Lord of Ming Dynasty

Our 350-ton warships cost 35 Chinese yuan each. Zheng Chenggong bought ten standard ships of about 31 tons and 860 Chinese yuan each. They plan to buy fifteen 29-ton warships. 28 yuan a ship, they are going to buy 24 warships of 38 tons, 18 one, they are buying 56 warships of 180 tons, 11 one, they are going to buy 120 ships, 180 tons of warships Warships, [-] ships, they want to buy [-] ships, [-] ships, [-] ships for [-]-ton inland warships, [-] ships for [-]-ton traffic ships, [-] ships.

At the same time, they also want to buy 960 Daming Fuchuan from our country, including 36 thousand tons, 8000 Huaxia yuan each, 5000 680 ton Dafu ships, 3000 yuan each, 2 tons and [-] yuan. One ship, [-] yuan each, [-] tons, eighty ships, [-] yuan each, [-]-ton Dafu ship, four ships, priced at [-] yuan.

In addition, they bought fifty 8000-ton Guangzhou ships, priced at 200 yuan each, and [-] other small boats, priced at different prices, with a total price of [-] million Chinese yuan. "

Hearing this, Zhang Qiang was startled, what is this for?

Buying so many warships, 510 seven warships, this will take most of the Huaxia Kingdom's fleet, let alone fifty Guangzhou Ships, do they really need so many ships?

In the past few years, because of the need for development and economic development, the shipyards of the Huaxia Army have been converted to build Dafu Ships, Guangzhou Shipyards, and these Ming merchant ships. After several years of rapid development, there are now 2000 large and small warships. There are [-] and [-] warships above [-] tons, and [-] warships below [-] tons. Such a huge Even if the fleet is going to fight against the European maritime powers, if the two sides' skills and tactics are not too far apart, and the speed of the ships is not more than two knots apart, basically they can fight to the death of the two European maritime powers.

With such strength, in the Far East and Asia, the kings and hegemons existed, and no one dared to provoke them. Even in Europe, several maritime powers would not dare to provoke them at will.

Some time ago, because of the garrison of the Lu State, it supported the Lu State with nearly 360 warships under [-] tons. Later, the Lu State purchased nearly [-] thousand-ton warships and [-] three-ton warships from the Huaxia Kingdom. For warships of [-] tons and below, the total strength of [-] ships has dropped a bit, with a decrease of [-] ships. The Lu Kingdom itself has nearly [-] large and small ships that are not as good as the Huaxia Kingdom.

However, in terms of firepower, speed, tonnage, navigation methods, and combat methods, the Huaxia Army is at least 20 years behind. It is equivalent to a little higher than the Ming Kingdom before its demise, but it is a generation behind the Huaxia Army.

Due to the battle with the Huaxia Army, due to the effect of time, these ships were aging and lost. Nearly [-] ships were damaged in battle, and only [-] ships remained. Including the ships purchased from the Huaxia Army, there are still more than [-] ships.

When fighting the Japanese, thanks to the support of the Qing Dynasty and the Taixi people, even though they had the upper hand, they lost nearly [-] ships, and still had a huge fleet of more than [-] ships.

But when Hong Chengchou was alive, because he bought the old ships of the Huaxia Army, he deeply felt that the strength of his kingdom's navy was too weak, and he wanted to update it, so he sold nearly [-] ships refitted from Dafu ships to merchants in the state of Lu. There are some businessmen, including Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong kept some good ones for himself, and sold the bad ones to Han businessmen in Nanyang.

In this way, their fleet finally dropped a thousand ships, and there were about 600 ships, and more than 100 ships were changed to the Lu Kingdom Caravan trading with the Huaxia Kingdom. In this way, the total force of the Lu State Navy still retains more than 500 ships. battleship.

Later, the three princes, together with the split of Feng Quan, caused more than 500 ships to be divided up, and more than 100 ships were lost in the battle with each other. In the end, the third prince obtained 120 ships by virtue of his own precautions. Just got dozens of ships.

