The imperialists should start from the baby, and the expansion of ideas should start from the younger generation.

They are considered the younger generation.

Whether it is Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, they can be regarded as the young Zhuang faction at this time.

In fact, there are no old people under the king of Zhennan, basically they are all twenty or thirty years old, and there are not many people in their forties, and the core of his regime is nothing more than those Zhuanghu, Nanjing military households, Zhaoyi militia, and then the generals of the Dangkou military system......

Of course, they are now fanatical followers of Yang Xin.

They have even built a system similar to the Smell Fragrance Sect.

It is the myth of Yang Xin.

However, there is no need for them to deliberately mythologize, after all, Yang Xin's mythological color is obvious.

But these people are also the highest level of science, because they were the first to receive systematic education in modern scientific knowledge, and although they are fanatics, it does not delay them to also know the mysteries of wind, rain, thunder and lightning.

They were the basis of Yang Xin's rule.

The vast majority of these people are serving as instructors in the militia battalions of various armies, like a group of preachers, teaching those militias everything they can teach, from military affairs to science, including their faith, which should be said to be faith at this time. And it is quickly gaining the respect of soldiers and militiamen, after all, a group of people who know almost everything and can quickly bring them to food and clothing will inevitably become their backbone.

The rest of the Zhaoyi militia are actually the apprentices of these people......

They taught it.

But fanatics are not as high as they are.

Of course, the same belief in the king of Zhennan, but the fanaticism is a little weaker, and the Nanjing military household is similar.

However, these people in the Dangkou military system are still not fanatical believers, loyal and absolutely loyal, but only a kind of loyalty to the leader, the king of Zhennan gave them a good life, and they were loyal to the king of Zhennan, which is different from the fanatical believers who treat him as a god.

But one thing is the same.

It's all young people.

These people are the main force in the future to expand the territory, we must let them know the benefits that expansion can bring from now on, doing business is indeed very profitable, but going out to bombard other people's cities, and then forcing people to pay military expenses and pay compensation to open ports, this is more profitable than doing business.

The Spaniards were nothing more than a decoy to lure them into turning their gaze overseas.

In this way, the crusading army of the king of Zhennan finally set sail from Nanjing in a cheer after a month of momentum......

The North and South Ocean Naval Divisions formed a combined fleet.

All six battleships were dispatched, plus thirty cruisers, a hundred transports, and all clippers.

At present, the Nanyang Company owns more than 200 new merchant ships of this type.

This does not include the Yang family's own shipping fleet, in fact, there are currently as many as 400 such clippers sailing along the coast of Daming.

It was built over a period of three years.

Nowadays, the three shipyards of Gegu, Macau and Zhoushan, basically less than five days can launch one, this kind of wooden sailing ship is actually built very quickly, the key is to prepare the materials in advance, once the materials are ready, the rest is to assemble. These ships do not need to use high-grade wood, and they are not warships, but ordinary shipbuilding wood, pine, fir, camphor wood, etc., but Gegu is mainly pine and oak......

Felled from Liaodong.

The friends of those Zhennan kings in Liaodong are all doing this business, cutting timber from the banks of the Yalu River, the upper reaches of the Liaohe River, the Hunhe River and other rivers, cutting the timber and transporting it to the coastal port for shady drying, and after three years of shady drying, it is dissolved into various standard specifications according to the requirements, and then transported to Gegu by special transport ships. It can be said that everything is standardized, the wood drying time, the size and thickness of the board, all in strict accordance with the standard, and then these suppliers do not have to care about anything, just prepare materials for delivery.

The shipyard is only responsible for assembly.

As for the Zhoushan Shipyard, wood from the upper reaches of the Qiantang River is used.

Used in the past.

Even when it was Datong, the Zhejiang gentry were also doing timber business, and the war was a war, and the money still had to be earned.

It has the style of the Dutch lending money to the British to fight the Anglo-Dutch war.

According to the order requirements of the Yang family, they cut down the wood and dry the board, and then sent it to Hangzhou, transferred to the canal to Ningbo and then went to the sea to Zhoushan, because the Yang family gave money and the quality was absolutely fine.

After all, the standard is not enough, and people don't want it.

But the standard is enough, just send it back to get the silver.

As for the timber of the Macao shipyard, it is on the Pearl River, and the gentry of Guangdong and Guangxi are also responsible for cutting the wood and drying the board according to the order standard, and then send it directly to Macao by water, but the quality of the shipbuilding there is better, because part of the use of iron wood, which is also the symbol of the Guangzhou ship, and Guangzhou has always used this shipbuilding.

And now there is a Nanjing shipyard, which uses timber brought from the Yangtze River, four shipyards, and is expected to build more than 300 ships a year......

This is not an exaggeration.

After all, these clippers aren't really big.

