Iron Dynasty

PS: There are four more nights! ! !

Your Highness, I'm back!

Qi Wangfu, Qingzhou civil and military officials gathered.

In the center of the main hall, Yue Yun and the remaining sailors suddenly knelt on the ground, weeping bitterly.

Seeing this, Niu Ben and Lu Fei couldn't help but be moved. The more than 700 people who had set off have now returned to Qingzhou. There are only 231 people left in the navy, and two-thirds of the sailors died in the vast sea.

Xiao Ming walked in front of Yue Yun and helped the soldiers of the navy one by one. His eyes were warm. He knew that this move would be dangerous, but these sailors still had no hesitation.

It is the soldiers who have the courage to sacrifice themselves that make his fiefs as stable as Mount Tai.

Xiao Ming believed in weapons, but what he believed most was his soldiers. Without their bravery and sacrifice, how could he sit in this main hall.

Soldiers, it is this king who should salute.

Thousands of words only turned into a deep bow in Xiao Ming's heart.

Yue Yun and others' eyes were red, but their expressions were still determined. They roared in unison: My honor is loyal, for His Highness, we are not afraid of death or sacrifice, just so that one day His Highness can no longer let the people of the six states no longer suffer. Bullying by outsiders!

Yue Yun, you are strong men, I admire! Lu Fei shouted.

We admire! The other generals shouted at the same time.

At this moment, Yue Yun finally could not hold back the tears in his eyes. His mother died at the hands of Japanese pirates, and his crew was attacked by the British fleet at sea. After that, they narrowly escaped the pursuit of the British fleet under the leadership of Wilson.

Unexpectedly, I encountered the Dutch fleet when crossing the Ryukyu.

At this time, they had been severely damaged and had almost no ability to fight back. With the intention of death, they sank a Dutch battleship, but their ship could no longer sail, and could only be stranded on an uninhabited island.

If they hadn't encountered the Cao family's fleet, they probably wouldn't have returned.

Family hatred and hatred for the country, he carried too much by himself.

Xiao Ming patted Yue Yun's shoulder heavily, and he said, This king knows that you are suffering, the soldiers who died will not die in vain, this king will recover it tenfold, and the people of the Battle of Cangzhou will not die either. This king will also get it back ten times and a hundred times, to expedition the barbarians in the north, and conquer the Japanese country in the east to seize the maritime trade routes, this is the strategy of Qingzhou in the next few years!

Northern expedition of barbarians, eastward expedition of the Japanese country!

All the officials present were shocked, Xiao Ming officially proposed the next strategy for the first time.

Yue Yun gritted his teeth and said, His Royal Highness, we are all waiting for your words. Your Highness does not know anything. Now there are western warships rampant in the sea. They are much stronger than the Great Yu Kingdom in both ships and weapons. In my opinion, only our Qingzhou warships can compete with it.

The people of the Cao family have told this king that the Western powers are expanding their sphere of influence to the Great Yu Kingdom, so now we must first deal with the barbarians in Youzhou, so that we can concentrate on capturing the trade routes by sea.

Pang Yukun nodded, The barbarians are in serious trouble, threatening the hinterland of the Great Yu Kingdom at all times, and it must be eliminated.

Yue Yun said: During this time, a large number of Galen ships can be built to prepare for future naval battles. I must throw the Dutch and the British into the sea to feed the fish.

Xiao Ming smiled and patted Yue Yun's shoulder, what he needed was such fighting spirit.

Facing the crowd, he said: This time, Yue Yun is talking about these two things. The king has ordered the equipment department and the military workshop to cooperate with each other to increase the production of flintlock guns. There will be a meeting this fall. The expedition of the barbarians, old general, in addition to commanding the Qingzhou army, you now immediately recruit elites from the six-state army to cooperate with the Qingzhou army joint training, and at the same time set up a car battalion.

Yes, Your Highness! Niu Ben shouted.

Pang Yukun, in addition to the government affairs of the states, the government has to cooperate with the shipyard to produce Galen ships, so it has to be slow in terms of money and food.

Yes, Your Highness. Pang Yukun replied.

Chen Qi, Lu Tong, the lime bullets can be handed over to you. In addition, during the expedition, this king wants to see field guns.

Yes, Your Highness.

After issuing a series of orders, Xiao Ming turned his attention to the north.

This northern expedition to the barbarians was a plan, but at the same time it was a last resort. The people of Jizhou became more and more chaotic. At this time, taking the initiative to attack was just to attack and defend. After all, if the barbarians took the opportunity to go south, Jizhou might be vulnerable at this time.

And he believed that the barbarians would definitely not let go of this opportunity of chaos in the Great Yu Kingdom. At that time, Jizhou fell, and he would be attacked by the enemy, which he did not want to see.

So he made up his mind to expedition the barbarians in the north, set up a car camp to form the first obstacle to the barbarians during the field battle, and at the same time asked Chen Qi to develop light field guns.

After jointly formulating plans for the future of Qingzhou, Xiao Ming announced the rewards for Yue Yun and other admirals, and at the same time let Yue Yun take his seat.

Knowing that Yue Yun was back today, he deliberately held a celebration banquet at the palace, in order to wash away the dust for Yue Yun and others.

After the banquet, he summoned Yue Yun alone.

His Royal Highness, it is a pity that Wilson was killed by the Dutch during the naval battle. Otherwise, His Royal Highness would have heard him talk about the current situation in the West.

It doesn't matter, you can come back, this king is already satisfied.

Yue Yun was moved when he heard the words. Xiao Ming cared so much about the soldiers, which made him feel warm. He thought that even dying in battle would be worth it. Then he remembered something and gave Xiao Ming the translator's booklet.

Xiao Ming opened the booklet for the translator to record the questions, and his eyes swept after the questions he listed.

After reading these narrations, he basically understood the current situation of the world. The invasion of Europe by the northern steppe tribes hundreds of years ago also broke the Europeans' cognition of the world.

After that, the progress of civilization in Europe seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes, with rapid scientific development and various scientific discoveries emerging one after another.

These scientific changes further promoted the advent of the era of great navigation in Europe. First, the Americas were occupied by Europeans, followed by Southeast Asia and East Asia.

According to Wilson, after the Dutch occupied the East Asian trade route, merchants from other countries had been barred from this trade route.

It is precisely because of this that few foreign embassies go to the Great Yu Country.

However, in recent years, the Dutch are declining, replaced by Great Britain, France and Prussia, and because of the problem of Protestantism, European countries are also full of contradictions and frequent wars.

Wilson also explained the current level of science and technology in the West. In Xiao Ming's view, it is already the level of the mid-18th century.

A steam engine has already been proposed in Great Britain and is trying to develop it.

As for the butterfly effect, Xiao Ming couldn't calculate how a little deviation would affect the overall situation, but for him, the world is now a completely different history except before the Three Kingdoms.

Both Europe and Asia have moved on a completely unfamiliar track.

It was only then that Xiao Ming suddenly realized that, apart from the consistent geographical environment, this was just a strange world, a more dangerous world.