In order to welcome the army that was about to return home after the multi-party war, Wang Ze specially ran from the county seat of Changzhou (Hiroshima) to Tsumen Castle (Kitakyushu) on the south bank of the Nagato Waterway, accompanied by Cheng Xueyan and Zhu Qingqing, and the younger brother Feng Fu also brought dozens of guards led by Ah Kun to watch the excitement.

"Big brother, you are really lazy enough, Qin Jin and Changmen together have become the name of Jinmen City!" Feng Fu stood on the high wall of Jinmen City and carefully looked at this city that had just been built, but it had already shown its elegant side, and muttered in his mouth, if only he had such a city.

At this time, there was no movement of any ships on the sea in the distance, but there were more than a dozen sea fox boats scattered in the nearby waters waiting for the arrival of Jiang Chuan's fleet, and Wang Ze was not afraid of missing Jiang Chuan's fleet.

Hearing Feng Fu's mockery, Wang Ze didn't feel guilty at all, but said proudly: "You have to be clear and easy to remember when you name it, you see that Jinmen was originally the gate between Changmen and Qinjin, isn't it?" If you come up with a strange name, people won't remember it! ”

Feng Fu stretched out his thumb, but changed the topic and said: "Big brother, I see that every city you have here is built like a garden, and compared to you, the one I live in at home is simply a cowshed, or you can send a few craftsmen to Lingnan to help me build such a city!" ”

Looking at Feng Fu's expectant expression, Wang Ze said with a smile: "Now I don't have enough manpower here, and you still have to dig my corner, but after winter, I can send some people to help you, but you still have to arrange the masons and strong laborers yourself!" ”

Seeing that Wang Ze agreed to his request, Feng Fu said excitedly: "Big brother, don't worry, now I have a lot of craftsmen there, the imperial court has sent a lot of craftsmen to build Lingnan cities, and this year or so, my family has also captured a lot of slaves from Jiaozhou, Linyi and other places, as long as you send a few masters to give advice!" ”

Since Feng Fu had the basic craftsmen and laborers, he only needed to send a few city builders, so Wang Ze immediately agreed.

Just when Feng Fu was happy, he suddenly heard a low trombone sound from the sea, Wang Ze hurriedly walked to the wall and stomped on the edge of the sea to look at the sea, only to see the ships in the sky coming from the sea, and the white and gray sails were like clouds pressed down on the sea, which was quite spectacular.

Such a large-scale fleet returned together, Wang Ze also saw it for the first time, and he was about to take out the binoculars on his body to look at it, but at this time, Wang Ze suddenly found that Zhu Qingqing and Cheng Xueyan also had a telescope for each person, and was about to ask the second daughter what was going on, but found that Feng Servant was also holding a telescope.

Wang Ze's hands trembled immediately, and the telescope in his hand almost fell out, which loser took out all these telescopes?

But without waiting for Wang Ze to ask, he saw that several nearby captain-level generals and captains on naval warships were also each with a telescope, Wang Ze immediately fainted, what kind of thing is this? I said, my brothers and sisters, have we found a very large crystal mine?

You must know that the first telescope made by Wang Ze was polished with high-quality East China Sea crystal, and then the first telescope was given to Daddy Wang Yong.

At this time, Zhu Qingqing saw that something was wrong with Wang Ze, and immediately asked worriedly: "Da Lang, what's wrong with you?" But not feeling well? As he spoke, he put his hand on Wang Ze's forehead to test the temperature.

Wang Ze only felt a burst of girlish fragrance coming to his nose, but he quickly recovered and said to Zhu Qingqing: "Qingqing, take your telescope and let me take a look!" As he spoke, he took the telescope handed over by Zhu Qingqing and looked at it carefully.

"Ah???????h Wang Ze exclaimed in surprise, and then he took the telescope and studied it over and over, "This, this lens is made of glass?" Wang Ze looked at it for a long time and was finally surprised to determine that this lens was made of glass, but how could China have such high-quality glass at this time?

Zhu Qingqing was a little worried when he saw Wang Ze's crazy appearance just now, and when he heard that Wang Ze asked about the telescope lens, he smiled and said: "It's a shame that your big man must not have studied well with Master Chen in the past, this is not glass, this is the glass fired by us in Jeju Island."

Hearing Zhu Qingqing's introduction, Wang Ze was even more surprised, didn't glass never appear in ancient China? Even if some glass only appears by chance, otherwise how can the foreign devils in the future use glass to earn money from the Chinese?

