Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 52 Zheng Sen's Pattern
When he saw Zheng Zhilong's fleet with his own eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang was suddenly disappointed.

"Too small!" he sighed.

"What?" Zheng Zhilong behind him didn't quite understand what Zhu Yuanzhang meant.

"I mean, your boat is too small!"

In Zhu Yuanzhang's simple and unpretentious concept, greatness is justice, and such a petty warship made the battle plan that he had already thought a little bit discounted.

In the face of Chen Youliang's Dafuchuan, he had suffered a lot. If it wasn't for Chen Youliang's underestimation of the enemy and the carelessness of his own strategy, it would be hard to say whether he was the one who founded the country now.

Since then, he has been obsessed with building large ships, and now in the early Ming Dynasty, shipyards all over the world are trying to make sea ships bigger.

According to the records of the Ming Dynasty history books he read, during the Yongle period, [-] large ships were indeed built, which could even run horses and hold thousands of soldiers.

That's the real treasure ship.

"Your Majesty, the warship is too big to be easily used as a target. Small boats are more flexible in battle!" Zheng Zhilong forced himself to honor his fleet.

"That's true, but it's on the river, isn't it?"

"When the sea is flat, isn't the bigger the warship the better?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

Seeing that Zheng Zhilong still wanted to defend himself, Zheng Sen hurriedly said helplessly, "Father, Your Majesty defeated Chen Youliang's 20 navy with 60 in the Battle of Poyang Lake. When it comes to naval battles, you may not be as good as your Majesty. So stop showing off!"

Zheng Sen found that his father was completely suppressed in front of the Hongwu Emperor, and it was impossible to continue like this.

People came all the way, and the first thing they did was to see the boat, obviously to use them.

If the momentum is suppressed, when negotiating later, it will be passive.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zheng Sen, who was in his 20s, in surprise, and laughed loudly: "Mr. Jinghai, your son is amazing!"

"His Majesty looks down on him too much, they are just clever, not worth mentioning!" Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but evoke a smile on his face, but his face was full of modesty.

"Your Majesty, we are rough people, since you asked, let's tell the truth!"

"We used to be a businessman, but you also know that in this world, overseas pirates are rampant, red-haired ghosts are arrogant and domineering, honest businessmen without their own weapons can only lose all their money, and we can only develop. fleet."

"At the beginning, we just wanted to protect ourselves!"

"But..., as our business grows bigger and bigger, some people treat us as a thorn in the flesh, and they want to pounce on us as a big fat man and take a bite!"

"No way, our boat gang can only get bigger and bigger, and we have always achieved the scale it is now."

"Now, huh... To be honest with Your Majesty, our boat gang will indeed do some deeds of killing people and stealing goods, but what we kill are all the merchant ships of those bastard red-haired ghosts, and those who have sons and no ass to raise Japanese pirates. business."

"Your Majesty asked why we are using this kind of boat."

"To tell you the truth, we really don't have the ability to build that kind of treasure ship of [-] materials during Zheng He's voyages to the West."

"But even if we can make it, we really won't use it."

"It has been 200 years since Zheng He's voyages to the West, and the firearms of red-haired ghosts have developed greatly. Nowadays, the speed of ships on the sea cannot be slower than that of red-haired ghosts. Send to death."

"So our boats are all bird boats of [-] materials, the largest of which are [-] materials. This kind of boat is fast enough to run away when it encounters the red-haired ghost's warship."

"If you run into their merchant ships, hehe..."

Zheng Zhilong didn't say anything further, but everyone present understood what he meant.

"We got it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang walked to the side of the boat and looked at the sea, and said solemnly: "We are at the door of our own house, and we still can't defeat these barbarian warships in a head-to-head battle. We can only hide in Tibet like mice, bullying the soft and fearing the hard, right?"

"Yes!" Without waiting for Zheng Zhilong to speak, Zheng Sen spoke directly behind him.

"No one's boat is fast, and no one's cannon shoots far and is powerful, so can't you just be a mouse?" Zheng Sen said again.

"Don't be rude!" Zheng Zhilong reprimanded.

"Actually, it can still be fought. Half a month ago, I led the fleet to fight the Dutch East India Company head-on and sank three of their large ships." Zheng Zhilong said with a smile.

"If it weren't for us being familiar with hydrology, and the big ship that led them was scorched and stranded, and then let the fireboats attack, how could we have won the battle?"

"That's it, taking advantage of the right time and place, our brothers still have more than [-] casualties, ten times as many as others!" Zheng Sen mercilessly exposed the scars hidden by his father.

"You evil son, are you trying to piss off your father?" Zheng Zhilong was furious.

"What he said was the truth, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked quietly.

"Yes...!" Zheng Zhilong was taken by Zhu Yuanzhang's aura, he hesitated for a while, and finally chose to tell the truth.

"Hey, if we don't come here, I really don't know that the barbarians have become so rampant, and the dignified China has weakened to such a point."

"His Majesty!"

"The grass-roots are bold, and the court must pay attention to this, and send skilled craftsmen as soon as possible to study and imitate various techniques of Xiyi."

"Nowadays, we can still fight with red-haired ghosts by virtue of the right time and place, but the various firearm technologies of those Xiyi people are being updated very quickly. "Zheng Sen knelt on the ground and said in a sonorous and steady voice.

"What's your name!" Zhu Yuanzhang finally turned his head to look at the young man in his 20s.

"Caomin Zheng Sen!"

"it is good!"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed suddenly: "Get up, come back to Nanjing with us this time, let's find you a princess to marry, how about that?"

Zheng Sen: "...!"

"Why is this Hongwu Emperor's brain circuit so strange? He is talking about national affairs and the future of the nation. Why did he suddenly turn his head and tell himself about his daughter-in-law?"

Seeing Zheng Sen kneeling there dumbfounded, not knowing how to speak, Zheng Zhilong was immediately anxious.

"Thank you now!"

"You son of a bitch really want to piss off your father and me!"

"Jing Haigong, we also have another rich gift for you!"

Suddenly Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zheng Zhilong again.

"What wealth?" Zheng Zhilong looked confused.

"Would you like to mention the position of the duke further and become a prince who splits the earth and seals the frontier?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked seductively in his tone.

"Come on!" Zheng Sen, who was kneeling on the ground, instantly became enlightened, knowing that the Great Emperor Hongwu had been paving the way for so long.

"What does Your Majesty want us to do?"

"But if you are instructed, you will do whatever you want." Zheng Zhilong is not stupid, he understands that things are not that simple.

"It's very simple, use the boat to help us transport the cavalry to the north, and we have to dig out the old nest of the Qing Dynasty." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)