Next, Zheng Jing, Feng Xifan and others formulated a set of plans:

The first step was to send a large amount of gold and silver to the other side of the ocean, to buy more weapons and ammunition under the pretext of pacifying the natives and dealing with the Western colonizers, and at the same time to recruit a large number of Japanese immigrants to the American continent, and recruit troops among the Han immigrants and Japanese immigrants, and recruit troops among the natives who returned to the country, conduct military training, and train an elite army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time, more farmland will be developed, large crops will be grown, and pastures will be opened up to feed more people.

Then send troops to Central America, seize more territory, and destroy those local tribes with a certain civilization that were beaten by the Western colonizers and retreated into the deep mountains and forests, and turn them into their own slaves.

The next step is to look for minerals such as iron ore and sulfur ore, recruit skilled personnel from the West, open factories, open mines, establish their own military-industrial supply system, and produce their own weapons. Once you have your own weapons production capacity, you can declare the statehood.

After establishing his own country, he began to conquer all the Western colonists and Indian civilizations on the American continent, bringing them under his rule and building a powerful empire in the Americas.

After formulating this series of strategic plans, Zheng Jing asked again: "Have you thought about the issue of the country name?" It can't just be called Dongguo, right? It's a bad name at all. ”

Hong Xu proposed: "How about calling it the East China Sea Kingdom?" ”

"It's not good, it's a vassal country, not a big country. We want to build a great power, not a vassal state. Feng Xifan said.

In the end, Wang Xiuqi came up with a name: "The Tessie people call the continent America, why don't we call it the United States?" ”

"That's right! It's called America! Zheng Jing was overjoyed.

So the name of the Great American Empire was decided, and Zheng Jing would be the Emperor Taizu of the American Empire from now on.

It's just that the scale of the United States is still very small, and Zheng Jingzhan's territory is honestly not large, and it has no industrial base of its own, so it can only develop slowly step by step.

Zheng Jing then said: "But the founding of the country is still not too early, now my Ming court is dealing with the Tartars, we have to stand on our own, no matter how we say it, we have to wait until the Tartars are destroyed." During this time, we will mine gold mines, or pay tribute to them, it can be regarded as my Zheng Jing inheriting my father's will, and taking it as my responsibility to destroy the captives! ”

In the next step, Zheng Jing planned to attack south, open up vast wastelands, and take a large number of borderless lands in the Americas into his own pockets and turn them into his territory.

The Ming army, with artillery, muskets, crossbows, bows, strong armor, cavalry and hot air balloons, oh no, it was the American army, dealing with those natives was like a tourist, everywhere they went, they set up cannons and bombarded them, and then released hot air balloons, and the local natives surrendered one after another.

It's just that now the U.S. military still doesn't dare to play the banner of the U.S. empire, and still uses the banner of the Ming army.

It was also when Zheng Jingzheng was expanding frantically, thousands of miles away on Dongfan Island, Wang Xinyu was arranging to send people to Japan to deal with the Dutch.

At that time, communications were not developed, especially for navigation, and it was very difficult for the headquarters on land to convey orders to the naval fleet. The four catamarans dispatched cruising the sea for seven days and seven nights before they found two new fast cruisers, six cruisers, and a clipper full of Marine Corps special forces. And Wang Xinyu's main fleet has not yet been found, and two flying clippers carrying special combat teams have not been contacted.

What is more gratifying is that Hu Dedi, who is the captain of the Marine Corps special operations team, is on the flying clipper ship he found, and the more than 300 people on this ship are also the most elite veterans.

"I'm bringing you all back today to discuss things about Dongying." Wang Xinyu sat in his office in Anping City and looked around at the naval officers such as Hu Dedi, Albert, Zhang Yukun, Tang Wei and Zhang Jian sitting beside him.

"Please instruct the marshal! I'm going to go to the soup even if I can! Hu Dedi and the others bowed their hands.

Wang Xinyu made a gesture and nodded slightly: "The red-haired ghost is attacking and harassing Dongying, and Dongying and we are friendly neighbors, and our sulfur, saltpeter, gold and silver all come from Dongying. If Dongying is occupied by the red-haired ghosts, it will be a serious threat to our ammunition production! ”

In fact, this sentence was also deliberately alarmist by Wang Xinyu, and it was impossible for the Dutch to occupy Japan at all, just to scare Japan and extort some benefits from it. Even if Wang Xinyu doesn't save him, the Dutch will withdraw sooner or later.

