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In the 20th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, 1422 AD, on February 23, the Ming court announced to the world: the Ministry of Maritime Affairs of the Ming Dynasty will be formally established from now on, and the Ministry of Commerce will be merged with six departments directly under the royal family. Since the Tang Dynasty, the six departments in three provinces will be officially changed to eight departments. !

The turmoil of the Tongtian Pagoda Mansion reported some time ago has not yet subsided, and another heavyweight bomb was thrown out, which shocked the officials all over the world.The Ministry of Commerce, which was established secretly before, was nothing more than that, but this time the Ministry of Maritime Affairs was established, but reforms were made directly.

The system of three provinces and six ministries has been implemented in the world since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it has been working well in practice for nearly a thousand years. It is almost universally recognized by scholars and officials in the world as the best system model that will never change.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang weakened the prime minister's power and strengthened the power of the six ministries, at most it was repairing rather than overthrowing and starting over.However, the addition of two departments this time is completely equivalent to an extremely important political reform.

However, brother Zhu Di's name is Shoucheng, but he actually created it.So few people dare to question the decision he made.Besides, for scholars all over the world, there is nothing to question the addition of a new "government" agency.Plane Travel Guide 1427

If the establishment of the Tongtian Tower has the significance of monitoring the local area, then the newly added imperial department involves a large number of vacant official positions!

The imperial examinations are held every three years, and those who pass the imperial examinations will be awarded officials!Over time, the number of Jinshi waiting to become an official is almost constantly rising.The imperial examination is held once every three years, and a new batch of candidates for officials will be produced.

However, those individuals who used to be officials will not die a batch in three years, so there will always be a large gap between the entry and exit.In the end, often the alternate officials stayed in the capital and begged grandpa to tell grandma to look forward to a real shortage.

After all, official positions are limited, but the number of people who can be officials is almost unlimited.What's more, according to the law of the imperial court, one can also be qualified to be an official after passing the examination - although the official position is small, it is still an official position, isn't it?

Therefore, after the imperial court announced the new Ministry of Maritime Affairs and expanded the structure of the Ministry of Commerce, almost all the students in the world were cheering.

The so-called ass decides the head!Anything that is closely related to people's vital interests will always receive a lot of support!

Therefore, this important political reform, which was defined by world history as determining the future direction of the earth's international situation, was passed through deliberation without any disturbance, and was accepted by people all over the world.

In fact, the Ming court also announced another important piece of news that day: at the same time as the establishment of the Maritime Affairs Department, it began to form the Royal Four Seas Fleet of the Ming Dynasty!

Of course, at the earliest time, three of the so-called Four Seas Fleets were nothing more than empty shells. Only the South China Sea Fleet actually started to be formed, and the first fleet admiral was Zheng He!

Other things are fine, but the news about the appointment of Zheng He as the first admiral of the Beihai Fleet has just been released, causing a sensation in the government and the public - eunuchs can only be internal officials, how can they take on the important role of foreign officials?

This simply regards the court's laws as nothing, which is tolerable and unbearable!

It’s fine if the eunuchs don’t work hard in the inner court, but also come out to the outer court to grab the jobs of officials, what do you eunuchs want to do?

Although the Ming Dynasty valued civil affairs more than military affairs, the civil officials had always been dignified and the military officials poor.But no matter how low-grade a military officer is, he is much better than an eunuch!What happened to the court now?He actually started to appoint eunuchs as military officers!

Both the imperial court and the Qing Dynasty loudly denounced this behavior afterwards, thinking that it was too nonsense for the cabinet to countersign such an edict.

But the cabinet also had troubles that could not be expressed. Tang Shangxian, who raised his opinions, could not afford to offend, and Zhu Di, who had recently become stronger again, could not afford to offend them. Could it be that they could still oppose the policies jointly put forward by the emperor and the state teacher?

Furthermore, apart from Zheng He, Tang Shangxian, the national teacher, did not accept anyone's account at all!No matter how hypnotized you are about this person's resume, you can get it back with one sentence in front of Tang Shaozhe: Have you ever led a team to Nanyang alone?

Isn't this fault?Who doesn't know that Zheng He led the treasure ship fleet every time the imperial court went to Nanyang!Asking this way is obviously to create momentum for Zheng He.But the cabinet really has no way to raise doubts, after all, this is related to the appointment.

In the end, in desperation, he had no choice but to accept the candidate nominated by Tang Shaozhe.But the cabinet also has its own insistence, and Zheng He is just a special case.Once the Four Seas Fleet is established and operating normally, the new naval admiral in the future must not be an internal official.

This is of course no problem, Tang Shaozhe agreed immediately, and even Zhu Di had no objection.Since it is an expedient policy, the cabinet is not afraid to form a practice later.After Tang Shaozhe popularized the knowledge of the theory of sea power, the cabinet also clearly realized the importance of the naval fleet, anyway, it must not become the emperor's personal guard!Plane Travel Guide 1427

In fact, there was a lot of discussion between the ruling and opposition parties, and when everyone focused on the candidates for the fleet admiral and the establishment of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, no one noticed that the newly established South China Sea Fleet had received two new steel warships.

All the officers and men who had previously served in the Nanyang Treasure Ship Fleet were gathered together again by Tang Shaozhe for a new training session—how the navy is built!

