[Today's first shift, the second shift is a little later]

Chen Yaoming looked at Fernando in surprise, and secretly said that this old fox really had some skills, and it seemed that he had secretly dealt with the East India Companies of other countries, and even had some ulterior secrets.

It seems that after returning to China, you need to inform the prince of this matter, and these several countries in Southeast Asia are not as simple as they seem.

Thinking of this, Chen Yaoming smiled: "That is naturally the best!" I'll go back and report to the prince, I believe the prince will definitely agree to your participation! I just don't know how many troops you can contribute? ”

Fernando said mysteriously: "I plan to send five thousand troops!" Hope to get Yalimantan Island! ”

Quite an appetite!

Chen Yaoming said: "The area of Yalimantan Island is equivalent to half of the Dutch East Indies, and I guess other countries will not give it to you lightly!" It is better for His Excellency the Governor to increase the number of troops sent to stop them! ”

Fernando naturally wanted to gain more territory, but he was reluctant to send more troops, because he always guarded against the Ming Dynasty. Since he had approved the lease of Subic Bay to Deng Haonan, it now appears that Subic Bay has become the base of the Pacific Fleet and poses a great threat to the Philippines. If it weren't for the destruction of the Philippine fleet, his next plan would be to reclaim Subic.

Chen Yaoming saw that Fernando was unwilling to increase his troops, and he did not force it, but he sneered in his heart, as long as the Spanish army was mired in the quagmire of the Dutch East Indies with one foot, he would not worry that Fernando would not increase his troops.

Chen Yaoming agreed to Fernando's suggestion, and then set off for China to report to Deng Haonan. Fernando, on the other hand, sent a note to the representatives of the East India Companies of various countries to discuss the acquisition of Spain, the details of which were not allowed to be known to outsiders.

The joint efforts of the Seven Nations against the Dutch East India Company made the Dutch very nervous. The tense war situation in Southeast Asia has caused all countries to stop their trade in Southeast Asia.

The Dutch suffered the greatest losses, not to mention the inability to purchase goods from the Ming Dynasty, and the fleet did not dare to leave the waters near the Dutch East Indies. Because I don't know when the multinational fleet will come back to attack, I can only wait every day.

In turn, in addition to the Ming Dynasty, the other six countries also lost their maritime trade. Without the protection of the fleet, the Philippines did not dare to ship. The other five countries were unable to reach the Bay of Bengal because the Dutch blocked the Straits of Malacca.

Only the merchants of the Ming Empire continued to make money, exporting goods to the Philippines on the one hand, and the Pacific Ocean on the other, to the Americas. At the same time, the ocean-going caravans of the Pacific Trading Company also bypassed the Americas and exported goods directly to Europe, earning higher profits.

This is also another reason why Chen Yaoming's trip deliberately delayed time, the longer the tension in Southeast Asia, the more the loss is the interests of companies in Southeast Asian countries.

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In Beijing's Liaowang Mansion, these days, Deng Haonan has been carefully seeking advice from the new staff Zhang Pu and Zhang Zi'an.

This Zhang Pu Zhang Zi'an, in his fifties, is a disciple of Gu Mingfeng, a great Confucian in Jiangnan, and has been known as Xiao Zhuge for many years. used to be King Fu's staff, but in the end, King Fu made Zhang Pu finally give up on him because of his lack of ambition.

Deng Haonan didn't mind that Zhang Pu once served King Fu, after all, people go to high places and water flows to low places, and Zhang Pu assisted King Fu just because he wanted to be a high-ranking official in the future. However, regarding Zhang Pu's words and deeds, Deng Haonan believes that he did it for the sake of fame. Because Zhang Pu is full of poetry and books, and his heart is rich and rich, assisting King Fu to participate in the struggle for the throne has always been a way for scholars to become famous.

After talking with Zhang Pu in the past few days, Deng Haonan was even more sure of this judgment. Zhang Pu is not for money or sex, he is just the arrogance of a scholar, just for fame.

Grasping Zhang Pu's personality and hobbies, Deng Haonan was relieved to take him for his own use.

On the issue of the situation in Southeast Asia, Deng Haonan consulted him. But it's a pity that even a great talent like Zhang Zi'an has a contempt for Southeast Asia, and even directly a barbarian, and in turn persuaded Deng Haonan not to put his mind on it.

In this regard, Deng Haonan had to smile bitterly. Looking at the Ming dynasty, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find a talent who studies the pattern of Southeast Asia.

