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(Please keep it in mind when reading the novel) (Please keep it in mind when reading the novel) Lin Baiguang lived very comfortably in the post house in Anping. Although it was the property of the government, it was actually the private property of the Zheng family. [No pop-up novel website] Maintenance expenses are naturally much more generous than that of the emperor. Not only was the house clean and tidy, but the post officials were also in good spirits and were very attentive to this "distinguished guest" of the Zheng family.
However, the response from the Zheng family was like silence, with no news at all. Every day, the servants stood at the door of the courtyard where they stayed, watching eagerly to see if any messengers from the Zheng family were arriving. Except for the postmen and palace officials who were looking after me attentively, there was no one else.
His followers were all naturalized citizens, and all of them became anxious, fearing that they and the "chief" would be detained by the famous sea master at sea, and their lives would be in danger if something went wrong.
Lin Baiguang was not anxious at all. There was no way that the Zheng family would not swallow this bait, even if they knew it was poisonous. A young boy became the leader of the village under Yan Siqi, and finally became the overlord of the southeast sea.
Just as Zheng Zhilong would be lured to the camp and kidnapped by the Qing army decades later, in fact this was not the first time for him - a few years ago he was tricked into boarding a ship and kidnapped by Natz, the Dutch governor of Taiwan, and was forced to A trade deal was signed and a ransom was paid to Natz. But when the Qing Dynasty tempted him with the promise of breaking the soil and sealing the king, Zheng Zhilong took the bait again.
From this point of view, the Grand Library believes that it is completely feasible to do business with Zheng Zhilong in selling salt - as long as it is business, everything is easy to negotiate.
However, although neither the Senate Standing Committee nor the branch committee revealed how they would deal with Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang, it is obvious that ambitious sea masters like Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang must be eliminated. Their group is too large to accept adaptation. Even if it is accepted, the leader of the Zheng family and the intricate network of leaders and cronies below make it difficult for this group to be quickly absorbed by the navy and commercial departments.
Furthermore, major maritime groups like Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang are quite harmful to maritime trade along the coast of China. They pursue a monopoly effect. After Zheng Zhilong defeated Liu Xiang. Sea rights of passage for international trade are sold at high prices. The annual price of a royal flag is two thousand taels. In fact, it completely blocks the possibility of merchants and shipowners with poor financial resources to participate in ocean trade. Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng Zhilong Group had actually monopolized the Hirado trade with Japan. A quarter of the "Chinese" ships arriving in Hirado were Ankai ships under its direct control. And their battles and monopolies in China's coastal areas have also seriously affected domestic maritime trade and trade along the coast.
The Senate wants to seize maritime hegemony and build "peace at sea under the rule of the Senate." The purpose of gaining hegemony is not only to obtain excess profits, but also to promote maritime trade and stimulate the development of coastal industry and commerce. If the profits of trade are monopolized by channel merchants, except for necessities and luxury goods. Traders and retailers will have to exit the business system sooner or later. Excessively high prices will also cause consumers' spending power to shrink or even disappear.
"Private monopoly means reaction." Ma Qianzhu characterized the sea owners at an enlarged executive committee meeting as "a backward thing that hinders productivity."
"Hindering productivity" is a very serious characterization - roughly the same as a death sentence.
So completely defeating it and recruiting the remnants was the only option for the Executive Committee. This has become a consensus among the elders who have access to core secrets.
The main purpose of his coming to Anping was not to show his goodwill or to paralyze Zheng Zhilong - this was just incidental. The ocean fleet and transport convoys paid no attention to the maritime power of Liu Xiang or Zheng Zhilong. The Senate's fleet basically took overseas routes. Unless Zheng Zhilong had radar and radio, it would be difficult to accurately capture the fleet. Even if he is lucky enough to be able to capture the fleet or take a wait-and-see approach and wait for fighters at certain locations. The outcome of the battle was also unfavorable to him.
The Navy has conducted several map-based wargames in Ma Niao to simulate various hostile activities that Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang and the Dutch might carry out. Despite setting various harsh conditions, these three major forces were still completely defeated.
Take Zheng Zhilong Group as an example. Zheng Zhilong wants to take action against the engine combat troops. Not to mention the main First Fleet and Second Fleet, even if he wants to intercept the transport fleet, the main force of the entire army must be dispatched to set up formations in Penghu, and the transport team must also be deployed. The commander is so stupid that he/she needs the fastest text update, no pop-ups, no ads//to crash into his ship array. Once Lingao knew that he was setting up a formation in Penghu, the return of nine squadrons of spy boats would be enough to crush Zheng Zhilong.
If Zheng Zhilong's fleet hides along the coast, it can relatively guarantee its advantage. After all, it is in a shallow sea area with harbours, beaches and reefs. The light ships that make up the bulk of his fleet have great flexibility, and attacking the ships with fire also has a chance of success. The transportation routes for engine operations generally do not go to the mainland's shores.
