Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 338

The Aegis ship has been successfully developed, and more and more Spike warships are coming off the assembly line like flowing water.

The Dongyang Navy and the Beiyang Navy have already gathered outside the Armed Forces City, and they have all changed into new-style steam ships, practicing day and night.

Beiwu Beicheng, in that grid city, 40 soldiers from Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion have also gathered and equipped with Xuanwu Armor.

After nearly half a year of training, the 30 recruits have already fought fiercely, and the orders are banned, just like the elite of a hundred battles.

Everything seems to be ready, just waiting for Taichang's order, the army can go straight to Dongying.

At this time, Taichang was not in a hurry.

He also came to Wubei City to inspect every day, to see the drills, and to check the preparations of food, grass and supplies, as if he had no intention of ordering an expedition.

What is going on here?
In fact, he was waiting for someone, a very important person.

This morning, he came to Beiwubei City again, standing on the grid-like city wall, watching the drills of the Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion with great interest.

At this moment, the recruits of the Shenji Battalion and the Shenwu Battalion are actually equipped with the same equipment, all of which are spears, swords and shields, and muskets.

The formations they practiced are also the same, they are all simplified versions of mandarin duck formations.

The reason why this mandarin duck formation is a simplified version is because two weapons are missing.

Wolf Whip and Platinum Palladium.

These two weapons can be said to be the soul of the Qi family's mandarin duck formation.

When the wolves danced, the Japanese pirates seemed to have entered a dense bamboo forest, and they couldn't see anything clearly.

Stir again and again with a fork of 镋palladium, and the sword in the Japanese pirate's hand will disappear.

These two weapons are simply the nemesis of Japanese pirates.

If possible, Taichang would naturally order people to match these two weapons.

However, these two weapons are too troublesome to build.

Not to mention iron and palladium, if you do your best to build tens of thousands of them in half a year, it is still possible to equip each team with one.

Wolf whisks are not enough, they have to be repeatedly processed with tung oil, and many sharp blades have to be installed, which is too troublesome, and it is impossible to manufacture tens of thousands of them in half a year.

Moreover, these two weapons are more difficult to use than ordinary weapons, and it is impossible for the newly recruited guards to use them proficiently within half a year.

Therefore, he simply abandoned these two weapons, and instead equipped all the staff with spears and sword shields, and equipped each team with a musket.

In this way, when fighting against Japanese pirates, they must not be as strong as Qi's army, and it is unlikely that one will fight ten.

However, they have a full army of 40, and it is enough for one person to kill two Japanese pirates.

Therefore, it doesn't matter much even if there are no wolves and palladium, because there are so many of them.

The original Qi family army was only a few thousand, but they had hundreds of thousands!
Moreover, there is another advantage of being equipped with spears and sword shields for all staff, that is, the defense is strong.

That guy, with 30 iron shields stacked together, unless it is bombarded by intensive artillery, there is nothing to do with this iron lump.

Now these recruits from the Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion are practicing the terrifying shield wall tactics.

A shield wall blocked, and then the musketeers shrank behind the shield wall and fired continuously.

If the pirates don't rush over, they will be slowly consumed by the musketeers.

If the Japanese pirates rushed over, it would be a bunch of spears poking out from behind the shield wall, and the death was even worse.

This formation is equally astonishingly powerful against Japanese pirates who mainly use short weapons.

He was watching with great interest the soldiers of Shenji Camp and Shenwu Battalion practicing when Zheng Zhilong walked over quickly, cupped his hands and bowed: "My minister sees the emperor."

You guys are finally back.

Taichang couldn't help asking: "How is it? Did you get the map? How do you know the situation in Dongying?"

He was waiting for Zheng Zhilong.

Because Zheng Zhilong had lived in Dongpu for a long time, and he was doing well there, and he knew a lot of people, so he asked this guy to go there with gold and silver to buy him some maps and information.

