Zhu Qidou didn't think about conquering the Western Regions at first, because he was about to clean up the Jiannu and then he tried his best to siege Japan. As for why, he knew everything.

Japanese pirates in Japan really can't keep them!

He even sent the Secret Guards, and he had almost touched the situation in Japan.

However, due to the emergence of the Rakshasa Kingdom, the situation in the north was not as optimistic as he imagined, so he decided to adopt Wang Zheng's suggestion and conquer the Western Regions first.

In this way, the northwest railway network can be connected into one, and the army can support the far north and west provinces more than twice as fast as possible. Moreover, the west and north sides are stable, which will help him concentrate all his efforts to deal with Japan.

Of course, conquering the Western Regions and connecting the Northwest Railway Network into a piece is not something that can be achieved overnight. The huge territory of the Western Regions and the railway lines that cost thousands of miles northwest will take a lot of time.

Fortunately, Wang Zheng, a confidant from the northwest, was in charge of the overall situation there, so he didn't have to participate in everything personally. While the army was conquering the Western Regions, he also had more time to prepare for the matter of Japan.

Japan is an island country. If you want to flatten Japan, you will have to cross the sea and expedition, and it will not work by land at all.

It is precisely for this reason that no matter how powerful the Central Plains dynasty is, it seems to be a little helpless against Japan, even the Mongol Empire that swept across Europe and Asia.

Kublai Khan, the founding emperor of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, organized an expedition three times, trying to siege Japan in one fell swoop, but in the end, he returned in a crushing defeat three times.

The reason is that the center of gravity of the Central Plains dynasty is basically on land, and the army is mainly the army and is not good at naval warfare. Japan is surrounded by the sea on all sides, so you have to take a boat when you go out. Naturally, you are familiar with naval warfare than the Central Plains dynasty.

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Yongsheng Dynasty is actually mainly based on the army at this moment. The total number of various legions on the land is less than one million, and the navy is only more than one hundred thousand, most of which were taken from Zheng Zhilong through Zheng Chenggong.

Of course, the number of more than 100,000 is a bit small, just compared to the army of the Ming Dynasty with millions. Compared with other countries, this number is still quite terrifying.

There is no country in this world that has a number of naval commanders that can compare with the current Ming Dynasty, and even Japan cannot do it.

It can be said that more than 100,000 naval forces are enough to crush the miscellaneous naval forces composed of the princes of Japan. The tower ships and gunboats of the Ming Dynasty are not comparable to those of Japan's small sailboats. What the red vessels need to be prepared is how to transport the elite army to Japan.

After all, the Ming Navy could only suppress the Japanese Navy at sea. If you want to siege the Japanese mainland, you must have the elite army landing.

For this reason, he had already ordered shipyards in Bashu, Nanzhili and Liaodong to make every effort to build various types of ships, including tower ships, gunboats, wheel boats, warships and large merchant ships of two thousand materials. Anything that can be used during the conquest of Japan can be built.

He also ordered people to restart Denglai Water City in Shandong as another base for the Navy. In this way, there are three large navy bases in the Bohai Rim area, which is exactly where the Beiyang Navy, the Dongyang Navy and the Nanyang Navy gather.

On this side, Emperor Yongsheng was preparing to conquer Japan in an orderly manner in the north of Zhili, while on the other side, Wang Zheng, the governor of the five provinces, was also constantly building railways and cities in the northwest to improve the defense system.

The Rakshasa Kingdom was lucky. At least they had seen the power of the Ming Dynasty and knew the intention of the Ming Dynasty to build cities. They knew that they could not beat the Ming Dynasty, so they honestly gave up Siberia and retreated to the continent, thus avoiding the disaster of the destruction of the country. However, Japan was still unaware of it when it was about to die.

Three years passed in a hurry, and Wang Zheng finally built the railway from the Western Regions to Siberia, and Chen Shiqi also built more than ten cities, firmly controlling the entire Siberia. After the northwest incident, Zhuqiu can finally concentrate on his efforts to deal with Japan.

He directly transferred all 250,000 Qin troops to the Western Regions and Siberia to guard the capital, and exchanged them for the 160,000 elite army. Then he summoned a group of trusted generals and began to arrange the conquest of Japan.

At this time, Japan was actually implementing a policy of closing the country. In order to maintain its dominance and prevent local princes from rising with external forces, the Tokugawa shogunate began a policy of closing the country as early as the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

That is, shortly after the end of the Wanli Korean War, Tokugawa Ieyasu took the opportunity to replace the Toyotomi family as the shogunate general, and then began the Edo Shogunate era that lasted for more than two hundred years.

It should be said that the purpose of Tokugawa Shogunate to close the country was to achieve the goal. At least for the next two hundred years, no princes could rise with the help of external forces and threaten their rule.

However, this method is tantamount to seeking death in the era of voyage where science and technology are booming. They will eventually be knocked open by strong ships and cannons.

In history, the Tokugawa shogunate lasted for more than two hundred years before it collapsed. At this moment, Emperor Yongsheng's rutao did not want to give them any chance.

Not long after the third generation of the Tokugawa Shogunate's siege general Tokugawa Iemitsu died, the fourth generation of the Tokugawa Iemitsu General Tokugawa Iemitsu was underage and before he took over the power, the Ming Dynasty suddenly issued a manifesto and launched a conquest against Japan.

As for the excuse to start a war, it is very simple. During the Wanli Dynasty, Guan Bai Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan was extremely arrogant and attempted to use Korea as a springboard to destroy the Ming Dynasty. At this moment, the Ming Dynasty went on to conquer Japan, which was justified!

Before the Tokugawa shogunate could react, the Ming army had already swore to go to war.

This time, the red vessels mobilized more than 600 tower ships, gunboats, more than 3,000 warships, more than 100 large merchant ships of two thousand materials, and more than 1,000 other types of merchant ships and warships, carrying 150,000 naval soldiers and 160,000 elite chariots and 160,000 elite chariots and overwhelmingly pressing towards Japan.

If the Tokugawa shogunate was prepared, they might be able to withstand it for a while. After all, they also had muskets and artillery, and they also had a lot of troops. They invested more than 300,000 troops in the two Korean Wars. In this case, if they were fighting across the sea and fighting locally, it would be no problem to convene 500,000 troops.

Unfortunately, the Tokugawa shogunate did not expect that the Ming Dynasty would declare war suddenly, and their purpose of closing the country was to suppress the local princes. The princes in various places were suppressed by them for decades and their strength was already declining.

At this moment, the Tokugawa shogunate itself was able to quickly assemble more than 100,000 troops, and not many other princes could pull out tens of thousands of troops.

Zhu Qizhuo led a huge fleet of more than 5,000 ships of various types, leading an army of more than 300,000 elite troops all the way from Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island and Honshu Island. The Satsuma Domain, the Nagashu Domain, the Hinata Domain, the Hinata Domain, the Maori, the Uesugi, the Oda, the Takeda, etc., could not stop him at all. The princes in all places were trampled by him. In less than a month, he led his army to Edo Castle, set up tens of thousands of artillery guns, and bombed them wildly.

Soon, the Tokugawa shogunate surrendered!
Chapter completed!