With the military victories one after another, the Great China and North Korea continued to reap various war dividends, which made the officials of the Great China and the North Korea begin to realize that the war is not necessarily a bad thing, although the death is inevitable, but the country can obtain more dividends in the war, so gradually the officials of the Great China and the North Korea began to change their views on the war, and changed the ostrich policy of the year, making the entire Great China and North Korea become more aggressive, and at the same time become belligerent.

When Xiao Tianjian was in the seventh year of Tianyuan, he also did a very important thing, that is, in the name of the royal family, he issued the first public newspaper of the Chinese in Dazhong and North Korea, which was called the China Monthly News.

Originally, Xiao Tianjian wanted to make a daily newspaper, but considering that the compilation, printing and distribution of newspapers were still very inconvenient in this era, it was not realistic to make a daily newspaper, so it was changed to a monthly newspaper.

This newspaper mainly focuses on current affairs, and most of the content expounds the various policies and decrees of the imperial court in the past month, and the circulation is not limited to the number of people, and it is sold publicly in various places, and it can be purchased as long as you spend money.

As a result, many scholars and even those with a little money realized the importance of this newspaper to them, and through this newspaper, they could quickly understand the direction of the imperial court, which was very useful for their future political and business activities, so many people immediately began to buy it.

A few months after the release of this China Monthly, many people met and formed a new greeting, that is, have you read the newspaper today?

Through this newspaper, Xiao Tianjian sent people to collect a lot of information about the massacre of Chinese by the Spaniards in the Philippines, and then carried out atrocities and crimes against the Spaniards in a large amount (this is also a forbidden word, and the novel will really not be written in the future!). It was published at length, and soon there was a chorus against the Spaniards in the country.

Newspapers can completely influence the direction of public opinion, and can also find a better reason and mass base for starting a war, and Xiao Tianjian will certainly not let go of such a good propaganda platform.

Maybe many Chinese don't know where Taiwan is, and they don't know where Luzon is, but in the eyes of the Chinese, it is not a bad thing to open up the territory and defeat the barbarians, which also just shows that the current emperor is a capable emperor, so they will not care about who to fight with and how to fight, they just want the news of a big victory.

In order to stir people's hearts, Xiao Tianjian even wrote an article himself (of course, he had to have a wife to polish the pen for him), saying that overseas Chinese are also descendants of Yan and Huang, and as the emperor of Dazhong, these Chinese are also the people of the Dazhong Dynasty and his subjects, no matter where they go Chinese, they will receive the attention and protection of the motherland, and no one or any country will be allowed to infringe on their interests!

Xiao Tianjian's article has been published in the China Monthly, and it immediately caused an uproar in China, no matter who it is, they all feel warm in their hearts, there has never been an emperor in Chinese history who values his subjects so much, and the current emperor even cares so much about those overseas Chinese, will he still be harsh on the people at home?

Therefore, as soon as Xiao Tianjian's article was published, it immediately caused a sensation in China, especially the relatives of those overseas merchants and maritime merchants, all of whom were excited, and some even took the initiative to find the government and ask for donations to help the imperial court send troops to Luzon to fight against Xiyi, who massacred the Chinese.

Taking advantage of this trend in China, Emperor Xiao would certainly not miss the opportunity, so he immediately convened a cabinet to discuss sending troops to Manila to expel the Spaniards and restore Luzon's status as a vassal of China.

After deliberation, the cabinet ministers unanimously passed a resolution on the crusade against the Spaniards, and ordered the military department to draw up a battle plan and prepare for an expedition to Manila.

The military department immediately ordered the naval division and the land division to jointly draw up an operational plan, and after coordination and deliberation by the staff headquarters, a detailed operational plan was drawn up in just half a month and placed in front of the cabinet and Xiao Tianjian.

This time, the plan to conquer the Spaniards was much larger than the battle plan for the recovery of the island of Taiwan, and in addition to the use of the Southern Fleet, the Northern Fleet and the large ships of the Maritime Trade Group were also mobilized to participate in this operation.

In addition to the navy, the army division will naturally not sit idly by, and after the War Department's efforts, the army division has also transferred three army divisions from the Southern Military Region, the Southwest Military Region, and the Southeast Military Region to participate in this expeditionary operation.

Xiao Tianjian secretly snickered at the fact that he was very aware of the military situation in the Philippines, and the navy and army took out so many troops, it was really a bit of a fuss, this was not a punishment crusade at all, and their battle plan was to take down the entire Philippines.