Today, Deng Haonan found Zhang Pu again to discuss a strategy to deal with the King of Chu and the King of Fu. At the same time, there are still many things to solve in the Great Northwest.

Zhang Pu is very close to the mentality of King Chu and King Fu, especially the situation of King Fu.

"To deal with the King of Chu, the prince only needs to make the report of Wuhan Prefect Lai Youguang public, and the twenty charges above are enough to cut off the prince of the King of Chu, and even punish him with death!"

"As for King Fu, it's even simpler!"

Zhang Pu continued: "King Fu's current fiefdom is three times larger than before, and he has embezzled countless lands for the common people, in Luoyang, everyone knows that King Fu's family treasures are piled up, and there is no problem in supporting the imperial court for ten years!" ”

Deng Haonan nodded and said, "It's just that this king is worried that rectifying the king of Chu on the one hand, and at the same time rectifying the king of blessing at the same time, will put everyone in danger to the royal family, and I am afraid of making waves!" ”

"That's too!" Zhang Pu thought for a while and said: "King Fu has no great wisdom, just like a fat sheep waiting for the prince to slaughter, so he is not in a hurry." The only thing to worry about now is the king of Chu and the king of Xin. The former doesn't say much, the king of Chu has the courage, but he excludes dissidents, and his subordinates are all incompetent. King Xin is a little bold, but he is too young, has no money and no one, and cannot afford to stir up the storm for the time being. As long as the prince kills the king of Chu first to show them, there will be no other members of the royal family who will come out to find fault in five years! ”

Deng Haonan nodded, and he was in favor of Zhang Puti first dealing with the King of Chu and killing a hundred people.

"This king has clearly notified the king of Chu to dismiss the 50,000 horse infantry troops trained by Wuhan Mansion to prevent the king of Chu from using his military power to make trouble!"

"That's not enough!"

Zhang Pu said bluntly: "The king of Chu is deeply rooted in Wuhan, and after the 50,000 horse infantry army is withdrawn, if the king of Chu has the intention to make trouble, he can reorganize it with just a piece of paper!" ”

"What does that mean—"

Zhang Pu replied: "The prince can order the king of Chu to hand over 50,000 horse infantry troops to Lai Youguang, and then order Lai Youguang to transfer these troops north to Sichuan Province!" Then you can do it to the King of Chu! ”

The action against the king of Chu has long been put on the agenda by telephone, but I don't know what it means to transfer these troops to Gansu?

Zhang Pu saw Deng Haonan's question and explained: "Although the prince has controlled the traditional territory of the dynasty, the northwest is still a hidden danger. ”

Deng Haonan suddenly realized that Zhang Pu had already thought of the situation in the northwest.

The situation in the northwest is indeed worrying for Deng Haonan. With Deng Haonan's large-scale reduction of nearly two million troops of the Ming Empire, it is the peace of the country and the people to recuperate in a huge area of land. It's just that the lack of border troubles in the north of Mongolia and the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not completely stabilize the Ming frontier. In the northwest and southwest regions, many hidden dangers have been exposed.

Next to the nearest is the Tatar Tumut Department in the northwest of Xining Wei, the Turpan Department at the end of the Great Wall of Suzhou Wei, and the Yeerqiang Department in the Green Mountains in the desert, which once submitted to the Ming Dynasty when the Ming Dynasty was founded. However, when the Tumu Fort Rebellion, which changed the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, took place, the three tribes began to rebel. By the fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had lost control over them.

On the frontier, the three departments often attacked and harassed the Ming frontier Suzhou Wei and reported bad news to Xining Wei, making the border people miserable. After Deng Haonan took charge of the country, after the biggest northern threat was solved, the northwest threat was put on the agenda. As a result of the policy of rest and recuperation, the generational replacement system of military and artisan households was broken, and more people began to return home to farm and become farmers.

In this way, the people have hope for life, and when the autumn harvest comes, they can have a bumper harvest. This is the result that Deng Haonan hopes to see the most, but these tribes also see the huge oil and water in autumn, and a robbery is enough to survive the winter.

The northwest has just been pacified for a few months, and the last crop of autumn wheat is the lifeblood of the people in the northwest.

Deng Haonan would never allow the civil unrest to rise again, so he had already mobilized troops to assemble in Xi'an, preparing to conquer these tribes and keep the enemy out of the country.

