Another point, the current Haizhou port is the only reliable port for the northbound fleet to berth and relay supply, if you want to do business in the north of the Ming Dynasty or Liaodong and North Korea, or even go to the Wa country along this line, the current Haizhou port is an important node, and even without this port, the route to the north has become very unreliable, after all, the sea ships of the Ming Dynasty are all needle roads, and they must travel along the coast and islands.

"We still have to have our own fleet, making money is secondary, the key is to take the initiative." Zhao Jin was very anxious about this.

The internal guards have been preparing to send additional manpower in Haizhou Port, but the main purpose of sending additional manpower is not to keep an eye on them, but to torture the captives on the foreign ships, and the people behind the command are very clever, but the internal guards come to torture not to question the mastermind, but to take out all the knowledge and skills that the captives know.

"Big brother, little brother is derelict in his duties this time" When he returned to the place where Zhao Jin lived, Shi Manqiang admitted his mistake.

However, he was interrupted by Zhao Jin in the middle of his words, but Zhao Jin's expression was not comforting or meaningless, and he said quite solemnly: "We have not suffered many casualties in the east and west, you have lost nearly a hundred brothers this time, but this is not your mistake, if we encounter the same enemy as us, or even slightly weaker than us, the battle will not be so easy, the artillery roars, the fire salvo is fired, and then the spear is pierced face to face, how can there be fewer casualties, hard training and diligent training are prepared for these." ”

Hearing Zhao Jin's words, Shi Manqiang's eyes widened, since he left the town of Huaibei, he has always been calm, but today he has been shocked and shaken several times like an hour, and he heard on the ship that a foreigner warship would have more than 100 cannons, and now he heard Zhao Jin say this, he immediately reacted, and asked solemnly: "Big brother, there are still soldiers and horses in the world that are stronger than us?" Or is there someone like us? Could it be that Jianzhou Jurchen? Or on the Mongolian side? It shouldn't be! ”

Zhao Jin shook his head and said in a deep voice: "The Jianzhou Jurchen is not weak, but they are another way, I said that the enemy should be thousands of miles away, and it will not come in our lifetime, but back then, the Wenxiang Church used our drill to train thousands of people, will anyone else do this?" Wenxiang Sect that group of people is a grass platform team, what if they are people who do things in a disciplined way? ”

Shi Manqiang said these words with a solemn face, and said: "Big brother, if you say this, we should do our best to sweep the world, so as not to have this kind of disaster!" ”

"Sweep the world?" Hearing this word, Zhao Jin smiled dumbly, and looked at Shi Manqiang playfully, but Shi Manqiang didn't have a trace of joking or even delusion, nor did he have any solemnity, as if he was talking about a natural plan.

Zhao Jin shook his head, but raised his voice and said, "Stay away, I have something to say with Shi Luzheng." ”

The guards in the house all withdrew, and the family members outside were also walking away, and after a while, someone shouted: "Enter the master, there are no outsiders." "Listen to the sound of the sound has gone away.

"Stone, I thought you were joking with me, but you're not, do you think our Zhao Ziying should take the initiative to defeat the Ming army, and then take the world, I will be the emperor, and everyone will be rich together?" Zhao Jin asked in a deep voice.

Shi Manqiang nodded, he was even more puzzled by Zhao Jin's reaction, and hesitated to speak: "Big brother, although the younger brother has been staying in this Huai'an North District, but the surrounding officials and soldiers are like The little brother knows what kind of chicken and dog they are in front of our family, even if they don't use firearms, they can poke them clean with a spear, and the government is even worse, there is no shortage of food in our farm and factory, and everyone does not worry about food and clothing, but you look at the people who are under the control of the government, they are not even as good as livestock, it is really better to live than to die!" ”

When he said this, Shi Manqiang's face was full of pride, his voice gradually increased, and he was signaled by Zhao Jin to flatten: "Big brother, let's not recruit displaced people now, but the people of Shandong and Nanzhili still can't stop running over to take refuge, if it weren't for us to start reclamation in Shandong, then the people of Yanzhou Mansion can let us suck it clean, this Ming court is not as good as us in war, and the people are not as good as us, why let them dominate such a large area, big brother should lead the brothers to take it over, big brother, you should be this emperor!" ”

Shi Manqiang said very strictly, Zhao Jin was silent for a while, then nodded and said: "Shi, these words today, you hide them in your heart, don't say them to the outside, this is a word that only a few of our brothers can know, it must be kept secret, understand?" ”

"Please rest assured, big brother!" Shi Manqiang replied solemnly.