However, Xiao Tianjian did not say it thoroughly, and he did not raise any objections to such a plan, because this was the first battle for the development of overseas colonies in the future, and it was not wrong to be conservative, and the military department was not wrong, and Luzon was not far away from China geographically, if even such a close place, the Great China and North Korea could not take out enough men and horses to occupy and negotiate, then how could we continue to expand to the world in the future?

Therefore, even if it is a training exercise, there is nothing wrong with letting the navy and army cooperate in launching a maritime expedition and gaining some experience in fighting at sea and other places.

After reading this battle plan, Xiao Tianjian put forward some revisions, he didn't care about how to fight this battle, because this battle plan of the Ministry of War had already been formulated in great detail, with the plan of the Ministry of War, if so many men and horses could not repair the Spaniards, then the commander of the expeditionary force should find a place to jump into the sea and pull down.

During the last campaign to attack Taiwan, the military neglected the issue of medical support, and after arriving in Taiwan, it did not attach much importance to the prevention and control of local epidemics, and after the war began, it caused a certain degree of non-combat attrition, and many soldiers lost their lives in vain because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil and the contracting of malaria.

This time, the Chinese army will have to cross the South Seas to fight in the hotter region of the Philippines, and the epidemic prevention problem will be even more serious.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian ordered the military department to attach great importance to this, and ordered the Tai Hospital to dispatch a large number of medical officers to participate in this operation, and prepare sufficient medicines in advance, especially to prepare sufficient medicines and some anti-heatstroke, antidiarrheal, and deworming drugs to provide support for the army.

Of course, the Ministry of War immediately accepted it and immediately revised the battle plan, but as for the cabinet, Xiao Tianjian did not understand the situation, so he could only agree to the battle plan this time.

Therefore, in February of the eighth year of Tianyuan, taking advantage of the dry season in the Philippines at this time, and the storms in the South China Sea were relatively few, Dazhong and North Korea launched an expedition to Manila.

The departure point of this expedition was Guangzhou, and the Southern Fleet, which had just completed the battle to recover Taiwan at the end of the seventh year, immediately began to prepare for the expedition to Manila.

Within a few months, dozens of large plywood ships, namely the Galen ships, were launched and delivered to the Southern Fleet in shipyards around the country, and dozens of commercial large plywood ships were also delivered to the Haimao Group for use as maritime trading ships.

Western shipbuilders, in the past few years, for the shipyards of China, North Korea have trained a group of shipwrights who can build Western-style sailing ships, and the wisdom of Chinese craftsmen can never be underestimated, these Chinese craftsmen, the learning ability is very strong, although they are not highly educated, but they are good at memorizing and summarizing, and are better at blending all kinds of learning together, so these craftsmen who have learned will soon be able to build galleons comparable to Westerners in major shipyards. Even after incorporating many Chinese sailing boat manufacturing techniques, the resulting sailboat is more usable than Western sailing boats.

Therefore, this era can be called the era of Chinese sailing ships, and the shipyards along the coast have newly built ships launched and delivered to users almost every day.

Therefore, some of the old sailing ships built by the navy in the early years have begun to be eliminated in large quantities at this time, and some ships have been resold to fishermen as large fishing boats or ordinary coastal cargo ships because they can still be used.

This operation is not only a matter of the Southern Fleet, the Northern Fleet has also dispatched more than 50 large warships and troop carriers of various types to participate in the battle, and the Haimao Group has also made an old investment this time, gathering nearly 100 armed merchant ships under the company to participate in the battle.

War is something that the Haimao Group cannot ask for, they have long coveted the good port of Manila, and in addition, all kinds of materials produced in the Philippines are the commodities needed by the Haimao Group, especially the copper ore, jute and other materials produced by the Philippines are all sought-after goods.

The essence of waging an overseas war is plunder, and the Haimao Group seems to have to pay for the manpower of the ships in vain to help the imperial court fight, but after the victory of the war, the imperial court will definitely authorize the Haimao Group to supervise the port of Manila, so Zheng Zhilong, the governor of the Haimao Group, was very excited about this, and almost all the armed merchant ships that could be used at hand were sent to the navy for use.

In addition, the three army divisions dispatched by the land division also began to assemble at the end of the seventh year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, and they arrived at the area around Guangzhou by land, water, and even sea, and with the cooperation of the navy, they selected several islands in the coastal zone and began their preliminary preparatory training.

