Sun Chengzong left for Fujian the next day.
Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian, brought a large number of officials to greet him in front of the governor's Yamen.
After the routine greetings, Nan Juyi invited Sun Chengzong into the Yamen.
After the guests and hosts sat down, Nan Juyi said: "Last year, I sent General Chen Shiying to live in Batavia to inform the Dutch that they should stop intruding on the coast.
He should be back soon."
Sun Chengzong asked: "If we attack Penghu now, are there any chances of winning?"
Yu Zigao, the commander-in-chief of Fujian Province, stood up and replied: "Mr.
Ge, the red-haired invaders came the day before yesterday.
We were waiting for work, so we achieved victory.
If we take the initiative to attack Penghu, I'm afraid it will be difficult to win."
Sun Chengzong lowered his face and said: "General Yu, the news I received is that there are only a thousand thieves.
Can't we win even with this?"
Yu Zigao was sweating in the cold weather: "Lao Huige, our Fujian Navy has not built a new ship in thirteen years, and the original ship has never been repaired.
The soldiers of the Navy have little training, so " Sun Chengzong interrupted him and asked: "Why haven't new ships been built?"
Yu Zigao looked at Nan Juyi and asked for help.
Nan Juyi sighed and said: "Fujian is mountainous and the income is small.
However, the two companies of silver drawn by the imperial court cannot supply the military pay and silver.
We really cannot blame General Yu." " Sun Chengzong nodded: "That's it.
The emperor said that the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty opened a branch in Fujian and gave a total of 300,000 yuan to the Fujian Navy.
To satisfy the salary first, we can't let the soldiers go to war hungry.
Then repair the ships and weapons. , We will decide what to do after Mr.
Chen Qian comes back."
Sun Chengzong personally went to inspect the water camp the next day.
Indeed, as Yu Zigao said, the ships of the navy were all old ships.
The equipment and decks on the ships were all in tatters, and there were no cannons on the ships.
Sun Chengzong asked: "Don't all the Dutch ships have artillery?
How can you fight them without artillery?"
Yu Zigao was about to burst into tears: "We set fire to a small boat, and then buried the underwater Dragon King cannon on the path where the enemy ship must pass.
In this way, we sank an enemy ship."
Sun Chengzong comforted him: "The emperor has ordered people to install the artillery on the big ship.
After the Tianjin Guard test is completed, it will be shipped to Fujian.
The emperor said that it should be larger than the Dutch artillery, and it will have an advantage in shooting."
Yu Zigao was overjoyed.
The last time he fought against the Dutch, if he hadn't relied on his familiarity with the terrain and used arson boats to lure the enemy ships to divert to the underwater place where the Dragon King Cannon was buried, all the ships would have been sunk by the Dutch's artillery. .
If you have artillery, you won't be afraid.
Sun Chengzong was very satisfied with the soldiers.
The soldiers were in good spirits.
Although their clothes were in tatters, their weapons were well protected and did not appear rusty.
As for the number of firecrackers, they were all old matchlock guns.
When Zhu Youxiao asked him to come, he brought a thousand flintlock muskets without bayonets and a thousand steel knives with hand guards, which should be able to equip this navy.
After the inspection, Sun Chengzong said to Yu Zigao: "It will still take some time for the artillery to arrive, but I have brought a thousand new fire guns and steel knives.
Chief Yu will first select the brave soldiers to train the new fire guns." , it should be able to enhance its combat power by then.”
Yu Zigao said: "Mr.
Chen Qian's men are the elite of the navy.
We can give them new weapons for use first."
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A few days later, Chen Shiying came back.
He reported the whole process to the imperial envoy and others: "Last year, my subordinates were sent to Batavia by the governor.
They took a boat from the foreign merchant Huang Hexing.
When we came to Triangle Island, we met four barbarian boats.
They said Their king had already gone to Anan Kingdom, so his subordinates went to declare There was no reply to the edict.
The Dutch wanted to send five barbarian ships to Penghu in order to open up the city.
Huang Hexing stopped them and then went with them to Dashi.
We went to see King Dashi.
We will stay in Penghu before sailing.
If we are not allowed to go to the market, we will definitely go to war."
Anang is the country of the Netherlands, and Dadi is now Pattani, Thailand.
The so-called Dadi King refers to the Dutch official stationed there.
Sun Chengzong said: "The Holy One has a decree to agree to the Dutch's trade requirements, so President Chen Qian sent people to Penghu and asked them to let someone who can speak to them come here first, and we can discuss trade matters."
Nan Juyi and Yu Zigao were both surprised.
Nan Juyi asked: "Do you really want to do business with them?
I thought I wanted to fight them."
Sun Chengzong smiled and said: "We have to reach an agreement first.
If we can't reach an agreement, we will still have to fight, so be prepared.
The emperor said, if we don't fight, I'm afraid they won't agree to our conditions."
So Chen Shiying sent people to Penghu to announce the edict, and at this time four treasure ships sent by Tianjin Wei finally arrived in Xiamen.
The treasure ship is a large-scale fortune ship.
It is a pointed-bottomed ship with an upward pointed bottom, a raised head and a raised tail.
It has two masts and a three-story cabin.
The ship has a building as high as a city and a guard board beside it.
There are two twenty-four-pound cannons on the bow, and ten fifteen-pound cannons on each side of the ship.
Each ship has a hundred firing positions for firecrackers, forty bow and arrow positions, and several cold weapon positions.
Each ship can carry a crew of 500 people, and the draft can reach more than 13 feet and 4 meters.
These four treasure ships were ordered to be built by Zhu Youxiao after he ascended the throne.
A total of eight ships were built, and now half of them have been brought to Fujian, which shows that Zhu Youxiao attaches great importance to Penghu and Taiwan.
The person who sent the treasure ship was Zheng Zha, deputy commander of the navy of the Guards.
He brought 400 sailors with him and was responsible for operating the fortune ship.
After arriving in Xiamen, the ship will be handed over to the Fujian Navy, and they will take two sand boats back.
But Yu Zigao didn't want them to go back, because the Fujian navy had not used the Fuchuan for more than a hundred years.
He went to Sun Chengzong and asked Zheng Zha and others to stay to operate the Fuchuan.
Sun Chengzong said: "They have never used the lucky boat before.
Didn't they also sail the boat to Xiamen?"
Yu Zigao said: "They were just sailing, not fighting, and we have to fight the Dutch.
Our Fujian navy can't even sail a ship.
At least they have experience in this way."
Sun Chengzong pondered for a long time and said: "That's good, but you have to let people learn to operate the ship.
They belong to the Guards now, and I am the Minister of the Ministry of War and I am not qualified to mobilize them.
Let them assist you in training first, and I will explain it to the emperor. of."
Zheng Zha was actually very happy when he heard that he could stay in Fujian, because now Liaonan is basically confronting Jiannu, there is no major war, and the Guards are only transporting soldiers and weapons in Liaonan, so he has some He was bored, and now he could participate in the battle, which was exactly what he wanted.
So Chen Shiying and his men followed Zheng Zha to conduct treasure ship operation training.
For Zheng Zha, it happened that the Guards Navy would also join the treasure ship in the future.
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