Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1231
Beijing was the capital of the Ming Dynasty. After the recovery of the Ming army, there were many voices calling for the return of the capital, but after Wang Yan moved the emperor back to Beijing, this voice basically stopped.

The ministers all know that with the current political situation, it is impossible for the imperial court to pay back the capital.

Wang Yan is unwilling to return to Beijing. Apart from his base camp in the south, there is another important reason, that is, the south is indeed more developed than the north, and the southward policy implemented by the Ming Dynasty is related to the increase of taxes in the Ming Dynasty. It is too far away from Nanyang, and it is not convenient for the Ming Dynasty to control and manage Nanyang.

Compared with Beijing, Nanjing is much closer to Nanyang, but the news came from Nanyang, even if the time at sea is excluded, it will take half a month less time to travel from Guangzhou to Nanjing.

After learning that He Yi broke the contract and massacred Ming people, Wang Yan urgently held a meeting in the council hall.

The use of the Ming Dynasty's relationship with Nanyang was more related to the interests of the officials and merchants of the Ming Dynasty. When the officials heard that thousands of people had been killed, they were immediately filled with righteous indignation, and the cabinet's proposal to go to war against the Netherlands was passed by a high vote.

Protecting the interests of Nanyang may be more active for the officials and gentry in Beijing than unifying the world.

Besides, the Ming Dynasty had just restored the old capital and realized ZTE, and He Yi is making trouble at this time, isn't it a slap in the face of Daming?

After the cabinet was authorized, Kuai Ma ordered Chen Zilong, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, to prepare for the war, and sent a part of the Donghai Navy to go south for reinforcements, but at the same time reminded Chen Zilong that the Spaniards might have arrived in Nanyang, let him find out the situation, Report to the court as soon as possible.

While waiting for news from Nanyang, the Nanjing court did not sit idle, but dealt with several major questions at a very fast speed.

On July [-]th, just five days after Wang Yan took office as supervisor, the queen mother issued a decree to choose the five-year-old eldest daughter of the king of Chu as the queen candidate for the eight-year-old emperor, and made a marriage contract.

The next day, the co-governing emperor and Empress Dowager Zeng moved to Beijing and returned to their old capital under the escort of Gao Yigong, the newly appointed governor of Beizhi.

After this incident, as the commander of the Northern Expedition, Wang Yan began to ask for credit for all the rear officials who participated in the war and provided guarantee for the war.

This is a rather complicated job, because the Ming army dispatched more than [-] cavalry and infantry troops for this expedition, not to mention soldiers, there are thousands of officers with military merits alone, but Wang Yan is only responsible for appointing the main generals. The rewards will be issued, and the generals and schools below will be counted by the officials of the Ministry of War, and rewards will be awarded according to regulations.

The people Wang Yan wants to reward are Dai Zhifan, Liu Shun, Wang Shixiu, Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, Man Dazhuang and other generals in the army, especially Dai Zhifan. As the commander of the East Route Army, he quickly broke through Xuzhou and surrounded Heluo. It is military merit first.

As early as in the battle when Dai Zhifan killed Azige and took advantage of the situation to seize Nanyang, Wang Yan said that he would be crowned king, but Dai Zhifan did not accept it, because at that time there was only Wang Yan with a different surname, so he refused to accept him alive or dead.

Afterwards, He Tengjiao's ancestral system of not being crowned king by the opposite sex in the Ming Dynasty was basically trampled because of his return to Sichuan. With the example of He Tengjiao, Dai Zhifan should be crowned if he can.

This time, Wang Yan announced that he was the king of Guangling County. As for the others, they wanted to be crowned kings, but their achievements seemed to be a little bit worse. Therefore, Li Guo, Liu Shun and others handed over to the cabinet for discussion, and gave different awards according to their merits. Spyker's reward, but Wang Yan told them that as long as the Kingdom of Jin is destroyed, they can also become kings.

Dai Zhifan's title of king is a strong signal in the Ming army, which is tantamount to telling the generals that as long as they have enough merits, they are eligible to become kings.

