On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, I send the Kitchen God to celebrate the New Year. The northerners send the Kitchen God to celebrate the New Year at the 23rd day, but the southerners only send the Kitchen God to celebrate the New Year at the 24th day.

The emperor was from Hubei, so he was naturally used to celebrating the New Year at the 24th. However, now living in the capital is considered to be a local custom. After asking the emperor for instructions, the chief executive of the Interior Affairs Office arranged to send the Kitchen God to celebrate the New Year at the 23rd day in the palace.

The people in the capital also cleaned up every family, sent out the Kitchen God, and exploded all the time.

Zheng Zhilong still is not used to the cold in the north. He put his hands in his sleeves, sat in a bearskin chair, baking fire in front of him, and a wool blanket was covered with his legs.

The sound of firecrackers outside announcing him. The letter paper was spread out and the Jade Qilin paperweight was pressed, but he couldn't write a word for a long time.

The emperor asked the Staff Office of the Privy Council to plan to conquer Japan, and all the ministers in the court knew about this matter. As soon as the news came out, all the generals of the court immediately wanted to submit a letter to request the command to lead the troops to fight.

This time, the expedition to Japan was not like attacking the northeast and southwest. Japan was a maritime country and would definitely be dominated by the navy. In other words, Zheng Zhilong was more qualified to ask for battle and command troops than most generals in the court.

It’s just that the letter paper has been laid, but the money cannot be put down.

Zheng Zhilong is now the governor of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai. He is in charge of the military and political affairs of four provinces, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai. He is under his command of no less than 100,000 troops. He is the first rank, and has the title of Marquis of Kaiguo. He is also given the title of Prince Taibao. He is deeply favored by the emperor.

His current wealth was obtained by following the emperor's loyalty back then. But while the emperor showed him a high-ranking official position, he transferred him from the southeast to the northwest. In fact, Zheng Zhilong also understood it in his heart.

The Zheng family started at sea. They were pirates in their early years. Later, they cooperated with the present and dominated the southeast for a while. He also had the title of Dragon King of Minhai.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the Zheng group of the imperial court occupied more than half of the navy. The Zheng family had a strong reputation in the southeast and was too strong at sea. Although the emperor did not have enough birds to hide, he was transferred to Shaanxi and Gansu, and his brothers were transferred to Beijing, and many of his old subordinates were transferred to other fleets. The Zheng family had mastered the two fleets of the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Later, only the East China Sea fleet was left in their hands, and a lot of sand was seeped into them.

These are all the emperor's methods.

Zheng Zhilong is actually very reluctant to stay in the northwest. The King of Northwest is not as good as the Dragon King of Minhai. In addition to the yellow sand in the northwest, he is fishy and smelly cows and sheep. He is not used to the weather there at all, nor is he used to the pasta there.

But the emperor asked him to be the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and he had no choice.

This time the emperor wanted to fight Japan, and the whole court was excited. Especially the generals, they all wanted to fight for the war. The Army and the Navy were almost out of their way. The Navy wanted to monopolize the opportunity of this Eastern Expedition, but the Army also wanted to get involved.

The Navy Department is very dissatisfied. Your army has just opened up seven provinces in Kanto, four provinces in the frontier, six provinces in the north, and three provinces in the north, sweeping out six provinces in the southwestern provinces. All kinds of limelight have been made. Now you are fighting against Japan in the East China Sea, and you still want to get involved. Why don’t you go to heaven?

The Navy regards the attack on Japan as their exclusive benefit and is unwilling to let the army intervene. In addition to traversing the sea, our Navy also has Marines on the island, without your army Zhang butcher. Our Navy also does not have to eat pigs with hair.

The navy had previously obtained the emperor and permission and was approved for a large-scale expansion plan. This time, it was preparing to practice with Japan and show the emperor that the huge amount of funds had not been spent. After the Kyushu Island was captured, they were also preparing to go south to Southeast Asia and compete with the red-haired men of Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal to see who is the overlord of the sea.

The people from the Army Department refused to give up. There were so many people in our army. Now the northeast destroyed Korqin and defeated the Jurchens. They surrendered the northern Mongolian in the north and settled the chieftains in the southwest. Now, looking around the Han Dynasty, there are only a group of ignorant Mongolians in the northwest.

