"The pure demons and foreign ghosts have colluded together to become enemies of our world... This is not a battle between family and country, but a battle between the world!
This is not only a fight between us and the Qingyao for the world, but also a fight between us in the Chinese world and the Xiyi world! "
Outside the Chinese Army Hall of the Sanduao Camp, the field was filled with officers in red robes and yellow turbans, with long swords and empty hammers. They all stood upright and motionless. All they could hear was their heavy breathing. Everyone looked excited and eager to try.
Zhu Heji was also dressed as a saint and stood in front of the queue. Next to him stood the four new Ming dynasty officials: Zheng Jing, King of Yanping, Chen Yonghua, Governor of the Nanyang Trading Company, Qiu Rong, the Admiral of the Nanyang Navy, and Chen Shangchuan, the Minister of War in charge of the Navy. An important minister and general who conducted military operations in Southeast Asia. In front are hundreds of officers from the Fujian Navy (formerly the Zheng Family Navy), the Guangdong Navy (formerly the Qiu and Chen Navy), and the Huangpu Military Academy and Naval Department.
He had long known that the conflict between himself and the Westerners was inevitable, and that the conflict would be long-term.
Now is the climax of the Age of Discovery!
It was the golden age when Western civilization relied on strong ships and cannons to travel across the world and engage in zero-dollar purchases... It was also an era when Westerners established an order belonging to Western civilization in this world!
As the leader of Chinese civilization, as the guardian of East Asian civilization with Chinese civilization as its core, and as the heir to the order of the Celestial Dynasty, Zhu Heji was born to be the enemy of Western civilization!
To borrow the words of the late important minister Li Hongzhang, what Zhu Heji and the entire Chinese civilization and East Asian civilization are now facing is a major change that has not been seen in three thousand years!
Yes, this great change that has not happened in three thousand years did not begin in 1840, but began with Columbus's discovery of the New World and Magellan's circumnavigation of the world.
From then on, the earth began to become a whole. Originally scattered in every corner of the world, difficult to communicate with, and had never even communicated with civilization, they were suddenly pushed into an arena where the fittest survive and the strong develop.
The resources and wealth of the entire world are not enough for all civilizations to join hands and enter industrialization together.
The resources and wealth in this world seem to only allow some countries and regions in one of the civilizations to first cross the threshold between agricultural civilization and industrial civilization... And now, Western civilization is already here It occupies a great advantage in the industrialization competition among civilizations!
They have seized most of the "zero-yuan purchase" market in the world, and have invaded the corners of Chinese and East Asian civilizations!
And the Chinese civilization, the core pillar of East Asian civilization, has fallen into a long world war!
What is even more unfortunate is that those who have the upper hand in this world struggle are not the main body of Chinese civilization, but the Manchu and Qing Dynasties from the corner of Chinese civilization...
The Manchus and Qing Dynasties, who were lucky enough to take over China in history, put most of their thoughts on preventing Han and fools. By moving borders and banning seas, they voluntarily withdrew from this struggle between civilizations - of course, even if the Manchus and Qing Dynasties did not If we voluntarily withdraw from the struggle, Chinese civilization will not win. At most, it will only lose less.
And Zhu Heji is going to win!
Not only must we win the Chinese Empire, we must also allow Chinese and even East Asian civilization to defeat Western civilization and be the first to cross the threshold of industrialization.
This is called a win-win situation, win the Manchus once, and win the West again.
Moreover, Zhu Heji also knew very well that he could not and did not need to compromise with the Westerners to gain their support.
Because Zhu Heji is a "seller of luxury goods", not a "seller of coolies".
Those who "sell luxury goods" have to raise their tails to the sky, as if they are awesome, advanced, and in heaven. You must not kowtow to Westerners, otherwise the brand will collapse, and if the brand collapses, you will not be able to sell at a high price.
Has anyone seen Pinduoduo, a luxury goods store, offer price reductions?
So now he must severely beat up the Western merchants and pirates who pretended to be the Southern Navy of the Qing Dynasty!
