It is not a trivial matter that the regent of the Ming Dynasty will go to the continent. Zhu Youjian can be said to be the second-in-command of the Ming Dynasty. He has never sent such a heavyweight figure to the West since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. He is definitely not as simple as delivering goods, but carrying a very important mission. In the words of Zhu Cijiong, it can be summed up in eight words: promote the power of heaven and open up the market.

Zhu Youjian also has a little idea of ​​promoting the power of the sky. He just led more than 100,000 elite soldiers and took strong ships and guns to Europe for a walk, and just let them see the huge navy and elite army of the Ming Dynasty. As for the market development, he really couldn't understand what a market is? How to develop it!

Zhu Cijiu is naturally very familiar with how to develop the market. Almost everyone on earth knows this in later generations. A more formal method is to advertise and ask celebrities to use the product or use it. An irregular method is to give gifts, and give gifts to the manager. When the gifts are delivered in place, the market will naturally open.

The continent is now fighting hard, and it is a big market with strong demand, so Zhu Cijiuan has spent a lot of money, formal and irregular means to prepare Zhu Youjian.

The formal method is a live demonstration. There are no big stars now, so we can only let the elites of the First Legion of the Imperial Guards personally demonstrate the performance of various weapons. Zhu Cijiu spent a lot of money to demonstrate this demonstration.

First of all, in terms of personnel, he specially asked Qin Liangyu to select 50,000 Imperial Guard soldiers with heights of about 1.7 meters. Those who were too short and too high were picked out, making the team look quite neat. For this reason, the First Corps of the Imperial Guards even reorganized them.

Then, in terms of clothing, he ordered people to make 300,000 new military uniforms, regardless of the navy or army, two sets of buttons, badges, and military ranks, all of which were cast in silver, with clear black and white, neat and uniform, and looked very visually impactful.

Finally, in terms of weapons, each person was equipped with a revolver, a revolver, five grenades, and one hundred bullets. He also equipped the First Corps of the Imperial Guard with Type 317, Type 417, Type 518, and Type 618 field howitzers, each of which was 500,000, and the 50,000 army was equipped with a total of 2,000 artillery!

The 150,000-strong army and naval joint forces are equipped with such excellent weapons. If we fight with others for a long time, France, the strongest of the Protestant Alliance, will probably be defeated half-destroyed. However, Zhu Cijiu's main purpose is to sell weapons, not to help people fight. He hopes that the chaos in the continent will be as good as possible, so naturally he will not help Spain fight for no reason. Of course, if Spain pays enough prices, such as hundreds of millions of taels of silver or tens of millions of taels of gold, it is not a bad idea to help him win this war.

He has prepared so many weapons and equipment, although he is not going to hit people, it is necessary to shoot air. At that time, he will demonstrate to the Spanish king and all the princes that thousands of cannons will be fired together, and bullets will continue like rain. God blocks killing gods, Buddha blocks killing Buddhas, and the ground will burst out a huge hole. If you don’t believe it, they will not be moved.

This is just a formal method. He prepared more irregular methods, such as the silk, tea, and high-end porcelain that are popular in the continental region, and there are also many cloisonnés, stone carvings, wood carvings, bronze carvings, tribute wine, high-end spices, and precious Chinese medicines. He even asked the masters of painting in the court to draw a few ink paintings, and there were more than a hundred paintings together, all of which were marked in Spanish and mounted with precious sandalwood and glass, which looked like famous paintings heirlooms.

If these things are calculated based on the price on the continent, they will be more than 20 million taels. In the Ming Dynasty, they will only be 2 million taels if they die. He believes that if so many "precious" gifts are smashed, the Spanish kings and princes of the Holy Roman Empire will be smashed to pieces, and the hands are short and soft.

The last question is Zhu Youjian’s pretending to behave. The palace maids only chose 1,000 for him. I’m afraid no European royal family can have so many palace maids; there is also 1,000 eunuchs. He doesn’t know whether there are eunuchs on the continent. Even if there are, there are probably not so many. There are also 10,000 Jinyiwei, and a prince Guangxianwei is 10,000. The royal family on the continent may even lose their eyes.

Of course, these are not enough. Those gifts also have the function of showing off. Giving gifts does not mean transporting things directly into the palace as soon as you get off the boat. When to deliver them, how much to give, and who to whom you give them are all determined by Zhu Youjian. At that time, he will wave his hand and the precious gifts from a fleet are arranged at the door of your palace or mansion. That is awesome!

Zhu Cijiu felt that it was not enough. He also named the newly built third treasure-class super battleship Prince Regent. As Zhu Youjian's car, he went to the continent with him. The cars were all super giants like mobile palaces. Which king or prince in the continent has? This is really awesome!

