At this time, the Ming Dynasty no longer had any threat in the north, so the center of gravity of the empire could move south, continue to develop the maritime strategy, and use the advanced productivity and production methods of the Ming Dynasty to compete for marine resources. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As early as the summer of the 17th year of the Apocalypse, when convening a meeting of the Ministry of War, Zhu Youxiao put forward the instructions for streamlining the marine troops, that is, to eliminate a large number of guards and soldiers, and even gradually abolish the outdated guard post system, and to directly convert a large number of ordinary people with military status who had become de facto peasants into civilian status.

Of course, this will definitely touch the interests of many officers and landlords, so that these officers of the guard post who live by drinking the blood of soldiers all the year round can no longer continue to live a parasitic life by exploiting the soldiers of the guard station.

Even, it will lead to a mutiny in the army, and some guards officers take the opportunity to induce the soldiers to make trouble, but now the Ming Dynasty is no longer afraid that there will be a mutiny, after all, the main military force is now the Praetorian Guard and no longer these guards, as long as these guards make trouble, if the situation is small, they can be directly appeased with money and food, and if the situation is big, they don't mind directly using the army to eliminate it.

In short, in any case, from now on, the Ming court at this time has enough ability to completely eradicate the cancer formed by the guard system that has adapted to this era, and some ways to exploit and squeeze ordinary soldiers with the connivance of the imperial court will no longer be possible, as a Ming Empire that wants to transform into a trust empire, it is impossible to allow so many laborers to continue to feed a group of parasites.

In order to increase the speed of social wealth in the internal production of the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally not enough to rely on the innovation and progress of science and technology, with the first mode of production, in the large-scale production mode, more labor is still needed to realize the transformation of theoretical knowledge and experimental results and social wealth, and then make the entire Ming production economy more active.

If you want to realize that every Ming people can have clothes, food, and a house to live in, men can afford to marry daughters-in-law, women do not worry about marrying, you have to not let every labor force idle or wasted, the population of Ming has reached hundreds of millions of trillions, this huge base can not become a burden to the Ming society, but to become the resources of the Ming Dynasty, one of the most powerful advantages, to let the value of every Ming person be reflected.

Therefore, we can't let anyone be simply exploited by landlords or other exploiters, we must let everyone have an advanced space to realize the value, and liberating the hands of the soldiers of the guard station and giving them sufficient freedom to choose a career is the first step to take advantage of the demographic dividend of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it is not only the guard post system that has been abandoned, a large number of guards have been abolished, and even the border army and the Janissary have been required to reduce their personnel, mainly some elderly and disabled people will be centrally assigned to local administrations or instructors or other government posts.

The reason why these veterans and retrenchers of the border army and the Praetorian Guard are uniformly distributed by the military department and the ministry is because, after all, the border army and the Praetorian Guard have experienced wars and have made contributions to the stability and expansion of the border defense of the Ming Dynasty, and the other is that these people have actual combat experience and have certain abilities.

Zhu Youxiao can not worry about the mutiny of the soldiers in the guard, after all, these people have little combat effectiveness, but if the border army and the Praetorian Guard people disturb the trouble, Zhu Youxiao still has to be afraid, especially the Praetorian Guard, many of them have been exposed to modern military education and training methods, if these people who are dismissed from the Praetorian Guard are used, sometimes it is difficult to guarantee that they will not form a powerful force to challenge their own throne.

Moreover, many of the officers of the Praetorian Guard have received systematic education from the Royal Military Academy, and many of these officers themselves are people with both civil and military skills, and they are still at a high level of illiteracy, and these officers can even be directly used as magistrates, so if they are just to be a worker or peasant, it may be a waste, of course, there are many people who are tired of the world, can break life and death, and prefer to work for a career, but those are voluntary, and the court does not encourage or oppose them.

From the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse to the eighteenth year of the Apocalypse, the number of infantry in the first batch of large-scale layoffs in the entire Ming Dynasty has reached more than 1.8 million (because there is a problem of empty salaries in many guards, so the number of officers and soldiers who have been dismissed may not be so many).

