"I heard that several main Fu ships have been launched in the Bao Shipyard, so you should start training as soon as possible, and go south to get rid of that Zheng Zhilong for me in the near future!" Every time I think of Zheng Zhilong Chongzhen in Fujian, I feel like a fish in my throat.

More than half a month ago, Dongchang reported that Zheng Zhilong, Nan Anbo, secretly colluded with Zhang Xianzhong, who was hiding in the deep mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou, and the goods traded were very likely to be weapons and firearms.

What's more, Zheng Zhilong turned a deaf ear to the imperial court's orders, and he couldn't see it to the extreme, and Chongzhen's eyes couldn't rub sand, which was also the biggest reason why he agreed to form a water division.

"Your Majesty, I can't remember this!" Liu Hong's face turned green when he heard this.

Just the seven or eight lucky ships that Tianjin hurriedly built to go to the Zheng family navy? You're talking about it here!

Although Lao Zheng is domineering, he is also capable, and the Zheng family's 3,000 warships have not tasted defeat in naval battles since the day they became an army!

As for our Da Ming Water Master? My God, a sailor who can't even get a boat together is called a sailor? Do you really think of us as the reincarnation of the god of war?

"Alas, the minister's intentions, and the Zheng family can only outwit and not attack, otherwise the gains outweigh the losses!" Liu Hong gradually sighed.

Liu Hong gradually did not know how thick the Zheng family's background was, but he was sure that even if the existing silver in the treasury plus Uncle Chongzhen's internal treasury was not necessarily as much as the Zheng family's silver.

Officials, merchants, and thieves take the entire South Seas as their personal belonging, and all past merchant ships must carry the Zheng family flag, and a ship earns 3,000 taels of silver a year.

Nanyang is vast, and there are many traders with the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong alone can earn more than 10 million taels a year, and he himself also operates a large number of smuggling businesses, real estate, and shops......

Becoming rich with the power of one family is not a legend, but a real existence.

Although there are only more than 30,000 elites of the Zheng family stationed on Kinmen Island in Fujian, there are no less than 200,000 troops in the entire Nanyang.

In the past two years, he has never been so helpless except for rebellion and extermination, and in the face of Zheng Zhilong, he can only choose to forbear.

There's no way, I really can't beat it!

It can be done with the army to drive them out of the Ming country, but what is the use of that?

The consequence of tearing the face is likely to be that the people around the coast will suffer.

"I know I'm a little anxious, but ...... I...... Ahem...... Ahem, ahem, ahem—" Chongzhen frowned, covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and couldn't help coughing.

And when he finally stopped coughing and put down the handkerchief, Liu Hongji's eyes suddenly fixed on the blood stain on the handkerchief.

"Your Majesty, you ......" Liu Hong gradually got up and looked at the dazzling Yin Hongdao on the handkerchief.

"Hehe, it's nothing, I'm used to it." Chongzhen hurriedly stuffed his handkerchief into the sleeve of the lute, and it seemed that it had been like this for a long time.

"Your Majesty, you ...... You shouldn't hide it from the minister, the minister ......" Of course, Liu Hongjian knew what Chongzhen wanted to say just now, but he felt uncomfortable and didn't know what to say.

Not to mention that the uncle has always taken good care of him, and now he is married to his daughter Xiao Jiu, who is like a good baby, this friendship is really not over.

Uncle silently bears the three-hundred-year foundation of the Ming Dynasty on his shoulders, and what about him? It's just a matter of getting by.

"Let's go to the water master with peace of mind, I'm fine!" Chongzhen's stubborn way.

Since ancient times, emperors have called themselves lonely and unwilling to show weakness to others, and Chongzhen naturally doesn't want others to see his weakness.

"The emperor and pay attention to the dragon body, the ministers should be loyal and wise to share your worries, then Zheng Zhilong, within a year, no, within eight months, the ministers will let him bow down and wait for punishment!" Looking at the rickety 'old man' in front of him, Liu Hong gradually felt sad in his heart.

"It's me who is too anxious for quick success, be wise and don't be impatient, if you can't do something, you should think about it in the long run." Chongzhen picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea to moisten his chapped throat.

