It takes two months to prepare, three or four months to travel, and when the combined fleet arrives in the South Seas, I am afraid that it will be half a year later.

But since it has been determined, it is natural that it can only go all out.

The five Western countries agreed that as long as the Ming Empire was defeated, England would occupy the entire Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Peninsula, and the Dutch would occupy Sumatra and Java Islands; The Portuguese occupy Borneo, the French occupy Dongying and Yizhou, the Spaniards occupy the Luzon Islands, and the entire South Sea and even the East Ocean were directly divided by the five Western countries in the meeting.

In addition to the division of forces, the five Western countries jointly elected the Dutchman Tropp as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force and commander-in-chief of the combined fleet; The French Jacques Chirac served as commander-in-chief of the army coalition, and the top generals of the five countries formed a joint military conference to jointly take charge of the war.

The news spread out like wings, and it had already been heard clearly by the people of the Ministry of Intelligence.

A few months later, the news reached the city of Beijing, and by this time, it was already April of the following year.

In the Forbidden City, Zhu Jie still deals with court affairs as usual, in the past year, although the overseas trade of the Ming Empire has not been able to return to the peak state of previous years, it is not far behind, and the most important thing is that now the Ming Empire itself has a vast territory and a population of more than 150 million, which is already an extremely huge market in itself, and it is not worried about the sales of goods.

The most exciting thing is that the industrialization process of the Ming Empire is getting faster and faster, more and more factories are established, more and more goods are produced, not to mention, steel, coal, cloth, ships, steam locomotives and even bicycles, have begun to enter industrial production, no longer the previous workshop-style production, the efficiency is getting faster and faster, and the output is getting bigger and bigger, not to mention, the steel output alone has exceeded 200,000 tons, and the Ming Empire itself maintains a surplus of nearly 50 million taels of silver every year. More and more silver entered the Ming Empire, and then was directly taken overseas by Yongxing Bank to buy gold, gold reserves grew rapidly, at least, the gold reserves stored in the Ming treasury have exceeded two hundred tons, worth more than four million taels, this is gold, even if it is a one-to-ten exchange rate, this batch of gold reserves are already worth 40 million taels of silver.

The most satisfying thing for Zhu Jie is the shipbuilding industry, now the Ming Empire is not only the three major shipyards, in addition to the three major shipyards prepared by the imperial court, there are only a dozen large-scale shipyards in the private sector, and there are countless small-scale shipyards, and the shipbuilding capacity is getting stronger and stronger, so that in two years, almost all the warships of the Nanyang Fleet have been replaced over and over again, and now the three major fleets have more than 200 main warships, and the auxiliary ships are also more than 200. It has at least three heaven-class warships, six earth-class warships, in addition, there are more than thirty main warships and more than fifty auxiliary warships that have been retired from the Nanyang Fleet.

The Ming Empire's continued maritime combat power is getting stronger and stronger, this is the result of ten years of hard work, Zhu Jie has been working day and night to let the Ming Naval Fleet dominate the world, and now he finally sees the dawn, I dare not say that the combat power of the Ming Fleet is the first in the world, but neither the Dutch nor the English dare to say that their fleet combat power can surpass the Ming Empire Fleet.

Zhu Jie was still in the imperial study to review the chapters, Liu Sili came up to report, Xu Yifan and Cha Xuan cooperated with Shi Lang, the commander of the offshore fleet, and Wu Xing, the Marquis of Xiongwu, to ask for an audience!

Zhu Jie's heart was shocked, Shi Lang and Wu Xing want to enter the palace? They had gone to the American continent at the beginning of two years, and now it was just April, and it was only a year and a half, and they had already returned to the Ming Empire! It's so fast!

"Wear them in!"

After a short time, Xu Yifan, Cha Zhu and Shi Lang Wu Xing walked into the imperial study.

"Long live the ministers!"

"That's it, get up, Liu Sili, sit down, Honor, Wu Xing, when did you return to the mainland?"

Zhu Jie asked with a smile.

Wu Xing hurriedly knelt on the ground and said in a coquettish voice: "Your Majesty, please ask the emperor to be the master of the ministers!" ”

Zhu Jie's heart jumped, and he shouted: "Xiongwu Hou, what happened?" ”

Wu Xing said angrily: "Qi Huang Emperor, the minister once listened to the emperor's teachings at the beginning of the establishment of the Yanhuang Company, saying that in the far east, there is an American continent, the territory is vast, and the area is much larger than the entire Ming Empire. Who would have thought that the caravan of the minister had gone through a lot of hardships and finally arrived in Mexico, which was controlled by the Spaniards, but as soon as they arrived in Mexico, they were brutally treated by the Spaniards, and they launched an attack on our caravan without saying a word. Originally, the minister just planned to conduct commercial trade, but he didn't expect them to choose to go to war directly, in the end, my caravan more than 30 warships more than 1,300 people, only two warships have already passed the fate of destruction, more than 1,300 people died in battle, nearly 1,000 people, only more than 200 people returned to Daming alive, if it wasn't for General Shi Lang, I'm afraid that none of us would be able to come back alive......"

Seeing Zhu Jie, Wu Xing finally had the backbone, and told Zhu Jie about the war with a handful of snot and tears.

"Shi Lang! Is what Xiongwu Hou said true? ”

The anger in Zhu Jie's heart was ignited immediately, and there were nearly 1,000 casualties, above the Pacific Ocean, these people fell into the water, and they didn't have time to rescue them, which was equivalent to being sentenced to death, so many lives were all killed by the Spaniards, it was bearable, which was unbearable!

Shi Lang hurriedly knelt on the ground and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Xiongwu's sentence is true, just when the Spaniards were encircling and chasing the Marquis of Xiongwu, they happened to be saved by the fleet led by the minister, so that they escaped with their lives, otherwise, I am afraid that the whole army has already been wiped out by now, and the minister led the fleet all the way to counterattack and hit the city of Manzanillo, but because the firepower was too weak, the Spanish battery was hugely powerful, and the minister was not able to occupy Manzanillo, and asked the emperor to surrender!" ”

"Alright, stop talking!"

Zhu Jie shouted: "The Ming Empire has always exchanged blood for blood, tooth for tooth!" Since the Spaniards still don't admit defeat, then I will completely subdue them! No one can stop my determination to attack the Americas, and I must avenge the dead people of the Ming Dynasty! ”

(End of chapter)