Chapter 143: Naval Academy

The area of Java is 120,000 square kilometers, according to Zhu Jun's will, after the full occupation of Java Island, the island of Java was officially incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, renamed Dinghai Province, becoming the tenth province on the map of the Ming Dynasty. \\\\

Java was originally included in the colonial rule of the Dutch, so the selection of the political envoy did not have to be held by the local natives, for these natives who did not have any political rights, the rule of the Dutch governor and the rule of the Ming envoy was no different, therefore, the local natives did not show any enthusiasm for this, nor did they make any objections, but they just watched numbly as the governor's palace was replaced with a plaque of the chief minister, and saw that the Dutch soldiers who were originally patrolling the streets with muskets turned into black light armor, A soldier armed with a steel crossbow and a firecracker.

When a new official takes office, the first thing to do is to check the treasury and people, maintain local law and order, and the local people are very well-behaved, except for some thefts and fights, there is nothing sensational about the trouble, and it is very easy to count the treasury, several treasury envoys with dozens of wardens, and then bring hundreds of soldiers to register in the warehouse for three days, and the results came out, including more than 4 million taels of silver, nearly 20,000 taels of gold, and countless rare jewels, and the value is more than 1 million taels of silver. A further 1,700,000 silver coins were registered. \\

Checking the hukou is the most troublesome, but according to some Dutch records, the population should be around 200,000, of which 27,000 are Europeans, 9,000 are Han Chinese, and the rest are local natives.

In addition, the loot also has a statistical result. Among them, five large Western warships were captured, more than 20 warships of various kinds, nearly 200 merchant ships of some European merchants, 970 artillery pieces, countless gunpowder, and 5,700 guns. There are countless projectiles.

According to Zhu Jun's will, these Western warships were all handed over to the Oriental Battalion for training and combat, which made Liu Guoxuan excited for a long time. Hurriedly sent people to the Nanyang Naval Division Battalion to learn the sailing combat experience of large warships, and personally brought people to board the ship to receive, with these warships, the Oriental Naval Division Battalion officially abandoned the traditional warships enough to become an ocean-going fleet, although compared to the Nanyang Naval Division Battalion, the strength is still lacking, but it is no longer a naval division that relies on boarding and close combat. \\\

All the seized merchant ships were sold to maritime merchants in Haidu, such as Ma Ren, the largest maritime giant in Haidu, who has now become the largest giant merchant in the South Seas. There were as many as 100 subordinate merchant ships, and at this time, I heard that the military had discounted merchant ships for sale. He had already booked eighty ships by virtue of his relationship with the emperor, and his fleet crisscrossed the countries of the South Seas, selling goods from all over the world, and even some small landowners had to act according to his face.

After many people moved to Haidu, their business has expanded several times, and they were afraid of pirate invasion when they were the first ships, and they had to accept bribes from tax officials in ports of various countries, and they had huge losses along the way, but since they moved to Haidu. Each voyage was accompanied by dozens of Ming soldiers. Ordinary little thieves don't pay attention to it, and the big pirates don't dare to hijack it easily when they see the big bright sun and moon flag on the ship. Otherwise, in a few days, the Ming fleet will arrive at the sea area where the incident occurred. And check around until you find that the pirate colony is completely cleared. And the fleet arrived at the port of trade, the country's tax officials did not dare to extort, Nanyang has ten of the most ** countries to the Ming Dynasty, the maritime merchants in the name of the country's merchants, there is a Ming army captain on the ship to escort, who dares to ask for money? The loss is less, the profit of earning land is naturally a lot higher, the greedy maritime merchants will continue to buy new ships in the shipyard to enhance their transportation capacity in order to earn more profits, in this way, it is not uncommon for the giant merchants with dozens of sea ships to move in the sea capital, and also attract more maritime merchants to relocate to the sea capital, two years of hard work, the sea capital city has become the center of the South Sea maritime trade, the South Sea merchant ships are huge, and the sea capital city and the merchant ships will account for half. \\\\

After the inventory was completed, Java Island was guarded by Wang Qiu, the commander of the death battalion, Liu Er, the commander of the Nanyang Naval Division, and the hundreds of large and small ships of the Oriental Naval Division led by Liu Guoxuan began to load all the booty and prisoners and sail to the sea.

When Liu Guoxuan arrived at the port of Haidu four days later, he was immediately warmly welcomed by the people of Haidu, and the people of Haidu now know a few words with great enthusiasm, and they can also read the benefits of this expedition for the Ming Dynasty from the newspaper, and they know that the victory is not easy to come by, and after learning that Liu Guoxuan arrived, almost everyone crowded into the harbor to watch the triumphant soldiers and the red-haired captives who were downcast.

