Chapter 458 The Qing Army Enters the Customs

"Hahaha!" Wang Yue laughed, and laughed very heartily, and then smiled and said: "Do you think that the current Spain is still the Spain of the Invincible Armada a few decades ago?" I don't know the wrath of the Kingdom of Spain, but sooner or later your kingdom will meet my wrath, remember the Manila Massacre of 1603? Those 25,000 Chinese will not die in vain, and I will seek justice for them. ”

After he finished speaking, the temperature of the air dropped, and the meaning of Wang Yue's words was to pay the blood debt, and he had witnessed the combat power of the Tiance Army, and Caron did not think that Wang Yue's words were just threatening words.

"You're ......!" Caron is now a captive, and he has no confidence after letting go of his cruel words.

He didn't expect this high-ranking official from the Ming Kingdom to know so much about Spain.

Wang Yue didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, and sneered: "I hope Governor Karon can have a good time in my prisoner of war camp!" ”

After speaking, Wang Yue was about to turn around and leave, but Colonel Anthony on the side shouted loudly: "Your Excellency, please wait!" ”

Wang Yue stopped and looked at him: "Colonel Anthony, is there something wrong with you?" ”

Anthony took a deep breath and then asked, "Honorable Lord Wang Sihua, Your Excellency the Governor and I are both nobles of Spain, as prisoners of war, we have the right to redeem our freedom with gold coins, you will not deprive us of this right, right?" ”

"Hehe......!" Wang Yue laughed out loud, and then said to Anthony very seriously: "Colonel Anthony, I gave you the opportunity to evacuate by yourself, but unfortunately you didn't cherish the opportunity. I can tell you unequivocally that with me there are only captives and no nobles. And I am not short of gold coins, what I lack is labor, and it is not impossible to go back if you want to, as long as you have worked here for twenty years, I will naturally send a ship to send you back when the time comes. ”

After speaking, Wang Yue turned around and walked away, leaving only an unwilling roar behind him......!

In the Forbidden City of Beijing, the Imperial Study is almost entirely decorated with modern materials.

Chongzhen looked at the reports sent back by Wu Zhi during this time, and the content was all about Wang Yue.

Because of Wang Yue's unauthorized killing of Zhenguo Lieutenant Zhu Tongrui, there are really a lot of impeachment chapters sent by Nanjing. In addition to the impeachment of various officials in Nanjing, many clans of the Zhu family also joined in the fun.

Chongzhen's attitude towards this is to be shelved and left behind, if Wang Yue is so easy to kill, do he still need to worry so much? If the Tiance Army and the Starting Point City can be taken over by the imperial court, I really don't know how many problems Chongzhen can solve, so these things are just thinking about it.

Wang Yue killed Zhu Tongrui, Chongzhen's attitude was actually three points against it, and seven points in agreement. Zhu Tongrui's clan that smeared Zhu Ming like this should indeed be killed, but Wang Yue did overstep his authority by not going through the procedure.

Recently, the Ming Dynasty's military department Zuo Shilang, the dignified Yingtian Governor Wang Yue Wang Sihua actually left the area of responsibility and went to the southeast overseas Taiwan Island to engage in the east and west, which made Chongzhen both amused and curious.

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, the Xiyi Fan people committed many crimes, but they have always been regarded by the imperial court as a disease of scabies, and its harm is far worse than that of the Japanese in those years.

Chongzhen really didn't know what value that desert island was worth such a lot of effort by Wang Yue, could it really be as Wang Yue said, to return this foreign land to the Ming Dynasty? In this way, Wang Yue is about to make a contribution to expanding the territory.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty is not keen on the land in those remote areas, otherwise he would not have lost Vietnam and abandoned a large area of the Western Regions, but he would never forget to take it back.

From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the land area of the Ming Dynasty gradually shrank, if it were not for the military threat of the Jurchens, Liaodong would be lost, as long as the Manchu Qing did not detain the customs, the imperial court would not be so concerned.

In the final analysis, Daming is still an agrarian country, and the land that is not suitable for cultivation is a money-losing business, because not only is it not produced, but also because the border army is too far away, the supply line is too long, and it has been greatly consumed. This point has continued since ancient times, and it can be concluded that the grain output of the vast northern region was not self-sufficient at all, and the contraction of the land was also an example of the financial situation in the late Ming Dynasty.

As an emperor, Chongzhen also wants to expand his territory and leave his name in the annals of history, but unfortunately he has no money, he can't raise such a large territory, even if these places are given to him for free, he doesn't know whether he should take it or not.

The vast remote areas occupied in the early Ming Dynasty were in the service of expanding strategic depth with the nomads as the financial situation permitted, so most of these areas were only a loose rule, which was different from the way the core areas of the Ming Dynasty were governed.

Of course, the exception to this lost land is Vietnam, which is located in southern Xinjiang and has a high grain production, especially the ancient land of Champa in southern Vietnam. However, since the Ming Dynasty's Beijing division moved from Nanjing to Beijing and the military center of gravity shifted northward, Vietnam seemed to be beyond the reach of the whip.

Wang Yue wanted to take back the big island in the southeast, but Chongzhen had some expectations, after all, the big island was located in the south and should be suitable for farming.

Taiwan and the mainland are an inseparable part, and the propaganda of the previous life made Wang Yue not hesitate to propose to Chongzhen that Taiwan be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and this form must be clarified first. How Taiwan will be governed in the future is, of course, carried out according to the norms of the starting point city.

Even if the imperial court sends a few officials over, it doesn't matter, they can't dominate anything anyway. Wang Yue is still worried that no one will come, and the current Taiwan is estimated to be a foreign place in the eyes of those officials in the Ming Dynasty, and serving in Taiwan will definitely be regarded as a distribution.

Now Chongzhen is most concerned about another thing, a few days ago, the 60,000 Ming army of Anqing who had made meritorious contributions to suppressing bandits had arrived in Tongzhou, and another 20,000 army in the uniform of the Ming army had just entered the pass from the Dushikou of the Great Wall and was on the way to Juyong Pass.

This "Ming army" marched unhurriedly, and it did not look like they had come to fight, but as if they had come for vacation, and according to their marching speed, they should be able to reach Beijing within seven days. These "Ming troops" were the troops sent by the Manchus to attack the starting city, and the commander was the Qing Blue Banner Lord Zilharang.

The Qing army and the Ming army fought many times, and it was not difficult to find 20,000 Ming army uniforms, and there was no need to make another banner, there were many ready-made. In order to achieve the goal of confusing the real with the false, the whole army was dominated by the Han army banner strength, and the real Jurchen soldiers were only 5,000 people, but they were the main force of this operation.

This Qing army was able to enter the customs smoothly without hindrance because of the cooperation of Zhou Zhen, the guard general of Xifengkou, who received an order from Beijing to let this Ming army enter the customs.

This was a strange order, because it was not from the military department, but from a private person, but Zhou Zhen had to do it, otherwise he couldn't afford the consequences.