Dragon Sea Empire

On the dirt road beside the coconut grove along the coast, there were two or three strong men in Chinese army uniforms patrolling with flintlock guns in their hands. In the coconut grove, there were also several tall and strong black soldiers with dark complexion patrolling.

Through the dense coconut groves and bushes, there is a flat and open seaside beach, with milky white sand, white clouds, blue sea and green coconut groves blowing by the breeze. This is Yin Feng's favorite beach in Sanya before crossing.

This is the first month of the third year of Apocalypse, the Chinese company's vacation, Yin Feng also brought his family to Yazhou, the first town he landed after crossing for a "vacation". Yin Feng also came to Sanya for vacation back then. At that time, he only saw the beach full of human heads and rubbish, without even a place to stay, so he had to return in disappointment. Today's Sanya beach is still completely original. After Yin Feng's personal guards started patrolling, Yin Feng can completely private Enjoy all this alone, the beach, white clouds, blue sea and fresh air.

After complacently reminiscing about the history before time travel, Yin Feng lay on the rattan chair and opened his eyes. Mei Xinlan behind him was still kneading his shoulders. Yin Feng patted her hand and said softly: " Well, let's go play with the kids."

In fact, he did not have the exclusive access to this beautiful beach. Those who came here for vacation with him included the Zeng brothers and their families, Mai Dahai and his family, Xu Hongji and his newly married wife, and those who returned to Taiwan to report on their work. Yan Siqi and his family, Chen Zhongji's Siraya wife and children were also on the beach.

A large group of children surrounded Yin Feng's eldest daughter, Yin Qian, running and frolicking on the beach. Mei Xinlan walked towards her son and daughter, and Li Lihua walked towards the place where Yin Feng was lying, followed by Zeng Yue and Zeng Yue. Shan, Zeng Rui, Mai Dahai, Xu Hongji and Yan Siqi.

Yin Feng sighed from the bottom of his heart: He can't help himself, now with his status, it is already an extravagant wish to have a safe and secure vacation.

He sat up, wiped the sweat off his body, and said to everyone with a smile: "Have you played enough? The climate here is much better than that in southern Taiwan."

Everyone surrounded them with a smile, and sat on the beach one after another. Even Zeng Yue, who was most particular about the image of a literati, sat down on the beach and said with a smile: "The king's so-called vacation can be described as a piece of paper, a way of civil and military affairs. I have been an official in Yazhou for many years, but I never knew there is such a paradise, I really feel so happy to miss Sichuan," everyone agreed with this statement.

Yin Feng nodded, and said with a wry smile: "We can still take vacations now. When the territory becomes larger and larger in the future, I'm afraid we won't have time to enjoy the sea of ​​white clouds at all." The feeling is deeper than other people present.

Everyone didn't know why he was so emotional, they didn't say anything, they were all waiting for his next words.

Yin Feng thought for a while, took a breath and said: "You are all the people I trust the most. I don't like to talk nonsense, so let's just talk about it here. The five-year plan proposed at the enlarged meeting and the board meeting, A large part of it is for the court of the Zhu family on the opposite side to see, "

Although, after the Great Purge, Yin Feng's actual power was almost the same as that of a dictatorship, but after the incident of the Han family and his son, Yin Feng's trust in the board members declined greatly, and he was more willing to deal with the Zeng family for many confidential matters. Discuss with Xu Hongji, this time the secret beach talk is also for the sake of confidentiality.

Yan Siqi is his student, and like Chen Zhongji, he is the latest member of his junior generation.

Among the people in front of them, Xu Hongji, Zeng Shan, and Li Lihua didn't change their faces, and the rest of them were taken aback. Yin Feng glanced at Xu Hongji and Zeng Shan. The plan originally included the opinions of these two people, and he continued: " Secretary Xu drafted a statement on this matter. Many plans are indeed intended to be implemented, but the main goal is to let the Ming court on the other side see and believe. However, it is true that large-scale wars will not be launched for the time being. "

Zeng Yue has been in charge of the commercial operation of Zhonghua Company, and at this moment he said thoughtfully: "The meaning of the ship owner is: Among the announced plans, some of them still need to be implemented within five years."

"For example, to suspend the war against Ming, for example, to concentrate our efforts to pacify Nanyang, and fully develop the iron mines on Hainan Island. This has been done for five years." Yin Feng stood up, walked Fangbu and said: "Our plan requires the cooperation of the Ming court. Otherwise, if they go their own way and want to go to war with us, we will also have to fight. However, in the past few years, I do not want to fight against Daming, so there is this publicly announced five-year plan, which intends to let the people on the other side The court of the Zhu family sees and hears, and then they can ease the situation, and we will have time to fully enrich our strength."

Xu Hongji took it over and said: "What your majesty said is very true. Don't worry that the Zhu family court on the other side will take the opportunity to turn around. The old Zhu family is hard to return. Right now we don't need to push him to a dead end. This will instead make them unite and work hard. In the future In the past few years, we have continued to immigrate to strengthen our strength. No matter how Ming changes, internal party struggles, refugee disturbances and other issues are difficult problems that they cannot get rid of. Maybe in a few years, we will be able to easily defeat our opponents."

Zeng Yue shook his head: "This is too much wishful thinking. Those officials in the court are not reasonable people. Besides, no matter how fierce the internal strife is, the Zhu family's court has a righteous name after all. Last time we took down Jinling and surrounded the capital. , didn’t they still maintain the situation?”

