On the tenth day of the first month of May, the Ming Dynasty newspaper published a piece of news that shook the entire Ming Dynasty.

The Mongol coalition army failed in its night attack on Shandong, suffering heavy losses, and then the whole army surrendered.

The leader of the thirteen tribes of Mongolia, offering a white camel and eight white horses, Zhao Yan, the general of Jianwei, was the 'Khan of the sky', and Moxi and Mobei Mongolia were willing to merge into the Ming Dynasty.

The battle against Mongolia was unexpectedly fast.

Southern Mongolia was basically wiped out by Zhao Yan's first division, Moxi, Mobei Mongolia, most of the tribes participated in the alliance, this time unconditionally surrendered, offered the tribute of Jiubai, and enshrined Zhao Yan as the Khan of the sky.

Zhao Yan first destroyed Korea, then destroyed the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and conquered Yueben. This time, the destruction of Southern Mongolia, the conquest of Northern Mongolia and Western Mongolia, Zhao Yan's prestige has reached an unsurpassable level.

However, Zhao Yan, as a military general, once again stole the limelight from the emperor, but it was the focus of heated discussions.

It stands to reason that Chongzhen, as the lord of a country, is constitutional, but according to the provisions of the new "Ming Law", the emperor is still the nominal person with the highest status in the Ming Dynasty.

The name of this heavenly khan should be Chongzhen's.

Chongzhen was really angry in the discussion, and even expressed his dissatisfaction on the "Royal Newspaper" he opened, and since the "Royal Newspaper" was founded for a month, the sales volume is not bad.

Yang Sichang himself had a movable type printing template made, and he also used a post station in Shandong to deliver newspapers and summarize news.

Shandong's post station system has become more and more perfect, and has begun to spread to the provinces, post stations not only undertake official information transmission, but also open to the people.

The post station provides accommodation, travel transportation (carriages, ships), messengers, logistics, armed escorts and other businesses, and has gradually begun to make profits.

It is now being opened along the road towards the Mongolian region.

There is no problem in printing and transmission, but the style of the newspaper is not very different from that of the "Daming Daily", which uses the vernacular. The "Royal Newspaper" uses a semi-vernacular language, that is, the style of writing in the late Ming Dynasty, this style of semi-vernacular writing, has a tendency to change like the vernacular, under the influence of the "Da Ming Bao", many words have been accepted by the literati.

In terms of news quality, there is a huge difference between the two.

The newspaper now employs hundreds of reporters, from agriculture to the military, from current affairs to business, while the Royal newspaper focuses on current affairs, politics and business.

Current affairs are an indispensable part of news newspapers, and Chongzhen also has a great advantage in business, because the imperial merchants have already been formed.

There are hundreds of businessmen who participate in the Imperial Merchants Group, all of whom are local figures.

At the same time, these imperial businessmen are keenly aware that newspapers are a tool of public opinion that can control the market, and as long as they spread some rumors on them, they can make a profit.

They need it very much.

Although Chongzhen's newspaper is not comprehensive, under the hard work of Yang Sichang, he promoted a group of hard-working talents, and also did a good job in the quality of the newspaper.

This loss is already a drop in the bucket under sponsorship.

In contrast, "Daming Daily" has recently begun to add advertising, and has reversed its losses and begun to move from losses to profits.

The supervision of advertising is relatively strict, and those false advertisements will never be published in newspapers, and once false advertisements appear on advertisements, newspaper organizers must be held accountable.

As soon as the method of advertising appeared, the door to newspaper profitability was immediately opened, and the number of privately run newspapers in Shandong quickly increased to more than 10, and these newspapers not only distributed newspapers in Shandong, but also began to distribute in neighboring provinces.

The news of these newspapers needs to be reviewed before being published in the industry.

The place with the largest circulation of the "Royal Daily" is still in the Jiangnan region, and there is basically no market in Shandong, and it closes after a few days of publication.

Many literati in the Jiangnan area buy "Daming Newspaper" and "Royal Newspaper", anyway, one copy is only a copper plate, and it is very cheap.

However, the sales volume of "Daming Daily" in Jiangnan is obviously higher than that of "Royal Daily".

