In the final analysis, the mess of the Sailor case is actually a situation caused by Huo Weihua of the Ministry of War.

But Zhu Youzhen didn't mean to blame.

The Pingnan Army and part of the Tianhu Army were sent to cleanse the Fujian officialdom, and there was also a purpose to kill chickens and make an example.

For example, today's army has basically undergone the reorganization of the imperial court, and Zhu Youzhen finally got the first-hand troop statistics.

The first is the data reported by the Heavenly Tiger Army.

As of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen's reign, the Tianhu Army had a total of 40 infantry divisions, 11 artillery divisions, and 64 logistics support brigades, of which about 30 support brigades were currently preparing to go to Mongolia for initial construction.

The total number of troops reached an unprecedented 600,000.

The second is the Daming Shandong Water Division, which has been counted before, and the current data has not changed much.

There are still a total of five new steam-powered ironclad ships that have been put into use, seven ships under construction, a total of about 20,000 sailors, and about 15,000 people under the jurisdiction of technical logistics, maintenance craftsmen, construction craftsmen, etc., and the scale of the Daming Naval Division has reached an unprecedented level!

The composition of the Pingnan Army is relatively complicated, and even Zhu Youzhen knows that the overall establishment of the Pingnan Army is actually a little chaotic...

However, this confusion is due to the fact that the number of people in various localities is not strictly controlled when reorganizing the guards according to the military headquarters, resulting in inaccurate personnel counting.

In the following period, at the request of Zhu Youzhen, Huo Weihua carefully counted all the soldiers of the Pingnan Army.

The final reported data are as follows: The Daming Pingnan Army now has a total of 25 infantry divisions, a total of two Pingnan cavalry divisions, and a total of 11 Pingnan logistics support brigades.

The total number of the Pingnan army also reached about 300,000.

Coupled with the local armed forces of the border division and various places that were not incorporated into the Pingnan Army, Zhu Youzhen suddenly found that he had unknowingly given birth to a million male soldiers belonging to the Ming Dynasty!

Spring has arrived!

Zhu Youzhen set the name of the action plan this time "Spring Offensive"!

Effectively ruled Mongolia in full swing, and at the same time launched a full-scale war against Annam, and Zhu Youzhen also clenched the pencil in his hand. A large circle was drawn on the location of Luzon.

Nominally, these places are the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and they are all vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.

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The spring of the third year of Chongzhen in the Ming calendar.

On the same day, the "Daming Monthly," the "Jingshi Daily," and various local newspapers published the "Letter to the People" written by Zhu Youjian himself.

In it, it explained in detail to all the people of the Ming Dynasty why the imperial court decided to go out to Mongolia and attack Annam again at this time when it was the most deserving time to recuperate.

Mongolia has been the territory of China since ancient times.

Annan, too.

Any country that dares to offend the great tomorrow should be hit like a thunderbolt by the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youzhen is extremely heroic at this moment!

The following month of the same year.

The Daming Shandong Naval Division reported that the seven ironclad ships under construction were launched again, and at the same time more shipyard construction plans and warship construction plans were launched.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and named the first batch of ironclad ships in the Ming Dynasty "Pingnan class"!

Shandong Penglai...

The expressions of all the sailors of the Daming Shandong Water Division were already full of solemnity at this moment, and the sharp voice coming from the camp was undoubtedly announcing that the war was approaching for all of them!

"Everybody! Follow the booking plan and check the warship! An hour later, they were dispatched in turn, and the action code name: Fuding Meat Slices! ”

"Did you hear me?"

Zhao Yunkai stood in the first place, and the group of sailors and soldiers behind him shouted in unison: "Report to Lord Admiral!" We heard you clearly! ”

Nodding, Zhao Yunkai looked very satisfied.

He spoke again and said, "The whole army has it, march!" ”

According to the action plan set in advance, the Daming Shandong Naval Division will set off from the Penglai station and first go directly to Quanzhou Port.

According to Zhu Youzhen's plan, first control the entire garrison of Quanzhou Mansion, and then wait for the arrival of the Pingnan Army to hand over to the Pingnan Army to take over, and then after meeting Huo Weihua in Guangzhou Mansion!

War with Annan!

Compared with the problems encountered by the Daming Naval Division, Zhu Youzhen was obviously more concerned about the war to pacify Annan, because according to the meteorological history he had obtained before.

Daming will usher in an unprecedented and larger drought next year, that is, the fourth year of Chongzhen, which will sweep the entire northern and central parts of the Ming Dynasty.

Overseas colonization will become the first plan prepared by Zhu Youzhen in the disaster year.

After all, if you don't use this way, if you want to get the people of the Ming Dynasty to leave their homeland, this difficulty is basically equivalent to asking for their lives.

Only when the common people could not survive in their homeland was the time when the imperial court had better cut into the propaganda of overseas colonization.

In fact, historically speaking, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Southeast Asia has always ensured good relations with the Ming Dynasty, but this kind of exchange is only small-scale.

Until the beginning of the Yongle Dynasty, Zheng He went to the West.

It was completely controlled of the whole of Southeast Asia, it can be said that the entire Nanyang was under the control of the Ming Dynasty, and all the countries or tribes and other forces in the Nanyang at that time were all subject countries of the Ming Dynasty without exception, and at the same time, in that era... The mighty sailors of the Ming Dynasty left a deep impression on everyone.

Many people regard the Ming Dynasty as the kingdom of the Celestial Empire!

The battle flag is flying!

From Penglai out of the port is not only the eight ironclad ships that can be called now, but also a large number of supply ships are far behind.

Above the sea, the mighty Daming Shandong Naval Division continued to sail south along the coast.

In such a scene, it seemed that everyone was aware that the war was approaching, but on the other side, Luo Yangxing looked indifferently at the Quanzhou prefect kneeling under the stage in front of him.

"My lord.. Commander! The lower officials really don't know anything, the affairs of the whole Quanzhou Mansion are not the turn of the officials at all, and they are all decided by the three major families of the Quanzhou Mansion! ”

These words made Luo Yangxing look suspicious and a little stunned at the same time, the three major families?

Didn't the Pingnan Army led by Huo Weihua have already purged the clan forces before? How can there be a family existence that can affect the government.

It's just that at this moment, Luo Yangxing's doubts are still wrong Huo Weihua, and when Zhu Youzhen gave the order, he said that he was purging the clan forces that resisted the imperial decree.

The three major families of Quanzhou Mansion.

Although he exploited the sailors on weekdays and controlled the Quanzhou Mansion, on the surface, he was upright and raised his hands to approve of the various decrees of the imperial court, for fear of being one step behind.