Three years ago, he also ordered Sun Chuanting, who trained the troops, to cause tens of thousands of Qin soldiers who were unprepared and short of food and pay to be wiped out at Shaanxi Xitong Pass, which was his responsibility, and now every time he thinks about it, Emperor Chongzhen feels guilty.

Liu Hong gradually said yes, but he had secretly made an oath in his heart that he would return Uncle Ming to a complete Ming in a limited time.

After leaving the palace, Liu Hong gradually did not dare to delay, and led hundreds of guards to ride straight to the mouth of Dagu, Tianjin.

After a year of supervision, Tianjin Bao Shipyard has developed into a large-scale workshop with more than 800 craftsmen of all kinds and more than 2,000 handymen.

Tianjin Bao Shipyard is subordinate to the Ordnance Institute funded by Chongzhen, although it is not under the control of the Ministry of Industry, but it bears the name of the royal family and is not in the Xishan Shanghe.

Correspondingly, if the Ordnance Institute and the Treasure Shipyard want to sell arms, they only need to obtain the consent of Chongzhen, and do not need to go through the consent of the Cabinet or the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Households.

Mo Huan, the head of Tianjin Bao Shipyard, is about 50 years old, and Song Yingxing has wasted a lot of effort to invite back from the Macau Bugarao Shipyard, and the No. 1 and No. 2 Fu ships were built and launched under his auspices.

The temporary station of the Beiyang Naval Division, Dagukou, was less than five miles away from the Tianjin Treasure Shipyard, and when Liu Hongjian arrived at the Treasure Shipyard with a personal guard, thousands of craftsmen were in full swing around a huge fortune ship.

"Lord Wang, this is the No. 1 Lucky Ship built according to your requirements." Mo Huan followed behind Liu Hongjian and pointed to a huge fortune boat road that was under construction.

The ship's hull has been built, and now it is being fitted with steel plates provided by ordnance, which are about an inch and a half thick, and it is also a major difficulty to fix the steel plates firmly to the hull of the wooden ship.

Fortunately, Mo Huan has lived overseas for a long time and is familiar with the study of the mechanism, so he welded it with molten iron and anchored it, and in only two months, he was stunned to make a wooden fortune ship into a battleship covered in steel armor according to the requirements.

"The iron armor of this Fu ship has been assembled, and now the steam engine developed by Lord Song is being assembled internally, and it will take about ten days for this No. 2 Fu ship to be launched for sea trial."

Speaking of this steam engine, Mo Huan couldn't help but be in awe of Song Yingxing, he studied engineering, firearms, and mechanics for half his life, and developed countless kinds of equipment, but none of them could be compared with this steam engine.

The fact that a machine can be driven by boiling water with coal and stone is a mystery that cannot be understood by outsiders.

Mo Huan knew the importance of this technology, and with the steam engine, the warship would no longer have to be trapped by the wind direction and sails, and the endless ocean could go to it.

As a remnant of China, although he had studied this steam engine well, he did not mention it to any craftsmen in the treasure shipyard, and this technology could not be introduced to the little Franco.

"Lord Wang, please come here, and take you to see the No. 1 Fortune Ship that has been fully equipped." Seeing that Liu Hong was gradually looking at the No. 1 fortune ship that was being built in a daze, Mo Huan raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation.

The treasure shipyard is on the edge of the Bohai Sea, and dozens of warships of various types have been docked on the seashore.

In the middle of the warship was a larger and more dazzling No. 1 ship, about 20 zhang long and 6 zhang wide, with bright white steel armor all over its body, which was particularly conspicuous in the sunlight.

"This is the first ironclad warship successfully built by the lowly superintendent, please board the ship for inspection!"

Mo Huan stared at the huge treasure with excitement on his face, this was really the most proud warship he had ever built.

PS: I recommend a friend's book "Internet 2010", reborn in 2010, Lu Zhou is a small fish swimming into the giant shark. Let's see how he swallows big with small and goes to legend step by step. This is a rebirth urban text, interested friends can read it.