"We can't afford to watch our allies be wiped out by the red-haired ghosts! We've got to get rid of them! Hood hugged his fist.

Albert asked, "With this little strength, can we beat the Dutch?" ”

Wang Xinyu smiled and said: "We have a hard fight with them, of course we can't beat them!" But your homeland is already at war with the Dutch, and the Dutch can't stay in the East for long, and they go to the East to get a little advantage. If we can contain them and make them unable to get their hands on them, sooner or later they will have to retreat, at most something. If you want food, give them a little and let them go back. ”

"In that case, then we can be sure to contain the Dutch!" Albert replied.

Thousands of miles away in Edo Bay, Japan, which is now Tokyo Bay, the sea is densely covered with white sail shadows, the Dutch flag is like the sea, the mast is like a forest, the black pressure fleet is densely packed in Edo Bay, all the battleship guns are open, and the guns of the black hole hole are aimed at Edo Castle.

Edo, later known as Tokyo, was the largest city in Japan at the time. Although the capital of Japan is in Kyoto, and the emperor of Japan also lives in Kyoto, Edo is the real largest city because the Tokugawa shogunate is in Edo, and the population of Edo was more than 600,000 at that time, and in a few decades, the population of Edo will reach more than 1 million.

In the Dutch fleet, on the battleship Seven Provinces, Trop looked at De Knight, who was obviously a little anxious, and asked, "How is it?" Didn't these Japanese agree to our request? ”

De Knight shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands out, "Looks like they're not interesting!" After waiting for half a month, we have long lost patience, and now we can only use artillery to teach these Japanese how to behave! ”

Edo Castle was the only castle in Japan with a castle wall. The other castles in Japan were unwalled, and their generals and samurai built castles like Westerners, and the rulers lived inside the castles, which were surrounded by low, dilapidated wooden houses. Edo Castle, on the other hand, was the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, so it had a castle that was five kilometers long and four kilometers wide, and even if it was brought to China, it would be considered a large castle.

However, the Tokugawa shogun still had the same virtue as the other shogunate lords, and built a castle in the center of the city where he lived, and outside the castle were the residences of other shogunate officials, and each high-ranking official and shogun had his own castle, so there were many castles in Edo Castle.

The Tokugawa Shogun's Castle in the center is called Nishinomaru Palace, and there are castles such as Honmaru, Ninomaru, and Sannomaru on the periphery, and it is inhabited by important figures of the Tokugawa shogunate, such as the Tokugawa family, the Ii family, the Sakai family, the Doi family, the Hotta family, the Matsudaira family, and the Takaji family.

Although Tokyo is a small castle, it occupies most of the castle, luxurious private gardens, and various official residences, and the rest is the residence of various samurai and various merchants who do business in Edo Castle. In particular, the samurai who lived in the castle could not do without the merchants in Edo Castle, otherwise where would they go to buy alcohol and drink, and where would they go to have fun? Most of the merchants in Edo Castle are restaurants, but there are also blacksmith shops that make weapons and miscellaneous goods shops that sell other items.

Shoguns, officials, samurai, and merchants occupied the entire castle, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary Japanese civilians were left to live outside the castle as if they were in other castles.

Standing on the helm of the battleship Seven Provinces, de Knight looked at the low, dilapidated wooden buildings outside Edo Castle and sneered: "Bantam pigs, I will show you the power of cannons today!" ”

Dutch warships came sideways, pitched their cannons from their guns, and aimed them at the pier outside Edo Castle.

On the deck of the Dutch battleship, Dutch gunners lit a stove, which burned brightly. The gunners put the solid shells that were about to be fired in the furnace and let the torch shells burn red.

"Ready!" The Dutch artillery officer shouted.

The Dutch gunners filled the chamber with gunpowder, loaded a log board through the muzzle, and pushed it in with a mop, pushing the board until the powder was compacted.

"Load the shells!" The artillery officer shouted.

The Dutch gunners picked up the red-hot shells from the stove with iron clamps, stuffed them into the muzzle, and then pushed them to the end with an iron chisel, sticking to the planks.

"Fire!" The officer shouted.

