In September and October 1723, the shipyards of the East China Sea Kingdom successively launched a total of 20 new capital warships of 6,000 tons, and the new warships were designed to be more reasonable, equipped with new main guns and two new types of secondary guns, and equipped with new auxiliary equipment and ammunition such as long-firing machine guns, tracer shells, and flares, and at the same time, the design of power equipment and cabins was also more reasonable, and the firing range and power of the main guns were also strengthened. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

New capital ships were launched one after another, and the Second Fleet was established, so Fu Ning began to pay attention to the South China Sea issue, and the first question to consider was whether to take the Natuna Islands. The Natuna Islands were originally the "Wanli Haitang" of the Ming Dynasty, and the island was dominated by Han people, and no one paid attention to the "Wanli Haitang" after the founding of the British Imperial Court due to years of war; In the past decade, due to the rapid development of business on the island of Ryukyu, the importance of Natuna has become prominent, and it has been preemptively occupied by the Netherlands. The Natuna Islands are the gateway to the South China Sea and the "key" of the South China Sea, and their strategic position is very important. But the Dutch had already seized Natuna, and it was not convenient for Ryukyu to do so for the time being; The Netherlands had realized the importance of the Natuna, so the negotiations between the East China Sea State and the Netherlands to "redeem the Natuna" were unsuccessful; For the time being, the East China Sea Kingdom still needs to exchange commercial benefits with the Dutch, so it is not appropriate to go to war with the Dutch at this time, so this is a headache for the time being.

The Navy's 10 Marine Divisions are located in various parts of East and Western Asia, and although they are advanced in equipment and strong in combat effectiveness, they can still be seen in terms of numbers. If there was to be a war against the Dutch forces in East Asia, it would inevitably affect the trade in the South Seas for several months, and it would also be necessary to send new troops and establish naval bases for this purpose, which would seriously stimulate the European colonial powers, so it would require careful consideration; Fu Ning put the topic on the General Staff Department, and as a result, there was a "war" voice in the General Staff Department, and the angry Fu Ning said bluntly, "It's better not to let you know than to let you discuss!" ”。

Fu Ning has always disliked predatory occupation, and did not like the predatory colonial activities like the Spaniards, where a few thousand people can control tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and Fu Ning preferred the permanent occupation and development of the clean-up style. In Fu Ning's view, the Spanish colonial method can only accumulate wealth in the short term, but eventually it will be spit out; Fu Ning preferred the colonization method of the Tsarist Russians in the original world, occupying, cleaning up the natives, and then exploiting them, so that the colony became a permanent territory. Fu Ning believes that if the Spanish-style colonial method is used, using the existing hundreds of thousands of modern troops in the East China Sea, the East China Sea can develop into a colonial empire larger than the Yuan Dynasty in more than ten years, but that can only end up being the division of the empire, the independence of the colonies, and the diffusion of industrial technology, which will eventually become a failed teaching material in the history books; Therefore, Fu Ningcai has always opposed the imitation of the Spanish colonial method.

In the end, Fu Ning did not go to war with the Dutch to retake Natuna, but decided to wait until the time was right to take Malacca from the Dutch and take full control of the South Seas, although that could take years, or even decades.

In November 23, the First Fleet was ordered by Fu Ning to forcibly occupy Jeju Island, and then the 9th and 10th Marine Divisions took over Jeju Island and began to clean up the indigenous people; In December, the Second Fleet went north to take over the waters of Jeju and forcibly captured Port Arthur of the Bohai Kingdom, completely annihilating the Bohai State Navy Division and establishing a naval base, and the First Fleet was transferred to the South China Sea to patrol and defend; At this point, the Donghae Kingdom realized the encirclement of the Goryeo Peninsula and the advance base of the war against the Balhae Kingdom. More than a dozen radio telecommunications battalions trained by the Scientific Research Department and the Intelligence Division began to set off one after another for the garrisons of various marine divisions.

The forcible occupation of Jeju led to the hostility between the Donghae Kingdom and the Goryeo Dynasty, and Renyi began to be interrupted; So far, the number of Han people in Yingzhou has stabilized at 3.4 million. On the other hand, the navy began to clean up the waters of the Yellow and Bohai Seas, and the two countries of Goryeo and the Balhae Sea were not allowed to enter the sea, and all seaports and ships entering the sea would be smashed and the population would be cleared; The ships of the British Dynasty were not allowed to enter the deep sea, and as long as the Han people of the British Dynasty entered the deep sea, they would be looted and resettled in Yingzhou; As a result, only the warships and merchant ships of the East China Sea were left on the entire Yellow and Bohai Seas.