Liu Guoxuan saw that the people along the coast were crowded and couldn't see the edge, in addition to being excited, he couldn't help but feel a little hairy in his heart, and hurriedly disguised himself as a small soldier and landed with a cadre of soldiers to seize an opportunity to sneak out of the port. \\/\

"The commander of the Chen Dongyang Navy Battalion made Liu Guoxuan meet the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live."

In the Cold Winter Pavilion, Zhu Jun was flipping through today's newspaper, and at this time, Liu Guoxuan walked in under the guidance of the little eunuch and bowed his head.

Zhu Jun raised his eyes and glanced at Liu Guoxuan, and then continued to look at an article in the Xuedi newspaper in his hand, and after a while, just when Liu Guoxuan's legs were sore, he put the newspaper on the imperial case, and said: "Calm down, Liu Aiqing has returned from the expedition, it's hard work, show Liu Aiqing to sit." ”

Liu Guoxuan cautiously leaned over and sat down, and Zhu Jun said again: "Liu Aiqing returned triumphantly this time, I must have summed up some experience in naval battles, tell me about it." ”

Liu Guoxuan had already thought about how to deal with the emperor's various plays on the ship, but he didn't expect that the emperor would discuss his experience with him, so he cheered up and muttered: "The last general originally thought that the naval battle was just a battle between close enemy ships, but this time it was an eye-opener. Therefore, the last general thought that the future ocean must be the world of gunboats, and the previous method of relying on hull collision and hook rope to board the enemy ship in close combat will be eliminated sooner or later. The final general thought that the naval division battalion should train the gunners diligently, and it was very difficult to use artillery at sea, firstly, because the ship was turbulent, and the angle would be deviated, and secondly, the sea breeze was also erratic, and it was not easy to hit the target......

Zhu Jun listened to the case for a while, and couldn't help but nodded, with a hint of appreciation in his eyes, Liu Guoxuan in history was able to write and martial arts, and he became an excellent admiral when he went to sea, and he became a parent when he went ashore, flood control and disaster relief, and the promotion of rice seeds, these things, if you don't know anything about them, you can't do it, the reason why Liu Guoxuan can have this achievement is probably that he has a momentum to find flaws in time and improve them.

"You are the commander of the Oriental Naval Division, the above problems are all solved by Aiqing, how to train the gunner, the helmsman, how to sail, how to fight, you have to have a good experience." Zhu Jun said something innocuous and then spread out a Di report: This is an article published in the Xinxue Di newspaper, you can see if it is useful to the water master. ”

Liu Guoxuan got up and walked to the front of the imperial case in broken steps, respectfully took the newspaper, and first saw many articles about the great naval victory and his own victory back to the dynasty, in the right corner is a discussion on naval warfare, the author is a Hanlin Yuan attendant named Mao Wenjing, the problems pointed out above are similar to his own views, are some problems of the helmsman and gunner, and there is also a discussion about the wind, the warships of this era are driven by sail power, in the West, familiarity with and mastery of wind power is the necessary knowledge of all excellent naval generals, The number of words in this article is not much, and it also tries to put forward several ways to solve the problem of gunner and helmsman training, but more is to explain the problem of borrowing wind power, Liu Guoxuan read it carefully, and still chewed the content of the article in a daze, and confirmed each other with his own experience, sometimes nodded, sometimes sighed and shook his head, after a while, he came back to his senses and hurriedly told Zhu Jun: "The emperor forgives the sin, and the end will be rude." ”

Zhu Jun waved his hand: "It's okay, Aiqing, let's see, is the plan proposed in this person's article feasible?" ”

Liu Guoxuan said: "It stands to reason that it is indeed feasible, but some of them are probably the words of scholars, but it is not easy for this person to put forward such a unique opinion without going through a naval battle. ”

Zhu Jun said with a smile: "I just want him to follow Liu Aiqing to learn some experience in naval warfare, this person is full of theoretical skills and sharp vision, if he can let him go with the ship, maybe it will be of great use in the future." ”

Liu Guoxuan smiled again and again and said yes.

Zhu Jun said: "He is a scholar, since I let him follow you, you have to take good care of him and try to give him some convenience." My lecture is counting on him to teach. By the way, you don't know about it, do you? I'll tell you about Haitang's plans. ”

Zhu Jun beckoned Liu Guoxuan to move forward and tell him about his idea of establishing a martial arts hall one by one, in fact, the lecture hall is just another way to cultivate officers in the martial arts hall. It's just that the lecture hall cultivates army officers, while the lecture hall cultivates naval officers.

Liu Guoxuan's comprehension ability is extremely fast, and he has already nodded and understood in a few moments.