The pirates who ravaged the coast of China from the Yuan Dynasty to the 30th year of Wanli were not simple pirates, but carried out land invasion and plunder.

Since Jiajing, the Muromachi shogunate has existed in name only, unable to control the political situation of the whole country, and the princes have their own affairs, especially the feudal lords in the south, regard the plundering of Chinese mainland as a benefit, and at the same time, for various reasons, many Chinese industrialists and businessmen and intellectuals have stayed in Yuben to live abroad, those who have money trade with themselves, and those who have no money have joined forces with themselves to plunder China.

This period was the most rampant period of the Japanese invaders, and during the mixed period of the real and false Japanese invaders, they caused great damage to the coastal areas of China, and famous anti-Japanese generals such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou were the figures at that time.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Tokugawa shogunate had already controlled the entire Yuben and ordered the country to be closed and closed, allowing only the Dutch to trade with the Chinese in the Yumoto, and even more severely prohibiting the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty, so as not to let the daimyo get a source of money.

Under the propaganda of the Education Committee, the atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders aroused great indignation among the soldiers of the second battalion.

At the end of March, 20 galleons, loaded with cargo, returned to Qingdao from the Americas, bringing back nearly 8 million taels worth of cargo.

Most of these goods were stolen from Westerners, and some things that could not be bought for money in the mainland, or things that were less profitable, were thrown to Spanish and Portuguese merchants in exchange for goods that could be profitable in the Ming Dynasty.

"In addition to the ships and goods that were grabbed, the California Colonial District also let the fleet bring back 100,000 taels of gold, and this trip alone has more than 9 million taels in the account." Zhao Quan said to Zhao Yan.

"Looting is a promising thing." Zhao Yan laughed and said, "It seems that there should be no problem with next year's finances." ”

"Huh! Childe, Cao Li also snatched a Europa nun back, saying that she brought it to you specially for you. Zhao Quan clapped his hands outside, and a young woman with a white gauze hat walked in, this girl was very tall, and when she walked in, she made a cross prayer, and the breath was so holy that it could not be blasphemed. Zhao Yan suddenly came to his senses, glanced up and down, pulled the girl into his arms, and directly picked up the white yarn.

A beautiful face appeared before his eyes, this girl looked sixteen or seventeen years old, not with cold and hard edges like many European women, that face was dignified and feminine, and her skin was as white as milk.

The girl was very flustered, and her jewel-like blue eyes blinked at Zhao Yan, like a frightened fawn. Zhao Yan looked at her and showed a smile that he thought was very kind, and reached out to touch the girl's face unscrupulously.

The skin is as delicate as silk.

Zhao Yan's frivolous behavior naturally made the girl cry out in a lost voice, Zhao Yan raised his hand and patted the girl's buttocks twice, and the girl finally quieted down.

"Haha! Sure enough, it's the best. Zhao Yan laughed out loud, with his years of research on Western infantry movies, the girl in front of him was definitely the best of the best.

"Where did Cao Li grab this?" Zhao Yan asked with great interest.

Liu Yuan's administrative report said that it was snatched from the French colony on Newfoundland, and that it was a nun. The doctor didn't find anything wrong. Zhao Quanle said with a smile.

Zhao Yan helped the girl in his arms up, and the girl was a little overwhelmed and didn't know what Zhao Yan was going to do. I saw Zhao Yan looking at her height of nearly one meter seven, nodded and exclaimed: "It's rare for a French girl to grow so tall!" ”

The French in this era are generally short, and the height of the French is generally about 1.6 meters, and it is incorrect for Napoleon to be called short, he is only a little fatter than other Frenchmen, so he looks shorter.

"Is there anything other than this chick?" Zhao Yan asked.

"The fleet brought back nearly 3,000 white slaves, as well as more than 100 good-looking Western women." Zhao Quan said, Zhao Yan nodded and said: "Let the staff add these women to the rewards for their military achievements, and when the Korean soldiers are over, half of the rewards will be given to the soldiers with outstanding military achievements." ”

"And what about the other half?" Zhao Quan asked.

"The other half, when the battle in Liaodong is completely over, I don't know if Cao Li's kid can grab the Western girl again! Save money. Zhao Yan commanded.

These Western girls are naturally used to motivate soldiers to kill the enemy. Selecting a few exemplary role models and then giving them public rewards can have an immediate motivating effect.

It's just a reward of silver or something, Zhao Yan's soldiers have a good salary, and many times the effect does not make all the soldiers excited.

It's obviously a good idea to reward some Western girls.

