The next day, after the emperor listened to the government at the imperial gate, he summoned some generals in the Wuying Hall again, including Li Yuan, Li Bin, Guo Liang, Xu Zhong, Qu Neng, Sheng Yong, Ping'an and other generals.

There is also a special general, namely Zhang Fu.

The west side of Wuying Hall was originally a bath hall, a place for bathing, but now it has been demolished by Zhu Gaoxu, and the bathhouse has been moved directly to the Qianqing Palace.

There is now a huge world sand table territory here, which occupies half of the Wuying Palace, and for this reason, Zhu Gaoxu also specially demolished some partition walls before putting it down.

"I can win the war against rebellion." Zhu Gaoxu looked at the generals: "In addition to the help of the generals, the soldiers use their lives, and fortunately there is a steady stream of money and food." ”

Except for Guo Liang, everyone else nodded.

The most successful part of the war was that His Majesty first took Annam, and then captured the city and Angkor, and used local money and food to continuously support the front.

If it was only a place with a big palm in Yunnan, Zhu Gaoxu would have been exterminated by the imperial court a long time ago, because the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Han King in the back could not afford to raise them at all, let alone give officials double salaries to win people's hearts, and there were all kinds of propaganda wars, which all needed money.

"During the Hongwu period, Taizu often fought the grassland." Zhu Gaoxu began to popularize science at this time.

"In the fifth year of Hongwu, Taizu took Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, and Feng Sheng as commanders, each led 50,000 Ming troops, and divided into three northern expeditions."

As a result, the two roads were defeated, Xu Da was severely injured by Wang Baobao, and suffered the biggest defeat in his military career.

But after this battle, the Ming army concentrated on the whole country's war horses and lost all their vitality.

"If Wang Baobao hadn't died of illness later, I really don't know what would have happened to the grassland in the future."

Zhu Gaoxu said slowly: "My Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty lost troops and lost a huge amount of consumption, lost tens of thousands of soldiers, injured tens of thousands of families, and lost more than 100,000 horses and mules. ”

The generals' faces were serious, and they all vaguely guessed what the emperor meant.

"The grassland must be fought and occupied, but it is not now, it depends on the situation."

"I said something ugly, we have completely defeated them on the grassland, and we can't completely occupy them now, and they will come back in the end."

This time, the generals nodded one after another, and this is the truth.

The grassland is vast and sparsely populated, it is not easy to defend, the Ming Dynasty is very unsuitable for farming civilization, and it is impossible to immigrate there in large numbers, no one wants to go, and it is impossible to adapt to it, and it is impossible to abandon farming to raise cattle and sheep.

"But it's different here." At this time, Zhu Gaoxu turned his hands to Nanyang, Dongben (this book is not called Japan, but Dongben), Goryeo (it is no longer called Goryeo, we still call it in the book), especially Siam, Malaysia, and Malacca, west and south of the city.

"Hit these places, you can use water divisions to transport, save time, effort and money, and these places are similar to our Ming Dynasty, as long as you immigrate, you can not only survive, but also hold."

"What's more, fighting the grassland is a huge consumption, and hitting these places, you can get a steady stream of money and food, population, and even countless little girls."

"Ha" all the generals laughed in unison.

Guo Liang, as a person from Zhu Di's side, this is the first time to participate in such a meeting, and he is actually moved to listen.

He had already talked to Li Bin and Chen Xu, the kingdom of Angkor was small and unbeaten, and the Ming army usually suffered very few casualties and could achieve a huge victory, especially this year, when Saigon Province had built an artillery factory and a shipyard, the Ming army's offensive was even more unstoppable, and the small countries in the South Seas were trembling, competing for tribute, begging for peace.

Going to those places to fight is really profitable and trouble-free.

"Therefore, I have decided that in the next five years, the north will focus on defense, make every effort to capture the South Seas, and with our powerful naval division, we will thoroughly master one of the main passages on the sea, Malacca."

