Yang Zhaolong's initial exchange with the Xinming natives was not friendly at all, and a few bangs frightened the Xinming natives into running with their heads covered, and the Miao soldiers of the banner army chased after them under Yang Zhaolong's orders, shouting at them not to run.

No one listened, and they couldn't understand it.

From the beginning to the end, they didn't hurt anyone, the imaginary friendly trade turned into a complete kidnapping, the cotton cloth that was wanted to be sent out was not sent, and a few people were tied back.

Yu Shaoyu, who happened to be written, was sent over by Chen Mu, and several local residents were sent to him, so that they could teach the literati to speak, provide food, and make clothes, and live more comfortably than Yang Zhaolong himself.

There is no way, Yang Zhaolong wants to know the situation of Xinming too much, just relying on his eyes and scurrying around with his head covered in the dark, even by the end of next year, he can only live his own life, and the prospecting that Chen Mu asked for is impossible.

That's not something that he can do with a few families at all, compared to this vast land, it is too difficult for a strong man.

He needs more manpower, and the channel for obtaining manpower is the native people here.

The road of Xinming has just begun, and in October of the seventh year of Longqing, a real big man came to Luzon - the former imperial first assistant, Gao Gong.

To be precise, Nanyangwei, when Chen Mu received the news of a major case in the imperial court, the soldiers and horses escorting Gao Gong to Nanyangwei were already on the road.

From the street in front of his mansion in Jingshi, a man named Minister Wang rushed into the East Palace with a knife, wanting to assassinate the little emperor, but was caught by the palace guards, and confessed that it was Gao Gong's command.

He personally sailed to Nanyangwei to greet him, and finally saw Gao Gong again two years after the cabinet parted.

Compared to two years ago, the high arch looks like it has aged more than ten years.

Gao Xin Zheng was nearly sixty years old when he became the country, but at that time he was radiant and full of energy when he spoke, compared with the past, the high arch that appeared in front of Chen Mu now is more like a sixty-year-old man.

"The younger generations meet the elder Gao Ge!"

Seeing Gao Gong, Chen Mu made a big salute uprightly, no matter how things in the court were fighting, it had nothing to do with him, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao, Xu Jue, whether these people were good or bad, good or evil, and had nothing to do with him, the only thing that remained unchanged was that these people had given appropriate help at a critical juncture in his life.

"Chen Shuai doesn't have to be polite, Gao is no longer a minister, and now he has been added to the position of governor of the Nanyang Military Government, in charge of overseas miscellaneous affairs, and Gao is saluting the general. High arch ......"

Before the old man finished speaking, Chen Mu had already stopped the high arch action and said: "In public and private, the elder of the pavilion deserves a big gift from Chen, don't give a salute to the juniors, the elder of the pavilion suffers." ”

"Suffering?"

Gao Gong was a little miserable, but he chuckled unconsciously, and then said: "Chen Shuai is fighting overseas, don't care about the affairs of the court, the old man has nothing to say, board the ship!" How was the war in the South Seas? ”

Gao Gong's free and easy appearance made Chen Mu have nowhere to say, so he had to lead the way to take Gao Gong to board the flagship Chihai, bid farewell to the old Nanyang Wei Department, and sailed to Chen Lai Island.

On the ship, Chen Mu sampled a few plug-type bayonets and a short saber that was ready to reward the generals as personal gifts, and then introduced Gao Gong into the ship's general's cabin, and Gao Gong said: "Your ship is good, the old man always hears people say how the Nanyang Navy is, and it is not in vain to see it today." ”

Not only is it good, the Chihai ship is more than four Dafu ships that can top Tianjin Port as the flagship of the general, and the sailors on board are lined with strict artillery, so the ship is strong and the guns are sharp, which is in line with Gao Gong's expectations for Chen Mushui.

After Gao Gong finished saying this, he was obviously waiting for Chen Mu to answer his previous question - how was the war in Nanyang.

