Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 708 Friendship?fart is not

This Jin Yiwei from Nanyang is just an official of a hundred households. He has never seen such a battle. The current emperor and all the cabinet members are waiting for his answer, so that Jin Yiwei, who has experienced the turbulent wind and waves in Nanyang, is also very nervous. .

After Jin Yiwei's stammering explanation, everyone finally understood what happened to Nanyang Zheng's family.

The cause of the matter started with a pirate incident. Although the Zheng family lost the backing of Daming, they also lost the business of Daming.

But the skinny camel is bigger than the horse. Relying on decades of capital accumulation and sufficient reserves of warships and naval forces, it is still a tyrant in Nanyang. Otherwise, all the European powers would not allow the Zheng family to join the food sharing Among the arrays in Southeast Asia.

Although Zheng Zhilong set the Zheng family headquarters in Sulu, Nanyang, at least half of his business comes from Japan, and since the Tokugawa family issued the decree of closing the country, they only allow the Zheng family to do maritime trade with Japan.

Even the goods from the Netherlands must go through the hands of the Zheng family, which makes the Netherlands, which already dominates the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, feel like a thorn in its throat.

Two months ago, Zheng's merchant ship loaded with cargo sailed from Japan to Sulu, and was attacked by pirates while passing through the Goto waters (Okinawa).

The cruel pirates not only detained all the cargo ships, but also killed all the more than 200 sailors on the eight large ships, and hung their heads on the side of the ships for seabirds to eat.

Zheng Zhilong was naturally furious when he heard this. He has dominated Nanyang for more than 20 years. In Nanyang, let alone being robbed, even if he encountered pirates, he would hide away from Zheng's ship.

Afterwards, it was found that the person who robbed the Zheng family's merchant ship was the fish who slipped through the net when the Ming court exterminated the pirates in the Daming sea area - Hunjiang Longhou San.

For so many years, the Zheng family has pampered and pampered them in Anping, Quanzhou, and they have long forgotten about Hou San. How could they have known that they were beaten up by a gangster just after they moved.

Zheng Zhilong worried that if left alone, the Zheng family's prestige in the Sea of ​​Japan and Daming Sea would be greatly damaged in the future, and even more pirates would covet the merchant ships of the Zheng family in the future. He decided to lead the Zheng family's navy to the Japanese sea to destroy Hou San as an example. .

But this decision was opposed by Zheng Hongkui, the fourth son of the Zheng family, and Zheng Sen. Zheng Hongkui believed that the current strength of the Zheng family was not enough to deter the pirates in the Sea of ​​Japan or even the Daming Sea.

Moreover, rashly transferring the navy to the Sea of ​​Japan will lead to the emptiness of the Sulu base camp. Zheng Sen is also worried that the surrounding powerful enemies will take advantage of the vacancy.

It's just that Zheng Zhilong has a very stubborn temper, but he can't allow others to change anything that has been decided, especially when it involves the face of the Zheng family.

In addition to the support of Zheng Cai, Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming and others, only six days after the news reached the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong recruited nearly half of the Zheng family's naval forces, more than 800 large and small warships, and more than [-] sailors. The soldiers of the division headed towards the Sea of ​​Japan in great numbers.

After investigation, Hou San had no more than [-] pirate ships in his hands, and it was not worthwhile for the Zheng family to mobilize the crowd like this. However, Zheng Zhilong actually had another purpose for going here, and that was to demonstrate.

Let the Sea of ​​Japan, Daming Sea, and many forces in Nanyang experience it. The Zheng family is not easy to mess with, otherwise Hou San will end up in the end.

Zheng Zhilong has been doing this for decades. After all, it is cheaper to go out for a walk to show off the Zheng family's force than to equip every Zheng family merchant ship with warship guards.

Zheng Zhilong's annual income of tens of millions of taels was collected by sending flags to merchant ships everywhere.

What they never expected was that all of this was just a conspiracy against the Zheng family.

The Zheng family navy led by Zheng Zhilong crossed the waters of Luzon, and as soon as they arrived in the waters between Luzon and Ryukyu, they were attacked by warships from the Netherlands, the big and the small, and the three countries.

One side was deliberate, and the other side was completely unprepared. The warships of the Three Kingdoms fired a thousand guns from three directions, directly knocking Zheng Zhilong into a daze.

Zheng Zhilong's main battleship is the same as the Beiyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty. It is still based on the No. [-] Fuchuan, which can be equipped with a total of fifty artillery pieces.

However, Fuchuan is a typical three-sail ship, and it is difficult to turn the rudder due to its huge size. Under the attack from three sides, it has become a competent target.

And the warships of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces are only more than [-] ships, and the main battleships are less than [-], but the gap is here.

Take the Dutch warships as an example. The new Dutch warships not only have a large number of second decks, equipped with fifty to eighty artillery pieces, but also more advanced three-story warships, equipped with an unprecedented ninety artillery pieces.

Moreover, the Atlantic ocean currents are far more complicated than those in the South Seas. The Europa battleship has dozens of sails at every turn, which ensures that the Europa battleship can adapt to sailing in various wind directions. speed.

The Zheng family had imitated the warships of the Dutch Navy a few years ago on the coast of Kinmen, but unfortunately, just after the construction of that batch of warships was completed, they were all rampantly sunk by the Dutch in the shipyard.