After sending Zhao Quan away, Zhao Yan directly hugged the French girl in front of him, the girl was very restless and wanted to struggle, but under Zhao Yan's strong physique, there was no effect at all.

When a robber is really promising, such a superb is simply hard to find, if in the twenty-first century, a French girl is tied to sleep, then it is not wanted everywhere in the world!

"Today's killing and plundering is so that tomorrow our children and grandchildren can face the world with compassion, and even the fart is fragrant."

Zhao Yan thought in his heart, humming a little song in his mouth, carried the French girl into the room, and then slammed the door shut............ The next day, the amorous sunlight sprinkled in front of the window, and in Zhao Yan's room, the best French girl was curled up in Zhao Yan's arms and asleep.

I could see a red mark on the bed, Zhao Yan wanted to try all kinds of moves in the small movie yesterday, but this chick was the first time, and she screamed in pain last night, so Zhao Yan had to give up her original plan.

Zhao Yan just moved after waking up, and the girl in his arms also woke up, seeing that he was curled up in Zhao Yan's arms, and he was naked, grabbed the quilt and retreated to the corner of the bed, looking around helplessly.

"What's your name?" Zhao Yan only remembered this question at this time and asked the girl.

"Louis, salianna......" The girl had apparently also learned some Chinese, and knew what Zhao Yan was asking her, and answered her name in French.

"Luisa Lena?" Zhao Yan carefully distinguished for a while, this girl seemed to be called Shalena, Louis was her surname, and after distinguishing clearly, Zhao Yan smiled at her: "I will call you Shalena in the future!" ”

"Hmm!" Serena curled up in the corner of the bed and nodded a little panicked.

"Can you understand me?" Zhao Yan looked at her and asked. The girl nodded again, apparently being indoctrinated with Chinese on the way. Zhao Yan moved naked on the bed, then reached out and pulled Shalena over, holding her hands unscrupulously on the ** place on Shalena's chest, lowering her head and sniffing the root of her ear, and said in her ear: "In the future, you will be the woman of this general." ”

"I ...... Can I get back ...... Go home? The girl raised her head and stammered at Zhao Yan in Chinese and asked, her eyes full of longing.

"It's your luck to be able to come to Daming, what are you going back for? If you miss your parents, I'll have them fetched. Zhao Yan said.

Salena thought...... I want to go home. A mist appeared in the girl's eyes, and her expression was very pitiful.

"Okay, okay, I'll take you home later." Zhao Yan coaxed.

"Really?" Salena asked in surprise.

"Of course, tomorrow I will have a very big ship built, and when it is finished, I will go to France with you." Zhao Yan patted his chest and said, "But you have to be obedient." ”

"Serena will be very obedient." Salena nodded obediently.

Aftermath so easy? Zhao Yan was puzzled for a long time.

The process of picking up girls before the crossing is basically no essential difference from Zhao Yan at this time. Generally, they are deceived into staying overnight in a hotel or other place, and then the lonely man and widow are directly overlorded by the bow, and then the woman cries and cries, and the livestock is about to start to clean up the aftermath, and generally makes all kinds of promises, and then the woman half-pushes and half-determines the relationship.

Before the crossing, a friend told Zhao Yan that the woman was very obedient after she fell off, and this time Zhao Yan thought of this and sighed: "What a good word!" ”

After a while, Zhao Yan put on his clothes and called the maids outside in, and the two maids walked in with grooming utensils and began to bathe and freshen up Shalena.

After freshening up, Salena put on a Confucian dress, which looked slim and stunning.

Zhao Yan took her to the canteen of the headquarters to eat, and the people who saw Zhao Yan along the way were all secretly staring at their eyes after saluting.

Facing the strangers around her, Salena was a little scared, holding Zhao Yan's arm and reluctant to let go.

A girl suddenly ran to a place where she was unfamiliar with a person, and she was inevitably afraid, Zhao Yan had a relationship with her since yesterday and became the only person she could rely on now.

When she arrived at the cafeteria, Mao Yuanyi saw Salena holding Zhao Yan's arm, and asked Zhao Yan puzzled, "Lord, who is she?" ”

"Cao Li invited me from the Americas." Zhao Yanqing coughed, in front of Salena, it was difficult to say what he meant too bluntly.

"The lord should be more modest, and his body should be important." Mao Yuanyi said to Zhao Yan. Zhao Yan looked at Mao Yuanyi, suddenly laughed, and whispered to him: "These are all exotic flavors, and there are more than a hundred!" Why don't you pick one too? ”

"Then the subordinate will be disrespectful." Mao Yuanyi said with a smile.