The preparations for the joint fleet of the Ming and Navy and Army armies to travel to the continent took almost two months, and everything was ready until August. Because there were too many people accompanying him, it was definitely not enough to just 100 super battleships and a treasure ship. The number of Dafu ships was one plus and another, and finally it was added to 500. Adding to the treasure ships and super battleships, a total of 601 large warships, moving in a row of five ships, can be dozens of miles long. Whether it is an indigenous or a powerful country, any country will be scared to death when seeing such a fleet.

The Ming Dynasty joint fleet went to the West this time, not to go straight to the continent. First, it had to go to Manila to pick up the Spanish guide regiment, otherwise the fleet would not know how to bypass the African continent; then it would go to Goa to send some supplies to the First Legion of the Expeditionary Force, and at the same time it would strengthen its momentum for allies Kong Dede; finally, it would go around the coast and go to the continent. In this way, the entire fleet would probably leave the Ming Dynasty for at least ten months.

On August 16th, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the personnel of the Ming Dynasty Combined Fleet were ready to go. Zhu Cijiu led all civil and military officials to Dongdaying Tianjin New Port to see him off.

Looking at the huge fleet on the sea, even the Ming officials who were used to seeing the world were extremely shocked. Everyone had a look of shock, joy and pride on their faces. This was the fleet of the Ming Navy. Looking at the entire southeastern sea, who can compete with it? The legendary powers may be able to withstand one or two, but that was just legendary. None of the officials present had seen the navy of the great powers. In their eyes, the Ming Navy was invincible!

Zhu Cijing's thoughts were the opposite of civil and military officials. Seeing the huge fleet slowly sailing away from the port, he felt empty. This was most of the Ming Dynasty's navy. It took nearly ten months to go. The strength of the Ming Dynasty's navy has dropped by more than half in these ten months!

Now, the Ming Dynasty has only two treasure ships, fifty super battleships and five hundred lucky ships in the southeastern waters. If the Netherlands and Britain and France unite, the Ming Dynasty may not even be able to get out of the South China Sea.

No wonder the Dutch ships were twice as many as the ships of all the great powers combined and they were defeated in the end. For sailing warships, the world is too large, and the area of ​​the ocean can be described as boundless. More than 10,000 warships and merchant ships drove in, just like ants entering the forest, and they could not even see a shadow. They could sail for several months or even a year. If the main force was sent out and the enemy attacked again, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At the beginning, Zhu Cijiu thought that in ten years, the Ming Dynasty would be invincible. Now, it was just an ideal state. Unless you don’t send a single warship and stay at home all day, it would be invincible, but what’s the point? Build so many warships just to compete for the colonies. It’s impossible not to go out. But the world is so big that once the fleet is sent out, it’s impossible to turn around. As long as you occupy more than ten colonies, none of these 500 battleships will be left. What if the enemy comes at that time? Will the Ming Dynasty really use those more than two thousand small bluff ships to fight with people?

This is definitely not possible. In his plan, the Ming Dynasty will definitely become an empire that will not set. If the sun does not set, there will definitely be more than ten colonies. It is necessary to protect overseas colonies and protect the Ming Dynasty's homeland. Five hundred super battleships are definitely not enough, and production must be expanded.

Just so happened that the 20 million taels of silver from the Netherlands also came to the account. Apart from the five million taels promised to Zheng Zhilong, there were still 15 million taels left. Zhu Cijing decided to use them all to expand the military factory.

First of all, the Dongda Shipbuilding Factory must double its size, so as to produce 100 super battleships and five treasure ships every year. In the future, the cars of officials above the Navy's Admiral will be replaced with treasure ships, and each fleet will be equipped with 200 super battleships. As for personnel issues, Zhu Cijing decided to professionalize the navy. In the future, the officers and soldiers of the navy will only be responsible for the control of the warships. As for land warfare, all of them will be carried out by the Marine Corps. In this way, a super battleship of four or five hundred people is enough. The existing Nanyang Navy and Beiyang Navy's 200,000 old sailors and 300,000 new recruits can fully control more than 1,000 super battleships.

Then, the artillery factory in Dongdaying must also be expanded. The artillery factory alone needs to be equipped with more than 100,000 artillery. According to the existing output, the more than 100,000 artillery must be built until the year of the Monkey. In addition, the field artillery of the army is not fully equipped. The artillery factory in Dongdaying has to be expanded at least twice so that the output can keep up with the demand. As for the personnel, it is not a big deal. The artillery is mainly a job of strength. It is enough to have a few people master the real technology. It is not a problem for a veteran to lead ten novices.

Finally, Wang Gong Factory must also be expanded. Zhu Cijiujiu is not sure how many orders Zhu Cijiu can get when he goes to the continent. The weapons of the more than one million troops of the Ming Dynasty are not fully equipped. We have to do arms trading and expand the army. The existing output of Wang Gong Factory is far from enough. Zhu Cijiu decided to double the output of Wang Gong Factory. As for personnel issues, novices will ask them to make simple parts and train them step by step. Veterans are responsible for producing precision parts and final assembly.
Chapter completed!