However, the northwest part has a special terrain and climate, so it is necessary to adapt for a long time. There is no way to drive the army over, so I can only take it slowly. Therefore, the army has millions of troops, and most of them are still empty now. If you don’t fight, it will not reflect the value of the continental army.

If a Japanese dwarf dares to jump at this time, of course, the Mainland Army has to teach them a lesson. By the way, they can also grab money and people, which can be considered as finding some benefits for the army soldiers.

How could such a good thing be occupied by the navy?

Anyway, the imperial court's Ministry of War and the Privy Council have a large group of senior officers. In addition, many generals from military regions and military towns in various places have also entered Beijing at the end of the year. Everyone is idle and has nothing to do. Anyway, it is raining to beat children, and it is idle and idle, so just fight and quarrel.

First, find something for yourself to avoid boredom. Second, there are so many generals in the court, the emperor cannot be so familiar with each other. Taking advantage of this time, you can also try to show your face in front of the emperor.

The Army and the Navy squirted each other.

The Navy itself is also fighting. The East China Sea Fleet believes that Japan is their defense zone, so it is natural for them to fight Japan. If you don’t have to deal with a little Japan, you can use other people. Our East China Sea Fleet is complete, and the other fleets can cheer on it.

The East China Sea Fleet is so ugly that the other fleets are unwilling to do so. If you have warships, you can fight, right? Our North China Sea Fleet, South China Sea Fleet, West China Sea Fleet, and Royal Task Force are not fleets, so we won’t fight?

At this time, the Yangtze River Fleet was not willing to be lonely and jumped out, saying that they should have one of them when fighting Japan. Although the Yangtze River Fleet is now affiliated with the army and the inland naval division, they should have a lot of warships, and their soldiers are not worse than those of the navy?

Facing the Yangtze River Fleet that jumped out, the other five naval fleets immediately agreed to the outside world and joined forces to spray the Yangtze River Fleet with nothing. Are you the army navy? At most, you can catch fish and turtle in the Yangtze River, Panyang Lake, Dongting Lake and other things, and fight Japan. That's a sea battle. What are you here to join in the fun? Stay wherever you cool down?

I am honest with the Yangtze River Fleet, and the five navy fleets continued to spray each other. Anyway, no one was convinced by each other. Everyone had the same organization and the same equipment, and who was worse than who?

In this lively, the two major military branches of the sea and the land sprayed each other, several large fleets of the navy sprayed each other, and the commanders and chiefs of staff of other engineers, artillery and other troops also ran out to show off their existence at the right time.

Anyway, the most lively thing these days is not the palace examination, the first Jinshi in the Han Dynasty, nor is it that Huang Zongxi won three yuan in a row. He was just elected as the top scholar by the emperor and became the first talent in the Han Dynasty to win three yuan in a row.

These days everyone's attention is all about the military generals in the court, the military soldiers and the military forces, and the cause of a fight against Japan, which has caused great excitement in the court.

Many generals submitted a letter to request to fight and become the commander of the Japanese expedition this time. Some of them thought they had a poor qualification and settled for the second best and asked to be the vanguard officer.

Zheng Zhilong felt that he was most qualified to be the commander of the Eastern Expedition to Japan.

One reason is that he is very familiar with Japan. Before he even crossed the East China Sea, or even before he went to Taiwan, he became very familiar with Hirado, Japan. He even married a Japanese wife there and gave birth to two sons. They had planned a rebellion in Hirado.

Moreover, he can also consider himself the best naval commander of the Han Dynasty. The East China Sea Fleet was formed with his Zheng Group as the backbone. Even the other fleets nowadays are mostly his old confidants.

When he had only some simple Chinese hard sailing ships in his hands, he fought with the Dutch, who had the most advanced European sailing warships, and won many victories.

He also led his troops to attack Taiwan and Macau with the current situation.

Who is more suitable to be the commander than him?

But it was precisely because he was too suitable for him that he was unable to write a letter to fight.

He was just a dragon on the sea. It was because the emperor was worried that he transferred him to the northwest Shaanxi and Gansu and ate sand on the yellow land. How could he let him lead the troops to conquer Japan again?