But Chongzhen's influence on the "Royal Newspaper" run by Yang Sichang has gradually expanded, and Chongzhen is angry in the "Royal Newspaper", and the world's scholars naturally listen to it completely.

Zhao Yan read the newspaper and couldn't help but call the editor-in-chief of the "Daming Daily", and then also made a speech in the Daming Daily.

The general content is that the heavenly khan of the Mongolian Yibu is just a false name, since Chongzhen wants it, he can give it up, and it is not a big deal.

As soon as Zhao Yan's attitude was issued, Chongzhen's face was flushed, and at this time, it was over, and Chongzhen was embarrassed to make trouble again.

According to Zhao Yan, this heavenly khan of Mongolia is just a useless name, and it doesn't matter if he wants to give it to him...... Although he wants it very much, the problem is that now everyone in the world is watching! It's all said that at this point, does he still have the face?

As soon as Chongzhen put out the fire, those minions couldn't make trouble.

On the contrary, Zhao Yan was praised, what victory is not arrogant, he knows the righteousness of the nation, and has been recognized by many scholars.

The victory over Meng Da is definitely a thing that excites the world's scholars.

The Ming Dynasty has been decadent militarily for decades, and this time it has regained its prestige, leveled the construction in one fell swoop, conquered Mongolia, and the northern part of the Ming Dynasty has basically been pacified.

This year, locust plagues occurred again in the Yellow River Valley, and drought was occurring in Shaanxi and other places, and the grain for disaster relief was basically produced by Zhao Yan, and the disaster relief was also organized by Zhao Yan.

Moreover, the content has recently passed the bill on the management of the three major water systems of the Yellow River, the Huai River, and the Yangtze River, and nearly 10 million taels will be invested in the early stage of this treatment.

Shandong has dispatched three engineering brigades and related professionals to contract the management of these three river basins.

And the governance cost of 10 million taels is still the silver lent by Denglai Bank to the cabinet, and it is an interest-free loan, Zhao Yan has indeed done a lot of practical things after stepping into the vision of the world, and more and more scholars have a sense of identity with Zhao Yan.

Even those who oppose Zhao Yan have to admit that Zhao Yan can become a wise monarch, and his abilities and his thoughts are far beyond this era.

Within a few days, thirteen tribal leaders came to Zhaojiabao and knelt in front of Zhao Yan to offer Jiubai, the larger Mongolian tribes in Moxi and Mobei were among them, and those who did not meet were some small tribes.

At present, these thirteen tribes, the remaining 90,000 people are all locked up in concentration camps waiting to be absorbed, which is basically equivalent to controlling these thirteen tribes.

It was only a matter of time before those small tribes were annexed.

Many people came that day, and people from all walks of life came to Zhaojiabao.

Zhao Yan was dressed in armor and sat majestically on the top seat, with the leaders and retinues of the thirteen tribes kneeling below, this scene was copied by the students of the art department of Denglai University in a sketch technique, and it is said that this 'Mongolian tribute map' was sold for a sky-high price after n years.

In this painting, Zhao Yan holds ears of wheat and rice, while the Mongols offer nine whites, which are the items that Zhao Yan gave to the Mongols in the Mongol tribute.

This can be described as the most shabby reward in history, and the next day it was advertised by various newspapers in Shandong as "giving Mongolian civilization", but the Mongolians who received the reward did not dare to express the slightest dissatisfaction.

This attack is different from the past, in the past, tribute was for profit, and all those who came to pay tribute had a reward that exceeded the value of the tribute, and most of the tribute came for profit.

And this time the Mongols paid tribute, but they were called.

They are losers, they don't talk about the value of conditions, and it is already very generous to give an ear of rice and an ear of wheat, at least there is a formal reward.

After receiving the reward, the Mongols knelt down three times and bowed nine times.

Now it's time for the discussion stage of co-opting their tribe, Zhao Yan instructed Zhang Buyun on a matter of principle, and then left the matter to Zhang Buyun to deal with.

