Not bad at all, he was very attentive to this "distinguished guest" of the Zheng family.
However, the response from the Zheng family was like falling into the sea, with no news. Every day, the servants would wait at the door of the courtyard where they stayed to see if any messengers from the Zheng family were coming. Except for the postmen and palace officials who were diligently looking after them.
, not a single person.
His followers were all naturalized citizens, and all of them became anxious, fearing that they and the "chief" would be detained by the famous sea master on the sea, and their lives would be in danger if something went wrong.
Lin Baiguang was not anxious at all. There was no way that the Zheng family would not swallow this bait, even if they knew it was poisonous.
A young boy became the leader of the village under Yan Siqi, and finally became the overlord of the southeastern sea.
Just as Zheng Zhilong would be lured to the camp and kidnapped by the Qing army decades later, in fact this was not the first time for him - a few years ago he was tricked into boarding a ship and kidnapped by Natz, the Dutch governor of Taiwan, and forced to
He signed a trade agreement and paid a ransom to Natz. But when the Manchus tempted him with the promise of breaking the earth and making him king, Zheng Zhilong took the bait again.
From this point of view, the Great Library believes that it is completely feasible to do business with Zheng Zhilong in selling salt - as long as it is business, everything is easy to discuss.
However, although neither the Senate Standing Committee nor the branch committee revealed how they would deal with Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang, it is obvious that ambitious sea owners like Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang must be eliminated. Their group is too large and cannot be eliminated.
It is possible to accept the adaptation, but even if it is accepted, the leader of the Zheng family and the intricate network of leaders and cronies below make it difficult for this group to be quickly absorbed by the navy and the commercial and trade departments.
Furthermore, large maritime groups like Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang are quite harmful to the maritime trade along China's coast. They pursue a monopoly effect. After Zheng Zhilong defeated Liu Xiang, he sold the maritime rights of international trade at a high price, and a flag was issued every year.
The price is two thousand taels, which actually completely blocks the possibility of ordinary merchants and shipowners with poor financial resources to participate in ocean trade. Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng Zhilong Group actually monopolized the Hirado trade with Japan. After arriving in Hirado, China
A quarter of the ships are directly controlled by Anhai Ship. Their battles and monopolies in China's coastal areas have also seriously affected the domestic maritime trade along the coast.
The Senate wants to seize maritime hegemony and build "peace at sea under the rule of the Senate." The purpose of obtaining hegemony is not only to obtain excess profits, but also to promote maritime trade and stimulate the development of coastal industry and commerce. If the profits from trade are all
Channel merchants have a monopoly, except for necessities and luxury goods. Traders and retailers will be forced to withdraw from this business system sooner or later. Excessively high prices will also cause consumers' spending power to shrink or even disappear.
"Private monopoly means reaction." Ma Qianzhu characterized the sea owners at an enlarged executive committee meeting as "a backward thing that hinders productivity."
"Hindering productivity" is a very serious characterization - roughly the same as a death sentence.
Therefore, completely defeating it and gathering the remnants was the only option for the Executive Committee. This has become a consensus among the elders who have access to core secrets.
The main purpose of his coming to Anping was not to show his good will or to paralyze Zheng Zhilong - this was just a incidental matter. Neither the ocean fleet nor the transport fleet cared about the maritime power of Liu Xiang or Zheng Zhilong. The fleet of the Senate was gone.
It is basically an overseas route. Unless Zheng Zhilong has radar and radio, it is difficult to accurately capture the fleet. Even if he is lucky enough to capture the fleet or wait for the fighter plane at certain locations
.The outcome of the battle was also unfavorable to him.
The Navy has conducted several map-based war games in Ma Niao, simulating various hostile activities that Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang and the Dutch may carry out. Under various harsh conditions, these three forces were still completely defeated.
Take the Zheng Zhilong Group as an example. If Zheng Zhilong wants to attack the engine combat units, not to mention the main First Fleet and Second Fleet, even if he wants to intercept the transport fleet, the main force of the entire army must be dispatched and deployed in the Penghu area.
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The squadron's return will be enough to crush Zheng Zhilong.
If Zheng Zhilong's fleet hides along the coast, it can still relatively ensure its advantage. After all, it is in a shallow sea area with many bays and beaches and reefs. The light ships that make up the majority of his fleet have great flexibility and use fire attacks instead.
The ship also has a chance of success. And the transportation routes operated by engines generally do not go to the shore of the mainland.
It is unlikely that Zheng Zhilong would take the initiative and go to overseas routes to intercept the Senate's fleet.
Traditional Chinese navigation relies heavily on maritime landmarks. Because China has not developed the concept of longitude and latitude, even if there is a compass, there is still the problem of being unable to locate the ship. The traditional method is stargazing, and the approximate position of the stars is used to determine the location of the ship.
