Now the waterways in the Yangtze River basin have all been returned to Xiangyang. The sailors came to guard, especially the several large tributaries of the Yangtze River waterway, all in Xiangyang. At the mercy of the water master. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Among them, Nanchang Mansion, Guilin Mansion, Guangzhou Mansion, are the tributaries of the Yangtze River, the three largest prefectures on the Xiangjiang River waterway, Xiangyang. The sailors were garrisoned with 12,000 men.

After Zhi Zhongxin accompanied Zhu Changhao to Jingzhou Mansion, when he was resting, Zhu Changhao looked at Zhi Zhongxin and said to him, "Old Zhe, I feel that this Xiangyang. It is best to change the name of the water division, since it is now the water division that guards the territory of the Ming Dynasty and the inland sea, it will be called the 'Galaxy Water Army' in the future, after all, in the night sky above our heads, the star cluster that never falls is called the Milky Way, it is said that the water of the Milky Way, the dripping water weighs more than a thousand catties, you think, the water army above the Milky Way, how strong it is! ”

Zhe Zhongxin didn't expect the prince to give Xiangyang. The Sailor was changed to the Galactic Sailor, no, it should be the Milky Way Sailor. Although it was a little weird, I nodded in agreement.

After all, from the large tributaries, the Yangtze River has the Min River, Chishui, Tuo River, Jialing River, Wujiang River, Han River, Yalong River, Xiang River, Yuan River, Ganjiang River and Qingjiang River.

These eleven tributaries, more than 60,000 sailors, really can't be managed, fortunately, the commerce of the Yangtze River waterway is not very prosperous now, and some tributary sailor warships will not go.

Besides, now this water master has a strong feeling from his bones, after all, this is the spirit of the same lineage.

According to the information obtained by Zhu Changhao, when his own palace sailor did not rise, the famous sailor was once the world's first Chinese navy, and its origin was the Chaohu sailor, one of the two main forces of Zhu Yuanzhang's department at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. In 1420, when Ming Chengzu was at its peak, the Ming Dynasty had 3,800 warships, including 1,350 patrol ships, 1,350 firearms warships, and 400 large ships and 400 grain ships stationed at the Jinling Xinjiang Estuary Base, of which 250 were ocean-going treasure ships, in addition to a large number of guard and law enforcement ships and herald ships that protected the ocean and patrolled the river.

From the end of the Yuan Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang's battle to cross the river and the Poyang Lake water battle, to Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, the Ming Dynasty was founded for nearly three hundred years, but the Ming Dynasty sailors have never suffered a defeat, but unfortunately the ancient Chinese military has always been heavy on land warfare and light water warfare, so the glory of the Ming Dynasty sailors was also submerged. In fact, the Ming Dynasty sailors were indeed the most powerful fleet in ancient Chinese history and even in the ancient history of the world, and the glory of Zheng He's voyage to the West is well known, as recorded in the "Zheng He Inscription": "When facing foreign countries, those who are disrespectful to the king will be captured alive; Destroy the barbarian raiders. Therefore, the prestige of China is greatly promoted. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the naval defense was weak, but after Qi Jiguang's rectification, the Ming Dynasty sailors regained their combat strength.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese colonists came to the east and wanted to colonize Macao, but the Ming Dynasty sailors inflicted heavy losses on them in the Battle of the Pearl River Estuary, so that they dispelled the idea of making peace with China. At the end of the 16th century, Japan launched a war of aggression against Korea, and the Daming Navy Division completely annihilated the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Luliang, which wiped out Japan's 200-year-old national strength. Even in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, which was extremely corrupt, the Ming Dynasty still defeated the Dutch colonists at the Battle of Penghu and the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, and in the middle of the 17th century, they even captured Dutch-controlled Taiwan in one fell swoop.

Now although Chongzhen is in charge of the Ming Empire, the strength of these sailors has not yet been defeated, but it is almost there, just when the spirit of the last sailor is about to be extinguished, Zhu Changhao's palace sailor came, and soon supported half of the Ming Dynasty.

From the Fubo Water Army, the Beiyang Water Army, the Dongting Lake Water Army, the Poyang Lake Water Army, the Henghai Sea Army, and now there is a Galaxy Water Army. Zhu Changhao has these six major naval armies in his hands, with no less than 300,000 people. Lu Shi's strength is now almost 300,000. It can be said that Zhu Changhao now has about 700,000 water and land forces in his hands, after all, the inspection departments in various places are also counted in it.

In addition, from the original history of the Ming Dynasty, with the large application of firearms, naval tactics have also undergone major changes. Many ships are better than few ships, and many guns are better than few guns. It can be seen that the naval warfare of the Ming Dynasty entered the modern model very early. During the Jiajing period, half of the fighters of the warships of the Ming army used firearms.

The equipment of the Ming Dynasty navy was mainly based on Fu boats, which was born in the general name of a type of ship along the coast of Fujian. The building materials are mainly pine, cedar, camphor and nanmu from Fujian. There are six in total, and the fortune ships used in naval warfare refer to the first and second ships. According to Qi Jiguangyun, a famous anti-Japanese general who had won several great victories in 1560: "The fortune ship is as tall as a city, non-human can drive, and it is all in the wind. The power of the fighting boat is not in the fighting manpower", according to the "Wubei Zhi" cloud, "between the use of firearms and the waves, ups and downs, may not be able to be a thief." Even if it is successful, it is not geometrical, but it can be faked to scare the enemy's heart. There are two things to do: to launch the Franco. It is the only one who is not in it, and there is no ship or powder in the middle, one also. With fireballs and the like on the bow of the ship, when they meet, they are thrown from the high, and the fire is fired, and the thief ship burns, and the two also". It can be seen from this that the Chinese Navy has a large ship size and a high freeboard, and has obvious advantages in close battlefields such as collisions.

