"Let's go." Zhu Youxiao didn't care, and walked forward first, watching around as he walked, and suddenly, a voice that he was slightly familiar with came.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Lao Zhoutou rushed forward, he didn't have the first to compete for favor, he just wanted to meet the old club, and by the way, he told him that the salt farm is very good now, very good, and the children have books to read.

"Ah, it's you, old Zhoutou, come, come to me." When Zhu Youxiao saw the ancients, he couldn't help but smile happily and beckoned the other party to come over.

"How's the salt farm doing now!" He asked with a smile on his face.

"Yes, yes!" Old Zhou shook his head and replied, just like that, the old and the young walked slowly forward while chatting.

Looking at the relaxed and happy emperor, Sun Chengzong suddenly had a feeling, maybe this is the true face of His Majesty, cheerful, loves to laugh, and likes to understand everything about the people.

"Let's go." Just when he was stunned, Xu Guangqi pulled him and made him sober up.

"It's nice to be young." He sighed, took a step forward, and followed.

The chat with Lao Zhoutou made Zhu Youxiao very relaxed, but after all, he was very determined, and after just enjoying it a little, he broke free from it and did not indulge.

The group soon came to the huge dry dock, and as soon as they entered, a huge figure came into view, which made Zhu Youxiao's heart feel suffocated.

The dry dock was unroofed, and the sun shone from the sky, shining on the new paint of the huge ship, constantly shimmering with a charming sheen, and everyone could not help but be intoxicated for a while.

In particular, the huge steel mast in the center that is deeply embedded in the hull of the ship, like an optimus pillar, stands straight and pierces the sky, which makes people feel shocked.

"Your Majesty, please see, this is the big ship that our shipyard spent two years to make, isn't it shocking." Gao Lao, the person in charge of the shipyard, explained with a smile.

When talking about the two-year development time, his tone can't help but be a little sad, two years day and night, dozens of craftsmen devote themselves wholeheartedly, without the cooperation of mathematical apprentices and craftsmen, many people have not even returned home for several months, just for this boat, not only the restoration of traditional treasure ship technology, but also the breakthrough of new technology.

With a loading capacity of 6,000 materials and a displacement of 3,000 tons, this is almost the pinnacle of the era of wooden ships, although it is not very suitable as a warship, but as a transport ship, it is epoch-making. This was the era of the beginning of the Great Voyage, and both warships and transport ships were urgently needed and had their place.

"Let's get started!" Zhu Youxiao gave up after admiring it for a while, and let the maiden voyage ceremony begin, no matter how beautiful the ship is, it will enter the sea.

"Open the floodgates and release the water!" Elder Gao understood, turned around and shouted.

Hulala, a swift stream of water rushed out of the passage, quickly flooding the grooves in the dock, and then kept rising, and soon submerged the bottom of the ship.

"Hey! Hey! ”

Wait for the boatmen on both sides to pull up the rope on the ground, send out a neat and powerful horn, and walk forward together in a rhythmic and rhythmic way. Under this force, the huge treasure ship slowly slid up and gradually stepped into the sea along the waterway.

Crash!

After a splash of heavy objects entering the water, the treasure ship completely entered the sea, sank sharply, and then quickly floated up.

Woooooo

A low trumpet sounded, followed by a clattering of metal, and a huge set of hard sails was raised, obscuring the sky and the sun, casting a huge shadow on the sea.

"Oops." Zhu Xieyuan suddenly let out a cry of pain, Zhu Youxiao looked back, and smiled, it turned out that he was tilting his neck to see how high the sail and mast were, but his neck was broken.

"Haha!" When several other scholars saw it, they laughed loudly, which made Zhu Xieyuan's face flush for a while.

"Your Majesty, this hard sail is made of stainless steel mixed with this piece of bamboo, during which a steel cable is connected in series, very ah, around the mast, the hard sail can rotate freely and adjust the direction. The steel mast is forged with steel cables in the upper and middle parts to fix the body, so that it is not afraid of ordinary wind and waves, and the end is extremely strong. ”

On the side, Elder Gao slowly introduced the parameters of this treasure ship, so that Zhu Youxiao knew it in his heart.

"Okay, very good, the old man has worked hard, and I will definitely be rewarded." Zhu Youxiao nodded, his eyes blurred as he looked at the giant boat that began to sail on the sea.

The huge hull burst into the waves three feet high, and the waves were as bright as silver and dazzling to the eyes.

"This kind of ship is called an aircraft carrier!" Zhu Youxiao said suddenly.

"Aircraft carriers?" When Sun Chengzong heard this, he thought for a moment, "Your Majesty, isn't this the meaning of the Mother of Navigation?" Indeed, such a huge ship, I don't know how many supplies and people it can carry, can indeed be called a mother who provides life. ”

"It's a good name." Xu Guangqi also nodded in agreement.

"yes, it's a good ship. Gao Lao, go all out to build aircraft carriers, these ten oldest docks are all used to build, and it is extremely fast to form an ocean-going fleet. Zhu Youxiao was ruthless and made a surprising decision. In this way, apart from the five new docks, there is no place to build warships, which is a huge adventure for Zhu Youxiao's recent turn to open up foreign development.

