1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3198
After the troops from the northern region passed the viewing stand, the next troops to appear on the stage were from the Fujian region.

Xu Yuzhuo, who was sitting on the viewing platform with the executive committee, straightened his back and waved to his direct troops.

Xu Yuzhuo, as the governor of the Fujian region, also participated in the previous election of the executive committee.However, everyone knows that his participation is just a symbolic move, not really aimed at a certain executive committee chair.

Although he failed to win the election, it basically had no impact on Xu Yuzhuo.It doesn't matter whether he gets into the executive committee or not, as long as he keeps his family business in this three-acre area of ​​Fujian.

As for the relocation of the capital by the executive committee, the impact on Xu Yuzhuo is limited.Starting from Zhangzhou, whether it is going to Sanya or Hangzhou, the voyage is almost the same.

If the executive committee hadn't been dispatched to Hangzhou collectively, Xu Yuzhuo probably wouldn't have bothered to travel far to join in the fun, at most he would send a troop over to participate in the military parade and it would be over.

But since the executive committee is here, Xu Yuzhuo naturally can't miss this opportunity to join in the fun.Moreover, the troops he brought to Hangzhou this time to be reviewed were not the Third Army Division stationed in Fujian, nor the Fujian Fleet formed by the Xu family navy, but a guard battalion belonging to his private army.

In the former dynasty, this kind of army is a combination of servants, personal soldiers, and dead soldiers, and it is often the most elite army under a general.

The Xu family owns a whole province, so raising such an elite battalion is no problem. The weapons and equipment are equipped according to the level of several special elite troops in Haihan. It is said that the funds invested in it are comparable to raising a small fleet. .

Xu Yuzhuo brought this troop to Hangzhou to show off, not because he intended to show off, but because the equipment level of the Third Lu Division was a bit overwhelming for this occasion.

The equipment level of troops in the East China Sea, Guangdong and Guangxi around Fujian, and even Taiwan across the strait is a bit higher than that of Fujian.The weapons and equipment of the Third Lu Division are only at the level of the local garrison in the East China Sea region.

As for the reason, Xu Yuzhuo certainly knows it well. After all, other regions are in the hands of the executive committee, and only Fujian is controlled by the Xu family.Being able to form a well-equipped guard battalion is basically the upper limit of the armed level of the Fujian army.

Xu Yuzhuo does not intend to seek to change this status quo. After all, among the four directions of Fujian, east, west, north and south, only Jiangxi in the west is still the territory of Ming Dynasty, and the local government there dare not take the initiative to provoke Haihan. Fujian really has nothing to do at this stage. Opportunity to use massive force.

And he knows that if he is too active in terms of armaments, the executive committee may mistakenly think that the Xu family has some schemes, and then he will only tighten the reins on the Xu family's head, which will affect Fujian and Xu. Home will not do any good.

The troops that followed into Victory Square came from Taiwan Island, which is separated from Fujian by a strip of water.

Seeing the troops from Taiwan appearing on the scene, the two grape men, Simao and Thomas, began to wink at the Su family father and son. Although they didn't say anything, their sarcasm was beyond words.

As we all know, the Dutch once controlled most of Taiwan, but since Haihan entered Taiwan in the name of exterminating pirates, the Dutch’s local control area has shrunk rapidly, and was later compressed to only Dayuangang. Moreover, the size of the armed forces stationed there is also strictly limited by Haihan.

Later, the Netherlands conducted many negotiations with Haihan on the ownership of Taiwan Island, but how could it be possible to get back on the negotiating table what could not be obtained on the battlefield.

This was an extremely serious blow to the Netherlands, and the commercial routes operating in Northeast Asia were also controlled by Haihan.

However, Portugal, as the old rival of the Netherlands, took this opportunity to expand its business scale in Japan and other places, annexing part of the business that originally belonged to the Netherlands.To this day, they still taunt Holland about it whenever they get the chance.

It was not the first time for Su Keyi to come across this kind of occasion. He looked at his nose and his heart at the moment, as if he didn't see the provocation from the Portuguese.On the other hand, Su Yongshan was a little impatient, and stared back fiercely.If there were not envoys from various countries sitting next to him, he would have to stand up and argue with the other party.

Fortunately, there were only two companies from Taiwan, one from the sea step company and one from the mountain company, and they quickly passed by the viewing stand, which did not embarrass the Dutch envoy for too long.

At the same time, Yue Shizong was staring at the seemingly endless army phalanx on the official road outside the square in a daze.

He had thought in advance that the Haihan executive committee would come to Hangzhou in person, and the scale of the National Day military parade this time must be quite large, but he was still shocked to see the Haihan troops from all over the country entering the venue.

Yue Shizong didn't count how many troops passed the viewing stand where he was, but there should be twenty or thirty phalanxes, large and small.Just looking at the number of troops that have not yet entered the field, there may be more than half of them that have not yet appeared.

This reminded him of a military parade in the capital a few years ago.

At that time, the wars at home and abroad in Ming Dynasty were extremely unsatisfactory, and the atmosphere between the ruling and opposition parties was tense.In order to boost morale, the Ministry of War specially held a military parade. The emperor and officials from various ministries were present. The Ministry of Rites also specially invited some foreign envoys.

Given the situation at that time in the Ming Dynasty, troops that were too far away from the capital could not be transferred, so only the troops from the Shenwu Zhongwei, Dingbianwei, Yingzhouwei, Yanqingwei and other guards in the Gyeonggi area were concentrated, plus the Imperial Forest Army and The honor guards of various palaces barely gathered thousands of people.

As for the perception of the military parade, the evaluations of all parties are mixed.

Both the emperor and cabinet officials believed that the Ming army had "high morale and a firm fighting spirit," while some officials who had been to the front line believed that these troops were outdated in equipment and would be difficult to fight head-on with a powerful enemy of Haihan's level.

As for the foreign envoys who were invited to receive a shocking education, the reaction was generally flat.Although he didn't say anything bad in person, the private evaluation afterwards generally believed that the Ming dynasty was over, and holding this kind of military parade was just a self-deception.He looks mighty and majestic on the school field, but he has never won a victory on the battlefield.

At that time, Yue Shizong didn't understand the gap. He only thought that some people might exaggerate and exaggerate the strength of the Haihan Army.But watching Haihan's military parade live today, he finally understood that the negative comments on the Ming army that he heard back then were considered very polite.

There are special personnel on the viewing platform who have been giving introductions, where each of the troops on stage came from, and what historical achievements they have made.It is estimated that more than half of the military records of the several regions that appeared on the stage were obtained on the territory that originally belonged to Ming Dynasty.

There is a huge difference between the ceremonial troops used to decorate the facade and the victorious troops who have been tempered on the battlefield.

The emperor, senior court officials, and the former Yue Shizong were satisfied with the troops participating in the military parade at the school grounds at that time, just because they had not seen a truly powerful army.

(End of this chapter)