Ma Shiao's words made many staff members and confidants discuss it, and after thinking about it carefully, he knew that it was indeed the case.

This time, the Qing army took the opportunity to clear Shandong and Liaodong, and lifted Donghai Town's threat to Beijing and outside the pass, so the Qing Dynasty could invest more energy toward the south. Although the Qing Dynasty has suffered continuous failures, its territory, population, and resources are there.

At this time, the overall strength of the Qing Dynasty was not to mention that it could be too strong in the Ming Dynasty, but at least it could crush Zhao Ming.

In addition to being stimulated by Zhao Ming, the Qing Dynasty colluded with the Dutch to train navy and train new troops. With the manpower and material resources of the Qing Dynasty, the speed of training of the new army would not be much slower than that of Zhao Ming.

With the current technology, Donghai Town cannot produce more advanced equipment that can be equipped on a large scale. The Qing Dynasty had the help of the Dutch, and the Donghai Town had flintlocks and field fast guns, and the Qing Dynasty could also have it. It would be difficult for Donghai Town to crush the Qing army on the equipment. Therefore, in the future, it will mainly depend on national strength, and it is hard to say what the situation is.

Compared to internal troubles, it is much easier to deal with external troubles. After thinking for a while, Zhao Ming said in a deep voice: "There are two threats to me. The Qing Dynasty is seven parts of the world, and its manpower and material resources are far better than me. Secondly, the Qing Dynasty's help from the Red and Mass Yi may make me profit from firearms and have no advantages!"

"The general was so angry!" Ma Shiao bowed.

Zhao Ming touched the short beard under the Hubei and said confidently: "In my opinion, both of these can be curbed. Now let's talk about the manpower and material resources of the Qing Dynasty. The Manchus came to China and used the small to control the big, but did not dare to use the Chinese power. Therefore, although they occupied the seventh part of the world, they could not help the Ming Dynasty. The reason for this was that it was a dilemma for the Manchus. If they used the Chinese power, they would inevitably need to use the Han people. Referring to the Han people would inevitably lead to the power of the Manchus, and the regime would be controlled by the Han people. Therefore, in order to control the power of the Manchus and maintain the Manchus, the Han people would not make the Han people stronger than the Manchus in the Qing court, so it would be difficult to exert the power of the Chinese people. However, if the Han people were not used to value the Han people, it would be difficult to resist the Ming counterattack. What is the reason for this?

Ma Shiao, Chen Mingyu and others couldn't help but nod. Chen Mingyu said, "The Qing Dynasty was indeed like this before, but now it is forced by the situation. The Qing Dynasty may not be unchanged!"

Zhao Ming nodded slightly, "As the Ming Dynasty becomes stronger, it is difficult for the Manchus to deal with the situation, so he will definitely use the Han people and use the power of the Han people to fight against the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, we must arouse the Manchus' suspicion of the Han people, so that they dare not use the Han people and always beware of the Han people. Although the Qing Dynasty has seven parts of the world, it is difficult to exert 30% of the power. The Qing Dynasty's advantages in manpower and material resources are difficult to exert, so our commander will eliminate the benefits of the Qing Dynasty."

Chen Mingyu pondered and said, "What is the plan of the Grand Marshal?"

Zhao Ming sneered: "Instigate the Green Camp generals! The Qing Dynasty should use its strength to fight for the world with all its strength. The most important strategy is to expand the Green Camp military and serve it. If the Green Camp generals rebel repeatedly, will the Qing Dynasty dare to expand the Green Camp? If the Qing Dynasty did not expand the Green Camp, the defeat was destined to rely on tens of thousands of Eight Banners alone! Therefore, for the Qing Dynasty's manpower and material resources are far better than us, there is no need to worry, the Qing Dynasty will definitely not be able to exert and utilize all the Chinese power!"

The Qing Dynasty was larger than that of Donghai Town and the Ming Dynasty. If the Qing Dynasty exerted China's manpower and material resources, recruited green camps in large quantities and expanded its military strength, the Ming Dynasty might not be able to compare, but Zhao Ming thought that the nature of the Qing regime determined that they could not exert their full strength.

"If the Green Camp generals rebel one after another, the Qing Dynasty would inevitably strengthen the surveillance of Han generals and would not dare to reuse the Han people." Chen Mingyu nodded.

