"The navy, not the navy. Most of the naval forces are defensive, taking the defense of the homeland, most of them fight locally, and rarely attack in the field. But the navy is different, the navy is born to attack, it may be completely annihilated, but it is destined to die on the way to the charge. The requirements of the navy are also higher than those of the navy, and the money spent is more, but the gains are huge! “

For the first time, Zhao Pu proposed the concept of the navy.

In the history of China, there has never been a navy, not even a minimum concept. China is a typical landlocked country, spending a lot of money and energy on defending against the invasion of the steppe peoples in the north, focusing on the defense of the country, in order to protect national security.

And the Navy has always been in a state of need, and in fact it is.

In ancient China, the east was the vast sea, in the southeast were some weak natives, and in the east, in Korea, Japan was a small state. These maritime neighbors have always been trembling and maintaining tribute. These small maritime states are simply powerless to threaten a powerful China.

Even during the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese were rampant, but they were quickly defeated (and the truth of history is that among these Japanese invaders, the real Japanese only accounted for a small part; Most of them are Chinese wealthy merchants and pirates, composed of fake widows).

It was not until later, in the Opium War, that the British Expeditionary Force, which was less than 10,000 people, defeated more than 200,000 Qing troops, and at that time began to realize the importance of coastal defense and the navy, and later formed a powerful Beiyang Naval Division. It is a pity that the Beiyang Naval Division has always been a naval division and has not become a navy.

The Beiyang Navy Division has always played the role of a watchdog, and has never "gone out", let alone "played out".

So China has never had a navy.

In fact, China does not need a navy either. Because in the era of China's strength, naturally no country dared to offend; And when it was weak, that is, when it was a hundred years of humiliation, it was too far away from Europe and the United States. It is impossible for Britain, France, or the United States to send too many expeditionary forces to China, which is more politically oppressive and economically aggressive, and military offensive is only auxiliary.

In later generations, when the whole country was liberated, China's navy was still close to zero; And to resist US aggression and aid Korea, when it came to the Yankees, the navy was also weak and pitiful.

In short, whether it is to resist foreign aggression or to unify the country, it has nothing to do with the navy, and it is not even qualified to play soy sauce.

In China, where pragmatism is realized, the navy is destined to be a fantasy, for example: the navy formed by Zheng He did not last long and was scrapped; In the period when idealism prevailed, the navy was mostly a face-saving project, such as the Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing Dynasty; And at the moment of deciding life and death, the navy is destined to be a spectator, such as the First Sino-Japanese War, where there were deaths and fires, and the navy slept leisurely in the port.

In short, no matter what era or era in which doctrine prevails, there is a market without a navy.

Building a navy has a bit of a pipe dream.

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And Zhao Pu is to turn this daydream into reality.

In China, the army is about death, the army is strong, and China is born; The army is weakened, and China is dead.

The navy is about strength and decline, the navy is strong, China is strong, and the navy is weak, then China is weak.

Only with a strong navy can the stability and prosperity of maritime trade be guaranteed.

Historically, overseas trade has played an extremely important role in China's stability and prosperity.

The Song Dynasty has always been the dynasty with the heaviest financial burden and the most harsh administration, and it has to bear a large amount of military expenses and support a huge amount of indemnities, which has been difficult to support, but it has not died in the peasant uprising, because it has a huge overseas market, which constantly transports blood to promote stability.

The Qing Dynasty in later generations said that it had always been closed off from the country and did not interact with foreign countries. Actually, this is wrong. Closing the country is not a lack of interaction with foreign countries, but except for the thirteen lines of Guangzhou to trade with foreign countries, other coasts are not allowed. At that time, there was still a large amount of silver flowing into China, which contributed to China's stability.

The Europeans opened up new routes, slaughtered Indians, and traded black slaves, and did a lot of things for lack of morality, in order to obtain gold and silver, and a lot of silver, but unfortunately all of them ended up flowing into China through trade surpluses. It can be said that the Europeans worked hard to kill, cut people, and become human traffickers, and all the money they earned went into China's pockets.

From beginning to end, they were all Chinese workers.

Maritime trade is a lucrative industry. The profiteering industry is often very violent. The state apparatus will use violent means to prevent the people at the bottom from joining and preventing the people at the bottom from enjoying profits.

In later generations, it was always said that the policy of closing the country and sealing the sea was the ruling class, the elite class was ignorant and ignorant, and the IQ was declining, which was all nonsense, which just reflected the intelligence of the elite class of that era, who wanted to eat alone and monopolize the benefits.

The so-called policy of closing the country and sealing the sea has never really locked the country and the sea. In the Tang and Song dynasties, there was no closed country, no sea closure policy, and the people could fully enjoy the profits brought by maritime trade; After the policy of closing the country and sealing the sea, in essence, the high-level gentry and wealthy businessmen monopolized the maritime trade, so that the ordinary people could not enjoy the profits of the maritime trade.

Of course, the consequence of eating alone is that the gentry and bureaucracy, the wealthy merchant class, are so rich that the state is in financial difficulties, and the people are extremely poor.

The premise of avoiding entering this strange circle is to form a navy, firmly grasp the initiative of maritime trade in the hands of the government, avoid eating alone, and use the state power organs to share the cake.

And the knife that cuts the cake is the navy.

The navy has been difficult to establish because of the resistance of the gentry bureaucracy and the wealthy merchant class because they are unwilling to share the cake.

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This is only an economic account, only an account of the people's livelihood, a political account, a military account, and it has not been carefully calculated.

Politically, China has always fallen into a strange circle, with a change of dynasty every two or three hundred years, with its rise and its demise sudden. Either they died in peasant uprisings or foreign invasions, and there were many reasons, but they were nothing more than serious land annexation, and the people were not able to make a living.

As the so-called economic foundation determines the superstructure, if the foundation collapses, no matter how tall the house will collapse.

In feudal society, the main economic body is agriculture, and the theme of agriculture is land.

At the end of the dynasty, there were always various policies that tried to solve the land problem, but without exception they failed. It can only be with the most cruel and cold-blooded "war reduction method", a large number of people died in war, plague, starvation, etc., and finally a new dynasty was established, and at this time, ten rooms and nine empty, the population was less than one-tenth of the previous one.

This was the case at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and the same was true of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

In Zhao Pu's view, in addition to the "war reduction law", there are also overseas immigrants, which can also alleviate the population pressure in China.

In the Twelfth Century A.D., in the East, the most scarce thing was land, because of land annexation, the Song Dynasty peasant uprisings continued; And the most important thing is land, in Taiwan, in the Nanyang generation, in the Northeast generation, there are a large number of ownerless land, all of which are extremely fertile, and can be easily obtained at a small price, or even without paying a price.

These areas, either fertile black soil or rice, which crop three times a year, are the most suitable for cultivation and can greatly relieve the pressure on the population.

And the premise of all this is to have a strong navy to escort and safeguard overseas rights and interests.

As for the military account, the formation of a navy to attack Liaodong is the most secondary reason.

But this reason is the best excuse for forming a navy.