Chapter 785 Two mentally retarded!
Not long after Emperor Chongzhen scolded his three sons, Zhang Zhiji hurried to Assam.
Originally, Emperor Chongzhen, who had run out secretly and threw down a bunch of messes for Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Zhiji, felt a little guilty when he saw Zhang Shize behind Zhang Zhiji, all his guilt was wiped out.
I can't be exhausted, you are so damn goodbye, I have a conscience!
He narrowed his eyes and glanced at Zhang Zhiji, and Emperor Chongzhen said, "How are you preparing for the expedition to England?"
Zhang Zhiji bowed and said, "Your Majesty, considering the terrain of England, the military government finally allocated parts of the North Sea Fleet, the East Sea Fleet and the South Sea Fleet to form an expedition mixed fleet.
In addition, in order to ensure that one's contribution was achieved, the military government specially allocated ten first-level combat readiness guards to fight, and twenty second-level reserve guards came to garrison."
Zhang Zhiji still has some words not finished.
Judging from his own and Lu Xiangsheng's work together, since Emperor Chongzhen secretly ran from the capital to the Mughals, the man must be extremely determined to go to England to cause trouble, and probably he can't stop him.
Since there is no way to stop this master, it is better to let this master go to England with the army and go to England openly. At least all the situations are in an open and controllable state.
It is precisely because of this that in order to ensure the safety of this master, or to prevent the entire Europa barbarians from going crazy together, the cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue finally had to agree to the proposal of the Governor's Office of the Five Army. In addition to the three fleets, thirty garrisons were dispatched.
According to the 5,600 personnel of a garrison, the thirty garrison troops reached 200,000, and all of them were combat power, excluding the relevant auxiliary personnel and the personnel used along the way.
If all the personnel are included, the number of people used this time will even reach a million, which is far beyond the original plan.
In the original plan, the military government would only use the East China Sea Fleet and ten first-level combat readiness guards, and would not involve the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet at all, because the more people it involved, the more military expenditure it would need to be spent.
Military expenditure seems to be only two words, but the things involved are not only as simple as two words. Whether it is personnel, weapons and equipment, as well as logistics supplies and transportation, it is only two words, silver!
Zhang Zhiji didn't care much about military expenditure, including the entire military, but there was a lot of money in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, and a large amount of money could be used for military expenditure allocation every year.
The only person who cares about military expenditure is Mr. Wu, the Minister of Revenue.
Compared with Guo Yunhou, Wu Ganlai seems to be no different, or it can be said that he is exactly the same. He can save a penny of money, but Wu Ganlai will never approve two cents of money.
If Emperor Chongzhen hadn't escaped secretly this time, the entire court and military administration were worried, and Wu Ganlai would never have approved the additional military expenditure required by the Governor's Office of the Five Army.
Emperor Chongzhen obviously knew the voice of Zhang Zhiji, because when he originally formulated a combat plan for England, Emperor Chongzhen also knew the size of the army he originally planned to use, but now there are so many more. It must be that the cabinet and the military government agreed to his plan to go to England in desperation.
Emperor Chongzhen sometimes felt that he was sick and well in the Ming Dynasty was nothing. As an emperor, he always ran out like this, which was really unreasonable.
But sometimes, this matter cannot be viewed simply from one perspective.
From the perspective of an imperial emperor, Emperor Chongzhen naturally shouldn't have run out and wandered, and he shouldn't have thought of personally storming if he had nothing to do, because there were more than one or two emperors who had personally stormed and played with it in history, and no one could guarantee that he could win and never defeat.
However, from the stance of a firm 50-cent little red fan and a firm nationalist, Emperor Chongzhen could not convince himself to stay in the Ming Dynasty.
It’s like burning London. You can’t experience such exciting things yourself. Your time travel experience is imperfect and flawed.
In fact, if it weren't for the fear that the whole of Europe would be united and integrated into one, Emperor Chongzhen would rather have hoped that he would continue to burn Paris after burning London.
In the original history, the Old Summer Palace was burned by the British and French forces. The eternal pain of the Eight-Nation Alliance could not be forgotten by Emperor Chongzhen no matter what.
