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"Your Highness, I'm back!"

The Qi Palace and Qingzhou civil and military officials gathered.

In the middle of the main hall, Yue Yun and the remaining seamen suddenly knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

Niu Ben and Lu Fei were moved to this. More than 700 people were leaving when they left Qingzhou. Now they were only 231 people left in the navy, and two-thirds of the seamen died in the vast sea.

Xiao Ming walked to Yue Yun and helped the navy soldiers up one by one, with warm eyes. He knew that this was going to be dangerous, but these seamen still refused.

It is precisely the soldiers who are brave enough to sacrifice themselves that their fiefdom is as stable as Mount Tai.

Xiao Ming believed in weapons, but what he believed most was his soldiers. Without their courage and sacrifice, how could he sit in this main hall?

"Soldiers, it is the king who should pay tribute."

Thousands of words turned into deep bows in Xiao Ming's heart.

Yue Yun and others' eyes were red, but their expressions were still firm. They shouted in unison: "My glory is loyal. For Your Highness, we are not afraid of death or sacrifice, just to one day Your Highness will stop letting the people of the six states be bullied by outsiders!"

"Yue Yun, you are strong men, I admire you!" Lu Fei shouted loudly.

"We admire it!" the other generals shouted at the same time.

At this moment, Yue Yun finally couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes. His mother died at the hands of Japanese pirates. His crew was attacked by the British fleet on the sea. Then, under the leadership of Wilson, they escaped the pursuit of the British fleet by chance.

Unexpectedly, I encountered the Dutch fleet while traveling through Ryukyu.

At this time, they had suffered heavy losses and had almost no ability to fight back. With the will of death, they sank a Dutch warship, but their ships could no longer continue sailing and could only strand on an unmanned island.

If they hadn't met the Cao family's fleet, they probably wouldn't have come back.

He bears too much family hatred and national hatred by himself.

Xiao Ming patted Yue Yun's shoulder heavily and said, "I know that you are suffering. The soldiers who died will not die in vain. I will fight back ten times and a hundred times, and the people in the Battle of Cangzhou will not die. I will fight back ten times and a hundred times. I will fight back ten times and a hundred times. I will fight back northern to attack the barbarians and eastern expeditions to Japan to seize maritime trade routes. This is Qingzhou's strategy for the next few years!"

"Terminal attack on the barbarians and eastern expeditions to Japan!"

All the officials present were shocked, and Xiao Ming formally proposed the next strategy for the first time.

Yue Yun gritted his teeth and said, "Your Highness, we are all waiting for your words. Your Highness doesn't know that there are Western warships on the sea now. They are much stronger than the Great Yu Kingdom in both ships and weapons. In my opinion, only our Qingzhou warships can compete with them."

"The people of the Cao family have told me that the Western powers are expanding their sphere of influence to the Great Yu Kingdom, so we must first solve the barbarians in Youzhou so that we can concentrate on seizing the maritime trade routes."

Pang Yukun nodded, "The great barbarians are always threatening the hinterland of the Great Yu Kingdom, and they must be eliminated."

Yue Yun said: "During this period, a large number of Galen ships can be built to prepare for future naval battles. I must throw the Dutch and British into the sea to feed the fish."

Xiao Ming smiled and patted Yue Yun on the shoulder. All he needed was this kind of fighting spirit.

Facing everyone, he said: "This time, taking advantage of Yue Yun's return, these two things are being said. I have ordered the Equipment Department and the Military Workshop to work together to increase the production of flintlock rifles. There will be an expedition against the barbarians this fall. In addition to commanding the Qingzhou army, you will now immediately draw elite troops from the troops of the six states to cooperate with the Qingzhou military joint training and form a car camp."

"Yes, Your Highness!" Niu Ben took the order loudly.

"Pang Yukun, in addition to government affairs in various states, the government offices must cooperate with the shipbuilding workshop to produce Garen ships, and they have to be slow in terms of money and grain."

"Yes, Your Highness." Pang Yukun responded.

"Chen Qi, Lu Tong, I'll hand over the lime bomb to you. In addition, during the expedition, I want to see the field cannon."

"Yes, Your Highness."

After issuing a series of orders, Xiao Ming turned his attention to the north.

This Northern Expedition was a plan and it was also a forced one. The chaos in Jizhou became more and more intense. At this time, he took the initiative to attack just by defending the attack. After all, if the barbarians took the opportunity to move south, Jizhou would probably be vulnerable at this time.

And he believed that the barbarians would definitely not miss the opportunity of chaos in the Great Yu Kingdom. At that time, Jizhou was lost and he would be attacked from both sides, which he did not want to see.

So he made up his mind to fight against the barbarians in the north, set up a chariot camp to form the first obstacle to the barbarians during field battles, and at the same time asked Chen Qi to develop light field artillery.

Jointly formulated the future plan for Qingzhou, Xiao Ming announced a reward to Yue Yun and other naval generals, and at the same time put Yue Yun in his seat.

When he learned that Yue Yun was back today, he specially held a celebration banquet in the royal palace to welcome Yue Yun and others.

He summoned Yue Yun alone after the banquet.

"Your Highness, it's a pity that Wilson was beaten to death by the Dutch during the naval battle, otherwise your Highness could have listened to him and talked about the current situation in the West in person."

"It doesn't matter. I am satisfied that you can come back."

Yue Yun was moved when he heard this. Xiao Ming was so concerned about the soldiers that he felt warm in his heart. He thought that even if he died in battle, it would be worth it. Then he remembered something and gave Xiao Ming the booklet of the translator.

Xiao Ming opened the booklet for the translator to record the problems, and glanced through the questions he listed.

After reading these stories, he basically understood the current situation in the world. The invasion of Europe by the northern grassland tribes hundreds of years ago also broke the Europeans' understanding of the world.

After that, the process of European civilization seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes as if it was a cheat. Scientific development is changing with each passing day, and various scientific discoveries emerge one after another.

These scientific changes further promoted the arrival of the era of great navigation in Europe. First, the Americas were occupied by Europeans, then Southeast Asia and East Asia.

According to Wilson, after the Dutch occupied the East Asian trade route, merchants from other countries have been banned from entering this trade route.

It is precisely because of this that few foreign missions have traveled to the Great Yu Kingdom.

However, in recent years, the Dutch are declining, replaced by Great Britain, France and Prussia. Moreover, due to the problems of the New Denomination, European countries have many contradictions and frequent wars.

Wilson also explained the current level of science and technology in the West, which in Xiao Ming's view was already at the level of the mid-18th century in modern times.

Someone has proposed steam engines in Great Britain and is trying to develop them.

Regarding the butterfly effect, Xiao Ming cannot calculate what impact a deviation will have on the overall situation. However, for him, the world now has a completely different history except before the Three Kingdoms.

Both Europe and Asia have already embarked on a completely unfamiliar track.

Only then did Xiao Ming suddenly realize that in addition to the geographical environment that was consistent, this was just a strange world and a more dangerous world.
Chapter completed!