Chapter 363 There are many emperors who hunt with ideals in the dark wind and high sea, such as Liu Che, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin, etc., these emperors all have a characteristic, the first half of their lives are wise and martial, and the second half of their lives are mediocre and incompetent, do they have Alzheimer's?
Actually, it's not.Just like Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who seemed to be mediocre in his later years, personally concocted the scourge of witchcraft, with more than 100,000 victims, Empress Wei Zifu, Prince Liu Ju, Emperor Sun Jin, Prime Minister Sun He and so on.In fact, Liu Che's biggest pain in his heart was that his relatives interfered in politics during the Western Han Dynasty, from Empress Lu, Empress Dowager Dou to himself, and all the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty lived in the shadow of the Empress Dowager, so he wanted to eradicate the Weihuo group for the crown prince Liu Ju before he died, which caused the scourge of witchcraft.Of course, Liu Che can be regarded as a success and a failure.Although he suppressed the Wei Huo Group and used the Huo family to divide the Wei family, Wei Zifu perished with Liu Che's most expected crown prince, Liu Ju.It is very good to say that Liu Ju is a straw bag, and the prince who dares to show his chariot and horse with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and rely on the prisoners of Chang'an to resist for several days is a straw bag?
There are very few such princes in the entire history.Political interest groups all have their own interests and demands, whether it is the family of the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, or the gate lords of the Sui and Tang dynasties, or the official and business groups of the Ming Dynasty, they all have their own clear interests and demands.Whether it is Hu Weiyong or Lan Yu, they all represent the bureaucracy, that is, the counterattack of the scholar group against Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor.Fortunately, it is Comrade Lao Zhu, if it is Zhu Laosi's temper, it will not take the Yongle period and the Hongwu period, and the country will change color.Zhu Laosi tried and failed, Zhengde tried, and he died.The Emperor of the Apocalypse was actually a hundred times smarter than Chongzhen, and he also resisted, so he also died.The old road of the Ming Dynasty, proven by practice, is no longer possible, and if you want to go further, you can only change.Capitalism has already sprouted, and this gluttonous beast will either be completely killed, or let them come to the fore and go dog-eat-dog with the scholars, who, of course, are definitely not their opponents.The democratic political system is the path that must be taken in the end, and Quan Xu let this seedling go through the wind and rain in advance, and only after experiencing the wind and rain can they thrive.Even if Liaonan fails, Quan Xu is not worried, it's a big deal to change to a new way of playing, that's all.After the song ended, Shen Mingze looked at Quan Xu and said, "Lord, over there in Huayang Society, how do you deal with it?"
”Huayang Society and Quan Xu temporarily stopped the war, and the two sides stopped fighting, not shaking hands and making peace, but taking a break in the middle, Huayang Society accumulated strength and prepared to counterattack.At this time, Huayang Society hired merchant ships of Dutch merchants, a total of thirteen ships, and transported 500,000 stone of rice to the port of Arthur, ready to purchase 150 artillery pieces from Quanxu."
We need this food!"
Quan Xu muttered: "500,000 stone rice, you can live countless people, and 150 artillery pieces, for me, it is simply dispensable." ”Shen Mingze smiled bitterly: "These artillery, if Huayang Society buys it, it will definitely be sent to Jiannu, aren't you worried?"
”Although this kind of artillery will definitely be beaten very badly against the whole family army, but once it is against other Ming troops, it can be abused.To say that Quan Xu is not worried that it is fake, but in the same way, Huayang Society is also worried that Quan Xu is trading with them on the surface, and secretly sends sailors to rob this batch of artillery again.Therefore, Huayang Society hired Dutch armed merchant ships, and these thirteen armed merchant ships, although they were only merchant ships, had three decks, and each merchant ship was equipped with twenty to fifty guns.In the event of a war at sea, the 40 old gunboats of the Liaodong Navy Division may not be able to take advantage of it.What's more, in the heart of Huayang Society, no matter how bold Quan Xu is, he will not dare to provoke the Dutch, because once the war with the Netherlands is discovered, Quan Xu will be the sinner of the Ming Dynasty, and Chongzhen will not be able to protect Quan Xu."
Deliver them!"
Quan Xu thought for a while and said: "Give it to them, these artillery, there is no chance to go ashore!"
