The opening of the sea incident in the first year of Chongzhen was concluded with the end of the Ganqing Palace's partial palace.

As for the first governor of Binhai Special Administrative Region, it was soon confirmed after Zhu Youjian's personal selection.

Li Banghua, a native of Jishui, Jiangxi Province, was a Jinshi in the 32nd year of Wanli. He served as the magistrate of Jingxian County, the inspector of Zhejiang Province, the military preparations of Yizhou, the governor of Tianjin, the envoy of Youjiandu, etc.

During his tenure, he often made direct advice. He not only impeached eunuchs, eunuchs, but even the Donglin Party, and often had the name of a straight minister.

Last year, he was reinstated by Zhu Youjian and promoted to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works and the governor of the river affairs. He was talented in governing affairs. He caught up with the floods in Shandong when he took office.

The method of using water storage and drainage in the rainy season and water supply and moisture conservation in the dry season was highly praised by Zhu Youjian. Moreover, after he took office, the floods in Shandong were quickly dealt with.

The image of a capable official was established in Zhu Youjian's heart.

This time, the Binhai Special Zone was first established, and Zhu You checked his generals against the public and ordered him again. Before the three years of the examination, he was transferred to the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Works and the governor of Binhai.

Zhu Youjian’s favor can be seen.

For nearly a month, Li Banghua frequently went to and from the Ganqing Palace. It was not until November that he took the Binhai Special Administrative Region plan to take office.

Sitting in the carriage heading to Tianjin outside the capital, Li Banghua held the special zone construction plan worth ten million taels in his hands, and was a little breathless by the burden on his shoulders.

According to the construction plan of the Binhai Special Zone led by Zhu Youjian, the total planned investment of the project is 10 million taels, which will be carried out in three phases and will take six years to complete.

The first phase of the investment was 2 million taels, which were directly allocated by Zhu Youjian’s treasury. The main projects include expropriation, leveling, port construction, etc. on the coastal land in the Special Administrative Region, and are planned to be completed in two years.

The second phase is planned to invest 3 million taels, with main projects including dock renovation and expansion, commercial areas, residential areas and other infrastructure construction, and project funds mainly rely on investment promotion.

The third phase is planned to invest 5 million taels. The main projects include expanding the scope of the Binhai Special Zone and building a fast channel from the Binhai Special Zone to Beijing. The project funds are mainly completed by investment promotion.

Looking at the silver cart escorted behind him and then looking at the tens of millions of plans in his hand, Li Banghua had no idea at all.

‘Increasing investment, attracting investment, those merchants are very particular about it. How can money be so easy to get?’

Li Banghua secretly complained to himself, and remembered Zhu Youjian's swearing look in his mind.

‘Hey, Your Majesty is still young, and he doesn’t know how greedy the merchants are and don’t pay taxes. How could he be willing to give the silver to the court?’

Thinking of this, Li Banghua sighed and tried not to worry about the things that happened two years later. Anyway, with His Majesty's endorsement, he didn't have to worry too much about attracting investment.

Before leaving, facing Li Banghua's doubts, Zhu Youjian told him this: As long as the first phase of the project is successfully completed, there will be no need to worry about the lack of money to build the second phase and third phase. Once the investment promotion plan is released, you can sit in the governor's office to collect the cash.

With Zhu Youjian's determination, Li Banghua felt a lot more at ease, and instead thought carefully about how to use the two million taels of silver to set up the Binhai Special Administrative Region's shelf first.

Li Banghua understood the truth that planting a sycamore tree attracted the golden phoenix.

He sent away the doubtful Li Banghua to build the special zone. In the Qing Palace, Zhu Youjian met another prisoner.

Yu Zigao, the former general of Fujian and the son of Yu Dayou, the famous anti-Japanese general, encircled and suppressed Zheng Zhilong in Tongshan in the fourth year of Tianqi, but was defeated and was dismissed by Emperor Tianqi.

At the beginning of the seventh year of the Tianqi revelation, Xiong Wencan governed Fujian and intended to recruit Zheng Zhilong. In order to release his sincerity, he ordered Dali Temple to arrest Yu Zigao, who had been dismissed from office.

But then Emperor Tianqi was seriously ill, and the matter was delayed until Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, and Hui Shiyang, the new Dali Temple Minister, reported the matter to Zhu Youjian.

At that time, Zhu Youjian was not in the mood to deal with a defeated general, but after knowing that he was the son of Yu Dayou and had experience in naval battles, he had an idea in his mind.

