Lord of Ming Dynasty

In later generations, there is a kind of name for this is to support the enemy and betray the country. That is to say, no matter how sympathetic, cruel, or moral things they do, they have unintentionally done something that pleases the enemy and makes the Huaxia Kingdom happy. loss of profit.

In many cases, from a long-term perspective, they capitalize on the enemy, use their own hard work to support themselves, and then plunder others’ wealth. It is very reasonable to use consequentialism to explain that it harms the interests of the collective. That is to say, as long as the collective is kidnapped by your morality, the interests of the collective will also be damaged.

Unless the collective needs your interests, you have also paid for the collective interests, and when the collective needs to repay your interests, this is considered the collective interest.

It’s too much, it’s too esoteric. To say a thousand words and ten thousand means that Zheng Zhi hopes that the Huaxia Kingdom can help him, let him help those people, and then he will get benefits, and their Zheng family will get benefits. The advantage is to sell them some warships or supplies and commodities. Of course, Zheng Zhi must take advantage of this aspect.

He hoped to get part of it for free. Maybe he felt that there were also Han people there, and the Huaxia Kingdom should pay for these Han people, but Zhang Qiang felt that these Han people were forced to hand over their wealth to the enemy, and he had to pay the bill. This is an act of being taken advantage of.

The lesson of the Chinese nation for thousands of years is that it often pays for the enemy to attack and weaken itself.

Of course, some of these people are indeed doing business for the benefit of the Huaxia Kingdom, and their profits are also handed over to the Huaxia Kingdom. They are also real Han people, the Chinese nation, not those Han people who lack a sense of identity, so sometimes the Han people The dynasty also had to pay for them, because sometimes you just bring back the Han people who are useful to the Huaxia Dynasty, which will make other Han people more alienated and hate the Huaxia Dynasty even more.

Like the Han people in Singapore and the Han people in Taiwan in later generations.

In short, the enemy's strategy succeeded, successfully kidnapped the Chinese nation, and caused the continuous loss of the Chinese nation, but there is nothing to do. You have to pay for these people. You have to destroy the enemy. Sometimes the enemy is stronger than you. Sometimes destroying them is not worth the loss. Sometimes They will use some wealth to buy high-level officials, so that high-level officials are willing to pay for this matter, which will damage the interests of the collective and the country.

Maybe others can't think so much, but sometimes instinctive and unconscious actions, recalling and summarizing afterwards, is not the same reason.

Chapter 794 The Gradually Weakened Huaxia Navy Fleet

What I learned with Zheng Keshuang over there was that the Thais and Westerners wanted to move the Nanyang people. In fact, it was mainly the Dutch and Portuguese Han people in Indonesia and Malay Islands in Nanyang. Zheng Keshuang went to persuade the Zheng family to keep some of their staff, or to transfer some of their staff to this side, and then build forces from places such as Gegong Island, and then sent sailors to help Li Yuanyin and Tian Xianbu, who had been quiet all the time, hold back Du Ge and the British Dutch The power of the people in Siam.

After Zheng Zhi came here, what he faced was the power of the Spaniards, and he wanted to challenge the Spaniards. Now, the members of the Zheng family are indeed not easy to use.

What's more, Zheng Zhi hooked up with Hong Chengchou's two sons, and Hong Shiming and Hong Hongxiu were both involved.

But he has to give it to him, because he still needs to implement the strategy agreed with Zheng Keshuang earlier to help Li Yuanyin and Tian Xian share the pressure.

"What help do you want us to provide?" Zhang Qiang asked Zheng Zhi.

"We hope His Majesty can provide us with some ships. We lost a lot in the battle with the Dutch last time, and many of them need repairs, but our repairs can only restore these ships to sailing ability, but many places are already aging. There are no large shipyards for major repairs, and many places can't be repaired. For example, we don't have the kind of hard giant wood that can be used as a mast, so we hope His Majesty can sell us some more ships."

Zhang Qiang thinks this is nothing, but now there are only twelve shipyards in the Huaxia Kingdom with a total of more than [-] tons, and he has arranged for the construction of new Huaxia-class warships. The shipyards of this era are not as convenient as those of later generations. It would be nice to have one or two thousand-ton shipyards in each shipyard. These shipyards are all occupied and used to build new warships. Other shipyards can provide maintenance, but there are not many. There must be only one shipyard with a large tonnage. Or two, there must be ships of the Huaxia Navy in it. This is the repair and maintenance of the perennial rotation. The development of the Huaxia Navy in the past ten years has thousands of ships.

Relying on these twelve large shipyards for maintenance, they can repair and maintain about twelve thousand-ton battleships for a squadron at a time. It is basically impossible to carry out repairs and maintenance. Others need to be repaired and maintained. It is basically impossible to occupy other ships that are damaged or severely damaged and dismantled to supplement the navy.

