Daming: My brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 76 Xichang went to sea to handle the case and rectify the sea trade!
"I'm afraid that if I am not reformed by them in Donglin Academy, I will die suddenly in Donglin Academy?"

Zhang Gui said coldly.

After hearing this, Han Gui also frowned and nodded: "What Enfu said is that the key now is to find a way to deal with the interruption of the grain supply in the future; as long as the grain supply is fine, then the capital will be fine; if the capital is fine, Daming will be fine; Daming It's okay, Enfu will be fine."

After hearing this, Zhang Gui patted Han Gui on the shoulder: "You're right! I have to go to Shandong overnight as a teacher, and you are in Beijing, buying food in my name."

"Yes!"

Han Gui agreed first, and said, "Enfu, most of the land in the world is controlled by powerful bureaucrats. Now that something like this has happened, they may not want to sell food to us."

"If I ask you to buy it, you will buy it first. Why do you ask so much?"

Zhang Guidao.

"Eunuch Wei, please see me!"

At this time, the doorman suddenly reported that Wei Zhongxian had arrived.

After Zhang Gui heard this, he hurriedly said to Han Yu: "This eunuch must have come to ask about the method of the teacher. The teacher is too lazy to explain to him. The teacher goes through the back door. You go to receive him and tell him that I have gone to raise food." , it is estimated that he will not come back in a short time, let him rest assured that his head will not be lost."

After saying that, Zhang Gui left here.

Not long after, Han Gui asked Wei Zhongxian to come in.

As soon as Wei Zhongxian came in, he asked Han Gui: "Where is Uncle Guo?"

Han Gui said: "The teacher left Beijing to raise food, and said he won't be back in a short time."

"Uncle Guo won't hide?!"

Wei Zhongxian asked excitedly, then paused on the spot and said, "Uncle Guo, how can he hide!"

"Calm down, my mentor really left Beijing to raise food."

Han Gui replied with a smile.

Wei Zhongxian said: "Uncle Guo, how does he raise food? Who owns most of the food in my Ming Dynasty? Our family is in charge of the Rites Supervisor, but it is very clear! What kind of food can Uncle Guo raise?!"

As he said that, Wei Zhongxian began to smash the table: "Uncle Guo can hide, but what about our family, a rootless thing in our family, where else can we go after leaving the inner court. When the time comes, when the grain supply is cut off, there will be a commotion Chaos, our family is about to fall to the ground!"

Wei Zhongxian wiped the corners of his eyes as he spoke.

Seeing this, Han Gui could only say: "Enfu asked me to tell you, don't worry, he will raise the food."

"Can he raise it?"

Wei Zhongxian asked suddenly.

Han Gui nodded, and then asked with a smile, "Don't you think Eunuch wants to raise food for you?"

"That's it!"

Wei Zhongxian thought for a while and said, "You tell Uncle Guo on behalf of our family that if we don't get all the grain to arrive in Beijing next year, our family will hang ourselves in front of Uncle Guo's mansion!"

After speaking, Wei Zhongxian flung his sleeves and left.

Zhang Gui arrived in Dengzhou, Shandong a few days later.

It turned out that when Zhang Gui persuaded Tianqi to set up the Military Academy, he also established the Naval Academy as a branch of the Military Academy.

The Naval Academy was set up in Denglai, and Shen Yourong was the head teacher of the school.

Zhang Gui knows very well that sea power will become more and more important with the development of the whole world, so naturally the importance of sea power cannot be ignored.

Therefore, a year ago, Zhang Gui persuaded Tianqi to let Shen Yourong train the officers and students of the Naval Academy by constructing an offensive and defensive model that integrated water and land against Jiannu, and rectified the Denglai Navy to build giant ships in Weihaiwei.

However, everyone in the world only thinks that the imperial court's training of sailors and construction of giant ships in Denglai is only for Jiannu.

But in fact, Zhang Gui persuaded Tianqi to do this not just to deal with Jiannu.

"How is the training of the enlisted students in the Naval Academy, and how is the warship built?"

Since Zhang Gui is the head of the Armed Forces School, and the shipyard where warships are built in Denglai is directly under the Industrial Department of the Chinese Military Governor's Mansion, so Zhang Gui can ask Shen Yourong about the military affairs in this regard.

After Zhang Gui asked this question, Shen Yourong also replied: "According to your instructions, more than five hundred students have been trained. In addition, according to your requirements, thirty soft sailing boats have been built."

Zhang Gui nodded after hearing this: "Have you tried long-distance sailing for these thirty soft sailing boats?"

