It can be said that it is the common dream of the emperors of all dynasties, because the emperor also wants to go down in history and leave great achievements for future generations, and as an emperor, the greatest achievement is to expand the territory. 手机端 一秒記住『→m.\B\iq\u\g\\o\m』 provides you with wonderful \ novel reading.

Governing the country and the country, defending the land and the people, making great efforts to govern the country, etc., to put it bluntly, it is only the duty of the emperor, and if you do it well, you can only be regarded as a bright monarch, and if you don't do it well, it is a faint monarch, and only by expanding the territory can you show the emperor's ability.

For example, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the reason why he can go down in history is mainly because of his achievements in opening up the territory and expanding the territory, he broke Minyue, Nanyue, Wei's Korea, and Dawan, hollowed out the Western Regions, defeated the Xiongnu, and expanded the territory of the Han Dynasty more than twice, leaving a strong mark in the history books.

Another example is Tang Taizong Li Shimin, the reason why he can go down in history, mainly because of his efforts to expand the territory, he conquered the Eastern Turks and Xue Yantuo, conquered Gaochang, Qiuci, Tuyuhun, hit Goguryeo, set up four towns in Anxi, and expanded the territory of the Tang Dynasty to the extreme, so as to be admired by future generations.

Zhu Cihong naturally wants to become the emperor who will be famous through the ages, so he strongly supports Zhang Bin's plan to expand his territory, and he will give whatever Zhang Bin wants, whether it is a civil minister or a military general, or a grain and grass, and even the world's soldiers and horses are at Zhang Bin's disposal.

Zhang Bin's resignation as the first assistant to the cabinet was also to concentrate on expanding the territory, and the first target he chose was Nanyang.

In fact, the conquest of Nanyang is not strictly speaking, it is not an expansion of territory, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty is far more than it is now, because during the Yongle period, Ming Chengzu attacked from all sides and opened up a lot of territory for the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately, with the decline of the Ming Dynasty, these territories slowly got rid of the control of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, in Nanyang, there are many places that used to be the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Chengzu once sent troops to conquer Annam, plus Zheng He went to the Western Ocean several times, so that the Ming Dynasty was powerful all over the world, and almost all small countries in the South Ocean became vassals of the Ming Dynasty, and paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the entire Nanyang can basically be regarded as the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty not only set up the Jiaozhi Bu Political Envoy in Annam to directly incorporate Annan into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but also set up the Old Port Propaganda Division, Mengyang Propaganda Division, Mubang Propaganda Division, Burma Propaganda Division, Cheli Propaganda Division, Eight Hundred Dadian Propaganda Division, Laos Propaganda Envoy Division, controlled most of the Nanyang region, and at that time, Champang, Chenla, Siam, Luzon, Sulu and other Nanyang countries were also vassals of the Ming Dynasty.

However, a change in the civil fort directly made the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and the Ming Dynasty was not only disgraced by the Mengyuan Wa Thorn Department in the north, but also took the opportunity to get rid of the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Later, with the continuous decline of the Ming Dynasty, the number of tributes paid by the vassal states of Nanyang was also gradually reduced, and the old port Xuanwei Division was even directly occupied by the Majapahit Kingdom on Java Island, while the Mengyang Xuanwei Division, the Mubang Xuanwei Division, the Burmese Xuanwei Division, the Cheli Xuanwei Division, the Eight Hundred Dadian Xuanwei Division, and the Laos Xuanwei Envoy Division were also slowly occupied by the rising Donghu Dynasty in the Nanyang Wanli period.

In the Tianqi Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin Dynasty fought for many years, coupled with the peasant uprisings caused by natural disasters and man-made disasters, the Ming Dynasty had no time to look south, so the entire Nanyang gradually disappeared from the territory of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhang Bin has long intended to conquer the South Seas and reclassify the entire South Seas into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, because the next few centuries will be an era of maritime hegemony, and if the South Seas as the gateway of the Ming Dynasty are not controlled in their own hands, the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty will directly face the strong ships and cannons of the great powers, so that the defensive pressure of the Ming Dynasty will be great.