It means that the twelve shipyards are operating at full capacity, and they cannot repair and maintain all the warships. It takes several years to complete such repairs and maintenance. The other 24 shipyards have actually been resold because of economic development. They went out and gave them to private contractors. Of course, not all of them were sold. At least twelve supporting ships were retained. However, the reason why these shipyards can resell them is because their tonnage is not large, ranging from 180 tons to [-] tons. , Those over [-] tons will be sent to the twelve largest shipyards.

The largest of the twelve supporting docks only has one 180-ton dock, the others are all [-]-ton or less, there are three [-]-ton docks, and the rest are generally [-]-ton docks, because in fact [-] tons Tons are the mainstream, and other ships cannot be equipped with too many even with the financial resources of the Huaxia Army. Previously, because they wanted to control the entire huge sea area, they did not consider the cost. Each state and navy tried their best to build their own shipyards. , It was not until the first shipyard reform that the small shipyards below [-] tons were thrown away.

Even if it is thrown away, restrictions will be placed on these shipyards, and some shipyards will be dismantled. These shipyards cannot be flooded, and some low-quality boats will continue to be built, so that fishermen and sailors' boats will not last for a few days. It was sunk by the wind and waves, or it leaked and sank by itself.

There were nearly 75 shipyards in the past, but only [-] shipyards nationwide were dismantled. The distribution is reasonable. Each area takes into account the scale and needs, and the characteristics of each area are considered. Licenses are issued, and there are no licenses. The shipyards are not allowed to operate.

In the second shipyard reform, all the naval shipyards were sold, leaving 36 large-scale, centralized, and distributed within the range of each naval fleet on the coastline, under the jurisdiction of each naval fleet, no matter what you build How much, but each ship has to be approved. If it fails to pass the approval, it cannot be built. Once a fine is found, the person responsible will be held accountable.

Later, due to the poor management of some shipyards, twelve more were sold at the most, and the remaining twelve were half-civilian and half-army for them to carry out simple maintenance for the navy. Twelve of them went to repair and maintenance.

After such a toss, the navy's ship construction speed has slowed down. Over the years, it has only slowly increased the number of ships, and then sold some unsuitable models and old models to merchants or retired to the Navy Coast Guard.

The annual maintenance and construction costs of naval ships are also astronomical, so Zhang Qiang has sold and decommissioned nearly 6000 ships in recent years, reducing the number from more than 4000 to more than [-].

However, some ships over [-] tons have been preserved, and the overall scale is still there.

The Zheng family has already purchased nearly 200 ships from here. When Zheng Chenggong retreated from Nanyang to Australia, he took away more than 200 warships, his more than [-] armed merchant ships, and the merchant ships purchased from the Huaxia Navy.

In other words, the Zheng family is Zhang Qiang's biggest client.

The second client is Lu Guo and the third son of Lu Guo King, Hong Tianpao, who is now the King of Ryukyu.

Hong Tianpao has supported him with nearly 300 ships, and sold him nearly [-] ships.

Recently, nearly 100 ships were sold to him. These old ships were transferred from the Fifth and Sixth Fleets. The Fifth and Sixth Fleets have not been supplemented or developed since they were established. The small ships and some old ships have been transferred for nearly 300 years. More than [-] ships were transferred from them, and some merchant ships such as the Dafu Ship were transferred from them. Now they have transferred more than [-] naval warships, ranging from [-]-ton transportation ships to thousand-ton warships. Now their size is even the third fleet. The size of a squadron stationed in Baodao State is not as good.

Together, they are just surpassed, less than five hundred ships.

This made Ruan Jin very dissatisfied. He was unable to conduct patrols in the Annan Sea, and he was unable to conduct reconnaissance and patrols in the farther South China Sea. Many Dutch warships, as well as Portuguese and British warships, have passed through huge loopholes many times. Slipped over and made a deal with the Spaniards.

Even the Portuguese fleet slipped past there last time.

In order to make up for the Fifth and Sixth Fleets, Zhang Qiang transferred [-] warships of [-] tons, [-] tons, and [-] tons from the Third Fleet, Second Fleet, and Fourth Fleet to support the Fifth and Sixth Fleets. The fleet acquired a hundred large warships, which increased their combat effectiveness, but their patrol capabilities still couldn't make up for it.

Up to now, the number of warships in the entire navy has only been reduced to [-].

All warships, the age of warships has been reduced from the original 21 years to 11 years, that is, the old ships are basically sold and decommissioned, and they are all younger warships with a service age of 11 years and below. It's faster, but uses fewer warships.

Zhang Qiang hopes that after the new warship comes out, its speed will be further improved, its combat capability will be further improved, and it will be able to complete a circle of patrols in the sea area where each naval fleet is located within an extremely short period of time. Usually, there are a large number of fishermen and merchant ships for warning, which is enough.

