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"Aren't I bloodthirsty?" Zhu Youjian was furious.

"Ah! No, no, I'm wrong." Gu Yanwu quickly shut up.

"Do you know where the population is the largest on this map?" Zhu Youjian asked.

"Of course it's me, Daming." Chen Zilong said.

"Yes, my Ming Dynasty has a population of nearly [-] million, and our people are the most fertile. The land of the Ming Dynasty often cannot support our offspring." This is Zhu Youjian's estimation, of course, including Houjin and Northwest China of.

Everyone smiled slightly after hearing Zhu Youjian's words.

"My responsibility is to find enough land for the people of Ming Dynasty to feed them, and prevent everyone from fighting for their lives; my responsibility is to let the people of Ming Dynasty earn enough money from other countries to live Better." Zhu Youjian said loudly.

"Wow." Everyone applauded together, Zhu Youjian's words were the simplest and easiest to understand.

"However, we can't be bloodthirsty, because we are not barbarians like Tartars. This world is very big, and there are many lands outside that others don't need. For example, here, here.

They don't need to be wasteful, so we should help them develop them.Only in this way can we feed our people. "

Zhu Youjian focused on the relationship between population and productivity, and analyzed the relationship between the change of dynasties in the Central Plains and population.This kind of argument of pure confidentiality is the first time everyone has heard of it, and this argument alone is advanced enough.

It turns out that the reason why dynasties often change and the so-called aspirations of the people are all related to the issue of food!When the population size reaches a certain level, when our land can't support it at all, there will be troubled times, and then there will be a large population reduction.

This is horrible.

"So, we can't just confine our eyes to the northwest of Houjin and Wu Sangui, but also look to our south." Zhu Youjian slipped his hand and placed it on the front line of Taiwan and Nanyang.

"But Your Majesty, we have never occupied these places before." Chen Zilong looked at the distance, those areas were indeed unfamiliar, and everyone was uncertain.

"I'm familiar with this place." Zheng Chenggong just saw Zhu Youjian's finger swipe to Taiwan, and his heart thumped. Hearing Chen Zilong's words, he said quickly: "My father started his business here."

"Huh?" Everyone was taken aback, it turned out that Zheng Chenggong, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, earned all his money from here.

"Is there a silver mountain here?" Chen Zilong immediately became interested. He is now the Minister of the Household Department, who will succeed Fang Yuegong.

"There is no mountain of silver here, and the mountain of silver is in Japan. But the silver has to pass through here, and there are deer, sugar, and land here. The most important thing is that there are hundreds of thousands of Han people here." Zheng Chenggong said.

"Then what are you talking about? This belongs to Daming." When Li Dingguo heard that there were hundreds of thousands of Han people in Taiwan, he immediately felt that this place was naturally belonged to Ming.

"That's right, this place has belonged to China since ancient times. Since Sun Quan came to power in Wu, [-] troops have been stationed in Taiwan, so it shouldn't belong to outsiders." Zhu Youjian directly determined Taiwan's nature.

Zheng Chenggong was very excited. He didn't expect that Zhu Youjian had prepared this memory for him today. It was a bit unexpected.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Youjian asked Zheng Chenggong to introduce the current situation in Taiwan.When everyone knew that Taiwan's enemies had less than [-] people, they didn't think it was such a great battle at all.

"Everyone, don't underestimate the enemy. Taiwan's enemy is different from the mainland. What we have to fight is not only siege warfare, but also naval warfare and landing warfare. Dear dear friends, look at this picture and forget to say that what we will face in the future will be A world dominated by naval battles and landing operations; forgot to say that if we want to completely defeat Houjin, we can also consider attacking from the sea.”

Zhu Youjian extended northward along the long coastline until the area around Sakhalin Island, the home of the Jianzhou Tartars, was completely unfamiliar to Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, can this work?" Li Dingguo had doubts, he was not familiar with water warfare.At the same time, Li Dingguo was good at fighting mountain warfare, and he did not have enough experience in large-scale cavalry mobile warfare in the north.If it weren't for the advantages of the rivers and rivers in the First World War, the Ming army might not have won.

Obviously, Zhu Youjian's thinking is a bit too forward.

"What does the emperor mean to give up cavalry field warfare, which we are least good at, and instead rely on the advantage of water warfare?" Li Yan asked.

"If we fight Wu Sangui now, how many casualties will there be?" Zhu Youjian stared at Li Dingguo and asked.

