It's just that there are people in the current Ming cabinet who have been trying to trouble him.

Today's assistant is still Zhou Yanru, "he has some old grudges with Qian Qianyi", but later there are places where they cooperate with each other and use each other. But the other Wen Tiren was originally going to be kicked out, but then he tried his best to stay, and he always worked against Qian Qianyi, which was the reason why Zhou Yanru kept him.

Wen Tiren is also very aware of this, no matter what he thinks in his heart, at least at the current stage, "he plays the role of mad dog very well, no matter what happens, he will fight Qian Qianyi in three days." This time is naturally no exception, in the past, things about the Joan Navy have always been handled by old money, and it is not easy for others to get involved. But this time, Wen Tiren was stunned and turned over the report, and took it out at the cabinet meeting as a cannonball to fire at Qian Gelao......

"Shi Xian's proposal" is really a move for the country. A few days ago, many places wrote to the imperial court, asking for funding to build ships. The governor of Shandong, "the general army of the Dongjiang River, also reported that if he wanted to restore the Dengzhou and Dongjiang Naval Divisions, he urgently needed new ships. This proposal of the constitution is just at the right time, but I don't know why Qian Shangshu didn't mention it here? "It's not a simple question for Wen Tiren to bite, and the materials he has prepared are by no means just Shi Kefa's report. As the central organ of the Ming Empire, "the cabinet receives countless reports from all over the world every day", and he also drew inferences from one another, and put together several reports related to the content of the report, forming a set of combination punches to Qian Qianyi.

To say that the Ming Dynasty's understanding of maritime power has always been relatively conservative in the early days.

Except for the heroic Ming Chengzu period, Zheng He had a huge fleet that was unparalleled in the world when he went to the West seven times, "for a long time after that, he had no concept of the maritime defense line. The policy of coastal defense has always oscillated between the prohibition of the sea and the opening of the sea, and it seems that as long as the Chinese people themselves are not allowed to go to sea to make trouble with the demons, there will be no force on the sea that can threaten the Central Plains.

In a sense, it's not wrong for them to think that way. Before the Age of Western Discovery, there were really few surrounding forces that could threaten the Ming Empire from the sea.

Even the once rampant pirates were mainly composed of pirates from China, and after the sea was forbidden, and after cutting off the connection between those pirates and the mainland, "as well as their supply and rest", these pirate groups quickly weakened, and eventually fell or perished. In addition to the harassment of the coastal areas, after all, it was not like the enemy from the northern steppes that could bring nerve-wracking damage to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the attention of the Ming Empire has always been in the north, and the whistling iron cavalry from the steppe is the target they are most vigilant against, and recently they will add the enemy of Liaodong. As for the sea power, the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty always held an extremely practical mentality: anyway, the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty has strong national strength, "when needed, a huge navy can be built at any time, and before Zheng He went to the West to find the legendary Emperor Jianwen who fled to the West; Later, when Wanli sent troops to support Korea, it was also a temporary rush to send out a navy, and didn't it still defeat the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Luliang Sea? Even in recent years, when the red-haired people of Xiyi invaded the territory rampantly and occupied Penghu, only one Fujian governor, Nan Juyi, took action, and drove them away with the strength of Fujian Province, so that Hongyi had no chance to go to land at all.

It can be seen that the ship is "too late to be rebuilt when needed, anyway, relying on the bravery of the soldiers and the strategy of the commander, as well as the huge strength of the Central Plains Dynasty as the backing, it can always subdue the opponent in the end" Why raise such a gold-swallowing beast for years and months? One by one, the navy is too huā money" This point cannot be denied by anyone. Well, it was precisely because Emperor Xianzong, who was worried about his great achievements, insisted on rebuilding the treasure ship and then going to the West, "Liu Daxia of the military department burned all the chart materials that Zheng He had discovered when he went to the West" ship type drawings, believing that this would save money for the country and reduce the burden on the people -- from his point of view, "this cannot be wrong."

Of course, these are the old imperial calendars from the past. With the development of the current situation, the Ming Dynasty officials and scholars' understanding of the navy is also slowly improving, especially in recent years, after the sudden rise of the short-haired army on Hainan Island, "their grasp of the sea power and the use of methods, it can be said that the entire Ming Dynasty was shocked." Especially not long ago, the Qiongzhou army acted from the sea, and the Dengzhou rebellion was easily quelled in ten months, which opened the eyes of almost all officials in the court from top to bottom.

Those who can enter the Ming Dynasty as officials are at least through the Guòzi Imperial Examination Single-plank Bridge" There are no stupid people among them. For the success of the Qiong Navy, in addition to feeling envious, it is not surprising that they want to imitate it, isn't it just a few boats, "Let's be bright and rich, and then make it with some money!"

