The firearms and equipment of the imperial camp and the pro-army were lagging behind, and Zhu Youhua began to plan the equipment and manpower of the sailors again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info artillery, muskets, waist knives, shields, etc., can be evenly distributed by the imperial camp for the time being, mainly due to the lack of warships and qualified sailors.

A month ago, he had sent Zhang Jiayu, the new commander of the Yangtze River Naval Division in Guangdong, to Guangdong to recruit Tanhu as sailors.

Zhang Jiayu, the word Xuanzi, the number Zhiyuan, a native of Wanjiang Town, Dongguan, Guangdong, a general of the Southern Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty, and one of the three loyalists in Lingnan.

In history, Zhang Jiayu was a famous national hero who died in order to resist the Manchu Dynasty, but his reputation was very poor during his lifetime, and his career was also very bumpy.

At the end of March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng broke through Beijing, Zhang Jiayu surrendered to the Dashun army, which became a major stain on the official career, and at the end of May, Li Chuang was defeated, he did not want to be clear, and fled back to the south.

Although Zhu Youhua planned to use him, he did not reuse it directly, but planned to use it again by knocking and knocking.

So when Zhang Jiayu just fled to Nanjing, he was arrested by the Criminal Department and sent to prison, and after Zhang Jiayu suffered in prison for several months, Zhu Youhua ordered someone to lift him out of prison, reactivate him, and entrust him with important tasks.

Zhang Jiayu is reincarnated as a human being, and he is naturally very grateful to the new emperor, and after being entrusted with a heavy task, he is also resolute in doing things, and he will be deducted if he does not dare to score half a point.

Zhu Youhua also took a fancy to his political pragmatism, and also admired his military talents.

Politically, Zhang Jiayu has always been very sympathetic to the peasant army, and once cooperated with Li Zicheng, with the Jiangxi volunteers, and with the Guangdong volunteers.

Militarily, most of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty knew nothing, but there were a few people who could fight, and Zhang Jiayu was one of them. He not only defeated Jin Shenghuan's troops in Jiangxi, but also fought against Li Chengdong's invasion of Guangdong in history, led a group of rabble to fight with the Qing army, and even won victories in some places.

All in all, this is a talent, sharpen it well, and the future achievements are limitless.

This time he went to Guangdong to recruit sailors, which was Zhang Jiayu's suggestion to the emperor.

Zhang Jiayu believes that the best sailors are none other than the Tando boat people, who used to be boat people, eat by the sea, take the boat as their home, and almost never go ashore for the rest of their lives, eat and live on the boat, although the body odor is heavy, but in view of this reason, they can be completely accustomed to the turbulence on the water, even if they encounter strong winds and waves, they can be at ease, do not faint or vomit. Zhang Jiayu believed that as long as these Tanhu boat people were well trained, they would become extremely good sailors.

This point of view was also agreed by Zhu Youhua, and the most beneficial point for Zhu Youlang was the identity of the Tanhu.

Tanhu in the Ming Dynasty are untouchables, belonging to the untouchables, descendants can never be examined, the social status is extremely low, far inferior to the ordinary good people, if they are all hooked out of the untouchable, changed to good nationality, the whole army treatment is equivalent to the imperial camp pro-army, and the descendants can be scientific expedition in the army, no longer looked down upon.

Zhu Youhua believes that those sailors who were born as Tando boat people will be extremely grateful and become the emperor's most loyal subordinates, and they will be able to collect their hearts without wasting a penny or a knight.

Compared with the problem of the supply of troops for the naval division, it is more difficult to prepare for warships, especially for large warships of more than 500 materials, and sea ships of more than 1,000 materials, and the Longjiang shipyard in Nanjing does not have much inventory, and most of them are seriously rotten and unusable.

The provincial governments in the coastal areas have contributed a lot, mostly civilian sand boats and lucky boats, but there are not many suitable for special water operations, and they are mainly small and medium-sized ships such as Cangshan ships and Haicang ships.

Only the 30 Liangguang specialty long boats and fast crabs donated by Ding Kuichu, the governor of Liangguang, are not bad.

The fast crabs and long boats in Guangdong are the favorite ships of the offshore bandits and pirates, and there has never been one in the interior, and these two boats move quickly. Flexible in direction and strong in firepower, it is a sharp weapon in water warfare.

A long boat, sixteen people paddling, four people rocking. One helmsman, one prop penny. Where possible, a gun will be installed in the bow or stern of the ship. Equipped with two gunners, the especially proud pirates, would be equipped with a Franco gun in the bow and stern, and five or six gunners would operate it.

A fast crab, twenty-eight people paddling, eight people rocking, one captain, one helmsman, one person holding the penny. Similarly, the bandits would install a Franc cannon at the bow and stern with five or six gunners.

