Dragon Sea Empire

"Boss owner, most of my soldiers are from the south. We have suffered a lot in the north this winter. Let us go to the south to fight. It is declared that this boy has too much control, so I have to help him," Zhao Tielai said. Went to the old camp in the northern suburbs of Taiwan City, and hurriedly found Yin Feng.

Yin Feng handed him a stack of documents, and patiently persuaded him: "Brother Zhao, the first division is a model unit of our army, and the new reorganization will start from the first division. Take a look at the reorganization plan...don't worry, just fight." Some fight, when the north wind blows at sea, we will use the full strength of the first and third divisions, the main forces of the two major fleets of Nanyang and Taiwan to sweep across Nanyang, and strive to capture all the key points in Nanyang by the end of the year , from now on, Western powers are only allowed to live on the islands we designate, and let them be our trade agents. Nanyang must become the inner lake of our Chinese company. Next year, after we stabilize Nanyang, the company's main Expansion targets will turn north..."

"North, you still have to go to the north, wait, you are talking about Liaodong,"

"That's right, the imperial court and the Jurchens are about to start a full-scale war there, and we will seize the opportunity to seize the territory." Yin Feng spread out the latest map of Liaodong drawn by Jesuit missionaries, and said with a smile: "After the imperial court negotiates peace with us, we will soon Mobilize a large army to conquer Jianzhou Jurchen, and I estimate that the imperial army will return in a big defeat. At that time, Liaodong will be empty, and we can take advantage of it.... At that time, we will occupy a strategic place closest to the capital The main point is to threaten the Ming court at any time,"

In Yin Feng's view, the small countries in Nanyang during this period were nothing to worry about. In the 17th century, when nationalism had not been rampant, it would be no problem to flood the entire Nanyang region with millions of Chinese immigrants, as long as there was enough time and funds. After a hundred years, more than half of those aborigines will forget their ancestors. In Yin Feng's previous life, Western powers only used tens of thousands of colonists to rule the entire Southeast Asia for hundreds of years. Nanyang was originally in terms of political location and history. Culturally, it is a natural frontier area of ​​China. China missed the opportunity to unify this area in the age of great voyages. Yin Feng does not want to miss this once-in-a-thousand-year opportunity. Once such an opportunity is missed in history, it will be missed forever. .

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The northern line of the Chinese Army withdrew from Tianjin Wei in April, taking away more than [-] people in Jingqu. Chen Zhongji transferred to Jiangnan to serve as the commander of the Jiangnan march, and Yin Feng left Zeng Shan in Jiangnan to manage government affairs.

When the Chinese army retreated from Nanjing, they almost emptied out the Yingtianfu treasury, the water transport warehouse, and the government warehouses of the surrounding prefectures and counties in Nanjing. However, they are not polite to the relatives of the emperor and the landlords and gentry who dare to resist. Since the beginning of the war, the Chinese army has already torn face with the imperial court, and it has no intention of fighting with those ruling classes who are unlikely to change their political positions. It is impossible to maintain a harmonious relationship. Therefore, when Yin Feng retreated, he ordered everyone to evacuate all the official warehouses and government treasuries in various places as much as possible.

On the way back to Taiwan, the scale of the fleet transporting various materials was much larger than that of the troop carrier. Here, Yin Feng's nature of never fighting a losing battle was fully exposed.

The main force of Zhao Tie’s first division landed at the wharf of Taiwan Port, and was welcomed by hundreds of thousands of people. Yin Feng, who arrived earlier, organized a grand triumphant ceremony. In a few large characters, all the troops on the north-south front that participated in the war sent representatives to participate in the triumphant ceremony. They lined up and walked under the archway of "Hundred Battles and Tigers". Countless strings of firecrackers "cracked" on both sides of the road. At the same time, the east, west, north, south and north of Taiwan Harbor and the Fort of Anping Harbor fired salutes at the same time.

Representatives of shareholders, mainly members of the board of directors of the Chinese company, and officials of the Taiwan tutelary government gathered together to welcome the soldiers of the Chinese army at the pier. The statue of Mazu invited from Meizhou in the Mazu Temple was carried out. In front of the statue of Mazu, a symbolic spoil of war was presented, including some gold artifacts found in the treasury of Nanjing, to thank Mazu for protecting the safety of the Chinese fleet at sea. During this year's war, the coastal climate was unexpectedly harmonious, and the Chinese military I was also lucky. Several typhoons went south to Guangdong and did not affect Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Therefore, after a year of fighting, the Chinese military fleet and transport fleet sailed thousands of times, only losing two ships due to shipwrecks.

Zhao Tie led the first brigade of the first division to pass through the "Tiger Cardia" first. They fought twice a day in the North Canal and Hexiwu, winning consecutive battles. The first division has been called "the first division in the world".

Yin Feng stood on the temporary reviewing platform, smiling as he watched his troops marching past.