As soon as February arrived, more than 300 large warships and armed merchant ships, as well as large troop carriers, all completed the assembly in the area of Guangzhou Bay, and with an order, tens of thousands of people began to board the ships one after another, and all kinds of materials were loaded onto the ships.

It took half a month for the fleet to arrive at the port of Manila, which was the result of the use of a large number of Western-style fast sailing ships, and if the old-fashioned Chinese-style sailing ships were used, even if the fast fortune ships were relatively fast, it would take at least more than 20 days.

On the way, the fleet also encountered a relatively large storm, three ships because of the collision, caused capsizing, the loss of hundreds of sailors and soldiers, but even so, as the commander of this battle, Liu Yanming still did not waver in the determination to continue to advance, and finally half a month later, led a huge fleet appeared in Manila Bay.

The Spanish patrol ships also quickly discovered the fleet of the Great China and North Korea, and the Spaniards were immediately frightened when they looked at the fleet of the Great China and North Korea that covered the sky like a dark cloud.

There is almost nothing to say about this battle, in the face of absolute superiority of forces, the resistance of the Spaniards is as pale and weak as the Dutch in Taiwan, the current Spain has long since ceased to be the majesty of the past, after their Spanish fleet was defeated by the British, the Spanish sea power was seriously weakened, and now it is only barely maintaining a colony in Asia, dealing with the Dutch, they are still reluctant, but in the face of tens of thousands of troops, Their few thousand soldiers and the colonial army composed of local indigenous Filipino monkeys who were only equipped with some crude primitive weapons were not enough for the big Chinese army.

So this battle lasted less than ten days, the Spanish governor of Manila announced the surrender, after handing over all the weapons and their belongings, the remaining hundreds of Spaniards were driven by the Great Chinese Army into two broken ships, and they drove away, as for whether they can return to Spain or other places, it depends on their luck!

The Great and Medium Dynasties immediately carried out a large-scale purge of the local natives who tried to resist near Manila, and this purge can also be said to be a kind of massacre! All colonists will not have good intentions for the local natives, especially these black-skinned monkeys who have participated in the massacre of local Chinese, the officers and soldiers of the Dazhong Army have already been ordered not to be polite to them, so in a month, the Dazhong Army slaughtered tens of thousands of local black-skinned monkeys almost within a hundred miles near Manila.

This kind of violence suddenly made these black-skinned monkeys understand a truth, when the Chinese are angry, they are far more cruel than the Spaniards, either they will submit to the feet of these newly arrived Chinese, or they can only be slaughtered.

Perhaps violence is not the best solution, but it is undoubtedly a very effective deterrent, in just one month, the resistance of the local indigenous people has all been silenced, and the surviving black-skinned monkeys have become very docile one by one, and as long as they see Chinese along the way, they will immediately kneel on the side of the road to show their submission, even if they only see the overseas Chinese who lived here before, they will also immediately behave extremely deferentially.

After the arrival of the Chinese army, the local Chinese were all excited and cried, and took out the best things in their homes to entertain these Chinese soldiers who came thousands of miles to "protect" them, this day they had been looking forward to for too long, and even they were desperate, even they themselves thought that they had been abandoned by the motherland long ago, but on this day, they suddenly found that their motherland once again remembered them, and sent a large army to protect them, to seek justice for them, all the Chinese living in Manila, all excited, all excited.

They came out one after another, acting as guides for the Great Chinese Army, and led the generals of the Great Chinese Army to march inland to the interior of Luzon, taking over the fortresses set up by the Spaniards, controlling the villages of black-skinned monkeys, and controlling the mines.

After the news reached Beijing, Xiao Tianjian immediately announced in Beijing that the Great and Chinese Dynasty would take over all the interests of the Spaniards in Luzon, and officially announced that Luzon would be incorporated into the Great Chinese Dynasty and become a province of the Great Chinese Dynasty, including the entire Philippine Islands, which would be incorporated into the province of Luzon and become the territory of the Great Chinese Dynasty.

And when the whole country was celebrating the expansion of the territory of the Great China and the DPRK again, and everyone rushed to tell each other the good news, Xiao Tianjian quickly recovered his composure from the joy of this victory.

Once again, he summoned the cabinet and military members, and in the Wuying Hall in the Forbidden City, he began to look farther away.

(Today's collection finally broke 19,000!) It's time to celebrate and make a big chapter! In addition, I would like to thank Song Xingxing and Hong306 for their tips! ）