Feng Yunshan recalled Lu Shunde by the way to comfort the commander of the Oriental Fleet and the governor of Korea.

However, Lu Shunde also brought back a piece of news: Qin Rigang, the king of Yan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who had fled from the junction of northern Korea and Jilin, led more than 2,000 people to rise on Ezo Island in Japan, which is the so-called Hokkaido, and conquered several feudal states such as Shigo, Ishikari, and Tokachi one after another, and unified the entire Hokkaido.

Feng Yunshan was taken aback, he couldn't imagine that this Qin Rigang was so hard-hitting, and he could survive many times. However, he can't become a climate anymore, and when Li Guanlong leads his troops to sweep Japan, it won't be long before he reaches Hokkaido, and with the little population of Hokkaido, even if Qin Rigang unifies Hokkaido, there are not many troops.

Feng Yunshan asked Lu Shunde to return to Beijing because he wanted to send him to Nagasaki and lead the Oriental Fleet to assist Li Guanlong's infantry in quickly pacifying Japan and the Kamchatka Peninsula. However, Kamchatka can hardly have a large population living there, it is full of volcanoes, and it is cold all year round, and there is no land to cultivate, so they can only fish and hunt in the harbor. This is especially true for the Bering Strait area further north, but for Alaska, which is across the Bering Strait, it is rich in oil and fishery resources, and Feng Yunshan still has some desire for this state that will become the largest state in the United States in the future.

However, now that he has torn his face with Tsarist Russia anyway, he doesn't have to pay $7.2 million to buy it like the United States in history, although it is indeed cheap, but now, the Chinese Imperial Navy has become stronger, and it has occupied the main strategic points in the Outer Northeast, and it is enough to directly send troops to Alaska.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan instructed: "Lu Aiqing, the imperial court is ready to expand your Oriental Fleet and undertake the task of expanding its territory to the northeast. Of course, the Beiyang Fleet will also take on some, but they are mostly small battlefields, mainly offshore and inland estuars. ”

When Lu Shunde heard that he could expand his territory, he said excitedly: "Weichen dares to disobey his life? ”

Feng Yunshan pointed to the map: "That is the case, Lu Aiqing, within three years, you will lead the Oriental Fleet from Hokkaido to this vast sea area called Alaska-Bering Strait, and occupy it all. This Bering Strait is not actually considered the territory of Tsarist Russia now, but only the territory of one of their 'Russian American Company', which has no armed forces of its own, and the Tsarist fleet in the Pacific has been defeated by our side and is powerless to resist at all. Of course, these places are in a harsh environment, and you need to build harbors and castles here, and build logistics supply lines, all of which you have to arrange. ”

When Lu Shunde heard that there was a battle, he was very happy, but as soon as he learned that the Tsarist Russian army in the entire Bering Strait would not exceed a few hundred, he was dumbfounded, but it was still a good thing to be able to open up the territory if there was no war.

Feng Yunshan rewarded Lu Shunde again, and sent Lu Shunde away.

Today, except for the Kanto region of Honshu Island, which is still under the rule of the shogunate, to be precise, under the control of the shogunate's elder Ii Naobi, the rest of the territory, although it has not yet been fully pacified by Li Guanlong, Feng Yunshan has long regarded these as his own territory. Even if it is a paraphrase of the name of a Kyushu domain, who doesn't know that the current Kyushu domain is completely controlled by the Chinese Empire.

How to treat Japan, Feng Yunshan already had a preliminary idea.

As early as some time ago, Lin Hongnian had already suggested in the recital that Japan should not be directly annexed like Korea and Vietnam, because Korea and Vietnam are deeply influenced by Chinese culture, in fact, they have long been dependent on the Han nation, and their national strength is weak and the population is not large, so they can be quickly annexed through suppression and immigration. However, Japan has a large population, and since the Tang Dynasty, it has not followed Chinese culture, and wants to annex it directly, which is costly, and some of the gains outweigh the losses. In this regard, Feng Yunshan also felt very reasonable, but he just couldn't help the obsession in his heart. But now, the best outcome is to divide Japan into two parts, one under his own control and the other in the hands of the shogunate. This is equivalent to separating Kyushu, Shikoku, and other islands from Honshu Island, and Honshu Island is also divided into Kanto and Kansai parts, thus dividing the whole of Japan.

By preserving the existence of the shogunate, the people could be suppressed through the shogunate. And in the Kanto region here, Feng Yunshan was ready to gradually disintegrate them in the name of changing the fiefs of the vassal states. It just so happens that there are still so many territories in Nanyang and Australia that have not been developed, and I will not be able to move so many people to occupy and develop them for a while, so it is a good choice to exile these feudal lords and samurai there.

