During the fierce battle at the fortress, the 5,000 Navy 6th Squadron marched south along the Tamsui River from the 1st Cavalry Artillery Division of Li Han, the commander of Tamsui Tengga, to reinforce Xie Yi's department.

Zhan Zengyong led the Longwuwei cavalry to the south first, as the vanguard to inspect the roads and terrain. At the same time, Shi Jianfei led eleven cruisers of the First Squadron of the Pacific Fleet to the south along the Tamsui Ocean.

Although Deng Haonan did not want to fight with the Dutch Navy, he could only break the ship as a last resort, so he ordered the Pacific Fleet to seize the time to repair the warship. At the same time, the Yellow Sea was sent to the Tamsui Ocean. It serves as a coastal defense force for the two fortresses of Tamsui and Chicken Coop. All the boat divisions of Shi Daxuan's department were requisitioned, reorganized, and incorporated into the logistics fleet as a means of transportation between the two fortresses of the Twin Islands base and the Tamsui chicken coop.

Due to the tonnage and number of the capital ships of the Dutch fleet far exceeding that of the Pacific Fleet, now that Zheng Zhilong's group has been destroyed, Deng Haonan's main rivals are only the Lu Gang and the Chao Gang.

Now the new strong opponent is no longer domestic, but the Dutch Navy. Facing the Dutch Navy, Deng Haonan knew that their frigates were not enough to compete with the Dutch Navy. Because in the eyes of the Western Navy. Five-hundred-ton frigates abound, which simply cannot be used as the main force.

According to the formation of the capital ships of the British and Spanish navies. Only warships of more than 800 tons and more than 40 guns can be incorporated into the capital ship. The tonnage and firepower of the capital ships of Britain and Spain are generally higher than those of other countries, and although the Dutch Navy cannot compete with Britain and Spain in terms of the size of battleships, the Dutch Navy has a large number of medium-tonnage warships and 40-gun cruisers

Compared with them, Deng Haonan's Pacific Fleet is now a pediatric. If he had to make a ranking, Deng Haonan could only reach one-third of Sweden, a European naval power, and among all the European naval powers, he could only be in a second-rate position.

Therefore, Deng Haonan needs to pay close attention to the building of naval strength.

As the second generation of the Pacific Fleet's refurbishment warship, the Dolphin-class cruiser has completed its sea trials. Although this battleship is still an enlarged version of the Exocet-class frigate, it was built to combine the advantages of Eastern and Western warships with the advanced experience of later generations. As a thousand-ton cruiser, although there are still many places to be improved. But Deng Haonan was convinced that she would be outstanding among warships of her class.

If you do not take into account the problems of personnel operation and tactical structure. In solo combat, the Dolphin-class cruisers can defeat the popular Galen-type cruisers in enemy states.

Against the Dutch, it is necessary to start now. Deng Haonan after watching the situation of the cruiser Dolphin. It was decided to build a fleet of cruising ships all the time.

The construction of six ships at the Lushun naval base can begin at the same time. The Longjiang Shipyard can build six ships at the same time, and the Subic Naval Base can start construction of two ships at the same time. Originally. The Twin Islands base can build one, but Deng Haonan has always regarded the Twin Islands base as a scientific research base, and the dock is used to build new test warships, so there are only 14 Dolphin-class cruisers built in batches.

However, building a cruiser in bulk is not the same as building a frigate. At first, only one cruiser to be built can be parked in a dock, while two frigates can be built at the same time. The second is that the structure of the cruiser is more complex than that of the frigate, which is not as simple as doubling the size, and requires a large amount of wood for complex splicing, and the engineering quantity is strong. Again, there is a shortage of timber reserves, there is a lack of timber for the construction of large warships in the country, unlike the construction of frigates, where it is possible to directly buy timber that has already been air-dried. And the wood used for the construction of the cruiser is more demanding than the wood used for the construction of the frigate, and it needs to be carefully selected. The timber for the construction of cruisers in China needs to be harvested now, and the air-drying time of the logged timber in summer is too long, and the timber of the main keel needs to be air-dried for more than a year or two.

Deng Haonan couldn't wait that long, and the only solution was to go to the cold and frozen places in the mountains to harvest wood. For Deng Haonan, he can only go to the primeval forests in the north to harvest the wood he needs.

Changbai Mountain is one of the best options, it is all primeval forest and covered with snow all year round. The wood on it only needs to be dried for a month or two before it is ready to use. However, it is Jurchen territory, and it is very difficult and risky to harvest.

Everyone has no choice, but Deng Haonan has a way. Because he knew that there was another place where he could get the wood needed for the cruiser, but it was too far away.

The Siberian forests north of Vladivostok, north of the Khing'an Mountains, although the mountains there are not as high as the Changbai Mountains, and they are not covered with snow all year round, but Siberia belongs to the high latitudes, and with the influence of glaciers, the drying time of the logged wood there should be very short.

Therefore, Deng Haonan sent a large fleet of logging wood, according to the map drawn by Deng Haonan, to the northern Vladivostok generation to harvest timber, and at the same time open up new logging grounds.

The existing materials can only build three cruisers, but Di Haonan still has a way.

This is also the method taught to him by the officers and soldiers of the Daming Naval Division, that is, to dismantle the old big ships and use the wood of the old ships to build battleships. "And: In order to improve the quality of the jet ships, Hao Nan dismantled part of the large Galen ships purchased by the Pacific Trade Gongchuan Ichi, which just met the wood needed to build a batch of cruisers. By the time the first cruisers were built, the newly harvested timber would be ready for use. In this way, Deng Haonan ensured the timber needed for the construction of the battleship, forming a coherent supply system.

