Regarding the naming of Emperor Chongzhen, the ministers of the court who followed him, as well as the officials stationed in Tianjin, naturally had nothing to say, but bowed down together to praise the holy decree.

At noon that day, Emperor Chongzhen looked at two docks in a row, and in the second relatively clean and tidy dry dock, he was also accompanied by several imperial attendants and military attachés, and personally boarded the brand-new warship that was ready to be named Zhenhai along the tall gangway!

The reason why it did not board the Dinghai is also because the Dinghai carried more than 1,000 people and horses, went to sea for testing for more than three months, and had just returned.

Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about these things, and he didn't care about such and such taboos, but after the advice of Sun Chengzong, Nan Juyi, Zhang Keda, Liang Tingdong and others, he finally dispelled the idea of entering the Dinghai.

Moreover, in the dock where the Dinghai is located, the stagnant water has just been emptied, and all kinds of silt and seaweed are everywhere, and there are many large and small blisters.

Under such circumstances, Emperor Chongzhen, with the respect of the Son of Heaven, is indeed not suitable to step on the sludge and sewage on the boat.

Therefore, although boarding the Dinghai has the symbolic significance of the Son of Heaven and the Navy, it is not on the schedule of the Military Aircraft Department.

As for the clean dock of the Zhenhai and the hull of the Zhenhai, it is different.

Not only has it not been tested at sea, but it has not yet been tested by seawater to test its watertight resistance, and there are no water stains in the dry dock, and it is clean and tidy.

Emperor Chongzhen, accompanied by Nan Juyi and Zhang Keda, and under the escort of the imperial attendant military attache Chen Zuoting, Cao Bianjiao, Zu Keyong, Hou Tianxi and others, followed Shen Tingyang, not only boarded the top deck of the Zhenhai, that is, the third deck, but also took a group of people down to the bottom of the Zhenhai.

The bilge of the Zhenhai was divided into dozens of sealed cabins, each of which was still very large, beyond Emperor Chongzhen's previous imagination.

Such a cabin is used to load a large number of ballast stones when the empty ship is driving to ensure the stability of the hull when driving at sea, and after entering the navy, it will naturally be used to load a large amount of food and ammunition to replace the role of ballast stones.

Each enclosed compartment also ensures that if some compartments are damaged and flooded, the others are still safe and do not sink the entire ship.

At noon that day, Emperor Chongzhen, under the leadership of Shen Tingyang, visited the inside of the hull of the Zhenhai, and accompanied by everyone, he happily came out of the giant dry dock where the Zhenhai was located.

After all, he himself can skip meals and rest when he is in a high mood, and keep watching, but the many ministers and guards and thousands of people and horses accompanying him can't just stay in the Dagukou shipyard area and drink the northwest wind.

Although the factory area of Dagukou Shipyard is large, it is still very simple, except for the two huge semi-open docks and a few huge timber warehouses, there are not many decent buildings.

The whole factory area is more than that, but it is a shantytown that provides for ordinary workers to live in and even settle down.

Surrounded by a large shantytown, there are two long rows of red brick houses facing north and south, facing the dock, which is the best building of the Dagukou shipyard at present.

The first row is the office area, dining area, and meeting hall of Dagukou Shipyard, and of course, the residences of shipyard officials such as Shen Tingyang, Huang Binqing, Huang Zhongrong, and Chen Shengguan.

The second row is where foreign craftsmen and technicians such as Vanderlie and Thomas Dryfort, as well as the Cabinet Supervisor and Ministers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and various master craftsmen and technicians of the shipyard live and work.

In the afternoon of February 27, the fourth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong, Nan Juyi, Zhang Keda, Liang Tingdong and others had a simple lunch in a red brick house in the first row.

It was also in this simple red brick house, Emperor Chongzhen took the tea bowl handed by the attendant and rinsed his mouth, and then said to the ministers who accompanied him:

"The construction of the navy is difficult, and the officials of the Navy Governor's Office and the Dagukou Shipyard can put the top priority on shipbuilding.

"That being the case, Shen Tingyang can be added to the title of Governor of the Navy Governor's Mansion, and Huang Binqing, Huang Zhongrong, and Chen Zhongguan are still in their own positions, but their rank and rank are all promoted to the third level!

