Zhang Keda's thoughts are, of course, also the thoughts of the current Emperor Chongzhen.

Whether there are alien forces within the four seas is not the most worrying thing, as long as they don't come to harm themselves, then they can be allowed to exist or even develop for the time being.

Because what determines one's destiny is always the power that oneself has.

As long as your side is strong enough, all the alien forces are just your own meal, which is equivalent to developing yourself.

Since the restructuring and reorganization of the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, there have been many figures like Zhang Keda, the Left Governor of the Navy, who are bent on unifying the power of the navy's military orders as soon as possible.

Hou Shilu, the governor of the left capital of the border guards, also began the process of unifying the orders of the towns on the nine borders with the firm support of Mei Zhihuan, the left protector.

Not only should the military flags be unified, the military uniforms should be unified, the ordnance should be unified, the military orders should be unified, and the military supplies and materials guaranteed by the imperial court in the nine-border towns should also be uniformly supplied and deployed, and even the number and establishment of the nine-border guards should be unified.

In addition, this is the case with the Guards, the Inner Guards, and the Reserve Army, and the left and right governors and left and right guards of each prefecture are all working hard to adjust and straighten out the command relationship between the prefecture and the armies in their respective regions.

Something like this, now there is no need for Emperor Chongzhen to mention his orders again and again, and there is no need to even personally issue holy decrees again and again.

After the restructuring and reorganization, the governor's office of the five armies managed their own affairs, and no one wanted to let the power in their hands be hollowed out by the military leaders in various places.

Moreover, those new nobles who were already born in the local general army, once they sat in the high position of the court of the current Metropolitan Governor's Office, some of them tacitly controlled the general generals of the local army and straightened out their relationship with the military leaders in various places.

At the same time, in doing so, they were helping the Emperor gradually and gradually flatten the various factions and hills in those armies.

This is also a situation that Emperor Chongzhen is happy to see now.

Of course, he had wanted to do such a thing for a long time.

But no matter what you do, it is not as good as now, through the restructuring and reorganization of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, let those Governors and Protectors who have boarded the new Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army do it for themselves.

Otherwise, even if you are covered in iron, how many nails can you make?!

If you do everything yourself, even if you are tired to death, I am afraid you won't be able to do much!

For example, in the affairs of the Navy Governor's Mansion, Emperor Chongzhen let go and let Zhang Keda, the left governor of the Navy, do it.

Including the affairs of the Tianjin Shipyard, except for when Shen Tingyang applied for the allocation of funds, Emperor Chongzhen needed to greet the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and rarely directly inquired about the progress and specific matters of shipbuilding.

I don't know much about it, and I am eager to ask, and I will inevitably make trouble for them.

Second, there is no doubt about employing people, Shen Tingyang is worthy of full trust, so simply let it go completely.

In this way, it can stimulate the potential of people like Shen Tingyang even more.

In fact, it is exactly like this, since the establishment of the shipyard, Emperor Chongzhen only gives power, money and official positions, and never asks about other affairs, the more this is the case, the more Shen Tingyang is exhausted and goes all out, lest he live up to the emperor's trust.

In the past two years, Shen Tingyang's official has become bigger and bigger, but he is getting thinner and thinner, and he is only about thirty-seven years old, but his temples are already gray.

It is said that Emperor Chongzhen was very happy when he received the report from the Military Aircraft Department of the Navy Governor's Office on the morning of 21 February, and he sent people to Li Guoyan, the first assistant of the cabinet, Sun Chengzong, the minister of military aircraft, Xu Guangqi, the minister of the interior and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Nan Juyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Among these people, Sun Chengzong, minister of military aircraft, and Shangshu Nanjuyi, who was involved in the maintenance of the military aircraft department, had already read the news from Tianjin in advance, but only Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Xu Guangqi, the cabinet minister, had not yet entered the military aircraft department, and they did not know about such military secrets.

When these people came to the Qianqing Palace by order, Emperor Chongzhen asked the report of the military machine to be handed over to Li Guoqiao, and after a while, after Li Guoqiao and Xu Guangqi read the report successively, he immediately said to these people:

"Zhang Keda, Liang Tingdong, and Shen Tingyang's joint report, Qing and others already know! Shipbuilding is small, and the navy is big!

