Dragon Sea Empire

Yu Zigao was hampered by his ups and downs and his background after Zhongliang.I don't want to and don't like to plunder the common people.He and his new army "Yuyao regiment training camp" still have this opportunity; within this year.His troops have been repeatedly recruited by the Chief Secretary of Zhejiang, the capital of Zhejiang, and the governor of Jiangnan to fight pirates, bandits, and peasants who resisted rent and rebellion.

The other Ming troops took advantage of the opportunity to march and fight.Take the opportunity to make a fortune.It's not that Yu Zigao's new army has never done this before.It's just that Yu Zigao's most trusted troops-the personal guard battalion and the artillery battalion have acceptable military discipline.Under the personal supervision of Yu Zigao.Those bad things that burn and kill people are done less.

It is different from Yu Zigao's famous father Yu Dayou.Yu Zigao is not the kind of person with a firm will.It is easily affected by the surrounding environment.During his studies at the Chinese Military Academy.You can take the lead in the battle against the Japanese Satsuma Fan; and after returning to the military system of the Ming Dynasty.The ideas he learned from the Chinese Military Academy hit a wall everywhere, and his official career fluctuated.He is now promoted from Wuhu guerrilla to deputy general of Zhejiang Ninghaiwei.In charge of the training of the new army.Yu Zigao felt it himself.This is his last chance to be an official and official under the Ming system.

He tried his best to run his army.Only then did he find out.Come up with such an elite force that mainly uses firearms.It touched all aspects of the military system of the Ming Dynasty.Just like Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou formed the anti-Japanese army back then.Yu Zigao must be on the basis of not completely breaking the official system of the Ming Dynasty.Create a new army system.

Yu Zigao discovered sadly at the beginning: he had to establish a whole set of military industry system and logistics system at the same time.As well as the soldier selection system and officer training system.At the same time, all the tactical training and operating regulations on firearms are written, which are specific to the signal transmission system.He needs to start from scratch.and.Half of the new army was selected from the original Ming army system.It brought all the ills of the original Ming army system without discipline and organization: soldiers' combat training was neglected, officers were corrupt and broke the law, and it was common practice to deduct military pay.He fired some officers in order to correct these defects.But in order to balance the relationship between the forces of all parties.Some people with family backgrounds such as Yuyao's Xie family had to be recruited into the new army officer corps.

After all, Yu Zigao had to deal with the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.It is impossible and unable to take action against the military system of the Ming Dynasty.So his new army was under-developed from the start.There has been no steady supply of logistics and weapons.And saw the relatively generous military pay of the new army.Various big families in the south of the Yangtze River are still stuffing people inside.

Many people joined the new army.It doesn't mean that Yu Zigao has more talents to choose from.There has always been a misunderstanding in China.It is thought that there is a fixed proportional relationship between talent and population.The larger the population base.The more talent you have.Therefore, the emperors of all dynasties always wanted to gather scholars from all over the world to take part in the imperial examination.I thought it would be possible to achieve "no sage left behind in the wild".But they have forgotten the old saying "Liu Xiang didn't study at first".Truly groundbreaking talent often exists outside people's conventional vision.They are not someone who can deliberately cultivate them.Not to mention that you can definitely get it if you work hard to find it.

Instead, Yu Zigao fell into various personnel disputes because of this.The Xie family regards the new army as their own private army.Keep stuffing people inside.

Strict military discipline handed down from the Chinese Military Academy.Once executed on the heads of those who were forced into the army.The families of the Xie family in Yuyao, the rich merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, and the families of gentry and bachelors will intervene.Threatening to cut off the supply of military pay.As a result, Yu Zigao's military discipline enforcement is often anticlimactic.

The weakness in Yu Zigao's character was fully exposed at this moment.He stepped back from his position.In the end, he completely gave up the control of those new army officers with background and background.

now.The new army has been in the army for several years.The wars involved are basically small-scale wars such as suppressing bandits and calming chaos.And there was no opportunity to show the combat superiority of the new arms.On the contrary, because its military expenditure is several times or even ten times higher than that of other Ming army troops.He has been attacked by important officials of the court many times.

When Xu Guangqi was appointed as the envoy of Jiangnan and governor of Nanjing.Presided over the formation training of the new army.He insisted on selecting talents, training recruits, and voluntarily took up the job of training soldiers.The new army training yamen had been established for a month, and Xu Guangqi wanted no one in the imperial court, and he wanted no salary, so he had nothing to do.Later, it was very easy to rely on donations from the big gentry families in the south of the Yangtze River to get the military salary.With his support.Yu Zigao eliminated the old, weak and remnant soldiers who were stuffed into the new army, and only 2000 people could make up the number, let alone selected ones.It all depends on the support of various big families in the south of the Yangtze River.The new army has only reached its current size.

