d "Your Majesty, great joy!" Zhao Dequan, the chief eunuch, ran in while shouting.

"What's the matter, frizzy, let you help the Queen Mother in Cining Palace for three months, the Buddha has not been able to make you change, are you planning to serve the Queen Mother in Cining Palace for the rest of your life?" Zhu Ci frowned and glared at Zhao Dequan.

Since the last time Zhao Dequan was found to have accepted bribes, Zhu Ci forgave him when Zhao Dequan took the initiative to admit his mistake and handed over all the 'stolen money' without leaving any of them, but later let him go to Cining Palace to accompany the Queen Mother to worship the Buddha for a few months, and specially ordered him not to get a little bit of meat during the Buddha worship.

Although this kind of punishment is not heavy, it is enough to make Zhao Dequan lose more than a dozen pounds, and he is much more 'lean' than before.

Now, Zhao Dequan is much more honest than before, and he will never touch half a point if he should be in charge, and he will never touch half a point if he shouldn't.

"How can it, the emperor, there is a prince waiting for the queen mother, the slave and maid still stay to serve the emperor, until the slave and maid die, the slave and the maid don't want to leave the emperor, please don't drive the slave and maid away!" Zhao Dequan looked aggrieved and flattered.

The corners of Zhu Ci's mouth twitched, looking at a eunuch and a 'slave', and saying such things in front of him, it was really numbing and unbearable.

"Alright, put away your disgusting words, and tell me what makes you so happy." Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhao Dequan hurriedly arched his body, regained his smile and said: "Zheng Zhilong, the Duke of Anguo, has entered Beijing with his family, and the Zheng family's sailors have also come to merge into the Ming Navy under the leadership of the mighty Bo Zheng Sen. ”

"Oh? Really! Zhu Ci's eyes lit up, and he stood up and said, "Hahahaha, count him Zheng Zhilong's acquaintance, and he didn't choose to resist!" ”

Zhu Ci couldn't help but be pleased, Zheng Zhilong chose to compromise, and the Ming Navy could fully accept the power of the Zheng family's naval division, so as to gain the strength to dominate the South Seas overnight, which was more than one to two years earlier than the Ming Dynasty's own development of the navy.

"Quick, Li Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Transmission, is here to see me!"

"Yes!" Zhao Dequan immediately retreated and passed on the decree.

The reason why Zhu Cicheng summoned Li Yan was to discuss how to divide the Ming Navy into two and establish the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet.

Although Zhu Ci had already made a holy decree in advance, at that time, it was not known whether Zheng Zhilong would compromise and hand over the Zheng family's naval division, and now that Zheng Zhilong has compromised, the establishment of the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet by the Ming Navy will also begin to be officially put on the agenda.

With Zheng Sen bringing all the strength of the Zheng family's naval division, the Ming Navy had nearly 4,000 more ships of all sizes overnight, of which more than 400 were sea-going ships, more than 60 were gunboats, and they were equipped with thousands of cannons, but most of them were old-style earthen cannons with short range and low power, and there were less than 100 red-coated cannons that were slightly more advanced.

Such strength is already amazing, at least Zhu Ci was really taken aback when he learned about it, no wonder the Zheng family can dominate the South Seas, and even the Dutch Far East Fleet will be suppressed to the death!

After discussing with Li Yan, in the end, in order not to make people think that he was favoritism, Zhu Ciji decided to divide all the large and small ships equally, half of the East China Sea Fleet and half of the South China Sea Fleet.

"Shen Jingchao, in the future, you, the Admiral of the Ming Navy, will suddenly become the Admiral of a fleet of the Ming East China Sea Fleet, what are you dissatisfied with?" After the establishment of the two fleets, Zhu Ci summoned Shen Jingchao and Zheng Sen.

"Back to the emperor, the last general has nothing to be dissatisfied with, and the last general is very satisfied!" Shen Jingchao laughed.

Of course, Shen Jingchao is not dissatisfied, the Admiral of the Ming Navy is just a false name, although he is only a Admiral of the East China Sea Fleet, but his official rank has not dropped at all, and the strength of the East China Sea Fleet is stronger than the original Ming Navy, I don't know how much, at least the ocean-going ships under his command have suddenly risen from the original twelve to more than two hundred!

There are more than 200 ocean-going ships, if all of them are equipped with great Shenwu cannons with a range of 5,000 meters, then how strong will the East China Sea Fleet be!

Thinking of this, Shen Jingchao's saliva couldn't be controlled.

