Chapter 4: The Future Is Bright......
Finally, there is the Borneo Naval District, Borneo also has two fleets, but only one of these two fleets is a Class A fleet, and the remaining one is a Class B fleet - its practical two fleets are responsible for defending Borneo and the nearby islands, which is more difficult, after all, the defense scope of the Borneo Naval District includes almost all the territory of the Greater Sunda Islands except Sumatra, and the two fleets are obviously unable to patrol.
It's just that there is no better way for the imperial court to deal with this situation, because there are too many places where Datang uses money now, and the navy is a branch of the army that eats money, so there is not enough money to support the construction of the navy.
Didn't you see that the Hangzhou Naval District, which was originally planned, didn't even have a single boat?
It is said that the imperial court has been discussing whether to ban the Hangzhou Naval Region, and the court has been arguing for almost half a month over this matter.
Fortunately, Borneo is relatively close to the mainland, and it is very close to the Governor of Nanyang and the Governor's Palace of Sriwijaya, and the three sides help each other, relying on these two fleets, but there are few pirates to patronize, even if one or two pirates who occasionally die will attack the coastal towns successfully, but they will be quickly eliminated by the fleet - and generally such pirates are the real vicious pirates, they disdain to put on makeup to go ashore, and will often attack coastal villages and towns for supplies, and those pirates disguised by maritime merchants will not do this, After all, they made their fortune on these people, and if they attacked these people, no one would collect goods for them, and they would still make a fart of money?
But this is not to say that the pirates pretending to be pirates are good people, in fact, those real maritime merchants prefer to meet real pirates, rather than those who pretend to be pirates - the reason is very simple, some real pirates are still very moral, only seek money and do not die, as long as they do not resist, they will basically not be killed.
But those peers pretend to be pirates are not so particular, not to mention that their peers are enemies, they themselves are hidden enemies, just say that since the maritime merchants pretend to be pirates, it means that they will still live on the mainland, of course they don't want to be recognized by others one day that they have been pirates, so most of the fake pirates tend to kill them all and never leave a single mouth alive, and even some of them are even more excessive, and even the ships are directly burned, which is extremely murderous.
Continuing to talk about the naval region, the head of the Lingnan Navy Region is still Liu Renliang, but the deputy head did not fall on his head as Sun Fujia guessed, but was taken away by Cheng Chuliang.
Because now Cheng Chuliang is no longer the deputy governor of the Quanzhou fleet, but the governor of the capital (Li Ji has stepped down three years ago), although the power has not changed much, but the grade is higher than Sun Fujia after all.
Therefore, although Liu Renliang was very unhappy, it was impossible for him to spare the process and appoint Sun Fujia as the deputy governor, otherwise those who had already looked at him unpleasantly, or who had been blocked by him, were afraid that they would be accused of cronyism, and he would have to be reprimanded.
So after weighing it, Liu Renliang still had to pinch his nose and appoint Cheng Chuliang as the deputy chief of the Lingnan Naval Region.
Today's Cheng Chuliang is not only the deputy commander of the Lingnan Military Region, but also holds the powerful military force of the Quanzhou Fleet.
The head of the Bohai Naval Region is none other than Wei Chi Baoqing, which even the most demanding people can't oppose, and they can't even pick out a suitable excuse for opposition from it - after all, the Dengzhou fleet is the first fleet formed by the Tang Dynasty, and although Yu Chi Baolin is not the first governor of the Dengzhou fleet, the Dengzhou fleet is carried forward in his hands, the Tang Dynasty conquered Goguryeo, and the Dengzhou fleet has repeatedly made war exploits, and even relying on the marines equipped with it, the Dengzhou fleet destroyed Baekje alone, It has greatly increased the prestige of the navy, so that the world no longer dares to underestimate the navy.
As for the complete rise of the navy in the hands of Liu Renliang, it will be much further back, and it can even be said that if it were not for the foundation laid by Wei Chi Baolin, so that the Tang Dynasty has a preliminary understanding of the navy, the navy may not be so simple if it wants to rise.
However, despite this, it was not smooth sailing for Yu Chi Baolin to serve as the Bohai Naval Region, for the same reason as Du He's rejection of the Nanyang Governor - Yu Chi Jingde himself is already the grandfather of the Tang Dynasty, and he has huge military power in his hands, and now Yu Chi Baolin has also been appointed as the head of the First Military Region, and the power of the Wei Chi family is inevitably a little too big, right?
In the end, it was Wei Chi Jingde who took the initiative to make sacrifices and resigned from all his positions to care for the elderly at home, which blocked the tongue of some people, and Yu Chi Baolin was able to successfully serve as the general manager.
But because of this, he hated those who forced his father to resign, if it wasn't for Qin Huaiyu next to him to stop him, he estimated that he would have to transfer 30,000 marines to Chang'an to settle accounts with those people.
In addition to the distribution of the navy, the other most important thing is the battleship itself, there is nothing to say about this, Datang's shipbuilding technology has already reached the limit, the first-class battleship in Li Zhen's mouth has been successfully launched two years ago, and now there will be a first-class battleship as the flagship in all first-class fleets, and there are also three to five second-class battleships.
Now Li Zhen has stopped them from researching more huge shipbuilding technology, because this year is the fifth year of the growth of rubber trees, and the rubber trees in about five years can already be tapped-and then with rubber, the biggest sealing problem of the steam engine will be greatly solved, and Li Zhen's steam ship design drawings that have accumulated for so many years can finally come in handy......
In short, although the development of the navy is relatively slow, five years have passed, and it is only in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, and it has not received much development in the west, but after five years of accumulation, the foundation of the navy has been laid, and naval academies have been established in various places along the Datang coast, and countless students have devoted themselves to the wave of the navy.
Today's navy has become the trend of the times, and even the most uninformed peasant women in mountain villages will say a word or two about naval terms when chatting.
In this day and age, being in the navy is a very popular profession, not only the salary is high enough, but also very face-saving - if the child of any family can produce a sailor, it is simply a great joy of green smoke on the ancestral grave, enough for the family to brag in front of the villagers for a long time.
And what can be seen is that with the beginning of a new round of expansion of Datang, the navy will get greater development, and the future is bright......