For Zhu Houxi, the lord, the cabinet ministers have no temper at all.

Before, they still wanted to play with Zhu Houxi, just like in the Hongzhi Dynasty, everyone was intriguing, wouldn't it be beautiful?

And now, the situation is completely different.

The current Emperor Jiajing, even Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong can see it, and the 160,000 soldiers in Beijing are loyal to him, and they also have immortal laws.

What is this cabinet playing?

In addition, the cabinet scholars have been replaced by Zhu Houxi, and the leaders Zhang Xuan and Wang Yangming are all die-hard supporters of Zhu Houxi who do practical things wholeheartedly.

Therefore, in the current Jiajing Dynasty, Zhu Houxi's status is like an iron bucket, even if Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Hongwu personally came to seize power, he could not take the throne from Zhu Houxi.

Under the coordination of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households, 10,000 soldiers of the Guyong Battalion traveled with Zhu Houxi, first to Datong, then to Tangshan, and finally to Tianjin.

After the steel mill and coal mill were located in the two places, the Ministry of Industry was sent to recruit craftsmen with wives and daughters to enter the country, and the sons of craftsmen could enter the engineering department of Taixue.

The outstanding graduates of Taixue Engineering can even enter the Ministry of Engineering directly without the imperial examination.

Therefore, there was a rather absurd scene.

The craftsmen scrambled to sign up, and even fought hard, just for an opportunity to go to Datong and Tangshan.

After all, this is an opportunity to become an official master!

The craftsman of the Ming Dynasty is the same as the military and has been passed down from generation to generation.

The only chance to change one's destiny is the imperial examination.

But the imperial examination, that is a single-plank bridge that is even more cruel than the college entrance examination in later generations!

Nowadays, students who are studying in Taixue, students with excellent grades can be directly hired without the imperial examination, and students with poor grades can also change their place of origin, go to the imperial examination, and do whatever they want.

Although it is still necessary to take the imperial examination, the teachers are completely different! What is Taixue? It is the highest university in the Ming Dynasty!

Can a student who studied there and a student who came from a local private school be a player of the same level?

In this way, it naturally attracted the attention of a large number of craftsmen, and even did not hesitate to fight.

In this regard, Yan Song, the priest of the country, personally went down, and together with Fei Hong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, he did this perfectly, and won Zhu Houxi's favor and rewarded Yan Song with a peachwood sword.

Plain mahogany.

It is said that after that, Yan Song's travel was extremely strange, wearing a grass crown on his head, a wooden sword on his waist, and even wearing a Taoist robe in private, those who didn't know thought that this was a Taoist priest!

However, this situation also caused the ministers in the Beijing division to follow suit, and the Taoist supplies in the Beijing division were sold to the point that they were even out of stock.

made Zhu Houxi make a lot of money.

Why did Zhu Houxi make a fortune? Because the Taoist supplies sold in the capital were eunuchs appointed by Zhu Houxi to leave the palace, and they relentlessly enriched the internal money.

The inner treasury is the emperor's private small treasury.

"It's really good, in the future, you can use this method to get the money back from the officials."

Zhu Houxi was blowing the sea breeze, listening to the report of the governor of Tianjin, and thought so in his heart.

The governor of Tianjin, the military garrison and other officials were worried, for fear that the emperor would find something wrong during this visit to Tianjin, which would cause their group of officials to lose their hats.

Although they felt that they had not done anything wrong, the emperor's inspection would inevitably make people feel worried, for fear that a common man would suddenly appear to sue the emperor.

And Zhu Houxi's performance towards the ministers of Tianjin is like that.

Jinyi guards have long been all over Tianjin, and the officials in Tianjin have changed in the past six months, and there is no problem with the rest.

Tianjin is very important in Zhu Houxi's strategic layout, after all, the location of the 'Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau', the Ming Dynasty's Invincible Armada will be produced here.

Therefore, Tianjin has a lot of weight in Zhu Houxi's heart...... If you want to find a heavyweight coastal city close to Beijing, the only one is Tianjin.

"Where is the port?"

Zhu Houxi opened his mouth, interrupting the report of the governor of Tianjin, and then said, "Take me forward." ”

What the Tianjin governor reported, he already knew.

Tianjin Wei's guards and Jinyi guards have not been mobilized for a long time, and after being activated by Zhu Houxi this time, they were rewarded one after another, which made Tianjin Wei's Jinyi guards feel that they had hit a big luck, and even the Tianjin governor spoiled which concubine last night and what he said in his dreams were clear.

"Yes."

The governor of Tianjin immediately said yes, and then took Zhu Houxi's dragon and went to the port.

