At this time, the Ming Dynasty had no threat in the north, and the empire's center of gravity could be moved south, and the maritime strategy could be continued to develop, and the Ming Dynasty's advanced productivity and production methods should be used to compete for marine resources.

As early as the summer of the 17th year of the Apocalypse, when Zhu Youxiao held a meeting of the Ministry of War, he proposed to streamline the marine troops, that is, to eliminate some military soldiers in large quantities, and even gradually abolish the already out of date system of military institutions, and to directly convert a large number of military citizens who have become de facto farmers into civilians. For these military soldiers, it was a kind of liberation, which could prevent them from continuing to be exploited by upper-level officers as tenants.

Of course, this will definitely touch the interests of many officers and landlords, making these military officers who have been living by drinking blood for many years no longer able to continue to live a parasite-like life by exploiting military soldiers.

Even this will lead to a mutiny in the army. Some military officers took the opportunity to deceive soldiers and cause trouble. However, the Ming Dynasty is no longer afraid of mutiny. After all, the main military force is now the imperial guards and no longer these military soldiers. As long as these military soldiers cause trouble, if the situation is small, they can directly use money and food to comfort them. If the situation is big, they don’t mind directly using the army to eliminate them.

In short, from now on, the Ming Dynasty court at this time has sufficient ability to completely eradicate the cancer formed by the ward system that has adapted to this era. Some ways of exploiting and exploiting ordinary soldiers by relying on the court's indulgence will no longer be possible. As a Ming Empire that is about to transform into a trust empire, it is impossible for it to allow so many laborers to continue to feed a group of parasites.

In order to increase the speed of internal production of social wealth in the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally not enough to rely solely on innovation and progress of science and technology. With the initiative in production mode, more labor is still needed under the large-scale production model, but the transformation of theoretical knowledge, experimental results and social wealth is achieved, and thus the entire Ming Dynasty's production economy is more active.

If we want to achieve that every Ming people can have clothes, food, food, and houses, men can afford to marry their wives, and women have no worries about not getting married, they must not let every labor be idle or wasted. The population of the Ming Dynasty has reached 100 million trillions. This huge base cannot become a burden to the Ming society, but must become a resource of the Ming Dynasty. One of the most powerful advantages, and the value of every Ming person must be reflected.

Therefore, no one can be simply exploited by landlords or other exploiters. Everyone must have an advanced space to realize their value. Liberating the hands of soldiers in the Guard and giving them sufficient freedom to choose a job is the first step to take advantage of the demographic dividend of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it is not just that the garrison system has been abandoned, a large number of garrison soldiers have been abolished, and even the border troops and the imperial guards have been required to reduce their staff. Mainly, some elderly and disabled people will be centrally assigned to local administrative officials, instructors or other government positions.

The reason why the retired and abolitionists of these border troops and imperial guards were unifiedly distributed by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel was that after all, the border troops and imperial guards had experienced wars and contributed to the stability and expansion of the border defense of the Ming Dynasty. The second is that these people have practical experience and certain abilities. If they don’t care, it is difficult to continue to use their high labor value, not only will they be used by some people who want to behave.

Zhu Youxiao doesn't have to worry about the mutiny of the soldiers of the guards. After all, these people have no combat power, but if the border troops and the Imperial Guards cause trouble, Zhu Youxiao still has to be afraid, especially the Imperial Guards. Many people here have been exposed to modern military education and military training methods. If these people who were cut off from the Imperial Guards are used, it is sometimes difficult to guarantee that they will not form a powerful force to challenge their throne.

Moreover, many officers of the Imperial Guard have received systematic education from the Royal Military Academy. Many of these officers themselves are both civil and military. In the Ming Dynasty, where illiterate, they are still at a high level, these officers can even be used directly as local officials. Therefore, if they just want to be a worker or a farmer, it may be a waste. Of course, there are also people who are tired of the world, who can overcome life and death, and who have to work hard for their work, but those are voluntary and the court does not encourage or oppose them.

From the 17th year of the Apocalypse, the number of infantry personnel in the entire Ming Dynasty that were first mass-abided by the Ming Dynasty has reached more than 1.8 million (because there is a problem of empty salary in many garrison soldiers, there may not be so many officers and soldiers laid off).

