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Chapter 632 The Emperor Hates Spaniards Most

First hit the Burmese people hard, and then eat and weaken them. Even if it takes more than ten or ten years, Burma must be completely resolved.

The emperor remembered very clearly that the Burmese were capricious. In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in history, wars broke out with the Central Dynasty.

A wolf's ambition is not enough to feed and not familiar with, let alone be influenced by benevolence and righteousness.What convinced them was only cannon and muskets, and only the despair of not being an enemy.

It is not quite accurate to label Varmen as revenge.But the Spaniards who conquered Luzon were completely bloody battles of revenge.

Those who kill my people of Ming Dynasty will be paid in blood and will never be forgiven.

Dongfan has been officially designated as the government of Taiwan by the imperial court, temporarily governing eleven counties, and Kaohsiung County in Tainan is one of them.

However, the nature of Kaohsiung County is different from other counties. It is temporarily under military control. To be precise, it is used as a military base for conquest of Luzon.

After annihilating the Dutch fleet, Yaowu took back the governance of Haojing and signed a treaty with the Dutch. After the navy completed its mission, the two fleets returned to Kaohsiung to continue their preparations and training.

Fighting the Dutch was actually not a big achievement, at least in the eyes of Shen Yourong and other admirals, conquering Luzon and beating the Spaniards was the first battle of the navy's grandeur.

In the sixth to seventh year of the Apocalypse, a severe drought occurred in southern Fujian, and terracotta was everywhere.The imperial court and the Maritime Chamber of Commerce jointly recruited tens of thousands of hungry people in Quanzhou to go to Taiwan for reclamation;
In the eighth year of the Apocalypse, southern Fujian suffered another severe drought, and many people were hungry.The imperial court and the Maritime Chamber once again recruited tens of thousands of disaster victims from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. "One person will be given three taels of silver, and three people will be given a cow", and they will be transported to Taiwan for reclamation and settlement.

This is just a large-scale immigration in the face of disasters. Coastal provinces such as Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong have all formed policies against immigration. Those who are interested can also disperse to Taiwan and be resettled by the Taiwan government.

Over the past few years, Kaohsiung County has more than [-] residents, and more than [-] hectares of wasteland have been reclaimed by the military and civilians. The food production is not only self-sufficient, but also fully supplies tens of thousands of naval officers and soldiers.

This is of course the emperor's preferential policy. Otherwise, Taiwan's reclamation and colonization will require a large number of people and labor. If Kaohsiung County does not focus on it, how can it get so many immigrants?

There are people, labor, troops, court policy and capital investment. The construction of Kaohsiung is very fast. The large and small ports can already park two fleets and hundreds of warships.

The Marine Corps has also reached the three battalions with a total of 5000 people. They are fully staffed and are intensely training for beach landings and land warfare.

When Shen Yourong returned to Kaohsiung, he immediately threw himself into intense work.

In his lifetime, Shen Yourong, who is already in his 80s, feels the urgency of time to raise his prestige outside the territory, revive the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty, and avenge the people of the Ming Dynasty who died.

next year?The year after next?
Putting down the documents in his hand, Shen Yourong got up, walked to the window, looked at the shadow of the masts in the distance in the port, and fell into deep thought.

Long live hated the Spaniards to the bone, and the wording of the secret decree was full of anger, which put a lot of pressure on Shen Yourong.

Of course, the emperor also had strategies and plans, and did not choose the first opponent to be the Spaniard.

Attack Burma first, use plunder to accumulate funds, so as to launch a great war across the sea; fight the Dutch first, build the confidence of the navy, and practice the tactics of maritime combat.

First build the base - Kaohsiung, resettlement and reclamation, minimize the difficulty of transporting materials from the mainland, and minimize costs.

First build a sea-going ship, a large transport ship that can carry [-] marines and various ammunition supplies.Combined with the ships of the Maritime Chamber of Commerce, the transportation capacity has already met the conquest of tens of thousands of troops.

Train the Marine Corps first. As long as they can land smoothly, with the advantages of weapons and equipment and troops, the Spaniards in Luzon will be defeated.

First do reconnaissance and collect all kinds of intelligence.The so-called know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

The maritime merchants who went to Luzon, the Chinese who had lived in Luzon and returned to Daming, and the spies of the Zhenfu Division in disguise, had a clear grasp of the truth and falsehood of the Spaniards.

And all of this was done with as much secrecy and concealment as possible, and the Spaniards in Luzon didn't know it yet.

Even in order to paralyze them, the emperor never mentioned the Spaniards in public, mentioned Luzon, and allowed maritime merchants to go to Luzon to trade and make money, so that the Spaniards could get some silk, porcelain and other best-selling commodities in Europe.

Shen Yourong thought that the emperor had committed the mistake of being overly cautious. In his opinion, it was not too difficult to attack Luzon and eliminate the Spaniards.

In terms of military strength, the Spaniards in Luzon plus the vassal natives number only a few thousand; the Spaniards only have a dozen warships.

The Ming army will dispatch tens of thousands, and the two fleets will have more than two hundred warships alone. With such a disparity in strength, won't it be a matter of grasping victory?

The difficulties and risks facing the Ming army were long-distance voyages and unpredictable winds and waves.

Regarding this, Shen Yourong had no choice but to choose the safest time to go to sea based on the weather and experience.

For the prevention of risks, Shen Yourong once secretly told the emperor to smuggle weapons and ammunition by sea merchants, and sent military officers to train local Chinese in Luzon.

After the massacre in Luzon, there are still [-] to [-] Chinese. Armed with thousands of people, it is enough to compete with the Spaniards.

Moreover, instead of letting the Chinese fight alone, the Ming army would still dispatch a certain number of regular troops to cross the sea to participate in the battle.

But the emperor rejected Shen Yourong's proposal without hesitation. The reason was very simple, the leak of news could not be guaranteed, which would not only prepare the Spaniards, but also cause the local Chinese to be slaughtered again.

There was a light knock on the door, and after receiving Shen Yourong's response, several officers pushed the door open and entered with salutes.

These were the principal commanders of the two squadrons, both quite young.After experiencing the naval battle with the Dutch, the spirit of the individual is different from before.

Shen Yourong ordered everyone to sit down and have an informal military discussion in his office.

"The construction of landing ships needs to be accelerated, and the practicability of the new style is still satisfactory."

"The Marine Corps not only needs to conduct training for landing on the beach, but also conducts training for land combat. Such as siege attacks, such as frontal battles."

"Actual combat experience may be a problem, but there is no place for the Marine Corps to conduct actual combat. As long as the training is stricter, they will not be greedy for life and fear death when fighting."

"The Spaniards are still using matchlock guns. There are only a few thousand people. They are soldiers and civilians combined. What are they going to use to fight us?"

"Next year will be the best fight. It will be a long time, and the news will be easily leaked, and the tense spirit of the soldiers will also be easy to relax."

"Five thousand soldiers landed on the shore, enough to defeat the enemy. With 5000 soldiers, I'm afraid we will have to fight in many places in the future. We will train our troops in advance, and then use Luzon for actual combat."

Shen Yourong listened with a smile, and finally waved her hand to signal everyone to stop talking.

(End of this chapter)