Chapter 905: Warships, Warships, Warships
Zhao Yue lowered his head and said, "I don't know what you are talking about."
Jiang Qingzhi glanced at the generals who followed him and asked, "Don't you have anything to do?"
The generals were startled and bowed before leaving.
It's time to knock.
Jiang Qingzhi was thinking.
After the great victory in the Northern Expedition, the guards in the capital were filled with optimism and even pride.
Moderate pride and optimism can boost combat effectiveness and morale, but too much can be disastrous.
He took out the medicinal cigarette and Bol quickly handed over the firewood.
Sun Bu Tong was standing outside the door, curling his lips and saying, "You bastard, you are getting better at trying to please your uncle."
Jiang Qingzhi lit up the incense and said, "When you came here last time, how was the drill?"
Boll said, "It looks quite neat, but it lacks some spirit."
"Yes!" Jiang Qingzhi asked Boll to come for a surprise inspection.
I should talk to the Taoist priest about this later. After the new year, let the Beijing guards take turns to go out of the capital for training.
Staying in the capital all the time, he has become a watchdog.
Thinking of this, Jiang Qingzhi thought of the training marches in later generations.
He raised his head and looked at Zhao Yue, "Who ordered this?"
Zhao Yue laughed bitterly, "I don't know what you mean by that, sir?"
"Playing dumb?" Zhu Shitai was an expert at playing dumb. Jiang Qingzhi smiled and said, "To seduce Zhu Shitai, he didn't instigate him to do something that might ruin his reputation. It can be seen that the person behind the scenes is also afraid of something. If the scholars and officials take action, they will definitely be ruthless. Apart from them, who else is there? Old Zhu's enemies, those military meritorious officials or the powerful."
Jiang Qingzhi took a puff of the medicinal smoke, letting the cool breath circulate in his lungs. In fact, most people cannot adapt to this kind of cool feeling, and will feel irritated and uncomfortable.
Jiang Qingzhi had lung fire, and when it flared up, it felt like there was a fire burning in his lungs, so smoking this was just right for him.
"Old Zhu is good at maneuvering and rarely offends anyone. However, there are only a few close ministers around His Majesty. Many people have wanted to bring him down over the years. Many have fallen into his hands. The person behind you must be one of them!"
Jiang Qingzhi stared at Zhao Yue. Zhao Yue's expression suddenly changed. Jiang Qingzhi smiled and said, "It seems that I guessed right. Do it!"
"I'll do it!" Boll volunteered, but was bounced away by a slight bump from Sun Chonglou.
Sun's torture method was performed.
Jiang Qingzhi walked out of the lobby and looked at the military exercises in full swing on the parade ground, and suddenly thought of the situation in the southeast.
Wang Yiqi from the Ministry of War had told him last time that there were many Portuguese people living on the southeast coast. They would come ashore from time to time to trade with the Ming people on the shore. Occasionally, they would stay ashore for a few days. A while ago, there was a report that the Portuguese people would come ashore from time to time to try to settle down, and even contacted local officials to ask if they could rent a place to store their goods.
Jiang Qing subconsciously thought of that place in the future. It was during this period that the Portuguese landed and settled there. Later, the Ming Dynasty simply built a pass to block the place, forcing the Portuguese to live temporarily in that small place.
Later...after the Ming Dynasty fell and the Qing Dynasty declined, the Portuguese took advantage of the situation and extended the lease period of that place to the full extent...
This is the historical evolution of that place in later generations.
Do you want to change this?
Jiang Qingzhi pondered with great interest.
……
After two defeats in naval battles off the coast of Guangzhou, the Portuguese stopped their efforts and tried to test the Ming Dynasty in another way: trade.
The small-scale secret trade that had previously allowed the Portuguese to send Ming goods to the West caused a huge sensation. At this time, the nobles of Western countries were proud to get a piece of Ming silk and drink Ming tea.
The Portuguese saw huge benefits in this. If it were another place, such as India, the neighbor of the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese would choose to conquer India for spices. But compared with India, the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty was daunting.
In a report to the country, the general in the east said: "Those Ming officials are very proud and look down on us, as if they were looking down on a group of natives..."
In the process of conquering and colonizing the world, the Portuguese regarded the local natives as cattle, horses, livestock, and a group of country bumpkins.
But now, in the eyes of Ming officials, the country bumpkin has become themselves.
“They call us barbarians.”
What are barbarians?
After a period of busyness in Portugal, they finally found a civil servant who had been to the East.
"Barbarians?" The old civil servant trembled and said, "That dynasty called itself the Central Kingdom. Except for the Central Kingdom, all others are barbarians."
"What does barbarians mean?" asked the king.
The old civil servant thought for a moment and blinked his eyes. "It's probably... probably... just like the monkeys in the trees."
what?
The Ming people actually treated us as monkeys in the trees?
The Portuguese monarch and his ministers were stunned, and then furious. Some called for sending troops to flood the Ming coast with a huge fleet, then land and attack their capital.
The old civil servant shuddered again, "Stop! Ming people... Ming people are not natives."
The king stopped his ministers from shouting and asked, "Can't my invincible fleet defeat those small fleets of the Ming people?"
Although they lost two naval battles, those were only small-scale conflicts, and the main force of the Portuguese was not there. If they had gone all out...
The old civil servant saw the light in the eyes of the emperor and his ministers, and knew that these people were inspired to conquer by the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. He trembled, "The Ming people actually have bad tempers. When I went to their place, our attitude... was not good either."
The delegation at that time felt that Portugal could conquer the world, so what was an Eastern country?
The world overlord, the king of the seven seas is here, so he has to kneel down, right?
