In the imperial court system, each Tusi can recruit native soldiers on their own, such as the commander of Annam, Mobei Altan Khan, and Yingzhou Xuanhui Envoy, which is a very strong reading surname of the local emperor, is completely uncontrolled, and Altan Khan is known as 200,000 people who control the strings, and the soldiers are strong and strong.

Of course, how much appetite to eat, each vassal kingdom and each Tusi have to do what they can to form an army, such as the Ryukyu Kingdom, a small land, the total number of officials and citizens in the country is only tens of thousands, to let it establish a standing army of 100,000 soldiers, isn't that a cheat?

During the Hirado Port period, there were more than 40,000 maritime merchants, including the elderly, children, women and children, but fortunately, at this time, the maritime merchant group was semi-militarized, and the sailors and craftsmen were all combatants, so that the scale of 15,000 paramilitary troops and more than 70 armed merchant ships was maintained.

After completing the appeasement, obtaining a legal status, and defeating the representative of the smuggling group of powerful people on the southeast coast, the Wufeng maritime merchants ushered in a great development, and at present, nearly 10,000 new recruits, and the number of large merchant ships with more than 1,000 materials has exceeded 100.

However, Qin Lin had a great appetite and was not satisfied with arming merchant ships, he suggested that Jin Yingji should form a real professional navy on the basis of the paramilitary troops in the past, and build 4,000 ocean-going warships according to the Western ship types that are conducive to far-sea operations and absorb advanced Chinese-style shipbuilding technology, equipped with heavy Hongyi cannons and a large number of rapid-fire Franc aircraft.

The construction of warships is extremely expensive, not only the thickness of the hull and planks has increased, the cost of wood and man-hours is much higher than that of merchant ships, and the artillery equipped is not cheap, and the personnel are far more than that of merchant ships of the same class, with more than 200 gunners alone, so that each 4,000-material warship carries as many as 500 officers and men, and the cost of personnel salaries is extremely high.

In addition, the shells and gunpowder used in the training were calculated in 100 taels of silver every day...... When the cannon sounded, it was not bragging.

Even the rich Wufeng maritime merchants, after building three large warships and training 1,500 combat sailors, were a little stretched.

Suddenly hearing that Qin Lin was going to form a huge sea force with tens of thousands of troops, Jin Yingji was immediately startled, stared at Qin Lin's eyes for a long time, and realized that this guy didn't seem to be joking, and finally became serious: "Little enemy, what do you want to do?" With so many warships, who are they dealing with......"

As he spoke, the eyes of the adults became bright, and he grabbed the reins and leaned over half of his body, "Do you want to rebel!?" ”

"Even if I'm going to rebel, you need to be so excited?" Qin Lin smiled and slapped her lightly: "Don't worry, the army was formed to deal with myself and the Westerners, and also for our maritime career, in the future, the trajectory of the Wufeng ship owner will go further than Zheng He!" ”

Hearing Qin Lin say the word "we", Jin Yingji's heart was sweet, she lowered her head and pondered for a long time, and only after a long time did she smile: "I am a wolf with ambition and reckless military force, and the major names fought each other in the past, so I don't have time to deal with us, in recent years, the Oda clan has the momentum of unifying the whole book, and I am afraid that it will be our fierce rival when the time comes......"

Oda? Qin Lin smiled but said nothing.

Jin Yingji said as she spoke, and frowned: "But Lang Jun said that if you guard against Westerners, the slave family will be strange, and the Westerners are more brutal and ferocious than they are, but they have few people and few boats, and they were treated by my father back then, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?" ”

It is not surprising that the owner of Wufeng thinks so, even if the Zheng Maritime Group (Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong), which only emerged a few years later, still makes Westerners dare not make mistakes.

"No, no," Qin Lin shook his head and sighed: "Macao, Luzon and other places are actually just their vanguard team, you must know that the Western Ocean is tens of thousands of miles away, a continent called Europa, is the place where the descendants of Genghis Khan once fought, they sailed around Slow Basa (Mombasa on the east coast of Africa, now Kenya), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Malacca, and so on, the more they went to the east, the weaker their strength became......"

As the owner of the Wufeng ship, Jin Yingji also knew a lot of things on the ocean, and when she heard this, she was shocked: "Ah! The slave family listened to the old sailor say that the story of the sea, during the Hongzhi period, there were often merchant ships from Dashi, Slow Basa, Ceylon and other places to and from Guangzhou and Quanzhou, but in recent decades there has not been, instead of them are Franc ships, presumably these places have been annexed by Franc machines. ”

Qin Lin nodded, he looked through the archives of the Jinyi Wei Yamen, the Ming Dynasty once set up the Old Port Propaganda Envoy in Nanyang, and established vassal relations with more than forty countries from the east coast of Africa to the west of the Strait of Malacca, but since the city of Malacca was captured by the Portuguese during the Zhengde period, most of the vassal countries' shipping routes to China were blocked, and they were forced to interrupt the tribute.

Now Portugal and Spain have almost monopolized the sea routes west of Malacca, and the vassal states on the east coast of Africa, India, Ceylon and other places, even if they have not been annexed by Franco, will be the meal of Western colonizers in the future.

