Shouting slogans is shouting slogans, in fact, everyone knows what they are going to do......

The protector is a cheerful person.

Didn't you hear him make it clear what good things are in these places?

Tin ore!

What does tin stand for?

All the bronze of the Ming cannons, all the packaging of military cans, and all the movable types of printing houses all had to use a large amount of tin, especially canned food, and the tinned canned packaging supported the field rations of the 800,000 army of the Ming Dynasty. Even the lunch boxes that soldiers carry with their drinking kettles to eat are tin, and even children's toys are tin, and it can be said that this metal is no less important than copper.

A huge tin mine.

After the battle, these generals and future generations will be able to sit back and enjoy the wealth.

How to play is simple.

The Protector granted the right to explore and mine to a newly established mining company, and he held a part of the company's shares, and the rest of the shares were eligible to participate, in fact, the generals in charge of fighting the war were divided according to their status and merit. As for how these people are mined, the mining company will have a manager, and this manager will recruit artisans to buy slaves to find and mine, and the shares will only have to wait for the money. This model has been running for many years in the military, with generals and soldiers to conquer, followed by joint ventures in which companies take mining rights or monopoly trade rights, and make money to share with these shareholders. The military expenditure is from the state, and the best assets of the territory laid down belong to the generals participating in the war, and a large part is given to Yang Qing, and the remaining bones are left for the civilian businessmen who poured in later.

The latter is also very rewarding.

They could use their commercial privileges and extraterritoriality to engage in commercial plundering in these places, colluding with the upper chiefs to buy grain and native products and dump industrial goods. No matter how poor the tribe is, it can still squeeze out profits, and even if there is nothing, there is still a population to sell, especially young and beautiful girls who are in demand.

No arrest is required.

Those chiefs themselves will figure it out.

Just like the chiefs in Africa, what they like most now is to sell their compatriots, in fact, the chiefs of any place, in front of those dazzling Ming goods, will not hesitate to catch a few girls in their own clan, send them to the back houses of the rich people of the Ming Dynasty, and send them to those entertainment places that are becoming more and more lacking.

Even if it's just for a box of candy.

But everyone has to pay taxes.

This tax is paid to the General Department of Taxation.

These taxes were transferred to the state treasury for the new expansion of the military expenditure, which was diverted to the factories of the country, mainly civilian officials and the gentry of the regions they represented.

So the conquest was overjoyed.

Everyone benefits.

The country's tax revenue has increased substantially, the army generals have made a fortune, military supplies have been procured to the new capitalists, and the small private merchants have their bones to gnaw, even if the soldiers who really need to shed blood and sacrifice can make great achievements, and at worst, they can grab a wave in the process of conquest, not to mention gold, silver and jewelry, even if they take a prisoner and sell it to slave traders!

In recent years, the Ming army's war and slave trade have become a standard configuration.

Although it will not be promoted.

But in fact, everyone knows that in the logistics office of every brigade, there is actually a logistics officer who is not nominally doing this, who is silently buying prisoners captured by the soldiers, and paying the soldiers according to the physical condition and appearance of men, women, and children. The captives were sold to slave traders who followed the army, and the difference in the price went into the pockets of the generals, who brought their own hired bodyguards back to their home countries and openly sold them in the slave markets. On one side is the chimney of industrial civilization, on the other side is the ploughing and ploughing cattle of agricultural civilization, and there is also the oldest criminal slave market in the middle, just like the United States before the Civil War.

But that's the motivation.

What is the expansion for? Yang Qing can do it for his great empire and for his son's country, but this is other people's business, it is his son's country and not someone else's, who is full of food and support if he does not trade slaves or plunder, and runs to those poor mountains and rivers to fight hard?

Do you really think that shouting a few slogans will make you enthusiastic?

The slogan can't make people bloody, and the greedy desire can make them have no hesitation.

"But you have to choose the right time to do it."

Zheng Hongkui said.

"Nanyang is not here, whether it is Johor or Myanmar Nanzhang, there is no danger in fighting, Myanmar is the most capable of fighting, but if you really want to put up a position on the battlefield, you may not be able to beat one of our armies. They relied on elephant soldiers the most, but they collapsed with bombs and rockets. The only way to prevent this is to avoid the rainy season and put the whole process of the war in their winter, which is the dry season. However, although it is said to be winter, it is actually similar to our late spring, whether it is Nanzhang or Myanmar, it is basically the same. Such a climate can avoid epidemics as much as possible, but when the rainy season comes, whether we win or lose, we must withdraw, otherwise we will die half without fighting.

But Johor is different.

There is no difference in climate, basically all year round is summer, and it is midsummer, the advantage is that the sea is on three sides, the climate is cooler than the midsummer in our interior, and our winter they are the rainy season, so the attack on Johor can start first, start the attack from Qiongzhou south in March, and must stop by the end of August.

