However, with the development of the colonies, foreign wars began to obtain a large number of war dividends, as well as the income from the sale of land and slaves in the colonies, so that the officials and even the common people of the country, China and North Korea saw the benefits from these foreign wars.

In the past, Yu Xiaotian tried his best to launch foreign wars, and they thought that it would be detrimental to the Great Middle and Korean Dynasties, but now through these wars, they found that things did not seem to be what they thought, through the means of war, the Great Chinese Dynasty not only did not lose money, but also obtained a large number of war dividends, just in the war of conquest, it brought back at least tens of millions of taels of silver income for the Great Chinese Dynasty, and also occupied the silver mines of the Japanese State.

The colonial land purchase business and slave business also brought huge income to the Great Middle Korea, squeezed out a lot of idle funds of the people, and received it into the hands of the Great Middle Korea, which was too easy to earn, as long as they won the war, they could make a fortune, and the Great China and the North Korea could raise more soldiers, build more warships, launch more wars, seize more colonies, and continue to make greater fortune.

What's more, the colony can continue to feed back to the Great Middle Kingdom, and all kinds of raw materials are continuously transported back to the country, and after the land is sold, it is opened up, and the Great China and North Korea can also collect taxes in the colony and give back to the mainland, so that the local area can be more prosperous.

As a result, the officials of the DPRK have completely changed their previous concepts, and no longer think that waging a war against a foreign country is a business that costs the people and money, and that as long as they win this kind of war, they can obtain a large amount of war dividends and make a windfall, and this has given the officials of the DPRK the motivation to expand and wage war abroad.

And the merchants also made quite a lot of profits from the war, after all, every time they launched a war, the imperial court had to purchase a large number of various military supplies, and also had to purchase a lot of weapons and ships, and after occupying the colony, as the most sensitive businessmen, they were often the first to land in the new colony, and a large number of encircled land, whether it was to open mines or do anything in the future, it was a profitable business.

Naturally, the merchants also wanted to see the imperial court continue to wage war, so that they could obtain greater benefits, so that both official and non-governmental people began to support the war, which further promoted the speed and pace of the foreign expansion of the Great China and North Korea.

This is the most critical thing, in the past, the Han people have been in the agricultural economy, and there is not enough motivation for foreign expansion, so the court of the Han people is mostly in a stable or inadequate attitude, and rarely takes the initiative to launch wars of aggression against the outside world, so it will be repeatedly invaded by nomads.

But now it's different, Tongguò is constantly waging wars against foreign countries, these officials and the people of the Great and Middle Koreas have benefited from it, the salaries of the officials have been rising, of course they are happy, the life of the common people is getting better and better, of course they are happy, and the businessmen are making a lot of money, and they are even more happy.

Therefore, this has caused a drastic change in the state of the Han people's lack of motivation for foreign expansion, and the whole country hopes that the imperial court can launch more foreign wars, occupy more colonies, and seize more territorial colonies, which can make the Great China and Korea more prosperous.

This impetus drove the expansion of military operations, and the navy and army began to expand massively again after six years of Chengtian.

Taking advantage of the dividends brought by various wars, Yu Xiaotian was finally able to let go of his hands to expand the navy and army, so batches of young and strong people were recruited into the army, and the naval academy and the army martial arts hall were also continuously expanded, and new schools were added in various places to train more naval and army officers.

At this time, the navy and army of the Great and Chinese Koreas had formed their own culture and traditions, and they had become active and belligerent, and the treatment of soldiers was getting better and better, and their status was greatly improved, making the army more aggressive and animalistic, and becoming more barbaric.

This is a good thing for Yu Xiaotian, he has always said that soldiers must have wolf nature, and at the same time have a strong sense of discipline, while obeying orders, but can not erase their wildness, must let them in the sense of obedience, but also maintain a strong enough wildness and aggressiveness, this is the real soldiers, peace is not to make the army become a strong army, can only erase their combat effectiveness, so that they become a group of sheep in military uniforms.

If the army wants to have strong enough combat effectiveness, then tradition is one point, and the most important thing is to let them continue to learn, evolve and temper in the war, so as to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army.

With the end of the battle of the Japanese in the seventh year of Chengtian, the scale of the navy of Dazhong also expanded to an unprecedented level.

A number of newly built large warships began to be incorporated into the naval sequence, including the latest type of clippers, in the seventh year of Chengtian, but also began to be built in the country's major state-owned shipyards and even some private shipyards.

In fact, the warships of this era are not very different from the merchant ships, which can be used as combat ships and can also be loaded with goods when necessary, which makes the navy's external projection capacity stronger and stronger.

According to statistics, the number of warships, transport ships, supply ships, and other ships owned by the fleets of the large and medium-sized navies in various parts of the navy, excluding those small ships with small tonnage, the number of medium and large warships exceeding 500 tons alone has exceeded 1,000.

Among them, there are more than 400 warships of more than 1,000 tons, not including those large-tonnage transport ships, supply ships, slave carriers, and other ships.

The strength of the navy has also expanded from less than 100,000 at the beginning to more than 300,000, with various artillery pieces, which has exceeded 10,000.

