"Set sail and set sail!"

At the estuary of the Pearl River, the Ming Hubei New Army, with the sun and moon flags, the Jiutou Bird flags and the Jiutou Chiao flags, took a ship from the Beiyang Navy Fleet to sea and returned to Hubei. With the Navy Fleet, the Jiutou Bird did not go north by land to return to Hubei via Jiangxi, but took a boat directly to the sea coast, heading north along the estuary of the Yangtze River, and heading west to Hubei.

When he came, he was more than 20,000, and he was on the Zheng ship. When he returned, there were already more than 30,000 people. He was on his own fleet ships. The huge Shenlong and other seven battleships were in the middle, surrounded by more than a hundred large and small ships, carrying the Chu army.

In addition to the 30,000 Chu troops, there were about 2,000 European mercenaries and the family wives of the craftsmen. In order to reassure the foreign soldiers and craftsmen, Liu Jun also brought their families in Taiwan and Fujing back to Hubei.

After the signing of the Five Kingdoms Peace Treaty on Trade and Trade, some foreigners who joined the Nine-Headed Bird chose to leave, but most of them remained. For many ordinary soldiers and craftsmen, the Ming Dynasty was rich and prosperous everywhere, and there was no constant wars like Europe, nor the harsh climate like Southeast Asia. Moreover, the conditions offered by Liu Jun were also very generous, and many people chose to stay among the Nine-Headed Bird.

The fleet slowly sailed out of the Pearl River Estuary. Looking at the vast fleet of more than 100 ships, Liu Jun was full of joy. He got giant ships, cannons, and new craftsmen, not to mention making a lot of money. Liu Jun made a lot of money, and the soldiers of the Nine-Headed Bird also made a lot of money. Now everyone has silver coupons of no less than 100 yuan in their hands. Rewards are accumulated over time and time, and it is also a big deal.

Now many Nine-headed soldiers are sitting on the ship, and are excitedly discussing two things. One is that after returning home, they will take some time to get a wife when they are still in Liaodong. Everyone is full of pockets and young, and most of them are unmarried young men, and they are very eager to marry a wife.

In my hometown in Hubei, especially in the countryside, it is often enough to only have five or six silver dollars to marry a wife. Now, no one is worth a hundred or four yuan, so you can find a young and beautiful scenery to marry into the house.

The second thing that everyone discussed most was the attack on Liao in the summer. They were not afraid of fighting the Tartars. The Western barbarians were still beaten by them, so what could the Eastern Barbarians do? With such a powerful fleet and countless cannons, what kind of Tartars cannot win.

The conquest of Liao was just a journey of promotion and wealth. Many soldiers even regarded the Qing army as the indigenous people they had seen on Taiwan Island during their conversation.

The soldiers of the Nine-Headed Bird are so confident, and the imperial court seems to be filled with such confidence.

Since the imperial court successively defeated Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and the Five Barracks of the Left, the Ming Dynasty finally had no more decent bandits. Although Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and other bandits were still fleeing, it was no longer a good deal. The court no longer took the bandits seriously, but only ordered officials from all over the country to suppress and pacify the rest of the bandits.

From the emperor to the officials, the court's eyes turned outside the pass.

More and more people in the capital were beginning to discuss when the imperial court would launch a counterattack against Liao, and many people were even thinking about regaining Liaodong and restoring their rule over Nuergandusi.

After last autumn, the Ministry of War of the Court carried out a sensation of the court army, especially the army on the nine sides. After the spring, the Ministry of War of the Court had now had thirty-six new troops. Just around the capital, eight new troops were reorganized. There were twenty-four new troops on the nine sides of the capital, and twelve new troops in Huguang, Sichuan, Sichuan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Guangxi. On paper, the court had thirty-six new troops, with each twelve new troops in the court, with more than one million new troops in each tranquil order.

Among these new troops, the most famous one is undoubtedly the Huguang New Army. The two lakes and three towns controlled by Zhennanhou are ranked eighth, ninth, tenth, and the sequence is ahead. This new army is famous all over the world in the battle to suppress bandits and bandits. Not long ago, it has defeated the Red Barbarians one after another on the sea in the southeast not long ago, which has made countless people say that the troops in the three towns of Chu and Xiang are the most capable soldiers in the mainland.

Moreover, in addition to the new army in the 36 towns, the imperial court also reorganized four naval fleets, each with more than 100 ships and more than 100,000 troops.

More and more news shows that the Ming Dynasty’s rejuvenation is just around the corner. Now among the people, many people are full of confidence and optimistic when they mention the situation outside the gate.

However, what everyone talked about most was that the emperor had just issued an order to grant Zhennan Hou the title of General of the Enemy and the general was appointed to hang seals. The people were extremely excited and thought that the emperor wanted to transfer Zhennan Hou to lead his army to conquer Liao.

The people were talking about conquering Liao, but in the court, especially in the palace, Chongzhen paid attention to the situation in the southeast every day, especially the progress of the peace treaty of the five countries.

From the capital to Manila to Batavia, they were all thousands of miles away. But I heard that the Netherlands and Spain were even 100,000 miles away from the Ming Dynasty. The red barbarians came across the ocean and fought to their doorsteps. In the past, Chongzhen was not very clear about the Dutch Portuguese and the Spanish. He thought Taiwan was just a barren island, and thought that the Portuguese were just renting a living in a rich mirror.

