Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 314
The greatest purpose of war is to achieve the goal with the smallest cost, and the Ming army has a large number of troops that need to wear armor. If they all change to plate armor, there is no need to fight, and the economy of Ming Dynasty will collapse directly.

Hearing Zhu Cihong's words, Tang Ruowang's face turned livid. He never expected that the Western technology he relied on to get ahead in Ming Dynasty was so worthless in Zhu Cihong's eyes.

According to the content of the conversation between myself and Zhu Cihong, I am afraid that I will not be able to save my church members during this trip. After all, they seem to be of little use to Zhu Cihong and Daming.

Just when Tang Ruowang was desperate to save his congregation, the next second, a turning point suddenly appeared, and he saw Zhu Cihong walking towards Tang Ruowang behind the table.

"But for your Tang Ruowang's sake, I can save those prisoners of war from being sent to the frontier, but." When talking about this, Zhu Cihong suddenly changed the subject, which meant that it would not be so easy for Tang Ruowang to rescue his fellow believers.

"They have to serve me for ten years, just like they served the monarchs of various countries in the West. I will only provide them with basic living materials and wages for these ten years, because they are doing meritorious deeds."

Zhu Cihong's service does not refer to Tang Ruowang, but similar to the lowest level of Western mercenaries, except that they are not sold, they are almost like slaves.

"However, I guarantee that as soon as the ten-year period passes, I will give them freedom immediately. If they want to continue serving me, they can also join the military households of Ming Dynasty. I will give them fields, farm tools, and houses, just like other like the people."

"That's great, I agree with your words." Tang Ruowang was overjoyed.

What is it to serve Zhu Cihong for ten years? Daming is a powerful ancient civilization that defeated the Mongols. It may be better to stay here than to stay in the West. Now his followers can be regarded as secure in the future.

"But what do you want them to do?" The next second, Tang Ruowang's heart became tense again.

After all, there are many forms of serving Zhu Cihong, such as soldiers, officers, technicians, even construction workers, dung diggers, and coolies in mines. Tang Ruowang does not want them to serve Zhu Cihong like animals.

Hearing Tang Ruowang's question, Zhu Cihong said righteously, "To help me build a navy, we must have the strengths of Western navies and combine the advantages of Eastern navies."

"This navy must have the ability to sail thousands of miles away, as well as powerful firepower, huge tonnage, agile movement speed, and solid armor."

Zhu Cilang wanted to build a navy, but this navy was different from the inland river and inland lake navy of the imperial court in the past, but an advanced fleet that could rival the Spanish Armada or even the British fleet of later generations.

"This, this may be difficult, Your Majesty." Tang Ruowang was shocked by Zhu Cihong's request.

Combining east and west, you have to learn from others, which has a lot of advantages. Tang Ruowang is not a shipbuilder. How could he have the ability to build such a navy for Zhu Cihong?

What's more, building a navy requires a huge amount of wealth. Although Tang Ruowang admits that Daming is far richer than Xiyang and has abundant natural resources, the problem is that today's Daming has just eliminated several powerful enemies and ended the Southern Expedition. During the Northern War, did Ming Dynasty still have the resources and ability to build a powerful fleet?
"With my support, all difficulties will no longer be difficulties." Zhu Cihong's eyes were bright and full of determination, as if no one could stop him.

A few days later, an order was issued from the capital and spread to the Jiaozhi Tixing Judgment Division in Hanoi City, thousands of miles away. Then the Jiaozhi Tixing Judging Division sent 50 officers and soldiers, and more than [-] local soldiers to escort three or four Hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese went north.

Because of the large number of people, they adopted the method of sea transportation.

Since Jiaozhi was pacified, and since the rule was going to be regularized, the prisoners captured by the Ming army before were handed over to the Yamen of Jiaozhi's punishment department.

After more than ten days, the fleet finally arrived in the capital, and Tang Ruowang saw this group of believers whom he had never met before.

But before they had a mass, praised God for allowing them to survive the catastrophe, and prayed devoutly, they were sent by the Ming court to Jinshanwei on the Liaodong Peninsula.

After the capture of Mite Island, because the population of Liaodong was greatly reduced compared with before, and the strength of the Ming army was seriously insufficient, there was no garrison here, and the original castle was just used by these guys.

Moreover, Jinshan Guard, as a coastal guard station, already has ports and docks, which can be used by the navy in the future.

After this group of Westerners came to Jinshanwei, Zhu Cihong sent [-] newly recruited fishermen and [-] inland river sailors to Jinshanwei.

Along with the 4000 people who arrived at Jinshanwei, there were dozens of naval ships of the Ming army, as well as the name of the future navy, "Donghai Navy".

And Jinshanwei was changed to the Admiral's Yamen of the East China Sea Navy, which is also the military base of this navy.

In terms of establishment, this navy is divided into navy admirals, four navy commanders, [-] navy households, and an establishment of about [-] soldiers and more than [-] auxiliary soldiers.

But of course it is impossible to have so many people for the time being, Zhu Cihong can't afford to add [-] troops at once, not to mention sending a whole body of equipment to each person, even if he sends a knife to each person, he can't do it now.

So for a long time, this navy will only have these four thousand Han soldiers and these hundreds of Western sailors.

Now that the navy has been built, the next step is to build ships. After all, what kind of navy is a navy without ships.

Because Zhu Cihong wanted to build a new warship based on the combination of the advantages of the East and the West, Tang Ruowang and some of the sailors who knew the structure of Western ships had to pull a group of craftsmen from the Ming Dynasty to study it.

Not to mention, let them discover something. When building a Western ship, the keel and ribs of the ship must be laid first, and then the hull is slowly put on.

Such ships have strong structural strength and high speed, making them suitable for ocean-going voyages.

Eastern ships are flat-bottomed ships and seldom use keels. However, one thing about Eastern ships is very advanced, that is, they have a large number of watertight compartments on the ships.

This is very important for a ship, it is simply giving the ship an extra life.

The American warships in World War II in the [-]th century were so resistant to beatings because they had a large number of watertight compartments and a strong damage control team.

After absorbing the advantages of the East and the West, Tang Ruowang and the sailors are like building a ship with a keel, ribs, and a large number of watertight compartments.

This can ensure that the ship has a high enough structural strength for ocean voyages, and there are a large number of watertight cabins. Even if it hits a rock, is bombarded, or hit, it is not afraid of sinking, unless the opponent's artillery is strong enough to punch the ship. .

(End of this chapter)