"The soldiers who conquer the city can let the Tokugawa shogunate come out," Zheng Zhilong said, "The strength of the shogunate is far above Satsuma, as long as the army can come to Satsuma, the victory or defeat has already been decided." ”

Zhu Cihong nodded and agreed with Zheng Zhilong's opinion, it is now 1656, not 1856, it is only forty-one years before the Osaka Summer Battle, and the Tokugawa family has not decayed to the point where it cannot fight.

Even if the Tokugawa family can't do it, they can still let Prince Kong take the Ming army across the sea to help in the war. No matter how powerful the samurai of Satsuma are, when they encounter flintlock pistols and flowering shells, it is a dead end!

"But the sea confrontation is a problem," Zheng Zhilong said, "The terrain in Kagoshima Bay is dangerous, and we only need to place heavy artillery on Sakurajima to stop our fleet."

In addition, the Spanish fleet will not stay in Kagoshima Bay for a long time, and after the defense is arranged, they will go out to plunder, and we have too few warships at hand to escort it! ”

In fact, there are a lot of warships in the Ming Navy, and there are three hundred ships, which is more than the number of the Netherlands and England.

However, the vast majority of the 300 ships were large ships of 10,000 stones, which were not traditional Chinese sailing ships, but were built with a combination of Chinese and Western cultures, and were built with the introduction of ship rib technology, which was enough to hold a large number of guns, so they could also be used as warships. However, this kind of ship still uses hard sails, and the speed is significantly slower than that of Western-style soft-sail warships.

Therefore, it is difficult for these ships to take the initiative to attack when performing escort missions, chasing the Spanish sailboats, and they can only guard against thieves all the way, which is tiring!

In addition, most of the sailing ships that support the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty are this kind of hard-sailed Wanshi big bird boats, which are strong, durable, and economical, and are simply money-making machines. But the problem is that this kind of ship is slow and has few personnel, so it is difficult to escape and resist when robbed by pirates.

Therefore, Zheng Sen presided over the Dongning Army for all these years to be able to earn protection money lying down!

But the problem is that Zheng Sen's warships (mainly big bird ships) are enough to deal with the thieves off the coast of the Ming Dynasty, but it is not easy to fight the privateer fleet of the Spaniards.

If the losses at sea are large, the Zheng family's Dongning army will lose money if it is not done well!

What a loss!

This is what Zheng Zhilong is most afraid of!

"Your Majesty, I have a way, you can hire the fleet of the Dutch East India Company!"

Prince Condé is also in the Imperial Palace, and Zhu Cihong has decided to ally with France and England! Therefore, Prince Condé had more and more opportunities to participate in the imperial meeting, and he gave Emperor Zhu an idea today.

"Hire a Dutch fleet?" Zhu Cihong thought for a while, "Can they agree?" If we enter into an alliance with England, the Dutch will be very unhappy, right? ”

"As long as you make the right bid, the Dutch will be happy to help!" The Prince of Condé was very sure of authenticity.

Zhu Cihong thought for a while, nodded and said, "I can pay the prince, I will order you to be the envoy, go to the Dutch East India Company's merchant house in Shanghai, and ask the price first." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Prince Condé bowed and smiled smugly, this is a good opportunity to pull the Dutch into the water!

As long as it succeeds, the Kingdom of Spain will almost lose and it will be very difficult to achieve this goal in Europe, because the Dutch and the British are very deeply contradictory, so they will not help the British to fight the Spaniards.

But in the East, the Dutch East India Company should not dare to offend Zhu Cihong, a big customer!

If Zhu Cihong turned to support the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company to compete, the Dutch would have suffered a huge loss!

Zhu Cihong paused and then ordered: "The household department must prepare a sum of money to hire the Dutch, and also prepare a shipbuilding fund!"

If we want to compete with the Spaniards for domination in the Pacific Ocean, we can't rely on slow bird boats, we have to build soft sailing ships. However, there was no need to build a Galen warship like the Flying Flight, and it was necessary to redesign a 600-ton warship that could be equipped with at least eight 18-pounder guns, requiring the use of soft sails, which could sail at high speeds and have strong seaworthiness. ”

The naval revolution has begun!