"Zhisheng is really a romantic character." Zhao Yan smiled and patted Mao Yuanyi's shoulder, Mao Yuanyi's romance was famous, and Qin Huai's famous Yang Wan and Wang Wei were brought home by him as concubines.

Zhao Yan and Mao Yuanyi talked and talked about the Qinhuai River, Zhao Yan obviously hadn't seen much of the world, but Mao Yuanyi was a frequent visitor to the Qinhuai River and knew the situation of the Qinhuai River well.

"If the lord wants to go to the Qinhuai River to look for flowers and ask willows, first of all, he must be handsome in appearance, and there is no problem with the lord, at least it is no problem to get close to those names. The second is to have some literary talents, those names of Qin Huaihe have all been in contact with qin, chess, calligraphy and painting since childhood, and they only look at useless articles such as elegance and talent in everything. Mao Yuanyi said with a smile, "But the lord, you have a prestige in the Ming Dynasty, and there are many people who are concerned about national affairs in those names, plus the lord is handsome, if you go to the Qinhuai River, you will definitely be able to make those names compete for it." ”

"Is this true?" Zhao Yan asked seriously.

"Nature." Mao Yuanyi nodded.

"Then I have time, I really have to go to that place and taste the feeling of gold dust in the Six Dynasties." Zhao Yan said with a smile, after listening to Mao Yuanyi's description of the Qinhuai River, he was yearning.

In fact, he used to yearn for it, but the big stone of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was pressing, so Zhao Yan was not in the mood to think about those things.

However, in ten years, he fought a few battles with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, only to find that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was just a paper tiger, and the war was fought to this point, and Zhao Yan did not mobilize much strength at all.

Although Zhao Yan threw most of his troops into the battlefields of Liaodong and Korea, as long as he mobilized, it was not a problem to raise an army of hundreds of thousands.

This war against Liaodong did not lose much silver.

There is no need to worry about grain and grass, the grain in the warehouse is enough for two or three years, and the place where the money is spent is nothing more than gunpowder and cannonballs, and if you can knock out two million taels, it is already the number of the sky.

In terms of pensions, the numbers are large, but from the data reported from the front, the casualties of the battalions are very minor. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, all battalions fought relatively steadily in Liaodong.

The situation in the Americas seems to be developing well, Zhao Yan has not yet read the administrative report submitted by Liu Yuan, but judging from Zhao Quan's report, the American fleet has developed and grown, which means that more money can be grabbed, plus the gold mines in California, as well as the trade of the textile industry, the financial resources of the American side will expand.

In terms of commerce in the Ming Dynasty, banks have been opened all over Shandong and are marching towards the south of the Yangtze River, and there will be more silver that can be mobilized in the future.

The textile industry is still like a bamboo, the textile industry in the south is losing ground under the advantages of advanced machinery in Shandong, and the profitability of the textile industry will be further expanded.

Recently, the application of glass in decoration has also been promoted to all parts of the south by Shandong businessmen, and those rich people who do not install a few skylights and glass windows at home, and the profit in this area has been a red this year.

However, in terms of glass mirrors, it has cooled down a lot now, but it is slowly moving towards civilianization, as long as the civilian sales are carried out, the money will be great, but now it can't dive in a straight line, otherwise it is easy to cause boundless resentment.

Steel is also an advantageous industry, but the transportation of steel is not so convenient and has certain limitations, so profits are not rising very quickly, but it is very dominant in the north.

There is still a squeeze of money, but it is just a deficit problem.

Without the pressure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhao Yan naturally had some thoughts of looking for flowers and asking willows, but the current situation did not allow Zhao Yan to take the burden.

Zhao Yan's enemies were not the only ones of the Manchus, and the biggest enemy was the various injustices of the Ming Dynasty, such as those who did not pay taxes.

It's just that Zhao Yan hasn't declared war on them yet, and once he declares war on them, the situation will not be as calm as it is today.

After breakfast, Zhao Yan began to deal with official business.

Salena sat quietly beside him, clearly terrified of the outside.

Zhao Yan picked up Liu Yuan's administrative report and read it.

According to the report, they had carved out 300,000 acres of cotton fields in California, and the number of Indian slaves had reached 30,000.

Textile mills have been built and shipyards are growing, but there is a shortage of manpower.

At the end, Liu Yuan also attached a report on Indian civilization.

The report points out many similarities between the Indian civilization and the ancient Chinese civilization, such as the language, the Indian language and ancient Chinese have a large number of words and pronunciations overlap.

