On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, send the god of the stove, which is also an annual small year. Northerners send the god of the stove for the New Year at twenty-three, but southerners only send the god of the stove for the New Year at twenty-four.

The emperor is a native of Hubei, and naturally he is used to spending twenty-four years of his youth, but now he lives in Beijing, which can be regarded as following the customs. After the chief administrator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked the emperor, he sent the god of the stove to celebrate the New Year in the palace on the twenty-third day.

The people of Beijing also cleaned up every house, sent the stove god, and exploded in the sky.

Zheng Zhilong still has not adapted to the cold of the north, he put his hands in his sleeves, sat in a bearskin chair, with a fire in front of him, and a woolen blanket on his legs.

The noise of firecrackers outside annoyed him, and the letter paper was spread out, and the jade unicorn paperweight was pressed, but he couldn't write a word for a long time.

The emperor asked the Privy Council Staff to draw up a strategy for conquest of Japan, and all the ministers of the court and China knew about it. As soon as this news came out, the generals of the full court were suddenly over, and those who were not gearing up wanted to go to the table to ask for the commander of the army.

This conquest of Japan is no more important than attacking the northeast and southwest, and Japan is a maritime country and will inevitably be dominated by the navy. Speaking of which, he Zheng Zhilong is more qualified than most of the generals in the DPRK and China to be the commander of the army.

It's just that the letter has been laid, but this one can't get down.

Zheng Zhilong is now the governor of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qingdao, supervising the military and political affairs of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai provinces, with no less than 100,000 soldiers and horses under his command. The official residence is a product, the title of the founding marquis, and the title of prince and prince is added, which cannot but be said to be deeply favored by the emperor.

His current wealth was all earned by closely following the emperor and being loyal to him. But on the one hand, the emperor gave him a high-ranking official and a knight, and on the other hand, he transferred him from the southeast to the northwest, in fact, Zheng Zhilong also understood it in his heart.

The Zheng family started at sea, was a pirate in his early years, and later cooperated with today, and for a time dominated the southeast, and he also had the title of the Dragon King of the Fujian Sea.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the navy of the imperial court. He Zheng Group accounted for more than half. The Zheng family's momentum in the southeast is too high, and the sea strength is too strong. Although the emperor did not have a bow to hide, he could transfer him to Shaanxi and Gansu, transfer several of his brothers to Beijing, and transfer many of his old troops to several other fleets.

These are the emperor's means.

Zheng Zhilong is actually very reluctant to stay in the northwest, where is the king of the northwest as the king of the Minhai Sea does cool. In addition to the yellow sand in the northwest, there are cows and sheep, and he is not used to the weather there at all, nor is he used to the noodles there.

But the emperor made him the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and he had no choice.

This time the emperor wanted to fight Japan, and the whole Manchu dynasty became excited. In particular, the generals want to compete for battle. Both the War Department and the Admiralty are about to play out their brains, and the Admiralty wants to monopolize this crusade, but the War Department also wants to get involved.

The Admiralty was very dissatisfied. Your army has just opened up seven provinces in Kwantung, four provinces in Shangshang, six provinces in Mobei, and three provinces in the northwest. Sweeping away the six southwestern provinces, all kinds of limelight have let you out, and now you want to fight Japan in the East China Sea, and you still want to get involved. Why don't you go to heaven?

The Admiralty regarded the attack on Japan as their exclusive advantage, and was not willing to let the Army men interfere at all. In addition to the seas, our navy also has marines on the island. Without your army Zhang butcher, our navy also doesn't have to eat pigs with hair.

The navy had previously received permission from the emperor and approved a plan for a major expansion, and this time it was preparing to train its hands with Japan to show the emperor that those huge funds were not spent in vain. After conquering Kyushu Island, they are also preparing to go south to the South Seas to have a good competition with the red-haired people of Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal to see who is the overlord of the sea.

Those people in the War Department also refused to take a break, there are so many people in our army, now the northeast has destroyed Horqin, defeated the Jurchens, surrendered Mobei Mongolia in the north, and leveled Tusi in the southwest, and now looking around the Han Dynasty, there is still a group of Moxi Mongols in the northwest who are ignorant.

