Zheng Jing did not sit in the city of sorrow, he was still sighing about his fate and beating his chest and swore to protect the Zheng family's reputation, after getting a secret report, he naturally chose to surrender unconditionally, the content of the secret report is also very simple, that is, the old pirates under his command are full of thoughts, since they can't fight and can't run, and the mainland side promised not to pursue the past, maybe the kid surnamed Zheng didn't react and can make a name for the uprising before the battle, so what is there to hesitate? These guys looked at Zheng Jing's head one by one and felt that it was a good thing to ask for merit and reward, and it was not excluded that there were diehards loyal to the Zheng family, but after all, it didn't make a difference if people were alone, so Zheng Jing immediately decided that it was better to surrender first.

In this way, Zheng Jing, who was going to stage all kinds of half-push and half-push and finally look up to the sky and sigh, did not delay his work at all, and directly found this group of pirate leaders, and he didn't need the other party to force the palace to make trouble, so he asked who didn't want to surrender, and those who didn't want to surrender asked for more blessings, anyway, I, Zheng, surrendered first. Then what else is there to say, the Jinghai went to sea again with the envoys of Huang Degong and Zheng Jing, and all the warships of the Zheng family were gathered in the harbor and chained to express that they would not regret it. So the old warships that carried out the blockade mission outside Keelung Harbor, after putting down some of the marines who received the port, they also dispersed reluctantly, leaving only four destroyers squatting outside the port for monitoring, after the Jinghai and Dinghai converged, first let the envoy convey the order to surrender to Shi Lang, and then a destroyer carrying Huang Degong and the envoy continued north to Songjiang, and Li Xiuyuan destroyed all the sails in the Shi Lang fleet in Penghu before taking Shi Lang to Keelung Harbor.

There was a small episode in this process, that is, Li Xiuyuan was already preparing to pull out, but he found that three more plywood ships came from the south, and when he intercepted them, he found out that they were the merchant ships and envoys of the Dutch East India Company. It turned out that after the East India Company sent a fleet to help Zheng Tai, there was a late piece of information brought to Batavia by the merchants, and when the Dutch merchants who brought the information set off from the port of Tianjin, they not only obtained the details of the Sino-Western negotiations transmitted by the Protestants, but also witnessed the training voyage of the Dinghai, at first the Dutch sailors thought they were dazzled, but the priest accompanying them told them that China had indeed built this almost invincible giant ship.

The East India Company, which got the new information, immediately realized that it had made another fatal mistake, so it hurriedly sent envoys to repair it in the name of congratulating the Chinese emperor on his birthday, on the other hand, it was also hoped to recover the expeditionary fleet, of course, the greedy capitalist nature made them unable to let go of the opportunity to trade northward, and the three ships carrying precious wood and various rare ores just drove to Penghu so slowly, and they were fortunate to be blocked by the legendary devil's ship. Seeing this ship several times larger than himself but much faster in front of him, even the Dutch captain, who had experienced a bump in the middle of the world, did not intend to symbolically fire a shot to show his backbone.

After understanding the ins and outs, Li Xiuyuan reminded the other party very "kindly" that there was no need to look for that fleet, except for the surrender of the three ships, the rest had become wreckage on the bottom of the sea. But after all, people still have the title of envoy to the north to congratulate the birthday, so it is not good for him to be detained as an enemy ship of a belligerent, in short, if you still want to go to Beijing, I will not stop you, but if you are not convinced, let the ship come over, and we will fight for another round. The Dutch are even more stupid and understand that now to start a war is to send death, things have developed to the worst, for the sake of today, the only way to do this is to try to make up for the loss, you must know that China is not only silk and porcelain these luxuries, but all kinds of iron farm tools sold to Nanyang are very profitable, they don't want the dying Spaniards to resurrect, so they can only laugh and say that this is all the personal behavior of those captains has nothing to do with the East India Company, On the one hand, we are stepping up our efforts to the north, trying to find a way to obtain the understanding of the Chinese government before the fleet returns.

