The mysterious world: Start working hard from the beggar camp!

Chapter 496 Chongzhen is in action, an uninvited guest arrives

"Your Majesty, I don't think I've received General Qin Liangyu's reply so quickly."

Lu Jiude hurriedly said in a respectful voice, "There are a total of eight level five divine birds, the Red Bunting, in our royal family. Although they have the blood of the Vermillion Bird, their blood is somewhat thin after all. So far, no Red Bunting has broken through to the level six realm."

"However, recently a pair of Red Bunting Divine Birds have broken through to the peak of level five."

"To be on the safe side, I sent two generals from the Military Intelligence Department to Shu, and the mounts they rode were exactly these two divine birds."

"Based on their speed, they should have reached their destination and met General Qin Liangyu."

"If it goes as expected, General Qin Liangyu has always been loyal to the emperor and patriotic. There is a more than 99% chance that she will agree to accept the imperial decree and serve the court sincerely."

As one of the most capable eunuchs under Emperor Chongzhen, Lu Jiude is no good-for-nothing, but a genius comparable to an evildoer.

He has always been very concerned about the military affairs of the Ming Dynasty and knows Qin Liangyu's character very well.

When it comes to loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, Qin Liangyu is definitely not inferior to Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others.

"Your Majesty should receive a reply from General Qin Liangyu in ten days at most."

Lu Jiude continued, "When the time comes, the White Spear Soldiers led by General Qin Liangyu will most likely immediately start a large-scale purge of Shu, making great contributions to your majesty's complete control of Shu."

As for Qin Liangyu, who had a great reputation, Lu Jiude would never doubt her ability.

Decades ago, the white-flag soldiers under her command were comparable to the Qi family army.

If we talk about the elite army in the world today, which one can compare with the Fuxing Army, it must be the White Spear Army led by Qin Liangyu!
Even though the Tianxiong Army has been reorganized now, it is still inferior to the White Spear Soldiers in Shu.

It is conceivable that once the entire Shu area was conquered and the army was successfully expanded to one million white-pole soldiers, it would bring great help to Emperor Chongzhen.

"Well, that's true."

Chongzhen nodded and said, "I have never doubted General Qin Liangyu's loyalty."

"Even if the whole world were to rebel, General Qin Liangyu would not do that."

When it comes to Qin Liangyu, Chongzhen and Lu Jiude are as confident as each other.

"Lu Xiangsheng! Sun Chuanting! Huang Degong!"

Chongzhen gave orders to the three trusted generals in front of him, "Now your three new recruit corps have been officially reorganized."

"Starting tomorrow, you will divide your troops into three groups and start sweeping from east to west. You must open up the connection with Shu as quickly as possible!"

"Although the Yangtze River Basin has been blocked by the Fuxing Army's navy fleet, the water transportation in the prefectures along the way is well developed. Even if our fleet does not go through the Yellow River, we can still take a detour to reach Shu."

"I have appointed Xinle Hou Liu Wenbing as the commander of the newly formed navy, and his brother Liu Wenyao as the deputy commander, to lead the navy fleet to cooperate with your actions!"

If we were to ask which family among the nobles of the Ming Dynasty still maintains absolute loyalty to the royal family, the one at the top of the list would be Liu Wenbing, Marquis of Xinle.

The two brothers of the Liu family were both talented in both civil and military affairs, and were worthy of Chongzhen's important use and trust.

In the past few months, Emperor Chongzhen had been at odds with the aristocratic families and most of the officials and gentry. Through ruthless means such as preemptive strikes and confiscation of property and extermination of clans, he had seized hundreds of treasure ships of various levels.

Especially the two top nobles of the Ming Dynasty, Duke Wei and Duke Cheng, who, after their deaths and the extinction of their clans, captured a total of five top-grade treasure ships, seventeen high-quality treasure ships, and more than one hundred mid- and low-quality treasure ships for Emperor Chongzhen.

Together with the hundreds of treasure ships brought back from Jiangbei by Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Huang Degong and others, the number of treasure ships alone almost reached half of the treasure ships of the Fuxing Army.

This is the terrifying background of the top dignitaries in the Ming Dynasty.

Whether it is the Mansion of Duke Wei or the Mansion of Duke Cheng, both are rich enough to rival a country in terms of money, food and supplies, which is several times more than the original royal family of the Ming Dynasty!
To be honest, Chongzhen was greatly shocked by the huge amount of money and materials obtained through this round of confiscation of property and extermination of clans.

