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The way Huang Zhenlin fooled the Japanese envoy reminded Qin Mu of the words "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle". Of course, this is not the same thing at all.

Mr. Huang lobbied in a gentle, receptive way to the Japanese.

In order to strengthen its rule, the Tokugawa shogunate highly respected Zhu Chenglixue, and Zhu Shunshui, who jumped to Japan in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was very respected.

In other words, the export of Zhu Chengli to Japan was in itself something that the Japanese shogunate could not ask for, and it had nothing to do with "aggression".

As for the circulation of the commodity economy, Tokugawa Ieyasu even acquiesced in the missionaries in Japan in order to strengthen the economy and trade and prosper the market.

This shows that the Tokugawa shogunate did not want to develop economy and trade, but it was just that the speed of the spread of Christianity made the Tokugawa shogunate feel a huge threat, so it implemented a policy of closing the country to the outside world.

The development of economic and trade with Daqin not only does not have to worry about the threat of Christianity, but also helps Japan.

The Tokugawa shogunate did not completely block trade with non-Christian countries such as China, the Netherlands, and Korea precisely because Japan had a demand for trade.

No matter how you look at it, developing relations with China is beneficial to Japan, which makes Huang Zhenlin's lobbying much smoother.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong and others were preparing to launch an attack in an attempt to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, and the Tokugawa shogunate was still very afraid of such a thing, which was one of the reasons why the Tokugawa shogunate even strictly restricted Chinese merchants.

In order to eliminate this fear of the Tokugawa shogunate, it was necessary for the Daqin official to make a certain commitment and at the same time express support for the Tokugawa shogunate.

Daqin doesn't have the energy to deal with small Japan now, and it is best to open the Japanese market in a diplomatic way.

If it doesn't work, when Daqin's internal stability settles, Qin Mu doesn't mind letting the Royal Navy's warships kill in Edo and blast the Japanese gate open with cannons. Anyway, Huang Zhenlin even found an excuse for Daqin.

The New Year is approaching day by day, and the festive atmosphere in Nanjing is getting stronger and stronger, and there are too many people. The streets of Beijing are often clogged. Even Concubine Xiang's car was blocked, and after returning to the palace, Qiao'er mentioned this matter, and Emperor Daqin was furious, and immediately made an order: pedestrians should keep to the right.

In the future, in addition to the emperor's imperial chariot, no matter how big the official is, he cannot go in the middle, he must keep to the right, and he also sends out the imperial officials to patrol the city, even if it is the car of the cabinet minister. Disrespect for the will is also subject to impeachment.

As a result, the traffic situation in the entire city of Nanjing was immediately greatly improved.

It is different from the bustling and festive atmosphere in the city. In the Huagai Palace, Qin Mu and the cabinet assistants, as well as the senior officials of the military department and the household department, surrounded the map and discussed before the war with a solemn expression.

This Great Qin Southern Expedition was actually not a joint attack on the two Guangzhous, but a separate system, and the total number of troops used was not much. There are only 40,000 troops, of which 20,000 horses led by Ai Nengqi are still by sea.

Therefore, the scale of troop mobilization in Huguang and Jiangxi is not large, in the eyes of the Yongli monarchs and ministers in Guangxi. It seems that Great Qin has only strengthened the deployment of troops, not like a posture of attacking Liangguang on a large scale.

Gu Junen, the left attendant of the military department, said on the map: "Your Majesty, attacking Guangxi by land is nothing more than five routes. One is from Hengzhou to Guilin. One is from the passage county through Gulongguan, Rong County, to Liuzhou Mansion.

The other is from Duyun Mansion in Guizhou Province through Dushan to attack Nandan Prefecture, Hechi Prefecture and Qingyuan Prefecture in Guangxi. Then it was from Anlongsuo in Guizhou to Anlongsi, Tianzhou, Guohua in Guangxi, and attacked Nanning Prefecture. The last one was to enter Mo's Gaoping from Guangnan Province in Yunnan Province and attack Longzhou, Taiping Province, and Nanning Province in Guangxi.

At present, Guizhou's military strength is limited. Moreover, judging from the distance, the two routes through Guizhou are the farthest, and the roads are difficult to travel, so they have been abandoned in the combat plan of the military headquarters.

At present, the main choice is the two lines from Hengzhou to Guilin, and Yunnan Guangnan Prefecture through Jiaozhi Gaoping into Guangxi Longzhou, in addition, the route from Tongxian to Liuzhou is also equipped with 3,000 soldiers and horses, once the progress of Hengzhou's attack on Guilin is unfavorable, it will be outflanked from Tongxian County and attack Liuzhou. ”

Qin Mu listened to his head and said: "I think the plan of the military department is feasible, but I don't know if Ma Liuliang in Yunnan will be in time." ”

"Your Majesty, Jiandehou marched from Yunnan through Gaoping, the distance is actually closer than entering Guangxi from Guizhou, between this out and in, there is Mo Jingyu to respond, there is no obstacle on the road, and there are Mo supplies to provide supplies, the progress will not be very slow, as long as the Hou can be taken by surprise, in one fell swoop to open up the line from Longzhou to Qinzhou, the two armies on the South Road can be united."

