Grand Duke Luo listened to Emperor Zhu's words with an expression of admiration on his face, but in his heart he felt like a mirror - the young lady of the Tokugawa family must be too short and does not agree with the wishes of Lord Long Live...

Zhu Cixi then ordered: "If the Tokugawa family is really sincere, they should give the princess a Tang Muyi."

Tang Muyi?

Zheng Zhilong and Grand Duke Luo were stunned.

Emperor Zhu was the richest man in the Ming Dynasty, so he still lacked these three melons and two dates?

Grand Duke Luo asked: "I wonder where your Majesty wants to go?"

"Nagasaki!" Zhu Cixiang said, "I want Nagasaki!"

"Nagasaki?" Grand Duke Luo was surprised. He knew where Nagasaki was!

That is the gateway to Japan!

"Impossible..." Zheng Zhilong shook his head repeatedly, "The Tokugawa shogunate will not give it to me!"

Zhu Cixiang glanced at Zheng Zhilong and said with a smile: "I will give it to you! Of course the Tokugawa family will give it to them... When they are defeated by the Shimadzu and Maori armies, they will give it to them!"

"Your Majesty, the Tokugawa family's army is not that weak." Zheng Zhilong reminded, "The Tokugawa family has imported a lot of artillery and horses from us over the years. In addition, they can make muskets, so their military strength has been greatly enhanced.

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What? Zhu Cixiang was stunned for a moment. The Tokugawa family bought cannons and horses from the Ming Dynasty? Who sold them to them? It couldn't be the Zheng family, right? Your family really dares to sell out anything!

"It's useless." Zhu Cixiang did not argue too much with Zheng Zhilong, but continued to talk about Japan's civil war, "Zheng Jiangong's memorial said that about two to three thousand Spaniards swam to Kagoshima Port...

.After these people join the Sazhou Army, the combat effectiveness of the overthrown army will be greatly increased."

"But they are all navy," Zheng Zhilong said, "What else can the navy do ashore?"

Zhu Cixiang waved his hand: "The navy and army in Europe are not clearly divided. Some people are skilled in both sea and land. And there must be many skilled artillerymen and craftsmen in the Spanish fleet, and maybe there are also specialized marines...

After they join, the power of the Shimadzu family will definitely increase greatly.

In addition, I also plan to ask Zheng Jiangong and Li Yuanyin to abandon Sakurajima, concentrate their forces to guard the Goto Islands, Tanegashima, and Nagasaki Town, and recover the Ryukyu Kingdom."

The Ming army's previous seizure of Sakurajima was just to prevent the Spanish fleet from using Kagoshima Bay as its base for privateering and fighting.

Now the Spanish fleet has suffered a disastrous defeat, losing more than two-thirds of its ships, and the remainder is no longer a threat.

Therefore, there is no need for the Ming army to occupy Sakurajima - Sakurajima is not a good place for a large army to be stationed for a long time. Because the terrain of Sakurajima is complex and it is too close to the Satsuma Peninsula and Osumi Peninsula, it is easy to be penetrated by desperate Japanese samurai.

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If it weren't for the purpose of intimidating Kagoshima Castle and containing the Shimadzu family's military strength, stationing at Sakurajima would be of little use.

Zhu Cihong said: "Let the Japanese fight on their own first. After the Tokugawa shogunate suffers a loss, they will naturally agree to my request... Now, it's time for us to go to America to occupy more territory!

Tanegashima has been obtained. There are many fertile fields on this island, and the stone height is more than 10,000 stone. A lot of food can be purchased this autumn. If we can have 5,000 stone, we should be able to support 1,000-1,500 people to immigrate to the New World.

.So we don’t need to get more things from Japan for the time being.”

Migrating to the New World was a gradual process, and the first group of only thirty families went there to test the waters.

According to the plan, the second batch of people crossing the ocean to the New World will be larger, with 1,000-1,500 people. With the experience and lessons accumulated by the first batch of immigrants, their development in the New World will be easier.

After this group of immigrants has established a foothold, the number of immigrants who will drive through the third group should be three to four thousand!

However, immigration to North America at this rate is still too slow—three to four thousand a year, only thirty or forty thousand in ten years!

Therefore, in order to transport immigrants quickly and cost-effectively to seize the territory, the Navy Department issued a design contract to the four major shipyards of Ming Dynasty for the design of a special Pacific immigrant transport ship after the Henan ship set off last year... The requirement was to be cheap and high-quality.