He could never have imagined that the proceeds from confiscating these traitors, whose total number accounted for less than 10% of the total number of traitors in the Ming Dynasty, had exceeded more than a hundred times the annual treasury revenue of the Ming Dynasty!
At that time, Chongzhen had only one thought: he was an absolute fool before! He had been kept in the dark by his ministers for so many years and could not see through the true colors of these people.

In a rage, he immediately ordered the beheading of all these powerful and treacherous people and their entire families, letting the city of Jinling flow like a river of blood!

"Yes, Your Majesty!"...

Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and Huang Degong quickly stood up and accepted the order.

Having successfully completed the reorganization training of their legion, they could no longer wait.

For them, it was not a difficult task to open up connection with Shu from east to west.

All we need to do is capture some towns in Luzhou Prefecture, Nanchang Prefecture, Wuchang Prefecture, Yuezhou Prefecture and other places.

With the abilities of these three people, each of them has a million elite soldiers at their disposal, so it can be said that they can capture the enemy with ease.

The only one who could be considered a strong enemy was the arrogant and domineering Zuo Liangyu, who could pose some threat to their side.

But to Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Huang Degong and others, Zuo Liangyu was just like that, and it was even possible that he did not dare to face the troops of their three major legions head-on.

If Zuo Liangyu didn't know what was best for him, he would be used as a scapegoat to eliminate this de facto warlord.

As for the aristocratic families entrenched in these towns, although they have a strong foundation, they are all busy with their own affairs and are like a pile of loose sand, and are not enough to pose much threat to their side.

The three people, full of fighting spirit, left excitedly and immediately split up to complete the preparations for this round of major operation as quickly as possible.

Given their efficiency, they will be able to lead their troops out in half a month at most to start a major expansion plan that will allow the Southern Ming Dynasty to control local power.

……

As the situation became increasingly tense, the waters near the northern part of Tainan Island welcomed an uninvited guest today.

Wan'er, who had completed the Ryukyu War, led the Fourth Fleet and the Fifth Fleet of the Restoration Army. The fleet bypassed Cape Sandiao, the easternmost point of the main island of Taiwan, and entered Keelung Bay.

Eleven years ago, after the Dutch occupied the southern part of Tainan Island, in order to avoid a fatal threat to Manila, the Spanish quickly dispatched a fleet northward and successfully occupied Sheliao Island, the northernmost tip of Taiwan Island, and built the city of San Salvador here.

Ten years ago, the Spaniards, having gained a firm foothold, occupied Huwei and built the city of Santo Domingo.

As a result, the Spanish and the Dutch actually occupied the north and south of Taiwan respectively, restraining each other and forming a confrontation situation.

Although the Spanish dynasty is declining, the soldiers stationed here still have relatively strong strength.

Especially the naval fleet, which had more than 200 large treasure ships and more than 100,000 soldiers.

Over the years, they established three large settlements: Tamsui, Doloman, and Hazinan. The Spanish occupied Taiwan for two purposes. The main purpose was to contain the Dutch in the south of Tainan Island and prevent them from expanding rapidly on Tainan Island while preaching.

Another reason is to build this place into a forward base for the naval fleet and try to open the door to trade with Japan.

After the Spanish occupied northern Taiwan, they actively promoted Catholicism and built churches everywhere in the hope of gaining strong support from the Great Light Church and reversing the rapid decline of the Spanish dynasty.

On the surface, these white barbarian dynasties rose and fell one after another and seemed to be invincible.

In fact, the rules of the game in the entire white world are controlled by the Great Light Church and the Dark Church.

Compared with these two white superpowers, Western countries are like puppets and do not have much autonomy.

Over the past few hundred years, the successive revival of the Spanish dynasty, the Dutch dynasty, and the English dynasty was nothing more than a behind-the-scenes game between the Great Light Church and the Dark Church, like a child's play.

Among them, Portugal and the Netherlands supported by the Dark See, and England and Spain supported by the Great Light Church, have taken turns to be the banker over the years. Their main purpose is to better rule the people of various countries and manipulate the direction of public opinion.

To put it bluntly, it is to fool the general public and gain the power of faith that they want most.

If the Spaniards can make their missionary work flourish in the Eastern world and gain a large amount of faith power for the Great Light Church, there is a great possibility that they will be given key support again and regain their former glory as the overlord of sea beasts.

Unfortunately, the three populous countries in the Eastern family: the Ming Dynasty, the Indian Dynasty, and Japan, were not very interested in the religious sects of the white barbarians.

Only the cowardly God India was violently conquered by the white barbarians who came across the ocean, and has now become a tool for them to collect the power of faith.

