You Jianwei casually repaired the captured warship in the Spanish shipyard in Panama City, repaired the sails, and then returned to Jinshan with the merchant ship in Panama City.

The Spaniards and Portuguese, on the other hand, began to actively lead the two sides in an effort to promote peace talks between the two sides.

On the California side, Liu Yuan waited until the intelligence came back, but he was stunned, the coalition forces were actually repulsed?

It's really thunder and rain.

If I had known this, I wouldn't have had to ask for help from home.

However, after a hard lesson to the coalition forces, the strength of the American Fleet increased again, eighteen warships became twenty-six, and the warship that was scattered with Lin Jun also returned, but instead of capturing the enemy ships, they sank them.

Eight days later, You Jianwei returned to Jinshan and brought back five warships. The number of warships in the American Fleet skyrocketed to thirty-one.

And in the shipyard, it will not be long before ten frigates can be launched.

Strength has skyrocketed!

What Hengjiang iron lock, now I can't use it very much.

…… In March, thirty clippers carrying 30,000 soldiers, 100,000 shells, and 100,000 rockets arrived in California.

"Three...... Thirty thousand? Liu Yuan almost suspected that he had heard it wrong, "Why are there so many people?" ”

"It's all Xiangyong."

"Xiang Yong!" Liu Yuan felt normal at this time, it was obviously impossible for the regular army to come to 30,000 people, but 30,000 Xiangyong was far more useful than 10,000 regular troops.

Because these villagers have received military training, they can become qualified soldiers as long as they practice again.

What is the best thing about the colony?

Lack of people!

Now there were only 8,000 marines in the colony, and only 503 families of immigrants.

As long as there are people, they can expand their strongholds, and the colony is now self-sufficient in food, and the largest source of food is fish.

However, as soon as these 30,000 villagers come, they must also grow some food.

Liu Yuan felt that it was best to let the headquarters keep these 30,000 people every week and move more people over, after all, the Americas are so big, bigger than the entire Ming Dynasty, and now that the Europeans have begun to move on this, they should focus on fighting for land here.

And Australia, you can put it first.

For this reason, Liu Heng wrote a report again and asked the clipper ship to be loaded with goods and sent back to Shandong together. The California colony, which had been supported by 30,000 men, soon began a new expansion plan.

Of these, 4,000 were transferred to Alaska to cooperate with the Gold Force of the Americas to mine gold and hunt otters, and 3,000 were about the same.

California, on the other hand, continued to expand, and within this year it was necessary to control all the arable land in California, and to develop it for cotton and grain, and to build more fortresses to ensure that the colony was foolproof, and that it would take about 8,000 soldiers to defend it.

There are more than 27,000 people left to distribute.

These 27,000 people are the capital of the expansion of California's colonies.

And where to choose to expand, is to think about it. Now Central and South America are occupied by the Spaniards, and this is the best part of the Americas.

Of course, it is also the most important area for Spaniards.

Liu Yuan couldn't help but wonder if he could fight with the Spaniards and drive them out of Central and South America.

However, Zhao Yan told them that Central America is a place not to be set foot in, because there is something irresistible there at the moment - infectious diseases!

But South America is a place to visit.

"The lord said that the bottom part of South America was a very rich land, but it was also occupied by the Spaniards." Liu Yuan has set his sights on Chile and Argentina.

Zhao Yan once told him that Chile has a lot of saltpeter and copper mines, and they are all open-pit and very easy to mine.

Argentina, on the other hand, is a very suitable place for agriculture, with fertile land and a suitable climate, and the terrain is very flat.

Central America, that's forbidden land! It is very easy for the troops to be annihilated when they enter.

In southern South America, that doesn't happen, as long as it's not in the tropics.

In the tropics, if you capture the Spanish stronghold, stay in the stronghold and don't run around in the rainforest, there is usually no problem.

However, for the time being, we will not turn against the Spaniards, but that does not mean that we will not expand.

Liu Yuan immediately sent personnel to the southern part of South America to investigate, and the main target of the exploration was the desert area in northern Chile.

The desert of northern Chile is a region that has not rained for hundreds of years, and it is extremely arid.

However, there is a lot of saltpeter and copper there, and in the era of black powder, the saltpeter produced in Chile almost monopolized the market, and the copper ore reserves reached 1/3 of the world.

For a country like China, which lacks copper mines, Chile's copper mines are very important.

However, the desert region of northern Chile is not unviable, because there is a lot of fog passing through the sky, which is caused by cold currents from Antarctica, which can hang the net high and let the mist condense into water.

Because of the influence of the Antarctic and the Andes, northern Chile is a region that has not rained for hundreds of years, but it is another area that can be inhabited.

Liu Yuan planned to take a look first, and then plan how to seize the southern part of South America.

With the current strength of California, there is no problem in going to the southern part of South America.

Whether it is to sell or rob, it is a means that can be tried, and if the Spaniards refuse to sell, they will find an excuse to turn their faces.

Turning the face also requires a technical surname.

In later generations, Russia was like a polar bear, constantly engaged in clumsy political performances, so that it was very unpopular with other countries.