Later, because Feng Quan took refuge in Zhang Qiang and became the administrator of Kyushu Island in Japan and the prefect of the Xinlu Prefecture Autonomous Territory of the Chinese Kingdom, Zhang Qiang allocated nearly 200 small boats under [-] tons from the Yangtze River Naval Guard Fleet for them to carry out Inshore guards, fishermen fishing, use.When the battle with Japan became intense, fortifications were built on Kyushu Island in Xinlu Prefecture, and Zhang Qiang allocated nearly a hundred ships of all sizes from the Yangtze River Fleet to him, or sold them to the second prince. In fact, there are not many ships left in the division fleet, only a mere [-] ships.

It is used to patrol and arrest enemy ships on the Yangtze River, or to deal with the invasion of enemy warships on the Yangtze River Estuary. Since the Yangtze River Estuary is also stationed at the Yangtze River Estuary, there are naval warships of the First Fleet that are higher in tonnage than their remaining warships, so the Yangtze River Navy fleet is equal to It is the security fleet, and it has withdrawn from the ranks of the Huaxia Army Navy.

The 450 warships and warships in their navy are gone, which means that there are another 450 warships and warships in the Huaxia Navy.

There are 710 warships less than 900 warships, and the total number of warships of the Huaxia Navy has dropped by more than [-].

When Zheng Keshuang came last time, he took away 680 large and small warships, and there were more than a dozen warships, so now the Huaxia Army only has [-] warships and warships.

However, due to maintenance and non-combat damage, at least [-] warships and warships of the Huaxia Army cannot play their own defensive role, so the Huaxia Army currently only has [-] warships and warships.

If Zheng Chenggong took away more than 500 warships and warships this time, what ability does the Huaxia Army have to defend the Huaxia Army's current [-]-kilometer coastline and nearly [-] nautical miles of waters?

What's more, they had to take away 250 cargo transport ships belonging to the navy, which caused a supply and defense crisis for the navy of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Chapter 758 An Extremely Difficult Choice

Zheng Chenggong wanted to take away so many warships and merchant ships of the Huaxia Army Navy, which would have little impact on merchant ships. The Huaxia Kingdom is now in a state of war because it has cut off trade with the Thais and Westerners. Although the two sides have not opened up, at sea, There was another fight on the ground, but they also encountered each other to the death, but the scale was smaller. The main battle was concentrated on the sea trade channel, and it was smuggled by some merchants from other kingdoms.

There are no friendly kingdoms around the Huaxia Kingdom, and they are all in a state of war or unfriendly. Before, a transfer station of Lu State was set up, and it was disturbed by Hong Chengchou's death and Lu State's attack on Japan. Of course, this is half of Hong Chengchou. Zhang Qiang of the Huaxia Kingdom was responsible for half of the blame for his death.

Because he wants to interfere with Japan's development, if it is allowed to study for decades, will Japan's nature not become stronger?Even if he wasn't an opponent of a strong man of the Huaxia Kingdom, he was still a headache. Therefore, Zhang Qiang found the Lu State and started a proxy war.

Although the Japanese have not been wiped out now, the Japanese have lost 800 million people, Kyushu Island 300 million, Shikoku Island 400 million, and the original Lu State attacked and the Japanese lost at least 100 million people. It seems that of the 30 casualties in Lu, 18 were Southeast Asian and Nanyang natives, 11 were Han Chinese, and the remaining [-] were actually Japanese.

There were not many casualties in the State of Lu, because the Han people were the main body, and the Japanese were very few. It looked like a few thousand people, and the total population was only 40 to [-]. The Han Chinese, as well as the natives of Nanyang and Southeast Asia, have a total population of [-].

This kind of population died at least 6 to 1 people during the scuffle between the four forces, and then 4 people died in the slow battle, and about 30 to 30 people fled the country of Lu, and the remaining population was only [-]. Wan was also divided by the four Lu kingdom forces, a family of [-] to [-], a family of [-] to [-], a family of [-] to [-], and a family of [-] people. Among them, Feng Quan got more people here because he was the prime minister and had access to the bottom population. There are more officials and officials, so they took away a lot, and later accepted a lot of people, so his Han population is still quite large.

