Chapter Forty-Nine: Yuan Kou
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Outside the port of Kaohsiung, the fleet sailed and drifted away, until the sail shadow disappeared into the sky, and the Empress Dowager Yang moved back to the palace, which was her last appearance in public, and since then, the Empress Dowager Yang was deprived of the right to raise the emperor, and was put under house arrest in the cold palace, and the education and growth of the emperor Zhao Yu were the responsibility of the ministers. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The overseas trade of the Song Dynasty was very developed, the sea ships were quite large, these fifty ships were full of food, water, weapons and ammunition, and were also equipped with sextants and compasses made by the party's patriotism, which was definitely a pivotal sailor in the world, and the earth in the 11th century AD, the Age of Discovery had not yet begun, Australia and North and South America had not been discovered by European colonists, and endless territories and treasures were waiting for them to conquer and grab, as long as they wanted.
But the Travelers did not replace the ambitions of Columbus and Magellan, they still cherished their homeland and focused on how to return to the baseline plane, so the fleet left Kaohsiung and headed south, through the Bass Strait, which is Luzon Island in the Philippines, which is now called Mayi, and is still an uncivilized land.
A few days later, the fleet arrived at Mayi, anchored in the eastern part of Luzon, a natural and excellent harbor, landed and set up a base, and the first to land was Liu Handong, who held a Great Song flag, planted the flagpole on the beach and loudly announced: "From now on, this is the territory of the Great Song Dynasty." ”
Although the Great Song Dynasty has been expelled from the Central Plains by the Mongols, it is still the orthodoxy of the Han family, and the travelers have no ambition to build a country, and still regard themselves as Song people, and everyone has no objection to this.
The local indigenous people of Mayi were still in a barbaric state and could not compete with the colonists, so they had to let them cut down trees and burn bricks, build houses and castles by the sea, and slowly take root.
The number of this group of new immigrants is only 1,500, men account for the vast majority, and there are only a handful of 38 women, of which 30 are women, Guan Lu, Zhen Yue and Luzhu and other palace maids are the second largest female camp, and the remaining few are the wives of pirates.
Of course, there is a way, the easiest is to intermarry with the local aborigines of Mayi, but the Southeast Asian race is short, black and thin, and the mixed race born will not be good-looking, which is really difficult.
A castle was quickly completed by the sea, the party patriotic named this place as the new Bianjing, he is an excellent traverser, has a large amount of ancient life knowledge, no matter to any dynasty can quickly improve the living conditions, is the so-called Wen can put pen to the world, Wu can immediately determine the world, this is not bragging, the party patriotism is a professor of the Department of History, he reads through the four books and five classics, can recite the famous poems and songs in history, can write silently the palace examination articles of the top champion in the imperial examination of various dynasties, and write a beautiful fly-headed small letter; He can make cement, make steel and iron, build European-style three-masted ships, burn glass, build steam engines and ironclad ships, and in time he can conquer the earth.
But now he is suffering from lovesickness.
People will change their mood with the environment, the party patriotism of the benchmark time and space is a diamond king, there is never a shortage of women around him, he rarely has feelings for anyone, they are all acting on the spot, each takes what he needs, the original intention of sleeping the Empress Dowager Yang is not very pure, just want to satisfy the little dirty thoughts in his heart, sleep a woman with a respected identity, the young and beautiful Empress Dowager in exile is the best choice, at first he thought that he would not be emotional, and when he left Kaohsiung, he also felt that he would come out quickly, but the fact is that as long as he is idle, The figure of Empress Dowager Yang will appear in my mind.
Empress Dowager Yang, whose maiden name is Yang Wanyi, is the concubine of Song Duzong, a widow who has lost her husband and children is pitiful enough, and even the happiness of the rest of her life has to be put into it, what a sad thing it is, the party patriotism feels that it is useless, what if you can make steel, burn bricks, and build a steam engine, you can't even protect your own woman, what kind of man is it.
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Liuqiu, Kaohsiung Mansion, the right prime minister Wen Tianxiang inspected the brick kiln port, the smoke exhaust hole of the brick kiln was blocked by the furnace ash, and all 100,000 bricks in a furnace were scrapped, which was the sequelae of the party's patriotic departure, although he taught the skills without reservation, and those craftsmen also learned how to operate, but the workers knew it but did not know why, and if nothing happened, it would be uneven.
The problem of burning bricks can still be solved, the big deal is to give up the red bricks, continue to burn the green bricks and green tiles, but the work of the ordnance institute can not make the slightest mistake, especially the production of artillery, that is the killer weapon of the Great Song Dynasty to restore the country, after the party patriotism left, the work of the ordnance institute also fell into a semi-halted state, the quality of the steel smelted is not good, and the downstream production is all affected.
At this time, Wen Tianxiang realized the importance of the party's patriotism, and he couldn't help but lament: "God won't help me Da Song." ”
The winter rain is falling, and the winter of the flow is also cold, in the bleak wind and cold rain, Wen Tianxiang is driving the country's eunuch, and the book is loud, and the teaching of the sage book is resumed here, and all the mathematical objects are no longer studied.
Wen Tianxiang stood outside the school building and listened to the students reciting the surnames of the hundred families for a while, and suddenly thought about it, if Guozijian can cultivate talents to replace the party's patriotism, wouldn't it solve a big problem, and those textbooks of mathematics are of great use, he quickly found Guozijian sacrificial wine and asked him where the textbooks compiled by the Eight Immortals were.