Estimate its own position.
But the more commonly used and convenient way is to use maritime landmarks. In the traditional navigation chart "Needle Route Book", the geometry of the needle path to a certain place and the course are clearly recorded. When turning the rudder and changing the course, all are based on the sea's
Landmarks serve as navigation marks. Therefore, ships generally sail along the coastline or islands in the sea, and beaches serve as navigation marks.
Due to inherent deficiencies, Zheng Zhilong's ocean combat capabilities are actually very weak. Except for the Dutch, neither Liu Xiang nor Zheng Zhilong has the ability to conduct search operations on the vast ocean. In fact, his battles with the Dutch and other sea masters
, almost all conducted near coastal bays and islands.
As for the Dutch, they have nine squadrons of spy boats alone, and thirty-six large Fuchuan and Guangzhou ships. The firepower of any of these thirty-six is not inferior to that of the Dutch's large warships, and the number far exceeds them.
Although Zheng Zhilong claims to have hundreds of warships, there are only thirty or fifty full-time large warships among them, and the combat effectiveness of a single ship is far inferior to that of a spy boat. It is even said that even the small schooners and square sailing ships of the Dutch can hit more with less.
Fight against Zheng Zhilong's fleet. Even if Zheng Zhilong gathers all the warships, he may not be the opponent of the spy boat squadron.
The Navy used computer programs to conduct simulated combat tests at sea. On one side is the Dutch's typical large-scale armed merchant ship: Newbantam, with a load capacity of 800 tons and a maximum displacement of more than 1,200 tons. It is the largest class in the East Asian sea. The ship's firepower is 7 18-gun
The 12-pound Snake cannon and 16 12-and-a-half-pound Snake cannons are all the artillery that can enter the artillery battle. Since the artillery is arranged on both sides of the ship, its single-side firing capacity is only about 150 pounds.
Not only was the newbantam unable to fight back against the Lichun class and Type 901 - the power of the rifled cannon was simply god-like in the face of early smoothbore cannons. According to software calculations: the solid projectile fired by the 130mm Dahlgren rifled cannon
, the destructive power of incendiary bombs and grenades, even if it is quite conservatively estimated, only five or six hits at most can completely destroy the New Bantam's combat and navigation capabilities. In a software simulated shooting, there was even a solid bomb that directly penetrated the ship.
The shell hits the powder magazine and blows up the entire ship.
Even when facing spy boats without rifled guns, the Dutch's top battleships have no advantage at all.
When faced with a spy boat equipped with a 48-pound smoothbore cannon and a 68-pound carronade gun, not only is its firepower inferior to that of the spy boat, but it is also no match for the spy boat in terms of range, penetration, and shooting accuracy.
A common wide-ship type spy boat with a standard displacement of about 200 tons has six 48-pound cannons, plus four 68-pound carronade cannons. A single side fire can project 280-pound shells, which is almost the same as that of the Newbantam.
Double.
Not only that, the projectiles of the snake cannons and semi-snake cannons on the Dutch warships were small in unit weight and had weak penetrating power. The penetrating power of the snake was far worse than the 24-pounder. According to the data of French long guns, the 18-pounder during the war was
The penetration ability of a long gun at 100 yards is not as good as that of a 24-pounder at 300 yards. The destructive power of one 24-pounder is greater than that of two 18-pounders. Not to mention the 48-pounder. With a well-coordinated gun mount, the 24-pounder can fire faster.
Also much faster than snakes and half snakes.
As for the PB range of the 68-pound caron gun, it is 270 yards, and the snake cannon is only about 330 yards. The 5-degree elevation range caron is even higher than the snake cannon. Moreover, the snake cannon generally needs about 100 yards to be lethal to Galen ships.
It's enough, but 68 pounds, on the other hand, has too strong penetrating power and can be used very far. Although the structure of the Fuzhou ship is weak, there is still no problem in fighting them. If the two sides are bombarding each other at 300 yards, the snake cannon can certainly hit
The rotten Fuchuan, with its 68 pounds, can even smash an armed merchant ship into rubbish.
As for the Harmony Ship with less firepower, although it is not as good as the Newbantam in terms of single-side firepower projection, even without the escort of warships such as spy boats, the Harmony Ship sailing in a group is still the most powerful fleet on the East Asian sea. It consists of five ships.
A convoy with enough firepower to withstand a fleet that the Dutch could dispatch in one go.
You must know that in order to deal with the Dutch fleet, Zheng Zhilong had to assemble the main force every time, and he had to fight offshore to win.
No matter how they calculate and deduce, as long as they don’t rush into the narrow sea to fight, it doesn’t matter whether they are Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang or the Dutch. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to recommend it to Qidian.
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