In this era, human life is like a mustard, not to mention those orphans under the iron hooves of the Eight Banners, although Zhu Jun has a lot of sympathy for the orphans, but there are also a lot of ingredients, Zhu Jun did not take the dead orphans to heart.

"Huang Aiqing doesn't have to blame herself, this trip from Jiangnan, is there any news about Tartar?" Zhu Jun sat down and looked at Huang An with a smile, in recent days, Zhu Jun's self-confidence has become more and more inflated, although he is just laughing, he has also developed a proud bearing, which makes people not look directly.

"Jiangnan is still the same, but the Tartar Shunzhi Emperor died, the new successor is the year name Kangxi Xiao'er, the team that controls the national politics is still those few, presumably the emperor has already known about this, but the villain has seen a lot of interesting things when he arrives in the sea, my emperor is wise, a year ago the population here was not more than 10,000 people, even if it is a thatched hut, it is not more than a hundred, I can't imagine that the exhibition is so fast, everyone is rich in Jiangning, compared to here."

Zhu Jun didn't think that the exhibition was so fast, in the final analysis, the scale of Haidu today is smashed out of silver, and these silver are all looted, three hundred and sixty lines, which line is comparable to robbery?

The two chatted for a while, and Zhu Jun left his seat and said, "I want to go out of the palace to see how those new orphans are accommodated, and you can go with me." ”

Huang An nodded, followed Zhu Jun out of the hall, got into the carriage under the support of a group of guards, and galloped towards the valley. Half a year ago, Huang An also entered the valley from this road, time has passed, looking at the tall buildings standing in front of the car window, I can't help but feel quite emotional.

When they arrived at the mouth of the valley, the guards opened the heavy iron gate, and several carriages flowed in, and it was a different scene, a wide cement avenue ran through the valley, lined with golden rice fields, and there were aqueducts passing through every few dozen acres of land, all of which were drawn from the surrounding mountain streams, and there would be several towers on the way. The figures of the soldiers in the building stand straight, and they will ring the alarm bell in the building whenever there is a special situation.

When it comes to the placement of orphans, it is not as depressed as before, the high-rise buildings are connected into a patchwork, and there are plaques written in front of each high-rise building, such as the words of the martial arts hall, the Xiwen Hall, the Translation Hall, the Machinery Hall, the dining hall, the dormitory, the library, etc., all the high-rise buildings form a super-large courtyard house. In the middle is a wide open space, and in the middle of the open space is a sun and moon flag fluttering in the wind.

When the carriage entered the open space, nearly 1,000 students stood solemnly here in a neat queue, Zhu Jun got off the carriage, and the teenagers knelt down on one knee together, supporting the ground with their right hands: "Long live my emperor, long live long live, long live, long live!" ”

The voice is neat and loud, with some juvenile and immature voices. It's very crisp.

After the teenagers had saluted, dozens of teachers in the front row knelt down to salute, and Zhu Jun called Ping. Everyone stood up sparsely, Huang An took the opportunity to look at these teenagers who were still yellow-faced and muscular a year ago, and now they are personable, uniformly wearing green shirts, some of their faces are full of bookish air, some are mighty and strong, striding forward, and they can't help but sigh again.

"What about the new orphans?" Zhu Jun called a teacher and asked.

"Return to the Emperor. They tossed and turned at sea for two months. Physical and mental fatigue. Wechen gave them something to eat and then arranged for them to sleep in the Xinzao dormitory. The priest replied.

"It's a good arrangement. I also asked a few doctors to take a look at their health. The sea is stormy and rough. Maybe there will be some hidden diseases. Early treatment is always a good place. ”

"Wechen remembered." The Instructor nodded.

A noisy shout rang out in the distance. Zhu Jun faintly heard someone say, "Zhang Sanbao come out quickly." Lao Tzu overturned the five of you alone this time. If you don't dare to come out, you're a bad seed. ”

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward. Zhu Jun saw several burly teenagers in the juvenile team, and their faces were red. Squeezed his eyebrows and looked out of the courtyard door.

"What's going on?" Zhu Jun stopped a young man who was frowning.

"Back to the emperor, it's the people from the death camp who want to come to the duel." The boy scratched his head and replied.

Zhu Jun already understood what was going on in his heart, in order to train the soldiers, the Ming army did not prevent organized fights between soldiers, as long as the two sides reported to the commander and the commander of the first-class officer, they could choose a good venue for an empty-handed duel, therefore, the style of duel in the Ming army prevailed. Those who quarrel will fight a duel. If you are happy, you have to find someone to duel, and when you brag about it, you have to name and pick out the person who has refuted your face to fight. For this kind of thing, Zhu Jun has always held an attitude of turning one eye open and closing one eye.

When the soldiers are young and vigorous, the whole body has endless energy, the military regulations of the Ming army are very strict, they are either holding in the valley all day long, or going to the battlefield to fight, there are too few entertainment programs, therefore, dueling has become a way for soldiers to vent their energy and entertainment, as long as no one lives, no one cares at all.

"Are you a student of the Martial Arts Hall?" Zhu Jun looked at the young man Kong Wu's powerful body and asked.

"Yes." The boy replied.

The lecture hall is a subject of the nature of a military academy, and the training on weekdays is synchronized with the soldiers in the military camp, and only after the evening does they return to the school to learn strategy and related military knowledge.

