Let's fight for the fourth watch today

"The king descended from heaven, drive out the Tartars and save China! Heaven on earth, mountains are boundless, and rivers are the most splendid; 10,000,000 people and gods, the land is large and the products are abundant. Raise the flag of my Sun and Moon Empire, and plant it all over the universe to praise the king! ”

Military music whimpered, and the majestic national anthem "Praise of the Ming King" resounded in the sky. In the midst of high singing, the neat soldiers of the expeditionary force were silently boarding the ship. The families of the soldiers, and the people who were sending off (all organized by the Heavenly Taoist Sect) waved the sun and moon flags in the distance, and let out a burst of hoarse shouts.

The waves in Dinghai Port are not small, pushing the ups and downs of the three or four thousand stone fortune ships in the port. The warships of the First Detachment of the Nanyang Fleet, which served as escorts, had already pulled anchor and left the port, spread their white sails, formed a formation on the sea, and circled around Zhoushan Island over and over again. They waited for the convoy to be loaded, and then escorted them out to sea.

It is now the autumn of the second year of the Heavenly Dao, and the "grievance redress movement" at the end of last year and the beginning of this year and the "suppression of the Datong Party" that followed have become history -- it is a pity that the Datong Party has not become history, but is only temporarily dormant, as long as the Ming Empire refuses to change course and return to the original development trajectory of China. Then a Ming world empire that is speeding towards capitalism cannot stop the development of the idea of Datongism in any way.

This is a truth that has been proven time and again by the history of later generations!

Now, however, the Datong Party and its doctrine have temporarily faded out of people's sight. Since the summer of the second year of Tiandao, the Ming Empire has started the "Great Work" and "Expedition" at the same time. "Dagong" is the canal, Huanghuai, Liangjing and other major projects. The first step is to start with preliminary work such as survey, design, maintenance and preparation of materials for large works, and of course, to raise funds.

Among them, the Huanghuai governance and the construction project of the two capitals. It was raised by issuing bonds - the collateral of the bonds was the gold and silver proceeds of the Ming Empire's colonies in Mingzhou. Mingzhou gold and silver have now become the credibility guarantee of the Ming Empire, because in the summer of the second year of the Heavenly Dao. Five more "New World"-class sailing ships loaded with more than 20,000 catties of gold and 100,000 catties of silver returned from Mingzhou.

At the same time, there were also a lot of Sado gold and Iwami silver (discovered in the first year of Tendo) that were shipped from Japan to the Ming capital. Used to buy H medicine weapons and Nanfen steel of the Ming Empire - the "Heavenly War" in Japan is still going on endlessly. Because the Ming Empire's support for the Japanese Celestial Samurai was not very favorable, and there was no embargo adopted by the Kamakura Army of Eastern Japan. Therefore, although the Heavenly Dao samurai had excellent equipment, they did not have the strength to overwhelm the Kamakura samurai.

In addition, Zhao Youyu, who was sent to Luzon by Chen Dexing in the early years, actually took shit luck. His people found gold on the island of Luzon!

For a time, gold and silver flowed like a tide to the vault of the head office of Jiangdu Tiandaozhuang. Therefore, no one was worried that the Ming Empire would have no money to repay its debts, and the discovery of bonds went very smoothly.

In addition, the "stock market" that arose a few years ago after the "late appointment turmoil" is after a long period of downturn. In the second year of Tiandao, it finally ushered in a stock that looked very promising - Cao Run Stock. The Grand Canal, which was built in the Sui Dynasty, has now become the asset of this Cao Run!

And the Ming Emperor Chen Dexing himself became the largest shareholder of Cao Run. The main business of Cao Operation is to repair the Grand Canal, which has been damaged for decades (not completely damaged, only a section of the Central Plains), and is responsible for maintaining the canal, developing the cities along the canal, collecting canal tolls, and collecting commercial extraction taxes.

The Grand Canal has been turned into a toll road by Chen Dexing!

But a toll on the Grand Canal, and the former prosperity along the Northern Canal. Or let the investors in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty believe that investing in Cao Run is a sure deal......

The canal has become a sure-fire business, and the war is in the hands of Chen Dexing, and it can actually be invested!

The war against Nanfan and Tianzhu. Now they have become the target of investment in the Jiangdu Securities Exchange.

Not stocks, of course, but war bonds. High interest rate, no guarantees. And there's the carried income - what is the carried income? That's a matter of big sellers and a few future kings, or the right to include taxes. Or an official position, or something else......

This time, it was the Java and Khmer countries that were to be conquered. They are all big and rich countries in the south, and it is Li Yanguo's Tang army that is responsible for attacking Khmer. The vast lands of southern Vietnam, Cambodia, southern Laos, eastern Thailand, and northern Malay Peninsula in later generations will all be the territory of the future Tang Kingdom -- of course, Li Yanguo will have to fight the territory himself, and military expenses will have to be raised by issuing bonds.

In charge of attacking Java was the combined army of the Fu Domain, the Song Domain, and the Xia Domain—the Xia Domain was Xia Gui's army, and the Xia Gui army occupying Huaixi was the strongest of all the Southern Dynasty feudal towns, so it was natural to get them out of Huaixi as soon as possible, and there must be a good place to go. The island of Java, where the land is rich enough to feed more than 100 million people, is the place to be. The three feudatories will jointly send troops, and after the war, the island of Java will be occupied by Xia Gui's family and become the territory of the Xia Kingdom. Therefore, all the military expenses for the troops sent to Java were raised by the Xia Domain (that is, borrowed), and the Xia Domain was also responsible for providing military rations for the Tianzhu expedition of the Song Domain and the Fu Domain.