Seeing Wang Ze's surprised expression, Zhu Qingqing chuckled and introduced: "In fact, there was no such glazed plain in the plains, but during the time of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty (424-452 AD), there were merchants of the Dayue clan (that is, the Zhaowu nine surnames of the Tang Dynasty) who sold goods to the national capital Pingcheng, and cast stones from Yunneng into five-colored glaze. Since then, there have been a large number of craftsmen in the Central Plains who have learned to fire glaze with the people of the Otsutsuki clan, but it is not a valuable thing because there are many people who know how to make glaze. ”

Wang Ze looked at Zhu Qingqing and listened dumbfoundedly, he couldn't imagine that China had learned to fire glass so early, and there were quite a few people who heard Zhu Qingqing mean that there were still many people who learned this craft, but why did the glass manufacturing process become extinct in China later?

Wang Ze asked only to know that after the price of glass was cheap, the profit from firing glass was not as good as porcelain, coupled with the chaotic war in the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the decades of wars between the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty, and between the Northern Qi and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so the craftsmen who knew how to make glass began to become scarce again.

A few years ago, several glass-making craftsmen followed the fleet to the East China Sea as homeless people, and at first these people were firing porcelain in the porcelain workshop, and Wang Kai, the old man who managed the Donghae Trading House at that time, was also in charge of the Jeju Island porcelain workshop.

Because Wang Ze had obtained a set of utensils from Persia from Chen Baxian in the past, Wang Ze felt curious and had played with it for a few days, when Wang Kai saw it, he thought that Wang Ze was very rare this thing, so he wanted to burn out the transparent glass that the little marquis wanted, and then the craftsmen stood up and said that they were originally craftsmen who fired the glass.

Wang Kai was overjoyed to put these people in charge of the newly established glass workshop, after months of experiments were all failures, a child from a craftsman's family came to the workshop to play, because naughty with a metal rod in the crucible to stir around, the result of this time the fired glass crystal clear, not to mention, the dense bubbles in the past also disappeared.

After checking all the behavior of the bear child, everyone found that only stirring could only remove the bubbles in the glass, but could not remove the green and other variegated colors inside, and finally found that the child was holding a lead rod to decolor the glass when stirring.

In this way, Jeju Island finally made transparent glass, and after the pondering of jade craftsmen, there are many telescope lenses, but the quality of these telescopes is still not as good as the lenses polished with high-quality natural crystal in the hands of Wang Ze and Wang Yong.

Wang Ze found that there was such a big harvest inadvertently, although the profit of glass is not as big as imagined, but glass is very important in many industries.

Just when Wang Ze wanted to ask Zhu Qingqing, he heard Feng Fu shouting: "Big brother, the fleet is about to arrive, let's hurry down to meet them!" It's the first time I've seen so many warships! ”

Seeing that Feng Fu had already run down from the city wall, Wang Ze was no longer verbose, anyway, there was an opportunity to ask in the future, and immediately took Zhu Qingqing and Cheng Xueyan to the city wall passage.

When Wang Ze came to the port outside the city, the large group of sea ships had already arrived at the nearby sea, but Wang Ze only let Jiang Chuan and the others temporarily stop the boat, and the other ships carrying the army continued to go to Changzhou Port, Wang Ze waved to the surrounding ships while taking Zhu Qingqing, Cheng Xueyan and Feng Fu and his party to board the ship where Jiang Chuan was.

I was very happy to see Jiang Chuan and Chu Honghang return to Wang Ze safely, but I didn't want to slap Wang Ze's shoulder with a pair of big hands at this time, if it weren't for the fact that Wang Ze was much taller than his peers now, he would almost have to be knocked down.

Looking back, it turned out to be Zhou Tong's foolish goods, and Zhou Tong saw that Wang Ze was also happy to close his mouth, but the teeth full of teeth were really miserable, and there were Ji Xiang, Yang Wu, Shen Sanshui, Li Shun, Fang Lei and others behind Zhou Tong.

What surprised Wang Ze the most was that he also saw Hu Bingchang, a general who was both civil and military, and saw Wang Ze looking at himself in surprise, Hu Bingchang, who had a long hair, smiled and said: "The prince is quite worried that the little marquis is going to start a war against the Japanese country, so he sent all my brothers to help in the war!" ”

Wang Ze was surprised: "How many people are here?" I couldn't see how many ships there were when I looked down from the city! "Whether viewed from the ship or from the walls, the ships on the sea are densely packed.

