"Sage, how many soldiers and horses do you plan to add to Mingzhou? Looking at the map, Nanmingzhou is really not small, there is no army of 180,000, I am afraid that it will not be pacified. ”

"The strength of the Atlantic Fleet will be doubled, eight 'New World' class ships will be sent over, and a group of craftsmen will be sent to Macao."

"What about the Army?"

"The army is to be stationed for a long time, which is more troublesome, and Land Rover and Wang Lufei mean to recruit volunteers from the army, and strive to recruit 50,000 people to form three divisions. In addition, Bao Yin also suggested recruiting some Mongols who had converted to the Heavenly Way to form the cavalry of the New World. ”

"Do you want to transport the horses over?"

"No, it's not. The New World is now producing good horses, the Andalusian horse, the Great Eater and the Shire horse, which were introduced from Europa and Eater. The first two are war horses, and the latter are ploughing horses. ”

In the Daming Palace, the conversation between Chen Dexing and Huang Zhishen continued, but the place of conversation was transferred to the Dafu Hall for dining. In a restaurant on the second floor of the Dafu Palace, a round table has been placed at this time, on which are a few kinds of cold dishes and hot stir-fry, and there is a mutton hot pot in the middle with a white wave of splashes, which is the most lively time.

The waiter in the restaurant is Mrs. Yang. Although she is a ripe woman, her charm has not diminished. In the end, she is a small martial arts practitioner, and she has never given birth to a child, although she is in her forties, her figure is not out of shape at all. At this moment, he was holding a pot of champagne from France, standing behind the two of them, and when he saw whose glass was empty, he poured the wine diligently.

French wine was the fourth largest import of the Ming Dynasty after the White Slave Girl, spices and cotton cloth, and the largest export commodity of Europa to the Ming Dynasty (although the White Slave Girl was mostly of the Europa species, it was an export commodity of the Celestial Sect). It is very popular with Ming bureaucrats and wealthy businessmen. Chen Dexing also likes to drink this kind of wine with a lower degree, and often asks his courtiers to accompany him to drink and eat.

The rules in the Ming court are not big. The emperor invites someone to eat is not a "feast", and there are no rules on what to eat. The usual homely meals will do. The minister could even sit on the same table with the emperor and serve vegetables on a plate. It is precisely because there are fewer etiquette rules for inviting guests to dinner, and there are more courtiers who are fortunate to accompany the emperor to dinner. Under normal circumstances, Chen Dexing's lunch is shared with his courtiers, and dinner is shared with his family.

It's noon, and it's time for lunch. Huang Zhishen discussed with Chen Dexing for a morning in order to resign as prime minister and become president of the New World. When it was time for lunch, the two were still chatting while eating. The content of the conversation is still related to Mingzhou.

The colonial policy of the Ming Dynasty. It is about conquering, plundering, and exploiting - this process is the same as the colonial expansion of the Europa people in history, it is a business that feeds war and profits, conquers, plunders, and develops. They carry a lot of gold and silver to their own country.

At the same time, colonial expansion is a gradual process, after a round of conquest, plunder, and development, more territory is conquered, more wealth is plundered, and more development and construction are carried out. After all, it is unrealistic to become a fat man in one bite, this is not to build hundreds of large wooden ships and transport tens of thousands of soldiers at a time to conquer a continent. On an empty and uninhabited continent. The logistics of tens of thousands of troops is simply an unsolvable problem.

So it can only be a small force to explore the way, and then establish a stronghold, and at the same time fish in troubled waters. Unscrupulous means to grab wealth, expand territory, and enslave the local natives. Wait until you have a certain foundation. It can provide logistical support for more troops, and it also comes up with a big cake that is enough to make the hearts of all factions in the country (gold and silver are a lot of words). There will be no problem with further aggression.

Now the first phase of colonizing Mingzhou has been basically completed, and the effect is far better than imagined. It's also time to carry out the second phase of aggression and expansion - swallow the Mingzhou continent in one gulp!

"Five thousand men in three divisions. It is estimated that there will be several thousand more cavalry. Chen Dexing took a sip of wine and pondered: "It is impossible to send so many soldiers at one time, and it must be in phases and batches, and all of them will be in place within three years." ”

"Will these people return to Daming in the future?"

"I'm not coming back," Chen Dexing smiled, "As long as I have worked in the New World for five years, I will give them white girls, black slaves, and manors." Let them be nobles in the New World! ”

There will be many feudal states in the New World, all of which are reactionary feudal states, and naturally someone will be a nobleman. If there is no noble, the monarch will have no foundation, and if a bunch of manor owners are allowed to make a council, it will easily become an alliance of the fifteen states of the Northern Ming Dynasty, and it will be very bad if that happens.

"At least 50,000 nobles, how much do black slaves get?" Huang Zhishen frowned and asked.