At the same time, there are dragons in their civilization, which are also used for rain.

Liu Yuan believes that the Indians were most likely a branch of Chinese civilization, but their development was very slow, and they were still in the Stone Age at this time.

At the same time, Liu Yuan suggested that the Indians in the Americas should be treated well, and even fully accept them, abolishing forced slave labor, giving them equal treatment, and then allowing them to learn Chinese culture, so as to solve the problem of labor shortage.

After Zhao Yan saw Liu Yuan's report, he stayed there for most of the day.

His understanding of Indian civilization is actually very vague, Zhao Yan only knows that they were slaughtered by the Americans, and there are only a few people in the reservation.

Originally, he also meant to follow the old path of the Americans, kill them all first, and then immigrate the Han people to establish a new Ming Dynasty.

However, the phenomenon that the Indian civilization is very similar to the ancient Chinese civilization immediately aroused Zhao Yan's great attention and even shook his plans.

To say that Indian civilization is a branch of Chinese civilization, Zhao Yan does not agree. In more primitive antiquity, the Chinese simply could not run to the Americas.

It is even more unlikely that in just a few thousand years, the skin color will become different from that of Asia, and future archaeology will not find that the skin color of the Indians was exactly the same as that of the yellow people of Asia.

If the Indians are not slaughtered, the national pattern of the world will be different from the original, and Zhao Yan really can't predict what this nation will do.

People are afraid of the unknown, and Zhao Yan is no exception.

However, Liu Yuan mentioned in the report that the Indians were very quiet and admired nature, and there was no bandit style in the original surname of the nation. If we add some similarities in language and civilization, it is true that assimilation of Indians has a more viable caste.

It's just that Zhao Yan was still very hesitant, so he handed over the report to the General Staff for discussion.

…… Speaking of North Korea, Hwang Tae-gil has been ill since Dolgon fled. When Huang Taiji woke up on March 14, he let the army go east to the mountains, still trying his luck.

However, when the 60,000-strong army reached the eastern mountainous area, it directly hit the pass that Zhao Yan had sent people to build there last year.

The artillery on it was densely packed, and as soon as the artillery bombarded it, it dispelled Huang Taiji's idea of attacking this pass.

Under the powerful artillery, to attack such a dangerous pass is definitely to find death.

After tossing and turning, Huang Taiji retreated to Tieshan, only to see a forest of outposts on the other side of the Yalu River, with a certain number of Ming troops at intervals, and warships patrolling back and forth on the river.

If you want to cross the river, you can only force it!

However, at this time, the military spirit of the Qing army was already unstable, and all kinds of rumors spread rapidly in the army, some said that Liaodong had been captured by the Ming army, and some said that the army had already surrendered Dolgon, and there were even rumors that Duoduo had been proclaimed emperor in Liaodong.

Seeing that the army's heart was about to jump, Huang Taiji hurriedly asked people to listen solemnly, and made up a lie that the Ming army only occupied Zhenjiang, Haoge had killed tens of thousands of Ming troops in Liaodong, and Dolgon just took a boat back to Liaodong to encircle and annihilate the Ming army.

But a lie is a lie after all, and the Qing army believed it very much at first.

However, the time dragged on until the low of March, and the Ming army's defense line on the other side of the Yalu River became more and more tight, and Huang Taiji also led them to rush across the Yalu River.

The lies were gradually seen through, but the whole army was engaged in refuting rumors, but at this time, they could not talk nonsense, they could only talk nonsense with their eyes open.

Huang Taiji waited on the other side of the Yalu River for nearly half a month, but there was still no news from Liaodong, which made Huang Taiji realize the seriousness of the problem.

Judging from the Ming army's move to set up a pass in Korea, the Shandong army's encirclement of him was obviously premeditated, which made Huang Taiji frightened.

At the same time, there was no movement in Liaodong, which made Huang Taiji have many speculations in his heart.

Could it be that Hauge and Daishan are really dead?

Thinking of this possibility, Huang Taiji's heart was extremely sad. By the end of March, Huang Taiji had no hope for the relief of the siege in Liaodong.

In such a situation, North Korea is out of luck.

Li Zong thought that he had finally sent this group of savages away after kneeling for ten miles, but he didn't think about it, but the situation took a turn for the worse, and the Qing army was blocked back by Shangguo.

Huang Taiji, who was blocked back, directly angered Li Zong in Korea, because Li Zong actually let the Ming army establish a pass in Korea, and the Qing army directly rushed into the palace of Namhanshan City, arrested Li Zong, and was sent to Tieshan like a prisoner.

