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Chapter 629 Mixing up
"Well, that's good. I didn't teach you in vain. I hope I still have this intention ten years later. Tell me what difficulties and needs you have. If I can solve it, I will solve it immediately. If I can't solve it, I will find a solution."

Wang Datou's words spoke to Hong Tao's heart, which was sweeter than drinking honey. If you are not a time traveler, if you meet such a subordinate, you must treat him as a confidant and take more care of him.

This is also the fundamental reason why many emperors in ancient times had a favorite around them. Their values ​​were similar and they made sense, so they would naturally get together. If there is another similar hobby, the sense of trust must grow day by day.

"The manpower of the students is somewhat insufficient, and relying solely on the local Chinese and Portuguese businessmen is not enough." Wang Datou continued his simplicity, and asked questions to be raised without any hesitation.

"Go to the Kaito Division and select no more than ten people. Don't be in a hurry to produce results. I won't have the energy to trouble the Dutch for a while. Develop slowly and lay a solid foundation. Only by accumulation can you make progress."

Hong Tao didn't say anything, he asked for people and money...nothing! They are all intelligence organizations directly under the emperor, but they are unable to obtain activity funds through legitimate means and still have the nerve to ask for them. This is a huge dereliction of duty!

What did Wang Datou do to win consecutive awards? Speaking of which, Hong Tao was trembling in his heart when he saw the contents in the notebook. This thief was so bold that he bribed the captain of a Portuguese merchant ship, hauled a shipload of sugar from Guangzhou, and headed to Batavia, the stronghold of the Dutch East India Company.

He made a lot of money in the local area by relying on the in-demand goods, and lived in the city for a month. He mingled with the local Dutch captains, sailors, soldiers, and officers all day long. He established a good foundation and gained a lot. First-hand information.

Didn’t it mean that the Dutch were in hostile relations with the Portuguese and Spanish? Yes, the United Provinces of the Netherlands are currently at war with the Kingdom of Spain. Since Portugal is also ruled by the Kingdom of Spain, it will naturally follow suit.

But the Dutch are really different in terms of doing business. They don't care who is at war with whom. That is the government's business. As long as the business can be negotiated and profitable, let alone the Portuguese, even the Spaniards can still close the deal. Of course, the premise is that the laws of the Federal Republic of the Netherlands cannot be violated.

Why did the Japanese shogunate expel most of the Western merchants, but only allowed Dutch merchant ships to enter the port for trading and limited residence ashore? It’s also because of the purity of their business. Dutch businessmen want nothing but profits and are very dedicated. Unlike businessmen from other European countries, there are more or less other motives involved.

Is the information obtained by Wang Datou useful? It's so useful. Hong Tao is worried that he doesn't have time to collect this information. Don't count on the diplomats of the Ming Dynasty. Jinyiwei and Dongchang also lack talents in this field. The General Staff has just established an agency in Manila City, and the water far away cannot quench the thirst of the near.

But this does not mean that Hong Tao will march towards Batavia again. Even if the Dutch voluntarily surrender and give up all the Spice Islands, the Ming Navy will not have that many manpower to manage them. If you don't manage or control, what's the point of beating it down in a hurry?

With Luzon Island in its hands and its tight control over southern Vietnam, the South China Sea is like having two gates on the left and right, which can be closed or opened as it pleases. Anyone who wants to come in must say hello and look at their faces. The threat from the south has basically been eliminated.

Coupled with the defeat of the Jurchens, the Ming Dynasty cooperated with the Mongolian ministries in the northeast to open a market in Jinzhou City, and the threat from the northeast was significantly alleviated.

Next, we must turn our focus to the country, further develop and consolidate the New Deal, organize our bodies, gather enough energy, and then completely resolve the threat from the north.

Yes, in Hong Tao's mind, the Europeans in Southeast Asia, the Jurchens in Liaodong, and North Korea and Japan in the east are not the main enemies. In addition to domestic opposition forces, the greatest influence on the Ming Dynasty was the nomadic tribes entrenched on the Mongolian plateau. As long as they existed, the Ming Dynasty would have to deploy hundreds of thousands of troops for passive defense at borders thousands of miles away. Neighboring states and counties were unable to develop agriculture and industry because they could not determine the future situation, resulting in considerable losses.

As a result, it not only costs a lot of money to raise the army and maintain the border, but also requires blood transfusions from the southern provinces to the border areas. It is simply a bottomless pit. The reason is simply because there is a group of very unstable ethnic groups living in the north. Which one is more important and which one is less important is clear at a glance.

Hong Tao planned to launch a general offensive to the north within five years. This battle does not require occupying much land. The land on the Mongolian Plateau is of little use to the Han people. If they occupy it, they will have to send more people to guard it, which is not worth it.

The strategic goal is to eliminate the active forces and set up three to five permanent fortresses, so that most of the Monan Mongolian right wing can no longer live a normal grazing life, and force them to move further north and west.

Of course, if the Mongolian tribes are willing to submit, they can. However, the conditions given by Hong Tao are relatively harsh, and it is estimated that no Mongolian leader will agree easily. Two words, inward migration!
In Hong Tao's plan, there is no term for ethnic minorities in the Ming Dynasty. There are only Ming Dynasty people in the Ming Dynasty. They are not allowed to distinguish who is what ethnic group, let alone engage in any kind of community autonomy. If you are willing to become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, then obediently forget everything before and integrate completely. If you don’t want to be a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, we won’t force you.

But how can I allow others to sleep peacefully on the side of the bed? I'm sorry, but I can't sleep if you are too close. I get very angry when I can't sleep. Didn't the ancients say that an emperor would kill millions of people in anger? We are not bloodthirsty, we have been taught bad things by the ancients. We cannot be considered angry unless we kill millions.

Is Hong Tao a populist? No, he doesn't have any doctrine at all. If he had to have one, it would be more like pragmatism. Whether they kill people or drive them away, it has nothing to do with whether they are Han or not. If the Mongolian Plateau is occupied by the Han people and they don't obey orders, they will still kill millions of people.

Lazy, this is his only belief. There is no need to do half of something that can be done in one go to save trouble and be safe. In order to avoid having to deal with it again decades or hundreds of years later, we must do our best when we have the ability to completely solve the problem.

As for how future generations will evaluate it, it depends on the rhetorical skills and spring and autumn brushwork of the academicians in the Hanlin Academy. In fact, future generations are not qualified to evaluate. They cannot see the facts and can only guess the truth from the words of their ancestors.

Everything else Hong Tao does is second-hand, except for making up lies just by opening his mouth. If given the chance, he would like to wipe out all the history of the world, and then gather together a team of intellectuals from various countries to write three new sets of history books.

Put one thing in Europe, another thing in the Middle East and Central Asia, and another thing in East Asia, each learning his own thing. Hundreds or thousands of years later, when transportation and communication methods can make it easier for people on the earth to communicate, the scene will be interesting.

Europeans say that humans evolved from monkeys, and there is evidence and theory, and they have learned this since childhood; people in the Middle East and Central Asia say, stop talking nonsense, humans evolved from ants, and there is also evidence and theory, and they have learned this since childhood; people in Ming Dynasty listen He smiled slightly, people fell from the sky, we also have evidence and theories...

archeology? Just a quick guess, in the future, the inscription on Ming Dynasty porcelain will be written as "for microwave ovens", the bases of buildings will all be engraved with "Sun Wukong's visit here", and the title pages of books will have QR codes printed on them. I'll let you dig it out. It's better not to dig it out, but it will be even more confusing if you dig it out.

(End of this chapter)