Originally, the ocean-going fleet of the Ming Royal Navy was only a temporary formation, and if it came back from a visit to Spain, the ocean-going fleet would be disbanded, and all the generals and soldiers would do whatever they wanted.

After all, although Deng Xianwu, the commander of the ocean-going fleet, is a military officer and a rear admiral, the problem is that he has really not done any other work except teaching.

When he learned that Speix, the deputy governor of the Dutch East Indies Governor's Office, begged him, Deng Xianwu still felt inexplicable: "What is he asking me for?" ”

As a minister of the Ming Cabinet and a minister on a state visit to Spain, Xie Jinglin, a waiter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, smiled faintly: "They must have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, they must have important things, these foreign devils, until the end of the matter, will definitely not cling to Buddha's feet!" ”

On the Chang'an, the flagship of the ocean-going fleet, Spex boarded the battleship with more than 5,600 materials with assistants, translators and more than a dozen people.

In terms of tonnage, this is 1,800 tons, which is even larger than the tonnage of the British battleship of the Sea Monarch, but in terms of the number of guns, it can only be barely regarded as a third-class battleship.

However, the firepower of this kind of battleship is too powerful, and it is by no means comparable to the main third-class battleships of the Netherlands, and the Netherlands colonized overseas by relying on strong sea power, but the problem is that the current Dutch sea power, in front of the Ming Navy, is not worth mentioning at all.

Even Erwin, the commander of the combined fleet of the Dutch East India Company, had to admit that at least six third-class battleships were needed to barely deal with one third-class battleship of the Ming Dynasty, of course, this was just a morale-boosting explanation, let alone six, I am afraid that sixteen third-class battleships could not deal with one battleship of the Ming Dynasty.

This is because the Ming navy will never go to sea with a single ship, at least a patrol-level sub-fleet, with more than four warships, like the current Daming fleet of this size, I am afraid that all the warships in the Netherlands will not be enough.

"Your Excellency the General, we in the Netherlands, including myself, are full of good feelings and yearning for the mysterious oriental civilization, since the establishment of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, successive kings have sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty, to present exquisite gifts to the Ming Emperor, this friendship, presumably the Ming can feel the ......"

Deng Xianwu listened to the translator's translation, and couldn't help but interrupt: "Indeed, our Ming Dynasty felt that in the thirtieth year of Wanli, you Dutch invaded our Ming Dynasty's vassal state Huni, and then our Ming Dynasty's Sanxuan and Liuwei Division (the territory contains, today's Thailand. Burma and Cambodia), and in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, directly invaded our Ming Penghu, and in Penghu and our Ming naval battle, the same year of invasion of Dayuan, we all remember clearly! ”

Listening to the translator's words, Spex's cold sweat flowed, and the Han people were very vindictive.

In fact, this is our tradition, even after more than a thousand years, ask which Chinese people, who doesn't remember broken leaves? In the birthplace of Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, that is the territory of the Tang Dynasty?

We remember, always remember.

If we fancy a piece of land, even if we die, we have to knock the opponent to death, strong as the Huns, by the two Han Dynasty with more than 400 years of time to grind to death, after the Western Han Dynasty established the Western Regions Protectorate, all dynasties, as long as they have the ability to think about recovering the Western Regions.

In the eyes of the surrounding countries and nations, the ferocity of the Han people is in their bones, which piece of land they are targeting, even if it takes fifty years, a hundred years, or even two or three hundred years to defeat it, which opponent they are targeting, even if they fight to the end, they will pull each other to finish, and they will never allow the other party to continue to evolve and grow, which is completely different from the ferocity of the nomads who die in three minutes.

It's a pity that the textbooks won't talk about this, and will only blindly emphasize the great integration of nationalities. The beautiful nation wrote in its textbooks the war of expulsion and massacre of the Indians, and they proudly believed that the land had been fought by the bravery of their forefathers; China has been emphasizing ethnic integration, and as a result, a group of middle two fell ill and thought that the 9.6 million square kilometers of land were given away for phone bills......

Listening to Deng Xianwu's words, Spex hurriedly explained: "The matter between Annan and Donghu is a misunderstanding, it is the private behavior of the blind Carlos, and the idiot of Solano, and it has nothing to do with the Dutch East India Company, our Dutch East India Company and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands have always attached more importance to the friendship with the Ming Dynasty......"

It is the so-called eating and eating, obedient and listening.

Whether it was Deng Xianwu or Xie Jinglin, they all heard what the Dutch meant, they were sent to the door to be slaughtered, and if they didn't start, they would be sorry for them.

