Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 843 Urging to attack Taiwan
In Nanjing, the king of Chu, who holds the power of the central government, has constant affairs. After sending away the missions of various countries, other things followed one after another.

In the living room of Prince Chu's Mansion, Wang Yan sat with several confidants, drinking tea and eating snacks and chatting.

Right now, the main task of the Nanjing court is to regain the lost territory in the north, so the content of the conversation is still on dealing with the Manchus.

Since it was a small talk, there were not so many rules. Wang Yan ate a piece of pastry, chewed a few mouthfuls, drank another cup of tea, and asked casually, "Have the Manchus increased their troops in Yangzhou?"

"Dorgon is now pointing to using Yangzhou in exchange for peace with our court. Naturally, Yangzhou cannot be lost. Liu Guogong on the front line sent back news that although the number of soldiers and horses has not increased, the Manchu Qing has transferred a batch of supplies to Yangzhou." Chen Bangyan smiled slightly. .

Wang Yan nodded, "Let him invest more in Yangzhou, and then we will collect the net. However, if the army stays under the city for a long time and does not attack the city, it will inevitably slack off for a long time. Be careful of Duoduo's surprise attack."

"What your Highness is worried about is that a few days ago, Duoduo came out suddenly and broke a big camp of Liu Guogong. Now the Ministry of War has gone to Wen and asked the army to retreat to the east bank of the Grand Canal to ensure the safety of the camp."

"Duoduo dared to go out of the city!" Wang Yan was slightly surprised, and then said: "The army temporarily retreated to the east bank. This is a good decision, and Jingzhou should not be carelessly lost. The Ministry of War is sending out a military order, telling Liu Shun not to relax, and to train the troops. When the imperial court recovers, it's time to attack Yangzhou."

"After the lower officials go back, they will send officials from the Ministry of War to supervise them!"

After the matter was finished, there was a silence for a while, and Wang Yan asked again: "Have you thought about what the exam questions will be in this year's Enke?"

According to the usual practice, every major event, the imperial court will set up Enke. Last year, the little emperor ascended the throne, and this year it will be changed to Yuan. Therefore, the imperial court will open an envoy this year to show the celebration of the whole world.

"This has not yet been settled. Ningren means to go out to protect the country and protect the world, but several examiners have not yet reached a consensus." Wang Fuzhi said.

Wang Yan frowned. Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. Will this question go too far? "This really needs to be discussed again, so as not to arouse resentment from the government and the people. It's better to change it and go abroad to ridicule the world. How about it?" ?Of course, this is just an isolated suggestion, how to come up with a question is still up to you!"

Just as he was speaking, Lu Shikui suddenly came outside the living room. He quickly walked up to Wang Yan, bowed and saluted, "His Royal Highness, Xu Junsheng, who was transporting supplies to North Korea, caught a big fish!"

"What big fish?" Wang Yan was slightly taken aback.

"It's the envoy sent by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the high officials to contact Holland Yi. On the way, Xu Junsheng happened to bump into him!"

Before the Dutch took the initiative to come to the door, they were sent back casually by the Man Qing as a vassal tribute. In the end, it was Hong Chengchou who came forward, and the Dutch talents connected with the Man Qing.

Wang Yan's pupils dilated, thinking to himself, it seems that he is pressing every step of the way, Dorgon is really impatient, and actually sent an envoy to contact Holland Yi.

"Well caught, the last time the Hong thief colluded with the Dutch Yi, it brought us a lot of trouble. Xiyi's firearms are sharp, we must admit this, we can't let Manqing and Xiyi collude together, in the future Strict inspections must be carried out, and the gates on land must also be checked. Not only the Manchu spies, but also the Jesuits cannot be allowed to go north." Wang Yan pondered slightly, and asked, "Fujian's preparations for attacking the officials. How are you doing? The Ministry of War sent people to urge them to come down quickly and drive the Dutch barbarians away to prevent them from colluding with the Manchus. Besides, it’s already June, and it’s too late for refugees to come to the island this year. There is no more food."