"Shipyard craftsmen and above, etc., are all promoted to the first class and paid, and the craftsmen and above are rewarded with 1,000 silver yuan bills from the World Bank! The remaining warships ordered by the Admiralty must be completed as soon as possible within two years! ”

After Emperor Chongzhen finished saying this, Zhang Keda and Shen Tingyang hurriedly thanked him for receiving the order.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen did not wait for any reaction from the other accompanying ministers, and continued while thinking:

"In addition, the Navy Governor's Office has requested that the Liaodong Naval Division, Tianjin Naval Division, and Denglai Naval Division all be brought under the direct command of the Navy, which is a very good move, and I have already approved it! Just doing that doesn't seem to be enough today!

"In my opinion, the three naval divisions of Liaodong, Tianjin, and Denglai can still be stationed in Juehua Island, Dagukou and Dengzhou Port in the future, but their establishment system needs to be further integrated by the Military Aircraft Department and the Navy Governor's Office!

"The battalion heads of the three naval divisions and the boats and divisions of the three naval divisions, as well as all kinds of warships such as naval warfare, transportation, and supplies, can be kept unchanged if they are not necessary!

"However, above the battalion heads of each naval division, it is necessary to uniformly assign naval officers and generals, so that the establishment system and military law orders of the entire naval division must be strictly consistent! Only in this way, when it is of great use, can the Military Aircraft Department and the Navy Governor's Office be like an arm!

"As for the official military positions set up above the battalions of the three naval divisions, whether it is better to adopt the name of the old naval division, or whether it is better to set up a new fleet, and even as for the geometry of all the officers and gunboats of the newly established fleet, the geometry of all kinds of naval battles, transportation and supply ships, and so on, the naval governor's office must submit the report to the military aircraft department for agreement!"

This time, after Emperor Chongzhen saw the first Daifuku-class warship Dinghai returning from the sea trial, he felt much more at ease.

Of course, a Dutch plywood gunboat with three decks like this can only be regarded as ordinary in the naval fleet of the Taixi countries, and it is not the most advanced type, but for the current Ming Dynasty, there are ten or eight such warships, which is enough to deal with the enemy in front of them.

With a big set of minds in his heart, Emperor Chongzhen was in a good mood, and in the next two days, with the accompanying ministers, he was temporarily stationed in this humble shipyard.

During this period, Emperor Chongzhen also listened to the reports of the supervisors and ministers, and met with Van der Reich, Thomas Dry, and other meritorious Dutch Hongmaoyi, as well as Huang Binqing, Huang Zhongrong, and the three brothers of the shipyard backbone Chen, and personally encouraged them with the respect of the Son of Heaven.

On February 29 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen also took a group of people to go to Dagukou, standing on the Dagukou fort built during the Yongle period, and looking at the sea for a long time.

If history cannot be changed, then more than 200 years later, this calm sea outside the mouth of Dagu will become an important source of suffering and shame for the Chinese nation.

One after another, the gunboats of the foreign enemy will sail from here to the mouth of Dagu, land in Gyeonggi, and even occupy the city of Beijing.

This fate must change, and this life will change eventually.

Today's Dagukou Fort is the top priority of the Navy Governor's Mansion and the Zhili Governor's Palace, not only the fort built during the Yongle period has been reinforced with cement concrete, but also the old general's guns on the fort have all been replaced with new cannons.

A total of 120 Shenwei invincible general cannons and 160 Chongzhen rear-loading smoothbore cannons blocked all areas suitable for ships to anchor and land along the rivers along the north and south coasts of Dagu Kou.

The strategic idea of the naval governor's office to strictly defend rather than take the initiative to attack was the consistent thinking of the Ming Dynasty when facing the sea.

Now, even if Emperor Chongzhen wants to change, it will not be something that can be effective in the short term.

However, there is nothing inherently wrong with the practice of attacking and defending first.

During Emperor Chongzhen's stay at Dagukou, he didn't find any major faults, except for meeting with the generals and officials above the garrison under Huanglong, he didn't stay too long.

Early in the morning of February 30 in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen's car left the Dagukou shipyard in a mighty way, and made a slight stop in Tianjin on the same day, that is, it broke away from the cement road official road leading from Tianjin to Tongzhou, and turned to the north, heading towards Baiye City in the southeast of Zunhua.