"Will King Jingjiang give in?"

Her Majesty, who was breastfeeding, asked the royal husband and the protector.

"Does he have the qualifications to be disobedient?"

Yang Qing poked his son and said.

The latter snorted disappreladily and continued to lie there trying.

"But I'm afraid King Gui won't be so obedient, and those vassal states are estimated to have no other obedient except for North Korea, and you are too bullying like this, as long as they have a little temper, no one can be convinced. In the final analysis, they are nothing more than nominal submission, holding our gold seal to pay tribute every few years, and getting by with each other's face, if you want other people's land, people will no longer be able to give you face. ”

The Empress said.

Obviously, Yang Qingzhi is arrogant, and even the empress can't stand it.

"Then let's take over!"

Yang Qing said: "To deal with these countries, our Ming Dynasty has become outdated, look at the Europeans playing, Spain to the Americas without any tenderness, that is, killing people and setting fires, until the Indians in Central America are killed." Then they became the rulers of the land, controlling the silver mines there, and exchanging the silver from us for everything they had worked so hard to produce. We do make money in trade, but it is they who are really the most profitable, and our people work hard to exchange what they have picked up for nothing.

A hundred years before the Spanish colonized the Americas, Zheng He's fleet had already gone to the Western Ocean.

How many ships did Columbus have?

Three galleons and ninety men no bigger than our communications ships.

Zheng He's strength is a hundred times that of him.

But have we ever conquered a land?

The reason why the Ming Dynasty had previous wars was due to food shortages and continuous droughts caused by climate change, but what if Zheng He conquered a piece of land in Nanyang back then?

It didn't need to be too big, he just needed to conquer the island of Java, which he would pass by almost every time, and clean up the natives there. Then in two hundred years, he would move two million military families there, and keep his fleet of the same size for transportation. Then I can guarantee that the surplus grain they planted there will be able to solve the famine in the northwest for the first emperor, and they will also be able to feed all the military households in Liaodong. The volcanic ash soil there can yield more than four stone per acre per season without any fertilizer, and the climate there guarantees at least three crops a year. An acre of land can produce at least 12 stone a year, and there is almost no such thing as drought, at most floods caused by rain.

It's not even like the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang where there are typhoons, where there are no even typhoons.

One acre of land can feed the whole family.

The remaining nine acres of land can be transported to the mainland by sea, and this island with an area similar to Zhejiang can be reclaimed to easily feed all the current population of our Ming Dynasty.

So Zheng He doesn't have the ability to conquer there?

Even now, the total population of all the people there does not exceed one million, and it is divided into many small countries to fight each other, Zheng He's fleet with 20,000 soldiers who are still in the strong state of the Ming army, both equipment and combat effectiveness, crush these natives who may not even have armor. He could easily establish a stronghold and keep it firmly in control, and then continue to build up his army, which was also the most important source of spices, which could support military expenditures and complete conquest in a few decades, as the Spaniards did in the Americas.

But alas,

We didn't do that!

We only accepted their vassals, paid tribute, and at most engaged in some trade.

We can grab it!

But we actually took the money to buy it from them? ”

Perhaps Yang Qing's voice was a little exaggerated, and his son raised his head to look at him and made a very pleasant voice at the same time, it was obvious that this aggressive remark was more in line with the style of the future emperor. However, for the time being, the future emperor was still interested in the food in front of him, and after admiring the face of the colonist who protected the country, he immediately lowered his head and worked hard again.

The Lord Protector touched the fetal hairs of His Majesty the future Emperor with his fingers.

"Besides, the naval fleet we spent more than 10 million to build, is it just to stay in the port for retirement? It's going to have to recoup our investment! ”

He said.

The cost of each of the six 74-gun third-class ships was as high as 250,000 because of the large use of expensive teak wood and the use of bronze in the other guns, and the four 50-gun third-class ships added up to more than 600,000 taels, and these ten battleships alone cost 2.1 million taels. And the average cost of each of the 50 cruisers is 70,000 taels, which is 3.5 million taels, and the battleships and cruisers are nearly 6 million taels, not counting the auxiliary troop carriers, communication ships, and the military pay and training consumption over the years. And this is only the Nanyang Naval Division, not counting the Beiyang Naval Division, as well as the construction of military ports in various places, and the investment of the Marine Corps is not counted.

In fact, if you count it all, Yang Qing has invested more than 20 million taels in the navy over the years.

Twenty million!

In eight years, he invested a whole year of revenue in the navy, and in eight years, one-eighth of all the taxes of the Ming court were used to build the navy.

Gotta go out and plunder and go out and explore!

You have to get him back the money he put in!

"What about King Gui's side?"

The Empress asked.

