"I am the one hundred and eighth emperor of Yamato of Japan, how can I fall into the hands of the enemy?!"

On the twenty-seventh day of the winter month of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, while Zhou Yanru delayed the trial, the Edo Castle Tower in Japan, with the order of Tokugawa Hidetada, the castle tower was piled up with fire oil and firewood.

Accompanied by a fire, the Tokugawa clan and the hereditary emperor of 1008 generations were buried in the fire.

Afterwards, Yang Wenyue found the charred corpses of hundreds of people from the ruins and ordered them to be thrown into the sea, so that the emperor and the Tokugawa shogunate were wiped out together.

When the news came back to the Ming Dynasty, it was already in the middle of the month, and in the news that also came back to the Ming Dynasty, there was also the news that the Little Western Expeditionary Force had annihilated the forces north and south of the Deccan Plateau.

The Hindu Vijayanagaro Empire and the five sultanates of the Deccan Plateau, including Vidar, Bijapur, Ahmednagar, Bilal and Golgond, were all destroyed.

Of course, this is Huang Long's report to Zhu Youzhen, but Jinyiwei's report to Zhu Youzhen is not so simple.

[The main city-states of the five major sultanates were occupied, the armies swept away, and a rebellion broke out in the south, the army was unable to go north, and the army of the north captives pressed the border, and the border passes were ......in an emergency]

On the 16th of the lunar month, when Zhu Youzhen got the news of Si Jinyiwei, the Xiaoxiyang Supervision Envoy, he was in Fangshan County of Shuntian Mansion with Zhu Youxiao.

However, the two are not on a safari or a play, but here to escape the winter.

Fangshan coal mines are everywhere, so at the beginning of the year, Zhu Youxiao allocated 270,000 taels of silver from the interior to build a "midsummer palace" covering an area of 1,400 acres in the north of Fangshan.

The whole palace uses the method of central heating, and the design adopts the royal crafts such as large-scale, large-scale, glazed tiles, and gold and blue color paintings, and its main building types include 72 kinds of architectural designs such as halls, halls, pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, pavilions, etc.

Just for heating, it is necessary to hire 300 people, add coal day and night, and burn 300,000 catties of coal every day, and the wages of the people are 50 yuan per person every day.

After calculation, the fuel plus wages required an expenditure of nearly 40,000 taels of silver for four months, from winter to February.

The money came out of Zhu Youxiao's internal money, and although Zhu Youzhen was heartbroken, he had nothing to say.

Zhu Youxiao built him a palace of the king of Qi, a pavilion of the king of Qi, the palace occupies one acre, the pavilion occupies half an acre and is sixteen zhang high, both of which are connected to the floor heating and fire wall, fireplace, very warm.

Zhu Youzhen works with his driver, basically on the top floor of the Qiwang Pavilion, where he can overlook the snow scene of Fangshan Mountain and a man-made artificial lake with living water.

Lu Wenzhao left, and Cui Yingyuan and Li Ruolian had to go with him.

At this moment, Zhu Youzhen was sitting on the top floor of the fourth floor of the Qiwang Pavilion with the military newspaper sent by the small Western brocade clothes and Wei Qianhu, and in front of him were open doors and windows, and he could see the snow scene of Fangshan Mountain and the lake view of the artificial lake.

Li Ruolian, Cui Yingyuan, Wang Chengen, and Cao Huachun all worked with him on the top floor, while Zhu Youxiao took Zhang Yan and them to work in the inner court of Midsummer Palace.

In general, this midsummer palace is no different from other palaces, except that it will not make Zhu Youzhen feel "frozen hands" when dealing with the music.

However, compared to freezing his hands, at this moment, he looked at the performance of the Navy Governor's Mansion and the military report of Jinyiwei in his hand, but he felt a little hot.

"According to this military report, Huanglong only occupies the main city-state, and there are still many guerrilla teams in the local area?"