They can't fight in the rainy season.

In fact, they have as much rain in the dry season as we do in summer, and they can barely fight, but in the rainy season, it will be a leak. ”

Zheng Cai added to him.

"This is decided by King Tang!"

Yang Qing said to King Tang.

Of course, Zhu Yujian is not a fool, he is a respectful manager, who made him special! But it was not at all for him to really command, the three-way army could not be commanded in a unified manner at all, how could he give orders to the fleet in the South Seas in Kunming? When he ordered it to be sent to Johor, he was afraid that the battle would be over, and he would actually command his own Burmese Front, and the other two armies were in his own hands.

He immediately expressed his complete approval of Admiral Zheng Hongkui's proposal.

"That's it, but the epidemic still needs to be taken seriously."

Yang Qing said with satisfaction.

Of course, this is a minor issue.

In fact, the Ming army's epidemic prevention level is the most perfect in the world at present, and the technology is also the most advanced, the Nanyang operation is cholera, the key to this is not to drink raw water, no matter what the situation must drink boiled water. And it must be opened long enough, and then fill the soldiers with the kettle they carry, each gang has a cook responsible for cooking and boiling water, in fact, the main thing is to boil water, eat canned food to avoid the bacteria brought by the food to the greatest extent, and the soldiers themselves can also use tin kettles and lunch boxes to boil water to drink.

This habit has been cultivated after so many years of compulsion.

The second is mosquito control.

This can only be done with one mosquito net per person.

The Southern Army originally had one per person, and there were also mosquito coils and other smoked mosquitoes, which were also available to everyone, but there was no way to do this when marching and fighting during the day, so they could only distribute cooling oil to solve the problem after being bitten. Thanks to the miracle doctor of Huguo Gong, cool oil, Pien Tze Huang and other tropical special drugs have been widely used, and play an important role in the development of Taiwan and Hainan Island, although the cost is high, but this is not a problem.

Then there's malaria.

This cinchona is impossible, and even at this time in South America, I am afraid that only a small amount can flow out, and it is still under the control of missionaries.

But fortunately, Daming has a yellow penny, although it is impossible to extract artemisinin, but Yang Qing can let the soldiers eat it directly, after all, this thing is not the cinchona tree that the Indians protected by the sacred tree, this can be said to be everywhere in the north. It is impossible to extract the active ingredient, and it is still possible to go to the north to buy a large number of yellow pennies to dry, and then let the front-line soldiers take warm water and drink it as tea. This thing is not toxic, you won't die if you drink it, you can solve it by taking a pill of artemisinin, it's a big deal to let the soldier drink it three times a day, although artemisinin is insoluble in water, but even the soaked penny is drunk into the stomach, and stomach acid should be able to solve part of the problem.

And this can also prevent dysentery, heat stroke, and heat clearing and detoxification, in short, Yang Qing has dealt with malaria for the Southern Army all these years.

The effect is still obvious.

At least the incidence has dropped dramatically.

There is also lice spreading, but this is not a problem in the Ming army, the Ming army attaches great importance to personal hygiene, and there is athlete's foot and the like, but this is not a problem, because the southern army is forced by Yang Qing to wear straw sandals, and it is an exaggeration to wear sandal-style straw shoes and be afraid of athlete's foot.

In addition, there is a problem with poisonous insects.

In other words, isn't this soldier for Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi to add food?

And locusts.

This one comes with an extra box of salt per person.

This thing in the water by the capillaries on the surface of the body directly exchange oxygen in the water for breathing, after leaving the water by the mucus secreted to absorb the oxygen in the air and then exchange breathing with the capillaries on the surface of the body, after sprinkling salt, the mucus is immediately peeled off and it is directly suffocated.

In short, Yang Qing's consideration is thorough enough.

Of course, death is still inevitable, but in this era, how can there be immortals in war, and the conquest of Nanyang is completely worth it even if tens of thousands of soldiers die. This large-scale expansion of 200,000 soldiers in the South Seas will extend the rule of the Chinese Empire to the southernmost tip of the Asian continent for the first time, and truly establish the Ming Dynasty's domination over the Indochina Peninsula. At the same time, it also truly established the true relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states, no longer just occasional contributions to local products, and no longer just symbolic rule, the will of the Empress of the Ming Dynasty must be obeyed by any vassal and cannot be disobeyed. Their market must be completely open to the Ming, their resources must be at the mercy of the Ming, and they no longer have the right to communicate with foreign countries, and any private interaction with foreign countries is regarded as a betrayal of the Ming.

In short, they are no longer feudal vassals.

The Empress of the Ming Dynasty will truly exercise suzerainty over them.