Yang Zhaolong's first exchange with the indigenous people of Xinming was not friendly at all. A few guns frightened the local people of Xinming so much that they ran around. The Miao soldiers of the flag army chased each other in chaos under Yang Zhaolong's order, shouting that they should not run away.

No one listens at all, and they can't understand it.

From beginning to end, they didn't hurt anyone. The imagined friendly trade turned into a complete kidnapping. The cotton cloth I wanted to send was not sent out, so a few people were tied back.

Yu Shaoyu, who wrote the novel, was sent by Chen Mu, and several local residents were sent to him, asking them to teach them to speak, provide food, and make clothes. They lived a comfortable life than Yang Zhaolong himself.

There is no way, Yang Zhaolong wanted to know Xinming's situation too much. He just covered his head with his eyes and ran around. Even by the end of next year, he probably could only live a good life. The prospecting requested by Chen Mu was simply impossible.

That is not something that his few thousand families can do. Compared with this vast land, it is too difficult for people to do.

He needs more manpower and the channels for obtaining manpower are the people born and raised here.

The journey of Xinming has just begun. In October of the seventh year of Longqing, a real big man came to Luzon - the former chief minister of the empire, Gao Gong.

To be precise, it was the Nanyang Guard. When Chen Mu received the news of a major case in the imperial court, the troops escorted Gao Gong to the Nanyang Guard were already on the way.

From the street in front of his mansion in the capital, a man named Wang and minister rushed into the East Palace with a knife and wanted to assassinate the young emperor, but was caught by the palace guards. The confession said that Gao Gong was instructing him.

He personally took a boat to the Nanyang Guard to greet him, and finally met Gao Gong again two years after the cabinet parted.

Compared with two years ago, Gao Gong is aged in his teens.

Gao Xinzheng was nearly 60 years old when he was in power, but at that time he was radiant and spoke in a very lively manner. Compared with the past, Gao Gong, who appeared in front of Chen Mu, now looks more like a sixty-year-old man.

"My younger generation, please pay homage to the old man Gao!"

When he saw Gao Gong, Chen Mu gave a big gift. No matter how much the court fights, it has nothing to do with him. Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao, and Xu Jue, whether these people are good or bad, good or evil, has nothing to do with him. The only thing that remains unchanged is that these people have given appropriate help at a critical juncture in their lives.

"Supervisor Chen doesn't have to be too polite. Gao is no longer a minister of the cabinet. Now he has been appointed as the deputy governor of the Nanyang Military Prefecture, in charge of overseas affairs. Gao is saluting the general. Gao Gong..."

Before the old man finished speaking, Chen Mu had already stopped Gao Gong's actions and said, "For both public and private, the elders should receive great gifts from Chen. Never give salutes to the younger generation, the elders will suffer."

"suffer?"

Gao Gong was a little miserable, but he chuckled unconsciously, and then said seriously: "Ship Chen is fighting overseas, don't worry about the affairs of the court. I have nothing to say, board the ship! What about the war in Southeast Asia?"

Gao Gong's free and easy appearance made Chen Mu have nowhere to say anything, so he had to lead Gao Gong to the flagship Chihai, bid farewell to the old subordinates of Nanyang Guard, and sail to Chen Lai Island.

On the ship, Chen Mu took a sample and tested several plug-in bayonets and a short sword to be rewarded as a private gift. He then led Gao Gong into the general's cabin on the ship. Gao Gong said, "Your ship is good. I have always heard people tell you how the Nanyang Navy is. If you see it today, it will be better to go south."

It's not just good. The Chihai Ship is more than four Dafu ships that can be used as the flagship of Tianjin Port. There are many sailors on the ship and the artillery is strict. Such a strong ship is just in line with Gao Gong's expectations for Chen Mu's navy.

After Gao Gong finished speaking this, he was obviously waiting for Chen Mu to answer his previous question - what was the war in the South China Sea.