For a while, this boosted the morale of the army, but it also laid a hidden danger for the subsequent westward and southward disputes.

In addition, Wang Yan also suggested that the [-] volunteers who participated in the Northern Expedition should all be given Chinese books.

When the Nanjing court was discussing the reward, Wang Yan did not wait for further news from Chen Zilong, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, but the envoy of Lu Song King Zhu Yihai arrived in Nanjing.

The person who came was Lu Song Guobing Cao Sanshu Wang Yi, mainly asking Daming for help.

From what he said, Wang Yan learned that Zhang Huangyan's judgment was correct. The Spanish reinforcements had indeed arrived in the South China Sea. It was not a small number. There were 5000 warships and nearly [-] people.

They traveled for nearly a year, and arrived at Sulu in southern Luzon in June, forcing the Sulu Kingdom to submit to it, preparing to use this as a springboard to counterattack Luzon Island.

It is said that Spain once formulated a plan to send [-] troops to conquer China, but because of the destruction of the Armada, the plan was forced to be cancelled.

Wang Yan looked at the map of all nations. From such a long distance, Spain can send [-] warships and [-] soldiers. It can be said that it is not easy, and this amount is almost the limit force that Spain can organize for an expedition after losing its maritime hegemony. .

It can be said that it is extremely difficult and costly for them to cross the two oceans for such a long distance, and the reason why Spain launched this expedition is because Luzon is too important to them.

In the seventeenth century, it was hard to tell what was worth trading in Europe in the [-]th century, because Europe at that time was still a rural place, and all the good things were in China and India.

From the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century, in the 100 years, the silver produced in the Americas was about [-] tons, and the silver that flowed into China accounted for about [-] to [-] tons.

Spain has a large number of silver mines in the Americas, but silver alone is not enough. Silver can buy things, so it can be regarded as money. If you can’t buy things, it’s just a pile of scrap metal.

Spain's silver is only meaningful if you can buy tea, porcelain, silk and other things produced in China. This is the reason why Spain must retake Luzon.

At the end of June, when Zhu Yihai heard that the Spaniards had arrived in the Sulu Sea in the south of Luzon, he immediately ordered the Luzon Navy to dispatch fifty warships to investigate, intending to drive the Spaniards away, but in the end the navy was sunk by the Spaniards because they underestimated the enemy. Ten warships, the Luzon Navy hastily withdrew to Manila Bay.

This incident made the Dutch feel that their opportunity had come, so they took the initiative to contact Spain, their former opponent, and organized a small Sudanese country in Nanyang, preparing to attack Luzon, and even Guangzhou, to start a war with the Ming Dynasty, forcing the Ming Dynasty to surrender, and the Ming Dynasty. The North Korean forces were driven out of Nanyang.

At the beginning of August, two news came from the governor of Guangzhou, Guangdong and Guangxi. After Chen Zilong was authorized by the cabinet, he ordered the navy assembled in Champa to go south for revenge.

Unexpectedly, shortly after the navy left, the Spanish fleet appeared outside the port of Champa premeditatedly, intending to destroy this important stronghold of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang. Fortunately, the governor of Champa personally supervised the battle, and the Donghai Navy suddenly arrived , Only then did the Spanish fleet repel, and the Spaniards were not allowed to rush into the port of Champa.

This piece of news further confirms the alliance between the two barbarians, and the other is that the Chenla Kingdom entrusted the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to report to the Governor of Champa that the Dutch were instigating Chenla, Malacca and other countries to attack Champa, and Champa was Hastily spread the news to Guangzhou.

Hearing these news, the Nanjing court was a little shocked. After destroying the Manchus, the Ming Dynasty had already heaved a sigh of relief, but at this moment they suddenly felt that a strong opponent had appeared.

Wang Yan realized that the Ming Dynasty had been pressing harder and harder in Nanyang in recent years, and it might usher in a rebound.

In order to know himself and the enemy, Wang Yan recruited the missionary Bo Yingli and others, and prepared to call the generals and court officials to get to know these Western barbarians well.

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