The fast crabs and longboats are equipped with swords, guns, swords, spears, bows, arrows, firearms, and other offensive weapons. Almost all of the awesome pirates are equipped with cannons on their ships, and when fighting, they sink enemy ships directly before jumping into the gang, and they hardly use those weapons.

Now that the southern invasion of the Tartars is imminent, it is not realistic to build a warship by hand, not because of lack of money, but because it takes too long, and it will not take a year and a half to build a qualified warship.

Zhu Youhua finally paid attention to the governor of Fujian, the de facto pirate king Zheng Zhilong, he has a large number of qualified warships, sea ships, and the best seamen, and monopolizes the huge maritime trade interests in East Asia, with an annual income of 10 million taels of silver, which can be described as a rich country!

Zhu Youhua thought about it again and again and decided to make a political deal with this One Piece!

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"Oh, oh, ......"

I don't know whose rooster collar made its first crow, which attracted the cries of many roosters, and the rooster's cries came and went, which was very clear in the silent morning sky.

Zheng Sen jumped up from the bed, took off the sword hanging on the wall, and walked out of the dormitory to the back garden. The sky was faint, and there was silence all around, except for the trees and flowers swaying in the morning breeze, making a cheerful rustling sound.

He stood still in the middle of the field, closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing, the thumb, ring and little finger of his left hand clenched the sword plate, the index and middle fingers were lying on the hilt of the sword, and the long blade of the sword was close to his left arm, revealing the cold light on his shoulder. After standing quietly for a few minutes, he opened his eyes, and his eyes suddenly shot a compelling light, like a tiger and leopard staring at its prey, which took people in mind.

Quiet as a virgin, moving as a rabbit.

In an instant, as the sword technique in his right hand stretched from his waist to the top of his head, he suddenly jumped into the air, and the sharp sword had swam from his left hand to his right hand, coiling around him like a flying jade dragon, not leaving his left and right. With the sword light dancing faster and faster, he felt as if he was really rushing to kill in the enemy formation, and all the depression in his heart in recent days was dissipated......

At that time, Zheng Zhilong married the Tagawa clan of the Nagasaki royal family of Japan, and soon after giving birth to Zheng Sen, he left Japan to follow Yan Siqi as a pirate, haunting the southeast sea and plundering passing merchant ships. After Yan Siqi's death, Zheng Zhilong succeeded as the head of the thieves.

Zheng Zhilong has three younger brothers: Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibiao and Zheng Zhibao, all four of whom are martial arts, fierce and aggressive, leading a group of pirates to run amok and threaten the southeast. In the first year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong was recruited from a pirate to a dignified court official coastal defense guerrilla, stationed in Anping Town.

Zheng Zhilong's official residence in Anping Town is several miles long, and the sea ships can go directly to the house, and the soldiers' salaries are completely self-sufficient. At that time, all the ships had to pay an annuity in exchange for Zheng's order flag to pass unimpeded, and Zheng Zhilong earned tens of millions of gold and silver at this age, and he was rich enough to be an enemy country.

After Zheng Zhilong became an official in the name of righteousness, of course he wanted to bring his wife and children back to China from Japan, but according to Japanese rules, his wife and children were not allowed to leave the country if he was married to the Nagasaki royal family. It wasn't until the second year of Chongzhen's reign that Zheng Zhilong opened up the joints with a lot of money, and the Nagasaki family allowed the seven-year-old Zheng Sen to return to China to study, but he still kept his wife Tagawa.

Although Zheng Zhilong is fierce and aggressive, vicious-hearted, and never does anything that is not beneficial to himself, he loves his son like life, and hires the best civil and military teachers for Zheng Sen at any cost, and wants to train his son to become a pillar of both civil and military affairs. However, 'people are not as good as heaven', although Zheng Sen, who is in his early twenties, has a splendid article and martial arts skills, his personality is quite different from Zheng Zhilong.

More than ten years of Confucian education has given Zheng Sen a strong desire to make contributions.

Self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country, and leveling the world!

It is the lifelong pursuit of scholars who are familiar with the books of sages!

Zheng Sen, who was instilled in Confucianism, was no exception.

When the thieves were ravaging the north, Zheng Sen often asked his father to give him soldiers and horses to go north to fight the thieves and make contributions, but Zheng Zhilong refused to allow it.

In April of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the blessed king Zhu Youhua ascended the throne in Nanjing and called the emperor, after Zheng Sen got the report from the palace, he once again pestered his father to ask to go to Nanjing to make meritorious contributions, Zheng Zhilong could not withstand his noise, and reluctantly agreed to him to go to Nanjing, but only allowed him to study in Taixue, not to be involved in the war.

So Zheng Sen entered Nanjing Guozijian to study, and studied under Qian Qianyi, a famous Confucian in the south of the Yangtze River.