The wind caused by Kim Hyun continues to blow in the capital, while the wind in the Indian Ocean is still brewing.

Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Britain, and France did not make any irrational response in the face of Huanglong's "diplomatic letter" or notification.

The replies of the five countries were very official and restrained, and the unified replies all required a one-year period for the withdrawal of troops, and the Ming Dynasty was required to give each country preferential terms for trade in the future Ming vassal states.

"! What stinky fish and rotten shrimp, dare to ask us for conditions?! ”

"That's right, let's beat him up first!"

"Send troops to beat them first, let them know what is the power of the king, what is the wrath of thunder!"

"Governor, send troops to hammer this group of dogs first."

"Negotiate terms with Xiyi? It is known to the people of the Northern Army and the Eastern Army, and our Southern Army and Western Army must not be laughed to death by them?! ”

"Lao Tzu ran thousands of miles to Xiao Xiyang is not angry, Jianyu and Gao Chongming dare not negotiate conditions with the imperial court, they still dare to put forward conditions for a group of stinky fish and rotten shrimp?!"

On the fifth day of the lunar month, when the countries arrived at Ceylon City in the west of the island, many southern and western armies who had just arrived here were unhappy and scolded.

In the yamen of the Supervision Department, more than 20 commanders and generals, large and small, were making noise, which made Huang Long and Li Dan, who were sitting in the main seat, a little headache.

The consequence of the full military salary is that the soldiers and horses of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies are Lian Zhan Lian Jie to everyone, and under the military exploits of Lian Zhan Lian Jie, what is cultivated is naturally a group of arrogant soldiers.

Most of the generals in the Southern Army Governor's Mansion and the Western Army Governor's Mansion were generals who participated in the Battle of Fuliao and pacified the Rebellion of Hao'an and the Shake Rebellion.

In their opinion, the governors of the five countries in India, with a total strength of less than 10,000, actually dared to make demands on the Ming Dynasty.

You must know that as long as Huang Long agrees, the more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Southern Army and the Western Army who arrived on Ceylon Island first can land on the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula in five days, and they can reach Kozhikode in ten days.

Their temperament is much more irritable than that of the Twelve Guards of the Navy......

"Quiet!"

Qi Yuanfu and Qin Minping, who were sitting in the first place on the left and right sides, couldn't help but speak, and the generals of the Western Army and the Southern Army immediately quieted down.

After they were quiet, Huang Long asked Li Dan next to him:

"Where are Inspector Lu and the rest of the soldiers?"

"The Lu envoy has arrived in Luzon, and the remaining five battalions of the Western Army are still gathering at Jiaozhi Port, and they will set sail on the twentieth day of the lunar month." Li Dan replied:

"The five battalions of the Southern Army and the remaining six guards of the navy have arrived at the old port, and they will arrive at the port of Ceylon in about forty days."

"In addition, the port of Qiongzhou has received an eight-hundred-mile expedited from the capital, and His Royal Highness has instructed the envoy and the governor's office to be sent to the old port, probably for the handling of the trade between the five countries and the imperial court."

Li Dan's words made Huanglong and a group of people in the yamen shut up, after all, the king of Qi came with a handwritten letter, at least before the handwritten book arrived in Ceylon, there could be no military action.

"How are the fields on the island being cultivated? Is there enough food for the army for a few months? ”

Huang Long began to care about whether Ceylon Island could feed the 130,000 army on land and sea, but Li Dan made a fuss about this:

"760,000 acres of newly cultivated land on the island, more than 65,000 immigrants in the past year, and 1.3 million acres of land have been divided."

"In this 1.3 million mu, we can only collect according to the imperial court's "total endowment of overseas fields to 10 endowments", and we are not allowed to add miscellaneous items, and we should be able to collect more than 200,000 stone rice. ”

"Of the remaining 10 million acres of native land, it can be collected according to ten to five, and about 12 million stones can be received."