Although he had the intention to open it, Zhu Youjian did not intend to release him immediately. Even if Tongshan was defeated, it was not entirely Yu Zigao's responsibility.

Zhu Youjian naturally understood that the rags of the Ming Navy were against Zheng Zhilong, who had 700 warships and could compete with the Dutch, even Yu Dayou was probably useless even if he was alive.

Naval warfare is different from land warfare. It is compared to the size of the big ship's guns, and it really depends on strength to speak. The strategies of land warfare that use surprise troops to defeat the more with few troops according to the terrain and territory are a joke on the vast ocean.

Whoever has advanced warships, whose muzzle is thick, has a long range, and has a high hit rate, will have the advantage of winning.

The Ming Navy, who was still in the era of jumping gang war, was definitely not a match for Zheng Zhilong, whether it was the fighting will, tactical ideas, or the advanced level of warships.

It is natural to lose a lot.

After the salute, Zhu Youxuan looked at Yu Zigao who had been imprisoned in Dali Temple Prison for more than a year, and felt a little regretful for Yu Dayou.

Alas, I am a hero, but my son has become a prisoner. I believe Yu Dayou's spirit in heaven is also sighing.

"Get up and talk back."

Looking at Yu Zigao, who had been in prison for a year, Zhu Youjian ordered him to calm down.

When Yu Zigao heard this, his heart relaxed. Although he had been treated in Dali Temple prison since the new emperor ascended the throne, and his relatives and friends who came to visit also brought a lot of favorable news.

But if you are not released for a day, Yu Zigao's heart will be difficult to calm down for a long time.

Yesterday, when he learned that Your Majesty was going to summon him, Yu Zigao knew that the time to decide his destiny was coming, and whether he was dead or alive would depend on his meeting this time.

Although he had already walked in front of the gate of hell, Yu Zigao was still a little excited when he saw the road of life.

After kowtowing and thanking each other, Yu Zigao knew that he would not be able to die this time.

"Yu Qing, tell me in detail about the Battle of Tongshan Sea."

Before he finished speaking, Yu Zigao's heart had just let go of it, but the emperor had to answer the questions. After sorting out his thoughts, he explained the causes and consequences of the Battle of Tongshan.

Although four years have passed, Yu Zigao remembers every detail of the Battle of Tongshan from the preparations for the war to the final defeat.

This is the biggest failure in his life. For the past four years, he has been reviewing the details of this battle. Even if he is imprisoned, he is thinking about whether history can repeat itself, whether it can turn defeat into victory.

But after thinking about it, you will finally come to a conclusion that even if you do it again, you will still lose.

The gap is too big.

After the Wanli and Tianqi dynasties, the court's main energy was allocated to Liaodong, and the food and salary allocated to the Fujian Navy became less and less, and it was already difficult for soldiers to fill their stomachs, let alone maintain daily training.

This time, Yu Zigao was even transferred to the battle, and it was Zhu Yifeng, the then governor of Fujian, who used the treasury to reward him.

The soldiers were not full, and the warships were even more dilapidated.

Unlike infantry on land, naval soldiers are not worthy of swords to kill the enemy. They must have ships.

A warship that can be seen can cost more than a thousand taels of silver, which is a big problem for the already stretched Fujian Navy.

Therefore, no matter in any era, the construction of the navy is expensive and big money. It is absolutely a fantasy to not invest money and want the navy to be invincible.

In order to cope with this naval battle, the Fujian Governor's Office mobilized the entire governor's commander's office and barely gathered more than a hundred ships of various types.

Even so, it is more than half less than the more than 300 ships dispatched by Zheng Zhilong.

From the beginning, this battle was doomed to fail.

Listening to Yu Zigao's explanation of the Battle of Tongshan in detail, Zhu Youjian's impression of Yu Zigao changed a lot.

‘It seems that Yu Zigao has reviewed this battle a lot over the years, so there is still some help.’

Zhu Youjian looked at Yu Zigao's face, which was a little white because he had not seen the sun for a long time, and made up his mind.

"Yu Qing, if you were asked to command the Battle of Tongshan again, would you win?"

When Zhu Youjian asked about this, he was taking the exam for Yu Zigao's character.

If Yu Zigao answered, for Yu Dayou's sake, Zhu Youjian might not have killed him, but he would never have used him again. A general who cannot distinguish the trend of future naval warfare will only be bad things if he keeps him.

Yu Zigao was also stunned when he heard this. Not only Zhu Youjian asked, but whenever he dreamed of it at midnight, Yu Zigao would ask himself.

‘If you do it again, can you turn defeat into victory?’
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