"What do you think, Mr. Bartlet?" Ye Kai asked Blake, who was standing behind him and looked decent. Bartlet.

This guy is a naval gunner after all, and he should have a certain understanding of ships, so Ye Kai also brought him with him today.

"Marquis, these three-masted fast warships are indeed the latest type, they have many advantages, and they are also very useful, but sometimes they are not powerful enough, but if your opponent is just some medieval hard sailing ships, or armed Galen ships, then it will be enough!"

Black. Bartlet replied in a low voice, he still had a high opinion of these new warships, known as cruisers, at least in terms of comfort and seaworthiness, and it was definitely a big step forward for the British Navy.

When it comes to the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the uninformed will surely conjure up images of fierce sailors piloting the most advanced warships, tearing apart all the enemy with dozens of guns in a horizontal swing.

But in fact, since the British sat on the throne of the world's first navy, the British Admiralty began to become rigid and conservative, and even stubbornly became synonymous with the British Admiralty.

The ships of the British Navy have never been the most advanced, and compared with the rising star France, and even the Spaniards, who fell from the throne of the world's first navy, the British naval ship technology is much behind.

For example, the French once used their more reasonably arranged 74-gun third-class battleships to teach the British a lot of lessons from the old 70-gun third-class battleships.

The sail warships of the Empire have always been known for being slammy, shabby, cramped, irrational and improvised.

So how did they defeat the French and the Dutch so many times in the seventeenth and first fifty years of the eighteenth century?

It was entirely a strategy to rely solely on the strength of the British sailors and to compensate for the lack of quality in terms of quantity.

This has to talk about the naval sailors I have led, which are absolutely the strongest in the world at present, and their professional skills and discipline, obedience and adaptation to life at sea are absolutely overwhelming the naval sailors of other European countries!

At this time, those who could play with sail warships were all highly professional talents, no worse than their counterparts in later generations, and Britain relied on these very professional sailors to defend the position of the British Navy's supremacy at sea again and again.

Ye Kai can now get a 74-gun third-class battleship, thanks to Vice Admiral Baron Anson, it is this old gentleman who presided over the ten-year naval innovation from 1745 to 1755, which has greatly developed the level of ships in the British Navy.

But at present, there are still some gaps compared to the French man-made warships, after all, the French take the boutique route, and the British have always tried to win by quantity on a cheap basis.

Therefore, if Ye Kai knew these histories, he should definitely buy ships in France and hire sailors in England.

And Ye Kai, who didn't know that he had made a habitual cognitive mistake, was frowning and thinking.

"If that's the case, two three-masted fast battleships aren't enough, I want four!"

The naval officer opposite Ye Kai also frowned, "Four ships are too many, I can promise you three at most, this is also the result of the Admiralty's discussion!" ”

"I'll buy the rest of the one at my own expense!" Ye Kai looked at the officer opposite with a firm gaze.

"Well, the officers and naval soldiers we provide you with are limited to the third-class battleship Deep Sea Shark, and you can recruit the sailors of other ships yourself!" The officer thought about it for a while, but still agreed with Ye Kai's opinion, but also put forward additional requirements.

"Okay, I agree, but I have a small request, can Mr. John serve as my naval adviser for the time being, I would like to entrust you with this matter of recruiting a crew for me, and of course, I have prepared a fifty pound adviser's allowance for you!"

Ye Kai stretched out his hand to this naval officer, this guy is from a naval family, and the Baron Anson who promoted naval reform is his uncle.

"Of course, it's my pleasure!" John. Anson happily shook hands with Ye Kai, who wouldn't want to do something that would make fifty pounds easily?

What is the most in Britain?

Of course, sailors and retired sailors who have nothing to do and think about adventures all day long.

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"Smack!" The crisp sound of gunfire rang out, and there was a frightened croaking of wild ducks by the river, and then a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy sighed. John. Forsyth was dissatisfied.

In many cases, the prey escapes in this crucial second, and the flintlock pistol only has a firing rate of about 85 percent, and it is too rainy or too wet to be used.

In short, this most advanced firearm in the world at the moment seemed to the boy who was born in the parish of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to the family of the reverend Belhervey, and had many shortcomings like stars in the sky.

Black. Bartlet wiped the dew from his face, followed by three crooked melons and cracked dates who didn't look like good people.

These three guys are all hooligans he found from the slum where he lives according to Ye Kai's order, and the three of them also want to get a super high salary of four pounds a year, and then go to the East to make a splash, because no matter what, it is better than staying in the slum and waiting to die like a rat.

And Ye Kai, the mysterious Marquis of Seris, gave them the first task to come to Scotland to kidnap a seventeen-year-old boy, and I don't know what this mysterious marquis wants to do?

Blake shook his head suspiciously, just such a skinny teenager like a chicken cub, what is there to tie? Or in faraway Scotland.

"Missing teeth, you go to the sentry, wild dog, Barty, you two follow me, pay attention to that kid, he has a gun in his hand, don't make too much movement, and leave quickly after success!"

Black. Bartlet whispered to the three little rascals he had recruited, as a retired naval soldier, his ability to make money may be poor, but it is still easy to control a few little rascals.

Alexander. John. Forsyth, anyone who knows a certain amount about the history of firearms, will not be unfamiliar with this name, this is the one who invented the original flintlock pistol of the perfume bottle gun and swept the flintlock pistol into history.

There are two main points in the invention of the firing gun, one is the mercury thunderate as the firing material, and the other is the excitation device.

Ye Kai can figure out this thing by himself, because mercury is available now, and it is ready-made, but the firing device of the firing pistol, Ye Kai is a little unclear, but fortunately, he still remembers who first invented this thing.

Alexander at this time. John. Forsyth was only seventeen years old, and it would not be until 1805, nineteen years later, for him to invent the perfume bottle gun.

The perfume bottle gun was the first firing gun in human history, and after Forsyth invented it, he couldn't wait to popularize his invention to the army.

But the head of the Royal Ordnance Bureau at the time was the Prime Minister William Jr. Pete, the politician who inherited his father's business, is very good at how to engage in political battles, but he is a bit of an amateur when it comes to military firearms.

Fearing that Forsyth's experiments would cause an explosion that would destroy his precious armory, he drove the hopeful Forsyth back to his hometown.

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