Chapter nine hundred and seventy seventh: the eighth voyage to the west
Recently, the Ming Dynasty's big moves in Southeast Asia shocked half of the earth.
Annan was directly revoked by the Ming Dynasty on the grounds of the old Yongle system. The meaning of revocation was to be directly included in the territory.
Many kings of the vassal states were terrified. From then on, there would be no more Annan in the world, and there would be only one more Ming Annan Province.
In addition, the second country to be destroyed is Phnom Penh.
The Phnom Penh dynasty in Cambodia was once a rich and powerful Khmer Empire, but it has been slumped since the fall of the Khmer Empire. The Phnom Penh dynasty, which lasted for more than a hundred years, was very chaotic inside.
Previously, with a peaceful attitude, the Ming Dynasty had always turned a blind eye to illegal activities here, because the current Wheel-Turning King Guta II had always been sincere in his complacent attitude.
But recently, because of one incident, the Ming Dynasty and the Phnom Penh Dynasty completely turned against each other.
The cause is similar to that of Genghis Khan Temujin's attack on Khwarezm, and it is also because a caravan was slaughtered.
Zhu Youxiao once again proved the bold words of hurting one person and destroying one country. Now, no one will dare to easily hurt citizens outside the Ming Dynasty.
Because this price is something they cannot bear at all.
It is precisely because of the destruction of Annan and the Phnom Penh dynasty that Zhu Youxiao completely stabilized his position as the overlord of the Far East and the world's powers.
Zhu Youxiao intends to establish a tribute system for the Ming Dynasty overseas again, so recently, Zhu Youxiao is reading a book.
This book was written by a eunuch, but it is indeed of reference value, called "The Waters to the West".
The civil and military officials of the court recently discovered that the emperor was reading this book. In fact, they couldn't find it, because Zhu Youxiao liked to reveal the title of the book in front of the ministers.
Whether it is really reading or not, what is spread is that Emperor Aoki is reading books all the time, living and learning.
This book is actually nothing strange, but the content soon caused a storm in the court, because it was a history of the Ming Dynasty sending Zheng He to the West.
Now that the Ming Dynasty is so powerful, Emperor Tianqi suddenly read history books about his voyage to the West. What does this mean?
Anyone who has a little brain can guess that the emperor is hinting that they are submitting a memorial to restart the voyage to the West that has been stopped since the Zhengorth of Emperor Yingzong.
In the eyes of some people, the voyage to the West has no effect except for showing off.
But in Zhu Youxiao's view, one shows his own civil and military achievements, and the other is that it is also a different story to the world.
After all, now is the era of great navigation. If you don’t join in the fun and go to the West, how can you be worthy of traveling through time?
Because Zhu Youxiao's prestige is too high now, the opposing court officials found that it was useless after trying to persuade him, so no one spoke again.
Now Zhu Youxiao completely eliminated the means of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty using the means of persuading the emperor to gain reputation in later generations. The method is very simple, and tampering with the official history.
That's right, Zhu Youxiao did not talk about martial ethics when dealing with those Qingliu ministers.
I die to fight for fame. If I am happy, I will give you a name to keep in history. If I am unhappy, I will even directly modify the official history, and from small to large, I will directly change it to become famous.
If you face such an emperor and try to die for fame, you are really seeking death, and there is no use except to make yourself die faster.
In this way, with Wen Tiren leading Zhejiang Party officials to report a joint report, the voyage to the West that had been suspended for more than a hundred years was successfully restarted in the Apocalypse!
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With the issuance of the imperial edict to restart the voyage to the West, the entire court began to become busy.
At first, I was busy looking for the treasure ship design drawings left by the yamen everywhere, and the classics about voyage to the West were studied how to build a ship.
After more than a hundred years of voyage to the West, if I still drove the treasure ship from more than a hundred years ago, it wouldn't be Xuanwei, it would be funny.
Therefore, the task given to the research institute this time is to create a new treasure ship specially used to show off based on the treasure ship drawings found.
This new treasure ship is not used for combat. According to Zhu Youxiao, it is only used to make others look tall and large, just like a tall building moving on the sea to show the power of the Ming Dynasty.
But Zhu Youxiao would never have thought that the drawings of this new treasure ship would provide valuable basic experience for China to take the lead in building the world's first aircraft carrier.
Maybe this is just a careless way to plant willows and willows. At least now, Zhu Youxiao really just wants to build a big ship to show off!
Zhu Youxiao still underestimated the ingenuity of Chinese shipbuilders. With such generous benefits, everyone's thoughts were almost all about how to build a ship well.
So, in three months, the prototype of the world's first aircraft carrier was born!
Why is it said to be a prototype? Because it is impossible to build a real aircraft carrier with this technology now, but this new treasure ship is the reason why later generations can dominate the sea.
Zhu Youxiao said that he only wanted a ship of peace, and even had a name, the Peace, to promote the spirit of a great power.
However, this new treasure ship is the result of the joint efforts of elite shipbuilders from China and the West.
Because he is so rich, Zhu Youxiao has been using a lot of money to poach people from Spain, the Netherlands, Britain and other countries in recent years.
Among them is Sir Bach, the chief designer of the Spanish Invincible Battleship.
It is said that Philip IV, the Emperor of the Spanish Empire, had the 80 million taels of silver he had obtained and bid farewell to his chief shipbuilder in tears at the Port of Royal.
There is no way, now the Ming Dynasty has been spent on money.
Since the overseas colonies were established, the money earned by selling goods alone was enough for all the military expenditures across the country.
Not to mention that Zhu Youxiao also learned from Zheng Zhilong. Now all ships arriving in the Far East need to hang the Ming Dynasty flag above.
If you don’t hang the Ming Dynasty flag, even if you run to the Ming Dynasty port, you will not be welcomed.
What makes Western navigators feel most hateful is that this flag is actually changed every three years, which means that every three years, they have to come back and buy it again!
In the Ming Dynasty, making money is simply crazy!
Having said that, after this new treasure ship was successfully launched, Zhu Youxiao discovered that this was a complete maritime war machine.
The people from the research institute far violated Zhu Youxiao's original intention of voyage to the West for peace.
This new treasure ship uses the most advanced shipbuilding technology in the world today, combined with the experience of Zheng He's treasure ship during the Yongle period, which is more than fifty meters long and twenty meters wide.
To be translated into modern times, it is a giant that is more than 200 meters long and more than 90 meters wide.
Even the world-renowned shipbuilder Sir Bach, who was dug up from the Spanish Empire, sighed when he looked at the treasure ship, that we have built a sea fortress!
It is not an exaggeration to call this treasure ship a sea fortress, because it is not only large, but its number of carrier-based artillery has reached an astonishingly more than 160.
What does this mean? The number of such carrier-based guns has been ahead of Britain for more than 40 years. You should know that the first-class battleships that Britain launched more than 40 years later have only more than 120 carrier-based guns.
If you see such a giant ship on the sea, the first thing you can see is its four layers of oppressive artillery shooting holes.
Zhu Youxiao was full of dark lines. I had already named it the Peace Number. How about you, create a War Number?
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