Chapter 425

Li Zhixiang quickly drew up a recital: "Minister, Li Zhixiang has received a report that in recent days, the Japanese have harassed the coastal towns of Shandong, killed and injured many fishermen, and the methods are cruel and the crime is extremely evil, please allow the minister to cross the sea again to attack Xiaori, and punish the big ......."

This matter was immediately put by Cheng Shijie at a cabinet meeting for discussion.

Even if Sun Zhili didn't think about it with his head, he knew that it was nonsense for the Japanese to attack the coastal areas of Shandong, but the problem was that Sun Zhili had not had time to express his opinion, and immediately received reports from Liaodong and North Korea, and the incident was almost the same as what Li Zhixiang reported.

"The Japanese invaded Korea and the coastal islands frequently, killing and plundering very badly, it is really unbearable, and I ask the country to send troops to attack Japan, so that the small days will stop a little!"

Probably because he felt that the report was not weighty, the king of Joseon, Yi Liang, personally arrived in Beijing, came to the cabinet meeting, and cried with tears and noses, saying that the Japanese invaders ran to them to kill people and set fires, and made North Korea miserable, and you must be the master of the Heavenly Empire and help me kill those dwarves.

Of course, everyone is not stupid, especially the cabinet members, they simply believe that the Japanese dare to go to Daming to kill people and set fires, if it was ten years ago, even six years ago, the Japanese would have the courage and the ability, but now it is different, they really don't dare.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie, the regent of the Ming Dynasty, faced this situation, and directly issued an order: "Shen Mingyu, the governor of Annan, is in command, and the Admiralty dispatches the Fourth Fleet to join the Second Fleet to cooperate with the Governor of Annan to conquer Xiaori and punish Xiaori!" ”

However, as soon as this order was issued, Yuan Zongdi asked Cheng Shijie to fight.

This guy is from a rogue background, and he has a fanatical interest in burning, killing and looting, but the problem is that after being adapted by the Ning Navy, he became the Ming Royal Army again, although it is the Ming Royal Army, the Ning Navy that changed the military name is still the Ning Navy, and the military discipline is just a change of name.

Yuan Zongdi didn't dare to violate military discipline, how interesting it was to go to the territory of Xiaori to kill people and set fires, he proposed that 8,000 labor prisoners could be selected from the labor camp and follow Shen Dadu Governor to go on the expedition.

Cheng Shijie thought for a moment and agreed to Yuan Zongdi's application.

Shen Mingyu received the order and was overjoyed, because he cuckolded Emperor Chongzhen, Shen Mingyu was actually very scared, and during this time, he was really afraid that Cheng Shijie would order him to wash his neck and wait for death. However, the problem is that the order to wash the neck and wait for death did not wait, but waited for the order to conquer the small day.

Shen Mingyu immediately ordered the Annan Legion of the Governor's Mansion of Annan, in order to show fairness, this kind of good thing of making a fortune did not transfer a brigade as a whole, but transferred a regiment to each of the Annan Legions, a total of more than 12,000 people, Shen Mingyu has not set off here, Yuan Zongdi took men and horses to join it, a total of 20,000 horses, divided into more than 200 ships, and went straight to the small day, killing people, setting fires, and catching strong men.

This time, Shen Mingyu only brought thirty-six three-inch guns, as for the four-inch guns and five-inch guns, he didn't carry them at all, in his eyes, Xiao Ri should not have the ability and courage to fight with the Ming army in the field now. Although it did not carry heavy artillery, it carried more than 3,800 rocket launchers.

Presumably, these rocket launchers are large enough to drink a pot on a small day.

The army of the Ming Dynasty was actually not a consuming department or a burden to the country during the founding of the country, but a pillar of the country.

Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the guard system, in the spare time, for the war, not only do not need the state to bear the money and grain, but can provide food for the country, the Ming Dynasty guard army occupied the highest period of up to 420 million mu, equivalent to a quarter of the Ming Dynasty.

However, with the passage of time, the population of military households is increasing, and the taxes are getting heavier and heavier, coupled with the use of power by gentry officials, they have encroached on the military land of the guard, based on the original Dengzhou Wei to calculate, at the beginning of the establishment of Dengzhou Wei, a guard soldier can have an average of more than 150 acres of land, to Cheng Shijie accepted Zuo Qianhu, Dengzhou Wei has less than six acres of cultivated land per capita, in addition to the increase in population, there is a large amount of land has been occupied, and military households have also become a burden on the Ming Dynasty.

But Cheng Shijie is different, he feeds a large number of troops, and these armies can make money, of course, this money is made through the means of war.

Now the Ming Dynasty has suffered a lot of losses because of the plague, and as long as the vegetables, grains, and meat have been eaten by rats, they can no longer be eaten, nor can they be used as feed, but can only be destroyed, causing huge losses.