"It would be nice to be able to do that."

The timing of this southern expedition was relatively well chosen. In the Liangguang region, if it is spring and summer, there is a lot of rain and the roads are difficult to travel, and the soldiers are prone to the phenomenon of not adapting to the water and soil due to the hot and humid climate.

The winter is much better, the winter in Liangguang is not very cold, and the rainfall is also less, so the soldiers are not afraid that a large number of people will fall ill due to the lack of adaptation to the water and soil.

The battle plan has been arranged, and all Qin Mu can do now is wait for the battle report from the front.

After the high-level meeting dispersed, as soon as Qin Mu came out of the Huagai Palace, Han Zanzhou came to report happily: "Your Majesty, it's done, Your Majesty has made the developed cement burned." The craftsman tried mixing sand and stone, and after a few days, it was as hard as a stone."

Qin Mu couldn't help but interrupt him and said, "What about cement? Quickly have someone bring some into the palace, I want to see it with my own eyes. ”

"Your Majesty, the slave has already asked people to bring back half a bag."

"Take me to see."

"Whoa!"

Cement, Qin Mu roughly knew that it was made of limestone, peat rock, loess, clay, shale and other raw materials, and after returning from Ningbo at the beginning of the year, he asked Han Zanzhou to find craftsmen to develop it in Nanxiang.

The things he asked to develop were not only cement, but also many things, from lathes to soaps, clocks, etc., but basically everything he could think of had the Internal Audit Division set up a research and development project.

The advantage of being an emperor is that you don't have to develop these things yourself, you just need to tell Han Zanzhou an idea, and he can find the best craftsmen to develop it.

No one has ever heard of these various things, and if you want the household department to allocate funds, one or two things are okay, but it will be very troublesome if there are more types, so Qin Mu simply spent the money of his inner treasury and let the internal supervision department be responsible for various research and development projects, firstly, to avoid irresponsible remarks from the officials of the DPRK and China, and secondly, if the results are produced later, the transfer of patent rights can make the inner treasury receive a large amount of silver.

Like the Wanli Emperor, it is too unproductive to occupy mines everywhere to collect money. Qin Mu believes that in the future, with the invention of the Internal Supervision Department, he will be able to make his internal treasury prosperous.

The development of cement has been almost a year, and it cost Qin Mu nearly 10,000 taels of silver, so he has finally come up with some samples.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. For cement, a good thing that can completely improve the appearance of Daqin's roads, Qin Mu is of course very attentive, and he doesn't see how to do it with his own eyes.

Qin Mu was busy watching the little eunuchs stirring concrete, but Emperor Yongli of Wuzhou was busy pulling the rack, yesterday the Lord and faction of the Jinluan Palace and the main battle faction had a big fight, and the scratched land had not yet been scarred, and today it was fought again.

The reason is that there is new news from Huguang that the generals of the Qin army, Liu Tichun and Qin Zuoming, have gathered more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Hengzhou to prepare to attack Guangxi, and the news has been confirmed.

The main battle faction headed by Qu Shiyun urged Zhu Youlang to drive the expedition in person to boost morale and strive to defeat the Qin army, which was more than 10,000 troops in one fell swoop.

Where is the lord and faction headed by Ding Kuichu willing to let the emperor go to the front line with you, won't you become a coercive son of heaven to order the princes? Looking back, I wonder how to arrange and suppress us?

The two sides quickly quarreled again over this matter, and finally staged a full martial arts exercise again.

History is always strikingly similar. The situation of the original Hongguang Dynasty was similar to this, and it was also the current enemy, but the two internal factions were pinched together.

In the end, Zhu Youlang, who was cowardly by nature, stood on Ding Kuichu's side and insisted on staying in Wuzhou. Qu Shiyun was disappointed and took the initiative to ask to go out of Guilin.

In order to appease the main battle faction, Zhu Youlang crowned Qu Shiyun as the Taishi, and ordered him to supervise Guilin and take full responsibility for resisting the Qin army.

In this way, most of Guangxi's troops were actually in the hands of Qu Shiyun, and Wu Zhenyu, who was also the main battle faction, was in charge of the household department, and he had soldiers and wealth, and the main battle faction benefited from it, so this dispute barely calmed down.

Ding Kuichu did not panic, Wu Zhenyu was in charge of the household department, and Cao Ye, the governor of Guangxi, and most of the state and county officials at all levels were his people. The lower-level states and counties paid no taxes and silver, and Wu Zhenyu, the head of the household, couldn't even eat porridge.

Besides, he is the head of the cabinet, and whether he allocates money or not, it is not up to the head of the household department to decide alone.

Although Qu Shiyun can also think of this, there is nothing he can do, and the key now is to master the army on the front line, strive to win one or two wars, and improve the prestige of the main battle faction, so that he can gain more initiative.

After Qu Shiyun discussed a faction with Wu Bing, Wu Zhenyu, Zhang Tongchang, Li Ruyue and others of the main battle faction, he hurried to Guilin

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