Shen Yourong replied: "I have tried to go to North Korea, and it is indeed more suitable for sailing than a hard sailing boat, especially this triangular sail, which is very convenient for turning, thanks to Uncle Guo, you can figure it out! If you hadn't told me, I have lived for so many years , don’t even know about it.”

"Is it enough to recruit Japanese?"

Zhang Gui asked.

Zhang Gui knew that Shen Yourong was a Ming warrior who was famous for fighting against the Japanese at sea. During the Wanli period, he and Governor Jin Xue once planned to prepare to attack the Japanese slaves, but this plan was shelved later.

But after Zhang Gui summoned Shen Yourong to Beijing to participate in the training of naval trainees in the Armed Forces Academy, he asked Shen Yourong about his and Jin Xuezeng's plan to attack the Japanese slaves.

What Zhang Gui didn't expect was that for this reason, Shen Yourong had already asked the family's children to explore the sailing situation in Edo, Nagasaki and other places in the past in the name of merchants, as well as the naval defense situation in the local area of ​​the Japanese slaves.

Therefore, Zhang Gui had long ago said to move Tianqi to order Shen Yourong to rectify the Denglai Navy in Denglai to prepare for the Japanese, and to prepare for the future conquest of the Japanese, and to allocate 100 million taels of money as salary.

"Enough! The Enu Navy is not as good as this dynasty. What's more, Uncle Guo, you also helped the Denglai Navy to add so many soft sails with faster speeds, and let the Ordnance Department provide a ship that can shoot a mile away. Huge cannons, now conquering the Japanese will definitely hit their navy hard."

Shen Yourong replied.

Zhang Gui nodded: "With the old general's words, the governor will feel more at ease!"

As he said that, Zhang Gui turned around suddenly, looked seriously at Shen Yourong who was walking behind him, and said, "There is a decree! Shen Yourong, the commander-in-chief of Denglai and the chief teacher of the Armed Naval Academy, accepted the decree!"

Shen Yourong stood on the spot, and immediately prostrated herself on the ground after hearing Zhang Gui say "there is a will".

"All the officers and soldiers of the Denglai Navy were incorporated into the Xichang, and Shen Yourong was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Xichang Navy, commanding the Xichang Navy Academy, supervising the world's maritime trade affairs, and listening to the imperial envoy and admiral Xichang Zhang Gui's control!"

After Zhang Gui read out the imperial decree, he handed it to Shen Yourong.

"The minister accepts the order!"

After Shen Yourong returned, she led the order and stood up.

After Shen Yourong got up, Zhang Gui said again: "This decree is to prepare for the next conquest of Japanese. This time the conquest of Japanese can only be done by Xichang in the name of rectifying the world's trade, and you will immediately prepare for the conquest of Japanese. At that time, lead the Denglai Navy Fleet and go to Edo with the governor."

"Yes!"

In the second year, that is, the fourth year of Tianqi, in early summer, when the southwest monsoon began to appear, Zhang Gui personally led the Denglai Navy under Shen Yourong's command, riding more than [-] warships including [-] soft sailing ships. , coming to the East.

As soon as he arrived in Edo Bay, Zhang Gui asked Shen Yourong to lead the fleet to directly bombard Edo Castle, in order to force the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo to negotiate with him.

Except for the Tokugawa shogunate in Nagasaki and Hirado, which allowed countries to come to Japan for trade, other places were in a closed state. Before this, there was no foreign navy attacking, and after Tokugawa Ieyasu, As the entire Wa country began to calm down, the navy became even more degraded.

Therefore, now that dozens of sailing warships of the Ming Dynasty were suddenly bombarded in a battle line, the shogunate was caught off guard, and its navy was wiped out in a short time.

The shogunate had no choice but to prepare the army on the shore to resist the official school of the Daming West Factory.

However, the official schools in the West Factory of the Ming Dynasty are all elites of the established system, and they cannot be dealt with by the shogunate army who has already begun to play quietly and vigorously.

Soon after the officials and schools in Xichang landed, they defeated the shogunate army who came to defend.

Xichang's official school successfully approached Edo Castle, and let a captured Banner enter Edo Castle to inform the shogunate that Zhang Gui, the uncle representing His Majesty the Ming Emperor, would summon the Japanese general to inquire about illegal trade.

"Illegal trade?"

Tokugawa Hidetada, the father of the shogunate general Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is now the actual controller of the shogunate, was horrified when he learned that the Ming army was here to solve the illegal trade.

(End of this chapter)