In Tianjin Port, more than 10 large ships are quietly moored in the wharf of the port, which is very busy, and the piles of materials are constantly moving to the ship.

These more than ten large ships are different from ordinary ships, ordinary ships are generally the style of Fu ships, and Tianjin Shipyard has improved them, but the overall style is still Fu ship.

And these dozen or so large ships, if the Europeans saw them, they would definitely be very surprised, because these dozen ships are more like the sailing warships of the Europeans, this kind of ship has a total of four floors, each floor has many openings, and these windows can all be used to load artillery.

To be precise, these big ships, it's actually warships.

These are one of the warships that Liu Jin had notified the Tianjin Shipyard to develop before, and they were prepared for future maritime wars.

Of course, at this time, all the windows on these ships were closed, but on each ship, Liu Jin also secretly arranged more than a dozen new cannons cast by Miyun Iron Factory.

Liu Jin also asked Emperor Hongzhi and the crown prince Zhu Houzhao for instructions on this matter, pirates and pirates are rampant in the southeast coastal area, if there is really no armed force, these dozen ships have passed, and once they are discovered, it will become a meat bun.

There is no doubt that it will definitely become the target of those pirates and pirates, and it will be a big loss when the time comes.

What's more, these ships were the first ships to go to the Ryukyus, and the first people to go to the Ryukyus were not recruited farmers, but the backbone of Liu Jin's major industries under his command.

Their purpose in going to the Ryukyus was simple, that is, to build an advance base first and prepare for the large-scale immigration that followed.

At this time, there were barbarians on the Ryukyus, and these barbarians were very fierce, and the establishment of the base naturally had to consider this aspect of things, and it was naturally impossible to do without weapons.

Therefore, after consulting Emperor Hongzhi and Prince Zhu Houzhao, each ship had more than a dozen guns, which could be used for self-defense, and after arriving in the Ryukyus, they could also be used to build a base, and the artillery was installed on the wall of the base to guard the base.

In addition to artillery, swords, bows and crossbows and the like are also not less, these are also for self-defense, which is considered a special matter, and Emperor Hongzhi also approved it after thinking about it again and again, and this advance team has so many weapons and equipment, it can be regarded as an army.

Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi also specially sent the eunuchs in the palace to supervise the army, of course, and the eunuch troops of the army, and the eunuchs of the advance team to supervise the use of arms and weapons in the advance team, which were only allowed to be used by the advance team to deal with pirates, pirates and defend the bases on Ryukyu Island.

Once the advance party arrived in Tianjin or elsewhere, they had no right to use these arms and weapons.

Of course, there is actually another level of consideration for Emperor Hongzhi.

Since the change of the Ming Dynasty's army, all the power of the army has fallen into the hands of civilian officials, even if the emperor wants to mobilize the army, he needs to be approved by the Ministry of War.

Because the military power was controlled by the civilian clique, coupled with the suppression of the military generals and nobles by the civilian clique, the army of the Ming Dynasty was declining after the change of Tumubao, the armament was slack, and the combat effectiveness became weaker and weaker.

Zhu Di's army that once crisscrossed the grassland can only rely on tall cities to fight with the grassland people, and they don't dare to go out of the city to fight at all, so that the grassland people detain the border and plunder every year, but the Ming Dynasty has no way to take them.

The previous Emperor Hongzhi was fooled and lame by the civil officials, but because Liu Jin crossed over, there was a gap between the current Hongzhi Emperor and the civil officials, and the cracks were getting bigger and bigger.

Even the importance of military power, of course, is more important to pave the way for Zhu Houzhao later, and Emperor Hongzhi is also trying to bypass the court this time to build an army that only obeys the emperor's orders.

The advance team is just the beginning, if the advance team is really feasible, the future Hongzhi Emperor wants to rely on such a way to build an army that only obeys the emperor's orders.

The number of the advance team was not large, only more than 2,000 people, most of which were the backbone of Liu Jin's many industries under his command, and a small part of them were composed of people from the army of his cronies on the Hongzhi Emperor's side.

At this time, the more than 2,000 people of the advance team all gathered in the Tianjin Maritime Academy for training, and they had been training for more than a month.

"Tsk~ Lao Liu, I found that you are really a talent, this business is very good, and you are also very good at training the army~"

In Tianjin Maritime College, Liu Jin accompanied Zhu Houzhao to inspect this advance team, according to the arrangement of Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao has also been in Tianjin during this period of time, focusing on this advance team, and the command of this advance team is Zhu Houzhao's final say.

