-- The Zheng clique was defeated in the Penghu naval battle, and it was soon reported.

The Royal Newspaper soon published a news condemning the Shandong Navy's attack on the Fujian Naval Division, and it was not until two days after the Royal Newspaper published the news that Zhao Yan received a battle report from the First Fleet.

The First Fleet transmits information by sea, which is far less fast than the land route, after all, the land route uses a post station, and the 800-mile expedited is far faster than the speed of the ship.

Soon Zhao Yan also counterattacked, saying that Zheng Zhilong did not pay taxes in Haimao, and also collected market taxes privately.

At the same time, "Daming Daily" also listed Zheng Zhilong's income table, the data on the table is not too accurate, but it is not far from ten.

Zheng Zhilong has been in the accounts of tens of millions of taels every year, which is more than the tax revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Zhilong was still a pirate in his early years, not only selling his life for the Dutch, but also plundering merchant ships everywhere.

Zheng Zhilong, unwilling to lose his illegal income, took the initiative to send Fujian naval divisions to harass the coastal areas of Taiwan Province, and the First Fleet had to counterattack.

Zheng Zhilong's background was not clean, he was originally a pirate at sea, and there were naturally a lot of stains.

At the same time, the huge income of the Zheng Group every year made people blush as soon as it was published. At the same time, Zhao Yan's supporters were also increasing, and soon the "Royal Newspaper" once again fell behind in the clash of public opinion.

People condemned Zheng Zhilong as a thief who stole the state finances, but then the "Royal Newspaper" suddenly published that Zheng Zhilong had not evaded taxes, and that he had paid 10 million taels of taxes to the royal family.

The news of the "Royal News" suddenly alerted Zhao Yan.

At this moment, the Zheng group is obviously moving closer to reorganization, which is not good news for Zhao Yan, because once Chongzhen gets the financial resources, his army will be able to expand, and it is impossible to restrict his development in military spending.

Soon, Zhao Yan's speech appeared in the Daming newspaper.

"We do not recognize Zheng Zhilong's legal surname for paying taxes, according to the "Shandong Military Privilege Law", Daming City Bosi is under the management of Shandong, and the tax of the Municipal Bosi should be collected by the Shandong Bosi to be legal. Since the first year of Chongzhen, the Zheng Group has accumulated at least 130 million taels of evasion and private collection of customs tariffs, and more than 300 million taels of illegal gains. If the Zheng Group does not hand over the evasion and private tax collection to the Shandong City Shipping Division, our Shandong Military Group will take further action. ”

Zhao Yan issued a naked threat in the newspaper, and at this moment, Zhao Yan has made up his mind to solve Zheng Zhilong's trouble first.

After solving Zheng Zhilong, Chongzhen will have no foreign aid, and at the same time, Zhao Yan can also get the shipbuilding industry in Fujian, which will be very conducive to overseas immigration.

And Zheng Zhilong stayed in Fujian, and the navy couldn't pull away.

Solving Zheng Zhilong is a cost-effective action, Zheng Zhilong's family is rich and rivals the country, and it is estimated that he is richer than Zhao Yan, after all, the Zheng Group has accumulated more than ten years.

Therefore, Zhao Yan must create public opinion in order to start a war against the Zheng group.

Zhao Yan no longer has any hope for the Zheng Group, Zheng Zhilong obviously wants to die with him, since he wants to die, then let him lie down.

…… Zheng Zhilong, who was in Fujian, was half angry when he read the "Daming Daily", originally wanting to use Chongzhen to defend him and get rid of the excuse of evading tariffs.

But Zhao Yan moved out of the "Shandong Military Group Privilege Covenant", but he was directly forced into a corner.

"One hundred and thirty million taels? A fine of 50 million taels! #......%¥" Zheng Zhilong was so angry that he scolded in Hokkien, slammed the newspaper on the ground, and then stomped on it with his foot.

Refuse!

It is likely that Zhao Yan was given an excuse to send troops to attack Fujian.

Follow!

Zheng Zhilong really can't take out so much silver, although the funds that have been in the account for more than ten years have indeed reached hundreds of millions, and it has exceeded the estimated 300 million taels in the Ming Dynasty, but this is a group, not all the money is Zheng Zhilong's, and his treasury is only more than 80 million taels.