"Master Chen's memorial from Guangdong and Guangxi said that the Guangdong navy is ready, but it seems that Guoxing is still recruiting pilots who are familiar with water patterns." Chen Bangyan stood up and bowed to salute. Ministry, send an order to Fujian!"

The Dutch came to China from the far west, and they were able to stir up the situation in the South China Sea. They are so powerful that you can see the whole leopard at a glance. There are tens of thousands of people, but there are many people in the Qing Dynasty. If these two parties are allowed to collude, it will be a big threat to Daming.

After finishing speaking, Chen Bangyan took his leave and left, and several other people got up one after another, "Your Highness, there is still business in the ministry, so the officials and others have left."

Wang Yan nodded and waved his hands to let them take care of themselves. He sat and drank tea for a while, but his heart felt a little heavy.

Everyone has moments of underestimating the enemy, especially when Wang Yancai was young, he was already a prince, and if he controls a large empire, it is obviously impossible to say that he is not smug and arrogant. He is not only acting crazy now Very, and there are some great successes.

After recovering Nanjing and suppressing the troublesome Jiangsu and Zhejiang gentry, his arrogance became even more arrogance. , but unexpectedly exceeded his expectations.

In his eyes, Dorgon is just an arrogant, ignorant savage chief, how could he look at the surroundings like him, but Dorgon did it this time, which made Wang Yan a little vigilant, he got up Back in the study, he calmly thought about it.

After Nanjing was defeated by the Ming army, Zheng Chenggong rushed back to Fujian under the order of the king of Tang. At that time, Zhang Cunren and Tan Tai, who were originally in Fuzhou, had already surrendered to the Ming Dynasty in Zhejiang. The strength of the Qing army in Fujian was very weak. After Zheng Chenggong returned to Fujian, Using his Zheng family's prestige in running Fujian for decades, he recruited all the state capitals in the east of the Minjiang River, including Fuzhou, with a single document.

The addition of half of Fujian made Zheng Chenggong a little flustered, and Zheng Chenggong's energy was limited, so he was not very prepared for the attack on Taiwan. Chen Zilong wrote several times to ask, and he said to wait for a while.

Zheng Chenggong's side is not yet ready, but Batavia's reinforcements have arrived.

Since last year, the Ming Dynasty and the Dutch have completely turned against each other in the South China Sea. The governor of the Netherlands and Taiwan was worried about the safety of the officials, so he wrote to the governor of Batavia to ask for support.

The Netherlands is not a country with a large population. The main way of colonization is to occupy the key points on the shipping routes and act as second-tier traffickers. The big officials happen to be a key node in the Dutch trade in the East. Things from Korea, Japan, and Jiangnan in China have to be shipped to the West and Southeast Asia. have to go through Taiwan.

Although they knew the strength of the Ming Empire, the greedy Dutch were still unwilling to give up their officials. Therefore, the governor of Batavia sent eight three-masted warships, more than 20 ships from small Sudanese countries, and more than 30 pirate ships. Arrived in the big staff during the month.

Off the coast of Fujian, since the imperial court set up a shipping department in Quanzhou, the number of Fujian merchant ships in the strait has increased.

Originally, Fujian merchants traveled across the seas of Fujian and Guangdong, but Zheng Zhilong messed around and destroyed his foundation, and even the Fujian maritime merchants followed the vigorous merchants, and fell into bad luck.

Although Fujian has been restored now, the status of Fujian's maritime merchants has declined greatly. The maritime merchant groups that emerged in Guangzhou have seized their trade share in Southeast Asia. Fujian is caught in the middle of the trade in this direction, and it is very helpless.

However, the Zheng family used to be the overlord of the East China Sea after all, and the Zheng family had a close relationship with Japan, so many merchant ships sailed to Japan, but Japan and North Korea were not rich.

Longsheng is an old company in Quanzhou, with Zheng's shares in it. The company owns a hundred seagoing ships and has strong strength. It has become a pioneer for Fujian companies to explore Nanyang.

More than 20 lucky boats loaded with tea and porcelain set off from Quanzhou to Nanyang under the leadership of the big shopkeeper.

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