Chongzhen Undergraduates

This is not normal.

Chapter 498: The next big chess game

Li Yan was stunned, he couldn't take this topic, it was the core of imperial power, and it was not something he, a courtier, could touch.

"This is the letter of credence sent by North Korea, take a look." Zhu Youjian handed Li Yan a document.

Li Yan browsed through it hastily. The Korean country uses Chinese as the official language, so the national book is written in Chinese characters.

"Are they willing to provide troops to help us regain Liaodong?" Li Yan was surprised, this was the first foreign aid he saw after following Zhu Youjian.It is very rare.

"Dorgon is dead, and the post-Golden regime's suppression of North Korea will no longer exist. If North Korea does not show its loyalty to us at this time, I am afraid it will not be justified.

My idea is not to accept their army help, but I need their navy. "Zhu Youjian said so.

"Why? There are not too few naval forces in the imperial court." Li Yan now particularly does not understand Zhu Youjian's excessive attention to naval forces.It can be said that Daming is now trying his best to accumulate naval power. Others don't know it. As the chief assistant of the cabinet, he knows it very well.

Daming has been experimenting with various types of ships, and the entire coast is encouraging them to go to sea.If it wasn't for the immature craftsmanship, once mobilized, Da Ming could build a frightening fleet in two or three years.

"After the new year, Liaodong will immigrate. I still feel that the navy is not strong enough. It happens that the North Korean navy can help. When the Liaodong immigration plan is completed, the Donghai navy will have nothing to do.

I want North Korea to fight against the Wa country and avenge the past.We can ask the North Korean sailors to come over and help us do odd jobs first, just to train them. When their navy becomes stronger, the North Korean king will definitely be restless, and he will definitely find someone to practice.

Does this person dare to find me?I guess he doesn't have the guts to find the Wa country is the most likely.North Korea took the lead, and we were behind to help cheer up, and this matter has probably been facilitated.

Anyway, it is written in the Korean national book that as long as we take care of the food, they don't need wages. "Zhu Youjian said it very easily, as if this matter was a fight between two people.

"Why did the emperor trouble the Japanese country?" Li Yan couldn't keep up with Zhu Youjian's rhythm. The north of the country had not yet settled down, but the emperor's eyes were fixed overseas.

"Wang Chengen, hang up the map of the world." Zhu Youjian called out, and Wang Chengen led someone in immediately.

Because of Zhu Cihong's return to Nanjing recently, Wang Gonggong seems to have changed his mental outlook, his face is full of red.

"Further to the northeast and further east, there is a natural ice-free port in this place, called Vladivostok. Further northeast of Vladivostok, there is a big island."

"Sakhalin Island." Li Yan blurted out, "Since Tang Dynasty, it has belonged to our Han people."

Wang Chengen looked at Li Yan approvingly. In fact, he had seen this map for countless days and nights. From this map, the old man felt the size of the world.

"Further to the east of Sakhalin Island, there is a circular island chain like a bunch of grapes. There are several key islands on it that can be used as good ports. Along these islands, the fleet can go here along the coastline. It is said that here There are big gold mines, and there is an endless land." Zhu Youjian let out a haha ​​while talking.

Wang Chengen wanted to laugh, of course he knew that Zhu Youjian already knew what these places were, and he wouldn't have had this map otherwise.Otherwise, Wang Chengen would not look at this map often, its temptation is enough to make the old eunuch think about it.

Li Yan didn't know, he looked at it very seriously, because he was guessing the emperor's mind.

"Such a large place, why have I never heard of it before?" Li Yan felt that he was ignorant today, and with his background of being well-read, he had never heard of such a large place in the book.

"The Europeans call this the New World, saying they discovered it. In fact, there are also people in this land. They don't look like Westerners, but they look like us Han people.

But those people still don't know how to smelt ironware, and they are still in the wild age.In the last 200 years, it was discovered by the Europa people, and now the Westerners are desperately sending people to this good place to seize the territory. "

"Then let's send people to grab it!" Wang Chengen was so excited that he forgot the ancestral precepts, so he was anxious to grab the territory.

"That's right! We should also send people to grab the land. Westerners have been there for 200 years, and I'm afraid they will soon be snatched up by them." Li Yan didn't feel that Wang Chengen's interjection was wrong at all. The competitive spirit of a nation makes trouble, whether it is the chief assistant or the eunuch, everyone thinks the same.