The rest was either distributed to his subordinates or spent by himself, for example, the mansion he built in the market cost more than 8 million taels.

The money in Zheng Zhilong's hand is only enough to withstand the fine of 50 million taels, if he really suffers this money, then he will not go bankrupt.

As for summing, Zheng Zhilong can't do it.

Zhao Yan is different from the usual.

The imperial court does not attach importance to the ocean, if the imperial court is in one day, he is the overlord of the sea, and the huge profits are still endless. However, Zhao Yan attaches great importance to the development of the navy, and in just a few years, the Shandong navy has developed to the current point.

If he surrenders to Zhao Yan, he will not be able to maintain his current power.

According to the original history, Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Manchus. The reason for surrender is precisely this idea, naively thinking that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is just a change of court, and he is still the original overlord of the southeast.

Sadly, Zheng Zhilong was brought under control as soon as he surrendered, and then the Qing army ransacked the Zheng family's mansion, and most of Zheng Zhilong's property continued to be divided up and down by the Manchus.

In the end, Zheng Zhilong still decided to resist to the end, he was gambling, betting on whether Zhao Yan would dare to send troops to Fujian, and Zheng Zhilong was also quite confident in Fujian's defense.

Fujian is full of mountains, Zheng Zhilong, as the general army of Fujian, has become the overlord of Fujian under the continuous expansion of the army, Fujian checkpoints are numerous, as long as it lasts until next year, the new army is trained, and the 50 Western ships in the shipyard are built, he will have the ability to compete with Zhao Yan.

Even if you don't win, at least you can divide it.

…… Zheng Zhilong's letter was delivered to the Forbidden City seven days later, in which Zheng Zhilong made a generous statement, vowing to stand with Zhao and the thief, and wished to respect the Ming Emperor forever.

Chongzhen clapped his hands and applauded, Zhao Yan and Zheng Zhilong completely fell out is what he is happy to see, which is equivalent to tying Zheng Zhilong to his chariot completely.

However, for Zhao Yan in Zhaojiabao, falling out with Zheng Zhilong is also what he is willing to see, because in this way, he will occupy the moral high ground and can solve the Zheng Group.

Although Zheng Zhilong and Chongzhen came together, the problem was that they didn't have the strength to join forces against him, and it would be simple to kill one of them before they had this strength.

Soon, Zhao Yan issued an ultimatum to the Zheng group in the Daming newspaper, and if he did not pay taxes and fines within two months, he would bear the consequences.

At the same time, the General Staff also began to discuss ways to attack Fujian. In the end, the General Staff gave three plans, the first of which was to attack entirely by land, mobilize five infantry brigades of the First Division to the south, and at the same time transfer three mountain regiments from the three southwestern provinces to attack Fujian.

The second plan was to attack from the coast, concentrate the First Fleet, and then escort the troop carriers to deliver troops, first attack Fuzhou, and then go south to attack southern Fujian.

The third plan was also to send the First Fleet to escort the troop carriers to capture Fuzhou first, and then go north along the Min River, capture the checkpoints in the northern Fujian region, and open an entrance for the First Division.

"Let's take the third option! Drop the American Infantry Brigade to Fujian. Zhao Yan looked at the next three plans and chose the third one. The third plan is to project fewer troops from the sea, and the second plan is that the task of sending the navy is too heavy, and it is not very convenient for the army to go to the sea.

After all, when the army is at sea, it cannot control its own destiny, and at the same time the soldiers are not adapted to take a ship. The soldiers of the American Infantry Brigade have been trained in this area.

The First Division had also done a period of nautical adaptation in order to attack Liaodong before, but after this expansion, many recruits were mixed in.

"Yes, my lord." Mao Yuanyi responded, "My subordinates will improve a detailed battle plan." ”

"Settle Fujian by the end of the year." Zhao Yan only said one sentence, and then left the task to the General Staff, while he accompanied his wife.

Yuan'er is pregnant now, Zhao Yan naturally wants to be by her side from time to time, and the task in that regard is handed over to Yan Yuyao and Shalena.

The wedding date of Zhao Yan and Yan Yuyao has also been set, and it will be set in mid-July, that is, next month, together with Shalena's.

