Thanks to the 200 yuan reward of the upstart son, today is guaranteed to update six chapters.

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Father-in-law Wei spent money and wanted to know how much money he had, which was a matter of course.

Anyway, 200,000 taels of silver were smashed into it, and it must be false for Gonggong Wei to say that it doesn't hurt.

Now, his old man has no other thoughts, just to listen to it.

There is a boo shh when peeing, this thing, it has to be worth it to be worthy of Grandpa Wei's hard work these days.

With the cooperation of Wang Dali and others, Zheng Duo was ordered to conduct a unified inventory of the ships, ordnance and personnel of the Wusong Water Battalion.

The roster shows that there are 4,652 officers and soldiers in the Wusongshui battalion, and after the actual count, there are 3,265 personnel in the battalion, of whom 126 are out, and the rest are only shown in the register, and they do not actually exist.

Gonggong Wei knows this, the Ming Dynasty has reached the present, whether it is a land division or a water division, eating empty salaries is the basic operation of generals. It is the nine sides of the imperial court that smashes a lot of silver every year, and the phenomenon of eating empty salaries and drinking soldiers' blood is also the norm.

Fortunately, this phenomenon has not yet developed to the later stage, that is, the extreme during the Apocalypse and Chongzhen years - the soldiers who are about to be adopted are all private soldiers, and in a battalion, only about 5% of the families can fight, and the rest are cannon fodder.

During the Chongzhen period, a battalion of soldiers was 5,000, and it was rare to have 2,000. And among these two thousand, if there are two hundred who can fight, they are elite soldiers.

The pro-soldiers became the foundation for the generals to save their lives and be promoted, and the rest of the soldiers were just raised as beggars and used as cannon fodder in wartime.

At that time, both the famous ministers and the generals were numb to this state.

The emperor can't help it, because, there is no money.

No matter which army of soldiers and horses, whether they can fight or not, whether they can't fight or not, raising troops up and down is also an example. It's just that the soldiers and equipment of the family are poor, and even eating enough is a problem, how can they fight, and in the end, the soldiers are not as good as bandits, or even directly bandits.

During the Chongzhen period, most of the "kings" who could fight were actually former officers and soldiers.

After all, people who are soldiers are also people, and if they are people, they have to face the minimum problem of food and clothing, and if the problem of food and clothing is not solved, they will point to people to fight with their lives, and those who are officials will not regard soldiers as people, then the soldiers themselves will not be soldiers.

The most famous is Zuo Liangyu and others, with hundreds of thousands of troops, but less than 20,000 can be used. After Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court counted his soldiers and horses, and finally drove out more than 10,000 people, and the rest were not looked down upon at all.

The only exception is the Tianxiong Army trained by Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister of the five provinces, which is also an example for Wei Gonggong to imitate, and is essentially the same as the training of the Hunan Army in later generations.

It's a pity that a Lu Xiangsheng, thousands of days of heroic army, it is difficult to return to the sky.

Gonggong Wei should be glad that he came to the Wanli period, even if it is the end of Wanli, it is also the tail of the prosperous era. The good thing about this tail is that everything is still the same.

The Ming army, which had just gone through the three major expeditions, was rotten under the supervision of an emperor who attached great importance to military martial arts, but it was not rotten.

On the side of the water division, the situation is obviously better than that of the land division.

Speaking of which, the successive commanders and managers of the Wusongshui battalion are quite authentic, but it is normal to eat 20 percent of the empty salaries of the soldiers, and it is normal to eat half of them in other places.

This may be related to the fact that the Wusong Water Battalion was formally established in the last years of Jiajing, and most of the soldiers participated in the battle to resist the Japanese and aid the DPRK more than ten years ago, and it is the richest place in the world to guard the south of the Yangtze River.

Otherwise, no matter how honest the general soldiers and the battalion management are, it is impossible for them to only eat a gap of two percent.

Most of the officers and men of the more than 3,000 officers and men of the water battalion are officers and men of the navy division who have had experience in large-scale naval battles, and this is undoubtedly a valuable asset.

The Ming Dynasty focused on the defense and light coastal defense, in addition to the initial investment in the naval division of the dynasty, attached great importance to it, and then the status of the naval division has been in a weak position, and even ignored and ignored, until the Jiajing period of the Japanese invaders raged so that the people of insight in the court realized the importance of coastal defense, and now many coastal water camps and anti-Japanese guards were established at that time.

However, it is only a matter of making up for the dead, and the defense of the sea is still more important than the coastal defense. In many cases, the officers and men of the naval division were used as land guards.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, it can be said that no one has such a clear understanding of the reuse of coastal defense as Gonggong Wei.

In terms of personnel, Grandpa Wei is very satisfied, very satisfied.

As for the ships, they are not too satisfied.

