Dragon Sea Empire

Yin Feng came to Quanzhou on the second day after Quanzhou City was captured.

Before the Jiangxi Fuzhou soldiers surrendered that night, the Chinese Army Sailors and Musketeers patrolled along the street, beating gongs to announce several prohibitions issued by the President of the Chinese Army. After dawn, Lin Xiao and Zeng Shan first led a large group of civilian officials and 200 Yin Feng His personal guards entered the city and used the Yamen of the Quanzhou magistrate as Yin Feng's temporary old camp. At night, Yin Feng entered Quanzhou city in a very low-key manner.

At this time, the call to action issued in the name of Yin Feng and the announcement of the six oaths were posted on the streets and intersections of Quanzhou. Now the people in the city know that the Chinese army occupied Quanzhou, and the army was very disciplined after breaking through the city. The "teacher of the king" as the ancients said, and hearing the patrolling soldiers preaching along the street, the hearts of the people were more at ease.

In fact, the people of Quanzhou were very grateful to the Chinese company for taking the initiative to provide relief during the earthquake, and many people in Quanzhou lived in the shops, grain stores, shipyards, silk weaving workshops and other places under Huaxing Lianhao. I have been to Taiwan, and I am not unfamiliar with the Chinese Army at all. At first, people peeped out through the cracks of the door, and then some small households or courageous people opened half the door and poked their heads out. Someone came out, looked around boldly, and asked neighbors about each other, and then a local Baojia beat a gong to call, saying: "The Chinese army has entered the city at this morning, and the people should clean up the streets to welcome the leader of the Chinese army, Lord Yin." , there must be no mistake,"

There are also places where dignitaries personally knock on the doors of those living in deep houses and compound houses, lest these gentry families do not know the situation and offend the Chinese army and cause trouble.

As a result, the city of Quanzhou quickly regained its vitality, and suddenly there was a scene of a change of dynasty. The common people were excited and secretly felt comfortable;

After Yin Feng entered the city, he was busy with various affairs, but the members of the Zeng family took the time to go to the north gate, marveling at the ruins of their house. Zeng Qi even asked Yin Feng to track down who set the fire among the Fuzhou soldiers' captives.

But Yin Feng didn't send anyone to investigate, and he didn't even take a look at the ruins of his own house. Seeing Zeng Qi's displeased expression, he persuaded him, "My father-in-law, the house burned down. I'll build another one for you." , the person in charge is Jiangxi Deputy Chief Soldier Yue, he is now in Fuzhou, and those soldiers who set fire to it are just adhering to the wishes of the superiors, there is no need to investigate, "

Zeng Qi sighed: "My Zeng family's old house has been in the north gate for more than 80 years, and it was erected in my grandfather's generation. Now, hey...forget it, you are right, those who do big things don't care about small things, We have just started an incident, and the people of the world have not yet returned to their hearts. These trivial matters are nothing to worry about, so there is no need to pursue them." He shook his head and said, "I came to see you to tell you: the secret envoy sent to Fuzhou has already set off, but now the Fujian General Soldier The official is Shen Yourong, this person will definitely not give up Fuzhou easily,"

Yin Feng smiled: "It doesn't matter. We attacked the southeast coast in many ways, and went to Fuzhou to ask for Fuzhou to be given up. These are all tricks. The real blow to the Ming court will be a few months later when the sea wind direction changes."

"The imperial court is mobilizing the army..."

"Thousands of miles of coastal defenses are alerted at the same time. Even if the imperial court has millions of troops, how can it guard every coast?" Yin Feng sneered: "The Chinese army is not Japanese pirates. We will not attack without focus, nor will we We will burn, kill and plunder on the coastline, and I am afraid that no one in the Ming court can think of our combat goal,"

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Since he decided to rebel three years ago, Yin Feng has done his best and racked his brains to open his golden fingers; many years ago, Yin Feng picked out the relevant information about ballistics and metal smelting from the Western science and technology books translated by Jin Nige. As well as some books on gunpowder manufacturing, as the textbooks of the military department of the military academy, the military department is now independently established as the branch school of the military academy, and all the new batch of graduates enter the weapon research institute.

Some European craftsmen brought back by the first batch of European merchant fleets also entered the weapon research department. With the joint efforts of Chinese and Western weapon researchers, they used cast iron to make light field howitzers and heavy siege mortars "Skyfire" After being invented and manufactured one after another, he joined the artillery of the Chinese Army. Of course, Yin Feng also made many "inventions" in military technology. The greatest achievement is the birth of the artillery observation balloon. The artillery observers of the Chinese Army were originally watched by sailors. Yin Feng used silk to paint lacquer and heated it with charcoal fire and oil to make a hot air balloon.

The first pilot of the hot air balloon was Yin Feng himself. At that time, no one dared to sit on the hot air balloon. After blowing with a human blower for a long time, the balloon finally bulged up. Sky.

Such a rough and ugly balloon was able to rise slowly into the sky, which surprised the audience below and they all lost their ability to speak. Many people knelt on the ground and kowtowed continuously. up.

Now the military academy is divided into six branch schools of infantry, navy, cavalry, artillery, weapons, and command, forming a complete military education system. A large number of non-commissioned officers and trainee officers trained by the military academy have joined the army.