Although these white barbarians who came from afar tried every means to enter the Ming Dynasty and Japan and preach vigorously, they had little success.

In the Ming Dynasty, only a very small number of officials, represented by Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua, were successfully brainwashed and swore to join the Great Light Church.

But it is difficult to go further.

As for Japan, it was successfully infiltrated by the Great Shining God Church for a period of time, and even a large-scale peasant uprising broke out. However, the two shogunates headed by Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi successively and vigorously suppressed this tendency, and ordered the hunting down and killing of the Great Shining God Church members, and announced a closed-door policy from then on.

Having lost this important trade line with Japan, the cities of San Salvador and Santo Domingo have now become useless.

It is becoming less and less important in Spain.

The Spaniards stationed on the island of Taiyuan still refused to give up and aimed their missionary work at the indigenous people of the island, but the results were not great.

At the beginning of this year, Manila Governor Coqueira decided to reduce the strength of the troops stationed in Beidayuan in order to reduce expenses.

He ordered the destruction of the city of Santo Domingo in Tamsui, and only stationed troops in the city of San Salvador.

"General Wan'er."

Mo Xiaoyong, the head of the Southeast Coastal Branch of the Military Intelligence Department, had just returned from personally checking the military situation on a Level 5 Peak Spirit Bird. He reported to Wan'er, "Our large fleet has bypassed Heping Island and entered the bay."

"The fortress city ahead is what the white barbarians call San Salvador."

"Currently, almost all of the Spanish troops on Taiyuan Island are stationed in this city."

"According to statistics from our military intelligence department, there are about 160,000 white Hu soldiers stationed here."

"There are about three million white Hu people in the city and the enemy-occupied area in the north of this large island."

"Compared to other maritime forces, these Spaniards have strong ships and powerful guns. In addition, the fortress town in front of us is very solid, so their military strength is pretty good."

"But for us in the Restoration Army, these white barbarians are just that, nothing surprising."

"In general, the fighting power of the white Hu people stationed in the city of San Salvador is about the same as that of the Portuguese in the trenches that were captured by our army more than a year ago."

"This summer, the white Hu people here abandoned another fortress located on the Tamsui River northeast of Tainan Island: Santo Domingo City, withdrew a fleet of almost the same size and millions of white people, and returned to Manila."

"Ha ha……"

At this point, Mo Xiaoyong sneered, “The Spaniards here deserve to be destroyed!”

"Their strength was not that great to begin with, but now that they have abandoned a fortress city and nearly half of their troops, it will undoubtedly save us a lot of effort in this operation."

"Now that our army has suddenly attacked, the enemy is completely unprepared and is doomed to fail."

"By the way, there's one more thing."

Mo Xiaoyong thought of something again and quickly said to Wan'er, "Over the past ten years, these white barbarians have been preaching vigorously on the island and have fooled many of the barbaric natives."

"There are quite a few of these indigenous people living near the white barbarian areas, more than 10 million."

"It just so happens that these barbaric natives are quite good at sneaking into the woods and conducting guerrilla warfare. If they help the white people launch a counterattack, it will undoubtedly cause considerable trouble to our army."

The Fusion Army itself was founded on guerrilla tactics, so it was naturally well aware of how disgusting and uncomfortable such tactics were for the enemy.

"Before I went south, the commander-in-chief specifically mentioned that any natives overseas must be killed without exception!"

Wan'er's eyes turned cold when she heard this, and she said murderously, "We brought three level six spirit birds with us this time. We can completely lock on to the whereabouts of those natives, and even find their lair!"

"Pass the order down. After our large fleet uses psychic cannons to blast the enemy city's magical protective formation, we will attack in three directions!"

"I will lead the way personally, break into the city and kill all the white barbarians and indigenous soldiers and civilians."

"The other two armies will immediately launch a campaign to wipe out the indigenous tribes on Dayuan Island. All the indigenous people on the island will be killed without mercy!"

"Although this will delay our army for at least half a year, it is worth it in order to completely eliminate the hidden dangers on Taiyuan Island in the future."

Wan'er knew that her elder brother Li Dingguo attached great importance to this big island. He was prepared to make great efforts to turn it into a prosperous place and migrate a large number of Han people here to open up wasteland and settle down.

In this way, any local indigenous people will be within the scope of the cleansing by the Renaissance Army soldiers.

Although it takes a long time, this method of disposal is undoubtedly the best.

Those who are not of my race must have different hearts.

This not only applies to the Tartars and white Hu people, but also to most of the indigenous ethnic groups overseas.

(End of this chapter)