…… Shandong, after several months of reorganization, is ready to expand.

4 million taels of war military spending is in place.

The military extermination of the Mongols was almost ready.

At the combat meeting, Zhao Yan pointed to the large map on the wall and said: "In this battle against Mongolia, we will outflank the Mongolian tribes east of Datong in two ways, and the infantry brigade will all be equipped with horses to travel on behalf of them, enter Mongolia from Datong, and then form an encirclement line." The cavalry brigade attacked from western Liao, uprooting the Mongol tribes all the way and driving the remnants westward, while the infantry brigade also advanced eastward, thus flanking on both sides. ”

In this way, the living forces of the eastern Mongols were wiped out on a large scale. After that, the self-respecting troops and the immigrants quickly followed, built a fortress in the water source of the eastern region, and established a settlement point, so as to expel the permanent Mongolian surname from the eastern region, and after the infantry brigade and the cavalry brigade converged, they advanced westward and controlled the western part of Mongolia in the same way. ”

"This is a strategy on a large scale, specific tactics, and how much supplies are needed, and the staff will calculate the result as soon as possible." After Zhao Yan finished talking about the large-scale strategy, he threw the next thing to the General Staff.

The strategy set by Zhao Yan is a one-and-done combat method, and at the same time, the test of logistics is very huge.

Why have successive generations of wars against Mongolia always failed to wipe out this barbaric and backward nation? That's because successive generations have not gained a foothold in Mongolia.

What if it hurts Mongolia?

As soon as the Central Plains army retreated, the nomads did not lose their living space, and they would eventually multiply gradually, but Zhao Yan wanted to occupy Mongolia forever this time and seize the living space of the nomads.

If you want to gain a foothold in the Mongolian plateau, the most important thing is the water source.

How can you graze without water?

As long as the water source is controlled, the Mongols will have to leave the area, even if they can't clean it.

Therefore, the important thing in this conquest of Mongolia is not how many Mongols to kill, but how much land to occupy, so Zhao Yan chose a smaller combat area.

First swallow the grasslands of Liaodong - Datong, then continue to advance westward, and then march into Mobei.

The General Staff immediately began the development of specific tactics.

The logistics of the cavalry brigade are relatively simple, kill all the way and grab all the way, and the supply is generally no problem.

The infantry brigade has 63,000 people, and the supply is very simple, so you don't have to worry about rations, bring your own ones for a month, and let the self-weight troops transport the rest from behind, and it is very likely that you will grab a large herd of cattle and sheep. Forage for horses is even simpler, and the Mongolian Plateau is an endless pasture, so you don't need to bring any forage at all.

Most of the rewards and pensions will be distributed on land, and military spending will not be much.

The only difficulty was the construction of the base, which required the delivery of a lot of materials and manpower to the grassland, and even more so the migration to the grassland.

"My lord, our main purpose is to occupy the steppe, there is no need to build fortresses everywhere in the early stage, as long as we build some small forts in the water source, if the Mongols come to disturb, we will use beacon fire to send a message to attract nearby troops to exterminate. Once the Mongols had no place to graze, they gradually withdrew from the area. The bastions should be built in the areas where the immigrants had settled, and this area should be concentrated so that the people could be protected and moved there when the rest of the area was cleared of the Mongols. Liu Heng said to Zhao Yan.

"The resettlement area, on the other hand, would be more appropriate in the central part of the country, so that supplies could be supplied in both the east and west directions, and at the same time our war expenses would be much saved." Liu Heng continued.

"Immigrants can't be in a hurry, so be it!" Zhao Yan nodded.

"My lord, we have a good relationship with Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, and Xuanda has more than 50,000 troops, and they are all according to our training method in Shandong, so we can let him also participate in this battle to make up for the lack of our troops." Mao Yuanyi said: "At the same time, once the Xuanda soldiers and horses enter Mongolia to fight, our logistics will not be pinched in their hands. ”

"Hmmm! Write to him at that moment. Zhao Yan said that everyone in the staff obviously didn't believe in Lu Xiangsheng very much, so they were still worried about being cut off the supply line.

After all, now their military group and the imperial court seem to be relatively relaxed on the surface, but everyone understands that as long as there is an opportunity, the imperial court will definitely stab a knife in the back.

Although Lu Xiangsheng has a good relationship with Shandong, if he is transferred, the 50,000 Xuan soldiers and horses may destroy the supply line at any time.

Although he is not afraid of the 50,000 Xuan soldiers and horses, if such a phenomenon occurs, it will cause great losses.

After repeated discussions, it was finally decided to set the settlement site in the northern part of Datong, in the Hohhot area of later generations, and then continue to expand.

…… Shandong's land measurement was carried out again, and this time the repeated measurement was carried out by personnel dispatched by Zhaojiabao and protected by armed police.

The review went smoothly, and some of the people who tried to stop it were directly arrested.

This investigation quickly revealed a large number of problems.

The officials who took bribes were implicated one by one, and the landlords who bribed the local officials were implicated one after another.

Even the Shandong military clique, which has always aimed at clean government, and its civilian clique, are still in such a situation, and many corrupt elements have emerged.