"The business tax of Europeans in Xiaoxiyang Huangdian is 270,000 taels, and according to what His Highness said, we can use all the 270,000 taels for our own use."

"After all, as long as the imperial court pays the military salary, and we mainly clean up the coastal princely states, there is no problem with self-sufficiency."

Li Dan's words gave everyone a reassurance, nearly 130,000 troops, people eat horses, in addition to military pay and food, there are also costs for the maintenance of ships and ordnance.

The Ming army can be said to be an expedition, or it can be said to be beating people at home, and the key depends on where to transfer troops.

With the size of the Xiaoxi Supervision Mission, if the policy of "ten to one" is used, then Dingtian is nearly 20,000 people stationed in the six battalions, and the military expenditure will be kept within 500,000 taels at most, accounting for 60% of the local finances.

In order to maintain an army of 130,000, Huang Long raised the original ten levy four for the natives to ten levy five.

At present, it seems that despite the annual income of more than 13 million stones and more than 200,000 taels, the small Western Supervision Envoy is still unsustainable, and the imperial court must provide silver.

The projection ability of the Ming Dynasty is not weak, after all, the scale of Zheng He's voyage to the West two hundred years ago reached 27,000 people.

At present, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is more than several times that of the Yongle years.

But even so, maintaining 130,000 people here for a long time still has a feeling of disguised bloodletting.

After all, 130,000 people, even if the imperial court only pays military salaries, it needs to pay 2.2 million taels of silver every year.

According to the conditions promised by the imperial court to the southern army, the western army, and the navy, the military salary of these 130,000 people is thirty taels per Chinese New Year's Eve, so the military salary will be doubled.

In other words, Da Ming now has to pay 4.4 million taels of silver for Xiao Xiyang every year.

This expenditure basically accounts for one-tenth of the financial expenditure of the Ming Dynasty this year, so Huang Long feels a lot of pressure.

He knows who Zhu Youzhen likes, to put it bluntly, he likes Hong Chengchou's kind, he doesn't need too many military supplies while fighting, and at the same time, he retreats from the local battles, and after the battle, he can hand over the silver to the people in the imperial court.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen also mentioned many times in his handwritten correspondence that "fighting to feed the war" and "feeding the court" would be said.

The matter was said so clearly, it was impossible for Huang Long not to understand.

To put it bluntly, the imperial court can give Xiao Xiyang a blood transfusion, but after the blood transfusion is over, Xiao Xiyang must take out far more blood than the imperial court has injected to feed the imperial court.

Although the 130,000 people have only reached more than 70,000 at present, the thirty taels of silver per Chinese New Year's Eve have actually begun to be counted.

In other words, the imperial court is transfusing more than 300,000 taels of silver to Xiao Xiyang every month.

Having come to this position, Huang Long knows very well that late will change.

No one has impeached them today, because Zhu Youzhen is suppressing it, and the army has not been assembled.

Judging from the current time, the army will be assembled in February of next year at most.

By that time, Huang Long had not done anything satisfactory to the imperial court, and what he had to face was a series of impeachments.

Personally, he wants to fight, and he wants to fight now.

70,000 people, which is enough to sweep away the southern princely states.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen's handwriting adds a touch of uncertainty to this determination, and Huang Long still needs to see what is written in the handwriting before he can decide how to fight.

According to the time, the handwritten letter was sent by speedboat, and it was probably possible to arrive at the port of Ceylon with Lu Xiangsheng and them.

"Two and a half months ......"

Huang Long thought for a moment, and then glanced at the many commanders and generals in the yamen, and said:

"I also want to fight now, but His Highness's handwritten letter has not yet been delivered, and I must wait for His Highness's handwritten letter to be delivered before we can formulate tactics."

As soon as he said this, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and no one dared to be presumptuous.