Yin Feng immediately said: "So, this requires you to handle this matter. You have contacts in the officialdom of Daming, and Mr. Yuezhang's same-year relationship can also be used. Try to convince the court that we have no intention of attacking Daming immediately. This is upright Yangmou, the announcement I made in public is not only to unify our internal opinions, but also to stabilize the Ming court,"

He looked at the beach in the distance, where a group of children were chasing and playing with each other, and the waves caressed the beach... Yin Feng retracted his gaze, and said coldly to Zeng Yue: "Brother Yue, you have a heavy task, you just set off Liaodong, contact the capital from there, and ask the court to reopen the gate of appeasement. In the situation of no war and no peace, after the Jiangnan campaign, there must be a result."

Everyone was confused, Yan Siqi stood up and said: "Your Majesty, our army now holds the initiative on the battlefield. If we contact the imperial court like this, they will think that we are asking for peace..."

"Just seeking benefits, not trying to make a name for yourself," Yin Feng waved his hand and asked Yan Siqi to sit down: "We need time to stabilize the rear before we can take action against the thousands of miles of land on the mainland. This is an established policy, so the Ming Dynasty has always been arrogant and stubborn. How can we make them feel at ease and stop acting rashly, sticking to the so-called principle of discord and disharmony, that can only satisfy their own vanity, "

He turned to Xu Hongji: "Mr. Xu, the starving people are raging in Shandong right now, and the uprising is just around the corner. It is also a good time for us to recruit immigrants. Although we publicly announced that we will not take the initiative to seek war, we did not say that we would not go ashore to plunder people. It's up to you to arrange the matter, let the ships of the Beiyang Fleet go to Shandong to pick up people, and fly the pirate flag...Speaking of which, we haven't flown the pirate flag for a long time."

Yan Siqi laughed when he heard the words: He came here when Yin Feng pretended to be a pirate and robbed Zhu Yin's ship.

Yin Feng raised his finger to the sea in the south, and said to Zeng Shan: "You are now the Nanyang Propaganda Ambassador. Among the latest batch of immigrants are Japanese and Jurchen prisoners of war. You are responsible for placing them in Java, North Sumatra and other places. There are not many Han Chinese, but in this Nanyang war, the Japanese were on our side, and their loyalty can be learned from. Therefore, this time, we arranged for these Japanese to emigrate to Nanyang, where they mixed with Jurchen prisoners of war and supervised each other. Although we conquered Nanyang by force Most of them, but they still can't completely control all the land. Since ancient times, military conquest is only the beginning of long-term assimilation. The infiltration and subtle influence of religious culture, economic control must be carried out at the same time, and the absorption of indigenous people as security forces This is the first step of political assimilation..." What Yin Feng wanted to say most at this moment was: The greatest advantage of Chinese people in assimilation lies in the fact that there are almost unlimited population resources in the country, and the daily life Customs are non-religious. As long as some immigrants migrate to Southeast Asia and rely on blood assimilation, the aborigines in each colony will probably only speak Chinese and look like Han people in less than a hundred years.

The generals of the Chinese Army fighting in Jiangnan did not know about Yin Feng's secret recruiting plan, nor did Chen Zhongji. However, Yin Feng had repeatedly told the generals in Jiangnan that the strategic direction of the Chinese Army and the Chinese Company in the next few years would depend on The result of the Jiangnan offensive.

Mai Dahai, Luo Quanxiu, Yang Qi and others were not famous generals at first, but they all had rich experience in the battlefield. Except for Yang Qihan who bravely broke through, the other two were cautious veterans. That is, the logistics manager. He has lived in Jiangnan for a long time and has been operating in Jiangnan for many years. Therefore, it is not difficult to use local people to transport food and ammunition for the Chinese army.

Entering December, the sky is covered with snow, the sky is cold, and the places in the south of the Yangtze River are even colder and more humid. None of this can stop the advance of the Chinese army. The prefectures and counties around Jinling have been attacked by the Chinese army one after another. At this time, it has become like a lonely city.

The Chinese fleet went upstream to the Wuhu area, and was blocked by the Ming army at the beginning. The Ming army warships downstream appeared. At first, they were harassed by sporadic ships, and then they began to attack with various ships under the banner of the Ming army. The Chinese Army, this is a meaningless harassment war. In front of the hundreds of cannons of the Chinese Army, these small warships are like fleas on the back of a cow. They can only be harassment. The Chinese Army smashed down the Wuhu Water City Gate and burned it All Ming army ships on the Wuhu River then continued upstream.

On the river in Tongling County, Chizhou Prefecture, the Chinese Army concentrated three sandship bombardment ships, and fired more than 6 catties of flowering bombs from the six huge mortar guns "Hongtianlei" on the ship, which almost flattened the western half of Tongling County. All the hundreds of warships of the Ming army hoarded here were burned, and many grain ships were seized.

The next goal of the Chinese naval fleet is Anqing. The so-called "dividing the frontier locks the north and the south, and sitting in the town breathes the east and west." Anqing has always been a country with four fortresses and a thoroughfare for five. It is an extremely important military strategic location in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It is known as "the throat of the Yangtze River is closed for thousands of miles, and the first state in the division of Wu and Chu".

Here, the Ming army has gathered thousands of warships, waiting for the arrival of the Chinese fleet.