After Zhu Hongsan occupied Luzon two years ago, he captured a large number of Spanish prisoners of war, including thousands of naval officers. These people were either coerced or bribed by Zhu Hongsan and became a glorious foreign aid in Zhu Hongsan's navy.

After visiting the captured Spanish warships, Zhu Hongsan came to a conclusion that Spain is worthy of being a naval power that has been circulating for hundreds of years on the sea. It has reached the forefront of the Ming Dynasty in terms of warship management, division of labor of various arms, and maintenance of equipment. Although Spain was defeated by the emerging empire British Empire a hundred years ago, the navy's hundreds of years of precipitation cannot be ended in a battle. Although Spain has now declined, their navy's strengths can still be learned.

So Zhu Hongsan was very happy after getting these thousands of Spanish naval officers. He immediately organized them into his fleet and acted as deputy captains, sailors, guns and other positions. At the same time, he ordered his naval officers to learn everything from Spanish instructors. If the study does not meet the standards within the specified time, he would immediately fire the navy and go home to hold the children.

This order was very uncomfortable with Zhu Hongsan's subordinates at the beginning, because these Spanish navy were their defeated generals, and it is really unacceptable to learn from their defeated generals now.

Zhang Dachuang was the first person to raise an objection. Zhu Hongsan immediately ordered Zhang Dachuang to go home to retire, which suppressed the opposition forces in the navy.

However, after learning, these arrogant guys were really convinced. The Spanish did have a good job in the navy. In the past, Zhu Hongsan's navy followed the Ming navy and arranged a large number of fighting infantry on the warships to prepare for jumping. At the same time, various sailors were divided into chaotic divisions, and basically they were temporarily assigned by the captain, and they never had any full-time positions.

After systematic training by Spanish instructors, Zhu Hongsan's navy also formed various institutionalizations, and he began to conduct specialized training during the recruits. The gunner was the gunner, instead of going wherever there was a shortage of people like before.

After more than half a year of rectification, the navy's combat effectiveness has improved a lot, and the sailor's quality has reached the first-class level in Europe. In Asia, it can completely defeat naval powers such as Portugal, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, but there is still a little gap compared with the European fleets of these countries. After all, Spain formed a hundred battleships a hundred years ago.

In order to narrow the gap between himself and the traditional maritime power in Europe, Zhu Hongsan ordered his subordinates to learn Spanish and included Spanish in the selection criteria for promotion. Now, after hearing Zhang Quan say that he has only recognized more than 100 words for half a year, how can he not anger Zhu Hongsan!

"Zhang Quan, do you think you are farting from my order? You don't master three hundred words by the end of the year and can't have simple conversations. You don't have to do this admiral!"

Lieutenant Colonel Anthony, the Spanish instructor standing behind Zhang Quan, saw the emperor lose his temper and quickly prepared to defend Zhang Quan. Although these Han people don’t like them, are they comrades on the same boat after all!

Anthony stood up and said in a strange tone: "Dear Emperor Ming, Admiral Zhang has worked very hard. After all, he was still an illiterate one year ago!"

Zhang Quan also knew that Anthony was kind-hearted, but he still cursed in his heart: This foreigner is too good at speaking, so how could he point at the nose and curse illiterate people!

Zhu Hongsan was in a much better mood when he heard Anthony say this, and what he said was that it was really difficult for him to learn a foreign language.

"Zhang Quan, since Lieutenant Colonel Anthony pleads for you, get up, remember to study hard! Do you know!"

"Please rest assured that I will learn three hundred words before the end of the year!"

Zhu Hongsan smiled and turned around to talk to Anthony.

"Dear Lt. Col. Anthony, what do you think of my navy?"

Anthony couldn't understand what Zhu Hongsan said, so the translator next to him came and turned it into Spanish to Anthony.

"His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, your sailors are all a group of pirates and gangsters. They cannot become a glorious naval soldier. Prison is their best belonging!"

After hearing what Anthony said, Zhu Hongsan knew that this guy was still resentful of the defeat two years ago. After all, Zhang Dasca and the others won not be very glorious at that time, so they took advantage of the fact that the Spaniards were not prepared for the late-night attack.

"Dear Anthony, you can't say that. There is a saying in our country that if you succeed, your kings will be defeated, and you will be defeated. After all, you have failed!"

After hearing the translator's words, Anthony blushed and said, "You are sneak attacks, and there is no sense of honor that a navy should have. You are like those British pirates, without any sense of honor!"

"Dear Anthony, you hate us so much, won't you be able to train sailors?"

"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you look down on us Spanish nobles too much. Failure is failure, but since we promise to help you train the navy, we will do our best! Please do not question the ethics of a noble!"

It seems that these European nobles are so cute. Zhu Hongsan nodded with satisfaction and said to Zhang Quan: "How are these Spanish guys teaching?"

"These guys are really perfect naval officers except they don't like to take a bath. They do everything meticulously. The brothers grow up very quickly under their training!"

Just be willing to work, Zhu Hongsan nodded with satisfaction, ignored Anthony, and took his civil servant into the cabin.

