Ma Cheng refused without thinking about it. Kaiyuan's troops had reached its limit, not because of the number of troops or fewer troops, but because the territory was too small. War was never determined by the number of troops, and the number of troops in the south and the north was used to it.

Taiwan’s warm climate may not be able to adapt to the severe cold of Kaiyuan. At this point, Ma Cheng is even more aware of the way of war. It is not possible to unify the world with tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

The war involves mobilization capabilities and people's support, which is a comprehensive competition and consumption between the two countries.

To this day, Jianlu has long formed a country with a very stable ruling foundation, which is far from being solved by winning one or two battles. This argument made Nan Juyi sadly suffer, and he wasted his people's efforts and countless financial resources.

After filling in all the elites of the Ming Dynasty, Jianlu still became enormous. All of them made the elder sad. Ma Cheng naturally explained a few words and then indirectly attacked the matter of using the natives as slaves.

Nan Juyi naturally acquiesced without saying a word. Ma Cheng was surprised. This old man is well-read, so can he accept it? Yan Siqi, the generals who were pirates, naturally did not care.

What's wrong with some natives going to mine? It's natural, and this is the logic of pirates.

Not long after, Zheng Zhilong rushed to accompany the guests.

Ma Cheng smiled and said, "We can just use some wine and food, but don't neglect the bride."

The generals burst into laughter, Zheng Zhilong hurriedly begged for mercy, and sat half of his butt into the table, and did not dare to be arrogant in front of several Shangguans. Ma Cheng secretly praised in his heart that those who could write a lot of words in history books would naturally not be a mediocre person.

Although Zheng Zhilong is greedy for life and fear of death, he is a natural diplomat, and he can do his best to make the best of his own. If a diplomat goes to war, he will not blame him for being greedy for life and fear of death, but will not delay his diplomatic talent.

After drinking a few glasses of wine and eating half full, some of the low-ranking officials were conscious of their qualities and then they were tempted to leave.

Ma Cheng looked around and was full of talents and was in a stir. These dozens of maritime pioneers in the era of navigation and the Ming Dynasty were really excited. In the past six months, it has occupied most of Taiwan, with only some high mountains and dense forests.

It needs to be developed slowly, and the strength of the Taiwan navy has increased significantly. Eight four-masted first-class sail battleships were mostly purchased from the hands of the Portuguese, and the Portuguese were purchased from the Spanish, so what if it is, now in Nanyang.

The situation was that the trilateral alliance of Ming Dynasty, Spaniards and Portuguese were against the Dutch fleet on the sea coachman, and the Dutch fleet was at a disadvantage.

Nan Juyi said proudly at this time: "After all, it's a small land, a small country."

Ma Cheng praised: "What Nan Gong said is very true, the red-haired man is not worth worrying about."

As the sky gradually got late, Nan Juyi stood up and smiled and said, "Kaicheng, have you visited Mr. Yuan?"

Ma Cheng said seriously: "Of course I have to go to visit me, what's wrong with Mr. Yuan?"

Nan Juyi laughed and said, "I've got a stubborn temper. A few days ago, I was clamoring to go back to Shandong to organize the rebel army to quell the rebellion."

Ma Cheng remembered Yuan Keli's violent temper and was amused and laughed. This old man still had such an irritable temper and had not changed at all. A few days ago, there was a chaos in the north, so Yuan Gong naturally couldn't sit still. Go back to Shandong to organize the rebel army to suppress bandits?

It was really done. I thought that Mr. Yuan was watching the Donglin Party in Taiwan, and Wen Tiren was making trouble in Beijing, and he was sulking a lot.

I got up and left the table, and was faintly drunk.

That night, we moved into the governor's yamen. There were two beautiful women in the room. After asking, we found out that it was a geisha that Zheng Zhilong brought from Japan. He laughed and drove the two women out. He remembered those Japanese girls in Kaiyuan, and pirates were the nature of pirates.

It is difficult to change, and I don’t expect them to become moral gentlemen.