In addition, for Emperor Chongzhen, there were not many things that could make him moved in the whole world, whether it was gold, silver, treasures, beauties, or even land.
Such things have never been missing from gold, silver and jewelry, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty or the imperial treasury of Emperor Chongzhen.
Beautiful women? In Emperor Chongzhen's harem, there are some beauties, which one is not selected? Now Empress Zhou and the others are still thinking about getting a few new concubines for Emperor Chongzhen to serve him. Will Emperor Chongzhen be interested in beauties?
I’ll get tired of eating too much abalone and sea cucumber!
Even Emperor Chongzhen didn't care much about land. There was still a lot of land on Xinming Island now. There were also a lot of land idle on Nurkandu and Yanran, and a lot of land idle on Duogansixuanweisi and Wusizangweisi, and the Mughal who were later captured, a lot of land was idle.
What the Ming Dynasty lacks today is not land, but people!
In this case, the only thing that could interest Emperor Chongzhen was the only thing left to the foreign war.
However, the reality is very skinny, and even the matter of fighting against the outside world is not too challenging for Emperor Chongzhen.
Even though he quickly passed the Tianshan Mountains, he also pulled the long bow and swept the library pages. These two lines were not at all challenging for Emperor Chongzhen.
Tianshan? As long as you are willing, you can bring hundreds of thousands of civilians to build a palace at any time. As for whether it is called Tiangong or the Winter Palace and the Qiugong to echo the summer palace in the sea of fish, it depends entirely on your mood.
As for Sakhalin Island, there is nothing to say. Sakhalin Island now has absolutely no famous name. Instead, it is the fiefdom of the Liao King Zhu Cihuang. In addition to the people of the Ming Dynasty, there is also the naval base of the North Sea Fleet.
The iron ship went straight to Sydney Bay and broke through the North Sea Night with a shot, which made it even more funny.
The name Sydney Bay is destined to be unable to appear in history books, because King Zhu Youjian of Tang would never agree to the name of Sydney Luoyang, not good? Kaifeng, not good? Chang'an, not good?
For Zhu Youjian, as long as his capital is not called Jinling or Peiping, the remaining name is not up to his mood? Even if he cannot be repeated with the Ming Dynasty, he can still call on a large number of literati to think of a good name. So what the hell is Sydney?
The steel knife dances in Tokyo, and the swords are stained with blood from the Japanese slaves. This has nothing to do with me now.
How well-behaved is Japan? The entire Japanese have even come up with the trick of backdoor listing, and are still hoping that they can give the Ming Dynasty an excuse to attack the Japanese?
Don't even think about it!
There are so many things that can interest Emperor Chongzhen in the whole world, but there is no chance. How could Emperor Chongzhen not sigh at the loneliness of the master?
Now that he finally had the opportunity to burn London himself, Emperor Chongzhen would think about mixing it up no matter what, even if he dragged Zhu Youjian and others into the water together, he would do whatever he could.
As for what many people are worried about, it is really not necessary to see whether Emperor Chongzhen will encounter danger north of the Suez Canal.
The main battleships of the three fleets combined have more than 300 treasure ships alone. In addition to the lucky ships used for supply, the total number of ships will reach an astonishing more than 1,000, and the amount of ammunition they carry is enough to sank the entire England.
As for the Ottoman Empire, there is nothing to worry about.
Even the Ottoman Empire before the decay was good at land combat, and even the navy did not have a regular naval warship formation. I hope they could make things difficult for the Ming Empire at sea?
Even if the people in the Ottoman Empire Elders' Court were kicked by a donkey and suddenly got crazy, not caring about the great interests in the various trades with the Ming Dynasty, there was actually no use for birds.
Because the only thing that the Ottoman Empire could pose a threat to Emperor Chongzhen was the two sides of the Suez Canal, which posed a threat to the fleet where Emperor Chongzhen was located through the armies on both sides.
However, if this happens, then Emperor Chongzhen is also unsafe in the Ming Dynasty. The three major fleets cannot guarantee the safety of Emperor Chongzhen. Is there any safe place in the world?
Emperor Chongzhen, who was able to travel to England to make trouble, was immediately excited.