However, in the northwest, the terrain and climate are special, and we must adapt to it for a long time, so we can't drive all the troops over, so we can only take our time. As a result, the army has a million empty troops, and most of them are still empty. If you don't fight, you won't be able to reflect the value of the Continental Army.

The Japanese dwarfs dare to jump at this time, of course, the Continental Army has to come forward to teach them a lesson, and by the way, they can also grab money and people, which can be regarded as finding some benefits for the army soldiers.

How can such a good thing be taken by the navy?

Anyway, now there are a large number of high-ranking officers in the military department and the Privy Council of the imperial court, and many generals and commanders of military districts and military towns in various places have also entered Beijing at the end of the year.

First, find something to do for yourself, save yourself from being idle and bored. Second, there are so many generals in the imperial court, and the emperor can't be so familiar with each of them, so take advantage of this time to show your face more, and you can also strive to show your face in front of the emperor.

The army and navy sprayed each other.

The navy itself is also fighting within itself, and the East China Sea Fleet believes that Japan is originally their defense zone, so it will naturally belong to the East China Sea Fleet if it fights Japan. Pack up a little Japan, why use other people, our East China Sea Fleet is rounded, and the other fleets can cheer on while cheering.

The East China Sea Fleet looked so ugly that several other fleets refused. As long as you have a warship, you can fight, you can be. Our North Sea Fleet, South China Sea Fleet, West Sea Fleet, and Royal Task Force are not fleets, so they will not fight?

At this time, the Yangtze River Fleet was not willing to be lonely, and also jumped out, saying that they should have their share in the fight against Japan. Although now the Yangtze River Fleet is subordinate to the army and is an inland water division unit. But they should have a lot of warships, and their soldiers are no worse than those of the navy?

In the face of the Yangtze River Fleet that jumped out, the remaining five naval fleets immediately unanimously joined forces to spray the Yangtze River Fleet into the skin, you are an army sailor, at most, it is in the Yangtze River, Panyang Lake, Dongting Lake or something to catch fish and catch Wang Ba, fight Japan, that is a sea battle, you come to join in the fun, which is cool and where to stay.

The Yangtze River fleet was sprayed honestly, and the five fleets of the navy continued to spray each other. Anyway, no one is convinced, everyone is the same establishment, the same equipment, who is worse than whom?

In this bustle, the two major branches of the navy and the navy sprayed each other, and the commanders and chiefs of staff of other branches of the engineering and artillery arms also came out in due course to show their presence.

Anyway, these days, the most lively thing is not the temple test. It is not the first branch of the Han Dynasty to be on the list, nor is it Huang Zongxi Lianzhong Sanyuan, who has just been selected by the emperor as the champion Lang and has become the first talent of the Han Dynasty.

These days, everyone's attention is the mutual spraying of the Manchurian generals and the mutual spraying of various arms, in order to fight Japan for one, which has attracted a lot of excitement between the DPRK and China.

Many generals petitioned to fight and become the commanders of this expedition against Japan, and some who thought that their qualifications were poor retreated to the second place. Ask to be a pioneer officer.

Zheng Zhilong felt that he was most qualified to be the commander of the Eastern Expedition to Japan.

First, because he was extremely familiar with Japan, when he was not even in the East China Sea, and even before he went to Taiwan, he was very familiar with Hirado, Japan, and even married a Japanese wife there and gave birth to two sons. They also plotted a rebellion in Hirado.

Moreover, he can also consider himself the best naval commander in the Han Dynasty, and the East China Sea Fleet was formed with his Zheng group as the backbone. Even the other fleets now are mostly his old henchmen as the backbone.

Back then, when he only had some simple Chinese hard sailboats. It was a decisive battle against the Dutch, who had the most advanced European sail warships, and won many victories.

He also once led his troops to attack Taiwan and Macao.

Who could be more suitable to be this commander than him?

But it was precisely because he was so suitable that he was unable to write and ask for battle.

He is a dragon on the sea, and the emperor is not at ease. He was transferred to Shaanxi and Gansu in the northwest to eat sand on that piece of yellow earth. How could he now let him lead the army to conscript Japan?

The pen was picked up several times, and put down several times, and the paper was already stained with a few drops of ink.

I can't write this please war excerpt by myself. Even their own brothers and cousins could not stand up for war. However, after entering Beijing this time, he really didn't want to go back to Shaanxi and Gansu.