The large ship has a displacement of 1,500 tons, and 510 sailors on the ship, plus Zhu Hongsan's escort, a total of 700 people. Only Zhu Hongsan has a single room. This is the captain's room, which belongs to Zhu Hongsan. The remaining Tong Yangjia and Qian Qianyi are in the same room. Zhu Hongsan's son, King Qin, Zhu Jiang, is the prince's prince, also squeezes together with the guards.

Before leaving, Zhu Hongsan had already told Zhu Jiang that since he wanted to come out to join the army, he had to follow the rules in the army, so he had to follow the food, clothing, housing and transportation along the way. Zhu Jiang also agreed, but this first level was not easy.

When Zhu Jiang saw that he was arranged by his father to the guard company, he thought that no matter how much he said, he could have a single room, but he was stunned when he thought that he would come down. It turned out that it was not a single room, and he wanted to live with ordinary soldiers in a temporary bed set up on the cannon.

The current warships are not aircraft carriers with tens of thousands of tons in later generations. The space on the ship is very limited. Now more than a hundred outsiders are coming, and the natural space is very tight.

Zhu Jiang had been in a rich and frugal life since he was a child. He had suffered such crimes, so he immediately stopped doing it and shouted that the company commander would arrange a single room for him.

The company commander of the guard company is Zhu Hongyi's second son Zhu Bao. Zhu Bao is Zhu Hongyi's second son and his legitimate son. He will accept Zhu Hongyi's title in the future. As the prince of the vassal prince, he naturally understands this King of Qin. After all, Zhu Bao is nominally Zhu Jiang's cousin.

"Your Highness, do you have any opinions on the residence of the Guard Company?" Zhu Bao looked at Zhu Jiang who came to find him and asked.

"Of course, no matter how I say it is, I am the prince of the country. Is there not a single room?"

Zhu Bao also knew that the King of Qin was spoiled. When he was a child, he was the most irrational act, but Zhu Bao had no choice. After all, this guy was the King of Qin, and no matter his status, he was far above him, so he still had to answer it carefully.

"Your Highness, it is the emperor's will to come to the Guard Company. The emperor said it clearly. You are treated the same as ordinary soldiers in the Guard Company. If your Highness has any objection, you can go to His Majesty to ask clearly!"

Zhu Jiang relied on his father's favor and did not take Zhu Bao seriously at all. Now that he saw Zhu Bao not caring about him and pushing him to the emperor, Zhu Jiang said dissatisfiedly: "Okay, Zhu Bao, you are just our slave. You dare to talk to your master like this, wait!" After Zhu Jiang said that, he rushed to the first deck to find his father Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan is now accepting the worship of all the soldiers who went to the expedition on the deck of the flagship. There were more than 50,000 soldiers following this expedition. The army soldiers accompanied him had 24,000 troops, plus the 20,000 troops of the Shanghai army and 8,000 troops of the logistics supply. The scale of the fleet this time exceeded the scale of Zheng He's voyage to the West, and was almost the same as the Spanish Invincible Fleet. Of course, the tonnage of the warships is not as strong as that of the invincible Fleet.

Before leaving, Zhang Huangyan read the edict on behalf of the emperor himself. The edict was very simple, but it was just to mention his legitimacy and uniqueness again. All other Ming regimes were illegal. Now, as the only legal government, he naturally wanted to recover Nanjing. The second point was to put all the shit pots on the Qing Dynasty, such as men and women, the brother died, the sister-in-law inherited by his younger brother, and other things that seemed to be ruthless in the Ming Dynasty. In the end, Zhang Huangyan also proposed the historical law of "The Hu people have no national destiny for a hundred years" that Zhu Yuanzhang said, and encouraged all soldiers to make achievements.

Zhu Hongsan listened to Zhang Huangyan reading the edict. Of course, this edict was not written by semi-illiterate Zhu Hongsan, but by the great literary giant Qian Qianyi. Zhu Hongsan had long known the content of the edict and was deeply envious, jealous and hated Dorgon for being able to become his sister-in-law.

Just now Zhang Huangyan read the edict, Zhu Hongsan came to Tong Yangjia and whispered: "Mr. Tong, you are from Liaodong, so why don't Dorgon know about his sister-in-law?"

Tong Yangjia was stunned, but he didn't expect Zhu Hongsan to ask this question.

"Your Majesty, this minister doesn't know, but the traditions of those Tartars are like this. After the father's death, all the concubines will be inherited by his son. Many of them are not necessarily involved with Huang Taiji's wife!"

Zhu Hongsan laughed in a low voice when he heard the interesting thing: "It seems that the Tartars are true. Huang Taiji I heard that there are tuberculosis. Maybe men's abilities are really not good. It's understandable that my sister-in-law is lonely and finds her brother-in-law. Maybe Emperor Shunzhi is Dorgon's son!"

Tong Yangjia heard Zhu Hongsan’s dirty words, but he did not dare to refute them, so he nodded repeatedly and agreed.

"Your Majesty the Emperor is right. When we fight to Shuntian Prefecture, we can arrest Dorgon and ask for details!"

"Also remember to arrest Huang Taiji's wife. I want to personally interrogate this little slut to see what kind of effort she will make Dorgon confused! Hehehe!"
Chapter completed!