Now the reason why Emperor Chongzhen attaches so much importance to the construction of the Navy Governor's Mansion and the reason why he attaches so much importance to the construction of naval warships is of course not to deal with the two major enemies at present.

Whether it is the Jianyu in the northeast, the thieves in the northwest, or even the Musu barbarians, they don't need the newly built navy or the newly built Daifuku-class warships.

Even if the navy can play some unexpected role in the future when the Jin State is destroyed, its role will not be decisive.

Because, according to the current situation, even if there is no strong navy in the future, as long as the army of the Ming Dynasty has a sufficient number of cannons and flintlock muskets, then it is only a matter of time before the Jianyu in the northeast is eliminated.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen attaches so much importance to the navy and the construction of naval warships is to focus on the future, after pacifying the thieves in the northwest and eliminating the prisoners in the northeast.

Let's say that on February 26 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, just after the hour, Emperor Chongzhen and his entourage of up to 3,000 people arrived outside the west gate of Tongzhou City after less than two hours of time from the Chaoyang Gate of the Beijing Division.

Those imperial court officials in Tongzhou had already heard the news and cleared the roads and merchants inside and outside the city gate, and now they were gathering outside the tall city gate of the west gate of Tongzhou City and waiting.

After the Governor's Mansion of Zhili was moved from Tongzhou to Tianjin, the popularity of Tongzhou City did not decrease significantly.

In addition to the old or newly established institutions of the imperial court, such as the Hubu Kuraba, the Showutang, the Armed Forces, and the Agricultural Yuan, there were also a large number of new factories, mines, and trading houses, which were set up on both sides of the canal inside and outside Tongzhou City.

In the past, after the canal froze, the inside and outside of Tongzhou City would usher in a relatively depressed season.

The number of traders coming from east to west and south to north will always be greatly reduced during this season without the convenience of canals and waterways.

But since the third year of Chongzhen, even when the Tongzhou section of the canal was completely frozen, the business travel from east to west and south to north has not decreased much.

Because of the promotion of four-wheeled carriages and the construction of roads between Beijing and Tianjin, the long-distance transportation required for the transportation of goods from the south to the north and from the north to the south is no longer an insurmountable problem.

Grain, cloth, porcelain, tea, and other general merchandise from the south could be shipped from Quanzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai ports to the sea, and then to Dengzhou or Tianjin by sea, and then hired horse-drawn carriages from Tianjin or Dengzhou to be sent to Tongzhou by land, and from Tongzhou to various parts of Gyeonggi.

A scene like this is what Emperor Chongzhen has been looking forward to seeing now, but when his car arrived outside Tongzhou City, the west gate of Tongzhou City, which is busy with traffic and people on weekdays, is clean and clean.

The 3,000 soldiers from the first town of the Guards had already cleared the place on the first day, and the curfew announced the night before lasted until the next day.

Let's say that at three o'clock on this day, Emperor Chongzhen's car finally appeared in the field of vision of a group of officials outside the west gate of Tongzhou under layers of guards.

Bi Maoliang, the head of the household department and the governor of the warehouse of the household department, the left and right attendants of the military department, Mao Yuanyi, the director of the military academy, and You Shilu, the commander of the first town of the Guards army stationed in Tongzhou, and Qian Yuanyu, the commander of the imperial history of the supervising army, led a group of civil and military officials in Tongzhou City.

The sound of three long live calls, far away, reached the ears of Emperor Chongzhen.

The royal carriage that Emperor Chongzhen was riding only paused for a moment in the place where the ministers were waiting outside the west gate of Tongzhou.

Emperor Chongzhen did not get out of the car, but simply summoned Bi Maoliang, Mao Yuanyi, Sun Yuanhua, You Shilu, Qian Yuanyu, and Xu Ji and Wang Zheng from the Agricultural Institute through the open window.

Only about half an hour later, after the accompanying men and horses replenished some fresh water, the emperor's car quickly passed through the city of Tongzhou, which had long been closed to martial law, and continued to drive in the direction of Tianjin.

The Tianjin Acropolis of this era was more than 200 miles away from Beijing.

If it had been left behind, even if the emperor and his entourage had all been in a carriage, and the rest of the guards had all been on horseback, it would not have been possible for all of them to arrive in one day.

Similarly, in order to avoid the emperor's tiring journey, in the initial itinerary of the military minister Ningcheng Bosun Chengzong and the military department Shangshu Nanjuyi, Tongzhou City was a stop, and Hexi Wu was another stop, and they could not arrive in Tianjin until noon on the third day.

But when it came to Emperor Chongzhen, everything changed.

Tongzhou, which was supposed to stay, simply met with the local officials, and did not even get off the carriage, and as for the arrival of Hexi around the time of the day, he did not even stop for a moment.

However, even so, now the Chongzhen Emperor has the impression that it will only take less than two hours to drive in the future, and in this life, he still ran on the road for nearly seven hours, until the evening of the same day has passed, and he did not arrive in Tianjin.

Originally, many officials in Tianjin, who thought that the emperor's car would not arrive at this time, were in a hurry by the emperor's car that suddenly arrived early at night.