Although the infantry cavalry is being largely reduced, the entire navy and flight battalions are still greatly increasing, especially the size of the navy.

The current Ming Dynasty has not yet entered the era of electrification, and it has not yet been able to manufacture electric motors, so the flight battalion still cannot become an independent branch of the military, that is, the air force, and he can only be an auxiliary infantry cavalry and naval combat.

Therefore, the expansion of the flight battalion is not much, and the most is the navy, which is also related to the policy of the Ming Dynasty to start vigorously expanding and competing for maritime interests.

The West's maritime hegemony began with the plundering of the world by private armed caravans, but later, it gradually became the main body of overseas plunder, and in this, both private and state, are inseparable from a strong maritime power.

It was precisely because of its own maritime power that the Ming Dynasty was able to exterminate the huge maritime disaster of Zheng Zhilong's Haikou, so that the Ming Dynasty could begin to directly open up maritime trade.

And now, the Ming Dynasty has an overseas colony of Java Island, which is used as a foothold for the Ming to compete for the interests of the South Seas.

Since the island of Java was occupied by the Ming Dynasty, it has now been basically completely assimilated by the Ming Dynasty, and most of the indigenous people of the entire island of Java have disappeared, and even those who are still alive have mostly accepted the Han culture and learned to speak and write Chinese characters.

Several important coastal ports have also been built on the entire island of Java, and even Zhu Youxiao directly ordered the formation of the fourth fleet of the Ming Dynasty in this area, that is, the Nanyang Fleet, which formed a horn with the South China Sea Fleet stationed in Hai'an and Nansha.

However, this also shows that because the center of gravity of the Ming empire in recent years is still in the north, the entire ocean world is still the backyard of the Western powers.

And now, the Ming Dynasty has ended the war in the north, and the national strength of the empire has taken off again, so Zhu Youxiao can free up his hands to compete with these Westerners, at least not let the entire global maritime interests be taken away by these Francophiles and Red Fans.

For this reason, after dismantling a large number of infantry cavalry that had consumed military expenditures in vain, Zhu Youxiao did not reduce the military expenditure of the empire, but continued to increase military expenditure, and even added most of this increased share of military expenditure to the construction of the navy and the construction of ships.

Not only that, Zhu Youxiao also specially convened the cabinet to hold court discussions with the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and decided to start planning how to intervene in the battle for maritime interests in the South China Seas.

In the end, Zhu Youxiao decided to intervene in the struggle for maritime interests in the South China Sea in the first way to regain the bends, after all, this is a good reason, and intervening in the struggle for maritime interests under the pretext of recovering the homeland can also silence the mouths of the radical conservatives in China.

Although Zhu Youxiao has sent many officials who are tougher than a duck's mouth to go to the west or north to carry out large-scale development or educational support, there are still many people who still verbally object to Zhu Youxiao's foreign expansion.

According to the plan, the public opinion guidance in charge of the Ministry of Rites took the first step, that is, it began to let various official media such as "Daming Daily" report on Wanwan, and explained that Wanwan has been an inseparable part of the territory of Daming since ancient times.

At the same time, the learned Hanlin began to quote scriptures to explain why the southeast coast, the Penghu Islands, which is next to the Penghu Islands, belonged to the territory of China since then, and when Sun Wu had Han officials to administer it during the Three Kingdoms.

In addition, while emphasizing that Wanwan Island is the inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty and this concept began to be instilled into the consciousness of all classes of the Ming Dynasty with high intensity, it also began to disclose the history of how these Francophiles and Red Fans from Europa began to encroach on the territory of the Ming Dynasty step by step over the years, and in order to arouse the emotions of the people in the hearts of the readers and the disclosure of the bloody massacre of many of the indigenous Gaoshan people in the Ming Dynasty to arouse the sense of justice of the Ming people.

The purpose of these public opinion guidance is to lay a mass foundation for the entire Ming Dynasty to recapture the island of Wanwan in the future, and thus gain the support of most ordinary people.