It must be able to adapt to the wind and waves of the North Pacific, and it must be able to pull more and run faster. The number of sailors used must be as small as possible in order to reduce costs.

According to Zhu Cixiang, the issue of immigrating to North America and grabbing land is actually a dispute over colonial costs. Whoever has the lowest cost can grab the largest share.

However, cheap and high-quality Pacific immigration ships alone cannot guarantee that people can be sent to North America at a lower cost, because the Ming Dynasty is too far away from North America, and Japan must be a springboard.

The distance from Japan to North America is 2,000 to 5,000 miles closer than starting directly from China without stopping in Japan. This means that the ship can carry 10 to 20 days less supplies, so it can carry many more passengers, and the per capita cost is natural

It's lower.

Don’t underestimate the supply of 10 to 20 days. A person needs 2000 ml of water a day, which is almost 4 kilograms. In 10 days, he has to drink 40 kilograms. In 20 days, he has to drink 80 kilograms. Plus other consumption, in 20 days

The weight of supplies can equal that of an adult man.

"Your Majesty," Zheng Zhilong asked, "do you want Nagasaki to add rice, food and wine to the ships heading east to America?"

"Of course not!" Zhu Cixi shook his head, "The best port for adding rice, grain, and wine should be around Sendai Domain."

"Then Nagasaki is..."

Zhu Cixi smiled and said: "I want to recruit a samurai army in Nagasaki!"

In addition to the need to add supplies in Japan on the way to North America, Japan can also provide another necessity for Emperor Zhu’s Celestial Empire—cannon fodder, high-quality and cheap cannon fodder!

"Samurai army?" Zheng Zhilong was still confused, "Aren't our Ming Dynasty's heavenly soldiers stronger than those Japanese samurai with little carrot legs?"

Zhu Cixiang sighed and said: "It depends on where they are used! There is no need for them in grasslands, snowy areas, Bashu, Yunnan, Guizhou, outside the customs, and even in North America. But what about the miasmatic land of Nanyang? Jin'ou Army, Jinghai Army, Dongning

How many deaths have the army reported in recent years? The competition for North America is about transporting people, the competition for Mongolia is about nomadic cavalry, the competition for outside the customs is about elite soldiers, and the competition for Nanyang...the competition is about whose soldiers' lives are

Worthless!

The so-called samurai in Japan, except for a few who have wealthy families, most of them are said to be soldiers, but in fact they are just beggars who are good at killing people. Their lives are not worth much. If I give a salary of twenty or thirty koku, I can recruit them in Nagasaki

The prodigal soldiers went to Nanyang to join the army, and then they were rewarded with land in Nanyang according to their achievements. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people were rewarded with land. Can the prodigal soldiers also have one? The annual salary is only one or two million. If you want to recruit soldiers from China, thousands

The number of thousands is not enough!

Moreover, I cannot bear to let my soldiers die from the plague and miasma in the wilderness."

There is no quinine or artemisinin these days. It is better to send the troops to the cultivated lands in Nanyang. After those places have been cleared and developed, the space for breeding miasma and dysentery will be smaller, and the plague will not easily occur. But if the troops are sent to the developed areas, there will be insufficient development.

In the wilderness, it is not surprising that half of the people died of illness!

If fighting for North America costs money, then fighting for South Asia costs lives!

Zhu Cixiang said: "It's nothing to kill Japanese villagers... These people are a hidden danger to Japan. If they die more, it won't do any harm to the Tokugawa shogunate!"

"Old minister, I understand!" Zheng Zhilong had a slight smile on his lips.

The emperor is indeed a man of great talent and strategy. Now he is not only looking at North America, but also looking at Southeast Asia...

Grand Duke Luo also said: "I also know what to do!"

Zhu Cixiang nodded, raised his hand slightly, and signaled the two of them to leave. He, Zheng Zhilong, and Grand Duke Luo were eating and talking. Now that the face-to-face meeting was over and the meal was almost eaten, they could start the afternoon work of the emperor.

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"Huang Xiaobao, where are you going this afternoon?" Zhu Cixiang asked Huang Xiaobao, the chief eunuch who was serving him, after watching Zheng Jiangong and Grand Duke Luo leave.

"Long live Lord, Miss Mary has invited you to her new home." Huang Xiaobao said.

"Her new home?" Zhu Cixiang asked, "Where is the arrangement?"
Chapter completed!