Hu Bingchang laughed and said: "I have to ask General Sun how many of them are this!" "In fact, there are so many ships in the fleet this time, mainly because the ships of Sun Xing, Qu Liulang, and He Liang plus some other ships are all put together. fervor

At this time, Sun Xing was not on this ship, but Qu Liulang was on a nearby ship, and when he heard that Wang Ze was looking for him, Qu Liulang directly swung over from another boat with a rope, making the sailors on the boat shout hello, but it almost frightened some landlubbers of the infantry army.

Wang Ze shook his head secretly, this sixth brother is still so sassy, but he still asked: "Sixth brother, how many people have we come here this time?" According to Wang Ze's rough estimates, there are almost 30,000 people on these ships, including the army carrying baggage and supplies.

Who knew that Qu Liulang shook his head and said: "We are all fast boats, this time we have transported more than 23,000 people under Jiang Chuan and Chu Honghang, plus Shen Sanshui, Li Shun, Fang Lei and Zhou Daring (Zhou Tong's nickname) There are more than 10,000 of their people, and Ji Xiang, Yang Wu and General Hu's cavalry have more than 10,000 cavalry, so there are still 45,000 people!" ”

Saying that, Qu Liulang's voice changed and said: "Actually, these are just the front army, and we still have a fleet to transport the people in the back, and we have almost pulled more than 20,000 people!" "Actually, what Qu Liulang didn't say was that if he hadn't pulled these troops, he would have to pull 70,000 or 80,000 people from Sanqi to the East China Sea this time.

"More than 20,000 people?" There are still tens of thousands of people on Wang Ze's side whose land has not yet been secured, but thinking that there is about to start a full-scale war with the Japanese people, and after a while, there will be a large amount of land to resettle all these people.

However, after listening to it, Zhu Qingqing suggested: "Actually, these people can be arranged to go to the Xiadu Island newly cleared by Uncle Zheng Kui, although the Japanese people are still being cleaned up, but a large area of land that can be used to settle ordinary people has been cleared out at present!" ”

Wang Ze thought for a while and nodded: "What Qingqing said is indeed a good idea, but at that time, we still need to train these people to a certain extent!" ”

At this time, Qu Liulang next to him also stepped forward to join in the fun and suggested: "Little Hou Ye, I have an idea!" ”

Wang Ze heard that Qu Liulang, who had a strong thinking jump, had a suggestion, and immediately encouraged: "If the sixth brother has any good ideas, you might as well talk about it, all the generals are here, so everyone should consider it together!" ”

Qu Liulang looked at Wang Ze and the others and said: "Some time ago, we had scouts who found a large plain at the junction of the border with the Ezo people further north of the Japanese country, and this plain is very large, the size of six or seven Jeju Islands, we might as well put 10,000 cavalry here first, and then move over tens of thousands of armed colonization teams, so that we can quickly gain a firm foothold behind the Japanese people and flank the Japanese people in front and back, and we can also place a large number of people there!" ”

Wang Ze's eyes lit up suddenly, this is indeed a good idea, the plain that Qu Liulang said should be the largest Kanto Plain in the later generations, if there are tens of thousands of armed colonization teams with the support of 10,000 cavalry, they will definitely be able to stand firm there.

Under the pressure of the large army in the west, the Japanese people must not be able to draw too many troops to deal with these armed colonization teams, and the combat effectiveness of 10,000 cavalry on the plain is even stronger, and they are not afraid of the Japanese attack.

In fact, the strength of the Japanese people has already been cut by Wang Ze in the past few years, not to mention that most of the current Kanto Plain is still the territory of the Ezo people.

But now there is another problem, that is, while dealing with the Japanese people, you have to let the Ezo people know the interest, at least you have to let the Ezo people know that they are not easy to mess with, otherwise the Ezo people also want to take advantage of the conflict between the two sides is a trouble after all.

After tens of thousands of elite veterans who had experienced tragic battles returned to the East China Sea, Wang Ze's originally somewhat stretched troops quickly became rich, and Baekje and Silla, who had still had some small moves, honestly did not dare to provoke right and wrong again.

However, after the troops in his hands were rich, Wang Ze did not immediately launch an attack on the Japanese state, because Hu Bingchang suggested to Wang Ze that since he had so many troops, it was better to concentrate on completely cleaning up all the Japanese and Hayabusa in the occupied areas of Qinjin, Changzhou, and Xiadu.

