"Your Majesty, the last general doesn't know how to fight in water, and he hasn't even been on a sea ship......" Zhou Yuji was very puzzled.

Zhu Youzhen smiled: "Don't you know how to learn?" No one is born to know. For a general, foot combat, cavalry warfare, chariot warfare, and water warfare all need to be known. Zhou Yuji, I am optimistic about you, in time, you will become as handsome as Qi Jiguang! ”

Hearing that Zhu Youzhen compared himself to Qi Jiguang, Zhou Yuji was very excited: "The last general will not dare to compare with Qi Shaobao, but the last general will do his best to train a good sailor for His Majesty!" ”

Zhu Youzhen was very satisfied with Zhou Yuji's attitude, and after thinking about it, he decided to reveal a little about his plan.

"The reason why I set up a sailor division in Tianjin is to ......"

Zhou Yuji was very excited when he heard it, and he felt a great responsibility on his shoulders.

"You know this matter, and I know it, and it must not reach the mouth of a third person!" Zhu Youzhen instructed.

Zhou Yuji nodded heavily: "Your Majesty, don't worry, if there is a leak, the last general will come to see you!" ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled, knowing that his words had greatly improved Zhou Yuji's fighting spirit, and he would definitely be able to train the water master well.

Zhu Youzhen is not worried that Zhou Yuji will leak the plan, among the generals under his command, if it is loyal, no one is more loyal than Zhou Yuji.

"But Your Majesty, I'm leaving, what about this Xiyuan Praetorian Guard?" Zhou Yuji asked.

The Xiyuan Guards are responsible for guarding the palace and protecting the emperor, and the responsibility is very large.

Zhu Youzhen said: "It's okay, aren't there still hundreds of guards left in Xiyuan, and I am staying in the palace again, what is there to worry about?" ”

Zhu Youzhen is very relieved about his current safety. After returning from Xuanfu, he cleaned up the palace, replaced the original imperial horse eunuchs, let Wang Chengen supervise the imperial horse eunuchs, and the eunuchs of the twenty-four eunuchs of the inner palace were also replaced by the henchmen of the Xindi, and the army responsible for guarding the palace was also replaced, and the Praetorian Guard was responsible for the patrol of the inner palace guards, and even the leaders of the Jinyi Guard and the Han generals who were in charge of the honor guard were also replaced by Liu Shaozong, Li Guojiao and other noble children.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen specially set up the Imperial City Department to picket the 24 eunuchs, and Fang Zhenghua served as the eunuch in charge of the Imperial City Division, specifically checking discipline and monitoring the eunuchs.

Zhu Youzhen even stipulated that no news in the palace was allowed to be spread outside, and if anyone leaked the news of the royal family, they would be beaten to death!

The palace, which used to leak like a sieve, can now be said to be airtight, and it is very difficult for civil officials from foreign dynasties to know the news of the palace, even if they bribe the eunuchs, after all, for the eunuchs, life is more important than silver.

......

The next day, Zhou Yuji left Beijing with 3,000 guards and headed for Tianjin. Zheng Zhilong and his men also marched with him.

At the first glance of the Praetorian Guard, Zheng Zhilong and the others felt different.

The armor is bright, even the most ordinary soldiers are wearing brand-new mandarin duck battle jackets, just wearing armor, they will throw off the other Ming army streets!

Zheng Zhilong has seen a lot of imperial court troops, whether it is the sailors of Quanzhou or the defenders of Fuzhou, except for the generals' families, most of the soldiers are in tattered clothes, a military uniform is often worn for many years, except for the generals and leading officers, most of the soldiers have no armor at all, and this kind of mandarin duck jacket with strong defense is even more impossible.

As for weapons, the difference between Fujian's army and this Praetorian Guard is even more heaven and earth! In the army of Fujian, most of the ordinary soldiers were armed with swords, guns, bows and arrows, and the army was only equipped with a small number of firearms, and only the ships of the sailors had artillery.

And the Praetorian Guard in front of him, almost half of the soldiers were holding well-made guns in their hands, and there were also a large number of artillery, Zheng Zhilong quietly counted, this army of only 3,000 people, tiger squat cannons, furlong machines, and even thousands of pounds of Hongyi cannons, pulled by horse-drawn carriages, there are more than 200 artillery pieces of various artillery, it is simply crazy!

Of course, Zheng Zhilong didn't know that most of the artillery here was to be mounted on warships, and the number of artillery pieces equipped by a battalion of Praetorian Guards was only fifty or sixty.

What shocked Zheng Zhilong even more was the strict discipline displayed by this Praetorian Guard. When marching, the ranks remained neat, no one made noise and no one spoke during the march, everyone marched silently, which was unimaginable in other armies! Zheng Zhilong has seen how bad the officials and troops in Fujian are!

The marching and camping are all in order, and many things do not need to be ordered by Zhou Yuji, the main general.

The march of sixty miles a day, neither fast nor slow, and no one was left behind, and when camping, the vast majority of the soldiers could not see how tired they were. And Zheng Zhilong and the others had war horses to ride, and they were all tired and tired when they camped.

"If all the officials and soldiers in the world are like this, where are there still thieves and pirates?" Zheng Hongkui was also shocked and whispered to Zheng Zhilong.

"How is that possible?" Zheng Zhilong shook his head, "Look at the armor they wear and the guns they are equipped with, these three thousand people can't get down without more than 100,000 taels of silver just for weapons and equipment, except for the emperor's pro-army, where do other officials and soldiers have so much silver?" How can the imperial court afford it? ”

"Don't look at them showing off their might on land, when they get to sea, we are still the ones who dominate!" Zheng Hongkui said with a smile

Zheng Zhilong shook his head and did not speak. This army is so disciplined that if it were strictly trained, it would only take three years or two years, and when they are familiar with water warfare, how can pirates be able to compete with it?

Zheng Zhilong was once again glad that he was right to accept Zhao'an! The young emperor seems to be very good at military affairs, and he is interested in maritime affairs, and sooner or later he will inevitably take action against pirates!

It was about 300 miles from Beijing to Tianjin, and it took the army five days to arrive.

After arriving at the Tianjin Acropolis, he stayed outside the city for two days to replenish food supplies, and Zhou Yuji entered the Acropolis and met with officials such as the governor of Tianjin, the military preparation road, and the Wei commander. The establishment of the water division is inseparable from the support of these local officials.

Zhou Yuji had the emperor's holy decree, and the sailors did not need Tianjin to allocate money and grain, and the attitude of the governor of Tianjin and the soldiers was still very good. It's just that the Tianjin Wei commander made Dou Zhiming's attitude a little subtle, because the establishment of the naval division required the transfer of Tianjin's sea ships.

"Most of the ships in the coastal defense battalion are decaying, and the imperial court has not allocated silver for repairs for many years, so I am afraid that there will not be too much." Dou Zhiming shirked.

Zhou Yuji sneered: "The holy decree is clear, I am the general soldier of the anti-Japanese army, and from now on, the coastal defense battalion will be under my jurisdiction, and all ships will be at my disposal." ”

Dou Zhiming's face was very ugly, but he was helpless.

Zhou Yuji has been in the army for several years, how can he not know the situation. The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the sea to eat the sea, from Tianjin to the sea, you can go to Liaoxi, Shandong, and even to North Korea. How could the generals of the Tianjin Guards let go of the opportunity to use the sea ships in the army to make profits?

"I don't care about everything in the past, I just hope that within ten days, all the ships that should be on the books will be there." Zhou Yuji said lightly.