Regarding the setting of the Kyushu Water Division, Zhao Hongyu has long had a plan of his own.

When he set out from the Americas, he took with him more than sixty warships. However, after arriving in San Francisco, he divided a part of it and left a few ships for Wang Shan, and at the same time sent several warships to search for Australia.

In this way, when Zhao Hongyu arrived in the east, the number of ships in the fleet under his command became fifty-two.

Therefore, he planned to leave forty-nine of the fifty-two warships in Kyushu and set up a Kyushu Naval Division with imperial warships as the main structure and those eastern warships under Li Xiang's original command as auxiliaries.

In this way, after the establishment of the Kyushu Naval Division, the number of warships can exceed the number of a hundred large ships.

With the existence of such a sailor, there is no need to worry about the Japanese people at all.

And Zhao Hongyu will take the only three remaining heavy battleships to Daming, the reason why the heavy battleships were not merged into the Kyushu Naval Division is because this type of battleship is the trump card of the empire.

It is impossible to give it to someone else easily.

At the same time, he is going to the Ming Dynasty, so he must come up with something shocking.

Heavy battleships were able to do this.

Needless to say, this kind of warship, which looks extremely brave, can attract the attention of countless people as soon as it stops at the berth of the dock. At the same time, its large hull and dense artillery can completely frighten people.

And taking such a warship to Daming, no one will dare to underestimate him.

As the saying goes, people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, and with such a warship, others will definitely not regard the Song Empire as a real small country.

At least, he will not regard him, Zhao Hongyu, the crown prince, as a small prince like Goguryeo or Siam Nanyue.

It is important to know that it is impossible for a country like these countries to build a warship such as a heavy battleship.

Even the Ming Dynasty would not be able to build it now.

Of course, if it had been a hundred years or decades earlier. If the blueprints of the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty had not been destroyed, Zhao Hongyu's heavy battleships would not have had such an effect.

However, the blueprints of the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty have been destroyed, so the heavy battleships of the Song Empire are the largest warships with the largest hulls and the most powerful artillery in this era.

The treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty was actually an ancient aircraft carrier.

But Zhao Hongyu's heavy battleship is a product of the era.

"Your Highness means that we are going to take back Naha?"

Li Xiang's heart moved after hearing this.

As an old pirate who has accumulated years, Li Xiang certainly knows the importance of Naha.

Know the way. Naha is very close to Zheng Zhilong's old nest Taiwan. Occupying Naha is equivalent to saying that you can peek into Taiwan.

It was precisely because of the importance of Naha that Zheng Zhilong and Li Xiang broke out in the naval battle of Naha.

It's such an important place at sea, and only a fool doesn't care.

Is Zhao Hongyu a fool?

Of course he wasn't, so he valued Naha very much.

In the afterlife of another time and space, Naha and Okinawa were military strongholds for the Mi Army, and there were a large number of garrisons.

It can be seen that the importance of Naha's side is very important.

And Okinawa is right next to Naha. The two places are very close to each other.

The loss of Naha is equivalent to giving Zheng Zhilong an excellent port to invade the Japanese kingdom Li Xiangshi.

Therefore, Wang Renzeng easily entered the waters of Amami Island and caused so much damage to Li Xiang.

Yonaguni at the southern tip of Naha, Miyako Island, and some small islands. Because it is very close to Taiwan, Zhao Hongyu will not consider it for the time being.

These islands, those are all things that can only be considered after controlling Naha.

Moreover, Taiwan is now still under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

This time Taiwan. It's not controlled by the Dutch yet.

In another time and space history, the reason why the Dutch were able to control Taiwan was because the imperial court at the end of the Ming Dynasty simply did not have the energy to deal with the Dutch. After all, the imperial court at that time mainly dealt with the enemy of the Manchu Eight Banners.

That's why the Dutch took advantage of the loophole.

However, in this time and space, because of the existence of Zhao Hongyu, it seems that the Dutch will not have this opportunity.

Because when they were in the Americas, the fleets of the Dutch, the British, and the Spaniards were basically cleaned up by the Song Empire.

It can be described as a major injury to the muscles and bones.

At the same time, now Europe is at war, and the entire European continent is in chaos.

The fleets of all countries are fighting for life and death on the other side of the Mediterranean, so there will be no chance to come to the East to make waves.

Even in the East, there were Europeans here, but they had come to the East a few years earlier.

So, they weren't affected by the war in Europe.

However, because of the chaos in Europe, they could not get support from their homeland, so they could only rely on their own people to eat in the East.

And in the East, it is not so easy to eat mixed rice.

The European dicks of this year, they have no advantage at all over the rich and handsome people of the Ming Dynasty.