Zhang Buyun immediately established the three major provinces of Monan, Mobei and Moxi, and incorporated the whole of Mongolia and the later Xinjiang provinces into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Xinjiang Province belonged to the territory of the Moxi Mongol tribes, and the ethnic minorities were not as complex as those in later generations, and the Mongols were basically the dominant ones there.

And Tibetan Province, called Tufan in this year, is also very close to Mongolia, Mongolia gradually believes in Tufan Yellow Religion, Tufan's [***] fifth name Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617~1682). Not long ago, he conspired with the 4th Panchen Lobsang Qu and sent people to Xinjiang Province to secretly summon the Mongolian Gu Shi to lead his troops into Tibet Province and overthrow the rule of the Buddhist Kagyu (Baijiao) Dharma King and the powerful figure of the serf owner Zangpa.

But Moxi is the least one of the tribes in the alliance, and with the strength of these tribes in front of him, it is obvious that he cannot make the entire Moxi surrender.

To treat Moxi and Tufan, iron-blooded means are also needed.

General Lu Xiangsheng led 50,000 Xuan soldiers and horses to conquer Moxi and Tufan, while the First Division continued to sweep Monan and Mobei, intending to completely clear this area.

As for the immigration of Mongolia, the Ministry of Agriculture has sent people to inspect the pastures, and at the same time selected 30,000 households in Qingzhou, which has been developed into a breeding base in recent years.

In Qingzhou, there are a large number of farmers who are familiar with livestock breeding, and the first batch of 30,000 households were mobilized to go to the Monan resettlement site.

Most of the entire Monan Mongolia was wiped out by the Shandong army, and about 130,000 women were captured, and these women were also very familiar with animal husbandry.

And these women are also private property.

Therefore, the Ministry of Agriculture's pasture in Mo Nan is relatively easy to open, and more than 100,000 women are currently engaged in beauty pageants, and those who look good will be brought back to Zhaojiabao and rewarded to the soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in battle.

If you don't look good, just put it there!

Zhao Yan has always treated these laborers who do not need to pay wages well, he does not beat or scold, although the food and clothing are not very good, but at least he can eat enough and dress warmly.

After dealing with the affairs of the Mongols, Zhao Yan also went home.

Zhang's family has been very happy these days, and is preparing to give Yan Jizu a dowry, and at the same time, Yuan'er's body has become more and more uncomfortable in the past few days, and Zhao Yan has to go home to accompany her.

As soon as Zhao Yan came home, he found that there was a commotion at home, a few maids didn't know what it was called, and Xiaolian ran in front of Zhao Yan with a bowl of casserole.

"Xiaolian, stop for me." Zhao Yan hurriedly stopped Xiaolian. Xiaolian looked back, sighed, quickly stopped, and said, "The master is back." ”

"What are you doing here? What do you have in your hands? Zhao Yan asked puzzled.

"Madame is happy, this is a freshly fried stewed chicken, the doctor said that this is to replenish qi, so that the disease can not enter the body." Xiaolian hurriedly replied.

"Happy?" Zhao Yan couldn't help but be stunned.

"Yes! Sir, Mrs. vomited in the morning, and ate a lot of bayberry, the old lady was suspicious at the time, and then invited several doctors from the hospital to see, and they all said that they were happy. Xiaolian gushed endlessly, Zhao Yan had already run to Yuan'er in a hurry.

Today, because of Yuan'er's matter, Zhao Yan's family is in a commotion, and Zhang invited more than a dozen doctors to discuss how to raise the fetus.

After arguing, I felt that it was not appropriate to eat any fetal pills, and finally unanimously passed a black chicken soup that replenished qi, and Zhang was afraid of accidents, so he asked these doctors to watch together when stewing black chicken, don't put the wrong medicine.

Zhao Yan entered the room, Zhang was sitting next to Yuan'er, telling something, Zhao Yan heard what Zhang said as soon as he entered the door, when his mother was pregnant with Yan'er...... It seems to be imparting experience.

"Mother, is Yuan'er really happy?" Zhao Yan confirmed again.

"Then there is still a holiday, don't come over quickly, in the future, you don't run around all day, and spend more time with your daughter-in-law at home." Zhang said to Zhao Yan.

Yuan'er had sweet joy on her face, and lowered her head a little shyly.