Sitting in the main seat, Zhu Youzhen asked Li Ruolian, and Li Ruolian also sat in the position and nodded in response:

"According to the report of Xiao Xiyang Jinyiwei, this is indeed the case, and it is estimated that this is also the case, after all, no matter how bad the armament of the five major sultanates and the Vijayanagaro is, it is impossible to be wiped out within a year."

Li Ruolian's words are from practical point of view, and Zhu Youzhen personally thinks so.

Counting the previously destroyed Tangjor and other princely states, Huang Long's own performance shows that they have conquered at least more than 2 million square kilometers of territory in one year, almost the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In one year, more than 2 million square kilometers, this is impossible even if the Ming army is brave.

Zhu Youzhen instinctively still believed in the report of the local Jinyiwei, that is, Huanglong had conquered the major cities, but some small cities and small tutu states had not yet been cleaned up.

At this time, the people of the five countries such as Tanjor in the south broke out in rebellion, and Huanglong could only transfer troops back to suppress it, while the Mughals in the north saw that the troops in the south were empty, so they gathered a large army and prepared to attack first and annex the entire Deccan Plateau.

This is more in line with the real situation, but it also shows that the current situation of the Ming army in South Asia is not good.

Eight guards at sea and 32 battalions of four guards on land, with a total of 164,000 troops.

If this person wants to control a territory of more than 2 million square kilometers and control 30 or 40 million people, and he also needs to face a northern country that controls 50 or 60 million people and 400,000 troops, this situation has no advantage at all.

Therefore, even though Song Shu is well written, what Huang Long expresses at the end is still the message that he hopes for the imperial court to increase troops.

Of course, Huang Long did not let the court send troops to Bai either, because before requesting more troops, Huang Long attached a captured booklet.

More than 1,770,000 taels of gold, 5,260,000 taels of silver, and one hundred and nine boxes of rare treasures, this is the spoils handed over by Huanglong.

In Jinyiwei's military newspaper, Huang Long personally withheld 7.5 million taels of silver to reward the army, and personally hid more than 30,000 taels of gold.

But even so, the total value of these gold, silver and jewelry he handed over was more than 25 million taels of silver.

This silver can undoubtedly solve Daming's urgent need, but in the same way, this silver is not so easy to take.

The major countries and princely states in the south of Tianzhu have been destroyed, and now they are fighting guerrilla warfare with the expeditionary force, and it is obviously unreasonable for the imperial court not to increase its troops.

Moreover, since June, the imperial court has trained 30 new battalions of soldiers, adding more than 90,000 soldiers and horses, and the local strength has reached 16 201 battalions, totaling nearly 700,000 people.

The battle in Yingzhou ended quickly, and when the time came, it was only necessary to retain about six battalions of troops, and it was completely possible to withdraw the damaged sixteen battalions, which still numbered more than 40,000 people, although they suffered a lot of losses.

In this way, the local strength of the Ming Dynasty will reach 740,000.

At present, the imperial court needs to open up sources and reduce expenditure, and raising 740,000 soldiers in the local area is not in line with the national policy of the imperial court, and it is not impossible to send some people out.

In addition, according to the military newspapers, the 160,000 land and sea expeditionary force has lost more than 16,000 people, and it is normal for it to replenish its troops.

However, to transfer troops, Zhu Youzhen cannot act arbitrarily and alone, and he still needs to discuss with Zhu Youxiao.

Thinking of this, he took the music of Jinyiwei and Huanglong and got up:

"Xiao Xiyang's affairs, I'll go and discuss with the imperial brother, as for the matter of Yingzhou, tell Yang Wenyue that the sixteenth battalion of soldiers and horses will be withdrawn to Liaodong before the end of the year to rest, and other matters will be done according to the previous formulation."

"Yes......" The four of them got up one after another to respond, and Zhu Youzhen also walked down the Qi Wang Pavilion.

A team of brocade guards guarded him and dressed him in big furs.

Outside the pavilion, the entire midsummer palace was covered with heavy snow, although the red wall and white snow looked festive, but the palace maids and eunuchs who cleaned the palace road were very hard.

