Da Ming Yongxing for three years, the first month of the 16th, the annual taste of Beijing has not yet dispersed, Zhang Bin took Haizhou Hou Sun Chuanting and Liaoyang Houlu Xiangsheng embarked on the journey.

Their first stop was Daguang Port, because there was such a large port near Beijing, and Tianxiong and Qin Jun had already arrived at Dagu Port to gather on standby, waiting for them to lead the expedition.

At this time, the port of Dagu has long been no longer the original appearance, not only the port has been several expansion, but also the port next to a new city, the new city area is not very large, the circle is about ten miles, but the height of the new city walls is two feet, and the walls are thick with artillery, strict security, like a hedgehog.

Such a city is naturally not for the common people to live in, but for the garrison and the construction of military factories, there are no other buildings in the city, that is, factories, dormitories, military camps.

According to Zhang Bin's plan, a fortress that can accommodate the lives and lives of 100,000 troops will gradually be built here, and whether it is a step or a sailor general, he will be stationed here and rest.

The reason why he built such a fortress, naturally in order to protect the security of the city, with the expansion of Daming and the naturalization of the Mongolian Yuan, the threat from the north of Beijing has become smaller and smaller, and with the development of shipbuilding and gun technology, the future threat must come from the sea, so the port of protection is particularly important, especially like the port of great city portal, if the defense is not strict enough, the enemy with warships to transport infantry landing is easy.

This kind of thing is not impossible to happen, Daming Marine Division can not be stationed in the port of Dagu all the time, the vast sea, who knows which direction the enemy will come from, the defense at sea is obviously not realistic, only rely on the strait or port to defend.

Of course, after Nanyang became the Daming Inland Sea, it was unlikely that the great powers would attack the Daming coast from the sea, but in case, the gates of Beijing would still be closely guarded.

At this time, the wall of the new city of Daguang Port has been largely completed, but the barracks have not yet begun to build, but the musket factory and artillery factory have been completed and are preparing for production.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Bin and his party arrived at Dagu Port, at this time, Dagu Port has long been lined with warships, and the vicinity of the dock has already been filled with Tianxiong and Qin Jun.

Zhang Bin came to the port dock, and after seeing the soldiers and soldiers who came to greet him, he said to Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiang: "Baya, build a fight, you first organize your hands to board the ship, I will go to the new musket factory and artillery factory to see."

He patted the new Ministry of Industry waiter Xu Fangyuan's shoulder and pointed him to lead the way.

Dagu New Town is used to guard the port of Dagu, not far from the port, less than a quarter of an hour, Xu Weiyuan led Zhang Bin to the city's artillery factory.

Zhang Bin looked at the spacious and bright factory building and the Ministry of Industry officials who were directing the installation and commissioning equipment, and was not pleased: "Well, good, the progress is very fast, the recovery, hard, this New Year also allows you to take people to work overtime."

Xu Fu replied respectfully: "Master, the disciples will command only, dare not say hard, the real hard is these Beijing camp canon guards, they have not rested for more than two months."

Zhang Bin nodded and praised: "Well, they did a good job, so then, double their pay and silver again, let them work harder, and strive to finish all the works of the artillery factory and the musketeer factory at the end of the month."

Xu Wei hurriedly said, “Disciples understand.”

Zhang Bin asked again, “There is a problem with the official start of the project at the beginning of next month?”

Xu Xu Yuan solemnly nodded: "No problem, the household has begun to recruit craftsmen near Beijing, and it is estimated that it will be available before the end of the month."

Zhang Bin patted him on the shoulder again and said, "Well, here's to you, do a good job, this can be related to the profit of tens of millions of silver a year."

Xu Weiyuan once again said, “Disciples understand.”

Zhang Bin nodded, went to the musketeer factory for a circle, even with the guard back to the dock.

At this time, Tianxiong Army and Qin Army had both boarded the town far cruiser, waiting for him to give orders.

Zhang Bin was not delayed, directly with a group of soldiers and soldiers on the flagship, even if he waved his hand, said: "Departure."

With a wave of flags, more than 100 warships left the port one after another, and then defused into a long dragon and went straight to the south.

The great Ming Wang Master set out in this way, and the great-master of the Great Master and the Great Patriotic Archduke took the Haizhou Housun Chuanting and Liaoyang Houlu Xiangsheng, and took the Tianxiong Army and Qin Army by boat all the way south, and began the journey of conquering the South Ocean.

The destination of the fleet is not Annan, nor Donghu, but the new port city, because Zhang Bin is not very understanding of the situation in the southern countries at that time, so he specially ordered the Nanyang Hou Zheng Zhilong to send elite rebuke from the end of last year, followed the East Shengtang caravan to the South China countries to explore the news, after these months of exploration, the situation in the South Ocean countries Zheng Zhilong should understand the next action plan, and then decided to go to the new port city.

More than ten days later, the fleet arrived in Newport City, Zheng Zhilong has been waiting for a long time, Zhang Bin did not delay, directly with a group of generals to the Nanyang Governor's Office conference room, with Zheng Zhilong will take out the latest map of Nanyang, spread on the conference table, report the current situation of the South China.

Zheng Zhilong was ready for this, and as soon as the map was spread out, he pointed to the South Asian countries on the map and introduced them one by one.

At this time, the most powerful in the South China was the Dongzhu Dynasty, according to Zheng Zhilong's investigation, the Dongzhu Dynasty is now almost dominating the southeast peninsula, in addition to Annan and the city, the other countries on the southeast peninsula are almost destroyed by the Dongzhu Dynasty, even the relatively strong Siamese have been defeated by the Dongzhu Dynasty, only to hold a small part of the territory near the capital city, and other places have been occupied by the Dongzhu Dynasty!

Zhang Bin looked at the map equivalent to the vast areas of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and most of Cambodia, and couldn't help but frown: "How many people are now, how many troops are there, how many weapons and equipment are there?"

Zheng Zhilong detailed report: "The Dongzhu Dynasty is now no less than 10 million people, as for the number of troops we have not yet fully understood, only near the large city of Siam there are more than 200,000 Dongzhong dynastic army, and its capital city Awa near the army is not less than 100,000, other places are too scattered, still need to further spy, as for weapons and equipment, they are still based on knives and guns, but they seem to buy some muskets and artillery from the Dutch."

This lightly can not be less than 300,000 troops, it sounds a little scary, but just the knife and the bow and arrow, even if they have half a million or even a million troops are useless, in front of advanced muskets and artillery, cold weapons are not enough to be afraid, and now the key to winning is the number of guns and artillery.

Zhang Bin listened to Zheng Zhilong's report, frowned for a while, and then asked again: "How many of their muskets and artillery do you have to find out?"

Zheng Zhilong said, not embarrassed: "This, we really don't know, but according to their analysis of the situation of Siam, their muskets should be hundreds of guns, guns should not exceed hundreds of guns, because Siam's combat power is there, if they have thousands of muskets, hundreds of artillery guns, Siam has long been destroyed by them."

It seems that the number of their muskets and artillery should not be very large, and they can't destroy them in Siam, which is enough to prove everything.

Zhang Bin nodded and then asked again, “What is the situation between Annan and the city?”