In addition to these three tribes, there are also two large tribes, the Duogansi Xuanwei Division and the Wusizang Xuanwei Division, which are controlled by the Qiang people.

These two tribes are entrenched in Sichuan, controlling the whole of Tibet, with the Mughal Empire behind them. Due to their condescending position, they posed a serious threat to the security of the Ming Empire.

Due to the terrain, it was difficult for the Ming army to directly go north from Sichuan and Yunnan to eliminate the rebellion of the Duogansi Xuanwei Division and the Wusizang Xuanwei Division, so Deng Haonan planned to first sweep away the Tatar Tumut Division, Turpan Division, and Yeerqiang Division, and then enter the Tibetan Plateau from the Yeerqiang Division, and pacify Tibet from behind.

This will consume huge manpower, material resources, and financial resources, and the General Staff has made a preliminary military budget for the war games, which will cost 20 million taels of silver, and it will take two years to pacify the northwest. If we want to completely end the chaos in the northwest, we need to garrison troops in Tibet, but it is very difficult to replenish them. Assuming that 20,000 troops are stationed in Tibet, the annual military expenditure will be as high as 4 million taels.

This made Deng Haonan very distressed, and before that, he wouldn't care about this little money. Now that he has regarded Daming as his own world, this money cannot be spent indiscriminately. The money earned needs to be used for people's livelihood, so that the country can become richer and richer, and if it is all smashed into military spending, it will be a strict drag on the country's strong pace.

Of course, this is an interactive relationship. Military spending is high, labor and money are lost, military spending is low, and the country is not safe. Among them, military spending is a university question, and Deng Haonan needs to be cautious as a ruler.

The bitter water spit out, Deng Haonan was a lot faster, but Zhang Pu was surprised.

In his eyes, the taxes paid by the common people were, of course, to feed the emperor and civil and military officials, as well as the army. There is no such thing as reversing taxes for people's livelihood.

Of course, Zhang Pu is not a pedantic person, he heard what Deng Haonan meant.

"The prince is worried about the country and the people, and he is really a Ming monarch, and now the people are blessed!"

Deng Haonan is the regent of the prison country, that is, half a monarch, so he deserves Zhang Pu to call him Mingjun.

However, both sides know this kind of thing in their hearts, and Zhang Pu understands that it won't take long for Deng Haonan to win the artifact, and this Mingjun is worthy of it. On the other hand, if Deng Haonan didn't plan to win the artifact, then Zhang Pu wouldn't come over to help him at all.

"The 50,000 horse infantry troops in Wuhan were transferred to the northwest, but they had no combat effectiveness, and it was useless to go! Waste of military salaries! ”

Zhang Pu said with a smile: "The prince only needs to dispatch 100,000 Mongolian iron horsemen to pacify the northwest!" These 50,000 horse infantry troops were not used to fight, but to maintain law and order in the northwest. ”

It is understandable for Deng Haonan to maintain law and order, but why only send Mongolian cavalry? Zhang Pu gave an explanation.

"The Mongols have just taken refuge in the prince, but they are not enough to be fully trusted, so the prince's army cannot move to prevent the Mongols from repeating! On the other hand, the prince has hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalry in his hands, this is a double-edged sword, in order not to hurt himself, he can't let them be idle, he needs to be transferred out of the Mongolian desert! ”

Deng Haonan asked, "Sir, you mean to attack the Qiang people with the Mongols!" ”

"That's just one aspect!"

Zhang Pu replied: "The Mongols and Qiang people are both nomadic peoples, when the empire is strong, they call it a tribute, once the empire is weak, they fall into the well and meet each other with stone swords. Therefore, when treating them, they should be treated as sword envoys, let them fight for the empire, and make enemies everywhere, so that they can only rely on the imperial court in the future, completely dependent on the imperial court, and achieve the purpose of education! ”

Deng Haonan nodded, and secretly said that this old man really saw the problem sharply and hit the nail on the head. This strategy is a bit ruthless, Deng Haonan, as a descendant, naturally does not want to be killed. But in this era, there is not a single pacifist, and any great Confucian thinker will jump out to call for Han orthodoxy and the elimination of other races.

Their thinking is bound by the times, and Deng Haonan can't change their deep-rooted thinking. However, at the moment, Zhang Pu's strategy is a very good way.