Chapter 795 OK, sell it to you

After knowing Zheng Zhi's needs, Zhang Qiang asked back: "I need to know when the things Zheng Keshuang said will be achieved. It has been half a year now, and you have been here for two months. When will you be able to send your troops? Gain a firm foothold in Cambodia, then go to Siam to occupy a territory, and besiege those kingdoms and forces in Siam with my people."

Zheng Zhidao: "If Your Majesty can support us with more ships, we can bring in our troops as soon as possible, and then start landing. Earlier, I could send people to transport thousands of people to occupy Koh Kong Island and send most of my fleet to the island. Where to station, but now I only have fifty warships and warships, and I have fought the Dutch again, so I really have no ability to separate and land somewhere."

"Okay, but you guys bought it. If you have money, you can return it to me. How many battleships and warships are you going to buy?"

Zhang Qiang asked.

Zheng Zhi smiled and said, "It depends on how much His Majesty sells to us."

Zhang Qiang called the people in the attendant's room, there was a person in charge of this aspect, "How many warships and battleships does the Fifth Fleet have now?"

"Well, Your Majesty, after selling the third prince last time, there are only 380 ships left in the Fifth Fleet, and the Sixth Fleet is even more pitiful, with only 180 ships left. If it weren't for the support of 480 merchant ships, The Sixth Fleet is finished. Even if each fleet gave them a hundred ships, it would be only 380 ships and [-] ships in each fleet."

"Calculate how many ships our navy has under ten years old, and how many ships under nine years old?" Zhang Qiang said.

After the attendants went out, Zhang Qiang and Zheng Zhi started talking about other things.

Zheng Zhi smiled, and chatted with Zhang Qiang about the current construction of Australia, "Your Majesty, now we can mine 100 million tons of iron ore every year, and we use [-] tons for ourselves to make farm tools and weapons, and the rest are used for some For folk use, the others are piled up somewhere, waiting to be shipped here for export to you. The reason why so much can be mined is because His Majesty has continuously supported our Japanese. We also captured some local Australians to mine for us. , although there are not many people, but it is easy for the aborigines to get it, and they still use stones and sticks, which can be said to be much more primitive than ours."

"Hehe," Zhang Qiang could only laugh. Afterwards, Australia was built by the British colonists, then built by millions of Han Chinese, and finally shed blood for the British in World War II. But at that time, the Australians were no longer the Australia of the Australians. Well, that's someone else's Australia. I take advantage of the present to eliminate more aborigines for others, and in the future they will also get more Han people to go there. Isn't that better?

"We need to develop more population and strive to occupy the whole of Australia. Australia is bigger than China." Zhang Qiang laughed.

Zheng Zhi shrugged his shoulders. He didn't want to stay there any longer. He was really backward, and he couldn't see people for hundreds of miles. How kind the Han people are, they can go back to Huaxia when they have nothing to do, this is his hometown, his hometown, although they went there because their Zheng family was forced to leave by the people in front of them, but he didn't hate it at all Zhang Qiang, those who are capable occupy the throne. He has no ambition to compete with the Huaxia Kingdom for the throne, but he hopes to gain a firm foothold near Palawan Island or Southeast Asia.

Zheng Chenggong is getting older. Although his actual age is not very old, he is not even fifty this year, but he already looks like he is dying, and he has been hit a lot. His grandfather, his mother, and the Ming and Longwu dynasties all The annihilation made him feel heart-piercing pain. In the end, he even lost Baodao Prefecture. He moved to Nanyang and could not defeat the Dutch. Therefore, he had to follow Zhang Qiang's advice and find Australia. It took nearly five years to find Australia. , It took two years to prepare, and after he went there, nothing was left out. He spent five years building it, and now it has just begun to take shape.

But now his eldest brother and second brother are fighting so fiercely for the throne that he has no intention of staying anywhere.

Therefore, this time he took the initiative to ask to help the youngest brother to complete the task assigned by Zhang Qiang, the King of China, and also to establish a passage from Australia to China, and to raise supplies, money, food, and population for the development of Australia.

"This may not work, our population is not enough, 100 million Japanese population, 60 Han population, 30 Southeast Asian population, 3000 Nanyang aborigines, plus only [-] Australian aboriginals willing to submit to us, this population is not even here. The population of a province, even including the population of my Palawan Island, [-] people, [-] troops, and [-] naval forces, counting this population is not counted as population at all.” Zheng Zhi shook his head.

Zhang Qiang sneered secretly, this guy is still young, Zhang Qiang knew in his mind that the Ministry of Military Intelligence had already found out the situation of the Zheng family. Although he didn't know the specific struggles and inner activities between the brothers, he Knowing that Zheng Zhi came out this time to gain his own strength.

Palawan Island now only occupies the two lower islands and one port. He does not occupy the upper island. Where there are Spanish troops stationed, and there are several Spanish warships cruising, it is not that he cannot beat those ships. It's just that he can't beat the Spanish Navy fleet in Manila.