"Your Highness is going to use Xiao'er to lead those four treasure ships?"

Knowing Zhu Youzhen's ambitions, Shen Yourong's face clearly showed a look of worry: "Your Highness, Xiao'er can barely command a ship, but he really can't command a fleet." ”

Catching a glimpse of Shen Shouyao's body straightening up, as if he was about to say something again, Shen Yourong's face sank and shouted, "What do you want to say?" With your impatient temper, can you command a fleet? ”

was drunk by Shen Yourong, and Shen Shouyao lowered his head honestly.

"General Shen, you don't have to be too harsh on Xiao Shen, what you want to build is just a caravan, not a battle fleet, you don't have to be so strict, right?

Also, Xiao Shen, get up too, don't kneel. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Shen Shouyao's pitiful appearance, but couldn't help but say a good word for him.

"Your Highness,"

Shen Yourong glanced at Shen Shouyao, who took the opportunity to stand up secretly, sighed lightly, and then said solemnly: "Your Highness, the humble position is not a joke. Commanding a ship is not the same as commanding a fleet.

In the first year of Wanli, it was precisely because the shipping fleet capsized in the wind that the shipping channel opened up by Mingquan Gong (Liang Menglong) was completely abandoned.

He had heard Ming Quan Gong mention that the fleet was only experiencing a sudden gale, not a storm. If the fleet commander could command it properly, the fleet should not have suffered such a large loss. ”

"What? Only in the first year of Wanli did it abandon shipping? ”

Didn't you say that Daming Yongle has been banning the sea since then? Why is there still shipping in the first year of Wanli?

Hearing Shen Yourong's statement, Zhu Youzhen was surprised in his heart.

His Royal Highness King Xin wants to reopen the north-south shipping, why doesn't he know that Longqing has opened the sea?

Shen Yourong was also surprised by Zhu Youzhen's loss of voice.

Shen Yourong glanced at Zhu Youzhen deeply, and after making sure that Zhu Youzhen was not joking, he opened his mouth to introduce Zhu Youzhen carefully.

"Your Royal Highness, in the first year of Longqing, he learned the lessons brought by the Jiajing War, in view of the fact that 'the general rule of the city is to turn Kou into business, and the city ban is to turn business into Kou', in order to completely quell the war, Longqing Ye resolutely decided to open the sea.

Under the personal photo of Long Qingye, the imperial court set up a supervision hall in Yuegang, Fujian, allowing ship owners to receive the import tax and sell things in the two oceans.

Since then, maritime trade has flourished, and the decades-long unrest that has plagued the coast has subsided.

Today, there are more and more merchant ships in Yuegang, and the imperial court collects hundreds of thousands of taxes from Yuegang every year.

This is the so-called Longqing Open Sea. ”

Shen Yourong glanced at Zhu Youzhen with strange eyes, and seemed to feel very strange that Zhu Youzhen didn't even know about Longqing Kaihai.

Yes? Yes!

Being looked at by Shen Yourong like that, Rao is Zhu Youzhen's face was deep and abnormal, and he couldn't help but feel hot on his face, and a few traces of red light flew up on his cheeks.

In vain, Zhu Youzhen returned the cow and shouted there "to reopen the door of sea trade".

After a long time, the sea was reopened as early as the Longqing period.

Counting up, from the first year of Longqing to the present, this has been a full 60 years.

Everyone has reopened the sea for a whole year, and he Zhu Youzhen still doesn't know?

This time he really made a big joke.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen's embarrassment, Shen Yourong coughed lightly and continued to popularize science for him: "Your Highness, after the opening of the sea in Longqing, although the coastal rebellion quickly subsided, at this time, the Yellow River has been diverted for several consecutive years.

The continuous flooding of the Yellow River has led to the silting up of a large section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and serious problems have begun to arise in the transportation of the water, which is related to the safety of the capital. ”

Saying this, Shen Yourong arched his hands with both hands, and his face showed respect.

"Ming Quangong (Liang Menglong), who was the governor of Shandong at the time, resolutely wrote a letter suggesting the resumption of shipping in view of the failure of Cao Yun to make up for the lack of Cao Yun.

After several years of preparation, with the strong support of Longqingye, Mingquan Gong reopened the shipping channel from south to north in the 5th year of Longqing.

In those years, the grain was shipped from Huai'an and directly transported to Tianjin through Jiaozhou. I don't know how much food I saved.

It was because of this that Ming Quan Gong was given the platinum Wenqi. ”

Speaking of the shipping presided over by Liang Menglong, Shen Yourong's spirit was greatly invigorated, and he looked honored. But immediately, the excitement on Shen Yourong's face slowly disappeared.

"It's a pity, it's a pity!"

Shen Yourong sighed, and his tone turned heavy: "It's a pity that Long Qingye only went, and there were villains in the court."

In the first year of Wanli, the shipping fleet encountered a sudden gale near Fushan Island in Jimo. Due to improper command, seven grain ships were damaged, 15 people died, and thousands of stones of grain were destroyed.

Your Highness, it was because of the command error of the fleet commander that the maritime fleet was damaged.

And because of the small loss of shipping, the imperial historians of the DPRK and China vigorously attacked the shipping, and finally led to the resumption of the shipping by Mingquan Gong, which was terminated by the newly enthroned Wanli Ye.

Regarding this matter, Ming Quan Gong still remembered it until his death. ”

Looking at Zhu Youzhen, who was thinking deeply, Shen Yourong sighed again, pointed at Shen Shouyao and said, "Your Highness, the commander of this fleet must be able to take responsibility for the entire fleet.

Your Highness, look at it.

This kid knows that you dare to fly fast on the boat, how can he lead a fleet with this kind of mentality.

Your Highness, I'm really not at ease. ”

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen didn't understand, and Shen Shouyao still looked unconvinced, Shen Yourong's face showed a sad look.

"In the thirtieth year of Wanli, the old man went to Dongfan (Taiwan) to suppress the Japanese.

The fleet encountered a hurricane in the waters of Penghu, and although the old man tried his best, he still failed to save the entire fleet. As a result, 10 of the 24 ships on the tour were scattered in the storm, and finally only 14 ships arrived in Dongfan.

Although the battle was won, as the commander of the fleet, he failed to protect the fleet, resulting in unnecessary attrition of the soldiers, which is the old man's fault!

This matter, the old man still remembers it in his heart, and he dare not forget it!

Your Highness, the old man dared to say that if Xiao'er came to command the fleet at that time, I was afraid that his own ship would be lucky to come back! ”

Hearing Shen Yourong's painful narration, Zhu Youzhen and Shen Shouyao were shocked.

Both of them knew the battle that Shen Yourong said.

In the thirtieth year of Wanli, Shen Yourong Dongfan suppressed the Japanese, which was a rare sea victory for the Japanese in the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty.

Shen Yourong Layue went to sea to extinguish the Dongbo Wokou, so that the coastal area did not hear the voice of the Wako for ten years.

What a feat.

But such a big victory turned out to be such an evaluation in Shen Yourong's heart.

For a while, Zhu Youzhen and Shen Shouyao had mixed feelings in their hearts, and they didn't know what to say.

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen and Shen Shouyao both showed solemn expressions on their faces, Shen Yourong said to Shen Shouyao very solemnly: "Little Ba, I'll tell you again."

The most dangerous thing at sea is never a battle, but a natural disaster.

A good fleet commander can't just keep his eyes on his own ship.

He had to be familiar not only with the performance of all the ships in the fleet, but also with the routes and the weather changes along the routes.

Only by doing this can you barely be considered a qualified fleet commander.

Hachi, you're still far away! ”