As for the army, there were originally only 300,000 troops in Dazhong, but in the seventh year of Chengtian, the size of the army had been expanded to more than 500,000, and it had been organized into more than 20 integrated combat divisions and divided into several large military regions.

Among them, there is the Fuguang Military Region, which is responsible for the southeast, which is mainly responsible for the strategy and defense of the Nanyang direction, and the garrison of Luzon Province, which is temporarily in colonial status, is also under the Fuguang Military Region.

In the north, the Northern Military Region was set up, including Mongolia, Liaoning and Jilin provinces, which were mainly responsible for the northern strategy, deterring Mongolia and the Guanwai tribes, and incidentally controlling the Zì Dynasty-Xian State.

The reason is very simple, Yu Xiaotian said that now there is no need for the Chao-Xian to have an army, there is a suzerainty of Dazhong, and it is a waste for them to have an army.

As for many of the official offices of the DPRK and Xian, they were also abolished and handed over to the officials of the Great Middle and Western Dynasties, and even the power to collect taxes was handed over to the officials of the Great and Chinese Dynasties, not to mention foreign diplomacy and other things.

The king of Chaoxian refused to agree, so Yu Xiaotian immediately sent a group of troops stationed in Liaoning, drove into Chaoxian, forcibly disbanded the army of Chaoxian, and directly settled in the capital of Chaoxian, which was called to provide protection for the king of Chaoxian.

In this way, the dynasty-Xian state will exist in name only, and the king will be completely hollowed out, but he will continue to keep it nominally, and allocate some living needs to the royal family every year, so that he can live a very comfortable life.

Some officials of the Chao-Xian refused to agree, and privately sought to restore the country by armed force, but in front of the Dazhong Army, their armed resistance was simply a joke.

The future is estimated to be very soon, and the DPRK-Xian should calm down, and there is a precedent for the Japanese state in front of the eyes of the DPRK-Xian people, if you don't want to destroy the country and exterminate the species, then be honest and obey the management of the Great and Chinese Dynasty!

In the Gyeonggi region, the garrison military region was formed, which included the provinces of Beizhili, Xuandae, Shanxi, and Shandong, and was responsible for the defense of the entire Gyeonggi region, while the Donghae province was also under the control of the garrison military region.

The Nanjing Military Region was set up in the central and eastern parts of the country to control the four provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, and was responsible for the stability of the local ground.

In the southwest, the Chengdu Military Region was formed, which was responsible for the defense of the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou.

The Central Plains Military Region was established in the central part of the country, which was responsible for the defense of Henan, Huzhou, and Guangzhou provinces.

In the future, the Western Military Region will take the lead in the expansion of the territory to the west, and in the future, it will incorporate Tibet and Yili into the large and medium-sized territories, and will continue to expand into the Central Asian region.

On the whole, among the major military regions, the southeast, southwest, and northern military regions have the strongest armed forces and the largest number of troops, and these localities have many local contradictions, and they are located in the frontiers, so they have the responsibility to continue to expand, so they are also inclined in terms of troops and weaponry.

The army also has several thousand artillery pieces, more than 300,000 rifles, and more than 200,000 pistols of various kinds.

Needless to say, the Japanese and the Spaniards have the deepest experience, and the other ones who have a deep experience are probably the Vietnamese.

In the spring of the seventh year of Chengtian, under the instructions of Yu Xiaotian, the cabinet made the decision to march south, and the South China Sea Fleet and the Phuoc Quang Military Region jointly acted to launch a war against the Lê Dynasty in Vietnam.

In front of the powerful offensive of the Great Chinese Army, the army of the Li Dynasty did not last for half a year before it was completely destroyed, and then Vietnam was changed to Cochin Province again, and the temporary status was also the status of a colony, and the governor of Cochin was appointed to manage it.

At the end of the seventh year of Chengtian, a major event occurred in the Shun German Machinery Factory, a prototype steam engine that could produce power by boiling water was finally successfully tested, and it was slowly running under the drive of steam.

Emperor Chengtian Yu Xiaotian personally attended the scene to watch the ignition test run of this steam engine, although this steam engine is only a very primitive steam engine, the structure is very simple, and it does not produce much driving force, the horsepower is very small, and the safety is also doubtful, but after all, this is the world's first semi-practical steam engine in the real sense, and it is also the first manually operated prime mover, which is of great significance and self-evident.

Yu Xiaotian was so excited that he wanted to die, he couldn't wait to hug this stupid black steam engine and kiss it, almost crying, if it weren't for the persuasion of the eldest prince Yu Zhenhua next to him, he would really shed tears.

For this day, he didn't know how many sleepless nights he had paid, with a lot of technicians, day and night experiments, constantly developing some processing machinery, and constantly manufacturing various models and drawing various drawings.

Now that it has finally paid off, looking at this clumsy and rudimentary steam engine panting, Yu Xiaotian was very excited and loudly announced to the people present on the spot that the Great Middle Kingdom was about to officially enter a mechanical age.

(Happy Lantern Festival to brothers and sisters!) ）