Zhao Yan nodded again and again, sat down beside Yuan'er, took Yuan'er's hand, reached out to touch Yuan'er's lower abdomen, and said with a smile: "Let my husband check if it's really there." ”

With a snap, Zhao Yan's hand was slapped hard by Zhang's family, and she warned Zhao Yan: "You kid, you can't move your hands and feet now." Besides, you and Yuan'er can't have sex anymore. ”

"The boy knows!" Zhao Yan said helplessly, when I am a little white! Reaching out and picking up a bayberry from the side and throwing it into his mouth, he grinned as soon as he bit it, "Why is it so sour!" ”

caused Zhang and Yuan'er to laugh.

At this time, Xiaolian came in with black chicken soup, and Zhao Yan only understood a little about the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, this qi tonic is like closing the door tightly and not letting the thief in, but if he is sick and does not make up for it, he will lock the thief at home.

Yuan'er hasn't had a cold or anything lately, but it's okay to replenish qi.

Zhao Yan took the bowl and fed Yuan'er in person, and after a while, Zhang's went out, and Yuan'er asked Zhao Yan: "Husband, do you want a boy or a girl?" ”

"Both boys and girls like it, but the husband still prefers girls, but now that the family is big, he must have a son to inherit the family business." Zhao Yan thought for a while and said, after all, her daughter is sensible, and she must be very cute, so she naturally prefers to have a daughter. The son's words are more of a headache, and the most headache is the problem of education.

Of course, now Zhao Yan has not figured out how much family business to leave for his son to inherit, in fact, it is a good choice to engage in constitutionalism, and when he dies, his children and grandchildren do not have to worry about any life problems, and he does not have to worry about the problem of his children and grandchildren losing the country, and the strength of the nation can also continue well.

However, the throne is still in Chongzhen's hands.

Now that his own forces have almost expanded, he can consider starting to tease Chongzhen after solving the Mongols.

Yuan'er was relieved when she heard Zhao Yan's words, if Zhao Yan liked it regardless of whether she was a boy or a girl, she didn't have to worry about anything.

…… The First Fleet, which departed in early March, finally arrived in the Taiwan Strait after sailing for more than half a month.

Summer is approaching, the Taiwan Strait is prone to typhoons, and the First Fleet must capture the Dutch stronghold in Tainan as soon as possible.

This time, the First Fleet dispatched 26 warships, 20 frigates, 12 troop carriers, and 6 reconnaissance clippers, forming a huge fleet.

In this sortie, each warship was equipped with heavy artillery. The heavy guns of warships range from 40 to 60, after all, many of these warships are different in size.

The frigates are 500 tons, and they are all equipped with 23 heavy guns and 30 light guns.

The navy is relatively money-burning, and the most money-burning is artillery, but Shandong's navy is still relatively small, and the cost of artillery is still relatively small, at least not as good as the army.

The Dutch have been operating in Tainan for more than ten years, and they have to hand over about 1.5 million taels of profits to their headquarters on average every year, but this is only the part that has been handed over, and it is unknown how much of those unpaid parts and how much they cost.

As early as July 1622, when the Dutch invaded and occupied Penghu, Rayots came to the sea and land of Taiwan's Dayuan Port (Tainan) to conduct reconnaissance and surveying, and also carried out some commercial and trade activities, which was undoubtedly to prepare for the invasion of Taiwan.

At this time, there are a total of 11 islands in the open sea of Dayuan, which is about half a mile wide, north of the south channel of the Taijiang estuary, which is the tail of the north line, Jialao Bay, Langzi Port, and Hai Wengxian, and the south of the south channel of the Taijiang estuary is arranged with 7 islands from a kun to a seven kun fish, forming a natural barrier from north to south, forming a large good harbor with a maximum width of more than 6 li, a length of more than 30 li, and can berth more than 1,000 ships at the same time. In addition, between Lueryu Island and Jialao Bay at the northern end of the northern line, there is the Luermen Waterway, which is about 1 mile wide, which is the main channel into the Taijiang River. If there is no high tide, the Luermen channel is too shallow to pass through the warships with a deep draft, so it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and has high military value.