In particular, in the rat hunting operation, 20 to 30 million people caught rats in the entire Beizhili, Liaoning, Liaodong, Shandong, and Henan, and a large amount of food and money was consumed every day, and the consumption of medicine was extremely fast.

In this case, the losses of the Ming Dynasty can only be transferred by means of war.

In addition to letting Shen Mingyu attack Xiaori, of course, in fact, Xiaori is very poor now, and there is not much food, but Xiaori has silver, and Cheng Shijie is ready to use the silver in Xiaori to smash the grain market in Jiangnan to collapse.

As for the food that Daming needed, it was mobilized from Dayuan and Luzon, but Luzon was too small and the food was limited, Liu Qingsong found that he couldn't gather enough food at all, so in order to complete the task, he had to set his sights on the southern monkey country across the sea.

This is tantamount to doing the work that Shen Mingyu will do in the future, and the Luzon army has also mobilized more than 23,000 troops, these strong soldiers who can be experienced with the Luzon monkey brush have sufficient experience in jungles and tropical environments.

More than 23,000 Luzon troops viciously slaughtered to Nan'an, they directly went upstream from the Red River, directly attacked Thang Long City, more than 20 Sea Wolf-class warships, more than 200 naval guns, more than 100 six-mounted rocket artillery, fired fierce artillery fire at Thang Long City, opened the prelude to the attack on Thang Long City, and the entire Thang Long City trembled in the roar of the god of war.

Cannonballs smashed into the fortifications of the Southern Monkey Army like hailstones, the city was full of fire inside and outside the city, the city wall cracked in the loud explosion, the camp became a sea of fire, and the Southern Monkey Army defending the city was full of fear, shouting and shouting, running wildly.

The rocket artillery also let out a terrible whistling sound, and the rocket artillery shells were fired in a group of more than a hundred, wave after wave burst up in the smoke and flame eruption, pulling out a dazzling arc and plunging headlong into Thang Long City, followed by a violent and dense terrifying roar like a thunderstorm, the houses were razed to the ground, and the trees were either uprooted or the canopy was on fire, turning into a large torch.

For the Southern Monkey Army, these rocket artillery are even more terrifying than naval artillery, no matter how powerful the naval artillery shells are, they are only a point, but this thing is a large piece, even if it is not killed on the spot, it will be burned to ashes by the fire caused by the explosion!

The bamboo-and-wood houses in Thang Long City were ignited in an instant, and all of them became a sea of fire, and I don't know how many soldiers and civilians in Thang Long City were trapped in the fire, shouting and wailing in despair.

After only half an hour of shelling, Thang Long City suffered heavy losses.

At this time, Li Weiqi, the Southern Monkey Emperor, finally reacted and sent envoys to ask the Luzon army why they were fighting them.

Liu Qingsong said that it was the southern monkey fishermen who attacked the Luzon fishermen, and they came to Xingshi to ask for the guilt.

Li Weiqi didn't know if it was true or not, but it didn't matter if it was true or not, he had to think about the aftermath, and when he saw that the Luzon Army had such a strong combat effectiveness, he suddenly had an idea.

The current Southern Monkey is the third war period of Zheng Ruan's battle, and the Zheng clan, supported by the Dutch artillery, almost broke through Thang Long City, and in the face of the aggressive Zheng clan, they only have the ability to parry, but have no power to fight back.

The intervention of the Luzon army gave him hope of defeating the Zheng clan.

In the negotiations between the two sides, Liu Qingsong didn't care about the cattiness between them at all, he wanted food.

After learning that Liu Qingsong wanted food, Li Weiqi breathed a sigh of relief.

If you want to talk about gold and silver, he really doesn't have too much in his hands, and some of them are also offered to Buddhism, but food is not a precious thing at all in Nanhou, and there is no need to plant anything, just like cutting leeks, the rice is ripe, go to the ground to cut, and the remaining rice is seeds, which can mature in two or three months.

If the people of the Ming Dynasty knew that the southern monkeys were farming like this, they would probably cry to death in the toilet, they were tired and tired, and it was difficult to eat a full meal all year round, but the southern monkeys guarded such fertile soil, they didn't need to farm at all, and their environment here was better than Luzon.

So, Li Weiqi hoped to be a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, and with the help of the Ming Dynasty, he would fight against the anti-thief Zheng family, Liu Qingsong naturally could not be the master of this matter, but it did not prevent him from blackmailing the southern monkey.

Liu Qingsong proposed to introduce their envoys to Li Weiqi, so the Li Dynasty was responsible for providing three million stone grain, and they would raise the three million stone grain.

Liu Qingsong easily completed the task assigned by Cheng Shijie.