In the final analysis, they were all picked up by Zhu Youzhen, not to mention that Zhu Youzhen is still the person who attaches the most importance to them throughout the ages, and has given them enough respect and military salaries and pensions before and after their deaths.

In them, His Royal Highness King Qi is much more than the emperor.

"Then you can't do nothing, at least knock down Tanjore first."

One of the naval commanders couldn't help but speak, and when he said this, the others nodded their heads.

Tanjor is a princely state of 500,000 people who were originally ruled by the Vijayanagar Empire, which unified most of southern India, and the country was Hindu.

However, because the ministers of the kingdom were too involved in interfering in the internal strife between the Muslim countries of the Deccan plateau, and attacked the territory of the Sultan of Amadnagar, destroyed the mosque, and insulted the Koran, all the Muslim sultans of the Deccan were provoked to launch a joint jihad against the kingdom of Vijayanagar.

Finally, in the 44th year of Jiajing (1565), the alliance of the four Muslim countries defeated the army of the Vijayanagar Empire, the city of Vijayanagar was sacked, the Hindus were slaughtered, and the glorious cultural and artistic center was reduced to ruins.

The defeat in the north led to the independence of Tanjore, Madurai, Mysore and other places in the south, and the collapse of the Vijayanagar Empire, a powerful country in the south.

Originally, the Ming army was supposed to face this Vijayanagar Empire, which had nearly 10 million people and more than 100,000 troops.

For now, due to his stupidity, the Ming army only needed to deal with the princely states in the south, as well as the remnants of the Vijayanagar forces on the Deccan Plateau, and the four Muslim sultanates in the northern part of the Deccan Plateau.

Among them, only the four Muslim sultanates in the north could organize a coalition to counterattack, but these four countries were on the Deccan Plateau, and the Ming army only needed to take the coastal areas.

These inland countries are just handed over to the vassal king to practice.

Therefore, what the Ming army needed to deal with was actually the eight countries and princely states headed by the Mughals.

Among them, the six southernmost princely states, such as Tanjor and Pandia, Madurai, Mysore, and Kulan, will not have a total population of more than 3 million and an army of no more than 150,000.

After taking them, the Ming army could continue to move north along the coast, attacking Jinji and Kladi from both sides of the sea at the same time.

After settling these two countries, it should be noted that there are three Muslim countries bordering the sea, and the Ming army needs to attack the seaside city-states of the three countries.

After the capture, the army was garrisoned, and finally the army was assembled to crusade against the Mughal coastal city-states.

As long as all the city-states are taken, the 130,000 troops will be easily fed, and the vassals can also start to become vassals.

At the same time as the feudal domain, a large number of civilians would be relocated to the coastal city-states, and the Yellow Dragon would select soldiers from among the common people to train armies for the feudal domains.

As long as there is an army, the Ming army can withdraw to the small Western supervision envoy to rest and wait for the order of the imperial court.

At this time, Huang Long calculated, it will only take about three years.

The coastal areas in the south can be taken in just one year, and the only thing that is a little difficult is the coastal city-states of the Mughal Empire in the north.

However, despite the large size of the Mughals, the army had to defend Persia and the Khanate of Bukhara, as well as the Nipola and Assam states in the north.

Of the 300,000 troops, at most 50,000 or 60,000 can be dispatched to counterattack the Ming army.

As long as these 50,000 or 60,000 people are disabled, the Mughals will not be able to counterattack the Ming army in a short time, and the Ming army can also train soldiers and horses for the vassals.

When the soldiers and horses are trained, it will be a war between the vassals and the Mughals, and if they can't bear it, then they can only hire the Gongwei battalion to defend the city for them and send their own army to conquer the Mughals.

In any case, as long as the vassal domain succeeds, then no matter how it is calculated, it will be the Ming Dynasty that is earning.

The generals under Zhu Youzhen were divided into two factions, one was the northern faction and the other was the southern faction.