"The land is huge, and the Europeans only immigrated a few hundred thousand people. We still have a chance. This continent can support tens of millions of people." Zhu Youjian exaggeratedly drew a big circle.

"Wow! Tens of millions of people." This time, it was Wang Chengen's turn to drool.

"However, if we don't go for it, I'm afraid we will be in danger when Europa gives birth to tens of millions of people." Zhu Youjian sighed deliberately.

"I now understand why the emperor must take over the Northeast. First eliminate the threat of the Tartars, and then go to sea from Vladivostok to grab this new continent." Li Yan said.

"That's right, and it's not right. Because the Dutch are the overlords on the sea, and the Dutch have nailed some nails in Nanyang, and they have a lot of friendship with the Japanese country. No matter what I do, Ming, I can't escape the Dutch. surveillance."

Zhu Youjian's statement is not aimless. If Da Ming wants to compete with the Europeans for America, the best way is to quietly land on the west coast, and then secretly develop himself.This trick must first be hidden from the Europeans.

"Does the emperor want to start a naval battle with the Japanese country, draw the Dutch in, and then defeat the Dutch and control the entire Nanyang?" Li Yan thought for a while and said.

"To the point." Zhu Youjian felt that it was easy to talk to a smart person.

"Da Ming wants to build plank roads to keep Chencang secretly. On the surface, we want to make trouble in Nanyang, but secretly our main energy should be put on the north. This requires the help of North Korea, and by the way, we need to hold down Wa, so that it can't damage us. It's a good thing."

"The emperor's farsighted ministers will never catch up." Li Yan said.

"Are you trying to say that I am too ambitious?" Zhu Youjian joked: "The capital has not yet been recovered, and I have boasted so much. It is a bit too ambitious."

"I dare not." Li Yan apologized with cupped hands.

"Li Dingguo came to report: Horqin couldn't hold on anymore. The main force of the Eighth Army arrived at Shanhaiguan and blocked the supplies inside the pass. Hong Chengchou was too ambitious and wanted Horqin to supply all the materials in the entire Rehe area.

A nomadic tribe in Horqin has no food at all, and it looks like we will be dragged down by us.According to reports, the Horqin cavalry are not even daring to go to the outskirts of Huludao.

Since the snowfall, their appearance has been completely exposed. Our army is far ahead of them in terms of equipment and logistics. Li Dingguo has issued a death order. Once the enemy is found, he will pursue it. "

"Then what will the people of Liaodong do this winter?" Li Yan asked.

"Hao Yaoqi's soldiers have all become chefs, and they make dumplings every day in the camp. I heard that a large number of Liaodong people are waiting outside the camp to eat dumplings." Zhu Youjian said.

"I'm afraid the dumpling stuffing of the Eighth Army has been poisoned with perspiration!" Li Yan added.

"Hahaha..." Wang Chengen also laughed.

As long as Liaodong is lost, there is no need to defend the capital at all, because the Ming army is not the Houjin back then, and the Ming can attack from north to south.

Li Yan went home and left with a world map, because from today onwards, he would shift his strategic vision from China to Northeast Asia and the whole world.

A big game of chess.

Wang Chengen pushed Zhu Youjian's backside, hesitating to speak, with an obscene look of wanting to ask but not daring to ask.

"What on earth do you want to say, can you just say it? I'm so annoyed by you." Zhu Youjian finally lost his temper after almost bumping into Wang Chengen.

"I just want to ask, are there any Han people in that new continent?" Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youjian eagerly.If Zhu Youjian said no, I'm afraid Wang Chengen would have deep regrets.

Chapter 499: The Growth of Li Dingguo's Genius

There was a lot of snow this winter, and several kinds of stoves, big and small, were popular in Shenyang city, all made of iron.

The ones used in various government offices are called boilers; the ones used in most Han families are called warm stoves, which can be used to burn firewood or briquettes.Of course, many people will build Kang in their homes.

After two months of uneasiness, some packers in Shenyang confirmed that the Jurchens had been reported to have run away, so these people suddenly turned around and became their masters.

It turned out that those masters lived worse than slaves.Bannermen who change their surnames in time can get the protection of the government, but some people insist on not changing their surnames and names, and their lives are worse than death.

In the First Battle of Liaodong, many Jurchen men died, and many other men were imprisoned in Dalinghe City. The female family members of the Banner families who could not survive became the little wives of their family who used to be wrapped in clothes. Driven and enslaved by the ugly big wife.

The world is like this, don’t think your origin is nobler than others, only your own soul is noble, it has nothing to do with your origin.