"Your Majesty, now, more than three years have passed since the coming of all countries, and now the national strength of our Chinese Empire is growing, and the navy of our Chinese Empire has been in force for a long time, but it has never experienced a national war. Now, everything is ready, and the only thing owed is your Majesty's will. Wei Yunqi put down the whip in his hand, but his eyes still fell on the huge map on the wall.

That map of the northern sea frontier was drawn by our sailors after several years of hard work and sweat. It can be said that with this map, coupled with the nautical chart that has been made, then the sea frontier in this area, in the eyes of sailors, must be like a back garden.

"100,000 elite army and 50,000 elite navy are all ready to go, just to snow the shame of humiliating my Chinese country by the monarchs and ministers of the former Japanese country." I stood up, my eyes swept over the ministers in front of me, and I took a deep breath and spoke aloud.

"Now, more than three years have passed since I made my promise to destroy the Japanese kingdom within five years. There are many vassal countries in the world, and I am afraid that even the people of the Japanese Kingdom have almost forgotten me and the promise of our Chinese Empire, and now, it is time to realize it. Where are Yang Gongren, Luo Shixin, Zhou Shaofan, and Qu Tuquan? ”

"The minister is in the ......" The four of them came out of the crowd together, and bowed down to the front of the steps with an excited face.

Yang Gongren was the commander-in-chief of the expedition to Wadao, Luo Shixin and Qu Tuquan were deputies, and Zhou Shaofan was the governor of the Beiyang Navy, commanding the Beiyang Navy and cooperating with Yang Gongren to fight against Wadao. This time, two armies and one division were dispatched, and this division was naturally a special firearms test division.

An attack on Wajima is expected in early May. Strive to level Wajima within half a year, and the merchants sent over in the early days have already figured out the key points of the major cities on Wajima and the number of city defense troops.

In addition, most of the copper and gold mines on Wajima have been discovered, and it is expected that after the capture of Wajima, it will be possible to start transporting these precious metals to the empire within a year at most.

This battle was not only a battle against Wajima, but also a training for the future conquest of the Silla Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, and the Ryukyu Islands.

Many courts, civil and military officials, and even ordinary people, have a great bad feeling towards Goguryeo, although the rise of the Chinese Empire comes from the collapse of the former Sui Empire, and the fall of the former Sui is largely related to Goguryeo.

The three expeditions to Goguryeo exhausted the national strength and manpower, which caused the originally powerful Sui Dynasty to collapse and collapse, and only then did the Chinese Empire take advantage of the rise.

Regardless of the merits and demerits of the previous dynasty, but after all, we inherited the territory and people of the former Sui, then, Goguryeo, which is not a thing, will definitely not be our friend, if the Chinese Empire can conquer the Silla Peninsula and the land of Liaodong, and take the Goguryeo that the former Sui can't take away, for the whole Chinese Empire, it is definitely a good opportunity to boost the confidence of the people and the morale of the army and the people, and more importantly, the territory that the former Sui can't take, As soon as our Chinese Empire made a move, it was neatly cut down this fierce rival of the previous dynasty.

Then, other people who have suspicions about my Chinese Empire must weigh one or two carefully, and think about whether it is right or not to be an enemy of my Chinese Empire.

At the morning meeting of the next day, the crimes of the Wa State were announced to the Manchu courtiers and the people of the world, and war was declared on the Wa State. Although the common people don't quite understand how a small island country thousands of miles away from the ocean can offend the powerful Chinese Empire.

But those who were literate and literate knew very well why, and more importantly, the gold, silver and copper mines on the island as described in the newspapers made the empire determined to go on an expedition thousands of miles away.

Of course, this kind of news may have been guessed by some literati, and of course some people have stood up and criticized in the newspapers that the imperial court's expedition to a distance of thousands of miles is really a waste of money and labor.

Next, naturally, some royal literati jumped out and analyzed and refuted those people's doubts one by one with reasonable evidence. Today's Chinese Empire certainly did not wage war for the emperor's selfishness, and the beneficiaries of the war were not only the emperor's inner treasury.

More importantly, in the future, the land in the occupied areas of the Wa Kingdom will be sold to the wealthy people, and will be rewarded to meritorious officials, and a large amount of land will be left for the common people of the country who lack land, and they will be given free of charge for farming...... In short, all the interests were thrown out, and those literati who were originally still making a lot of nonsense and chattering crookedly instantly became dumbfounded.

