It can be said that the Chaohu water division of the Ming Dynasty arose in the troubled times, and in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, uprisings were surging in various places, and the ruling building of the Yuan Dynasty was about to fall, all of which provided conditions for the establishment of the Ming Water Division.

In an era of great turmoil, Chaohu people Yu Tingyu and his son and brother Liao Yongan gathered troops to protect Chaohu Lake in the township, repaired a boat pond on Laoshan Island, and trained sailors.

This navy, which was originally only to defend its homeland, gradually developed and became a powerful water force with a lot of attention.

At that time, in addition to the Yuan army, the most powerful army was the rebel army led by Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and others.

Several forces launched a tug-of-war in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and who could win in the end, Chaohu Water Division became a decisive force.

Whether the Yu father and son and the Liao brothers joined the Yuan Dynasty or fell to the rebel army directly affected China's history for hundreds of years to come.

In 1355, this year was a turning point in Zhu Yuanzhang's fate. Guo Zixing, the leader of the Red Turban Army, died of illness, and Zhu Yuanzhang led the rebel army.

The army was stationed in Hexian, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to cross the river to seek Nanjing, establish a solid base area, and to capture Nanjing, he had to go through quarrying, and wanted to cross the Yangtze River, but he was trapped in the lack of boats and boats.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising, its main troops were the army and the horse army, and there were almost no naval divisions.

If there is no water division, how to wave the division to the south.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was anxious, Yu's father and son, Liao Yongan and Liao Yongzhong brothers wrote to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Yu Tonghai went to He County three times to express their sincerity in attaching themselves.

It can be imagined that Zhu Yuanzhang was in ecstasy after hearing this, and immediately said, "God help me", made such an exclamation, and personally took several generals to Chaohu Lake to discuss with the leaders of Chaohu Water Division.

The two units will unite and cooperate to form a coalition.

Since the Yu father and son and the Liao brothers were attached, Zhu Yuanzhang's strength has increased greatly, and he has more than 1,000 large and small warships overnight.

When the Yuan army heard that the Chaohu Naval Division and Zhu Yuanzhang cooperated, they were frightened and immediately sent troops, but they were defeated and fled, and chased them all the way to the Yangtze River, where a decisive battle took place, and the Chaohu Naval Division won in one fell swoop, so the Yuan Army's defeated naval division troops retreated to Wuhu, so Zhu Yuanzhang's troops sat on the warships of the Chaohu Naval Division.

Subsequently, Yu Tonghai led his troops to conquer Quarry Rock, marched to Nanjing, and soon took Nanjing, and Zhu Yuanzhang changed Nanjing to Yingtianfu. However, he faced two major enemies, Zhang Shicheng in the east and Chen Youliang in the west, one in Taihu Lake and the other in Poyang Lake. Chaohu Lake Naval Division, Poyang Lake Naval Division, and Taihu Lake Naval Division fought separately, defeated them, and finally controlled the entire Yangtze River Basin, unified the south, and established the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

From the evolution of the Ming Dynasty's sailors, it can also be seen that the hereditary system of the Ming Dynasty is really all-round, and now the main forces of the Ming Dynasty's sailors are in Fujian, and almost all the generals who lead the army are people surnamed Yu, Yu Dayou and Yu Zhigao father and son are well-known sailor generals in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

However, at this stage of the late Ming Dynasty, the changes in the Ming Army were not very significant, but the changes in the Ming Navy Division were quite large.

With the large-scale application of firearms, naval tactics have also undergone major changes, and the famous anti-Japanese general Yu Dayou timely proposed that "naval warfare is nothing more than a big ship to defeat a small ship, and a big gun to defeat a small gun; Many ships are better than few ships, and many guns are better than few guns. ”

It can be seen that the naval warfare of the Ming Dynasty entered the modern model very early.

During the Jiajing period, half of the fighters of the warships of the Ming army used firearms.

