Dai Xiuyuan was flattered, and immediately ordered his fiancée to kneel and knock, and tried his best to sit up straight and bow to Zhu Linmiao, "The last general will thank Sheng Shanglongen!" ”

"No courtesy." Zhu Linmiao smiled and helped him up, and continued, "At present, Shandong is newly restored, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, and it is necessary to be able to govern it." You have previously traveled from Saiwai to Japan, and you have been away from your homeland for a long time, and you have made great contributions, so this time you will stay in Shandong, serve as the governor of Shandong, and manage the place for me. ”

Ludi is connected to the north and south, and its location is at the forefront of controlling Korea and Japan, and the authority of the governor of Shandong is naturally extremely heavy, how can Dai Xiuyuan not know this. He hurriedly solemnly shook again, "Minister, thank you!" I will do my best to live up to the great trust of God! ”

"Okay." Zhu Linmiao nodded, turned to the generals and gestured to the temporary ceremonial platform in the distance, "The sailor still has many important things to do in the future, and it is difficult to return to Beijing, so I will award the medal to everyone in front of this Laizhou Port, but it is also very topical." ”

Zheng Chenggong and other generals hurriedly bowed down and thanked him, and walked with him to the outside of the dock.

Zhu Linmiao asked Dai Xiuyuan again: "Tingxuan, you tell me in detail about the current situation in Japan." ”

"Yes." Dai Xiuyuan arched his hand and said, "There are two strongest forces in the Wa Kingdom at the moment, the first is the Tokugawa family and more than a dozen powerful daimyo loyal to the shogunate, followed by the 'Western Army' formed by Mori and Shimazu, and there are also five or six daimyo who should be recruited.

In addition, the Catholics have captured Hizen and Chikuzen, with nearly 10,000 troops. The minister was worried that they would clash with the neighboring Shimazu family, so he asked Lou Ming to take some of the disciples by boat to the eastern Anfang and Shangzong areas to raise trouble. These places had been influenced by Catholicism in the past, so they were proselytizing very quickly, and in the near future they may be about to rebel.

"The other force is Toyotomi Tsuchimaru, the fourth son of Toyotomi Hideji, ah, now renamed Toyotomi Eiyoshi. He raised the banner of Toyotomi orthodoxy, but he also won the support of Fukushima and several other institutions. The Tokugawa family was pinned down by the Western Army, and for a while they could only watch them grow up in the Shikoku area. ”

Zhu Linmiao was puzzled: "I remember that the descendants of Toyotomi Hideyoshi should have died, what kind of soil pill is this?" ”

Dai Xiuyuan smiled slyly, "Your Majesty once taught his ministers that they should use both fiction and reality against bandits, and apply both truth and falsehood. Chen thought that Xiu's second son had many heirs, and it was appropriate to make a fuss about it, so he found a female relative of the Toyotomi family and asked her to identify a middle-aged man as a descendant of Xiuji, only saying that he exchanged another baby for Tsuchimaru that year. Now that Japan is in turmoil, all forces want to climb to the name of righteousness, but there is no one to distinguish between the true and the false. ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded slightly, "Making something out of nothing, Tingxuan's plan is very clever." ”

Dai Xiuyuan continued: "There are also Uesugi and several Ming families in the northeast, although they are the Western Army on the surface, but in fact they are in their own right. As for other small forces that are on the sidelines or taking advantage of the opportunity to sit big, there are as many as more than 10 shares.

"Before the minister left Japan, the Tokugawa clan was fighting the Western Army in Harima, and the two sides won and lost each other, and the casualties were extremely heavy."

"The more chaotic Japan is, the more beneficial it will be to me." Zhu Linmiao pondered for a moment and said, "In this case, we will add another fire to the Japanese people." Passed on the decree, Mao Lixiu was named the general of Japan's conquest, Toyotomi Nagayoshi was named Taiko, and Uesugi Tsunatsu was named Sekihaku.

