The current Ming Empire has become so strong that in this era, there is no country that can compete with it.

But as the emperor, Zhu Youzhen could not let this empire fall into slackness, and even become a bodhisattva to purify sentient beings.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen must always set goals for the Ming Dynasty, let the imperial officials have a goal, and even use whether this goal is achieved as a standard to determine whether a cabinet chief assistant or even himself as an emperor is successful.

And now the empire's next goal is to conquer the Wa kingdom.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, if there is no goal of conquering the Japanese state, the empire will fall into the pursuit of enjoyment and comfort, and lose its enterprising spirit, allowing the domestic rulers to exploit the interests of the domestic people, which will aggravate the contradictions within the empire.

Confucian literati always used military force to criticize a warlike king, but they also curbed a king's aggressiveness and prevented the progress of Chinese civilization.

And now Zhu Youzhen wants to change the people of the empire from the mode of only knowing how to sing poems while sucking the bones and marrow of the people, so that they can always maintain a state of enterprising towards the goal.

As soon as the conquest of Korea ended, the Imperial press began to spread a series of reports about why the empire had conquered the Wa Kingdom.

First of all, it is naturally the hatred left over from history, and directly asks the citizens of the entire empire why the Japanese can come to the Ming wreckage and the people of the Ming Dynasty during the Jiajing period, and now that the empire is already the most powerful era, why can't they send troops to retaliate against the Japanese state.

For this reason, he also specially disclosed all the old things of some Japanese robbers who brutalized the people of the Ming Dynasty, so as to achieve the purpose of arousing the people's emotions.

These were naturally manipulated by Dongchang, and Zhu Youzhen's instructions to them were to make the people of the Ming Dynasty hate the Japanese to the core, even to the point where the people marched and demonstrated to demand that the Generalissimo's Office of the Imperial Dynasty send troops to conquer the Japanese State.

In addition, the imperial media also began to publicize how much the Ming court had gained after the conquest of Korea, and at the same time reported many stories of going to Korea to make a fortune, and also began to report on the wealth of the Wa Kingdom, and began to predict how much benefit the empire would bring if the conquest of the Wa Kingdom would be brought to the empire.

As a result, some merchant groups that did not make enough profit in Korea or wanted to gain more profit also began to hope that the empire would continue to conquer the Japanese state.

A large number of scholars from the Hanlin Academy also began to study the Wa Kingdom and began to analyze the social and historical situation of the Wa Kingdom.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen encouraged that sociological research should not only focus on the study of Confucianism, but also understand more about other regional cultures, which is beneficial to the expansion of the empire and the progress of Chinese civilization.

Many times, due to the tolerance of the Central Plains Dynasty, the political forces around China did not really have a sense of reverence for the Central Plains Dynasty in their hearts.

Although he claims to be the Celestial Empire, in his heart he only regards the Celestial Empire as a fool who can extort a sum of money at any time, especially in the nearly hundreds of years that the civilian clique has been in charge of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The current Wa Kingdom did not know that the Ming Dynasty would retaliate against them, and they may have fanatical elements who fantasized that they could destroy the Ming Dynasty in the future, just like Toyotomi Hideyoshi did back then.

But in any case, the current Ming Empire is no longer the country ruled by Confucianism that only knows how to oppress and oppress the common people internally, and the current Ming Empire is an aggressive and predatory empire.

"At present, the emperor of the Wa Kingdom does not have any power, and the ruler is the Tokugawa Shogunate, but this Tokugawa Shogunate only rules a quarter of the area, and the rest of the regions are all daimyo or vassal regimes of different sizes, so it can be said that the Wa Kingdom is not a unified centralized court, and it is not difficult for us to eliminate the Wa Kingdom."

Li Yan, the privy deputy envoy and chief of staff of the Generalissimo's Office and the secretary of the military department, said.

"As far as I know, in addition to the emperor, generals, and daimyos, the Wa Kingdom is mainly composed of four parts: samurai, peasants, handicraftsmen, and merchants, among which the samurai are the most relied on by the rulers of the Wa Kingdom, paying attention to loyalty, and also the most ferocious and cruel, when the Sejong period poisoned my southeast of the Ming Dynasty was these samurai, so Wechen believes that none of these samurai loyal to his generals and daimyo can be let go!"

Li Dingguo, the new vice minister of the War Department, said at this time.

"Samurai and above can't be spared, in addition, you must be more ruthless to North Korea, this is a people 0 clan who you don't abuse him, he is unhappy, so in Edo, the capital of the shogunate, a bloody massacre is needed, not less than six months, I want it to become a scar that can never be erased in the Wakoku region."

Zhu Youzhen remembered Nanjing in 1937 in the original history, so he wanted to let the Wa Kingdom in this time and space also undergo such a punishment.

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In order to avoid being colonized by the West, only Ming merchants were initially allowed to trade in Nagasaki.

However, now because the Ming Dynasty also showed colonial expansion, and the Zheng group began to ask for a base in the Wa Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom also began to realize that the Ming Dynasty seemed to have signs of monopolizing its own trade, so it also banned the Ming Dynasty from trading with the Wa State five years ago, and even the Tokugawa Shogunate sent troops to force the Zheng Group away.

And Zheng Zhilong's Zheng Group is just an ordinary Ming commercial armed force in the end, and he is not willing to consume his financial resources in order to defeat the entire Japanese state.

Moreover, the Zheng group also knew that the north of Taiwan was the sphere of influence of the Ming court, and the imperial court could conquer Batavia south of Taiwan, and if the Zheng group established a sphere of influence north of Taiwan, it could only be eliminated by the Ming court for a reason.

For this reason, the Ming Zheng Group also gave up the armed attack on the Japanese state.

Now it is only left to the Ming court, and the Admiralty of the Generalissimo's Office will send troops to conquer the Japanese state, in order to meet the needs of gaining more benefits in the Japanese country.

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In the conquest of the Japanese State, Zhu Youzhen sent Zheng Chenggong to command the navy, while Li Dingguo led the Seventh Army of the Army to assist him in land operations, of which Yan Yingyuan and Liu Kongzhao were responsible for the general logistics of the entire war against the Japanese State.

On this day, it was the day when the clouds were high and the wind was clear, and a battleship of the Ming Dynasty appeared in Nagasaki, the country of Wa, and landed on the shore, which was the direct jurisdiction of the Edo Tokugawa shogunate.

According to the plan of the Generalissimo's Palace, this place will be the first place for the Ming army to attack.

Fei Dongjun, the commander of the battleship of the Ming Dynasty, began to send people to Nagasaki and found the Nagasaki authorities of the Japanese state, saying that a naval soldier was missing when the Ming fleet was chasing pirates, and this naval soldier fled into Nagasaki, and the Ming navy asked to go ashore to search.

The Nagasaki authorities did not expect that the Ming navy would suddenly appear and said that a soldier was missing and wanted to enter the city to search, although they could guess that the Ming army was likely to be an excuse, and it was true that they wanted to open the Nagasaki trade, but they did not dare to annoy the Ming Dynasty, so they had to quickly send someone to inform the Edo shogunate.

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