Those European dick silk adventurers in Taiwan were poor, and those days were absolutely obscene.

This is a historical fact that those guys with all kinds of yellow hair in later generations will never think of.

"The forty-nine warships under my command have been merged into the naval division as the main battleship, and the original Ming-style warships under your command have also been incorporated into the naval division, and exist as warships to assist operations, and the remaining small ships such as clippers should not be used, and the strategy of large artillery giant ships is implemented on our side of the Great Song Dynasty."

Zhao Hongyu said to Li Xiang.

All of them need big boats, not a single small boat.

Li Xiang had no objection to this arrangement, and even he was very much in favor of this in his heart.

You must know that the attack power of the boat is actually not very strong, and it is also very easy to be knocked over, and the defense power is even less.

And on a small clipper, there are basically seven or eight or even a dozen sailors, and so many clippers add up to a lot of sailors.

It would be better to transfer these sailors to large ships and let them operate large ships to fight.

In particular, the fighting style of the Empire's warships is completely different from the warships on the eastern side.

And with the large number of guns on board, there will be more sailors needed.

After the sailors of the small boats were freed, they could be transferred to the larger ships as gunners, and some of the remaining men were used as musketeers and melee soldiers.

With the number of large ships, the Kyushu Sailor is also not weak.

So. It doesn't matter if you don't want a small warship.

"Your Highness, just do it according to your method, and the sailors of those clippers can be transferred to the big ships as gunners. This also makes up for the lack of our gunners, which is a good idea. ”

Li Xiang responded to Zhao Hongyu after thinking of this.

"Haha, the gunner is enough. The soldiers of the forty-nine ships under my command will remain in Nagasaki with them under your command. It's just that your original subordinates need to be retrained and given them artillery skills and other skills, so that even if there is a loss in naval battles, we can quickly replenish it. ”

Li Xiang said that there were not enough gunners. It's a complete joke.

Zhao Hongyu left forty-nine warships, how could he not leave soldiers.

Is it possible to leave the empty ship for Li Xiang?

What an idiot Zhao Hongyu has to do this.

Li Xiang thought about it for a while, and then understood the joints.

However, Li Xiang didn't care about this, because he had already figured out what kind of position he was in under Zhao Hongyu.

So, Li Xiang knew what to say. How to do things.

"Okay, okay, the matter of the sailor is over, let's talk about the development of Kyushu."

Zhao Hongyu looked for Li Xiang in addition to talking about the Kyushu Sailor. In addition to Zheng Zhilong's matter, I also want to ask about the future development of Kyushu.

Moreover, Zhao Hongyu also needs to understand the maritime trade between the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo. In the end, there is a lot of money.

Now that Kyushu has fallen into the hands of Zhao Hongyu, if it doesn't develop, it really can't be said.

After all. Kyushu has developed here, and in the future, it will be a bridgehead that radiates the eastern continent.

Therefore, Kyushu must do a good job here.

"What does Your Highness think?"

Seeing that the crown prince wanted to talk to him about the future development of Kyushu, Li Xiang was also interested.

After all, he will be the Admiral of Kyushu in the future, and it is impossible to say that he doesn't care about the development of Kyushu.

Kyushu is well developed here, and he is comfortable living here.

This is something that is closely related to your own interests.

Of course, Li Xiang's family will go to San Francisco in the Americas to live, but he also wants to live comfortably in Kyushu.

If it was Kyushu under the rule of the Japanese people, Li Xiang would not have any ideas.

Because the Japanese people don't know what development is.

But the Song people are different.

If you look at Nagasaki under the rule of the Song people, it has changed so much in just a short period of time.

If this is well developed, how prosperous it will be?

Li Xiang is very longing.

"The governor of Kyushu is the daughter of the original Tokugawa Ieyasu, I guess you know this."

Zhao Hongyu said to Li Xiang.

Li Xiang nodded when he heard this, but he didn't say anything, because he knew that the crown prince would definitely have something to say next.

Sure enough, after Zhao Hongyu saw Li Xiang nodding, he continued.

"In other words, if I am not here in Kyushu in the future, you will have to listen to her orders for anything. At least nominally, you have to listen to her, I think you know what to do. ”

Zhao Hongyu's words are very interesting.

However, Li Xiang, who is an old Jianghu, immediately understood the meaning of these words.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I know what I should do. I'm the admiral of the water master, and I just keep it in mind when I look at the things on the Kyushu continent, and as for the water master, she can't move. ”

After seeing Li Xiang understand what he meant, Zhao Hongyu smiled with satisfaction.

Looking at Zhao Hongyu, who was smiling at him, Li Xiang thought to himself: It seems that this Highness actually doesn't believe in the Japanese people so much...... (To be continued......)