Even many literati who were in their own family and had a little money immediately began to discuss with their families whether they should prepare in advance to go to Wajima to fish for land. Of course, although the war has just begun, and the victory or defeat is not decided, the historical achievements of the Chinese Empire have long been accustomed to the people of the empire, victory is a must, defeat? Unless it's a fantasy.

The common people have such confidence, which shows their confidence in the empire, which is a good thing, but for the army, the enemy must not be careless, every time the army goes out to fight, the imperial staff will prepare half a year in advance, or even a year, and the victory rate of the temple must be more than 80 percent before it is confirmed that the troops can be dispatched.

To tell the truth, the role of this staff department for the army is obvious, in addition to serving as the president of the Military Academy, General Qu Tu is currently also the chief of the general staff of the Imperial General Staff, in order to show the generals of the court that the empire attaches great importance to staff work.

Moreover, with staff officers, the work of the heavy generals of the military can be greatly reduced and the gaps can be filled for them. The generals' combat and marching plans became more perfect, coupled with the participation of political supervisors and the stationing of gendarmerie troops, which also eliminated the possibility of generals inserting and appointing private individuals into the army

The fact that the armed forces are invincible and have strict military discipline is precisely because of the perfection of the military system. If it is the same as in the past, then, at most, after a few decades, the soldiers will become the private army of those main generals, and their allegiance will no longer be to the Chinese Empire, but to those generals who only expand their ambitions for their own selfish interests.

The Tang Dynasty, another historical time and space, was precisely because the authority of the military generals was too great, which caused chaos among the warlords, and even caused the Tang Dynasty to fall into the hands of the warlords. And in the Song Dynasty, this was known about the suppression of martial arts. However, the Song Dynasty was too suppressed, making it difficult for the Han people to enter Youyan since the Song Dynasty.

It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the land of China was unified. To put it simply, what the army needs is not suppression, but control and restriction, so that the army can only play where it should exert its combat effectiveness, instead of aiming its swords and guns at its own fathers and brothers.

Now, there are rumors that the major trading companies have signed cooperation intentions with the government, and they will purchase a large amount of land from the government, of course, the land on Wajima, and when the war is won, then they will be able to obtain the land on Wajima at a lower price, and before that, all they need to do is invest.

“…… A total of 3.8 million yuan, calculated according to two runs and one mu of paddy fields, 1.9 million mu of paddy fields have been purchased by major trading companies, and only when the empire takes Wajima, then they can get 1.9 million mu of paddy fields on Wajima. Fang Xuanling looked at the data in his hand and reported it without raising his head, but the excitement in his tone represented his mood at the moment.

"Good, so many?" General Qu Tu couldn't help but smash his tongue again and again. "I'm afraid that we won't have so much military spending on Wajima this time, right?"

"The total number of troops used in this expedition to Wajima will not exceed 150,000. It is estimated that the duration of the battle will be calculated on a half-year basis, and the military expenditure this time will be about 1.2 million yuan. In the past, we used more than 350,000 troops to fight, and the battle lasted for nearly four months, and the military expenditure was about 2.7 million yuan. Fang Xuanling quickly reported a set of numbers.

In the previous war, we obtained the entire territory of the Hetao, and obtained more than 2.7 million mu of cultivated land alone, hundreds of thousands of sheep, 45,000 cattle, more than 30,000 horses, and a large area of pasture. If it is converted into money, it is worth at least five million yuan. This time, if Wadao is China's possession, Wadao and the surrounding islands have nearly 8 million acres of land, and in addition, the mining value of various gold, silver, and copper mines on it is also about 10 million. ”

Hearing these reported data, the gasps sounded one after another, and General Qu Tu covered his hand in his heart and shook his head again and again. "Grandma's, in the past, she only fought to win or lose, and never expected anything else, at most, she just captured some people's cattle and sheep and wealth. In today's war, it is not about winning or losing, but about taking the country and seizing its territory......"

War is an extension of politics, and politics is a compromise of interests. Only with interests can there be politics, and only with interests can it be worth using force to obtain greater benefits. This is the law by which a social group survives in the times.

The wars of the Chinese Empire in the past were more about counterattacks or counterinsurgency, and it was rarely said that they fought for the purpose of conquering the Ming Dynasty and seizing greater interests, but at that time, in the eyes of those literati, war was nothing more than a move to work the people and lose money, and the people did not get any benefits, and the vast number of interest classes also did not get any benefits.

And the only one who gains is the emperor, such a war in which 10,000 people lose and one person gains, naturally suffered from the opposition of the majority of subjects, but I am different, the interests of the world are not something that can be collected by one person, besides, we are also excellent young people with ideals and reasons, greedy for pleasure, how much can we spend?