Although it is said that the daily salary in the palace ranges from 30 to 150 yuan, which is two to ten times the salary of the people, it is basically difficult for people who enter the palace to have the opportunity to leave the palace again.

The palace maid is okay to say, but unless the eunuch gets mixed into a high position, he would rather die and not leave the palace.

"His Royal Highness Chitose ......"

"His Royal Highness Chitose ......"

Looking at the palace maids and eunuchs with frostbite on their hands saluting, Zhu Youzhen nodded slightly, and then walked to the Warm Spring Pavilion of the Midsummer Palace.

Here, he really met Zhu Youxiao, who was dealing with the song, and when he arrived, Zhu Youzheng was holding a bowl of hot bird's nest, eating and dealing with the song.

"Brother is here?"

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen was coming, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said to Wei Zhongxian next to him:

"Someone will serve another bowl to my brother."

"Yes......" Wei Zhongxian lowered his head and responded, not daring to raise his head and look at Zhu Youzhen.

After the fall of the eunuchs, Wei Zhongxian's influence shrank widely, and he was deeply afraid that Zhu Youzhen would settle accounts after the autumn.

Although he didn't offend Zhu Youzhen, the people below him didn't offend the Gu Party and the Yanshan faction.

Zhu Youzhen was not so cautious, he treated Wei Zhongxian as a black glove from the beginning, but he didn't achieve his goal.

At the moment, since his brother is reluctant to the other party, he will not force his brother to dispose of Wei Zhongxian.

He stepped forward and sat down next to Zhu Youxiao without any scruples, feeling the warmth of the position, and then took out a note and a military newspaper from his sleeve.

"This is Xiao Xiyang's song and military report, there is a good news and a few bad news, brother, you take a look first."

"Okay." Hearing Zhu Youzhen say this, Zhu Youxiao also put down the bird's nest, took the song and the military newspaper and quickly flipped through it.

While watching Huang Long's performance, he couldn't help but praise: "Huang Long did a really good job, and my younger brother was right to appoint him as the general of Xiao Xiyang." ”

"It's wrong...... it's right," Zhu Youzhen echoed, and then explained the situation of Xiao Xiyang and Huang Long's careful thinking.

Regarding Huanglong's greed for 30,000 taels of gold, Zhu Youzhen chose to conceal it, after all, Huanglong did those things that were relatively dark, and it was not an exaggeration to use 30,000 taels of gold as a compensation fee.

He mainly told Zhu Youxiao about the real situation of Xiao Xiyang, and the predicament he faced, as well as the local army of the Ming Dynasty and the increase of Xiao Xiyang.

"In your opinion, how many troops are needed?"

After listening to the matter, Zhu Youxiao also realized how difficult the situation in South Asia was, and asked Zhu Youzhen intently, and in this regard, Zhu Youzhen pondered for a moment and said:

"At present, there are nearly 700,000 soldiers and horses in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in the local area, and when the soldiers and horses in Yingzhou are transferred back, there will be 750,000."

"The annual expenditure of these 750,000 troops is about 12 million taels of silver, and the national dynasty will not take any side actions next year."

"I mean, the sixteen battalions of soldiers and horses transferred back from Yingzhou will be transferred to the Southern Army Governor's Mansion after replenishment, and then the twenty battalions of the Southern Army Governor's Mansion in Jiaozhi, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Jiugang will be transferred to Xiaoxiyang."

Twenty battalions of soldiers and horses, more than 60,600 regular soldiers, such an increase in the number of troops is not a lot, but it is definitely a lot.

However, Zhu Youzhen did not simply transfer troops, but ......

"Before these twenty battalions of soldiers and horses are transferred to Xiaoxiyang, we still need to use them as a model to recruit thirty-six battalions of soldiers from the common people of the feudal kings who are willing to move to Xiaoxiyang for training."

"In other words, the total number of troops transferred before and after is fifty-six battalions, but those thirty-six battalions of soldiers and horses are paid by the vassal king, and they are under the control of the imperial court in the current war."

