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"Long live our emperor Shen Yourong, long live, long live!" Shen Yourong knelt down and kowtowed to see the emperor.

"Flat, give a seat!" Zhu Youxiao put down the test paper in his hand and set his eyes on Hexi, a veteran who is not very famous in history, but is actually very good.

In Shen Yourong's more than 40 years of military career, he spent decades guarding the coast of Fujian.

It was during this period that he led his army into Taiwan and the Penghu Islands three times, annihilated the Japanese invaders, expelled the Dutch invaders, and successfully defended Taiwan.

Not only that, Shen Yourong also responded to North Korea and fought in Liaodong, and has made great achievements for decades.

But he is such a general with outstanding military achievements, but he has suffered repeated setbacks under the officialdom ecology of the Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for Xiong Tingbi's tripartite arrangement strategy, Shen Yourong would only be the deputy commander-in-chief of Shandong stationed in Dengzhou.

Who are the civil officials who can be trusted, and who are the generals who can sweep away the Jiannu for me?

Following the troubles of these two questions, Zhu Youxiao again raised the question of "Who is the famous general who conquered the sea for me"?

Then, Colonel Zhu You sadly found that there were simply few and few naval generals in the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention conquering the sea, in the face of increasingly powerful pirates, the Great Ming Sailor is becoming more and more unable to deal with it.

It won't take long, maybe after 5678, the maritime merchant and pirate group headed by Zheng Zhilong will rise and be difficult to control, and will be recruited instead, and hang up the banner of the Daming Sailor.

A country's navy can't even defeat its own pirates, which is really a shame in Zhu Youxiao's view.

And the maritime and pirate group can rise and dominate the China Sea, why can't the current Daming sailors?

Money, no money! I smashed the pot and sold iron, I killed Fu Jihai, did I sell the palace?

Of course, Zhu Youxiao is ruthless, showing his determination, but he doesn't have to take his daughter-in-law to live in a broken house.

Shen Yourong didn't know what the emperor was thinking, but when he saw the emperor smiling but not speaking, he was thinking crankily in his heart.

"Shen Qing has seen Hongmaoyi, and he also understands their strength, right?" Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment and asked.

Shen Yourong was stunned for a moment, his face was puzzled, but after thinking about it, he still replied truthfully: "Weichen has dealt with Hongmaoyi in Penghu, and he knows a little bit about it. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "I have read the Wanli Ye Chapter. Hongmaoyi", I have also read the report of the Fujian magistrate, saying that the Hongmao boat is strong and sharp, and Shen Qing can tell in detail. ”

In the description of the Fujian magistrate, the large ship written about Hongmaoyi was 50 zhang (165 m) long, which even exceeded the length of Zheng He's treasure ship (44 zhang), which Zhu Youxiao thought was an exaggeration.

But he also knew that the Daming Water Division was indeed lagging behind and declining.

Since the beginning of the 30th year of Wanli, the total number of warships of the Daming Navy Division has increased, but the number of large warships has decreased significantly, which is obviously deviating from the development direction of the Age of Discovery!

Judging from the equipment on the battleship of the Daming Naval Division, it is even more obvious.

Even the largest Daifuku ship at that time, according to the records of the "Wubei Zhi", there was only one Hongyi cannon, six thousand catties of Buddha Lang machines, and the rest were small cannons such as bowls.

According to Xu Guangqi and Tang Ruowang, the few Hongyi cannons used by the Ming army's sailors were salvaged from Western shipwrecks. According to Xiyi's standards, it was called an eighteen-pounder gun.

And on the warships of the European naval powers, the eighteen-pounder guns were only medium, and the twenty-four and thirty-six-pounder guns were already quite a few equipped.

As for the Franc machine commonly equipped by the Ming army's naval divisions, even the thousand-pound Franc cannon has been abandoned by the Xiyi battleship because of its air tightness.

"Hongyi boat is about fifteen or sixteen zhang long, three or four zhang wide and wide, called plywood, there are two to three layers inside, all of them are placed in the big gun outward. Its big guns are extremely sharp, and the human ship deserves to be smashed, which is the long skill of its poisonous sea......"

Listening to Shen Yourong's narration, Zhu Youxiao bowed slightly.

The length of the ship is forty or fifty meters, the width is more than ten meters, and the artillery is about thirty or forty, which should be about the same. But it won't be the main battleships of the Rimbrasses, such as the Sea Coachman and the rising star John Bull.

The descriptions of those civilian officials are too exaggerated, and the artillery will be fired at every turn, and it will erode for more than ten miles, you should be the rocket artillery of later generations!

"What is the largest warship of my Great Ming Naval Division?" Zhu Youxiao motioned for the palace people to serve tea, and took advantage of Shen Yourong's pause to ask.

Shen Yourong hurriedly put down the tea bowl and replied: "The largest warship today is the 400-material Fufu, which is more than ten zhang long, and the bow of the ship is equipped with a large cannon, six thousand-pound Franc machines, and three bowls......

The Ming Naval Division went to the Western Ocean during the Yongle period of Zheng He, reaching its peak, deserving to be the world's first and the world's unparalleled huge fleet.

However, it then declined rapidly, and by the time of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Daxia, a staff member of the Ministry of War, had an important strategic value, and the navigation materials obtained by Zheng He's fleet after decades of sacrifice and death were destroyed, and were praised by all officials of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty, Zeng Yi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and had a fleet composed of Wanhu Wuwei ships, which surpassed the strength of the Ming army's naval divisions and rampaged through the coastal states such as Chao, Lei, and Qiong.

In order to subdue Zeng Yiyi, the 29 counties along the southeast coast planned to build 24 15~17 zhang long ships with a hull covered with a layer of iron armor within half a year.

In addition, it is planned to build more than a hundred Daifuku ships. This can be said to be the most powerful maritime combat force of the Ming army since Zheng He!

But the plan was not fully implemented, and the peak did not last long before it began to decline again.

The construction of large ships was stopped, the island bases were abandoned, the policy of contraction dealt heavy blows to the sailors, and the coastal defense line was pressed back to the coast from the far sea and even the open ocean.

When the Ming army's naval divisions gradually could only maintain coastal patrols and carry out operations such as catching pirates and checking smuggling, some maritime merchants and pirates had begun to be equipped with plywood ships and Xiyi cannons.

This is okay, this is absolutely not good!

If you want to save trouble and money, you have to wait for a few years, recruit Zheng Zhilong, and let them change their banner, and the Daming Sailor will be strong again.

But is that the Ming army that can be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and is that the way to earn huge profits for the Ming Dynasty?

The result is obvious, the Zheng family dominates the trade routes, the wealth rivals the country, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty can run rats, and Chongzhen is still poor to death.

The armed forces that cannot be firmly grasped in their hands still hinder Zhu Youxiao from seizing the wealth of the sea, so what is the use?

Of course, in order to expand the naval division, to make the navy strong, it is necessary to continuously throw money into it. But for Zhu Youxiao, it is called investment, and there will be rich returns.