Chapter 688: The Strongest Navy in East Asia
Gonggong Wei didn't kill Du Si Cheng Qing, even though he knew that the other party didn't really obey him, the admiral and eunuch of the Imperial Command.
Because, killing Liwei can be used once, but not twice.
Wu Songkou's military power has fallen into the hands of Wei Gonggong, and he can no longer kill people. If Cheng Qing is killed again at this time, the most direct consequence will be that all those Huizhou soldiers are in danger, and the "peace" that was hard-won will be bloody again.
After all, Gonggong Wei now wants to accept people, expand his power, and rectify the navy to go to sea to make a fortune, instead of killing people indiscriminately.
Moreover, it was only Ying Tianfuchen who offended by killing Jiang Mou, and killing Cheng Qing and other hundreds of Huizhou generals might offend the entire Nanzhi officialdom.
At the place of Ying Tianfu's ministers, Gonggong Wei was not afraid, and he was the enemy of the entire Nanzhi officialdom, and even the entire southern officialdom, and Gonggong Wei's head was not necessarily very hard.
Besides, if you are not guilty and punish one person without permission, Wanli can accept it. Killed hundreds of people without guilt, Wanli was only afraid that he would be angry and commit the same poisonous sores as Niangniang. There is also the rotten matter of kidnapping Donglin Academy, once the emperor attacks his heart with poisonous fire, Father-in-law Wei will end up worrying.
In the final analysis, even if he reorganized the Wusongshui camp into the Royal Navy, he still relied on Wanli's tiger skin, and he still relied on his identity as a eunuch in the system, without this reliance, he was nothing.
Therefore, do not kill indiscriminately, firstly, to avoid unnecessary casualties, and secondly, to avoid the emperor from jumping off the wall.
But Cheng Qing is the capital after all, the second in command of Wu Songshui's camp, let him move freely in the camp, and it is difficult to guarantee that his people will not connect privately and give Wei Gonggong such a guy at a certain critical juncture.
Therefore, after returning from the dock, Gonggong Wei immediately reorganized the naval organization.
The purpose of the reorganization was to sort out the relationship between the upper and lower levels, establish a new command structure, and at the same time eliminate all potential dangers that could endanger the cause of the navy.
This potential danger includes the old command power of Cheng Qing and others.
The Wusong Water Camp is now in a closed state, and the strict order issued by Gonggong Wei is that within seven days, it is not allowed to enter or leave. This is to ensure that everything that happened in the Wusong Water Camp will not be known to Suzhou in the short term, and when it is known, it is also raw rice cooked and matured, and the Royal Navy was honorably established.
Zheng Duo personally led the horse team to inspect the battalions, and the officers of each battalion were also repeatedly purged.
No one complained about the water camp that received the reward from Gonggong Wei, and the supreme glory of becoming the Royal Navy and the Son of Heaven became the driving force for the officers and men of the Navy.
For a time, there was really a new atmosphere and a new situation.
Guan Ying's death is only known to a small number of people so far. Gonggong Wei secretly ordered the Guan Ying Jiang to be buried in Shanghai County, and purchased a good coffin, but it is not good to erect a monument for this guerrilla general at the moment.
The most basic step in reorganizing and organizing the navy is definitely to redivide the command authority, that is, to strip away the old command system.
Theoretically, the Ming Dynasty actually did not have the military system of the naval division, and the coastal naval divisions (battalions) followed by the system of guards, such as the Guangdong naval division was under the jurisdiction of the Guangdong General Army, and there were generals, guerrillas, garrisons, and generals. The Zhejiang Navy Division was promoted by the General Army of Zhejiang, with staff generals and guerrillas, and there was also a General Capture Division responsible for cracking down on smuggling, but this General Capture Division existed in name only.
The naval division on the Fujian side was promoted by the deputy chief soldier and composed of staff generals. Fujian is also equipped with the Japanese capital division, but this capital division does not have warships, and if there is a war, it must be reported to the deputy general army of Fujian, and then deployed by the deputy general army. The same is true for the Penghu Inspection Division.