"My minister probably won't be less than the casualties in the Jianghuai World War I." Li Dingguo replied seriously.

"Huh!" Everyone gasped again. During the Jianghuai battle, the Ming army suffered 10,000+ casualties, and also sacrificed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

"My dearest friends, imagine, if we continue to march in the same way as before, how many soldiers will be sacrificed and how many people will be lost to regain all the homeland?" Zhu Youjian asked again.

"At least a million or more." Li Yan replied with some pain.He already understood why Zhu Youjian didn't take advantage of the Northern Expedition.If the Northern Expedition were to be made directly, the sacrifice of the entire North would be too great, and what Da Ming would take over would be a huge mess.

"Wu Sangui is such an abominable man. If it wasn't for him, we would have a horse breeding ground, and we wouldn't have to be afraid of Tartar cavalry." Some people complained.

If you want the cavalry to completely lose their advantage, unless the machine gun is invented, it may not be possible to rely on cannons alone.Machine guns are designed to deal with Phalanx attacks, and cannons are designed to deal with fortresses.

Defeating the enemy and defeating the enemy with the fewest losses are two completely different things.Zhu Youjian knew that the current Daming could recover the lost ground with iron blood, but after iron blood, there were bones all over the ground.

As soon as one becomes famous, all bones die, and after one person is happy, it is the sacrifice of thousands of people.However, it will take decades or even hundreds of years to restore these populations. Those who travel through the text with ak chugs at every turn, will they think about the data behind it.

"My minister thought that we could attack Taiwan first for military training, and then rely on our powerful navy to land on the Liaodong Peninsula, cut off Houjin's connections inside and outside the pass, and then divide and eat.

Our army on the western front does not need to attack Guanzhong, but only needs to cut off the connection between Shanxi and Shaanxi, and cooperate with the situation in Liaodong to solve the situation in North China. "Li Yan described the entire strategy in a few words.

"Senior." Li Dingguo responded quickly.

"After solving these problems, my Ming Dynasty will have a powerful navy capable of conquering the world. When that time comes, I can go to Southeast Asia, and go east to any America." Huang Zongxi agreed.

"Do you know how many warships Obaro has now?" Zhu Youjian asked.

"Nearly a thousand giant warships." Zheng Chenggong added.

"Ah! Hey." Everyone was stunned. It turned out that the enemy was so powerful that Daming's warships were only a hundred and almost no longer equipped.Someone is starting to get a little discouraged.

"But it is enough for us to fight Taiwan, because Europa is not a country, they just fought each other for 30 years, and many people died."

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, everyone finally began to have confidence again. It turned out that the so-called powerful enemy Europa was a loose sand that was more divided than Daming.

Chapter 451: The Zheng family has a child who has just grown up

After Zheng Chenggong attended the internal palace meeting, he immediately returned to his home in Nanjing.At this time, Zheng Zhilong, as a retired high-ranking cadre, is also a hostage in disguise, living in Nanjing very consciously.

"Father, brother is back."

The person who spoke was a young man in a kimono. His bun was not like that of the Japanese, but it was a bit like the hair of the Ming army today.

It was the first time for Tagawa Shichizaemon to come to Daming, and it was Zheng Zhilong who specially called him back to China.Everything about Daming made him curious, especially this bustling Nanjing and the dynamic Nanjing upper class.

Because news of Ming's victory over a million-strong army reached Wa, the Tokugawa shogunate feared Ming's current military might and allowed Shichizaemon to return, but his wife and son Sunzaemon remained in Wa as hostages.

People in later generations all know that Zheng Chenggong regained Taiwan, but few people know that Zheng Chenggong's biggest supporter is his own brother.

"Ask him to come in quickly." Zheng Zhilong left and stood up from the recliner.

Zheng Chenggong walked into the study side by side with Tian Chuan with a look of energy, and Zheng Zhilong knew that something good must happen when he saw Zheng Chenggong's expression.

"Sen'er, is something good?"

"Father, the emperor has agreed..." Before Zheng Chenggong finished speaking, Zheng Zhilong left to look out the door, and closed the door carefully.

"What time?" This is what Zheng Zhilong is most concerned about.

"The last day of this month." Zheng Chenggong said softly.

"So fast." Zheng Zhilong was both surprised and excited. The thing he had expected countless times was about to happen, but it happened so suddenly.The date that he thought he had to wait for had suddenly turned into the next second.