At noon on May 28, the third year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Keda, the first governor of the naval capital of the Navy, who had just been ordered to enter Beijing to meet Emperor Chongzhen, personally came to the Dagukou Shipyard in Tianjin with the will of Emperor Chongzhen, and conveyed to Shen Tingyang and others the holy decree of starting to build naval warships on the basis of the Galion from now on.

Emperor Chongzhen was very cautious about the candidates for the first Governor of the Navy, and he was selected and selected in the list drawn up by the military aircraft department, and at the same time, he also weighed and weighed, and there was no candidate who made his eyes shine.

If it was a hundred or ten years earlier, it would be better for Emperor Chongzhen to choose a little now, and those famous generals who resisted the Japanese at that time, whether it was Yu Dayou, or Qi Jiguang, or famous generals such as Lu Bo and Tang Kekuan, any one of them was enough to take on the heavy responsibility of building the Ming Dynasty Navy.

But in the late Ming Dynasty, during the Chongzhen period, it was really difficult to find a naval governor who made him really feel at ease and competent from a bunch of naval generals or coastal town guards.

After the news of the reorganization of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies of the Imperial Court spread, whether it was the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Nanjing, or the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Military Department of the Beijing Division, there were various candidates who entered the field of vision of the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Secretary of the Ministry of War, and thus entered the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen through the Military Aircraft Department.

is more reliable, there is Boping Hou Guo Zhenming.

At the beginning, Emperor Chongzhen abolished the position of governor of Caojiang and let Guo Zhenming, Marquis of Boping, replace Zhao Zhilong, the commander of the Yangtze River and the affairs of the Yangtze River defense.

Guo Zhenming, Marquis of Boping, was still conscientious and conscientious in the position of the commander of the Yangtze River Naval Division, and he was ordered to transfer all kinds of military supplies, transport all kinds of military criminals and immigrants to Dongfan, Yingzhou and other places, which could be regarded as conscientious.

But after all, river defense is river defense, and the river defense division is very different from the navy.

Now Emperor Chongzhen is preparing to spend a huge amount of money to build an ocean-going navy, and finally said that the cabinet and the household department, together with his own internal funds, allocated funds for the naval governor's office, he didn't want his own hard work, but in the end, he made an old-fashioned sailor who could only sail along the coast and couldn't leave the coast for too long.

In particular, in the mind of the current Emperor Chongzhen, the river water division on the Yangtze River, as well as all other inland river divisions, including the Cao Battalion Cao soldiers on the canal, are all transferred to the local team under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Internal Guard Army, just like the provincial capital guards in the interior.

The advantages outweigh the disadvantages of making the naval divisions on the rivers and lakes in the interior separate from the navy and belonging to two different command systems.

Not to mention anything else, just saying that there is a check and balance between each other is already beneficial to the emperor.

In addition to the nobles of the family such as Boping Hou Guo Zhenming, there are also those who propose to recommend Lu Yuying, the chief soldier of Fujian, Zhang Cunren, the chief soldier of Zhejiang, and of course, Zhang Keda, the chief soldier of Denglai.

There were also courtiers who thought they were clever and wrote directly to Emperor Chongzhen, suggesting that Mao Wenlong, the Marquis of Anton, be transferred from Dongjiang Town to serve as the governor of the imperial court and navy.

Others are even more whimsical, directly suggesting that Zheng Zhilong be transferred from Minhai and Dongfan to Beijing as the governor of the navy, and so on.

It was among such reliable or unreliable candidates that Emperor Chongzhen finally weighed the comings and goings and finalized Zhang Keda, the chief military officer of Denglai Town, who had not even been obtained by the lord, as the first commander of the Navy Governor's Office, that is, the Governor of Zuo.

Figures like Mao Wenlong and Zheng Zhilong, of course, Emperor Chongzhen also wanted to transfer them from places that were already similar to feudal towns, and put them above the court, or in the newly established Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

But in today's situation, if the imperial court does this, it will almost 100% end up slapping itself in the face.

Not only did he slap himself in the face, but it was also likely to make the two places of Dongjiang and Dongfan, which have been relatively stable, suddenly have some unpredictable chaos.

Although Emperor Chongzhen has reserved a lot of backhands within the jurisdiction of Dongjiang Town, he has formed a constraint on Mao Wenlong, such as the General Military Office on the Right Road of Dongjiang by Liu Xingzuo of Pyongyang, such as the Yingzhou Town Guard Mansion, the Jinyi Wei Dongjiang Thousand Households, and the newly established Dongying Trading Company, and so on.