From the very beginning of the re-examination, the Shandong armed police began to arrest people everywhere.

Some officials were exposed, and some wanted to escape, but all of them were stopped by the checkpoints everywhere.

One by one, the officials who were pulled out soon reached more than a hundred.

Some of these officials even concealed half of the fields, and the quality of their surnames was so bad that Zhao Yan could not bear it. More than 300 landlords were involved, all of whom wanted to take advantage of loopholes to evade taxes.

At present, the armed police force is arresting people everywhere in Shandong, and there are really quite a few fugitives who have committed crimes.

"All of them were sentenced to death at trial, and officials tortured." Zhao Yan ordered coldly, and Zhao Quan listened to it, "Master, if you cut those landlords, I'm afraid the contradiction will be very sharp." ”

"Anyway, if there are more lice, I am not afraid of biting, as long as we unite most of the people." Zhao Yan said that after cutting down the more than 300 landlords, they will inevitably be resented by their families, and social contradictions will become acute, which is an inevitable problem.

But in order to fight corruption, Zhao Yan went out.

…… The Shandong Supreme Criminal Court held a trial, and all the officials who took bribes were sentenced to death on the spot, and they were also sentenced to torture -- skinning.

The more than 300 landlords who were arrested were also brought to court for trial. Soon they were also sentenced to death one by one, but it was just an ordinary shooting.

In this execution, all the landlords were sent to their respective counties and shot in public. And those officials who took bribes will be executed in Zhaojiabao.

And this execution will summon officials from all over Shandong to Zhaojiabao to watch.

At the same time, the cabinet had transferred Ruan Jingyuan to Shanxi as governor, and Zhao Yan had already communicated with Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng was very interested in jointly sending troops to attack Mongolia, and Zhao Yan's layout in Shanxi had basically been completed, so he waited for the execution in front of him, and then waved his troops north.

At the beginning of April, the atmosphere in Shandong was very oppressive.

More than 300 landlords were escorted back to the prefecture and county one after another, and were executed in front of the crowd.

And officials from all over Shandong were also recalled to Zhaojiabao.

In front of hundreds of officials, Zhao Yan skinned the 105 officials who had taken bribes one by one.

The scene was so bloody and miserable that even Zhao Yan couldn't stand it.

The corrupt official who was buried in the soil had a cut on his head, and then poured mercury, and then the corrupt official who was tortured crawled out, and the layer of skin was directly peeled off, and as soon as he came out, he was a bloody man.

The executioners rushed forward again and poured salt on these corrupt officials. The terrible scream made all the officials present look pale.

Zhao Yan's face changed slightly when he saw it.

According to the normal procedure, a person has to peel the skin three times, that is, after the first layer of skin is peeled off, salt is sprinkled on the tortured person, so that the scab forms on the tortured person's body, and then peeled it again after two days, and some can even last until the fourth time.

However, Zhao Yan saw that the scene was too ...... Atrocious! Immediately let people cancel the follow-up procedure, and in the future, they will peel the skin and peel it together, and they will not sprinkle salt.

He just wants to have a deterrent effect, and the cruel means are enough to reach a limit, and there is no need to rack his brains to torture the condemned prisoners.

And skinning is daunting enough.

Zhu Yuanzhang used the method of peeling the skin to keep the officials of the Ming Dynasty in the early and middle periods in a state of integrity, and the reason why [***] was produced was directly related to the messing around with the emperor later.

It is necessary to use heavy codes in troubled times.

Local officials from all over Shandong were present at the execution.

After Zhao Yan asked people to skin the more than 100 corrupt officials, he also learned Zhu Yuanzhang's method and asked people to stuff the human skin with straw and hang a sign to put it in the Chenghuang Temple.

The reason for the punishment was written on the sign, as a constant warning to future officials.

The anti-corruption campaign in Shandong has plunged all officials in Shandong into deep fear, and many officials have since become meticulous in their work, and they only eat what is in the bowl and never take what is in the pot.

The landlords and squires in Shandong were frightened by Zhao Yan's harsh law enforcement, and after this incident, they also understood Zhao Yan's determination in anti-corruption.

And the ordinary people applauded at this time.

Just as Zhao Yan pursued, he united the masses. Under Zhao Yan's series of actions, the people of Shandong gradually developed a strong trust in Shandong political axe.

Facts have proved that this is a political axe to safeguard the interests of the people, and a political axe that will never let the people suffer.

In the process of this anti-corruption campaign, the credibility of Shandong's political axe has been enhanced again.

The political atmosphere in Shandong as a whole has improved again after the crackdown, and the officials who have returned to the local government are all conscientiously managing the territory they are responsible for.

The officials below are much more diligent than before, and when they come into contact with the people, they all speak softly, for fear of being complained about their 'bad work attitude'.

It can be said that it is 100 percent eliminated for officials to mess around in the local area, and in Shandong, as long as there are complaints and petitions, they can produce results.

As a result, the people supervise the officials, the officials supervise the officials, the lower-level officials can report to the higher-ups, and the higher-level officials are responsible for the lower-level officials.

(To be continued)