Tianjin Port, very dilapidated, but barely visible.

This is because three months ago, Zhu Houxi ordered to use all resources to build Tianjin Port, otherwise Tianjin Port would still be relatively depressed.

The downfall of Tianjin Port is also very normal, the perfect ports of the Ming Dynasty are all concentrated in the south, Quanzhou, Yuegang, Xiamen three ports, plus a Guangzhou Port, these four ports are the four major ports of the Ming Dynasty.

In the north, the famous ports are Langya Port and Dengzhou Port in Shandong.

Langya Port is prosperous because of ...... Ships from the south came to the north to do business, and docked at Langya Port, so Langya Port was well repaired.

As for Dengzhou Port, here is a military port, from the Han Dynasty, Dengzhou is a famous military port, during the Tang and Song dynasties, often sent troops from this place to attack Goguryeo and Jin, and in the ninth year of Hongwu, it was built in Dengzhou to prepare the city of Wacheng to train the navy, which was the earliest military port in China in 5,000 years.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the base camp of the Beiyang Fleet, although not in Dengzhou Port, was also in Weihaiwei, Weihaiwei and Dengzhou Port are not far away, which can be regarded as one of Jiaodong.

The best location for this shipyard is, of course, better in the south.

But no, the system of the Ming Dynasty.

The distance is too far, Zhu Houxi is really not at ease.

After all, this is a shipyard, and it's a shipyard that can make ironclad steam ships!

The invincible armada of the empire on which the sun never sets, each fleet has only two or three ironclad steam ships, and its status is equivalent to that of aircraft carriers, and even in this era, the role of aircraft carriers in modern warfare is greater.

"The South Sea Fleet, the North Ocean Fleet, ah......"

Zhu Houyu muttered to himself, Zhu Houyu of the southern fleet naturally would not give up, after all, the trade in the south is really profitable, and the enemy is coming from the south, Zhu Houyu feels that he should also develop Taiwan in advance.

"Your Majesty, the port of Tianjin has arrived."

Listening to Lu Bingyu's report, Zhu Houyu nodded, and then got down from the dragon belt, looking at the endless beach, Zhu Houyu couldn't help nodding slightly, and then said: "My Ming Invincible Armada started here." ”

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, Ming Wansheng, Your Majesty Wannian!"

Lu Bing and the other Jinyi guards did not hesitate, and at the same time knelt on one knee and saluted Zhu Houxi.

The Tianjin governor who followed here was a little confused, but he also knelt on one knee and shouted in unison.

Although, the governor of Tianjin also heard that His Majesty the Emperor has a mandate of heaven, and he is an unborn son of heaven, even if it is the revival of the ancient sages and sages Yao, Shun, and Yu, it is difficult to reach His Majesty alone, but those so-called miracles Tianjin Governor has never seen it, and seeing that the surrounding Jinyi Guards are so fanatical, the first impression of the Tianjin Governor is......

I'm afraid that this majesty will be brainwashed, right?

The governor of Tianjin is surnamed Xiao, and his name is Chengzhai.

When he was in the Zhengde Emperor, he served in Beijing, and he had personally seen the Zhengde Emperor and the cabinet bachelors, the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military 'fighting methods', and the means were different from each other.

Later, fortunately, Emperor Zhengde fell into the water, otherwise I don't know what would happen between the courtiers and the emperor.

Although Emperor Zhengde is absurd, he is not confused at all in major matters.

He was resolute and decisive, punished Liu Jin with a snap of his fingers, peacefully turned the rebellion of King Hua and King Ning, defeated the Mongolian prince, and repeatedly provided disaster relief and exempted talents.

is such an emperor, and he still fights with the ministers.

And Emperor Jiajing in front of him, how did he brainwash the ministers?

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Chengzhai, the governor of Tianjin, had not said anything, but there was a shaking around, Xiao Chengzhai was shocked, and thought that it was the earth dragon turned over, and was about to shout 'escort', but found that there was an extra treasure ship in the port!

"What?!"

Xiao Chengzhai was dumbfounded.

We don't have this ship yet, what's going on?!

Xiao Chengzhai was dumbfounded, and looked at this treasure ship carefully, there were several cannons on board, and this cannon was very strong, the hull was extremely strong, and several sails stood horizontally, it looked really majestic!

What he saw was called a heartbeat.

After all, this kind of treasure ship is intoxicating for him, a seaside man, Xiao Chengzhai is already a person who is obsessed with the fleet, and now when he sees this ship, he can be described as tearful.