It was not until this time that he realized that the Portuguese built castles on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, sent troops, appointed officials, and established urban autonomy. Isn’t this encroachment? Taiwan was not a small desert island, but it was as big as half of Fujian. The land on the island was fertile and the minerals were abundant. It was developed and could accommodate tens of millions of people, produce tens of millions of stones of grain, and provide tens of millions of people with food.

At this time, he discovered that the red barbarians were actually very powerful. They came from far away Europe and conquered and occupied the land of countless countries along the coast. Their giant ships and cannons blasted the gateways of one coastal city after another.

The Zhennan Hou actually defeated them, not like Zheng Zhilong defeating the Dutch in the sixth year of Chongzhen, only burning one or two large ships, and the rest of the sunk were just pirate ships. Instead, it was a real big defeat, defeating their fleets, capturing their castles, and capturing their officials and soldiers.

There are constant news of good news from the Southeast Sea. After each victory and good news, there will be money, food and materials seized from the battle. In addition to replenishing warships and weapons to the four fleets, some of the money will be used as soldiers' rewards, and the rest will be sold and discounted and then transported the silver to the capital.

Recovering the chicken cage, Liu Jun sent 200,000 silver dollars to the north, recovering the officials, giving one million silver dollars, recovering the treasury mirror, and giving another 500,000 silver dollars.

Looking at the good news and silver coupons, Chongzhen was so excited that he couldn't calm down.

When the New Year's Eve and Sihai Bank submitted 10 million yuan silver coupons and bonds to Beijing, Chongzhen was even more excited and could not speak.

After hearing that those colorful silver dollar coupons could be exchanged for silver dollars at any time, Chongzhen even couldn't wait to change his clothes, left the palace in a very tight dress, and took the guards to the branch of Sihai Bank's capital to exchange. Although they had to queue up, it didn't take long for Chongzhen to cash in a thousand silver dollars from the bank counter of one of the 13 branches in Beijing. When he heard that Sihai Bank even opened branches in Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and silver dollar coupons could be exchanged for silver dollars at any time, Chongzhen said six good words in a row.

On that day, Chongzhen asked the Jinyiwei to escort 2 million yuan of silver coupons to Shanhaiguan and Ningjin City to pay the border soldiers' salaries.

After the New Year, Chongzhen asked the Ministry of War to build a huge sand table outside the pass, and he spent a lot of time studying and thinking about the sand table every day.

The Beiyang Fleet of Zhennanhou already has more than 100 ships. If the other three fleets are added, the more than 500 ships owned by the imperial court will be enough to support Liu Jun's harassing tactics. It is said that Liu Jun also obtained many red barbarian gunners.

From the beginning of the New Year, it seemed that the entire court officials had become masters of military tactics. Every day, many officials submitted memorials, presented strategies for restoring Liao and sending troops, as if everyone had become a good general like Zhennan Hou.

"Hong Chengchou and Gao Qiqian are submitting memorials to organize troops to counterattack Yizhou City." Mei Zhihuan shook the wine glass in her hand, "How can this decisive battle be easily fought?"

"Jiye's limelight has become a bit too popular recently. Sichuan captured Zhang Xianzhong and defeated Luo Rucai. Huaixi defeated the Left Five Camp. He turned around and defeated the Red Barbarians on the Southeast Sea. The world praised him. How could the group of generals in western Liaoning not be jealous and envious? What's more, the imperial court has recently organized this new army, and Jiye's subordinates have organized three towns and one navy division, and only the three towns of Shanhai, Ningyuan and Jinzhou outside the pass. Wouldn't these people be angry?"

Li Changgeng was also in charge of the Ministry of War, so he knew best that the emperor had carefully promoted the training of the new army, which touched the interests of many generals. Especially the Liaoxi border army headed by the Liaoxi generals, they trained the new army. They only organized three towns, cleared many vacant quotas, laid off many old and weak, and even rectified their servants' troops. In addition, the imperial court has now issued silver dollar and silver dollar coupons directly to the soldiers, and directly according to the list, the court's special supervision and supervisory army distributed the money to the soldiers below.

The generals lost their money, and their deductions were gone, and they lost a lot of gray income, and they became more and more dissatisfied.

At this time, they unanimously demanded a decisive battle with the Qing army and to counterattack Yizhou. In fact, it was not because of their courage. Li Changgeng had a good understanding of the generals of the Liaoxi Army. These people just wanted to take the opportunity to let the court pay more food and money. Once the war was fought, the food and money would naturally increase. As for whether they would really fight and whether they could win, it was another matter.

"I must firmly oppose the decisive battle with the Jianlu, or as Jiye said, in western Liaoning, he mainly defended himself, and sent a small group of troops to harass the Qing army and actively defended. Liu Jun attacked Liao from the sea in the summer, stabbed their butts, and held the pressure on western Liaoning. As long as he fought for a few years, the Qing people would be exhausted. The imperial court has now calmed down the Central Plains bandits and stabilized for a few years. After his strength recovers, it is naturally not a problem to destroy a small Jianzhou Jurchen." Mei Zhihuan said.

Li Changgeng said worriedly, "I'm afraid I'm afraid of the emperor. You have also seen the atmosphere of the court recently. I'm blindly optimistic and overconfident. I'm afraid the court will change its mind after the successive memorials of Hong Chengchou and others." (To be continued...)
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