Japan's social structure is based on the samurai as the highest level, as long as these literate upper classes are removed, what remains is some toiling people who are running for their lives, Feng Yunshan knows that for them, they don't care who is ruled by them, maybe, because of the policies of the Chinese Empire, let them live better, they will be grateful and support themselves.

Immigration is a good way to go. However, at present, Nanyang, Western Xinjiang, the Outer Northeast and Northern Regions, as well as North Korea and Annam, are all about to emigrate, and the landless and poor people who are willing to emigrate in China have almost migrated, and the rest are not very willing to leave their hometowns. Moreover, Feng Yunshan wanted a group of slightly richer immigrants to go to Japan, so that the Japanese people would envy the life of the Han people and slowly assimilate them. However, it seems that it will be difficult to achieve this step without enough immigrants willing to go to Japan.

The only way to do this was to slowly consume some of the Japanese elite through the shogunate and the Kyushu Domain, so that their population could be reduced and then slowly controlled. Of course, the main means was to get the shogunate and the Kyushu domain to recruit elites at high prices to open mines in Yunnan, Northwest China, and Nanyang.

Feng Yunshan was thinking about it, and Zuo Zongtang and Fan Ruzeng asked to see him.

Fan Ruzeng brought a shocking news: "Some time ago, Britain sent tens of thousands of additional troops from its own territory to India, and in the last two months, there were fierce battles with the main rebels. The Kanpur rebels led by Nana Sahib and the Gwalior rebels led by Tandia Tobi and Queen Jhansi have been basically quelled, Nana Sahib was lured by the British army and executed, and the Queen of Jhansi was killed in battle, only Tandia Tobi led his cronies to flee into the mountains and forests to fight guerrillas everywhere after Gwalior was captured, although he was not captured or surrendered, but it was no longer a climate. Today, in the whole of India, except for the Punjab Kingdom in the northwest, only Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and other places still have sporadic guerrilla rebels, and the rest of the places have been gradually pacified by the British army. ”

Feng Yunshan was taken aback: "Half a year ago, I remember that it wasn't for these rebels or the anti-British army in full swing, how could it be pacified in a short period of time?" ”

Fan Ruzeng said angrily: "Your Majesty, according to the news, three months ago, Britain sent a special envoy from London to the Sikh Kingdom. Recently, the Sikh army in Punjab has uncharacteristically not had any fighting with the British, you must know that some time ago, the Sikhs were anti-British activists. Because of this, the British army was able to concentrate its forces to encircle and suppress the rebels in places such as Kanpur and Gwalior. Wechen suspected that the Sikhs might well have reached some sort of secret peace with the British. It must have been because we returned to him the relatives of the fellow named Summit Kumar, and he betrayed him completely, and even reconciled with the British. ”

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but look a little embarrassed.

Some time ago, the righteous king Shi Dakai sent troops by sea, borrowing from the Sikh Kingdom of Punjab to rescue the important western Xinjiang town of Qishigar attacked by the Kokand soldiers supported by Tsarist Russia, and the Sikh king Samit Kumar was very cooperative, personally met with Shi Da, sent thousands of Sikh cavalry to help, and also provided nearly 10,000 war horses and a lot of grain and grass. For this reason, Feng Yunshan was very happy, personally wrote a letter to praise the other party, and also expressed his recognition of the relationship as equal allies, and sent all his family members to Punjab. At that time, Feng Yunshan still wanted to let Summit Kumar lead the Sikhs to drag the British army to the death, but he didn't expect that it would not take long for everything to change.

Feng Yunshan felt that he had been deceived, and naturally he had a feeling of rage. At the beginning, this Summit Kumar was just a prisoner of British Indian origin, and it was only after the surrender of the empire that he was trained as an agent of the secret service department and sent to India on a rebellion mission. After becoming the leader of the Sikhs, Feng Yunshan didn't ask him too much, because he helped Shi Dakai to send troops to attack Western Xinjiang, Feng Yunshan returned all his family members who were originally under house arrest in Guangzhou to him, and treated them sincerely, but he didn't expect to turn his back in a blink of an eye. Feng Yunshan naturally had an urge to teach him a lesson.

"Humph! Stupid things, but they fell into the British strategy of dividing and encroaching and delaying the army. Sooner or later he will regret his own choice. Feng Yunshan quickly calmed down: "Now, the most important thing is the next move in Britain. When India is completely calmed down and sees us rising, it will inevitably intervene. As the first power, they categorically will not watch us develop. You have to plan ahead. ”