The generals of the northern faction do not have to worry about money and food when they fight, but the generals of the southern faction do not have to worry about money and food, but the generals of the southern faction are a kind of science.

The best thing to do is Hong Chengchou, who can fight and manage money, and he doesn't have to worry about the court.

The second is Huanglong, who also needs to do some dirty work while fighting, and finally Qin Bangping and Qi Jin, who simply carry out military orders.

Therefore, as long as Zhu Youzhen sent Huang Long to a place, Huang Long would know what Zhu Youzhen was thinking.

Fighting Tanger, this is a military operation that Huanglong can manipulate, because Tanggiore's army is 50,000 or 60,000 people, and its combat effectiveness is similar to that of the Ming army's former guards.

It's very simple to beat him, just go up recklessly, but how to deal with it after beating him is a problem.

"How much arable land is there in Tanjore? What about the number of natives? ”

Huang Long looked at Li Dan next to him, and he had to admit that as a maritime businessman, Li Dan not only pays attention to intelligence, but also knows how to manage money.

"There are about 5780,000 natives and 60,000 troops, most of whom are armies that use arquebuses and spears, and the amount of arable land is about 1 million mu."

"Where is the fleet of the second emigrant?" Huang Long bowed slightly, and then asked.

"The first fleet has already arrived in the market town of Newport (the Andaman Islands), and about 20,000 people have been relocated, and the second fleet should be half a month's journey away from them."

"Together with the third and fourth fleets, a total of 80,000 people are moving in one after another, but they are all family members of prisoners involved in the Shaanxi case."

Li Dan cautiously reminded him, but Huang Long waved his hand and said:

"No matter what kind of prisoners' families they are, anyway, as long as they are forbidden to be officials, when they come to Xiaoxiyang, they are still my Ming people."

"Send a message to the people behind and let them go to Beilan Port."

"It will take them more than 30 days to come, and if they come in more than 30 days, ......"

Huang Long looked at the many generals in front of him, and then thought for a while:

"General Qin, just bother the brothers of the Eighth Battalion of the Western Army in Beilan Port, please take Tanjore as soon as possible."

"I will place these 80,000 immigrants in Beilan County."

"The last general commands!" When Qin Minping heard this, he immediately responded, and when Qi Yuanfu saw this, he also frowned and said:

"If you want to take Tanjor, it is better to simply take both Madurai and Pandia."

Qi Yuanfu wanted to make military merit and silver for the generals of the Southern Army.

Although there was no silver in the wars of the feudal domains, thirty percent of the gold and silver captured would be left for the captured soldiers and horses, and seventy percent would be handed over.

Madurai and Pandia were not much worse than Tanjore, and if they could capture these two places, the Yugoslav army would be able to capture at least a million taels.

Huang Long naturally knew Qi Yuanfu's thoughts, but it was impossible for him to give all the credit to Qi Yuanfu.

Therefore, after thinking about it, within the scope of his authority, it was not a problem to fight a medium-sized war first.

"In that case, let's just leave it like this, Tanjor to the Western Army, Madurai and Pandia to the Southern Army, and the rest of Mysore and Kulan to the Navy's four foot guards."

"Yes!" Hearing Huang Long's words, Qin Minping and Qi Yuanfu both said that there was no problem.

However, in the face of their nods, Huang Long still spoke:

"Pay attention to ensure the safety of the brothers below, if there are too many casualties, I'm afraid Your Highness will be unhappy."

"Please rest assured, I'll wait clearly!" A group of generals responded one after another.

"Alright, you guys stand down first." Huang Long waved his hand, and Qin Minping and Qi Yuanfu also retreated with a group of people from the Western Army and the Southern Army, as well as the Navy.

After they all retreated, Huang Long asked Li Dan:

"According to Ling's opinion, if these five small countries are destroyed, how much silver can we give back to the imperial court?"

Huang Long still has concerns, he has to fight five small countries, because he wants to appease the western and southern armies that come from afar below, so that the soldiers below can benefit.