Zhu Youzhen made his thoughts clear, he could not use the Ming army alone to pacify South Asia, in that case, in addition to being able to use war to support the war at the beginning, he would need blood transfusion from the imperial court later.

The current situation is to quickly deploy troops to support Huanglong, and then cooperate by sea and land to counterattack the Mughals, and after taking the major cities along the coast, support the vassals to become vassals.

After the feudal domains became vassals, their own feudal sons led the thirty-six battalions, but the overall command was in the hands of Huang Long.

That is, these thirty-six battalions and nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses of the imperial court were used to counterattack the Mughals.

As long as he helps the vassal king gain a firm foothold next year, then the Ming army can retreat the year after tomorrow, and the vassal king will train his own troops, and Zhu Youzhen can also prepare for the Northern Expedition three years later depending on the situation.

It is estimated that after the start of the Northern Expedition, most of the Ming troops will be withdrawn, except for a certain number of garrisons retained by the Xiaoxiyang Supervision Mission.

At that time, it was only necessary to ensure that the vassals had nearly seventy battalions of troops, and the Mughals would be locked in a protracted war.

There are small Western overseers to stabilize the situation among the feudal domains, and there is a great enemy of the Mughals outside, so basically nothing will happen.

But not on the Mughal side, where Persia is eyeing the West, and the Khanate of Bukhara is wolf ambition in the northwest.

Combined with the Nepalese and Ahom dynasties, they could only send a few hundred thousand troops to fight the vassals.

As long as the situation is deadlocked, three years later, Hong Chengchou will conquer Donghu and recover Ahommu, and then the Ming army will prepare for another two years, and then it can start to send troops to take the northern plain of the Ganges.

Conquer the northern plain of the Ganges, garrison more than a dozen battalions, cooperate with more than a dozen battalions of soldiers and horses of the small Western Supervision Envoy in the south, control the feudal domains in the north and south, use the feudal domains to stabilize the huge population of the South Asian market, and finally dump commodities and close the economic circle.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty controls two-thirds of the world's population and two-thirds of the world's economic market.

Even if the Qi State conquered the Americas in the future and expanded the world market, the Ming Dynasty would be able to occupy at least two-fifths of the market.

Under the influence of ocean currents, it was easy for Europe to attack the Americas, while it was more difficult for the Americas to attack both Asia and Europe.

Therefore, as long as Europe exists, Qi needs to be on guard and needs to focus on Europe.

This pattern will not change in a short period of time, and at least within the three generations of the Ming Dynasty, there will be basically no vicious diplomatic incidents.

After three generations, Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao can't control it, how to fight is their business, anyway, the basic market is so big, no matter how they fight, they can't shrink anywhere.

"Thirty-six battalions, isn't it too much......

Just when Zhu Youzhen was thinking about the future, Zhu Youxiao hesitated at the moment.

The thirty-six battalions of soldiers and horses are nearly 110,000 people, although they are trained in the Ming Dynasty and are also under the control of the Ming Dynasty, but after they go to the Little Western Ocean, can the Ming Dynasty still control the feudal domains? Are you sure that the vassals will not be in rebellion because they have military power?

Zhu Youxiao has his concerns, and Zhu Youzhen thinks that Zhu Youxiao is a little worried.

"Brother, this place of Tianzhu is destined to be impossible for our dynasty to rule, at least for now, it is impossible."

"Even if the fourth version of the steam engine and the steam engine ship and the steam locomotive are developed, it is at least seven thousand miles from the capital to the Ganges Plain."

"Tianzhu is not as good as other places, the entire region has a population of nearly 10,000, with the power of the dynasty, it cannot be swallowed in the short term, not to mention, and it has to consume power in order to rule it."

"Jiaozhi, Yingzhou, and Donghu, Jiugang, Nanzhou, ......"

"Instead of thinking about ruling by garrisons and relocation of garrisons, it is better to eat these places thoroughly first, and then think about the affairs of South Asia."

