My Daming New Empire

Yang Dao shook his head with a smile and said: "When you actually go to the battlefield, you can say this again! At that time, you will understand what a comrade-in-arms is. Besides...Your Highness may not want us to always be against each other."

Er Gouzi asked: "Brother, what should I do?"

"Choosing a side, you can't please both sides, choose one side firmly. Since you have high military strength and good knowledge, they are actually jealous of you, but they are willing to accept you as a strong man."

Compared to Er Gouzi's easy choice, Huang Yuan is also facing a difficult choice at this time.

Because this choice will be the biggest choice in his life, and it will directly affect his life.

Having a good father is Huang Yuan's greatest treasure.

Huang Fu is shrewd and capable. Whether he is in the Ministry of Industry or in the dispatching of the army, he has an execution ability that ordinary literati cannot match.

Huang Yuan was influenced by his father since he was a child, coupled with his alertness and prudence, he also showed excellent abilities in this regard.

That's why after he came to the capital, he was quickly valued by Zhu Zhanji and the naval governor Liu Jiang, and became the most outstanding reserve general of the navy.

During Zhu Zhanji's voyage to the West, he was responsible for the dispatch of materials for the entire fleet, and the handling was orderly.No matter what happened to him, it became easy.

Daming has no shortage of generals who can march and fight, but there are very few generals like him.This also made him valued by all the armies, and now the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies spent a lot of money to transfer him from the navy to the army.

His father, Huang Fu, is now the Secretary of the Ministry of War, responsible for the logistics of His Majesty's Western Expedition.And he is also very clear that in the next two or three years, the navy will not make any major moves. When the army cannot help his father, he can also participate in this western expedition.

His Highness is easy to say, no matter in the army or in the navy, they are all serving Daming.

But if he goes to the army, he will inevitably be ashamed of Liu Jiang, the governor who has been promoting him.

At the same time, he also knew that the main development direction of Ming Dynasty in the future was the navy.

Although in recent years, due to the Western Expedition, the center of gravity of the battlefield will be the army.But when the Timurid Kingdom is pacified and the Northwest countries are attached, Ming will start to focus on the development of the navy and turn the unowned land into Ming's.

Going to the army has a great short-term effect, while being in the navy is good for long-term development.

This seems to be an easy choice, but my father has not returned home for two years because of the Western Expedition.How could he have the heart to hide in the capital and enjoy the blessings instead of working for his father?

In contrast, the guerrilla post promised by the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies did not move Huang Yuan's heart.

He is very clear that even if he is in the navy, after this commendation order, he can at least be promoted to a command officer, and may even be directly promoted to a command envoy.

In the next five years, he is confident that he will be promoted to the post of guerrilla.

Different choices will directly affect his life.

Is it the navy or the army...

(I'm sorry, I'm stuck today, and I really can't finish it at [-].)

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Chapter 31 root

"Boss, looking at the sky, it looks like it's going to snow again."

Looking at a map of Shandong, Ma Dezhong hummed and carefully put the map away. "Have you tested the wind?"

"It's roughly a force five wind, but the speed of the ship still reaches about twenty miles per hour."

"His Royal Highness, the ship research institute is still useful. This ship is much more useful than the ship we used when we sailed to the west. If there were all such ships at that time, we could be on the road for at least half a year."

Facing the cold wind, Ma Dezhong boarded the deck. Several craftsmen from the research institute were instructing the crew to adjust the angle of the soft sail according to the wind speed, and then recorded the speed of the ship to find the most windy angle.

They have only one craftsman who is over 30 years old, and the others are young people in their 20s.

But Ma Dezhong didn't dare to neglect them. He has always respected such capable people. "Master Yao, it's cold and windy, you are suffering."

Director Yao from the Ministry of Industry rubbed his hands and said with a smile, "It's all for making a living. Compared with the crew, we enjoy much more happiness."

Ma Dezhong nodded and said: "Arrived in Jiaozhou today, you adults can have a good rest in Jiaozhou for a while. I will go back to my hometown to visit relatives in Jiaozhou, and the mission of the sea trial will be entrusted to this Chu Yuming to help you adults."

Director Yao said with a smile: "When you come to Jiaozhou, you always have to rest for a few days before going to sea for trial voyage. It is said that you adults will stay in Shandong for a month?"

"There is no certain time for investigating the case. In short, you can go to sea at will within half a month, but after half a month, you must stay on the shore and wait for orders."

"Okay, then I know what's in my mind."

This is a new type of sea-going ship just developed by the Daming Ship Research Institute. Different from the previous hard sails, the new ship not only has both soft and hard sails, but also has a new-style hull that has been remodeled by Fu Chuan, and it is also sharper against the water.

The original sea-going ship had to zigzag when the wind was against the wind, so that it could sail, and the speed was extremely slow.

But now, they just changed the suspension of the sails, added a few pieces of soft sails, sailed against the wind, and they could travel twenty miles in an hour.

Although he hasn't tried the downwind state yet, but based on the current speed, he believes that it is possible to travel forty or fifty miles an hour under the downwind state.

Returning to the command cabin at the bow from the deck, Ma Dezhong put away some military regulations, logbooks and other confidential military documents in the command cabin.

He will leave the ship for a period of time, the research institute and most of his subordinates will still stay on the ship, and these things will also be locked up.

When he packed up his things, he saw that the Jinyiwei had already got up, and ran to the stern of the boat one by one to pee.

Those fellow villagers had also gotten up, they didn't compete with Jin Yiwei for a seat, but waited for the Jin Yiwei's people to be convenient, and then went over.

They have a woman who is inconvenient on board and can only avoid when there are many people.

It was also convenient for the few people, they leaned against the railing and looked at the mainland not far away.

Ma Dezhong followed their gazes, but he didn't have the intimacy of facing his hometown in his heart.

Shandong is his hometown for him, but it is also a sad place.If he hadn't kept in mind that his parents were still buried here, he would never have thought of coming back.

All the memories of my hometown are probably only the two grave mounds under the hillside.

He hadn't been back for 15 years since he left his hometown at the age of nine, was forced to join the water pirates, and later joined the navy.

For him, the house His Highness gave at Xiama Bridge is his home.

For these four people, Ma Dezhong didn't have much intimacy, but with the friendship of helping each other, Ma Dezhong would not put on a general posture in front of them.

He walked towards the four of them, Lin Sansi and the others saw Ma Dezhong coming straight over, and quickly clasped their fists in salute. "My lord."

Ma Dezhong said with a chuckle: "It's just a small general manager, he can't be called an adult. On this ship, the official position is much higher than mine."

Even so, the four of them would not take it seriously.Although many people on this ship have higher official positions than him, but he is the captain of this ship, and everyone should give him some face.

Ma Dezhong said again: "When we arrive in Jiaozhou today, we will part ways. This time, we don't know when we will see each other again. Once again, I wish the four horses every success and do great things in the north."

Tang Sai'er said: "Mr. Ma's hometown is Tai'an Mansion. This time when I go back to my hometown to visit relatives, if I encounter bandits, I can report the name of Liu Jun of Tai'an Mansion. It should still be useful."

Ma Dezhong said with a smile: "I would like to thank Mrs. Lin here first, but I will bring two guards back to my hometown. If I really encounter bandits who don't have long eyes, it depends on whether they have my musket."