"What have you learned, in addition to the strength of your body?" Zhu Jun had the intention to test him, and the scolding and scolding in the distance may be because of the chariot that Zhu Jun was riding, knowing that the emperor was in the academy, and he had long disappeared.

"Your Majesty, the teachers taught the students many things, such as how much grain and grass a battalion of 300 people consumes every day, how many miles an infantry battalion can forcibly walk in a day, how to set up camp in case of rainy days, and so on."

Zhu Jun was stunned: "Only teach these? Isn't there a thirty-six strategy or a strategy or tactics? ”

Because Zhu Jun is a layman in the military, he doesn't interfere much with the academy, and he doesn't know much about the relevant knowledge to be learned in the martial arts.

"Your Majesty, the teachings once said that if you want to lead soldiers, you must know the soldiers, and then learn to train the soldiers, and the method of leading the soldiers must be learned last, otherwise it will only make us talk about martial arts students and become Warring States Zhao Kuo will generally only talk about soldiers on paper."

Zhu Jun was dumbfounded, and couldn't help but smile: "What the teachings said is right. He pondered for a while and then said, "Since someone has challenged you, you can go now, fight well, and don't weaken the name of the martial arts." ”

The young man cheered, thanked him with a smile, whistled, and galloped away with a burly young man.

"Huang Aiqing, follow me to the school and sit down." Zhu Jun looked at the backs of the teenagers. couldn't help but laugh dumbly, turned his head and looked at Huang Xin on the side.

In the waters of Luzon, a naval battle had just ended, and the Spanish fleet was damaged, and only one battleship, riddled with bullet marks, escaped from the battlefield. The Dutch took advantage of the naval victory and landed on the coast of Luzon. Immediately encountered a frantic counterattack by the Spanish Army.

A protracted tug-of-war began, and although the Dutch lost Malacca, they could not take revenge on the Ming army in southern Burma for a while because their forces were limited by Luzon and Taiwan.

Just as the Dutch were victoriously conquering the provinces of Luzon, a fleet of fifty Zheng ships suddenly appeared in the waters east of Luzon, and they were stationed on the islands of eastern Luzon, as if they had plans to stay there. The Dutch offensive gradually slowed down, and the Zheng fleet was friend or foe, and its intentions were unknown. They could only draw out part of the military forces attacking Luzon to prevent the intervention of the Zheng fleet, so that they could do so. The pressure on the Luzon authorities gradually decreased, and several large-scale counterattacks began to be organized, and the two coastal provinces in the south were recaptured.

The Dutch finally had a headache, Taiwan was about to fall, and Malacca was attacked by the Ming army's naval divisions, all the fleets attacking southern Burma surrendered, and the warships were all captured by the Ming army, and the battle situation in Luzon was not optimistic, and the Dutch felt unprecedented pressure in Nanyang for the first time.

"It's a senseless war. We have to get out of the war, in Malacca, we have lost the sea access to the South Seas, in Luzon, although we have eliminated the Spanish navy, but our mercenaries will have dozens of casualties every day on the land of Luzon, and the Zheng fleet in the East China Sea has blocked the passage of the company's merchant ships to the Japanese trade, and if this continues, we will be dragged down. We are surrounded by enemies on all sides, and will these not allow you to decide? Gentlemen, the duty of the company is to earn enough silver coins for our shareholders, and we are here to think about how to spend our silver coins to wage a senseless war, and I hope that the board of directors will send people to Burma, Luzon, Taiwan, etc., to make peace with our enemies, gentlemen, please do not hesitate any longer, for every day the war drags on, the greater our losses will be. Even if we win in the end. We don't get much out of it, either. "Anti-war voices began to emerge from the Dutch authorities, on the board. Some people are furious and come up with a series of data to blame those responsible for the war.

The Dutch East India Company is composed of six offices in Amsterdam and Zeeland City, Middleburg, Enkwason, Delft, Horn, and Rotterdam, and its board of directors is composed of more than 70 people, but only 17 people really hold the real power, known as the Seventeen Gentlemen, most of these seventeen giants are stranded in the Netherlands mainland, and the only director who stayed in Java is named Mohan, and the young young merchant is his grandson in the attack on the Dutch caravan by the Spanish fleet. This also prompted him to vigorously support the revenge plan of the Dutch fleet, and now he was sitting in a leather chair, quietly watching the trouble, now he was just a bystander, although he was the one who vigorously contributed to the outbreak of the war, but the anti-war was not stupid enough to vent his anger on this powerful old man.

The anti-war target was the Javanese Governor Hartling.

"Let's take a look at this report." Objection took out another document, and raised it to dozens of senior personnel of the company who attended the meeting: "After the outbreak of the Luzon War, we lost three warships, lost the lives of 400 sailors and sailors, in order to support this naval battle, the company took out 30,000 silver coins as military expenses, which is nothing, in the land war, we have 1,400 mercenaries killed in battle, and the pensions of these people alone cost 73,000 silver coins, and the strategic materials consumed cost a total of 90,000 silver coins, and because of various expenses after the war, gentlemen, We will spend nearly 400,000 silver coins to sustain this war. In addition, we lost even more in Malacca, where everything has been burned to ashes, and we have lost three thousand soldiers and millions of jewels. In Taiwan, our losses ........."

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