"In the next five years, according to the actual situation of the imperial court, such as population and money and grain reserves, and then consider the attack on Dongben and Goryeo, Ryukyu and other Southeast Asian regions, the first ten years are mainly looting, occupying, as much as possible to bring more silver grain and population to the empire, the plundered population, emigrating to the north, occupying the grassland, building a city in the grassland, consolidating the territory, and then fighting with the Mongols."

Zhu Gaoxu's strategy was very simple, not to go on a northern expedition in the early stage, but to rely on powerful naval divisions and artillery to occupy the countries of the South Seas, and then to fight Xiaodongben and Goryeo, plunder their populations, emigrate to the north, and gradually encroach on the grassland territory.

In this way, he can quickly rely on plundering to accumulate huge wealth in the early stage, which can be used to develop science and technology, and when he is old, or if his descendants can develop cross-era weapons, it will be much easier to fight the grassland.

"Your Majesty." At this time, the generals bowed their heads one after another and bowed to support.

Of these men, Li Bin was the only one who participated in the attack on Nanzhang and Burma, and he witnessed the benefits of the Ming army's plundering abroad.

The so-called Heavenly Empire, the country of ceremonies, has become meaningless under the fruits of plunder.

Li Bin also deeply supported Zhu Gaoxu's approach, and was even more convinced of what Zhu Gaochu said.

"The so-called Heavenly Empire can only be truly realized with artillery and iron cavalry."

At this time, Qu Neng and the others found through the map that unconsciously, at the same time as their rebellion, the Ming army had occupied many places in Nanyang.

In addition to all of the city of Cochin, most of the Angkor Dynasty, and later Singapore and South Sumatra were also under the control of the Ming army, and a small part of Malaysia now belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

Li Bin said that when he entered Nanzhang and Siam at that time, he obviously felt that he was far inferior to the Ming army, but he was going to take the road to fight Mubang in Burma, so he did not occupy it, and if he reorganized his troops and horses, he could completely conquer these territories.

"Here." Zhu Gaoxu pointed to the north at this time: "It's the Nuer Gandu Division that I just established." "Emphasis is placed on the area of the later Kur Island (called Kushima in this book).

This will be quite far from Daming, and everyone will be stunned by Zhu Gaoxu's teleportation.

Just now I said that the north is guarding and fighting the South Seas, why did it move to the north in a blink of an eye?

It was only three years after the original history that Zhu Di established the Nuer Gandu Division.

"Last year, the imperial court received a report that Emperor Yuan Shun's great-grandson Ben Ya lost his name in Tatar and called Khan, this person was ruthless to my Ming Dynasty, and canceled the tribute and trade of previous years, when Zhu Di had sent envoys to the grassland to appease, and he has not returned yet."

All the generals listened quietly, feeling that they couldn't keep up with Zhu Gaoxu's thoughts, one moment they were talking about the South Seas, and the next moment they were going to be the North.

"I estimate that Zhu Di's envoy will not have any effect." After all, Zhu Di later went on the Northern Expedition, and he definitely didn't talk about it.

"Benjamin has just come to power, his position is unstable, let's not anger him for the time being, if we move troops, it will force them to go to the outside world."

Zhu Gaoxu: This is to the point.

After the original history Benjamin came to power, the internal instability, because of the eagerness to establish power, so deliberately angrily beheaded the Ming envoy, sure enough, Zhu Di sent Qiu Fu to the Northern Expedition, and the Tatars immediately united against the Ming court.

This is a typical example of using external wars to unify internal thinking when there is an internal struggle.

After Qiu Fu was defeated, the Tatars immediately split among themselves, and Zhu Di's first northern expedition at this time happened to encounter the Tatar split two, he defeated Benjamin, and Arutai sent tribute to submit.

At that time, the rise of Waramaham, Zhu Di was quite confident in the military strength, and decided to launch a "preventive attack" and marched north again in 1414.

After that, there was nothing to do on the border, and it was not until 1421 that the power of Arutai increased greatly, and it began to provoke the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Di decided to go on the third northern expedition.

