An hour later, almost all the important ministers came to the Qianqing Palace.

Everyone is confused, now that almost half a year has passed since the incident of the bereavement, there is no particularly important affairs in the court, and the emperor suddenly summoned his own people into the palace, what is he going to do?

"Hmm...... Are they all here? ”

Zhu Jie appeared at the door of the main hall when everyone was puzzled, and asked lightly.

The crowd hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

Zhu Jie waved his hand and replied, "Okay, you don't need so much etiquette, just sit down, Liu Sili, ask someone to move a few chairs in." ”

Everyone hurriedly thanked them and sat down in their seats.

Yuan Jixian opened his mouth and asked: "Your Majesty, I don't know why you are in a hurry to summon your ministers to the Qianqing Palace?" ”

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "Yingwu, I ask you, the Ministry of Intelligence has collected the equipment of the fleets of various countries in the South and Western Oceans, and what are the results now?" ”

Gao Jie hurriedly bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the information has been transmitted back one after another, the Western countries are really different from the Manchurian Tartars and the Mongolian Tartars, the Tartars in the north, although fierce, but not proficient in firearms, although the Manchurians have mastered artillery, but their own manufacturing speed and manufacturing level are very poor, and they have mastered a certain arquebus, but the quality is very unsafe; As for the Mongol Tatars, there is no need to mention, there are not even arquebuses, and there are very few artillery; But Westerners are different, all Westerners are armed with muskets, most of them are arquebuses, but there are also a small number of flintlock muskets; Their warships are equipped with a large number of artillery, and warships of the same size are equipped with more guns than the warships of our Ming fleet! Although they are basically solid bullets, however, even if they are solid bullets, they will pose a huge threat to our warships, and their warships are smeared with tung oil to prevent burning, as well as mud, if the two sides go to war, although we have a certain advantage, but the advantage is not big, the only thing that surpasses the Western Fleet is that we are equipped with a large number of rockets, which can use fire to attack and create a deadly threat to the Western Fleet. ”

Xu Yifan and Cha Xuan's faces became gloomy, especially Cha Xuan, who will be at war with Western countries in the future, as the secretary of the Admiralty, will bear the brunt of it, and the two fleets will be at the forefront!

"Brother Yingwu, is the fleet of the Western Ocean really so powerful?"

Xu Yifan asked in a deep voice.

Gao Jie nodded and replied: "That's true, not only these, Western countries even deploy some flowering bombs in the South Seas, and the power is not small, even if they are not as good as our flowering bombs, they are not far away, muskets, artillery, and the advantages of our Ming army in weapons are basically going to be leveled, if it is just to compete with the Western fleet in the South Seas, it will not have much impact, but if people really send troops to fight with us, then our current advantage will be gone, the intelligence of the Ministry of Intelligence." It is said that the largest warship in England today, the Sea God King, is four or five thousand materials in size, equipped with more than 100 guns of various kinds, and its combat power is extremely strong, it is a real giant on the sea, and now the Dutch and the English do not deal with each other, and they may fight at any time, and the Dutch have begun to build new warships, and the overall strength of the Dutch fleet is still above the English, and it is not the ...... that our Ming fleet can match."

A Dutch fleet can't match it, so how can it compete with the four major fleets of England, Dutch, Spain and Portugal in the West?

Zhu Jie said indifferently: "Everyone, this is the purpose of inviting you over this time!" I have said many times that the future era will be an era of drastic change, and there will be an era of drastic change in all fields of the whole world, not only in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the West! This change, first of all, is a change in concept, don't say that benevolence is king, that's bullshit, natural selection, survival of the fittest, you don't enslave others, you will be enslaved by others! There will be no third ending besides the two endings! The second is the technological change, this change, since I came to power, began to advance in the Ming Dynasty, but this change in the West as early as one or two hundred years ago, has begun, originally we left the West far away, but in the past two hundred years, the Western countries have caught up, and even surpassed us in some areas, not to mention anything else, before the emergence of the flowering artillery, our Ming artillery lagged behind the Western Ocean at least a few decades behind, and the warship was even more backward by a hundred years, and now it is time for us to catch up with the Westerners; The third change is the change of the mode of production, this has also begun, not only in the West, but also in the Ming Dynasty, in Yingtian Academy, that Thomson has completed the invention of the steam engine, don't underestimate this iron lump, he will completely change our world! The fourth change is the reform of military warfare, if the previous wars were all knife to knife and gun to gun weapon duel, from now on, it is already a duel between artillery and muskets, even if it is as brave as Qin Mufeng, people come with a cannonball, but also have to return to the west, the future war, personal bravery has been relegated to a secondary position, replaced by the advanced weapons of soldiers! I have summoned you here to discuss with you how to ensure that in the next hundred years, our Ming Dynasty will be far ahead of the Western countries, relying on the strength of ships and guns, to find our interests all over the world! ”

Several people looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Xu Yifan bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are equal to governing the army or the country, but they are not left behind, however, the four changes you mentioned, the ministers are really difficult to find the direction, how to stop, and please ask the emperor to make it clear, the ministers will not hesitate to do so!" ”

The corners of Zhu Jie's mouth brought a wry smile, complaining about these people, after all, the concepts and inertia formed over thousands of years are difficult to make these people make achievements in the direction, and now they can only lead the way by themselves.

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "First of all, I plan to build a Royal Army Academy, a Royal Naval Academy and a Royal Military Industry College, the first two colleges are intended to train outstanding generals of the army and navy for the Ming Dynasty, teach the art of war strategy, and the latter academy is to recruit scholars and craftsmen to study and manufacture new weapons and equipment for the Ming Dynasty, even including warships!" However, before the first two academies begin, I have to conduct a training session for the teachers in the academies! Passing on the edict, fifty generals from the Tianwei Army and the Tianxiong Army will be sent to Beijing for training each time, and the naval fleet will send fifty people to Beijing for training each time. ”

(End of chapter)