Fang Yuan took the initiative to propose the name of the battleship, but the implication was obvious, that is, to the imperial court in the capital and to all those who suspected that he had an anti-heart, to send the last signal of reconciliation: he definitely did not want to oppose the Ming Dynasty and establish another country, and he could negotiate within the framework of a Ming Dynasty.

As soon as the name of the giant ship 'Daming' came out, everyone present with a very keen sense of smell understood it.

Princess Kunxing looked at Fang Yuan's back and showed an irrepressible smile.

As long as Fang Yuan was opposed to the imperial court in the capital for a day, even if Fang Yuan was willing to accept her, the cabinet, the Xuanjia Army, and the Jinyi Guard would not accept her. Only when Fang Yuan and the imperial court reach a reconciliation can she truly integrate into Fang Yuan's system.

Of course, there are joys and displeasures, and it is Xiaoyuan who is dissatisfied.

If Fang Yuan really reconciled with the imperial court, the last shackles that restricted Princess Kunxing from entering Fang Yuan's harem would be gone. Princess Kunxing is favored, if she has a son and a half daughter, her son Fang He is the eldest son, and under the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to turn over.

In the eyes of Xiao Yuan's interests, Fang Yuan could completely fall out with the imperial court, and even hang out the banner of anti-Ming, which was the best.

The giant ship continued to move along the waterway of the Yangtze River, and everyone was worried about each other, until they reached the artillery test firing area. It is a deserted mountain forest located on the outskirts of the city. This area has been put under martial law in advance, and no one is allowed to approach it.

"Boom, boom!"

The 160 guns on the four decks of the 'Daming', each floor took turns firing guns, and the sound of the cannons resounded through the sky and was deafening. But the hull of the giant ship was as flat as it was on the ground, and it did not shake in the slightest.

The mountains and forests collapsed in the place where the bombardment was shelled, and the chickens and dogs were not left, and if the front was replaced by enemy warships, they would all be crushed into powder.

Fang Yuan beckoned, causing Shi Lang, the commander of the Naval Division, to step forward and said with a smile, "Old Five, take a look, this battleship formation composed of giant ships can defeat the Zheng family and the Dutch naval division?" ”

Shi Lang, the commander of the Naval Division, saw the power of the ironclad giant ship with his own eyes and sighed, if it weren't for the upper plains, he wouldn't dare to imagine that there could be such a heroic naval warfare method in this world. With such a terrifying ironclad battleship, the Zheng family's sailor fleet is no longer afraid.

Shi Lang patted his chest and promised, "Boss, as long as I have another half a year to train my troops and be familiar with the tactics of this artillery mothership, I can go south to exterminate the Zheng family and the Dutch sailors." ”

Fang Yuan smiled with satisfaction, that is to say, in another half a year, when Shi Lang trained the sailors and became familiar with the tactics of artillery mothership formation combat, he could advance by land and water, go south to annihilate the Zheng family, and the Dutch people who stole the island of Taiwan to dominate Jiangnan!

Of course, going south to annihilate the Zheng family and the Dutch people will not be easy to achieve.

According to the information from Jinyiwei, because Fang Yuan cut off trade with the Dutch, the Dutch cut off the trade routes of the Britons and the Portuguese, and shared part of the profits from the ocean trade to the Zheng family.

Taking advantage of this God-given opportunity, the Zheng family not only collected a fixed protection fee, but also intensified their efforts to smuggle and dump silk, porcelain, and tea to the Dutch, and even had one of the largest transactions, the amount reached 5 million taels, and the Dutch loaded a full 500 merchant ships.

Previously, the Zheng family's annual income from smuggling and collecting marine protection fees was close to 8 million taels of silver, but last year's income was 15 million taels, a full double.

The Zheng family had silver, and their pockets were bulging, and they began to carry out violent activities in Fujian.

In terms of land warfare, the Zheng family's 200,000 main army lost in the previous battle for Zhejiang. When Zheng Sen fled back to Fujian, there were only 50,000 Zheng family soldiers left in the entire territory of Fujian.