At this time, the Tokugawa shogunate, who was robbed by the Ming army once and couldn't take revenge, was pleasantly surprised to find that the Ming army had fought again, and this time they had a chance to take revenge! Of course, there was only a chance for revenge, and they soon found out that they had a chance to take revenge, but there was no hope of success......

In the face of the powerful Ming army, the Japanese army had almost no hope of successful revenge. The Ming Royal Army and the Ming Royal Navy were already well-equipped, disciplined, and tactically far ahead of any opponent, after a major war that almost wiped out the country, the Ming Dynasty carried out a comprehensive reform, and military reform was listed as the first priority.

All the constraints imposed on the army by Wenchen in the past have now been swept away, and the new army of the Ming Dynasty has regained its freedom, and can roar and pounce on any prey they fancies.

And when Wenchen was restrained, the new army of the Ming Dynasty fought all over the world invincible, and now these constraints are gone, who else is their opponent?

Not to mention those Japanese dwarves, even if they gradually became stronger after the Renaissance and gradually led Europe in equipment and tactics in Asia, they were far from their opponents. When the Ming army landed in the coastal city of Xiaori, the daimyo of Xiaori soon discovered that they seemed to have no other choice but to be slaughtered and escape.

What Liu Qingsong didn't expect was that when he had just received hundreds of thousands of stones of grain from the Nanhou Ruan clan and was about to mobilize more ships to transport grain, Zheng Jie, the lord of Zheng, sent someone to contact Liu Qingsong, saying that they Zheng were also willing to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and obtain the support of the Ming Dynasty.

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River, Mozhou.

This is the most serious epidemic area after the capital, the capital is good to say, because it has received the greatest attention, the first time to start cleaning up the rodent infestation, especially the government to the people to exchange the plague contaminated food, and it is the same quality, will not let the people suffer, in this case, the source of infection of the rodent infestation has been well controlled.

Because this time is not the most serious time, it is easy to manage, but Mozhou, located in Hajian Province, has become the largest epidemic area.

The original war did not affect Mozhou in Hejian, so there were many fugitives from Shuntianfu and Yongpingfu, and the large number of people here, coupled with the lack of attention to hygiene, created a good environment for the breeding of rats.

On April 14 of the first year of Dingxin, Cheng Shijie arrived in Mozhou.

"Meet the King!"

"Qingyun, hard work!"

Cheng Shijie is about to walk towards the epidemic area.

However, Yang Qingyun blocked Cheng Shijie and said, "Your Majesty, you can't go over!" ”

Yang Qingyun's attitude was very resolute.

"Qingyun, you should know that the source of the plague is rats!"

"But it can't be ruled out!"

Yang Qingyun said: "There are more than 6,000 patients here, including more than 1,600 severe patients!" ”

"How many people have died?"

"There are more than 400 people!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "This thing is troublesome!" ”

There is no way, Cheng Shijie was blocked out of the epidemic area by the ministers, if Cheng Shijie insisted on going, they would die, Cheng Shijie also knew that he was actually in the past, and he couldn't do anything, he was not a doctor, nor was he an epidemic prevention expert.

When he returned to the capital, Cheng Shijie wanted to hold a meeting, and this time the plague also exposed the current problems in the Ming Dynasty, there were too few doctors, and some counties even had only three or four doctors, and these doctors also included barefoot doctors or bruisers.

Cheng Shijie pondered whether to take out the barefoot doctor's manual for later generations, and at this time, Hou Shi came in with a basket and uncovered the cloth covering it, revealing a pile of swarthy, metallic stones.

Cheng Shijie is too familiar with this kind of thing, Hangang Group is a professional in steelmaking, Sun Zhili picked up one, only to feel that it was heavy, and the two stones touched and clanked.

Sun Zhili exclaimed in surprise: "This is pig iron!?" ”

"You guessed it, pig iron. However, it was not smelted in a blast furnace, but picked up in the mine. ”

Cheng Shijie suddenly remembered that he had sent an expedition team to find Australia before.

"Could it be that the expedition has returned?"

"Some of them came back, fifteen expedition ships to be exact, and only three came back, and twelve of them encountered a storm!"

Cheng Shijie was speechless, and the risk of immature shipping routes is really much greater than that of future generations. However, he did not dispel this situation.

Daming is not short of iron, but it lacks refined iron.

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "We have always boasted of being rich in land and abundant in resources, but let's go out and take a look, people's iron ore slag is much stronger than our selected mineral sands, what qualifications do we have to boast of being rich in resources!" The rotten land that people dislike is a hundred times stronger than the agricultural reclamation area that we carefully manage, what right do we have to be complacent! If you don't take advantage of the fact that the population of Xiyi is still small, and you don't want those good places to grab those territories, will you have to wait until they have made up their minds to develop overseas territories before they fight? ”

Sun Zhili looked at the ore in his hand, which was similar to pig iron, and his eyes were glowing with green.

(End of chapter)