The only thing that made Shen Jingchao a little dissatisfied was why he was the admiral of the East China Sea Fleet and not the South China Sea Fleet, he had been yearning for the South Seas for many years, but unfortunately it was Zheng Sen's territory!

"Your Majesty, when will we be able to load all the cannons of all the sea ships in the navy!" Shen Jingchao abandoned his thoughts and asked with wide eyes.

At present, it is naturally more important to enhance the strength of the fleet, and he has a deep understanding of the power of warships equipped with Shenwu cannons, and if there are dozens or one hundred warships in his East China Sea Fleet, it doesn't mean that they will fight wherever they want, and they will destroy whoever they want!

"A cannon with a range of more than five thousand meters?" Zheng Sen was also extremely hot-eyed, he had heard of Shen Jingchao's record against the Dutch fleet, four warships defeated seventeen Dutch gunboats, and he didn't lose a single ship, relying on the Shenwu cannon with a range far exceeding the Dutch warship cannons!

The navy is divided into two, and all the ships are divided equally, Shen Jingchao's East China Sea Fleet got more than 200 ocean-going ships of the Zheng family's naval division, Zheng Sen's South China Sea Fleet also got two gunboats that originally belonged to the Ming Navy, and the Shenwu cannons equipped on the two gunboats, Zheng Sen also tried it himself, the range is long, easy to operate, and there is no recoil, such an advanced cannon, Zheng Sen knows very well what it means, once the fleet is really equipped with dozens of such warships, the Ming Navy can not only sweep the South Seas, Even farther out in the ocean can compete with the Dutch!

As Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, Zheng Sen has heard and seen since he was a child, and his vision is much higher than Shen Jingchao's, he knows very well how vast the oceans of the world are today, and the strength of the Dutch at sea is not only in the South Seas.

It is true that the Zheng family dominates the South Seas, and the Dutch power in the South Seas is absolutely no match for the Zheng family, but it is not for nothing that the Zheng family has not dared to coerce the Dutch too much.

"You two think beautifully, and there are dozens or hundreds of ships when you open your mouth, which are thousands of cannons, and hundreds of millions of taels of silver! If I spend so much money on the navy, the civil and military officials will not have to fight with me, ----unless you can guarantee that you can earn it back! Zhu Ci glanced at Shen Jingchao and Zheng Sen, but the last sentence was what he really wanted to say.

Yes, it is necessary for the navy to earn back all the money spent, Zhu Ciji knows very well what kind of wealth is contained in the world's oceans, as long as Shen Jingchao and Zheng Sen are willing to work hard with the Ming Navy, they want to get back all the money for the construction of the navy, there is absolutely no problem.

"At the beginning, I will only assemble ten ships for each of you, and after that, when you earn the money back, I will slowly assemble it for you, not to mention dozens of ships and hundreds, even hundreds or thousands of ships will not be a problem!" Zhu Ci smirked.

Shen Jingchao was choked instantly.

But Zheng Sen was thoughtful, the Zheng family started from the ocean, and Zheng Sen was confident that he would earn back the money spent by the navy.

Thinking of this, Zheng Sen smiled confidently and said, "Your Majesty, the last general has the confidence to earn the silver back for the emperor!" ”

"The last general, the last general is also confident!" Shen Jingchao looked at Zheng Sen's sworn promise, he couldn't fall behind, although he didn't have a clue, he could only make a guarantee first.

"Okay, hahahaha, the two Aiqing are ambitious! Rest assured, UU reads books (; Behind you is me, it is the Ming Dynasty, you don't have to worry about anything, what Dutch and other foreigners or something, let it go, don't be afraid of causing something! Zhu Ci said domineeringly.

After the annexation of the Zheng family naval division, and the advanced artillery technical support of the Firearms Bureau, Zhu Ciji really didn't take the foreigners at this time in his eyes, and there was a Dutch strong point on the left and right, as long as the Dutch were defeated, there would be no opponent of the Ming Navy in the world.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Shen Jingchao and Zheng Sen said together.

Zhu Ci staggered and nodded, the two major fleets of the Navy were established, and Zhu Ci was going to prepare to recover Taiwan in the next step.

Taiwan has been occupied by the Dutch for more than ten years, and there are more than 200,000 Ming people there, and Zhu Ci will not let them continue to be enslaved by the Dutch. If the Dutch knew each other, he would withdraw from Taiwan on his own and send someone to make amends, in which case he might be able to let the Dutch go free for two years!

Otherwise, thinking of this, Zhu Ci stumbled and showed a sneer!