A roll call was passed on.
As the number one scholar, Lin Huan led all the scholars to express their gratitude.
After the imperial examination, the military examination was immediately followed. By the time the military examination was over, it was already the end of March in the eighth year of Jianwen.
Considering that the Ming Dynasty's control over Daliuqiu and Xiaoliuqiu was not yet stable, Zhu Yunwen selected 80 people from among the civil and military scholars and sent 2,000 people from the Beijing army to garrison in Daliuqiu and Xiaoliuqiu.
At this time, Li Jian, Chen Hui and other naval generals had returned to the capital.
Wuying Palace.
Zhu Yunwen summoned the cabinet, the Ministry of War, the Fifth Army Commander's Office and the navy generals for a meeting.
A well-made map of the Ming Dynasty is hung on a special screen, with rich colors and easy to see at a glance. The territory of the Ming Dynasty is all yellow, the coastal areas are white, the deep sea areas are blue, the vassal countries are red, Tatar and Oara in the north, Japan in the east, Kochi and Guri are green.
Xu Huizu looked at this territory with pride in his eyes, especially the Xijiang Province, the Great and Little Ryukyu and Jiaozhi. These were all expanded during the Jianwen period. Oh, I forgot, there is a small dot in the south of North Korea. Yellow, that’s Tsushima.
Wait, what happened? Why is Iki Island also yellow? Is this marked incorrectly, or does it mean something?
Yang Rong stared at the map and said softly: "The Northeast and Uzang are in light yellow."
Tie Xuan was shocked. No, other places were heavily painted with yellow, but Northeast and Uzang were especially lightly painted. If you look carefully, it seems that Guizhou doesn't use much color.
"This is Jisi Land!"
Tie Xuan understood that Zhu Yunwen was using the difference in color to remind himself and others that although some of the territory belonged to the Ming Dynasty and the court could reach in and collect taxes, he had not yet stepped on that piece of land. After all, when someone pricks your hand, you can't lift your leg to kick him over, so you can only be bullied.
"The emperor summoned us here, could he be planning the affairs in the Northeast?"
Tehyun asked.
Yang Rong was also undecided. People with naval forces here would definitely not discuss the issue of Uzang. However, there was indeed a place in the northeast where the navy could be borrowed.
While everyone was speculating, Zhu Yunwen walked into Wuying Hall and everyone saluted.
Zhu Yunwen raised his hand and got straight to the point: "I called you here today to discuss the demarcation and allocation of defense zones for the navy. In the early years, I proposed the idea of dividing the navy into three parts. Since Zheng He went to the West in September of the fifth year, he took away Most of the main force of the Navy was lost, resulting in three-thirds of the Navy being shelved. After more than two years of recovery, the number of the Navy's fleet has exceeded five years. In addition, the steam engine ships are being renovated and promoted, and the responsibilities and areas of the fleet need to be further improved. Delineate.”
Li Jian, Chen Hui, Geng Xuan and others realized that the Navy was going to split up.
Tie Xuan and Xu Huizu agreed very much.
Nowadays, the navy is different from the past, especially the steam engine ships that have passed the long-distance voyage test and have been proven to be able to go north and south at any time, no longer need to wait for the monsoon.
In this context, the navy no longer needs to be too concentrated in a few ports. It can be dispersed into several main teams, each responsible for a defense area, such as a garrison, forming a fixed maritime jurisdiction to strengthen the navy. The division controls the area it is responsible for.
Now that the Guangdong Navy wants some clothes, it still needs to submit them to the Fifth Army Commander's Office for processing. A ship in Liaodong was broken, and someone had to be sent to the capital to reimburse the repair costs. This cost was very high. It was time to separate it, set up a naval military region, give it certain authority, and improve the operational efficiency of the navy.
Tie Xuan came out and supported Zhu Yunwen: "Your Majesty, I think it is feasible for the Navy to assign defense zones. However, the number and scope of the specific defense zones still need to be discussed."
Xu Huizu looked at the map, picked up the bamboo on the side and clicked on the map: "According to the emperor's original plan, the navy will be divided into three parts, that is, the east sea navy from Liaodong to western Zhejiang, the southeast navy off Fujian and Guangdong, and the southeast navy from Jiaozhi, Nanyang and Jiugang are the Nanyang Navy. I think the scope of the Donghai Navy is not small. Can Shandong be used as the boundary and divided into two navies, Liaodong and Donghai?"
Zhu Yunwen looked at the map and said, "Yang Rong, what do you think?"
Yang Rong stepped forward and took the bamboo from Xu Huizu's hand: "I thought that the East China Sea Navy should be the largest. When Wei Guogong was thinking about this issue, he may not have considered moving the capital. Now that we are in Nanjing, we think that the East China Sea Navy's jurisdiction is too wide, but Once the capital is moved to Peking in the future, the navy will be needed to control the eastern sea area and defend the capital. In addition, extending the east sea navy to the western Zhejiang area must also facilitate the transportation of grain from the south to the north."
Xu Huizu suddenly realized that thinking about the Ming Dynasty from Nanjing was completely different from thinking about the Ming Dynasty from Peiping.
Although the imperial court opened the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it still insisted on using both sea and river channels to transport grain northward. The establishment of the East China Sea Navy naturally needed to cover major production areas such as Jiangnan.
Yang Rong continued: "I believe that the Guangdong Navy can be classified as the Southern Navy together with Jiaozhi, Nanyang, and Jiugang. The Southeast Navy is mainly based on the Fujian coast, Da Liuqiu, and Xiao Liuqiu."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Li Jian: "As the commander-in-chief of the Navy, which strategy do you think is safe?"