At this moment, this old minister of Emperor Zhengde surrendered to Zhu Houxi and vowed to be Zhu Houxi's diehard loyalty.

And in the face of this warship, Zhu Houxi was also very satisfied.

The ship can accommodate about 350 people, carries 74 guns, 1,700 tons, has a speed of 19 knots, has 26 large and small naval guns, and is equipped with ...... Torpedo launch.

In this day and age...... No, even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, this battleship belonged to the top and world-class level in the world!

But the only problem now is ...... With such an advanced warship, Zhu Houxi did not have enough professional navy to pilot.

"It's hard to find talent."

Zhu Houxi sighed, and suddenly found that Xiao Chengzhai's eyes were bright, and it could be seen that he was reluctant to give up and cared for this warship.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Houxi had an idea, and then said: "Xiao Aiqing is an old minister of the Three Dynasties, right?" ”

"The minister is a Jinshi for the sixteenth year of Hongzhi."

Xiao Chengzhai immediately replied to Zhu Houxi.

After hearing Xiao Chengzhai's reply, Zhu Houxi nodded, and then chuckled: "Xiao Qing was transferred from Guangdong to Tianjin half a year ago, but is he used to it?" ”

Xiao Chengzhai said: "The minister is a northerner, when Wuzong, the minister went south to serve, if it wasn't for His Majesty's recall, the minister would never have returned to the north." ”

"It turned out to be an important minister when he was the emperor's brother."

Zhu Houxi nodded, and then said: "In this case, I am ready to canonize Er as the governor of Tianjin, the secretary of Tianjin City, and the general commander of Tianjin Port. ”

"Edict!"

Xiao Chengzhai was so excited that he immediately knelt down to receive the order.

Among the accompanying officials, there seemed to be some people with a somewhat uneasy face, as if they wanted to stand up and say something, but they were immediately stopped by the people around them.

Zhu Houxi naturally noticed this, but didn't bother to say it.

It's nothing more than an ancestral system or something.

It doesn't matter, if he wants to listen to the ancestral system, he can invite Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to come back and let him talk about the ancestral system in his old man's house.

However, when it comes to the imperial brother Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houxi remembered an interesting incident.

During the Zhengde Dynasty, Zhejiang Qiantang had a life case, the deceased was stabbed five times, the knife was fatal, and the Qiantang County Order concluded that this person committed suicide, so it was reported to the imperial court.

Zhu Houzhao was very speechless when he learned of the situation, and said, 'How can anyone kill himself with five knives in his body?' Want to compare me to Jinhuhu? Therefore, he strictly ordered a thorough investigation of the Hangzhou prefect and the Qiantang County Order, and finally found out that the murderer was the wife and nephew of the Qiantang County Commander.

Some officials, Zhu Houxi doesn't know what they think, it's okay to fool the emperor, but some people fool the emperor like a fool.

With such a minister, Zhu Houxi felt that it was better to kill him as soon as possible, so as not to affect the IQ of the entire officialdom.

"By order, Chen Xi, the admiral of the Fuzhou Naval Division, was reappointed as the commander of the Huangming fleet, and led half of the naval army in Fuzhou to gather in Dengzhou on the No. 1 Fu ship with fifty ships, and together with the 'Zhongshan Wuning King Ship', it is called the fleet."

"By order, Liang Haiqin, the chief soldier of Dengzhou, was promoted to the deputy admiral of the Huangming fleet, led 3,000 Dengzhou sailors, and brought twenty ships and ships to merge into the 'Zhongshan Wuning King Ship'!"

After Zhu Houxi arranged two generals who were good at naval warfare, he suddenly looked at the commander of the Jinyi Guard behind him, and immediately said: "Luo An! ”

"The minister is here!"

Luo An took a step forward and said respectfully to Zhu Houxi.

Zhu Houxi said: "I ordered you to supervise the army of my Emperor Ming fleet, and to unite the fleet with Chen Xi and Liang Haiqin." ”

"The last general commands!"

Luo An immediately said yes, but after hesitating for a moment, he still opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, the last general is skilled in bowing and horses, but for water warfare...... But I don't know anything. ”

"Therefore, after you take office, if you march and fight, you need to listen to the words of the two admirals, Chen and Liang, and you only need to report everything you see and hear to me, and learn the knowledge of navigation." Zhu Houxi said.

So, Luo An immediately understood what Zhu Houxi meant, and immediately arched his hand and said: "The last general will take the order!" ”

Zhu Houxi nodded, and when Luo An saw this, he immediately retreated and prepared to go.