The equipment of the Ming Dynasty sailors, mainly based on the Fu boat, was born in the coastal area of Fujian a general term for a type of ship, its bottom tip is wide, the head tip and the tail are wide and the two ends are warped.

The building materials are mainly pine, cedar, camphor and nanmu from Fujian, with a total of six.

The fortune ships used in naval warfare refer to the No. 1 and No. 2.

According to Qi Jiguangyun, a famous anti-Japanese general who had won several big victories in 1560: "The fortune ship is as tall as a city, non-human drive, all the wind, the widow ship is as short as my small cangship, so the fortune ship is pressed down by the wind, like a car running over a praying mantis." Fighting the power of the boat, not the manpower".

According to the "Wubei Zhi" cloud, "between firearms and waves, ups and downs, may not be able to get caught in the thief." Even if it is successful, it is not geometrical, but it can be faked to scare the enemy's heart. There are two things to do: to launch the Franco. It is the only one who is not in it, and there is no ship or powder in the middle, one also. With fireballs and the like on the bow of the ship, when they meet, they are thrown from the high, and the fire is fired, and the thief ship burns, and the two also". It can be seen that the Ming Dynasty sailors had large ships and high freeboard, and had obvious advantages in close battlefields such as collisions.

In 1405, in the third year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He, the eunuch of Ming Chengzu, led a huge fleet of more than 240 ships and 27,400 sailors, passing through the South China Sea, the East Pacific Ocean, and the Indian Ocean, reaching Southeast Asia, the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa, visiting more than 30 countries and regions in Asia and Africa, deepening the friendly relations between the Ming Empire and the South China Sea and East Africa.

Every time Zheng He went to the West, he set off from Liujiagang in Suzhou, until 1433, and Xuande of the Ming Dynasty for 8 years, and sailed a total of seven times.

Zheng He's fleet preached the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty, expanded overseas trade, strengthened ties with overseas countries, demonstrated the strength of China's national strength in the early Ming Dynasty, China's navy crisscrossed the ocean, realized the tribute of all countries, traced the Han and Tang dynasties, and strengthened the connection between the Chinese Ming Dynasty government and overseas countries, spread the advanced Chinese civilization to overseas countries, and strengthened the exchanges between Eastern and Western civilizations, which was also the last worldwide event in ancient Chinese history, and since then, there has been no such feat.

Zheng He's fleet is a long-distance fleet organized by Zheng He in the Western Ocean, which is the world's earliest large-scale long-distance fleet, and also an unprecedented maritime task force.

Zheng He's fleet consists of more than 200 ocean-going vessels of different purposes and types, with more than 20,000 officers and men.

Zheng He's fleet was a large-scale long-distance fleet consisting of treasure ships as the main body and assisting ships.

The sheer size of Zheng He's fleet, the variety and number of ships unprecedented.

Zheng He has a total of 63 nautical treasure ships, the largest is 44 zhang 4 feet long, 18 zhang wide, is the largest sea ship in the world at that time, equivalent to the current length of 151.18 meters, width of 61.6 meters.

The ship has four layers, the 9 masts on the ship can hang 12 sails, the anchor weight is several thousand catties, it takes 200 people to set sail, and a ship can accommodate 1,000 people.

In the process of Zheng He's voyage to the West, he fought several beautiful battles and annihilated a pirate group with more than 5,000 people in the world at that time, and slaughtered or captured all the pirates.

The famous chieftain Chen Zuyi was captured and later brought back to the capital to rectify the law.

This is a pirate force of more than 5,000 people, and this battle is not simple.

In the 28 years that Zheng He went to the West seven times, there was only one foreign war in Ceylon in the real sense, and it was a defensive war when he was forced to do so.

In dealing with the "Java Incident," Zheng He not only did not use force, but also did not want compensation, which fully demonstrated that Zheng He was a messenger of peace, and what he disseminated was the traditional Chinese etiquette of "valuing peace" and the Chinese civilization of "one family from all over the world" and "the world is for the common good".

