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    In June of the eighth year of Longjing, God seemed to allow Zhu Cixiang to recruit a jujube core team. His fifth son was born smoothly and was entered into the genealogy under the name "Zhu Hetan".  At the beginning of this month when he was born, Emperor Chongzhen and the Queen also successfully completed their trip to the south of the Yangtze River and returned to the palace without delaying anything.  However, one thing was missed. Because he was in a hurry, Emperor Chongzhen did not have the opportunity to review the navy in Zhoushan.  The construction of the Ming Dynasty's navy was far more difficult than that of the army. The reason is very simple: technical bottlenecks.  The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was unwilling to take the detour to build those large cannon-launching ships and waste ship materials. Therefore, there were only a very small proportion of European and Western-style gunboats among the Ming Dynasty's naval warships, which were designated as "frigates" and were mainly arranged around the flagship to protect them.  The warships still use the previous ship type, with reinforced keels and decks, and use the bow main gun as the main means of long-range attack. When they get close, they still join forces to fight.  Since the mainstream idea is to strengthen the hull to support larger-caliber heavy artillery, this is indeed a shortcut in naval warfare. However, reinforcement is easy and power is difficult to find, so the navy has to devote a lot of resources to ship research and development instead of all-inclusive efforts.  Cover the ocean with sea ships.  Even so, after the Nanyang was pacified, many of the capital ships of the South China Sea Fleet were assigned to the East China Sea Fleet, which still stretched the fleet that defended the inland sea into a big fat man, with a total of 700 large and small warships. If you stand on the high mountains by the sea,  Only a dense fleet of ships could be seen, extending to the sea level.  Zheng Sen stood on the deck of the Ao Guang, the flagship of the East China Sea Fleet, watching the fleet sail toward the open sea.  Since the beginning of the South China Sea Fleet, the flagships of the East China Sea and North Sea Fleets have followed suit and been renamed Dragon King. Who knows that the South China Sea Fleet has not encountered any shipwrecks since its voyage.  Only the Taiwan Strait Fleet had no corresponding Dragon King name to use, so it simply used the banner of Mazu.  Known as Mazu, she is very domineering.  Over the past ten years, Zheng Sen has grown from a young man in his early twenties to an uncle in his mid-thirties. Now he is the captain of the Ao Guang, ranking below Shi Lang.  As the earliest backbone of Huangming Naval University.  Shi Lang did not return to Zheng Zhilong's arms, but embraced the imperial court, and thus became a trusted admiral and commander-in-chief of the East China Sea Fleet.  Facing Shi Lang, Zheng Sen was somewhat confused.  This man treacherously betrayed his father and embarked on the road to glory and wealth.  This is a family feud.  However, as a soldier, it is his bounden duty to be loyal to the emperor's court, and he should not be loyal to private military towns. This is the right thing to do.  What's more, Shi Lang served as an instructor at the Naval University and was his teacher Zheng Sen.  The two were masters and disciples, which made Zheng Sen even more unreasonable to embarrass Shi Lang.  "Damu, what do you think of the East China Sea Fleet?" Shi Lang walked to the ship building and of course met the captain Zheng Sen.  "It's really spectacular." Zheng Sen said perfunctorily.  Shi Lang stepped forward and stood beside Zheng Sen, looking at the sea and sky. After a long time, he said: "The chief officer of the Ocean Fleet has been transferred here to be the captain. Does Damu feel aggrieved?" As the saying goes: It is better to be the head of a chicken than the queen of a cow.  Zheng Sen did have such grievances.  After taking office, I saw that the East China Sea Fleet has various ship models and standardized tactical exercises.  Then I gradually became calmer.  In contrast, the ocean-going fleet is a civilian and commercial fleet, only responsible for transporting goods to Australia.  "There is no grievance. On the contrary, I am a little lucky." Zheng Sen said: "There are not so many gunboats in the Ocean Fleet." There are thirty large-scale blessing ships at the flagship level of the East China Sea Fleet, each equipped with four gunboats, and the flagship is even more  Double.  There are more than one hundred and twenty ships.  As for the number of warships, there are as many as 300, and there are 350 supply ships.  You can sail all the way to Ryukyu without relying on supplies.  As for the Cangshan Iron used for communication, port docking, and reconnaissance, there are even more.  The only fly in the ointment is to increase shipping volume.  Many battleships were not even equipped with artillery.  ¡ª¡ªThe ocean age mentioned by Governor Shen, I don¡¯t know when it will come!  Zheng Sen thought to himself.  In early September of the eighth year of Longkei's reign, riding on the tail of the south wind, the East China Sea Fleet shifted from Ryukyu to Satsuma Domain, officially launching the "Punishment of the Mob" campaign.  At the same time, Nagasaki launched the "Ichiku" movement of tens of thousands of people.  There are tens of thousands of Han merchants in Nagasaki, not counting the second-generation Han merchant immigrants who were born in Nagasaki.  Many of them married Japanese women and used Japanese surnames to the outside world, just like the Japanese. However, every Han businessman had a shortcoming in his heart, which was the regret of leaving his homeland and not being able to return.  Jinyiwei secretly contacted these Han merchants and expanded a huge space in Nagasaki in the past three years. The imperial court also offered a very attractive price to the Han merchants: In the future, the imperial court will not set up a civil affairs office in Nagasaki.  officials, and Han merchants elected leaders as prefects.  As a result, when the offensive against Japan was finally launched in the eighth year of Longkei's reign, Nagasaki had already hidden a third army officer.The scale of the battle is huge.  Over the years, with the help of Japan's allies, the Tokugawa shogunate remained in obscurity.  