The Dutch did everything they could to achieve their aggressive aims. In September 1624, the Dutch armed fleet commanded by Song Ke arrived in Taiwan after leaving Penghu Fengjiewei. At that time, the Dutch, who pretended to be pitiful, offered to borrow "a place the size of a cowhide", and the local Han people believed it and thought that the Dutch were just going to stop the boat and go ashore, and that they needed not much space, so they agreed.

How big is a cowhide in the eyes of the Dutch? The Dutch colonists first occupied the area of Anping, which is now Tainan, and built the "Orange City" on a large scale. When the local Han people asked the Dutch to promise "a place with a big cowhide", the shameless colonists actually divided a cowhide into very thin leather threads and connected them to enclose the land, which was "a cowhide". The city of Orange was later changed to a "state" of the Netherlands, named "Geranza City", and became the "governor's palace" of the Netherlands in Taiwan. The inner city was completed at the end of 1632 and the outer city 2 years later, and it was the first stronghold of foreign invaders established in Taiwan, China.

The second stronghold is the "Chikan Building". At the same time as the construction of the city of Geranza, warehouses, residences and commercial areas were built in Chikan on the opposite side of the Taijiang River, which was named Provencha City and later renamed Chikan Tower. Strong fort forts were also built on both sides of the Taijiang estuary. The Dutch, who occupied Taiwan by deception, not only did not appreciate the Chinese who lent them land, but brutally plundered and suppressed them.

Taiwan's abundant products became the object of plunder by the Dutch. The main items plundered by the Dutch were Taiwanese specialties such as deerskin, camphor, betel nut, rice and sugar. Deer skins were the main export material of Taiwan, China at that time, and in 1638, the Netherlands exported 150,000 deer skins from Taiwan, China alone. Nowadays, it is said that the Samurai are in the Warring States Period, and the samurai of the Saymoto are most fond of making "Jinhaoori" out of deerskin.

The plundering was accompanied by entrepot trade, and at its peak the Dutch shipped more than 100 merchant ships from Chinese mainland to Taiwan each year, exporting goods from Taiwan worth millions of guilders. They exported rice, sugar, deerskins, and rattans from Taiwan to Persia and even to Persia; Metals, medicinal materials from the Netherlands, spices, pepper, amber, tin, lead, cotton cloth, opium, etc. from Batavia were transported to Chinese mainland via Taiwan; Raw silk, porcelain, silk fabrics, gold and other goods from Chinese mainland are then re-exported to Batavia or Europe through Taiwan. In this unequal trade, the Dutch plundered countless goods from mainland China and Taiwan, and also extracted high taxes and huge profits from merchants in China, Yuben, and Nanyang, who did business in Taiwan. The entrepot trade of the Dutch has a strong colonial heritage.

As early as last year, the First Fleet had already sent merchant ships to Tainan to conduct trade, and a lot of taxes were collected, and some basic information was also detected, and at the same time, some intelligence was also obtained from some Fujian merchants, but many Tainan were not too familiar with it.

On 23 March, however, the First Fleet came directly to the outside of Dayuan Harbor, where more than 30 merchant ships were moored and 10 warships had just been transferred from the Cape of Good Hope.

There are many forts on both sides of Dayuan Harbor, and most of them can't be hit on the sea, but those batteries can be knocked down, Su Buheng ordered ten warships to block outside the harbor and shoot at the Dutch batteries, so as not to let the ships in the harbor come out.

Ten warships opened fire one after another, pulling out several batteries outside Dayuan Port one after another, but the First Fleet did not dare to rush in, after all, there were too many batteries in Dayuan Port, and they were still blocked with insurance.

At the same time, Su Buheng transferred another sixteen warships and twenty frigates to the Luermen waterway.

The Dutch built two fort groups on both sides of the Taijiang estuary, and the artillery was protected in the fortress, but the First Fleet had little else but heavy artillery.

Sixteen warships bombarded the forts on both sides of the Taiwan estuary, and after the Dutch batteries returned fire, they could not hit the First Fleet because the range was insufficient.

And the rain of shells of the First Fleet generally fell on the fortresses of the Dutch, and the aiming of the cannons was very easy, and at a distance of two thousand meters, most of the shells fell on the fortresses of the Dutch.