Zheng He's fleet to the West was a large fleet, which was completely organized according to maritime navigation and military organization, and it was a powerful maritime mobile formation in the world at that time.

Many foreign scholars refer to Zheng He's fleet as a task force and Zheng He as a naval commander or naval commander.

The Ming navy was superior to any Asian nation in history, and even any European country of its time, so much so that all European countries combined, could not match the Ming navy.

Zheng He's fleet under the West was organized in the form of military organization according to the sea navigation and the tasks he undertook.

There were about 5 guards in the Ming Dynasty army, each with 5,000-5,500 guards; From the "Martial Duty Book" I saw, it was mainly from the coastal guards.

Secondly, the fleet is formed, and Zheng He's fleet is composed of three sequences: boat division, amphibious troops, and honor guard.

The boat division is the current ship force, the basic unit warship, they are formed into formations, called the front battalion, the rear battalion, the middle battalion, the left battalion, and the right battalion; amphibious forces for landing operations; The honor guard serves as a guard and the etiquette of foreign exchanges, solemn and majestic.

Zheng He's fleet of the Ming Empire was the largest in the world at that time in terms of quantity and scale, the largest in the world at that time in terms of tonnage and volume, and even more world-class in terms of equipment.

It is world-leading in many aspects such as navigation technology, communication command and staffing.

Zheng He's fleet completely demonstrated the strength of the Ming Empire, and when the South and Western countries saw it, they all showed their yearning for the Ming Empire's wealth and strength.

Zhang Meiyuan listened to Yan Tiannan's introduction to the glory of the Ming Empire's sailors for a long time, and couldn't help but be leisurely fascinated, and the feeling of nausea and vomiting was much better.

"In this way, from the eighth year of Xuande to the present, nearly two hundred years have passed, and our Ming sailors have developed for another two hundred years, and they must be more powerful, right?" Zhang Meiyuan asked with great interest.

Wei Bao smiled: "No, as far as the accurate information we get now shows that the firepower of the Ming Fujian Navy Division has been strengthened, but the size and number of warships are not enough to catch up with the three-thirds of Zheng He's fleet at that time!" ”

"Huh? How so? Zhang Meiyuan couldn't help but be discouraged and a little angry.

Wei Bao smiled: "That's a long story, let's talk about it later, look over there, that's our Weijiazhuang port!" ”

"See, it's so magnificent." Zhang Meiyuan leaned against Wei Bao's side and looked at everything in front of her in shock.

Although Weijiazhuang Port cannot catch up with later generations, the scale is the same as that of later generations, or even larger!

In later generations, due to the development of science and technology, there were also large-scale construction ships that could drive huge cement pillars to the depths of the seabed, and there was certainly no such level at this time.

Therefore, Weijiazhuang Port can only pour cement seawalls on the shore and use wood to build out boxes for storing ships.

However, the hundreds of transport ships and ironclad steam engine-powered warships, whining and emitting black smoke, all add a lot.

"Is this our Weijiazhuang?" Yang Xue and Xiong Xin'er asked excitedly.

"Yes, it's changed again, every time I go out for a few months, and when I come back and look at it, I feel like a big change." Wang Qiuya nodded.

Wu Xuexia was also very pleased, "There is also our credit for this, although we have not stayed in Weijiazhuang all the time, but we have developed outside, and have won a stable development environment for Weijiazhuang and southern Liaoning, and provided many necessary materials." ”

"Weijiazhuang alone has surpassed the economies of three whole North Koreans. Militarily, I don't know how many North Koreas we can fight, and I feel that we can completely resist the impact of Jiannu by our own ability alone. Princess Zhenming, who had never spoken much, also spoke.

Wu Xuexia wanted to speak, but she couldn't help but didn't say it, she felt that it was even more than that!

In such a big place as Weijiazhuang, there are already more than 800,000 people!

In this era, even the most prosperous places in the world, such as Yangzhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion and Yingtian Mansion, cannot feed so many people.