But if he used troops to conquer these five small countries without authorization, he might make Zhu Youzhen unhappy, so he had to come up with enough silver to make Zhu Youzhen happy.

At present, his situation is a bit like Gao Xianzhi in the Tianbao period, and he has to make arrangements according to the situation, and he has to take care of the face of Tang Xuanzong in Chang'an City.

Regarding his inquiry, Li Dan thought about it before muttering:

"Judging from the taxes and silver paid by European countries doing business in these places, the foreign tax revenue of these five countries is about 120,000 taels."

"According to Jinyiwei's news, the foreign country generally accounts for one-sixth of the tax revenue of the princely state, which means that the tax revenue of their five countries is about 720,000 taels."

"The land can't be sold for money, the court has already sold it once, so we can only scrape the land."

"If you take down all the nobles and rich families of the princely state, you will probably be able to collect four or five million taels of silver."

"Four or five million ......" Hearing this amount, Huang Long calculated.

In the case of withholding 30% to the soldiers, withholding 20% to maintain the operation of the Supervision Department, and giving Lu Xiangsheng a greeting gift, they can also give more than 2 million taels of silver back to the imperial court.

"Actually, it's about the same, it should satisfy His Highness, as long as His Highness is satisfied, there will be no opinions on Banzai's side."

Li Dan saw that Huang Long was still thinking about it, so he also opened his mouth to persuade him.

When Huang Long heard this, he could only nod and said, "Then set a date and move troops after the Lantern Festival." ”

"Humble and orderly......" Li Dan responded, and Huang Long also got up and prepared to go out for a walk when he saw this.

It's just that when he just walked out of the hall, he saw his nephew Huang Fei.

"Uncle ......"

Huang Fei saluted, and Huang Long smiled as an elder:

"Wenlu, you did a good job guarding Ceylon this time."

"It's all for the Ming Dynasty, for His Royal Highness and Uncle." Huang Fei picked good words, and Huang Long also nodded:

"Walk with me......"

"Yes." Huang Fei responded, and then followed Huang Long's footsteps out of the yamen of the Supervision Department.

Walking out of the yamen, you will see the construction site in full swing and some simple houses that are constantly being demolished.

These demolished houses all have strong Ceylonese characteristics, and the people who demolished them were the Ming people who migrated here.

In the past year, half of the more than 65,000 people who have migrated to Ceylon Province have moved to Ceylon County, where the Lesser Western Inspectorate is based, and the rest have moved to the ports of North and South Land.

Due to the fear that the support would not be in place, the Ming Dynasty migrated to the countryside by taking the cities and towns as the point.

The reason for this was the fear that the native rebellion would attack and kill the Han Chinese, and Huang Fei had dealt with this kind of rebellion no less than a hundred times.

"Little Yellow Governor!"

"Little Yellow Dudu! Huang Dudu! ”

Huang Long and Huang Fei walked in this city full of Han people, and somewhat returned to the feeling of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the timely and protective dispatch of Huang Fei's troops, most of the people knew Huang Fei and affectionately called him "Little Huang Dudu".

Huang Fei nodded to say hello, and Huang Long also nodded when he saw this:

"If Your Highness knows that you are so close to the people, I am afraid you can take over my team."

"Uncle laughed, I'm glad I could do this." Huang Fei was modest.

"Don't be modest,......" Huang Long shook his head and said:

"I've read your military report on suppressing the natives, and you've done a very good job, and among the people who came from Jinyiwei, I also said that Your Highness mentioned you."

As he spoke, Huang Long said solemnly: "There are millions of natives on this Ceylon, and my dynasty will migrate more than 100,000 people to Ceylon every year. ”

"It will take at least a dozen years for us to gain a foothold here, and you still have a lot of work to do."

"But your mother also wrote to me saying that she misses you, and when this war between the feudal domains is over, I will give you a three-year leave and go back to accompany your mother."