Salena is now able to speak Chinese relatively fluently, and has learned thousands of Chinese characters.

However, Shalena is a concubine, and Yan Yuyao is a flat wife.

Now Zhao Yan can still marry a flat wife and three concubines. However, Zhao Yan didn't mean to look for flowers and ask Liu for the time being, after all, it is very rare for the three girls to get along intimately, if they look for it again, such a relationship is easy to change, and now this state makes Zhao Yan feel very comfortable.

If there is a dispute at home every day, it will naturally be unpleasant.

Due to the close relationship between the three daughters, Zhao Yan directly made a big room, and the four of them lived in the same room.

After Zhao Yan went home today, he immediately accompanied Yuan'er out to watch the play.

There is a stage in Zhaojiabao, and people are often invited to sing, and on the street outside Zhaojiabao, there are more singing, and there are more than ten theaters.

People usually go to the theater when they are bored.

Originally, Zhao Yan didn't have much feeling about opera, but after watching it, he found that it was very different from any Peking opera in later generations.

There were many opera schools in the Ming Dynasty, each with its own characteristics.

In addition to the form of Peking Opera, there are also some clown dramas, that is, funny. At the same time, it seems that the current opera is much better than the Peking Opera of later generations.

The so-called Peking Opera was developed in the Qing Dynasty, which is naturally completely different from this era.

In addition to opera, there are also projects such as guzheng and qin music, and there are also many songs and dances, not only drama.

But today Zhao Yan took Yuan'er to the theater to watch the play, and it still feels a bit monotonous!

"Yuan'er, why don't we open an opera house tomorrow, recruit some folk artists, and then open a special art academy." Zhao Yan said to Yuan'er.

"Good! It's good if you like it. Yuan'er said happily.

Dizzy!

Just what I like.

"Alright! Then he will be commanded. Zhao Yan nodded and said, culture and art are still very important, this is another powerful weapon in addition to force.

This time the stage performance was a song and dance troupe from the south of the Yangtze River, and the songs and dances performed were very interesting, and the performance was a guzheng, flute, and pipa, and the music was very beautiful.

Zhao Yan was also fascinated when he heard it.

"I heard that Qinhuai River is extremely prosperous in singing and dancing, and it is the head of the Ming Dynasty, but I don't know what it looks like." Zhao Yan thought in his heart, but now Yuan'er is still pregnant! Naturally, he couldn't go out to look for flowers and ask willows.

When he came back from the theater, Zhao Yan immediately found Song Yingxing.

Now Song Yingxing is in charge of the Ministry of Education, while the original Song Wenyuan has been transferred to the Ministry of Justice as a minister. Song Yingxing is very busy now, he not only manages the Ministry of Education, but also joins the Denglai Institute of Science and Technology, doing various experiments all day long.

In fact, Song Yingxing had the idea of doing experiments long before he came to Zhaojiabao, but he was suffering from lack of money.

Compared with other people's experiments, Song Yingxing's is more targeted, most of his research is about production, he is a literati who attaches great importance to production technology, and many experiments are mainly practical application experiments on things that have been researched by the Academy of Science and Technology.

Nearly a year later, Song Yingxing's research results are relatively fruitful, under his leadership, and students have studied more than ten kinds of chemical dyes, but also improved the threshing machine, and developed an animal power seeder, but also improved the production technology of black powder.

Song Yingxing is more obsessed with the research of agricultural machinery, he found that Shandong's agriculture is developing in the direction of extensive planting and high output value, and better agricultural machinery is needed, so that individuals can complete more tasks, and the efficiency of extensive planting is also higher.

Not long ago, I applied for a steam engine, and I planned to study the tractor that Zhao Yan had mentioned. The steam engine could indeed make a tractor, so Zhao Yan gave him a steam engine.

Although the practical surname of the tractor of the steam engine is not so big, it can also be used. And if you study it early, after the appearance of the internal combustion engine in the future, you will soon be able to manufacture a tractor with a practical surname.

Although Song Yingxing has not been in Zhaojiabao for a long time, he is rapidly growing into a great inventor with his accumulated solid skills, as well as the knowledge of physics and chemistry taught to him by Zhao Yan.

After Song Yingxing usually takes the results developed by his students to get awards, he usually only keeps some for his family, and gives the rest to Denglai University for scientific research.