Weijiazhuang not only feeds so many people, but as the ships gradually get closer, the fields that can be seen are all wonders, which can be called real wonders!

In ancient times, agriculture was the top priority of the country, and the amount of arable land was directly related to the strength of the country.

During the Wanli period, the total area of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty was 7 million hectares, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it reached more than 7.8 million hectares.

At that time, European missionaries described the Ming Dynasty as follows: China's cultivated land was as orderly as a garden, there was no wasteland, and the sugar produced in China was whiter than that of Europe, and the cloth was more beautiful than that of Europe.

The size of the population of the Ming Dynasty has been disputed. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, because of the war, most of the people left their homes, but the population with households still reached 50 or 60 million, so it was conservatively estimated that the population of the Ming Dynasty at that time was about 100 million, ranking first in the world at that time.

The statistics bureau of the Heaven and Earth Society estimates that the population of the Ming Dynasty at least more than 200 million at this time in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, because there are too many displaced people, and the population statistics have long been chaotic.

Weijiazhuang and Liaonan, as well as the two provinces of North Korea, counting all the people who have the household registration certificate issued by the Heaven and Earth Society, including a small number of Mongols and Houjin people, including millions of Koreans, the rest are pure Han population, together, there are already more than 7 million people!

If the Ming Dynasty has a population of 200 million, the population under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society alone will exceed at least one-thirtieth of the total population of the Ming Dynasty.

This is not counting the population of the areas actually controlled by the Tiandihui in Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai, counting those, the population under the rule of Tiandihui has exceeded 10 million, reaching one-twentieth of the total population of the Ming Dynasty!

And these areas are like stars and moons serving Weijiazhuang.

Therefore, Wu Xuexia felt that Princess Zhenming's Weijiazhuang's economy was only more than three North Koreans, which was very inaccurate.

In Wu Xuexia's view, with the current strength of Weijiazhuang, it is very easy to fight ten North Koreas independently.

The iron output of the Ming Dynasty was twice that of the Song Dynasty, reaching more than 9,000 tons during the Wanli period, the metallurgical industry was extremely developed, and the Tiangong Kaiwu had a detailed record in this regard, and then more than two hundred years, no country in the world could break this record.

And the area under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society is now ten times this data.

Originally, Huaguo's industry was basically in the northeast, and southern Liaoning was a huge treasure trove of resources, and there were all the heavy industrial resources imaginable.

Weijiazhuang has its own central bank, and the strength of the bank far exceeds the traditional ticket number, and Weijiazhuang's silver possession is the first in the world!

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain and Portugal conquered the Americas and obtained large quantities of gold and silver there. When the Spanish and Portuguese nobles received this wealth, the first thing they did was to buy silk, porcelain, and tea from China, and most of the silver and gold eventually went to China.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one-third of the world's silver flowed to the Ming Dynasty through trade.

And now the actual silver and gold reserves of Weijiazhuang have been able to match the silver and gold reserves of the entire Ming Dynasty.

It is Weijiazhuang's army again, the number of troops of the Bao army may not be the largest in the world, but the individual combat ability of the Bao army has completely crushed Jiannu.

The standing army of the treasure army was only a little more than 30,000.

Although the troops can be increased at any time, because there are hundreds of thousands of troops of the garrison headquarters under the treasure army, the troops of the garrison headquarters are still semi-military and half-civilian models, and they cannot be completely counted as soldiers.

The treasure army was already ranked first among the world's armies at this time.

It's just that the heat weapon army needs a huge supply of resources, and there is no strong and effective transportation capacity, which also makes the treasure army discount in long-distance combat.

However, there is no problem with the close defense of the treasure army.

The 300,000 Jiannu army, no matter how it fights, wants to rush into the rear base of the treasure army like Liaonan and Weijiazhuang, there is no possibility at all.

It can even be said that with the combined military strength of the whole world, it is almost impossible to break through the defense line of the treasure army.