Li Jian looked at the map and said seriously: "If the Southeast Navy includes the sea off Guangdong, it will be too dispersed. In addition, the navy needs to go back and forth between Da Liuqiu and Xiao Liuqiu. The defense area is too large, but it is easy for omissions to occur. And the Guangdong Navy and the Opposite Jiaozhi and directly facing the Southern Ocean, I think it can be integrated into the Southern Navy."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Tie Xuan, Xu Huizu and others, and seeing that no one objected, he nodded and said: "In that case, then we will set up the Donghai Navy, Southeast Navy and Southern Navy accordingly. Each of the three major naval divisions will have a commander-in-chief and a deputy commander-in-chief." The soldiers and other officers should be responsible for the official positions. Above the general soldiers, there is a Navy Commander's Office, which is independent from the Five Armed Forces Commander's Office. There are also official positions such as governor and tongzhi to coordinate all naval affairs of the Ming Dynasty."
After saying this, Li Jian, Chen Hui, Geng Xuan and others became excited.
Through Zhu Yunwen's arrangements, the Navy has become an independent branch and is no longer dependent on the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. The most important thing is that the establishment of the Navy Governor's Mansion and the three major naval forces requires the promotion of a large number of military officers. The time for promotion has come, can you not be happy?
Naturally, the current Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Li Jian, serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. Chen Hui was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Commander-in-Chief Mansion due to his military service on Tsushima Island. Geng Xuan served as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Donghai Navy. Xu An served as the first commander-in-chief of the Southeast Navy, and Du Yu was promoted to the first commander-in-chief of the southern navy because he had guarded the old port for many years.
After settling the generals, officials, and defense zones, it is time to allocate naval forces that are at stake.
After Zheng He took away more than 30,000 navy sergeants, the navy was expanded and once again reached 100,000 people. Specifically, it was the size of 18 guards - 100,800 people.
The number of warships has accumulated over the years, especially with the efforts of many shipyards such as Longjiang Shipyard and Qingjiang Shipyard. Excluding Zheng He's troops, the navy now has forty treasure ships and a total of 772 large and medium-sized fortune ships. There are 400 grain transport ships and 800 daily patrol ships.
How to allocate ships is related to the strength and voice of each navy. Although Xu An and Du Yu are not in Wuying Hall, if the distribution is unfair, they will still cause trouble in the capital.
After several hours of discussion and debate, Zhu Yunwen made the final decision:
Donghai Navy, headquartered in Tianjin Port, North Zhili Province:
The strength of the four guards, totaling 22,400 sergeants, was divided into ten treasure ships, 172 large and medium-sized fortune ships, 300 grain ships, and 200 other ships.
Southeast Navy, headquarters in Taiping Port, Fujian Province:
The force of seven guards, totaling 39,200 sergeants, was divided into 15 treasure ships, 300 large and medium-sized fortune ships, 20 grain ships, and 200 other ships.
Southern Navy, Administrative Office, Cochin Aizhou Port:
The force of seven guards, totaling 39,200 sergeants, was divided into 15 treasure ships, 300 large and medium-sized fortune ships, 80 grain ships, and 400 other ships.
There is an obvious problem with this plan. The Donghai Navy should be the most important, but it is the weakest after the division. The reason is that Zhu Yunwen believes that it will take at least six or seven years to move the capital to Peking. During this period, the fleet led by Zheng He will return. By then, Zheng He's fleet will all be integrated into the East China Sea Navy, and the capital can also be guaranteed. The absolute advantage of the nearby naval forces.
The headquarters of the Southern Navy was also determined after several debates. Many officials believed that it should be located in Guangzhou or Yangjiang. However, Zhu Yunwen, Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi and others believed that the main mission of the Southern Navy was to control Nanyang, so they chose to locate it in Guangzhou or Yangjiang. The Aizhou Port of Cochin can not only ensure the strategic stability of Nanyang, but also ensure the stability of Cochin.
The three-point naval division realized the regional concentration of naval power and strengthened Ming's control over the sea.
Just when everyone thought everything was over, Zhu Yunwen unexpectedly announced that the Longjiang Shipyard was the shipbuilding center of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty would set up three iron shipyards along the Yangtze River basin to focus on promoting iron ship manufacturing. One of them is located in Taipingfu. It was named Ma'anshan Shipyard by Zhu Yunwen himself...
The iron mines in Taiping Prefecture are not small. If they want to support iron ship manufacturing, they need to expand production.
Zhu Yunwen plans to take this opportunity to build some cluster industries along the Yangtze River to ensure that Nanjing will not decline rapidly after the capital is moved to Peking in the future.
The Ming Dynasty wanted to develop and control the sea, and Nanjing was a more suitable location. After all, there were abundant materials and minerals here, and the transportation of materials that were not available was also convenient. However, Peiping was somewhat far away.
The establishment of the iron shipyard marks the great progress made in iron smelting and forging in the Ming Dynasty. It also shows that Longjiang Shipyard has mastered mature iron ship manufacturing technology. Although the manufacturing cycle is a bit long, it takes five months for a medium-sized Fuzhou ship. But the win is low maintenance cost and good quality. The mining and application of chromium ore has been proven to have good anti-corrosion properties, and iron ship manufacturing is no longer a problem. The only thing that troubled Ming Dynasty was that the output of chromium ore in Miyun, Beiping, was limited and could not keep up with use.
Just when Zhu Yunwen was worried, a fleet of one big treasure ship, three medium treasure ships, and twenty big blessing ships rode the southeast wind and sailed into the Cochin Ocean. After replenishing supplies, they headed towards the coast of Fujian without rest. , pointing directly at the capital...