Fortunately, Zhang Keda, Liang Tingdong and others were thoughtful, although they did not wait outside the west gate of the Tianjin Acropolis in advance, but they each sent their henchmen to stay at the west gate of the Acropolis day and night.

When the emperor's car suddenly arrived, there was no major mistake.

In the middle of the night of February 26 in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen, who did not play cards according to the routine, arrived in Tianjin with many people and horses accompanying him, and according to the previous arrangement, stayed in the backyard of the Zhili Governor's Mansion that had just been arranged a few days ago.

The accompanying Shenji Battalion and the three guards of the pro-army camped and stayed on the spot around the Governor's Mansion of Zhili.

Emperor Chongzhen did this, not to test the marching ability of the Shenji Battalion and the three guards of the pro-army, but because he greatly underestimated the distance from Beijing to Tianjin in this era.

It wasn't until dusk that day, when he found out that he had not yet arrived at the Tianjin Acropolis, that he secretly regretted it.

It's just that the Minister of Military Aircraft, Ning Cheng, and Sun Chengzong, all regard this matter as a test for them by Emperor Chongzhen, and no one dares to complain, but adds more awe to the young emperor they obey.

Let's say that Emperor Chongzhen's entourage of 3,000 people arrived in Tianjin, everyone was sleepy and tired, and after simply eating the meals and soup urgently prepared by the Governor's Mansion of Zhili, they camped and stayed, and they had nothing to say all night.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Keda, the left governor of the Navy Governor's Office, Ning Yuanbo, Li Zunzu, the right governor, Liang Tingdong, the left protector of the Zhili Governor's Mansion and the left protector of the Navy Governor's Office, Mao Weizhang, the right protector of the Navy Governor's Office, and Shen Tingyang, the prefect of Tianjin and the military preparation road, came to the outside of the emperor's small courtyard in the Zhili Governor's Mansion to say goodbye.

After the Zhili Governor's Mansion was moved to the Tianjin Acropolis, a new yamen was not built, but the original Tianjin Wei Command and Envoy Office was directly used as the place to open the office.

Although Liang Tingdong is known in history for his narrow-mindedness and retribution, when facing Emperor Chongzhen, everything is based on figuring out the intentions.

But everything that the emperor attaches importance to, no matter what, he must find a way to do it well, and there is no such stinky problem of being a tall and arrogant emperor like the average scholar in this era.

Speaking of which, this person is a bit imaginary with Ma Shiying, and later generations will mostly talk about it as a traitor, but if he uses it well, he is not a talent.

Previously, Emperor Chongzhen asked him to move the Zhili Governor's Mansion to Tianjin, in addition to considering that this place is close to the sea, it can more directly do a good job in the coastal defense of Gyeonggi and support the construction of the navy, and there is also a purpose, that is, to do a good job in the nearby Tianjin Sanwei guard reform.

For the construction of the navy, although Liang Tingdong is also the left guard of the naval governor's office, he does not have much to do, but he is very concerned about the military households of the guards who have completed the original Tianjin Sanwei, as well as the military households of the border guards who have moved from outside Jizhen to Tianjin after the Yongle period.

By the end of the third year of Chongzhen, the entire Beizhili region, including Tianjin, but all the military households of the border guards, the Tianjin Sanwei, the Zhuolu Sanwei, and the nominal Daning Dusi of Baoding Fucheng and so on, were all restructured into civilian registration.

Although most of the military households of these capital guards have long been lost and dispersed, after all, the establishment is still there, the organization is still there, and the power of the Zhili Governor's Mansion has been restricted and divided into pieces.

Now it's different, after Sun Chengzong, under the relay restructuring of the two governors of Nanjuyi and Liang Tingdong, within the jurisdiction of the Governor's Palace, in addition to moving along the border guard post and continuing to maintain the guard system, including the border jurisdiction of Shuntian Mansion, there is no longer a guard military household.

At the same time, the Governor's Mansion of Zhili also resettled more than 10,000 refugees from Xuanda along the Luanhe, Chaohe and Wei rivers, providing a lot of hired workers for the mines in Yongpingfu and other places, and on the other hand, providing a lot of people for the shipyards in Dagukou.

So this time, when Emperor Chongzhen summoned all the dignitaries in Tianjin at the temporary accommodation in the backyard of the Governor's Mansion of Zhili, he praised Liang Tingdong's political achievements a few words.

Emperor Chongzhen said to him: "Although the land of Tianjin is adjacent to Beijing, since Chengzu moved the capital to Yanjing, the east of the canal has not been fully utilized!"

"Today, on both sides of the Luan River, Chaohe River and Wei River, there are swamps all over the place, and there are still many barren beaches.

"In the past, I appointed you to be the governor of Beizhili, and moved the governor's yamen from Tongzhou City to this place, and all these are precisely for this!

"You are a politician, good at grasping the fundamentals, since you came here, there are a lot of commendable places! I am very relieved!

"In the future, the fish, rice and salt industry along the coast of Beizhi, the coal and iron mining industry in Yongping in Zunhua, the industrial and commercial industries in Hexi, the shipbuilding industry in Dagukou, and the civil affairs of all kinds of people still need to be developed by Liang Qing with persistent efforts. I have great hopes for you, and you will be reluctant! ”