Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 128 The Naval Showdown Begins 【Seeking Monthly Ticket】

"Why not?"

Zhu Yuanzhang put down the memorial in his hand, and took the four sets of exercises handed over by Zhu Biao to check them one by one.

"In our hands, eunuchs can't mess with politics!"

"But there are also problems with the exercises."

"Biao'er, go back and tell Zhang Sanfeng that we need to practice this exercise to the end so that it can restore the body's incompleteness!"

"No matter how long you need to practice, you must have this, and it must be true, understand?" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Father means to give those people a hope?" Zhu Biao understood in seconds.

"That's right, why didn't we use eunuchs to make great use of them before? It's because these people are hopeless people. Although they are loyal to us, once they have power, they will abuse their power in the name of imperial power and destroy the world. We finally established the rules."

"This is the last thing we can tolerate."

"But if they can have a hope, or belief, it will be completely different!"

"At that time, they will become more motivated and more disciplined than anyone else!"

"It's like Zheng He of the Yongle Dynasty in the original history!"

"I understand!"

Zhu Biao smiled and said: "Actually, this matter is not difficult, and there is no need to go back and discuss it with Zhang Sanfeng!"

"Because as long as you reach the level of Martial Saint, it is not difficult to achieve this..."

"It just so happens that the Sunflower Book is the one with the fastest cultivation speed among the four martial arts."

When Zhu Biao left, Zhu Yuanzhang held the Sunflower Book in his hand, and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

He is thinking about a problem.

Against the background of such great changes as the revival of aura, will the future political structure of the Ming Empire have to be adjusted gradually?

Civil servants are not strong enough, how to maintain a balance with generals?

The eunuchs practice martial arts, so what arrangements will they make in the future?
What kind of political identity should be given to them?
These problems do not seem to be problems now, and they are likely to become the source of disasters in the future.

For example, asking eunuchs to practice martial arts, I and Zhu Biao will definitely be able to live with it.

But if the emperor behind does not know martial arts, or the martial arts talent is too low.

And all the eunuchs are martial arts masters.

As the group of people closest to the emperor, would these eunuchs, like the eunuchs who held military power in the Eastern Han and late Tang Dynasties, monopolize power, and even abolish the emperor at will?

Will this pose a direct threat to imperial power?

In fact, if you want to solve these problems, the most simple and rude way is to live forever. In this way, when the problem appears, you can solve it directly for him, and everything will be fine.

At that time, Daming will naturally prosper forever.

But Zhu Yuanzhang knew that this was impossible. Although the spirit energy recovered now, the probability of his lifespan would increase, but it did not mean that he could live forever.

Everyone has a day of birth, old age, sickness and death, and he is the same.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very open about this.

So the future of Daming still rests on the shoulders of the prince and grandson.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who has read the history of Ming Dynasty, deeply realized that he could not solve all the problems of Ming Dynasty. When Zhu Biao and even his grandson Zhu Xiongying succeeded to the throne, various problems would definitely arise.

Perhaps instead of thinking about the future political system, what I should do is to cultivate good heirs.

As long as the heir is good enough, all the problems will naturally not be a problem.

"Big grandson!"

Thinking of this, a figure suddenly appeared in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes.

If you say a thousand things and ten thousand things, in the end it will still fall on the education of the grandson, which is the most important thing.

After thinking about it, Zhu Yuanzhang temporarily put aside the headache of improving the political system, and couldn't help thinking about Zhu Xiongying's future teacher candidates.

"Report, Master!"

"The enemy fleet is found, and the visual distance is less than ten miles away from us!"

It was while Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting in Fengtian Hall thinking about the education of the future emperor's eldest grandson.

The plane of the late Qing Dynasty.

Chang Yuchun led the Ming Navy Fleet and finally encountered the Eight-Power Allied Forces Fleet head-on in the Taiwan Strait.

This naval battle is very important to Western countries such as Ming Dynasty and Britain and France.

Because he is about who will get the maritime hegemony in the Far East in the next few decades.

So both sides are extremely cautious about this.

The Eight-Nation United Fleet did not rush into Guangzhou Bay again. Its first move was to blockade the Taiwan Strait, so as to cut off the connection between Ming Dynasty and Taiwan Island, and then occupied Penghu and Taiwan as backup bases.

Chang Yuchun naturally refused to agree to this, and immediately led the navy to meet him.

The two sides set up a battle in the huge Taiwan Strait, obviously intending to engage in a frontal decisive battle.

The commander of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the British Duke Mond, is naturally full of confidence.

There are more than 200 ironclad ships, which is unprecedented and unique in the history of the entire world.

He didn't think that these yellow-skinned monkeys who didn't know what industry was 20 years ago could defeat his more than 200 ironclad warships.

"Marshal, how do we fight this time?"

"What's the plan?" Beside Chang Yuchun, Zhu Xi, who had just completed the purge of Japan and led his battleship back to the team, asked expectantly.

"No plan."

"It's just to press over and kill them head-on!" Chang Yuchun smiled confidently.

"This... can it work?" Zhu Xi hesitated.

"You have been performing missions in the late Qing Dynasty before. You didn't know that our warships have been upgraded once."

"Soon you will see how strong our Ming's navy is now!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Finally, when the two sides were five miles apart, they fired at the same time. The artillery roared, staggered past, and then bombarded each other's armored armor.

After a round of bombardment, the fleets of both sides were basically unscathed.

"Keep getting closer, surround yourself!"

"Raise the elevation of the artillery and hit their hulls!" Commander Mond of the Eight-Power Allied Forces was not surprised by this. The bulletproof ability of the ironclad ship is so suffocating.

Regarding this point, they have already discovered it on the European battlefield.

Britain is already researching a more powerful gunpowder, and when that gunpowder comes out, it will be able to break the current embarrassing situation where the iron armor defense cannot be broken.

It's a pity that that kind of gunpowder has not yet been developed and cannot be used in this battle.

But their fleet of armored ships was three times that of Daming's iron-clad ships, and the opponent dared to confront him head-on, which immediately surprised Mond, who was experienced in naval warfare.

The rules of naval warfare are very simple, caliber is justice, and firepower is king.

He understands very well that as long as his fleet can form an encirclement circle, the opponent will be bombarded by him to the point where there is not even a scum left.

"Change the Gao Rong Spirit Talisman shell!"

"Continue to bombard their armor!" At the same time, Chang Yuchun took advantage of the order.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Another round of shelling rang out from the Ming warship.

"Is there something wrong with these wise people's brains?"

"Iron armor can't be broken by shells, haven't they discovered it yet?" Mond sneered.

(End of this chapter)