"Your Majesty?" The ministers were taken aback and tried to dissuade them.

"No need to persuade me, I have my own plans." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and stopped them.

Who knows, in this era, the rampant sea relied on giant ships and cannons, but it was in the Western Ocean, and here, it was the South Sea, which was very different from the West.

The islands here are crisscrossed, and there are thousands of people, and it is claimed that a canoe can reach Australia, so you can imagine the density of the islands here. If Zhu Youxiao wants to expand the land and immigrate, he can't but pay attention to the carrying capacity. Moreover, he did not intend to go to war with the Western colonists in a short period of time, at least until the conquest of Vitra Mongolia and Japan.

Not only is it unfamiliar with the shipping route, but also the reliance on foreign trade routes, with the transshipment of Portugal and Spain, the goods of the Ming Dynasty can be sold to the world, and the gold and silver of the world can flow into the Ming Dynasty, providing an endless source of power for the development of the Ming Dynasty.

Before he mastered similar trade routes to the world, Zhu Youxiao had to maintain close trade relations with at least one of them in order to maintain it.

In this case, the battleship is not very important, and it is nothing to give way to the aircraft carrier slowly. Having said that, when the construction of the next five new dockyards is completed, the speed of warship manufacturing will rise again.

The ministers looked at each other, knowing that the emperor had made up his mind and would not change it, although the emperor's decision had never been wrong, but seeing this, Xu Guangqi's heart still sank slightly, if this continues, His Majesty will not develop a stubborn character.

No one can be infallible, including Tang Taizong, who is known as the Heavenly Khan, and Jinshang, who is known as the Holy Monarch.

Just when Xu Guangqi was thinking about his origin and worried, a white soft sail suddenly appeared on the sea, followed by a sharp bow, and after a while, a large group of Western-style warships ran out, looking at the direction of the other party, it seemed that they were coming straight towards the port of Tianjin.

"Your Majesty." Cai Fuyi shouted with some concern.

"It's okay, since there is no warning from the front, then these ships are not enemies, calculate the time, Shen Yourong should almost come, maybe this is his fleet." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, signaling not to worry.

Not only are there warships patrolling the sea every day, but even during the day, watchtowers have been built high on the seashore to be on alert, and once an enemy situation is discovered, fireworks will be launched to warn.

Today's ships are not in later generations, with so many advanced instruments and ultra-long-range missiles, under the monitoring of watchtowers, it is basically impossible for a ship to approach the port and not know it.

As if to corroborate Zhu Youxiao's words, his voice didn't fall for long, and a herald hurriedly came to report, saying, "Report, Your Majesty, General Shen is here, and he will lead the fleet into the port immediately." ”

"Haha, it's a coincidence, it's really Shen Yourong." Colonel Zhu You laughed, "Let's go, go meet our admiral, and listen to how he bombarded Nagasaki." ”

Under the leadership of Zhu Youxiao, a group of people walked towards the wharf, which was a military port area, and there was no merchant ship at all, so it seemed quite calm.

On the sea, the giant ship that had just been named the aircraft carrier seemed to see the opposite fleet, although he was alone, he did not hesitate to meet it, one to a group, but the momentum did not diminish at all.

In an instant, the two sides met, Zhu Youxiao watched from a distance through the binoculars, and with the comparison, he knew that the aircraft carrier was really huge, and in front of him, the largest battleship was just a child who had not developed well, and it was short and unbearable.

After sailing back and forth on the sea for a while, both sides headed for the harbor, and in a short time they were all in the berth area.

Soon, the pallet was erected, and the people on the ship poured down, and it was Admiral Shen Yourong who took the lead in striding forward.

"The last general will see Your Majesty." When he arrived in front of Zhu Youxiao, he knelt down like a jade pillar and bowed to pay respects.

"Okay, general, please get up." Zhu Youxiao helped the other party, Shen Yourong kowtowed again, and then got up.

"Your Majesty, isn't that giant ship the latest treasure ship? It's majestic! Even now, he still can't help but admire, you can imagine the impact of the aircraft carrier on him.

"Yes, the name of the giant ship is the latest achievement of the shipyard." Zhu Youxiao laughed.

"Come on, come on, General Shen, come and tell me about the process and results of the bombardment of Nagasaki, I've been looking forward to this for a long time!" Without waiting for Shen Yourong to say something, Zhu Youxiao took the lead and asked.

"Okay, Your Majesty, the end will come slowly."

In this way, Zhu Youxiao pulled Shen Yourong to ask about the war, Sun Chengzong went to the shipyard to arrange the shipbuilding plan, and the other cabinet ministers went to places where they had their feelings, either to understand maritime trade, or to understand the local land reform, or to understand the structure of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and local government offices.

For a time, the grand maiden ceremony became a field work investigation.

[Author's digression]: I'm ashamed, I just sent out the chapter number and wrote it wrong, everyone will go down, it's very troublesome to read and change the text, and I want to edit and judge, I'm afraid you won't see it today, so I shouldn't be. I'll be here in a few days.