Chen Mu stopped talking and opened the world map in the cabin and said, "Before this war, Nanyang controlled the Western and Portuguese, and had almost captured all our Ming Dynasty tribute countries. Now Luzon has been recaptured, Sulu, Wuni, Java, and Ryukyu have sent envoys to pay tribute. The four countries have set up twelve guards, and the Ming generals have trained them to buy the old Ming bird guns and small cannons, and are under the command of the Nanyang Military Palace."

"The Luzon State is a little special. It is a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty. The officials have cleared the fields of 30% of the fields, and 20% of the sweet potatoes. They can be transported to Guangdong and Fujian next year. However, there are also three guards. Among them, Minduluo Island, which produces gold and coal, has become my Ming enclave."

"The army headquarters of the Luzon Beiwei 5,600 Banners on the Five Islands of Japan, helped the Nizi family, one of the county officials of Japan's 66 countries, to rise again, with the intention of Shimizu, and Shimizu had a silver mountain. In addition, the Magui tribe had already gone north to Kuwu Island in spring and summer this year to re-establish the three guards."

"The Xinming in the south has moved more than a thousand households to take root. The land is barren and self-reliance is not easy. However, the local area should have gold, silver, copper and iron. I hope it can provide a little supply to the Ming Dynasty within a few years."

"In Guam to the east, the Western Yi was sent by Yameliga to a large number of soldiers, and our general Chen Chaojue was fighting with him."

Chen Mu said as he turned his fingers from the Americas to Guam from the map, saying, "There have been a war report recently. The scouts led General Lin Manjue to deal with most of the enemy forces on the island for several months and defeated thousands of enemies. Later, the vanguard officer Deng Zilong led nine large ships and repelled more than 40 large and large enemy ships at sea, including thirteen of them as large warships, which can be said to be a great victory."

"The good news is coming, just around the corner."

Gao Gong nodded without hesitation and sat on the chair and sipped tea. He knew some of the movements of the Ming army, but even though he had read them in the battle report and carefully searched for various locations on the cabinet map, Chen Mu pointed them one by one, and still found it unimaginable.

The Ming army's routes ranged from Malacca to Japan, encompassing the entire ocean.

For thousands of years, the last one to do this was the army of the previous dynasty, and the results were much worse than that. The Yuan Dynasty's fleets went to sea and almost no one won; as for the national dynasty several times, they opened up the civilian trade routes and received tributes in the court, but they were not as bold as Chen Mu, and they made great achievements in multi-pronged approaches.

Gao Gong looked at the old Taoist, and he could see clearly most of Chen Mu's deployments. For one purpose, while obtaining gold and stone wealth and tribute to the vassal states, he built an island defense line overseas to rely on various countries. He nodded with praise: "This move is no different from the Great Wall on the Sea."

But then, the old man who had been in charge of the empire for several years raised his hand and pointed to the northeast and asked, "Kuwu Island, what do you want it to do?"

That place is absolutely useless. It cannot rely on the savage Jurchen territory to transport supplies. It can only rely on sea routes. There is neither gold nor stone nor money. To curb Japan, it is enough to have five islands in hand. That is completely a superfluous move.

"I don't know if this goal can be successful, but even if it is possible, I have to try it out. Perhaps the war with the Western Barbarians has come to an end; perhaps the war with the Western Barbarians has just begun."

Chen Mu breathed deeply and said, "In the war report sent back by the Lin Manjue tribe of Guam, he surrendered the natives of Yamelica, and the Westerners brought smallpox to Yamelica; the Westerners' army was still blocked by the Lumi Kingdom, and Yamelica brought them saltpeter and gold and silver mines. The ice and snow melted next year. I want to send a fleet from Kuwu Island to Yamelica."

"In the whole world, the only one in the Ming Dynasty has the method of vaccinating smallpox. If you don't kill people this time, the Ming fleet will go over to save people."
Chapter completed!