Xiao Wanli would never have thought about what kind of light weapon design frenzy of his order would set off the entire Ming Empire. At this moment, he only wanted to achieve his promise, at least to send some new gun-making spears to the Beiyang Banner Army expeditioning to Asia this year.

As for how difficult it is, how much damage it is, and what is the problem, the emperor doesn't care. He just ordered people to send himself the books of the inner warehouse in recent years.

After simple mathematical calculations, from the commission of honeycomb coal accumulated by his father Longqing and the filial piety of the royal princes of the royal family this year, even if the expenses in the past two years were cut off, Xiao Wanli knew that he still had more than 930,000 taels of silver.

It is not a problem to spend less than 20,000 taels to build some new guns and stabs for the Beiyang Banner Army.

The emperor had already gone astray. He was using the money from the inner treasury and the people from the inner court to build weapons for the flag army affiliated to the Beiyang Military Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty to bypass the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of War. This was a very strange thing.

The responsibility of the military battle is not like this. Their duty has always been to build armies for the emperor's guards and the Jinyiwei, regardless of the affairs of the outer court.

In fact, Xiao Wanli didn't know why. Compared to putting the silver in his hand into the Ministry of War, he seemed to be more worthwhile to his career in Beiyang.

Maybe it was because the silver was put into the Ministry of War, but if it was put into the Beiyang... the places on the map of the world that were more or less painted red will make Wanli feel that what he did was not just paint the land red.

He did more for his army, and he could do more.

In the Forbidden City, the little emperor often spreads out his maps, imagining the unparalleled storm waves on the sea, sailing with his huge and mighty fleet.

It's just that fact, it's often not that beautiful.

On the endless sea, there is an archipelago in the ocean two thousand miles away from the Peru Governor's District on the west coast of Asia. The island is full of mountains and ridges and is full of strange rocks. Forty-three years ago, the Bishop of Panama in Spain discovered this deserted island, named Las Encantadas, which means Devil's Island in Spanish.

Because there are huge sea turtles on the island, they are also called the Galapagos Island, which means the island of giant turtles.

The island that was lonely and rarely visited overseas was particularly popular in the sixth year of Wanli.

After the Western Fleet was ordered to attack the Western Fleet, the Peru imperial fleet encountered a storm when sailing. Unlike the Deng Zilong fleet that could disperse the fleet at any time, Chen Ju could not let the fleet be separated.

To be dead, they all have to be with the Nantang ship.

Six days of crossing the heavy rain caused the fleet to deviate from its voyage, and took the imperial guards to curse in the storm and stay away from the storm. When the storm first stopped, the imperial guards who were floating in the waves returned to the embrace of the sun.

Chen Ju wore a wingless black veil on his head and looked at him with a telescope.

Compared to Acapulco's image, his heroic hair had long since he went to sea. The scarlet python robe was stained with large pieces of salt stain printed on the map, and the hair under the hair towel was also lost in luster and very dry and listless.

Although it was only six days, it was as long as a year for everyone in the fleet. Some people fell into the sea and lost their seamen. Some ships collided and damaged the sea. Some supplies were scattered and there was nowhere to be found. Nightmares plagued every lucky person in the fleet.

Including Chen Ju, he once climbed to the deck in a storm after losing contact with Deng Zilong's fleet, shouting loudly to boost morale among his subordinates, so he was photographed falling into the sea and swallowing the salty and savory sea water.

The heavy rain stopped and the fleet was embraced by the sun again. Chen Ju gritted his teeth tightly, raised his head and wings slightly moved his nose, and frowned his eyebrows, making his eyes narrow in a line.

He tried his best to prevent himself from crying, and he lost his composure in front of his subordinates.

Just now, the Nantang ship, which had a mast broken, lowered the communication boat. The fleet with a quota of nearly 3,000 was left with only six warships. The three baggage ships with a large load lost contact with all seven large and small battleships, and the Jing camp and Jing army on the ship were also missing.

"It's even bitterer than sea water after the disaster."

Floating and sinking in the waves, they just wanted to save the Nantang ship, but they really saved the Nantang ship but lost more... Chen Ju hoped that those ships would make the wrong choice at that time to follow Deng Zilong.

Liang Bozhen, the captain from the Nanyang Military Palace, saw that Chen Ju was in a bad mood and comforted him: "Mr. Chen, think about the good things, maybe they followed General Deng, at least we are all still alive."

Chen Ju turned his head, stared at Liang Bo Town for a moment, and said, "When you were in Nanyang, will this be the case?"

Liang Bozhen nodded slowly. In Nanyang, they were familiar with hydrology and could not avoid such risks. They said: "I have not experienced it personally, but I have heard of it. Whenever I encounter wind and waves, I have only the word "floating" to the Ministry of War and Revenue, people often pay more attention to the silver carried on the ship. Who cares about whether there is no military force? What a big osprey?"

In the distant sky, a large bird spread its wings and spread its wings and swiftly swiftly, capturing the swimming fish and then rushing into the sky, which made Liang Bozhen very happy. He hurriedly said to Chen Ju: "It's not far from the land!"

This is common sense, but common sense may not be accurate. Sometimes exceptions appear, and exceptions often occur after storms.

Fortunately, they did not meet the exception. After being pushed and drifted by the waves and breeze for three days, they finally saw the island in their sight, followed by the archipelago, which was limited to the Devil Island known to the Spaniards, and also opened a corner to the Ming army.

Entering this sea area made the Ming fleet no longer worry about the fact that there was no supply and no food and the ocean currents in the north-south direction gathered here, making it a natural fishing ground, with extremely rich marine life, and it was easy to catch both tuna and moray eels. Generals equipped with telescopes could even see seals and small red crabs lying on the beach in the distance.

From a distance, the island alone overseas is lush and black boulders are irregularly distributed on the beach. When you look closely, the stones are not black, but are soaked in sea water. However, the animals lying on the stones are very dark. The large lizards are so large that they make their scalp numb. These big guys are lying on the stones that can be exposed to the sun.

Lizards were strange beasts in ancient times, and in more distant times, they were often carved on the hilt of the knife by their ancestors, because this animal, commonly known as the four-legged beast, had a "ghost head and was very bloody" and was placed on the hilt of the knife.

The imperial warship lacked water and had to go to the shore to repair the ships, but at this moment they obviously did not plan to fight with groups of lizards.

Helplessly, the four damaged warships and warships could only break down near the sea. The imperial guards rowed small boats to the coast in the shade. The cavalry of the Shenshu Camp trained to patrol led the remaining war horses and spread out along the coast under the leadership of General Luo Shangzhi to explore the situation of the island.

At the same time, two intact five hundred-material gunboats also set sail around the island from the east coast, and divided their troops from land and water to thoroughly explore the island.

Only at this time did Chen Ju's heart really relax, lying flat on the deck regardless of his image, closing his eyes under the blue sky and white clouds, feeling the sea breeze blowing onto his body over the freeboard and the red eyelids.
Chapter completed!