Nanjing City, now Zhu Jie is also extremely annoyed, the only fortunate thing is that Zheng Haotian finally lived up to his trust and took back all the arms, but the imperial sailors suffered heavy losses, really heavy losses, the strength of the imperial sailors was limited, and now after this battle, the strength has weakened a lot.

"Your Majesty, that's what it looks like, the minister used the powerful firepower of the Imperial Naval Division, and created huge trouble for the Fujian Naval Division at the very beginning, concentrated firepower to besiege their flagship, and directly sank it, only to barely repel the siege of the Fujian Naval Division, in this battle, the main battleships brought from Dongting Lake were sunk eleven, and the main battleships we built later were also sunk four, and the rest of the small warships, many of them were sunk or suffered heavy losses, the Fujian Naval Division was too powerful, if they poured out, The minister would never have been able to lead the Imperial Sailors back to Nanjing safely. ”

Zheng Haotian said in a bitter voice: "The ministers have no way to lead the troops, which has caused the imperial sailors to suffer heavy losses, please ask the emperor to punish the crime......"

"Zheng Zhilong, hehe, I will never spare you!"

Zhu Jie slapped the bookcase hard, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Zheng Aiqing, in this fierce battle, you have no merit, in such a passive situation, you can still retreat with your whole body, and you have not fallen the majesty of the court, it is already very rare, pass the decree, Meng Zhong is loyal and brave to the country, not compassionate about sacrifice, can be called a model of the imperial court, posthumously awarded him the title of loyal and brave earl, gave the post of Tongzhi, the governor of the Chinese army, and the chief soldier of the imperial navy, and his son inherited his position as a guerrilla general, and Xiangzi set up a loyal and righteous shrine to accept the four o'clock sacrifices. The rest of the sacrificial generals are all given a heavy pension at the first level, and the soldiers who went out this time will be given gold gifts! ”

"Your Majesty, now is not the time to deal with Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong is already fortunate to be able to cause us a little less trouble at this time......"

Li Yan smiled bitterly, "The current Huai'an Mansion has reached the last time, the more than 20,000 soldiers led by Song Jiaxing plus the local garrison of Huai'an Mansion, more than 30,000 people, now after more than two months of fierce fighting, the strength is less than 20,000, and the casualties are heavy, I am afraid that Song Jiaxing will not be able to support it for too long......"

The anger in Zhu Jie's eyes kept spitting, and he shouted: "With 50,000 Beijing camps here, Azig still can't chat!" Besides, now that Sun Chuanting is about to outflank him, he really won't give the Manchurian Tartars another chance! Sent a decree to Longjiang Bao Shipyard to supervise the construction of new warships, these two years have passed, if Longjiang Bao Shipyard still can't build a suitable warship, and can't increase the speed of building ships, Hu Yanlei doesn't have to do it, I will directly replace people! ”

Bi Maokang on the side hurriedly bowed down and said: "Emperor Qi, now the treasure shipyard has been rushing to work day and night, and now it is supervising the construction of two flagships, both of which are 2,000 large ships, and eight 5,000-pound red-coated heavy cannons, twenty 3,000-jin red-coated heavy cannons, and twenty rockets will be installed on them, and their combat power is far better than the main warships of the imperial naval division, but, it's just that our current cannon-making speed can't keep up, especially when Xuzhou falls, Xuzhou's fine iron can't be transported, and the steel in Jiangnan alone is not enough......"

"Bang!"

Zhu Jie smashed his fist on the bookcase again, or his time was too short, if Chongzhen could have bought one to two more years to stop the Manchurian Tartars from the pass, it would definitely not be such a situation, even if he didn't have the current three towns of Nanjing, just by equipping the Tianwei Army, he could beat the Manchurian elite cavalry to the ground, but now it's different, his huge layout is not to mention mature, and he hasn't finished yet, the Manchurian Tartars have already entered the customs, and he wants to reverse the whole situation. Where is it so easy?

Especially the current Zheng Zhilong, he is his number one henchman, it can be said that even if Zhang Xianzhong, Zuo Liangyu, and Ma Shiying are tied together, the threat they bring to themselves is not as big as Zheng Zhilong, after all, on land, they have the Tianwei Army and the three towns of Nanjing, and each one of them can easily defeat the three forces, but on the sea, even if he is pouring out of the nest now, and even the strength to eat milk is used, he may not be Zheng Zhilong's opponent, and on land, He also controls the town of Fuzhou, once the incident starts, from Fujian to Zhejiang, it can be said that the imperial court does not have the slightest ability to resist, Zhejiang's commander is not a at all, the most fatal thing is not on land, but on the sea, once Zheng Zhilong dispatches sailors to sabotage everywhere along the shipping route and cut off his overseas trade routes, then the imperial court will really be in a dilemma.

"I only ask you, how long will it take before the two flagships can be delivered?"

Bi Maokang said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, if it is only two flagships, it will be delivered soon, after all, it has been more than five months since the construction started, and the artillery and rockets have been prepared in place, but the guns and rockets of the other main warships behind have not yet been traced, by the end of this year, we can complete the construction of two flagships and fifteen main warships, and the rest of the small and medium-sized warships thirty, Longjiang Bao Shipyard has now drawn craftsmen from all over the country, and the entire treasure shipyard has more than eight thousand craftsmen!" ”

Zhu Jie took a deep breath and replied: "Don't worry about the artillery first, let's build the battleship first, go all out to build the ship, if you don't have money, you will borrow from Yongxing Bank, and we will use the annual income to repay the loan, anyway, we must build a fleet that is enough to run rampant in the East and South Seas in the shortest possible time, we can't control the Western Ocean, but all the seas from the North Sea to Malacca and Java must be under our strong control, three years, I will only give you three years, a hundred main warships, Two hundred non-main warships must be built, and I will allow him Zheng Zhilong to live for three more years! ”

While he was talking, the Huangmen official hurriedly came to the gate and said urgently: "Your Majesty, Duan Xuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Intelligence, is asking for an audience outside the noon gate!" ”

"Duan Xuan!"

Zhu Jie raised his eyebrows and shouted: "Immediately Xuan Duan Xuan enters the hall!" ”

After a short time, Duan Xuan hurriedly walked away from the main hall, bowed down and said, "Minister Duan Xuan see the emperor!" ”

Zhu Jie asked, "How is it, are you all back safely?" ”

Duan Xuan nodded and replied: "Your Majesty, in Qingyuan, the ministers raided Zheng Zhilong with surprise soldiers and sent elites who were ready to raid us, and in one fell swoop all their five hundred elites were defeated, and more than 60 of them were captured, and they all confessed, they are all elite forces in the Zheng family's private army, ready to intercept and kill us halfway, hehe, but they also underestimate the elite strength of our intelligence department, and it is effortless to defeat them!" ”

"Where's John Soup?"

Zhu Jie asked.

Duan Xuan smiled bitterly and replied: "Your Majesty, Lord Tang Ruowang was already seriously injured, and in order to be able to get out as soon as possible, so as not to be harmed by Zheng Zhilong again, however, all the way to the hurry, Lord Tang's body has become even weaker, and he is now resting in the post house!" ”