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Only by knowing yourself and knowing the enemy can you win every battle.
In the agreement signed with Portugal, Qin Mu added a small item, which was to let Jia Dier teach at the Daqin Naval Academy. In terms of navigation technology and naval combat experience, it must be admitted that Westerners are indeed ahead of China.
It is never wrong to learn from others with an open mind.
Europeans had already completed a voyage around the world, but Chinese official ships had not sailed west of Malacca since Zheng He, and they knew almost nothing about the ocean currents, sea conditions, monsoons, waterways, etc.
If we rely on the Qin Royal Navy to slowly explore, it will take a long time.
It would be great if we could learn this valuable knowledge from the Portuguese, as it would greatly shorten the time it takes for the Royal Navy to sail around the world.
The Royal Naval College is located in Ningbo and was officially separated from the Army College.
The first batch of students were selected from the navy and were temporarily divided into several subjects including combat command, staff, logistics, and assistant.
Like the Army Academy, Qin Mu personally served as the dean and taught students military posture and goose-stepping.
Similarly, ideological education of naval cadets was given top priority. The military oath was chanted several times a day, and various propaganda slogans were everywhere in the academy.
Qin Mu also specially transferred Zhao Han, who was good at political propaganda, to the Naval Academy to be specifically responsible for political education.
For this reason, Qin Mu decided to stay in Ningbo for another twenty days. He attached so much importance to the navy because he hoped that the navy could dominate the four seas as soon as possible, open up large overseas colonies for the Qin Dynasty, and provide a continuous blood transfusion for the Qin Dynasty.
What is more important is to protect the unimpeded flow of Daqin's merchant ships, allow Daqin's goods to be exported on a large scale, further drive domestic industrial development, and allow Daqin to complete its original capital accumulation as soon as possible.
Some people would say that colonialism is too bloody and cruel. It is not a good idea to do this.
Bullshit. China has never colonized other countries in history. Is there any country that is grateful to China
And among the countries that were colonized in later generations, are there any that hold grudges against their former colonizers
On the contrary, those countries that were colonized would thank the colonizers for bringing them advanced ideas and culture. I have never seen any country grateful to China.
Although it cannot be said that the Qing Dynasty is vulnerable now, given the current situation, defeating the Qing Dynasty is only a matter of time. What is important is the recovery of the people's livelihood throughout the north.
The entire area north of the Huai River is now in a state of desolation, with people starving and clothed.
This is a huge mess, if we don't plan ahead. While driving the Qing Dynasty out of the Great Wall, the Qin Dynasty will immediately shoulder a huge burden;
By then, in order to solve the most basic survival problems of tens of millions of people north of the Central Plains, the Qin Dynasty may no longer have the spare energy to send troops outside the Great Wall.
If we fail to press on with our victory and wipe out the remaining bandits in one fell swoop, there is no guarantee that the Qing Dynasty will not recover in three or four years, which would be ten times more troublesome.
Therefore, once the Northern Expedition was launched, the enemy would be pursued thousands of miles away and wiped out in one fell swoop, leaving no trace of trouble.
At the same time, they have to shoulder the huge burden of the North. In this case, it is not enough to rely on the South to give blood transfusions to the North. This will make the South poor as well.
So Qin Mu turned his attention to overseas, hoping to use the overseas wealth to provide blood transfusion to the entire north of the Huai River.
This was also the main reason why he did not rush to the Northern Expedition, but instead came to Ningbo and focused his energy on the navy.
Spain and Helan do not have many troops in Nanyang. In Qin Mu's opinion, a few hundred warships and 10,000 to 20,000 troops should be enough for the navy to attack Nanyang.
Dispatching this amount of troops will not take up too many of Daqin's war resources, and will have little impact on the Northern Expedition.
Once we can seize the colonies of Spain and the Netherlands in Southeast Asia, we can use the resources of these colonies to provide blood transfusions to the North. Even if it is not enough, it can greatly reduce the burden on the people in the South.
This is a comprehensive consideration. We cannot focus on the north just because the Tartars are in the north, treating the symptoms without addressing the root cause. This is wrong.
Qin Mu would do things like cutting internal flesh to heal a wound, but the flesh he cut would definitely not be his own.
After teaching the naval cadets to march, Qin Mu returned to the teaching dormitory and asked Li Shi, "Where are the things? Are they ready?"
