! defeated the Netherlands and included Batavia, the hegemony of the Ming Empire, an agricultural civilization in the Pacific, will be unshakeable, and if any Western countries want to take the Pacific route and operate the trade of the New World of America, they must pass through their own territory and pay for themselves, and in the confrontation with the Western countries, the balance between the east and the west will be achieved.

On the other hand, it is Mao Jue's heart knotted, from the time the British launched the first Opium War, until Mao Jue's era, it seems that China really did not defeat the West in that war in the naval war, just like the British spell on France in history, the French Navy said that it could not beat the British Royal Navy, even in the peak era of the Napoleonic period.

The last battle of Manila defeated the Spaniards, on the one hand, to fight more and less, to divert the tiger from the mountain, on the other hand, to fight some colonial armed merchant ships, but this time, it is a duel with the most peak navy of the West, whether it can be fought or not, Mao Jue is also a little bottomless in his heart, so he would rather abandon Manila, but also wait for Liaodong to send his finale weapons to the battlefield.

But it turns out that there is nothing wrong with being cautious.

However, no matter what, the battle was won, and it was won beautifully, and now even if he kicked his legs and didn't know where he had crossed, the Ming Navy of this time and space could also compete with any country's navy in the seven seas and five oceans, so that he had no worries.

However, just as Mao Jue sighed, there was an inopportune cough behind him, which broke his intoxication, and turned back in amazement, but it was Song who looked like a dog wearing a first-class official uniform, covering his mouth depressedly, and on the ground, a middle-aged man of the same age as him, but much more handsome than him, and a burly and powerful middle-aged man was wearing armor and kneeling respectfully on the ground.

The incorporation of the Great Western Army was not smooth sailing, Zhang Xianzhong's several righteous generals, Ai Nengqi, Liu Guoneng and others were all under the leadership of Li Dingguo, the king of Jin designated by Zhang Xianzhong, and returned to the Ming Dynasty, only Sun Kewang did not know how to lift, and actually led the army into Yunnan and took refuge in the Yongli regime of Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, who was the emperor together with Longwu.

I really don't know how these remnants of Zhu Ming made a mistake, and Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Dian who was overjoyed by Sun Kewang, was ambitious and just led the Dian army north, wanting to fight for the Bashu Plain for Mao Jue to play a Shu Han separatism.

However, Mu Tianbo has lived in the border for a long time, and he really doesn't know the changes in the world, so he just left Lingbei, and was attacked by the Sichuan army's light cavalry, was killed and defeated, and fled in embarrassment.

However, it was not Wen Meng in the newspaper who led the cavalry to defeat Mu Tianbo and Sun Kewang's coalition army, Mao Jue's brother-in-law is now an official residence, a duke, and the commander of the three armies, even if he wants to be in the battle formation, a group of staff officers under his command have to press him.

The hero who really rode lightly to break the enemy was the middle-aged handsome man kneeling here in front of him, Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, and Li Dingguo, the king of Jin.

In history, Li Dingguo once firmly stood on the side of the Yongli Dynasty, and the lonely army resisted the Qing army Wu Sangui who occupied the numerical advantage for more than ten years, and finally cursed the water difficulty, the king of Burma treacherously attacked the Yongli court in exile, and handed over the Yongli Emperor to Wu Sangui to strangle with a bowstring, and he died of despair and became seriously ill, so that the singing and crying war against the Qing Dynasty in western Yunnan came to an end. He, the last famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, was subordinated to his own hands, and Mao Jue's collecting habit was fully satisfied.

After so many years of being the emperor, Mao Jue's thick black science has also been practiced to the point of being incisive, and he does not have the consciousness of watching the ironclad ship drooling and being broken by his subordinates like a pervert, he is a very positive character with a smiling face, and he laughed and helped him over.

"Oh, General Li is here, and he won't remind me, I hope you are looking forward to you, please hurry up! Hurry up, please!"

"The last general, thank you, Lord Longen!"

is also worthy of being the last famous general of Nanming, Li Shuai bowed his head without humbling and thanking him, and then stood up generously.

"General Li is here, everything is good in Sichuan?"

Routinely, Mao Jue had to ask about the local situation, but this sentence hit Li Dingguo's pain point, he was helpless and aggrieved and bowed heavily, and replied with a bit of resentment in his tone: "Your Majesty's conspiracy, there is no such thing as a ghost in Sichuan, how can you talk about good or bad?" ”

Speaking of this, Mao Jue showed a smug smile slyly.