Since May, everyone discussed the development of Ryukyu together, and then each funded to form an advance team, and in just about a month, this advance team that was pulled to Tianjin Maritime Academy for training has been trained by Liu Jin.

At this time, on the spacious cement playground of the Tianjin Maritime Academy, more than 2,000 people of the advance team were neatly arranged, constantly standing upright and resting under the command of the commander, and carrying out daily training.

Tianjin Maritime College itself implements semi-military management and training, so these colleges that come out of Tianjin Maritime College can quickly form an army one by one.

The advance team was only to deal with some pirates, pirates and barbarians on the Ryukyu side, and Liu Jin felt that it was enough to bring them to Tianjin or the academy for training.

"Your Highness has won the award, what kind of army is this, it's just a group of rabble, it looks like it, but if it is really pulled to the battlefield, it must be useless, and the real army needs to be trained on the battlefield."

Liu Jin smiled and shook his head and said.

"A rabble?"

The British Duke Zhang Mao on the side was speechless for a moment, as the grandfather of the country, he has seen all the armies of the Ming Dynasty, he can pat his chest and say that no army in the Ming Dynasty has such a strong military formation as the advance team in front of him.

More than 2,000 people acted as one under the command of the instructor, as if they were one, and these advance team members were tall and full of spirit, and there was no army in the Ming Dynasty that could compare with it.

"Of course it's a rabble, if you really tell them to go to the battlefield to fight, including peeing their pants if someone wants to be scared."

Liu Jin smiled and said very affirmatively.

"What kind of army is considered an elite army?"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhu Houzhao thought about it and said very curiously, in his opinion, the advance team of more than 2,000 people in front of him is a powerful army, but listening to Liu Jin's meaning, they are just a group of rabble, and they can't talk about the army.

"An elite army, it must be evaluated from two aspects, the first is loyalty and patriotism."

Liu Jin thought for a while and said slowly.

"An army must have its own ideas and thoughts, that is, the soul of the army, and the personnel of the army can constantly change, but the soul of the army cannot change."

"Loyal and patriotic, only an army with such a soul can it be called an army, and an army without a soul, it will always be a group of rabble, it's okay to fight a good fight, if you really want to meet hard bones, it will definitely not work."

What Liu Jin said naturally came from some concepts from later generations, and the building of the army in later generations not only emphasized the building of personnel, weaponry, and training, but more importantly, emphasized the ideological building of the army.

"Loyal and patriotic!"

Zhu Houzhao listened carefully, and heard Liu Jin mention that the most important thing is to be loyal and patriotic, and his little eyes flashed, and then he nodded again and again like a chicken eating rice.

That's right, loyalty and patriotism are the most important thing, as a king, what he is most afraid of is the army rebellion, why would the king trust Wenchen more, because the scholar rebelled, there has been no successful case since ancient times, no matter how much Wenchen makes trouble, he is the right minister to stand up to the sky, and it can never change the surname.

But the military generals and nobles are different, the rivers and mountains of the past dynasties have changed hands, many of them are made by the military generals and nobles, such as the Western Han Dynasty died in the hands of Wang Mang, a foreign relative, the Sui Dynasty was replaced by the Li family of the Xungui group, and Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of the Song Dynasty, was also a military general.

Therefore, the distrust of military generals and nobles is not unreasonable, because there are too many, too many dynasties that have changed their names and surnames because of the military generals and nobles.

A very important reason why it is easy for military generals and nobles to change the name and surname of a dynasty is that in ancient times, the generals often had the final say in the army, and the generals did whatever they said, even if they rebelled, they would rebel together.

A very important reason for this is that they did not attach importance to the ideological building of the army; of course, in ancient times, there was no ideological construction, and the soldiers were all a group of bitter people, and most of them were illiterate.

Whoever gives them food, who gives them silver, who promises them high-ranking officials and so on, they will follow whoever they are, and they don't care who you are the emperor at all.

Now when Zhu Houzhao heard Liu Jin's views on the army, he immediately felt that it was very reasonable, that the army must be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and this kind of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism does not mean that the commander-in-chief of the army should be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, but that the entire army must be loyal to the monarch and patriotism in the core ideology and soul of the entire army.

In this way, this iron-clad battalion, flowing soldiers and generals, the change of your personnel, the change of commanders, etc., it will always be an army loyal to the king.

"Well said, loyal to the monarch and patriotic, loyal to the monarch and patriotic~"

Zhu Houzhao's little trick shone brightly.