The main reason why the Fuzhou Navy Division was ordered to come was because Fujian's shipbuilding technology was very developed, and Zhu Houxi not only had to transfer troops from Fuzhou, but also craftsmen from Fuzhou.

Qi Jiguang once said: The fortune boat is as tall as a city, non-human can drive, all depends on the wind, and the boat is as short as my small cangboat, so the fortune boat is pressed down by the wind, like a car running over a praying mantis. Fighting boat power is not fighting manpower.

It can be seen that the Ming Dynasty sailors had large ships and high freeboard, and had obvious advantages in close battlefields such as collisions.

In today's era, the level of artillery warfare at sea is limited, and in most cases, it is still close combat at sea.

However, with the emergence of the 'Zhongshan Ningwu King Ship', the way of naval warfare in this era has to be changed.

Looking at the Imperial Invincible Armada, which was being rapidly formed, Zhu Houxi couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

The navy of the Ming Dynasty, for a long time before, could be said to be the first in the world.

At its peak, the Ming Dynasty had 3,800 ships, including more than 1,300 patrol ships, more than 1,300 warships, and countless large ships and grain ships stationed at the Xinjiang Estuary base in Nanjing.

In addition, with a large number of guard and law enforcement ships and herald ships patrolling the river, the famous Zheng He's fleet was actually only a mobile fleet at sea, but in this way, its total size was equivalent to ten Spanish armadas of the same period.

From the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's battle to cross the river and the water battle of Poyang Lake, to Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, the Ming Dynasty was founded for nearly 300 years, but the Ming Dynasty sailors have never suffered a defeat!

When Zheng He went to the West, there was a very famous sentence.

and the foreign countries, the disrespectful of the king, captured alive; Exterminate the barbarian raiders!

During the Jiajing Dynasty, the Portuguese colonists came to the east and originally wanted to take Macao as a colony, but the Ming Dynasty sailors inflicted heavy losses on them in the naval battle at the mouth of the Pearl River.

During the Wanli Dynasty, Japan launched a war of aggression against Korea, and the Ming Dynasty naval division defeated the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Luliang.

Even in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty sailors still defeated the Dutch fleet in the Battle of Penghu and the Battle of Liuluo Bay, and Zheng Chenggong even captured Taiwan under Dutch control in one fell swoop!

It can be said that I am invincible in the naval battle!

It's a pity......

Zhu Houxi couldn't figure it out, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty became the master, why was the naval battle so stretched, it is understandable that the ocean is not good, and it is a bit embarrassing that the coastal sea can't be beaten?

But it doesn't matter.

The invincible Daming Sailor in the world has been blessed with new technology, and Zhu Houxi believes that the name of the Daming Invincible Armada will definitely be loud in the world!

"Whew."

Zhu Houxi was very satisfied, and was about to order a banquet in Tianjin to celebrate, but suddenly received another message in front of him.

[You have a new group message, do you want to check it?] 】

Seeing this scene, Zhu Houxi was a little surprised, and immediately chose to check it.

[Received a follow-up request for help from the group member 'Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen', do you accept this assistance?] 】

[This aid is in the same column as the previous aid, so it does not award group points.] 】

[You have a message from the group member 'Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen'. 】

Seeing the dazzling news reminder in front of him, Zhu Houxi felt that this scene seemed a little familiar.

Zhu Youzhen, why are you asking about it?

What are you asking for help, there is Xu Da, there is my army of 30,000, and there are Li Zicheng, Jiannu, and the small court of Nanjing who have been disabled, and you still ask for help?

Although Zhu Houxi was speechless, he still smiled on the surface and checked Zhu Youzhen's message.

"Grandpa Gao, for letting Yongle Ye know that his temple number is 'Chengzu', the juniors are very sorry, I am uneasy, I don't know if I can bother you to come over, the juniors are willing to take the wind and wash the dust for Grandpa Gao, I hope that Grandpa Gao can forgive the sins of the juniors, the juniors are willing to use resources in exchange for your forgiveness, the juniors just copied the Jin Shang, there is a lot of silver......"

After seeing Zhu Youzhen's message.

Only then did Zhu Houxi think that there was still this stubble.

Oh no, I thought something was going on.

Zhu Youzhen didn't say it, Zhu Houxi forgot about it.

Originally, Zhu Houxi didn't take it seriously.

However, Zhu Youzhen said so, so of course Zhu Houxi has to find a way to knock on it...... Ahem, find a way to let your descendants not blame themselves so much.

Is there a general of the water division on your side?

Never mind.

Didn't the Chongzhen Dynasty have a famous general in history?

Zheng Sen.

That is, the famous Zheng Chenggong!

(End of chapter)