The crowd looked at each other, and someone shouted: "This big man is not small, is there no kingdom in the land of the sea?" ”

"No, there are only local people on it now, let's occupy it first, it's our Ming." Zhu Gaoxu said: "The above is rich in products, there are many minerals, and there are several plains that can be planted with grain fields, and they are lonely overseas, which is conducive to defense, with our Ming Sailor is invincible in the world, as long as my descendants do not close the country, for hundreds of years, they will be at ease." ”

"Special mother, this kind of place should have been occupied a long time ago, what's the use of breaking the grassland." Ping An immediately shouted.

Ping An usually speaks very aggressively, and it is easy to offend people, but in fact, he is not stupid, what is the use of this screaming to break the grassland, while looking around.

The generals immediately coaxed, what Your Majesty is wise, what is the use of breaking the grassland, and there are countless casualties if the division mobilizes the people to win.

It's still a good guy.

Several generals suddenly began to pat each other, and Zhu Gaoxu was funny and angry.

He continued, Li Yuan was the commander-in-chief of the East China Sea, and controlled Guangdong, Fujian, and Dayuan.

The five guards of the major capital division were all transferred by the Yunnan capital division.

When Zhu Gaoxu was the king of the Han Dynasty, the soldiers and horses in Yunnan exceeded the standard, and now he canonized two kings, many of Yunnan's guards have been transferred back, there are more mountainous areas in Yunnan, and there are many Tusi soldiers who do not go back with the imperial court, and the central part of the army is also mountainous, and the local natives, many of whom are hidden in the mountains, are very suitable.

"I'll give you ten years." Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice: "I must build at least three big cities for me, and I will build a million tuntian." ”

"Within ten years, I will immigrate 300,000 for you."

"Obey." Li Yuan immediately said.

Where the specific city is built and how to operate it, Zhu Gaoxu will talk to him separately when the time comes.

Then point in the direction of the cochin.

The Imperial Court had already set up the Cochin Cheng Xuan Envoy Division, and now the Saigon Bu Envoy Division, which encircled Champa and a small part of the Angkor Dynasty, plus the Malacca Peninsula (including Singapore) that had not yet been conquered on the other side.

The Old Port Envoy was also established, which included all the Sumatra archipelago and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago that had not yet been conquered.

At this time, the Ming court had already built a port in Saigon, and the sailors went to the opposite Malacca Dynasty, which was only more than a thousand miles, and if the wind was favorable, it would be possible to reach it in three or four days.

"Qu Neng, you can go to Saigon." Zhu Gaoxu said: "As the chief military officer of Zhennan, he controls the three capital divisions of Cochin, Saigon, and Jiugang (Sumatra). ”

Saying this, Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Zhang Fu: "Please General Zhang go to the old port and be the commander of the old port capital." Zhennan right lieutenant general. ”

On the Indonesian Peninsula in later generations, Zhu Gaoxu only occupied South Sumatra, and still needed to fight to the north, east and south.

Therefore, Zhang Fu was appointed as the deputy general of Zhennan and was responsible for the conquest of North Sumatra.

Qu Neng was in charge of the Malacca dynasty and seized the Straits of Malacca.

Li Bin was the left deputy general of Zhennan, the commander of Jiaozhi, and continued to lead troops to conquer Nanzhangguo and Siam.

Zhu Gaoxu planned to recuperate at home and plunder everywhere abroad.

"Fighting a war abroad, you can use war to feed the war, plunder the local area for supplies, don't talk about any morality and righteousness, as long as it is for victory and wealth, our Ming army, you can do anything, you are thousands of miles away, you will be disobeyed by the foreign monarch's orders, any decision, you have to rely on yourself, do not need to report to the capital division for everything."

"Artillery, fire oil bombs, use them if they can, reduce the casualties of the Ming army, and don't be polite to the enemy."

"All the valuable things are snatched back, and a large number of people are also what we need now."

"Every three years, I will rotate a soldier for you."

Zhu Gaoxu's last words still won the hearts of the people.

The generals are all very agreeable.

You see that when Zheng He met someone else and wanted to send 50,000 taels of gold, he didn't dare to make a decision, and he had to repay the court, and it took more than half a year to come and go.

Now Zhu Gaoxu gives them great autonomy, in short, he desperately grabs it for Lao Tzu.

Grab money, grab population, occupy territory.

In addition, Guo Liang was the chief military officer of Xuanfu, and controlled the two divisions of Daning and Hebei, mainly to defend the north and defend the grassland.

Guo Liang's kung fu in defending the city is first-class, and he has served in the north for a long time, and he is quite competent.

Sheng Yong was the chief military officer of the Yellow Sea, and controlled the capital of Zhejiang, Shandong, and Jiangnan provinces.

"You go to Huai'an to train and prepare, build more firearms, and next year depends on the situation, I want to go and occupy Jeju Island first, and prepare for fighting Goryeo, Dongben, and Ryukyu in a few years."

Sheng Yong took the order.

After listening to this, the generals found that the emperor had fought in many places, in addition to the northern guard, the Nanyang region, and at the same time to fight the Nanzhang, Siam, Malacca dynasties, etc., plus Jeju Island.

It sounds like a reckless military force, but as the emperor said, all the battlefields are overseas and abroad, and it is possible to feed the war with war.

The Ming Dynasty did not have long supply lines to maintain, and was able to support all kinds of soldiers and horses locally, and almost all of them could use the Mariners.

This greatly reduces the cost of human and material resources.