In the face of Fang Yuan's strong military pressure, Zheng Zhilong allocated 4 million taels of silver, and recruited the elite of the Han, She, and Liao ethnic groups in Fujian through a year of recruitment, bribery of foreign mercenaries, etc., and gathered an army of 150,000 again. Then, by bribing mercenaries, they bought the She, Liao and other ethnic minorities in the territory to participate in the war.

Among them, Minliao sent 10,000 troops, and the most powerful mercenary army was a mountain combat army composed of 30,000 shes. She people are descendants of Baiyue people, living in the mountains of Zhejiang and Fujian all the year round, and are extremely good at fighting in mountain environments.

Lu Shi's drill is fully responsible for Zheng Sen and Zhou Quanbin.

In terms of sailors, the news that Fang Yuan was building a giant ship at the Longjiang Shipyard had already reached Fujian. The Zheng family once tried to build a large warship with a displacement of 1,500 materials and about 800 tons, but it failed due to technical bottlenecks.

Building a giant ship doesn't work, it can't compare to Fang Yuan in terms of quality, and it can only win by quantity. Zheng Zhilong spent a huge amount of 3 million taels of silver to start large-scale shipbuilding in 40 large and small shipyards along the coast of Fujian and Guangzhou. In just one year, 500 small and medium-sized warships were launched, and countless other troop carriers and transport ships were shipped. The sailors directly requisitioned the coastal fishermen into the water division, and the scale reached 30,000.

The drill of the sailor is fully responsible for Lin Xishan and Liu Guoxuan.

As for artillery and guns, Zheng Zhilong spent a huge amount of 3 million silver to purchase 1,500 large and medium-sized artillery pieces, 30,000 thunderbolts and arquebuses, and countless lead bullets and gunpowder through the Dutch arms channels.

The number of the most advanced flintlock pistols in the Western countries was far from meeting the needs of the Zheng family's army expansion. Therefore, the countries also dumped the arquebuses that were eliminated before, those with backward technical content, and those that were too much to occupy in the warehouse. The Zheng family, in line with the strategy of inferior quality and winning by quantity, also collected all the orders and became a dumping ground for obsolete arms from Western countries.

Due to the lack of professional artillerymen in the Zheng family's army, Zheng Zhilong also spent a lot of money to recruit 2,000 Dutch artillerymen as mercenaries.

In order to entrap these mercenaries of the Dutch artillerymen, in addition to paying a huge monthly salary, the Zheng family even arranged two thousand women to serve these masters from the West on a one-on-one basis. And also change a batch of newcomers every month to meet the freshness of Western masters to Ming women at any time.

The Zheng family threw out 12 million taels of silver for the riot army within a year, which can be said to have done their best to resist Fang Yuan's invasion. Of course, the effect is also very obvious, at least in terms of the military strength, the number of naval divisions, and the number of warships in the land battle, it has returned to the level before the battle of Zhejiang.

And the quality and quantity of Zhengjia's artillery, including the professionalism of the artillerymen, are better than before the Battle of Zhejiang.

The Zheng family's achievements in this year's riot were really beyond Fang Yuan's previous estimates.

The Zheng family has silver and has great influence in Fujian; The Dutch have arms and technology; Fujian and Guangzhou provinces have millions of potential troops. The combination of these three advantages made Fang Yuan feel that the conquest of Fujian was extremely tricky.

It is not said that Fang Yuan, which has only two provinces in Zhejiang and Zhizhi, is the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which has the financial and material resources of the entire Central Plains in history, and is helpless for decades in the face of the Zheng regime, which is only based on the isolated island of Taiwan. It was also necessary to use the extermination of humanity such as moving out of the boundary and forbidding the sea, damaging 800 enemies and 1,000 losses to the island, and finally relying on Zheng's civil strife to recover Taiwan.

Fang Yuan knew that in order to annihilate the Zheng regime, which had been entrenched in Fujian for more than ten years and had a continuous source of wealth in maritime trade, it would inevitably suffer losses in a protracted war, and it was necessary to gather the most elite Xuanjia soldiers and the largest sailors to give the Zheng family a thunderous blow, and the first battle would settle the country!