Of course, this time Deng Haonan thought of dismantling the 2,000-ton large Galen ship to temporarily remedy it, but next time it would not be so lucky. Therefore, Deng Haonan asked the timber logging team not only to harvest the timber needed by the cruiser, but also to cut down the huge timber needed by the battleships of 2,000 tons or even 3,000 tons in advance, and prepare for air drying in advance.

After arranging the start of construction of the Dolphin-class cruiser, Deng Haonan received the latest report from the Liaoji Governor's Office.

Negotiations with the state reached an impasse, and the Twenty-one Articles were too harsh for the Tokugawa shogunate to accept. Originally, after solving Zheng Zhilong, Deng Haonan was going to attack the Wei Kingdom, but now the Pacific Fleet has to face the threat of the Dutch Navy, and there is no time to take care of the Wei Kingdom.

So, Deng Haonan replied to the General Staff and asked Lin Feng to send people to be prepared for long-term negotiations with the Tokugawa shogunate. When Deng Haonan has finished the affairs in the south, he will go back to the division to clean them up.

Deng Haonan was in Pentagon, and the main work of the Military Intelligence Bureau revolved around Taiwan. To this end, Wang Zhaoyang returned to Wujiao City from the Liaodong Governor's Mansion and reported directly to Deng Haonan.

Deng Haonan listened to Wang Zhaoyang's report on the affairs of the imperial court and the north during this time. Unexpectedly, everything Wang Zhaoyang said shocked Deng Haonan.

First of all, Emperor Zhu Youxiao failed to make a southern tour, but accidentally fell into the water, and the director was injured and bedridden. In this way, Wei Zhongxian regained his rights, and there was another bloody storm on the land of Shenzhou.

Wang Zhaoyang said:. The emperor was bedridden, and Wei Zhongxian regained the right to draft decrees from the cabinet. All the decrees drawn up by the previous cabinet were nullified, and Wei Zhongxian seemed to feel that Emperor Yan wanted to abolish him, so he began to meddle in the military power of various places, and Wei Zhongxian sent ministers to supervise the army under the pretense of Zhu Youxiao. For this reason, scholars Gu Bingqian, Ding Shaoshi, Huang Liji, Feng Xuan, etc. strongly opposed, but at this time, the secretary of the military department urged Chengxiu to waver again and support Wei Zhongxian. So. Wei Zhongxian thought that Chengzu had the old system, and in order to restore the major event of the feudal territory, he forcibly bypassed the cabinet and was guarded by the eunuch Liu Yingkun. At the same time, other places also sent Wei Zhongxian's henchmen and eunuchs to supervise the army, and even the governors of the three sides were not left behind.

Deng Haonan then said: "Wei Zhongxian is not a fool. Zhu Youxiao did this, he will definitely have to deal with it! ”

When the eunuch arrived at the place, he was obviously going to make a fuss. For example, the eunuch Li Shi falsely impeached Zhou Shunchang, a member of the Suzhou Donglin Party, and seven others, and Wei Zhongxian took the opportunity to establish his authority. So he reinstated the prison and ordered Ti to ride to Suzhou to arrest people.

Wei Zhongxian faked the Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving eunuch Li Shi to falsely climb. Zhou Shunchang was sent to prison in a prison, and when he was arrested, the disgust of the people of Suzhou was aroused, and tens of thousands of people gathered in the urban and rural areas of Suzhou. For this injustice, two embankment riders of Dongchang were killed in public. Later under the suppression of the army. Zhou Shunchang was deported to the capital. At the same time, Gao Panlong threw himself into the water and died. Zhou Qiyuan, Zhou Zongjian, Miao Changqi, Huang Zunsu, and Li Yingsheng all died in prison.

Deng Haonan thought to himself, this should be the "Later Seven Gentlemen" incident in history!

At the same time, Deng Haonan was thinking in his heart that a scene in history had been repeated again, Zhu Youxiao still did not escape Wei Zhongxian's poisonous hands, and he should have fallen into the lake, but now he fell into the canal.

Deng Haonan shook his head helplessly, and Wang Zhaoyang continued to report to work.

The Mongol army was on the border, but soon because of internal disagreement, Outer Mongolia peeked into the territory of Inner Mongolia, so the Inner Mongolian departments withdrew one after another. In this way, Yang He, the governor of the three sides, withdrew from the defense line of the Great Wall again and continued to suppress bandits in Shaanxi.

Due to the knock of Mongolia, the imperial court suppressed the bandit army in the north to defend Mongolia, which caused the peasant army uprising in Shaanxi and other places to revivenation. The common people thought that they would be able to end the natural disasters and live a peaceful and stable life on the land, but the continued drought in the north led to an extreme shortage of grain, and grain prices began to rise steadily, and the common people could not afford to buy grain at all. Correspondingly, the south was flooded, and grain could not reach the north. In addition, the central finance of the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil in the south because of Zheng Zhilong. The inability to hand over the money to the state treasury in a timely manner has further strained the finances. Relief became empty talk, and without it, the peasants could not survive, and in the end they had to take risks, and bandits rebelled.

Now in northern Shaanxi, Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong of Fugu rebelled, and they occupied Huanglong Mountain. Next, it is appropriate. Wang Zuohang, Ansai Gao Yingxiang, Luo. Zhang Cunmeng, the monk of the king of Yanchuan, and the king of Hannan responded one after another, and the flames of struggle burned all over the territory of Shaanxi.

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