On the Dinghai wharf, the army of King Fu Chen Huaiqing was queuing up to get on the boat. Lai Toad and Splash Plum are among them. Both of these applied to join the Fu Expeditionary Force on their own, and both of them were the most ordinary infantrymen.

Among them, Popi Li became an archer - he was born as a bastard, and he had mixed with the bow and arrow club in Duqiao Town, and he was originally able to open a foot bow with eight buckets, but now after a few months of training, he can finally open a stone bow.

Lai Toad became a sword and shield bearer, which is the most dangerous and easiest type of military to make meritorious contributions. For this reason, he also mortgaged his family's 100 acres of land in exchange for 600 yuan to buy equipment for himself. Purchased a pair of steel armor!

Splash Li and Toad were both incorporated into the most elite Guards Infantry Brigade known as the Fu Domain, the brigade commander was named Chen De'an, and he knew that he was Chen Dexing's cousin by looking at the name, and his appearance was similar to Chen Dexing, tall, big and white, quite handsome. He also fought with Chen Dexing and studied at the army academy of the Ming Army.

Now the toad and the splash are waiting in their respective companies to get on the boat, and when they see each other from a distance, they can only look at each other, and they can't talk or talk.

"The saint has arrived!"

Suddenly, someone shouted, and then I saw a group of silver shining cavalry galloping towards them, and the first two horsemen were holding the gold-bottomed sun and moon banner and the gold-bottomed dragon flag, the latter being the banner of the Great Tomorrow.

"Hooray! Banzai! Hooray! ”

The soldiers who were waiting on the dock all shouted long live. Lai Toad and Popi Li turned their heads to look at the same time, and saw that their king, Chen Huaiqing, had already stepped forward to greet them surrounded by a group of Hakka retainers. All the Hakka retainers knelt on one knee, but Chen Huaiqing did not kneel - he was Chen Dexing's biological father in the end, and there was no reason for a son to kneel to his father.

"Uncle," Chen Dexing generally called Chen Huaiqing his uncle in public, he looked at his father, who was as strong as an ox and didn't have a single white hair in his fifties, and smiled, "When can I play Kai?" ”

Chen Huaiqing pinched his long hair and looked at the huge fleet of transport ships on the sea - there are no less than 300 lucky ships of three or four thousand stones alone, which can transport 50,000 land divisions to the south at a time! In addition, there is also the main force of the Nanyang Fleet stationed on Temasek Island, with 48 large and small warships, equipped with more than 1,000 cannons! Such firepower, such military power, is simply not something that the natives of Java can withstand.

Therefore, the question of the conquest of Java is not whether it can be won, but how to deal with the aftermath?

Chen Huaiqing did not answer Chen Dexing's question, but waved his hand left and right, and a bunch of Hakka retainers immediately retreated. Chen Qianyi and Yang Po'er, who were beside Chen Dexing, also immediately retreated.

"When the army arrives, it can be played Kai, but it must be peaceful for a long time...... What should I do? ”

"Can you slaughter them all?" Chen Dexing said lightly.

"There are so many people in Java that it may be difficult to slaughter." Chen Huaiqing shook his head slightly.

The fertile land of Java has always been very high, and it is natural to feed a large number of people. There will be more than 100 million people there in the future! Naturally, there are not so many now, but there are still three or four million, and it is the most densely populated country in the Nanfan region.

However, it is precisely because of the large population of Java that the island has been sufficiently developed, and the plague is not too serious. If all the natives are killed, and there is no Han to fill them for a while, I am afraid that the forest will recover, and the plague will also recover.

Chen Dexing paced near the dock with his hands behind his back, and Chen Huaiqing immediately followed.

"The eldest brother's letter says that Brahmanism is popular in Java?" Chen Dexing said slowly.

Saying "slaughter" is just Chen Dexing expressing his wishes, and he may not be able to do it. Even the plan of the Ming Army's four military headquarters system does not have a plan for "slaughtering".

Therefore, Chen Dexing put forward the second plan, which is also the solution proposed by the Fourth Military Department and the Tiandao Sect after research - the caste system!

Or rather, the use of the caste system to enforce apartheid on the island of Java. Placing the vast majority of indigenous Javanese at the bottom of society - the situation on the island of Java at this time was similar to that of the Srivijaya and there was no unified Javanese nation. The upper class were the conquerors from Tianzhu, all of whom were of the higher castes (the lower castes could not serve in the army and could not be conquerors), and the lower classes were the indigenous people of Java.

"Brahmanism?" Chen Huaiqing nodded, already understanding what Chen Dexing meant. How Brahmanism governs the country and how the caste system works, Chen Huai knew it clearly through Dharmapolo early in the morning - Buddhism in Tianzhu also has castes!

"The caste of the Han Chinese is all Brahmins, and they are the highest rank among Brahmins." Chen Dexing slowly explained, "The Brahmins and Kshatriyas in Java try their best to take them for their own use, and in the future, you can take them to Tianzhu and let them take the untouchables away as much as possible." (To be continued......)