Zhu Youzhen has always believed that some expansion methods in the Sui and Tang dynasties were ineffective expansion, while the expansion of the Qin Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and later generations was effective expansion.

The key point of this is that the immigrants are on the real side, and if there are no people, they are duckweed, and sooner or later they will have to float away.

For example, this is true in Central Asia, the Western Regions, the Northeast, Mobei in the Tang Dynasty, the Hehuang in the Sui Dynasty, the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, and so on.

In the case that the nation is unable to form a large proportion of the local area, it is destined that the dynasty can rule the local area at the peak, and once it weakens, it will lose this place.

The Qin migrated 500,000 soldiers and civilians, allowing the Huaxia to gain a foothold in the vast area south of the Yangtze River.

The Ming Dynasty migrated millions of people to Yungui, which also allowed the Han people to gain a firm foothold in Yungui and Liaodong, and the same is true for the migration of Han people to Xinjiang in later generations.

At present, the rule of the Ming Dynasty seems to be at its peak, but the regional problems are also very large.

Cochin, Old Port, Yingzhou, Duogan......

In these four places, the proportion of Han Chinese in the local area does not exceed 25%, and on the whole, there are nearly 24 million native ethnic groups in these four places, while the total number of local Han people is less than 6 million.

Under this ratio, it is still a question whether the Ming Dynasty can thoroughly eat the local area within 30 years, let alone rule South Asia.

Not to mention, there is also a Myanmar with a population of six or seven million, and the Ahom region is waiting for Daming.

With the population of the Ming Dynasty, half of the Indochina Peninsula, one Central Asia, one Western Regions, one Qinghai-Tibet, one Northeast, one Mobei, and the vast Nanyang region are already the limit.

As for the current small Western Supervision Mission, the South Kunlun Supervision Mission, which will only be established next year, these places will also be removed from management in the future.

Rather than being taken over by the local natives, it is better to canonize the vassal king and occupy the place first.

As long as the Ming Dynasty's vassal kings and courtiers had the mentality of "rushing seedlings and expanding their industries", coupled with the scientific and technological and economic blood transfusions of the Ming Dynasty, they would not be overthrown by outsiders and basically died in civil strife.

Zhu Youxiao regards himself as the co-master of the world, this psychology is no problem, Daming also needs this psychology, but the premise of this psychology is that he must know where Daming must defend.

The northern plain of the Ganges River, which is already the farthest place that Zhu Youzhen believes that the Ming Dynasty connects to the mainland to the southwest.

It's not a big place, but it's much easier than stationing troops on the plateau.

"I'm thinking about ...... thing"

Zhu Youxiao was still a little worried that the power of the feudal domains would be too strong and out of the control of the imperial court, and Zhu Youzhen did not force him, he sorted out his mentality and continued:

"The matter of the soldiers and horses of the vassal kings, no matter what, even if there are no thirty-six battalions, they can be recruited from immigrants first, and the major vassal kings in the north of South Asia cannot be allowed to go empty-handed."

"In addition, the expeditionary soldiers and horses lost more than 16,400 people, and according to the pension standard, they need to pay more than 1,640,000 taels of pension."

"The gold, silver and jewelry that Huanglong ordered to be shipped will most likely arrive in Tianjin in April next year, and they will be paid for at that time."

Zhu Youzhen said what he needed to solve, and Zhu Youxiao also nodded:

"The eight northern feudal kings, including the Fu Domain, the Chu Domain, the Shu Domain, and the Qin Domain, can recruit two battalions of troops depending on the locality, and as for the southern domains, I will consider it for a month."

"The pension for the soldiers who died in the battle, there is no need to wait, there are still 1.93 million taels of silver in the internal payment, and my Wang An transferred 1.65 million taels to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies."

"It's your new deal ...... brother, Sichuan" Zhu Youxiao paused when he said this, glanced at Zhu Youzhen, and then hesitated:

"The new policy of reducing all miscellaneous items and stating household registration to set a new policy of 1 out of 10 has been criticized by many people recently......"

