Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 867 Chaos in Japan (fifth change)

There are only five days left before the Chinese New Year, and all the yamen in the capital are already full of Chinese New Year atmosphere. When officials meet each other, they always say something festive.

Jin Yiwei's commander and fellow Zhi Lao Liang has been very busy these days, because he has to collect news from all over the place, and also convey valuable news to the palace by category.

However, Lao Liang is in a good mood recently, because he finally got Zhu Cihong's approval, and he will retire and return to his hometown after the new year, and the position of Jin Yiwei's commander Tongzhi has been directly adopted by his nephew Liang Kewang.

His body and bones are indeed not as good as before. After all, he is almost seventy years old. People in their seventies are rare in ancient times. If they can use their spare energy to serve the court in the last few years, Lao Liang has already died without regret.

"Master Liang, there is news from the East that the Dutch have invaded Shimane Castle occupied by the Commander-in-Chief!" Jin Yiwei Commander Wang Yuan hurried over.

"What?" Liang Yangteng stood up, not at all sick like before.

"You have to ask this brother for the specific information. He just came from Dongpu." Wang Yuan let out Wu Wen, the hundred-household official who was in charge of Dongpu affairs behind him.

In order to convey the news back to the imperial court as soon as possible, Wu Wen took great risks to cross the Korean Strait to Weihai, and then rushed to the capital by fast horse.

It turns out that the Dutch have been struggling since they blocked the southeast waters of Ming Dynasty. After all, for the maritime overlord Netherlands, the only thing they can do is the navy.

The brothers of the Qin family arranged forts everywhere along the southeast coast, almost as a monolith.

The Dutch made a lot of tentative attacks during this period. They started from Taiwan, went north to Guangzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou, and tried all the way to Shanghai Town, but they got nothing except countless shells from the fort.

If you can't beat Daming, you won't be able to hand over business to the company and the parliament, but it's too much loss for the Netherlands if you spend it all the time.

In order to conquer the Ming Empire, nearly two-thirds of the Dutch warships gathered along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, including the pride of the Dutch - the first-class battleship Victory.

This first-class battleship with three decks is equipped with a total of 120 artillery pieces, and a single salvo from the side can fire shells with a total weight of half a ton.

However, the Dutch have always been aimless. The strategy of bombarding the fort with battleships is stupid. If the fort breaks down, it can be repaired immediately, and it can't even be used for half a month, but the battleship can't.

And in terms of the density of artillery, even the Victory can't match the fort.

The commander-in-chief of the fleet, the Marquis of Langlot, considered for a long time before pointing the muzzle at an enemy that was not an enemy at first——East Ocean.

The successive deaths of the commanders of the squadron responsible for blocking the East Ocean area made the Marquis of Langlot very puzzled at first, and it took him a full month to investigate the situation in East Ocean.

It turned out that the reason why Dongying fell into civil strife was because of the help of a group of Ming people, and the Marquis of Langlot naturally put the pot on Liu Hongjian, the king of Anguo County.

Because based on his understanding of Daming, apart from this person, there would be no other officials of Daming who would dare to go to sea to do things.

So the Marquis of Langlot immediately met with Tokugawa Kamematsu, the nominal power in Japan, and promised that the Dutch of Tokugawa Kamematsu could help him quell the civil strife, on the condition that the Iwami silver mine in Shimane be handed over to the Dutch.

As soon as Tokugawa Kamematsu heard that there was such a good thing, he agreed without much thought, because the Iwami Silver Mine was no longer in his hands, and the power of the Saito Allied Forces was growing stronger, and the Tokugawa shogunate was a little bit unable to support it.

With Dongying people acting as internal support, Marquis Langlot ordered Dongying and thirty warships around Dongying to meet in the sea off Dongying, and launched a fierce bombardment of Shimane Castle on a windless morning.

At the same time, the army hired by the Dutch East India Company landed in the east of Japan, and joined forces with the Tokugawa shogunate to start a land field battle with the Saito Army.

"Who owns Shimane Castle now? Is Nan'anbo's younger brother dead or alive? What about our three thousand soldiers from Ming Dynasty?" Liang Yang frowned and asked several questions after hearing this.

"My lord, when I left Shimane, Lord Zheng was still fighting fiercely with the Dutch, so I don't know what happened to Shimane Castle afterwards.

The Dutch attack has been planned for a long time, and I am worried... worried..."

The Lord Zheng that Wu Wen was talking about was naturally Zheng Sen’s younger brother Tagawa Nanazawaemon. At that time, Shichizaemon saw that the situation was critical and worried that he would have no chance if he didn’t ask for help immediately, so he immediately sent Wu Wen out of the city, so that he didn’t even know The current situation in Japan.

"Come on, prepare the sedan chair, I'm going into the palace!" Liang Yang stood up after being silent for a moment.

There is not much distance from East Chang'an Avenue to the Imperial Palace, and Liang Yang entered the Qianqing Palace not long after. Zhu Cihong was also shocked when he heard the words, but he couldn't decide to pay attention to such a big matter, so he simply called all the cabinet members into the palace inside.

Dongying was the first overseas territory managed by the Ming court under the consent of Zhu Cihong. Although it was not a colony, the huge output of the Iwami Silver Mine has always attracted the attention of the court, especially Zhang Tianlu, the Minister of the Household Department.

The ministers of the household department in the past dynasties were very picky, and Zhang Tianlu was no exception, because he would be blamed by court officials, especially the current emperor, if he ran out of money.

"The Beiyang navy has been repaired for nearly half a year, why don't we send the Beiyang navy to fight the Dutch!" Zhang Tianlu rarely became the main combatant.

"That's not right, Mr. Zhang. According to the report from the Qin Commander along the coast, there are several huge warships among the Dutch's warships. With the current strength of the Beiyang Navy, it is still very risky to rush to a decisive battle with the Dutch. Besides..."

Chief Assistant Li Banghua hesitated to say this, he wanted to say that Liu Hongjian, the king of Anguo County, is not in the court, and he has always been arbitrarily arbitrary in matters of war. The key is that this kid has never lost a battle, and now he is not in the court. In the middle, if you attack rashly, who will be responsible for the defeat?
Moreover, the Beiyang navy was the late emperor's painstaking effort, and the king of Anguo County was also worried about it. If he lost, the consequences would be disastrous.

Among other things, Da Ming will not have a place in the ocean for at least two years.

"Li Aiqing's words are reasonable, we must think long-term." Zhu Cihong thought for a while, and set the tone of this meeting.

Before the king of Anguo came back, the Beiyang navy could not rush to fight.

"How is the construction of the new ironclad ships going?" Zhu Cihong asked Wang Jiayan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

Although Tianjin Treasure Shipyard and Longjiang Treasure Shipyard are independently responsible to the imperial court, the Ministry of Industry, as the supervision department, has been paying close attention to the progress of the two Treasure Shipyards.

"Reporting to the emperor, the first all-steel covered ironclad ship has been launched. It is powered by a diesel engine newly developed by the Ordnance Institute. It is equipped with a total of [-] cannons of various types. It has already started sea trials.

The construction of the second and third warships of the same type has begun at the same time, and the fastest progress is expected to take three months before they can be launched. "Wang Jiayan said in a deep voice.

"Three months, good! Then I will endure the Netherlands for another three months!" Zhu Cihong gritted his teeth.

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(End of this chapter)