"Sounds like another military force." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "In fact, even if the Nanyang lands start a war at the same time, it will not take 150,000 people, and with the support of a strong sailor, it will be easier to win, but it will take more power to rebuild and plunder after the war." ”

"Tell all the soldiers that the wealth plundered in this battle is 20% and can be distributed to all the participating soldiers."

"Your Majesty." All the generals bowed in unison.

Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne for less than a year, and he took a break for about half a year.

The state apparatus of the Ming Dynasty was in a roar, and the pace of foreign conquest and plunder officially began.

Beginning in March of the first year of Hongxi, a group of Beijing battalions left the capital, and the families of the military remnants also left, until August of the first year of Hongxi.

Zhu Gaoxu mobilized about 150,000 soldiers and horses this time, and in addition to replacing the soldiers and horses of the guards in other places, there were about 200,000 Beijing battalions to leave the provinces near the capital, and all the family members went along, and the total number of about 6,700,000 people would leave Jiangnan Province one after another in the next year.

Part of them will replace the Northern Guard Station of Nuergan and Changchun Dusi, and part of it will replace the Yunnan Guard Station of Dayuan, because it is not a war, but a normal change of station, everyone is very happy and interested.

After these 6,700,000 people left in batches, the surrounding areas of Jingshi were instantly empty, and the surrounding provinces of Yingtianfu would vacate a lot of places in a year, and the population of the entire Jiangnan Province would also be partially reduced.

The population near Jingshi has plummeted, which is also a great pressure on bad luck, and more ships can be used for foreign plunder.

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August of the first year of Hongxi.

At the same time that Zhu Gaoxu officially began to expand overseas, an incomparably large fleet slowly appeared in the waters east of the Indian Ocean and south of East Timor in later generations.

This fleet had more than 500 large and small ships, twice the size of Zheng He's first voyage to the Western Ocean, of which about 150 were treasure ships of more than 1,000 materials.

In December of the ninth year of Jianwen, Zhu Gaoxu broke through Beiping, and then transported Zhu Di and his people to Beijing, and then took a group of Zhu Di's comrades in Beijing, and then along the coastal road, through Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Jiaozhi, and Saigon, to the old port, and then along the old port to the east, through Majapahit, to Guli Dibo (now East Timor).

This was originally Zheng He's third voyage to the West, and Zheng He's third trip to the West in history also reached Guli.

At this time, it was Zheng He's second trip to the West, accompanied by the former pirates, Chen Zuyi, the commander of the current Fuzhou Donghaiwei (because Suzhou also has Zhenhaiwei, Zhu Gaoxu changed his name to Donghaiwei), and Fang Yanping, the commander of the avant-garde in the old port.

The entire fleet had more than 40,000 people, which was twice as large as Zheng He's first voyage to the West.

Fang Yanping, the avant-garde commander of the old port, waited for them in the old port, and then accompanied them to Guli, and then continued to the southeast according to the instructions of Emperor Zhu Gaoxu.

They set out from the Old Port and spent about twenty-five days at sea, and at the end of August, they finally saw the future Australia.

In the middle, they once landed in the Majapahit Kingdom, and Fang Yanping brought the edict of the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and on behalf of the emperor, he angrily reprimanded the previous emperor Zhu Di for extorting 200,000 gold from the two kings of the east and west of the Majapahit Kingdom.

One of the two kings of the east and west of Majapahit, 'Vikalama Vahana', who was in the upper hand in the civil war, he had sent a tribute in the second year of Yongle, and when the envoy returned, Zhu Gaoxu sent someone to blackmail him in the name of Emperor Zhu Di, who was quite depressed at that time and had a lot of opinions about Zhu Di.

This time, when he heard that Zhu Di was finished, he happily received the envoy and gave him another 5,000 taels of gold.

After Fang Yanping and Chen Zuyi saw it, they both smiled knowingly, and felt that His Majesty would definitely be very happy when he found out.

But they will not have time to control the Majapahit, after all, the Majapahit is still in the civil war, and if the Ming army fights them now, they will definitely end the civil war and unite with the outside world.

Therefore, Chen Zuyi and Fang Yanping continued to the east, first to Guli Dibo, and then to the southeast, and finally accurately found the Tai O that His Majesty the Emperor was referring to.

The location of their landing was probably near what would be later Darwin.

Darwin is the capital of the Northern Territory of Tai O, located on the northwest coast of Australia, and was a more famous tourist city in later generations. The city was named after the British biologist Charles Robert Darwin who visited the city in 1839. It was originally inhabited by indigenous people, and it developed rapidly after the discovery of gold mines in the 70s of the 19th century.

When Zhu Gaoxu asked Chen Zuyi to come over, he drew a brief topographic map from memory, but the location could only be drawn approximately, because he really did not know Darwin's exact location.

He only knew that the city of Darwin was southeast of Gulidi, and he didn't know that there was a lot of gold in the area, he only knew that there was gold in Australia.

After Chen Zuyi and Fang Yanping converged, they first went to Guli Dibo, and then walked in the southeast direction.

At first, it deviated more than 100 miles, and finally saw the land horizon a hundred miles southwest of Darwin.

But the emperor said that there were islands in the northern part of the local continent.

Chen Zuyi sent a boat to the north to find it, and it took several days before and after to finally find an island, which should be less than twenty or thirty miles away from the position error of Darwin in the later generations.

Chen Zuyi was very excited, they set out from Beijing, and after more than eight months, except that the supplies had been at sea, they found Australia.

Zhu Di was wearing an ordinary Ming army dark cloth armor, standing behind them, looking at the Australian coastline in the distance in a daze.

He thought sadly, "What the hell is this place? "It took nearly a year to arrive by boat, can I go back to Daming in the future?