Zhu Youzhen's departure from the palace this time adheres to the previous style of light cars and simple followers, and micro-service private visits.

More than 20 guards and three or five carriages are Zhu Youzhen's personal entourage, and such a team is very common on the official road to and from Beijing and Tianjin.

Moreover, Zhu You did not inform the Tianjin government before leaving the palace, first, he did not want to disturb the people along the way, and secondly, he wanted to see the real situation of the Tianjin Navy Division, so as to have a basic mental preparation for the subsequent establishment of the navy.

Even though he had a certain amount of psychological preparation for the ships of this era, Zhu Youzhen still couldn't accept it when he saw the sand ships and lucky ships moored in the port.

'This is the Great Ming Water Master?' The fishing boats are pretty much the same. ’

In his previous life, Zhu Youzhen's home was in the coastal area, and he had seen a lot of fishing boats, pleasure boats, transport ships, and warships, but these sailor ships anchored in Tianjin Port made Zhu Youzhen mistakenly think that he had come to a small fishing village in his previous life.

The largest flat-bottomed sand boats and potbelly boats are only four or five zhang long, and there are less than ten, and the others are some small boats of two or three zhang, and there are even small fishing boats that can only carry four or five people.

And not only is the ship small, but there are not even basic large-scale self-defense weapons on board, that is, there are a few small cannons on those flat-bottomed sand boats and Fu ships, and there are no small cannons on other ships.

Zhu Youzhen looked at these sailor ships, which were not even as good as the fishing boats of later generations, and did not speak for a long time.

During the Yongle Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, when Zheng He went to the West seven times, the main ship of his fleet, the treasure ship, had reached a length of more than 30 zhang and a width of more than 10 zhang.

Moreover, there are more than 60 such ships, the largest of which is the flagship, which is 44 zhang long, 18 zhang wide, and 3 or 4 zhang high.

In addition, Zheng He's fleet also has special horse boats (ships that transport horses) and grain ships and boats, which are basically more than 20 zhang.

Not only that, Zheng He's fleet was composed of a variety of ships, and as early as the fifteenth century, there was a concept of formation operations, and the concept of navigation and combat capabilities were second to none at that time.

However, after more than 200 years of unremitting efforts, these tattered sand boats and lucky ships are finally left.

It can also be seen that the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national strength and the change of marine strategy.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the national fortune was prosperous, whether it was land or sea, it was a collection of thunderous momentum, and it had the courage to sweep everything.

After Xuande, the country's strength was declining, both land and sea were retreating again and again, and only defense was exhausted.

So the big boat is gone, only this kind of small boat can only be used to operate along the coast, Jiajing Wanli can still fight the Japanese invaders, and now, it can only be used for fishing.

Standing on the wharf of Tianjin Port, Zhu Youzhen's face was gloomy, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

"Your Majesty, Daming Haiphong has been abandoned for a long time, this is not an overnight mistake, and I hope Your Majesty will be relieved."

Yuan Keli, the secretary of the military department, saw Zhu Youzhen's gloomy face, and he couldn't bear it, so he stepped forward to persuade him.

"Hey, Lao Yuan, I am really sad today, my Ming Dynasty once conquered more than 70 countries of the sailors to decay to this point, if the Three Treasures Eunuch has a spirit in the sky, it will be even more painful than me."

This time, Zhu Youzhen came to Tianjin to patrol the sea, and in addition to escorting them, he also brought Yuan Keli, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

"Old Xu, tell Old Man Yuan, what has happened to the ships in the Western Ocean now?"

Subsequently, Xu Guangqi, who also looked distressed, popularized the main ships of Westerners in this era to Yuan Keli.

In the seventeenth century in Europe, the navies of various countries basically entered the era of sail warships, and these warships with huge sails generally reached more than ten zhang, and the side ships were equipped with dozens to hundreds of smoothbore guns.

At the beginning of the war, the ships were facing the enemy from head to tail, and the shape of a battleship was already formed.

Moreover, in the Spanish Armada, the current maritime hegemon, there have been double or triple deck Galen ships to equip more guns, and the firepower has been further improved.

The West has entered the era of sail battleships, and Da Ming is still thinking about the gangside jumper gang battle, how can this make Zhu Youzhen not feel sad.

Two hundred years ago, when the giant ships of the Ming Dynasty dominated the seas, Westerners could only sail in the Mediterranean.