If the entire South China Sea can be controlled in his hands, then the Ming Dynasty only needs to hold the Strait of Malacca and the Gongta Strait near the old port, and can block all the strong ships and cannons of the great powers from the country, and defend the two narrow straits and the coastline of thousands of miles.

Therefore, whether it is for the sake of consolidating coastal defense or for the sake of expanding the territory, this South China Sea must be reincorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

However, due to the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Bin had no time to solve the problem of Nanyang, and in the past ten years, he only recovered the old port of Xuanwei Division and Batavia occupied by the Dutch, and at the same time built a new port city in the Strait of Malacca to choke the gateway to Nanyang.

Now, the Ming Dynasty has been leveled all over the world, the government is harmonious, and, with the development of overseas trade, the Ming treasury is also increasingly full, he can finally start to conquer the South Seas, after reloading the cabinet of the first assistant, he began to transfer troops to prepare for the conquest of the South Seas.

The key to the conquest of the South Seas is actually on the sea, not on the land, because there are 100,000 mountains and plateaus on land between the Ming Dynasty and the South Seas, and it is very troublesome to transfer the army to the past, and it is even more difficult to transport grain and grass to the army.

During the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Donghu Dynasty broke out a "Battle of the Southwest Pole", the scale of this war was not very large, but the duration was quite long, from the fourth year of Wanli to the thirty-third year of Wanli, which lasted nearly 30 years.

It was in this battle that the Ming Dynasty lost control of the Mengyang Propaganda Division, the Mubang Propaganda Division, the Burmese Propaganda Division, the Cheli Propaganda Division, the Eight Hundred Dadian Propaganda Division, and the Laos Propaganda Mission, thus making the Nanyang countries completely cut off contact with the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in the battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Donghu Dynasty of the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was not defeated, on the contrary, the Ming Dynasty also won repeatedly, and even almost destroyed the Donghu Dynasty.

In the eleventh year of Wanli, Mu Changzuo, the prince of Qianguo, and Liu Shi, the governor of Yunnan, were ordered to organize an army to counterattack the Donghu Dynasty, and the imperial court sent the fierce generals Liu Ling and Deng Zilong to lead the army to fight.

It is a pity that the Donghu Dynasty is located in the extreme west of the Ming Dynasty, separated from the Central Plains by thousands of mountains and rivers, and the transportation of grain and grass is extremely difficult.

This is also the most cowardly victory in the history of the Ming Dynasty, winning many battles, even the capital of the enemy country has been conquered, and in the end a large area of territory has been lost!

The reason for this is the problem of grain and grass transshipment, it is too difficult to transport grain and grass to Nanyang by land, and the reason why Annan got rid of the rule of the Ming Dynasty is precisely because of this reason.

Therefore, to conquer the South Seas, the key is on the sea, when Zheng He organized a huge fleet to go to the Western Ocean, no one in the South China Sea dared to disobey the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and now the Ming Navy Division is much stronger than Zheng He's fleet, not to mention the transfer of grain and grass, there is no problem in transporting soldiers.

This time, Zhang Bin did not mobilize too many troops, because Nanyang did not have any powerful forces, even the Donghu Dynasty was nothing in front of the Ming Dynasty, and the reason why they were not destroyed by the Ming Dynasty was because of remoteness and not because of strength.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty actually did not have too many troops to mobilize, because the territory of the Ming Dynasty was too large, and there was a major disarmament, and the number of troops was reduced quite sharply, and finally, Zhang Bin also transferred the Qin army stationed in the Monan grassland to the commander of Haizhou Hou Sun Chuanting, and transferred the Tianxiong army stationed in the north of the capital to the commander of Liaoyang Hou Lu Xiangsheng, and there were 50,000 Dongfan soldiers stationed in Xingang City as a backup.

As for the sea, there are Fujian naval divisions and 30,000 Fuguang troops, and the Ming Dynasty is enough to cross the South China Seas.