Talent and ambition are synchronized, Li Dingguo will be like this, to say that he has no ambition at all that is impossible, however, he really does not have the conditions to divide one side, before Zhang Xianzhong regarded the Sichuan people as enemies, sold them as slaves to Wenmeng in Hanzhong, Bashu has a total population of only four or five million, ten years, the drastic population loss has made the rich Sichuan Plain empty, ten rooms and nine empty are light, really a hundred miles without human eyes, fertile fields are thorns.

And in the later period, Mao Jue decided to build the Xinjiang Production and Development Corps, increased the order to Zhang Xianzhong, and increased the price of buying the population by five times, in order to pursue profits, Zhang Xianzhong also ordered to loot the various ethnic groups in the Yunnan border, plundering people as slaves, and in the slave war, the Great Western Army offended the ethnic minorities in Yunnan again.

There are no people under his command, and there are chasing soldiers behind the former strong enemy, Li Dingguo can't establish a country even if he has the ability to reach the sky, especially when he fell out with Sun Kewang, as soon as Wen Meng entered Sichuan, he had to bow his head and accept Zhao'an no matter how reluctant he was.

Outside the window, there are still a lot of problems with the ironclad ships that were launched for the first time, such as seafood is difficult to handle, at this time, the four boats have been exposed to the iron shell below the waterline, overgrown with oysters, mussels and other crustaceans, this thing affects the speed of the ship is quite powerful, and also corrodes the hull, in order to deal with them, a large group of port workers climbed the scaffolding in the lock with a knife.

glanced sideways, and the progress of this interview was also accelerated a lot by Mao Jue, and he directly sang loudly.

"Li Dingguo in Sichuan, dedication to the soil! And suppress the bandits bravely, I am very relieved, today he is the Marquis of Zhengdong, the general of Dingnan, the annual salary of 100,000 taels, and the subordinates have their own rewards, and immediately do the cabinet review and promulgate the world!"

This is a reward for taking refuge, although the Marquis of Zhengdong is much smaller than the King of Jin that Zhang Xianzhong gave him, but it is also the orthodox title of the imperial court, and he has the rank of general of Dingnan, so his subordinates can also be preserved a lot, and he can still divide the mercenary self-respect, Li Shuai, who listened to it, was very happy, and he wanted to bow his head when he bowed his head, who knew this kung fu, but Mao Jue patted his head.

"By the way, I forgot to say it, it's really Tianhaizhou!"

Li Dingguo, who listened to this sentence, was simply stupid, and his heart was confused for a moment, he thought that with this title of general, he could be satisfied with the happy life of a warlord in Sichuan for a few more years, but Mao Jue has a real seal, and the meaning is different, which is equivalent to letting him split the soil and open the country, and he will be the emperor of the soil, a ready-made example is Mu Tianbo in Yunnan, which is simply pie in the sky.

But the pie may not be fragrant, and it may be wrapped in poison, how did Mu Ying get sealed in Yunnan back then? was raised by Zhu Yuanzhang since he was a child, as Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son, and made great contributions to Zhu Yuanzhang's southern and northern wars, so he got the location of Yongzhen Yunnan, what is the relationship between him Li Dingguo and Mao Jue? I just met for the first time today, why did he give himself a state? What's the conspiracy in this? Take yourself as cannon fodder for fighting with Mu Tianbo? When the time comes, there will be a cunning rabbit dead lackey to cook?

For a moment, Li Dingguo even forgot about Xie En, and was stuck there, but Mao Jue was also very arrogant, and he didn't care about the etiquette at all, and directly smiled and slapped Song Xiance.

"Song Qing, take Hou Ye Li down to receive the reward!"

There was no chance to refuse, Li Dingguo, who had a messy head like paste, was in a daze and followed Song Xiance, who was also smiling like a profiteer.

Send them away, once again, Mao Jue impatiently raised the telescope to his four treasures again, watching a large piece of Haihong oysters being shoveled off, Mao Jue suddenly couldn't help sighing.

"I've done everything I can do, and the rest depends on your little rabbit!"

The expansion and layout of the empire in the eastern Pacific has reached an extreme, and the next game with the western countries depends on how Mao Xingjian's kid behaves, and the prince still doesn't know that the baton of the empire has been handed over to him!