"No wonder they're so domineering!" Jin Yingji sighed, "A few decades ago, we Chinese businessmen could go to the west of Malacca to do business at will, but now we just go to Luzon, and the Francophile will show us a look at every turn, and also levy heavy taxes...... It turns out that the Franco-mechanics in Luzon and Macao are just a front station, and there are brigades behind. We will build ships, we will cast guns, sooner or later we will recapture Malacca, hum, Ceylon, Dashi and India's money, we must not let the Westerners earn it! ”

Okay, this last sentence is the true character of the owner of Wufeng...... It is precisely because of this that Qin Lin can rest assured that in the past, the Wang Zhi group did not hesitate to start a war with the regular sailors of the Ming Dynasty in order to break the sea ban and achieve free trade, and then the Zheng group fought with the Westerners for control of the Oriental Sea.

If you want to confront the Westerners, even regain control of the Strait of Malacca, or even extend the route to a farther place, you can't do it without sufficient strength, no matter how rich the Wufeng maritime merchants are, they don't have the money to build so many ocean-going warships.

Regarding this issue, Qin Lin had already made up his mind, he just asked Jin Yingji to gather the leaders of Gong Acai, Zhu Shunshui, Quan Zhengyin, and Turtle Board Takefu.

Wufeng Maritime Merchants Shichahai Station, in a huge hall, Gong Acai and others talked a lot, and they were angry when they mentioned Franc Jiren.

I think that back then, when Wang Zhiwang's shipowner dominated the sea, the big nose of the West was honest, as long as he crossed the Taiwan Strait, he would take the initiative to pay tribute, and he did not dare to make a slight mistake.

Now the world has changed, twenty years have passed, the big noses are becoming more and more arrogant, and they have long stopped taking the Wufeng maritime merchants in their eyes...... "Damn, Westerners and Luzon monkeys are not things!" Zhu Shunshui said in a loud voice: "Quite early, where is Luzon Island not for us to go casually?" But now, the Westerners are rampant and domineering, and the Luzon monkeys are also rampant, not taking our Celestial Dynasty people in their eyes, hum, if you don't give him some color to see, I'm afraid that even Huangyan Island will be said to be their place! ”

Quan Zhengyin and Takefu Turtle Plate laughed together, Huangyan Island has been a Chinese place since ancient times, I heard that Guo Shoujing, a great teacher of the Yuan Dynasty, was engaged in the survey of the four seas, and the South China Sea area was selected there, and before the arrival of Westerners, Luzon monkeys could only row canoes, and it was simply a fantasy to occupy Huangyan Island.

After a while, Qin Lin came, and Ruan Song, Chai Walit, Mahaluo, Liang Can, Murad and other envoys from various countries arrived one after another.

Jin Yingji greeted the guests with a smile, but she was a little puzzled in her heart, last time Qin Lin had already knocked on the bamboo poles of Annan and other countries, should she knock again? You didn't raise people, how can you knock again and again?

The guest and host sat down and exchanged pleasantries a few times, and Qin Lin suddenly pretended to sigh.

It's strange, this young master has never taken advantage of it and never suffered losses, who made him sigh? The maritime chieftains and envoys were puzzled.

Qin Lin sighed: "The vassals of the Celestial Empire have fallen one by one, and all of them have been occupied by the Franc Machine bandits, although this year is a great pilgrimage, there are far fewer countries than before!" ”

But isn't it, there are a total of sixty-three vassal states listed in the Ming Huidian, including Goryeo, Yuben, Ryukyu and other countries, two-thirds of which are located west of the Strait of Malacca, such as Guli (Calicut, India), Ceylon, Slow Basa, Dashi, Rumi (Turkey), the Malacca shipping route was cut off, like Turkey, Murad can also come to pay tribute after many twists and turns, and the vast majority of small countries have since disappeared in the tributary records of the Ming Dynasty.

It's good not to mention it, but as soon as this matter was mentioned, the envoys immediately felt the same way, and Mahala said with a big tongue: "What the chief said is that Westerners are born with fierce spirits and evil spirits, and they act like devils, and they have taken the Guri people and cut off all their hands and feet to frighten the rebels...... May Lord Vishnu punish them! ”

"Allah is above," Murad also said indignantly: "Allah the scoundrels who have punished them have killed all the Muslims in Goa, men and women, more than 8,000 people, and they have even locked the old man and children in the cabin and burned the whole ship together...... It is a pity that the huge combined fleet of 30,000 warriors formed by Egyptian and Indian Muslims in the Battle of Diu unfortunately lost to the Portuguese devils, and now we Turkey in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf are completely powerless! ”

Chaiwalit also had palpitations: "Malacca was originally the place of my Siam, and the Buddha blessed ...... defeated the sultan there, robbed us of our land, and killed at least 10,000 inhabitants."

Since everyone from Vishnu to the Buddha was angry, could Qin Lin not say something? He said indignantly: "Therefore, this official has gathered you, that is, the Celestial Empire is ready to help you, resist the cruel and terrible Westerners, and save you from harm!" I wonder what you think? ”

Chaiwalit, Ruan Song, Mahara and the others looked at each other, and instead of cheering as expected, they showed embarrassment, and said together: "Qin, General Qin, don't you joke......"

(To be continued)