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"Long live my husband, Chen Yourong, long live my emperor!" Chen Yourong knelt down and kowtowed to pay homage to the emperor.

"Give him a seat!" Zhu Youxiao put down the test paper and turned He Xi's attention to this veteran who was not very famous in history but was actually very awesome.

During Shen Yourong's military career for more than 40 years, he has been guarding the coast of Fujian for decades.

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

Not only that, Chen Yourong also supported North Korea and fought in Liaodong, and made many achievements over the past decades.

But even such a general with outstanding military achievements suffered repeated setbacks under the Ming Dynasty's official ecology of emphasizing literature and suppressing martial arts.

If it weren't for Xiong Tingbi's three-party arrangement strategy, Chen Yourong would be just the deputy general of Shandong stationed in Dengzhou.

Who is the civil servant I can trust, and who is the military general who can wipe out Jiannu for me?

Following the troubles of these two problems, Zhu Youxiao expressed the doubts of "Who is the famous general who conquered the sea for me?"

Then, Zhu Youxiao was sadly discovering that there were very few naval generals in the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention conquering the sea, facing the increasingly powerful pirates, the Ming Navy could no longer deal with it.

It won't take long, maybe in just five, six, seven or eight years, the maritime merchant and pirate group led by Zheng Zhilong will rise and become difficult to control, and will be recruited and entrusted with the banner of the Ming Navy.

In Zhu Youxiao's opinion, it is really a shame that a country's navy cannot defeat its own pirates.

The maritime merchant and pirate group can rise and dominate the Chinese Sea. Why can't the current Ming navy?

Money, no money! I'm selling the bad guy, I kill Fu Jihai, can I sell the palace?

Of course, Zhu Youxiao was ruthless and showed his determination, but he didn't have to take his wives to live in a broken house.

Chen Yourong didn't know what the emperor was thinking. Seeing that the emperor was smiling but not speaking, he was thinking randomly.

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

Chen Yourong was stunned for a moment, with a puzzled face, but after thinking about it, he answered truthfully: "I have dealt with Hongmaoyi in Penghu, and I know a little bit."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "I have read "Wanli Yehuo Chapter. Red-haired Yi" and have also read the report of Fujian local officials. He said that the red-haired ship is strong and the cannon is powerful, so Chen Qing cannon can tell in detail."

In the description of Fujian local officials, the large ship that describes the Red-Fao Yi is 50 zhang (165 meters) long, which is even greater than Zheng He's treasure ship (44 zhang), which Zhu Youxiao believes is exaggerated.

But he also knew that the Ming Navy was indeed behind and declined.

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

Judging from the equipment on the Ming Navy warship, it seems even more obvious.

Even the largest great blessing ship at that time, according to the records of "Wu Beizhi", there were only one red cannon and six thousand jin Folang Ji. The remaining were small cannons such as bowl guns.

According to Xu Guangqi and Tang Ruowang's story, the few red barbarian cannons used by the Ming army's navy were salvaged on Western shipwrecks. According to the standards of Western barbarians, they were called the eighteen-pound cannons.

On the warships of European naval powers, the eighteen-pound cannons are only medium, twenty-four-pound and thirty-six-pound cannons are equipped with a lot.

As for the Fran aircraft commonly equipped by the Ming Navy, even the thousand-pound Fran aircraft cannon has been abandoned by Western warships due to its airtightness.

"The red barbarian boat is about fifteen or sixteen meters long and three or four meters wide. It is called a plywood. It has two to three layers inside, and it is all equipped with large guns facing outwards. The large guns are extremely sharp and the human ships should be crushed. It is because of the great skills of the poisonous sea... "

Listening to Chen Yourong's story, Zhu Youxiao looked slightly.

The ship is forty or fifty meters long and more than ten meters wide. The cannons are about thirty or forty, which should be similar. But this is not the main battleship of Red Maverick Yi, such as the sea coachman and the rising star Johnniu.

The descriptions of those civil servants are too exaggerated. They can fire artillery at any time, and they are decayed for more than ten miles. Do you think they are rocket launchers from later generations?

"What is the largest warship of my Ming Navy?" Zhu Youxiao signaled the palace servants to serve tea, and asked while taking advantage of the pause of Shen Yourong.

Chen Yourong hurriedly put down the tea bowl and replied: "The largest warship today is a Fuba with four hundred materials, more than ten feet long. The head of the ship is equipped with a large cannon, a thousand jin Folang machine and a three-door gun..."

During the Yongle period, the Ming Navy reached its peak in the voyage to the West, and was well-deserved as the world's number one, and an unparalleled huge fleet.

But then it declined rapidly. By the time of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Daxia, the deputy chief of the Ministry of War, would have important strategic value. The navigation data obtained by Zheng He's fleet had been destroyed for decades of sacrifice and was praised by all the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty, Zeng Yiben rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and had a fleet of thousands of black-tailed ships, which surpassed the power of the Ming army's navy, and was rampant in the coastal states such as Tide, Lei, and Qiong.

In order to subdue Zeng Yiben, twenty-nine counties along the southeast coast plan to build twenty-four boat-sealing warships 15 to 17 meters long and covered with a layer of iron armor within half a year.

In addition, more than 100 Dafu ships are planned to be built. 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 crest did not last long before it began to decline again.

Large ships stopped building, island bases were abandoned, and the contraction policy caused heavy damage to the navy, and the sea defense line was crushed back to the coast from the far sea and even overseas oceans.

When the Ming army navy gradually could only maintain offshore patrols and conduct operations such as catching and investigating private matters, some maritime merchants and pirates had already begun to equip large plywood ships and Western barbarian cannons.

This is not good, this is absolutely not good!

If you want to save trouble and money, just wait for a few years to recruit Zheng Zhilong and ask them to change their banner, and the Ming Navy will become stronger again.

But that is the ability to be loyal to the emperor and patriotism, like a commander of the Ming army, is that a way to make huge profits for the Ming Dynasty?

The result is obvious. The Zheng family dominated the commercial routes and was rich enough to rival the country. The Ming Dynasty's treasury could run rats, but Chongzhen was still so poor.

If the armed forces that cannot be firmly grasped in his hands also hinder Zhu Youxiao from seizing maritime wealth, what is the purpose?
Chapter completed!