Chapter 157: Ambition

And at this time, the Ming Dynasty has a total of eighty-three chief military officers, this is an officer of the economic system, ordinary people don't even have the opportunity to meet at all, in the Ming army system, can be a guerrilla, it is quite a bull, now Yu Xiaotian awarded them the military rank, basically to the guerrilla level, it is already very good, they have not thought about it now, Yu Xiaotian will now give them a military rank that can be compared with the chief military officer or deputy general, can be mixed with a guerrilla officer as a officer, they themselves are happy.

And according to Yu Xiaotian's arrangement, they feel that there is still room for improvement in the future, as long as they follow Yu Xiaotian to work hard, sooner or later, they will be able to mix up with general-level officers if they don't get it right.

Some people have even seen a trace of Yu Xiaotian's ambition from this military rank system, generals and generals, that is the position of the secretary of the military department, is it possible that one day Yu Xiaotian also wants to face the south and turn his back to the north to ascend the throne and become the emperor? If so, then these people have all become the first people to follow the dragon, and won't they be prosperous and rich by then?

So everyone was secretly happy, and immediately expressed support for the military rank system "invented" by Xiaotian.

After talking about the rank system, Yu Xiaotian redivided the naval fleet.

The navy is still divided into three fleets for the time being, it is a fleet, and it is no longer a fleet, although their warships still look very simple, the largest warship is just the three-masted Dafu ship that captured Chu Cailao at the beginning, and the full load displacement is only about 400 tons at best, it seems a bit ridiculous to call it a fleet, even if it is reluctantly called a fleet, it is also a monkey version of the fleet, and in later generations, it can be called a boat at best, and even the ship can't reach the edge.

Even the displacement of the 037 prototype gunboat of the Chinese Navy in later generations is more than 400 tons and nearly 500 tons, and the displacement of the developed missile boat is almost 600 tons, about 570 tons, which is larger than their current largest warship.

However, although it is a bit ridiculous to call it a fleet now, Yu Xiaotian thinks that he will put up the shelf first, after all, their warships, although they are a little shabby compared with the fleets of later generations and the current Western maritime powers, but off the coast of China, his warships are still quite powerful.

So he still insisted that the fleet be renamed the fleet, so that he would be the commander-in-chief of the fleet, not the commander of the fleet! To some extent, he used such a name change to satisfy his vanity a little.

The First Fleet, on the other hand, was still dominated by the fleet under his direct jurisdiction, and it was impossible for him to directly manage the First Fleet for a long time, and the First Fleet was handed over to Liu Yidao as the permanent commander-in-chief of the fleet.

The original second and third fleets were renamed the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet, and the commander of the Second Fleet was Ma Xiao, but the chief officer of the Third Fleet was replaced by a one-eyed dragon, Hu Cheng was no longer the commander of the Third Fleet, and was appointed separately, and Luo Xianbin was changed to serve as the deputy commander of the Second Fleet, and the Third Fleet promoted a captain from the original First Fleet to be the deputy commander, this person is named Han Xian.

Han Xian has not been very prominent in the past two years, he has always been working under Xiaotian, serving as the captain of a lucky ship in the first fleet, and now he has grown into an experienced young old fur dog, and he is one of Yu Xiaotian's most trusted subordinates, and he is the first person to follow Yu Xiaotian.

At the beginning, Han Xian was just a small pirate, but now he has grown into a sturdy man, with a bit of a decisive temper, and he is quite valued by filial piety.

This time the fleet was adjusted, and Han Xian was finally promoted to become the deputy commander of the third fleet, and he also completely entered the top of the Seawolf Navy.

Relatively speaking, the First Fleet is still the strongest, the Second Fleet is the second, and the Third Fleet is currently the weakest.

In the future, the area of responsibility of the First Fleet will be temporarily demarcated as the Huangqi Peninsula in the far south to Quanzhou Bay and the northernmost to the north of the Minjiang River estuary, and this area is all under the responsibility of the First Fleet, and it is also the core control area of the Sea Wolf at present, which is mainly responsible for defending Nanri Island and Tamsui City and controlling the Taiwan Strait, and the warships stationed in Tamsui and Keelung Fort are also temporarily under the jurisdiction of the First Fleet.

The area of responsibility of the Second Fleet starts from Quanzhou Bay and advances southward, and the specific area of responsibility is not determined for the time being, and their main task is to operate south of Quanzhou, especially in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait, and the ships take turns to reach out to the south of the coast of Guangdong, and can even reach as far as Qiongzhou, that is, Hainan Island, to carry out smuggling activities in this area, to put it bluntly, they are mainly responsible for robbing and escorting the merchant fleet of the sea wolves to the south, and they are responsible for cracking down on those who dare to rob the merchant fleet of the waves.

The Third Fleet is currently the weakest, and they are mainly responsible for the waters north of Funing Prefecture, and can temporarily reach Shanghai County in Songjiang Prefecture at the mouth of the Yangtze River, launching smuggling operations in the north to protect the navigation safety of the sea wolf merchant fleet in the north, cracking down on some colleagues who do not obey the orders of the sea wolves, and gradually expanding the scope and influence of the sea wolves, but they will not launch large-scale attacks on the coastal areas of Zhejiang for the time being.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian officially set the location of the Second Fleet as the central left station that they have not yet controlled, that is, Xiamen Island.

