In the year 4335 (1638 AD), on February 2, there was a meeting in front of the Qianqing Palace.
Su Yan, the Minister of Punishment, reported the recent situation to Su He.
"Your Majesty, Yanhuang Daily has announced the relevant details of the grievance case.
This caused a lot of anger among the people.
There were some disputes over the destruction of property, and through the mediation of our Criminal Department, most people settled the matter with compensation.
Some people are too excited. Their family members have experienced massacre, and their ability to empathize is extremely strong.
These people can't tell the difference between those Westerners.
They regarded the Spaniards as the murderers of the massacre.
Some agitated people beat up Spanish businessmen.
If the patrol had not arrived in time, these Spaniards would have been killed.”
Su Yan had just finished introducing the situation, and Wu Donglin, the minister of Dali Temple, immediately asked:
"Your Majesty, our three judicial departments often jointly review cases.
This time the matter was so serious that the three judicial divisions conducted a joint trial in accordance with relevant procedures.
Spanish businessmen look completely different from us Han Chinese, and they are very eye-catching when walking on the street.
Some angry people beat them as Dutch.
This kind of piece is very easy to break, but for the following piece, I need to ask His Majesty to make a decision.
A group of scholars who were about to take the examination, because they were too excited, besieged the Spanish church and burned it down.
Spanish Minister Sedes and Bishop Bria went to the Ministry of Etiquette to find an explanation.
Those who caused the trouble have all been imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.
Your Majesty, what should be done with these people? Will our Dali Temple punish them according to normal laws?
There are more than 500 scholars who took action."
Su Yan caught these people, many of whom were scholars preparing for the imperial examination.
The network of relationships between these people is too complicated, and there are too many people who come to him for mercy.
Wu Donglin also found this matter very difficult.
There are too many people. If they are sentenced according to normal crimes, there will only be three or two big cats and kittens left in this year's imperial examination.
Letting these people go would conflict with his insistence on the rule of law.
They can only choose to ask His Majesty to make a decision.
Su He thought for a moment and then ordered: "Let them reconcile and pay for medicine for injuries and compensation for damaged property.
Can the Ministry of Rites mediate this matter?"
These people have simple patriotic feelings.
Su He believes that their enthusiasm cannot be suppressed.
What these people did was inappropriate, but their loyalty to Dahua was not a problem.
Once this matter comes close to the formal process.
It would not be appropriate for Su He to use the emperor's power to pardon them.
We can only choose to reduce big things to small things and reduce small things to small things.
Su He believed that these scholars did not hit the wrong person.
The crimes committed by the Spaniards are too numerous to describe.
Why did the Dutch dare to massacre the Han people? They were not imitating the Spanish.
The Spaniards did this and reaped huge benefits without suffering any losses.
Only these Western colonists would follow suit and raise the butcher's knife against the Han people.
Song Kangnian, the Minister of Rites, heard His Majesty's question. He immediately stood up and replied: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites can do this well.
Spanish Minister Sedes was greatly frightened by this incident.
He was also very afraid that this incident would affect the relationship between Spain and Dahua.
As long as we give these Spaniards a clear answer, they will not pursue these people."
Of course Su He knew what these Spaniards were afraid of.
The news that Dahua dispatched a huge fleet to conquer Java Island has been announced by newspapers.
These Spaniards also massacred Han Chinese.
The Spaniards were also afraid, and Dahua's fleet dispatched a fleet and easily wiped out the Spaniards in Manila.
Su He knew that it was only a matter of time before Dahua clashed with the Spanish.
The Nanyang region is too close to Dahua's homeland, and it is Dahua's back garden.
The Nanyang region is also too small to accommodate another big country.
The Spanish are now at their peak, and their national power will plummet.
Dahua's national strength is currently growing vigorously.
A newly powerful country will never be polite to a country that has gradually come to an end.
But there will be no conflict with the Spanish in the near future.
Dahua drove the Dutch out of Nanyang, and the next competitor was the Spanish.
Now show hostility and unite the Spaniards with the Dutch, and things will become very troublesome.
The combined naval strength of the Spanish and the Dutch can pose a certain threat to the Chinese navy.
Just because they are in Europe, they have irreconcilable conflicts.
Without sufficient interests and threatening their own safety, they will never unite.
The battleships of the Great China Navy are powerful, but the navy's formation time is too short.
The navy is a technical branch. Only after hundreds of years of inheritance can we hope to understand the temper of the sea.
The current strength of the Dahua Navy cannot yet demonstrate the true combat effectiveness of battleships.
Attacking the Dutch is no problem at all.
If we attack the Dutch plus the Spanish, we will need to readjust our battle plan.