Although infantry and cavalry were being delisted in large numbers, the entire navy and flight battalion were still increasing in large numbers, especially the size of the navy.

The Ming Dynasty has not yet entered the era of electrification and cannot manufacture electric motors. Therefore, the flight battalion cannot become a branch of the military, namely the air force. It can only assist infantry and cavalry to fight with the navy.

Therefore, the number of people expanding in the flight camp is not large, the most is the navy, which is related to the policy of the Ming Dynasty to begin vigorously expanding and competing for maritime interests.

Western maritime hegemony began with the plunder of the world by private armed caravans, but later, it gradually became a foreign plunder with the state as the main body. In this case, both private and state are inseparable from a powerful maritime force.

It was precisely because of its own maritime power that the Ming Dynasty was able to eliminate the great maritime trespass of Zheng Zhilong, which allowed the Ming Dynasty to start directly opening up maritime trade.

Now, the Ming Dynasty has even had an overseas colony of Java, which is a foothold for the Ming Dynasty to compete for the interests of the Southeast Asian countries.

Since Java Island was occupied by the Ming Dynasty, it has been basically completely assimilated by the Ming Dynasty. Most of the indigenous people in the entire Java Island have disappeared. Even those who are still alive have mostly accepted the Chinese culture and learned to speak Chinese dialect and write Chinese characters.

Several important coastal ports have been built throughout Java Island. Zhu Youxiao even directly aimed at this area to form the fourth largest fleet of the Ming Dynasty, the Nanyang Fleet, to form a horn with the South China Sea Fleet stationed in Hai'an and Nansha areas. It can go west to Wanwan, threatening the red-haired ghosts who have occupied the southwest of Wanwan and established Wanwan and Chicang City, and the Flangji people who occupied the Jicang in Wanwan, and the east of the Java country can be recaptured from the Red Band Ghosts.

However, this also shows that because the imperial center of gravity in recent years has been in the north, the entire ocean world is still the back garden of Western powers. Even the ocean area like the South China Sea, which should belong to the absolute sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty, is still the most maritime islands, special parts, and some natural ports are controlled by these Western countries.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has ended the war in the north, the empire's national strength has taken off again, Zhu Youxiao can free up his hands to compete with these Western players, at least not let the entire world's maritime interests be taken away by these Folang Ji people and Red Vandals.

To this end, Zhu Youxiao did not reduce the imperial military expenditure after abolishing a large number of infantry and cavalry that were expending military expenditures. Instead, he continued to increase military expenditures, and even added most of the increased military expenditures to the construction of the navy and the construction of ships.

Not only that, Zhu Youxiao also specially convened the cabinet, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to hold a court discussion, and decided to start planning to intervene in the war for maritime interests in the South China Sea.

In the end, Zhu Youxiao decided to regain Wanwan as the first way to intervene in the fight against marine interests in the South China Sea. After all, this is a sufficient reason. Moreover, using the excuse of regaining the land of his homeland as a pretext to intervene in the fight for marine interests, it can also block the mouths of radical conservatives in the country.

Zhu Youxiao's documentary was filled with memorials saying that he, the emperor, was a military man. Although Zhu Youxiao had already asked many officials who were harder than a duck to go to the west or north to carry out large-scale development or education support, many people still verbally raised objections to Zhu Youxiao's external expansion.

According to the planning, the public opinion guided by the Ministry of Rites took the first step, that is, to let various official media such as the Daming Daily report report Wanwan, and to explain that Wanwan has been an inalienable part of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times.

At the same time, the knowledgeable Hanlin began to quote the classics. Why did the winding islands next to the southeast coast and the Penghu Islands belong to the territory of China since when did it belong to the territory of China? What was the Han officials in Sun Wu during the Three Kingdoms?

In addition, while emphasizing that Wanwan Island is an inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty and instilling this concept into the consciousness of scholars and peoples of all classes of the Ming Dynasty, it also began to disclose the history of how these Flangji people and Red Demons from Europe gradually began to erode the territory of the Ming Dynasty in recent years, and to arouse the emotions of the people in the readers' hearts and the disclosure of the bloody massacres of many Wanwan native high mountain people to arouse the sense of justice of the scholars and peoples of the Ming Dynasty.

