The center of the Ming Empire is light and breezy, and the military yamen on the other side of the ocean, Chen Mu is particularly anxious this spring.

The plague in Spain is not over, the most recent situation known to the Oriental military government is that the plague has swept the west coast of Europe, and in Ireland, Zhu Xiaoen's offensive has stopped under Dublin due to the plague, and the Netherlands and France have been devastated by the plague more than Spain, only England has avoided the disaster by blockading Plymouth, but Elizabeth has also lost Plymouth.

The last news from Plymouth came back from Makino, and the Dragon and Tiger Road Chief, Cao Changqing, had asked Makino County for help last month, announcing that the Great Tomorrow had been given another piece of land in a daze.

The good news was that they had captured Plymouth, a large village of more than 2,000 inhabitants and walls, and had captured the shipyards and six warships of all sizes anchored in the harbor.

The bad news is that they may not be able to hold even six warships, and the English sailors Hawkins and Drake are lobbying the royal family in London to retake their homeland.

Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate of Muye, did not respond to this, he sent someone to send the news to Chen Mu, and then on the sixth day before Chen Mu had time to react, he sent another team of people to tell Chen Mu that the situation had changed - after determining that Plymouth was free of plague, tobacco tycoon Li Yuxi sprinkled silver to recruit troops in the tobacco fields of 400 miles along the southern coast of Muye, and recruited more than 3,000 local armor soldiers within three days; At the same time, he bought a large number of grain and grass materials, swords, spears, bows and crossbows in Muye.

On the sixth day, which was also the day when Yang Zhaolong sent his second letter to Chen Mu, the four merchant fleets of the Quanshang Company under Hexingsheng gathered in the port of Makino Nagashima, and hundreds of merchant ships were quickly combined and armed to form a mixed fleet of 30 armed merchant ships equipped with Franco's cannons, 77 ships carrying supplies and baggage, and 20 fireships.

The convoy of the Quanshang Company was a reward for the taxes paid by the Oriental Military Government last year, and all the ships were built in Asia, and its flagship was the Chihai-class military ship named Jinjiang, which used a double-deck artillery deck, and carried 32 generals Zhenshuo on both sides, and two 24-pack Shenwei machine arrows in the stern and one hundred tigers for broadside warfare.

There were also five 400 shark ships, and the whole fleet was led by a general flag of the Oriental Army, the captain of each ship was a small flag officer, and 440 of the 600 crew members were Luzon soldiers with training experience in the Oriental Military Mercenary Company—all of them were veteran sailors who joined the caravan when Li Yuxi was mining in Luzon.

Moreover, in Yang Zhaolong's letter, the Quanzhou Company is still recruiting troops in Muye and the surrounding departments after Li Yuxi left, and they are still buying supplies for possible subsequent battles, and this is an official act, which is the most fucked up part of the whole thing.

As soon as Plymouth's letter for help was sent to Makino, Li Yuxi came to the door and asked Yang Zhaolong straight to the point if he could help, Yang Zhaolong didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that it was always a good thing for someone to help, the imperial court had not sent the Beiyang Flag Army to the Oriental Military Government for two years, and the Oriental elite soldiers did not have many troops to free up after sending the Fu Yuan fleet.

So Yang Zhaolong agreed, and also opened an official letter to Li Yuxi, and the Zhun Quanshang Company recruited Muye Zhuang to gallop to Plymouth...... He didn't expect Li Yuxi to react so much.

Leave no stone unturned.

They all underestimated the enthusiasm of the Asian natives to recruit, especially the Iroquois tribes in Makino, the tree of peace they planted needed to be watered with the blood of war, and as a result, the Ming army came and did not let them fight with others, not to mention how depressed they were.

They are countless times stronger than before, and they have cultivated their skills without carrying them forward, and now they heard that there is a tribe in the eastern sea that also belongs to the Ming Dynasty and needs help?

Speaking of conscience, for ordinary ministers, if they don't give money, they have to go, and if they give money, they have to go, not to mention that Li Yuxi also gives a lot of money.

Li Yuxi, a tobacco merchant, according to the market price of recruiting people to go to sea on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty to make Japanese robbers, will be given ten taels of silver when he is recruited, and two taels of silver will be given in the following month.

Although Zou Yuanbiao was quite critical of this matter, he believed that Shang Jia should follow the orders of the imperial court even if he was overseas, and even if the military government would agree, he would have to wait for the military government to agree before going to war, how could he go to war so arbitrarily?

More importantly, it is meaningless to go to war in the eyes of the officials, Daoyi, that is a barren land, the land is not enough to support the people, the wealth is not enough to the rich, Plymouth is a district of 3,000 people, where can the value exceed Li Yuxi's huge expenditure of more than 60,000 taels in just six days to prepare for this expedition.

This kind of thinking has nothing to do with old and new officials, because that's what that land is.

"Except for businessmen, do you think Li Yuxi is a fool? Spend a lot of effort to help the army to help the war, just for a useless piece of land, 3,000 useless people? That land could not be farmed, but it could be used as his commercial port, his seaport, his free port, and it was very easy to sail from North Asia, and it was smooth sailing, and it was twenty days for a fast boat, and his tobacco was concentrated there, and he could sell it on the west coast of Europe, where we had not even been. ”

"As long as he agrees to this battle, the Anglo-French Channel will open the door to him, he does not need the Dutch to sell tobacco to northern Europe, and perhaps we can find Moscow before your majesty, as long as we open a few more gates, I think that as long as this battle is won, those watchdogs may not dare to stop the ship of the Ming Dynasty."

In the Yamen of the Oriental Military Government in Mexico City, Chen Muyang, who was wearing a lion cuirass and stepping on military boots, pointed to the map of Northern Europe that he got from Spain behind him, starting from Plymouth, pausing in London, and continuing to draw east towards Amsterdam, followed by Oslo in the north belonging to Norway, in fact, Oslo belonged to Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway at this time, but the time of this map is relatively long, and Denmark and Norway still have a clear boundary.

Oslo was followed by Copenhagen in the south, Mermer in the Duchy of Prussia, Lübeck in the Hanseatic League, Stockholm in the Kingdom of Sweden, and Novgorod as a vassal state of Muscovy.

"This market is huge, he produces a lot of tobacco, grows more, and sells it to everyone, and opening up a new market means that both the military government and the imperial court can receive more taxes - in the East, it is the responsibility and obligation of the companies under the Oriental military government to attack the enemies of the empire and protect the cities of the empire."

"We will also send troops, Daxi Port newly built two thousand ships launched last month named this afternoon, another ten shark ships, on the 15th to reorganize two fleets, named Changsheng ship and Makino ship, two thousand households to lead the team, Changsheng County set up 3,000 arquebus guns, 800 catties of lead, 30,000 catties of gunpowder, prepare enough baggage, gallop to help Plymouth."