So now it's only 1408, the internal instability of Tatar, and the rise of Warat, Zhu Gaochu can temporarily focus on defense and don't take the initiative to cause trouble.

"Ping'an, you are the chief military officer of Liaodong, control the Changchun Metropolitan Division, the Nuer Gandu Division, the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, the General Military Officer's Office is stationed in Changchun, and Changchun City is built."

Ping'an's eyes lit up, and he actually controlled the Sandu Division.

Ming Dynasty Hongwu set up its Tamuwei, Yidong Hewei, Mugu Hewei three guards in Changchun, originally to the end of the Qing Dynasty Changchun to build a city, after the construction of Changchun, the imperial court to the north, also became stronger.

Zhu Gaoxu is going to build a city in Changchun now, let Ping An garrison Changchun, and control the Sandu Division.

The commander of the Changchun capital is Zhao Qing, the command of Nuer Gandu is Yang Lei, and the commander of Liaodong is Wu Qi (son of Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin), and the garrison of the three capital divisions is more than 50,000, which is not as good as a provincial capital division in Guannei, but these places are vast and sparsely populated, and they must be enough for the time being.

Among them, all of them have the advantage of being able to ship by sea.

Zhu Gaoxu said, you take people to build a city, and I will transport the people of the Angkor Dynasty from Nanyang to come.

Zhu Gaoxu did not plan to emigrate from the territory of Daming, because he had to do heavy work when he first arrived.

He had to hand over the people of Toe, Champa and Angkor, the Angkor Dynasty was about 9,000 miles away from Nuer Gansi, nearly 10,000 miles away, and it took more than three or four months to sail on the sea with a tailwind, but fortunately, it could be replenished everywhere in Daming along the way, which could reduce casualties.

"The soldiers and horses of the Sandu Division will be transferred to the Hebei (Beiping) Division, and the northern soldiers will adapt to the weather over there, and the Shandong Metropolitan Division will fill the Hebei Division, and then the Beijing Battalion will fill the Shandong Division."

Zhu Gaoxu's first step in the future is to vigorously dismantle the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp, and then disarm them.

When Zhu Di was there, the Beijing camp had a total of 70 guards and more than 300,000 troops, which was very swollen.

He planned to only put 20 guards in the Beijing division, about 100,000 troops, and send out the rest of the whole part.

"Ping'an, when you go to the north, grasp the tuntian, raise cattle and sheep in captivity, strive for self-sufficiency, and then go all out to build a new city, and the imperial court will also support it by sea."

Zhu Gaoxu took them to a table next to them, with paper maps, which they would hand over to Ping'an to take away after the meeting.

"This is called Phi Island, northwest is the Yalu River, the river should be built acropolis, set up a port, the imperial court sailors can go directly, transportation supplies and immigrants are more convenient."

"I will only let you stay for five years, and you will come back after five years, in these five years, you will build a new Changchun City, expand Shenyang City, and build a new -—— Pijiang City-——, is there any problem."

Ping An immediately shouted: "As long as there is the support of the imperial court, there must be no problem." ”

Sheng Yong couldn't help but glance at him, peace is always able to speak, and it is easy to offend people.

"I will immigrate you at least 100,000 in five years."

"That's fine." Ping An smiled.

From Liaodong to Angkor, a round trip is about half a year or more, and it can be seven or eight times back and forth in five years, and with the loading capacity of the current sailors of the Ming Dynasty, it can transport 100,000 people at a time.

But considering that the population of Angkor is not so easy to gather 100,000 people in a short period of time, and it is impossible to send so many ships at the same time, Zhu Gaoxu still said that he would immigrate 100,000 people in five years.

"Put it in advance of yours, and before you send it out, I will talk to you in detail." Zhu Gaoxu got rid of what Liaodong and Nu'er were doing, and returned to the big map of the sand table.

He came to a long overseas place and pointed to it: "This is the newly established Dayuan Cheng Xuan Envoy, Dayuan Province. ”

(End of chapter)