Daming: I help my wife be the empress

after dinner.

Hao Guangming practiced opening jade in the workshop on the third floor.

The batch of jadeite he and Zeng Tianbao bought back from Ruili in October last year are almost finished. Now not only the skill of opening jadeite has been greatly improved, but also the understanding of stone gambling has been deepened through practice. It is barely an introduction. .

The batch of gambling materials he bought was estimated to be a loss after the opening, but he didn't lose too much, and it seemed to be a loss of about one million.

He planned to sell a batch of emeralds from Daming before the arrival of hot summer, and then went to the gambling stone market in Pingzhou with Zeng Tianbao to buy another batch of gambling materials.

Auntie Zhu looked at Hao Guangming for a while, then went downstairs and brought a document.

"This is the proposed list of main officials and generals of the American Ocean Exploration Squadron. Take a look, it's very interesting."

Hao Guangming was just tired, so he stopped to take the file and read it.

Soon he became weird, and finally said with a smile: "Yes, most of the fleet is full of famous ministers and generals of the Kangxi Dynasty in history. Did you do it on purpose?"

Auntie Zhu also laughed, raised her forefinger like a green onion, and said, "It's not entirely intentional, it's just intentional."

The commander of the squadron was Shi Lang, who was famous during Ming Zheng and Kangxi.

Speaking of it, the Shi family can be regarded as a small faction of the Zheng family, because Shi Tianfu (also known as Shi Fu), the uncle of the Shi Lang clan, followed Zheng Zhilong very early and became an important general of the Zheng family.

Shi Lang was born as a small landlord. When he was a child, he failed in literature and went to learn martial arts. Later, he learned good martial arts and the art of war.

In 1638, when he was only 17 years old, he defected to his uncle Shi Tianfu and became Zheng Zhilong's general.

In the history of later generations, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Zheng Zhilong first, and then surrendered to Zheng Chenggong. Later, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty because of conflicts with Zheng Chenggong, and helped Kangxi take over Dongfan Island.

In this life, he naturally has no chance to repeat it. After the Zheng family completely surrendered to the Ming court, he has been honestly serving the generals of the Daming Navy.

He was previously transferred to Huang Binqing's command by the Military Affairs Council.

After the establishment of the Eight Great Navy, they were transferred to the Eastern Navy as admirals, and now they are appointed as the commander of the Ocean Exploration Squadron.

Shi Lang, the commander, can be regarded as the top military commander of the squadron, while the second military commander and the top government affairs commander are the upgraded versions of the military and political officers, supervising the army.

This one is even more famous, Yu Jackie Chan, a famous minister of Kangxi!

He was born in Yongning Prefecture, Shanxi Province, born in 1617, and participated in the provincial examination in the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639).

Juren and Gongsheng can also be officials, and there was a shortage of officials in Ming Dynasty at that time, so Yu Chenglong was awarded the history of a certain county.

But Yu Chenglong felt that the officialdom at that time was too dark to do anything, so he resigned the opportunity to be an official on the grounds that his father was old and needed support.

Historically, in the Qing Dynasty, although he participated in scientific examinations many times, he waited until 1661 to graduate from the Imperial College, was awarded the county magistrate, and began his official career.

He was 45 years old then.

In this life, Yu Chenglong got a Jinshi in the fifth year of Zhaowu because of Zhu Yuxi's imperial examination reform, and then graduated with honors from Nanjing Institute of Political Affairs.

Because of his outstanding performance in office, he was recommended as one of the candidates for the Supervision of the Ocean Squadron.

Originally, Yu Jackie Chan's qualifications were just for the number of people, and the possibility of being promoted to the supervisor of the army was relatively small.

But when Auntie Zhu saw his name, she specially approved it with the imperial pen and selected him.

The staff officer of the squadron is Yao Qisheng, another famous official who played an important role in Kangxi's acquisition of Dongfan in history.

This person is from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, born in 1624, and entered the Military Academy through special recruitment three years ago.

He has been a staff officer in the Ming Dynasty New Army for more than two years, and even in charge of naval affairs, he has also accumulated some credit.