Now, more than a century has passed since Magellan's voyage around the world, and Spain and Portugal have also demarcated their respective spheres of influence, and even hit the doorstep of the Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the navy of the Ming Dynasty again, not only did it not restore the regulations of the early Ming Dynasty, but it could not even compare with the sea ships of the Song Dynasty, and it really regressed more and more as it developed.

After listening to Xu Guangqi's words, Yuan Keli was really taken aback, a battleship equipped with a hundred guns, how strong the firepower must be.

A hundred artillery pieces are enough to defend a big city like the capital.

It was difficult for Yuan Keli to imagine what kind of ship a battleship equipped with a hundred guns was, but just thinking about the scene of a hundred guns firing at once, he felt a little terrifying.

Turning his head and looking at these three- or four-foot sand boats moored on the pier, I am afraid that after a round of artillery fire, they all sank to the bottom of the sea.

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty."

Yuan Ke bowed and saluted.

The scholars of the Ming Dynasty were generally not old and stubborn, and there were many people who were obscene about various advanced technologies and advanced ideas of the West, and there were even many officials who believed in Catholicism.

"Shame and courage, it's not too late, we still have time."

Looking at the endless ocean in front of him, Zhu Youzhen seemed to be comforting Yuan Keli, not comforting himself.

Historically, because China missed the Age of Discovery and the first industrial revolution, it was finally opened by Westerners with cannons and giant ships.

For more than a century, the Chinese nation has paid an extremely heavy price for this.

"Go to the governor's yamen!"

Zhu Youzhen's gaze became resolute again, and he turned around and got into the carriage.

The age of the governor of Tianjin was not long, the beginning was the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, and then the twenty-seventh year of Wanli was abolished, until the first year of the Apocalypse should be re-established in the Liaodong War, and it has been seven governors so far.

Bi Ziyan, the current head of the household department, has twice inspected Tianjin to prepare for the military salaries of Liaodong, and it is enough to see that Tianjin's main role now is to raise and transport the ordnance and food of Liaodong.

And the current governor of Tianjin is Cui Erjin, a native of Shaanxi, a Jinshi during the Wanli period, and Huang Yuntai, who succeeded Zhishi, just took office at the beginning of the year.

At this moment, Cui Erjin and his staff are planning the next batch of grain and salary for the transfer of the Dongjiang River, and since Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, the Dongjiang grain and salary, which had not been paid once in three months, has now been changed to once a month.

And Mao Wenlong, who was promoted to the crown prince after the victory at the beginning of the year, naturally did not live up to Zhu Youzhen's painstaking efforts, and went ashore many times to harass the coastal strongholds of the Jin Kingdom.

Going ashore by boat, attacking and harassing the mainstay, and leaving when encountering the enemy, although each time the harvest is not much, but it is a real headache for Dai Shan, who is stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Cui Erjin had just finalized the grain for this transfer, and was about to take a break with a cup of tea, when he saw the housekeeper enter the main hall in a panic.

"Master, more than a dozen people came to the front office, and they opened their mouths and said that they wanted to see you, and they were quite arrogant in their words, and I wanted to ask them where they came from, but one of them said that you would understand when you saw the famous post."

"Who?"

Cui Erjin frowned slightly when he heard this, although his official qualities as the governor were not as good as those of the feudal officials of the Thirteen Political Envoys, but the official authority he should have was not much at all.

"Don't be impatient, I'll be there for a while."

Seeing that Cui Erjin was a little unhappy, the staff first took the name card handed over by the butler, and after opening it, his face changed again and again.

"This, this, this ......"

When the staff saw the three big characters on the prayer post, they were shocked and speechless for a while.

"How?"

Cui Erjin glanced at the staff with some dissatisfaction, stretched out his hand and snatched the name post, just seeing this, it became the same stammering as the staff.

"This, this, this, really, really, really, really Lord Shangshu?"

Trierjin threw down the poster, turned around and ran out the door.

"Dong Weng, demeanor!"

The staff also came to their senses at this time, and looked at the way Cui Erjin ran wildly in his robe, and hurriedly reminded.

Cui Erjin also noticed at this time that he was only wearing a home robe, and he didn't even have a scarf on his head.

"Alas, I can't take care of it anymore, hurry up and open the middle door."

Cui Erjin didn't care about the official's demeanor at this time, and Lord Shangshu came in person, which was not something that a border minister like him could slack off.

It is extremely rude to have no border greetings and flags to open the way, and now he has been personally approached by the door and turned away, such a sin is not something that a small Tianjin governor can parry, just a disrespectful official is enough for him to drink a pot.