In the battle of Dinghai Anchorage, two or three flowering bombs can scrap a large ship with hundreds of deadweight tons, so the future must belong to flowering bombs!

Therefore, the ships had to be redesigned, and the wooden sail battleships that could be equipped with hundreds of cannons probably no longer had a chance to dominate the seas.

A small number of large-caliber "bombardments" are the main guns that future naval battleships need.

Therefore, the Ming Navy must seize the opportunity of the naval revolution and complete the reform first.

Two days after Zhu Cihong was determined to start a naval revolution, his most capable prefect, Grand Duke Luo, escorted the British and French "gift mission" to Nanjing.

After setting up the mission, Grand Duke Luo immediately entered the palace to ask for a meeting, and reported to Emperor Zhu that he had discovered the little Yanmar.

"Mary. Mancini? Isn't it beautiful? How old is it? What's the way? ”

When Zhu Cihong heard that there was a French beauty plan, he immediately became interested, and the expression on his face became wonderful.

Of course he is not lustful, and the number of people in the harem is not large, but it doesn't mean that he is afraid of beauty tricks! The emperor of the Celestial Empire, of course, is not afraid of heaven and earth, but can he be afraid of a Western beauty?

"Your Majesty," Grand Duke Luo smiled, "this little French woman has the appearance of a sunken fish and a wild goose, about seventeen or eighteen years old, and is said to be the niece of the French Cardinal Mazarin, who is from Italy and believes in Catholicism. ”

"Mazarin's niece? He is really willing to give up his blood," Zhu Cihong laughed, "Okay, I will be this Mary for a while. Mancini! As for Catholicism, I don't care, I'm religiously tolerant. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister knows that Catholicism is monogamous" Grand Duke Luo showed some worries, as if he was worried about Emperor Zhu, "I'm afraid that she won't be a concubine!" ”

This is for the concubine, and the family is obviously here to study abroad!

"It's not a problem," Zhu Cihong smiled, "Although Western Catholic countries practice monogamy, and the king cannot take concubines, they have a royal mistress system. ”

"Mistress? Also the royal mistress" Grand Duke Luo was stunned and stunned. Isn't a mistress just stealing? This is a rape couple!

"What? You don't believe it? Emperor Zhu was in a good mood and asked Grand Duke Luo with a smile.

"Oh, the minister is just thinking that there is a queen in the West," Luo Dagong said, "Can the queen raise adulterers when she is in power?" Is this adulterer called a royal adulterer? ”

"Hahaha" Zhu Cihong amused Grand Duke Luo, "I didn't expect you to tell jokes!" I'll ask when I look back at Mary. But before I see Mary, you have to work hard to negotiate the terms for me.

You go and tell her, after all, I am a great tomorrow, and I have the face of my own heavenly family to take care of. If she wanted to be my royal mistress, I could say yes, but she couldn't be as free as the mistresses of European kings. Do you understand? ”

Of course, this means that Emperor Zhu can't be cuckolded! And they have to be taken care of, and they have no freedom in life.

Zhu Cihong is the first to say ugly things, little Yanmar Mary. If Mancini is willing to accept it, then he will come to Emperor Zhu's side, as long as he can be favored, he is afraid that there will be no glory and wealth? If she doesn't like it, she should travel to China, and go back wherever she comes!

"The minister understands, the minister understands" Grand Duke Luo smiled and nodded, "The minister must have a good talk with her, and persuade her to enter the palace as a concubine as much as possible." ”

He is full of confidence, and the little Yanmar is open to make the beauty trick, how can there be any reason to shrink back? Besides, this little Yanma does have the capital to favor the harem, what is there to shrink?

"It's not necessary," Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "the royal mistress is very good!" ”

Zhu Cihong was unwilling to let the heir of this Western beauty have the right to inherit, even if he was crowned the king. It's not because of race, it's about faith.

Mazarin's niece must have been a staunch Christian

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Grand Duke Luo was full of smiles when he spoke, and at first glance, he was happy for the emperor, what a loyal minister!