What he learned from Zheng Keshuang over there was that the Taixi people wanted to move the Nanyangs, in fact, they were mainly the Dutch and Portuguese Han people in Nanyang, Indonesia and Malay Island, and his plan was to take advantage of his actions to let Zheng Keshuang persuade the Zheng family to keep some of his manpower, or transfer some of his manpower to this side, and then establish a force from Gogong Island and other places, and then send sailors to help Li Yuanyin and Tian Xianbu, who had not moved, to drag down Du Ge and the British Dutch in Siam.

After Zheng Zhi came, he faced the power of the Spaniards, and he wanted to argue with the Spaniards, but the people of the Zheng family were really not fuel-efficient lamps.

What's more, Zheng Zhi was hooked with Hong Chengchou's two sons, and Hong Shiming and Hong Hongxiu were both implicated.

But he can't help but give it to him, because he still needs to implement the strategy he agreed with Zheng Keshuang before to help Li Yuanyin and Tian Xian share the pressure.

"How would you like us to help?" Zhang Qiang asked Zheng Zhi.

"We hope that Your Majesty can provide us with some ships, last time we lost a lot of losses in the battle with the Dutch, many of them need to be repaired, but the maintenance on our side can only restore the ability of these ships to move, but many places are already old, there are no big shipyards for major repairs, many places are not repaired, for example, we don't have the kind of hard giant wood that can make masts, so we hope that Your Majesty can sell us some more ships."

Zhang Qiang felt that this was nothing, but now the shipyards of the Huaxia Kingdom only have a total of twelve shipyards of more than 1,000 tons, and they have all been arranged by him for the construction of new Huaxia-class warships, the shipyards of this era are not as convenient as later generations, each shipyard has one or two thousand-ton docks, it is good, these docks are occupied, used to build new warships, other docks can provide maintenance, but not much, there must be only one or two docks with large tonnage, there must be ships of the Huaxia Navy Division in it, This is a perennial rotation of repair and maintenance, and there are thousands of Huaxia sailors in the past ten years.

They all rely on these twelve large shipyards for maintenance, and can repair and maintain a small detachment, about twelve thousand-ton warships at a time, and the same number of warships and warships of other types, so that one small fleet can be repaired and maintained, and the others must be repaired and maintained, which is basically impossible, and it is necessary to occupy other ships to supplement the damaged and seriously damaged and dismantled ships of the sailors.

It is equivalent to saying that the twelve shipyards are running at full capacity, and they cannot repair and maintain all the warships, and it will take several years to complete such repairs and maintenance, and the other twenty-four shipyards have actually been resold to private contractors because they want to develop the economy, and of course not all of them are sold, at least twelve supporting ones are retained, but the reason why these shipyards can be resold is because their tonnage is not large, from 180 tons to 600 tons, and the largest 12 shipyards of more than 600 tons have been obtained.

The largest of the twelve supporting ships only has an 800-ton dock, the others are 600 tons or less, there are three 600-ton ones, and the rest are the general 300-ton ones, because in fact, the 300-ton ones are the mainstream, and the other ships are equipped even with the financial resources of the Huaxia Army. It was not until the first shipyard reform that the small shipyards of less than 180 tons were thrown off.

Even if they were thrown off, they would have imposed restrictions on these shipyards, demolished some of them, and could not let these shipyards overflow, constantly building some inferior boats, making the boats of fishermen and sailors undurable, and sinking by wind and waves within a few days of driving, or leaking and sinking themselves.

Originally, there were nearly 1,000 shipyards, and later only 75 shipyards were left nationwide, which were reasonably distributed, and each region took into account the scale and demand, taking into account the characteristics of each region, and issued licenses, and shipyards without licenses were not allowed to operate.

The second shipyard reform, all the shipyards of the naval division were sold, leaving 36 large-scale, concentrated, distributed within the scope of each naval division fleet on the coastline, under the jurisdiction of each naval fleet, no matter how many you build, but each ship has to be approved, without approval, can not be built, once the fine is found, and then the responsible person will be investigated, the lightest punishment department will be sentenced to prison, and the heaviest sentence will be punishment camp labor camp.

Later, with the mismanagement of some shipyards, the heaviest twelve were sold, and the remaining twelve were left for them to be half civilian and half army, for simple maintenance for the naval division, and the overhaul was obtained by the shipyard of the naval division, and the largest twelve were repaired and repaired.

After such a toss, the construction speed of the naval division has slowed down, and for so many years it has only slowly increased the number of ships, and then sold some unsuitable models and old models to businessmen or retired to the naval division coast guard.

The annual maintenance and construction costs of the sailors are also astronomical, so Zhang Qiang has only made great efforts to sell and decommission nearly 2,000 ships in recent years, reducing them from more than 6,000 to more than 4,000.

But some ships of more than 600 tons have been retained, and the overall scale is still there.

The Zheng family had already purchased nearly 1,200 ships from here, and when Zheng Chenggong retreated from Nanyang to Australia, he took with him more than 200 warships and more than 200 armed merchant ships, as well as merchant ships purchased from the Huaxia Naval Division.

In other words, the Zheng family is Zhang Qiang's biggest customer.

The second customer was the Lu Kingdom and the third son of the King of the Lu Kingdom, the current King of the Ryukyus.

Hong Tian Cannon has supported him with nearly 300 ships and sold him nearly 500 ships.

Recently, nearly 300 old ships were sold to him, and these old ships were transferred from the Fifth and Sixth Fleets, and the Fifth and Sixth Fleets have not been supplemented or developed since they were established, and they have already transferred nearly 100 small ships and some old ships, and later they have transferred some merchant ships such as Daifuku ships from them, and now they have transferred more than 300 naval warships, ranging from 60-ton transport ships to 1,000-ton warships, and now their scale is not even as large as that of a detachment of the Third Fleet stationed in Baodao Prefecture.

Combined, they have only just surpassed them, less than 500 ships.

This made Nguyen Jin very dissatisfied, he was unable to patrol the waters of Annam, and could not reconnoiter and patrol the South China Sea farther away, many Dutch warships, as well as Portuguese and British warships, had slipped through huge loopholes many times and traded with the Spaniards.

Even the last time the fleet of the Portuguese slipped from somewhere.

In order to make up for the Fifth and Sixth Fleets, Zhang Qiang transferred 30 300-ton, 600-ton, and 800-ton warships from the Third Fleet, the Second Fleet, and the Fourth Fleet to support the Fifth and Sixth Fleets.

By now, the number of warships of the entire naval division has only 2,700 left.

All the warships, the age of the warships has been reduced from the original twenty-one years to eleven years, that is, the old ships have basically been sold and decommissioned, and they are some warships with a younger service age of eleven years and below, which are faster, but the number of warships used has decreased.

Zhang Qiang hoped that after the new warships came out, their speed would be further improved, their combat capability would be further enhanced, and they would be able to complete a circle of patrols in the sea area where the fleets of various naval divisions were located in an extremely decisive time.

(End of chapter)