Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 312 The Ryukyu King's Worries
Half an hour later, a warship sailed out of Zeelandia's port in the dark, heading towards Batavia under the cover of darkness.

"My lord, they have already left."

A soldier rushed into Zhao Wen's big tent and told Zhao Wen the news that Putmans and Siviri had left.

Zhao Wen waved his hand, with a smile on his face, "It's fine to go, it's fine to go, we'll see if they take the bait or not."

Mao Chengzuo sat next to the big tent, looked at Zhao Wen's smiling face, and asked suspiciously: "My lord, I really don't understand why you let these people go?"

Zhao Wen sat on the main seat, slapped the table, and explained: "If we don't let them out, how will the Hongyi in Java know about us? If we don't let them out, how will they know that Zeelandia has been taken by us?" gone?"

"It doesn't seem to be good for us to let them know about this." Mao Chengzuo said with some doubts.

Zhao Wen slapped the table, and said calmly: "Why is there no benefit? There are many benefits in this."

As he spoke, Zhao Wen expressed his thoughts.

The reason why Zhao Wen let Putman Shivili leave was to pass the news of the fall of Zeelandia through the mouths of these two people.

And Putmans and Siviri have personally experienced Zhao Wen's firepower, and the two of them will definitely describe Zhao Wen's firepower to Hongyi in Java.

And Zhao Wen's weapons are hundreds of years beyond this era, and Hongyi on Java may not be able to believe what Putmans and Siviri said.

After all, these weapons of Zhao Wen are placed in this era, as long as they have not seen them with their own eyes, not many people believe them, especially Hongyi who is extremely proud now.

If they don't believe it, they will definitely organize a fleet to attack Zhao Wen.

After all, the geographical location of Zeelandia City is very important to Hong Yi.

If they came to attack Zhao Wen, they would hit Zhao Wen's arms, and Zhao Wen would kill as many as they came.

After the killing, Hongyi's troops in Java must be empty, and then they will send troops to attack Java.

If they believed that they would not attack Zhao Wen, then they would definitely shrink their troops to prevent Zhao Wen from attacking them.

And Batavia is their most important stronghold in Southeast Asia, they will definitely shrink their troops to Batavia.

In this way, the strength of other places will inevitably be weakened.

At that time, Zhao Wen will be able to defeat these Hongyi colonies in Southeast Asia one by one, and finally send troops directly to Java, approaching Batavia.Uproot Hongyi's influence in Southeast Asia.

Zhao Wen looked at the people in the big tent and explained his thoughts.

"Okay, my lord, this method is good. Whether Hongyi believes it or not, it is good for us.

Hongyi doesn't believe it, they will definitely send troops to take back the city of Zeelandia, and then we can lay an ambush for them.

If it is believed, they will definitely shrink their forces and gather all their forces in Java.

There will be fewer troops in other places, and Java is thousands of miles away from their country. It is not so easy to deploy troops.

At that time, we can break down one by one. "

Mao Chengzuo's eyes lit up, he patted his thigh and shouted excitedly.

Zhao Daniu and Song Hu also kept applauding Zhao Wen's method.

Zhao Wen let out a long breath, and said slowly: "However, I think the probability of Hongyi coming to attack Zeelandia City is relatively high.

These Hongyi are unscrupulous and arrogant on the sea, and they have never suffered such a big loss here.

With Hongyi's temperament, I think the probability of coming to attack us is higher.

That's enough, let's not talk about this, even if Hongyi wants to attack us, it won't come in a short while, let's deal with the Zeelandia city first. "

……

In the next few days, Zhao Wen and his people were busy cleaning up Zeelandia City.

After 2 people cleaned up for three or four days, the entire city of Zeelandia has been cleaned up.

The broken rubble and collapsed houses in the city have been cleared away.

After cleaning up these things, Zhao Wen sent people back to Phi Island to transport some cement and craftsmen.

When all the craftsmen and cement were delivered, the entire city of Zeelandia became a huge construction site.

This time, the design drawings of Zeelandia City were designed by Zhao Wen himself, and the advantages of the bastion were absorbed in the design.

The entire city is more than four times larger than the original city of Zeelandia, divided into inner city and outer city.

Inside the inner city are buildings such as soldier garrisons, offices, grain warehouses, and ammunition warehouses.

There are shops, streets, common people's houses and other buildings in the outer city.