At this time last year, Zhao Yan wrote a letter to Li Zong, and Li Zong faced Zhao Yan's letter, feeling that it was just a few passes, and the eastern mountains were so desolate that the Ming army would go if they liked it, but it was a disaster without thinking about it.

Li Zong and his family were taken to Tieshan, and Huang Taiji immediately locked them up in the army and sent someone to write a letter to the other side.

If they are not allowed to leave Korea, they will cut down Li Zong.

Fence, fence!

This thing is very important.

However, the letter was delivered to the other side, but there was no news at all.

…… Huang Taiji's letter was actually quickly sent to Longkou, where Zhao Yan was discussing the issue of assimilating the Indians with the General Staff.

"What? Are they going to cut Li Zong? Zhao Yan exclaimed in surprise, opened the letter and read it, only to see him laugh and laugh after reading it: "Fence, fence, this is the function of the fence, let them cut it!" Anyway, it's just a fence wall, and if it falls, we can hold on to another one, or just tear down the fence. ”

"Lord, should we get them a reply?" Mao Yuanyi asked.

"Don't bird him first, wait for the first battalion of the Liaodong Army to land, and send them the edict of Duoduo as the emperor." Zhao Yan clenched his fists, "When the time comes, a series of offensives will be launched to completely collapse their military morale." ”

"Alright, let's move on to the question of the Indians." Zhao Yan continued to turn the conversation to the issue of the Indians.

"My lord, my subordinates believe that the Indians should be driven away, and that we will not be able to acquire enough land in the Americas unless we drive them elsewhere."

"It originally belonged to the Indians, and we were able to occupy the Americas by assimilating them, and it would look better in the history books in the future. At the same time, we don't have enough strength to emigrate too many people to the Americas, but our colonies are still in a state of shortage of manpower. ”

But who can guarantee that these Indians will not become the second Manchu. Once the advanced civilization is delivered to the Indians, the consequences are unimaginable......"

There was a battle of words in the staff department, and Zhao Yan swayed from side to side when he heard it, and in the end there was no conclusion.

The "Complete History of the World" has this text: "In the United States, the country's 'civilization' of the world at that time (referring to the thirteen colonies before the United States), this genocidal policy came even more brutally. They repeatedly raised the reward for the massacre of the Indians. The stern Protestant masters, the Puritans of New England, decided in their legislative session in 1703 that a bounty of £40 would be given for every skull peeled of an Indian and for every red man captured; In 1720, the bounty was raised to £100 per skull; When a tribe in Massachusetts Bay was declared a traitor in 1744, the following reward was prescribed: 'One hundred dollars for every man over the age of 12 who has been skinned from his skull; Fifty pounds for every woman or child who peels off her skull! ”

According to later statistics, during the colonial period, 13 million Indians were killed in Spain's territories, about 10 million in Brazil, and about 1 million Indians in the westward expansion of the United States. There are 30 million Indians in the world, but the male Indians in Latin America basically do not have the descendants of the pure male surname series, and most of their mixed-race descendants are the descendants of male colonists and local female surnames.

Historically, the Indians were exterminated because they were difficult to rule, after all, the Indians had formed their own civilization and were not as easily enslaved as the black people in Africa.

In the end, Zhao Yan, who had been thinking about it all day, wrote an administrative instruction to Liu Yuan, asking Liu Yuan to only enslave, not to slaughter, and at the same time to use non-slave methods for enslavement, on the premise of occupying the means of production, and to let the Indians perform manual labor in the way of work. And actively transform the Indians, spreading the language and culture of the Ming Dynasty to them.

At the same time, Zhao Yan issued an order to let the Education Bureau set up a cultural propaganda department, which was specially used to spread the language and culture of the Ming Dynasty.

Language is a powerful force, and its role is comparable to that of an army.

The Ministry of Culture and Propaganda is expected to build the most important building overseas, just like the churches of Western religions. Zhao Yan came up with the idea that the most important building in every city is the cultural propaganda department, which is called the 'Guangming Hall'.

In fact, the core problem of the American Indians lies in only one aspect, and that is domination.

In this rich continent, there is no one who is not tempted. And when the power of the Ming Dynasty enters, it will inevitably find a conflict with the original master.

The conflict, of course, ended in the defeat of the Indians, who were still in the Stone Age and had just entered the slave society.

After defeat, there are only two options, give in or continue to resist.

If it is easy to give in, then there is no problem, but if the resistance is fierce, then it is possible to adopt the American method and use a quick knife to solve the problem once and for all.

(To be continued)