If you can beat them badly, then Ming Dynasty's perfume, porcelain, silk, tea, special white, sugar cane wine, etc. will be better sold!
The Ming Dynasty won the war, which shows that these are good things from advanced civilizations, and they are not afraid that no one will buy them!
In addition, if we can beat up the Westerners who sneak in to interfere when we march into the south of the Yangtze River, we can also rebuild the prestige of Chinese civilization in the East Asian civilization circle and maintain our final base.
Although he, a great saint, has a lot of truth, he doesn't know how to tell the people below... This is the loneliness of a prophet!
Thinking of this, he stopped saying words that no one could understand. He simply raised his hand and pointed at the "For Heaven's Way" flag behind his back, and said loudly: "Take this flag and go to sea to seize the world that we Han people have lost." Come back and seize back the lost territory of our Heavenly Kingdom... Let those foreign devils who don't know how to die know who is the master of this world and the sea!
This is called acting for heaven! "
Most of the people below are heroes who have been doing justice on the sea for many years, or they are second-generation heroes...good second-generation heroes! If you don’t know anything else, why don’t you know what it means to do justice for heaven?
This is the best deal in the world!
So the cheers started immediately.
"Long live the saint, do justice for heaven..."
"Just do justice for heaven!"
"You will win only if you love to fight..."
...
Off the coast of Zhejiang.
The dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty and the commanding flag of the three armies of the Nanyang Navy admiral of the Qing Dynasty were dancing in the sea breeze.
This is the perfect weather with blue sky and blue sea. The sea breeze is neither too strong nor too weak, and the wind direction is just right. A huge fleet composed of seventeen "large warships" with a deadweight of more than 300 tons and 21 "speedboats" with a deadweight of less than 300 tons was rapidly heading south along the coastline of Zhejiang Province.
On the sea, the sails cover the sky and the sun, so mighty!
Originally named Batavia, it was renamed Dinghai Batuulu after joining the Nanyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty. It sailed at the forefront of the entire formation. Its bow plowed a white wave on the sea in Taizhou, Fujian, and its track was straight towards East.
This large armed merchant ship was the flagship of the Balteba Military Gate and probably one of the most powerful warships east of Malacca. It has a load tonnage of up to 600 tons and is equipped with 24 large 12-pound long guns, also known as Hongyi cannons.
This firepower is not bad on the European battlefield.
There are two warships of this tonnage and this kind of firepower in the fleet commanded by Ba Junmen, and one is the Spanish Great Galen "Holy Angel", now called Dinghai Batulu.
With these two Batulu ships, the Balteba military sect naturally has no worries about losing in the naval battle. However, Figo, who was sent by the Qing government to assist him in the battle, seemed a little uneasy. When he stood on the deck of the Dinghai Batulu, he kept looking around with his telescope, looking a little nervous.
"Figo, what are you worried about?"
Bart, who was taking a leisurely walk on the back deck, walked up to Figo and said with a smile: "We have thirty-eight battleships, more than five hundred cannons, and nearly four thousand sailors... We have also mastered Europe's most advanced battle line tactics, and our ship maneuvering skills are also better. We can always maintain a safe firefighting distance to avoid being hit by their sky mine rockets.
So there is only one issue we need to consider now...that is, on what terms we should accept the Ming Dynasty's peace proposal! Ceding Taiwan and monopolizing free trade might be the right conditions. Figo, will you be my messenger after defeating them? "
"Of course," Figo said, "But... I'm still a little worried, and I can't understand why you Dutch are so obsessed with that desert island? If it's just for trade, you guys There is no need for Taiwan at all, you can go directly to Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou, and there is no need for Taiwan Island there, okay?"
Bart just smiled and shrugged: "Of course, we don't need Taiwan now... All we need is the Ming Dynasty Supervisor to lower his head and recognize the rules we set and respect our work in Java. islands, Malacca, the Philippines, and dominion over the southern seas.
Moreover, we also need the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties to continue for a long time, so that we can make war fortune! "