The third prince is the least, the eldest prince is slightly inferior, and the second prince is in the middle, around [-] to [-].

Feng Quan is still the largest here now, with a population of about 20. The third prince has 2 to [-], and the eldest prince has gradually decreased to less than [-] to [-]. The second prince's Han people died the most. The Han people are the most, because the Han people still believe in the Han people, and now there are only more than [-] Han people, because the Han people in the occupied areas have been sent to prison camps and transported to Qiongdao.

The newly transported population was selected from the original Han population in Yunnan-Guizhou Prefecture, about 800 to [-] people. For Yunnan-Guizhou Prefecture with a population of [-] million, it did not hurt the bones. Many precious places in Yunnan and Guizhou have been planted for other poor people, and the pressure of survival has also been reduced for these places.

It has improved the living standards and survival efficiency of the people in Yunnan and Guizhou.

These populations replaced the original Han Chinese group in Shikoku Island. At the same time, the Huaxia Kingdom took away 55 land reclamation officials from Hubei Province, 100 land reclamation officials from Huguangzhou, [-] from Henan Province, and [-] from Anhui Prefecture. The first phase of the official training school took away more than [-] new-style officials, and stuffed [-] Han officials from the Yu Haibo family who had lost power in the struggle, and were transferred to Shikoku Island. There were also nearly a thousand family members who followed them.

In this way, Prime Minister Yan will have [-] Han people and officials under his command, and he can carry out the management methods he is familiar with as officials of the Ming Dynasty. Used in Nyos County.

Along with the arrival of these people, there are four thousand Huaxia Army Navy and Land Warfare garrisons. The Huaxia Army has set up a certain amount of garrisons for the autonomous territories of Xinlu Mansion, the main island of the Lu Kingdom, and Amami Island, the main island of the Ryukyu Kingdom of the third prince. Hui was responsible for commanding these garrisons.

His official position was promoted to Vice Admiral of the Navy, under the management of the First Fleet. At the same time, he was directly responsible to Wei Wuji of the Ministry of National Defense, contacted Jin Qi of the Military Intelligence Department, and cooperated with Huang Tao of the Civil Affairs Department in these places.

These places are mainly two autonomous territories, Xinlu Prefecture and Shikoku Island.

Feng Quan's place is basically considered stable. Although the Han population is not large, the Japanese people suffered a lot of casualties due to the war. Basically, 6 or 6 people were killed or injured, and [-] or [-] people became soldiers. The population base is very good, and the mass base is also good. The Japanese people here basically accepted the rule of Xinlu Mansion Feng Quan, and gradually realized that Xinlu Mansion is actually the newly established regime of Ming Dynasty on the opposite coast, the territory of the Huaxia Kingdom. For the Japanese people who have studied and worshiped the Han people for thousands of years, it is very easy to accept this kind of rule. They have now regarded themselves as Chinese people.

Some extreme samurai still miss the rule of Japan, but after all, they are few in number, and it is impossible to cause a storm. Feng Quan is a ruthless man, who killed the prefectures of Kagoshima, Nagasaki and Miyazaki with a population of 100 million. There were only 60 million people left, and Zhang Qiang got rid of more than [-] million people. The latter population was actually the population who escaped from Shikoku Island. The population of Shikoku Island was captured and attracted by the second prince.

With the sneaking in of the Ministry of Civil Affairs spies, those extreme Japanese warriors and the remnants of the old daimyo generals were basically monitored. Once Zhang Qiang reached an agreement with Zheng Keshuang, Kagoshima and other three counties with a population of 80 people will be The population will be greatly reduced, and then it will be filled by Zhang Qiang's newly conquered Shandong, Anhui, and Yunnan prefectures.