”Shen Mingze suddenly realized.Trade openly, secretly send interceptions.Quan Xu actually has a hole card, that is, his seal private yacht, although it is a private yacht, it is actually a missile frigate, and it adheres to the rough and honest characteristics of Mao Guo.At that time, the Ticonderoga-class missile cruiser Yorktown and the Spruuss-class destroyer Cullen of the US Sixth Fleet were hit by Soviet frigates and damaged missile launchers and lifesavers.Quan Xu originally purchased this frigate as a private yacht, the purpose was to be able to act as an invincible rammer at the end of the Ming Dynasty, with the speed of the seal up to 32 knots, no sea ship could outrun the seal in the late Ming Dynasty.With the skin of a seal, of course, no ship can withstand the impact of a seal.The official transaction began in early March of the fourth year of Chongzhen, and thirteen Dutch-flagged merchant ships began to dock at the port of Arthur.Although Port Arthur at this time was not a large port with an annual throughput of 22 million tons in later generations, however, as a large port, its superiority as a large port has been increasingly reflected, with more than 40 gunboats of the Liaodong Naval Division and nearly 100 merchant ships moored in it, which is not difficult at all.These thirteen ships are armed merchant ships, but they are the main warships of the Dutch Combined Fleet, and the people in charge of this escort mission are actually Admiral Erwin, the commander of the Dutch Combined Fleet, and Colonel Duncan, the commander of the fleet.The 500,000 stone rice was not actually purchased from Jiangnan, but was exchanged for silk with the Dutch, and the rice was produced in Luzon, which was later the Philippines.The Dutch, without spending a tael of silver, stole rice from Luzon and exchanged it for 30,000 horses of silk from Huayangshe.Due to the intelligence of the Huayang Society, it is claimed that this transaction has a certain risk, this Liaodong general soldier of the Ming Dynasty is an official of the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but behind the scenes, he is the biggest robber of the Ming Dynasty, they have the most advanced artillery of the Ming Dynasty, and the most powerful infantry.In order to verify this information, General Erwin did not hesitate to arrive in Lushun himself.Not far from the harbor, Erwin looked at eight large dockyards, as well as lumber mills, which were piled up like huge mountains, and thousands of people were working in the docks, a sight that Elwin had never seen before.His face was a little solemn: "How many ships do they want to build to use up so much wood?"
”"Hundreds?""
No, even a warship like the Queen is enough to build a thousand!""
Does Da Ming need so many warships?""
Why not?"
Erwin smiled bitterly: "Da Ming is equivalent to a hundred Dutch, but we must admit that with Da Ming's manpower, financial resources, and resources are a hundred times that of the Netherlands, if they are determined to rule the sea, absolutely no one is their opponent." ”Erwin looked at the crowded construction site and muttered, "If the Netherlands had such a large shipyard and such an abundance of manpower, we would have ruled the whole of Europe a long time ago, no, enough for our Dutch fleet to rule the whole world, the Spaniards......
Hum!
”The Netherlands and the Ming Dynasty have not dealt with each other, as early as July of the second year of the Apocalypse, because the Dutch wanted to storm Macao, they sent a fleet to occupy Penghu for the second time, and in October the Battle of Liuao broke out, the Ming army and the naval division were defeated, losing 26 warships, 54 merchant ships, and 80 prisoners.It was not until the fourth year of the Apocalypse that Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian, led the army and the Apocalypse, to recover Penghu, relying on the tactics of the sea of people.The Dutch were very contemptuous of the Ming until they saw the mouth of Arthur.Erwin looked at the dense ships under construction, and he wanted to give the order to fight against the Ming without a declaration.However, as soon as he raised the thought, his eyes saw a fixed battery in the distant harbor, on which the artillery was arranged with a long barrel and a caliber no weaker than that of the Dutch thirty-two-pounder.He let out a long sigh: "The Ming people are preparing, they will definitely take revenge on us Dutch!"
”"The best thing to do now is to find out how powerful their artillery is!"
Colonel Duncan said: "I feel very unfamiliar, the guns of those gunboats are completely different from the Ming artillery we have seen, I don't know how powerful it is!"
”Quan Xu didn't actually know that the Liaodong Naval Division almost had a firefight with the Dutch fleet, in fact, even if he knew, he couldn't change anything.Now Quan Xu is taking Sanniang, Shen Liangcai, Su Yin and others to drift in the sea area fifty miles southwest of Lushun Port, Quan Xu is watching the operation instruction video of the seal, learning how to operate the seal's sea search radar.This is the original Soviet top radar, with a search range of 400 kilometers, and the thirteen Dutch armed merchant ships will definitely not escape the eyes of the seals.500,000 stone of rice, this is not a small amount, relying on manpower to completely unload, according to the normal speed, I am afraid that it will not be able to be completed in ten days and a half months.However, Lushun Port not only has large animal gantry cranes, but also tower cranes, and the unloading speed is very fast, and it only took less than two days to unload 500,000 stone of rice.On the third day of the third month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, just after the transaction was completed, thirteen armed merchant ships of the Dutch combined fleet set sail from the port of Arthur.Of course, Huayang Society found that more than 40 gunboats of the Liaodong Naval Division did not go to sea, and they breathed a sigh of relief, the Liaodong Naval Division did not dispatch, but it did not mean that Quan Xu would not dispatch.At the same time as the Dutch armed merchant ships went to sea, Quan Xu also discovered the movements of this fleet through radar.In this era, whether it was an armed merchant ship or a warship, in fact, they did not have the ability to sail at night, but the Dutch were really thieves, and they lowered their sails overnight, hoping to quickly leave the control of the Liaodong Naval Division.The night is dark and windy, and it is the time of hunting.Armed merchant ships with a speed of six or seven knots are like snails crawling in front of seals."
Su Yin, Sanniang, you operate the drone and order the four ships at the front first!"