Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, isn't this too exaggerated.

"My lord, this is a bit of a fuss. Just for a little food, we have to occupy Taiwan. ”

Meng Kuo said.

"Nope! This is not an exaggeration at all! If we don't have our own grain production area, once the Ming cut off our food source, we can only succumb to the Ming. ”

Lu Yan shook his head and said.

He hasn't forgotten how Yuan Chonghuan dealt with Mao Wenlong in later generations, didn't he cut off his food supply?

Although Phi Dao is large, it does not produce grain on its own.

Without food, what's the use of your soldiers being strong?

Unless you can occupy a country in a short period of time, such as conquering North Korea, and taking a lot of grain from North Korea.

Lu Yan also believes that he has this ability, but this is not in line with Lu Yan's strategy.

At least North Korea was superficially submissive to the Ming Dynasty, and it was nameless to attack North Korea.

But as long as he controls the trade in Southeast Asia, then Lu Yan will have a steady stream of silver.

In his previous life, how much silver Zheng Zhilong could get in a year, the domestic information is vague, but the foreign information is very detailed.

Zheng Zhilong draws 3,000 taels of silver for each ship, which means that he has an income of about 10 million taels a year.

How much is the silver tax in a year in the Ming Dynasty? It's only 4 million to 5 million.

What does it mean to be rich? This is called the real rich and rival country.

As long as he controls the shipping in Southeast Asia, let alone a few thousand soldiers, it is tens of thousands of soldiers, and he can afford hundreds of thousands.

"The occupation of Taiwan is only my first step, it is an outpost of our colonization of Southeast Asia. After having a certain strength, I will go south to deal with the Spaniards in Luzon and occupy the whole of Luzon. Then settle Champa, Java, or Macau as appropriate, and when we solve these problems, I will go east to the Wa Kingdom and completely solve the problem of the Wa Kingdom. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Yan's expression was quite fierce.

Both the Spaniards in Luzon and the Dutch in Java committed heinous crimes against the Chinese.

Now that you're here, of course you have to take revenge on them.

There was also a small state, but the country pursued a beggar-thy-neighbor policy, aiming to conquer China and Korea. Tens of millions of casualties have been inflicted on future generations, as well as on China and North Korea.

If he could solve the Wa State once and for all, Lu Yan would definitely not mind being ruthless with it.

"My lord, are you going to give up this position of yours?"

Xue Rengui asked.

"That's right, the generals can't leave the garrison lightly, although the garrison is good, but it prevents me from moving freely. If you want to take Luzon, you have to do it myself. It's enough for you to be here, and I will need you to transport all kinds of supplies to bypass the Ming Dynasty's sea ban in the future. On top of that, I may need you to send some refugees to Taiwan and Southeast Asia. ”

Lu Yan said.

In addition to the above, they can also purchase military materials involving gunpowder, lead shots, steel, etc., sell some looted goods, and brush up on their military exploits.

They were a very important link between him and the Ming Dynasty.

Overlords, they nodded in understanding.

"In addition to that, I also plan to reform the military merit system."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but prick up their ears.

A country's military merit system is often related to the strength of a country, just like the Qin State, which attaches great importance to military merit, which also makes the Qin State strong.

And Lu Yan has always hoped to create a military merit system similar to that of Qin, which is not so strict, but it can completely release the soldiers' pursuit of war.

The next three centuries are the three most important ones, when the great powers of this world slaughter the local natives all over the world, and then force the local women to occupy the local land.

It is precisely because of these three centuries that the dominance of white people in the world was determined.

Because in these three centuries they have not only spread their culture to every corner of the world, but also their descendants all over the world.

The most typical ones are the Americas and Australia, which were originally inhabited by the yellow race, but after the white people killed the natives there, they became their territory.

It is precisely because white people are scattered all over the world and their countries occupy the vast majority of the world that the culture of white people represents the mainstream culture of the world.

Later generations of Oriental stars have been suffering from not being able to integrate into the mainstream culture of the world, not because they have no ability and are inferior to Westerners. It's just that the culture he accepts is an Eastern culture, and it's normal to not be able to integrate into the Western culture.

And if you want to integrate into the mainstream culture of the world, this means that you must completely abandon your own culture and surrender to the culture of the West.

This is undesirable in the eyes of some of the most well-established powers, which means that they will always bow their heads to white Westerners.

Of course, some small countries, such as a stick country, do not have these concerns.

Originally, they pursued the way of balancing small countries, and when the East was strong, they would follow the East, and when the West was strong, they would follow the West, which was originally their way of survival.

Therefore, in Lu Yan's view, it is both simple and difficult to make Chinese culture the mainstream culture of the world.

That is to let the Chinese replace those white people, let them occupy the whole world, so that Chinese culture will naturally become the mainstream culture of the world.

"In the future, we will still count merit at the first level, and military merit can not only be exchanged for land, but also for knighthood."

Lu Yan said.

"A Jurchen can exchange 10 acres of land in Taiwan, or 30 acres of land in Luzon, Java, and Champong. Killing the red-haired Fan and the Wakou can also be counted as combat merits, and one person counts 10 combat merits. The Han army counts a little, and the Han pirates also counts a little. ”

Lü Yan continued, he had always hated fighting in the nest, so he designed the Han people's combat exploits to be very low and discouraged infighting.

"In addition to the division of land, war exploits can also be used for knighthood. At present, I have only booked a total of five ranks, including duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male, and each class has three levels, that is, a total of 15 levels of titles. Of course, these are things after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and what I want to say is that the current military exploits are all useful, even if the imperial court does not give you rewards, I will make up for the rewards for everyone. ”

"Of course, there are many imperfections in this, such as how many military exploits can be knighted, and what the treatment of the title is, these are all waiting to be discussed by everyone."

Lu Yan finally said what he meant.

The strength of a country must have a strong strength, and the reform of the Shang Dynasty created the strength of the Qin State.

The military system of the Sui and Tang dynasties also made the army of the Sui and Tang dynasties dominant.

The Ming and Song dynasties' respect for literature and military suppression also led to the weakening of the Ming and Song dynasties.

So Lü Yan hopes to establish a system, a system that can make the army automatically strong even without these strong soldiers, so as to prepare for the future competition with whites for the world.

Everyone was a little uncomfortable with Lu Yan throwing out so much content at first, but when it came to the knighthood, many people were very interested.

Especially Meng Kuo, he suggested that a few more low-level titles should be added to the baron, such as killing the first level to be knighted, because that's what their Qin State did.

After hearing this, Lu Yan immediately agreed, so he added two levels of dukes and Shangzao under the baron.

You only need to earn 10 military merits to be awarded the lowest rank of knighthood, and 50 military merits can be awarded to the title.

It's just that Lu Yan also stipulated that if he was knighted, then his military exploits would be cleared, and he would not be able to obtain the field.

In other words, a little battle merit can be used to be knighted or to obtain a field, and not both.

In addition, there are two types of titles: lifelong and hereditary.

The title is not passed on to children and grandchildren after lifelong death, and it is extremely difficult to obtain hereditary titles, and the descendants will be demoted by one level, and if the descendants no longer make meritorious contributions, they will be reduced to the common people.

There are also no knights without military merits, and so on.

In the end, it took several hours of discussion to roughly settle the framework for these things.

With the advice of Meng Kuo and others, Lu Yan believed that a Han empire full of expansion would be created in his hands again.