Chapter 1756: The Fleet Sets Out

In these years, some black technology is completely useless, and even if you are given a blueprint for the atomic bomb, you will not be able to build it......

This battleship, which imitates the historical "Sea Monarch", is already the pinnacle of contemporary technology!

If you want to go further, you have to develop electric welding......

It is not difficult to get some "electricity" in Datang, a glass rod and a piece of fur can generate electricity by rubbing, but if you want to use it, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

At least Fang Jun won't.

Therefore, he often sighed, "Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and you will not be afraid to go all over the world" The words used to sound unimpressed, but when you cross over, you will find that it is really the words of gold and stone, these sciences are good enough to write history, and how many scientific and technological bulls in human history have to stand aside......

The construction progress of the "Royal Princess" has been fast enough, and the best craftsmen on the planet have gathered in the Jiangnan shipyard, and the drawings drawn by Fang Jun have been discussed in detail by the craftsmen, and some of the parameters have been adjusted and modified, after all, Fang Jun is just relying on memory to make fools, for such a rigorous thing as shipbuilding, a wrong parameter will cause the entire ship to capsize instantly after launching......

Sufficient manpower, financial and material resources, as well as rich experience in shipbuilding, are enough to ensure that this ship will be launched in the spring and summer of next year, and it may be able to catch up with the Eastern Crusade at that time.

Zheng Kun often comes to Jiangnan Shipyard after his radiant appearance, maybe it is because of what he has learned, or maybe it is because the climate in Jiangnan is suitable for the elderly, this person actually has a sense of rejuvenation, his legs and feet are light and energetic, and even his white hair seems to have turned a little black.

Smiled and patted the top of the head of a child next to him, Zheng Kunchang smiled dotingly: "Hurry up and say hello to Master Hou." ”

The young man beside him was thirteen or fourteen years old, he looked handsome and smart, and he obediently shook his head to the ground and said, "Student Zheng Renkai, I have seen Master Hou." ”

Fang Jun smiled and asked, "Why don't you go to the school?" ”

Zheng Renkai replied obediently: "I usually want to go, but the gentleman in the school today is sick, so he has a day off." ”

Zheng Kun often said: "This child has been interested in shipbuilding since he was a child, those shipbuilding skills are faster than the Four Books and Five Classics, other people's children will play around after school, but he always likes to drill into the shipyard, there are hundreds of craftsmen up and down here, there is no one he doesn't know." ”

"Hehe, that's a family history, Zheng Lao, you have a successor, you should be happy."

"You can't be a craftsman for all generations, can you?" Zheng Kun often said a little worried: "Our Zheng family's generations of craftsmen, although they are much stronger than those craftsmen from lowly backgrounds, can also be mixed with a half-official position, but in the end, isn't it still a craftsman?" There is no big deal. ”

Fang Jun paused and sighed.

This is the consequence of disrespect for craftsmen, and no one wants to be a person who is despised by society, especially since this disdain will continue for generations. So as long as there is a slight opportunity, they will desperately drill the camp just to get rid of the identity of the craftsman.

No one puts their minds on the inheritance of skills, and no one is willing to work hard to improve and innovate skills, because this is just a lowly livelihood, and it is enough to be able to mix a mouthful of food.

In such a vicious circle, the occasional fine skills are often not inherited, and they will be annihilated in the long river of time, and the Western barbarians who have been drinking blood suddenly get the opportunity of the industrial revolution, and it is easy to surpass China in one fell swoop.

Confucianism controls the discourse power of the upper class, and they are willing to absorb all the outstanding talents in the society into their class, so as to ensure the monopoly position of this class, which will inevitably lead to the lack of talents in all other industries, because the outstanding talents have gone to become officials......

For this, even if Fang Jun is a traverser, there is nothing he can do about it.

This is the embodiment of social values, even if Fang Jun is to promote the status of craftsmen, doctors, and blacksmiths, it is impossible to defeat the social values formed for thousands of years in one fell swoop, which requires hundreds of thousands of years of hard work from generation to generation.

In fact, it was not until the 21st century, when the concept of rejuvenating the country through science and technology was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, that this situation was slightly reversed, but "learning and excellence" is still a universal value......

It is absolutely sad to be the best talent in a society to become officials.