"And the Daifuku-class three-layer plywood warship will be the main warship of our Emperor Ming Navy for a long time in the future! Today's success is worth celebrating! ”

Emperor Chongzhen's voice was loud, and his voice was full of joy.

After Emperor Chongzhen finished saying this, the people in the palace, including the first assistant Li Guoyi, the minister of military aircraft Sun Chengzong, the cabinet minister Xu Guangqi, and the military department Shangshu Nan Juyi, bowed down to congratulate the emperor.

Nan Juyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, took a step forward, bowed to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty's holy will to rejuvenate the navy, and the ministers and others have all known it!" Now that the Daifuku-class warships can be successfully built on their own, the stability of our Emperor's Ming Sea Frontier will be just around the corner! This is a gratifying and congratulatory event! Congratulations to Your Majesty! ”

Nan Juyi took the Fujian naval division to fight the Penghu naval battle with the Dutch, although the bloody battle was won, but the Ming army's naval division suffered heavy losses.

And the reason for the heavy losses was that the Dutch ships were even larger, and the guns on board were not only sharper, but also more numerous.

The number of cannons on a plywood ship was equal to the number of cannons on dozens of warships of the Fujian Navy Division at that time.

Under such circumstances, the ability to win this naval battle did not depend on the strong ships and artillery on the side of the Ming army, but more on the will to fight a decisive battle and great sacrifices on the side of Nan Juyi and Yu Zhigao.

Although the naval battle was won, the large ship of the Dutch and the numerous gunwales arranged on both sides of the large ship gave Nan Juyi an indelible impression.

At this moment, the success of the Ming Dynasty in imitating such a warship is an excellent news for him, a military secretary who is very concerned about naval warfare, and the significance is extraordinary.

Emperor Chongzhen heard Nan Juyi's words, smiled, nodded heavily, and then asked everyone to be exempt, and then said to everyone:

"What Nan Aiqing said is good! Back then, Shen Tingyang spent a lot of money and painstaking efforts to buy back an old ship that no one used from the hands of the Batavia red-haired ghost! At that time, there was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition, thinking that wasting national funds and marrying foreign countries was guilty and unforgivable! These arguments are pure nonsense!

"At this time, the Western countries are crisscrossing the seas, what can they rely on?! It's such a big ship and a big ship! And the method of building such giant ships was also an unspoken secret in Western countries!

"If it weren't for the old ships that were decommissioned, if it weren't for the promise to open ports and trade with the Batavia red-haired ghosts, even if it cost several times the huge amount of money at the time, it might not be able to buy it back!

"And I have a sea frontier of thousands of miles, if there are no such big ships and huge ships, how can I resist the enemy outside the country one day?! How to compete with the Tessie countries on the ocean?! ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at several important ministers of the court who were listening to the hadith, and suddenly changed his words and said:

"Today, the Daifuku-class warship has been built, and the sea trial has returned, and I want to take a look at it in person to show the importance that the imperial court attaches to the navy!"

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen's words came out, several important ministers who listened to the hadith in the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, as well as a kind of close ministers and ministers who accompanied the imperial palace, such as the Jinyi Guard, the East Factory, the Master of Ceremonies and the Internal Affairs Office, were all shocked.

The emperor invited several important ministers in the court to discuss matters, and it turned out that the purpose was this!

The commander of Jinyiwei made Gong Yonggu look up at Emperor Chongzhen, who was becoming more and more calm and confident, and his heart was full of emotion.

Speaking of which, the current saint is still his brother-in-law, nearly ten years younger than him, and he can be regarded as having grown up since he was a child.

Gong Yonggu really didn't expect that the lonely and precarious King Xin back then really curbed the declining trend of the Ming Dynasty today, not only the country is on the right path day by day, but the young emperor himself is also calm and confident day by day, and what he says is not at all doubtful.

Gong Yonggu sighed with emotion, and listened to Emperor Chongzhen continue: "After Tianjin Wei withdrew Wei Jianfu, the Zhili Governor's Mansion and the Navy Governor's Mansion were successively relocated and built in this place, and Tianjin is not far from Beijing, so I have already had the determination to go to Tianjin to have a look!" Today, the shipbuilding of Dagukou Shipyard has been successful, and the sea trial has returned, and the timing is just right, so I decided to take a look in person to show the will of the imperial court to rejuvenate the navy! ”

Emperor Chongzhen said this, and Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty think twice!" ——”