Chapter 53: Rebuilding the Navy
The first wind and rain drifted away
Two days later, Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, who were successfully brainwashed, completed the entry procedures in the Ministry of Officials and embarked on a legendary journey with enthusiasm.
Sun Chuanting, in particular, no longer takes office with nothing like history.
Emperor Chongzhen not only gave him 500,000 taels of silver as start-up capital, but also took the Liaodong warriors Cao Bianjiao and Sun Shoufa as his right-hand men and went to work at the same time.
Among them, Sun Shoufa is brave and able to fight, easy to use with an iron whip, and is a native of Lintong, Xi'an, Shaanxi, which can undoubtedly help Sun Chuanting quickly become an army.
And, of course, there are essential policies.
Emperor Chongzhen encouraged Sun Chuanting and asked him to use more drastic methods, not to be merciful to deal with the gentry and large families in the jurisdiction, and to force them to pay donations to support the army.
According to Emperor Chongzhen, if they don't pay the protection fee, then don't blame me for being ruthless.
It should be said that compared with the historical situation, Sun Chuanting now belongs to a high standard configuration, and Emperor Chongzhen is looking forward to his performance.
In the scorching sun, Emperor Chongzhen personally sent away the two Taoist friends, and began to arrange the use of Yang Sichang and Sun Chengzong.
Sun Chengzong said that when he is old, he will give full play to his residual heat in the position of the secretary of the military department and help Emperor Chongzhen complete some arrangements, and he can almost be glorious.
However, for the use of Yang Sichang, a good friend of the deity, Emperor Chongzhen took a lot of effort.
Yang Sichang is talented, calculating, and willing to carry the black pot, which is undoubtedly of great use.
But considering that his vision is not broad enough and his mind is relatively narrow-minded, the deaths of Sun Daoyou and Lu Daoyou are indirectly related to him, so it is not appropriate for him to be mixed up in the army.
And those government affairs in the court, it is enough to have a traitor Wen Tiren, and he doesn't need to worry about it.
Then, Yang Sichang can only mix with the navy, and he is also the best candidate in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen.
Every Celestial Empire traverser has a dream of a big navy, and Emperor Chongzhen is naturally no exception.
Think about the beginning of the Daming Water Division formed from the Poyang Lake Water Battle, and it has been the most powerful fleet in the world for decades.
The glory of Zheng He's seven voyages to the West is well known, and the world is all subjugated to the majesty of the Ming Navy.
The first time he went to the West, he defeated Chen Zuyi, the largest pirate in South Asia, and the third battle of Ceylon was to capture his king alive and subvert his country.
How mighty!
In its heyday, the Daming Navy Division was equipped with as many as 100 kinds of warships.
Among them, there were more than 2,000 warships, as well as large ships stationed at the Xinjiangkou base in Nanjing and ships carrying grain, of which 300 were ocean-going treasure ships.
And the famous Zheng He's fleet is actually just a mobile fleet of the powerful Ming Navy.
This is a bit like the US imperialism in later generations, whose navy far exceeds the total fleets of all countries of the same era, and can be called the world's first fleet!
It's a pity that the descendants of later generations disdain, short-sighted, self-abolished martial arts, and the famous Daming Sailor gradually declined.
Until now, in addition to the boats on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal are still busy, the dignified Ming Navy Division has been reduced to a porter of the army, and his nationality is unknown.
Even the local armed forces, Zheng Zhilong's naval division cannot be compared.
How sad it is!
Now, if Emperor Chongzhen wants to dominate the world, how can he have less of a navy?
In the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, after Emperor Chongzhen told Yang Sichang and Sun Chengzong about the plan to rebuild the navy, Sun Chengzong asked the doubts in his heart.
"Your Majesty, what navy is being rebuilt now, and what is the difference between the navy and the navy?"
Emperor Chongzhen nodded, and Lisuo replied: "Since ancient times, the Daming Water Division has been part of the army and is under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.
However, Aiqing already knows that this world is much bigger than we know.
Outside of the Ming Dynasty, there are countless countries and lands waiting for me to occupy the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, it is necessary to have an army with an independent command system to serve our Ming Dynasty, and no longer be constrained by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.
Therefore, I decided to establish a new naval capital in addition to the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, whose functions would be at the same level as that of the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces.
Except for the unified and coordinated arrangements of the Ministry of War, it is no longer under the jurisdiction of any department. ”
The military and government of the Ming Dynasty were separated, and the military did not care about the military, and the military did not participate in the literature. Only a few institutions, such as the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Department of General Administration, are civilian officials involved in military affairs.
The military and political system headed by the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces only has the right to lead troops, but not the right to transfer troops. However, the military department does not have the right to lead troops, but it has the right to transfer troops.
In the past, the Daming Navy Division was under dual management, and the military department and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies were fighting each other, and the Navy Division was raised by the stepmother, and its decline became inevitable.
Now, Emperor Chongzhen has promoted the sea division to the army and formed a separate government, so there will be no restrictions on future development.
Coupled with its own care, the Ming Navy will inevitably develop rapidly and on a large scale.
"Your Majesty, it takes a lot to rebuild the navy, and now that the situation is full of wars and chaos, is it possible to discuss it after the world is stable?
Besides, the barbarian lands that the emperor said will not be able to run away for a while, what does the emperor think? ”
The Ming Dynasty in this era was a veritable center of the world, and all foreign countries were considered to be poor mountains and bad waters, barbarian land.
Even the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty do not know much about countries outside the Ming Dynasty, let alone disdain to understand them.
Sun Chengzong, as an old-school official, is even more so!
From the bottom of his heart, he did not agree with the emperor's plan to form a navy, believing that it was not necessary at all, and that the current internal and external troubles should be solved first.
What's more, where can the imperial court afford the cost of shipbuilding?
That's a bottomless pit!
The emperor takes it for granted!
Sun Aiqing is old and serious, and what she said has a certain truth.
It's just that Aiqing doesn't know that rebuilding the navy does not require the imperial court to do anything, but can feed back to the Ming treasury and solve the financial crisis. ”
Emperor Chongzhen first raised and then suppressed, and said with a smile.
Limited by the ideological constraints of the times, the Ming officials' means of solving difficulties were very simple, and their ideas were also very simple, and they often looked at things superficially without in-depth and objective understanding.
For example, in the matter of the navy, because the rebels and Jiannu did not have a navy, they thought it was useless and did not need it.
But I don't know the real purpose and power of the navy.
"Solve the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty?"
Sun Chengzong tilted his head and looked at Emperor Chongzhen with some doubts, how could he not understand how things that burned money could make money?
If you can make money, no one in the past two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty can think of it?
Is the emperor too conceited, or is he bullying me for getting old?
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