Yang Qing's offer to King Gui was also a land, but King Gui offered more, he needed to offer Gaozhou and Luoding, and originally Leizhou had fallen into the hands of the imperial court, plus these two states, from the core area of the Pearl River Delta in Guangzhou, there was only one Zhaoqing Mansion left. The front line of the Ming army advanced to Yunfu, or the current name of Dong'an, and the pack horses of the infantry carried mortars, and the speed was faster to set up cannons on the south bank of the Xijiang River in one day, and then aimed the muzzles at Zhaoqing Fucheng. Obviously, this is a bit excessive, Zhaoqing is the psychological bottom line of the Gui Domain, after all, once the Ming army opens the gate of Zhaoqing, it makes no sense for them to resist no matter what.

King Jingjiang really has no qualifications to resist.

Because he himself is in Nandu, he has no choice but to be obedient, once he presents Liuzhou to the empress, then his son cannot refuse, and refusal is disloyalty and unfilial piety is disobedience and rebellion. But King Gui is not in Nandu, he is not afraid that a certain eunuch will come to the door with poisonous wine one night, and if he dares not to sacrifice soil, he can only drink poisonous wine.

He's in the palace heavily protected by the army in Guangzhou!

"King Gui, I have another way to do it!"

Yang Qing sneered.

King Gui is there to deal with it!

He didn't even need to use the army.

"But you didn't even let go of Nanzhang, this is too frustrating, right?"

Her Majesty looked at the huge map hanging opposite her speechlessly, although she had actually given the Golden Seal of the Southern Palm King the year before last, but only now did she suddenly realize that this country was actually close to the Ming Dynasty.

"That's a chicken that kills chickens and makes an example of monkeys!"

Yang Qing said.

Lancang, or Nanzhang, is currently under the rule of the supposedly more eloquent monarch Solin Nawangsa, who has previously paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty and has been named the king of Nanzhang. This is the golden age of Nanzhang, but it is also the last afterglow, because after the death of the man in front of him, it was divided into Vientiane, Luang Prabang and Champasak until it was conquered by France. Yang Qing also made a request to Solina Sawan to offer Phongsali to the empress, otherwise he would send troops to crusade against the people, and he was ready to give it to Nanzhang......

In fact, it is impossible for people to give.

Then he has a reason to use force, if he dares not to give him face, he must be beaten, and then he can force the Zheng family in Vietnam to open the inland river under the banner of crusading against Nanzhang.

If he wants to crusade against Nanzhang, he must not send troops from Yunnan, which will cost too much.

All his military quarters had to be transported overland to Yunnan, and then from Kunming either overland to Lin'an, Zhenyuan to the Lixian River, or on the Lancang River. In short, the whole of Yunnan has to be mobilized to ensure transportation for this reason, and it is not worth the labor for this little thing, and he is not really looking at those primeval forests.

On the contrary, the Red River from the sea route turned into the Heishui River in Vietnam, that is, the Li Xian River went upstream, and then landed and went to Dien Bien Phu, and used Dien Bien Phu as an attack base, so as to avoid the mobilization of labor in Yunnan. Although the Heishui River has been the main water transport route in Vietnam since ancient times, the Vietnamese still had to mobilize a lot of manpower to support the inland water transport of the Ming army from the mouth of the Red River. In particular, this water transport line cannot go directly to Dien Bien Phu, and there are 200 miles of land transportation in the middle, which must be sent by Vietnam, but Yang Qing will give money.

But if the Zheng family does not cooperate, then directly threaten with force, believe it or not, Lao Tzu changed the army that was preparing to conquer Nanzhang to attack Thang Long?

It's really hard to hit Nanzhang.

But there was no setback in the Zheng family, Yang Qing's order was sent to Qiongzhou, and within three days, the artillery shells of the Ming army could bombard Qinghua City. Send a cavalry brigade to the Mo family, and within three days, the army of the Ming Dynasty and the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty will arrive in Taiyuan. Yang Qing wanted to clean up the Zheng family, and there was a way, that is, the Ming Dynasty did not send a ground force, but sent the navy to pick up the Ruan family's army to land in Thanh Hoa, and the Zheng family had to cry in Thang Long.

Well, his train of thought is divergent.

He's a bit vexatious.

In fact, it was there that his decree of dedication was unreasonable.

But this kind of unreasonable troublemaking is to force these surrounding states in a factual way to truly recognize the supreme authority of the Ming Dynasty and recognize the de facto suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army forced out the land and forced out the right of free passage in these states, so that the people of these states understood that the Ming was the real boss, and their monarch was nothing but the dog of the Ming Emperor. What the Ming Emperor wants them to do, they have to do what they want, asking for land is not the goal, beating them is the goal.

And the south palm is Liwei's.

If the Ming army was even protected by mountains and mountains like Nanzhang, it could almost be said that an isolated place would be able to go in and beat it violently......

Then it is better for all other places to be good babies in front of the Ming Emperor.