The occupation of Java kicked off the official expansion of the Ming Empire. The Ming army's actions in Java also played a certain deterrent role in the rulers of other Southeast Asian countries and the Westerners occupied by Western colonies. That is to say, from then on, if they want to continue to treat the Han people in their country by barbarism or unfairly, they will have to consider the feelings of the Ming Empire, or they will start to worry about whether the Ming Empire will launch a war against them because of this.

After years, for the Ming Empire, which urgently needed to expand overseas interests, it became increasingly unwilling to let the rulers of these regions adopt barbaric or unfair policies against the Han people overseas. In this way, the Ming Empire would find reasons to compete for their own interests. Even later, even though the rulers of these regions no longer dared to treat the Han people easily, the Ming Empire would deliberately instigate the Han people and the natives of his country to provoke disputes in order to achieve the goal of expanding their own empire.

Gradually, the Ming Empire would go from a just person who launched a war to protect the safety and dignity of his compatriots' lives and property to a political hooligan who did not hesitate to use all despicable means to launch a war in order to compete for interests. However, the game between countries has no morality at all. In this world of jungle laws, civilization and humanitarianism are just norms that countries with equal strength can advocate for each other. If the Ming Dynasty does not expand at this time, the Ming Dynasty will become the target of expansion in hundreds of years.

If overseas expansion and primitive capital accumulation are not stepped up at this time, no one can guarantee that there will be another hundred-year catastrophe. We have to wait until the Western colonists break the country before we can wake up. Then a large group of citizens who licked Western colonists and took pride in it, and even justified the reputation of these invaders, thanking them for pulling China out of the backward political system?

This is not the result that Zhu Youxiao wanted. Although he does not like Li Mingrui, a reformist leader who loves to play tricks, he still chose to support these capitalists in the new era to unscrupulously expand their appetites, not to mention that he is the largest capitalist here.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, perhaps a hundred years later, the Ming Empire would decline due to changes in the current situation, just like the British Empire in later generations, but that decline does not mean that the Ming Empire would become completely cowardly, because the accumulation of wealth in the early years has made the national wealth at a high level. Even if it is no longer the most powerful existence in the world, its influence is still there, and the Ming Empire can do the same. Even if hundreds of years later, a powerful political system will dominate the world, he still has to consider the feelings of the Ming Empire.

After occupying Java, Zhu Youxiao did not immediately start negotiating the Red Demons who occupied the western part of Java to achieve the goal of occupying the entire territory of Java. At this time, he did not want to declare war directly with these Western colonists. After all, the current Ming navy is not strong enough to challenge all Western colonists. What's more, although Zheng Zhilong's pirates have been wiped out now, there are other pirate forces on the sea, and the remaining forces of the Zheng pirate group hidden in the Japanese waters at this moment must be completely eliminated to avoid raising tigers at that time, which will make Zheng Zhilong come back.

Zhu Youxiao decided to temporarily stop the overseas expansion before his military power further grew. During this period, he had to completely resolve the Jiannu and the Mongolian Lindan Khan tribe. The Rakshasa Kingdom, whose war intentions were becoming more and more obvious, must also deal a heavy blow. It is best to force it to stop its expansion in the east to Northeast Asia. Even if it was to solve these local forces, Zhu Youxiao now felt that his Ming Dynasty's troops were still a little short of it.

To this end, it is necessary to further increase the expansion of the army and increase military expenditure.

At this time, among the six ministries, the Ministry of War had become the most important department, and its expenditures had almost exceeded that of the Ministry of Revenue. In many cases, in order to facilitate direct military expenditure, Zhu Youxiao ordered the Ministry of War to temporarily hand over the income taxes such as salt and iron and Royal Capital to the Royal Bank directly, and to save the accounting link of the Ministry of Revenue to avoid too many intermediate procedures and reduce efficiency.

Because he did not plan to start a war in Southeast Asia, and in the future, the occupied areas of Java would only carry out colonial construction and raw material plunder, Zhu Youxiao decided to transfer the Fourth Army of the Imperial Guards back to the Yunnan-Guizhou area in China and continue to recruit and expand. He transferred Sun Chengzong and his leadership Cao Wenzhao's troops to Java for construction. As an old minister, Sun Chengzong was good at military construction, and in recent years he has done a good job in restoring people's livelihood in Shaanxi. Cao Wenzhao not only fought well, but also had outstanding performance in military farming. It was not a problem to let him deal with the indigenous remnants of Java.

It is not worth worrying about whether Western colonists or other maritime forces will take advantage of the Ming Empire's opportunity to seize the ownership of the Ming Dynasty over Java when it was busy with wars against the north. After all, even if Cao Wenzhao and other troops could not cope with it, the South China Fleet could still balance these Western colonists. Zhu Youxiao ordered Heiwa's first brigade to change its station to Java to guard against the provocations that Western colonists may have at any time.

After Sun Chengzong and Cao Wenzhao arrived in Java, how to colonize Java, how to promote Han culture and establish the Ming Dynasty administrative system and education system. In addition, when royal capital such as the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau will expand its business in Java, etc. are all later stories.

Now, the emperor Zhu Youxiao, who is the helmsman of the Ming Empire, is about to start preparing for his final blow to Jiannu.

According to the latest information provided by the Jinyiwei, Jiannu was gradually rising again at this time. Huang Taiji further consolidated his imperial power by annexing several Eight Banners' masters. Moreover, Huang Taiji seemed to have further figured out the current situation and actually began to send people to contact the Rakshasa Kingdom. It seems that this situation is not only to ask the Mongolian Lindan Khan tribe to join forces to fight against the Ming Dynasty, but also to attract the great enemy of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

This forced Zhu Youxiao to start the plan to completely destroy Jiannu in advance. He didn't want to really wait until the Rakshasa Kingdom fought against the Ming Dynasty and still had to divide troops to deal with this Jiannu who was a little more prosperous.

Although Jiannu is now far from the Ming Dynasty in terms of comprehensive strength, Jiannu is an existence that has been the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty from the end of Wanli to the Tianqi period. So even at this time, when it comes to the final decisive battle against Jiannu, both Emperor Zhu Youxiao and the civil and military officials couldn't help but feel nervous and excited.

However, before officially declaring war on Jiannu, Zhu Youxiao suddenly received news that Jiannu Huang Taiji was coming to pay tribute. This reminded Zhu Youxiao that Nurhaci had frequently paid tribute before he raised an army to rebel against the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhu Youxiao was not worried whether Jiannu Huang Taiji sent people to pay tribute this time to really surrender to the Ming Dynasty or inquire about the truth. With the current strength of the Ming Dynasty, perhaps letting Jiannu explore the truth and inquire about it even more uneasy.
Chapter completed!