Speaking of his sister, Huang Long rarely showed a warm smile on his face, and when Huang Fei heard his mother's letter, he also showed some thoughts and reminiscences.

"You were also here just now, the Navy Quadruple Guards want to recover Mysore and Kulan, and I am ready to let you take command."

Huang Long suddenly spoke, and Huang Fei hesitated a little when he heard this:

"I'm afraid I'm too young to convince the public."

"Don't be too restrained, the brothers below are very optimistic about you, you have to fight for our navy." Huang Long patted Huang Fei on the shoulder, but suddenly paused.

"That's right......" Huang Long said with a frown:

"It's best to try to recover some of the seizures this time to leave a good impression on His Highness's side."

"I understand." Huang Fei knew what the so-called "recovery" meant, so he nodded hurriedly.

The Ming army did not have a burden at all by driving Miao Tuoye, and seeing Huang Fei's appearance, Huang Long also said with satisfaction:

"Some of the brothers below can also marry and have children if they want to marry locally."

"Uncle, don't worry, I have already explained this to my brothers, and they all know it." Huang Fei nodded.

The two chatted without a word, and most of the time it was Huang Long who was mentioning Huang Fei.

Soon the two walked to the head of Dongcheng City, Ceylon County.

Standing at the head of the city, they looked at it and saw Han people harvesting rice in the fields.

Wearing hats and coarse linen clothes, they talked and laughed in the rice fields, and brought their families to work together.

The breeze blows, and the ears of rice in the fields sway, which is beautiful.

"If you feel uncomfortable doing something, just look at my people."

Huang Long explained to Huang Fei next to him, and Huang Fei looked at the happy farmers in the field and nodded subconsciously.

Huang Long looked at him and nodded, and also mentioned:

"Most of these people are people from Guangdong and Fujian, and they only have two or three acres of land in their hometowns, and if they don't have a job, they can only abandon the babies they are born."

"Now that we have laid down Ceylon and given them hundreds of acres of land for each family, they can be so easy."

"The people of the city are grateful to you because you have given them land."

His Royal Highness once said, "If you suffer a little harder, I will bear the infamy", which seems to me to be a little wrong. ”

Huang Long looked at the people in the fields below the city and said:

"We are fighting for the sake of the people having land to divide, if any itchy civil official dares to scold us, we don't need to take action, and the people who have divided the land will naturally carry a knife to his neck."

"To give to the people is to accumulate fame for oneself."

"Your Highness has given us a lot of restrictions, and it is normal for the generals below to complain, but we must believe Your Highness, when we can't move, Your Highness will definitely give us gold and silver like pension silver to appease us."

"Throughout the ages, there has never been a person like His Royal Highness who attaches so much importance to warriors and soldiers."

"You and my uncle and nephew have to support Your Highness, after all, only if Your Highness is in that position, our martial arts will have a better life......"

Huang Long's words meant something, and after Huang Fei heard this, he also glanced up at Huang Long, looking at him with a calm face, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart.

"Uncle, rest assured, as long as His Royal Highness and Uncle speak, even if the sword mountain is a sea of fire, Yu'er will dare to break through!"

"Hmm......" Huang Long glanced at Huang Fei with satisfaction, and then looked at the people.

It's just that his slightly frowning brows don't seem to be so simple with what Huang Fei said, and Huang Fei turned his head to look at the people, relieved in his heart about the suppression of the Turen for a period of time.

"It's better to bully foreigners than to bully the people......"

I woke up at eight o'clock, and then wrote until now.

I took a temperature in the middle, 38.2°, and it should be higher tomorrow.

At present, except for the fact that people are a little dizzy, a little uncomfortable, and drowsy, there is no major problem.

It is best to put more water at the head of the bed when sleeping, and it is said that the better the physique, the higher the temperature of the fever.

Let me see which of you is a thin dog......

(End of chapter)