*****

The next day, the royal sailors made final preparations, and more than 300 warships sailed out of the military port under the command of Fang Jun. One warship after another blocked the entire waterway of the Wusong River, and all the merchant ships docked to make way for the waterway.

The sails of the ships covered the sky and the sun, the slender hulls of the ships cut through the river and splashed layer by layer, and hundreds of boats rushed forward with majestic momentum, and the people and businessmen on both sides of the river bank were in tears.

Everyone knows that this invincible armada, which is invincible across the seven seas, will sail down the river into the vast sea, cleaving the waves all the way to the north, going to crush the sailors of Goguryeo, sounding the first horn for His Majesty the Emperor's great cause of the Eastern Crusade, and the first cannon for the hegemony of the Tang Empire!

A breath of pride wells up in my heart!

In the past few years, countless people and businessmen have tasted how great the benefits of a strong country bring to the people, when the warships of the Tang Dynasty escorted the merchant ships all over the ocean, dumping a shipload of goods at a high price to the surrounding countries, the huge profits obtained not only made the businessmen round their pockets, but also benefited all industries.

With the influx of wealth, everyone can share in the dividends of business......

The stronger the country, the more prosperous commerce becomes.

This is already a truth that the country elders also understand, but how to prove the strength of a country?

Only through constant conquest!

Even if the vast majority of Tang people do not understand what kind of stimulation and leapfrog development foreign wars have brought to the national economy and people's livelihood, people still fully support the invincible Tang army to expand its territory and fight bravely under the banner of His Majesty the Emperor!

Of course, the premise of starting a war is that the war must be won......

The main fleet of the Royal Naval Division set out with a majestic and heroic momentum, and when the white sails of the fleet disappeared at the mouth of the Wusong River, the news still swept the entire Jiangnan like a hurricane.

There are too many people waiting for this moment to happen......

That night, at the mouth of the Qiantang River.

Countless merchant ships have been loaded with goods and docked on the shore for routine final inspections, ready to go. The sea is treacherous, and no detail can be ignored, and it must be dealt with in place, which is the experience that we have accumulated through countless seas.

When the ship is sailing on the sea, it will be found that there is not a single safety issue that is superfluous......

In a hut by the river, in order to avoid attracting attention, only a lamp and candle are lit.

The light in the hut was dim, Xiao Cuo was dressed in a short shirt, and the big horse golden knife sat on the main hall, two young people and one middle-aged man on the left and right.

One of the young people is Wang Qi, although this person is young, but he has the reputation of Langya Wang, and Xiao Cuo's mother is transferred from it, so he overwhelms the scholars and becomes one of the people in charge of this sea trade.

Even if the Langya Wang family is degenerate and decadent, it is still a prominent family that has dominated the Jiangnan Shi clan for hundreds of years......

Another middle-aged man is the child of the Bao family of Yanling who appeared at the banquet to welcome Fang Jun yesterday, Bao Xi.

The Yanling Bao clan is not a prominent family, as a second-rate family with the surname Wu in Jiangdong, he has no qualifications to sit here, and he is in charge of this sea trade with the Xiao family and the Wang family. However, the Yanling Bao family has continuously married with the Lu family, the Zhang family, and the Zhu family over the years, and almost single-handedly connected several major families with the surname Wu in Jiangdong, with extraordinary influence and rapid rise in status.

As for the other young man, it is a son of the Xie family, Xie Wenhua.

This time, the super smuggling operation that included Xiao, Wang, Xie, Bao, Zhang, Zhu and other half of the Jiangnan Shi clan only sent some young people from the clan to take on the heavy responsibility, on the one hand, although they were very confident in their own forces, thinking that even without the escort of the naval fleet, they could still resist pirates, and on the other hand, they wanted to keep a low profile as much as possible and not attract the attention of all walks of life, whether they were city masters or pirates.

With a few young people taking the lead, who would have thought that the scale of smuggling would be too big this time?

However, in fact, this time the smuggled goods almost emptied the cargo holds of the major families, and the total price was no less than one million yuan. This is only the value of Datang, once it is successfully sold to the countries of the South Seas, this value can increase by five or ten times at any time......

There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the house, and before long, a private soldier of the Xiao clan walked in quickly and said loudly: "Qi Yu Gongzi, there is news from the mouth of the Yangtze River that all the sailors have gone to sea and followed the route all the way to the north, and in about three days, they will arrive at the Goguryeo Sea." ”

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