And everyone knows that once the Ming Dynasty begins to subdue Wanwan Island, it will inevitably provoke a war with the Francophile and the Red Ghost, and thus cause great turmoil in the entire South Seas.

After all, although the island is not very big, and even in this era, there are almost not many people, so few people favor this place, but from the geographical location and military value of what will =, this bend city is a retreat to Fujian, Nanzhili and Zhejiang and other places, into can threaten appetite, and even scientific research has it.

And Zhu Youxiao himself couldn't watch the Crooked Island being built one after another by the Francophiles and the Red Fan Ghost under his nose, which became the weight of these Western threats to the Ming coastline and control the entire Ming Dynasty to enter the South Seas and even go out of the South Seas to fight for the entire Pacific Ocean.

But the so-called exchange of courtesies, Zhu Youxiao will not let the Ming Dynasty start a war with the Western Oceans, after all, these Western countries did not hesitate to pay tribute to their Ming Dynasty, and even because they were afraid of the Ming Dynasty's maritime strength, they did not embarrass the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade fleet as before, and even tried to have a frontal conflict with the Ming Dynasty, and in this regard, Zhu Youxiao also decided to convey it to these Western Oceans through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and asked these Western Oceans to leave Wanwan Island immediately, and must evacuate in the shortest possible time.

However, what is not unexpected is that these Western fans directly rejected the Ming Dynasty's request for them to evacuate the bend, and the reason for these Western fans is also very simple, now this is the new world I discovered, I occupy it, and I am the master here.

Of course, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to be polite, after receiving the news that the West refused to withdraw from Taiwan Island, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered to start the recovery of the Wanwan Islands, and ordered the East China Sea Fleet to directly enter the Penghu Islands, and the South China Sea Fleet and the Ocean Fleet also went westward, and in order to recover the entire Wanwan Island, and thus let the Ming Dynasty better compete for the maritime interests of the South Sea, and can also go out, directly let the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence extend to the entire Sea of Japan and even the Pacific Ocean.

And these Western Oceans, who had already occupied the bend of the bend, did not realize that the Ming Dynasty was ready to take military action, but they simply thought that the Ming might not do anything to the bend island, at most it was just a declaration of sovereignty.

But these Westerners obviously did not carefully investigate the current changes in the Ming Dynasty, and did not know that the Ming Dynasty had now completely turned into a trust empire that was actively expanding abroad, so he never knew that the Ming Dynasty had begun to raise force.

At this time, the Crooked City was a city built by the Red Fan Ghost after occupying the southwest of the Crooked City, but at this moment, most of the cultural elements can be seen in the Crooked City, and even the architectural style is like this, and the speech is still in its native Chinese, not Chinese.

Moreover, the whole city also shows strong discrimination, but the city of Nuoda is strictly restricted from entering the Gaoshan tribe and the Han people, and even enslaves the children of the city, so that many children have been affected by these people.

However, just when Xiyangfan thought that Daming would not directly start the recovery of the bend-bend city not long after the northern battle, Heiwa had already arrived under the Chichicheng city with the advance fleet, and at this time, it also caused the alarm of the western-wing.

It was only at this time that these Westerners remembered to actively mobilize their troops to rescue the city, and even to rescue the Western-style troops in the eastern part of Java Island.

But what these Westerners didn't expect was that the Ming Dynasty had already broken their minds, and the ocean-going fleet had already been ambushed on Java Island, as long as the Western-Ocean fleet in the east of Java Island appeared, the Ming's ocean-going fleet would immediately attack, and these Western-ocean fleets that tried to support the city would try to be surrounded and reinforced.

Of course, what made the West even more unexpected was that the Ming navy's attack was very fast, and it successfully occupied the red city after a few rounds of shelling, and some red-haired ghost soldiers tried to use firearms to stop the advance of the Ming army, but it was obvious that their firearms had no advantage.

At the same time, these Western fans, especially the red-haired ghosts, would not have thought that the fleet they had come from had been annihilated, but they hurriedly withdrew to the area around Chichishi City and began to move to other cities on Bend Island.