The fortress was well built.

However, the First Fleet's shells were more powerful, and each shell that fell could cause the fortress to fly with stone chips, and then the shell exploded directly, if it was bounced off, it was fine, if the shell got stuck in the fortress, it could directly blow up a large hole.

Sixteen warships bombarded the mouth of the Taijiang River for nearly an hour, and the Dutch fortress was smashed into potholes, and more and more shells were stuck in the fortress, and the openings became bigger and bigger, and finally the shells flew directly into the fortress and exploded in the fort...... An hour and a half later, the fort at the mouth of the Taijiang River was successfully uprooted.

Twenty frigates carrying soldiers rushed directly into the Taijiang River, which is one mile wide, that is, the river is relatively shallow, but the frigate does not have a deep draft, and after the battery at the mouth of the Taijiang River is removed, the entire Taijiang River is basically unimpeded.

Twenty frigates went directly down the river into the water village of Chikanlou.

In the distance, the frigate launched an artillery bombardment on the water village of Chikanlou.

Blasted open the wooden gate and rushed into the water village!

The Dutch soldiers inside wanted to resist, but the twenty frigates had already rushed into the water village regardless of it, and the Dutch artillery was basically scrapped.

The scuffle began.

There was chaos in the water wall, the light guns on the frigate began to fire in all directions, and the explosion of shells was everywhere, and the Dutch soldiers in the water house were blown up and hidden.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the frigate began to dock, and the soldiers of the Nanyang Infantry Brigade above began to jump off the frigate, quickly forming a group, and shooting at the Dutch around them.

Those who did not land, fired directly on the deck.

The fire was so fierce that five or six hundred Dutch soldiers faced two thousand marines, and at the same time there were so many shells that they couldn't lift their heads at all.

In particular, the snipers in the Marine Corps are basically one shot at a time within 300 meters, and the marksmanship of other soldiers is also extremely accurate, and the accuracy of rifled guns is far from being comparable to that of smoothbore guns, and Dutch soldiers are still using outdated smoothbore guns.

In the melee, the Marines landed easily.

And it appeared directly in the water village, and the city wall of Chikan Tower has lost its effect.

The fierce battle lasted only a dozen minutes, and under the cover of artillery fire, the Marines completely controlled the situation, and 2,000 Marines landed from the ship and began to sweep away the remaining enemy in the Chikan Tower.

Just an hour later, the battle at Chikan Tower was over.

By the time the Dutch arrived to support the city of Geranza, Chikanlou had been completely controlled by the Nanyang Infantry Brigade.

After taking Chikan Tower, the city of Geranza is basically gone.

The biggest problem in attacking Taiwan is the landing site.

If you land from places like Taipei, there are places, but the problem is that the terrain in Taiwan is relatively complicated, and the roads are not very smooth.

And there are basically few suitable landing sites in Tainan.

However, taking Chikanlou is equivalent to taking a landing point, and the follow-up troops can directly attack the city of Geranza by land.

…… The East India Company had already planned to withdraw from East Asia, and after several years of maritime conflicts, they had run out of luck.

At the same time, they realized that they had provoked a terrifying opponent.

However, at this time, news came from the Netherlands that the Netherlands had formed a maritime alliance with Britain and France and was attacking the Far Easterners in the Americas.

Moreover, the Netherlands had reached a new agreement with Britain and France, and after settling the Far Easterners in the Americas, the combined fleet would come to the Far East to strike at the Far Easterners.

As long as it lasts for a year or two, the Batavia Company transferred another thirty warships from India, the Cape of Good Hope and other places, which is already the last old book.

After these 30 warships came to the Far East, 10 were arranged to go to Taiwan and have been hiding in the harbor and not going out.

But unexpectedly, the Shandong Navy came directly to the door.

Originally, I thought that these Shandong navies would attack head-on from the port, but what they didn't expect was that they directly uprooted the entrance to the Luermen waterway and quickly captured Chikanlou.

Putman, the 4th Dutch governor in Taiwan, felt that surrender had become their only way out.

(To be continued)