Chapter 14 Heartlessness

"Your Majesty, why don't you set off today. I have read all the documents on Sumatra and the Four Seas Fleet on the courtier's road. It's a tricky thing, but it's also rewarding."

Yue Hesheng didn't talk nonsense, and said directly when he came up.

"What do you think of Zheng Zhilong's side?" Zhu Youzhen asked. The document did not write some of their thoughts about Zheng Zhilong a few days ago. Zhu Youzhen also wanted to hear the views of these old officials.

"Like the Great Minister, the minister feels that the current Guangzhou and Fuzhou are like the Datong Xuanfu in the past. As long as the imperial court wants to manage the land outside Xuanda, it must kill Zheng Zhilong. All the appeasement policies of alliances, marriages, and conquests are inadequate."

"Good! I and the Overseer think so, too." Only then did Zhu Youzhen express his opinion.

"The matter of the Thirteen Elements can be directly accepted by the trade office of Kumatsu. Wen Tiren has been familiar with the operation for a year, and there will be no problem in the short term." Yue Harmony continued to suggest.

Wen Tiren, who was sitting behind Zhu Youjian and played the role of secretary, was stunned. Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at him.

"It's better to manage it directly. The matter of trade is trivial and complicated, and once a person enters it, it is difficult to withdraw his hands again, and it is difficult for himself or to replace the person. It's useful here."

Yue Hesheng was not speaking. can mention such a mouth, it is already the friendship between the two people who have cooperated for a year last year.

"Lao Yue, you still have to wait for the follow-up supplies to be collected here before you travel."

Sun Chengzong pointed to the various illustrations on the map.

"We have some information from the mouth of the Dutch East India Company envoy on behalf of Levi. Your Majesty and I don't think things will be so urgent. Will the Dutch take the opportunity to attack. Your Majesty and I think it will be possible, one is to beat Cao Bianjiao's ass. The second is to send troops to Fuzhou, Guangzhou, and Quanzhou. It's nothing more than these two ends."

As he spoke, he pressed Yue Hesheng, who was still standing there, on the chair, and said with his fingers:

"To pick up Cao Bianjiao's ass, it doesn't seem to be a big risk now. Unless the Four Seas Fleet is encircled at sea. As long as Cao Bianjiao is steady, the battlefield is nothing more than returning to Sumatra to speak on land. According to the 1,500 people he took away, it was not easy to eat Cao Bianjiao on land. The next step is Canton, Fuzhou, and Quanzhou, and we can talk about it by sea, but just like there, we will wait for him as soon as the newly formed Fifth Army comes."

Zhu Youzhen nodded.

"I agree with the Overseer. If you just talk about holding on, it's really not a big problem. But what I'm thinking about now is how to make good use of Sumatra. That's the main reason I want you to pass."

"Besides, even if the East India Company's Stan director thinks about it, the other directors don't necessarily think about it. The Dutch thought, Portugal and Spain may not be either. Because of these people, I have already arranged for Song Yingxing to come over, and he still has some friendship with the Portuguese and Spaniards."

Hearing these latest information and decisions, Yue Hesheng thought for a while and said:

"The situation of the Han people over there is not familiar to the ministers, but it is just three things: differentiation, integration, and reward and punishment. In fact, it is more about support. In Kumatsu, the minister has experience. Don't look at how rich you are, once you get to someone else's territory, it's really just a lump of mud, let others rub it. The minister estimated that there were not a few people in Sumatra who have been oppressed and humiliated over the years. As long as I can stand up for them in the past this time, the following things will be much easier to say. The key is ......"

When he said this, Yue Hesheng was a little hesitant.

The conflict between His Majesty and the Prime Minister in the court must have been heard of by the top bureaucrats.

What Zhu Youzhen didn't expect was that this kind of conflict, which seemed inevitable to him and was also controlled, would also have an impact on Yue Hesheng and them.

"This is already an overseas problem, and I have already made up my mind. Sumatra must be a dependency of the Ming Dynasty. No matter how much sacrifice or how much it costs, as long as I am here, this is the bottom line of the imperial court."

"Then the minister understood."

"Here. Lao Yue, take a look, the first batch of supplies has been prepared by the superintendent, and you can see what is still lacking

of."

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen handed over the documents in his hand.

"Mobilize 30 transport fleets from Dagu and Shanghai counties?"

