"It doesn't matter, if you lose it now, you can just call it back in the future!"
"For me, the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing at the moment is to stabilize the two key places of Fuyuan City and Malacca, and completely bring Nanyang under the rule of my Ming Dynasty."
"When these two places are stabilized, we can withdraw from Nanyang and mobilize our troops to counterattack the mainland!"
"Otherwise, it is easy to pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelons!"
"The loss of Xiamen, Macau, Leizhou and other places is already a fact. Even if we return to the army now, nothing will change."
"Similarly, due to the geographical factors of Hong Kong and Kinmen, it is equally impossible for the Qing court to continue to expand its results."
"In other words, the war situation on the mainland has now entered a stage of strategic stalemate."
"What we should do most now is to take advantage of this window of strategic stalemate to completely swallow up Nanyang and expand the strength of our Ming Dynasty."
"Instead of halfway through the battle in Nanyang, we chose to return to the mainland because we lost cities and territory on the mainland battlefield."
"If Nanyang cannot be completely pacified and chaos breaks out again because we are eager to return to our troops, what is the difference between this battle and an empty battle?!"
"Stay steady, don't panic, have a certain strategic determination, and once you decide on a strategy, don't swing around!"
"The most important thing for me, Daming, right now is not the gains and losses of cities and places on the mainland, but the war situation in Nanyang!"
Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong nodded and said.
"Old minister, I understand!"
He felt a bit bitter in his heart. He had lived a long time, but he was not as determined as the young His Highness Jianguo. He was really ashamed.
Zhu Hongyu nodded with satisfaction.
The history of the late Ming Dynasty has proven once that strategic swings are unacceptable.
During the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty's campaign to suppress the invaders failed because the Ming Dynasty had been strategically vacillating.
Historically, before the defeat in the Songjin Battle in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army still had an advantage in terms of combat power against the rogue bandits in Shangguan.
Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others were constantly being beaten by the Ming army and could not take much advantage.
Especially during the period when Yang Sichang proposed the strategy of four righteousnesses, six corners and ten sides, and served as governor of the five provinces, supervising the war against bandits in the Central Plains.
Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others were all beaten to a very embarrassing state!
However, whenever the rogue bandits were about to be completely wiped out by the Ming army, Jian Nu would enter the pass.
Chongzhen, who had no strategic determination at all, began to give random orders and was led by Jian Nu to transfer the Ming army that was encircling and suppressing the bandits to the King of Jingqin.
This allowed the rogue bandits to escape the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army and grow stronger step by step!
Until the rogue bandits became completely unstoppable, he himself hung himself from the tree on Lao Wai's neck, and with a bang, the king died in the country.
Therefore, strategic vacillation is really unavoidable!
As long as Chongzhen had some strategic determination to control whether Jiannu entered the pass or not, he could do whatever he wanted, and he would just stare at the rogue bandits and beat them to death.
The rogue bandits were probably wiped out by the Ming army in one fell swoop!
When the time comes, the Ming army will focus on building a nine-border defense line, and Jiannu may not be able to enter the pass.
As for allowing the slaves to enter the customs, will there be any impact?
As long as the capital is not lost, other problems are not big.
Considering the size of the Ming Dynasty, the Jiannu slaves who ravaged the Gyeonggi Province and invaded Shandong Province could only suffer superficial injuries at best.
I even thought in a dark way that if the slaves entered the Pass and slaughtered more cities and plundered more people, they could also help the Ming Dynasty alleviate the refugee problem caused by population pressure!
In addition, Henan has suffered the most serious natural disasters, and Shaanxi has been plagued by rogue bandits for more than ten years, resulting in the loss of more than half of the population.
The original sharp contradiction between man and land has been greatly alleviated!
As long as the imperial court could wipe out the rogue bandits at that time, the rogue bandits would no longer hijack the people, wreak havoc on the place, and create a large number of hungry people for the Ming Dynasty.
That is definitely Chongzhen Zhongxing!
In the final analysis, the failure of the imperial court in the late Ming Dynasty was due to Chongzhen's lack of strategic determination.
A lesson learned from the past!
Not long after Chongzhen overturned his car and hung himself on a tree with his neck crooked, Zhu Hongyu didn't want to imitate him.
No matter what the hell is going on in the mainland war, my current goal is to pacify Nanyang.
Wait until Nanyang is pacified, then concentrate on the war on the mainland!
Before this, no matter how bad the war situation on the mainland was, even if the two islands of Hong Kong and Kinmen were lost, the Zhoushan Rebel Army, which was being reorganized by the Liberation Army, was wiped out, and even Li Dingguo was besieged and annihilated in Mengla by Wu Sangui.
Zhu Hongyu will not even return to his school!
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After taking control of Fuyuan City, the Ming Dynasty successfully took over the Dutch shipyard in Batavia.
The scale of this shipyard is even larger than the Huaxing Shipyard in Luzon, and it has two to three thousand Dutch and Chinese shipbuilding craftsmen.
There are nearly ten docks!
There is also a large amount of shipbuilding timber stored in the shipyard, which has been dried in advance by the Dutch.
It can be used directly to build ships!
This shipyard has the ability to independently build and repair sailing battleships of the third level and below.
It has the ability to build and repair various types of armed merchant ships such as Galen ships, Clark ships, and Chinese-style Fu ships!
The fundamental reason why the Dutch are able to maintain a huge fleet in the Southeast Asia is because they have this shipyard and the ability to build ships independently.
Zhu Hongyu personally met with the person in charge of the shipyard, a bearded Dutchman named Kral.
He is middle-aged and looks ordinary, even a little ugly.
He is short and stocky, his face is covered with a beard, and his hands are covered with thick calluses.
Krall has a bad temper and likes to drink. When he is drunk, he will hit people.
When he was the head of the shipyard, he frequently beat the craftsmen below him.
However, he was not targeting the Chinese, but he would beat them regardless of whether they were Chinese or Dutch, as long as they didn't get their way.
During the Ming Dynasty's public trial in Fuyuan City, Krall was reported by several Chinese in the shipyard.
Kral obviously knew this. The moment he saw Zhu Hongyu, he knelt down in front of Zhu Hongyu with a pop.
"Your Majesty, the kind Prince, please forgive the reckless Krall for his mistake. Krall knows he was wrong!"
After seeing the scene where other Dutchmen who were accused were beheaded in public on a high platform, Krall's heart was filled with fear.
He was afraid that like those people, his head would be chopped off in public.
Even family members are involved!
During the public trial, it was discovered that some Dutch people had done too many evil things.
Not only was he killed, but his family members were also implicated.
A small number of them were killed together with the prisoners, and the greater number were thrown into labor camps to do hard labor!
Never see the light of day!
Carlal was really frightened.
Therefore, as soon as he saw Zhu Hongyu, he knelt down in front of Zhu Hongyu and kowtowed in apology.
Zhu Hongyu tapped his fingers lightly on the table and spoke in a lukewarm voice.
"Do you want to live?"
Klar said tremblingly.
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty the Prince! I don't want to die yet!"
Zhu Hongyu said without any emotion in his voice.
"It's not impossible to forgive your mistakes!"
"People are not afraid of making mistakes, but they are afraid of not recognizing their own value. After making a mistake, people will not hesitate to kill them!"
"So, do you think you are valuable?"
Krall seemed to understand something and kowtowed loudly.
"Klar got it!"
"Your Excellency, please forgive Krall. Krall is willing to work for you, manage the Batavia shipyard for you, and build more ships for you!"
"Please give Krall a chance to show your worth!"
"Klar will never let you down!"
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