Chapter 157 Ambition

At this time, there are 83 general officers in the Ming Dynasty. These are classic officers. Ordinary people don't even have a chance to meet at all. In the Daming military system, it is quite awesome to be a guerrilla. Now the military rank given to them by Yu Xiaotian has basically reached the guerrilla level, which is already very bad. Wrong, they haven't thought about it yet. Yu Xiaotian will now give them a rank comparable to that of general or deputy general, and they can be a guerrilla-level officer. They are all happy.

And according to Yu Xiaotian's arrangement, they feel that there is still room for improvement in the future. As long as they follow Yu Xiaotian to work hard, sooner or later, they will be able to become general officers.

Some people have even seen a trace of Yu Xiaotian's ambition from this military rank system, general and *, which is the position of the secretary of the Ministry of War. Does Yu Xiaotian also want to ascend the throne one day? If so, then these people have become the first people from the dragon. Isn't there any glory and wealth at that time?

So everyone was secretly happy and immediately expressed their support for the military rank system "invented" by Xiaotian.

After talking about the military rank system, Yu Xiaotian reclassified the naval fleet.

The navy is still divided into three fleets for the time being, which is a fleet, and is no longer a fleet. Although their warship still looks very simple at present, the largest warship is just the three-masted Dafu ship that captured Chu Cailao at the beginning. The full displacement is only about 400 tons at best, which seems a little bit to call it a fleet. Laughing, even if it is barely called a fleet, it is also a monkey version of the fleet, which can be called a boat at best in later generations, and even the ship can't reach it.

Even if the displacement of the 037 prototype gunboat of the Chinese navy in later generations is more than 400 tons and nearly 500 tons, the displacement of the developed * boat has reached 600 tons, about 570 tons, which is a little larger than their current largest warship.

Although it is a little ridiculous to call it a fleet now, Yu Xiaotian believes that put up the shelf first. After all, although their warships are a little shabby compared with the fleets of later generations and the current Western maritime powers, their warships are still quite powerful along the coast of China.

So he still insisted on changing the name of the fleet to the fleet, so that at least he is the commander-in-chief of the fleet, not the fleet commander! To some extent, he used this name change to satisfy his vanity a little.

The First Fleet is still dominated by his fleet, and it is impossible for him to directly manage the First Fleet for a long time. The First Fleet was handed over to Liu Yidao as the executive commander-in-chief of the fleet.

The original second and third fleets were renamed as the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet. The commander of the Second Fleet was Ma Xiao, but the chief officer of the Third Fleet was replaced by a one-eyed dragon. Hu Cheng was no longer the commander of the Third Fleet. In addition, Luo Xianbin was appointed as the deputy commander of the Second Fleet. The Third Fleet promoted a captain from the original First Fleet to become a deputy commander. This person's name is Han Xian.

Han Xian has not shown much in the past two years. He has been working under Yu Xiaotian. He served as the captain of a blessing ship in the first fleet. Now he has grown into an experienced young sea dog, and he is one of Yu Xiaotian's closest subordinates and was the first person to follow Yu Xiaotian.

At the beginning, Han Xian was just a small pirate, but now he has grown into a strong man. He has a little decisive temper and is quite valued by filial piety.

This fleet adjustment, Han Xian was finally promoted to become the deputy commander of the Third Squadron, and completely entered the naval top of the sea wolf.

Relatively speaking, the first fleet is still the strongest, followed by the second fleet, and the third fleet is currently the weakest.

However, for the areas of responsibility of the previous three fleets, this time will be reclassified. The future area of responsibility of the First Fleet will be temporarily designated as the southernmost area to Quanzhou Bay and the northernmost to the Huangqi Peninsula in the northern part of the mouth of the Minjiang River. This area is all part of responsibility of the First Fleet and is also the current core control area of the sea wolf, mainly responsible The warships responsible for defending Nanri Island, Tamsui City and controlling the Taiwan Strait, Tamsui and Keelung Fort are also temporarily under the jurisdiction of the First Fleet.

The responsibility area of the Second Fleet starts from Quanzhou Bay and advances to the south. At present, the specific responsibility area is uncertain. Their main task is to operate in the south of Quanzhou, especially in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait. The ships take turns to explore the south, that is, the coast of Guangdong, and can even reach Qiongzhou, that is, Hainan. The island, carrying out looting activities in this area, is mainly responsible for * and escorting the merchant fleets going south of the sea wolves, and fighting against those colleagues who dare to rob the merchant fleet of the waves.

At present, the third fleet is the weakest. They are mainly responsible for the sea north of Funing Prefecture and Shanghai County, which can temporarily reach Songjiang Prefecture at the mouth of the Yangtze River. They launched a prey operation in the north to protect the navigation safety of the sea wolf merchant fleet in the north, attack some colleagues who do not listen to the sea wolf's orders, and gradually expand the sea wolf's sphere of influence and Influence, but it will not launch a large-scale attack on the coast of Zhejiang for the time being.