I picked up the pen several times and put it down several times. A few drops of ink were stained with the paper.

He cannot write this memorial to ask for battle, and even his brothers and cousins ​​cannot stand up and ask for battle. However, after entering Beijing this time, he really doesn't want to go back to Shaanxi and Gansu again.

The court has already made new plans and is preparing to rezonify its territory.

Ningxia Province will be demarcated from the Shaanxi-Gansu Military Region. Ningxia will form the Seshang Military Region with the five provinces of Suiyuan, Yanbei, Monan and Xing'an. In addition to the original Liaodong and western Liaoning, the Kwantung Military Region will also be under the newly established six provinces of Liaobei, Haixi, Jilin and Heilongjiang to form the new Kwantung Military Region.

Chechen Province, Beihai Province, Jinshan Province, Beiting Province and Mobei Province form the Mobei Military Region.

Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai are the Northwest Military Regions.

The three provinces of Xikang, Sichuan and Guizhou are set up as the Southwest Military Regions. Yunnan, Dali and Laos are set up as the Central and South Military Regions.

Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan are the Lingnan Military Region.

Hunan and Hubei are the Military Regions of Two Lakes. Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan are the Military Regions of Fujian and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangbei are the Sanjiang Military Regions, Henan and Shandong are the Central Plains Military Regions. Shanxi and Hebei are the Zhili Military Regions.

Guandong, Shu Shang, Mobei, northwest, southwest, central and southern, Lingnan, two lakes, Sanjiang, Fujian and Zhejiang, Central Plains, Zhili, the new twelve military regions, governing the 39 provinces in the world.

This will be a huge adjustment. Zheng Zhilong would rather go to the Central and South Military Region and fight against the Dongyu Army in the Myanmar jungle than continue to stay in the northwest.

If His Majesty was willing, he would rather lead a fleet to conquer Vietnam, Dacheng, Chameng and other countries along the South China Sea, expand territory for the Han Dynasty and restore the old borders of the Qin and Han dynasties.

But the emperor was not in a hurry to send troops to Vietnam.

This time, the twelve military regions will be reset and adjusted, and the five capitals of Beijing, Nanjing, Luoyang, Liaoyang and Chang'an will be established, and the world will be divided into 39 provinces. Whether it is the governor of each military region, the governor of each province, or the generals of the garrison of each province, the generals may have a complete mobilization.

A sound of footsteps came, and the son's success sounded outside.

"Come in."

My son is not yet eighteen, but after being by the emperor for a long time, he has become very steady and mature. His every move is full of stability and grandeur. This change makes Zheng Zhilong very satisfied.

"Your Majesty has appointed the marshal who will fight against Japan in the east."

Zheng Zhilong looked at his son and waited for the following.

"The Right Privy Councilor Liu Yongsheng will serve as the Marshal of the Eastern Expedition."

Hearing Liu Yunsheng's name, Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to sigh helplessly. Liu Yongsheng was the emperor's subordinate brother. He served as the chief officer of the Beiyang Navy, the admiral of the Imperial Guard, the admiral of the Nine Gate, the governor of Zhili, the right Privy Councilor and other prominent positions. Others may have been dissatisfied with the marshal of the Eastern Expedition.

But who can't accept Liu Yunsheng, who once served as the commander of the Beiyang Navy, is in charge?

"Father, I have asked His Majesty for permission to follow Liu Shuai to go east this time."

Zheng Zhilong waved his hand a little excitedly, "Okay, if you go down to practice for a few years, it will be of great help in the future."

"Father, I also found a transfer order about you. Your Majesty intends to transfer you to the Central South Military Region as governor, and let you be responsible for conquering the Dongyu Burmese Army and opening up the sea outlet in the southwest of the empire."

"What, is this true?" Zheng Zhilong stood up suddenly when he heard the news. The news was too sudden. Not only was it transferred to the position of governor of the Central South Military Region, but it would also serve as the marshal of the Southern Conquest. This news was so surprising, full of surprises.

Destroy the Dongshuo Kingdom, open up the southwest sea estuary, and then advance all the way east, advance by water and land, then destroy the big city, champa, and then destroy Vietnam, and finally command warships to compete with the Western barbarians for the Nanyang Islands.
Chapter completed!