Beijing was the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and after the Ming army was recovered, there were many calls for the return of the capital, but after Wang Yan moved the emperor back to Beijing, this call basically stopped.

The ministers all know that with the current political situation, it is impossible for the imperial court to return the capital.

Wang Yan was reluctant to return to Beijing, in addition to his base camp in the south, there was another important reason, that is, the south was indeed more developed than the north, and the southward expansion policy implemented by the Ming Dynasty was related to the growth of taxes in the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with Beijing, Nanjing is much closer to Nanyang, but the news comes from Nanyang, even if the time at sea is excluded, it will take half a month to get from Guangzhou to Nanjing.

After learning that Heyi had broken the treaty and massacred the Ming people, Wang Yan urgently convened a meeting of the council.

When the officials heard that thousands of people had been killed, they were immediately filled with righteous indignation and passed the cabinet's proposal to go to war against the Netherlands with a high vote.

Protecting the interests of Nanyang may be more active for the gentry in Beijing than in unifying the world.

Besides, the Ming Dynasty has just recovered the old capital and realized Zhongxing, and Heyi provoked trouble at this time, didn't he slap the face of the Ming Dynasty?

After the cabinet was authorized, Kuaima gave an order to Chen Zilong, the governor of Liangguang, to prepare for war, and let the East China Sea Division go south to reinforce him, but at the same time reminded Chen Zilong that the Spaniards might have arrived in Nanyang, so that he could find out the situation and report to the imperial court as soon as possible.

While waiting for news from Nanyang, the Nanjing Imperial Court was not idle, but dealt with several big questions at a very fast speed.

On July 15, only five days after Wang Yan took office as the superintendent, the Empress Dowager issued a decree to choose the eldest daughter of the five-year-old King of Chu as the empress for the eight-year-old emperor and set a marriage contract.

The next day, the co-ruling emperor and the empress dowager Zeng, under the escort of the new governor of Beizhi, Gao Yigong, moved to Beijing and returned to the old capital.

After this incident, as the commander of the Northern Expedition, Wang Yan began to ask for credit for all the rear officials who participated in the war and provided support for the war.

This is a rather complicated work, because of this expedition, the Ming army dispatched more than 300,000 horse infantry troops, not to mention the non-commissioned officers, there are thousands of officers with military merits alone, but Wang Yan is only responsible for setting rewards for the main generals, and the following generals and colonels are counted by the officials of the military department and rewarded according to the regulations.

Wang Yan's key reward is Dai Zhifan, Liu Shun, Wang Shixiu, Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, Man Dazhuang, these generals in the army, especially Dai Zhifan, as the commander of the East Route Army, he quickly broke through Xuzhou and outflanked Heluo, which can be said to be the first military merit.

As early as that year, after Dai Zhifan's battle to behead Azig and seize Nanyang, Wang Yan said that he would be crowned king, but Dai Zhifan did not accept it, because at that time there was only Wang Yan with a different surname, so he did not accept it.

After He Tengjiao was crowned king of Fuchuan, the ancestral system of the opposite sex not being crowned king in the Ming Dynasty was basically trampled, and with the example of He Tengjiao, Dai Zhifan should be sealed as much as he can.

This time, Wang Yan said that he was the king of Guangling County, and as for the others, they wanted to be crowned kings, but their merits seemed to be a little worse, so Li Guo, Liu Shun and others were handed over to the cabinet for discussion, and different princes were rewarded according to their merits, but Wang Yan told them that as long as they destroyed the Jin Kingdom, they could also be crowned kings.

Dai Zhi's feudal title is a strong signal in the Ming army, which is equivalent to telling the generals that as long as they have enough merit, they are qualified to become kings.

For a time, this greatly boosted the morale of the army, but it also laid a hidden danger for the later westward and southward disputes.

In addition, Wang Yan also suggested that all the 10,000 righteous servants who participated in the Northern Expedition should be given to Han Chinese.

While the Nanjing court was discussing the reward, Wang Yan did not wait for further news from Chen Zilong, the governor of Liangguang, but the envoy of Zhu Yihai, the king of Luzon, arrived in Nanjing.

The person who came was Wang Yi, the Luzon national soldier Cao Jushu, mainly to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty.

From his mouth, Wang Yan learned that Zhang Huangyan's judgment was correct, the reinforcements of the Spaniards did arrive in the South China Sea, which was not small, with thirty warships and nearly 5,000 people.

They traveled for nearly a year, and in June they arrived in Sulu, southern Luzon, where they forced the Sulu state to submit to it, preparing to use it as a springboard for a counterattack on Luzon.

It is said that Spain had made a plan to send 20,000 troops to conquer China, but the plan was cancelled due to the destruction of the Armada.

Wang Yan looked at the map of all countries, at such a long distance, it can be said that it is very difficult for Spain to send thirty warships and five thousand soldiers, and this amount is almost the limit of the number of troops that can be organized for an expedition after Spain loses its maritime supremacy.

It can be said that it was extremely difficult and costly for them to cross two oceans over such a long distance, and the reason why Spain launched this expedition was because Luzon was too important to them.

What was worth trading in seventeenth-century Europe, for a while, I really can't say, because Europe was still a country like a place, and the good things were in China and India.

From the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century, about 30,000 tons of silver were produced in the Americas, while about 7,000 to 10,000 tons went into China.

Spain has a large number of silver mines in the Americas, but silver alone is not enough, silver can buy things, it can be regarded as money, and it can't buy things, it is just a pile of scrap metal.

Being able to buy tea, porcelain, silk and other items produced in China made Spain's silver meaningful, which was the reason why Spain had to recapture Luzon.

At the end of June, Zhu Yihai heard that the Spaniards had arrived in the Sulu Sea south of Luzon, and immediately ordered the Luzon Navy Division to send 50 warships to inspect and prepare to drive the Spaniards away, but as a result, the sailors were sunk by the Spaniards with 10 warships because of the light enemy, and the Luzon Navy Division hastily withdrew to Manila Bay.

This incident made the Dutch feel that their opportunity had come, so they took the initiative to contact their former rival Spain, and also organized the small sultanate of Nanyang to prepare to attack Luzon and even Guangzhou, and start a war with the Ming Dynasty, forcing the Ming Dynasty to submit and drive the Ming forces out of the South Seas.

At the beginning of August, two pieces of news came from the governor of Guangzhou and Guangzhou, and Chen Zilong, after obtaining the authorization of the cabinet, ordered the sailors assembled in Zhancheng to go south for revenge.

Unexpectedly, not long after the sailors left, the Spanish fleet appeared outside the port of Champa in a premeditated manner, intending to destroy this important stronghold of the Ming Dynasty in the South Seas.

This news further confirmed the alliance of the two Yi, and the other was that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty reported to the governor of Champa that the Dutch were instigating Zhenla, Malacca and other countries to attack Champa, and Champa hurriedly spread the news to Guangzhou.

Hearing these news, the Nanjing court was a little shocked, after the destruction of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was already relieved, but at this time, it suddenly felt that a strong opponent appeared.

Wang Yan realized that the Ming Dynasty had been pressing forward in Nanyang over the years, and it might be about to usher in a rebound.

In order to know himself and his opponent, Wang Yan recruited the missionary Bo Yingli and others, and prepared to gather the generals and court officials to get to know these Xiyi well.

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