Xie Jinglin and Deng Xianwu, one singing red-faced and the other black-faced, bluffed Speix so much that he couldn't find the north, of course, the two of them quickly figured out the plans of the Dutch, and what they didn't say, they slashed directly.

After repeated tugging, 950,000 Dutch guilders and Paraguayan territory were exchanged for the signing of a treaty of friendship and trade between the Ming and the Dutch Indian Company.

What Sparks didn't know, of course, was that the Ming silk and tea, as well as various industrial products, that they peeked at not only could not help the Dutch improve their domestic business environment, but also quickly impacted the Dutch economic environment.

Now in the Netherlands, because of the tulip incident, this is also the world's first economic and financial bubble (if you are interested, you can check it, I won't introduce it here, after all, it belongs to the number of water words).

Out of the Strait of Malacca, the ocean-going fleet entered the ocean of Haohan. This huge fleet was divided here, and the Luzon fleet was led by Ren Bao, the general of the Luzon fleet, to the Australian mainland, which not only had a large number of weapons, crop seeds, and supplies, but also thousands of prisoners who would become immigrants who would be exiled to Zhanzhou.

The Coconut City fleet, on the other hand, travels east along the coastline of the South Asian subcontinent, and their mission is to make state visits to the countries of South Asia.

The ocean-going fleets were laden with fine silks, porcelain, handicrafts, and tea, and wherever they went, they stopped to visit the local lords, giving them valuable gifts and selling the luxury goods they had brought with them, which were enthusiastically sought after by countless people, and the natives flocked to buy them.

Spending a lot of money for a shirt made of silk, the fanaticism made these Ming merchants and officials were dumbfounded, and at the same time secretly beat their thighs and sighed: "I knew that these goods were so popular, so we organized our own fleet to open up overseas markets, why bother to make a huge difference in prices through Xiyi!" ”

The fleet arrived in the Middle East, docked in Istanbul, and made a goodwill visit to the Ottoman Empire.

At this time, the Ottoman Empire's national strength was at its peak, and the crescent moon banner was hunting and flying in Europe, Asia and Africa, and countless fierce warriors wielded the full moon scimitar, shouting under the guidance of the crescent flag, launching rounds of stormy attacks on Europe, Asia, and Africa.

There was no country worth mentioning in Africa except Egypt, and the Ottoman expansion in Asia had reached its limit, and Europe became their main target, whether it was for military considerations or religious conflicts, the Ottoman Empire would not let Europe go.

The Renaissance woke Europe up from the dark Middle Ages, the Age of Discovery allowed Europe to obtain such a plug-in from the American continent, the military strength of European countries is growing rapidly, one or two countries may not be very good, but if the whole of Europe is united under the cross to form a strong alliance, it will become the most terrible enemy of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire will never allow Europe to develop calmly, and finally push itself!

So he beat him to death. They first encroached on the territory of the Byzantine Empire step by step, and finally captured Constantinople, the strongest city in Europe that "never falls", drawing a bloody end to the dream of revival of the Roman Empire that lasted for thousands of years;

Then the crescent flag moved all the way west, and was planted under the city of Vienna again and again, just one step away from Western Europe. It wasn't until the fierce Ottoman cavalry roared across the plains of Central Europe that the Europeans realized that they had done something stupid, and they had watched the destruction of Byzantium deprive Europe of an excellent bridgehead to contain the Ottoman Empire's westward advance.

Now they had to fight the Ottoman cavalry in the plains of Central Europe. At sea, the war between the Ottoman Empire and the city-state of Venice has been going on for more than a century, and the city-state of Venice was originally the hegemon of the Mediterranean, and with its excellent naval warfare technology, it has repeatedly damaged the Ottoman navy, which is not good at naval warfare.

However, the terrifying national strength of the Ottoman Empire has made the hard-won results of the Venetian city-state meaningless again and again, the Venetians can no longer remember how many Ottoman fleets they have annihilated, how many enemy ships they have sunk, they only know that no matter how serious the losses of the Ottoman Navy are, they can always make up for it within a year or two, and the Venetians have no chance of winning this war!

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At the same time, as the science and technology center of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong is becoming more and more developed in science and technology, and there are more and more industries that need fire cattle, which need to consume a lot of steel, and it is very urgent for steel processing tools.

Nanjing military craftsman Wang Ji invented the steam engine as the power of the dovetail milling cutter, skilled machine tool operation friends should be clear, dovetail milling cutter in the industrial field, when the machine was invented, was established as a national science and technology award.