On paper, the Ming Dynasty had two million officers and soldiers stationed throughout the country.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the economic circle along the Yangtze River was controlled by emperors and warlords, and the central government had a financial crisis, and the Ming government could no longer afford to raise so many troops.

After defending Shanhaiguan, Jin's officers and soldiers were often less than 100,000.

However, according to the missionary's notes, the Ming Dynasty still had a large number of troops at that time, and even the whole of Europe was not as large as China's.

Compared with the military industry, Weijiazhuang can even beat the world.

This is the same reason that the defense line of Weijiazhuang and southern Liaoning cannot be broken, and the steel output is the first in the world.

Therefore, Weijiazhuang's military output value is the first in the world.

The military industry of the Ming Dynasty was extremely developed, a battalion of 5,000 soldiers was equipped with 1,000 thunderbolt cannons, 200 bird guns and 20 cannons, in addition to the Ming army also had ghost head broadswords, bows, crossbows, grenades and rockets and other equipment.

Unlike the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had large-scale wars during the reign of each emperor, so the number of weapons produced by the Ming Dynasty's military industry to cope with the war was very considerable.

The spy agency of the Heaven and Earth Society is the largest in the world.

The Statistics Department of the Heaven and Earth Society has more than 50,000 agents.

Agents are the most difficult to manage and the most costly.

The cost of one agent is almost more than the cost of ten soldiers with cold weapons in a year.

Except for the Heaven and Earth Society, no one else can afford to raise it.

Of course, President Wei didn't think about expanding the number of spy agents indefinitely, and 50,000 people was basically the upper limit.

Now to get so many agents, on the one hand, to strengthen the control of the areas under their control, on the other hand, this is the initial stage, and there is a process of elimination.

People are coming in and out, and it will take at least a year or two to stabilize.

It's not that if you join the secret service organization, you can do it forever.

Of course, it is very prudent to recruit agents, once these agents are unqualified and eliminated, they can also enter the logistics department of the army to work, or go home directly to recuperate, and they will not be casually put into ordinary society.

The Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, Dongchang, was the most organized and clear-cut spy organization in the world at that time, with a number of 60,000 at its peak.

In martial arts, Jinyiwei and Dongxi Factory are often portrayed as a group of killing machines with strong martial arts.

But in fact, the main role of the Ming Dynasty's spy agencies was to crack down on corruption, traitors, and maintain national stability, but it was not excluded that some people abused their power for personal gain.

Daming's tertiary industry is the largest in the world.

Weijiazhuang is even above the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, now the tertiary industry of Weijiazhuang is the largest.

Almost every city in the Ming Dynasty has a tertiary industry, and it is conservatively estimated that there are nearly 20,000 workers engaged in the tertiary industry in the capital.

Unlike Europe and the Muslim world, the tertiary industry was legal in the Ming Dynasty at that time, and officials did not take sweeping the tertiary industry as their political achievement.

Of the more than 7 million people under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society, at least more than 500,000 are craftsmen.

Daming can't catch up with Weijiazhuang.

The Ming Dynasty has the most fortifications in the world.

The Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty is the second longest fortification in the history of China and the world, and there are more cities in the Ming Dynasty than in any other country, each city is protected by a wall ten meters high, there are cannons on the city, and there are ditches outside the city walls, which are filled with water during war.

Weijiazhuang does not have so many tricks, and the cement walls are all made of solid cement bricks.

The traditional city wall can withstand two or three hundred years of wind and rain and stand still.

The city walls of Weijiazhuang and southern Liaoning are not much shorter than the Great Wall, and the thickness and height are incomparable to the Great Wall.

In addition, the city walls of Weijiazhuang and southern Liaoning are covered by the whole line, surrounded as a whole, there are no dead corners at all, and where there is no city wall, it is basically either a river or a seaside, and it is guarded by sailors and land posts.

Therefore, the city defense of Weijiazhuang and Tiandihui is also the first in the world.

These firsts are all conclusions that Wu Xuexia has drawn from analyzing the various reports of the President's Secretariat obtained by the Statistics Department of the Tiandi Association for a long time.