The imperial court already had a new plan to re-divide the territory.

Ningxia Province should be carved out of the Shaanxi-Gansu Military Region. Ningxia will form the Saishang Military Region with the five provinces of Suiyuan, Yanbei, Monan, and Xing'an. In addition to Liaodong and Liaoxi, which were originally under its jurisdiction, the Kwantung Military Region will also administer the newly established six provinces of Liaobei, Haixi, Jilin, and Heilongjiang to form the new Kwantung Military Region.

Chechen Province, Beihai Province, Jinshan Province, Beiting Province, and the four provinces of Mobei form the Mobei Military Region.

Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai are part of the Northwest Military Region.

The three provinces of Xikang, Sichuan, and Guizhou were set up as the Southwest Military Region. The three provinces of Yunnan, Dali, and Laos have set up the Central and South Military Region.

Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan provinces are the Lingnan Military Region.

Hunan and Hubei are the Lianghu Military Region, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Taiwan are the Fujian-Zhejiang Military Region, Jiangxi, Henan, and Jiangbei are the Sanjiang Military Region, and Henan and Shandong are the Central Plains Military Region. Shanxi and Hebei are the Zhili Military Region.

Kwantung, Saishang, Mobei, Northwest, Southwest, Central South, Lingnan, Lianghu, Sanjiang, Fujian and Zhejiang, Central Plains, and Zhili, the brand-new 12 military regions, govern 39 provinces in the world.

This will be a round of great adjustment, Zheng Zhilong would rather go to the Central South Military Region and go to the jungles of Burma to fight the Donghu Army than continue to stay in the northwest.

If His Majesty is willing, he is more willing to lead a fleet to conquer Vietnam, Ayutthaya, Champa and other coastal countries in the South China Sea, open up territory for the Han Dynasty, and restore the old frontier of the Qin and Han dynasties.

But the emperor was in no hurry to send troops to Vietnam.

This time, the 12 major military regions were reorganized and adjusted, as well as the five capitals of Beijing, Nanjing, Luoyang, Liaoyang, and Chang'an, and the world was divided into 39 provinces.

There was a sound of footsteps, and the sound of his son's success sounded outside.

"Come in."

The son is not yet eighteen, but he has been by the side of the Son of Heaven for a long time, and he has become very stable and mature, full of steady momentum, this change makes Zheng Zhilong very satisfied.

"Your Majesty has appointed the marshal of the Eastern Expedition to Japan."

Zheng Zhilong looked at his son and waited for the following.

"The right privy envoy Liu Yongsheng will serve as the marshal of the Eastern Expedition."

Hearing Liu Yunsheng's name, Zheng Zhilong had to sigh helplessly, Liu Yongsheng is the emperor's brother, and has successively served as the chief military officer of the Beiyang Naval Division, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, the commander of the Jiumen, the governor of Zhili, the right privy envoy and other dignitaries. Others serve as marshals of the Eastern Crusade, and there may be people who are not convinced.

But Liu Yunsheng, who once served as the chief military officer of the Beiyang Naval Division, is in command, who can disagree?

"Father, I have asked Your Majesty's permission to accompany Liu Shuai on the expedition this time."

Zheng Zhilong waved his hand a little excitedly, "It's okay, going down to practice for a few years will be of great help in the future." ”

"Father, I also heard about your appointment. His Majesty intends to transfer you to the post of Governor of the Central and Southern Military Region, and put you in charge of the conquest of the Taungoo Burmese Army and the opening of the outlet to the sea in the southwest of the empire. ”

"What, it's true?" When Zheng Zhilong heard the news, he stood up suddenly. This news is too sudden, not only will he be transferred to the governor-general of the Central and Southern Military Region, but he will also serve as the marshal of the Southern Expedition, this news is too surprising and full of surprises.

Destroy the Donghu Kingdom, open up the southwest outlet to the sea, then go all the way to the east, advance by land and water, and then destroy the big city, occupy the city, and then destroy Vietnam, and finally command the warships to fight for the Nanyang islands with the Xiyi.

This is what he really wants, it seems that the emperor understands his thoughts very well, but he misunderstands the Son of Heaven! (To be continued.) )