Chen Mu didn't say more, opened the world map in the cabin, and said: "Before this war, Nanyang was controlled by Xiyi and Luyi, and several of my Ming Dynasty tributary countries were captured, and now Luzon has been recaptured, Sulu, mud, Java, and Ryukyu have been sent to pay tribute, and the four countries have set up a total of 12 guards, which are trained by the Ming generals and purchased the old Ming Dynasty bird guns and small cannons, and are under the command of the Nanyang Military Government. ”

"Luzon is a little special, for my Ming vassal country, the officials have cleared the acres of land, three percent of the fields are planted with cotton, two into the sweet potatoes, and next year they can be transported into Guangdong and Fujian, but there are also three guards, among which the gold and coal production of Minduluo Island has been my Ming enclave."

"The 5,600 banners of the Luzon Beiwei military headquarters are on the five islands of Japan, helping one of the county officials of the 66 countries of Japan to rise again. In addition, the Ma Guibu has gone north to Kuwu Island in the spring and summer of this year and re-established the three guards. ”

"The new Ming in the south has moved more than 1,000 households to take root, the local land is barren, and it is not easy to be self-reliant, but there should be one of gold, silver, copper and iron in the local area, and it is expected that within a few years it can be slightly replenished to the needs of the Ming Dynasty."

"On Guam in the east, Xiyi sent thousands of troops and ships from America, and Chen Chaojue, the chief officer of our army, is fighting against him."

Chen Mu said as he turned his fingers from the Americas to Guam on the map, and said: "A few days ago, there has been a battle report, and the advance scout sent the general Lin Manjue to lead four hundred people to fight around the island with most of the enemy army for several months, and break thousands of enemies; Later, Deng Zilong, a pioneer officer, led nine large ships and more than 40 large and small ships to repel the enemy's large and small ships at sea, of which 13 were large battle ships, which can be described as a great victory. ”

"Good news is coming, just around the corner."

Gao Gong bowed his head noncommittally, sat on the chair and sipped tea slightly, some of these movements of the Ming army, some he knew, some he didn't know, but even if he had read the battle report, and carefully searched for various positions on the cabinet map, at this time, Chen Mu pointed out one by one one recently, he still felt unimaginable.

The route of the Ming army from Malacca to Japan encompassed the entire ocean.

For thousands of years, the last one to do this was the army of the previous dynasty, and the results were much worse than this, and the fleets of the Yuan Dynasty went to sea, and almost none of them won; As for the dynasty, he went to the West several times, opened up the civil trade routes, and obtained tribute from the court, but he did not have a bold and multi-pronged approach like Chen Mu, and he gained a lot.

Gao Gong's eyes are old-fashioned, Chen Mu can see most of the deployments he can see clearly, for one purpose, while obtaining gold and stone assets and tribute from the clans, he will build an island defense line relying on various countries overseas in the Ming Dynasty, he nodded approvingly: "This move is no different from the Great Wall on the sea." ”

But then, the old man who had been in charge of the empire for several years raised his hand to the northeast and asked, "Kuwu Island, what do you want it to do?" ”

That place is absolutely useless, you can't rely on the territory of the savage Jurchen to send supplies, you can only rely on the sea route, there is neither gold and stone nor money and food in the local area, if you want to contain Japan, it is enough to have Goto in hand, it is completely a snake to add to the problem.

"I don't know if this goal can be successful, but even if it is only possible, we must give it a try, maybe the war with Xiyi has come to an end; Perhaps the battle with Xiyi has just begun. ”

Chen Mu exhaled deeply and said, "In the battle report sent back by the Lin Manjue Department in Guam, he recruited the America natives, and Xiyi brought smallpox to the America; The army of Xiyi is still held back to the west by the Rumi country, and the America have brought them saltpeter and gold and silver mines, and next year the snow will melt, and I would like to send a fleet from Kuwu Island to the Armerica. ”

"In the whole world, only I, Daming, have a way to prevent smallpox, this time if I don't kill people, the Daming fleet will go over to save people."

Maybe...... Can you grow a big tomorrow and never set?