The navy's actions were fatal to Goryeo, and the official name of Goryeo was Korea, but Fu Ning always liked to call it Goryeo, so all the documents of the Donghae Kingdom called it Goryeo. Goryeo was cut off from the British Dynasty, and the country was sold out of Han people, so it is now the "meat on the chopping block" of the Donghae Kingdom; And the piece of sail can't enter the sea and has been exposed in front of the East China Sea Kingdom, it depends on when the last sword of the East China Sea State Navy will be cut down. However, the Koreans were still aware of their fate, and they were still trying to contact the British Imperial Court and protest to the Donghae Kingdom.

The immigrants in Yingzhou Province have stabilized and have all been properly resettled, and universal education is also being carried out in an orderly manner. The industry of Ryukhufu continued to develop, and agriculture also stabilized, so there were no worries; Luzon was almost entirely mining, with some timber mining and agriculture, but there was a large shortage of miners, because Sulu had been completely incorporated into Luzon and there were no aliens to arrest; Therefore, Goryeo Qingzhuang must be a good source of Luzon miners, and now the only thing Fu Ning needs to consider is how to annex Goryeo, and how many troops and logistics are needed.

The military plan submitted by the Military Affairs Department was that 10 new marine divisions would be built for the Goryeo War, but the General Staff Department only approved eight divisions after reviewing and discussing them, and then submitted the report to Fu Ning. At the year-end summary meeting of the East China Sea State at the end of 1723, Fu Ning synthesized the opinions of various divisions and finally approved a new document.

The main contents of the new document are as follows: The functions of the Military Affairs Department of the East China Sea State have been readjusted, and the four subordinate departments, namely, the Logistics Department, the Navy Department, the Marine War Department, and the newly established War Department, are parallel and jointly under the leadership of the Military Affairs Department. Part of the forces of the former Logistics Department was transferred to the new Admiralty, and the Marine Division was separated from the former Admiralty to form a new Marine War Department, and the War Department was newly established. The Logistics Department is mainly responsible for equipment logistics, while the Admiralty Department is mainly responsible for transportation logistics, maritime operations, and cooperation with landing operations. The Marine War Department is mainly responsible for island landing operations and island operations; The War Department was primarily responsible for inland field operations. Tian Yanwu, commander of the 3rd Marine Division, was transferred to the War Department as the head of the department, responsible for organizing and leading the War Department. The War Department was to organize three field divisions in the first half of 1724 and five field divisions in the second half of 1724, achieving a total of eight field divisions by the end of the year. The Marine Division is a lightly armed division that cooperates with the Navy, while the Army Field Division is a heavy division that operates independently in the interior, and there is a big difference in the equipment and logistical supply of the two divisions. The Marine Division is mainly equipped with repeating rear guns and cooperates with the Navy to engage in island operations, while the Field Division is mainly equipped with new submachine guns, heavy machine guns, and various types of field artillery.

Fu Ning believed that it would be more than enough to annex Goryeo and Balhae with eight modern heavy armorers, but it just needed to be done steadily.

In December 1723, the navy of the East China Sea State forcibly captured Lushun, completely annihilated the Bohai State Navy and the First Marine Division and landed and expanded the results of the battle, and then established a military base and began to clean up the sea surface of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea.

In the first month of 1724, the 5th Marine Division was transferred from the chicken coop to Lushun for combat preparation, and the 10th Marine Division was transferred from Jeju Island to Lushun for training. So far, Lushun has brought together the main force of the Navy's Second Fleet, three lightly armed divisions of the 150th Marine Division, and the 1st Field Division, with a total strength of more than 30,000. At the same time, the Yanshan Hall of Tingfeng Pavilion, which Zhang Wu was in charge of the Intelligence Department, began to carry out an intelligence operation codenamed "Anqian" and responsible for "transferring the women of Jiafu".

The first step of the "Anqian" action was to "beat the drum", and Song Wenli, the deputy head of Yanshan Hall, contacted Mrs. Shi, the "Jia Mother", to test Shi Rong to see if he could encourage Shi Rong to agree to move his family to the chicken coop

On the third day of the first lunar month, Song Wenli secretly passed the news to Shi Rong through the Yahuan "Golden Mandarin Duck" in Jiafu, and the "Princess Jia Yuanchun of the East China Sea" sent someone to secretly come to the capital to meet the old lady, Shi Rong was shocked when he heard the golden mandarin duck's summons.