And Yu Xiaotian officially established the station of the Second Fleet as Xiamen Island, which is not yet under their control.

The reason is that the government will be unfavorable to him this time, so he will no longer be polite to the government. Zheng Yiguan in the old space-time history has now become a bandit that runs to Guangdong, so let him continue on the unfavorable route!

Zheng Yiguan forcibly occupied the land of Jinsha. He took a fancy that Yuegang was the only Tonghai port of Daming at present. He repeatedly attacked Haicheng and occupied the Central Left Institute in order to force Tonghai merchants to trade in the Weitou Bay under his control. He collected taxes from it, so that he continued to obtain huge amounts of funds to support his Zheng's small Dynasty.

To be honest, Yue Port is not a trade port with good conditions. The water depth is insufficient, large ships are not easy to berth, and it is located in the mouth of the Kowloon River, so it is not suitable as a large trade port at all. However, the reason why the Ming Dynasty only opened Yue Port as a sea trading port is one is that Daming light merchants do not value it. Second, under pressure, a port must be opened, and Yuegang is just easier to control because of its poor terrain, so it chooses Yuegang as an open port.

But in fact, it is useless to do so. Pirates regard this place as a fertile place and come to wander around when they have nothing to do. Historically, Shanghai Cheng has been raided by pirates and repeatedly burned, but it was rebuilt by merchants. Later, after Zheng Zhilong controlled Xiamen and Weitou Bay, merchants were banned from entering. After leaving the Moon Harbor, the Moon Harbor quickly fell.

Now Zheng Yiguan has been driven away by Yu Xiaotian and can no longer gain a foothold on the coast of Fujian, let alone want him to occupy Xiamen Island. In this case, Yu Xiaotian will naturally no longer be polite to the Fujian government. With such a large piece of fat, he will naturally eat it. .

As long as he solves the problem of Fujian's sailors this time, he decides to occupy Xiamen Island, completely seal the mouth of the Jiulong River, and eat this big fat meat. If he wants to trade in Yuegang in the future, then I'm sorry, don't go to Yuegang, just go to Weitou Bay on Xiamen Island to trade. At that time, there will be He continued to deliver financial resources, even if the maritime trade along the coast of Fujian was controlled by him.

However, Xiamen Island has not been captured by him for the time being, so the Second Fleet is still in Nanri Island for the time being. In the next step, after occupying Xiamen Island, the Second Fleet will move there and use it as a forward base to the coast of Guangdong in the future.

The station of the Third Fleet has also been officially identified as Shuangfeng Island this time, but Shuangfeng Island is only an excessive station at present. After all, Shuangfeng Island is just a small island. Next, when he is tossing around, he intends to continue to push the Third Fleet north. Zhoushan Islands are a good choice, where they can be directly controlled. And it threatens the richest land of the Ming Dynasty, and can also easily control the mouth of the Yangtze River. If he needs it, he can even directly enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty from the Yangtze River, threatening Nanzhili.

When Yu Xiaotian thought of this, he was shocked. He had never thought so before, but now with the great increase in his strength, he found that he was thinking farther and farther away. He had overturned his initial plans and even began to consider whether he should be in this mess next step. In the world, participate in the issue of mainland hegemony.

Although the Tazis seem to be very powerful, in fact, the Tari are just a few people. The reason why they entered the world is that Li Zicheng has helped him a lot. In addition, the Ming Dynasty is difficult to return, and the officials are attracted to each other one after another. In addition, they have obtained traitors such as Wu Sangui, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and so on. With the help of warlords and a large number of traitors, they were able to win the world.

If this is not the case, their population, at best, is jumping outside the customs and can't even enter the mountain customs.

In the past, Yu Xiaotian was still very afraid of the officers and soldiers, but now after looking at the current level of the officers and soldiers, and the level of these Ming officials, he has not paid much attention to the Ming officers and soldiers. Even now pulls out his soldiers out and put them in the field to confront the officers and even the soldiers, as long as the soldiers on both sides The power is not too different, and he has enough confidence to win.

So Yu Xiaotian's heart also began to get bigger and bigger. The idea of occupying a Taiwan island as the king and living in troubled times is no longer his goal.

However, he hasn't talked to anyone about this matter for the time being. He is just secretly thinking about what to do next. He doesn't want to be too ostentatious for the time being. After all, Daming has just entered a troubled era, and the Apocalypse Emperor is still playing with wood and paintsmith's craftsmanship in the palace of the capital. The capital accumulated in the Ming Dynasty has not been completely tossed away. He is now swaggering all over the world, saying that he wants to compete in the Central Plains. I guess many people will think that he is crazy and attract a fierce rebound from the Ming court, which is not cost-effective.