Zhao Tieqi was riding on the leading horse, holding a command knife and puffing his chest, head held high, and when he passed the inspection stand, he raised his knife and shouted: "Long live the captain,"

Countless soldiers raised their guns and passed the reviewing stand, countless bayonets reflected the sun brightly, and countless mouths shouted "Long live,"

Yin Feng was very satisfied with this outrageous shout.

The Chinese company and the Chinese army that he pulled up on a wild island have now grown to a height that he himself did not expect. They are shaking the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and changing the trajectory of history. Outside the officialdom, even outside the traditional culture, the group of people under him are also marginal people who lack the influence of Confucian traditional culture, so they can develop Chinese companies.

This weird Chinese company was originally gathered just to avenge the Spaniards. In Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, and the coastal areas of Guangdong, tens of thousands to tens of thousands of people went to sea to emigrate under the organization of the Chinese company. There are actually quite a few Chinese farmers.

Today, the Zhonghua Company defeated the behemoth-like Ming Dynasty government in one fell swoop with an armed group of merchants, and the morale has reached an unbelievable level.

Yin Feng sighed, and took a step forward excitedly, raised his hands and chest to salute the soldiers, and then raised his arms and shouted: "Long live the Chinese army,"

"Long live,"

"Long live,"

The triumphant ceremony lasted from noon to night, and finally the two newly launched battleships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan fired a salvo of hundreds of guns, and the forts fired countless fireworks and rockets to end.

The 20 people in Taiwan and Hong Kong witnessed this scene. It is believed that the story about this large-scale triumphant ceremony will still be circulated among the people a hundred years later.

It is not the first time that Yin Feng has held a triumphal ceremony, but this time the triumphal triumph has had a huge impact. The Chinese army has won every battle. The soldiers of the Chinese army discovered the weakness of the Ming Dynasty and completely ignored the legitimacy of the Ming Dynasty. The rule of the Chinese company In the region, the new immigrants' recognition of Chinese companies has also gone further.

After the war has temporarily come to an end, the secret agreement with the imperial court still has many details to be finalized: Yin Feng's identity, the status of the Chinese company, etc., and the negotiations between the two parties are actually still going on in Zhenjiang.

It was already June when Yin Feng started to reorganize his troops.

Now the imperial court has ignored the Chinese Army, or deliberately ignored it. The negotiation has not yet been completed. Under the attack of the speech officer, Xu Guangqi was stripped of his title of bachelor and presided over the negotiation as a Nanjing economic strategy. Zhang Heming, Shangshu of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, became the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and planned to organize and train the new army. Xiong Tingbi was finally officially activated and temporarily garrisoned Nanjing.

Emperor Wanli has not been in court since March, and he has not seen his courtiers again as before. These days, he has actually been suffering from illness. Since the beginning of summer in the 46th year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli has always been in poor health On the sixth day of June, he said to Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant of the cabinet: "Since I entered the ambush, I have been fumigated with wetness, and have diarrhea from time to time, dizziness, and weakness in the body. Seeing that the medicine has not healed, it is inconvenient for the imperial court."

He couldn't control the imperial court and had to worry about Liao affairs, but the whole country was exhausted and the treasury was empty. Under the repeated attacks of the Chinese army, he had to raise troops, food and weapons to conquer Jianzhou Jurchen. In addition to increasing taxes, There is no other way, since the second cabinet assistant Wu Daonan Dingyou returned home in the 45th year of Wanli, there is only one cabinet minister, Fang Congzhe, the first assistant, and Fang Congzhe is not a courageous and promising minister. A few days ago, he was persuaded by the censor who patrolled the city because of his son Fang Shihong's murder, so he simply took this opportunity to beg the emperor to dismiss him. Soon, a comet appeared in the sky, and there was an earthquake in the capital. As before, in order to reduce the pressure, Fang Congzhe hoped that the emperor would go to the Wenhua Palace to hold a meeting of officials such as Jiuqing, Kedao, etc., to jointly plan a strategy to protect the Liao Dynasty and the capital. In fact, he simply wanted someone to share his responsibilities.

Shenzong sent a clerk to the cabinet to tell him that he was unable to attend the Wenhua Palace meeting due to illness. Two days later, Shenzong explained to Fang Congzhe that it was because he was seriously ill that he could not review the memorials, so he had to delay. I couldn't hold back anymore, and went against the norm, changed the previous attitude of hypocrisy and obedience, and bluntly criticized the emperor without sincerity: "The delay, day after day, is the emperor's original intention of adding more cabinet ministers, but he used it to show his favor. "The contradiction has become so acute that Shenzong couldn't delay any longer, and agreed that the Ministry of Officials would select six or seven candidates for him to choose from. Withdrew his opinion again.

Regardless of whether Emperor Wanli's illness was real or fake, in any case, he had seriously affected the war against Liaodong. The main force of the Liaodong Army was defeated by the Chinese Army first, and then by the Eight Banners. Shenyang, Liaoyang and other places,