Su He ordered: "Song Aiqing, let the Ministry of Rites come forward to stabilize the Spaniards. We will not be at odds with Spain for the time being.
Song Aiqing can make it clear that our fleet will not approach Luzon Island."
When Song Kangnian heard His Majesty's words, he became much more relaxed. Only with clear instructions could he do his work.
Su He gave Song Kangnian full authority to handle the cases caused by the injustice incident.
As long as the Spanish perpetrators are not held accountable, those imprisoned in the prisons of the Ministry of Punishment will soon be released.
Minister of the Navy Li Qingmu stood up and handed the memorial to Su He.
"Your Majesty, I have formulated a new system for the navy, please review it."
Navy Minister Li Qingmu discussed the navy's system with many naval officers.
Time is tight and tasks are heavy, so they need to consider all aspects comprehensively.
As long as one aspect is not considered, the navy will become a lame navy.
Li Qingmu needs to consider the future development of the navy, and the restructuring must be forward-looking.
The navy has just been established for a few years now, so it can be easily restructured.
Once this mechanism is put into operation, restructuring will become very difficult.
Li Qingmu thought about various plans, and finally came up with a preliminary plan for the navy's restructuring.
Su He opened Li Qingmu's memorial and read the naval restructuring plan he wrote.
The main framework is that the navy is divided into the main fleet and the guard fleet for ocean warfare.
The garrison fleet is dominated by destroyers and is mainly used to maintain waterway safety and eliminate pirates.
The most critical change is the restructuring of the ocean-going fleet.
The navy's ocean-going fleet has completely eliminated some functional ships.
The purpose of their existence is to swim on the ocean and destroy all the maritime enemies of the Great China Dynasty.
Li Qingmu innovatively proposed that the navy establish three main fleets, which are called the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, and the Third Fleet.
Each fleet consisted of five battleships and thirty destroyers.
These three fleets can operate together or guard a certain sea area in batches.
At present, the navy's information exchange is not smooth, and the fleet is given full autonomy.
The Navy Department is only responsible for formulating strategic goals and no longer interferes with how to fight. The Fleet Governor adjusts the combat plan based on actual conditions.
Su He looked at Li Qingmu's plan for naval restructuring.
This plan is to make some slight modifications based on the current framework of the Navy.
It mainly aims to form a fleet specialized in ocean warfare and improve the operational autonomy of the naval fleet.
In offshore operations, the imperial court can still take command, but in ocean operations, it can only depend on the generals' on-the-spot performance.
Su He looked at this plan and couldn't find any major flaws.
He doesn't know much about the navy.
Li Qingmu has been rooted in the navy for a long time and must know the navy better than he does.
As a layman, Su He commanded an expert, but as an emperor, others must listen.
Once an error occurs, it will cause irreparable losses.
He only made suggestions that were verified by later generations.
"Li Aiqing, regarding the restructuring of the navy, I basically agree with your plan.
I have some suggestions that I hope the Navy will consider.
The fleet does not need to set up a home port. Any fleet can dock at any military port.
The Navy Department is directly responsible for the management of the military port and does not need to be handed over to each fleet.
Now there are three fleets, without a large-scale war.
I think these three fleets should be given sufficient rest time.
One fleet patrols the main waterways, one fleet prepares for war and trains new recruits, and one fleet conducts maintenance and rest.
Floating at sea for a long time makes the soldiers tense, which is not conducive to combat."
Li Qingmu smiled when he heard that His Majesty agreed to the navy's restructuring plan.
"The Navy will consider your Majesty's suggestion carefully."
Chief of General Staff Li Fengming saw Li Qingmu completing his work report.
He immediately made suggestions: "Your Majesty, the General Staff has consulted Tang Defeng and other Javanese Han people who fled to Dahua.
We already know something about the situation in and around Java Island.
We found that as long as we defeated the Dutch fleet, Java Island and its nearby places would be within our grasp.
The military force in these places is very weak, otherwise they would not be controlled by the Dutch with a few ships.
These places have not yet formed states, and most of them exist in the form of tribes.
For us, this is a no-man's land.
I think the Navy can occupy these places by the way.
In Nanyang, rice is harvested three times a year, and the yield is extremely high.
This kind of chosen place can effectively solve the domestic famine."
After Li Fengming finished speaking, he handed the military's strategic arrangements to Su He.
In this southern expedition, the military will dispatch two fleets, Lu Yuanshan's and Zhang Wanfeng's, and ask Lu Xiaoqiu of the Ninth Army to follow them.
The plan for the southern expedition was very simple, their opponents were the Dutch.
The most powerful army of the Dutch was the battleship.