The purpose of these public opinion orientations is to allow the entire Ming Dynasty to regain the Wanwan island in the future and to gain the support of most ordinary people.

Everyone knows that once the Ming Dynasty starts to conquer Wanwan Island, it will inevitably provoke a war with the Flangji people and the Red Demons, which will cause great turmoil in the entire Southeast Asia.

After all, although Wanwan Island is just a not-so-large island, there were almost no people in this era, so few people favored it. However, from the perspective of geographical location and military value, this Wanwan City can protect Fujian, Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other places. Advance can threaten their appetite, and even scientific research can be found.

Zhu Youxiao himself could not watch the Wanwan Island build castles under his nose by the Folang Ji people and the Red Demons, becoming the bargaining weight for these Western fans to threaten the coastline of the Ming Dynasty and control the entire Ming Dynasty to enter the South China Sea or even go out to the South China Sea to compete for the entire Pacific Ocean.

But the so-called "ritual exchanges" did not allow the Ming Dynasty to rashly launch a war with the Western Union. After all, these Western Unions were not stingy when paying tribute to their Ming Dynasty. They even did not make things difficult for the Ming Dynasty's maritime strength as before, and even tried to have head-on conflicts with the Ming Dynasty. In response, Zhu Youxiao also decided to convey it to these Western Unions through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and required these Western Unions to leave Wanwan Island immediately and must evacuate in the shortest time.

However, not surprisingly, these Western fans directly rejected the Ming Dynasty's request to evacuate Wanwan. The reasons for these Western fans are also very simple. Now this is the new continent I discovered, I occupied it, and I am the owner of it.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, did not intend to be polite. After receiving the news that the Western Fan refused to withdraw from Taiwan Island, Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to regain the Wanwan Islands and ordered the East China Sea Fleet to enter the Penghu Islands directly, while the South China Sea Fleet and the Ocean Fleet also advanced westward to recover the entire Wanwan Island. This allowed the Ming Dynasty to better compete for the maritime interests of the South China Sea and could also go out, directly extending the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence to the entire Sea of ​​Japan and even the Pacific Ocean.

However, these Western fans who had occupied Wanwan did not realize that the Ming Dynasty was ready to take military action. However, they simply thought that the Ming Dynasty might not do anything to Wanwan Island, and at most they just declared sovereignty.

However, these Western fans obviously did not carefully investigate the changes in the Ming Dynasty. They did not know that the Ming Dynasty had completely become a trust empire that actively expanded to the outside world, so they had never known that the Ming Dynasty had begun to raise forces.

At this time, Wanwan City was a city built by the Red Beast Ghost after occupying the southwest of Wanwan. However, at this moment, you can see that most of the Wanwan City are Western cultural elements, and even the architectural style is the same. Their speech is still in its own language, not Chinese.

Moreover, the entire Wanwan City also showed strong discrimination, but the huge Wanwan City strictly restricted the entry of the Gaoshan tribe and the Han people, and even enslaved education on the children of Wanwan City, which made many children have been influenced by these people.

However, just when the Western Fan thought that the Ming Dynasty would not start the recovery of Wanwan City just after the battle of the north, Heiwa had already arrived at Chichi City with an advance fleet, and it was only then that the Western Fan was alarmed.

Only then did these Western fans remember to actively mobilize their troops to rescue the city, and even rescue the Western soldiers in eastern Java Island.

But what these Western franchises would not have thought was that the Ming Dynasty had already broken their ideas. After the ocean franchises had already ambushed on Java Island, as long as the Western franchises appeared in the eastern part of Java Island, the Ming Dynasty's ocean franchises would immediately launch an attack. These Western franchises who were trying to support Wanwan City would try to get a franchises.

Of course, what the Western Fans unexpectedly expected was that the Ming Navy's attack was very fast and successfully occupied Chician City after several rounds of artillery attacks. Some red-haired ghost soldiers tried to use firearms to stop the Ming army from advancing, but it was obvious that their firearms had no advantage.

At the same time, these Westerners, especially the Red-haired Ghosts, would not have thought that the fleet they supported had been annihilated, but they hurriedly retreated to the Chichicheng area and began to continue to move to other cities on Wanwan Island.
Chapter completed!