Is there a gentleman who has gone to Nanyang? There was also one person in the Ming Dynasty, which is not uncommon.

During the reign of Chengzu, the eunuch Zheng He led a large fleet of more than 240 sea boats and a large fleet of 27,400 crew members. He passed through the South China Sea, the East Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and arrived in Southeast Asia, the Red Sea and the East Coast of Africa, and visited Asia.

, more than 30 countries and regions in Africa, known in history, Zheng He's voyage to the West.

This is something that everyone knows, but few people know what Zheng He did in the West and South China.

Zheng He's fleet set off from Liujiagang, Suzhou until the eighth year of Xuande. It sailed seven times in total. It was really spectacular and achieved the grand occasion of tribute from all nations. It was famous for chasing the Han and Tang Dynasties. Zheng He's fleet was also in the world.

The earliest large-scale long-distance fleet was established, and it was also an unprecedented maritime special mixed fleet. It consisted of more than 200 ocean-going sea ships of different uses and different types, with more than 20,000 soldiers, a large scale and a large number of personnel.

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A large-scale long-distance fleet consisting of treasure ships as the main body and cooperates with a large-scale voyage fleet to assist ships. The size of Zheng He fleet is unprecedented, the type and number of ships. The largest sea ship in Zheng He fleet is treasure ships.

It is the flagship of the special maritime fleet led by Zheng He. There are 60 treasure ships, the largest one is 44 zhang and four feet long and eighteen feet wide. It was the largest sea ship in the world at that time with four layers, with nine masts on the ship being hung.

The anchor weighs several thousand kilograms, and it takes 200 people to set sail. A ship can accommodate a thousand people.

However, what did such a powerful fleet do? Zheng He fought several beautiful battles during his voyage to the West, and wiped out a group of more than 5,000 people. At that time, the largest pirate group in the world was at that time.

All the pirates were slaughtered or captured. The famous leader Chen Zuyi was captured and later taken back to the capital to rectify the Fa.

During the 28 years that Zheng He voyages to the West for seven years, there was only one foreign war in Ceylon in the true sense, and it was a defensive battle under forced helplessness. Zheng He not only did not use it when dealing with the Java incident.

Force, and no compensation, fully demonstrated that Zheng He was the messenger of spreading peace. He spread the traditional Chinese etiquette of "harmony is the most important" and the Chinese civilization of "one of all the seas" and "the world is the public".

Look, what did a powerful special-mix expeditionary fleet composed of 240 warships and 27,000 soldiers do? Harmony is the most important thing. Ma Cheng still admires Zheng He very much, but

It feels ridiculous that such a powerful fleet exists as a peace messenger, and there is only one family, without any semicolons. It is so cute and cute.

The next day, Yuan Keli went to the mansion.

He was taken to the study by the menzi, and Mr. Yuan was cultivating his body and fiddling with a set of navigation instruments.

Ma Cheng didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Yuan Gong's way of cultivating one's own character is special. He is fiddling with a set of star-shaving plates, a kind of sea navigation instrument invented by the Ming people. The star-shaving plate is not complicated, it is just a wooden board to put it in.

The horizontal position with the eyes, the distance between the eyes and the wooden board is fixed, and then look up at the stars. The matching wooden boards are strictly standardized, generally twelve pieces, called "one finger" to "twelve fingers".

If you can still see the stars, change to a high-point wooden board. If you can't see it, change to a low-point wooden board until the edge of the board is exactly facing the stars. Of course, the elevation angle of the stars can be calculated from the height of the board, so as to

Know your own latitude. Of course, you don’t really need to use the height of the wooden board to calculate the elevation angle. Ming people may even have no concept of latitude at all, but you just need to remember that the current position is a few "fingers" and then do it.

Yuan Keli is studying Zheng He's "Starring the Stars of the Over the Ocean", which shows the following records: "Ding De saw the seven fingers of the North Stars passing through the United States."
Chapter completed!