Zhao Ming then said: "As for how to instigate the Green Camp generals, we need Tiandihui to identify and select targets, so I will not mention it for now."

As he said that, Zhao Ming took a sip of tea and continued, "I will talk about the benefits of firearms again. According to information, the Manchu Han army's main blue flag was equipped with flintlock muskets and field fast cannons, and these were all the credits of the Red Maverick and the Spaniards. If the support of the Red Maverick and the Spaniards were lacking, I thought that the Qing Dynasty's firearms would definitely not exceed us!"

After hearing this, Chen Mingyu frowned and said, "Does the Grand Marshal intend to drive away the Netherlands and the Spaniards and cut off their trade with the Qing Dynasty?"

Zhao Ming nodded slightly and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

Zhao Ming was quite shocked when he learned that the Qing Dynasty was training the new army, equipped with flintlock muskets, field bronze guns, and the navy fired the Dutch gunships.

Zhao Ming has always believed that the Qing Dynasty was a corrupt, stubborn, backward, barbaric and retreating regime, but if there were only these facts, it would be difficult for the Qing Dynasty to gain the world.

At the beginning of the battle for hegemony, the Qing Dynasty was not stubborn. In the battle of Ningyuan, after suffering the losses of the red barbarian cannons, he learned to cast red barbarian cannons in the Ming Dynasty. He lost in the war with Zheng Ming, Taiwan, and formed a coalition with the Dutch to attack Taiwan. In order to fight for the world, the Qing Dynasty was still very good at learning.

This forced Zhao Ming to be vigilant. Now that he is limited by smelting technology and lathe technology, he cannot make good iron and strong, and he cannot perform precision processing without lathes. At present, more mature weapons can be made, namely flintlock rifles and various front hall cannons. If all the Qing Dynasty learns, Zhao Ming and Donghai Town will have no advantage.

Therefore, Zhao Ming wanted to stop the Qing Dynasty from obtaining advanced flintlock guns and artillery from the Netherlands and Spain, so he wanted to drive the Netherlands out of Taiwan and Spain out of Luzon, and isolate their ties with the Qing Dynasty.

Chen Mingyu said in a deep voice: "Master General, if he wants to drive away the Spaniards and occupy Luzon, he has no objection, but will support him. Nowadays, various workshops in Susong have gradually resumed production, requiring a large amount of raw materials. Donghai Town needs a place to plant crops such as grain and cotton to meet the consumption of the land east of the lake."

A very important reason for the collapse of society in the late Ming Dynasty was that the silk weaving industry in Jiangnan earned a lot of money through smuggling trade. Then, driven by interests, various places changed grain and mulberry plants to grow rice and cotton, and then produced silk and cotton cloth, sold them to Western barbarians, and then earned a lot of silver. The silver earned was used to purchase domestic grain and other production resources, which caused the price of grain to rise and the social unrest.

The rising grain prices are nothing to Jiangnan smugglers, but for northern provinces, it is indeed an unstable factor. It is usually good. Once a natural disaster occurs, the food will not be afforded there, which will eventually lead to a collapse of society.

The smuggling trade in the Ming Dynasty was just a large amount of exports, but very little imports, which caused a serious shortage of domestic resources. When Zhao Ming decided to revitalize Susongchang's economy, he reminded Chen Ming about this. The money Susongchang earned must be spent a considerable amount of it and bought raw materials from overseas to return.

When Zhao Ming heard Chen Mingyu's intention, he wanted to seek Luzon and become an economic colony, and couldn't help but say: "Mr. Chen does not support me, and I went to war with the Dutch."

Chen Mingyu nodded and said, "It was only recently that I have figured out that I am still on the waterway and most of them are controlled by the Dutch. If Donghai Town starts war with the Dutch, Su Songchang's goods can only be sold in Japan, North Korea, and Annan. Even the Nanyang Islands cannot go to, let alone the Indian and Dashi."

This made Zhao Ming ponder. Chen Mingyu was right. Not to mention anything else, Malacca alone was in the hands of the Dutch, so he made Zhao Ming take the opportunity to attack and dare not start a war easily.

At this time, Zhao Ming was silent for a while. He said: "The Netherlands can ignore it for now. The Spanish in Luzon must be taken down. According to scouts, most of the flintlock guns of the Qing Dynasty were built by the Spanish in Manila's workshops."
Chapter completed!