After counting, there are 134 warships in Shuiying, which sounds like a lot, but the problem is that there are many kinds of these ships, such as fortune ships, building ships, pak troughs, sand ships, cangboats, copper winch ships, sea boats, and eight tiger ships. Ships range in size from large to small, and in general, there are not as many large ships as small boats, and small ships as many as rotten ships.

Wang Dali has been very "degenerate" in recent years, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling everything, but Yu Shuiying's work is still clear. He unmistakably told Gonggong Wei that only 103 of the 134 warships could be used, and the remaining 31 had to be overhauled.

Of the 103 ships that can be used, only 55 can go to sea, and the rest can only be used on the river and in the sea, not to mention going on a thousand-mile expedition to the sea, even if you sail a hundred and eighty miles on the coastline, I am afraid that it will leak.

To put it mildly, half of the boats in the water camp can now be converted into boats that carry grain on the canal.

This made Gonggong Wei look black on his face when he inspected the boats.

Fortunately, what made Gonggong Wei feel a little relieved was that the weapons on the ship were excellent, not only equipped with bows, crossbows, knives, guns, spears and other cold weapons, but also a large number of firearms, such as Franc machines, tiger squat cannons, etc.

The maintenance of many firearms is definitely not good, but the number is enough to make Grandpa Wei's face soothe.

The quality is not good, and the quantity is made up.

Dismantling the ships that can't be used, piecing them together, dozens of well-equipped warships can still make his old man live happily at sea for a while.

At least, when they encounter red-haired ghosts, they properly bully the small with the big and win the little with the more.

To say that Grandpa Wei was really lucky, in the end he actually saw three three-masted gunboats in front of him. These three three-masted gunboats made Gonggong Wei feel particularly familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere.

Upon inquiry, Gonggong Wei confirmed his memory, and these three three-masted gunboats were indeed imitations of the red-haired ghost warships.

"Father-in-law, these three ships are the drawings drawn by the Fujian Penghu Inspection Department seven years ago when they saw the red-haired ghost warship, and later the Fujian Navy built a few, and we got three here."

He pointed to the three three-masted gunboats and introduced them to Father-in-law Wei, "Father-in-law, please see, these three-masted ships are very huge, with their heads raised and tails upturned, and they are not afraid of wind and waves at sea." The 3 masts of the tree on the ship, the main mast is 4 zhang high, the length of the ship is 20 zhang, the upper and lower cabins are 5 floors, the ship is as high as the city, and can accommodate 300 people. In addition, this ship can be equipped with 8 cannons and about 40 jack franc machines, which can be said to be the best three boats in our water camp. ”

Gonggong Wei couldn't help nodding his head when he listened, and he remembered that in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, the fleet of the Dutch East India Company had fought with the Portuguese in Macao. Three years later, in the 32nd year of Wanli, a Dutch fleet went east to the Penghu Islands near Taiwan.

Because the Penghu Islands were rarely inhabited, the Ming Dynasty's naval division in Fujian only made regular inspections, and the inspection department on the island did not have many warships and soldiers, so they did not dare to act rashly, but reported the news to the Fujian Political Envoy Department.

When the Fujian side learned of the news, they immediately sent people to negotiate with the Dutch. The Dutch hope to gain a foothold in Penghu, just like Macau in Guangdong. The Fujian side refused to allow it, and the officials in charge were very strong, and sent sailors to Penghu to prepare to expel the Dutch by force.

The Dutch did not have much to offer, and found that the Ming Dynasty could not meet their demands, and there were signs of expulsion, so they had no choice but to retreat. Thereafter, the Dutch mainly conquered the Indian and South Seas, including occupying Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies.

It was not until the Apocalypse that the Dutch went north on a large scale again, and there was a great battle with the Ming Dynasty's sailors, namely the Battle of Liuluowan. This battle ended with a complete victory for the Ming Dynasty. In the next few decades, it will be the story of the national surname Ye crossing the sea to fight the red-haired ghost and recovering Taiwan.

Duke Wei was very satisfied with these three three-masted gunboats, and on the whole, he made a preliminary judgment, that is, his family could now immediately organize a fleet of 50 warships and about 3,000 men to go to sea for an expedition.

However, who the expedition object is, his old man is a little confused.

It doesn't matter if you're confused, you can hit whoever you want.

However, before that, the reconstruction of the water battalion and the readjustment of the system of officers and soldiers at the upper and lower levels were the top priorities of the moment.

The military power, Gonggong Wei has taken over, and his belongings are somewhat clear, and now, he is about to carry out the most fundamental formation of the Royal Navy.

The formation of a new navy is not a simple matter of asking the unwilling Du Si Cheng to raise a flag and everyone at the top and bottom to receive a reward.