The navy can win, and they will definitely win this war.
The navy cannot win, and the army has no chance of even landing.
Su He reviewed the General Staff's Southern Expedition plan. This Southern Expedition plan was extremely simple.
The main content of the southern expedition plan was not to destroy the Dutch fleet entrenched in Batavia.
Most of the chapter is about how to occupy the Nanyang region after defeating the Dutch.
Su He smiled and said: "Your military is very confident that Nanyang is indeed a fertile land.
I have approved the southern expedition plan, and the military can deploy troops and generals according to this plan.
I am waiting for the good news of the victory of our soldiers."
Li Fengming replied confidently: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that the navy spends millions of taels of silver coins on military expenses every year, which is definitely worth the money."
Su He turned to look at Prime Minister Wang Zhongce: "The military is ready, and the cabinet is responsible for raising supplies to see if they are ready."
Wang Zhongce said confidently: "Your Majesty, the military expenditure of 8 million taels of silver coins has been approved for this southern expedition.
The cabinet is ready to transfer it to the military's account at any time.
Major arsenals have already reserved production capacity, and will only wait for the military to pay a deposit before they start producing the materials the military needs.
Production work is basically arranged to factories in Guangdong in order to be arranged nearby.
In addition to supporting the military operations, the cabinet.
We have also prepared more than a thousand officials to control the local situation as quickly as possible.
There are still 130,000 mountain immigrants and exiled criminals. After the war, the immigrants will come to Java."
Wang Zhongce briefly explained the preparations for the cabinet.
Li Fengming and others heard that military expenditures had been prepared.
Their last trace of worry was gone.
After the Qianqing Palace meeting ended, Su He began to write an imperial edict and officially allowed the troops to assemble.
The Admiralty Department and other yamen also cooperated with the imperial edict and issued various military orders.
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Zhang Wanfeng was inspecting the Incheon Port. Looking at the huge fleet under his command, he couldn't laugh at all.
In this attack on North Korea, the navy played a very weak role.
His Majesty's imperial edict of reward has been issued, and the navy has received very little credit this time.
Zhang Wanfeng wants to go further, but there is absolutely no hope.
The Seventh Army fought brilliantly in the Korean War.
The North Korean navy is too useless and cannot demonstrate the powerful strength of the navy at all.
Zhang Wanfeng looked at the soldiers who were seizing the time to train at the port.
He was very anxious in his heart, hoping to meet a similar opponent.
The fleet is only undergoing normal training and has not experienced the training of war, so its progress is very slow.
Zhang Wanfeng saw a puff of black smoke slowly approaching on the sea.
He looked carefully with a telescope and saw that it was a steam-powered paddle steamer.
This type of paddle steamer was insufficiently reliable due to the steam engine.
They only sail on inland rivers or along coastlines.
In this way, if there is a problem with the steam engine, it can be repaired as soon as possible.
There are very few paddle steamers that can cross the ocean.
These paddle steamers that can cross the ocean are basically non-mass-produced steam engines using the most advanced technology.
They validate some advanced technologies.
Zhang Wanfeng saw that this paddle steamer still retained its mast in order to sail on the sea.
He immediately called Chief of Staff Wang Qijiang and Zhu Shi Li Ran.
The last time His Majesty sent an official to read out the imperial edict, he also came across the sea on a paddle steamer.
Zhang Wanfeng's guess was correct. This paddle steamer was the ship sent by the capital to announce the decree.
They went through a simple ceremony, and Zhang Wanfeng held up the imperial edict with both hands.
Chief of Staff Wang Qijiang, he took over the order from the Navy Department.
Zhang Wanfeng and others warmly entertained the officials who delivered the order, but the ship officials had urgent matters and did not stay.
Zhang Wanfeng opened the imperial edict and burst into laughter after reading the contents above.
"I, Zhang Wanfeng, have finally waited for this opportunity.
Feng Sanqiu defeated the Japanese country and made immortal achievements.
What does the Japanese navy mean? Our opponent this time is the Dutch fleet."
Zhang Wanfeng handed the imperial edict to others, and he read the order issued by the Navy Department.
"Convene a meeting with all captains and we will set off to Guangzhou Port as soon as possible.
We will rendezvous with Lu Yuanshan and receive two battleships at the same time."
Li Ran reminded: "Bring the new soldiers with you. We will train the soldiers who have not completed training on the road.
With the expansion of the fleet this time, there will be a war in the near future, and we cannot let the combat effectiveness drop too much."
Zhang Wanfeng prepared everything, and they set off from Incheon Port and took advantage of the wind to go to Guangzhou Port.
He has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. This southern expedition will show the power of the navy.
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