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have bought a few boxes of maps, but I didn't collect a lot of information."

Several boxes of maps!
Already very good.

As for the information, as much as can be collected, there is no need to force this.

After all, Daming only fought two battles with Dongying during the Wanli Dynasty, and he still had a certain understanding of the strength of the Dongying people. The information Zheng Zhilong bought was just icing on the cake, allowing them to have a better understanding of the strength of the Dongying people.

He was mainly afraid that he would get lost when he ran to Dongpu, and he didn't know where to fight.

Therefore, the map is the most important.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked, "What kind of information did you buy?"

Zheng Zhilong said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, because I went to the Hirado Domain of Hizen Country, I can only inquire about the news of some nearby domains. As for the situation at the Tokugawa Clan's lair, in such a short period of time, It is really difficult for Wei Chen to find out the news."

Taichang heard the words, but he asked curiously: "What is the Feiqian country? What is the Hirado clan? I don't quite understand the names of Dongying. Please explain to me."

Zheng Zhilong quickly explained: "The Feiqian Kingdom is roughly equivalent to the original vassal states in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Dongying also had the Warring States Period, and there were also vassal states.

During the Warring States Period in Dongying, there were 66 vassal states, and the leaders of these vassal states used to be called daimyo.

And this vassal is actually a feudal vassal entrusted by the shogun, and there seem to be more than 200 feudal lords entrusted by the Tokugawa shogunate.

These feudal lords are big and small, some have several vassal states, and some have only one city.

These feudal lords are generally named after the city where they are located. For example, the feudal lord of Hirado, Matsuura, lives in Hirado Castle, so it is called Hirado.

There are also some domain names named after the country name, for example, the Satsuma domain is named after the Satsuma country. "

There are 66 vassal states in a small Dongying?
The Tokugawa shogunate actually entrusted more than 200 princes!
What's all this mess?

It makes me dizzy!

Taichang was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's take the map and talk to the flagship."

There is no way, there are too many feudal states in Dongying, and he can't figure out the location or size at all. If he doesn't look at the map, he really can't understand what Zheng Zhilong is talking about.

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zhilong hurriedly followed him to the city wall.

Soon, they came to the pier outside the city.

At this moment, not only were there many Spike warships docked at the pier, but there was also a huge black-tailed boat.

This black-tailed boat is Zheng Zhilong's car pretending to be at sea and going to Dongying to do business. In addition to Zheng Zhilong's cronies, there is actually a woman holding a child on board!
Taichang looked up and couldn't help asking curiously: "Is this your first wife and your eldest son?"

Zheng Zhilong nodded embarrassingly and said, "Yes, this is Weichen's original partner Tian Chuan and eldest son Zheng Sen."

Zheng Sen?

This kid should be Zheng Chenggong!
Taichang pondered for a while, then patted Zheng Chenggong on the shoulder and said: "Feihong, you have made great contributions this time, so how about it, I will reward you with a mansion, and you can move your wife and children to live in the capital."

Uh, this.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this.

Now he is completely helpless as a pirate leader, and his dream is completely shattered.

Of course, this dream refers to his biggest dream, which is to become the overlord of the Daming sea area and even the Nanyang sea area.

All his men and horses were recruited by the emperor, and the emperor also asked him to take his wife and children to the capital as hostages. Naturally, he couldn't go to sea to become the king and hegemony.

Alas, perhaps, earning some money and becoming a rich man is not bad.

Everyone has dreams.

If a person doesn't even have a dream, then this person is basically useless.

While most people have more than one dream, many people have a bunch of dreams.

These dreams can be big or small. When the biggest dream cannot be realized, most people will settle for the second best and choose a smaller dream.

Zheng Zhilong was expected to realize the biggest dream in his heart, and, in history, he really realized it.

However, now that Taichang is in such a mess, his dream of dominating the sea cannot be realized.

He can only settle for the next best thing and strive to become a rich man.

(End of this chapter)