"500,000 will always be wanted!" Chen Dexing did the math, "The army will be in place one after another within three years, and it will be distributed after five years...... You have to get 500,000 black slaves in eight years, no, you have to have 600,000 black slaves if you count the state-owned black slaves! ”

"It would be nice to start mass trafficking in two years without eight years." Huang Zhishen shook his head, "On average, 100,000 people are trafficked a year!" At least 70 New World-class ships must run the Atlantic route. ”

Transporting 100,000 black slaves a year is really a lot! A "New World"-class top of the sky can only hold 500 black slaves, and 100,000 people will have to make 200 trips. Taking into account the time taken by the "Great Triangle Trade Route" and the loading and unloading of ships, it is not possible to make a round trip without four months, and a "New World" class will only run three times a year, and the transportation volume of 200 trips will be at least 70 "New World" ships.

The "New World" class is not an ordinary fortune ship, it is the largest and strongest capital ship of the Ming Navy, and there are no more than thirty-five "New World" class ships in service in the entire Ming Navy. How is it possible to put up to seventy ships of the New World-class into the Atlantic in a few years?

Moreover, the "New World" class is a flying scissor type soft sailing ship, which is very complicated to maneuver and much more difficult than the Kaifu ship. At present, only professional officers and sailors of the Ming Dynasty have a good time, and those sailors who have not undergone naval training will definitely not know how to open the "New World" class -- it has not been more than ten years since the beginning of the Great Voyage Age in China in this time and space, and the vast majority of the merchant ships are figures before the Age of Discovery.

So now the transpacific route is still monopolized by the Ming Navy, and the "New World" class of the Beiyang Fleet is running. Huang Zhishen's family is a wealthy maritime businessman, so he naturally knows these things. Their Huang family also once organized a fortune ship to sail to the New World, along the warm current of the North Pacific Ocean, and four fortune ships sank one to three. But he couldn't come back, because the return trip had to take the route near the equator, the distance was too far, and the situation was complicated, and the bows of the three lucky ships did not dare to do it. As a result, these three lucky ships are now running the Jinshan-Yinshan route.

"You can also use the Fu boat," Chen Dexing shook his head and said, "Although it is a little difficult for the Fu ship to cross the Pacific Ocean, the route around Black Africa is about to be opened." As long as the battle on the small Western Ocean is over, the fortune ships can pass in large numbers. The currents of the Little Western Ocean travel southward along the east coast of Africa, and after bypassing southern Africa, there are currents that move northward. Now the South Sea Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet have set up some strongholds on the east and west coasts of Africa, which can supply the fleet. When the time comes, let the navy come with the fortune ship. Moreover, it is easier to sail in the Atlantic, the transoceanic route is short, the wind direction is more regular, and it is not easy to get lost. ”

In the Atlantic, the west wind blows at high latitudes and the east wind blows at low latitudes. However, the wind and waves in the Atlantic Ocean are much larger than those in the Pacific Ocean, and although it is not easy to get lost, it is easy to sink ships. Cardinal Doria, who had personally experienced the voyage of the Atlantic, and Cardinal Doria, the ambassador of the Republic of Genoa to the Ming Dynasty, felt this very deeply.

At the same time that Chen Dexing and Huang Zhishen were having lunch together, at the Shenjiamen Wharf in Zhoushan, a flying scissor battleship with a slender hull and a high mast and low board side was on the berth, the sails and hull were weathered, and the sun and moon flag on the blue background of the bow was also in tatters. When the ship docked, the sailors immediately let out the loudest cheers.

They were the first sailors to complete a circumnavigation of the globe! And after several years of wandering overseas, they finally returned to their homeland of dreams.

The three of them took the lead in stepping off the pedal, led by a great navigator in Confucian clothes, the great explorer Wen Tianxiang, who looked at the bustling Shenjiamen Port and said with emotion: "It's been almost eight years!" A dream in eight years, a nightmare come true......"

"Mr. Wen, are you saying that the nightmare has come true?" Cardinal Giovanni. Doria is now fluent in Chinese with a Jiangxi accent. He disembarked with Wen Tianxiang, followed by the ambassador of the Republic of Venice, Pieto. Godenigo.

The two Italians were the same as Wen Tianxiang, their faces were pale, they were also a little emaciated, their steps were vain, and they were still a little dizzy when they stood on the ground. Even Doria and Godenigo, who came from Genoa, the so-called maritime republic, and Venice, had enough of life on a ship that seemed to have no end.

"The nightmare voyage is over, Mr. Wen, I guess the voyage to Jiangdu won't be so bumpy and long anymore, right?" Pietto. Godenigo also spoke in Chinese. "If that's the case, I'd rather walk to Jiangdu."

Wen Tianxiang looked at the sun and moon flag hanging high on the dock belonging to the Ming Navy, and sighed: "Then let's walk, it will take about a month to go to Jiangdu." ”

"It's going to be a month away, it's such a vast country!" Pietto. Godenigo expressed his feelings, and after nearly ten months at sea, he witnessed an incomparably vast and very wild continent. Pieto from Venice. Godenigo finally got the word expanse into perspective. Venice is too small, Italy is too small, and the Mediterranean Sea is far from vast. While the Venetians were struggling for a little commercial gain on the Mediterranean, the Seris were on the verge of conquering the whole world! (To be continued......)