After the army is reorganized, the next step is the navy. Zhu Cijiu has always attached great importance to the construction of the navy, because this era is an era of great navigation. No matter how strong the land power is, it is fake. As long as the great power controls the ocean, opens up colonies everywhere, and plunders wealth, even if you smash it with silver, you can still smash it down!

It can be said that maritime hegemony is the theme of this era, but due to the raging Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty, the navy's strength has shrunk sharply. By the time Zhu Cijiu took over, the Ming navy was not even as good as the Ming Dynasty, let alone the peak period of Zheng He's voyage to the West more than two hundred years ago.

Fortunately, although the Ming Navy's strength is weak, its shipbuilding foundation is still there. It is no problem to build super battleships after artillery technology keeps up. After the development in recent years, the Ming Navy's strength has increased explosively. It has already had 100 super battleships, more than 1,000 Fu Ship warships, nearly 3,000 small warships of various types, and three giant-class treasure ships. It can be said that it has the strength to compete with the great powers at sea.

Moreover, under the auspices of Zhu Cijiu, the shipbuilding industry in Daming has also developed rapidly. The shipyard in Dongdaying has reached the ability to produce 100 super battleships and five treasure ships per year. Now is the end of the year. The 100 super battleships and five treasure ships this year are about to be delivered, which is a great time to reorganize the navy.

In Zhu Cijing's plan, the naval corps are also divided into third-class corpses, but now there are only two first-class corpses, the Nanyang Navy and Beiyang Navy. The second-class corps and the third-class corps are blank. However, the 300,000 newly-engraved naval army can basically operate warships after more than two years of training, so Zhu Cijing decided to reorganize them into three third-class corpses, and he was also preparing to form another naval reserve corps. As for the main general, he could only be promoted to the Nanyang Navy and Beiyang Navy. After a period of careful consideration, the reorganization plan of the Ming Navy was finally released.

First, all the newly produced 100 super battleships were equipped to the Nanyang Navy and Beiyang Navy. In this way, both navy units had 100 super battleships and formed a super fleet of pure battleships. As for the eliminated Fu Ship warships, they were used to form third-class legions, and Zhu Cijiu had also thought about the names of the Beihai Fleet, the East China Fleet and the South China Fleet. The newly produced five super battleships were allocated to five fleet commanders as flagships, and another 100,000 new recruits were recruited as reserve corps, stationed in the Nandaying for training. The specific personnel and equipment configurations were as follows:

The Beiyang Navy, the commander of the first-class five-star general Huang Long, 50,000 artillery soldiers, 50,000 sailors, equipped one treasure ship, 100 super battleships, each artillery was equipped with a revolver, two grenades, and each sailor was equipped with a revolver and five grenades.

The Nanyang Navy, the commander of the first-class legion, Zheng Zhihu, the first-class five-star general, had 50,000 artillery soldiers, 50,000 sailors, and equipped with a treasure ship, a giant super battleship, and 100 super battleships. Each artillery was equipped with a revolver, two grenades, and each sailor was equipped with a revolver and five grenades.

The North Sea Fleet of the Third Class Legion, commander Yang Geng, the third-rank one-star general, with 10,000 artillery soldiers and 90,000 sailors, equipped with a treasure ship, 500 lucky ship warships, and 1,000 other small warships of various types. Each artillery was equipped with a revolver, two grenades, and each sailor was equipped with a Type 24 flintlock rifle and five grenades.

The East China Sea Fleet of the Third Class Legion, commander, third-rank one-star general, Chen Hui, 10,000 artillery soldiers, 90,000 sailors, equipped with a treasure ship, 500 lucky ship warships, and 1,000 other small warships of various types. Each artillery was equipped with a revolver, two grenades, and each sailor was equipped with a 24-type flintlock rifle and five grenades.

The Third-Class Legion South China Sea Fleet, commander Zheng Xing, the third-rank one-star general, with 10,000 artillery soldiers and 90,000 sailors, equipped with a treasure ship, 500 lucky ship warships, and 1,000 other small warships of various types. Each artillery was equipped with a revolver, two grenades, and each sailor was equipped with a Type 24 flintlock rifle and five grenades.

The Navy Preparatory Legion, commander, the third-rank one-star general Zheng Ming, with 50,000 artillery soldiers and 50,000 sailors, was stationed at the Nandaying Navy Base to train muskets, artillery and warship operations, and was responsible for the garrison of all the prisms and turrets in the southeast defense line. As for equipment, the muskets can only let them use the Type 24 flintlock rifles eliminated by the Beiyang Navy and the Nanyang Navy, and the cannons can only use the cannons and the cannons on the turrets. The warships can only look at how many left after the five legions are reorganized!

After reorganization, the Ming Navy will reveal the prototype of the invincible navy. Of course, there is still a certain gap from the real invincibility. According to the overall strength of the Ming Navy after reorganization, the current Dutch Navy is roughly the same as that of the current Dutch Navy, and it is even a little bit short of it.

Of course, this is not considered colonial expansion. If the Ming Dynasty began colonial expansion, it would have to send a fleet to garrison the colony. By that time, warships would be scattered around the world, and there would be no such warships, because at this current navigation speed, it would be good that the sent fleet could come back in half a year. If there was any battle, it would be impossible to count on it.

There is such a fatal problem in the Age of Discovery. If you don’t develop a colony, you can only stay at home and watch others grab money. When they grow, they will definitely step on you in the end. If you develop a colony, warships will be stationed everywhere, and the number of warships will never be enough!

This problem seems to be a terminal illness that cannot be solved no matter what. You should know that during the heyday of the Netherlands, there were more than 15,000 ocean-going ships of all kinds, three times the total number of ships in other countries in the world. They were still defeated by Britain and France!

Of course, the Ming Dynasty is different from the Netherlands, because the Netherlands has another fatal flaw, that is, their population is too small. The Netherlands' current shipbuilding ability should be far higher than that of the Ming Dynasty, because they were independent in 1588, and it has built more than 10,000 large ships that can sail from the ocean in less than fifty years. This proves that they can build at least 200 large ships every year. Why do they have so few super battleships?

The main reason is that they have too few people. At that time, the entire Netherlands country had only more than one million people. If more than 10,000 were super battleships, what would happen? A super battleship could have more than 100 cannons, and the artillery alone would require three or four hundred people. Others who maintain sailing sailing would require at least one hundred people. In this way, it would be useless for the Netherlands to move all the people from all over the country to super battleships! So they could only maintain the number of two or three hundred super battleships. No matter how many they were built, no one would control it.

Of course, this problem does not exist in the Ming Dynasty. Based on the current number of naval forces in the Ming Dynasty, it is more than enough to control a thousand super battleships. It is only a matter of time now. The Ming Dynasty needs time to accumulate the number of warships. As long as the Ming Dynasty is given ten years, it is not impossible for the navy to be invincible!
Chapter completed!