Therefore, Song Yingxing is very respected in Zhaojiabao, and Song Yingxing, the minister of education, can also earn extra money to subsidize the department, which is really respectable.

Zhao Yan called Song Yingxing and assigned a new task to the Ministry of Education.

"Tomorrow, I will ask the Ministry of Finance to allocate 1 million taels to the Ministry of Education to set up an art academy, and collect artists from all over the world to record the current art schools and works." Zhao Yan said to Song Yingxing.

"A million taels? Wouldn't it be too much. Song Yingxing hesitated.

"Not much, art and culture are a powerful weapon, and sometimes it is even more useful than force." Zhao Yan knew what Song Yingxing was thinking, this guy was a little fascinated by studying production technology. So I patiently explained to him the role of culture.

It is possible to conquer other nations by force, but there must be culture to follow the invasion in order to maintain the influence of a nation.

At the same time, culture and art are also the connotation of a nation.

Culture and art do not have to be passed down by ancestors, but the most important thing is to strive for the development of contemporary times.

Song Yingxing listened to Zhao Yan's words, deeply felt the importance of culture and art, and couldn't help but attach importance to the construction of the art academy.

The next day, the Ministry of Finance allocated 1 million taels to the Ministry of Education, and Song Yingxing convened a meeting of the Ministry of Education to formulate the development of the art college.

First of all, the 'Denglai University of the Arts' was established, and students with artistic talent were selected to enter the college, and at the same time, artists from all over the world were recruited to classify the art inherited from contemporary and ancient times.

And Zhao Yan also picked up the pen and began to write songs and compose, of course, he was completely plagiarized =.

At the beginning, he was selected by the institute, and a large part of it was because of his ability to remember, which is the same as Song Yingxing, Zhao Yan also belongs to the group of people who have this kind of 'superpower'.

As soon as he thought about it, many pictures appeared on the screen in front of him, and this ability called 'human flesh Google' was truly terrifying.

There are actually a lot of superpowers, many of the tricks used by some superstitious people are ordinary and cannot be copied, and some incomprehensible magic performances by Western magicians are mixed with incredible superpowers.

After Zhao Yan crossed over, he read some Taoist books, and Taoists called these superpowers 'Hinayana supernatural powers' and 'Mahayana supernatural powers', what he had before the awakening of the Tao belonged to the Hinayana and what he had after the awakening of the Tao belonged to the Mahayana.

Some people have superpowers that are born with awakening, and some people are cultivated.

After reading some books written by famous Song Dynasty writers such as "Lu Dongbin" and Wang Chongyang, Zhao Yan was a little confused, and he didn't know whether it was true or false.

Zhao Yan quickly wrote a good score for a song, and the first song he plagiarized was "Serving the Country with Loyalty", which is more in line with the background of this era.

…… After two days of discussions, the General Staff finalized a detailed battle plan. It is planned that the first month and a half will be a period of troop redeployment.

Within a month and a half, the 1st Division was transferred back to Shandong, while the Mongols were placed under guard by the 2nd Division.

Four cavalry brigades of the 1st Division were to remain in the north to deter Chongzhen, while five infantry brigades were to move south to Zhejiang, while the Wenzhou area broke through into Fujian.

On the naval side, the 15 frigates that have just been launched will also be transferred to Taiwan, and at the same time, the American Infantry Brigade will also go south.

The Tainan Naval Base, which has 20 warships and 25 frigates, has little suspense about conquering Fuzhou, and as long as Fuzhou is conquered, the Minjiang River will be open in front.

Along the Min River, open a passage into Fujian from northern Fujian, as long as the first division enters Fujian, there is no suspense about the outcome of the war.

At the same time, the Minjiang River Estuary is also a prosperous area of shipbuilding, Zheng He's treasure ship to the West was built in the Minjiang River Estuary area, which is the traditional sea ship manufacturing center of the Ming Dynasty.

The capture of Fuzhou also has the significance of occupying Fujian's shipbuilding capacity.

As soon as the plan for the war was decided, the military headquarters frequently issued orders to dispatch troops, and a new round of troop dispatch began, and the troops of the second division were drawn out and sent to Mongolia.

