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In the spring of the fifth year of Tianqi, the latest war report came from the Southern Expeditionary Army, which had sent troops to occupy Java and march towards Annan.

While Lu Cheng sent reinforcements to the south and delivered a batch of new guns and ammunition, he also sent some generals to the south to replace some of the generals of the expeditionary army.

After all, the north and the south are too far apart, separated by the entire Ming Dynasty. Those expeditionary generals who led troops outside all year round will inevitably have some uncertain thoughts.

However, the families of those expeditionary generals are basically still in Liaodong, and the military supplies needed by the expeditionary army also need to be supplied by Liaodong, so it is unlikely to be independent.

Moreover, Lu Cheng also arranged many secret agents in the expeditionary army, and those secret agents did not know each other's existence, just to facilitate Lu Cheng's remote supervision and grasp of the situation of the entire expeditionary army.

At the same time, starting from April of the fifth year of Tianqi, the south also began to transport food, cotton and other materials to the north one after another.

In the north, after the harassment in winter and spring, the Later Jin has entered a defensive state.

According to the intelligence sent back by some secret agents lurking in the Later Jin, Huang Taiji has recently considered marching north to compete with the northern bear for the bitter cold land.

As for the Korean Peninsula, after several months of governance, it has gradually stabilized. Various educational and propaganda methods have been used in turn to dilute and suppress the local culture of the peninsula. With a big stick in one hand and a big date in the other, the people on the peninsula gradually turned their hearts to China.

Not only that, in the past six months, many young Korean women have married Liaodong soldiers.

The soldiers in Liaodong have high military pay, good treatment, and living conditions far exceeding those of ordinary residents on the Korean Peninsula, which has indeed attracted many young women.

Moreover, in order to completely conquer the peninsula last year, the Later Jin also massacred many adult men on the peninsula, and there were few soldiers left, leaving behind many orphans and widows.

In response to this, the older soldiers in Liaodong did not disdain widows or not. Some small flags and general flags even married two or three people.

This also greatly promoted ethnic integration and alleviated the gap between the two sides.

Nowadays, most ordinary people in the entire peninsula have a good impression of the Liaodong soldiers, and even began to take the initiative to learn Chinese and Chinese characters.

The schools opened by Lu Cheng in various places have also been full of students and started to teach Chinese and Chinese characters.

In addition, those teachers will often assign tasks to students, asking them to teach Chinese to their parents and relatives after returning home.

The teachers will also make home visits from time to time. If the parents and relatives of a student can communicate proficiently in Chinese, the teachers will give certain encouragement and rewards.

Ordinary people have no intention of protecting their own culture and heritage, and only recognize tangible benefits.

I believe that it won't be long before Chinese will become the official language of the entire Korean Peninsula, and Chinese culture will become the mainstream.

Only then will this land be truly conquered.

Just when Lu Cheng was concentrating on development, the generals of Liaodong began to recruit craftsmen and study firearms.

Unfortunately, not every general has the financial and material resources like Lu Cheng, and not every general can recruit skilled craftsmen.

In fact, Sun Chengzong also sent people to send some of the front-loading and rear-loading flintlock rifles made by Lu Cheng to the capital, so that the craftsmen in the capital could study and imitate them.

But the skilled craftsmen in the capital are not bad. Most of them are ordinary craftsmen who are just making a living. The three-barreled guns and bird guns they usually make will have various quality problems, not to mention this kind of flintlock gun that needs to drill rifling.

After a period of research, the generals of Liaodong took out their family assets and bought the first and second generation flintlock muskets from Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng did not refuse. As long as they could afford it, he would sell it to them.

Anyway, the most advanced third-generation rifles can be mass-produced and are gradually being equipped to the army. Those first- and second-generation ones should be eliminated.

Moreover, with the continuous improvement of technology, the research on the fourth-generation bolt-action rifle is also constantly breaking through and is approaching the weapon standards of World War I.

With Lu Cheng, an expert, weapons research can avoid many detours and achieve phased leapfrog development.

Lu Cheng directly selected representative guns of each era for imitation. As long as the technology can be achieved, it can be produced.

In the autumn of the fifth year of Tianqi, Ding Baiying and Zhang Yan were successfully produced one after another, and each

They gave birth to a son, named Lu Junyi and Lu Junyuan.

After having three sons in a row, Lu Cheng began to look forward to having a daughter.

The eldest son, Lu Junhong, who was more than three years old, ran around the yard all day long under the care of the maids. He was very energetic and exhausted the maids who served him closely.

It was also during this period that Lu Cheng sent someone to Zhou Wencheng's house to propose marriage and took Zhou Miaoxuan into the family.

If it were someone else, Zhou Wen would really not want his daughter to be a concubine, but Lu Cheng was now the eldest, and he was also given a title and became the Earl of Dongping.

As for whether Zhou Miaoxuan would be unwilling, it was not important.

The parents' orders and the matchmaker's words could not allow her to be unwilling.

Of course, Lu Cheng's love for Zhou Miaoxuan was just pure lust. Zhou Miaoxuan was already an adult, with a well-developed figure. At first glance, she was a woman with a hidden talent and a broad mind.

The two women in Lu Cheng's family had to nurse their children for the time being, so they couldn't get close to each other. Lu Cheng himself didn't want to waste the little maid in his family, so he naturally had to find another suitable and beautiful one to warm the bed.

In this regard, Ding Baiying and Zhang Yan didn't say anything. It was normal for a man to marry more wives and concubines.

Even Ding Baiying's apprentice Ding Xiu had three or four women in his family, one of whom was robbed from the grassland and one was married from the Korean Peninsula.

Even Ding Xian had two wives.

As a man, who doesn't want to embrace left and right and enjoy tenderness after success?

Of course, Lu Cheng didn't indulge in it, and he wouldn't ignore government affairs and personal exercise.

Usually, he would move around and have fun at night when he couldn't sleep, and do whatever he should do during the day.

Moreover, Lu Cheng himself is also a senior old Chinese medicine practitioner. He pays great attention to his own maintenance and conditioning, and will never let his physique decline due to excessive love.

In Chinese history, few emperors lived over 100 years old. Lu Cheng wanted to enjoy the best of everything in his life, and to be a long-lived emperor, unify China, conquer the world, build a real empire that never sets, and experience the feeling of being a "captain of the ball".

It is worth mentioning that in the fifth year of Tianqi, a major event occurred. When the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao was taking a boat trip in Xiyuan, a sudden strong wind overturned the newly built treasure ship, causing the Tianqi emperor to fall into the water, triggering the special property of "the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is easily soluble in water".

Afterwards, although Zhu Youxiao was rescued, his health was sometimes good and sometimes bad, and his illness recurred. He lingered on his sickbed all year round and often didn't even care about the morning court.

When the news reached Liaodong, Lu Cheng had expected it.

In real history, whether Zhu Youxiao died in a conspiracy may not be known.

But in the world of "Embroidered Spring Knife", Zhu Youxiao's death was obviously a conspiracy.

Behind this conspiracy, there is the future Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, the Donglin Party that was suppressed by Wei Zhongxian, and perhaps some other factors.

Of course, Lu Cheng is not very interested in these. Only by constantly strengthening himself can he have the ability to control the world in the future.

Any conspiracy is useless in the face of absolute strength.

However, Lu Cheng has already made plans for the Donglin Party and those Shanxi merchants in advance.

Some things, in fact, do not need to be done by yourself, just a little guidance, you can reap the benefits...