Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 378, advance team
In the port of Tianjin, more than a dozen large ships are moored quietly in the port's wharf. The wharf is very busy, and piles of materials are constantly being transported to the ships.

These ten large ships are different from ordinary ships. Ordinary ships are generally in the style of Fuchuan. Tianjin Shipyard made improvements, but the overall style is still Fuchuan.

And these dozens of large ships, if Europeans see them, they will definitely be very surprised, because these dozens of ships are more like sailing warships of Europeans. This kind of ship has a total of four floors, and each floor has many openings. , all of these windows can be used to install artillery.

To be precise, these big ships are actually battleships.

These Liu Jin had notified the Tianjin Shipyard to develop them before, and they were regarded as one of the warships prepared for future ocean warfare.

Of course, at this time, all the windows on these ships were closed, but Liu Jin secretly arranged for more than a dozen new cannons cast by the Miyun Iron Works on each ship.

Liu Jin also asked Emperor Hongzhi and Prince Zhu Houzhao for instructions on this matter. Pirates and Japanese pirates are rampant in the southeast coastal areas. If there is really no armed force, these dozens of ships have passed by. Meat buns.

There is no doubt that it will definitely become the target of those pirates and Japanese pirates, and it will be a big loss at that time.

What's more, these ships were the first batch of ships to go to Ryukyu, and the first batch of people to go to Ryukyu were not recruited farmers, but the backbone drawn by Liu Jin from the major industries under his command.

Their purpose of going to the Ryukyu side is very simple, that is to build an advance base first to prepare for the large-scale immigration later.

At this time, there are barbarians on the Ryukyu. These barbarians are very fierce. Naturally, this aspect must be considered when establishing a base. Naturally, it cannot be done without weapons.

Therefore, after asking Emperor Hongzhi and Prince Zhu Houzhao for instructions, each ship has more than a dozen artillery pieces. These artillery pieces can be used for self-defense. Similarly, after arriving in Ryukyu, they can also be used to build bases and install artillery pieces on the walls of the bases. , used to guard the base.

In addition to artillery, swords, crossbows and the like are not missing. These are also used for self-defense. All weapons and equipment can be regarded as an army.

Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi also specially dispatched eunuchs in the palace to supervise the army. Of course, the eunuchs of the army supervised the army. It is used to deal with pirates, Japanese pirates and defend the bases on Ryukyu Island.

Once the advance team arrives in Tianjin or other places, they have no right to use these arms and weapons.

Of course, there is actually another level of consideration for Emperor Hongzhi.

Since the Tumu Fortress Revolution in the Ming Dynasty, all the power of the army has fallen into the hands of civilian officials. Even if the emperor wants to mobilize the army, he needs the approval of the Ministry of War. Without the seal of the Ministry of War, the emperor will not be able to dispatch a single soldier. One pawn.

Because the military power is controlled by the civil official group, coupled with the suppression of military generals by the civil official group, the Ming Dynasty's army has been in decline since the Tumu Fortress change, with weakened armaments and weaker combat effectiveness.

Zhu Di's army that once ran across the prairie now can only rely on tall cities to fight against the prairie people, and they dare not go out of the city to fight, so that the prairie people plunder every year, but Da Ming has nothing to do with them. Method.

The former Emperor Hongzhi was limped by the civil servants, but because Liu Jin traveled over, there was a gap between the current Emperor Hongzhi and the civil servants, and the gap was getting bigger and bigger.

Even the importance of military power, of course, is more important to pave the way for Zhu Houzhao later. This time, Emperor Hongzhi also tried to bypass the court to build an army that only obeyed the emperor's orders.

The advance team is just the beginning. If the advance team is indeed feasible, the future Emperor Hongzhi will use this method to build an army that only obeys the emperor's orders.

The advance team was not large, only more than [-] people. Most of the troops were backbones drawn by Liu Jin from many industries under his command, and a small part was composed of people dispatched by Emperor Hongzhi from his trusted troops.

At this time, more than [-] people from the advance team gathered in Tianjin Maritime Academy for training, and they had been training for almost a month.

"Tsk tsk~ Lao Liu, I found that you are really a talent. You are a good businessman. You are also good at training the army~"

In Tianjin Maritime Academy, Liu Jin accompanied Zhu Houzhao to inspect the advance team. According to the arrangement of Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao has also been on the Tianjin side during this period of time, focusing on this advance team, and the commander of this advance team Zhu Houzhao has the final say.