Generally within 200 tons, the largest currently built is only 300 tons, their advantage is that they are fast, but the body is relatively slender, if you want to build big, you have to continue to increase the length, but the current wooden keel can provide limited strength, and it is easy to have an accident if you grow up. This is not the era of the late nineteenth century, when thousand-ton schooners were rampant, and the keel was forged from steel, which could only be made of wood, and for the sake of cheapness, the keel would not be made of too high-end wood, such as teak.

Gegu uses oak wood, Zhoushan uses camphor wood, and Macao uses iron power wood.

In the case of length limit, if you want to make it bigger, you have to widen it, but after widening, there is still fart speed, Yang Xin is fully committed to the development of schooners, that is, he likes its speed, and then it is not limited by the season, and it can run the South Sea route at any time. In this way, in the event of famine, grain could be brought in from overseas in the shortest possible time, and the real mission of these schooners, who could still sail against the wind with a full load of goods, was to bring grain from outside as quickly as possible, which was difficult for large schooners to be so convenient.

They only come and go once a year.

Even when it was time for a crow, the British had to wait for the wind when they went north.

Therefore, Yang Xin is going all out to build this kind of 200-ton boat, which Nanyang Company uses to run Southeast Asian routes, and has sailed as far as Goa......

However, it needs to be resupplied along the way.

Fortunately, at this time, neither the Portuguese nor the Dutch could afford to provoke the Nanyang Company, and they had to provide services to them.

After all, I can't afford to mess with it.

Yang Xin is accustomed to using a trade stick.

The Yang family mainly used them to transport grain and guano.

One hundred such clippers, carrying one marine corps in each of the northern and southern oceans, with an actual strength of 8,000, plus sailors and armed sailors, the total strength of the entire expeditionary fleet is 15,000. Li Dan's son took the Ming army back to Manila to take revenge, what a good propaganda material, and he was also a good guide, after all, when his father was thrown into a hard labor ship by the Spaniards, the father and son were said to have studied escaping on the same ship.

And their opponents are estimated to have a total strength of no more than two thousand......

Not including natives.

Well, the number is pitiful indeed.

But in fact, the Spanish population in Manila really does not have much, and they just trust their natives to be thugs for them.

However, it has a strong fortress.

So the expeditionary fleet brought a powerful twenty-four catty mortar cannon and a large number of flowering shells.

"Who is the leader of Batavia?"

Looking at the fleet that was going down the river and gradually moving away, Yang Xin asked Xu Xinsu beside him.

The latter is the actual manager of Nanyang Company, also called the manager, this increasingly large company, consisting of a board of directors to form a decision-making body, the board of directors was originally in Guangzhou, but at this time has moved to Nanjing, as Yang Xin, of course, can not personally join the board of directors, so Mrs. Huang replaced him. In addition, Yu Zhigao and Li Guozhu, the earliest directors who joined, have now added a group of Fujian, including Yan Siqi, who is still in the country, and Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian.

There is no other choice for these two.

Either join or be exterminated by the king of Zhennan.

It is useless for Zheng Zhilong to be the commander-in-chief of Fujian, the king of Zhennan is still the governor of coastal military affairs, and the Nanyang naval division can force them to death if they move to Xiamen.

"Back to the king, it's Su Minggang, a native of Tong'an."

Xu Xinsu said.

"What about Luzon?"

Yang Xin asked.

At this time, there were Chinese people in Manila who had already started to go back, and the Spaniards were not stupid, who would they do business with if the Chinese didn't go back? Let them make money first, and then harvest when it is almost done, originally the second harvest in history was more than ten years later, and then there was a third harvest, and after forty years, the Chinese in Luzon were cut as leeks, but the Spaniards also cut off their heads.

"Zhao'an Huang Mingzuo."

Xu Xinsu said.

"You guys are also everywhere, I remember the first time the Dutch came here, and it was also coaxed by the Fujian merchants, right?"

Yang Xin said with interest.

"Back to the king, that's Li Jin and Pan Xiu of Buddha Big Mud, Haicheng people, they are actually for trade, after all, they live on trade in Buddha Big Mud, and they want to coax the Dutch to come over, follow the example of Macao, occupy Penghu and force the imperial court to trade with the Dutch, so that they, the merchants in Buddha Big Mud, have to control trade, after all, the Dutch are supplied by Buddha Big Mud."

Xu Xinsu said cautiously.

"I don't care about the things before, after all, there was a mess on the sea in the past, but you tell these people who are outside, from now on, I have the final say on the things on the sea, they can come to me if they have any requirements, if someone bullies them, you can come to me and give them a head, they listen to me, I protect them. However, this kind of thing to help outsiders attack and disturb Daming will never be allowed to appear again, whoever does this kind of thing again, I will also cut off their heads, it is not easy to make a living overseas, but it can't do things without a bottom line. ”

Yang Xin said very majestically.

"The little one understands!"

Xu Xinsu said tremblingly.

(The child had a cold and was injected, and wrote three chapters in two days) I want to talk about "Five Good Youths of the Ming Dynasty" with more like-minded people, and pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~