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"Your Highness, I'm back!"

Qi Wangfu, Qingzhou civil and military officials gathered. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the center of the main hall, Yue Yun and the rest of the seafarers suddenly knelt on the ground, crying bitterly.

Niu Ben and Lu Fei couldn't help but be moved when they saw this, more than 700 people at the time of departure, and now back in Qingzhou, there are only 231 people left in the navy, and two-thirds of the seafarers died in the vast sea.

Xiao Ming walked in front of Yue Yun and helped the officers and men of the navy up one by one, his eyes were warm, he knew that it would be dangerous to go, but these seafarers still did not hesitate.

It is such self-sacrificing soldiers who make his fiefdom as stable as Mount Tai.

Xiao Ming believes in weapons, but what he believes in most is his soldiers, without their bravery and sacrifice, how can he sit in this main hall.

"Soldiers, it is this king who should salute."

A thousand words only turned into a deep bow in Xiao Ming's heart.

Yue Yun and the others' eyes were red, but their expressions were still resolute, and they roared in unison: "My glory is loyal, for the sake of Your Highness, we are not afraid of death, we are not afraid of sacrifice, just so that one day Your Highness can no longer let the people of Liuzhou no longer suffer from outsiders!" ”

"Yue Yun, you are iron-clad men, I admire you!" Lu Fei shouted.

"We admire!" The other generals shouted at the same time.

At this moment, Yue Yun finally couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes, his mother died at the hands of the Japanese Kou, and his crew was attacked by the British fleet on the sea, and then they narrowly escaped the pursuit of the British fleet under the leadership of Wilson.

Unexpectedly, he encountered the Dutch fleet while crossing the Ryukyus.

Already battered, they had little ability to fight back, and with a mortal heart, they sank a Dutch warship, but their ship could no longer sail and could only run aground on an uninhabited island.

If it weren't for the Cao family's fleet, they probably wouldn't have been able to come back.

The family and the country hate him, and he carries too much alone.

Xiao Ming patted Yue Yun on the shoulder, and he said: "This king knows that you are bitter, the sacrificed soldiers will not die in vain, this king will get it back tenfold and hundredfold, the people of the Cangzhou battle will not die, and this king will also get it back tenfold and hundredfold, the northern expedition to the barbarians, the eastern expedition to the Japanese country to seize the sea trade routes, this is Qingzhou's strategy in the next few years!" ”

"The northern expedition to the barbarians, the eastern expedition to the Japanese country!"

All the officials present were shocked, and Xiao Ming officially proposed the next strategy for the first time.

Yue Yun gritted his teeth and said: "Your Highness, we are all waiting for your words, Your Highness doesn't know, now there are Western warships rampant on the sea, they are much stronger than Dayu in terms of ships and weapons, in my opinion, only our Qingzhou warships can compete with it." ”

"The people of the Cao family have told this king that the Western powers are expanding their sphere of influence to the Great Yu Kingdom, so at the moment we must first deal with the barbarians in Youzhou, so that we can concentrate on seizing the trade routes on the sea."

Pang Yukun nodded, "The barbarian race is in great trouble, threatening the hinterland of the Great Chongqing Country at all times, and it must be eliminated. ”

Yue Yun said: "During this time, a large number of Galen ships can be built to prepare for future naval battles, and Lao Tzu must throw the Dutch and the British into the sea to feed the fish. ”

Xiao Ming smiled and patted Yue Yun's shoulder, what he needed was such a fighting spirit.

Facing everyone, he said: "This time, taking advantage of Yue Yun's return, it is these two things that this king has ordered the equipment department and the military workshop to cooperate with each other to increase the production of flintlock pistols, and there will be an expedition against the barbarians in the autumn of this year, the old general, in addition to commanding the Qingzhou army, you will now immediately draw elites from the six state armies to cooperate with the Qingzhou army for joint training, and at the same time form a car battalion." ”

"Yes, Your Highness!" Niu Ben shouted his order.

"Pang Yukun, in addition to the state affairs, the government has to cooperate with the shipyard to produce Galen ships, and it has to be slow in terms of money and food."

"Yes, Your Highness." Pang Yukun responded.

"Chen Qi, Lu Tong, the lime bomb will be handed over to you, and this king wants to see the field artillery during the expedition."

"Yes, Your Highness."

After issuing a series of orders, Xiao Ming set his sights on the north.

The northern expedition to the barbarians is a plan, but also a last resort, Jizhou civil unrest is getting more and more intense, at this time the initiative to attack is just to attack as a defense, after all, if the barbarians take the opportunity to go south, Jizhou is afraid of being vulnerable at this time.

And he believes that the barbarians will definitely not let go of the opportunity of the chaos of this Great Yu Kingdom, when Jizhou is lost, he will be attacked on his back, which he does not want to see.

Therefore, he made up his mind to go on the Northern Expedition against the barbarians, set up a car battalion to form the first obstacle to the barbarians in the field, and at the same time asked Chen Qi to develop light field artillery.

Jointly formulated a plan for the future of Qingzhou, Xiao Ming announced the reward for Yue Yun and other admirals, and at the same time let Yue Yun take a seat.

Knowing that Yue Yun was back today, he deliberately set up a celebration banquet in the palace, in order to catch the wind and wash the dust for Yue Yun and others.

It was only after the banquet that he summoned Yue Yun alone.

"Your Highness, it's a pity that Wilson was killed by the Dutch during the naval battle, otherwise Your Highness would have been able to hear him talk about the current situation in the West."

"It doesn't matter, you can come back, this king is satisfied."

Yue Yun was moved in his heart when he heard this, Xiao Ming cared so much about the soldiers, which made him feel warm in his heart, thinking that even if he died in battle, it would be worth it, and then he remembered something and gave Xiao Ming the translator's booklet.

Xiao Ming opened the booklet for the translator to record the questions, and his eyes swept over the questions he listed.

After reading these accounts, he basically understood the current situation of the world, and the invasion of Europe by the northern steppe tribes hundreds of years ago also broke the European perception of the world.

Since then, the course of European civilization seems to have undergone earth-shaking changes, with scientific development and scientific discoveries coming out one after another.

These scientific changes further contributed to the advent of the Age of Discovery in Europe, first with the occupation of the Americas by Europeans, then with Southeast Asia and East Asia.

According to Wilson, merchants from other countries had been forbidden to set foot in the East Asian trade routes since the Dutch had taken over them.

It is precisely because of this that few foreign missions go to the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

In recent years, however, the Dutch have been in decline, replaced by Great Britain, France, and Prussia, and because of the Protestant sects, European countries have been divided and wars frequent.

As for the current level of science and technology in the West, Wilson also explained, in Xiao Ming's view, it is already the level of the middle of the modern eighteenth century.

The steam engine had already been proposed in Great Britain and was trying to develop it.

Regarding the butterfly effect, Xiao Ming couldn't calculate what impact a little deviation would have on the overall situation, but the current world was a completely different history for him except before and after the Three Kingdoms.

Both Europe and Asia have gone on a completely unfamiliar track.

Xiao Ming suddenly realized at this time that in addition to the geographical environment being the same, this was just a strange world, a more dangerous world.

(To be continued.) )