Therefore, in recent times, "the heads of officials in several coastal provinces have reported to them, saying that they want to develop sailors and ask the imperial court to allocate funds for support." However, after these reports were sent to Emperor Chongzhen's desk, they caused the anger of the great tomorrow, and I was anxious every day, isn't it because the court has no money! ”

, it costs money to quell the rebellion, it costs money to pacify the people, and it costs money to consolidate the border passes, and you still want money to build the Laushzi Sailor? Don't say you don't have money, you can't give it even if you have money!

If you want to build a new one, there is no way, but what about restoring it? Yishan Dengzhou Mansion originally had a naval force, "but it has been lost in the rebellion due to the stupidity of the brake yuan, almost all the ships have fallen into the hands of the rebels, and it has also brought Dongjiang Town across the strait~

Mao Chenglu, who was in charge of half of the Dongjiang Naval Division, led his subordinates to defect to the rebels, "causing the strength of the Dongjiang Naval Division to decline greatly."

Now that the rebellion has been quelled, the two sailors of Dengzhou and Dongjiang have proposed to restore the original state, but it cannot be regarded as trespassing, but the imperial court also has no money to satisfy. It's okay for the Dengzhou Sailor Division, it doesn't matter if it's not complete for a while, anyway, the goal of setting up this Sailor Division was to guard against the Japanese Invaders, and now the Wolves are basically extinct, so it doesn't matter if there are any.

And the matter of the water division in Dongjiang Town is more troublesome.

The task of this fleet was to transport military salaries and supplies for the men and horses of Dongjiang Town, who were still stationed on Phi Island in Liaodong and were "engaged in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines" in the Lushun area. Of course, the Ming Dynasty did not have the concept of guerrilla warfare, but they at least knew that there was such a force in Liaodong, so that they could disperse the forces of Houjin and make it unable to concentrate on dealing with the Ningjin defensive line, so after the death of Mao Wenlong, the original commander of the Eastern General, they increased the supply to Phi Dao. Even though they were repeatedly defeated in the Houjin war, and there were repeated mutinies within themselves, they still tried their best to maintain the existence of this army.

Today's Dongjiang Town Phi Island Chief Military Officer is named Huang Long, he is quite loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but the means of governing the army are as clumsy as all the Ming generals at that time~ Relying on deducting the food and salary to establish a loyal team of their families, they rely on such a small group of "elites" as the core when fighting, and then bring a large group of soy sauce troops with little combat effectiveness to strengthen their momentum. In the event of life and death,

At the juncture, put this group of people on top, and it is best to win. If even this group of people loses and is defeated, then no matter how many troops are left, it will not matter.

However, no matter how much you deduct those soy sauce troops, you still have to give them food after all.

Dongjiang Town now occupies more than 50 large and small islands along the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and their families. On the one hand, these people rely on the North Koreans for food, and on the other hand, they rely on the mainland to deliver it. In the past, the governor of Denglai was in charge of this logistical supply line", which was later transferred to Tianjin. Now, as the Dengzhou Mansion gradually recovers, another Jian yì said that he would turn back to Denglai.

But no matter how it is arranged, sufficient maritime capacity is essential, and this is exactly what the current Ming Dynasty lacks. Huang Long had already sent several reports complaining that the grain he had brought could not meet his needs, and that there had been several mutinies for this reason, and that he himself had to be stationed at Lushunkou from Phi Island "so as not to be unstable in the local army."

As the ruling center of the Ming Empire, the cabinet has also discussed this issue many times, but they are helpless about this situation, "there is grain" and there are not enough ships to transport.

The ships currently used to support this supply line are still after the Qiong Navy pacified the Dengzhou Mansion."

As for the ships that were captured from the rebels, after they were divided between the Qiong Navy and the Zheng family, only some crooked melons and bad dates were returned to Daming. Of course, there was some dissatisfaction within the Ming Empire with this, "but since it is the spoils of war that others have snatched, they have little room to pick and choose."

All of this, like many other problems currently facing the Ming Empire, boils down to two words: no money. Of course, Wen Tiren, who is a cabinet minister, is also very clear about this. And not long ago, his attitude was still clearly in line with the emperor, lashing out at those who asked for money below, accusing them of not knowing how to understand the difficulties of the imperial court. There is nothing good to say about Shi Kefa, who belongs to the Donglin faction.

But at this moment, Wen Tiren seemed to be a different person, with a feeling of compassion for the country and the people, and praised Shi Kefa's letter. repeatedly praised this Shi Xianzhi as worthy of being a disciple of Zuo Gong, and there are extraordinary things in politics, as if Shi Kefa's Jian yì can solve all the problems of the current Ming Dynasty.

And Qian Qianyi stared at the other party coldly, as a great talent with an extremely flexible mind, of course he understood Wen Tiren's intention to suddenly exaggerate and praise Shi Kefa, and the other party wanted to take this opportunity to combine the current financial problems encountered by the Ming Dynasty into a sharp sword and cut off his political life!