Since then, the Zheng family has been devastated on the way to imitate Western-style warships.

But this is not the point. The point is that the warships of the Three Kingdoms are not only equipped with more artillery, but also have a long range. The artillery of the same specification is at least several feet farther than the Zheng family's artillery.

This is destined to be an unfair war. After 30 years of war, the three countries of Europe united to bombard Zheng Zhilong's fleet.

Zheng Zhilong ignored the front and the back, and the left and the right, and finally had to order all the navy soldiers to break out of the siege southward at all costs.

But the Three Kingdoms move was to annihilate the main force of the Zheng family's navy in one fell swoop, and Zheng Zhilong would not be spared. As long as the Zheng family's navy rushed in one direction with all its strength, the Three Kingdoms warships would deploy more warships to fight back.

Relying on the advantages of flexible rudder steering and long artillery attack distance, the navies of the three countries firmly surrounded Zheng Zhilong in the waters of Dongning Island.

The bombardment lasted for two full days and nights. During the two full days and nights, except for a dozen Kai Langniao ships, the Zheng family's navy escaped from the encirclement due to the darkness and agility, and all the other warships were sunk.

Zheng Zhilong's flagship Anqing was heavily attacked by the Dutch Navy on the first night. Zheng Zhilong himself was directly pierced by a shell and died on the spot!
After Zheng Zhilong died in battle, Zheng Cai, Zheng Ming, and Zheng Xing successively took over the command of the navy. During the two-day and night slaughter, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Cai, Zheng Xing, and Zheng Ming all rejected the Dutch navy several times. All the people who surrendered were killed in Dongning Island.

Including Liu Hongjian, after listening to Jin Yiwei's explanation, everyone fell silent.

"The ambitions of the Dutch are not limited to the Zheng family, what they want is also Nanyang, the waterway where gold and silver flow.

Does your majesty know, what should be relied on to maintain the relationship between countries? "Liu Hongjian sighed and asked back.

"I think it should be friendship. As long as I, Da Ming, establishes trade with him, other countries will benefit from it, and they must be grateful to Da Ming." Zhu Cihong thought for a while, and said casually.

He had just tasted the sweetness of ocean trade. In his mind, since those foreigners wanted to do business, Daming also needed trade to collect tariffs.

"Hehe, Daming is indeed a country that pays attention to etiquette." Liu Hongjian smiled lightly, but there was a trace of unreasonable contempt in his words.

If every country follows the prescribed rules, of course there will be no wars in this world, but even if you look at future generations, when will this world be peaceful?
How can you earn more without paying tariffs, and how can you directly grab profits when doing business? Then look at the foreign countries that have done business with Chinese people since the Song Dynasty to the present. Which one is not a trade deficit?

How can these countries that have a much stronger navy than Ming Dynasty and have begun to transition to imperialism tolerate losing money?
"But your majesty needs to keep in mind that our ceremony doesn't work in the ocean, it doesn't work with the Dutch, it doesn't work with Europa, and friendship doesn't matter between countries. It can give Ming the greatest protection and long-term stability. There are only two words, fist!"

Liu Hongjian clenched his fist and threw it loudly. All members of the cabinet, including Zhu Cihong, paid attention to Liu Hongjian.

Zhu Cihong nodded heavily. Although the newly formed cabinet elders had different opinions in their hearts, they all consciously chose to reserve their opinions.

The cabinet has been gradually excluded from decision-making by the two, and has become an observer, executor, or staff member of the Ming Dynasty's ruling center.

"What do you ladies think, how should we deal with this matter?" Zhu Cihong asked with a solemn expression.

The first assistant Li Banghua looked at Liu Hongjian and then at the second assistant Han Yu, but he didn't answer, but Zhang Tianlu, the new minister of household affairs, stood up and bowed to Zhu Cihong in salute.

"Your Majesty, I believe that although the Zheng Family Navy suffered heavy losses, it still has many warships and soldiers in Sulu. Our Daming Navy only needs to garrison the southeast coast and wait and see what happens.

The Zheng family has always been my confidant's confidant, Zheng Zhilong died in battle, and the remnants of the Zheng army on Sulu's side naturally refused to let it go, and my Daming navy will only have to sit back and reap the benefits..."

Zhang Tianlu, with two beards upturned, talked to Zhu Cihong about his "unique" insights. In his opinion, the Zheng family is really abominable. They make tens of millions of taels of profit every year, and they don't even get all of it into their own pockets. .

Not only Zhang Tianlu, most officials in the court did not have the slightest affection for the Zheng family. At first they did not believe that the Zheng family could earn so much money from the sea in a year.

Until Liu Hongjian established the Daming Customs, the four gates earned 800 million taels of import and export duties in four months, and the civil and military officials almost gritted their teeth when they heard this.

It's just that Zhang Tianlu was interrupted by Liu Hongjian before he finished speaking.

Bang——Liu Hongjian slapped the armrest of the chair with a slap.

If it wasn't for the sake of sympathy, he really wanted to point to this Zhang, what the hell, are you a sand sculpture?
"Master Zhang, does that mean that the emperor should just watch the Han people in Sulu being slaughtered by the Europeans?"

　Thanks to the book friend Eagle of the People's Liberation Army, it's so difficult to name it, and the 100 taels as a reward for being drunk and looking at the axe.

　　
　
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