Because Deng Haonan suddenly remembered a similar strategy of the Russian Empire. In those years, when the Russian Empire dealt with the nomadic Cossacks, it adopted a policy of gentle use. That is, the Russian government was legally the ruler of the Cossacks, but it was a mercenary relationship with the Cossacks. The Cossacks were out, the Russian government was paid, and then they expanded eastward.

The Cossacks were the sword of Russia's foreign expansion, so that the Cossacks made enemies all over the world, and finally completely annexed to the Russian Empire, and at the same time helped the Russian Empire to conquer the vast territory of Siberia.

This is a successful example of managing nomads, and Deng Haonan uses it as a reference.

However, Zhang Pu has a better way.

"The prince only needs to order the Mongolian cavalry to suppress the Qiang tribes by force, and he must not be soft. From ancient times to the present, the Qiang people have submitted to the Celestial Empire and rebelled against the Celestial Empire as commonplace, and they must be slaughtered once to deal with them. ”

Deng Haonan was a little unbearable and asked: "However, this king is ready to turn it into the land of the Ming Dynasty forever!" If it's too cruel, I am afraid that it will not be able to appease the people there in the future! ”

Zhang Pu said with a smile: "The black cauldron wants the Mongols to carry it, and after the war, the prince quickly sent the Han army to manage it and provide relief at the same time." In this way, the Qiang people are ruthless to the Mongols, but they have to be grateful to the prince, and the northwest will be determined. In time, the prince will show them more favors and guide them to settle down, so that Qinghai-Tibet can truly be included in the empire. ”

Deng Haonan understood that this was the imperial mind technique that Zhang Pu wanted to teach Deng Haonan. The left hand is the bad guy, the right hand is the good guy, the problem is just like a ball, thrown from the left hand to the right hand, the commander has not changed, but in front of the audience, the effect is diametrically opposite.

"This king has to help Mr. Wang, why worry about the great cause?"

Deng Haonan sighed from the bottom of his heart, Zhang Pu nodded slightly with his beard, and said: "It's just that the prince is now using troops in the northwest, and he needs to take a two-pronged approach." Left-handed force is like a big stick in the head, intimidating the enemy. The right hand is soft, supplemented by fame and fortune to induce the leaders and dignitaries of the various departments, and the grace and power can be miraculous! ”

All right! This is the Ming version of the stick with carrots!

Deng Haonan immediately understood Zhang Pu's intentions, and secretly said that this old man is really powerful. If King Fu had been reused for him back then, and even showed his ambitions, he would have been King Fu now.

Emotion to emotion, Deng Haonan listened to Zhang Pu's words, and he already had a complete understanding of the way to use troops in the northwest.

However, as a superior and the de facto ruler of the Ming Empire, Deng Haonan needs to show his supreme majesty. This Zhang Pu is certainly talented, but this kind of person is often arrogant, Deng Haonan needs to be deterred by him, otherwise it will be a disaster in the future.

Just like Cao Cao and Sima Yi back then. With Cao Cao alive, Sima Yi can't afford to rise in the wind and waves, but when Cao Cao is dead, no one can control Sima Yi. Because of this, Cao Cao's last words to Cao Pi were to use Sima Yi with caution and kill him if he didn't use it.

Deng Haonan had to think about his descendants. The people are rich for no more than three generations, and the royal family is even more so. It has always been Lao Tzu who fought wisely, and the descendants were confused, and this inheritance made Deng Haonan have to be vigilant.

It wasn't until just now that Deng Haonan realized a question, that is, why the heroes of the founding of the country in all dynasties either hung up or disarmed and returned to the field, the key to this is what Deng Haonan thinks now.

Deng Haonan needs to establish majesty in front of Zhang Pu and needs to overpower his talent.

"Zi'an's strategy is very good!" Deng Haonan said with a majestic expression: "However, this king thinks that the northwest departments should be educated with the royal way!" This king has decided to set up a central canonization system in southern Tibet (Tibet) and northern Tibet (Xinjiang), and their living Buddhas and sultans are all canonized and supported by the imperial court. ”

Zhang Pu looked at Deng Haonan in surprise, he was really surprised by this strategy, the young man in front of the secret road had such a plan, he really underestimated him.

"The prince is wise!"

Zhang Pu had to admire Deng Haonan's strategy, and there was a trace of admiration in his eyes. Deng Haonan saw this in his eyes, and secretly said in his heart: Kill your arrogance first, Lao Tzu took out Kangxi's successful strategy of governing the northwest, and I am afraid that you will not admire it? V