When he was shocked that Zheng Chenggong actually wanted to get so many warships and warships from the Huaxia Kingdom, Zhang Qiang's thoughts flew so far, and he thought so much, but after all, there must be a solution. Coming over, in the eyes of the ministers waiting for his decision and the officials of Zheng Keshuang's team, Zhang Qiang thought of the Dutch [-]-ton British Galen ship that Zheng Keshuang once told him had novel tactics and excellent performance. The speed and tactics of warships were no longer enough to suppress the Taixi people, so he decided to agree to Zheng Keshuang's proposal, because he wanted to study new warships, warships for the Huaxia Kingdom's warships, and warships to upgrade.

The Huaxia Army has not improved its technical level for a long time.

Especially artillery and warships.

"How much are these warships and warships, as well as merchant ships and fishing boats?" Zhang Qiang asked Zhou Congee.

Zhou Porridge counted, "Some of these warships and warships need to be repaired, and some need to replace their artillery and some ammunition. The total value of the ships is 500 million Chinese yuan, and the total value of the old artillery and ammunition on board is three Thousands of 800 million Chinese yuan, the total value of repair and replacement of damaged or missing ones is 800 million Chinese yuan, and the price of merchant ships and fishing boats has been reduced a lot. We position the latter two items as part of the total value, so they are not needed Pay another 800 million.

The sailors have to equip themselves, and they drive back by themselves. If they want to recruit some Han Chinese sailors, they are only allowed to recruit 2000 people. If the other manpower is not enough, they can only find a way by themselves.

And they couldn't help it, they didn't bring enough people to bring back more than 900 ships, and it wasn't safe for us to provide services, so we reached an agreement. "

Zhang Qiang looked at Zheng Keshuang. It was really troublesome. They recruited [-] Han Chinese sailors and fishermen from the Huaxia Kingdom, which reduced the number of Han people in the Huaxia Kingdom by another [-]. What Zhang Qiang pays most attention to is the population of Han blood, which is the basis of rule. , he didn't want to give any, even though they paid for it.

Zhang Qiang asked Zheng Keshuang, "How many Han Chinese are there in your country?"

Zheng Keshuang returned: "About 18 southern Hans, 50 northern Hans, 30 Nanyang Hans, and 80 Southeast Asian Hans. The total population is now [-]. If you add the [-] Japanese and Japanese Hans brought back last time If there is a population of about [-]. Therefore, where there is a shortage of food, we need to buy some food to bring back this time.”

This is another headache. Although the population of the Huaxia Kingdom is close to 3000 million, there are also the native population of Southeast Asia, the native population of Nanyang, the population of Japanese common people, and the population of chieftains who have not yet naturalized. These populations account for 4000 to 1000 million people. The population in the core area is the purest Han population, and the naturalized population is almost [-] million. The rest are still waiting for those populations to change their minds, educate the next generation, and transform the third generation.

If it weren't for Baodao Prefecture, Annan Prefecture, Huzhou, Guangzhou, and Yangzhou, which have resumed production capacity, it would be impossible to feed such a large population. In the past, there was a lot of food because of the small population, and now the population has several million Japanese People need millions of grains per year to support them. It can be said that the grains of the Huaxia Kingdom are not too much due to the growth of population and region.

Forget about supplying such a small population, even 200 million people are more than enough, but it is definitely not a good thing for the food reserves of the Huaxia Kingdom. of.

Forget it, Zhang Qiang is not going to support those Japanese people, and Zheng Keshuang talked to himself about buying people this time, trying to enrich the population of Australia. Let the Japanese population be sold to him.

Dilute the population of the Huaxia Kingdom as much as possible, let them have more land, produce enough for them to eat, and enough for the Huaxia Kingdom to fight or reserve.

Wait, the warships, warships, merchant ships, and other ships of the Guanghua Xia Fleet reported by Zhou Porridge just now reached 5000 million Chinese yuan, while the money Zheng Keshuang brought this time was only 800 million Chinese yuan. Even after repaying the loan and deducting the 200 million already sold, that’s only 600 million, which is still far from 5000 million. Even if they brought in [-] tons of Australian iron ore and [-] tons of bird droppings, that’s not enough ah.

"When are you going to send us iron ore?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Chapter 759 Respect for Veterans

"When will you send us iron ore and guano?" Zhang Qiang asked Zheng Keshuang.