According to Zheng Kui's experience in organizing a large number of militia to carry out the 'Township Cleansing Movement' on Xiadu Island, the 70,000 or 80,000 elite troops, led by the Langya and Blue Wolf battalions, and then cooperated with the militia on the island, first carried out a series of dragnet operations in the inland mountainous areas of Qinjin, and thoroughly cleaned up the remnants of the Wa and Hayato tribes on Qinjin Island.

After the clean-up of Qinjin, the Japanese people in the inland mountains of Changzhou and Xiadu were even more unlucky, because of the short occupation time, the remnants of the Japanese people were more than the inland of Qinjin, but under the intensive cleaning of more than 100,000 people, these Japanese people quickly lost all their hiding places.

After the Japanese people in these places were cleaned up, a large number of militiamen who could not get into the battlefield after training all day were also mobilized by Wang Ze, and took turns to clear the natives on the Ryukyu Islands.

After all the summer crops were planted in June, Wang Ze finally cleaned up the remnants of the Japanese people everywhere and trained a large number of armed militias.

Although the defenders on Jeju Island and Haean Island (Tsushima Island) could not be easily mobilized, Wang Ze still gathered more than 100,000 troops in his hands.

In addition to the more than 45,000 troops who returned from Sanqi, Zhang Hang and Meng Xian, who were originally stationed on the front line of Changzhou, also had more than 30,000 troops in their hands, and Zheng Kui on Xiadu Island also led tens of thousands of militia stationed on the side of Xiadu Island on the verge of the Japanese state, so that the Japanese state, who did not know the truth and did not know the truth, had to deploy a large number of newly formed troops in Kyoto on the opposite side.

Immediately afterwards, Cao An, who went out to Sakhalin Island, led an army of 5,000 blue wolf battalions under his command back to Wang Ze, and when Cao An returned, he even brought a special team of 5,000 people, mainly young and strong.

Seeing that everyone looked at this team with disdain and tattered clothes, Cao An said to everyone: "Everyone, don't underestimate these Kuyi people, although these people can't resist the Beji people at the beginning, but that's because the Kuyi people were divided into small tribes at the beginning, and if the Kuyi people on the island were a whole, they wouldn't be bullied so badly!" Fortunately, these people are all our people now? ”

After Cao An went to Kuyi Island, he fought against the Beji people while integrating the Kuyi tribes on the island, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Beji people to annihilate the combined army of nearly 10,000 Beji tribes, so that some tribes of the Beji people suffered great losses.

At this time, the ice between Kuyi Island and the mainland had already melted, and Cao An asked Qu Liulang to leave a team of sailors to block the strait, and the Beji people on the island could not get reinforcements from the mainland.

However, the number of Kuyi people is not many after all, and Cao An killed a lot of disgruntled tribal leaders when integrating the tribes, so after completely integrating the various tribes, the total number of people on the island is only about 40,000, and the five thousand people in front of him can be said to be all the young and strong people on the island!

Wang Ze clapped his hands and said, "Okay, since these Kuyi people support me so fully, I will definitely not treat them badly in the future!" ”

Subsequently, Zhao Qin, who was in charge of Zhenhai and Jiangkou, and Ling Cheng, who was in charge of Whale Island, although they could not return, also sent officers under their command to bring more than 1,000 soldiers each, and there were also some Yi people among them.

"Looks like they're going to have to do something about their recruitment?" Wang Ze decided that after the defeat of the Japanese people, the troops under the generals in various places must be replaced, otherwise it is very likely that some bad things will happen.

"Report!" Just when Wang Ze was ready, a scout came to report: "Little Marquis, there is a Japanese envoy outside, saying that they want to negotiate with the little Marquis to surrender!" ”

"Surrender?" Wang Ze was a little strange, who would come to surrender at this time? Is it the Imperial Court or some people in the Wa Kingdom?

In the end, Wang Ze decided to meet these people: "Bring them in, I will meet them!" ”

It was indeed the envoy of the Imperial Court of the Japanese Kingdom, but these dwarfs really didn't believe it when they said that they would surrender to Wang Ze, anyway, these dwarves have always liked intrigues.

"I'm waiting for the East China Sea to see the Xiahou of the East China Sea!" As soon as more than a dozen members of the mission entered the gate, they knelt down with a bang and came to the big salute of throwing themselves to the ground, and their posture was very low, far from the arrogant appearance of the so-called sunrise country.