Tang Shaozhe's two new all-steel warships Pu caught everyone's attention as soon as they debuted. Even Zhu Di was inexplicably shocked even if he had seen the mech puppets in flight and in the air—airplanes!

How can a warship made of all steel float on the water?Has anyone ever seen a piece of iron lump thrown into the water and it floated?Don't they always sink to the bottom of the water before giving up?This is really a fairy method!

Then Zhu Di ordered to block the news from spreading, and temporarily controlled all the people on the scene.If it wasn't for Tang Shaozhe's timely persuasion, Ming Chengzu even had the idea of ​​killing all the insiders to keep it secret.

"This killing is really unnecessary! These all-steel battleships will sail out sooner or later, and it is impossible to keep the news blocked. That is to say, there is no real group of naval officers in Ming Dynasty to "operate" the warships, so it needs to be kept secret for the time being. Don't spill it."

This is what forced Zhu Di to hold back his thoughts and began to pay attention to other issues related to the establishment of the navy: "Master, how long will it take for this special training to be officially completed?"

"..." Tang Shaozhe remained silent, and after a long time of consideration, he said uncertainly: "At least, thirty or fifty days, and at most, a year or so. Well, according to my estimation, about 3 to 5 months should be about the same! "

This is still considering that the warships brought out this time are completely related to the large-scale use of artificial intelligence in the interstellar plane.

If it weren't for the high degree of automation of various commands, it would be nothing short of whimsical to let these mostly illiterate sailors learn to operate modern warships.

Considering that the naval ships all over the world at this stage are made of wood, and rely on wind or manpower as the main driving force.Therefore, Tang Shaozhe asked Vivian to refer to modern warships, and the warships he designed were mainly adapted to the times.

Completely copying the settings of modern warships is simply not feasible for the Ming Dynasty in this era.The development of the modern navy is inseparable from the reference and determination of the Western scientific system, but Tang Shaozhe does not intend to take the road of industrialization in this time and space at all.

Therefore, he asked Vivienne to design this battleship, at most it refers to the technical parameters and appearance of the earth's naval battleship, and all other internal parts are based on the technology of the interstellar plane.

First of all, the power system completely abandons the natural mineral energy power produced by industrialization, and uses solar energy storage as the main drive, and the energy module provides general energy as a supplement—to avoid large-scale damage to the natural environment in the future.

Secondly, in terms of important weapon systems, Tang Shaozhe used gunpowder weapons as a benchmark for design.At this stage, it is more appropriate for ordinary people to use massive gunpowder weapons as a deterrent.

Compared with the precise effects produced by energy weapons, the powerful gunpowder weapons are more suitable for the indigenous people of the earth at this stage.

In particular, all kinds of shells are fully suitable for use in various situations in this time and space. Anyway, destroying ground buildings, killing and injuring enemy troops in large numbers, destroying moving targets, etc. are all included.

Originally, according to the rules on the earth, naval ships are usually divided into various classes according to different mission standards: battleships, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, torpedo boats, and so on.

But at present, as far as the Ming Dynasty is concerned, basically only two classes of warships are enough, one with a slightly larger tonnage is responsible for combat, and the other light type is responsible for short-distance expulsion or escort.

In fact, there is no difference in size and firepower between the two models. No matter what kind of firepower they are equipped with, they cannot compete with the small wooden boats of various countries in the world at this stage.However, for convenience, Tang Shaozhe made a special distinction.

He divided these two types of warships into Han-class destroyers and Tang-class cruisers to commemorate the two most famous glorious eras in Chinese history.Of course, it is mainly for the convenience of dispatching, so as to avoid excessive repeated use.

"Your Majesty, please see that the main task of a destroyer is to facilitate the escort in the sea area, eliminate pirates, and protect the safety of the route. Each destroyer is fully loaded with 100 soldiers, and only 20 people are needed for actual operations. Basically, except Tang-class cruisers and Han-class destroyers will not encounter any danger on the sea." Tang Shaozhe came to the warship to explain in detail to Zhu Di.Plane Travel Guide 1427

Zhu Di visited for a long time before he uttered a sentence: "Is the number of combatants a little less?"

At present, naval operations mainly rely on hand-to-hand combat, and the number of people is directly related to the strength of combat effectiveness.

However, Tang Shaozhe didn't say much, he just smiled and directed his men to sail out to sea, and personally demonstrated the actual combat effect to Zhu Di—in addition to bringing the water boat model, the relevant supporting artificial intelligence robots are also indispensable.Afterwards, the relevant training of the navy was mainly for these artificial intelligence robots to serve as instructors.

The last time Tang Shaozhe put in a lot of effort in the Shenji Camp, he just taught a group of officers who looked decent but actually didn't meet the standards of modern officers. This time, he said nothing and did nothing stupid. Son.

For professional matters, it is better to leave it to experts. Of course, Master Guoshi is responsible for grasping the overall situation.

After an actual marine combat exercise, Zhu Di never raised any opinions, and basically responded to what Tang Shaozhe said.

The intensity of the artillery fire from the warships on the ocean completely shocked everyone including the three cabinet ministers and Zheng He.

It turns out that this is a warship!How can the firepower of the navy reach such a level?God!