Zhu Yuxi then transferred him to be the staff officer of the squadron, which is equivalent to the staff officer of the frontier defense barracks.

Yu Guozhu, the logistics officer of the squadron, Liu Zizhuang, the clerk, and Li Xiangen, the diplomat, are all well-known ministers of the Kangxi Dynasty in later history.

The commander of the squadron, Tong Zhi, was guerrilla Ruan Jin.

This was originally a naval general under Zhang Mingzhen's command. In history, he was a very talented naval general who defeated the Qing army with few victories and many defeats at sea.

The most important thing is that he was not born in the Zheng family - allowing him to be the second in command of the fleet's military can balance the composition of the fleet's personnel well.

In addition, several captains of the fleet were from Zheng Chenggong's anti-Qing generals in later history, such as Wan Li, Gan Hui, Chen Hui, Zhou Rui, Shi Xian, etc.

But these people were not brought in by Aimee Zhu on purpose.

One is that many naval generals are indeed from the Zheng family; the other is that the generals under the command of Zheng Chenggong in later generations are mainly from Fujian, followed by Zhejiang.

Nowadays, most of the Daming Navy are people from these two provinces, so by coincidence, these people gathered together in the squadron.

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In March, two fleets departed from Nanjing successively.

One is the fleet of Qin Wang Zhu Cunfu, with only more than 900 people, but they also took three large ships and a few small sea ships, and followed several warships south to Nanyang.

Since Zhu Cunfu's funds were limited, he decided on a development strategy of slowly accumulating wealth through small troubles. Naturally, not many people were brought to Nairo Island in the first batch.

Among them, there were no more than 300 pro-army, 50 guards, and more than 500 officials. The remaining more than [-] people were all recruited to cultivate and farm.

This does not seem to be much worse than the first batch of immigrants brought to Luzon Island by King Lu Zhu Changhao. However, Zhu Changhao continued to recruit immigrants in Daming, but Zhu Cunfu would not recruit again for two or three years.

It can be foreseen that in the next ten years, the development of Qin Wangling will be far behind that of Lu Wangling...
The other team that left Nanjing in late March was part of the ships of the Dongyang Navy.

After meeting other ships of the Dongyang Navy at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it sailed vigorously towards Japan.

The Dongyang Navy has three fleets.

Among them, the fleet where the admiral of the navy is located is the main fleet, equipped with one iron-clad battleship of the provincial name, three iron-clad battleships of the government name, three iron-clad cruisers of the county name, and six sail cruisers.

Among them, the provincial battleship is equivalent to the second-tier western battleship, prefixed with the province name; the government name is equivalent to the third-tier battleship, prefixed with the government name; the county name is equivalent to the fourth-tier battleship of the Netherlands, that is, cruisers of other countries ( light battleships), prefixed with the county name.

It must be mentioned that the above-mentioned warships are all equipped with steam engines and propellers, large or small, that is to say, they are all steam-sail hybrid warships.

As for the remaining two fleets, except that there is no provincial ironclad battleship, the configuration of other ships is the same as that of the main fleet.

In addition to these main battleships, all kinds of necessary small boats are naturally equipped.

Therefore, the entire Dongyang Navy has 1 second-tier battleship, 9 third-tier battleships, and 27 cruisers!
A total of 37 main warships, including 19 ironclad ships!
Sailing into the ocean with such a powerful navy, it can be said that every general and soldier of the Toyo Navy is full of blood and high morale, and they can't wait to arrive in Japan as soon as possible to show off their might!
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Kanagawa, Yokohama.

The morning of April was sunny and the sea breeze was salty.

As usual, Kenjiro drove his ancestral sampan to go fishing with a few partners.

After several nets in a row, the result was far less than what he expected, which made him sigh.

'If the harvest has been so small, there will not be much money left after paying the fishing tax today. '

Just as he was feeling emotional, he heard an exclamation from his eldest nephew——

"Uncle, there are a lot of big ships coming over there! It seems that many of them are burning!"

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