The Satsuma Shimazu family was particularly disobedient among the foreign daimyo, so the Tokugawa shogunate did not intend to stand up for the Satsuma clan.  There was even some joy in seeing the Satsuma clan being forced to vomit out the land they occupied in the Ryukyu Kingdom and being severely punished by the Ming army.  However, Nagasaki was the pocketbook of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the Nanban goods that the daimyo liked were all shipped in from the port of Nagasaki.  "The Ming Dynasty has gone too far!" The third generation general Tokugawa Iemitsu angrily scolded: "Gather all the famous names and prepare troops. We must pacify Nagasaki as soon as possible!" The Tokugawa family's idea was good, but he ignored the Ming Dynasty.  Time to launch the campaign.  After the 20th day of the ninth month of the Ming Dynasty, the north wind picked up, which was a good time for the tank division to cross the sea from Kuwu to attack Ezo (Hokkaido).  Wang Yi¡¯s temperament has long been waiting for this moment of thunderous strike.  Relying on the bridgehead operated in Ezo Land in the early years, the tank division successfully conquered the entire Ezo Land and destroyed the Ezo Land Matsumae Domain.  The Ming court had already had a plan. As soon as Wang Yi cleared away the Japanese domain in Ezo, he established Beihai Prefecture and moved people to consolidate it.  This is an important base for the Ming Dynasty to take the North Pacific route to America.  Although Japan is a large country in the East China Sea that can mobilize 300,000 troops, it was strategically defeated in the face of the well-prepared and unified Ming army.  This kind of failure even made it impossible for the Tokugawa clan to use troops. If they sent troops to Ezo, not only would they not be able to ensure supplies, but they would also have no ships to cross the sea.  If Nagasaki in the south is pacified first, it will face many constraints and rebellions from daimyo outside the shogunate.  If you do nothing and act passively on defense, your prestige will be increasingly depleted, and you will eventually end up in a situation where everyone will betray you and your relatives.  In addition, a shipload of rice from the Ming Dynasty was shipped into Japan, and the Tokugawa family also had to face inflation and economic collapse.  This is also the reason why the Ming army has not conducted large-scale operations since the Battle of Ezoji in September. It only defended various key passes, forming a siege and stalemate situation.  This excruciating situation lasted until the 10th year of Takakei. Tokugawa Iemitsu sent an elder to sue the Ming court for peace as the monarch of Japan.  Fusang is now in command.  At the beginning of the tenth year of Longkei, Tokugawa Iemitsu set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty, and accompanying him was Emperor Yoshihito of Japan.  In Japan, the emperor's status is more like a spiritual leader and has no real power.  Moreover, because the financial power was not in his hands, the Japanese emperor even waited for money to ascend to the throne, and then abdicated when the new emperor had saved enough money to ascend to the throne.  This is not because they respect the abdication system, but because they cannot afford the emperor's funeral expenses, so they abdicate early.  Zhu Cixiang received two guests from Japan at Huangji Palace, and conferred Yoshihito as the king of Japan, and Tokugawa Iemitsu as the commander of the Japanese capital, allowing hereditary inheritance.  This ending was what Emperor Wanli wanted to see during the Renchen Rebellion, and now it has finally been achieved.  Therefore, the Ming army¡¯s military operations have come to an end, but the situation in Japan has become more complicated and complicated.  First of all, King Liangren refused to return to his country, crying and shouting that he wanted to stay in the capital to serve the emperor.  Zhu Cixiang initially thought that this was a statement made by King Gou Jian of Yue - after Gou Jian was captured, he also served King Wu Fu Chai in this way.  When Wu Guo lost his vigilance, he went back to eat his courage.  Later, Zhu Cixiang found out that the reason why Liangren wanted to stay in Beijing was very simple: he could eat enough for every meal, and there was fish and meat. The food was not a bit better than in Japan, especially since he didn't have to look at the eyes of the Wu family, let alone worry.  Being deposed and assassinated, there is almost no psychological pressure.  Secondly, the conservatives in Japan could not accept that they had struggled all their lives and eventually became a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. They raised armies to resist the Tokugawa clan in an attempt to regain their political qualifications.  This even includes the Maori family. Although they formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, purchased large tubes and fire guns from the Ming Dynasty, and betrayed Japanese intelligence, in the end they did it to bring down the curtain, not to become a Ming country person.  So the civil war in Japan became complicated.  For a country that had just ended the Warring States Period, there was always some grudge between the various wealthy families going back three generations, and now was the time for these grudges to resurface.  "Increase the supply of rice so that they can go to war." Zhu Cihong instructed.  Rice is a hard currency in Japan, and many daimyo use rice to pay their feudal lords¡¯ salaries and public funds.  Moreover, a large amount of Nanyang rice poured into Japan, which greatly reduced the production pressure on Japanese farmers, and each vassal was able to mobilize more people for war.  Although knowledgeable people all know that once the Ming Dynasty stops transporting food, Japan will fall into famine and turmoil. But with neighbors sharpening their knives, can they let the people farm the land with peace of mind?  This kind of drinking poison to quench thirst is not stupid or short-sighted, but because the Ming Dynasty was strategically superior, forcing the Japanese vassals to follow the Ming Dynasty's plot.?Go down.  And the real screenwriter of this script, Yang Wei, a professor at the Armed Forces University, is packing his bags and preparing to report to the Northwest Army.  He will take up the post of Chief of General Staff of the Group Army Staff Department, which is exactly the promotion route planned for him by His Majesty the Emperor.  (To be continued)
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