Wu Xuexia even understands the overall situation better than Wei Bao, the president of the Tiandi Club.

Wei Bao is basically digesting Wu Xuexia's second-hand goods now, and he understands the situation in various places from Wu Xuexia's mouth.

Wei Bao is too lazy to read the report.

Although extravagance and waste were not allowed, the Weijiazhuang Administration and the Party Affairs Administration, as well as the Military Administration, which had received the news, still organized a ceremony to welcome President Wei home.

By the time President Wei's ship was three miles away from Weijiazhuang Port, drums and firecrackers were set off in unison on the shore.

"If you do this again, these people are just disobedient." Wei Bao frowned.

Every time he comes back, how many materials does it cost to just set off firecrackers?

"It's rare, if the president has been in Weijiazhuang for a long time, he will definitely not do this. Besides, we have our own arsenal, and we can't just produce the remaining scrap and use it to make firecrackers. Wu Xuexia was afraid that Wei Bao would blame Fan Xiaolin and Luo San for those high-level officials of the Heaven and Earth Society, so she said good things for them.

Originally, in terms of power, Wu Xuexia and Fan Xiaolin had a certain conflict.

Even, in the area under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society, Fan Xiaolin is the woman with the highest prestige around Wei Bao, and Fan Xiaolin has appeared in the newspaper more times than President Wei.

After all, it is the General Administration of Administration that is responsible for all local affairs, economy, administration, and construction, and all aspects are the responsibility of the General Administration of Administration, so the people only recognize Fan Xiaolin's name.

But because in daily communication, Wu Xuexia often has to communicate with Fan Xiaolin, and the two women have formed a certain tacit understanding, so Wu Xuexia has a good relationship with Fan Xiaolin now.

When any group is first formed, it is unusually united, and the hearts of the people are unusually clean.

Wu Xuexia and Fan Xiaolin at the top level do not have the psychology of competing for power and profit, and officials at all levels at the bottom also regard things as bigger than the sky.

Few people entered the Heaven and Earth Society with the intention of being promoted and making a fortune, and became a member of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Because under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society, civil servants really only exist as a profession, not as an official.

If you just want to live a good life, just want to achieve a good life, doing business is more promising than being an official.

Educators, medical workers, scientists, these professions are more respected by the general public.

People will not be amazed that there is a town mayor and township chief in a certain family, but will be amazed at who has won the meritorious medal of the Heaven and Earth Society, especially the scientific ones, which will be commended by the tabloids and publicized everywhere, and the people in a place will feel honored.

This is what Wei Bao came up with, a bit of a nondescript organizational form and society.

To say that it is completely the direction of the development of monopoly capital that he envisioned, it doesn't seem to be quite like it, because it seems to be mixed with a little shadow of the society.

There is no way, because it is impossible for the area under Wei Bao's rule to follow the bloody slaughter process in the primitive accumulation of capitalism, the development of the four seas, the buying and selling of black slaves everywhere, and the bloody history of mining, these things, Wei Bao cannot do.

This also affected the speed of development in the areas under his rule, otherwise millions of people would have advanced by leaps and bounds on the right path in a stable and peaceful environment.

On the one hand, Wei Bao didn't want to create a sense of panic in the outside world, and he didn't want to be too big, and on the other hand, Wei Bao didn't want to have blood on his hands.

In the final analysis, Wei Bao is also afraid that the development will be too fast and out of control, and in the next step, the internal will definitely expand, and the capitalist system will develop to a certain stage, which itself is strong and aggressive, and needs to be expanded, and there will even be a vigorous internal demand to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Bao didn't want to see the internal loss of control, and he didn't want to affect the people of Daming in other regions.

Wei Bao regarded everyone as his own compatriots, not just one Weijiazhuang and one Liaonan, or including the two provinces of North Korea.

"Long live the president!"

"Long live the president!"

The closer you get to the shore, the clearer the sound becomes.

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