It is unlikely that Zheng Zhilong will take the initiative to intercept the Senate's fleet on overseas routes.
[China] Traditional Chinese navigation relies heavily on maritime landmarks. Because China has no concept of longitude and latitude, even if it has a compass. There is still the problem of not being able to locate the ship. The traditional method is to observe the stars and roughly estimate one's own position based on the position of the stars.
But the more commonly used and convenient method is to use maritime landmarks. In the traditional navigation chart "Needle Book", the geometry and course of the needle path to a certain place are clearly recorded. When turning the rudder and changing the course, landmarks in the sea are used as navigation signs. Therefore, ships generally sail along the coastline or islands and beaches in the sea as navigation markers.
Due to inherent deficiencies, Zheng Zhilong's ocean combat capabilities are actually very weak. Except for the Dutch, neither Liu Xiang nor Zheng Zhilong has the ability to conduct search operations on the vast ocean. In fact, almost all of his battles with the Dutch and other sea lords were fought near coastal bays and islands.
As for the Dutch, they have nine squadrons of spy boats alone, and thirty-six large Fuchuan and Guangzhou ships. Of these thirty-six, the firepower of any of them is not inferior to the large Dutch warships, and the number far exceeds them.
Although Zheng Zhilong claims to have hundreds of warships, there are only thirty or fifty full-time large warships among them, and the combat effectiveness of a single ship is far inferior to that of a spy boat. It is even said that even the small schooners and square sailing ships of the Dutch can hit more with less. Fight against Zheng Zhilong's fleet. Even if Zheng Zhilong gathers all the warships, he may not be a match for the spy boat squadron.
The Navy used computer programs to conduct simulated combat tests at sea. On one side was the Dutch's typical large-scale armed merchant ship: Newbantam, with a load capacity of 800 tons and a maximum displacement of more than 1,200 tons. It is the largest class in the East Asian sea. The firepower on the ship is 7 18-pound snake guns and 16 12-and-a-half-pound snake guns. These are all the artillery that can enter the artillery battle. Since the artillery is arranged on both sides of the ship, its single-side firing capacity is only about 150 pounds.
The newbantam was not only helpless against the Lichun class and Type 901 - the power of the rifled cannon was simply god-like in the face of the early smoothbore cannon. According to software calculations: the destructive power of solid bullets, incendiary bombs and grenades fired by the 130mm Dahlgren rifled gun. Even with a very conservative estimate, only five or six hits at most can completely destroy the Newbantam's combat and navigation capabilities. In a software simulated shooting, a solid bullet even directly penetrated the hull of the ship and hit the powder magazine, blowing up the entire ship.
Even when facing spy boats without rifled guns, the Dutch's top battleships have no advantage at all.
When faced with a spy boat equipped with a 48-pound smoothbore cannon and a 68-pound caron gun, not only is its firepower inferior to that of the spy boat, but it is also no match for the spy boat in terms of range, penetration, and shooting accuracy.
A common wide-ship type spy boat with a standard displacement of about 200 tons has only 6 48-pound cannons, plus 4 68-pound carronets. A single broadside fire can project 280 pounds of shells, which is almost twice that of the New Bantam.
Not only that, the projectiles of the snake cannons and semi-snake cannons on the Dutch warships were small in weight and had weak penetrating power. The penetration power of the Snake is far worse than that of the 24-pounder. According to the data of French long guns, the penetration ability of the 18-pounder long gun during the war at 100 yards is not as good as that of the 24-pounder at 300 yards. One 24-pound shot has more destructive power than two 18-pound shots. Not to mention the 48-pounder gun. With a good gun mount, the 24-pounder gun's rate of fire is much faster than that of the Snake and Semi-Snake.
As for the PB range of the 68-pound caron gun, it is 270 yards, and the snake cannon is only about 330 yards. The 5-degree elevation range caron is even higher than the snake cannon. Moreover, the snake cannon generally needs to be lethal to Galen ships at about 100 yards, but the 68-pounder, on the contrary, has too strong penetrating power and can be used very far. Although the structure of the Fu ship is weak, there is still no problem in fighting them. In terms of direct bombardment, the two sides should bombard each other at 300 yards. The snake cannon can certainly destroy the lucky ship, and the 68-pound cannon can smash the armed merchant ship into rubbish.
As for the Harmony Ship with less firepower, although it is not as good as the Newbantam in terms of single-side firepower projection, even without the escort of warships such as spy boats, the Harmony Ship sailing in a group is still the most powerful fleet on the East Asian sea. A convoy of five ships had enough firepower to withstand a fleet that the Dutch could dispatch at once.
You must know that in order to deal with the Dutch fleet, Zheng Zhilong had to assemble the main force every time, and he had to fight offshore to win.
No matter how they calculate and deduce, as long as they don't rush into the narrow sea to fight in a melee, it doesn't matter whether they are Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang or the Dutch. (If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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