In short, at present, neither the southern or northern naval divisions can nominally fight independently, and they are all promoted by the local general army and staff generals.
The only ones that are independent and related to maritime affairs are the municipal shipping companies in Guangdong and Fujian.
Originally, there were not only two cities in Guangdong and Fujian, but many of them. During the Yongle period, there were even city offices in Annam and Malay, all of which were promoted by ministers. However, in the following two hundred years, the city ship division has been abolished, and the two city ship divisions in Guangdong and Fujian have also experienced several scraps.
In essence, the Municipal Department of Shipping is actually the customs, and its responsibility is to manage maritime foreign trade. Interestingly, the municipal shipping divisions of Guangdong and Fujian were reinstated thirteen years ago at the request of the local governors, but the tax collected by the municipal shipping divisions to the inner treasury was very small.
This phenomenon is very interesting, just like the officers and men of the Wusongshui battalion would rather live a poor life than dare to participate in smuggling, which is very surprising.
Regardless of which dynasty or generation, maritime trade was dominated by the government, and the Southern Song Dynasty achieved this maritime trade to the extent that most of the national treasury was earned. It can be said that without the prosperous maritime trade of the Southern Song Dynasty, there would be no existence of the Southern Song Dynasty at all.
In the current Ming Dynasty, the maritime trade is also very prosperous, and the silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty every year is like flowing water, but the imperial court did not get much money from it, and even the sailors could not get a piece of the pie, which made Duke Wei unable but to ponder, after the establishment of the Royal Navy, his primary enemy was the red-haired ghost who had not yet become a climate, or Japan, which had closed off the country, and those robbers on the sea, or people in the same system as him.
Choose the right enemy to succeed.
After many understandings, Gonggong Wei has some idea of who the enemy is, and now, he is about to sharpen his knife.
After repeated considerations, Duke Wei decided to completely reform the old command system of the navy, first of all, to organize all the warships and personnel of the Wusongshui battalion into a mobile detachment and a left-behind detachment of the Royal Navy.
The mobile detachment is composed of warships that can go to sea, and the left-behind detachment is composed of warships that cannot go to sea.
In view of the fact that it is temporarily impossible to find a new garrison base and port, all the supplies of the navy must be obtained from Wusongkou, so at least for a year, here in Wusongkou, Gonggong Wei cannot give up. Otherwise, his fleet would most likely not be able to get supplies from elsewhere.
The mobile detachment was personally promoted by Gonggong Wei, and Wang Dali, the general manager of the detachment, was temporarily appointed as the captain of the detachment, and the rank of general soldier was added. Lu Feng, the general manager of Qian, is the deputy detachment leader and has the rank of general.
The mobile detachment consisted of 52 warships and more than 3,200 officers and men, including more than 1,600 officers and soldiers of the former Guangdong Naval Division, more than 300 soldiers from Yangzhou, more than 300 soldiers from Songjiang, more than 200 soldiers from Huizhou, and more than 1,000 people from the pro-military battalion directly under Gonggong Wei and the left battalion of the infantry army.
The detachment consisted of 3 three-masted gunboats, 6 Fu ships, 11 building ships, 9 cangboats, 14 seaboats, and 9 other ships.
In addition to the original 116 cannons, 162 Francose cannons, 210 Tiger squat cannons, 314 large pole guns and other light and heavy copper cannons, Wei Gonggong also allocated all the firearms purchased from the Ordnance Bureau to the mobile detachment, making the mobile detachment's firearms advantage more than three times stronger than that of the Wusongshui battalion before the reorganization. Moreover, this time they don't have to worry about not having enough gunpowder at all, because what Father-in-law Wei has is medicine.
This means that as long as it is not a national war, in this sea area of East Asia, Wei Gonggong can really sweep away all the bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods.
Under the sunset, the Daming Navy Division is still the strongest navy in East Asia.