Rows of large and small fires flashed on the side of the Dutch warships that had been discharged from the sea, and hundreds of small red dots were spat out, rolling and whistling through the air, and smashing at the Tokugawa Naval Division's ships moored at the dock.

The Tokugawa Naval Division's ships shattered one after another, sank into the water, or set fire to fire. In a short time, all the Tokugawa naval ships anchored in the waters of Edo Bay were sunk to the bottom of the sea.

The Dutch commander de Knight coldly ordered: "Open fire, bombard the civilian area of Edo!" It's all wooden houses, and in a few rounds of shells they all ignited! ”

The Dutch ship turned, fireballs erupting from its guns.

Shells whistled and fell into the wooden houses outside Edo Castle. The hot projectiles smashed into the roof of the Japanese wooden house, and soon the wooden building materials were ignited with the heat, and the flames burst out, first in dots, and then in pieces.

Outside Edo Castle, the low-slung civilian quarters soon burned into a sea of fire, which took advantage of the wind and made a whirring sound of burning, and from time to time a fireball erupted from the ground, and wooden houses collapsed in the flames.

Many Japanese were burned to death on the spot, and some Japanese were engulfed in flames before they had time to escape; Some Japanese were swept down by the billowing smoke; Some escaped by chance, crying and screaming in the thick smoke and fire, running wildly, but they were smoked and fell weakly on the hot streets.

Several Japanese panicked and jumped into a small pond. But the fire was so strong that the small pond was surrounded by raging fires, and the water inside was quickly boiled, and the Japanese who jumped into the small pond were cooked.

Shells continued to whizz into the civilian areas outside Edo Castle, and more and more civilian areas were set on fire.

De Knight looked coldly at the Japanese who had escaped from the house and were running around the smoke-filled streets, and pointed to the Japanese who were constantly falling and being consumed by the smoke and flames, and said, "Look, these Japanese are just not interesting!" If we don't bombard them, they won't agree to our terms! ”

A Dutch officer came up and saluted: "General, are we going to continue shelling?" ”

"Okay, this is almost burned, let's stop the shelling, save a little shells, and go to another city to bombard! I just want to see how long the Japanese can hold on! De Knight said.

De Knight then ordered an envoy to land to deliver a message to the Tokugawa shogunate.

On the letter, the Dutch wrote: "Your stubbornness has made us completely impatient!" Today's bombardment of Edo is to teach you a small lesson! Because of your stubbornness, now we have to increase our stakes: you must provide us with five thousand tons of grain, and ten million silver dollars worth of gold and silver, and we must give us two thousand pigs, five hundred cattle, twenty thousand chickens, and ten thousand pounds of salt...... If you refuse again, we will set fire to the coastline of Japan and burn it all the way, and we hope you will make a wise decision!

When Tokugawa Ietsuna saw the threat letter from the Dutch, his face was very ugly. He was a young man of only twenty-four years old, and the Dutch demanded a sky-high price, and the conditions were so harsh that he would certainly not agree to such conditions.

The Eagle Division's left minister, Jiaoping, said: "General, we must not agree to the conditions of the Dutch people!" The lowly little girl has already gone to Daming to ask for help! Let's wait! ”

Sakai Tadakiyoshi said: "General, the conditions of the Dutch people are too harsh!" We can't say yes! I also believe that the people of Ming will definitely come back to save us! ”

However, Tokugawa Ietssuna was still a little unconfident that the Ming army would send troops: "Do you think they will definitely send troops?" They have a good relationship with the Satsuma clan, and they have never had anything to do with our Tokugawa family! ”

"The Satsuma Domain is also our country, and the Netherlands have attacked the Satsuma Domain, and the Satsuma Domain is trading with the Ming Kingdom, and the Ming Kingdom has made a lot of money relying on the Satsuma Domain. We and the Satsuma Domain were dependent on each other at this time, and if we collapsed, the Satsuma Domain could not exist alone. Just for this point, the Ming people will definitely send troops! Sakai Chungseichi.

Hotta Masayu also said, "General, let's wait!" ”

"What do we do to the Dutch side?" Tokugawa Ietsuna asked.

Sakai Tadakiyo said: "Let's just say, we can prepare things, but it takes time, let them wait a few more days!" ”

"Okay, that's it, use the delaying tactic to hold off the Dutch for the time being!" Tokugawa Ietssuna nodded. (To be continued.) )