"Since the Japanese themselves have created so many powerful things, we can use them for convenience."

Dai Xiuyuan hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, it's okay to say it on the Maori side, but the Toyotomi and Uesugi families have no connection with us, so if you refuse, you won't be ......."

"Tingxuan don't have to worry, let the merchant ships go with weapons and armor, and only grant them to those who accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid that they will rush to accept the canonization."

Before the Ming army won a series of victories, captured all kinds of arquebuses, armor countless times, these extremely backward weapons Zhu Linmiao did not look down on it at all, originally planned to return to the furnace to recast, and now a little bit to "support" the Japanese civil war is almost zero cost.

General, Taiko, Sekihaku, etc., are all titles that ruled the whole country or half of the country during the Warring States period of Japan. The Japanese are already belligerent, but now that they have received arms support, the forces of all sides will surely fight happily in order to become the "boss" of Japan.

Not to mention that there is a Catholic armed force that is deeply controlled by the Ming Dynasty to stir up trouble, and it is impossible to fight without it.

When the Japanese fight is at a fever pitch, the weapons captured by the Ming Dynasty can even be sold for a high price.

Zhu Linmiao instructed again: "Tingxuan is extremely familiar with the situation in Japan and North Korea, and in the future, you can let people deal with small things cheaply, and carefully keep their forces evenly balanced." I will know if there is something important. ”

"Minister, Commander."

As he was talking, the group had arrived at the altar.

Zhu Linmiao raised his hand to signal, and more than a dozen horns and cannons immediately sounded around him, and then the snare drums sounded.

Subsequently, 27 sailor generals lined up in three neat rows to receive the award from the Great Son. Dai Xiuyuan was injured and could only sit on a stretcher, carried by his subordinates.

Although the award process was only witnessed by 800 soldiers of the imperial battalion, it was still extremely solemn.

Zheng Chenggong, Shi Lang, and Dai Xiuyuan all won the Golden Qilin Medal, which symbolizes the highest honor of the Ming soldiers, and Liu Guoxuan, Ruan Jin, Zhang Guoxuan, and more than a dozen others won the second-class Golden Lion Medal. In the future, even if the head of the cabinet sees these heroes, they will have to be polite.

Even the six or seven people with the lowest merit are also third-class Golden Leopard Medals, which shows the great achievements of the sailor in the past six months.

After the award was over, everyone returned to Laizhou Mansion with the holy car.

Zhu Linmiao first asked Dai Xiu to go to the back hall to rest - the latter was hit by three arrows in the leg, and the injury was not light, and he still needed to recuperate.

Then he summoned Zheng Chenggong, Shi Lang and other core generals of the Navy Division to the front hall and began to arrange the future tasks of the Water Division.

"Now that there is no longer a Hongyi constraint, the overseas caravans of the Ming Dynasty will go deep into the South Seas, mainly for trade in Luzon, Annam, Goa and other places. However, Batavia still has a Hongyi fleet, so the sailors should be careful to escort our merchant ships.

"By the way, there is also Guinea, a few days ago, the Ministry of Commerce reported that the copper and iron ore there have begun to be produced, and that there is an important source of wealth for the imperial court in the future. From now on, sailors will patrol the waters of Guinea and Australia on a regular basis, prohibiting the approach of any unscrupulous vessels, which can be immediately sunk.

"Ah, there is also the shipping route to Europa and the continent of Moliga in the north and south, although it is explored under the auspices of the Ministry of Commerce, but the sailors also try to help send ships to protect ...... along the way."

Zheng Chenggong heard that he could stay calm when he was escorting Nanyang merchant ships, and when he heard that he was going to patrol Australia, cold sweat was already oozing from his forehead.

In the end, when Zhu Linmiao mentioned the continent of Europa and Moliga, his face had already begun to turn pale, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, with the number of warships and manpower of the sailors at present, it is extremely reluctant to patrol Australia, and if you want to sail thousands of miles away to a foreign land, I am afraid that you will not be able to do it......"