As a general, Shi Lang, who happened to visit the Dinghai, really had a lot of taste in his heart, he had dealt with the large and small forces in this sea area for half his life, when had these red hairs been so honest? Even if the old man won twice, these foreign devils were only unconvinced, ready to jump up and bite us again. But now as soon as the Dinghai number came out, it immediately played the effect of surrendering the soldiers without a fight, this feeling of envy and jealousy is not mentioned, the old marshal also wanted to imitate Xiyi's plywood ship when he was alive, but the country surname later said that the mainland side can build a better warship sooner or later, at first he will be skeptical, and now the country surname is really a smart person, and he has long known that this battle cannot be fought. If you don't say that this ship is called Dinghai, there is really such a ship to be determined by the sea.

After the Dinghai appeared in Keelung Port, it was not only Shi Lang who sighed, from Zheng Jing to Zheng's navy, all of them were glad that they surrendered in time, and in the words of the mainland, they did not isolate themselves from the people. In the past two days, they have all seen the neat and novel uniforms of the Marine Corps, the guns and artillery that look extraordinary, and all kinds of supplies sent by the destroyers, and the advance battalion of the Marine Corps, which has a total of only 300 people, refused the banquet arranged by the Zheng family as soon as it landed, and did not dare to go inland, so they set up camp in a position suitable for destroyers to dock at the outermost part of the port. But it will definitely not go one step deep into the port area, the standard defense and surveillance arrangement, Zheng Jing was angry and a little worried at first, but in less than a day, he saw that these three hundred people were by no means ordinary, and in terms of their defense system, he might not be able to attack thousands of people he sent.

Later, it was the Zheng family's troops and generals who drooled when they looked at other people's food, and the various field rations in the tin box were eaten in different ways, and there was no duplicate three meals a day. At first, everyone thought that the mainland had sent these 300 people to pretend to show the strength of the central government. But later, after seeing the majestic figure of the Dinghai, I thought that the Jinghai was the limit of the battleship, and then I knew what it meant to sit in a well and watch the sky. This is also the reason why Li Xiuyuan came to Taiwan in person, not to show his beloved baby, it is really a bit of a brocade night travel feeling, and at this time, unlike the Dutch who fought hard, the Zheng family, who had been startled by the Jinghai and was scared three times, saw the more huge Dinghai again, the shock is not something that ordinary people can experience, anyway, when he saw the unfinished Dinghai on the slipway, his expression was not much better than Zheng Jing.

What else can Zheng Jing do when his face is gone? I had to put away the last shred of luck and formally surrender. However, because there is no wharf in the port that allows the Dinghai to dock for the time being, the Jinghai is still leading the way into the port, and then looking at the sailors on the deck who stand on the side of the ship in a standard standing posture, even if they are constantly slandering this kind of punishment ceremony, they have automatically become supportive of this regulation at this time, who makes this psychological superiority in the face of his former peers cool to the bones.

Zheng Jing led the crowd to meet him at the dock, Li Xiuyuan didn't dare to hold it up, so he naturally got off the boat to greet him personally, and he knew that this outdated overlord of the sea might have a day of resurrection, and he took care of Zheng Jing's face and did not go to pick up the surrender table in the other party's hand, but said that Zheng Chenggong secretly married Emperor Zhang Jinlan back then, then Zheng Jing is naturally also the title of prince, how can he be a small admiral so ignorant of dignity, this surrender table is still decided by his old man when he returns to the capital to meet His Majesty.