The reason is that this time the government wants to be unfavorable to him Yu Xiaotian, then he will no longer be polite to the government, Zheng Yiguan in the history of the old time and space is now not a climate, and has become a rogue who ran to Guangdong, so let him continue the unprecedentedly route!

Zheng Yiguan forcibly occupied the land of Jinxia because he took a fancy to Yuegang as the only port of passage to the sea in the Ming Dynasty, and repeatedly attacked Haicheng and occupied Zhongzuo, in order to force the merchants of Tonghai to trade in Weitouwan under his control, from which he collected taxes, so that he could continuously obtain a huge amount of money to support his small Zheng dynasty.

To be honest, the Moon Port is not a trade port with very good conditions, where the water depth is insufficient, the big ships are not easy to moor, and it is located in the mouth of the Kowloon River, it is not suitable as a large-scale trade port at all, but the reason why the Ming Dynasty only opened the Moon Port, as a sea trade port, is because the Ming Dynasty is light on business, does not value sea trade, and the other is forced by pressure, must open a port, and the Moon Port because of the poor terrain, it happens to be easier to control, so it will choose the Moon Port as an open port.

But in fact, it is not very useful to do this, the pirates have regarded this place as a fat place, and they have nothing to do to come and go around, Shanghai Cheng has suffered many times in history by pirates, and has been burned down repeatedly, but it was rebuilt by merchants, until Zheng Zhilong controlled Xiamen and Weitou Bay, and after prohibiting merchants from entering and leaving Yuegang, Yuegang quickly declined.

Now that Zheng Yiguan has been driven away by Yu Xiaotian, he can no longer gain a foothold on the coast of Fujian, let alone think that he will run to occupy Xiamen Island, so since this is the case, Yu Xiaotian will naturally not be polite to the Fujian government anymore, and with such a big piece of fat, he naturally wants to eat it in his mouth.

As long as he solves the sailors of Fujian this time, he decides to capture Xiamen Island, completely seal the mouth of the Jiulong River, and eat this big fat meat, but in the future, if you want to trade at sea in Yuegang, then I'm sorry, don't go to Yuegang, just trade in Weitou Bay on Xiamen Island, where there will be a steady stream of money for him, and the maritime trade along the coast of Fujian will be controlled by him.

However, for the time being, Xiamen Island has not yet been captured by him, so the Second Fleet is still on Nanri Island for the time being, and after occupying Xiamen Island in the next step, the Second Fleet will move there and use it as a forward base for going out to the coast of Guangdong in the future.

The station of the Third Fleet, this time it was also officially determined as Twin Peaks, but Twin Peaks Island is currently only an excessive station, after all, Twin Peaks Island is just a small island, and when he tosses it in the next step, he plans to continue to push the Third Fleet north, Zhoushan Islands is a good choice, where it can directly control and threaten the richest Suzhou and Hangzhou places in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also very convenient to control the mouth of the Yangtze River, if he needs, he can even directly enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty from the Yangtze River, threatening Nanzhili.

When Yu Xiaotian thought of this, he was taken aback, he had never thought about it before, but now with the great increase in his strength, he found that he was thinking farther and farther, and he had overturned his original plans, and even began to think about whether he should participate in the struggle for hegemony on the mainland in this troubled world next.

Although the Tartars seem to be very powerful, but in fact, the Tartars are so good, the reason why they have entered the world is actually Li Zicheng who has helped him a lot, plus the Ming Dynasty is difficult to return, and the officials are inclined to each other, and they have made one faint move after another, plus they have obtained the help of traitor warlords such as Wu Sangui, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and a large number of traitors, so that they can win the world.

If this is not the case, at best, their population is bouncing outside the customs, and they can't even enter the Shanhaiguan at all.

In the past, Yu Xiaotian was still very jealous of the officials and soldiers, but now when he looks at the current level of the officials and the level of these Ming officials, he no longer takes the Ming officials and soldiers very seriously, even if he pulls his soldiers out of the field now, and confronts the officials and even the Tartar soldiers head-on, as long as the disparity between the forces of the two sides is not too great, he has enough confidence to win.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's heart began to get bigger and bigger, and the idea of occupying a Taiwan island and sitting on the ground as the king and surviving in the troubled times was no longer his goal at this time.

However, he has not talked to anyone about this matter for the time being, but he is secretly thinking about it, what to do next, he doesn't want to be too ostentatious for the time being, after all, the Ming Dynasty has just entered the era of troubled times, the Emperor of the Apocalypse is still alive and kicking in the palace of the Jingshi to play with wood, the craftsmanship of the dry lacquerer, the capital accumulated by the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years has not been completely tossed, he is now full of swagger, saying that he wants to chase the Central Plains, it is estimated that many people will think that he is crazy, and he also attracted a violent backlash from the Ming court. That's not a good deal.