Ying Tianfu, the old mountain palace.

The two governments are holding a collegiate meeting in the Imperial Palace, and the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty are all a little sad.

What worries them, the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty who will be immortal, is their Emperor Majesty, the rare benevolent and filial monarch since ancient times, Zhu Cihong, who has spent a lot of effort to select more than 1,000 benevolent and righteous people...... So many benevolent and righteous people, and many more than several times the entourage and subordinates of the benevolent and righteous people, are now hanging around Laoshan Town and Pukou City, this matter is not worrying, what is worrying!

Laoshan Town and Pukou City are the places where the Ming Dynasty ministers settled down, and they have been the best districts in the world for more than ten years! Not only is the best educational resources concentrated, but the law and order is also surprisingly good. Not to mention the foreign thieves, even if they are the local gentlemen in Laoshan and Pukou, they don't dare to do evil at the feet of the Son of Heaven, otherwise the police patrol of the Jiangbei Police Patrol Institute will be arrested and severely punished!

Even if Dad is a Ge Lao, a governor, or a prince, it is not very easy to make it, unless Dad is the emperor......

However, in the past few months, there have been fights and brawls in Laoshan Town and Pukou City every day, not with sticks and bricks, but with the old elder's thin katana...... Cut people in the street!

Many of the important ministers who participated in the court meeting today have seen the slashing incident, and it is really lawless!

Although swords are popular in Laoshan Town and Pukou City, there are very few cases of armed wounding and killing, on average only 100 a year (most of them are private duel cases), and most of them are wounding people, rarely killing people, and rarely happening on the street.

Of course, the Jiangbei Police Patrol Institute was under pressure from the Cabinet Office and the Criminal Department to immediately rectify law and order.

However, after rectification, it was found that most of the people arrested by the police patrol were Emperor Zhu's "benevolent and righteous men". The matter soon stabbed Zhu Cihong, but the emperor, who had always been strict, suddenly became lenient, as long as these people cut them "insiders", they were all sent to serve in front of the Nanyang Army.

These people were originally going to Nanyang, and this kind of punishment is not the same as no punishment?

In addition, didn't the Twelve Duchyes go to the South Seas to do benevolence and righteousness? They are already like this before they leave Ying Tianfu, and they can still be benevolent and righteous when they go to Nanyang?

Also, how can these people pinch themselves so hard! The vast majority of fights and murders occurred between these "benevolent and righteous people.....

Let them create the Twelve Duchies, will there be a "Rebellion of the Twelve Kingdoms" in the future?

Thinking of these problems, the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty were in a bad mood.

"Zhuqing," Zhu Cihong was still smiling as always, he picked up the cantata, opened it and spread it on the table, "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over a recital this morning with a war book, which was written by the consul in Batavia, saying that the Dutch want to have a gentleman-to-gentleman decisive battle with us...... They are going to have a decisive battle of the fleet in the South Seas, and the time is set for this autumn, and the location is to be decided by us. ”

Emperor Zhu glanced at everyone with a smile, and then asked, "What do you think if?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Dutch East India Company is a profiteer, not a gentleman at all, we can't trust them!" Zheng Zhilong, who once worked for the Dutch East India Company, was the first to say that he could not trust Dutch profiteers.

Sure enough, it's still profiteers who understand profiteers! Zhu Cihong pondered and asked, "Quan Guogong, what do you think is the purpose of the Dutch war?" ”

"This ......" Zheng Zhilong glanced at his son, Zheng Jiangong, the secretary of the Admiralty, before he said, "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the Dutch must be setting a trap and want to severely damage our fleet!" But the specific arrangement will be like this, the minister can't guess. ”

"Your Majesty," Zheng Jiangong immediately took over the topic, "My father is right, as far as the minister knows, the Dutch navy is particularly good at sneak raiding anchorages, and in the past, when Europe was at war with Spain and England, it did a lot of sneak attacks on anchorages.

Now that the main force of our fleet is far away at the anchorage of Guangzhou Bay, the Heyi fleet cannot sneak attack at all, so they will come up with such an unruly trick to coax us south to the vicinity of the Strait of Malacca, so as to facilitate their sneak attack. ”

The anchorage of Guangzhou Bay is located between Gaozhou Mansion and Leizhou Mansion in Guangdong Province, and was originally under the jurisdiction of Shendianwei (the name of the guard), and there is a water village in the bay.