But the Ming Dynasty had only one response to this proud delegation: Get lost!
"I made some inquiries at the time and learned that the Central Kingdom had an extremely vicious enemy in the north, and the two sides had been fighting for thousands of years..."
"Thousands of years?"
"God, thousands of years ago we..."
Apart from ancient Rome and other countries, wasn’t the West a barbaric area thousands of years ago?
Our ancestors were really similar to the monkeys in the trees.
Both the emperor and his ministers felt a little ashamed and annoyed.
"Their emperor is majestic, and his subjects are dignified." The old civil servant looked at the king and his subjects, and compared them with the emperor and his subjects of the Ming Dynasty in his memory. He felt that these emperors and subjects, who were dressed in gorgeous clothes, looked more like a group of wild beasts from the jungle after taking off their clothes.
"If they had not had a powerful enemy in the north, I imagine...their emperor would have sent a fleet south, all the way to Malacca."
"They don't have many warships!" someone questioned.
"And they are no match for our warships."
"As long as we conquer the area around the Spice Islands, we can then attack the Ming Dynasty."
"Take advantage of their old warships and defeat them."
The old civil servant smiled bitterly, "But they have money. In addition, in the battle off the coast of Guangzhou, their firearms were weak. But not long after, they actually imitated our firearms and defeated us with them. They have money, as long as the emperor asks, they can have as many warships as he wants." "But their warships are not suitable for long-distance voyages!"
This is a fatal weakness!
The old civil servant's eyes lit up, "Yes, the Ming people's warships are old. By the way, many years ago, the Ming people's fleet sailed far away, and they have been to the places we discovered later."
The emperor and his ministers: "..."
"It is said that the fleet was huge. If it appeared on our coastline at that time, we would probably..." The old civil servant looked at the emperor and his ministers, "We would probably have no choice but to bow our heads."
"Isn't that the Invincible Armada?"
"At that time, it was invincible."
"And the fleet?" asked the King.
The old civil servant said doubtfully, "It seems... to have disappeared."
……
In the southeast, not only the Portuguese are restless, but the Japanese pirates have also been acting restless recently.
I don't know what happened in Japan, but people on the southeast coast reported that the number of Japanese pirates has increased a lot recently, and they look like newcomers.
The Japanese Kingdom at this moment is just like the Warring States Period in the Central Plains. The emperor is just a symbol, and the princes fight each other... until the monkeys unified the world.
Screams were heard from the lobby behind him. Jiang Qingzhi took a puff of medicinal cigarette and thought about the current situation in Japan.
Conquest is a must!
Eliminate a threat for future generations, and at the same time build a naval base there so that we can move forward at any time.
What island chain? When the Ming Dynasty’s fleet appears on the coastlines of Western countries, that is an island chain.
Conquer, blockade...
The more Jiang Qingzhi thought about it, the more excited he became, but then he sighed.
Warship!
Zheng He was so powerful when he sailed to the West. His fleet was overwhelmingly ahead of that era.
But now it has disappeared.
Zheng He's voyages to the West are seen as both meritorious and demerited by later generations. The merits are that he made great geographical discoveries and brought glory to foreign lands. The demerits are that he made discoveries without conquering them, just like going to a brothel and drooling over the beauties, but refusing to stay the night even though he has a lot of money in his pocket.
There is another question. Zheng He went to the Western Ocean to trade and show off his power along the way...you can show off your power if you want!
Why the hell do we have to wipe out all the pirates along the way?
Most of those pirates are from Central Plains. Wouldn't it be nice to keep them?
This is how places like Lan Fang became Chinese-ruled places. If those pirate groups had continued to exist, those places in the southeast might have become the world of the Ming people.
Hey!
Jiang Qingzhi exhaled the smoke and felt extremely depressed.
Warship!
Warship!
Warship!
This is the biggest problem at the moment.
Thinking of this, Jiang Qingzhi planned to go to the Ministry of War later to ask Lao Wang if Zheng He's navigation drawings and shipbuilding materials were still there.
"Uncle!"
Mo Zhan came out, "It's Chang Songbo."
"Call Lao Zhu!"
Jiang Qingzhi moved his neck.
Afterwards, the two brothers reunited outside the West Garden.
"Is it that beast Lin Ting?" Zhu Xizhong sneered.
"Hmm!" Jiang Qingzhi said, "The dignitaries were quite active in reporting it, but they were too shy to bite back at the literati. This time, I'll give them a reminder."
"go!"
Changsongbo Yang Ting was drinking at home. Several old friends gathered together, cursing Jiang Qingzhi while discussing how to deal with it.
"Uncle." Someone came to report, "Someone is banging on the door!"
"Who is so bold?"
"Yes...it's Chang Wei Bo and Cheng Guo Gong!"
The smiles of several old friends froze as Yang Ting's expression changed drastically.
"This is……"
"Yang Ting!"
Zhu Xizhong's voice came from outside.
"roll!"
Several guards were severely beaten by people around Jiang Qingzhi and Zhu Xizhong.
Then, two people walked in.
"Chang Wei Bo, Cheng Guo Gong..." Yang Ting came over with a smile and bowed, "You two are rare guests... What are you doing, you... Save me!"
The two brothers rushed over, Zhu Xizhong grabbed Yang Ting, Jiang Qingyi punched him in the face, and then kicked him in the crotch...
"Ow!"
Not long after, the news that Changsongber Lin Ting was crippled by Jiang Qingzhi and Zhu Xizhong spread.
"Write a memorial, write a memorial. Those scholars and officials have countless fields and people in their homes. It's their turn!"
The dignitaries in the capital were stunned by this, and memorials to the emperor's name flew into the Western Garden like snowflakes.
(End of this chapter)