Xu Guangqi entrusted Li Zhizao to send disciples Zhang Tao and Sun Xueshi to Guangdong to secretly buy four Hongyi cannons from a Macau businessman.This was the first time that the Ming court bought cannons from a foreign country, and the funds were actually paid by Xu Guangqi himself.Xu Guangqi tried his best to say to the court: "Today's unique firearms are the most important thing." "The one who can defeat the enemy and conquer the victor has only one weapon." But these four guns were bought and transported to the new army camp.It didn't take long for the foreign gunners to be repatriated.And Xu Guangqi's personal funds are really limited, and he can't afford to buy guns anymore.

therefore.At the moment, there are more than 15000 new troops.Among them, there are more than 1000 people in the artillery battalion.The decent cannons are the four Western cannons first purchased by Xu Guangqi.The rest are the first-class old-fashioned artillery of Frangji, which is common in the military camps of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Guangqi was transferred to the capital and entered the cabinet as a postgraduate.There was an open call for the complete disbandment of the force.One of the reasons is that there are Western military instructors in the army.What's the point of recruiting far away barbarians from outside, worrying the interior, making them see my reality, familiar with my situation, and even laugh at my celestial dynasty?" He advocated "Stop continuing to take the difference and stop internal quarrels. Immediately Xu Guangqi commented on this. He tried his best to distinguish the difference between Hongyi (Dutch) and Aoyi (Portuguese). Lu Zhaolong retorted:

"A dignified celestial dynasty. It must wait for Australia and barbarians to become strong. ... I have studied the books of Confucius and Mencius since I was a child. I have changed my mistakes and tried to do good things, and I have been self-absorbed. The scriptures are well prepared. I don't know that there is a Catholicism in the world and the so-called Nestorianism of the Tang Dynasty. Those who... ministers say that barbarians are not usable. It is not that artillery is not usable."

He thought that a cannon just needs to be there.It can be used as a weapon.

Some people wantonly attacked Xu Guangqi's work.Accused him of "blindly moving corruption".It should not be "made soldiers with words".The selection of soldiers is "a commotion in the country".The purpose of military training is "nothing more than a scheme to deceive officials and steal the day." "Using tens of thousands of money from the imperial court. It's a child's play for one's own leisure.... It is a serious crime to deceive the country and the king."The civil servants who knew nothing about military technology instinctively thought how the dignified celestial dynasty could borrow barbarian troops and fight with barbarian weapons.In particular, Cui Jingrong, the new minister of the Ministry of War, strongly opposed Xu Guangqi's proposal.In addition, Huke, who co-organized the new army, gave Yao Zongwen impeachment of him in various ways.Xu Guangqi, who was excluded, was forced to return home due to illness.I went back to my hometown in Shanghai to farm and raise chickens.The new army cause he advocated has also become an orphan without a master.Those foreign military personnel.Officials of the Ming Dynasty thought it was an ominous omen, and "determined that it would be harmful rather than beneficial, and ordered to return to Macau, with no room for recovery", and repatriated all the Portuguese military personnel Xu Guangqi had worked so hard to hire from Macau.

Yu Zigao was born after Xu Guangqi returned home from illness in Beijing.Already almost desperate for the new army career.The new army has been established for several years.Not only has no supporting logistics supply system been established.Now even the daily military pay has begun to be in arrears.Yao Zongwen, who co-organized the household department of the new army, is now the "overlord" of the new army.Yu Zigao's military order came out of his personal guard battalion.You have to rely on Yao Zongwen to implement it smoothly.

And Yao Zongwen was born in the Zhejiang Party.He has a close relationship with the rich gentry family in the south of the Yangtze River.He now controls the source of food and pay for the new army.All money and food transactions are handled by him.After all the money and materials passed through his hands.Ten does not keep three, or even ten does not keep one.Yao Zongwen colluded with some members of Yuyao Xie's family.Treat the new army as their additional source of income.Nearly half a year.The new army barely added a musket, a tael of gunpowder, and a bullet.Yao Zongwen said to Yu Zigao, who came to ask for supplies many times: "There is no need for real guns and live ammunition in training for soldiers. You only need to hold your guns to practice posture. Our army's gunpowder and bullets are all produced by the capital. It is difficult to supply. General Yu still needs to be considerate. It’s the difficulty of the imperial court.”

Yu Zigao sighed secretly in his heart when he heard the words.Had to return disappointed.Lie drunk in the military tent in his old camp.

Luo Xiaoming, the nephew of Luo Qing, the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang Province, was the commander of Yu Zigao's artillery battalion.Also his captain.

Yu Zigao didn't know.Luo Xiaoming is his fellow apprentice.When Luo Xiaoming secretly entered the Artillery Department of the Chinese Military Academy to study.Yu Zigao has left the Chinese Army and returned to Fujian.

The core force of the new army is Yu Zigao's guards and artillery battalion.The rest of the new army soldiers.In addition to weapons and equipment, queue training is better than other Ming army troops.The rest of the tactical training and military discipline of the troops are getting worse and worse.It went from bad to worse.

Yu Zigao no longer worked hard and supervised the training of the troops day and night.He has accepted his fate now: the people and things of the Ming Dynasty.That's it.No matter how hard you try, it will be futile.

On this day, he left the Yuyao Beicheng barracks privately.Come to the West Lake in Hangzhou, a hundred miles away.Find a luxurious boat.Boating on the lake.Enjoying the rare warmth and sunshine on the West Lake in winter.

all the trifles.On the West Lake in winter.In the cool north wind accompanied by sunshine.In the singing of the beautiful boat girl.Everything is floating clouds.

Yu Zigao missed the life in the Chinese Military Academy; although it was tiring and poor.But I can always sneak in with a group of brothers to go to Leshan Tower to listen to the beautiful singer singing.Often miss lights out at night.Had to climb over the wall and go back to the bedroom.

Now.Those brothers who studied with him and fought together in Kyushu, Japan.Most of them have already held the military power to fight the world.

Yu Zigao was reclining on the deck chair in the cabin in front of the boat.Beside him was a charcoal brazier.He closed his eyes and listened to the singing of the young boat lady Shi Li.Stretch out your hand comfortably on the charcoal brazier and burn it.Shi Li, the boat lady, sings a song.He laughed loudly at Shi Li: "Young girl sang "The Story of Huansha". It's really a heavenly sound. Why is your aunt willing to let you out to row a boat?"