"Reply to King Qin, it's done."
"Bring it here."
What Li Shi brought out next was a globe made according to Qin Mu's requirements. Of course, it didn't have a map drawn on it yet.
Qin Mu asked someone to bring scissors and rice paper, and began to draw the shapes of the seven continents on the rice paper according to his impression of the world map. In order to make the proportions of the continents reasonable, he made many revisions very carefully.
Zheng Sen, Shi Lang, Tong Haifeng, Yang Qihuang, Shi Fu, Hong Xishan, and Ke Chenshu, seven people who are students of the Naval Academy's combat command department, have been following Qin Mu these days.
The seven people were extremely curious when they saw the map drawn by Qin Mu. Tong Haifeng, who was extremely handsome and talkative, was the first to ask, "King Qin, what is this you drew?"
"world map."
"World map?" This surprised everyone even more.
"Don't interrupt me. I'll tell you when I finish painting."
While Qin Mu was drawing, he silently said in his mind: This is North Korea, which is like the mouth of a rooster, and the four islands of Japan are like a tapeworm. Well, the rooster cannot be without a mouth, otherwise the Japanese worm will be unscrupulous.
This is Russia, it's big enough, but when I come here, I will definitely not let him cross Siberia again. Well, someday when I have time, I will go and bring Ekaterina back to warm her bed. I wonder if she has been born yet.
This is the Indochina Peninsula, this is the Philippines, no, this is Luzon. This is like the two legs of a rooster. With these two strong legs, the rooster can stand firmly.
This is the South China Sea, this is my pond, no one can come here to run wild... This is Malacca, this is India, now it seems to be called the Mughal Empire, lie down, lie down, let it become a dog lying at the feet of the Qin Dynasty;
This is Sri Lanka. Here is the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Oh, by the way, we will go to Africa in the future to find 100,000 slaves to dig the Suez River. Africa is so big. Go south, and then go south again. Here is Madagascar. Madagascar is straight west, roughly here, in Gauteng Province, South Africa. The world's largest gold mine, the Rand Gold Mine, is here... ... ...
With endless fantasies, Qin Mu was not drawing a map, but seemed to be racing to mark out territory. Anyway, he was full of passion, and the more he drew, the more excited he became. He didn't even look up for a whole hour.
After he drew the entire world map, he cut it with scissors and glued it to the ball, and a globe was made.
Zheng Sen and others stood there silently for an hour, and then came over one after another.
Qin Mu said, "Magellan of Spain has sailed around the world and proved that the world is spherical. The globe I drew is roughly pieced together according to the maps of the East and the West. It may not be very accurate, but the distribution of the continents is roughly like this."
"King Qin, why is our Great Qin so small?" Tong Haifeng asked doubtfully.
In the minds of Chinese people, China is vast and rich in resources, and should be the largest country. However, on the world map drawn by Qin Mu, China's area only occupies a very small proportion.
Qin Mu replied: "The world is huge and contains endless wealth. You need to explore it. Look, this is America. Europeans set out from here, crossed the ocean to the west, and easily obtained hundreds of millions of gold and silver treasures from America.
Although our great country, China, is dozens of times larger than countries like Portugal and Spain, except for Zheng He's fleet that reached the east coast of Africa, it has hardly left the South Seas in the past two hundred years.
You see, the Europeans bypassed the vast Africa, headed north from the Cape of Good Hope, then crossed the ocean east to India, and then continued east to reach the South Seas and came to our Great Qin. It was such a great feat, thousands of miles away. But we haven't even stepped out of the small South Seas.
In comparison, my great Celestial Empire is not as good as a tiny country. I feel deeply ashamed!
I hope you can take a good look at this globe. Look, the world is right before your eyes. It is so vast and contains endless wealth, waiting for you to fight for it.
We can no longer be arrogant behind closed doors. I am counting on you to lead my Great Qin navy one day, sail across the four seas, shock foreign lands, and establish unparalleled feats that no one before you could match."
Including Zheng Sen, everyone looked at the globe with burning eyes. Qin Mu had brought them around these days, guiding them bit by bit, making them return to their hearts without realizing it;
He often used such great achievements to encourage them to look at the world and inspire their ambition to travel around the world. They were all young people in their twenties, full of vigor and vitality, and were most easily infected. After listening to Qin Mu's words, they were all fascinated... ...
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