Xu Yifan was taken aback, Xia Wanchun? Although this young man is shrewd and capable, he is inevitably too young, he is only eighteen or nineteen years old this year, the chief soldier, the emperor was the youngest when he became the chief soldier, and he was already twenty-two years old, is Xia Wanchun more powerful than the emperor?

However, this also shows how much the emperor attaches great importance to Xia Wanchun, Qin Mufeng's descendants, Nanjing Right Town, and the top three military towns in the Ming Dynasty, the combat power is screaming, otherwise there would not be a group of arrogant generals who are difficult to play.

"Your Majesty, this, Cungu has enough potential, and in a few years, he will definitely be a one-man cadre, not much worse than me and Mu Feng, but now he is not too young, I am afraid that the people in Nanjing Right Town may not give you face, at least these people will not be convinced in their hearts......"

"Not convinced?"

Zhu Jie smiled, "If you are not convinced, you have to hold back, Xia Wanchun has excellent martial arts and outstanding literary talents, which of them is not convinced, so they will pull it out and compare the text?" Fight? Anyway, among these people, there is really no one who can defeat Xia Wanchun, don't worry, this kid is smart, except for the experience is slightly inferior, the others are enough, put it in Nanjing Right Town, just to sharpen it well, without suffering a little, how can you grow into a pillar of the imperial court? Which of you hasn't been sharpened hard to make a big difference? ”

Xu Yifan nodded, this is true, when he and others came to power, which of the elders in the court and the nobles in the army were convinced? Isn't that how your own brother came all the way?

Zhu Jie continued: "Also, Mufeng's kid can't stay in the capital, just give me trouble, and now he has become the target of public criticism in the capital, we can't let us wipe his ass every time, I plan to throw it to Nanjing, to Lao Cha as a companion, the governor Jiangnan military affairs, the four towns of Nanjing, Hangzhou, Jiujiang, Fujian military affairs, all handed over to him to supervise, just right, this Nanjing Houzhen is still one less general soldier, Nanjing Houzhen will be his back garden!" ”

Xu Yifan said with a smile: "It seems that the emperor has also been scooped enough by him as a scoundrel, right?" Well, in another three or five months, your plan for an expedition to Dongying will be launched, this expedition is not enough to have a sailor alone, there must be enough infantry and cavalry to follow, so that you can do it all, Lao Cha is in charge of the sailor, Mu Feng is in charge of the infantry, the two of them have a tacit understanding, there will be absolutely no problem in cooperation. ”

"That's what I mean!"

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice, "Dongying has a large population, the folk customs are even more strong, and the strength of the remnants of the Zheng family in Dongying is not weak, we must not be careless, in addition to the sailors, we must mobilize at least 50,000 elite infantry to have a complete victory, an old cha is not enough, we must be equipped with a strong Olympic aid!" ”

"Well, the matter of the army, basically the dust has settled, and the rest is to implement, and you only need to supervise the tight point; Now the rest is the matter of the water master, the emperor, I don't know much about the water master, so I don't know how to adjust it......"

Xu Yifan smiled bitterly.

Zhu Jie glanced at Xu Yifan and said, "Don't know much? Then you still don't want to find out how to hurry up? You are the secretary of the military department, and all the troops of the Ming Dynasty are controlled by you, and you now tell me that you don't know about the water division? So are you a good commander? Don't make excuses for me! ”

Xu Yifan's face darkened, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Your Majesty, I am the secretary of the military department, but are you a know-it-all, you really take the minister as the martial arts star monarch?" But all military affairs, proficient in everything? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, this time, I'll rectify it, and you'll help on the side, but, next time, it's all your business, I don't have time to worry about these every day, I have time, isn't it good to spend more time with my wife and children? You only have one lady, and my harem is now four! If you don't give me your life, how can you do it? Who called you my Zhuge Liang? ”

Zhu Jie directly played the scoundrel, could it be that if someone is your Zhuge Liang, he deserves to die of exhaustion?

Xu Yifan nodded helplessly, now he is relied on by the emperor, but he is unlucky enough, he knew this, is it okay for him to stay in Monan? It's easy, but I just ran back to this idleness......

Zhu Jie continued: "Lao Cha and Zheng Chenggong's performance Zhang Zhen has carefully seen it every time, the current Imperial Navy Division and the Fujian Navy Division, the strength is still lacking, the most important thing is that our warships are too poor, whether it is the Imperial Navy Division or the Fujian Navy Division, our main warships are too far behind the Western Ocean, at least it is quite a big section, in the face of the battle of Dongying, but it can still be a battle, if we face the main fleet of the Western powers, then we have no chance of winning, now in the Western powers, The main battleships have reached 3,000 materials, and even the largest warship, the Sea King, which has just been completed, has reached 5,000 materials, and the battleships of 5,000 materials carry hundreds of artillery pieces, you can imagine how powerful this battleship is......

5,000 battleships, more than 100 guns!

Even Xu Yifan, who was accustomed to seeing big scenes, was shocked, a hundred artillery pieces, now the artillery of a military town in the Tianwei Army is only twenty or thirty, and the artillery equipped with a battleship accounts for more than half of the artillery of the entire Tianwei Army.

Even if it is the latest warship that has just been completed by the Longshan Shipyard, it is only 3,000 materials, which is already the largest manufacturing capacity of the Longshan Shipyard, and the artillery equipped on it is only thirty, which is less than one-third of the Sea King!

"Your Majesty, are you, what you said true? How did they build such a huge ship? Isn't that shocking? ”

Xu Yifan asked in amazement.

Xu Yifan replied: "Of course it's true, you have been leading the Tianwei Army before, and then there was a confronting Duoduo in the Daimyo Mansion, and you haven't brought it in Nanjing, so naturally you don't know much about foreign affairs, especially the West, if it's Lao Cha, it's different, he won't be as surprised as you, this kid has been soaking in the Longshan Shipyard and the Imperial Sailor for a while, do you think he went to the Imperial Sailor to sit in the town, is it really his whim?" Wrong, this kid is very shrewd, he has been thinking about it for a long time, even if I asked him to accompany the Northern Expedition at the beginning, once the war is over, he will still ask to go to the Imperial Sailor, because he knows that in the future world, almost all the excitement is concentrated in the vast sea! ”

(End of chapter)