Since everyone discussed to develop Ryukyu together in May, and then contributed their own funds to form an advance team, in just about a month, this advance team that was drawn to Tianjin Maritime Academy for training has been trained by Liu Jin in a good shape.

At this time, on the spacious cement playground of Tianjin Maritime Academy, more than [-] people in the advance team were lined up neatly.

Tianjin Maritime Academy itself implements semi-military management and training, so these colleges from Tianjin Maritime Academy can quickly form an army if they are pulled out one by one.

The advance team was just to deal with some pirates, Japanese pirates, and barbarians from Ryukyu. Liu Jin felt that it would be enough to bring them to Tianjin or the Academy for training.

"Your Highness, what kind of army is this? It's just a bunch of rabble. It looks good, but if it is really pulled into the battlefield, it will definitely be of little use. A real army needs to be trained on the battlefield. from."

Liu Jin smiled and shook his head.

"A mob?"

The British Duke Zhang Mao on the side was speechless for a moment. As the Duke of the country, he had seen all the troops of the Ming Dynasty. He could pat his chest and say that there was no army in the Ming Dynasty that was as formidable as the advance team in front of him.

More than [-] people acted as one under the command of the instructor, as if they were one body, and each of these advance team members was tall and full of energy. There was no army in Ming Dynasty that could compare with it.

"Of course it's a group of rabble. If they are really asked to go to the battlefield to fight, including scaring some people to pee their pants."

Liu Jin smiled and said with certainty.

"Then what can be considered an elite army?"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhu Houzhao thought about it and said curiously, in his opinion, the advance team of more than two thousand people in front of him is a powerful army, but according to Liu Jin's meaning, they are just a group of mobs, Nothing to do with the military.

"An elite army must be evaluated from two aspects. The first is loyalty to the emperor and patriotism."

Liu Jin thought for a while and said slowly.

"An army must have its own ideas and ideas, that is, the soul of the army. The personnel of the army can be constantly changed, but the soul of the army cannot be changed."

"Loyal to the monarch and patriotic, only an army with such a soul can be called an army. An army without a soul will always be a mob. "

What Liu Jin talked about naturally came from some concepts of later generations. The construction of the army of later generations not only pays attention to the construction of personnel, weapons and equipment, and training, but more importantly, it emphasizes the construction of military thinking.

"Loyal to the emperor and patriotic!"

Zhu Houzhao listened carefully, and when Liu Jin mentioned that the most important thing is to be loyal to the emperor and patriotism, his small eyes lit up, and then he nodded like a chicken eating rice.

That's right, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism is the most important thing. As a king, what he fears most is the army's rebellion. Why would the king trust civil servants more? Because scholars have rebelled, there has been no successful case since ancient times. The sky is the minister of power, this country can never change the surname.

But military general Xungui is different. Many of the changes in the country and history of the past dynasties were made by military generals and nobles. For example, the Western Han Dynasty was destroyed by the hands of foreign relatives Wang Mang, the Sui Dynasty was replaced by the Li family of the Xungui Group, and the Song Dynasty was founded. Zhao Kuangyin is also a general.

So, the distrust of military generals is not unreasonable, because too many, too many dynasties have changed their names and surnames because of military generals.

One of the most important reasons why military generals can easily change the name of a dynasty is that in ancient armies, the generals who commanded the troops often had the final say, and the generals did what they said, even if they rebelled. Follow along with the rebellion.

One of the most important reasons for this is that they did not pay much attention to the ideological construction of the army. Of course, in ancient times, there was no such thing as ideological construction.

These people only care about money, and whoever has milk is their mother. Whoever gives them food, whoever gives them money, whoever promises them high officials and rich salary, they will follow whoever they are, and they don't care who you are the emperor at all.

Now that Zhu Houzhao heard Liu Jin's views on the army, he immediately felt very reasonable. The army must be loyal and patriotic. This kind of loyalty and patriotism does not mean that the commander of the army should be loyal and patriotic, but refers to the whole army. The core thought and soul of the entire army must be loyal to the monarch and patriotic.

In this way, this iron-clad camp, flowing soldiers and generals, no matter how you change personnel, change commanders, etc., it will always be an army loyal to the king.

"Well said, loyal to the emperor and patriotic, loyal to the emperor and patriotic~"

Zhu Houzhao's Xiao Yan Jue was shining brightly.

　After thinking about it, I can only bypass the civil servants to gain military power~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)