After the Battle of Zhoushan Anchorage, the Ming Navy began to look for a new naval fleet anchorage, and found three best anchorages, one is Jiaoao (Jiaozhou Bay); the other is Guangzhou Bay; There is also a Sasebo.

These three anchorages became the home ports of the Beiyang, Nanyang, and Oriental Fleets!

The North, South, and Oriental fleets are now under the jurisdiction of the Admiralty and the Navy Department, and all of them are "Central Army."

However, the original "Old Beiyang" and "Old Nanyang" were not transformed into the "Central Army" as a whole, but were split and reorganized. The armed merchant ships used for transportation (commercial transportation) were transferred to the "Yiguandang" trading house and the "Shachuan Gang" trading house (these ships were originally the assets of Zheng and Shen), and at the same time, the "right to block the road and collect fees" in Beiyang and Nanyang was also abolished. Since the 15th year of Hongxing, merchant ships of various countries sailing along the coast of China have to pay relevant taxes and fees after entering the port, and do not have to pay protection fees to the Nanyang Fleet and the Beiyang Fleet......

After the reorganization, the strength of the "Sanyo Fleet" has also been greatly expanded in recent years, and each has 8 capital ships of the "Ying Tianfu" class!

The Celestial Empire's advantage in scale has finally shown its power in this round of naval updates.

Although the performance of the "Ying Tianfu" class is still not as good as the British "Protector" class and the Netherlands' "Seven Provincial Councils" class, the "dumpling" model, which can start construction of 12 ships at the same time and build 24 ships in two batches, has made the Ming Navy a maritime power that can go hand in hand with the British and Dutch navies!

Now, 16 of the 24 "dumpling ships" are concentrated in the South Sea Fleet, led by Admiral Chen Shangchuan, ready to go south at any time to find the Dutch East India Company's fleet for a decisive battle - there is no need to win, and a war of attrition is enough for the Dutch. Even if two "Ying Tianfu" classes are exchanged for one "Seven Provincial Council" class, these 16 dumpling ships of the Nanyang Fleet can redeem all the "Parliament" classes of the Dutch Navy.

And the Ming Dynasty, which has 16 dumpling ships, is still the Celestial Empire, and the Dutch Navy, which has no 8 "councils", is waiting to be repaired by the British "protectors"!

Therefore, in the opinion of the elite staff officers of the Navy Department of the Generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty, the Nanyang Fleet, which has 16 "dumpling ships", has only one possibility of defeat in the South Seas, that is, it is caught off guard by the Dutch who are good at sneak attacks during the anchorage period......

"I knew the Dutch were scheming!" Zhu Cihong smiled proudly, the master of the horse finally came out and was able to see through the tricks of the Dutch!

"Meritorious," Zhu Cihong asked, "what are your two strategies to break the enemy?" ”

Zheng Jiangong said: "It's better to have a plan and agree with the Dutch to have a decisive battle near the Makassar Strait...... Then the main force of the Nanyang Fleet went south to the Makassar Strait to attract the attention of the Dutch.

At the same time, with part of the strength of the Nanyang Fleet, together with the Barbarian Naval Army, the Barbarian Army will be transported south to the Strait of Malacca by water, and land near Temasek Island in the Sultanate of Johor! ”

"The Dutch will be fooled?"

"Definitely!" Zheng Jiangong said, "The Strait of Makassar is the only way south to the Spice Islands, and once it is under my control, the Spice Islands will not be owned by the Netherlands!"

And the Spice Islands are the lifeblood of the Dutch East India Company! ”

"Good!" Zhu Cihong nodded with satisfaction, "My Twelve Duchy Jurassal Group has now been formed, it's time for them to go south!" ”

That's great!

This group of benevolent and righteous people is finally leaving......

The ministers were full of surprise!

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "It seems that it will not be long before the people of the Malacca Peninsula and Sumatra will no longer be bullied by Xiyi, and they will enjoy peace forever under the protection of the Heavenly Empire's benevolent and righteous moral teachers!"

In order to calm the hearts of the people of Nanyang, I plan to name the twelve countries of Malacca after the four characters of benevolence, righteousness and morality, which are respectively called; Ren'an, Renfu, Renzhi, Yixing, Yiquan, Yiyong, Daoquan, Daosheng, Daolong, Dexian, Deyou, Desheng......"

What a lot of benevolence and morality!