Daming Military Empire

Chapter 542 Re-upgrading the Navy

Looking at the crowd of admirals, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. How shabby the Daming Navy was back then. There were less than [-] officers and soldiers in the navy. They couldn't do it, not even the thousands of Dutch entrenched in Dongfan.

As for the warships, there are small sampans everywhere. The Fuchuan warships do not even have as many pirates as Zheng Zhilong's men, and there is not even a single super battleship. Even Zheng He's treasure ship that sailed to the West does not know where it has drifted.

Now, the Ming Navy has grown to five regular regiments plus a reserve regiment with a total of 60 soldiers. The number of super battleships reached [-] last year, and the giant treasure ship has also resurfaced. It has already begun to be completely eliminated!
At this time, the Ming Navy is far ahead of any power in Europe, not to mention the Netherlands, in terms of the number of super battleships, the number of sailors, and the level of weaponry.

Perhaps the great powers saw this momentum, so they had to find a way from land, intending to strangle the development of Ming Dynasty, or even overthrow Ming Dynasty.

However, is Daming's army so easy to mess with?Dare to bite Daming, this time Tsarist Russia will definitely make all the teeth in his mouth collapse!
Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong coughed, and then said loudly: "Everyone, the ice and snow in Siberia are melting, and the war with Tsarist Russia is about to break out. Although this time it will be mainly a land battle, Siberia has a vast territory and criss-cross rivers. Traveling by water is better than traveling by land. It is much more convenient, so the navy must fully cooperate with the army to do auxiliary work such as troop transfer, material delivery, and fire support."

Hearing the words, the admirals present stood up immediately, clasped their hands together and said in unison: "Please make an order from the emperor."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, waved and said, "Well, everyone sit down first."

With a snap, all the admirals sat down at the same time, their backs straightened.

Zhu Cijiong immediately said: "Before that, I want to announce some adjustments to the navy."

Having said that, he cleared his throat, and then said loudly: "I have decided that the North Sea Fleet, East China Sea Fleet, and South China Sea Fleet will be promoted to second-class armies from now on."

Yang Geng, Chen Hui, and Zheng Xing three generals heard the words, stood up again, clasped their hands and said in unison: "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty."

Zhu Cijiong waved his hand, signaling them to sit down, and then continued to speak loudly: "I have decided to form a third-class Arctic Fleet based on the Navy Reserve Corps. Zheng Ming, the former commander of the Navy Reserve Corps, will be promoted to the commander of the Arctic Fleet."

Hearing this, Zheng Ming stood up excitedly, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

Zhu Cijiong waved his hand, signaling them to sit down, and then continued to speak loudly: "I have decided to recruit [-] new recruits from various guards along the coast to form a new naval reserve corps. The former navy general Zheng Cai will serve as the head of the new naval reserve corps."

Hearing this, Zheng Ming stood up equally excitedly, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

Zhu Cijiong waved his hand, signaling them to sit down, and then continued to speak loudly: "In the future, all naval fleets will be equipped with two hundred super battleships, and now the two hundred super battleships of the Beiyang Navy, Nanyang Navy, and South China Sea Fleet are fully equipped. The North Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet have also been equipped with [-] super battleships. The [-] super battleships produced by Dongda Construction Shipyard last year were allocated to the North Sea Fleet and East China Sea Fleet. As for the Arctic Fleet, the [-] super battleships produced by Dongda Construction Shipyard this year The battleships will all be assigned to you."

Everyone was in high spirits when they heard the words. Two hundred super battleships, how majestic, how domineering, and how terrifying the fighting power is!
The adjustment of the navy was almost done at this point. Except for Huang Long and Zheng Zhihu, the other admirals of the navy were basically promoted, and the whole venue was filled with joy for a while.

Zhu Cijiong paused, then continued: "In addition, I have decided to establish the Daming Royal Shipping Company. All Fuchuan warships on the sea outside Dongdaying will be assigned to the Daming Royal Shipping Company. There are a total of [-] ships. The person in charge is Shi Daxuan."

Upon hearing this, Shi Daxuan stood up from his chair and said excitedly, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

In fact, he had known for a long time that the emperor was going to set up the Daming Royal Shipping Company, because the Emperor not only asked him to come to the meeting, but also asked him to bring all the lucky boats and sailors under his command, saying that it was going to be merged into the Daming Royal Shipping Company.

He originally thought that the most important thing for the emperor to do was to give him shares so that he could gain some benefits, but he never thought that the emperor would directly entrust him with the responsibility of Daming Royal Shipping Company!
Zhu Cijiong waved his hand, beckoning him to sit down, and then said with a smile: "Da Xuan, I will give you 20% of the shares of the Daming Royal Shipping Company, and then give [-]% of the shares to the meritorious ministers under you. I have hired you, that is, the [-] veterans gathered in Dongdaying City, are you sure you can do this shipping business well?"

The latter words were a bit of a joke, Shi Daxuan came from this background, how could he be unsure, he nodded excitedly and said: "Thank you for your kindness, the villain is sure, now there are many merchants in the territory of Ming Dynasty, including all the vassal states They all want to do overseas business, but most of them can’t afford sea-going ships because their capital is too small, so they can only sell their goods to sea merchants at a low price to earn a meager profit. Now there are more and more such merchants, and sea merchants accept Their goods are no longer available, as long as they send someone door-to-door to inform, there will definitely be many merchants scrambling to ask Daming Royal Shipping Company to help them transship the goods."

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong said with relief: "Well, very good, your idea is very correct, that is to help those merchants who have no transportation capacity and ideas to expand their business, you can now set up branch offices in various provinces and vassal states of Ming Dynasty , to undertake the business, I will let the "Beijing News" give you free publicity for a few days after a while, and the number of customers will gradually increase."

Upon hearing this, Shi Daxuan excitedly clasped his hands again and said: "Thank you for your grace, with these conveniences, I guarantee that the business will be opened within this year."

Zhu Cijiong shook his head with a smile and said: "Don't worry, you have to do me a favor first. In the past few months, all Fuchuan warships and all employees of the Daming Royal Shipping Company will go to Siberia to assist the Daming Navy in transferring personnel and supplies. I will pay you 200 million taels of commission per month, which is considered as the start-up capital."

Shi Daxuan hastily cupped his hands again and said: "Thank you for your kindness, what can I ask the villain to do, but please ask the emperor to order."

Zhu Cijiong said half-jokingly: "This time Daming's opponent is Tsarist Russia. When transporting personnel and supplies, there is a high possibility of danger. Are you afraid?"

Shi Daxuan was born as a pirate, so he is not afraid of directly asking him to fight against Tsarist Russia, but he is afraid of such danger. Hearing this, he couldn't help saying firmly: "But please order from the emperor, the villain will never hesitate to die."

(End of this chapter)