After ordering someone to bring a stool to Zhang Zhiji and others, Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile: "How is England now? Is there the latest news?"
Wang Guoxing bowed and said, "I will tell you, the news that England has now completely split into two parts, north and south."
Emperor Chongzhen suddenly felt a little surprised.
Where is that? That is England, known as the grandmother of Europe, is the most powerful messenger in the entire European continent and even the entire world, broken into two pieces?
Unconsciously raised his fingers and knocked on the table. Emperor Chongzhen said, "What is the specific situation? Why is it divided into two parts? Which part is now an enemy of our Ming Dynasty? Or are the two parts an enemy of our Ming Dynasty?"
Zhang Zhiji also raised his ears and listened.
Although the Governor's Office of the Five Army has been collecting intelligence and information from England and even Europe, in terms of intelligence, the Governor's Office of the Five Army is indeed not as good as the Jinyiwei, or even the East and West Factory.
These three secret agencies have produced some monsters that surpass humans. Their sources of information are messy, and even if the military intelligence agencies have pulled out all their headaches, they may not be able to get some information.
Even if this incident happened this time, the information of the Governor's Office of the Five Army only reported that England was divided into two parts, but the causes and consequences were vague.
It’s not that I don’t want to report the relevant information in detail, but that I can’t get the relevant information, which also makes Zhang Zhiji very troubled.
Wang Guoxing took out a letter of intelligence from his sleeve, signaled Wang Chengen to take it over, and then bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the division of England is actually related to our Ming Dynasty."
The original detained the people of our Ming Dynasty occupied Cromwell's troops in southern England, while Charles I, who occupied the north, had nothing to do with this matter.
After Xinlehou led his troops to England, he shelled almost all the ports in England, including those under the control of Charles I, and did not let them go."???
Emperor Chongzhen looked confused.
Emperor Chongzhen knew that Cromwell and Charles I had arguing about this matter, and there was nothing strange about it.
The person who seized Ellis and the two Ming merchants was Cromwell, and he had nothing to do with Charles I. Emperor Chongzhen also knew about it, including Liu Wenbing's troops to England. Emperor Chongzhen also knew about it.
But Emperor Chongzhen never expected that Liu Wenbing would shell out all the ports in England. For Charles I, this was the real person who sat at home, and disaster came from heaven.
Wang Guoxing continued: "After the ports under Charles I were bombarded, they would naturally find ways to find out the relevant information, and later they found some information through Cromwell.
After learning the inside story, Charles I publicly accused Cromwell of being unharmed and causing such a disaster. Charles I called on all the people of England to oppose Cromwell's illegal rule.
Cromwell accused Charles I of being weak and incompetent. He was ineffective in the face of the Ming Dynasty's aggressive offensive. Instead, he simply bowed his knees and surrendered. He lost all the face of England's country. All the friendly countries of Europa were surprised. Charles I was no longer enough to be the king of England. All the people of England should unite and send Charles I, the incompetent, weak, and kingly scum to the guillotine."
Emperor Chongzhen immediately became interested.
Friendship is shocked. Has this advanced theory been proposed by Cromwell?
Emperor Chongzhen did not feel that Cromwell's remarks accused Charles I of even having the courage to confront the Ming Dynasty.
After all, it is also a veteran power in Europe. It is normal for a few tough guys who have fought the Hundred Years of War with France. It is normal for a few brave ones to be strong. It is not normal for England to be cartilage!
He raised his fingers and tapped the table. Emperor Chongzhen said, "In this way, are Cromwell and Charles I now ruled by the river?"
Wang Guoxing said: "Yes, not only that, Charles I even sent an envoy to see Marquis of Liu and proposed to send troops to attack Cromwell.
What made me even more confused was that Cromwell also sent an envoy to see Mr. Liu, asking to hire our Ming Dynasty Suez Canal Squadron as a mercenary to help attack Charles I."
Two mentally retarded!
Emperor Chongzhen cursed in his heart before speaking: "What about Xinlehou? How did Xinlehou make a decision?"
When Wang Guoxing heard this, his expression suddenly became subtle.
Chapter completed!