Zhao Jin pondered for a moment, smiled and said: "Maybe smart people can guess why I'm not in a hurry, Shi, we are now in charge of almost a province's territory, in the whole world, it is still a big province, we currently have nearly 100,000 soldiers, we can directly control the population of 2 million, and the population in the jurisdiction is nearly 6 million, we are doing well now, the soldiers and horses are strong, and the people are well fed, but we are only a tenth of the world, if you count the grassland and the outside of the border or beyond, we are only a few tenths of the world." ”

Hearing this, Shi Manqiang's breathing became a little heavier, all he thought about was the two capitals and more than a dozen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and what Zhao Jin thought was far greater than these, but what Zhao Jin said was not for this purpose: "Neiwei and Yunshanxing have a report from the world every month, telling you about the big and small things everywhere, do you know how many people in the world are hungry and cold, and how many places are in chaos?" ”

"Big brother, except for Jiangnan and a few big cities in the world, there is not peace everywhere, and the younger brother doesn't understand that the government is so unscrupulous and undisciplined to exploit the people, and if they eat layer by layer, not only will it be beneficial, but it will also cause chaos, and then these eaters will not be able to make up for it in useful places." Shi Manqiang has indeed seen it, and he has thought about it carefully.

Zhao Jin nodded approvingly, and said again: "We are now dividing our troops into four parts, needless to say, most of Henan, Shandong, and North Zhili and the Jiangbei part of South Zhili can be taken into their hands immediately, and further later, Shanxi, Shaanxi and even Jiangnan and Huguang are not a problem, but then what?" We are the emperor, what should we do with so many people in the place? What about those heroes? Do you think we can quickly make these sites and populations the same as Xuzhou? ”

Shi Manqiang thought for a while, then shook his head, Zhao Jin said again: "Haoqiang is a tiger wolf, the people are cattle and sheep, if we want to take away the cattle and sheep, the Haoqiang will starve to death. They are all miscellaneous pieces of local chickens and dogs, which are not worth mentioning in front of our family, but in the end they will be beaten, and they will be killed and injured in the end, and those people will not get food and clothing for a while, but will be ravaged by the military disaster, do you think they will be grateful or resentful? ”

"Surely I will be resentful!"

"We need to spend a lot of materials and manpower to resettle the displaced people, and we also have to allocate enough reliable village managers and regimental training to consolidate, and we have to take so much land and people at once, do we have enough materials to do it? Do we have enough manpower to take care of it? ”

"Nope!"

"If you can't settle down and manage it, then these lands and manpower are not our resources, but our burden, stones, you have taken root in this Huai'an North District for a long time, I ask you, why are our Zhuangding people willing to follow us to the ground, why are they willing to work hard, why are they willing to go with us to fight in the south and the north!"

"Because we give them food and clothing, give them benefits, they also see the miserable situation of those people outside, as long as they leave us, it will be miserable to go to the Daming Mansion."

"That's right! The strength and loyalty of our Zhao Ziying come from such a comparison, if we win such a large piece of territory and so many people, can we still do this? If we want to settle the new land and population, we have to dilute our original territory, without this comparison, the treatment will be reduced, do you say that the loyalty of these people to us will decline, we see that the territory is bigger, the population is larger, but in fact our strength will be weakened. ”

Zhao Jin's words made Shi Manqiang frightened, he followed Zhao Jin's train of thought and immediately thought of the next consequences, Zhao Jin slowed down his tone and said: "Stone, now the imperial court still has a righteous name, if we make a big move, I don't know how many people in the world want to be enemies with us, even if those people who are oppressed will think that we are a flood beast, even if we can succeed at that time, we will be unstable, there is more resentment in plainness, there are more enemies in plainness, why don't we wait." ”

"It's the younger brother who is impatient, and the eldest brother also has to talk to Da Xiang, the second brother, the third brother, Bingfeng, and Xiao Yong can all calm down, but Da Xiang is more anxious than me." Shi Manqiang nodded and said.

Zhao Jin smiled, he naturally knew that Ji Xiang had sent a letter to Shi Manqiang and asked Shi Manqiang to persuade him, but there was no need to mention this clearly, Zhao Jin picked up the tea bowl and took a sip and said: "We keep what we get, do what we should do well, keep improving, let the world see our benefits, and it is not too late to go up when we are looking forward to it." ”

Shi Manqiang coughed, and asked with some hesitation: "Big brother, you always say that we can't do whatever we want, let's do this, can the court let it?" The Ming court won't watch us get bigger and bigger, right? ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Jin showed a wry smile on his face, shook his head and said: "Maybe, if the Ming Dynasty wants to live for a few more years, it will follow our steps, but I estimate that there are too few people in the court who are interested in understanding things like Wei Zhongxian, and there is a chance that they will fight again, and the eunuchs already know that it hurts, and after the Qingliu also knows the pain, they will follow our steps, and they have no other choice." ”

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