Some people criticize the new policy, this is a normal thing, and Zhu Youzhen has long been prepared to suppress them.

Those who dare to criticize are nothing more than the spokespersons of the court elected by the gentry, but if the gentry cannot unite the landlords of the small gentry, then their opposition will be weak for Zhu Youzhen.

"I learned about the criticism, and they can't do it."

Zhu Youzhen made a very decisive judgment, because he had already extinguished the few fires where the gentry could directly threaten the imperial court.

How the Jiangnan gentry in the late Qing Dynasty threatened the Qing Dynasty, which was also set in the capital, Zhu Youzhen remembered it very clearly.

The first point is to cut off the transportation and make the north short of grain, the second point is to unite with local regiments to actually divide the territory, and the third point is to get grain.

These three points, he began to dig the roots in the first year of Taichang.

At present, the Ming Dynasty does not take Cao Yun, but takes the sea, and the local soldiers and horses and government officials are weak, and the Gongwei battalion changes its station every three years, and the gentry have no way to start.

Although the grain in the north is more likely to be stuck because of the drought, the rise of Liaodong and the capture of Yingzhou are destined to make the grain unable to get stuck in the north.

Liaodong and Yingzhou, with a total of more than 40 million acres of cultivated land, while protecting the local area, it is not difficult to receive millions of stone rice and wheat from Zhili in the north, not to mention that Zhu Youzhen still has Ryukyu in his hands.

The great drought has abolished the northwest and Shanxi, but Zhu Youzhen still has overseas food security in the north.

The current gentry, except for doing something for Daming in tax collection, they can't do anything else.

Although in essence the Ming Dynasty was still a situation in which the gentry were officials, the implementation of basic education would bring a large number of poor people, poor peasants, and rich peasant classes into officialdom.

Slowly replace the gentry with the proletariat, and use overseas to help the locals.

This policy remained unchanged, and the capital generated by the Industrial Revolution was properly monitored, trade unions were enacted, and labor laws were promulgated to protect the interests of workers and peasants.

After these things are done, Zhu Youzhen's historical task will be completed for the most part.

He knew what he was going to do, maintaining the rule of the Ming Dynasty and the rich people did not conflict, just change the object of exploitation.

Therefore, he has the confidence that in this era of the demise of the family gate, as long as the people do not rebel, the gentry will not be able to succeed.

At present, Zhu Youzhen only needs to implement basic education, and then use officials who have no production to balance the officialdom, this method is the same as back then, but this time he needs to master the frequency of purges, otherwise no amount of proletarian will be able to stop the corruption of the gentry.

"By the way, brother......" Zhu Youzhen remembered a serious matter, he got up and said:

"This time, the official school department has recruited tens of thousands of official schools to teach and study, and all the official schools in Beizhili will be opened on the first day of the first month of March, and the official schools will be run by the imperial court with money, and students only need to pay a total of 80 yuan per year for books."

"I mean, Ran'er should go to the government school so that they can know what the people need."

"Let Ran'er and them go to the official school to study?" Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't sit still.

He frowned, rubbed his hands uneasily, and then frowned, "I need to discuss this matter with Baozhu." ”

Zhu Youxiao was afraid that Zhu Ciran would get some bad habits, but Zhu Youzhen did not force Zhu Youxiao, but just said:

"Dingguo will also go to study, and the deadline for official school registration is the first day of February, so my brother and His Royal Highness can discuss it carefully."

"Hmm......" Zhu Youxiao's mind was not on Zhu Youzhen's words, obviously he was thinking about Zhu Ciran's study in the official school.

"Brother quits ......"

Zhu Youzhen didn't wait for the bird's nest to come up, so he prepared to leave, Zhu Youxiao, who was all on Zhu Ciran, nodded subconsciously, and Zhu Youzhen saw this and withdrew from the Nuanchun Pavilion, leaving only the thoughtful Zhu Youxiao......