"It's all sent to fill the hearth." The Lord of the Wine Sacrifice said disdainfully, he was an old scholar of the Eight Classics, the successor of Zhu Xi, and he was the most disgusted and hated by the fallacies.
Wen Tianxiang hurriedly came to Guozijian's kitchen, turned out some fragments from under the stove, and couldn't help but feel heartbroken, but the order to abolish the math grid was given by himself, so he had to knock out his teeth and swallow the blood in his stomach.
After coming out of Guozijian, Prime Minister Wen Cheng's car went to Kaohsiung Port again, and the party's patriotic plan to exchange industrial products for grain was still going on, and the cheap rice trafficked from Champa City fed Kaohsiung's 300,000 people, and the crops outside the city were also planted with high-yield Champong rice, and with the increase of cultivated land, it would be self-sufficient in a few years.
The sea was foggy, the clouds were thick, Wen Tianxiang retracted his thoughts, and looked at a strange-shaped three-masted ship in the harbor, this is a warship designed and built by the party's patriotism, and it has not been officially completed, although there are drawings, but no one can follow the construction, if this warship is outfitted, it can be equipped with 300 guns, and it will be a giant on the sea.
Wen Tianxiang's kind words comforted the craftsmen, asking them to try their best to find a way to build the warship, and those who offered advice and suggestions were rewarded, but looking at the sad faces of the craftsmen, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve results under the gold.
The sea breeze brought the unbridled laughter and angry scolding of the sailors, and Wen Tianxiang, who was sitting in the sedan chair, listened attentively and heard them saying that the Eight Immortals had gone to Mayi, and in Mayi, under the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, they were cultivating wasteland and spreading branches.
"If it weren't for the filthy palace, they would be loyal and good generals." Wen Tianxiang thought, but fornicating with the Queen Mother is really taboo, and it is not accommodating.
Wen Tianxiang was about to return home, when he suddenly heard the exclamation of the palanquin man: "My lord, there is a ship on the sea!" ”
Isn't it normal to have ships at sea, Kaohsiung Port is not allowed to have hundreds of sea ships enter the port every day, Wen Tianxiang's face sank, he opened the sedan curtain and was about to scold, but his hand froze.
On the misty sea, at the end of the sky, there was a shadow of a mast and a sail coming from west to east.
Isn't the Eight Immortals back? Wen Tianxiang was faintly relieved, but his suspicions arose again, if he came from Ma Yi, he should be from the south rather than the west.
He took out the clairvoyant, which was also a patriotic invention of the party, a monoculars polished with natural crystal, which could see extremely distant places, and was most useful in naval warfare.
In the shot, the mast is like a forest, and the flag is fluttering, which is a "yuan" word.
The fog cleared, the sun was shining, and an extremely large fleet on the horizon was revealed, and these warships were very peculiar in shape, with hideous beast heads painted on the bow, and the hull was covered with jet-black iron armor, and the sides of the ships were densely packed with cannon holes.
"No, the Pu family doesn't have a warship of this shape." Wen Tianxiang was shocked and wondered that within a year, it was impossible for the Yuan Dynasty to build such a large fleet, and the style of these warships was different from any sea ship in his memory, but it was somewhat similar to the three-masted ship designed by the party's patriotism.
Unconsciously, the Yuan Army's sailors concealed the eyes of Fujian and Guangdong, broke through the defense line of Penghu, and reached the outside of Kaohsiung Port.
The bells echoed inside and outside Kaohsiung Harbor, and the Song warships hurriedly met the enemy, and the two sides launched a fierce naval battle off the coast outside the port.
Zhang Shijie, the generalissimo of the naval division, hurriedly came to watch the battle with Wen Tianxiang, and he said confidently: "The prime minister doesn't need to panic, our army has a magic weapon in hand, and no matter how many Tartar ships there are, it's useless." ”
The warships of the Song Dynasty are generally equipped with shipborne artillery, this kind of cannon has a longer barrel than the land artillery, the tonnage is larger, in order to ensure the firing range, it does not take the form of a sub-mother gun, but a standard breech gun, the propellant is a rated charge packed in a silk bag, and the charge is selected according to the distance of the firing range, and the shells also have solid shells, flowering shells and chain shells, etc., the latter is a special shell for naval warfare, which is linked together with iron chains for two iron balls, and quickly shakes after being discharged, which is extremely destructive to the wooden hull.
With this sharp firearm, Zhang Shijie was naturally full of confidence, he sneered and raised the clairvoyant mirror, hoping to see the sons and daughters smash the Yuan army warship with artillery, but what he saw was that the Yuan army warship also stretched out artillery.
The two armies bombarded each other, the sea rose high columns of water, which was the splash of missing shells, occasionally ships were shot, sawdust flew sideways, and there were casualties, this battle was different from any previous naval battle, the protagonist was no longer bows and crossbows, but gunpowder and cannonballs, and the casualty rate and bloodshed of the war directly increased.
"When did the Mongols have artillery?" Zhang Shijie put down the clairvoyant mirror, shocked and depressed. ... Friends who read books, you can search for "", you can find this site as soon as possible.
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