Daming: Refining zombies at the beginning, Lao Zhu was shocked

Chapter 287 Chapter 287: The Ming Dynasty attacks Japan, and the small countries in Southeast Asia are anxious!
According to the original plan, Zhu Yuanzhang planned to wait for Zhu Xia Feng to conquer Japan, and then arrange for Zhu Xia Feng to go north to Mobei to complete his great cause of unification!

In the next step, the Ming Dynasty Navy will launch troops in Nanyang and knock down all these areas near the South China Sea!

And Zhu Di had long wanted to conquer Nanyang as a fiefdom for himself, so it was most appropriate to send him there!

More importantly, after conquering Nanyang, Zhu Yuanzhang will consider the Zen throne. He wants to pass the throne to Zhu Yue, so moving the capital must also be put on the agenda!

After all, moving the capital to Peiping would definitely be done after Zhu Yue came to power and became emperor.

But there is still a palace to be built in Beiping. This is a big project and it will definitely not be completed in just a few years!
Even with the Ming Dynasty's current infrastructure capabilities, it would take at least three years to build a palace complex on the scale of the Forbidden City, and a lot of manpower, material and financial resources would also have to be invested!

However, since the Central Plains area and Beiping Prefecture will soon be connected by train, many problems will be solved!

Material transportation will no longer be a big problem, which can greatly shorten the construction time of the imperial city, and will also make it easier to move the capital in the future!
As long as the train is open to traffic, it will only take three or four days from Xi'an to Beiping!

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang could not wait until the Beiping Palace was built before giving the throne to Zhu Yue. Before that, he would definitely have to pass on the throne!
According to his plan, that is within three years, so the issue of moving the capital is also imminent!
"Speaking of Nanyang, these small countries in Nanyang are not living in peace these days!"

When Zhu Yue heard this, she changed the subject.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed even more.

It was mainly caused by the Ming Dynasty's eastward journey and attack on Japan!
The so-called rabbit dies and the fox is sad, the national power of Japan can be regarded as the most powerful representative among these island countries!
It can be said that during the Ming Dynasty, the influence of Japan was able to spread from the mainland of Japan to the entire East China Sea and the northern part of the South China Sea!
Therefore, after learning that the Ming Dynasty was attacking Japan, those countries in Southeast Asia naturally started to panic!
Less than three months after the war with Japan began, the envoys sent to Ming Dynasty by these countries in Southeast Asia have changed one after another. Without exception, they are all here to express their loyalty and want to speak for their country. Nice words!

"Then let them bleed more. Let them vomit back double what was given to them in previous years!"

"Don't these foreign countries want to pay tribute and be vassals?"

"Isn't that just right? The Ming Dynasty Navy has destroyed Japan, so we can turn the ship around and destroy them!"

"When did you learn to be so insidious?"

"What if someone can't take it out, or is unwilling to part with it?"

It can only be said that the father and son have reached a consensus on this issue, which means one is more insidious than the other!
However, Zhu Xiaqiu was directly responsible for taking the blame!

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he snorted disapprovingly.

"I think it's okay. Say hello to Qiu'er later and let him whet the appetite of these small foreign countries. We also want to see who can't help it and jumps out first!"

"When Ming's fists are strong, his words will naturally have weight, and the rules can be changed!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Yue's sinister look and couldn't help but be speechless.

To put it bluntly, these small foreign countries ostensibly surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and donated a few things every year. In fact, the things they brought back were more and more valuable than what they brought!

Because none of them were sure whether the Ming Dynasty would turn around and head straight to their door after it finished conquering Japan!
"Hmph, how could these foreign countries ever really regard the Ming Dynasty as their suzerain country?"

Zhu Yue immediately laughed.

"The situation is just pressing!"

"I'm worried that there is no reason to directly attack them!"

Zhu Yue sneered disapprovingly.

Isn't it clear that the goods are coming in?
Now think about it, how many benefits have been given to these small foreign countries in order to maintain the image of the Great Tomorrow State over the years?
I really can't think about it. Thinking about it makes Zhu Yuanzhang feel like he's in pain!

"They say they pay tribute every year and become ministers every year. But every year the Ming court rewards them with more things than they pay tribute!"