However, during the critical period of the siege and blockade of the Houjin State by all parties in the Ming Dynasty, as long as Mao Wenlong did not secretly collude with the Houjin State, even if he really became a big feudal town, the Chongzhen Emperor did not plan to touch him now.

Today's Mao Wenlong is different from history, originally in July of the second year of Chongzhen, he was beheaded by Yuan Chonghuan's false holy decree, and he did not have the opportunity to see with his own eyes the child born to him by the concubine Shen, who was pregnant at that time, whether it was a boy or a girl.

In history, with the sudden killing of Mao Wenlong, Dongjiang Town was in chaos, and the fierce generals of Dongjiang Town, who were originally unified under Mao Wenlong, saw each other and attacked each other, and Mao Wenlong's pregnant concubine Shen was also missing and missing.

In this life, all these unfortunate events did not happen.

Mao Wenlong not only fulfilled the wish of the marquis of World War I, but also ushered in the birth of his only biological son on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 of the second year of Chongzhen.

At this time, Mao Wenlong was already over fifty years old, to be precise, he was fifty-four years old, and he was ecstatic to have a son.

With all this that he has obtained for the rest of his life, the Andong Hou Mansion on Phi Island in Dongjiang Town has an heir, how can he not be overjoyed!

The news that Antonhou's concubine Shen gave birth to a son was quickly sent back to Jingshi by Jinyi Wei Dongjiang Qianhu, as well as Chu Xianxian, who had just rushed to Dongjiang Town to supervise the war.

Emperor Chongzhen soon personally gave Mao Wenlong's son a name, called Mao Chenghei, and gave a large number of gold, silver, cloth and other items to the Andong Marquis Mansion in Jingshi.

Mao Wenlong's old mother, wife and eldest daughter moved from Hangzhou to the Andong Marquis Mansion in the inner city of Beijing shortly after Mao Wenlong was made a marquis.

His old mother and wife have long been more precious than their sons and their wives and husbands, and they have the orders and titles of the imperial court.

Mao Wenlong's concubine Shen gave birth to a son, because she was a concubine, Emperor Chongzhen could not reward her except for giving her a name, so he had to reward Mao Wenlong's original wife again.

This can be regarded as a reminder to Mao Wenlong, your old mother, wife and daughter are still waiting for your return in the Andong Hou Mansion in Beijing!

Mao Wenlong couldn't move, and Zheng Zhilong couldn't move.

Mao Wenlong said that he was originally an official of the imperial court, and he has always been loyal to the emperor and the imperial court.

Originally, the reason why Yuan Chonghuan was able to kill Mao Wenlong in history was largely because he falsely passed on the holy decree, saying that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to kill Mao Wenlong.

Such an approach is useful for people who are already loyal to the imperial court, but it is definitely ineffective for Zheng Zhilong, who started as a pirate.

Let him go north with his fleet of Zheng Jiashui Divisions, that would be impossible for the imperial court.

But if you don't let him bring the sailor, but just get him to Beijing or Tianjin, won't that force him to rebel again?

Even if he doesn't rebel, if he just doesn't obey the order, is there anything you can do?

All these things can only be done after the imperial court's navy has really grown, whether it is for Dongjiang Town or Zheng Zhilong's Zheng family sailor fleet, and it really has an overwhelming advantage.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Zheng Zhilong was at the peak of his life's work, why did he take the initiative to go to Chengcheng and follow him to Beijing?

Zheng Zhilong may have been forced to follow him to Beijing, but he personally went to the Qing army camp to surrender, but he did it on his own initiative, why did he do it?

Because the Southern Ming army was defeated like a mountain at that time, and the Manchu army was like a bamboo after crossing the river, Zheng Zhilong thought that he did not have an advantage.

He started as a pirate, and he only looked at his own interests or his family's interests, and he thought it was in his interests to do so.

So when the officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty really have an overwhelming advantage, what will Zheng Zhilong do?

At that time, perhaps Emperor Chongzhen didn't need to give him a will, and he would take the initiative to invite himself into Beijing.

As for the current naval governor's mansion in Beijing, although these two people seem to be quite suitable, they can't appoint any of them.

And Emperor Chongzhen's final selection of Zhang Keda, the chief soldier of Denglai, was entirely because of his resume and his performance in history.