When Fu Ning named Jia Yuanchun and his relatives to "pay tribute" to the imperial court, the Jia family gave the eunuch Dai Quan 3,000 taels of silver to try to redeem it, but the "tribute agreement" involved Jia Yuanchun and goods and arms transactions worth more than 10 million taels of silver, and Dai Quan did not dare to speak at all; The governor of the Jia family can't do anything, and sighs with a sigh. In Shi Rong's view, the so-called "Liuqiu" is just a small and savage country in a distant place, Jia Yuanchun's "harmony" in the past is no different from death, and everything that the Jia family spent on Jia Yuanchun was completely lost, so he completely gave up Jia Yuanchun, and even the person who gave him to marry was not matched, only Baoqin volunteered to serve with Jia Yuanchun. When Jia Yuanchun and his relatives sent them off, the East China Sea sent their navy to Tanggu Port to pick them up, and two 5,000-ton ironclad warships fired 20 rounds of live ammunition as a salute, shaking the sky and shaking the sea. The people of the Imperial Court Rites Department were extremely shocked after seeing the powerful sea power of the East China Sea Kingdom with their own eyes, and after the news was transmitted back to the Beijing Division, Shi Rong knew that the East China Sea Kingdom was far from being as simple as she imagined. Afterwards, Shi Rong sent someone to inquire about the news of the East China Sea, but the messy news from the inquiry could not be distinguished at all; Then Shi Rong began to look for new candidates, and wanted to send another woman into the palace to "fight", but it was about blood, appearance, and character and brain, so Shi Rong couldn't find a suitable candidate for a long time, and now the news of Jia Yuanchun came secretly, Shi Rong was of course surprised.

In the eyes of the imperial court, Jia Yuanchun is already the princess of the East China Sea, so Shi Rongruo and Jia Yuanchun have a private contact, saying that if it is small, it is the connection between relatives and relatives, and if it is big, it is "through foreign countries", and there is a disaster of raiding the family and destroying the door, even if it is a "national prince", he does not dare to be cautious, not to mention that the Jia family has long been without a national prince, just a declining nobleman, so Shi Rong has to be cautious.

"Who is the messenger to you?"

Jin Mandarin Duck took out a silver ticket and handed it to Shi Rong, "Today I went to send some fruit to Grandma Zhen, and when I passed through the back corner door, I was stopped by a Taoist priest, who stuffed me with a silver ticket, and asked me to send a message to the old lady, saying that the princess of the East China Sea has come to the news, and ask the old lady to go to Tianqi Temple for a while; I didn't understand it, so he finished talking and left, so I hurried over to the old lady. ”。

"What a big hand! One word is five hundred taels! INTERVIEWER What was it like? What did he say? Shi Rong took the silver ticket of five hundred taels and looked at it.

"I just came out of the corner gate of the West Courtyard, and when I was leaving, the Taoist priest followed, and whispered, 'Send a message to the old lady, the princess of the East China Sea is here, please ask the old lady to go to Tianqi Temple to talk about it, don't tell anyone', and then stuffed a silver ticket for me to turn around and leave, before and after just a word, I understood that the Taoist priest was gone, so I hurried over to return to the old lady.."

"Did anyone see it on the road?"

"No, the girls all went to Bao Erye's side, and I didn't see anyone along the way."

Shi Rong didn't speak for a long time......

"Tianqi Temple, but the Tianqi Temple of the former dynasty at the west gate?"

"I heard that there is a Tianqi temple in Xishan, which is too far away, presumably it is the Tianqi temple at the west gate of the city."

"Isn't the Tianqi Temple at the west gate of the city in disrepair? There are still monks chanting scriptures? ”

"Yes, I heard that the year before last, there was a Shandong pilgrim who donated silver to rebuild, and now they have changed to worship the Ming King Bodhisattva, and the monks are cold, and there is very little incense; The strange thing is that there is still an old Taoist priest living in it, and his plaster is very spiritual. Next to the temple also built a new Guanyin nunnery, asking for a son is very effective, the incense is very prosperous, that is, there are a lot of rules, Lian ** milk also went there to worship a few years ago; I also learned some of it after listening to Ping'er. ”

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"You take a few taels of silver tomorrow and go to that Tianqi Temple to donate some sesame oil money; Don't report your name, just see if there is the Taoist priest you have seen today; Don't say anything there, just talk back to me when you get back! Shi Rong handed the silver ticket back to the golden mandarin duck, took off the bracelet on his hand and put it on the golden mandarin duck's hand, "Remember!" Don't talk to anyone about this! ”

Mandarin Duck insisted on not accepting the five hundred taels of silver tickets, but Shi Rong and Mandarin Duck explained many words, which stabilized Mandarin Duck's heart. The mandarin duck couldn't resist Shi Rong's order, and finally took the silver.