Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 537

Sister Lion has long since resigned from the position of naval commander, but she is still serving as the principal of the Naval University, cultivating a new generation of naval personnel for Daming.The current naval commander is Wang Kai, and Bai Mingxiu has basically never logged into this avatar after sailing around the world, making Wang Kai basically active as an independent person.

Compared with the relatively light strategic missions of the Ming Army, the Navy may be the most demanding military branch of the Ming Dynasty.The land of Ming Dynasty covers Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Australia, basically all of them need the presence of the Ming Navy base, and the navy is an obviously outward-looking military branch. The Ming Navy is a blue-sea navy, so a few years ago, all three sea fleets were simply withdrawn. The Grand Fleet was redistributed.

The Ming Dynasty is now divided into four major fleets: the Home Fleet, the Pacific Fleet, the Indian Ocean Fleet, and the Atlantic Fleet. The most powerful is naturally the Home Fleet, which is the merger of the original Three Sea Fleets. Its jurisdiction includes the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Nanyang. , but this area is completely the territory and territorial waters of the Ming Dynasty, so it does not actually bear much defensive tasks. The local fleet exists more in the form of a reserve fleet.

In addition to the local fleet, the strongest fleet is the Indian Ocean Fleet.Daming's shipping is very dependent on the Indian Ocean, especially the oil transportation that has become increasingly important in recent years.Moreover, after the Ming Dynasty occupied Egypt, the Suez Canal was opened, and with its strong engineering capabilities, it was able to pass 15 to 20 tons of fully loaded cargo ships.Suddenly, the Eurasian maritime trade was concentrated on the Suez Canal, and the issue of shipping security in the Indian Ocean became extremely important.

Therefore, the Ming Navy has set up multiple military bases along the Indian Ocean, and deployed land, navy and air force to fully protect Ming's shipping interests.

Coming to Jinzhou (Dalian) by plane, Bai Mingxiu brought his youngest son with him this time.The youngest son's name is Zhu Hezhong, and Bai Mingxiu usually likes to call him by his nickname "Tietou". This emperor is also not serious.Bai Mingxiu and his wife had three children together, two sons and a girl.The eldest son Zhu Heduo, because Bai Mingxiu felt that there was a thick lanugo hair on his head, he took the nickname Da Mao; his daughter Zhu Yanqing was born very black, and her nickname was Hei Niu, although now Her Royal Highness is as white as a A piece of mutton jade; Zhu and Zhong were third, because Bai Mingxiu looked at his head and thought that it should be an iron head, so it was called an iron head.

Tietou is only six years old this year, but he is very lively and very curious. He always grabs his father and asks him questions every chance he gets.Bai Mingxiu became a father for the first time in his two lifetimes. The experience was quite novel, and he finally put a lot of his parenting experience into practice.The eldest son is now 14 years old and is already preparing to take the college entrance examination. He is a standard academic master; the daughter has been beautiful since she was a child. She is 12 years old this year. She likes painting and dancing and is not good at studying. She is a proper teenage goddess.

It is obviously the emperor's family, but it is not much different from ordinary families. Bai Mingxiu gave the children a more relaxed and comfortable space, protected them, and gave them rules and principles.

Bai Mingxiu really is an idle emperor now, working more than ten hours a week is enough.The rest of the time is spent reading books by myself, or playing with my children.On the contrary, his wife Su Wanxi is busy. Su Wanxi has become a strong woman within a few years after graduation, and is now the vice president of the group.Su Wanxi even asked him euphemistically a few times whether she should marry another concubine or something to take care of the emperor.

The emperor said no, so he cooked at home every day, soaked goji berries in a thermos, and lived quite comfortably.

The reason why I came to Jinzhou with Tietouwa was to see the big ship.

Jinzhou Shipyard is one of the two most impressive shipyards in China, and the other one is naturally Jiangnan.Although both shipyards are state-owned enterprises, they compete and cooperate with each other. In the past two years, especially in the competition for large orders from the navy, they have also shown signs of divergence.

"It's all the fat of the people." Bai Mingxiu stared at the huge battleship that had been in the water for a while, and expressed his heartfelt emotion.

The battleship in front of him is called the Shanghai-class battleship. This is the No. [-] ship. The navy reported that it would build four ships, but the Legislative Yuan cut down one, and there was a lot of criticism within the navy, but Bai Mingxiu still very much agreed.

Because Bai Mingxiu was the one who clearly opposed the construction of the Shanghai-class battleship at the time, but he did not express his opinion publicly and put pressure on all parties.

The prototype of the Shanghai-class battleship is actually the Iowa-class battleship, and there is basically no change in the paper data.Although Bai Mingxiu now uses the system cheats, the number of times is much less, because he finds that basically he does nothing, and Daming will still realize it by himself, so he can reduce his dependence on the cheats.He gave this battleship to the navy after he got the technology, and he didn't call it directly, otherwise the price would be unbeatable for 200 million Goldfinger coins.

The Navy has also conducted bidding within the navy. There is a plan designed by the shipyard itself, but it has not competed for the Iowa class. After all, although the Ming Dynasty has risen rapidly, its experience accumulation and foundation are not as good as it is.This is why Bai Mingxiu would rather spend more time, hoping to give Daming's scientific and technological engineers some space to create by themselves.

"Big ship, so cool!" The younger son slapped his hands and looked at the battleship. He has loved water, the sea, and ships since he was a child.His favorite piece of clothing right now is a children's suit modeled after a navy uniform.

Tietouwa pulled the corner of his father's clothes and asked, "How powerful are the big boat's cannons?"

Bai Mingxiu didn't know how to quantify this matter with the children. He couldn't say that killing hundreds of people with a cannonball was almost no problem, so he could only say: "Anyway, it's very powerful."

"When I grow up, I want to drive big boats and fire cannons!"

Regarding his son's current ideal, Bai Mingxiu just laughed it off.Compared with the eldest brother, Tietouwa is much luckier, able to do some things he wants to do, and the eldest son now vaguely knows that he will take on the responsibility of his father in the future, and is studying hard.

The Shanghai-class battleship that is being outfitted in the distance may be finally completed in just a few months, and will become the largest battleship in Ming Dynasty by then.Although her birth was originally lonely, because there is no battleship that can match her as an opponent in this world.

Europe has also started a new round of naval revolution, but its ship technology is 30 years behind that of Ming Dynasty, so it is friendly.What surprised Bai Mingxiu was Xiqing, whose Black Sea Shipyard had produced a battleship with a displacement of more than 2 tons. Although it was probably slightly stronger than the flagship Civilization-class of the Global Fleet 20 years ago, it had already brought great benefits to the invention. some challenges.

(End of this chapter)