The Chinese Army is now divided into five major arms: infantry, navy, marines (that is, sailor musketeers, those generals are used to this name), artillery, and cavalry. brigade (that is, the garrison) - and two parts of the field force, the field force has set up three divisions (a total of six brigades), as well as the Hainan brigade (upgraded from the fifth regiment in Hainan Island), the Nanyang brigade (garrisoned in Java Island Adapted from the fourth regiment of Zhao Xuanming), two independent brigades, and the Ryukyu regiment, a Taiwan regiment composed of Taiwanese aboriginals such as the Siraya, Dadufan, and Tsou (the Taiwanese aboriginals showed their strength in the Hainan Campaign , so the indigenous battalion has been expanded), the Luzon Island Pampanga indigenous battalion, the Lijun battalion reorganized after the surrender of the Li people's rebels, and the Yiwu bird gun battalion and other independent regiments and battalions, with a total strength of [-]. The infantry chief is Zhao Tie (also the commander of the first division), now, the post of "commander" has been changed to "general manager", which is the result of learning from the Tang Dynasty in terms of official title.

Artillery is now the most important trump card of the Chinese Army. Its establishment has rapidly expanded into a brigade, with three professional artillery regiments under its jurisdiction. Each regiment has more than 120 artillery pieces of various types. The chief of artillery is Li Kuiqi, and the deputy chief is an old comrade-in-arms of Colonel Andre Cutre, an old Portuguese mercenary.

The navy is now composed of three major fleets, the First Fleet (based in Naha Port, Ryukyu Island, commonly known as the Northern Fleet), the Second Fleet (based in Taiwan’s Hong Kong), and the Third Fleet (based in Manila, known as the Nanyang Fleet). Wang Zhiba has no rivals, with a total of eleven main battleships, more than 200 three-masted gunboats of the next level, nearly a thousand fast boats and small patrol boats, and a total of 4000-5000 large and small artillery pieces. The most powerful naval fleet, although the head of the navy is Mai Dahai, but now the deputy head Hua is in charge of many things.

The general manager of the Sailor Musketeers-Marine Corps is Yin Feng. This is because most of the sailors are scattered in various places and belong to the command of the Chinese company organization and director where the troops are located. Therefore, the general manager is only responsible for recruiting and training. There is no specific command at all. The sailor musketeers are divided into Beiyang, Taiwan, and Nanyang three corps, which are placed under the direct command of the three major fleets. There are more than 180 sentry teams and a strength of nearly 20000 people. However, some of these sailors still have to be in It is not the marines who do some sailor work on the ship that will be completely separated from the ship in later generations.

The chief of the cavalry is Lu Xiaotian, a nephew of Lu Shitou. He used to be a Shandong bandit, and the deputy chief is Richard Andrew, a Dutch mercenary. Speaking of which, this cavalry unit with only one cavalry regiment is the weakest unit of the Chinese army. , the total force is only one thousand now, but there are hundreds of good Andalusian war horses and Arabian war horses. Grenades, spears, broadswords and other weapons; the entire cavalry team costs more than a brigade of 4000 infantry.

The Chinese army's military technology, which has advanced by leaps and bounds, has approached the limit of its technological level so far. Although thunderbolt propellant powder and rifled guns have been "invented", but the real use of these technologies on a large scale will have to wait until materials, chemicals, etc. It is only possible when the level reaches a certain level.

Accompanied by You Wenhui and Jin Nige, Long Huamin visited Yin Feng several times, but Yin Feng insisted on the agreement signed between the company and the Jesuits: the Jesuits must provide teachers to teach Chinese students, otherwise they would not be allowed to preach. He firmly rejected Longhua The people's request to increase the number of churches in Taiwan has not allowed the Jesuits to get involved in the Nanyang colonies except Luzon unless they can provide more teachers to teach science.

Long Huamin visited the military academy, the enlightenment school, the technical academy, and the political academy newly established to train civilian administrative officials. He keenly discovered that all schools generally taught the knowledge of all volumes of "Elements of Geometry". The practical content of Chinese traditional nine-chapter arithmetic, especially the mastery of mathematical knowledge by the students of the Artillery Branch School, is also very advanced in the world. Achievements, and now the Chinese students in the area under the jurisdiction of the Chinese company have caught up with the new heights of world mathematics.

Long Huamin was very surprised: Even compared with Europe, the students of the Chinese company have a very high degree of mastery of mathematics. Only 100 years ago, students from famous universities such as the University of Paris and Oxford University, the mathematics they learned The content is very little, geometry is limited to the first two volumes of "Elements of Geometry", and the examination is limited to the first volume. Generally, students can only master the first four propositions of the first volume.The level of arithmetic is lower. Generally, college students can only do addition, subtraction and multiplication, but not division. The situation in Europe has improved a lot, but only a few outstanding students have truly mastered all the knowledge of "Elements of Geometry".

Long Huamin almost lost confidence in the missionary work in Taiwan after experiencing the assembly where the Chinese company publicly declared rebellion, and with the civil war between the Chinese company and the Ming Dynasty, the Jesuits spread throughout China and East Asia. Missionary policy has to be revisited.

When Long Huamin returned to the mainland in disappointment, the long-planned big move of Zhonghua Company finally started.