The walls of the outer city are surrounded by a large number of bastions, each of which is equipped with a large number of weapons.

Almost all the new cities are built with cement, which can effectively resist the bombardment of solid shells in this era.

Near the port, Zhao Wen also built ten coastal defense artillery forts, and these forts were all made of cement.

Standing on the port of Zeelandia City, Zhao Wen looked at the five treasure ships and four sailing battleships floating in the port, and said to Zhao Daniu and others beside him, "Is there anyone among us who can control these four sailing ships?" Battleship people?"

Several people looked at each other, then shook their heads helplessly.

"My lord, the way these four ships are controlled is very different from ours. The sails they use are soft sails, while ours are hard sails.

Hard sails are easy to control, but soft sails are not so difficult to control.In the past few days, our sailors also tried to control it, but they couldn't control it at all. "

Mao Chengzuo pointed at the four sailing battleships, his face full of helplessness.

Zhao Wen wasn't surprised at all. Western-style soft sails are indeed much more difficult to maneuver than Chinese-style hard sails.

And it takes a lot of manpower to hoist the sails.

However, Western-style soft sails have an advantage that Chinese-style hard sails do not have, that is, the speed of Western-style soft sails is much faster than that of Chinese-style hard sails.

On the surface of the sea, the faster the speed, the greater the probability of winning.

The reason why Zhao Wen built treasure ships before was because the speed of these sailing battleships was too fast.

It is not so easy for ordinary ships to catch up with them.

In naval battles, it is very likely that these sailing battleships will take advantage of their speed to defeat them.

The treasure ships are large in size and carry many weapons.Even if a treasure ship loaded with weapons encounters a battleship with sails on the sea, there is no need to be afraid of them at all.

The five treasure ships are lined up side by side, and they are not afraid of these sailing battleships relying on speed to intersperse.

You just need to fight steadily and keep firing shells.

But this shortcoming is also obvious, that is, the speed of the treasure ship is slow, and it cannot catch up with these sailing battleships at all.

Although the sail battleship can be defeated on the sea by virtue of the firepower advantage of the treasure ship, it is not so easy to wipe it out.

Zhao Wen pointed to the four sailing battleships, and said, "We will also build these sailing battleships in the future, and we must step up training for the sailors needed on them."

In Zhao Wen's vision, the status of future treasure ships in the fleet is equivalent to the aircraft carrier in the fleet of later generations.

The sail battleship is equivalent to the frigate in the aircraft carrier fleet.

If an enemy fleet is encountered on the sea, the sail battleship is responsible for surrounding the enemy ship, while the treasure ship is responsible for attacking the enemy ship.

After crushing the enemy fleet, the sailing battleship is responsible for the pursuit.

Combining the two, the combat power formed is unparalleled in this era.

"Aren't there still some sailors left among the red barbarians we captured? These sailors happen to be the sailors on this sailing battleship. Let them teach our sailors when the time comes." Zhao Wen said.

Mao Chengzuo was stunned for a moment, and asked with a puzzled look: "Master, these red-haired ghosts are very treacherous and cunning, let them teach them, can they teach them sincerely?"

Zhao Wen sneered, and said coldly: "If you don't teach them sincerely, let them go to the bottom of the sea to feed the sharks."

Zhao Wen wandered around the port, and then went to Zeelandia City, which was under construction.

Not long after staying at the construction site in Zeelandia City, Zhao Wen returned to the big tent.

Now Zhao Wen has more than 2 soldiers besides the sailors on the treasure ship. These people can't be idle now, and they must be allowed to exert their maximum effect.

That night, Zhao Wen called Song Hu, Zhao Daniu and Mao Chengzuo into the big tent.

Zhao Wen first said: "I plan to take a thousand soldiers to Ryukyu tomorrow, and then Zhao Daniu will follow us."

"My lord, what about us? We have nothing to do now?" Song Hu asked hastily.

"Although Zeelandia City has been taken down by us, who knows if the Javanese Hongyi will attack it.

You people stay here to defend Zeelandia.

In addition to this task, you also need to send troops to develop around the city of Zeelandia.

Most of today's Taiyuan Island is still a barren land. It is necessary to develop these lands as soon as possible to prepare for future immigration. "

Zhao Wen looked at the anxious Song Hu, and explained: "Actually, you don't have to worry, there is still a battle to be fought.

