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Chapter 380 The Rising Great Ming Navy

The sea breeze whizzes past with a chill, and there are endless ships on the shore, such as the Blessed Ship, a ship of the Ming Dynasty, which has a Flang machine, a red cannon, and a rocket firebrick. The sailors and gunners on it are also dressed in Ming army. Clothes, there is also a kind of Sangui gunboat, which is tall and tall, and there are a lot of cannons on the top with a dark and cold glow, as well as Japanese and Western warships, large and small ships are parked on the shore, and you can only see continuous waves from a distance. sails.

Zheng Zhilong's business scope in the Shiji covers a wide range of places in the East and Southeast Asia: Dani, Huni, Champa, Luzon, Lugang, Beigang, Dayuan, Hirado, Nagasaki, Mumbai, Banten, Old Port, Batavia, Malacca, Cambodia, and Siam. It is estimated that the military strength of Bao Han, Japanese, Korean, Austronesian, African blacks and other races is as high as 20 people, with more than [-] large and small ships. At this moment, he has become the commander-in-chief of Fujian to accept that the Ming army here is more powerful.

In a large mansion by the bank, in the courtyard, two rows of people sat in one room, including many Han Chinese, Japanese in suits, and a group of blond foreigners. Zheng Zhilong sat in the main seat. This man looked very heroic. The man was the overlord of the sea at the end of the Ming Dynasty. His sea fleet had nothing to do with the Ming army. The real sea fleet of the Ming Dynasty disappeared due to the sea ban in the early Ming Dynasty, and the local navy that won the Luliang naval battle also dwindled due to financial problems. .

Only in this way can Zheng Zhilong rise in the sea. The Ming Dynasty was also mostly rogues. The latter was troubled by gold and was unable to control the sea. His navy had a huge number, with 30 ships of all sizes and nearly [-] troops. However, in terms of strength, it was still far from the Ming army. The level of the Luliang naval battle, among which the water warfare rockets that shined in the seamounts can not be found in the battle records he fought.

Zheng Zhilong has a kind of arrogance on his face. He followed his elder brother Yan Siqi from Japan, and after his elder brother died, he was elected as the leader of the alliance to lead the Eighteen Zhis across the Ming sea area. Fei, defeated the coalition forces of the Netherlands and Liu Xiang in the naval battle of Liuluowan, conquered Taiwan, migrated to Quanzhou, and opened up the maritime empire of Taiwan. He is the uncrowned king of the blue sea.

He wiped the firecracker in his hand, it was the winged tiger blunderbuss of the Ming dynasty, he said: "The two thousand birdcracks I recently bought from Guangzhou can reach our Fujian army." He said with a kind of anticipation.

"My lord, it has already been transported," said a man in a long robe at the side. It was Li Guozhu, the leader of overseas Chinese in Japan. He added: "Our army has 8 gunners."

Zheng Zhilong nodded, looking at the generals in the room full of curiosity, a mighty general beside him was Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhihu, and said: "Brother, the strength of the two armies of our army and waterway is no less than 25. In the name of the Qing emperor's side, the Northern Expedition will expand its strength"

All the generals looked forward with eager eyes, and Zheng Zhilong shook his head with anticipation in his eyes: "My navy is strong, but land warfare is not our army's specialty. Not to mention the thieves in the north, and the Tartars, on the birthday of the Shandong Army, I will The army is not its opponent."

"Brother's words are different. Our army's cavalry is not good, but we have firearms. The advanced firearms of the Ming Dynasty and even the Westerners are in our army! How can we defeat the cavalry with firearms to take the south?"

"Moreover, our army has the advantage of the Iron Man Army. The Iron Man Army is invincible. They are invulnerable to the north, and they will not suffer from their cavalry."

These generals are all vicious water thieves, and naturally they are ambitious and want to expand northward to a larger territory. They no longer want to shrink to a corner of Fujian.

"Oh" Zheng Zhilong looked at the people below and he shook his head. How powerful are the firearms? It's enough for you to suffer if the opponent's light cavalry intercepts your logistics. He had no choice but to smile bitterly. These pirates are still not familiar with land warfare, and said: "No Speaking of which, Qin Xiaochuan, the general of Shandong, liquidated all the rich families in Shandong yesterday, those pirates? Hehe, I think Qin Xiaochuan probably hired him!"

"Those wealthy families in Shandong give us a lot of money every year. They even pay us thousands of taels of silver for transporting a ship by sea. It's a pity that they were attacked by pirates."

"It shouldn't be. Brother, we have come into contact with those pirates who are extremely cunning. The main force is the Europeans. How could they have an intersection with the Shandong General Army? We are at a disadvantage when they fight with the swift Xiaochuan."

"I heard that Shandong Port is very prosperous. Shandong can earn more than 100 million yuan in silver a year from this port. It is simply a gold-sucking den."

When everyone talked about it, they were all talking about the development of prosperity in Shandong. Zheng Zhilong's face was full of entanglement. He was greedy in his heart when he was rich in Shandong, but the mighty Qingzhou army made him worry. "Forget it, the strength of the Qingzhou army is not my current enemy. I need to see the prince who is going south." He said, but he thought of the prince and wondered if he could get any benefits from him.

All the people stopped talking, and they all understood what he said about the strength of the Qingzhou Army.

However, Li Guozhu stood up. This middle-aged man who looked like he had been through many years of life opened his mouth and said with a strange Japanese-like speaking Chinese feeling: "Sir, I think this Qingzhou Army cannot be defeated unless it is defeated."

Everyone was weird, and they didn't understand why Li Guozhu, the leader of overseas Chinese in Japan who had always been known for being timid and fearful, would say such a thing.

Zheng Zhilong also looked over, and he said, "I have been to Qingzhou, do you know what I saw in Qingzhou Port?" No one in power has gone to a place as far away as Shandong, only Li Guozhu went there once by boat dressed as a businessman.

"A rich shop, I heard that there are shops on both sides that can't be seen"

"I heard that there is a large machine with a height of ten feet, which can drop heavy objects like a building car"

"There are also merchant ships. I heard that the shore is full of merchant ships."

Zheng Zhilong was also surprised, and said: "Don't be a fool."

"Neither of them," Li Guozhu continued, "it's a growing Ming navy, with more than 100 lucky boats with a thousand materials! They train rigorously day and night, equipped with well-equipped rocket artillery, and the training is so strict that it is rare in the world. Our soldiers would have mutinied or gone crazy long ago."

Everyone in the room gasped. As pirates, they naturally understood what the real Ming Dynasty Navy looked like. How could it be that now due to lack of funds, local naval forces were even established with donations from local landlords? The real Ming Dynasty Navy The navy is the king of the sea in the Far East.

"The rising navy of the Ming Dynasty?" Zheng Zhilong had an inexplicable color on his face. He didn't know how big a navy the barren land in Shandong could support, but the navy of the Ming Dynasty?In this country where the navy has been strong for more than 200 years, the opponent is an orthodox noble. If a navy rises, he doesn't know what will happen! "Shandong Navy must be eliminated"

Zheng Zhilong said that no matter how powerful he was on the road, he was not afraid. At worst, he would return to the sea and become his pirate. However, the appearance of the Shandong Navy made him feel a different and huge threat, which truly threatened his roots. "Second brother, first send someone to Shandong to inquire about the news, and order the three armies to prepare. When the time comes, we will seize the opportunity to fight against the interests of the country and the people, rob merchants and shake the foundation of the country, and set out from Shandong from the water. We must take advantage of this rising force. The navy was destroyed in the cradle."

(End of this chapter)