Yue Hesheng asked:

"Your Majesty, in this case, the food of Liaodong and Jingshi?"

"You don't have to worry, the Prime Minister still knows this. This Sumatra is indeed not in the plan of the imperial court, so everyone will tear down the east wall and make up the west wall."

There are a lot of supplies, most of which are mainly military. Yue Hesheng flipped through it quickly, and then said:

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that most of them are fine, but the minister hopes to increase the supplies and medical supplies for Mengxue."

Sun Chengzong's eyes lit up, and he finally felt that there was no problem with the person recommended by His Majesty this time.

"Learn well! In the future, he will also be able to enter the Ming Dynasty to study the imperial examination. That's good!"

Zhu Youzhen also nodded.

"It's easy to learn from Mengxue, transfer people directly from Beizhili, and get on the boat at Dagukou, and the same is true for medical care. Speaking of which, I would like to add that if it doesn't work, I'll prepare some craftsmen as well. Just now, Yue Qing's family asked the attitude of the imperial court, the craftsmen went over, built the city and opened the factory, isn't the attitude of the imperial court clear. Besides, gunpowder and cement, I also think it's too slow to transport it from the mainland."

Sun Chengzong nodded.

"As long as the craftsmen with some skills are controlled, they can prevent ......."

Zhu Youzhen interrupted him.

"There's no problem, the imperial court is now bound by these. It's okay to send it out this time, if Daming is complacent and doesn't want to forge ahead. One day Sumatra came back, and we deserved it."

Both of these people knew that His Majesty was a little stunned by the important ministers.

"Two months, two months from now, we're going to send our support anyway!"

His Majesty the Emperor must have closed the door for a certain time, and the three of them said very quickly, and there was more and more work below, and then various orders spread from Fuzhou in all directions, and countless people began to gather in Fuzhou from all directions.

Even in the Prime Minister's Yamen, Minister Han Ying deliberately stood up and explained:

"From today on, Fuzhou excerpts will be given to the old man first, and the old man has been living in the yamen for the past few months."

These are all things that Cao Bianjiao doesn't know, even the messenger who sent His Majesty's reply is still floating on the vast sea.

A few pots of tea were drunk until midnight.

At this time, Zhang Baihu had two more people around him: the chief soldier Ma Ke and the deputy general Tong Qiming.

"It's time to start, right?" Marco felt like he was about to fall asleep.

Everything in this place is good, but the mosquitoes are scary. Attracted by the candlelight, several strange-looking insects fell into the flames, igniting puffs of green smoke.

"The natives will be a little farther away, and this kind of road is not easy to walk now, and it is difficult to estimate whether they can fight on time. But Fran's Bunker should be about the same as the Painted Corner Stronghold."

Zhang Baihu marked the hour on his map.

"Fran's bunker is halfway up the mountain, and the situation inside is really unclear, and the same is true for the Painted Corner stronghold. This battle is different from Daming, and it is also different from the city at the foot of the mountain."

He took a sip of the thick tea and picked out the mosquito corpses that had fallen into the teacup.

"It's either the natives over there, or the Dutch. It looks like a ghost, and you can't get into it. It's not clear."

"Tut-tut." He shook his head.

"I don't know who gave them courage. In case ............"

When he said this, a thought flashed through Cao Bianjiao's mind like lightning.

He stood up with a thud, and even overturned the tea tray in front of him.

"Marko! Go back to the ship and put all the batteries on guard! It's best to be ready to pull out at any time."

"Zhang Baihu, send someone to the only way to the city at the foot of the mountain from the Drawing Corner Stronghold and the Forlan Fort, and roll to investigate."

"Admiral?" Zhang Baihu still has a little doubt.

Cao Bianjiao ignored him.

"Tong Qiming, let out the scouts and nights in your hands if you don't collect them."

After thinking about it, he called Zhang Baihu and Tong Qiming again.

"Don't expose anything, remember. The first task is to send someone to report back. Got it?"

"Admiral, do you think there is fraud in those two places?"

Cao Bianjiao regretted it a little, he always thought that these overseas Han people would suffer some losses when attacking the city. The big deal is to give up the siege.

But it dawned on him now that perhaps the Dutch had other plans.

He stabilized his emotions.

"It's not a big mistake to be careful, maybe I'm thinking too much, you arrange it first. The whole army is on alert and ready to respond to the enemy!"