The days of war are still to come, Hongyi will fight, Luzon's Frangji will also fight, and there are North Korea and Japan.There will only be more and more battles in the future. "

Song Hu didn't ask any more questions after hearing this.

"This subordinate will obey your lord's order!" Song Hu clasped his fist at Zhao Wen and said forcefully.

……

The next day, just after dawn, Zhao Wen set off for Ryukyu with Zhao Daniu and a thousand soldiers on the treasure ship Yangwei.

Zhao Wen stood on the deck of the treasure ship Yangwei, looked at the calm sea, and murmured: "Okinawa County, hehe, what a Okinawa County, there will be no more Okinawa County in the future."

The treasure ship sailed on the sea, and seabirds flew by in the sky from time to time.

At the same time, the current Ryukyu king Shangfeng sat in the hall of his palace, watching the dancing girls in the hall.

Although the dancers in the hall were graceful and beautiful, Shang Feng didn't have much joy on his face at this time, but was rather sad.

Since Satsuma Fan captured Ryukyu, the entire Ryukyu has been controlled by Satsuma Fan. Although Ryukyu is still a vassal state of Ming Dynasty on the surface, in fact it has long been in the palm of Sama Fan.

Today's Ryukyu Kingdom is full of Samopan people, who control the big and small things of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

No matter what Shang Feng wanted to do, he had to seek the consent of Samo Fan first.

Moreover, Samopan would take more than half of everything produced in the Ryukyu Kingdom, including the rewards from Ming when they paid tribute to Ming.

When Satsuma sent troops to capture the Ryukyu Kingdom, it was because of the rewards from Ming Dynasty.

During the Jiajing period, the Japanese pirates were rampant, and the two Japanese tribute troops fought for the tribute quota, killing a large number of Ming people, and even rushed to the Jinling city.

The furious Emperor Jiajing directly deprived Wa of his tribute qualifications.

I don't know what's going on, in ancient China, no matter what dynasty or generation it was, as long as someone came to pay tribute, the amount of rewards given by the court in return was astonishing.

Although these things are nothing in the eyes of the court, in the eyes of these people, they are a huge fortune.

And the Ryukyu Kingdom is one of the most loyal vassal states of Ming Dynasty, and the rewards from Ming Dynasty are worth a lot every time.

These rewards naturally aroused the jealousy of the Wa Kingdom, which lost its tribute qualifications. In addition, Satsuma was relatively poor among the Wa Kingdom daimyos, so they sent troops to capture the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Shang Feng watched the singing and dancing in the hall, frowning tightly.

"Hey, I need food again. My Ryukyu Kingdom is an island country, and there is very little land that can grow food. Where can I get food for you?"

Shang Feng let out a long sigh, his face was full of depression.

A few days ago, Samopan sent an order to ask the Kingdom of Ryukyu to provide Samopan with [-] shi of grain, otherwise it would make Samopan look good.

But Satsuma is an island country, and the food grown is not enough to feed itself, so how can they gather [-] shi of grain to provide to Satsuma?

Sitting at the side of the hall, Cai Xu, the prime minister of the Ryukyu Kingdom, suddenly caught sight of Shang Feng's gloomy expression.

Cai Xu stood up, walked in front of Shang Feng, first saluted respectfully, then stood beside Shang Feng, and asked, "Why is Your Majesty unhappy? But the dance arranged by the minister is not to your Majesty's liking?"

Shang Feng waved his hands, heaved a long sigh, and said: "It has nothing to do with Cai Aiqing, today's dance is very beautiful, I like it very much."

Although Shang Feng said so, his face was still depressed.

Cai Xu said, "Is it because of the [-] shi of grain, Your Majesty?"

Shang Feng nodded, and said: "Our place has limited arable land, and the food we grow is not enough for us to eat, how can we provide them with [-] shi?
Wouldn't the [-] shi grains cost lives? "

Cai Xu stroked the beard on his chin, and a smile appeared on his face, "Why doesn't Your Majesty go to Daming to pay tribute? The Ming family is a big land, and it is the kingdom of the heavens. Just a little reward is enough for us."

Shang Feng hesitated, "But we have already paid tribute once this year, and we still went in the name of conferring the crown prince, and the Longevity Festival is still early, what reason do we have to go?"

(End of this chapter)