And the first division, within a month and a half, will be withdrawn to Shandong one after another.

After the sweep, Moxi had fallen under control at this time, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty extended westward from the Gansu Xingdu Division to the Xinjiang Province of later generations.

And Lu Xiangsheng began to attack Tufan. At this time, Tufan no longer had the strength of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the whole of Asia entered a period of great military regression after the Song Dynasty.

Tufan was in serfdom at this time.

This kind of serfdom system is that all peasants are slaves of lords, nobles, and monks, among which the monks have the greatest power, and this social form is very similar to the serfdom in Tsarist Russia, and the social form is also relatively similar to the social form of the book, but the religious power of the book is not so strong.

Under the similarity of the system, the biggest difference in Tufan is that Tufan's productivity is very backward, and at the same time, the climate and land are not as suitable as Tsarist Russia and Yueben, so Tufan is a very deformed society, basically without any middle class.

All peasants are in debt for life, they borrow grain, seeds, and livestock from lords and temples, all of which are usury, and they can only get 3~5 times the agricultural production capacity of seeds and 30~60% of the survival rate of livestock, basically they can't pay it back every year, even if it is 10% interest, then roll over for a lifetime, it is already an amount that I don't know how to calculate.

Even if he died, he could not pay off his debts, and his son became a serf at birth, and he paid his debts for generations. At the same time, the serfs had no personal freedom, and they did not have the opportunity to leave their villages several times in their lives.

There are no beasts without masters on the mountain, and there are no people without masters under the mountains, this is the serfdom system of Tufan.

At the same time, the monks of the Yellow Sect of Tufan did not never marry, the upper class had lovers, and the lower class lived a dissolute life, and they did not have the kind of compassion of Middle-earth Buddhism.

This is a way of ruling in the name of religion, but those serfs still have a blind worship of the trumpet, without the slightest complaint.

It is very likely that the source of the formation of the serfs of Tufan was the exile of millions of Han Chinese to the Tibetan plateau during the Tang Dynasty.

It's a savage interracial race.

Lu Xiangsheng's Xuanda soldiers and horses with 120,000 Mongolian troops attacked Tufan, which can be described as Mount Tai for Tufan, at this time it is summer, although the plateau climate is not very adaptable, but all the way up is not easy to have altitude sickness, and there is no interference from the cold.

The Ming army led the Mongolian cavalry all the way into Tufan and swept all the way.

To deal with the barbaric alien race, it must be exterminated from the **.

Although there have been millions of Han Chinese who have been exiled to Tufan, the Han people are not measured by blood, but more by ideology, whether they think they are Han or not, as long as they think they are, and have the same form as Han people, then they are, even if they are of other races.

What Zhao Yan wants is a quiet Tibetan plateau. As for cultural heritage, in fact, it is all fiction. Whether it is the White Sect or the Yellow Sect, they all sell dog meat on the head of a sheep.

If you solve Tufan, you can wave troops in the Western Regions.

For Xuanda's soldiers and horses to go to Tufan to fight, and no longer obey the imperial power, Chongzhen can be said to be trembling, and there have been joys and worries recently.

The good thing is that Zheng Zhilong was tied to the chariot, and the worry is that Lu Xiangsheng suddenly led the army to conquer Tufan, and no longer paid attention to the dispute between him and Zhao Yan.

At the same time, Zhao Yan's reputation is also steaming.

These are all aspects that Chongzhen is worried about, but the training of the new army is very smooth, and those officers from Shandong are still very hard at training.

As soon as the new army is completed, it will have the strength to compete with Zhao Yan.

However, Sun Chuanting, who was in charge of the New Army, was not so optimistic, and after bribing the officers transferred from Shandong with a large amount of money, he learned from them that in fact, Shandong's method of training troops was not so superficial.

Every soldier of the Shandong Army will receive cultural education in the army after enlistment, and will continue to instill national ideas in them.

This kind of thinking is a kind of belief, and it is the direction for which soldiers are fighting.

Cultural education is an overall improvement of quality, and a soldier with culture has a much higher understanding of military orders than a soldier without education.

Sun Chuanting, who had carefully studied the structure of the Shandong Army, gradually discovered that the Shandong Army might be a formidable enemy that could never catch up with it.

(To be continued)