Although they all know that this is a high-sounding excuse, but after all, they still dispelled some of Zheng Jing's concerns, considering that if they want to protect the family from being wiped out, it is best not to have the mind of separation, so after holding a reception banquet for Li Xiuyuan, he arranged some things, and the next day he took the Dinghai and went straight to Tianjin. It's not that Zheng Jing has no political ambitions, but in the past two days, he has carefully analyzed it through various pieces of information that have come one after another, in addition to his complete disadvantage in military and economic strength, even the overseas aid he originally had has has been completely removed, at least Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands can't be counted on, so what other foreigners can help themselves? England? Those guys can't sneak in on their own.

After Zheng Jing boarded the ship and everything was ready, Li Xiuyuan's task force, in addition to leaving the Jinghai and three destroyers to continue to monitor Keelung Harbor, sent another destroyer to rush back at full speed to report the news, leaving only the Dinghai and another destroyer to go back slowly. It is said to be slow, but it is ridiculously fast compared to old ships such as Fuchuan, and the Dinghai actually ran at a speed of 12 knots when downwind, which is equivalent to 22 kilometers per hour. Of course, in this strong wind, the destroyer can soar to 16 knots, which has reached the limit of the speed of large sail ships at this time, and more improvements are needed to increase the speed, such as the all-steel hull and mast, and the use of all-sail (all-crosssail), the fastest speed record in history reached the height of 20 knots. But for Zheng Jing, he didn't know these data, let alone how fast it could be, but he instinctively felt the momentum of the ship when it was facing the wind and waves, and the destroyer had to pay attention to the speed reduction to maintain the queue, and understood that those defeated generals did not talk nonsense.

These people are floating on the sea for the time being, Zhang Tao's birthday has not yet arrived, but the good news is as tight as a day, and the good news makes Han Yuan, the old man, unable to close his mouth happily, it is Jiang Tian and the prince's on-demand broadcast, which made the old man pay attention to the logistics reports that he usually does not pay attention to, and when he struggled to figure out what these papers said, he had already seen that victory was close at hand. No wonder the master and apprentice were so leisurely drinking tea and listening to music, the distribution of materials again and again, and the supply lists all showed that there would be no major war after the first firefight, and when the news came from Jeju Island, he was still startled by the victory in front of him, but he didn't expect that the expensive and terrifying battleship combat effectiveness was also very scary, and he couldn't wait for the news of whether Zheng Jing surrendered or not, so he ran to the court to ask for more military funds to build this kind of warship.

As soon as they heard that they were asking for money, a group of civil officials began to vomit bitterness again: "Lord Han! As you said, this ship is already invincible in the world, so why waste military resources, I think the existing ones are enough to protect the coastal peace! ”

The old man was still arguing with reason, but Zhang Tao looked at the battle report and waited for them to finish arguing, he knew in his heart that his fellow had finally played a practical role, if he had been preparing for today, then the day the navy began to reform was the beginning of a new era, and his fellow had prepared the material foundation for the opening of the Great Voyage, and the rest of the situation depended on how he created.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please take a break for a while." Seeing that Han Yuan was a little overwhelmed by himself, Zhang Tao interrupted the conversation at the right time: "This ship is to be built, how can only eight warships protect the sea frontier for thousands of miles?" But I'm not in a hurry, and the meal still has to be eaten in one bite. ”

The emperor and the mud guys are no different, but the meaning of the words is obvious, the navy will expand, but the speed may not be as fast as now, in fact, this is also Jiang Tian and Zhang Tao discussed, this war has the power of the navy to reform, the rest is to look at the domestic political and economic environment to determine the size of the navy, besides, the smallest destroyer is now a little larger than the navy at this time, and it is more important to adjust the ship type to determine the short-term and medium-term strategic planning than anything else. The result of the discussion is to build another ocean-going frigate, which will reduce the manufacturing cost as much as possible and ensure that China can patrol and escort the Asian waters after the beginning of the Age of Discovery. After the transformation of the existing destroyer, it was upgraded to a cruiser as the flagship of the ocean-going escort, and the Jinghai-class cruiser was upgraded to a heavy cruiser is an important part of the future main fleet. As for battleships in the true sense of the word, Jiang Tian does not plan to build them at all.