Just for the sake of the face of working in the Ming Dynasty, and the demeanor of a great country upheld by those civil servants, Ming Dynasty spends a lot of money in this area every year!

After hearing the news, Zhu Xiaqiu showed a doubtful expression on his life, wondering who he had provoked?
You two are trying to trick people and let me, a grandson and son, take the blame for you?

Don't you feel guilty?

Not to mention, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yue, there is really no psychological burden at all.

In their words, this is also a training for the boy Zhu Xiaqiu!

Teach him by words and deeds how to be evil in the future!
Things like politics have always been about eating people and not spitting out their bones. What's more, it is still a confrontation between countries. If there is no means, how can it be played successfully?
Not to mention opening up and expanding territory for the Ming Dynasty!

So being insidious is a must!

As a qualified politician, you not only need to have a political vision, a forward-looking strategy, a great mind, and full sincerity, but you also need to learn to be insidious, learn to use means, learn to intrigue, and learn how to dig holes for your goals!

So Zhu Xifeng decisively became the tool man who took the blame for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yue and his son. Before the Japanese battlefield was over, he began to play tricks and intrigues with Nanyang and other foreign island countries!
At the same time, the war situation in Japan is also in full swing!
It's just that compared with the initial smoothness, in order to achieve rapid advancement on the battlefield and large-scale harvest, the Ming soldiers had to pay more energy and price! Fortunately, the crushing momentum formed by the equipment of the Ming army will not change just because of the Japanese people who are not afraid of death!

In fact, the iron-bloodedness of the Ming Dynasty's army is not inferior to that of any country!

What's more, such an iron-blooded army is still in the hands of Zhu Xifeng and Lan Yu's gang of Huaixi nobles.

It can be said that Japan's defeat is already doomed, and the result is nothing more than whether it comes early or late!

The attack method chosen by Zhu Xifeng, Lan Yu and others in the early stage was basically to sweep everything. Whether it was a city, a village, or even a deep mountain forest, wherever the Ming army passed, they were basically covered with corpses. !
But now Zhu Xifeng has also changed his attack method!

He put all his focus on several major cities in northern Japan!
As cities began to be captured by the Ming army, the number of refugees from northern Japan began to flee southward, slowly increasing!
In fact, there have always been refugees, so this is no surprise!
However, according to the rules set by Zhu Xifeng, among these refugees, including the elderly, weak, women and children, he can still tolerate them, but as long as they are young adults aged 15 to 40, they can only be recruited into the puppet army. There is a way to go!
If you don’t want to join the puppet army and serve the Ming Dynasty, then go to hell!
However, joining the puppet army is not completely without benefits. At least Zhu Xifeng promised that their wives and children would be given housing and even fertile land!
Of course, if they died on the battlefield, their wives and children might become other people's wives and children, and their farmland would become other people's farmland!
Today's puppet Ming army has been divided into twelve teams by Zhu Xifeng. The army formed by those Japanese nobles who abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side previously formed a 150,000-strong puppet Ming army. However, due to the consumption during this period, more than half of them were lost!

But it doesn’t matter. Aren’t there still refugees who can supplement the supply of troops?
There seemed to be a lot of dead on the battlefield, but the twelve puppet Ming armies still seemed to number at least 10,000 each, and the combined total was still around 150,000!

Even if some of them die, a large number of young and middle-aged refugees will continue to come in. Zhu Xifeng is not afraid that there will be no cannon fodder at all!

Zhu Xifeng and the others were mainly responsible for conquering the frontal battlefield. After the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty occupied the main cities, there were villages in the surrounding areas. Naturally, they were left to these pseudo-Ming troops to clean up!

The main reason is that Zhu Xifeng is also insidious!
Occupying the city is definitely much safer than occupying those villages and nooks and crannies, and there is no need to worry about being shot by the guerrilla Japanese army!

Anyway, all these risks were passed on to the puppet Ming army by Zhu Xifeng!
And these famous families who control the puppet Ming army are also happy to do this. After all, their senior officials and their own people cannot personally take part in the danger. Even if they lose, it will only be the lowest level warriors and some newly recruited refugees. !

What's more, compared to the frontal battlefield, where there was a lot of fighting, cold arrows, and small-scale team battles, not many people died!
For them, this can be regarded as making the best use of everything, which is already the best result!