With the manufacture of steam engines and the application of oxygen welding and cutting technology, the warships of the Damingrui Palace, have gradually abandoned those wooden warships and gradually turned to iron and steel.

On this day, the boat traveled to Nanchang Mansion, and after Zhu Changhao inspected the local Milky Way Sailor, he went to the local political envoy to check the land reform situation in Jiangxi Province. As a result, the situation is not optimistic, not to mention the rest, mainly in the planting industry, because of the red soil land, the number of yields per mu is not very high.

However, ceramics, cement, tea, and carpentry are not bad, especially the citrus all over the mountains, so that Zhu Changhao realized that if the sealing technology is good in the future, these citrus can be made into juice, then Jiangxi Province will also be developed.

Coming down from Jiangxi, Zhu Changhao sat on a warship, looking at some information from the inner court of the palace, after Yongle, the once powerful daimyo navy declined rapidly, causing the Ming Empire's national security space in the northern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific region to shrink sharply. Seeing this, Zhu Changhao understood that the Ming Empire was the most powerful country in the Eastern Hemisphere, and there was no one. The decline of the navy of the Ming Empire must have changed the power pattern of the Eastern Hemisphere and affected the course of modern history of the entire world.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the empire had a navy of 3,500 warships, which carried out large-scale cruises every spring and summer, and in 1373 and 1374, the Ming Dynasty sailors pursued the Japanese as far as the Ryukyu Islands, and defeated the Annan pirates in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1409.

During Zheng He's Sixth Maritime Expedition, an imperial fleet sailed around the Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic Ocean as far as southwest Africa. Another detachment entered the Pacific Ocean via the Solomon Islands to the east coast of Australia.

In the Strait of Malacca, Sri Lanka and Sumatra, challenges to the Empire's maritime authority were crushed, envoys from thirty-six countries submitted to the Ming Empire, and China became the most powerful maritime power at that time. As a result, a Ming overseas empire was formed, consisting of the trading fortresses of the North Indian Ocean, the Malay Peninsula and the South Sea Islands, and the Sulphur Islands. But the great hegemony began to decline in the middle of the fifteenth century.

While watching and thinking, although Zhu Changhao felt that he was very good at holding 300,000 sailors, when he looked at these materials, the last trace of pride in his heart was shattered.

For more than three years, his own sailors are still wandering in the offshore sea, but in the southeast, southwest, Franco, English, French, Portugal, and Spain have already sharpened their knives, and they are actually sharpening their knives at the door of their own homes, Zhu Changhao plans to go to the first navy, that is, after the Fubo navy is dressed up, he must go to his own door, for those vicious dogs, who eat the Ming Dynasty, must be spit out to the Ming Dynasty, in addition, it is necessary to complete the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Empire over the surrounding thirty-six countries.

Descend from the Xiang River, cross the Ling Canal, and enter the Li River. The water of the Li River is relatively small, Zhu Changhao took a look, the width of the river is about 200 meters, if a large steam-powered ship is on the Li River, it has to touch the bottom.

In Guilin Mansion, Zhu Changhao has been speechless for the local land change, it turns out that Guilin Mansion here, mostly limestone karst landform, although the water resources are abundant, the vegetation can also be, but it is a pity that it takes a lot of effort to plant a tree on the mountain, and the local farmland rice, as well as sugar cane, is basically enough for their own food.

Fortunately, here in Guilin, the water is very clear and gentle, and it provides an elegant environment for people's travel, as well as poetry and song competitions.

Next, along the Li River, he arrived directly at Guangzhou Mansion, where Zhu Changhao met with Wu Yankai, the commander of the Henghai Army.

Hearing him introduce the development of Guangzhou Prefecture, although Guangzhou is not included in the ranks of land reform, but the next-door neighbor, Fujian's land reform has been quite outstanding, and Fujian Province, with eight mountains, one water and one field, has the characteristics of doing trade since ancient times. According to the 21st century, Fujian is the birthplace of the Maritime Silk Road. Far from it, Fujian is located in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, by sea can reach South Asia, West Asia, East Africa, is the history of the Maritime Silk Road, Zheng He to the starting point of the West, but also the maritime trade distribution center, the spring breeze of change has blown into Guangzhou.

Now Fujian has been controlled by Mawei Shipyard and Wu Yankai, and the Ming Dynasty's ban on the sea has been abolished. Last month, according to Mr. Wu, they drove a private fleet, supposedly led by a man named Zheng Zhilong, directly to a location east of the Ryukyus.

Zhu Changhao listened to Wu Yankai's words, and his heart moved, "Although the economy of the Ming Empire is recovering now, part of the reform dividend is not only to continue to make blood for the new mode of production, but also to develop the people's livelihood, and the rest of his own life is put into the military." Now, I continue to insist on it for three years, and after three years, I will send thousands of miles to Shitang and go straight to Java Island, where the island will be the unsinkable aircraft carrier of the Ming Dynasty in the future, although there is no aircraft carrier yet. ”

(The system is restored, the information in the fourth volume, gone, the pain in my heart is more painful than when a pregnant woman gives birth to a baby!) ）