"I originally named the ships according to the division of the ship by the master and his old man, but your father said that this time and that time persuaded me not to stick to the master's trappings, so the level of these ships has been upgraded by one level." Jiang Tian took a sip of tea and explained the new classification to Zhang Huan: "Speaking of which, this time I also captured a Galen battleship, but the sail was seriously damaged and stopped in the Ryukyus, I plan to transform this ship into a training ship, but I don't know when I can drive him back to the Naval Research Institute." ”

"What's so hard about that?" Liu Se @ wolf, who didn't know how to pretend to understand, accosted him on the side: "Let the navy repair it, just drive it back!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Xin Yue, who was not familiar with military affairs, laughed, and the fake prince couldn't stand this ramming and asked directly: "The sailors of the navy have never sailed this ship, how do you let them operate the ship?" ”

Liu Baokai knew that he had said the wrong thing again, but he was also a little anxious and immediately said: "Look for those Spaniards!" Didn't Sir say that they were the first to build such a ship, wouldn't they still use it? ”

"They do." Jiang Tian said affirmatively: "It's just that the birthday of the Son of Heaven is approaching now, how can you have the time to pay attention to this matter, there is actually a problem at present, you haven't seen it, who can guess what is more urgent than the tugboat?" ”

Zhang Huan smiled and replied first: "Sir, are you talking about the return of the King of the Ryukyus?" ”

Jiang Tian nodded with satisfaction: "Everyone thinks that since Ryukyu has been taken, and the king of Ryukyu is a vassal of China, this return to the country will definitely come naturally, and then our country will once again be extraterritorial, and the other vassal countries will be grateful to Dade." But since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that this matter is the key, he must know my intentions. ”

Hearing him say this, everyone understands, these people are used to Jiang Tian's way of thinking, Jeju Island bought the right to use it for 99 years at the price of a cabbage, and the location of the Ryukyus is also wonderful, this Jiang Lord must want to stretch out his hand to this island again, but because the Ryukyu royal family is not dead, he can't leave the handle to keep the truth, so he is worried about this matter.

Liu Baokai, who is still straight, said with a lot of mouth: "This matter is not simple, he is the king of the Ryukyus, without the protection of my China, how can he return to China, if he knows each other, he will send us an enclave." ”

"No!" It was Wu Yuan who retorted to him: "He sent us and still had to excuse himself, how could he accept it directly, others would not think that the King of the Ryukyus understood the righteousness, but it was more like we were taking advantage of it." ”

Zhang Huan also thought about it after hearing what they said, let's send troops and money to help him regain the country, can't we still pay for an island or land, right? But he thought about it again, since Jiang Tian raised this question, it proved that he had the answer there, so he asked directly: "Sir, does he have a way?" ”

"Yes!" Jiang Tian did not hide it: "Just scare the king of the Ryukyus and say that the Japanese may still attack, he will beg us to stay permanently to protect his net worth, and then we will set up a military port to maintain the cost of letting him pay something." ”

Song Yi, who has never interjected in political issues, shook his head slightly, this is easy to please God, and it won't be long before the King of Ryukyu regrets finding a group of grandfathers to stay in his home. However, he supports this method of taking advantage of the cheap and making enough money, because this is a better reason to say it in the case of protecting the interests of the country, than to let people say that they are dependent on others and do not leave. Interestingly, these few people did not expect that the Ryukyu King would like to have a fleet with good combat effectiveness to stay at his doorstep, and the Ryukyu Islands, which have been making money from entrepot trade, need this kind of protection too much, not only to deter the Japanese in the north, but also to rely on the consumption of sailors to drive the economy of the Ryukyus. The Ryukyu King, who is interested in kinghood, is actually a small abacus that clangs. As for the fact that he was basically set aside, and the king of the Ryukyus became a nominal prince without a fief, it was not something he could think of.