Wang Ji was specially instructed by Cheng Shijie to reward a five-entry mansion covering an area of ten acres in Jinzhou, and has a patent fee of one percent every year, just collecting the patent fee, Wang Ji has an income of 40,000 taels of silver, even if he doesn't have to do anything, he can eat and wait for death.

Of course, Wang Ji is just a microcosm of the development of Daming technology. In just the second year of Dingxin, the Ming Dynasty issued more than 8.9 million taels of rewards for scientific and technological progress.

This is even higher than the fiscal revenue of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and of course the economic benefits brought by these innovations to the imperial court are even more considerable.

However, these technologies can only alleviate the lack of human resources in the Ming Dynasty, but cannot fundamentally solve the problem.

Now the phenomenon of lack of people in the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more serious, this is an objective problem, as the main wheat producing area of the Ming Dynasty, Henan Province, Guide Mansion has a population of nearly 10 million in later generations, but now there are only how many people?

There are less than 500,000 people, only one-twentieth of the future generations, but they have more than 10 million acres of arable land, and these 500,000 people, including 16 percent of newborns, only have a population of more than 16 years old and under 50 years old, more than 269,000 people.

In fact, Guide is quite good, and Hunan and Hubei have fewer populations.

The cabinet proposed that the Ming Dynasty now had a small population and wanted to cause prisoners of war and slaves, as well as the slave population looted by Xiyi.

Cheng Shijie directly refused.

If the population is aroused now, Cheng Jialong will definitely be pitted, these cheap laborers are drinking doves to quench their thirst, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The king of Chu has a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace, and Cheng Shijie's voice represents Cheng Shijie's will.

So, Huayi distinguished. The cabinet bosses in the imperial court or the imperial history and speech officials, even the bachelors in the National History Museum or the Hongwen Museum, also came out to brush up their sense of existence, and they exported chapters, quoted scriptures, and argued.

"Yi" was originally the general name of the Chinese nationality for the non-Chinese ethnic group, this "Yi" means "Yi" in a broad sense, from the "Yu Gong", "Book of Songs", "Huainanzi" and other documents can be seen as long as it is different from the Chinese nationality, no matter what the direction is called "Yi".

Such as "Shangshu. Da Yu Mo": "There is no destruction and no famine, and the four Yi come to the king." "Huainanzi. May the Taoist Motto": "Yu Shi is virtuous, overseas guests, and Siyi Na is served." "Mao's Poetry Justice": "When the king of You, the four Yi invaded, and China rebelled. These "Yi" all have the word "four", so "Yi" is the collective name of the non-Chinese people in the four directions.

Well, in the eyes of the ancient Chinese, in fact, it can be considered that except for the Chinese, everyone else is Yi, all barbarians and uncivilized barbarians. And the barbarians explained from the glyphs in the Chinese character oracle bone inscription, razed, flattened, from large, from the bow. We can explain it in such a way, that is, in ancient China, the ancestors of China expelled and attacked Yi, conquered spiritually, and eliminated physically.

The Chinese nation's policy of conquest was to save the land and leave no people.

It's very incredible, China in ancient times was actually a corner of the Central Plains, and the people who originally lived around the Central Plains were Yi, where did these Yi go, in fact, they were either integrated into the Chinese nation, or were wiped out.

The fundamental reason for the success of the Manchu Hu Dynasty in China was that Confucius was gradually deified in the process of exalting Confucianism for thousands of years. Idolatlized, believed to be the embodiment of correctness and truth in his words and deeds. His teachings became canonical doctrines and sacred proverbs, absolutized, carried forward absolutely, and distorted into the presiding gods who ruled the spirit from generation to generation.

Due to the concept of learning and excelling, the study of Confucian classics has become the pursuit of life, a stepping stone to enter the official career, and a magic weapon for carp and fish to leap over the dragon gate.

Because the people in power wanted to imprison the freedom of thought of the broad masses of the people, cultivated and trained batch after batch of slaves, and did not allow the interpretation and development of the Confucian classics, in turn Confucian doctrines and ideas became dogmas and ropes that bound the broad masses of the people and imprisoned the spirit of the broad masses of the people, thus basically achieving the original purpose of the dynasty's rule.

But there is no one, but it can't solve the problem of Daming.

Cheng Shijie thought of a very critical question: "I remembered that Yin Shang immigrated to the Americas!" ”

As a result, countless people began to quote scriptures and classics, and they really found relevant clues. (End of chapter)