Therefore, even these famous people did not dare to have any objections to Zhu Xia Feng's arrangement. Instead, they had to carry out Zhu Xia Feng's mopping up plan!
At the same time, Zhu Xifeng also encouraged his own Ming soldiers to take in a few concubines from the landlord!
Although ordinary soldiers simply do not have the ability and status to take concubines, here Zhu Xifeng has changed the rules!
If you accept Dongying's concubine, you can also get the reward of fertile land, why not?
Of course, it is basically impossible for Japanese women to get the title of head wives. After all, most of these women are widows, and the men have died on the battlefield, not to mention they are of Japanese descent!

Even if these Ming Dynasty soldiers were single and unmarried and could not marry a daughter-in-law, they would rather leave the position of their first wife empty than let a Japanese second-hand man take the position of his own first wife!

As a result, it is basically impossible for the Japanese widows to continue to reproduce for the Japanese people!
Even if they are giving birth, they are giving birth to Han people!
Zhu Xifeng did not pay attention to these old and weak women and children in Japan at all. The only thing he valued was the young and middle-aged people of this country!

In any country, young adults are the most important productive force. As long as the number of these people decreases sharply, the country will basically be doomed!

As for the old, weak, women and children, the Ming army will not kill them. This can at least reflect the demeanor of a great nation in the Ming Dynasty!

The army of the Ming Dynasty only killed enemies who could resist with a sword, and would never kill the old, weak, women and children who were unable to restrain a chicken!

At least on the surface, that’s what it looks like!
This is also the reason why so many refugees from the north finally chose to join the puppet Ming army after being desperate.

Even if they may die on the battlefield and become cannon fodder for the Ming army, at least their wives, children, and children can be settled!

"Commander, according to your method, this battle will go much smoother!"

"It seems that these Japanese puppet troops have taken advantage of it, and it will have miraculous effects!"

Privately, Lan Yu and a group of Huaixi generals also began to flatter Zhu Xifeng.

However, they also sincerely admire Zhu Xifeng for being able to use such means to avoid some problems!

Like Lan Yu, he has also traveled through time and space. Naturally, he knows that in the history of that time and space, the reason why Zhu Xiaye was called a tyrant was because he spared no one, old, young, women, and children, and almost killed them all!
This also added a lot of stigma and infamy to Zhu Xiye!

But with methods like Zhu Xifeng's, Lan Yu and the gang who direct the war are really unable to figure out the killing talents. Let them think about this, they would rather kill a few more enemies on the battlefield!

This is also the reason why they admire Zhu Xifeng.

Although they can't think of these methods, as long as they are not stupid, they can figure out Zhu Xifeng's purpose of doing this and the effect it can achieve!

In fact, these refugees from Japan are best dealt with by the elderly, because they don’t have many years left to live, which is equivalent to letting them destroy themselves!
If a large number of young and middle-aged people die, it will cause a fault in Japan's bloodline, and this is an irreversible fault!

If women and children are controlled by the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't it be obvious that their surname will still be the Japanese or the Ming Dynasty from now on?
Governing this territory may only require the efforts of one generation, and only about twenty years will be enough!
Twenty years later, all the older generation will die, these women will also be old, and their children will have grown up!
And these grown-up children will only think that they are Han Chinese and Ming people!

Because these children will be arranged to receive education from the Ming Dynasty and receive the baptism of Han culture, so that they know what it means to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic!

By that time, Japan will be completely finished!
A generation later, how many Japanese people can still maintain their population in Japan, whose population has dropped sharply?
Two to three percent is considered too much!

At least 70 to 80 percent of the people will be of Chinese origin!
At that point, Japan Province will become a minority province in the true sense!
As for education and localization, it is basically divided into two steps!

On the one hand, it is traditional education. When the time comes, the imperial court will naturally arrange for scholars from the Ming Dynasty to come and spread Han culture!

On the other hand, that’s religion!
This is also the reason why Zhu Xifeng brought so many Taoist priests to Japan!

Naturally, they were brought here for missionary purposes!
Belief is sometimes more useful than traditional education methods, and the brainwashing effect is surprisingly good!
(End of this chapter)